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Ichicraft Boards - Release Notes

Release notes (consolidated)

Release notes (consolidated)

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