New Ragic setup application to configure your Ragic account to replace config.xml

One decision that we've made in the early days of Ragic is that since we believe Ragic is the best way to develop database applications, then we shall not use any other ways to develop databases in Ragic besides Ragic itself. As a result, everything was built on Ragic— from the user and account registration, to group management, to blogs, forums, and applications stores on Ragic— they are all 100% built on Ragic Builder! Some of them have customized interfaces using Java API, but every bit of data is stored on Ragic.

The administration function that you use to create new users for your account was built on Ragic, but we used the Java API to create a more customized interface. This is necessary in the beginning because Ragic did not have enough features to create a fully functional user registration module. But as our product grew, we began to face problems that applications "NOT" built with Ragic faced, all because we used a customized interface rather than Ragic. That is, we needed to put more and more effort on the user registration function development because of different feature requests like paged listing of users, filtering users by status, or adding new fields. Do these features sound familiar? Yes, they're all functions already provided by Ragic.

The great thing about using Ragic is that you can build rock solid applications really fast in a flexible way. So it's time for us to look back and see if Ragic now has enough capability to manage the users in your account and your configurations. The answer is yes.

Now, we install a "Ragic Setup" application on all new registered accounts, which you can use to manage users and groups, or configure your account privilege and feature access settings. The old user management function at the top account tab will remain where they are for now. But please use the new Ragic Setup application to manage your users and configuration, we will remove the user management at the admin tab in the future.