v7.10.0 - tables in the assistant chat, a fully translated project setup and a lighter install.

Right after 7.9.0 went out, two things came back from people using it every day. The in-app assistant was answering with tables, lists of projects and budgets, that showed up as a wall of pipe characters instead of a table. And teams working in other languages found a few corners of the new project setup window still speaking English. 7.10.0 fixes both, and takes the regional cost data back out of the package so the download stays small.

What is new in version 7.10.0

• Tables in the assistant chat. ERP Chat renders Markdown pipe tables as real tables with column alignment, in both the floating chat and the full-page chat, so an answer like a list of projects with budgets reads cleanly.
• The project setup window, fully translated. Every label, hint and message in quick create and the guided setup is now translated across all 27 languages, with no English left showing in other locales.
• A lighter install. Regional cost catalogues no longer ship inside the package. They download on demand the first time you import one and cache locally, so the install is about 15 MB smaller while all thirty regions stay available and keep working offline once loaded.
• Catalogue import unchanged for you. Loading a region's catalogue or the full resource cost database works exactly as before, one click per region, just fetched on demand rather than read from the package.

Tables that read like tables

The assistant produces a Markdown table whenever a table is the clearest answer, a list of projects with budgets and status, a breakdown by cost group, a comparison of options. Until now both chat surfaces rendered everything except tables, so those answers arrived as raw | ... | text. Both renderers now parse the table and lay it out properly, with per-column alignment, and formatting inside the cells still works. A table written inside a code block stays literal, and the same sanitiser that has always guarded chat output still strips anything unsafe before it reaches the page. This was reported by a community member, who pointed straight at the two renderers involved; the fix is our own.

Every word of project setup, in your language

The faster project creation that arrived in 7.9.0 brought a new set of labels and hints into the setup window, and a batch of them were still English-only. 7.10.0 turns all of them into real translation strings and ships them in every one of the 27 supported languages, so quick create and the guided setup read cleanly whatever language the interface is set to.

A leaner package, the same data

7.9.0 bundled thirty regional reference catalogues inside the install for offline loading. That data is specific reference content, and it does not need to travel inside every download. In 7.10.0 the catalogues are no longer shipped in the package: the first time you import a region it is fetched from the public CWICR data and cached locally, so it keeps working offline from then on, and the install itself is about 15 MB lighter. All thirty regions remain available to import exactly as before, and the resource cost database import is untouched. Every region was verified downloadable before release.

By the numbers

Install or upgrade

pip install --upgrade openconstructionerp

The desktop installers for Windows, macOS and Linux carry the same one-installer setup, and the Linux build includes the CAD and BIM converters for AutoCAD, Revit and IFC. You can grab the latest installers from openconstructionerp.com/download. If you run an external PostgreSQL through DATABASE_URL, nothing about that connection changes. Questions or trouble upgrading, write to info@datadrivenconstruction.io.