Hi Dick,

(Disclaimer, I'm not an AppDrag representative, just a user and fan, but my opinions are my own)

The AppDrag Whitepaper has some good information about their own security.

But, part of the AppDrag's power in allowing you to design and build your own 'back-end' to a site is giving you the flexibility how much (or how little) security you need.

In this sense, it's almost as if you are renting a storefront in a mall. The mall (AppDrag) mops the floors, maintains the public restrooms, manages the parking lot, etc.

But you have to decide what kind of door and what kind of locks you put on or in your store.

AppDrag prevents 'unauthorized' access in the default state. Meaning, nobody can change your website or access your data directly.

However, as soon as you start using their tools to build other ways of accessing the data, the responsibility for security falls under your scope.

For example, if you build an API function to access confidential or private data, you should also build-in tests or checks to ensure that the API caller is authorized to access that information.

This is obviously part of a much larger conversation about application security in general, but I wanted to get the ball started by defining and distinguishing the 'scopes' of your responsibility vs. AppDrag's.

Hello Thomas!

These are SQL parameters.

AI: Auto Increments the field on each new insertion
PK: Primary Key - this is the field that will be used when doing joins (like linked fields)
UQ: Unique - the SQL operation will fail it would cause two rows to have the same value in this column. This is best used for things like social security numbers, customer id numbers, and other things that are VERY IMPORTANT never to have conflict or duplicated.

Hope this helps!

@Wassim-Samad or @Joseph-Benguira, it'd be really nice to have these as tooltips.

In case you haven't found this out yourself yet, you can access it from within a CloudBackend function using:

event["HEADERS"]["CloudFront-Viewer-Country"]

Hope this helps!

HI @Stephen-Alsobrook ! Welcome.

You've got two options:

1. You can add a "JavaScript Source Code Embedded" element as described here:
   https://support.appdrag.com/blog/48-.html

2. Go into that page's settings -> Advanced tab -> "Insert HTML before end of body"
   And paste the javascript snippet from your app there.

Note, for option two, your snippet should start with <script> and end with </script>.

Cheers!

Brilliant, thank you!

Hello team,

When sharing DB access with others, unfortunately these people can see all data and edit any field, but they are not able to add any records.

When attempting to add a record, they get a message that it was successful, but the record is never created.

Thank you!

That does sound very strange.... but I have had a similar bug.

1. Can you share your project name (for AppDrag support when they see this, they may be able to look into it)

You can find it in the URL as "appid=your-app-id"

1. What browser/OS are you using? I had a PageBuilder problem using Brave once, where changes would seem to save, then revert. It was very strange indeed.

2. Are you using any custom CSS styles? Could be that. If you share your public URL that could also help.

Hi Maxime,

You can upload custom fonts from the Asset Manager, but PageBuilder already allows you to install Google Fonts very easily.

Also instructions here:
https://appdrag.com/blog/3-Upload-your-own-fonts.html

Hello team,

I'm writing a CloudBackend function to send a high volume of emails (about 1850 in the space of a few minutes).

My function successfully calls and gets a resolved promise from the cloudBackend.sendEmail function.... but the emails can sometimes take 20, 30 minutes to arrive.

This was confusing during testing, as I re-launched the sends after tweaking the code, and ended up with many, many, many emails in my test inbox

Can you please tell me what kind of throughput I should expect from the .sendEmail function? How can I be sure that it will send (am I guaranteed a send attempt if the .sendEmail promise returns resolved?)

Daniel

Can we have more information (ideally, baked into the UI about the response types for Cloud Backend functions?

Hi Dick,

I used Grafana for the v1 of our site, so I have experience with it.

I don't think you can 'host' Grafana on AppDrag, but if you ran it on a third-party server (like an AWS EC2) you might be able to:

1. Use it to pull data from CloudDB
2. Embed Grafana graphs (that pull data from wherever) as iframes

Good luck! i'd be interested in if/how you get it to work!

Thanks Joseph,

I've added it manually per your recommendation. Merci!

Three cheers to Joseph!

Hello team,

Can you tell us where Node 14 is on the roadmap?

Thanks!

Hi @Joseph-Benguira, thanks for the info.

Any progress on the plans to add this? I'm looking for it

@Pierre-SULPICE did you end up coding it? Do you feel like sharing?

@Wassim-Samad @Wassim @Joseph-Benguira @Steven-Betito

Please respond!

Because we lose the <br>'s each time, the h2's don't render properly, so every time we make a change on the blog, we have to go into the source code view and re-add the br's....

@Wassim thanks. I do see the blog-sitemap.xml but it's not being referenced in the Google Search console.

Maybe I need to wait for Google to re-index the site? We switched the domain over on October 19th, but maybe that's not long enough?

Thanks

Duh!

Follow-up question: Can the blog articles be submitted to the sitemap??

Hi Katya,

Looks like SSL is live and the site looks correct

Hi Josh,

Your font issue might be related to this:
https://community.appdrag.com/topic/425/published-domain-website-text-looks-different-than-original

Did you figure out the rest of your questions?