# farmOS Monthly Call, 13 September 2023

**URL:** https://farmos.discourse.group/t/farmos-monthly-call-13-september-2023/1726
**Category:** Community
**Tags:** community-call
**Created:** [August 17, 2023, 2:32pm UTC](https://farmos.discourse.group/t/farmos-monthly-call-13-september-2023/1726 "2023-08-17T14:32:05Z")
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#### Post date: [September 14, 2023, 6:29pm UTC](https://farmos.discourse.group/t/farmos-monthly-call-13-september-2023/1726/3 "2023-09-14T18:29:47Z")

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Here are my running notes from the call if anyone needs to catch up-- So many awesome & exciting updates!

**New features coming in 2.2.0 (from 2.1.2)**

- Introducing **configurable quick forms** - nothing new with UI, but a new developer feature if you’re making quickforms
- Ability to create a unified, official way to allow quickforms to have configuration - for example, if you use the eggs contributed quick form, could take a version of that and allow for multiple differently structured ways of expressing it
- Same with Inventory - could configure for hay, seed, etc - configured to associate with a specific asset
- Has allowance for much greater complexity - could configure Spraying quickform with your different mixes to have differnt prepouplated form for each one

**UI enhancements from Paul** No live demo, but can link to forum topics - 2 main things as part of Action

- Table listings for things like Assets & Logs to reduce white space
- Dashboard improvements for accessability & readability
- Taking standard ‘card’ theme & adding to dashboard

**[Improvements to editing pages](https://farmos.discourse.group/t/ui-improvements-editing-forms/1743)** (Mike’s favorite improvement!), adding sidebar to hold asset metadata, adding vertical tabs to group categories within a form for better navigation, moved ‘save’ button to top of page

**[adding setup page](https://farmos.discourse.group/t/add-setup-page-to-farmos-core/1712)**

- Supporting Our-Sci work with Rothamstead farms & OpenTEAM
- Setup area distinct from settings, new setup module has its own menu - makes it easier to navigate to modules, taxonomy pages, etc.
- Can also add different types of setup pages for notifications, products, or other things that need initial configuration.

-Distinguishing from settings by creating content, things you need to do on a regular basis . Settings would be something only the owner would do, but Setup has lower permissioning so more people can access, modify and change

- Improves UX for what’s available now, and also opens door for additional improvements.

**CSV importer improvements** - trying to strike balance between set of default importers for assets & logs, but also provide a framework for creating your own csv importer templates - can’t build in UI yet, need to bring in a yml file, but that’s a possibility for the future. ([using drupal Migrate API yaml)

-set log type, set destination, add different places for each CSV column then autogenerate log names -can also define permissions/access & define columns

**What’s next?**

-Modus module for farmOS -this month focused on wrapping up these things that we just showed

- After that, focusing more on backend - need to update from drupal 9 to drupal 10 - this will also mean that we’re going to jump from farmOS v2 - v3 updating oauth scopes (packets of permissions) to allow for better consent management

After that, back to UI & frontend improvements -

- May add quickform for inventory managment - ability to manage inventory by product - quantity etx - already have the ability to do this by asset, will have ‘product’ asset - this will be useful for sharing inventory availability for marketplace tracking etc
- May spend some time porting Crop Module from v1-v2 Also participating in collabathons!

farmOS 2.2 by the end of this month - just trying to decide if we want to include csv importer in this release or the next one

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