Release notes (consolidated)
Widget Board 1.39.0 - August 09, 2022
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.
Widget Board 1.38.0 - July 19, 2022
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
Widget Board 1.37.0 - July 18, 2022
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
Widget Board 1.36.0 - July 06, 2022
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
Widget Board 1.35.0 - June 28, 2022
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
Widget Board 1.34.0 - June 15, 2022
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
Widget Board 1.33.0 - May 27, 2022
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
Widget Board 1.32.0 - May 12, 2022
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.
Widget Board 1.31.0 - May 03, 2022
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.
Widget Board 1.30.0 - May 02, 2022
Added
- An experimental feature to import and export board configuration to your local file system.
Widget Board 1.29.0 - April 27, 2022
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
Widget Board 1.28.0 - April 24, 2022
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
Widget Board 1.27.0 - March 24, 2022
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
Widget Board 1.26.0 - March 10, 2022
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"
Widget Board 1.25.0 - March 09, 2022
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
Widget Board 1.24.0 - February 14, 2022
Changed
- Replaced permission requirement User.ReadWrite.All with less privileged User.ReadWrite
Widget Board 1.23.0 - February 14, 2022
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
Widget Board 1.22.0 - January 11, 2022
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)
Widget Board 1.21.0 - November 11, 2021
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
Widget Board 1.20.0 - November 10, 2021
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
Widget Board 1.19.0 - October 20, 2021
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
Widget Board 1.18.0 - October 15, 2021
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
Widget Board 1.17.0 - October 07, 2021
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
Widget Board 1.16.0 - September 15, 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
Widget Board 1.15.0 - August 26, 2021
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
Widget Board 1.14.0 - July 28, 2021
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
Widget Board 1.13.0 - April 13, 2021
Fixed
- Hopefully solved an issue where in rare cases the
pageContext
property of the web part context isundefined
Widget Board 1.12.0 - April 09, 2021
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
Widget Board 1.11.0 - March 25, 2021
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
Widget Board 1.10.0 - March 05, 2021
Fixed
- Fixed an issue with z-indexes being too high for widget elements, causing stacking issues with new App Bar in SharePoint
Widget Board 1.9.0 - March 05, 2021
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
Widget Board 1.8.0 - February 24, 2021
Added
- Added additional static class names to allow CSS overrides of the board navigation (part of board header)
- Added
teamsSdk
anduserEmail
toWidgetContext
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
Widget Board 1.7.0 - February 03, 2021
Added
- Posibility to target (variants of) widgets to specific audiences
Changed
- Updates to Portuguese translations after review