The Future of App Development: Touch to Build?

The Present

How does software get built today? The image of software engineers hunkering down over their computers is a familiar sight and is representative of how things work today. Building software and apps is the domain of experienced computer programmers and coders, of which there is a real shortage. This global phenomenon (check out a finding from the European Commission, for example) is not new, and will only get worse.

The Future

Now, imagine a future where non-coders are able to build and maintain apps. It may sound far-fetched and impractical now, but this is where we believe the world is heading. With the proliferation of smartphones and tablets, IT literacy and competency are rapidly increasing all over the world. With the emergence and growth of low-code platforms, and the feedback from the Joget Workflow community, the trends point towards a future where more and more people are becoming creators, not just consumers of software.

At Joget, our vision is a business world where apps can be built and managed anytime, anywhere. But just as how smartphones revolutionized photography for the average person as opposed to professional photographers, software development professionals will still play a big role at a deeper level. However, the time is ripe for everyone to be able to create software when required. Imagine someone walking around with an iPad to build apps anytime, anywhere. Dragging some elements here, dropping some stuff there, everyone is empowered to create.

Well, “touch to build” is arriving in the upcoming Joget Workflow v6. Watch this space for updates!

Password Creation

• Created by Vishvodhay, last modified by Hugo on Jul 19, 2016

Configuring the password Rules

Joget allows you to define the password rules in the security plugin. These rules can be modified or set in the following location
System Settings>Directory Manager Settings>Configure Plugin(Security Enhanced Directory Manager)>Default Directory Password Policy
Check the rules and minimum length of the password

Click on Submit to save the settings

Creating initial Password

Create User allows administrators to create a password for a user or generate a random password. The randomness comes from a combination of pseudo-random numbers and alphabets. These numbers and alphabets are taken from the password policy rules set using the process described above
Checking the generate random password will allow the admin user to generate a random password for user and un checking the same would allow an admin to create a password for the user .

Managing Password changes

In case a user forgets a password or if an admin wants to force a change in password, Joget allows you to do this

1. Admin can check "Reset Password" to send the new password to the user via Email. 
2. Admin can also force user to change his password. Check "Force Password Change" to do that.
3. Admin also has an option to check "No password Expiration" in case he/she doesn't want their user's password to expire.

Forcing a password change would require a user to change his password in the next login. The image below shows the screen that appears in case of forced password change. The user will have to enter the older password and the new password to complete the enforcement.