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Project organization, SQL Query metadata, and more!

🚦Project organization

Bring some order to the chaos and organize all of your Hex projects! You can now add a Status and multiple Categories to any Hex project and filter the main Projects view to quickly find what you're looking for.

We've set you up with some default options to get you started, but any Hex administrator can add new Categories or Statuses from the Administration page. And yes, you can remove the defaults if you've got your own big plans 🙂.

🖥️ View Live button

We saw that you generally only clicked the 👁️ button in the menubar to access the "View Live" button contained within, so we pulled that button out to the top level. You can now click this 🖥️ button to go straight to the live version of your app.

🕵️‍♀️ SQL Query metadata

To help admins keep track of database usage, SQL queries now include a comment with helpful metadata about the Hex user and project that ran the query.

📊 Binning in Chart cells

Chart cells now support binning, which means you can create histograms right out of the box!

🕴 Performance improvements

We have made some big improvements to speed in Hex: loading projects is much snappier, project run times are faster, and little things like adding new cells take less time. Performance work is never done – let us know if there are any other areas that you think could use a little speed up 🚀