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Latest Insider version: 7.1.91.0
Insider version is available through the automatic Insider release plan on Hive or manual update to add-ins on Templafy One

February 2023

7.1.175.0 Bugs

NetworkPath converter throws an error if no MountPoints can be matched

A bug has been resolved in Links in Productivity Plus in which an error was thrown if the document was residing on share point and no MountPoint was found in the registry

Parent is null error thrown when converting presentation

Design Converter: Fix exception during conversion of presentation with empty date time or slide number placeholder

The latest version of Productivity does not work for unprivileged user in Server Mode

Productivity: fixed the bug with modules.xml path was not found in the ServerMode in 32 bit office mode. Added safety mechanism for the registry reading values for the 32 bit office mode. Added more graceful handling of the situation where the modules.xml cannot be read. Added more logging.
Refactoring changes: the dependency injection mechanism improved allowing now to provide any mocked services including. Application itself up from the level of the AddIn entry point (TemplafySlideProofAddIn). This allowed to cover the AddIn entry point with tests as well.The Autofac modules are exposed to the separate Bootstrap class.

Sticky mouse when Slideproof add-in is active in PowerPoint

Fixed a bug which caused the mouse to stick to a shape when clicking a shape.

ServerMode: ProductivityPlus loaded in PowerPoint when only Check module is enabled

Fixing the runtimes folder that was not added to the AddIn package. That causes AddIn to not install correctly in some circumstances.

Presentations linked on SharePoint do not convert at all

Fixed bug where design converter would crash when handling files stored on SharePoint

Features

Remove the wrong hintpaths in Productivity csproj files

Remove the wrong hintpaths in Productivity csproj files

Translations for terms added by pull request 47147

Translations for terms added by pull request 47147. This pull request represents the translation that was created from the translated content received by EasyTranslate and reviewed by Templafy. The translations were created based on the changes from pull request: Add FormatPainter to localization

Translations for terms added by pull request 47208

Translations for terms added by pull request 47208. This pull request represents the translation that was created from the translated content received by EasyTranslate and reviewed by Templafy. The translations were created based on the changes from pull request: Add Placeholder to translations

Translations for terms added by pull request 47147

Change line ending to LF in translation files

Use LF instead of CLRF as line ending for translation files

Check what happens when the tracking http request throws exception - is it propagated to application or not, add Log?

Productivity tracking: Implemented exception handling for tracking messages to improve error handling and make it easier to debug and resolve issues. Implemented exception logging to help track and diagnose errors and failures in the system. Implemented a unit test adapter for the logger to make it easier to test the services that use the new dependency injection and logging capabilities.

Translations for terms added by pull request 47238

Translations for terms added by pull request 47238. This pull request represents the translation that was created from the translated content received by EasyTranslate and reviewed by Templafy. The translations were created based on the changes from pull request: Review translations

Translations for terms added by pull request 47202

Translations for terms added by pull request 47202. This pull request represents the translation that was created from the translated content received by EasyTranslate and reviewed by Templafy. The translations were created based on the changes from pull request: Replace placeholders with meaningful parameter names

Translations for terms added by pull request 47207

Translations for terms added by pull request 47207. This pull request represents the translation that was created from the translated content received by EasyTranslate and reviewed by Templafy. The translations were created based on the changes from pull request: Replace placeholders with meanigful names in Placeholders

Translations for terms added by pull request 47155

Translations for terms added by pull request 47155. This pull request represents the translation that was created from the translated content received by EasyTranslate and reviewed by Templafy. The translations were created based on the changes from pull request: Replace placeholders with meaningful parameter names

Fix Ranorex failing tests

Ranorex: the test was fixed by clicking the text instead of looking for DesignConverterWebViev.

Create smoke test for features

In the RanorexTests project, smoke tests were added for all features.

Fix the missing translations

Some missing and wrong translations in Productivity has been addressed

Add Placeholderto LanguagesByProject dictionary in LanguageConfiguration

Placeholder has been added to the translated projects in Productivity

Replace placeholders with meaningful parameter names

Correct placeholders, translations, and tests for productivity in Placeholders

Add Productivity to LanguagesByProject dictionary in LanguageConfiguration

Add productivity project to language dictionary and prepare files for translation company

Replace placeholders with meaningful parameter names

Correct placeholders, translations, and tests for productivity in AddIns

Add PowerShapes to LanguagesByProject dictionary in LanguageConfiguration

Added missing localization files for the PowerShapes project, prepared files for easy translate.

Replace placeholders with meaningful parameter names

In the language files placeholders were replaced with meaningful parameter names.

Add FormatPainter to LanguagesByProject dictionary in LanguageConfiguration

FormatPainter has been added to the projects that supports translations

Add PptApi to LanguagesByProject dictionary in LanguageConfiguration

Added missing localization files PptApi project, prepare files for easy translate

Fix Ranorex test on the pipeline

In the Ranorex Tests project the HandoutMasterPartCleaner was introduced and in the presentation Handout Part the auto-generated date is cleaned when comparing documents.

Fix line endings for translations in Support

The line endings in support has been changed from CLRF to LF

Fix Ranorex tests on the pipeline

Fixed Ranorex tests regarding fix of the issue where additional section lists were being added to the converted presentation causing it to be corrupted on the pipeline.

Create Ranorex test

Created the Ranorex test to cover Agenda Tags porting over when converting the presentation by the Design Converter.

Make sure that the name layout matching works correctly, also for the blank layouts

Blank layouts are now matched correctly in Design Converter

Fix issue adding redundant section lists

Fix issue where additional section lists were being added to the converted presentation causing it to be corrupted

Translations for terms added by pull request 46357

Translations for terms added by pull request 46357. This pull request represents the translation that was created from the translated content received by EasyTranslate and reviewed by Templafy. The translations were created based on the changes from pull request: Add Settings to translations

Uncomment & refactor SlideReportServiceTests.cs

Uncomment and refactor the Slide Report Service test

Port over the Agenda settings xml file

Port over agenda settings from old presentation to converted presentation where the settings are the same

Translations for terms added by pull request 46653

Translations for terms added by pull request 46653. This pull request represents the translation that was created from the translated content received by EasyTranslate and reviewed by Templafy. The translations were created based on the changes from pull request: Add "SaveAndSend" to translations and replace placeholders

Translations for terms added by pull request 46653

Translations for terms added by pull request 46650

Translations for terms added by pull request 46650. This pull request represents the translation that was created from the translated content received by EasyTranslate and reviewed by Templafy. The translations were created based on the changes from pull request: Add "Ribbon" to translations and remove unused keys

Fix the placeholder mapping service to handle the situation correctly

Fix issue where placeholders were not being matched properly

Make images move into the center of the placeholder, but without resizing

Images are now centered inside the placeholder and resized if they are too big to fit it

Translations for terms added by pull request 46653

Update Templafy Backend Packages

Update Templafy Backend Packages. This pull request has been automatically created by Renovate.

Translations for terms added by pull request 46650

Translations for terms added by pull request 46357

Replace placeholders with meaningful parameter names

The "SaveAndSend" project has been added to the list of projects that are localized in all languages.

Add Ribbon to LanguagesByProject dictionary in LanguageConfiguration

The "Ribbon" project has been added to the list of projects that are localized in all languages

Get rid of redundant initializers

The redundant initializers inside the Productivity codebase has been removed

Translations for terms added by pull request 46313

Translations for terms added by pull request 46313. This pull request represents the translation that was created from the translated content received by EasyTranslate and reviewed by Templafy. The translations were created based on the changes from pull request: Add "Support" to translations

Handle placeholders that were added/deleted by the user

Add functionality to insert footer elements based on what is on the slide instead of the master configuration

Hook the tracking to the Design Converter backend

Add event tracking for the remaining Design Converter events.

Don't run Productivity pipeline on master if there are changes only in CorporateTerrminology

Updated the pipeline to not to run Productivity pipeline on master if there are changes only in CorporateTerrminology.

Handle Header and footer configurations

Add functionality to determine whether or not to add header and footer placeholder elements depending on whether or not they were set on the slide master on the original presentation

Rename TemplatePlaceholderHandlerService to TemplatePlaceholderConvertService and name the Handle method Convert

Rename TemplatePlaceholderHandlerService to TemplatePlaceholderConvertService.

Adjust root namespaces

The namespaces of the entire solution has been changed from Slideproof to Productivity

Change all the Producitvity localization files to have LF line endings

Changed all Productivity localization files to have LF line endings, changed the creation of .json files to have LF endings, and cover this with the test.

Create classes to support new backend tracking system in Productivity

Created support for the foundation tracking in the Productivity AddIn and added first three events for Design Converter.

Translations for terms added by pull request 46313

Translations for terms added by pull request 44908

Translations for terms added by pull request 44908. This pull request represents the translation that was created from the translated content received by EasyTranslate and reviewed by Templafy. The translations were created based on the changes from pull request: Add remaining language files for Proofing

Add Settings to LanguagesByProject dictionary in LanguageConfiguration

The "Settings" project has been added to the list of projects that are localized in all languages

Rename the productivity solution to Templafy.Productivity.sln

Update solution file name to Templafy.Productivity.sln

Move tables to be in their correct position as dictated by their placeholder

Tables, smart art and charts are positioned accordingly to the placeholder position in which they are inserted. Smart art and charts are also resized accordingly to the placeholder size. Table are not resized

Add Support to LanguagesByProject dictionary in LanguageConfiguration

The \Support\ project has been added to the list of projects that are localized in all languages

Upgrade GitTreeVersion to the latest

The GitTreeVersion version was upgraded to the latest (0.4.14)

In Productivity put AddInConfiguration folder inside of the Configuration folder

Moved the AddInConfiguration folder to the Configuration folder.

Handle porting over PowerPoint sections during conversion

Add functionality to keep section dividers intact if they exist after running design converter

Remove not translated keys in ja.json file in the Productivity

Unlocalized texts were removed from the Proofing project.

Switch to C# 11 in Productivity

The language version in Productivity has been update to C# 11

Change all the json localization files in Productivity to use LF (Unix) line endings

All line endings for localization files where changed to use LF.

Fix is not completely translated in Check. It displays in English sometimes

A piece of text in Check which was not localized has been changed to use proper localization.

Upgrade the UI of the Design Converter

Replaced all usages of legacy UI components in Design Converter UI

Make Productivity ReSharper pipeline great (fast) again

The version of JetBrains.ReSharper.GlobalTools was upgraded to 2022.3.1.

Translations for terms added by pull request 44663

Translations for terms added by pull request 44663. This pull request represents the translation that was created from the translated content received by EasyTranslate and reviewed by Templafy. The translations were created based on the changes from pull request: Fix the formatting of the sentence arguments and pluralization

Resolve remaining Sonar Cloud warnings

Resolve remaining Sonar Cloud warnings in the Productivity project.

Handle the Templafy Agenda functionality slides

Add functionality to properly match SP Agenda and SP TOC layouts during conversion

January 2023

7.1.91.0 Bugs

Fix titles and center title mismatch

Fixed title and centered title mismatching in layout matching

Fix issue where slide number placeholder is not matched correctly

Fixed the issue where slide number and date time placeholders are not matched correctly.

Fix issue with title style

Fix issue where title bold attribute was not being picked up during conversion

Features

(Timeboxed) Handle as many as possible code smells in sonar cloud for Productivity

Fix the remaining sonar cloud code smells in Productivity.

Translations for terms added by pull request 44908

Increase more the coverage in Productivity

The productivity code coverage in Sonar Cloud has been raised

Increase code coverage in Productivity

Increase productivity code coverage in sonar cloud

Handle centered titles in Design Converter

Handle CenteredTItle separately in indentification logic

Translations for terms added by pull request 44908

Register all the types manually, without using reflection

Translations for terms added by pull request 44908

Fix issue with conversion specific presentation

Fix issue where slides with numbered lists were getting corrupted since bullet characters were being added in open XML

Translations for terms added by pull request 45060

Translations for terms added by pull request 45060. This pull request represents the translation that was created from the translated content received by EasyTranslate and reviewed by Templafy. The translations were created based on the changes from pull request: Implement new UI for Design Converter

Normalize the Productivity line endings on master and any active feature branches

Normilized the line endings, that were broken by the localization pull request.

Update Templafy Frontend Packages

Update Templafy Frontend Packages. This pull request has been automatically created by Renovate.

Translations for terms added by pull request 45060

Translations for terms added by pull request 44663

Update Templafy Backend Packages

Update Templafy Backend Packages. This pull request has been automatically created by Renovate.

Add languages to the language menu

The additional language files for Proofing has been added as embedded resources

Don't use registry anymore to mark component enabled / disabled

Removed the redundant component registry configuration. That means the users will not have <Component>_IsEnabled registry settings created anymore and cannot use them. The individual component management feature has been already dropped.

Replace usages of Texts class with Locale

Replaced usages of the Texts class with the Locale class.

December 2022

7.1.66.0 Bug Fixes

Productivity configuration is not read correctly in the server mode.

Fixed the bug where Productivity AddIn did not load the correct modules information in the Server Mode.

Weird UI behavior when enabling Set as Home Tab in Productivity Settings

We have changed the Ribbon behaviour, so that the productivity icons from the Templafy (tenant) tab are not removed anymore, if "Set as home Tab" setting is active. Instead they will appear both in the Templafy (tenant) tab and in the ProductivityPlus tab in this case. "Set as Hone Tab" is now renamed to "Use a ProductivityPlus tab" and the tooltip is changed.

Features

Implement new UI in Design Converter

The user interface for Design Converter was tweaked.

Fix the extra presentations created while running tests

Fixed the Design Converter unit tests to not create extra files and also to delete the files from the test running directory if the assertion was successfull.

Some renovate 3rd party backend packages might not update for Productivity - investigate

Fixed renovate configuration and added NSubstitute to list of ignored dependencies.

Check all the DesignConverter, CorporateTerminologyPlugin and ProductivityPlugin, Common, Common.Plugins unit tests and remove FakeItEasy where it's used

Use NSubstitute instead of FakeItEasy as a moking framework for some tests

Investigate failing Ranorex tests on pipeline
The retry mechanism has been added to all Ranorex Tests

Add the remaining language files

Added the remaining language files for the Proofing project.

Add Templafy.CodeAnalyzer.Testing package to the Addin tests and to the plugin tests projects

Added code analyzer to test projects that didn't have it. Also renamed files/folders and namespaces where applicable

Fix the formatting of the sentence arguments

Fixed the formatting of the sentence arguments and fixed pluralizations.

Translations for terms added by pull request 44485

Translations for terms added by pull request 44485. This pull request represents the translation that was created from the translated content received by EasyTranslate and reviewed by Templafy. The translations were created based on the changes from pull request: Remove keys which look to be unused

Look into issue where CodeAnalyzer is not working for some Productivity projects

Add code analyzer for tests in the Addin.Tests project

Investigate why Rider adds migration to the dotsettings file

Reverting the DotSettings file to the previous value. This does not affect any end user, only development change.

Renormalize the line endings for the localization files

Trying to fix the git repository by renormalizing the line endings for the broken localization files.

Look into disappearing image on BSW presentation

Fix issue where invalid placeholders were causing design converter to crash

Translations for terms added by pull request 44023

Translations for terms added by pull request 44023. This pull request represents the translation that was created from the translated content received by EasyTranslate and reviewed by Templafy. The translations were created based on the changes from pull request: Weird UI behavior when enabling Set as Home Tab in Productivity Settings

Translations for terms added by pull request 44194

Translations for terms added by pull request 44194. This pull request represents the translation that was created from the translated content received by EasyTranslate and reviewed by Templafy. The translations were created based on the changes from pull request: Check spelling in Proofing

Fix numbered lists losing their numbers after conversion

Fix issue where numbered lists on slides were losing their numbers after design converter runs

Translations for terms added by pull request 44023

Translations for terms added by pull request 44194

Fix issue with miscolored shapes

In the original presentation, that graph has the lines set to 3 different colors (though not visually) Background 2 (resulting in the same color as the background when converted) Text 1 (resulting in the yellow line when converted) Accent 1 resulting in the green lines when converted. If you see the original palette you can easily see why the mistakes were made, the colors look all alike.

Remove unused terms and empty strings in en.json files

Removed unused translation keys from the Proofing project.

Move the code that supports any type in VSTO bridge call to the master

The VSTO bridge now supports the Dto objects as the input types.

Use the position as a tiebreaker

We multiple layouts gets the same score the first that appears in the Slide Master is now used to solve the tie

Fix issues with IDLogistics presentation conversion

Fix issues during conversion where solid fill properties were being placed in a node where they shouldn't, and addressed issue where the id of the identified title was changed causing the presentations to be corrupted since the build paragraph order was no referencing an id that no longer exists

Update all the Productivity plugins contracts usings to the latest version

Update plugin contracts from V1 to V2 in productivity

Remove [UsedImplicitly] attribute where [Inject] is used in Productivity

Removed 'UsedImplicitly' annotation where 'Inject' annotation is also used since the Inject annotation is now marked as implicit usage

The Corporate terminology Check rule should use the module state instead of disabled flag in the file

The Corporate Terminology in Check is now enabled when the Corporate Terminology module is active for the end user. That makes the targeted modules distribution feature work for the Corporate Terminology Check as well.

Make Design Converter switch the language according to the settings of the ProductivityPlus settings menu

Add functionality so that translations now work on the front end of design converter

Support all the languages in Settings UI, but only in Debug mode

Supporting from now all the languages in Settings UI, but only in Debug mode. Ensured our localization automation scripts support the different language files in different folders.

Scale fonts on Diagrams

Fonts are now scalled during the aspect ratio conversion also in graphic elements

Check spelling in Proofing

Fix spelling and grammar errors in English resource file for Proofing

Delete FeatureFlagsAttribute, EnabledInProductionAttribute and the test class where it's used.

Remove unused attribute files, and remove tests that reference them

Get rid of local slide converter feature flag and use the global design converter feature flag

Remove local feature flag functionality in favor of global feature flag functionality/module setup

Add a better wrapper for the Interop services for the Design Converter

Added an InteropService wrapper and the RegisterInteropService extension so it's now easier for developers to register and use VSTO interoperability services in the new WebAddin code.

Use the state of Design Converter module to switch the ribbon button on and off

Design Converter is now activated by reading the module configuration provided by the Templafy Desktop. The DesignConverter internal feature flag is removed.

November 2022

7.1.30.0 Features

Fix broken tag references during conversion

Fixed issue where converted presentations were corrupted because data lists on placeholders from the layout were being copied over when they were not supposed to

Re-enable schedules for renovate rules

Re-enabled the remoed schedules for renovate package rules.

Disable schedules for renovate rules

Remove schedules from package rules to test new renovate rule.

Lock fluent assertions version in RanorexTest to 5.10.3

Exclude FluentAssertions from renovate upgrades in RanorexTests.

Fix issue where when a template has no slides, the result presentation also has no slides

Fix bug where if the template presentation had no slides, then the converted presentation also had no slides

Rename WebFrontEnd to DesignConverter

All the files named WebFrontEnd has been renamed to DesignConverter to reflect the real porpouse

Carry over slide notes to converted presentation

Copy slide notes from original presentation to converted presentation.

Fix issue with several layout with the same name

Added functionality to handle layouts of the same name across multiple slide masters

Fix issue with title placeholders on blank layouts/layouts that have no title placeholder

Titles Ids that are not 0 or absent are now corrected to 0 in the original presentation before converting

Revert fluent assertion upgrade in RanorexTests

Reverted upgrade of fluent assertions package in RanorexTests.

Try to skip empty placeholders in title identification logic

Title placehoders that contains no text in the original presentation are now skipped during the title identification step

Update Templafy Frontend Packages

Update Templafy Frontend Packages. This pull request has been automatically created by Renovate.

Remove both react-router-dom and react-router in the Productivity

Removed both react-router-dom and react-router in the Productivity

Fix error with IsolatedAppDomain during conversion

Fix error with dependency injection of IsolatedAppDomain, which caused the error during conversion

Remove constructor in BridgeControllerIntegrationTests

Removed a redundant constructor from BridgeControllerIntegrationTests.

Upgrade Productivity with newest version of ProductivityConfigration NuGet package

Upgraded all projects in the Productivity solution with the newest version of ProductivityConfigration NuGet package.

Automatically inject the bridge to the BaseController as property, don't use constructor

Automatically injecting the dependencies to the BaseController, so the user does not have to inject them through constructor. Also Autofac has been updated to the latest.

Update README for Productivity to describe each project in solution

Updated the README file for Productivity to describe each project in the solution.

Move Productivity Common:FileNameService code to Common:FileSystemUtils

Moved the FileNameService class functionality to the FileSystemUtils class.

Convert textboxes to shapes and viceversa

Added preprocessing step for original presentation, and added functionality to preprocessing to convert rectanges to text boxes, and vice versa based on specific criteria

Try to use autoconfigure for package.json for WebAddin

Added templafy/autoconfigure to the WebApp project.

Finalize the automatic controller calls binding

Implemented first iteration of the automatic controller call bindings for the VSTOBridge controllers. That improves the developer experience, as the VSTO WebAddin developers don't need to Register the methods in constructor anymore and can also use strong types.

Fix two failing tests

Fix all the failing tests on the pipeline and use the retry mechanism when changing the resolution of the screen.

Development bug - Fix it so the Westconnect presentation can convert into the EON one

Fix issue where relationships to other slides were not being ported over after conversion

Filter slide number and date placeholders when mapping for placement

Filter out date and slide number placeholders during mapping so we only add empty versions of them since their data is auto-generated

Improve performance of Design Converter by removing redundant presentation savings

Improve performance of Design Converter by removing redundant presentation savings

Update Add-Ins to .NET 4.7.2

Upgrade .NET version of Productivity AddIn project to 4.7.2

October 2022

5.1.99.0 Bug Fixes

Custom Text Box doesn't work properly

Fixed inserting shapes when the shape should be a Placeholder.

Errors when inserting Harvey Balls

Attempt to fix inconsistent error with inserting Harvey Balls

Error with next state of Harvey balls

Fixed error with changing Harvey Ball state after inserting using Productivity tools

Adding comments with ProductivityTools will sporadically give an error

Fixed random errors during inserting comments and text boxes

Features

Move the shared test code to the TestUtils project

Rearranged the shared test code. Parts that depend on Utils:Container are moved to Utils:TestHelpes so both Utils and Addin tests can use them now. The parts that are independend are extracted to a sepatare TestUtils project. The test helpers classes and namespaces are renamed to avoid confusion.

Fix local Ranorex tests

Fixed locally failing Ranorex tests by making repository elements nodes more general.

Refactor WarningNavigatorFactory.cs

Make WarningNavigatorFactory not a singleton anymore

Get rid of resetting defaultClickTime in InsertTests

Remove DefaultClickTime from a Ranorex test since it has no impact

Rename FileUtilsTests

Renamed FileUtilsTests to PluginFileUtilsTests for the commong plugin tests

Automatically read translation package version in Productivity from the WebAddin

Improved the auto-generation of the package.json in the root of the Productivity project, so it used now information from the WebApp/package.json.

Refactor FindShapeGroup in ShapeGroupNodeExtensions

Renamed a method with ambigous name and remove todo

Remove redundant TODO comments

Very old TODOs that have no more meanings were removed from the code

Fix the newly emerged Major Sonar Cloud warnings in Productivity (around 11 warnings)

Fixed the newly emerged Major Sonar Cloud warnings in the Productivity project.

Fix wrong title identification after EY presentation conversion

Take the bullet sizes only from original and not from default

Fix bugs in TemplatePlaceholderHandlerService

Fixed issue with converting presentations caused by TemplatePlaceholderHandlerService

Design converter does not always convert the fonts consistently

Fix issue where fonts were not changing when they should, fix issue where line spacing wasnt porting over

Text boxes receiving bullets when they should not

Corrected list styles for text boxes and how they are applied

Make renovate update Productivity only the first Monday of the sprint

Made renovate updates for the Productivity project to happened every second Monday.

Use both name and layout score weighted to match the layout slide

Use both name and layout score to match the slide layout

Use new form elements for Productivity WebAddin UI

Changed the UI for Design Converter with new form implementation.

Remove nightly run of the Ranorex Tests

Disabled the ranorex pipeline temporary to not run every night, as it is broken.

Improve retry on the pipeline

Exclude comparisons errors from the retry mechanism

Investigate failing test on the Ranorex Pipeline

Downgrade fluent assertions and clean empty spLocks

Move the common dependencies from the design converter to the parent scope if possible

Made a better structure for the dependency configuration of the Design Converter.

Notifications don't work in Design Converter

Fixed broken error notifications for Design Converter.

Investigate failing test on the Ranorex Pipeline

Downgrade fluent assertions and clean empty spLocks

Refactor TemplatePlaceholderHandlerService

Refactored code for handling copied over placeholders and empty placeholders to make it more easier to understand and more efficient

Fix IsValid method in SubtitleValidationService

Fixed subtitle validation for cases when font size defined at master

Optimise layout matching to match layouts by slide

Layouts are now matched only at slide level to improve performance and code maintenability

Translate text to Swedish

Translate text to Swedish. This pull request represents the translation that was created from the translated content received by EasyTranslate and reviewed by Templafy. The translations were created based on the changes from pull request: Identify subtitles

Translate text to Portuguese (Portugal)

Translate text to Portuguese (Portugal). This pull request represents the translation that was created from the translated content received by EasyTranslate and reviewed by Templafy. The translations were created based on the changes from pull request: Identify subtitles

Translate text to Dutch (Netherlands)

Translate text to Dutch (Netherlands). This pull request represents the translation that was created from the translated content received by EasyTranslate and reviewed by Templafy. The translations were created based on the changes from pull request: Identify subtitles

Translate text to Norwegian Bokmål (Norway)

Translate text to Norwegian Bokmål (Norway). This pull request represents the translation that was created from the translated content received by EasyTranslate and reviewed by Templafy. The translations were created based on the changes from pull request: Identify subtitles

Translate text to Italian (Italy)

Translate text to Italian (Italy). This pull request represents the translation that was created from the translated content received by EasyTranslate and reviewed by Templafy. The translations were created based on the changes from pull request: Identify subtitles

Stop inserting unused placeholders in result presentation

Add functionality to not insert unused placeholders for content.

Translate text to French (France)

Translate text to French (France). This pull request represents the translation that was created from the translated content received by EasyTranslate and reviewed by Templafy. The translations were created based on the changes from pull request: Identify subtitles

Translate text to Spanish (Spain, International Sort)

Translate text to Spanish (Spain, International Sort). This pull request represents the translation that was created from the translated content received by EasyTranslate and reviewed by Templafy. The translations were created based on the changes from pull request: Identify subtitles

Translate text to German

Translate text to German. This pull request represents the translation that was created from the translated content received by EasyTranslate and reviewed by Templafy. The translations were created based on the changes from pull request: Identify subtitles

Translate text to German

Translate text to Danish

Translate text to Danish. This pull request represents the translation that was created from the translated content received by EasyTranslate and reviewed by Templafy. The translations were created based on the changes from pull request: Identify subtitles

Enable Design Converter for these tenants

Enabled design converter for : christian, csasandboxhive and thl.

Add score calculation for layout name

Added layout name matching as a last resort in layout matching if no matching layout based on placeholders is found

Disable content overlapping logic

The content overlapping logic was disabled because it caused more issues than it solved.

Fix english translation for CommandGrouping_GroupingType_SlideErr

The English translation for an error message was fixed.

Update Templafy Backend Packages

Update Templafy Backend Packages. This pull request has been automatically created by Renovate.

Make Productivity WebAddIn to use new local url of static front end

The URL for the Design Converter UI was changed to point to a different path.

Modify build pipeline to build front end and pack it inside Productivity add in zip file

The build pipeline was changed to build the WebApp and copy the results to the Productivity add-in package.

Identify subtitles

Implemented sub title identification and conversion logic

September 2022

5.1.43.0

Bug Fixes

Investigate issue with StretchBottom

Fixed the issue with stretching and adjusting shapes on the presentation slide by checking if shapes are properly adjusted, with precision.

Features

Copy src/addin inside Productivity WebApp and all dependencies
The UI for Design Converter was moved to the Productivity project.

Update Templafy.CodeAnalyzer to 9.1.5
Update Templafy.CodeAnalyzer.General to version 9.1.5

Remove failed presentation unless debug mode

Result presentation will now be removed if there is an error during conversion.

Change naming scheme for converted presentation

Changed the naming scheme for converted presentations.

Refactor placeholder type to use enum

Refactored the placeholder type to use enumeration instead of string.

Remove custom font sizes for titles

Made it so that title placeholders no longer retain their font size during conversion in design converter

Fix EY conversion bug using our template

Fixed issue with corrupted presentations due to charts missing because our code did not handle chart drawing part and user shapes.

Make converted presentation not opens in Master view

Set the last view property to slide view so the converted presentation is always opened in this mode.

Create a better structure for the folders of the WebAddin/TestData

Created a better sytructure for the folder with test presentation for Design Converter

Handle blending font colors for text boxes

We are now correcting color issues when porting over text boxes from original presentation to new presentation.

Cover video and audio copy logic by integration test

Added integration test for audio and video copy logic.

Refactor Adjust method in PlaceholderAdjustmentService

Refactored placeholder adjustment service to decrease complexity of the Adjust method

Get rid of if statement that filters da.json file out in LocalizationDatabase.cs

Removed filtering of danish translations and deleted outdated danish translations.

Make DesignConverter code more testable

Added tests for ExtendedPartsService and MediaPartsService

Investigate failing Ranorex tests on pipeline

Wrapped the save the document step in the retry method to prevent step failure.

(Development-BUG) Investigate problem with IDLogistics presentations

Fixed error during conversion of IdLogistic presentations

Switch to use the 'latest' resharper version for Productivity pipeline

Changed the ReSharper version to the latest and got rid of the warnings

Update OpenXMLComparer to version 2.1.5

The OpenXML and OpenXMLCompararer packages have been updated to the latest version possible

Enable Design Converter for Zaynabs tenant

Added zaynab to the list of enabled tenants for Design Converter.

Handle blending font colors for shapes

We are now correcting color issues when porting over shapes from original presentation to new presentation.

Upgrade Microsoft.ApplicationInsights in Productivity

Upgraded the Microsoft.ApplictionInsights package to the newest and upgraded connection strings.

Add test for testing background fill slide resetting logic

Added test for testing slide background fill resetting logic

Fix issue where shapes are missing after conversion

Fixed issue where shapes are missing after conversion.

Reset slide background fill on conversion

Reset slide background colors to automatic when converting a presentation.

Fix title conversion

Fix title conversion by resetting shape properties for the placeholders

Fix Error during conversion of EY presentation

Fix issue with default layout finder service to prevent cases when no layout selected

Make the GitTreeVersionTool to always run with --debug flag

Making the GitTreeVersionTool to always run with --debug flag in order to spot any occured issues.

Remove old git-version config file

Removed the git-version config file as it is not used anymore after we switched to GitTreeVersion.

Test again what happens when Common only is changed

Test update for the Corporate Terminology Plugin and Productivity in order to check the new git tree version works.

Fix tagging prefix

Use parameter properly in build template to add prefix for the tag

Test changes to Addin only after we migrated to 0.4.12

Test update for the main Productivity project in order to check the new git tree version works.

Fix gittreeversion to the 0.4.12

The GitTreeVersion tool are set to use a fixed version 0.4.12 in the pipeline.

Fix how we do tagging

Fix tagging for Corporate Terminology plugin to separate it from AddIn

Test update something in Common again

Test update for the Corporate Terminology Plugin and Productivity in order to check the new git tree version works.

Add change to file under add in once more

remove whitespace to trigger git tag and fix build

Test change only to some file in Addin folder one more time

Test update for the Productivity AddIn in order to check the new git tree version works.

Apply GitTreeVersion to the repository and modify the pipeline

Switching the project to use GitTreeVersion. The CorporateTerminologyPlugin version is now independent from Productivity.

August 2022

5.0.1078.0

Bug Fixes

Excel with Sharepoint linking does not work in Powerpoint

Fixed an issue with Excel Link if users had synced specific subdirectories instead of the root directory in SharePoint.

Think-Cell compatibility is not working as expected

Fixed incorrect Alignment tools behavior when the Think-Cell alignment compatibility mode is activated and deactivated.

"Clean-up" tool reports animations that are not visible in presentation

Check if the Animate property is set to true before removing an animation

Features

Rename the folder name for LocalizationProcessorTests project

Minor refactoring: fixed the folder name for a unit tests project.

Update Templafy Backend Packages

Update Templafy Backend Packages. This pull request has been automatically created by Renovate.

Fix Clean Up tests under System Tests

Fix a failing system tests that it was not updated following the new code

Convert aspect ratio

Convert properly aspect ratio for all shapes, excluding pictures and groups. Pictures and groups are now placed in the middle of destination area.

Fix Ranorex Pipeline

Fixed indentation levels to get rid of the error on the pipeline.

Fix remaining tests

Fix all the test cases to work properly both locally and on the pipeline, and enable the nightly run of those tests.

Add filtering to overlapping resolver logic

Overlapping shapes are now resized only if the overlapping was not present in the original presentation

Fix layout matching

Improve layout matching to use critical mismatching score for skipping completely different layouts

FIx Deloitte presentation conversion

Fixed Deloitte presentation conversion issue with layouts

Fix the error during conversion specific presentation

Agenda layouts are now excluded only when getting the best layout matches

Handle all leftover properties

Added missing visual properties for placeholders such as rotation, and flip

Configure opening outlook on the pipeline

Setup email address for outlook on the pipeline as one of the pipeline initialization tests

August 2022

5.0.1060.0

Bug Fixes

Templafy desktop throws an error when running the plugin because a DLL is not signed

A bug has been resolved in which the DLLs of the Plugin were not correctly signed

Productivity is creating 2 folders in registry and uses wrong one to get the configuration of productivity features

Rename the AssemblyProduct back from Productivity to SlideProof

With ThinkCell activated text boxes are slow

Fix issue with slow activated text boxes (when ThinkCell is enabled)

Features

Fix layout matching for the agenda slides

Fix layout matching for specific cases (like agenda slides, when CenteredTitle shouldn't be converted to the simple Title during layout matching)

Fix Align Tests

Fix Ranorex alignt tests to be green on the pipeline

Remove duplication in Productivity build pipeline templates

Removing duplicate items from build yaml, and consolidate between plugins

Fix folder structure for Design Converter tests

The folder structure and names of WebAddIn tests has been adjusted following the correct standards

Fix Insert Tests

Fix Ranorex insert tests to be green on the pipeline

Investigate and fix corruption when converting a presentation with sunburst chart

Embedded data, Colors and Styles are now ported from the old to the new presentation for all types of Charts

Disable Check Rule in Productivity

The corporate terminology rule in Check is now disabled in case the CorporateTerminology module is disabled for that tenant

Fix Domain.Shape UniqueId

Make id for the shapes unique by introducing resolver for a new placeholders

Change "Coefficient" to "Factor" in the names in Productivity

Change Coefficient to Factor in the names in Productivity

Remove comment from CorporateTerminologyHandler

Removing the test comment, that is not needed and not used, and we need to write a whole nice release note about it.

Remove the code related to Autocorrect from the Productivity Plugin

The Autocorrect functionality has been removed from the Productivity plugin.

Test if release notes work for internal in Corporate Terminology

This is just for testing that release notes are published to internal.

Rename assembly title and description for the Corporate Terminology plugin

Renamed assembly title and description for the Corporate Terminology plugin to display the "Corporate Terminology" in Templafy Desktop.

Sort out the mess with productivity folders

Rearranged the Productivity project folder and namespace structure to match the convention.

Images on a comparison layout do not get copied over during conversion

Fix issue regarding images not being shown after conversion when they're a part of a comparison layout. Also provide general fix for when placeholders have no preset.

Create the build pipeline for the new CorporateTerminologyPlugin

Created the azure pipeline to build the Corporate Terminology Plugin.

Implement integration tests for ConvertService

Add tests for convert service that have been missing.

Fix presentation paths

File paths were fixed in Ranorex tests to not have hard coded slashes.

Fix Picture tests

Fixed the Ranorex test for the create presentation from pictures feature.

Remove filtering of enabled feature flags from Productivity

Filtering of disabled feature flags was removed from the ProductivityPlugin.

Create new plugin in the Productivity

Created the CorporateTerminologyPlugin that will be responsible for the Corporate Terminology and Auto Correct features.

Set the default fix for Corporate Terminology in Check

The default fix for avoid term errors in Check is now shown at the top of the list of fixes.

When alpha is done - Activate it for these Tenants

Activate Design Converter feature for Alpha testing for selected tenants

When creating Design Converter on the different domain, use separate DependencyConfiguration

Refactored the DependencyConfiguration so the DesignConvert logic, running in a different AppDomain has it's own configuration modules. Fixed instability of the unit tests due to the locked presentation files.

Address content overlapping

Scale content overlapping when shapes are overlapping title or footer

Fix the split table test

Added the language cleaner for the split table test

Fix WhenClickingMergeTextBox_TextBoxesAreMergedCorrectly test

Introduced a language cleaner on the slide part as it might be different on each machine.

August 2022

5.0.1060.0

Bug Fixes
Templafy desktop throws an error when running the plugin because a DLL is not signed

A bug has been resolved in which the DLLs of the Plugin were not correctly signed

Productivity is creating 2 folders in registry and uses wrong one to get the configuration of productivity features

Rename the AssemblyProduct back from Productivity to SlideProof

With ThinkCell activated text boxes are slow

Fix issue with slow activated text boxes (when ThinkCell is enabled)

Features
Fix layout matching for the agenda slides

Fix layout matching for specific cases (like agenda slides, when CenteredTitle shouldn't be converted to the simple Title during layout matching)

Fix Align Tests

Fix Ranorex align tests to be green on the pipeline

Remove duplication in Productivity build pipeline templates

Removing duplicate items from build yaml, and consolidate between plugins

Fix folder structure for Design Converter tests

The folder structure and names of WebAddIn tests has been adjusted following the correct standards

Fix Insert Tests

Fix Ranorex insert tests to be green on the pipeline

Investigate and fix corruption when converting a presentation with sunburst chart

Embedded data, Colors and Styles are now ported from the old to the new presentation for all types of Charts

Disable Check Rule in Productivity

The corporate terminology rule in Check is now disabled in case the CorporateTerminology module is disabled for that tenant

Fix Domain.Shape UniqueId

Make id for the shapes unique by introducing resolver for a new placeholders

Change "Coefficient" to "Factor" in the names in Productivity

Change Coefficient to Factor in the names in Productivity

Remove comment from CorporateTerminologyHandler

Removing the test comment, that is not needed and not used, and we need to write a whole nice release note about it.

Remove the code related to Autocorrect from the Productivity Plugin

The Autocorrect functionality has been removed from the Productivity plugin.

Test if release notes work for internal in Corporate Terminology

This is just for testing that release notes are published to internal.

Rename assembly title and description for the Corporate Terminology plugin

Renamed assembly title and description for the Corporate Terminology plugin to display the "Corporate Terminology" in Templafy Desktop.

Sort out the mess with productivity folders

Rearranged the Productivity project folder and namespace structure to match the convention.

Images on a comparison layout do not get copied over during conversion

Fix issue regarding images not being shown after conversion when they're a part of a comparison layout. Also provide general fix for when placeholders have no preset.

Create the build pipeline for the new CorporateTerminologyPlugin

Created the azure pipeline to build the Corporate Terminology Plugin.

Implement integration tests for ConvertService

Add tests for convert service that have been missing.

Fix presentation paths

File paths were fixed in Ranorex tests to not have hard coded slashes.

Fix Picture tests

Fixed the Ranorex test for the create presentation from pictures feature.

Remove filtering of enabled feature flags from Productivity

Filtering of disabled feature flags was removed from the ProductivityPlugin.

Create new plugin in the Productivity

Created the CorporateTerminologyPlugin that will be responsible for the Corporate Terminology and Auto Correct features.

Set the default fix for Corporate Terminology in Check

The default fix for avoid term errors in Check is now shown at the top of the list of fixes.

When alpha is done - Activate it for these Tenants

Activate Design Converter feature for Alpha testing for selected tenants

When creating Design Converter on the different domain, use separate DependencyConfiguration

Address content overlapping

Scale content overlapping when shapes are overlapping title or footer

Fix the split table test

Added the language cleaner for the split table test

Fix WhenClickingMergeTextBox_TextBoxesAreMergedCorrectly test

Introduced a language cleaner on the slide part as it might be different on each machine.

July 2022

5.0.1025.0

Bug Fixes

On internal the feature flags don't work correctly
Fixed the bug with the Global Feature Flags not working correctly in the Productivity.

Fix sticky shapes
Attempting to fix mouse stick to shapes bug for some cases

Features

Version 5.0.1043.0 of Corporate Terminology has been released to Insider

Corporate Terminology now available on Insider

Fix wrong style in identified titles

Fix wrong style in identified titles by copy runs in paragraph

Fix getting max font size when no text elements exist

Fix issue where exception is thrown when trying to get max font size from layout that has no text items

(Beta) File details shouldn't be copied fully from template presentation

Add missing file details in the core file part of openXML

Remove orphaned PowerShape descriptions

Removed localization strings for a command that is not present anymore inside Productivity

Add Templafy.CodeAnalyzer.General to Productivity and fix warnings

Warnings generated from the Templafy.CodeAnalyzer.General nuget package were fixed.

Update README.MD files in Productivity repository

Updated README.MD files in Productivity repository in order to contain all the actual information.

Make consistent comparison of text nodes in Ranorex tests

Fixed an error with comparison of the document in the Ranorex test: WhenPastingSingleCellFromExcel_LinkDialogWorks.

Use 3 attempts when killing application in ranorex tests

Modified the Ranorex tests to only use 3 attempts when application closing is being failed.

Fix error during conversion for empty layouts

Fix error during conversion for layouts without placeholders

Fix issue with layout matching

Populate ElementDimensions during process of finding best matching layout for identified elements

Handle placeholders of all types

Handle placeholders of all types (like Pictures, Videos, 3D models, etc.)

Implement dimension extraction from slide master

Add functionality to extract placeholder dimensions from slide master when dimensions do not exist on slide level or slide layout level

Rollback the git version task to previous one

Undone the experimental changes to the git version task in the build pipeline.

Obfuscate productivity.dat file contents

Encode feature flags information in productivity.dat file to make it more secure

Implement proper initialize test

Implement PipelineInitializationTest with additional step to change the screen resolution

Create the new file in same location as original

The converted presentation is now created on the same folder as the original one using \Converted\ and timestamp in the name

Old ppt files should not be selectable

Disable selecting PowerPoint file types which are not supported by OpenXML.

ProductivityPlus crashes if no custom label is set

Set the Templafy tab label to Templafy if there is no custom label defined

Read ribbon title from registry

Nothing to say - this was closed without any code changes

Implement handling of OneDrive links for Design Converter

Add handling for local OneDrive files for design converter

Place slide placeholders and placeholder content in correct positions in design converter

Place slide placeholders and placeholder content in correct positions in design converter

Update dependency Templafy.OpenXmlComparer to v2.0.68

Update dependency Templafy.OpenXmlComparer to v2.0.68. This pull request has been automatically created by Renovate.

In Productivity file package.json shows as changed in git but it shouldn't

Packages.json has been re-saved and pushed to prevend git to see it as modified all the time

Fixing avoid terms does not work fine

A bug has been resolved that was preventing to fix multiple Avoid terms in the same sentence

Check why RuleTitleCapitalizationTest is commented out

A file containing only commented out code was removed since it is no more needed

Propose capital fixes when needed

When fixing an avoid term Check now proposes the available fixes also capitalized if the word you are fixing is a the beginning of a sentence

Do not add BOM in the beginning of the package.json in Productivity

Fixed the package.json generator code to not add the BOM in the beginning of the output string.

May 2022

5.0.984.0

Bug Fixes

Mouse stick to shape in some cases

Attempting to fix the mouse sticky bug for the productivity addin

Features

Bump the Capital letter rule to level 3

The new check rule to check for capital letters at the beginning of a sentence has been moved to level 3

Fix the presentations broken by the new rule in System Tests

Fix system tests dysplaying the new Missing capital warning

Restore to a normal version of Productivity

Restored to the normal addin state after a special version of productivity is released.

Create a new special version of Productivity
A special version of productivity is released, for the customers that want to only test Auto-Correct functionality of the plugin.

The Corporate Terminology plugin does not work

Fixed the issue in the plugin, due to which the Corporate Terminology handler was only run sometimes.

Add the new rule

A new rule has been added to check for verifying if a sentence is beginning with a capital letter

Remove Productivity prefixes

Removed Productivity prefix from project names, deleted unused uninstall script

Revert the Productivity to the normal version after #53825

The changes for the special version for Corporate Terminology beta has been reverted

Create a new plugin-only version of Productivity for Internal

Copying and loading the add-in has been disabled in this version for beta tester of CorporateTerminology that do not have any module

Test the automated translation system with SRE (Mehmet and Atilla)

This is a test merge to the master in order to trigger the new automated translation mechanism in the Productivity.

Test the automated translation system with SRE (Mehmet and Atilla)

This is a test merge to the master in order to trigger the new automated translation mechanism in the Productivity.

Fix inconsistent tests in productivity

Some unstable tests (failing when running in isolation) has been fixed

Add (Alpha) to the title of the Design Converter Ribbon Button

Add "(Alpha)" to the Design Converter ribbon button title.

Fix the Ranorex tests that are consistently failing on some of the PCs

Some unstable Ranorex test have been improved to make them more robust

Remove branch security check task from all pipelines

Removed status check stage from pipeline yaml files in favor of status check in pull requests.

Generate all the desired languages as empty files

Automatically generate missing language files for the translation. Verifying the extra language files.

Fix Autocorrect for the unknown languages

Fix Autocorrect for the unknown languages for Corporate Terminology feature

Make Check for productivity use the same feature flag

Updated Check to use the new Corporate Terminology feature flag.

Delete the keys where we have language code, like DA for the automatic translations

Deleted all the unlocalized localization keys from German and Danish localization pages. Automatically regenerating the package.json file on the Debug build of the Addin. This is done in the preparation, that the unlocalized string should be automatically sent to the localization company.

Distribute addin as a part of pipeline again

Revert all changes done to prevent loading AddIns for specific version of Templafy Desktop

Don't distribute addin as a part of pipeline

Comment out code to prevent loading AddIn for beta customers of Corporate Terminology

Distribute addin as a part of pipeline again

Uncommented out code to prevent downloading SlideProof after ensuring plugins are correctly downloaded

Don't distribute addin as a part of pipeline

Commented out code to prevent downloading SlideProof and ensure plugins are correctly downloaded.

The spaces after the URL in {hyperlink} are handled incorrectly in Productivity

Fixed an issue with the {hyperlink} tag in the localization when the space is present after the url.

Make all jsons to be ICU-compatible

We've converted all Productivity localizations to be ICU-compatible. Added {hyperlink} and {notext} tags support.

Address the codesmells in Productivity

Address the new codesmells after SonarCloud is behing reactivated

Convert identified titles

Implementation of conversion identified titles logic

Switch all repositories from GitVersion to GitTools

Upgraded all Azure pipelines from deprecated UseGitVersion task to new GitTools tasks.

Add "Tests" to all subclasses in Productivity tests

All test classes and sub classes has been renamed to reflect the new Templafy naming convention

Remove Productivity use of VerifyWorkItemsReleaseNotesLength function

Removed usage of manual release notes length check.

Fix Autofac exception in the BeforeUninstall of the Plugin

Fixed the fatal exception in the BeforeUninstall call of the Productivity plugin.

Implement title identification logic

Implementation of algorithm to identify titles and prepare SlideReport for conversion

Add a trigger to Productivity pipeline so it does not run on every commit

Adding a trigger to the pipeline so it does not run on every commit

Copy the slide content

Implement copying of slide content part for design converter.

April 2022

5.0.943.0

Bug Fixes

Corporate Terminology in Check picks up too many things

Avoid terms that are at the beginning, at the end or in the middle of another word (like ad in admin) are now not found from Check as warnings

Insert stickers and comments does not work for some users

The insertion of elements (TextBox, PowerShapes, Stickers, Comments, Placeholders) has been improved and it will also automatically retry in case of errors. That can solve an error the user is getting if the clipboard is temporarily locked by another application

ALTGR triggers CTRL+ALT in shortcuts

A bug has been resolved that was causing ALTGR to be treated like CTRL+ALT in shortcuts

Features

Give Rippe Orange access to Corporate Terminology

Ripped Orange was added to the Corporate Terminology feature flag.

Fix the failing SizeTests

The path of the failing SizeTests has been updated to the correct one

Give HB Reavis access to Corporate Terminology so they have it at 25th of April

Added hbreavis to the feature flag for Corporate Terminology

Templafy Desktop cannot load plugin when it uses Autofac

Added Autofac to the Productivity plugin. Now the dependencies are passed automatically through the dependency configuration.

URGENT: Fix Sonar Cloud for Productivity

Non test projects have been explicitly marked as such.

Remove legacy code from Productivity and Productivity Management

Remove legacy conversion code as it is no longer necessary

Handle CorporateTerminology errors more gracefully in the plugin

When adding corporate terminology entries to the autocorrect dictionary, the process will not crash if one of the term's adding was unsuccessful.

Add Templafy.CodeAnalyzer.Testing to all test projects

Added the Templafy.CodeAnalyzer.Testing package to all test projects
which warns about and offers to fix test classes which don't follow our
test naming convention: https://dev.azure.com/templafy/Templafy/_wiki/wikis/Engineering%20Wiki/33/Unit-tests

Refactor LayoutMatching service to make it simple and extensible

Refactor LayoutMatching service to make it simple and extensible

Make sure layout matching works properly for real cases

Add more tests for layout matching and minor fixes

Connect UI with ConvertEngine and make layout matching better

Connect UI with ConvertEngine for DesignConverter functionality

Dark/Light backgrounds do not update the colors in the color pane and Check

The text and background colors in the Productivity Color Pane are now adapting accordingly to the type (light or dark) of the background style to adapt to what Powerpoint is doing

Match layouts

Implementation of Layout matching for Design Converter

Extract the layout data from the presentation using OpenXML

Extract shapes and layout data from the presentation with OpenXML

Set up workitem-update-codereview-and-resolve pipeline template in all repositories

Added pipeline step that automatically updates work item status when pull request is created and merged.

Set up controller endpoints in Productivity

The endpoints for retrieving the selected file path for converting designs were added.

Make Autofac version constant in csproj configuration

Make Autofac nuget package version constant to skip updates

Remove Templafy.Primitives package from RanorexTests.csproj

An unused package was removed from the RanorexTests project.

Log file names in Productivity are not formatted correctly

A parameter from serilog has been removed after updating the package because it was creating a wrong formatted file name

Text margin text boxes have misaligned text

Alignment of text elements in the Text margins dialog were changed.

Optimize Ranorex repository - create rooted folders for components with similar beginning of the path + Sort the start presentations in the TestData folder

Group all Ranorex repository items to rooted directories and sort original pptx to folders.

Sort the start presentations in the TestData folder

Group all Ranorex repository items to rooted directories and sort original pptx to folders.

Handle correctly the situation where the CUSTOM.dic is not added in the spelling settings

Fixing the issues with the corporate terminology dictionary, that was not always written correctly. Also fixing the issue where the CUSTOM.dic file is not added to user's MS Word proofing configuration.

Upgrade nuget packages in Productivity to latest possible versions

We have upgraded all the nuget packages in Productivity to the latest possible versions.

Fix ExcelLink Ranorex tests

Fix excel link Ranorex test cases caused by ranorex repository

Test case 20621, 20622, 20619, 20620: Send tests
Implementing send presentation as ranorex test cases

Test case 20618, 20617, 20421, 20616: Save tests
Implementation of save all and selected slides as pdf and as pptx

March 2022

5.0.907.0

Bug fixes

Fix Proofing localizations: Closed

A bug has been fixed that was showing the the fix commands description prefixed by underscore in some cases

Features

Migrate Productivity solution to the PackageReference format
Productivity projects have been migrated to the PackageReference format instead of using packages config.

Enable concurrent SonarCloud analysis for Productivity
Enabled concurrent SonarCloud analysis to speed up analysis.

Fix Templafy.OpenXmlComparer upgrade on Productivityteam
Upgrade Templafy.OpenXmlComparer nuget package, now it does not dependency of Dynamics anymore

Plugin should handle correctly the situation, where the office folder does not exist
Improvement of the Corporate Terminology Configuration. Added safety check for the language directory to exist.

Update to latest version of Ranorex
Update Ranorex studio to newest version and change rpository to have stable tests

Fix WhenClickingInsertFlow_FlowIsInserted Ranorex test
Redesign test to do not use mouse drag - it causes problem with different resolution

Investigate MsBuild tools in Ranorex project
Minor change to Ranorex infrastructure. Updated to the ids, generated by the Ranorex Studio.

Convert Ranorex project to the recommended infrastructure
Converted Ranorex tests to the recommended architecture.

Make UI
The UI for finding the title shapes has been implemented

Implement a retry mechanism to re open the task pane
To avoid problems in some machine we are now retrying 5 times to open the selection pane

Implement the smoke tests
Implementation of smoke tests for colors, productivity pane, agenda and cleanup

Align top, bottom, left and right; Distribute and stack
Add align, distribute, distribute with resize and stack Ranorex tests

Uncomment "copy plugins" in the pipeline
Uncomment the Copy Productivity plugin files step in the pipeline

Unify, Super size and select similar shapes
Implement SuperSize, UnifyShapes and SelectSimilarShapes test cases from AlignTests area

Add missing feature flags to Productivity
Demo dynamics has been added to Corporate Terminology feature flag

Handle Autocorrect update correctly for multiple languages
When new languages are added to a users Office installation these languages AutoCorrect dictionaries will now have Corporate Terminology entries added to them correctly.

Port the current Post Update Runner to the Plugin
Ported the Productivity Post Update Runner logic for the Corporate terminology to work within plugin.

Fix ranorex tests after merge with conflicts
Fix Ranorex tests after merge with wrong csproj file

Make Ranorex tests for size more stable
Make Ranorex tests for Size functionality more stable

Rename ShapeDimension properties
Rename ShapeDimension properties to make it understandable

Test case 20461, 20604, 20603: Footnotes tests:Closed
Implementation of add and update footnotes in Ranorex

Test case 20457, 20602, 20459: Split and merge tests: Closed
Implemented Ranorex tests for the split and merge cases.

Test case 20455, 20456, 20943, 20944, 20460: Text margins and other text-box related tests: Closed
Create text margins, auto size, word wrap, line spacing, text swap tests

Test case 20597, 20600, 20463: Apply Default Textbox Format (default and custom) and Language: Closed
Automated tests were added for test cases 20597: Apply Default Textbox Format (default), 20600: Apply Default Textbox Format (custom) and 20463: Set Language.

Test case 20702: Pick Shape Format - Pick Other formatting: Closed
Implement test for pick other format for formatting shapes button, refactor Ranorex repository

Test case 20440: Make PowerShape:Closed
Add Ranorex tests for testing PowerShape functionality

Test case 20437: Send to Unused: Closed
Create Send to Unused test case in ranorex and create new cleaner as everytime we press this button section has different id

Test case 20436: Slide Master View: Closed
Add Ranorex tests for testing Master Slide View toggle

Test case 20700: Pick Shape Format - Pick Position: Closed
Refactor PickSize tests to make more reusable for other pick format tests, added PickPosition, and Pick size & position tests

Test case 20701: Pick Shape Format - Pick Size and Position: Closed
Refactor PickSize tests to make more reusable for other pick format tests, added PickPosition, and Pick size & position tests

Implement Test Case 20709 and Test case 20435: Work Space: Closed
Adding Ranorex tests for Workspace default and custom

Test case 20430: Pick Shape Format - Pick Size: Closed
Start implementing tests for 'other' section in the side panel beginning with format shape - same size

Test case 20558: Stretch Right (multi-click): Closed
Implemented stretch right tests for size tests, also refactored other size tests

Test case 20560: Stretch Bottom (multi-click): Closed
Add StretchBottom Ranorex tests for single shape testing

Test case 20554: Stretch Left (multi-click): Closed
Implement of stretch left Ranorex test with refactoring comparing dimensions methods

Test case 20485: Same Size (multi-click): Closed
Implementation of same size Ranorex Test case for single and multiple selection of shapes

February 2022

5.0.870.0

Features

Fixing ArrangeTests
Fixing arrange tests, and fixing Ranorex repository item for three dots

Fix PresentationTests
A System test which was failing has now been fixed.

Sign all assemblies in the Plugin
All the dlls inside the plugin folder are now signe with our certificate

Update the Insert Symbol Ranorex test
The insert symbol ranorex tests has been modified to add the new case

Investigate the bug when inserting elements
The clipboard is not cleared before copying the elements we want to insert to make it more stable

Sign the DLLs in the Productivity addin
Added the signing of the assemblies in the Productivity Addin in order to mitigate some possible issues with antiviruses being slow checking them.

Restore Plugin signing
Plugin files are now signed from the build pipeline

Check Warnings configuration
The correct warning level is now set for some codes that did not have it

Count all warnings as Detected in Check
All warnings, even the one from a higher level than selected, are counted when tracking how many warning were detected

Get rid of EventBase class in Productivity
Refactored the code to get rud of unnecessary EventBase class.

Update Resharper version in our pipelines to 2021.3.2 in Productivity
Updated Resharper version to 2021.3.2 in the Productivity project.

Bugs

Symbol replaced when inserting multiple
A bug as been resolve that was preventing the insertion of multiple symbol as the same time since the text was replaced instead of inserted

Links stops working when Excel source files are stored in particular Sharepoint folders
The error is due to a limit of 260 characters for the full path. An error is now displayed when the limit is reached and the file cannot be linked

Footnotes sticks in the text after deleting the textbox containing the footnotes and pressing update

Pressing update footnotes after deleting the footnote placeholder will now remove all the footnotes from the text box

January 2022

5.0.853.0

Features

Disable copying of plugin together with Productivity
Test Productivity plugin is not copied now together with the package.

Release new test version of Plugin to Internal
The new test version of ProductivityPlugin is released to internal.

Rename dll to ProductivityPlugin and change number in the log to "3"
Created another set of test changes in the productivity plugin in order to test how it works in Templafy.Desktop

Make changes to productivity plugin
Created test changes in the productivity plugin in order to test how it works in Templafy.Desktop

Create a test plugin in the productivity
A test Templafy Desktop plugin, that is doing nothing for now is shipped together with the Productivity. This change will break the Colors when the Templafy Desktop is updated with the new plugins functionality, so should not get to Insider and Stable.

Renovate did not work for productivity RanorexTests like OpenXmlComparer
Fix the path for the nuget packages feed to fix the renovate automation

Bugs

Agenda update fails with Validator enabled slides
A bug has being fixed that was preventing Agenda to be used with Validator locked slides

Slideproof footnote option doesn't work with tables

A bug has been resolved that was preventing to use footnotes correctly on table cells

Updating footnotes in tables breaks footnote formatting
A bug was fixed which caused the formatting of footnotes to be incorrect after updating in specific cases.

December 2021

5.0.842.0

Features

Add new CustomXmlPartCleaner() to tests which failing
Adding new cleaner CustomXmlPartCleaner to clean Templafy slide configuration nodes.

Inject ObjectVisibilityHandler
Fixed the injection of dependencies for the Ribbon. Instantiating ObjectVisibilityHandler through the dependency injection, instead of using the Activator in the factory.

Investigate if when we clean only language attribute instead whole XElement works for all tests
Update body of CleanLanguage part of CommonPartCleanr class, to do not delete whole XML element, but only attribute

Fix remaining 20 Factory.Add (except TestUtils folder in Addin)
Removed more Factory.Add usages in the scope of simplifying the dependencies management code.

See if we can make the "cancel" path faster
The Message box has now automation ids to make the tests run faster and safer

Update Ranorex test for insert text to match new description

Update test to new requirements. Checking single insertion of custom textbox and 5-level indentation custom text box.

Ranorex: use Process instead of Host to start app

Starting the external processes through the Process class, instead of Host.Local in Ranorex tests.

Bugs

Align middle order is incorrect

A bug was fixed for the Align Middle feature which would cause it to align the selected shape to the slide before aligning to the workspace. This has been fixed and it will now align to the workspace before the slide.

TimerUtilsTests are flaky. The thread concurrency timing should not be used in the tests
TimerUtilsTests has been re-engineered to be more stable

Doubled shortcut in Changing Line Orientation Test
Deleting one line of code in Changing Line Orientation Test.

The custom text box format and apply default format are inconsistent
A bug has been fixed when applying the default textbox format that was preventing the font to be set correctly on different indentation levels (if present)

A test 20624 failing on some machines
The path of the menu button has been modified to be more stable

November 2021

5.0.818.0

Investigate why Excel does not start
Added STA Thread to tests. Removing superfluous dll-file references. Minor arrange tests improvements.

Insert default textbox elements are not found
The path has been updated for stability.

Add missing cleaners
Some expected test presentations have been updated.

Harvey Balls
Harvey Balls are now covered by Ranorex Tests

Flow
Insert flow is now covered by Ranorex tests

Implement tests for simple shapes insert
Automated tests were added for Test case 20391: Insert a rectangle, Test case 20513: Insert a rounded rectangle, Test case 20515: Insert an arrow, Test case 20516: Insert an oval, Test case 20517: Insert a line and Test case 20518: Insert an elbow line.

Set up VSTO bridge endpoint
Added the VSTO bridge in order to execute 4:3 to 16:9 conversion from the new frontend. This feature is under feature flag.

Show ribbon button, that opens web frontend, based on tenant who has the feature flag enabled
Added ribbon button, that opens web frontend. This feature is hidden under the feature flag and is available only for the following tenants: productivity, kristjansson, hartogharten, osk.

Test case 20511: Insert a text box (custom)
An automated test was added for Test case 20511: Insert a text box (custom).

Test case 20390: Insert a text box (default)
An automated test was added for Test case 20390: Insert a text box (default).

Remove Templafy.sln.DotSettings from Productivity
The Templafy.sln.DotSettings file has been removed from the SlideProof solution. It is now instead referenced from the meta repository.

Remove remaining Factory.Add usages
Removed more Factory.Add usages in the scope of simplifying the dependencies management code.

AssemblyInitializer shows as inconclusive when running the Ranorex tests
The setup of common Ranorex test parameters has been fixed and will now be run at the start of every test suite.

Issue with Slide Clean-Up
An issue with the Clean-Up functionality where a certain configuration of speaker notes would cause Clean-Up to not be run, has been resolved.

Updating multiple Excel links in PowerPoint changes the first table into the second one
A bug has been fixed that was causing the table linked from the first sheet to change into the one linked from the second sheet when updating the entire presentation at once

WhenPastingSingleCellFromExcel_LinkDialogWorks ranorex test fails
Fixed the Ranorex tests that are inconsistent between different versions of PowerPoint.

September 2021

5.0.797.0

Test case 20481: Send to the back

An automated test was added for Test case 20481: Send to the back, Test case 20563: Bring to the front, Test case 20562: Send backward and Test case 20561: Bring forward.

Test case 20480: Ungroup

An automated test was added for Test case 20480: Ungroup.

Rename Templafy.SlideProof.AddIn.Development in Productivity

A class was renamed from Develpment to DevelopmentPanel.

Remove remaining Factory.Add usages (84 to go)

Removed more usages of Factory.Add and replaced them with using Dependency Injection.

Implement conversion when pressing a button

We added a button to convert the presentation to 16:9 under the SlideConverter Feature Flag

Check: Display a more meaningful error for color mismatch

In case of a Color Mismatch warning on a Theme Color, we will display some more details describing what is wrong with the color, that could be the color index (name), the color tint and shade, or the color brightness

Ranorex test for Arrange - Test case 20479: Group

The test case 20479 has been added to Ranorex tests

Cover ClipboardTextRestorer with unit test

A test was added for the ClipboardTextRestorer class.

Investigate Pros and Cons when copying a single (1) Excel cell into PowerPoint

Information that ProductivityPlus uses to link Excel and PowerPoint used to be lost when copying something from Excel, inserting a TextBox using the ProductivityPlus tools and then pasting the copied content from Excel. This meant that ProductivityPlus wouldn't be able to link the copied content from Excel. This has been fixed and that flow is now possible.

Test case 20416: Change the outline dash style (multi-click)

An automated test was added for Test case 20416: Change the outline dash style (multi-click).

Show deleted warnings tooltip is blank

The tooltip for the Show deleted warnings button in Check is now displaying the correct text.

ComponentNotRegisteredException happens at startup of Productivity

Fixed the wrong [Inject] attribute in the Analytics, that caused the runtime exception happen during the start of the Addin. This bug did not affect the analytics events.

We should brake the description into more lines if the text does not fit

Text in Check warnings will wrap if it does not fit inside the warning callout.

Stable (Templafy One + Templafy Hive)

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