Introduction
kintone had an update on August 12th 2016. Below are details of API related updates.
kintone REST API
New API Features for the August Update
- Add Thread Comment API
A thread comment can be added to a thread of a Space by specifying the Space ID and Thread ID.
Bug Fixes for the August Update
- A bug occured when the Get Comments API was used. The format of the created date and time of the comment was different from the common datetime format.
- Before the fix: 2016‒08‒14T00:38:53.000Z
- After the fix: 2016‒08‒14T00:38:53Z
- A bug occured when multiple attachments were uploaded by the Update Record API. The order of the attachments were uploaded randomly rather than the specified order in the JSON.
- A bug occured when the Update Multiple Statuses API was used when the option for who can take the next action was "User chooses one assignee from the list to take action". If there were select-able assignees for the next status, and the API did not specify the records[].assignee, an invalid assignee was set.
- A bug occured when the Get App API was used. The value of Created by and Updated by were retrieved even when those users were inactive, deleted, or could not use the kintone service.
- After the fix: An empty string is returned.
- After the fix: An empty string is returned.
kintone JavaScript API
New and Extended API Features for the August Update
- Submit Sucess Event
This event occurs after a record is successfully saved on the Record List, Create or Edit screen.
This event is only available on the Desktop. - Record Print Event
This event occurs after the Print button is clicked on the record details page and the Printable Version page is displayed.
This event is only available on the Desktop. - Increased size allowance of JavaScript files that can be uploaded to apps
- Before: Maximum 512KB
- After: Maximum 5MB