About this article
This article contains the release notes for the Insider release plan on Templafy Hive.
To see release notes for Stable version, please go to: Stable Library add-in (Hive)
Technical information
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Released to Insider in January 2023
7.2.63
Features
Refactor Blank Document Manager
Refactor BlankDocumentManager and write tests to increase confidence
Refactor: Extract logic about saving Blank Document
Extract logic about saving blank document into its own class
Apply locking when regenerating blank documents
Prevent multiple blank document regenerations from the same application
Bugs
Outlook add-in fails to start
Fix error where Outlook add-in was failing to initialize because it does not use blank documents
VSTO: Blank document slow to load when not present on computer
Fix a bug where Composer would open with a delay when no blank document is present
7.2.51
Features
Fix SonarClouds warnings on VSTO
Fix sonar cloud warning by small code refactors (change method order, visibility)
Upgrade Dynamics package in VSTO
Copy TransformationEngine class from Dynamics package, since was used only here
Activate WebView2 hosting mode enforcement by registry key
Added option to change WebView2 hosting mode in VSTO Add-in
Bugs
Inccorect InitiationPoint due to exception in TrackIfMovedOrCopied
Add ToString cast for text property in used range as the type can be an object
7.2.44
Features
Refactor Hive tracking service to use Request enrichers
Refactor Tracking Service to use Enrichers that add tracking properties
Identify action (Copy/Move sheet) in NonTemplafyDocumentCreated event
Enrich NonTemplafyDocumentCreatedEvent in Excel with initiation point
Rename OfflineTrackingService for Hive
Refactor Hive OfflineTrackingService to have a name that better reflect its purpose
Skip tracking on any successful response code
Refactor Tracking service error handling and logging
Split Hive and One tracking services
Do a complete separation of Tracking services for Hive and One
Bugs
VSTO: AntiForgery cookie is missing
Fix a bug where switching tenant would cause the application to send requests without antiforgery cookie
VSTO: One: Task pane does not open
Fix a bug where Task Pane would not open in Templafy One
Some of the delivery connectors don't work in PowerPoint
Document delivery endpoints are now registered in PowerPoint VSTO AddIn
7.2.33
Features
Add translations to VSTO
Added japanese translations for the VSTO Office Add-in for backstage and ribbon buttons.
VSTO - [Web View] Implement the Save Selected Slides as PDF
New ednpoints for delivery connectors were implemented in PowerPoint VSTO
Implement OpenBlankDocumentWIthWindowIdAsync in VSTO
Implemented new methods introduced in IDocumentEndpoints.
Bugs
Missing event_EntryPoint data for isBlank events
Fix a bug where entry point for VSTO is empty or non existing
Released to Insider in December 2022
7.2.28
Features
Introduce IDocumentOpenHandler Remove OpenDocument method from DocumentHandler and introduce IDocumentOpenHandler
Refactor IDocumentOpener to use single interface across all addins
Refactor DocumentOpener interfaces to reduce code duplication
Implement Endpoint to check if user has productivity+ enabled
implemented the method to check if user has productivityplus enabled
Avoid cropping SVG's and instead convert them to shapes when inserting
When inserting an SVG image in PowerPoint from the VSTO addins, we no longer enter crop mode, and instead convert the SVG to a shape so the subparts can be individually colored. The existing behavior is kept for non-SVG images and for SVG-images when inserted into a selected shape.
VSTO - [Web View] Implement the Save To Desktop as PDF functionality for Word documents
Implemented save document as PDF to desktop funcionality
VSTO - [Web View] Implement the Send/Share Word as PDF as Attachment
Implement Send asset as Pdf attachment delivery option
[VSTO][Web View] Implement the Send/Share Word as Docx as Attachment
implement send as .docx delivery option
Bugs
Avoid converting SVG's to shapes when inserting in PowerPoint, since the conversion is buggy
The conversion of SVG's to shapes when inserting from the image library has been rolled back due to a bug in the way PowerPoint converts rounded rectangles.
Shapes in PowerPoint stick to mouse pointer after selection
Fixed sticky mouse bug by setting WebView2 hosting mode.
VSTO: Offline tracking sent with incorrect IsNewDocument flag
Fix a bug where documents opened from ComposerOffline page are tracked as Opening document instead of creating
Released to Insider in November 2022
7.2.16
Features
Add tooltip to Template Designer button
Add translatable tooltip and label for the Template Designer button in the Ribbon
[VSTO] Read current modules to see if Dynamics is Enabled
Read available modules in VSTO Addins and hide the Template Designer button if no Dynamics modules enabled
[Web View] Implement the Save To Desktop functionality for Excel - VSTO
Delivery connector endpoints are now exposed in Excel application
[Web View] Implement the Save To Desktop functionality for Word documents - VSTO
Document delivery endpoints were implemented to support new delivery connector
Track isTemplateLibraryEnabled property when tracking NonTemplafyDocumentCreated event
Add isTemplateLibraryEnabled property to document creation tracking for non templafy assets
Upgrade VSTO with new serialization xml parts
Upgrade VSTO to use new 2.0.2808 where we update the SlideCollectionConfigurationsXmlPart and TextElementConfigurationsXmlPart
Report current location in Powerpoint when user selects shapes or slides
Powerpoint reports whether currently any slide is selected or not
Bugs
WebView2 initialization errors
Implemented recovery of webview2 control if main process or render process crashes
Updater loads a 'whitespace character' into the form field (VSTO)
The system was writing a white space when the value was empty, this is part of Templafy one and VSTO
Update document doesn't replace bullet point header
Delete ListFormat so that text elements containg bullet point list do not get inserted with a trailing paragraph/bullet point
7.2.5
Features
Remove usage of general DisableComposer flag from registry key
Remove ComposerDisabled flag from Registry based on Composer module
Remove feature flag check
Remove feature flag check when displaying new ribbon
Upgrade Dynamics and Remove Bindings
Upgrade Templafy.Dynamics package and remove Templafy.Dynamics.Bindings
Released to Insider in October 2022
7.1.207
Features
Reduce the dependency on Dynamics.OpenXml from VSTO project
Since Dynamics nuget does not have dependency of OpenXmlDocument, some code was moved/copied
POC: VSTO: Separate domain logic from COM logic
Introduce a new Domain interface for Office Application
Fix VSTO warnings
Fix some of the warnings on the application, the majority was fixed using resharper
Fix rotation on update document for PowerPoint
Copy rotation value from image shape onto newly created image shape
Upgrade VSTO
Upgrade package DocumentFormat.OpenXml in Hive to 2.18.0
Investigate Exceptions on GetBlankRegenerationStatus
Gracefully handle case where user has no valid profiles when generating blank document
Update the selector in the OpenTemplafyTaskPane methods for Word, PowerPoint and Excel
Update OpenTemplafyTaskPane methods in Word, Excel and PowerPoint to support the new LibraryHiveRibbon buttons.
Disable Content library and Save to buttons if there is no active document
Disable ribbon ContentLibrary and Export buttons when there is no active document
Separate AutomaticallyOpenTaskPaneHandler for One and Hive
Separated AutomaticallyOpenTaskPaneHandler for templafy One and Hive in order to have distinct execution paths as a preparation for more refactoring.
Upgrade VSTO to use split version of Dynamics package
Upgrade to use new simplied version of Dynamics package
Bugs
Templafy taskpane opens in offline mode
Change the logic around openning task pane automatically in Hive to take force offline flag into consideration.
Unexpected LibraryAppNonTemplafyDocumentCreated events
Refactored document creation logic in VSTO add-ins in order to avoid tracking non-templafy document creation when there's no user interaction with it.
Updater fails on several documents with the error
Fix issue when updating Word documents with image smart fields on header.
Update document fails
Fix an issue with updating document containing a group content control inside a table
"Update Spreadsheet" button is missing in the ribbon in Excel
Add a update document button refresh after open a file or change tenant or activate window
Content control text updates are not synchronized with Template Designer
Text inside of content controls is correctly shown as Display Name
7.1.184
Features
If WebView2 failed to initialize, delete userdata folder and retry
If WebView2 initialization fails, attempt to delete user data and try to initialize again, only once.
Update Ribbon Icons in VSTO to the right color
Update the ribbon icons for the VSTO Add-ins to the right color and shape.
Remove RawOpenXmlFormatValidator from DynamicsHive on VSTO
Removed RawOpenXmlFormatValidator from DynamicsHive
Move custom document property out of DynamicsService (VSTO Part)
Move custom document property out of DynamicsService (VSTO Part)
Attach Template Designer button to Custom tab setting in Admin
Change the Template Designer button in the new Ribbon to act the same as the Library Buttons, meaning it will appear only when the user is an admin on the current tenant and the Custom Tab is enabled from the Admin settings. Changing tenants will also affect the visibility of the button now instead of disabling
Clean VSTO configurations
Since all configurations where using Any CPU platform, delete Mixed Platform and x86 configurations
Prevent retry in navigation in case of ConnectionAborted
Changes to prevent retrying navigation if connection was aborted, which causes in turn more connections to be aborted
Change project name of Offline to Plugins
Renamed the Offline project in OfficeVSTOAddIns from Offline to Plugins.
Enhance content control locking and caching
Enhance performance of update document in Word by enhancing content control caching and locking
Clean up POC and implement solution
Set DeliveryConnectorsEnabled registry key based on enabled delivery connectors in integration management.
Bugs
VSTO unlocks locked content controls when applying hidden visibility during update
Content controls locked before update stay locked after becoming hidden during update.
Text element content control gets removed after deleting nested content control
Fix a problem with Visibility delete not working correctly
Template designer cleans up placeholder text when editing smartfields when design mode is ON
Designer mode in Word is temporarily switched off when editing bindings from template designer
Update Word document fails with COMException: Requested object is not available
Fixed an issue regarding updating documents using Dynamics and word documents containing header and footers that can be updated. This issue was only affecting specific documents and tenants using the latest VSTO version. The bug would make it so the updater would throw an exception and fail to update the document. This has now been fixed.
Requests from VSTO fail with Antiforgery exception
Updated the logic around closing the task pane to navigate away the web app before closing.
Performance degradation in MS Outlook when outlook Templafy library plugin enabled
Added quicker logical way to figure out that task pane does not have to open for an email that is already sent
Released to Insider in September 2022
7.1.160
Features
Add COMException when getting dynamics elements
Add comexception check when getting dynamics elements
Enhance VSTO update appliers performance
Minor enhancements in performance for the word update appliers
Remove SaveFormData appliers since they are replaced by SaveFormConfiguration
Removed SaveFormData appliers since they were replaced by SaveFormConfiguration ones
Move dependencies into hive and one project
Create abstractions to keep responsibility in applicable project and allow easier upgrade
Change ribbon button labels to title case for English on VSTO
Changed English translations for the ribbon buttons in VSTO to be Title Cased.
Only delete content controls with actual content
Improve document update performance by only removing content from content controls that actually have content.
Implement E2E test for creating multiple documents in Excel
Implement E2E test for creating multiple documents in Excel (Offline).
Update Range.Font.Hidden only when needed
Improve Document Update performance by updating Range.Font.Hidden only when needed.
Enhance content controls cache layer
Enhance performance of document updater by refactoring code
Upgrade on VSTO
Upgrade Document format xml to later version for better support
Add translations for VSTO
Added translations for the Ribbon buttons labels and supertips for VSTO.
Add the right buttons to the ribbon hive xml for vsto
Added the right buttons for the VSTO Hive ribbon.
Prepare VSTO for translations
Prepared the Office VSTO add in so translations can be added.
Upgrade on VSTO
Upgrade Document format xml to later version for better support
Flag only temporary content controls when unlocking
Change content control lock state to only update temporary content controls to impr
Bugs
VSTO fails to update document with invalid OLE links
Fix issue on Word documents with invalid external OLE hyperlinks (i.e. chart data sources) during document update.
Dynamics elements not visible in Presentation without interacting with slide(s)
Fixed an issue affecting all tenants using the new Template Designer where in opening said Designer did not display the current dynamic elements in Powerpoint. This fix requires a new version of VSTO Addins.
Task pane shows wrong UI language when opened for the first time
Added an event to respond to user language change by reloading cached adding instance
Empty new ribbon when registry key DisableHiveLibraryRibbon is set to 1
Fixed an issue where in tenants on version 7.1.145 of the Addins would see an empty tab being added after the Home tab.
Library app does not show ribbon when custom tab is enabled
This release fixes an issue loading the backstage and ribbon buttons when CreateCustomTab is enabled
7.1.134
Features
Investigate missing style when update a document
Fix an issue with style of first paragraph getting removed after updating text elements
Handle start new document when already have an active document
When Word uses the alternative way to open a file, do not close if already have an active document
Fix Update document appliers on VSTO
Fix an issue with deleting content and content controls leaving document in a wrong state
Move Template Designer button and update Icon
With this release we moved the Template Designer button from the home tab into the custom tab enabled inside the admin (by default named Templafy).
Add registry setting to skip enforcing hosting mode
Added registry setting to skip enforcing WebView2 hosting mode.
Add new ribbon icons to VSTO
Added new icons for the new hive ribbon buttons for new blank, update, save to and share.
Bugs
Text element insertion causes errors
Fix a bug where inserting text element into plain text content control fails
Top left part of the desktop icons are not clickable when Office application with Templafy VSTO add-in is open
Reverted fix to issue where shapes stick to mouse in PowerPoint, due to causing an unintended issue selecting icons in top left of desktop
VSTO fails to update document with invalid OLE links
Fix issue on Word documents with invalid external OLE hyperlinks (i.e. chart data sources) during document update.
VSTO fails to update document with invalid OLE links
Fix issue on Word documents with invalid external OLE hyperlinks (i.e. chart data sources) during document update.
Released to Insider in August 2022
7.1.123
Features
Add about button to new hive ribbon
Added the split button menu with the about button to the new hive ribbon.
Bugs
Dynamic template not able to generate in Word
There are cases where the generated file contains invalid information, if it happens word crashes using the interop/com API with a Word has encountered a problem. The same problem does not happen when using the native open mechanism. The workaround was to hack and launch a new instance of word when the exception occurs.
Shapes in PowerPoint stick to mouse pointer after selection
Closed with no code. The bug is the result of incompatibility of Ampler Charts and any other AddIn containing WebView2.
7.1.119
Features
Add support to enable webview2 verbose logging
Add support to enable Webview2 logging to chrome_debug.log when verbose logging flag is enabled
Offline: VSTO: Use AdapterLogger instead of Authentication logger
Prevent unhandled exception when logging by using Offline logger
Add update document supertip
Add supertip when hovering over Update document Ribbon button in VSTO Addins
Bugs
SharePoint content connector adds pdf with aspx extension
Implemented fix for case when download url doesn't contain correct file extension when inserting file from VSTO
VSTO: Offline: Handle case when Templafy Desktop is updating and Office have never been run before
Read Templafy Desktop registry to get TenantId instead of AddIn registry
LibraryHiveRibbon: getNewBlankSupertip was not found
We discovered an issue with the new ribbon buttons when hovering over, it would not display helpful tips in the UI. This has now been fixed
Display name of repeating group shows control characters instead of text
Placeholder text is used as a display name in table repeating groups instead of raw text content
Inserted slide elements are mis-figured/ not displayed as in preview
To fix a bug when inserting very complex slide elements, the code has changed to insert all shapes inside a slide element at once instead of one by one
Update document ribbon button not showing
We discovered an issue where the Document Updater Ribbon button was not displaying correctly. This was not affecting any customer tenants and has now been fixed
Blank document template is not created if none is available
Handle case where blank document is not generated when not existing
7.1.109
Features
VSTO: Send logs to LibraryApp on plugin update
Dispatch offline events on Templafy Desktop Update
VSTO: Store all logs for tenant and user in a single folder
Simplify persistence of event logs when offline by storing them in the same folder
VSTO: Persist URL instead of tracking information in Offline log
Store only URL when storing Offline tracking data instead of complex data
VSTO: Remove Offline log Name property
Remove unneeded Name property from the Offline log
Simplify offline tracking logic
Simplify tracking for Hive in VSTO and remove obsolete code
Do not spam LogBatch endpoint in Hive with VSTO
Remove redudant calls to LogBatch that do not exist in Hive. In the case of Templafy One it will work as before
Align LibraryApp and VSTO Events
Use LibraryApp events contracts to ensure user actions and task pane opened events are properly tracked
Change order of signing for VSTO
Improved signing process of VSTO files, so that the manifests are updated with the file information after the file has been signed
Refactor folder structure in Offline plugin implementation
Refactor folder structure of Offline and Offline.Tests projects
VSTO: Differentiate between Event, UserAction and Tracking events
Store events in such way that we can differentiate their type later when dispatching to LibraryApp
Templafy Desktop plugin: Store tracking data for offline documents
Track additional information for offline documents
On VSTO move dynamics one code to valid project
Move all code related to Dynamics on One into a single project and using this project on Word/excel/PowerPoint
Use DownloadSlotManager to throttle concurrent downloads
Used download slot manager provided by Templafy Desktop to throttle concurrent donwloads issued from the same IP address
Add support for Office 2021 in VSTO
Add support for Office 2021 when deciding which version of the Backstage is going to be used
Add event tracking when offline actions are triggered
Start tracking events when user is on ComposerOffline page
Remove network call from VSTO startup
Removed network call in the startup of the add-in, so that the startup is not impacted by a potential slow network
Create DynamicsHive project on VSTO
Move all code related to Dynamics on Hive into a single project and using this project on Word/excel/PowerPoint
Store offline events in different files per user/tenant/application
Track events to a file when user has no internet connection
Bugs
LibraryAppCreateNonTemplafyDocument is tracked when creating a new mail Outlook
Disable tracking of creating or opening documents when opening the task pane in Hive
Failing to read WebView2 version from the registry
Fix issue where when reading from the registry, the add-in was not correctly fetching from the correct registry view if the key was not found on the first view
Address possible null reference exception when failure to navigate hits max retry
This addresses a possible bug if the failure to navigate hits the maximum number of retries
Update document buttons missing when document created using Hive compatible add-ins
There was a bug addressed when working with Templafy One where caching the task pane would lead to very erratic behaviours. To address it, the caching of the task pane has been disabled for Templafy One
Unable to add repeating group in PowerPoint using Data Connector and custom repeating group i.e. HostSystem binding
Fix issue where repeating groups were not applied on Presentations
Template designer: edits to the display name won't stick
We discovered an issue with the new Template Designer, when editing text to the display name inside a content control it did not register in the Designer. This has now been fixed
500 in GetBlankGenerationStatus
Fix a bug that would send multiple requests to ShouldRegenerateBlank endpoint
Update document causes Templafy error "document update filed" (VSTO 7.1)
Fixed an issue with locked content controls inside of shapes which caused updates to fail (Templafy one)
Buttons in Hive Ribbon do not open Taskpane on correct location
Fix Send to button in new Hive Ribbon, opening the export page in the task pane
Template Designer Placeholder text not inserted when design mode is ON in Word
We discovered an issue affecting all Hive tenants currently using the new Dynamics Designer in which when trying to insert a text binding in Design Mode the placeholder text will not be inserted. We have now solved this issue
Released to Insider in July 2022
7.1.79
Features
VSTO: Delete unused Hive Offline implementation
Remove never-used obsolete Offline Hive implementation
VSTO: Introduce new registry flag for forcing offline in Hive
Use new registry flag for forcing offline mode in Hive
Create Update document button in VSTO ribbon
Create an Update document button inside the new Hive Templafy Ribbon in VSTO Addins
Make VSTO code more robust when reading Dynamics props
Ensure that all information needed for tracking the blank document creation is cached
Remove GetExternalSystemType from Addins
Remove unused GetExternalSystemType endpoint from VSTO and Shared projects
VSTO: Prevent opening task pane automatically when offline
Disable opening of the task pane when user is offline, or forcing offline mode
Use new offline icon in task pane offline page
Use new blue offline icon instead of the red one on the offline task pane
Bugs
Inserting icons to PPT fails intermittently
Do not create an intermediate file for svg, instead pass memory stream directly
Templafy fails to start on Excel on latest internal
Fixed an issue with Templafy Addins not starting in Excel. This was not affecting any live tenants as the issue only appeared on the internal track.
Change WebView2 installation check in VSTO Add-in
Change WebView2 installation check to verify in registry
Change WebView2 installation check in VSTO Add-in
Change WebView2 installation check to verify in registry
Word application crashes
Fix an issue when closing the task pane that sometimes it would cause the application to crash because it was trying to access already disposed components
Alternative User Profile produces Error message when updating document language
Fixed an issue with locked content controls inside of shapes which caused updates to fail
Inserting Excel object in Word disables Excel add-in
Fixed the issue about Templafy AddIn getting disabled when inserting embedded WorkSheet into a word document.
7.1.65
Features
Suppress designer event handling until the notification about designer opening is received
Events in PowerPoint related to dynamics designer are not processed until designer is open
Update VSTO Newtonsoft.Json package
Upgraded VSTO Newtonsoft.Json package to 13.0.1 because of security issues
Allow Library VSTO to preselect the authentication method by passing the user id
UserId is now passed to authentication url so that a pre selection of the authentication method is possible
Remove email from all tracking in VSTO
Stop sending email address for logging purposes in Hive and One
Bugs
Display name is working incorrectly for images in the new Template Designer
Fix an issue with the display name inputted by the user getting changed.
Released to Insider in June 2022
7.1.57
Features
Remove VstoDrivenFomValuesExtractor from VSTO
Form values are no longer extracted directly using VSTO
Add new SaveDocumentFormConfigurationApplier in VSTO
Added appliers on VSTO for steps that save serialized form configuration json
Bugs
High number of aborted requests from individual users
Add retry count when there is a failure to navigate so there is no risk of user being stuck on an infinite loop navigating.
Document update failed for ARUP
Document update works on documents with incorrect hyperlinks.
Updating a document causes the error "Document update failed"
Fix an issue with updating documents containing group content controls.
All validator enabled inserted slides should be updated
Update all validator enabled slides with the same slideld in the presentation.
Office backstage not correctly displayed - MS Themes
Fix issue where backstage was not correctly showing up for Volume Licensed versions of Office.
7.1.49
Bugs
Reverted version of WebView2 SDK to address regression detected in the SDK related to DLL loading.
7.1.46
Bugs
Offline: Unable to open multiple Offline Composer pages
Made changes to allow composer to display offline content in multiple office applications.
Readback not working on Presentation
Fix readback when updating Presentations with dynamic slides.
Released to Insider in May 2022
7.1.43
Features
VSTO: Check if not in a Shape in PowerPoint
Validate shape to return to the Dynamics Designer which bindings are available depending on the shape type.
Add ellipsis to the middle of the path in offline view
In the offline view paths of offline templates are now truncated in the middle instead of the end.
Offline: Decrease timeout for isOnline check in VSTO
Decrease timeout when checking if user is offline to 2 seconds
Send UserProfileIds in Templafy Desktop Library plugin when getting assets available offline
Filter out inaccessible Offline content by providing UserProfileFilterIds
VSTO changes to deal with setting slide to not selectable
Prevent user from editing a place holder slide by deselecting any shapes in a place holder slide
Documents in the VSTO Offline Page should be ordered by their name
Templates displayed in the Offline page in Composer inside VSTO Add-in are sorted by name.
Bugs
Excel: Name of workbook is inherited from file name when opening template from composer
Use consistent naming across all Office applications when opening a template from Composer
Inserting a Slide(s) binding is not working when you do not select a Slide;
Fixed insertion of slides binding in all and new designer when nothing is selected
Tracking browser version is IE11 when using add-ins 7.x
Fix issue where WebView2 version could not be obtained sometimes, resulting in wrong tracking
New Template Designer - Image binding causes the template smart fields not shown in template designer
Fixed an issue with bindings list not working when document contains image content control
Error logged in the log files every time composer is open in offline
Make offline tracking use JWT claims for getting information about current user
Dynamics Designer doesn't recognize the selection of a shape and won't add a binding to the shape.
Fixed shape selection in PowerPoint when it is in Slide Master view
New Designer: Placeholderslides are not shown in field overview
Fixed reporting of placeholder slide binding and its removal from new template designer.
Cached taskpane is causing inconsistencies when going from online to offline and create offline document
Fix issue where the preloaded task pane was displaying out of date content if the user was in the meantime offline
Slide collection gets inserted in the PowerPoint application in focus
Fixed the problem with Templafy assets being inserted into wrong targets.
Excel crashes after opening a new window in offline mode
Fix a bug where opening multiple offline spreadsheets would crash Excel
Composer located in Open folder on Startup screen for Office 2019
Fix issue where backstage customizations where being shown in the wrong place for most Office 2019 versions
7.1.24
Features
Add InsertOrReplaceSlideCollectionConfigurationsApplier on VSTO
Add required transformation applier for PowerPoint to support dynamic slides insertion.
Implement methods to get nested asset data from VSTO to update document
Implements DocumentContentUpdaterEndpoints required to support update flow on presentations with nested slides.
Switch all repositories from GitVersion to GitTools
Upgraded all Azure pipelines from deprecated UseGitVersion task to new GitTools tasks.
Return text typed into content control when placeholder has default text
New designer shows text typed into content control when that text is present and placeholder contains default internal text ("Click or tap here to enter text").
Inject data to the web page and lock folders while html is shown to prevent data corruption
Inject real data into Hive Offline page and disable state corruption by concurrent state updates and reads.
Bugs
Offline: Plugin does not use Security protocol Tls 1.2
Use Security Protocol TLS 1.2 in Library Offline plugin.
New Designer in PowerPoint does not insert an Image smartfield
Fix inserting and image binding through the new designer.
Paragraph is not deleted with 'Visibility.Delete'
First paragraph with content control in a template, table or textbox is correctly deleted when content control is deleted.
Released to Insider in April 2022
7.1.16
Features
Enable Form preview in PowerPoint VSTO
Add support for PowerPoint and Excel in preview Form
Return an empty string when no nothing is selected to the designer
Fix the display name when the cursor is located before a text.
React to Open Offline Document event
Open documents on click event from Hive Offline page
Track dynamic modules when creating blank from backstage
Add support for tracking dynamics custom dimensions when creating a blank document from the Office backstage
Set Dynamic modules information in registry
Added the document dynamic metrics in the registry blank document info.
React to Open Blank Document event
Add ability to open blank documents in VSTO Hive Offline page
Create Templafy Translations
Add support for localization of VSTO Backstage for German, Danish, Italian, French, Dutch languages
Bugs
Dark blue task pane after clicking "update document" within PowerPoint
Add validation to exclude Templafy one templates from hive update document flow
Update document doesn't work when 'relative hyperlinks' are in the document
Exclude external hyperlinks from the xml parser to extract text content control levels
English translation: tenant name is missing for Composer
Add tenant name placeholder in English backstage translations
7.1.5
Features
Read/Write Nested Template Configuration
Allow reading of slide collection nested template configurations.
Add support for external integrations in VSTO Add-in for Excel
Added support for external integrations in VSTO Add-in for Excel.
React to Reload Templafy event
Implement Reload Templafy button to retry opening Composer.
Load dynamic elements in overview page for Slide Master
Load dynamic elements in Slide Master View to be available in the overview page for the new dynamics designer.
Inject Translations into the page
Add localized translations for Hive Offline page using a Resource file.
Open static html page only if module is enabled
Display different Offline pages in VSTO when hive Offline module is enabled.
Use variable group in all pipelines instead of hard-coded name
All yaml-based pipelines will be using variable group to resolve Azure Hive Build Agent.
Create Update appliers for word in VSTO
Create Update appliers for word, PowerPoint & Excel in VSTO.
Create the static html page
Create Offline statci page that will be shown when opening Composer from an Office application in offline mode.
Update R# rules in VSTO Add-ins
Updated resharper rules and cleaned up the code accordingly.
7.0.302
Features
Extended tests timeout
Extend timeout of the pipeline to 5 hours, instead of the 1 hour by default.
Bugs
Update document doesn't work with a broken link in the document
Fix Update Document by ignoring broken external links while processing the document.
7.0.300
Features
Enable concurrent SonarCloud analysis for VSTO addins
Enabled concurrent SonarCloud analysis to speed up analysis.
Download offline content
Add a plugin for Templafy Desktop that downloads Offline files for VSTO.
Postpone get user permissions
Improve startup of Addins by removing unnecessary call during initialization.
Create method for returning selected content controls
Make it possible to retrieve selected dynamics elements from Word to the Dynamics Designer.
Send event to Dynamics WebAPP on Content Control selected
Added functionality when a content control is selected in Word it will now be highlighted in the Dynamics Designer.
Remove Library Plugin logging
Remove temporary logging from Library Templafy Desktop plugin.
Create a POC Offline plugin
Create folder structure and setup deployment of Library TemplafyDesktop plugin.
Remove Templafy. from Code analysis project name
Changed SonarCloud project name to be in line with the conventions at Templafy.
Remove network call when starting up a webview2 control
Remove network call when initializing a Webview2 control to speed up the start-up of Office.
Fix ClientCertificateRequested in Office.VstoAddIn
This release ensures the WebView2 browser will automatically pick the certificate if only one certificate is available when the site requests a certificate from the browser.
Fix updating document
With this release, we support also NumberFormFields in VSTO during updates.
Loading sidebar in the background for VSTO
This change is about loading side pane content in the background for VSTO. It will reduce waiting time for the user.
Bugs
Word add-in causes Word to stop responding at startup
Fix concurrency issues to prevent possible deadlocks.
No blank document template after choosing "Create a blank presentation"
Fix issue when opening blank document in PowerPoint when the user profile is not complete. Now, it correctly opens Composer so the user can fill out the user profile.
Update document button isn't appearing when expected/ is appearing when not expected
Fix for issue where the document content updater would not appear when it should and was appearing where it shouldn't. It is a fix both on VSTO and in the Library App.
Table of Contents breaking update function
Fix update document from Dynamics when the Word document contains a table of contents.
Trying to open a saved email twice causes an error.
Fix issue when, in Outlook, a user would try to open a saved email twice. Open the 2nd try, the user would get an error. Now it will open the e-mail without issues.
LibraryAppTaskPaneOpened is triggered on occasions where it should not
Fixed office add-ins tracking logic to remove unrelated sources of triggering LibraryAppTaskPaneOpened event.
Office Addin freezing if the user tries to open a file directly
When a user tries to open the file directly instead of opening the office first, templafy add-in was failing and it was freezing the office app. With this release, we fixed this issue.
VSTO is crashing or very slow
This issue has been introduced in version 7.0.272, it was about log in the same user in an endless loop. Now we fixed it with this version.
Released to Insider in February 2022
7.0.272
Fix Updating Document
With this release, we support also NumberFormFields in VSTO during update.
Loading sidebar in the background for VSTO
This change is about loading sidepane content in the background for VSTO. It will reduce waiting time for the user.
Ranorex project on VSTO not building due to Dynamics nuget package
Fix build on Ranorex project due to Dynamics nuget packaged
Allow text configurations to be added to non-placeholder shapes on CreateElementConfiguration call
Text configurations in PowerPoint can be created from new Dynamics Designer.
Add Decimal parsing for readback in VSTO
Add Decimal parsing in readback for new number form field in VSTO
Change OfficeVstoAddins
With this release, we are providing a separate ribbon button for admins to open the Template designer directly.
Sign VSTO Libraries
Adding sign of all assemblies, not only Templafy assemblies, to improve startup time to allow caching by Windows Defender.
Report changes of shapes on current slide in PowerPoint
Changes of dynamic elements and selection is reported to dynamics designer
Composer doesn't display in Office 2016 v1803 Build 9126.2259
Fix for issue where, in a specific version of Office 365, the old backstage is shown.
Update document in Word doesn't work when certain characters are present in a hyperlink
We noticed an issue with documents containing hyperlinks with special characters in the address. When using Document Updater on this type of documents it will fail while also not showing an error to the user. This was affecting all users and has now been fixed.
Missing authentication information when tracking VSTO user actions
Update Templafy.Foundation package to fix user_id tracking to pick it up from query parameters
Client context not set correctly for Templafy One when signing in from VSTO
This release ensures the correct version information for the add-ins is available for tracking purposes.
7.0.262
Load EventHub async in VSTO
Made EentHub initialization ascynchronous to improve add-ins startup time.
Validate New Designer flow on Excel
With this release, we are adding Ranorex tests to cover more user workflows. Here, we are extending form field designing in Excel using the form field in a custom document property.
Validate New Designer flow on Word
With this release we add a UI test to cover the creation of a text box form field and a text binding in a Word document.
Fallback into MS blank when user is offline and no blank document is cached
When user is offline and there is no cached blank document, now the default flow is creating a MS blank document.
Add support for VSTO update workflow
With this release of VSTO add-ins, we begin to support the update process to handle Dynamics within slides. Keep in mind, that the downloaded document must come from a feature-flag-enabled tenant to have the required data inside of the slide.
Dynamics was and is still working for Master and Layout slides.
7.0.255
Covering User Flows : Add Ranorex test to cover text element insertion with share value
With this release we are adding more Ranorex tests. Here: Testing Text element insertion with share value option set in the form field options.
Covering User Flows : Add Ranorex test to cover adaptive sections combined with data connectors
Create ranorex test to cover adaptive sections with data connectors.
Covering User Flows : Add Ranorex test to cover bindings in default value
With this release we are test covering more functionality of the VSTO addins. Here we are testing whether default values are processed correctly.
Composer screen is smaller than expected in VSTO
We had an issue about dialog window size with smaller screens, with this release we fix this issue. It was smaller then expected.
Released to Insider in January 2022
7.0.251
Investigate slowness of version 7 of addins vs 6.1 in Templafy One
To improve the loading times of the task pane in version 7, the check to understand if the user is online or not is started earlier, and is done while webview2 is initializing.
Set a maximum width for dialogs in VSTO
Composer dialog were looking weird in very large screens. With this change we set maximum size of the dialog window related to office application
Add profile id to VSTO tracking service
This change is about adding user profile id to tracking events
Move all text to resources in validator confirmation dialog
Move all text to resources in validator confirmation dialog
Covering User Flows : Add Ranorex test to cover TextElements combined with Group Bindings used to ShowHide.
This release just extends the test coverage with Ranorex tests for a user flow with nested groups containing a text element.
Get multiple selected content controls in VSTO
This is a technical task for creating a Proof of Concept for selecting multiple content controls in Dynamics Designer.
Covering User Flows : Add Ranorex test to cover Group Bindings with nested Text Bindings that have both Visibility set.
We added some Ranorex tests to cover the User flow when trying to create and update a document with a group containing a text binding. Both, group and text, have a visibility property (Delete, Hidden, Visible). We test several combinations.
Upgrade WebView2 SDK version
Updated WebView2 to latest SDK version with improvements to startup and disable of loading screen
Remove cleanup for nested registry key tree in VSTO Addins
Release 7.0.186 of VSTO Add-ins fixed an existing issue where Add-ins were a key was being written into the wrong place in the registry, creating a nested folder structure for that key. However, if the wrong folder structure in the registry was already created, it would remain created even if it is not used anymore. We did a another release adding some clean up code to delete the wrongly nested registry keys and this version has been already promoted to stable, meaning that the clean up code has already reached all users.
Therefore, we can remove the clean up code since it's not necessary anymore.
Use the endpoint within VSTO
With this release and behind a feature flag and only for presentations, we are providing a readback of form values managed by the backend and not by VSTO. With this step we are reducing the need of Dynamics deserialization on VSTO side.
Create readback for Spreadsheets in VSTO
With this release, for Excel and behind a feature flag, we are moving a part of the Dynamics serialization to the backend. When updating a document, the form gets filled with the values from the last input or directly from the document. The places where VSTO has to search for inside of the document were calculated from the backend instead of VSTO directly.
Add preview form endpoints in VSTO
With this release and behind a feature flag, we add a form preview window. The admin will be able to preview his form.
Add VSTO part for new endpoint
With this release, VSTO will be able to extract form data with the help of our backend. Feature-flagged.
Read back data (VSTO part)
With this release, tenants with a feature flag will outsource readback of form values to the backend. This will reduce our need for versioning Dynamics.
Remove synchronous calls in add-in startup
Removed synchronous calls on startup of the add-ins.
Image Header with setting 'NamedSections.All' and multiple sections, multiplies the image after Update document
The problem was that the old code was enumerating all headers/footers without filtering out the ones that where just links to existing headers/footers. By filtering duplicates out, the code is working fine again.
External data(vimeo) getting block on slide insertion
We have an issue adding slides which contains external videos. We archived this issue with adding our download location to Office Trusted Locations.
Templafy One - Blank Templafy Task pane across all Office apps
Fixed issue for tenants with multiple authentications on Templafy One where user were getting infinite loop of redirects to reauthenticate
Templafy One - Blank Templafy Task pane across all Office apps
Fixed issue for tenants with multiple authentications on Templafy One where user were getting infinite loop of redirects to reauthenticate
Released to Insider in December 2021
7.0.232
Update ranorex tests
Updated the ranorex test based on the new layout changes.
Task pane does not open without a document open in Word
This fix is about disabling task pane opening action while there is no active document.
Footer text elements get wiped out after Document Update
We noticed an issue with text element insertion in headers and footers in Word. After using Updater to update the values of this text elements they would be lost and the footer/header would appear empty. This issue was affecting all tenants and is now fixed.
Released to Insider in November 2021
7.0.229
Reduce deserializations-serializations of TemplateConfiguration
Avoid unnecessary serialization/deserializations. This is the case on DocumentContentUpdaterEndpointsHive where we need to return the json of TemplateConfiguration and FormConfiguration
Reduce deserializations-serializations of FormConfiguration
Avoid unnecessary serialization/deserializations. This is the case on DocumentContentUpdaterEndpointsHive where we need to return the json of TemplateConfiguration and FormConfiguration
Characters like '&' not shown in name of blank document
Ampersand was not displayed on MS Office backstage
7.0.227
Create a ranorex test for image insertion in excel
Add first Ranorex test in Excel Office VSTO Add-ins, to ensure that image insertion works as expected. This test needs to be performed in libraryfeatures tenant because the tested feature is hidden behind a feature flag
Fix sonarcloud bugs in VSTO
Fixed issue recommended by SonarCloud related to the management of Composer dialogs
Update WebView2 to latest version
Updated WebView2 SDK to latest version and removed previous workarounds
Insertion should use current cell coordinates
When inserting an image in Excel, we use the current cell coordinates as position to perform the insertion
Add Image Insertion support in Excel VSTO Add-ins
Excel Templafy VSTO Add-ins has now support for image insertion, allowing Excel users to insert images from Templaf Image Library and Content Connectors into Excel Spreadsheets.
Released to Insider in October 2021
7.0.222
Add workaround for issue related to WebView2 runtime
Added workaround for WebView 2 95.x runtime issue as suggested by Microsoft as well as fallback to an error page if WebView2 fails to initialize.
Extract content controls for readback from document body only
When document is updated form field values read values only from content controls in document body but not from headers/footers
Create Ranorex tests
This release adds Ranorex tests to check if the dropdown form fields are hidden on update when they have no visible effect.
Hive vsto add-ins don't work on Windows 7
There was an issue when running WebView2 on Windows 7 because transparency is not supported. To address it, transparent background was disabled when running on Windows 7.
Templafy .dll files are not digitally signed
Changed code signing step to properly sign DLLs in the add-ins
Templafy's Browse causing Office Ribbon to freeze
In Excel when using composer to open new documents the window with a new document would be frozen until users switch between the windows. To fix this we now close the composer window just before opening a new document.
Templafy task pane stuck on loading screen
Updated Offline package to disallow pageview tracking. Updated WebView2 default background to not show loading screen behind.
Templafy One Application Insights page view logs contain Windows usernames of users
This releases addresses an issue where pageview logs were made when running VSTO as Offline, while still being online.
VSTO User Actions is tracking with a wrong event name.
This fix is about updating wrong tracking event name for user actions
7.0.214
Add tracking to when we use the new ribbon buttons
This changes includes tracking for user events. Now we track user click events.
Remove New blank and New template button when template library is disabled
When you don't have composer or the specific template library enabled don't show the ribbon buttons for New blank and New template in the new ribbon
Remove Save to button if Delivery connectors module is disabled
When you don't have delivery connectors enabled don't show the ribbon button for export in the new ribbon
In VSTO, remove wrong nested registry key if it exists
Release 7.0.186 of VSTO Add-ins fixed an existing issue where Add-ins were a key was being written into the wrong place in the registry, creating a nested folder structure for that key. However, if the wrong folder structure in the registry was already created, it would remain created even if it is not used anymore.
This release solves the issue by deleting the wrong nested key tree in case it still exists.
Cleanup OfficeVstoAddins repository by removing email signature code
Remove Email Signature Addin as it is now its own repository
Add Ranorex tests for respecting line breaks inside of inline content controls
This release adds Ranorex tests for respecting line breaks inside of inline content controls.
Create Ranorex tests for document update flows
Create Ranorex tests fro read back from document flows
Use document properties in the document as a source for form field values
Use DocumentProperties and CustomDocumentProperties as value for document updater
Text element doesn't respect line breaks from data source (1 day, VSTO)
Before this release, line breaks were ignored by dynamics text insertion into inline content control. With this fix, soft line breaks are inserted, between the lines of a multi-line value.
Use CustomXmlValues in the document as a source for form field values
Read back values set in CustomXml as a higher priority value for document update form fields
Update Dynamics package in VSTO
Technical release to update Dynamics package in VSTO. No changes to functionality.
Add Ranorex test update document with mismatch content in contentControls in Word
Add ranorex tests for word documents, testing the content using openxml
Add Ranorex test update presentation with mismatch content in shapes in PowerPoint
Add a Ranorex test for updating a document with content different than the original form data entries
Implement the new Ribbon for VSTO
Update the ribbon for VSTO add-ins to a new design.
Update VSTO to extract information from Document
Try to locate FormDataEntries from the first Contentcontrol that is bound to the form field. It will only happen when the Expression is bound to a single form field.
Upgrade VSTO with new version of Dynamics
Several transformation plugin/form field classes used from Dynamics were renamed.
Add validator end-to-end tests
Create multiple test flows for validator and assert for content
Duplicate Ranorex infrastructure for Powerpoint
Add Ranorex models for PowerPoint. Duplicate basic create/update tests for PowerPoint
Upgrade Dynamics nuget package on VSTO
Upgrade Dynamics nuget package to latests version
Fix Existing Ranorex tests & upgrade to version 10.0.0
Upgrade Ranorex to version 10.0.0 & Update tests to reflect changes made to design
Blank task pane is shown at the bottom when updating document
Before this fix, during VSTO update a sub pane was opening very randomly. The root cause was the usage of a command "Range.Select()" which was making the pane popup. This behavior only occured within headers and footers when the insertion had a ReplaceOnUpdate=true.
After this fix, we avoid using this special command, when inserting the text element. So, the pane does not popup anymore.
Open task pane ribbon button does not load image on Templafy Tab
Fix the image on the Open task pane ribbon button to not load on the custom tab.
The "Document Updater" button seems to have an issue where by clicking it will launch a continuous loading screen
Fix a problem with update document button loading continuously
Can not insert image or slide element on a validator enabled slide when Designing
Skip validation for inserting image/slide element in locked slide for templates.
Backstage not showing in MSI installation of Office 2016
Fixed issue where it was not possible to read some keys from the registry when running a 32 bit version of Office.
Fixed issue with MSI installation of Office 2016 that was not loading the backstage properly.
Image insertion leads to change of placeholder
Reverted workaround provided by MS that was resizing placeholders and images in it
LibraryAppCreateNonTemplafyDocument is not tracked in PowerPoint when creating MS-Theme blank document
Improve tracking of non templafy document creation in power point
Released to Insider in September 2021
7.0.204
Use document properties in the document as a source for form field values
Use DocumentProperties and CustomDocumentProperties as value for document updater
Backstage not showing in MSI installation of Office 2016
Fixed issue where it was not possible to read some keys from the registry when running a 32 bit version of Office.
Fixed issue with MSI installation of Office 2016 that was not loading the backstage properly.
Text element doesn't respect line breaks from data source (1 day, VSTO)
Before this release, line breaks were ignored by dynamics text insertion into inline content control. With this fix, soft line breaks are inserted, between the lines of a multi-line value.
Use CustomXmlValues in the document as a source for form field values
Read back values set in CustomXml as a higher priority value for document update form fields
Update Dynamics package in VSTO
Technical release to update Dynamics package in VSTO. No changes to functionality.
Add Ranorex test update document with mismatch content in contentControls in Word
Add ranorex tests for word documents, testing the content using openxml
Add Ranorex test update presentation with mismatch content in shapes in PowerPoint
Add a Ranorex test for updating a document with content different than the original form data entries
Implement the new Ribbon for VSTO
Update the ribbon for VSTO add-ins to a new design.
Update VSTO to extract information from Document
Try to locate FormDataEntries from the first Contentcontrol that is bound to the form field. It will only happen when the Expression is bound to a single form field.
Image insertion leads to change of placeholder
Reverted workaround provided by MS that was resizing placeholders and images in it
LibraryAppCreateNonTemplafyDocument is not tracked in PowerPoint when creating MS-Theme blank document
Improve tracking of non templafy document creation in power point
Upgrade VSTO with new version of Dynamics
Several transformation plugin/form field classes used from Dynamics were renamed.
Add validator end-to-end tests
Create multiple test flows for validator and assert for content
Duplicate Ranorex infrastructure for Powerpoint
Add Ranorex models for PowerPoint. Duplicate basic create/update tests for PowerPoint
Upgrade Dynamics nuget package on VSTO
Upgrade Dynamics nuget package to latests version
Fix Existing Ranorex tests & upgrade to version 10.0.0
Upgrade Ranorex to version 10.0.0 & Update tests to reflect changes made to design
Validator is triggered on Templates
The check for slides will only be executed to "Templafy Documents", meaning:
Document generated by Templafy Pipeline (custom property TemplateId)
or Does not have a TemplateConfiguration but owns a SlideTemplateConfiguration)
Excel Work Book name showing incorrectly
Fixed incorrect name being displayed when opening new blank document in Excel
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