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- June 2022
- May 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
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- June 2021
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Technical information
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June 2022
5.0.984.0
Bug Fixes
Mouse stick to shape in some cases
Revert 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.
May 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 picked up by 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. This can solve an error a user might be experiencing 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 Ripped Orange access to Corporate Terminology
Ripped Orange was added to the Corporate Terminology feature flag.
Give HB Reavis access to Corporate Terminology so they have it at 25th of April
Added hbreavis to the feature flag for Corporate Terminology
Fix the failing SizeTests
The path of the failing SizeTests has been updated to the correct one
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 Corporate Terminology errors more gracefully in the plugin
When adding Corporate Terminology entries to the autocorrect dictionary, the process will no longer 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.
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
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
April 2022
5.0.907.0
Bug Fixes
Fix Proofing localizations
A bug has been fixed that was showing the the fix commands description prefixed by underscore in some cases
Features
Fix Proofing localizations
A bug has been fixed that was showing the the fix commands description prefixed by underscore in some cases
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.
Fixed Templafy.OpenXmlComparer upgrade on Productivityteam
Upgrade Templafy.OpenXmlComparer nugget package. It is no longer a dependancy of Dynamics.
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
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.
Title shape UI implementation
The UI for finding the title shapes has been implemented
Implement a retry mechanism to re open the task pane
In order to avoid problems in some devices, the selection pane will now attempt to re-open 5 times.
Implement the smoke tests
Implementation of smoke tests for colors, productivity pane, agenda and cleanup
Implement Test Case 20709 and Test case 20435: Work Space
Adding Ranorex tests for Workspace default and custom
Align top, bottom, left and right; Distribue 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
demodynamics 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
Implementation of add and update footnotes in Ranorex
Test case 20457, 20602, 20459: Split and merge tests
Implemented Ranorex tests for the split and merge cases.
Test case 20455, 20456, 20943, 20944, 20460: Text margins and other text-box related tests
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
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
Implement test for pick other format for formatting shapes button, refactor Ranorex repository
Test case 20440: Make PowerShape
Add Ranorex tests for testing PowerShape functionality
Test case 20437: Send to Unused
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
Add Ranorex tests for testing Master Slide View toggle
Test case 20700: Pick Shape Format - Pick Position
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
Refactor PickSize tests to make more reusable for other pick format tests, added PickPosition, and Pick size & position tests
Test case 20430: Pick Shape Format - Pick Size
Start implementing tests for 'other' section in the side panel beginning with format shape - same size
Test case 20558: Stretch Right (multi-click)
Implemented stretch right tests for size tests, also refactored other size tests
Test case 20560: Stretch Bottom (multi-click)
Add StretchBottom Ranorex tests for single shape testing
Test case 20554: Stretch Left (multi-click)
Implement of stretch left Ranorex test with refactoring comparing dimensions methods
Test case 20485: Same Size (multi-click)
Implementation of same size Ranorex Test case for single and multiple selection of shapes
March 2022
5.0.870.0
Bug Fixes
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: Closed
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: Closed
Pressing update footnotes after deleting the footnote placeholder will now remove all the footnotes from the text box
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.
Test Case 20559: Stretch Top (multi-click)
Adding StretchTop Ranorex tests for cover test cases
Test Case 20552: Same Height (multi-click)
Add Ranorex tests for testing SameHeight functionality
Test Case 20532: Same Width (multi-click)
Implementing SameWidth Ranorex test to fit test case
February 2022
5.0.853.0
Bug fixes
Agenda update fails with Validator enabled slides
A bug has been fixed that was preventing Agenda to be used with Validator locked slides
ProductivityPlus footnote option doesn't work with tables
A bug has been resolved that was preventing to use footnotes correctly on table cells
Features
Disable copying of plugin together with Productivity
Test Productivity plugin is now not copied together with the package.
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.
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 Productivity
Created a test Templafy Desktop plugin, that is doing nothing for now, and is shipped together with 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
Fixed the path for the nugget packages feed to fix the renovate automation
Test case 20452: Create Presentation from Pictures
Implementation of create presentation ranorex test, from pictures existing in given directory
Test case 20451: Crop Fill Fit
Implementing two Ranorex tests. One for fit and fill and a second for crop pictures.
January 2022
5.0.842.0
Bug fixes
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 unreliable. 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 to remove the duplicate shortcut.
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).
Test Case 20624: Failing on some machines
The path of the menu button has been modified to be more stable
Features
Add new CustomXmlPartCleaner() to tests which failing
Adding a 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 factory Activator.
Investigate if when we clean only language attribute instead whole XElement works for all tests
Update body of CleanLanguage part of CommonPartCleanr class, to not delete the whole XML element, only the 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
Ranorex: use Process instead of Host to start app
Starting the external processes through the Process class, instead of Host.Local in Ranorex tests.
Insert symbol
An automated test was added for Test case: Insert symbol.
Test case 20450: Compress Pictures
Implementation of compress pictures ranorex test to fit in to steps described in manual
Test case 20627: Remove All Stickers
Implementation Ranorex remove all sticker test case by change remove all comments test case implementation.
Test case 20626: Select Next Sticker
The test case for selecting the next sticker has been implemented
Test case 20625: Add Stickers (custom)
An automated test was added for Test case 20625: Add Stickers (custom).
Test case 20446: Add Stickers (default)
Implementation of Ranorex test insert all kind of stickers by inserting them on separate slide.
Test case 20445: Remove All Comments
Create Ranorex Remove All Comments Test case and add expected presentation.
Test case 20444: Select Next Comment
Implementation of "Next Comments" Ranorex test with deleting some comments for comparison.
Test case 20624: Add Comments (custom)
Added a test case for custom comments (content and formatting)
Test case 20443: Add Comments (default)
Implementation of comments sticker test and change RemoveText method in CommonPartCleaner to fit to new requirements.
Test Case: 20519: Insert placeholder - Presentation
An automated test was added for Test case 20519: Insert a placeholder [Presentation].
Test Case: 20399: Insert placeholder
An automated test was added for Test case 20399: Insert a placeholder.
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.
December 2021
5.0.818.0
Bug fixes
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
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.
WhenPastingSingleCellFromExcel_LinkDialogWorks ranorex test fails
Fixed the Ranorex tests that are inconsistent between different versions of the Power Point.
Features
Investigate why Excel does not start
Added STA Thread to tests. Removing extra dll references. Minor arrange tests improvements.
Insert default textbox elements are not found
The path has been updated to be more stable
Add missing cleaners
Some expected test presentations have been updated.
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 move Factory.Add usages in the scope of simplyfing 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.
Cover more Productivity to reach 80%
Added more test coverage to reach 80% of total coverage in Productivity
Cover Update with tests
Update on OfficeTextFrameWrapperTest is now covered by Unit tests
Harvey Balls
Harvey Balls are now covered by Ranorex Tests
Flow
Insert flow is now covered by Ranorex tests
The Ranorex tests are unstable, if/when running all at once
We have fixed some issues when running Ranorex Tests all at the same time
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 that 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
Protect LocalizedText and its derived classes from being constructed directly
The access modifiers for the LocalizedText, LocalizedTextFormatted and UnlocalizedText constructors were made internal.
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.
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).
October 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.
Show deleted warnings tooltip is blank
The tooltip for the Show deleted warnings button in Check is now displaying the correct text.
Implement conversion when pressing a button
We added a button to convert the presentation to 16:9 under the SlideConverter Feature Flag.
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.
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.
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.
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).
September 2021
5.0.783.0
Test case 20523: Change the arrow style (multi-click)
An automated test was added for Test case 20523: Change the arrow style (multi-click).
Test case 20415: Change the outline weight
An automated test was added for Test case 20415: Change the outline weight.
Test case 20419: Make lines horizontal
An automated test was added for Test case 20419: Make lines horizontal.
Test case 20418: Make lines vertical
An automated test was added for Test case 20418: Make lines vertical.
Add FluentAssertions analyzer nugget package to the Productivity
The FluentAssertions.Analyzer nuget package was added. Warnings produced by analysis from the package were fixed.
Fix check to make it work with multiple casing
Both Avoid Term and Prefer related terms will be case sensitive when matching them in the document through check
Test case 20579: Swap Y-Position
An automated test was added for Test case 20579: Swap Y-Position.
Test case 20577: Swap X-Position
An automated test was added for Test case 20577: Swap X-Position.
Test case 20466: Swap Position
An automated test was added for Test case 20466: Swap Position.
Fix the PresentationTest TXCT_00
An error has been fixed that was preventing Check to correctly match avoid terms containing spaces
Try out Ranorex Rotate tests with intentionally wrong document
Update the rotation tests to make them more stable
Test case 20575: More rotation options
The more options test has been implemented
Test case 20574: Flip Horizontally
The flip horizontally test has been implemented
Test case 20571: Flip Vertically
The flip vertically test has been implemented
Test case 20570: Rotate Left 90
The rotate left 90 degrees test has been implemented
Test case 20474: Rotate Right 90
The rotate right 90 degrees test has been implemented
August 2021
5.0.767.0
Switch ProductivityPlus projects to C# 9
All Projects in Productivity has been updated to c# 9.0
Get rid of the rest of Factory usage in the tests
Removed more usages of Factory.Add, replaced them with using Dependency Injection.
Consume ProductivityConfiguration nuget package from SlideProof
ProductivityPlus now consumes the ProductivityConfiguration nuget package published by ProductivityManagement.
Add to the rule in Check
The avoid terms rule was added to check. If an error is detected then all the alternatives terms are presented as possible fixes.
Symbols are not recognized in Corporate Terminlogy
A bug has been resolved that was causing problems when detecting avoided terms containing special characters (ex: +, *, [] )
5.0.762.0
Check why there are more Fixes in PowerBI than there are warnings detected
Fixed a bug due to which some of the Analytics events were never called. This includes the "Detected" event for the check.
Fix ProductivityPlus git local configuration to use Windows line endings locally
Fixing the line endings through the whole Productivity project codebase. Forcing to the windows line endings.
Rename Check section in Ribbon to Check instead of SlideProof
The SlideProof group in the Templafy ribbon has been renamed to Check.
Fix Major SonarCloud alerts step 2
This release is an internal refactoring to increase code quality.
Implement the rule
A new rule has been added to Check which allows users to replace unwanted terms with preferred terms instead. These terms can be defined in the Hive admin center and is therefore only available to Hive customers.
Use DevOpsAutomation for WorkItem Length check
Used correct DevOpsAutomation functions for WorkItem Length check.
Fix Major SonarCloud alerts step 1
The first part of Major issues has been solved
Add check for Release notes to be present and be 50 minimum characters long back to the YAML pipelines
The release note length is now checked also on pull requests
Shapes sticks to the mouse after selecting them
The SmartWeakReferences usage is now replaced with WeakEventManager. This should remove the errors where the mouse capture is lost sometimes in shapes.
Updater/productivity plus, does not update the colour scheme
ProductivityPlus will now update the Colors panel to reflect changes in the color theme, when a presentations color theme is updated from Dynamics.
July 2021
5.0.752.0
Accept spaces in ProductivityPlus when reading in-template colors
ProductivityPlus will now handle a mismatch in names of in-template Custom Color names coming from Hive. If the in-template Custom Color name has a trailing or leading space, ProductivityPlus will attempt to resolve this name with the name it gets from Hive, in order to correctly display the in-template colors.
Test case 21115: View all
Created a Ranorex test, for test case 21110: Update Link.
Test case 21110: Update link
Created a Ranorex test, for test case 21110: Update Link.
Resolve problems in Applications
Make tests more solid by maximizing the apps and closing the connections before quitting them
Test case 20363: Create link (graph/table)
Created a Ranorex test, for the new test case where a chart is copied.
Test case [new] Create link with one cell
Created a Ranorex test, for the new test case where only a single cell is copied.
Test case 21036: Create link (multiple cells)
Created a first Ranorex tests, for the test case 21036 (multiple cells).
Replace the Templafy user with Current User in the pipeline
Replaced the Templafy user with Current User in the manifest of the build pipeline.
"Excel is busy now" message appearing in PowerPoint
The bug has been resolved by checking if the clipboard contains any excel data before starting other operations and not at the end. Before this fix changing the selection in PowerPoint was triggering the parsing of some Excel data even if the user has not been using Excel or did not copy anything from Excel.
Fix the path to the Update link button
The paths has been corrected to be faster
June 2021
5.0.736.0
Remove the Contribute technical and interaction data setting - feature
The Contribute technical and interaction data setting was removed from settings of ProductivityPlus.
Use Text.Localized and Text.Unlocalized factory methods - feature
Using Text.Localized and Text.Unlocalized factory methods instead of calling l10n constructors directly.
Remove shortcuts in tooltips when toggled off - feature
Shortcuts are no longer shown in tooltips if shortcuts have been disabled.
Improve the UX of the Super-size feature - feature
The tooltip for Super-Size was adjusted to be more descriptive of how to use it.
Add better tooltip on errors in Excel Link - feature
The tooltip for the exclamation mark icon in Excel Link has been changed to be more descriptive of what went wrong.
Check Tick and Cross - feature
Check regards fonts used in Slide Master inside tables and grouped shapes as valid fonts. Check rule about Inconsistent Font/Size ignores symbol fonts like Wingdings and Monotype Sorts.
Change source does not work for the excel chart - bug
Close the Excel running in background when changing the source file
Fix shortcut localization CommandBase - bug
An unlocalized piece of text for shortcuts has been localized.
Wrong order + duplicate colors (Custom Colors Admin Center) - bug
Added a workaround for the case where the empty strings are supplied from the registry Custom Colors. Now it doesn't lead to creation of white colors.
Using Excel Link from a big Excel file takes long even if copying just a few cells - bug
Productivity is now faster while checking if the content that is being pasted belongs to Excel to show the link button
Translations in tooltip are being cut off - bug
The German translation for the Distribute with Resize Horizontally command had their title and description switched by mistake. This has now been corrected.
April 2021
5.0.725.0
Color Pane tooltip - feature
Colors pane tooltips contain a disclaimer about not being applicable for Charts.
Compress picture: Make it work on Master Slide - feature
The Compress Pictures command can now be used from the Slide Master.
We should not exclude presentations for custom colors check if custom colors have been defined - feature
The default themes from Microsoft are not excluded from Check anymore . When "Allow color shades" is disabled the user will now have warnings when using the shades.
Add a toggle in the settings to deactivate/active all the shortcuts - feature
A toggle to enable/disable shortcuts was added to the Productivity section of Settings.
Use Outlook interop API if Outlook is default email client - feature
If the default email client of the user is Outlook, ProductivityPlus will use Outlook to create the mail from Save and Send, which will result in the users email signature being visible immediately.
Crop should never change the actual size of the picture - bug
Fix issue in Check that caused cropped distorted images to resize when fixing the warning using the Crop option.
Distribute vertically does not distribute relatively to the slide - bug
Fixed issue in Productivity Plus alignment that caused multistep distribute to miss out one step
5.0.711.0
Create release pipeline for all stages - feature
Created release pipeline for all stages in Azure for the Productivity project.
The Check should ignore the locked slides - feature
Check ignores slides that are locked by Dynamics as they must not be changed by the end-user.
Make Tools Pane 6 icons width by default - feature
The default width of the ProductivityPlus toolpane was made bigger.
Change currency / number check format to 1.111,00 instead of using # - feature
The format for currency examples was changed from using the number sign like this: #.###.###,##. It now uses numbers instead, like this: 1.111.111,00.
Change our build Timestamp URI - feature
The Timestamp URI has been updated to http://rfc3161timestamp.globalsign.com/advanced
Check shows class names when checking presentation - bug
While running Check, progress showed class names instead of texts.
Apply Default Textbox format doesn't apply bold - bug
The Apply Default Textbox format command will now apply font properties from the corresponding indent levels setup in the template.
Switching chevron / pentagon does not work as expected - bug
Fix issue when changing type of flow that caused the angle of chevrons to change.
Update not working as expected with several Agendas - bug
A bug as been resolved in which updating the agenda was duplicating the shapes in the main table of content in case more agendas were present in the presentation.
Custom harvey ball has visual issues on Master slide - bug
Fix issue with color pane not setting color on hidden shapes in a group. This prevented to customize the original Harvey Ball assets.
Broken shortcut should not cause the buttons to disappear - bug
Fixed issue that caused buttons to disappear if an invalid shortcut was set in registry.
Error when creating Excel link that’s already being linked via the Ampler -Establish Excel Link- option - bug
Fixed issue where linking Excel charts did not work if the same slide has a Ampler chart linked and Ampler was running. The issue was reproduced and fixed.
5.0.699.0
Update Excel link does not work - bug
Fixed a problem introduced few commits ago that broke the update of the Excel Link
5.0.698.0
Fix SonarCloud critical cognitive complexity warnings - feature
Fixed all the code smells around cognitive complexity too high.
Update the name in the pipeline that uses Vnext-Shared - feature
The Pipeline has been updated to reflect the changes done in the Azure subscription
Make all the rest of classes that use ITaskFactory to be hooked through the Dependency Injection - feature
Minor refactoring in the product code. Using Dependency Injection to spawn classes that implement ITaskFactory.
System test - feature
DEV New presentation added for system tests and modified an existing one
Fix InconsistentNumberOfDecimalPlaces - exclude if money rule is enabled and other way around - feature
Exclude InconsistentNumberOfDecimalPlaces on currency and number sperator rules
Auto-suggest fix to the most often used format - feature
We provide the fix button for the inconsistent currency and number separators check.
Remove the Toggle PowerShape Cache visibility feature - feature
The Toggle PowerShape Cache visibility command was removed.
Fix SonarCloud critical rename and NotSupportedException warnings - feature
This release is an internal refactoring to fix code smells.
Slide Number and Date Placeholder do not work as expected - bug
Resolved issue in ProductivityPlus when inserting PowerPoint placeholders date and slide number which where left initial. Now, date and slide number are set as text.
Inconsistent decimal number placement rule is not localized - bug
The words "decimal" and "decimals" are now localized
Fix double word parser to not react to numbers - bug
The double word rule will not take in account numbers anymore but still react to words with numbers in it (for example 000 000 is not a double word but A1A A1A it is)
5.0.682
Ungroup does not work - bug
A bug has been resolved that was preventing shapes to be ungrouped in case there was only one selection.
Edit Excel Link tooltip does not get parameter text - bug
A bug has been resolved in which the excel sheet name was not retrieved correctly to be shown in the command tooltip.
Some menu items have too much empty space - bug
Check menu item icons were not being shown in a dropdown. The icons are now shown like they are supposed to.
Cross button doesn't work sometimes on the warning dialog in check - bug
An issue as been fixed that was preventing the warning callout to be closed pressing the X.
Repeated words: not picked up when the repetition is at the end of a sentence and followed by a dot - bug
We can now detect the double words, when there is a punctuation sign after the second word.
Question mark is misaligned - bug
The misaligned question mark inside Check warnings has been aligned properly.
Link callout doesn't show for several cells from one row - bug
We have fixed a bug where link callout did not work for several cells from one row.
Apply the "auto-size" option as part of pick/apply - bug
In certain scenarios when applying a format to a shape, the size would not get applied. This has now been fixed and the size will be applied if selected.
Tooltip mention an option that does not exist - bug
The Warning Details setting has been removed from Check settings. Check will now always show details on warnings.
Fix the proofing language - bug
We have fixed the "Fix" functionality that was broken in the Proofing Language and Font Formats checks.
Set font color resizes shape - bug
Setting the font color through the color pane will not resize the shape in case the font size is bigger than the shape even in case "Resize to fit" is selected.
Check returning different results depending on Presentation - bug
Check failed on certain presentations. This caused no warnings shown at all. The issue was recently introduced with the support for allowing certain symbolic fonts like Wingdings in presentations. The issue was reproduced and fixed.
PowerShapes might break z-order - bug
ProductivityPlus had an issue with applying z-order on shapes when changing PowerShapes or updating linked Excel objects if the same slide contained grouped shapes. This can have caused shapes to hide behind others. The issue was reproduced and fixed.
Inserting special character doesn't work stable when no text box is selected - bug
When one of the Insert shape commands was checked, and the Insert Symbol command was executed, a default textbox would be inserted without the symbol. The same would happen if a slide was selected. This has now been fixed and a textbox with the chosen symbol will be inserted in these cases.
Fix fails for Alignment of Placeholders over Layouts - bug
The rule has been moved to level 4 and the setting IsMasterReadOnly has been removed. By default, it was set to true and there was no easy way to change it.
Updating Excel Link breaks Z-order - bug
ProductivityPlus now properly restores the Chart or Table's z-order position on the slide after it was updated through Excel Link.
ProductivityPlus: Add icons to Excel Link dropdown commands - feature
Some Excel Link menu items were lacking icons, which have now been added.
ProductivityPlus: Calculate Changeset and update Agenda - feature
Agenda now does partial updates. This means that it is now possible to update an Agenda without losing user edits on the Agenda slides.
Check: Missing quotation mark rule should work by paragraph - feature
The fix for missing quotation marks now operates on paragraphs, instead of shape's whole text.
Check: Add auto fix for overlapping image (send it back) - feature
We have now auto-fix of the image overlapping text warning, which automatically puts the image back of the text.
Check: Create rule to check for images that overlap the text - feature
We have now a rule that gives a warning if an image overlaps the text.
Check: Investigate or adjust Missing Quotation Marks - feature
We have made an improvement to the missing quotation mark rule. We are now using the opposite missing quote to insert, also taking into consideration the current language.
Check: Investigate or adjust Spacing of colons - feature
Space after colon now has human text in fix suggestions. Prefer one space when it's encountered often enough.
Check: Adjust levels - feature
Selected Check warnings have had their levels adjusted.
Fallback Localization to English - feature
Texts now fall back to the English version if they have not been localized for the chosen language.
Check: Address number of fonts warning - feature
A warning would show when more than 3 fonts were used in a presentation. This warning has now been removed.
Check: Add fonts of Design shapes in Master Fonts - feature
Fonts that are used in layouts are now seen as valid by Check. This means that they will no longer produce warnings when used in presentations.
Check: Auto-suggest the fix for the duplicated words - feature
Added the default fix for doublewords that it will replace a duplicated word with a single one.
Check: Make multiple warnings for each double word occurence - feature
Returning now one warning for each doubleword occurrence.
Version 5.0.616
Exception with Shortcuts - bug
Fix of uncritical but high-frequency exception.
Tick and Cross (from SkabelonDesign) are recognized as a mismatch - bug
Check produced warnings with symbol fonts like Wingdings and Monotype Sign. Those are not excluded from consistency checks.
Some analytics sent twice - bug
Fixed issue that caused certain analytics events to be sent twice. The issue was introduced with the refactoring of the internal command structure.
Ctrl + Shift + N shortcut works not correctly - bug
When trying to use the windows shortcut 'Ctrl+Shift+N' while the Save as file dialog was open, the ProductivityPlus shortcut would be used instead, causing an error message to appear and rendering the windows shortcut inaccessible. This has now been fixed, and the ProductivityPlus shortcut will no longer be activated in this case.
Save as PDF in Productivity plus is exporting the hidden Slides as well: not matching native PPT export PDF - bug
Fixed the bug that led hidden slides to appear in PDF when the document was saved to PDF through the Productivity plus panel.
Check: Inconsistent Title Capitalization cannot be fixed when starting with a number/symbol - bug
Fixed issue with Check not working properly when title capitalization contained numbers.
Share section German: Wrong text - it says "Aktie" which means market share - bug
Fixed the wrong German translation for "Share" word in various places of UI.
Text issue in German: Open instead of Bearbeiten - bug
In the Link callout menu, the button which opens the linked documents displays now the correct text in English and in German.
Check: does not detect space before punctuation - bug
Fix issue in Check where space punctuation was not detected at the end-of-line or end-of-text.
Change source to any locked excel file produces an error - bug
ProductivityPlus shows better error messages when an update of a linked element did not work, independently if the update was triggered from the task pane or the callout.
All Links updates apparently working even if the file was deleted (Parallels) - bug
Fixed issue in ProductivityPlus with Link Excel: When updating links from the overview pane and having the Excel file deleted in the meantime, the icons stayed green and did not indicate an error. The icon changed to a warning symbol indicating a broken link.
Updating a link does not automatically save the workbook - bug
Updating an Excel link in the presentation is not automatically saving the workbook anymore.
Color mismatch fix fails in Check - bug
A bug has been resolved and now comparing two theme colors should create a warning only if the two theme colors are different.
Swap text removes hyperlinks - bug
The code has been improved to support also hyperlinks while swapping text.
Check misses out on missing outline on a placeholder - bug
A bug has been resolved where a placeholder with no outline is not creating a warning if the placeholder in the layout has the outline.
Footnotes [Placeholder] is not deleted from the slide - bug
The Footnotes [Placeholder] is now deleted from the slide when all footnotes (superscript) are deleted.
Color pane UI - bug
Fixed the style of the color pane.
ProductivityPlus: Insert symbol command - feature
New feature that allows users to quickly insert symbols into their presentation has been added. The feature itself is hidden until the final design for the UI is available.
Check: Create a command and reset the settings to default - feature
Till now a user could toggle the warning levels of different detections in the Check tool, however, there was no way to restore to default. A button has been added to the "advanced" section of the Check settings to reset all the values to default.
ProductivityPlus: Auto-size command - feature
ProductivityPlus has a new text feature for selecting the Auto-size property of shapes. This allows users to quickly switch between the three options:
- Do not Autofit
- Shrink text on overflow
- Resize shape to fit text
It replaces the Toggle Auto-Fit command, which would only toggle the Auto-Size property between the "Do not Autofit" and "Resize shape to fit text" options.
The feature works with one or more shapes selected and also comes with a shortcut, which will cycle through the available options when used. The shortcut is: (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+W)
ProductivityPlus: Word-wrap command - feature
ProductivityPlus has a new text feature for toggling Word-wrap. This allows users to quickly toggle Word-wrap for one, or multiple shapes. The shortcut for this new command is: (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Y)
ProductivityPlus: Clean-up command - feature
ProductivityPlus has a new feature Clean-Up to finalize presentations and remove unwanted information like:
- Remove metadata like author, tags, etc.
- Remove annotations like comments, stickers, and speaker notes.
- Remove effects like animations and transitions.
- Remove extraneous elements like empty placeholders, unused layouts, hidden slides, and shapes.
- Redact like replace all texts with dummy texts.
Clean-Up replaces Remove All Animations, Remove Unused Layouts and Replace Text with Dummy Texts.
Clean-Up has Ctrl+Alt+J assigned as a shortcut.
5.0.560.0/5.0.561.0
Distribute horizontally and vertically is not working as expected - bug
We introduced a minor malfunction to Distribute in ProductivityPlus. When clicked more than one time, right/bottom the snapping points workspace/slide were accidentally switched. The problem was reproduced and repaired.
Fix Memory Leak - bug
We fixed a memory leak in ProductivityPlus and Check and that appeared when opening and closing many presentations in a row.
Same size doesn't work on single shape selection - bug
With the introduction of Stretch, a defect was introduced to Same-Size in ProductivityPlus when executed on a single shape. The problem was reproduced and fixed.
The alignment tools are grayed out on single selection when text selection is the last action - bug
Fixed a bug where alignment tools were grayed out but should be available instead.
Can not close Master View with keyboard shortcut - bug
We fixed a bug and is now possible to open and close the master view using the Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Q shortcut.
Moving our color panel to the top should make it flow horizontal - bug
ProductivityPlus Color Pane supports horizontal layout when being docked at the top or bottom of the PowerPoint window.
Color pane: no fill changes the layout of my text box - bug
Fixed an issue where setting the text box to no outline, and then back to a color could break the layout of the text box.
Agenda: replace Agenda default presentation - bug
The agenda default layout has been updated to present more useful information to the user.
Check warns about a color scheme mismatch when using "no font" - bug
A false warning appeared about a color scheme mismatch when "no font" was used.
Save and send drop-down icons are identical - bug
New icons were added to send presentations and selected slides. Also, all SVGs were optimized for reduced size.
Icons are blurry with high resolution displays - bug
Improved and sharpened icon rendering especially for large displays and high DPI settings.
Moving our panes to the top or bottom should inform the user - bug
Moving the tool pane on the top or bottom of PowerPoint warns the user that this pane can be only used vertically.
Templafy_SlideProof_Defaults.pptx contains an unnecessary [Comment] - bug
A shape with a blue rectangle has been removed from Templafy_SlideProof_Defaults.pptx since it was useless.
Color pane shows multiple highlights - bug
Fixed a bug where the color pane showed multiple colors selected.
No-font is not selected in the color pane when a text box is selected - bug
Fixed a bug where selecting a text box with "no font" color didn't highlight this color in the color pane.
"Apply Default Textbox Format" tooltip is wrong - bug
The tooltip has been updated to use the correct placeholder name
Features
Increase / Decrease Line spacing - bug
ProductivityPlus has a new text feature for increasing and decreasing line spacing. This allows users to quickly change the line spacing of a single paragraph, multiple paragraphs at once or all paragraphs within one or more shapes. This comes with two new commands which also include shortcuts: Increase Line Spacing (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+/), Decrease Line Spacing (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+')
5.0.519.0
Remove references to "TemplateChanger" - bug
All the references to the Template Changer have been removed from the tool tips since the functionality is not part of Productivity anymore.
The placement and size of our panels should be remembered - bug
ProductivityPlus and Check store the task pane size and position so that when opening PowerPoint, they open the same as they were closed.
Pick+Apply format on certain charts freezes PowerPoint - bug
Productivity and Check got a performance improvement when working with charts that contain a lot of data.
5.0.503.0
Check tool doesn't display when think-cell add-in is active - bug
Check did not appear in the ribbon when think-cell was installed. This is now fixed and both work properly together.
Link text breaks formatting - bug
When linking text from Excel in PowerPoint using ProductivityPlus, the formatting of the linked text is set to the same as the text around. Additionally, updating a link also keeps any formatting.
Clicking shape shows unrelated Excel callout - bug
In certain use-case scenarios when clicking a text inside a PowerPoint shape, a callout was shown telling Excel is busy. This was fixed and limited to scenarios when a user pastes text.
SlideProof error message shows stack trace - bug
All the errors will now show only the message that is useful to the user and the technical messages will be only written in log files.
Modules: tooltip consistency in the ribbon - bug
The tooltip texts in the ribbon have been changed to be consistent throughout the whole product following the pattern "Click here to open Templafy [nameOfTheProduct]"
'Multiple Placeholder Font Colors' warning on same colors - bug
When running Check colors are now compared only through their ARGB values not taking into consideration anymore if they are normal colors or theme colors.
Excel links: change source breaks with "Save a copy" - bug
Fixed problems with changing source of Excel link if the file resides on SharePoint. The file chooser will now always open.
Color pane doesn't work with tables - bug
ProductivityPlus color pane did not work on tables that were embedded in placeholders. Also setting proofing language skipped tables, charts, and smart arts inside placeholders.
Implement stretch feature - feature
ProductivityPlus has a new alignment feature Stretch. With Stretch, Shapes can be resized to the same size on one side. This is similar to Align but with adjusting the Shape's size. This comes with four new commands that also include new shortcuts: Stretch-Left (Shift+Alt+Left), Stretch-Right (Shift+Alt+Right), Stretch-Top (Shift+Alt+Up), Stretch-Bottom (Shift+Alt+Down)
Freeze Color Pane Header - feature
ProductivityPlus Color Pane header icons and "no fill" commands are fixed to the top of the task pane so that they will be always visible when scrolling through the colors.
5.0.485.0
Slideproof registry entries are under an incorrect registry key - bug
Change the company from "Templafy Aps" to "Templafy" in the Slideprood pipeline to avoid the registry key being created under the incorrect place
Check: some bullets fixes are grayed-out out in the check - bug
The PowerPoint Check rule PRBF was changed from consistency in presentation to checking the bullet format against the Slide Master. In general this gives better results and warnings, that are always fix-able.
Link Excel Cells - feature
ProductivityPlus allows to link Excel cells in shape text. After pasting a text from an Excel cell in PowerPoint, the link callout appears to link the text to Excel. Text links can be updated through the overview pane.
Additionally, many small improvements were done to the Excel link functionality including:
Many new commands in the overview tree
Highlight on the slide when selecting an element in the overview tree.
Version 5.0.471.0
Bug fixes
Disable enable SlideProof breaks it - 5.0.471.0
Re-Enabling the add-in after disabling it was causing an error because the TaskPanes were created before SlideProof was fully initialised. The creation of the TaskPanes is now happening in a later stage of the initialisation process.
SlideProof Icons bmp to png - 5.0.471.0
Changed file suffix of icon cache for ProductivityPlus and Check from .bmp to .png
Templafy.SlideProof.AddIn has no strong key name - 5.0.471.0
Check and ProductivityPlus assemblies have strong key names. Strong keys or names provide security of reference from one component to another or from a root key to a component.
Removing "Request assistance" from Slideproof dialogue boxes - 5.0.471.0
Request assistance button has been removed from the Support Dialog.
Fix SlideProof shortcut collision - 5.0.471.0
Fixed shortcut collision of Open SlideMaster view with @ on German keyboard layout
Version 5.0.464.0
Bugs
5.0.464.0
Warnings produced in Check for single slide alignment do only show one warning level slider and not two.
5.0.464.0
Fixed sending presentations from ProductivityPlus not working. This was introduced by the change to VSTO.
Features
Shortcut: new + reassign 5.0.464.0
Updated shortcut to:
Excel Links: Ctrl+F8
Remove all animations: Ctrl+Alt+J
Pick Size & Position: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+K
Apply Formatting: Ctrl+Shift+9
Super Size: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+2
Version 5.0.461.0
Bugs
SlideProof does not load - 5.0.461.0
We fixed SlideProof not loading on certain machines. On these machines, SlideProof appeared as installed but showed with a COM runtime error in PowerPoint add-in settings.
The fix includes porting SlideProof from IDTExtensibility2 to VSTO. VSTO is considered the more stable and tested framework which leads to less technical problems.
Fix SlideProof incompatibility CapitalIQ - 5.0.412.0
When deploying SlideProof through Templafy Desktop on a machine with S&P CapitalIQ installed, the ribbon icons appear grayed out. Also after uninstalling, SlideProof does not load anymore.
Prepared improvements for SlideProof compatibility with other add-ins and fixed bug.
Text issue in Select next sticker/comment - 5.0.412.0
Added missing translations and renamed SlideProof to Templafy.
Excel: Error message throw when click on "Change source" - 5.0.412.0
Clicking "Update Source..." with ExcelLink stored in SharePoint works and shows no exception.
Check: wrong detection of Master font - 5.0.412.0
All the fonts in the XML are now taken into account during the check of the presentation. When fixing a list of fonts will be presented to the user.
Tooltip/Library : tooltips are still mentioning the SlideProof Library - 5.0.412.0
The tooltips don't mention anymore the possibility to use the Library.
Color Scheme mismatch: wrong color not picked up by the check - 5.0.412.0
Increased sensitivity for colors being detected as no-theme-color.
Color scheme mismatch does not work with grouped shapes - 5.0.412.0
SlideProof check now properly detects wrong scheme colors inside grouped shapes.
Features
Shortcuts For SlideProof - 5.0.461.0
All Productivity Plus and Check commands have shortcuts assigned. Shortcuts can be seen in the tooltip on buttons and controls.
Removing the direct link to support@templafy.com from the productivity tools menu in Powerpoint - 5.0.412.0
Removed "Write to support@templafy.com" element from the threedots menu in the ProductivityPlus task pane.
Make create presentation from picture work with SVG - 5.0.412.0
Allow create presentation from SVGs.
October 2019
Bug fixes
Check: Color Scheme Mismatch warning is fixing to another color - 5.0.394.0
SlideProof check now shows the right preview color for shades when fixing color scheme warnings.
Features
Make ProductivityPlus + Check work without Office opening event - 5.0.394.0
SlideProof supports being enabled during the run of PowerPoint. This includes automatically opening of color- and productivity pane and ribbon icons not being grayed out.
September 2019
Bug fixes
Cannot fix check warning - text alignment in placeholder - 5.0.392.0
Fixed unfixable layout warning on picture placeholders.
Update Agenda and COMException - 5.0.392.0
Fixed COMException when updating agenda with certain presentations.
When updating an agenda, a lot of consecutive copy/paste operations are done. Analysis revealed, "explorer.exe" locks the clipboard for a very short time after a copy operation. If PowerPoint then tries to paste, the operation failed with the exception that the clipboard does not contain paste-able data.
The initial retry mechanism also retried the copy operation which leads to repeating the whole problem. Due to timing issues, it sometimes passed. The fix now only retries the paste, assuming the copy always succeeded. This leads to a much higher success rate when updating agendas.
Check: Color scheme warning just showing up for some charts - 5.0.392.0
Fixed check not finding wrong theme colors inside Donut charts.
August 2019
Bugfixes
CustomColor (added via registry) detected as color mismatch - 5.0.387.0
Registry custom colors are now also used while checking, this means no color mismatch warning will be displayed.
Check color scheme in Charts - 5.0.387.0
Check now produces a warning if a single value in a chart has a color not contained in the scheme colors.
Update Office.dll and interop assemblies - 5.0.387.0
Updated Microsoft Interop assemblies to 15.0. This fixes a compatibility issue when a certain other PowerPoint was uninstalled
Check wrongly detects chart shape background - 5.0.387.0
Fixed Check detecting certain shapes in charts as an invalid background color. Now, no false warning is displayed.
Bug fixes
Text mistaken for footnote throws warnings - 5.0.383.0
We Improved footnote detection heuristics to avoid the false identification of text at the bottom of the slide as footnotes. The conditions to be met for a text element to be considered a footnote have been modified to improve accuracy of the Check.
Add/Remove linked element doesn't refresh Excel overview pane - 5.0.383.0
Links Pane is now automatically refreshed after adding a new element or removing a link (though the remove link option within the menu).
Features
Remove limitations from Slideproof - 5.0.383.0
We removed all limitations from SlideProof. No email address is now required as we don't contact the end-user or need to use the address. This will avoid conflicts during deployment. We verified the analytics were not affected by these changes.
Add Dummy Text Button to Text group - 5.0.383.0
We added a 'Dummy Text' button in the ProductivityPlus pane under the Text group. This button allows the user to replace text in the presentation with dummy text (Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisici elit, …).
Fix failing integration tests - 5.0.383.0
Fixed integration tests from previous task 9220.
Add back button to Settings panel - 5.0.383.0
Settings pane now has a back button to navigate back to the previous view.
Better name for 'Update Agenda' warning - 5.0.383.0
"Update Agenda" warning text changed to "Update Agenda Reminder" (Rule PRUA) Removed confusing child node for the warning
Display "Edit Agenda Layout" only in the Master View - 5.0.383.0
"Edit Agenda Layout" button is shown only in the Master View when a slide that belongs to an Agenda is selected
July 2019
Bug fixes
Check: level of warning is not working for font format - 5.0.372.0
Warnings that appear only in one shape are not considered anymore warnings with no impact so the warning level is not set as 4 by default and the user can configure level of the warning.
Error message stills displaying 'SlideProof' - 5.0.372.0
Replaced "SlideProof" with "Templafy" within error messages of Check and ProductivityPlus.
New section inserted at bottom - 5.0.372.0
When inserting a table of contents or a new section it was added at the end of the presentation. We fixed this issue and now:
- A new TOC will be created inserting the Agenda layout before the selected slide.
- A new section will be added before the selected slide, always keeping the Agenda slide in the first section.
This behaviour is expected to be more intuitive for the user.
Change pointing URL for Excel - 5.0.372.0
The help link of the Excel pane now points to Templafy's Excel Integration knowledge base website.
SlideProof crashes creating agenda with no slide selected - 5.0.372.0
Now it is possible to create the Agenda when any Slide is selected or there are no slides in the presentation.
Features
Unify Check Icons - 5.0.372.0
Unified ribbon icon to be the same as in CheckForPowerPoint
Grey out unused sections of the TOC - 5.0.372.0
Option checkboxes for TOC fields that are not present in the Slide Master Agenda layout are now disabled. These fields could not be present in the Slide Master as a deliberate decision of the Admin and this way we avoid user confusion.
Bugfixes
Format painter text is broken - 5.0.366.0
The text of the Format Painter menu was not displaying correctly. To solve the problem we added the missing translations that were removed when the StylePainter was taken out from the project.
Call-out from PowerShapes disappearing - 5.0.366.0
The call-out from PowerShapes was disappearing after toggling another state. Now the visible shape in the group is selected and therefore the call-out remains visible when toggling through all the states of the PowerShape.
Network drive and Excel - open and update fail when Excel is closed - 5.0.366.0
Openning an Excel source file (located in a shared folder) through the 'Open' option from a PowerPoint linked element now works fine even for a shared folder in the network. Updates made to the Excel file are also reflected in PowerPoint correctly after clicking the 'Update' option.
Features
Delete 'Manual' and change link to Support - 5.0.366.0
Within the Settings menu: 'Support' was updated so it redirects the user to support.templafy.com and the 'Manual' option was removed as the link was broken and the option was obsolete.
Update icons and naming to new design - 5.0.366.0
Check and ProductivityPlus icons now have a new design and new names that better adapt to Templafy's product design.
May 2019
Bug fixes
Template Changer: "Placeholders: Keep positions and formatting" twice - 5.0.355.0
Fixed "Placeholders: Keep positions and formatting" twice by removing the duplicated key from the processor file
Custom footnote type does not work when adding other text - 5.0.355.0
The prefix text in the footnote is kept and the format of the footnote does not revert to the default (al)
Switching configurations during demo showed Library - 5.0.355.0
Removed Library from Productivity Plus components (this bug never reached production)
Colors Pane needs double-click for cells - 5.0.355.0
Selecting the same color on the color tools pane on different cells does not require anymore clicking twice.
Button label not showing correctly - 5.0.355.0
Fixed several minor UI glitches
Custom color not working for font - 5.0.355.0
Modified parsing method from the string custom color value to a hexadecimal number.
April 2019
Features
Turn on/off features - 5.0.347.0
Added the possibility to turn on and off single features using registry keys
Excel: Change Source in Overview - 5.0.347.0
It is now possible to change the source file of all linked elements at once through the overview pane (Group-by-file view)
UI: Polishing - 5.0.347.0
Small changes to UI for a more consistent look.
Ribbon configuration - 5.0.347.0
The ribbon and the Pane have been redesigned, this includes re-ordering and re-naming of controls. Added the possibility to set the configurations "ProductivityPlus" and "Complete" as a separate Tab called "ProductivityPlus" by switching the on the option "Set as home Tab" under "Ribbon Configuration"
Version/Update info missing in pane - 5.0.347.0
The current version of SlideProof/ProductivityPlus is now displayed on the top right corner of the Settings pane.
Update All - available in source-file view - 5.0.347.0
Added the possibility to update all shapes associated with a file on the excel overview pane under the "group by file" view.
Important presentation callout - 5.0.347.0
Updated the UI of the "Important presentation" callout
Delete Advanced Group - 5.0.347.0
Moved the "Create PowerShape" commands and "template changer" command to the "Other" group. Deleted the Advanced group.
Changing SlideProof configurations - 5.0.347.0
Added the possibility to switch between configurations
Bug fixes
Updating source to a wrong file breaks history - 5.0.347.0
Excel links do not have store history anymore.
Font color for "Insert flow" different between shapes - 5.0.347.0
The font style is preserved while inserting more flow items
Change Template UI bug - 5.0.347.0
The UI of the "Template UI changer" has been fixed
Icon missing on first start - 5.0.347.0
Fixed the missing icons during the first start after installation/deployment
Update All closes opened Excel files (6) - 5.0.347.0
Fixed: opened Excel files do not close while Update All Fixed: only the last Excel process was terminated if the shapes were linked from multiple files
Excel Link not working (duplicating table, no permanent link) - 5.0.347.0
Fixed Excel link not working under certain circumstances. If a machine contained multiple OneDrive sync paths with the same mount-point, linking and updating an Excel link might not work. This problem is solved by excluding any ambiguous paths.
Excel: change file inconsistent state - 5.0.347.0
Preventing to change the file if the range is not present in the new file Showing errors during normal & bulk operations while changing the source file
False 'Update All' if in editing mode (7) - 5.0.347.0
Errors during bulk operations are now collected and if any happens a message box is shown at the end showing the number of update shapes and the number of not updated shapes
Menu broken in presentation-wide placeholders - 5.0.347.0
Updated the IconEmpty to have the Templafy logo instead of the SlideProof logo The presentation-wide placeholders command don't have anymore an icon
Switching configurations during demo showed Library - 5.0.347.0
Removed Library from Productivity Plus components (this bug never reached production)
February 2019
Features
SendMail unreliable - 5.0.312.0
Updated TemplafySendMail.exe Using v141 C++ toolkit Built by Azure DevOps pipeline Signed with Templafy ApS certificate This will pass the test at virustotal.com without any problems.
UI: Colors Closed Taskpane background is now Templafy white
Make SlideProof GDPR compliant - 5.0.312.0
SlideProof sends analytic events with obfuscated email address.
UI: Controls - 5.0.312.0
Updated UI controls to follow Templafy standards and color scheme including font colors, switch-toggle button, slider, textbox, tooltip, expander, radiobutton etc.
Callout follows shape in SlideProof - 5.0.312.0
Callouts now follows the shapes
Add ability to search settings - 5.0.312.0
SlideProof settings are now searchable. We added search bar in the top of the Settings pane.
Features configuration - 5.0.312.0
After the release, it will be possible to turn on and off every single feature by using the registry key "NameOfTheFeature_IsEnabled" (Ex: "Agenda_IsEnabled).
Change Buy Link - 5.0.312.0
The buy link is configurable through the registry and have a default value of "https://www.templafy.com/pricing/ "
ApplicationInsights - 5.0.312.0
SlideProof now uses ApplicationInsights as analytics stack.
Configurations for Check and ProductivityPlus - 5.0.312.0
After releasing the software it will be possible to have 3 different configurations (using the Configuration key in the registry):
- TemplafyDesktopCheck: Only check and Save&Send will be available. The commands are displayed in the Templafy tab on the ribbon
- TemplafyDesktopProductivityPlus: All Slideproof components except Check and Library are available. The commands are displayed on the Slideproof tab
- TemplafyDesktopComplete: ProductivityPlus+ Check components are available. The commands are displayed on the Slideproof tab
Settings on pane - 5.0.312.0
Added context menu for all panes
Add Group-by-file - 5.0.312.0
After releasing it will be possible to have two different grouping options in the Excel Overview Pane. One by slide and one by source file.
Bug fixes
RFA Send mail fails (Access denied) - 5.0.312.0
Updated TemplafySendMail.exe to be signed with Templafy certificate and using the latest C++ built tools.
Workspace: still on when exporting as PDF - 5.0.312.0
When using SlideProof Save&Send functionality the workspace is hidden
December 2018
Features
Colors: Hide Theme Colors - 5.0.249.0
Added a new setting that will allow the user to hide and show the theme colors from the Color Pane.
Productivity: Switch texts resets text formatting - 5.0.249.0
Switch Texts now keeps the Emphasis (Superscript, Subscript, Bold, Italic, Underline etc.) when switching the texts. This is useful especially when working with footnotes.
Custom colors between theme and shades for all - 5.0.249.0
Colors ordering changed to Default, Theme, Custom, Shades.
Not using Automated_Build anymore - 5.0.249.0
Removed Automated_Build build definition
Release Pipeline - 5.0.249.0
There is now a build pipeline Templafy.SlideProof.LicenseManager which builds (without tests) and a release pipeline Templafy.SlideProof.Web which automatically publishes/deploys the changes to the license manager website https://license.veodin.com/ on merge to the master branch.
Check: Distorted Images - 5.0.249.0
SlideProof Check is now able to detect and fix distorted images. Distorted image means broken aspect ratio and the threshold of detection is 5%. If the image is distorted more than 5% 2 fixes are offered:
- The fix with Resize (Default) will resize the longer side to bring the image to the original aspect ratio.
- The fix with Crop will restore the image to the original size and crop the longer side to preserve the aspect ratio. To maintain the proportions the crop will be applied half on the left and half on the right in case we are cropping the width or half on the top and half on the bottom in case we are cropping the height.
Productivity: Add and remove colors in the color pane - 5.0.249.0
The registry key CustomColors, that is used for specifying theme color names, now also supports hexadecimal values like #AA0022.
License Manager - 5.0.249.0
Fixed missing icons on the website by including proper fonts. Added release pipeline for the website.
MSI - 5.0.249.0
We fixed the installation of per-user version failing when installing in a machine where the per-machine version was installed before.
Bug fixes
Agenda: Publish presentation (with Agenda) as shapes throws an exception - 5.0.249.0
While Agenda is created it puts the shape outside of the slide with zero height. Preview, that is shown in the library, can't be generated for shapes with zero height or width. This code now will skip all shapes with zero height or width while publishing.
Templafy Integration Task Panes closing Might Break - 5.0.249.0
When opening the Templafy Task pane with no presentation open the event was throwing an exception because the active window context was null. Fixed by checking for null.
Hiding panes does not work in the installed version - 5.0.249.0
Added missing files to the installer.
Installing PerUser after PerMachine fails - 5.0.249.0
There is a bug in Wix that prevents you to install a certificate on the Per User store if it was previously installed in the Per Machine store. To fix this we created a Custom Action that is checking if the certificate is already installed and if yes it is skipping the certificate component.
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