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Release notes (consolidated)

Release notes (consolidated)

News 1.25.0 - November 23, 2023

Fixed

Slow initial loading time
Removed icon thumbnail image

Fixed

Slow initial loading time

Apps 1.27.0 - November 23, 2023

Added

Support for 6 column layouts

Inform and Onboard 1.1.0 - November 22, 2023

Added

Support for import/export feature

Apps 1.26.0 - November 22, 2023

Changed

Minor styling change in carousel component to allow for more controlled overrides

Added

Support for new Boards import/export feature

Added

New functionality to fully backup (or restore) an installation of Ichicraft Boards

Fixed

An issue where the wrong fields were rendered in the Teams admin section
An issue where the navigation showed a footer section under the wrong circumstances
An issue where an error occurred if the manifest of a widget could not be loaded
An issue where an error occurred if no translations were available in the manifest of a widget

Changed

Widgets can now have an icon as default thumbnail

Power BI 1.43.0 - November 15, 2023

Fixed

An issue with the user picker, used for audience targeting

Changed

Removed 15 minute cache delay

News 1.24.0 - November 13, 2023

Changed

Implemented retrying fetching news articles on sporadic API errors

Added

Auto refreshing is now available, making sure items keep updating in the background when window is open for a longer period of time

Fixed

An issue where in some cases the icon for resetting something wasn't visible
An issue where selecting a board template in some screen resolutions caused automatic deselecting, leaving a user unable to pick a template

News 1.23.0 - November 08, 2023

Fixed

An issue where once boosted news articles were no longer visible in certain configurations

News 1.22.0 - November 02, 2023

Changed

Sites now display the Site logo thumbnail instead of the Site logo
News posts now use a different thumbnail url, resulting in higher resolution images in most cases

Fixed

an issue where the People Picker didn't always store data correctly

Added

Several CSS classes to the navigation elements to override the show/hide toggle

World Clock 1.0.0 - October 12, 2023

Initial release

News 1.21.0 - October 11, 2023

Added

News preview in admin config
Option to change the overlay color and opacity

Changed

Improved UX of user picker fields
Empty widget now shows thumbnail icon

Added

Widget variants can now have an icon representation instead of just a thumbnail

Changed

Improved widget details panel

Fixed

A bug where custom theme colors didn't work correctly
A bug where in the Teams client, the navigation bar wasn't scrollable when there are lots of menu items

Power BI 1.42.0 - October 05, 2023

Fixed

An issue where cached filters were not applied on load

Fixed

An issue where creating urgent messages fails in certain scenarios

Inbox 1.9.0 - October 04, 2023

Added

Shared mailbox now supports adding an e-mail address if a user could not be found

Changed

Improved UI for user configuration panel

Fixed

An issue in Boards Lite where shared mailbox functionality could not be used

News 1.20.0 - October 02, 2023

Added

Autoplay on slides
Audience mechanism on selected sites
Expanded push mechanism on selected sites
Ability for users to manage their own sites

Changed

Improved news post rendering
Improved overall UI and UX
Improved site selection functionality
Sites now display their own icon
Simplified followed sites feature

Fixed

Some smaller issues with the recently released urgent messages feature (wrong icon, missing sorting in drop-down list, unfiltered list of messages during onboarding, etc)
A German translation that wasn't correct

Power BI 1.41.0 - September 28, 2023

Fixed

An issue where the horizontal page navigation would not correctly apply the selected page

Initial release

Power BI 1.40.0 - September 15, 2023

Fixed

An issue where Power BI embeds are reloaded when resizing the browser window

Sticky Notes 1.1.0 - September 13, 2023

Fixed

An issue where invalid nodes were appended to the Lexical root element

Sticky Notes 1.0.0 - September 12, 2023

Initial release

Minor system update

Birthdays 1.7.0 - September 09, 2023

Fixed

An issue that occurs in a situation where users' login names aren't identical to their primary e-mail addresses

Added

A new feature that allows designated users to publish urgent messages to specific boards or to the entire organisation

News 1.19.0 - September 01, 2023

Changed

Site titles in news items are now clickable and navigate to appropriate site

Fixed

An issue where searching for sites in the followed sites picker resulted in endless refreshes
An issue where in a specific scenario, news items could show up twice in the widget

External Feeds 1.14.0 - August 25, 2023

Added

Support for an extra field that could contain the image url: media.group > media:thumbnail

Apps 1.25.0 - August 24, 2023

Fixed

An issue where extended description callouts would always open on touchscreen devices
An issue where touchscreen devices would always render the widget in compact mode
An issue where no top padding was applied in the extended description dialog
An issue in Boards Lite where the save/cancel buttons in the UserConfig panel were not clickable

Apps 1.24.0 - August 24, 2023

Fixed

An issue where the new App launcher didn't work in Boards Lite

Power BI 1.39.0 - August 24, 2023

Fixed

An issue where horizontal navigation pivots for list layouts would not update correctly

Apps 1.23.0 - August 23, 2023

Added

Default value support for managed metadata fields

Fixed

Carousel visualization
Backwards compatibility issues where it is assumed an app catalog already exists
Missing translation key for contact details
Localization issues when migrating to catalog system

Changed

Improved UX design for admin configuration
Improved UX design for user configuration
Different info icon in the app list when an extended description is available

News 1.18.0 - August 22, 2023

Fixed

An issue with error handling for News article thumbnails
Unnecessary use of the date-fns package

Fixed

An issue with a newer version of the installation package failing to load the Boards web part correctly

Added

A new feature that allows users to update their profile right from their boards
A warning message when admins leave the page without saving board configuration updates
Searching for widgets is now possible on a widget's subtitle
Automatically filling the Ichicraft Product Key during subsequent installations within a single tenant

Fixed

An issue where the catalog of installable widgets wasn't sorted alphabetically
An issue where the buttons in the widget configuration panel were rendered on top of content
An issue where a hex color in CSS wasn't applied correctly in Teams
An issue where board configuration cache invalidation didn't work correctly in certain scenarios

External Feeds 1.13.0 - August 15, 2023

Fixed

An issue where the widget only shows one RSS feed at a time

External Feeds 1.12.0 - August 15, 2023

Added

Support for an extra field that could contain the image url: media:thumbnail

Changed

Complete refactoring of solution to match new standards

Inform and Onboard 1.0.0 - August 15, 2023

Changed

New visualization for carousel

News 1.17.0 - August 14, 2023

Added

Number of views per article
A new 'Open in new window' button from within a dialog
An animation when hovering over an article

Changed

The number of articles placed on a grid row, offering more space for articles
Small visual improvements

Fixed

A bug where sometimes the recent sites can't be loaded in the Create News Post dialog

Added

Option to quickly access a widget's admin configuration from a widget on a board using the widget's context menu
Browser check to warn a user that changes in board configuration might get lost when board updates aren't saved yet

Changed

Minor updates to styling of widget's context menu
Changed positioning of Configuration and Trial message bars

Fixed

An issue where the web part wouldn't render correctly when the (SP) page is in edit mode

Power BI 1.38.0 - August 10, 2023

Fixed

An issue where the embed disappears when resizing window or going fullscreen
An issue where slicers are not updated when using the clear button on the embed

Changed

Refactored the content dialog to reuse the same embed code as the carousel & preview

Fixed

An issue where the navigation panel sometimes closed automatically in Teams

Added

The option to collapse the left navigation
Some extra CSS override classes in the welcome message

Changed

Audience targeted widgets are no longer visible to visitors of a shared board who are not in the audience of that widget

Fixed

An issue where in some specific scenario, a non-owner of a shared board was able to update that board

External Feeds 1.11.0 - July 14, 2023

Added

Support for an extra field that could contain the image url: itunes:image

Changed

Upgraded UI to use new carousel

Power BI 1.37.0 - July 13, 2023

Added

The ability to configure a subtitle for PBI content

News 1.16.0 - July 11, 2023

Added

Support for SharePoint audience targeting
Possibility to create new news articles straight from the widget header
Support for the Repost Page content type (news from external sources)

Changed

Carrousel is updated to reflect new style

Apps 1.20.0 - July 03, 2023

Fixed

An issue where AVD apps didn't open from within Teams client

Apps 1.19.0 - June 29, 2023

Fixed

An issue where provisioning the app storage list failed due to limited permissions

Apps 1.18.0 - June 28, 2023

Fixed

An issue where improper initialisation of the Apps list caused an error in some occasions

Apps 1.17.0 - June 27, 2023

Added

A new experimental feature that enables integration with Azure Virtual Desktop applications and desktops
The ability to reuse the same app across multiple widget variants

Changed

Storage of apps is now done in a designated SharePoint list instead of apps being part of the greater Ichicraft Boards configuration

Fixed

An issue where in some scenarios the onboarding of new users was impossible due to a disabled "Let's get started" button

Fixed

An issue where failing to retrieve account creation date/time results in infinite loading board

Inform and Onboard 0.5.0 - June 21, 2023

Fixed

An issue where, in an onboarding scenario, the widget could be removed by a user after all items were marked as complete, even though (unread) items are scheduled to be visible in the future.

Upcoming Meetings 1.6.0 - June 20, 2023

Changed

Update solution to stop using beta API from Microsoft where it's no longer needed

Added

Navigation policies (New Feature!) to specify the boards (personal + shared) that should be in a user's navigation (only available if and when Shared Boards feature is active)

Fixed & Changed

Many small fixes and improvements done with regards to UI (initial loading, switching back and forth between Ichicraft Boards and other SharePoint pages, the way that widgets appear and are

Power BI 1.36.0 - June 19, 2023

Fixed

An issue where report pages were synched incorrectly between the widget board and content dialog

Files 1.8.0 - June 13, 2023

Added

A new preview option for files

Fixed

An issue where the Recent tab failed when a user no longer has access to one ore more files or to the sites these files are stored in
An issue where Loop files that reside in a new hidden storage location can't programmatically be accessed properly, resulting in an error
An issue where only 10 items were visible in the default Favorites t

Apps 1.15.0 - June 12, 2023

Added

Added new button to widget header to quickly add new apps
CSS override options for more visual control over Apps
Personalized URLs by using the tokens [User.Email] or [User.UPN]

Changed

Improved user experience in the User Configuration for adding/removing apps
Improved Layout option behaviour
Improved carousel design

Power BI 1.35.0 - May 26, 2023

Fixed

An issue where cached filters were not applied on first render of PBI content
An issue where visuals of a hidden page were not selectable from the PBI content Add/Edit dialog
An issue where the content preview would crash when changing content source
An issue where the PBI content Add/Edit dialog would crash when selecting a dashboard tile

Changed

Removed the Clear functiona

Fixed

An issue where the people picker didn't work correctly all the time
An issue where the newly generated sppkg package included too many assets
An issue where the newly generated sppkg package introduced an issue with conflicting React versions

Changed

(non-functional) Upgraded underlying SPFx version to 1.17.2

Changed

Support for different language codes included that come from Teams
Some updates under the hood to support other shapes of etags

Power BI 1.34.0 - May 16, 2023

Fixed

An issue where rendering a single visual in a widget and using a full report as zoom content results in an error when using the zoom function

Power BI 1.33.0 - May 16, 2023

Fixed

An issue where users applying changes to slicers on one shared board, see the same changes applied on other shared boards that use the same report.

Power BI 1.32.0 - May 16, 2023

Fixed

An issue where working with the new slicers feature could cause an error in the configuration panel

Power BI 1.31.0 - May 15, 2023

Added

Support for slicer override and manipulation

External Feeds 1.10.0 - May 01, 2023

Added

An icon depicting that a link is taking a user outside the current web page or client

Embed 1.3.0 - April 20, 2023

Added

Dynamic theme support for embeds

Inform and Onboard 0.4.0 - April 18, 2023

Fixed

An issue where items and categories could not be updated unless they used the age range feature

Power BI 1.30.0 - April 18, 2023

Fixed

an issue where live filters weren't working for multiple columns at once

Embed 1.2.0 - April 14, 2023

Fixed

an issue where the file picker sometimes falls behind another dialog

Inform and Onboard 0.3.0 - April 13, 2023

Added

Podcasts item type
Min and Max account age range filter
FilePicker functionality to generate an embed code

Changed

Visual revamp (in line with News widget)
Renamed 'Mark as read' functionality to 'Mark as completed'

Files 1.7.0 - April 13, 2023

Fixed

an issue where the file size of the widget bundle file was very large due to invalid sharing of external libraries

Fixed

An issue where API permissions could no longer be requested from admin panel
An issue with loading (very) old configurations

Power BI 1.29.0 - April 06, 2023

Added

Live filters within the same table
Apply formatting to filter values (specifically DateTime strings)
Tooltip when hovering over filter values & people picker values

Changed

Remove page- and visual level filters from available filters list

Fixed

Displayname fix
Fix number & boolean filters not working
Fix performance on large collection of filter values (e.g. date filter)
Fix horizontal page navigation cutting off part of the embed
Fix available filters when selecting a Visual
Fix report filters not resetting when enabling custom filters

Fixed

An issue with missing resource files

Added

The option to onboard new users without showing a welcome message if no interaction is required
Functionality to the File Picker control so it can be used by widgets properly
The option for a user to completely reset a his/her profile (by using SHIFT key when board settings menu is open)

Fixed

An issue where no primary personal board was provisioned when the Personal Boards

Power BI 1.28.0 - March 27, 2023

Changed

Minor system update to prevent flooding logs with failed access token retrieval

Power BI 1.27.0 - March 24, 2023

Fixed

An issue where changes in default filters from an admin perspective weren't visible to the user due to caching issues

Power BI 1.26.0 - March 23, 2023

Fix local storage reset when editing admin config.

Power BI 1.25.0 - March 21, 2023

Fixed

Various small bugs introduced in last release

Power BI 1.24.0 - March 20, 2023

Changed

Some minor feature improvements and fixes for bugs introduced in previous release

Added

The ability to show multiple custom command bar buttons per widget

Power BI 1.23.0 - March 17, 2023

Added

The ability to group PBI-content in the list view
The ability to apply filters on PBI-content directly in the widget
Improvements to the add/edit PBI-content dialog

Saved for Later 1.4.0 - March 13, 2023

Fixed

A breaking issue where saved items could no longer be loaded, caused by an updated service endpoint @ Microsoft

External Feeds 1.9.0 - March 07, 2023

Added

The ability to detecting feed item images by looking for image urls in the description, allowing for more feeds to display images

Power BI 1.22.0 - February 17, 2023

Fixed

An issue with page visibility in horizontal navigation

Power BI 1.21.0 - February 15, 2023

Added

The ability to select individual report visuals to render
The ability to clone PBI content for quicker creation of content
PBI content previews as part of the content management
Content viewed and clicked events to feed the Ichicraft Boards analytics feature

Added

The ability to log additional user data as part of the Analytics feature
More events related to recently added features to the Analytics feature

Fixed

An issue where in some cases a pushed widget could not be resized when configuration dictates it should be able to do so
An issue where in some cases a move lock appeared even though a pushed widget was allowed to be moved

Fixed

An issue where the file picker navigation failes sometimes

Fixed

An issue where some configurations didn't load correctly after previous release
An issue where the file picker didn't work correctly after previous release

Added

You can now configure a custom theme to be used by Ichicraft Boards (includes dark mode!)

Changed

Url to Ichicraft announcements updated to ichicraft.com domain

Added

Ichicraft Boards announcements are now visible from within the product

Fixed

A small visual issue where some icons weren't visible in dark mode

Apps 1.13.0 - December 19, 2022

Added

Support for users and shared board owners to create their own apps

Countdown 0.1.0 - December 19, 2022

Initial release

Birthdays 1.6.0 - December 19, 2022

Fixed

An issue where in some cases a user couldn't update his/her birthday

Inbox 1.8.0 - December 19, 2022

Added

Ability for adminstrator to set default inbox type (Personal/Shared)
Better support for Inbox widget in Shared Board context

Fixed

An issue where opening a Shared inbox from widget header didn't work at all

Files 1.6.0 - December 19, 2022

Added

Fully customizable tabs
Advanced filter capabilities
Showing files not only from OneDrive but also from Teams & SharePoint
Different ways to open a file directly from the widget
Flexible display options like column selection, (default) sorting, flat/hierarchy view, etc
Sharing capabilities

Changed

Renamed: "OneDrive Widget" is now "Files Widget"

Tasks 1.5.0 - December 16, 2022

Changed

The default setting is now that users can update configuration of this widget

Events 1.9.0 - December 15, 2022

Changed

Allow Shared Board owners to specify the sites that serve as news source for the widget

News 1.15.0 - December 15, 2022

Changed

Allow Shared Board owners to specify the sites that serve as news source for the widget

Changed

Under-the-hood update where info about board type and user role is provided to widgets

Tasks 1.4.0 - December 14, 2022

Added

Support for lists in To Do (show list info, choose lists to show, add items to list)
Choose which plans to show in Planner pane
Filter capabilities on both Planner & To Do tasks
Option to show either To Do or Planner (not both per se)

Changed

Visual improvements

Power BI 1.20.0 - December 08, 2022

Changed

Loading page navigation on 'loaded' instead of 'rendered'

Birthdays 1.5.0 - December 07, 2022

Added

Flyout cards with personal information of a user
Ability to directly congratulate someone having a birthday using Teams chat or e-mail
Ability to update your own birthday
Better support for small factor widget (horizontal rendering)

Changed

Completely refactored widget code
Updated visual elements in widget with more focus for birthday user

Apps 1.12.0 - November 30, 2022

Fixed

An issue where in some cases the app tiles continuously triggered redraws of hidden div elements (LineEllipsis)

Changed

Removed last jsdelivr CDN pointers
Removed redundant log messages

Apps 1.11.0 - November 24, 2022

Fixed

An issue where a dialog doesn't render nicely on mobile devices
An issue where not in all cases an event is raised on app-click

Changed

There is now a 32 character limit on app titles
If title doesn't fit on two lines, we now show ellipsis (...) to make this clear

Added

Board templates can now also be defined for shared boards
Specify if widgets (variants) are available for either personal boards, shared boards, or both

News 1.14.0 - November 11, 2022

Changed

Greatly improved the loading speed of the widget

Added

Option to push a Shared Board to (groups of) users

Added

It's now possible for a user to change the order of boards in the left navigation

Fixed

An issue where renaming or deleting a widget on a shared board caused an error in some cases

Added

Introducing the first version of Ichicraft Board's newest feature: Shared Boards!

Events 1.8.0 - September 27, 2022

Fixed

An issue where sorting wasn't correct
An issue where long event titles weren't cropped correctly

Changed

Now loading events for 6 months ahead instead of 2

Fixed

An issue where pushed widgets were re-pushed after a user suffered from a connection error

Fixed

An issue where the (advanced) export / import feature fails in certain circumstances

Power BI 1.19.0 - September 21, 2022

Fixed

An issue where all of a sudden the report page picker didn't work due to an update in the underlying Power BI REST API

Fixed

An issue where the wrong current language was passed to a widget if that language wasn't configured as a content language
An issue where the confirmation dialog didn't close after deleting a content language
An issue where the API Permissions tab showed all variants of a widget type where only one would suffice to give the proper permissions

Changed

Big under-the-hood update to prepare for separate licenses for product features including the upcoming feature "Shared Boards"

Events 1.7.0 - September 16, 2022

Added

The same "follow sites logic" as in the News widget is now available in the Events widget too!

Fixed

An issue where following the root site collection returns events from all other site collections

Fixed

An issue where the background color of the header bleeds out when the web part is placed in a non full-width section

Apps 1.10.0 - September 05, 2022

Added

[#234] An even better way to manage apps with a redesigned layout picker
A new setting to configure the click behavior of an app item

Added

[#234] Some extra options to open urls in a dialog (used by widgets)

News 1.13.0 - September 02, 2022

Added

[#239] Support for boosted news articles
Optional click event tracking for Boards Analytics feature

Fixed

An error where the new category management feature causes an issue in some cases

Fixed

An issue where the widget library throws an error

Power BI 1.18.0 - August 25, 2022

Added

Option to open a Power BI visual in full screen

Added

[#220] Improved ways to organize widgets using category sets and hierarchies
[#219-1] When adding a widget it's now visible which widgets are already on your board
[#219-2] Adding multiple widgets is now easier for the end user
[#219-3] Browsing the widget library is easier for users with new filter options

Apps 1.9.0 - August 25, 2022

Added

Functionality to group/categorize apps
Easy image picker/uploader for app icons
Option to use a Fluent UI font icon instead of an image for app icons
Option to use characters as an app icon
Option to style the app with different foreground and background colors

Fixed

An issue where selecting an image in the file picker (from within settings panel) didn't work correctly when using the checkbox to select a file

Changed

Prepared the internal file picker component so it can be used by widgets too. There's now a function openFilePicker as part of the WidgetContext that can be used from within widgets.

Followed Sites 1.5.0 - August 24, 2022

Fixed

A minor issue where an invalid label was rendered in case something went wrong in getting a user's sites

Fixed

[#232] An issue where fetching a user's security groups could result in a fatal error in case local storage quota was exceeded

Power BI 1.17.0 - July 21, 2022

Changed

PBI content in hidden carrousel slides is no longer loaded in the background. Instead, it's loaded upon navigating to the slide. This is to prevent unnecessary burdening of the browser.

Fixed

[#192] An issue where in rare cases the first name of a user could not be retrieved correctly and a weird message [object Object] is displayed instead

Added

[#221] Ability to add subtitles to widgets, allowing for more distinguishable widget headers

People Search 1.10.0 - July 14, 2022

Changed

Upgraded underlying Graph Toolkit version

Power BI 1.16.0 - July 12, 2022

Fixed

An issue where long words with no spaces could break the UI of list views of Power BI content

Changed

Behavior of zooming in on content is now consistent with the Tableau Reports widget. This means that to open the zoomed in report you now have to click either the title of the widget or the zoom button in the widget header. Clicking on the content (report) itself will no longer

Tableau Reports 1.4.0 - July 12, 2022

Added

Zoom behavior so you can open a full-screen view of Tableau content
[#211] Additional layout to render a list of Tableau content instead of a carousel

Changed

Refactoring and updating to match Power BI widget visualization

Upcoming Meetings 1.5.0 - July 06, 2022

Changed

Updated look & feel to better match new styling of Ichicraft Boards

Fixed

An issue where the widget continued to try to refresh content indefinitely even if connection was lost or failed for a while

Inbox 1.7.0 - July 06, 2022

Fixed

An issue where the widget continued to try to refresh content indefinitely even if connection was lost or failed for a while

Fixed

[#214] An issue where sometimes category filters were visible that had no selectable widgets in them
An issue where widget's production script was always loaded before a widget's script running in debug mode

Added

Time-based analytics feature allowing events to be raised and sent to third party analytics tools like Google Analytics, Segment, CrazyEgg and many more using the Analytics library

Fixed

A bug where icon buttons don't work consistently in Teams and Viva Connections

Inbox 1.6.0 - June 23, 2022

Changed

Changed the look & feel to match the new styles of the widget board
Improved exception logging
Upgraded underlying Graph Client SDK
Removed logic to get unread item count because we no longer support the old notification messages

Power BI 1.15.0 - June 22, 2022

Changed

Power BI content not visible in the carousel is now lazily loaded, giving priority to initially visible content

News 1.12.0 - June 17, 2022

Fixed

An issue where (hub) site navigation was visible when viewing a news article in the lightbox
An issue where filtering for items coming from the root site also included news articles from other sites
An issue where adding sites to followed sites didn't clear local cache of followed sites immediately

Apps 1.8.0 - June 15, 2022

Changed

Removed unnessecary cache feature that caused confusion

Fixed

An issue where 4-column layouts in SharePoint were no longer enforced correctly
An issue where icon buttons in some occasions didn't load in Teams

Apps 1.7.0 - June 02, 2022

Fixed

An issue with the carousel buttons not rendering correctly

Apps 1.6.0 - June 02, 2022

Changed

Improved user picker readability for long group names

Fixed

An issue where the WidgetBoard_Assets library was no longer visible in the Admin panel
An issue where the title of a widget could grow out of the bounds of the header
An issue where users from China were no longer able to use widget due to a CDN being blocked
Other minor improvements

Power BI 1.14.0 - May 24, 2022

Changed

Added automatic browser refresh when token retrieval fails
Improved resizing of widgets and effect this has on responsive reports
Used PBI bootstrap to speed up loading of PBI content
Introduced a retry button for when the widget isn't able to render somehow

Followed Sites 1.4.0 - May 17, 2022

Fixed

An issue where the widget would fail if updated Graph permissions weren't set yet

Followed Sites 1.3.0 - May 17, 2022

Changed

Introduced a refresh button to load fresh list of followed sites
Included a clean-up script to fix issues with old site titles and deleted sites showing up in the list

News 1.11.0 - May 17, 2022

Changed

Reverted API permissions again to Sites.Read.All since we no longer use Graph API to follow/unfollow but use SharePoint Social API instead

Fixed

An issue caused by the SharePoint API and the Graph API returning inconsistent lists of followed sites

Power BI 1.13.0 - May 13, 2022

Fixed

An issue where report page navigation didn't offer a scroll bar if the number of pages exceeds page height

Changed

Color scheme used by report page navigation

Added

An alternative way to store board configuration to support large configurations (> 1MB) (experimental feature for now)

News 1.10.0 - May 11, 2022

Fixed

Revert required API permission level to Sites.ReadWrite.All because (un)following sites requires these permissions

Power BI 1.12.0 - May 10, 2022

Added

An option to render alternative page navigation next to a report

People Search 1.9.0 - May 10, 2022

Fixed

Now works much better with new styling/branding options in Ichicraft Boards

Power BI 1.11.0 - May 06, 2022

Fixed

An issue where a custom PBI Content title was falsely overwritten in some scenarios

Power BI 1.10.0 - May 05, 2022

Added

New layout mode "List", to display a list of items instead of displaying Power BI content directly.

Changed

The way the widget board loads when configuration cache is available, speeding up initial load time considerably
Added caching to profile picture, preventing a fresh fetch on each page load

Power BI 1.9.0 - May 03, 2022

Added

Possibility to select a specific page in an embedded report to display by default
Possibility to hide page navigation in embedded reports

Fixed

Handling of title generating based on selected Power BI content

Power BI 1.8.0 - May 02, 2022

Added

The possibility to open different Power BI content in the lightbox than what is shown in the widget.

Changed

The term "(Power BI) Tile" is replaced with "(Power BI) Content" to better reflect that we support different types of content to be rendered.

Added

An experimental feature to import and export board configuration to your local file system.

Fixed

A bug where widgets rerendered when moved around the grid
A bug where resizing or dragging a widget with an iframe as content, sometimes caused the widget to lock in a strange place

People Search 1.8.0 - April 26, 2022

Changed

Updated rendering of result list to support new Board UI

News 1.9.0 - April 24, 2022

Added

All new design for this widget that goes along nicely with the new design for Ichicraft Boards

Added

A whole new design experience to Ichicraft Boards! Check the Design tab in the Board Adminsitration Panel for all the new options.

Inform and Onboard 1.0.0 - April 15, 2022

Initial release

Events 0.1.0 - April 15, 2022

Initial release

Added

A temporary work-around to help users with an issue that occurs in older Viva Connections apps in Teams

Birthdays 1.4.0 - March 18, 2022

Fixed

An issue where the date was sometimes falsely displayed one day too early

Changed

Changed necessary API Permission scope to a lower level

Added

The long awaited feature that allows a user to edit the title of a widget

People Search 1.7.0 - March 10, 2022

Fixed

A bug where duplicate people where sometimes displayed in "People I work with"

Added

A handy search box in the Add widget panel
A handy search box in the Widgets maintenance panel

Power BI 1.7.0 - March 08, 2022

Added

The ability to pick and display a report directly from a workspace

Changed

Automatic authentication token refresh in the background (for long browser sessions)
Sorting of dropdown lists is now alphabetical

Changed

Replaced permission requirement User.ReadWrite.All with less privileged User.ReadWrite

Added

Support for only making a widget variant available for new employees (to support onboarding scenarios)
Some new properties and functions to the widget context object (for custom development)

Fixed

A bug where content languages weren't displayed in board config panel but a spinner was shown instead
A bug where sometimes a custom tooltip re-appeared unintentionally in the widg

Fixed

A UI issue where the Save/Cancel buttons were hidden below the scroll in a large admin config panel
A minor issue where detecting a user's language in Teams didn't work with 'en-GB'

Bookmarks 1.5.0 - November 19, 2021

Added

A search box to quickly find the bookmark you're looking for (available from 6 bookmarks and above)

Changed

Minor change in product name in sppkg package

Events 1.6.0 - November 10, 2021

Added

Full support for dark themes in MS Teams and SharePoint

Inbox 1.5.0 - November 10, 2021

Added

Full support for dark themes in MS Teams and SharePoint

Upcoming Meetings 1.4.0 - November 10, 2021

Added

Full support for dark themes in MS Teams and SharePoint

People Search 1.6.0 - November 10, 2021

Added

Full support for dark themes in MS Teams and SharePoint

News 1.8.0 - November 10, 2021

Added

Full support for dark themes in MS Teams and SharePoint

Saved for Later 1.3.0 - November 10, 2021

Added

Full support for dark themes in MS Teams and SharePoint

External Feeds 1.8.0 - November 10, 2021

Added

Full support for dark themes in MS Teams and SharePoint

Bookmarks 1.4.0 - November 10, 2021

Added

Full support for dark themes in MS Teams and SharePoint

Apps 1.5.0 - November 10, 2021

Added

Full support for dark themes in MS Teams and SharePoint

Tableau Reports 1.2.0 - November 10, 2021

Added

Full support for dark themes in MS Teams and SharePoint

Power BI 1.6.0 - November 10, 2021

Added

Full support for dark themes in MS Teams and SharePoint

Added

Full support for dark themes in MS Teams and SharePoint
Name of editing board template to modal header
Various new properties to WidgetContext for use in widgets

Fixed

A bug where pressing <esc> or clicking the "clear" icon in a search box resulted in an error

External Feeds 1.7.0 - November 02, 2021

Added

Support for rendering images on feeds that conform to Media RSS Specification

Fixed

An issue where a feed item with missing pubDate caused the widget to crash

Apps 1.4.0 - October 25, 2021

Fixed

An issue where clearing the search box in the configuration panel resulted in an error

External Feeds 1.6.0 - October 25, 2021

Fixed

An issue where clearing the search box in the configuration panel resulted in an error

Power BI 1.5.0 - October 25, 2021

Fixed

An issue where clearing the search box in the configuration panel resulted in an error

News 1.7.0 - October 25, 2021

Fixed

An issue where clearing the search box in the configuration panel resulted in an error

People Search 1.5.0 - October 25, 2021

Fixed

An issue where clearing the search box in the configuration panel resulted in an error

Changed

Small (~10%) optimization in bundle size
Upgrade to FluentUI version 8

Fixed

a bug where initial installation fails if a user doesn't pick a single widget to install
a faulty message to indicate that no board templates have been created yet

Fixed

An issue where a pushed widget that was later removed from board configuration could break a user's board
An issue where in some cases exceptions didn't show friendly error messages

Bookmarks 1.3.0 - October 07, 2021

Changed

95% optimization in bundle size due to use of external modules
Upgraded underlying Fluent UI component library from version 7 to 8

Saved for Later 1.2.0 - October 07, 2021

Changed

82% optimization in bundle size due to use of external modules
Upgraded underlying Fluent UI component library from version 7 to 8

Apps 1.3.0 - October 07, 2021

Changed

85% optimization in bundle size due to use of external modules
Upgraded underlying Fluent UI component library from version 7 to 8

Birthdays 1.3.0 - October 07, 2021

Changed

65% optimization in bundle size due to use of external module`s
Upgraded underlying Fluent UI component library from version 7 to 8

Teams 1.2.0 - October 07, 2021

Changed

72% optimization in bundle size due to use of external modules
Upgraded underlying Fluent UI component library from version 7 to 8

Embed 1.1.0 - October 07, 2021

Changed

90% optimization in bundle size due to use of external modules
Upgraded underlying Fluent UI component library from version 7 to 8

Events 1.5.0 - October 07, 2021

Changed

87% optimization in bundle size due to use of external modules
Upgraded underlying Fluent UI component library from version 7 to 8

Followed Sites 1.2.0 - October 07, 2021

Changed

37% optimization in bundle size due to use of external modules
Upgraded underlying Fluent UI component library from version 7 to 8

OneDrive 1.5.0 - October 07, 2021

Changed

41% optimization in bundle size due to use of external modules
Upgraded underlying Fluent UI component library from version 7 to 8

Power BI 1.4.0 - October 07, 2021

Changed

84% optimization in bundle size due to use of external modules
Upgraded underlying Fluent UI component library from version 7 to 8

External Feeds 1.5.0 - October 07, 2021

Changed

70% optimization in bundle size due to use of external modules
Upgraded underlying Fluent UI component library from version 7 to 8

Tasks 1.3.0 - October 07, 2021

Changed

81% optimization in bundle size due to use of external modules
Upgraded underlying Fluent UI component library from version 7 to 8

Tableau Reports 1.1.0 - October 07, 2021

Changed

82% optimization in bundle size due to use of external modules
Upgraded underlying Fluent UI component library from version 7 to 8

News 1.6.0 - October 07, 2021

Changed

72% optimization in bundle size due to use of external modules
Upgraded underlying Fluent UI component library from version 7 to 8

People Search 1.4.0 - October 07, 2021

Changed

61% optimization in bundle size due to use of external modules
Upgraded underlying Fluent UI component library from version 7 to 8

Inbox 1.4.0 - October 07, 2021

Changed

87% optimization in bundle size due to use of external modules
Upgraded underlying Fluent UI component library from version 7 to 8

Upcoming Meetings 1.3.0 - October 07, 2021

Changed

85% optimization in bundle size due to use of external modules
Upgraded underlying Fluent UI component library from version 7 to 8

Changed

This version of the widget board supports V2 widget manifests. V2 introduces 'externals', allowing async loading and sharing of modules/libraries among widgets. Make sure you upgrade your widgets using this wiki page to benefit from these optimizations.

Inbox 1.3.0 - September 24, 2021

Added

New options in the so called 'pushed widget' feature: it's now possible to define if a pushed widget is deletable, movable or resizable by the user.
An optional toggle in 'board template' feature to disable strict audience mismatch warnings

Events 1.4.0 - September 01, 2021

Changed

Improved query and search result sorting to always include only most relevant events

Fixed

A bug where upcoming events appeared to be missing in some cases where more than 100 items matched the search query
A bug where events that were created over 2 months ago, were missing in the results

Fixed

A bug where the main user board layout gets messed up when an extra board is edited

News 1.5.0 - August 25, 2021

Updated

Improved search experience when adding sites to configured source sites

Added

All new Board Template editing experience

Changed

Minor update to Portuguese resources

Inbox 1.2.0 - July 07, 2021

Added

Users can now use the widget for shared mailboxes
Users can now configure the display density of the widget (options are Full, Medium and Compact)
Users can now configure whether they want a notification/summary in the welcome box for unread messages
Widget can now span 2 columns instead of only 1

Changed

Improved display of unread messages for better readability

OneDrive 1.4.0 - June 30, 2021

OneDrive 1.3.0 - June 30, 2021

Fixed

An issue where a missing webDavUrl property can result in an exception in the widget

OneDrive 1.2.0 - June 30, 2021

Changed

Implementation of logging functionality
Updates to Portuguese resources

Power BI 1.3.0 - June 04, 2021

Added

Support for Power BI Apps, you can now view complete reports/apps in a single widget

Changed

Improved visualization of loading Power BI data

External Feeds 1.4.0 - April 21, 2021

Fixed

A bug where for some feeds, images could not be loaded
A bug where for some feeds, the publication date of items wasn't interpreted correctly
A situation where for failing feeds, the widget kept showing a spinner

People Search 1.3.0 - April 19, 2021

Fixed

Fixed an issue where for some person results the fly-out wouldn't render

Saved for Later 1.1.0 - April 19, 2021

Fixed

Fixed a bug where saved for later articles wouldn't open in a dialog in MS Viva Connections

News 1.4.0 - April 19, 2021

Fixed

Fixed a bug where news articles wouldn't open in a dialog in MS Viva Connections

Fixed

Hopefully solved an issue where in rare cases the pageContext property of the web part context is undefined

Changed

Various improvements to initialization of widget board (lower timeout, auto refresh once on error, etc.)
New visualization of fatal error, introducing retry button and admin panel button

Fixed

A bug where the indicator of missing API permissions was no longer visible in admin panel

People Search 1.2.0 - April 02, 2021

Added

The ability to include other user properties in the search so you can also search in job title and deparment details

Fixed

A bug where people results only included people close to the user doing the search. We now include the entire organization

Removed

We had to remove the ability to include external users since we now depend on a different endpoint in MS Graph to search

Added

Option to use a 6 column layout in SharePoint on high resolution screens

Changed

Improved initialization of widget board with optional retries for service calls that sometimes fail
Improved handling of user resetting his/her board by clearing all cache items

Fixed

A bug where sometimes the widget board stays empty when user's groups failed loading
A bug where a notification could grow beyond the board header's max width

Birthdays 1.2.0 - March 23, 2021

Fixed

Bug where timezones weren't taken into consideration correctly in displaying birthdays

Upcoming Meetings 1.2.0 - March 23, 2021

Added

Next day's meetings
Visualization of event status (busy, free, out-of-office, tentative, etc.)

Changed

Improved translations/labels
Clicking the widget title now opens Outlook calendar in new window
Improved handling of connection errors and exception logging

Fixed

Bug where masked private events sometimes did show details

Inbox 1.1.0 - March 23, 2021

Changed

Clicking the widget title now opens Outlook in new window
Some minor updates to text labels/translations

Events 1.3.0 - March 12, 2021

Added

Support for Multi-Geo tenants

News 1.3.0 - March 12, 2021

Fixed

Fixed a bug where opening items from other domains (in multi-geo setup) in a dialog resulted in an error

News 1.2.0 - March 12, 2021

Added

Support for Multi-Geo tenants
Support for multi-language content

Changed

Improved error handling and exception logging
Updates in Portuguese resources after review

Fixed

Minor bug where essential/pushed sites were in some scenarios also rendered as followed sites in user config

Embed 1.0.0 - March 08, 2021

Initial release

Fixed

Fixed an issue with z-indexes being too high for widget elements, causing stacking issues with new App Bar in SharePoint

Fixed

Hotfixed an issue that could occur in browsers that don't support customElements

People Search 1.1.0 - March 03, 2021

Fixed

Added missing API permission People.Read for Microsoft Graph

Saved for Later 1.0.0 - February 25, 2021

Initial release

People Search 1.0.0 - February 24, 2021

Initial release

Added

Added additional static class names to allow CSS overrides of the board navigation (part of board header)
Added teamsSdk and userEmail to WidgetContext which are now available for widgets

Changed

Moved "Reset widget board" from main command bar to new 'Danger zone' in admin panel
Renamed "About" to "Registration"
Applied higher z-index (CSS) to 'top' widgets to allow expansion over 'bottom' widgets
Updated breakpoints in widget grid to prevent widgets from becoming too small (in width)

Fixed

Fixed minor issue with caching of debugging widget manifest

Events 1.2.0 - February 22, 2021

Changed

Replaced automatic data refresh with manual refresh button
Updates to Portuguese translations after review
Improvements to exception handling and logging

Apps 1.2.0 - February 04, 2021

Changed

Updates to Portuguese translations after review
Improvements to exception handling and logging

Power BI 1.2.0 - February 04, 2021

Changed

Updates to Portuguese translations after review
Improvements to exception handling and logging

Fixed

Fixed a bug where updating admin configuration as an admin didn't result in clearing local cache

External Feeds 1.3.0 - February 04, 2021

Changed

More improvements to exception handling and logging

External Feeds 1.2.0 - February 04, 2021

Changed

Updates to Portuguese translations after review
Improvements to exception handling and logging

Fixed

Fixed a bug where updating admin configuration as an admin didn't result in clearing cache

Added

Posibility to target (variants of) widgets to specific audiences

Changed

Updates to Portuguese translations after review