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!

Hello team-

We'd love a way to process recurrent transactions.

Is there a way to do this with your existing shop API and our own billing logic CloudBackend?

If not, feature request please!

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

Hey @Linda-MacDonald

I agree, the CloudDB feature is AMAZING!

You can't switch an existing view to/from card view... you have to create a card view for your data.... then you can switch TO that view. Does that make sense? You've probably already done this if you saw your data as cards already.

Click the binoculars in the upper left corner, and card type views are shown by this little icon

If you don't see one, create a view for it using the option at the bottom of the drop-down.

Cheers!

Currently, I am hoping to use the CloudDB as an administrative backend for adding data to one of our databases.

Wish list:

1. Ability to rename fields for "friendly" use in form view and card video.
2. Ability to add descriptions to fields (to
3. (Eventually?) Ability to add regex or other validation on form submission via Card view or Form view.
4. Ability to publish a form submission page that does not require authentication.

1 and 2 are the most important for my use case. Are these 'envisagable'? Thank you very much!

Hello AppDrag team and @Wassim especially, I think.

I have an issue with code modals, they are not showing up on Safari 14.

It seems to be related to the height CSS property of the

#appdrag-modal-ace-editor-ace

element.

It is by default:

calc(100% - 59px)

Which creates this problem:

If I set it to a normal px value, it appears:

Worth noting, the value "86.5vh" seems to work perfectly without needing a calc, at least on my end:

Can you help me understand the use-case a bit more? Maybe I'll get a flash of inspiration if I know more about what you're trying to do

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!

I really like Disqus (https://help.disqus.com/en/articles/1717053-what-is-disqus)

I haven't integrated it in our site but I will be doing it soon. If you want to try integrating it and let us know how it goes, that would be great. Otherwise, I can try to remember to update this when I do it (in a month or so).

Nice use case @Konrad-Hylton !

Very impressed @Joseph-Benguira !

Do you have an example of retry logic we could use, or the 'high level' approach to take? I'm interested

+1 would really appreciate this feature.

You could try looking in the headers. If not, the best thing to do would probably do a Geo IP lookup, you can indeed get the IP from the backend. I don't think browser headers send country code, they barely send timezone info

I think I have code for extracting the IP address if you need it, but if you print all the headers from the request you should see how to access it.

Cheers @ThomasD

Hello Katya,

The image you posted doesn't really show much - are you sure you uploaded the right one?

Has your client already created an account using the same email address you shared to? IF they haven't, they may need to create an account at AppDrag.com before being able to click the links.

@Wassim can you confirm if the share links prompt you to register if you're not already a user? I know the CloudDB links show a 404-style error.

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!