WEBIX JAVASCRIPT LIBRARY BLOG

Kanban boards allow visualizing the workflow in an easy and intuitive way. And Webix has a tool that allows you to create your own Kanban Board.

There’s already a well written guide that describes how you can use the Webix Kanban Board widget. This time we’ll take a look at some tips and tricks you can use to customize the existing project management application.

Splitting the Columns

First of all, the basics. Here’s how you can create a simple Kanban Board:

And here’s the result:

We are glad to announce our small but effective and long-expected Webix update 2.5! Firstly, we can boast of Microsoft Edge support. Despite this new browser for Windows 10 hasn’t been released yet, Webix widgets already support it. Secondly, we’ve improved our complex widgets such as Pivot and Kanban, as well as added an opportunity to block time in Calendar widget. And the final traditional update is bugs fixing.

If you are too busy to read the whole post, you can download a new library version here.

Microsoft Edge ready

Since the version 2.5, Webix supports Microsoft Edge, which is a default browser for upcoming Windows 10. Microsoft has announced that it would have plenty of JS improvements over IE11 and similar performance to Chrome and Firefox browsers.

Webix is MS Edge ready, which means that your web apps will run flawlessly across a new cutting edge browser as soon as it is officially released (on July, 29).

Webix version 2.4 brings you a new UI component that allows creating portal layouts in an easy and intuitive way. Portlet component can be dragged over the page and swapped with other portlets. This behaviour allows you to rearrange your web page elements the way you want. Let’s take a look at the basics of portlet usage.

Portlets Basics

You can create a basic portlet in the same way as other Webix UI components. Just set “portlet” as the view property value. The body property defines the portlet content:

By arranging portlets into rows and columns, you can create the required layout which can be easily reorganized if necessary:

The result is shown below:

We love open source and are willing to make this part of Webix community bigger and happier. Starting from Webix 2.4, in addition to the ability to use Webix in GPL projects, we add a FLOSS Exception to the existing GPL License. Thanks to this update, you can use Webix in your applications distributed under MIT, BSD and other open source licenses!

Thus, you can use Webix in open source projects that exists under a license that is a part of the FLOSS Exception List without taking into consideration the GPLv3 restrictions. The only requirement implies that your open source project should be intended for using by end-users but not for creating a library for software development purposes.

FLOSS License List

Want to know which FLOSS licenses can Webix be distributed under?

Starting with version 2.4, Webix provides you with a new way of user interaction improvement. Validation Messages can be pretty useful in case you want to make sure that users will fill in all your web forms properly.

Let’s take a look at how it works. Here’s an example of a registration form:

You can check the Form documentation page if you want to get more details of form creation with Webix.