Chameleon Development Roadmap (Nexus-Driven)

1. Current State (2026-05-02)

Completed Milestones

Remaining Milestones (from existing plan)

---

2. Consistency Issues Found in Existing Docs

---

3. Roadmap: Nexus-Requirements-Driven

Phase 1: Form Completeness (M-NEXUS-CV-2 + CV-3 merged)

Unblocks: Nesto (UC-D1), AES (UC-P2), ENDO (UC-P3)

Sprint: S3-S4 (merged into one delivery)

Critical path item: Without this, no use case with file uploads or validation can ship.

Definition of Done:

• All field types render and return correct values
• Conditional visibility hides/shows fields and excludes hidden values from submission
• Nesto Step 2 (upload docs) and Step 4 (validation errors displayed) render end-to-end
• 80%+ branch coverage on new code
• Existing 1047 tests still pass

---

Phase 2: Presentation and Branding (M-NEXUS-CV-4)

Unblocks: Multi-tenant white-label (Nesto employer portals), mobile Worker form

Sprint: S5

Definition of Done:

• styleRef CSS applied without global leak
• Submitter variant passes at 375px/414px/768px viewports
• Nesto employer skin renders correctly

---

Phase 3: ChameleonBI (New Capability)

Origin: Osiris prototype (E:/repos/archive/Osiris) -- PowerBI analysis/reconstruction

Requirement source: Nexus Use Case Register Section 5.1, EDR (UC-P1), AES (UC-P2)

Target: Dashboard and reporting layer that consumes DashboardNode / ListViewNode / NavMenuNode outputs

Relationship to existing components:

• ArcDashboardGrid and ArcDataTable already exist (v1.2.2)
• BI-02 and BI-03 are schema-binding wrappers around these existing components
• BI-01 leverages the Layout Engine (M-NEXUS-CV-5) for positioning
• BI-04 is new (navigation shell)
• BI-05 extends the existing placeholder chart components into production-grade

Definition of Done:

• Schema-defined dashboard renders from DashboardNode + ListViewNode outputs
• Navigation shell supports multi-view switching
• EDR monitoring dashboard renders end-to-end from pipeline output
• AES results dashboard renders scores, pass/fail, per-student breakdown

---

Phase 4: New Deployment Targets

Source: Nexus Deployment Matrix Section 3.3 (View Layer Implementations)

Power Apps Target (P3 -- Highest New Target Priority)

Nesto Phase 4 explicitly requires Power Platform deployment. This means:

1. Schema Compiler: JSON form schema -> Power Apps canvas app definition (YAML/msapp format)
2. Field Mapping: ChameleonV2 field types -> Power Apps controls (TextInput, Dropdown, DatePicker, AttachmentControl, etc.)
3. RBAC Mapping: ChameleonV2 role-based visibility -> Dataverse row-level security + Power Apps Visible/DisplayMode properties
4. Validation Mapping: ChameleonV2 validation rules -> PowerFx IsMatch(), Value validation patterns
5. Human Gate: Power Automate Approvals connector triggered from Power Apps button

This is NOT a re-implementation of ChameleonV2 in PowerFx. It is a compiler that takes a Chameleon schema and generates a Power Apps definition. The schema remains the single source of truth.

CLI Target (P4 -- Developer Tooling)

Schema renders as interactive terminal prompts (like npm init). Useful for:

• Pipeline testing without browser
• Batch data ingestion (JSON stdin mode)
• CI/CD integration testing

---

Phase 5: Platform Maturity

---

4. Critical Path

Phase 1 (Form Completeness)
    |
    v
Phase 2 (Style + Mobile)  -----> Phase 3 (ChameleonBI)

  

    v                                v
Phase 4a (Power Apps)         Phase 4b (SPFx/CLI/PDF)
    |
    v
Phase 5 (Platform Maturity)

Phases 1 and 2 are sequential -- validation and file inputs must work before branding.

Phase 3 can start after Phase 1 -- dashboards need data types but not mobile styling.

Phase 4 can start after Phase 2 -- deployment targets need the complete feature set.

Phase 5 runs parallel -- infrastructure improvements are independent.

---

5. Use Case Dependency Map

Which use cases are unblocked at each phase:

---

6. Nexus View Layer Capability Status (V-CAP)

From Deployment Matrix -- current delivery status for the React target:

---

7. Version History