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Trey Teter

Software Engineer


August 2022 Newsletter

Partner Go-Live announcements!

Marketplace

We are excited to announce four new Q2 Accelerator Partners: TME Travel Insurance, Vouchr, Eko, and Agent IQ!

Travel insurance demand is at an all-time high with an estimated 70% of travelers securing some type of travel protection. Our plans are designed specifically for today’s traveler and provide an option for all styles of travel. Engage and help protect your account holders today with TME Travel Insurance. There are no infectious disease exclusions - meaning COVID-19 is covered as any other illness. TME plans are underwritten by Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company – rated A+ Superior.

Vouchr adds an eGreetings button to your banking app and allow customers to send a digital greeting card. Install it for your account to account (A2A) money transfers so people can send gifts of cash (like putting cash inside a greeting card) to friends and family. Also install it on your home screen and create a Hallmark™ - like service for your customers to send digital greetings for occasions throughout the year.

Eko enables every FI to offer a digital investment solution. Backed by fact that most Americans want to invest with their trusted FI, Eko is accessible via your existing digital platform. We take care of the entire investment process, from live dashboards to regulatory. End-users can either get a suggested portfolio based on risk apetite and interests, or pick individual stocks/ETFs. This way Eko improves product offering and attract younger members, while creating a significant revenue stream.

Agent IQ has seamless integration within your Q2 environment allows your customers to choose their own banker and communicate with them at their convenience. You get the benefit of seeing what your customers are talking about and tailor advice to support and increase product holding.

Visit the digital catalog today to learn more or bring TME Travel Insurance, Vouchr, Eko, or Agent IQ to your institution!

SDK News Corner

Local Development Improvements

We have been consistently adding more and more features to local development. This time we added dedicated documentation on several local dev features. This documentation includes detailed information on the caliper_admin script, how to set up your development environment in Visual Studio Code, and how to connect to the sandbox online banking database from local dev. These features were available already, but now developers have comprehensive documentation on using them.

DBObject improvements

There is one new DBObjects:

  • PolicyData- DbObject for interacting with policies surrounding an entity (User/Customer/Group/UserRole/Company)

The Innovation Studio team also released the following additional improvements for DBObjects:

  • UiText - now returns ContainsMarkup Boolean on get.
  • Form - AccountRightsBitFlag is now correctly listed as an Integer type. HostTransactionHistoryData – create method now handles the case of missing Sequence columns.

Caliper SDK Training

The last Training of the year is coming up on November 15th-17th. The event is three days and gives developers the ability to learn about the SDK environment. The Caliper SDK team gives guided practice to learn industry best practices and practical knowledge about development on the industry-leading Caliper SDK. For more information on the course see the training agenda page.

Additional SDK Improvements

  • HqCredentials object now has a customer_key to reference the stack (DB for an environment) more easily in places such as Vault.
  • Q2SamlResponse exists to facilitate easier SSO creation. The SSO Tutorial in the documentation has been updated to reflect this enhancement.
  • q2 update_installed now works even if your extension name in the repo differs from the installed name in the database.

Portal News

Portal Vault Upload

The Innovation Studio team has built a method for external developers to upload Vault secrets directly to the data center. This feature is currently in beta but is already being used by most developers uploading to Vault today. To be added to the beta testing group, please open a support case on q2developer.com.

Tecton News

Utility CSS now comes from Tecton and not UUX

All the utility CSS (i.e., Grid System, colors, sizing, and so on) is now also provided by Tecton and will be removed from the UUX payload in an upcoming release. In addition, when loading in Tecton, there is an option to not include this utility CSS by setting loadUtilities to false.

q2-tooltip

The q2-tooltip component provides the ability to include tooltip text. When used around a Tecton element, the provided tooltip text appears next to it when the element is hovered over.

Latest Releases

Caliper SDK (Python) 2.143.0 - CHANGELOG

Tecton SDK (Javascript) 1.16.1 - CHANGELOG

Marketplace (Python) 0.8.5 - CHANGELOG

Caliper API (Python) 1.13.0 - CHANGELOG