The past two weeks, we've been focusing on improving the admin and user experiences, as well as preparing for bigger features that are coming soon. Here's what was released:

• Dynamic filename can now be set from a recipe.
  • In Recipe settings > Dynamic filename.
  • The filename can only be based on selections from recipe reference form fields for now.
• Unit settings added to backup-restore.
  • User Identity Form included now as well.
• UX fixes:
  • External form field groups.
    • The group label shows the source recipe name instead of ID now.
    • The highlight color has been removed.
  • Checkbox interaction area adjusted.

This sprint was all about features and functionality! Here's what's new:

• Improved Word-to-HTML engine. As a consequence, inserting .docx documents as email elements into New Outlook now supports the following styles:
  • Heading 1
  • Heading 2
  • Heading 3
  • Tables (including borders and background colours)
  • Bullets
  • Numbered lists
  • Cursive
  • Bold
  • Font colour
  • Font family
  • Text-alignment
  • Links
  • Images
  • Text background color
  • ​Checkboxes
• Merging of different select form field types and added functionality:
  • SearchableSelect and Select are are now simply Select.
    • Enable Search setting has been added to Select form fields.
    • Enable Multiple Selection setting has been added to Select form fields.
    • Existing SearchableSelect fields have been converted to Select fields with search enabled.
  • RecipeReferenceDropdown and MultipleRecipeReferenceDropdown are now RecipeReference.
    • Enable Multiple Selection setting has been added to RecipeReference fields.
    • Enable Free Selection setting has been added to RecipeReference fields.
      • If checked, the user is also able to manually choose a text element to insert.
    • Restrict Free Selection to Folder setting has been added if free selection is enabled.
      • If a folder is selected, the user is only able to insert a reference to a recipe from inside that folder.
• Increased size limit for uploading a backup to 100MB.
• Text elements are now inserted inline by default, and the setting is now a checkbox instead of a string.
• Duplicate functionality added to recipes, in the context menu.
• Data used to generate the document can now be stored in document metadata. This enables text elements inserted after document creation to be filled out with the same data. Store Form Data in Document setting is added to the Recipe Settings dialog in the Recipe editor.
• Alphabetical sorting of content in Create.

Bug fixes:

• Members search in organizations and units.
• Date and number issues.
• Headers and footers not rendered correctly in the Binding editor.
• Scaling issues with zoom levels over 100%.
• Issues with AI assistant for non-admin users.

In the past two weeks, we focused on supporting the functionality of the solution and the user experience.

• Change units in the OfficeJS app. 🔀
  • An active integration is not a prerequisite for the app to work any more.
  • However, creating the integration is still necessary to obtain the manifest. For now.
• Drag-and-drop content to upload it. ⬆️
  • Dropping a template creates a recipe of corresponding type with that template uploaded to it.
  • The name of the template serves as the name of the recipe.
• Improvements to auth flow. 👤
  • Speed increased. ⚡
• Bug fixes 🐛:
  • Improved stability when changing content sources.
  • Fixed an issue where sample data was being recorded while still previewing the document.
  • PPTX engine fix.
  • Backup issue fix.

This sprint focused on care updates and planning upcoming features.

📘

Integrations are no longer overwritten on restoring a backup. The integrations not already present in a unit are still added.

• Content source type updates:
  • Now indicated by icon.
  • Also indicated in content source settings.
  • Type of content source is now set in a dropdown from the + button in the content source list.
• Bug fixes:
  • Preview size limit increased to 30MB to match the binding editor size limit.
  • Validation now allows empty fields if they aren't required.
  • Dashes in recipe names not causing issues anymore.
  • Zoom factor doesn't reset anymore when updating data in forms.
  • Reordering content sources.

• New PDF viewer and related fixes.
• Move content between content sources.
• Hide secrets in integrations.
• Merge Slide masters option for SlideElementRepeat binding.
• SharePoint data source integration.
• User identity form components.
  • Prefilling from claims.
  • Referencing User identity form in standard form fields.
• Under the hood:
  • Fixes and additions to auth flow.
• Bugfixes:
  • Applying captures sometimes didn't work.
  • Styling fixes.

• Checkbox form fields.
• Admin UX improvements.
  • Seeing the main recipe when editing/creating a virtual recipe.
  • More links can be opened in a new tab.
  • Recipes can be opened in Create from the platform admin site.
  • Grouping of menu items.
  • Log out from admin.
  • Theme buttons.
  • Right-click menus.
  • Information and documentation links.
  • Breadcrumb links.
  • From the view of a single data source, return to overview.
  • Overlay when viewing assets.
• Search bar update in Create for more vertical space.
• Content source functionality improvements:
  • Hide content sources from Create.
  • Reorder content sources.
  • Limit content source name lengths.
• Support for external data sources.
  • Integrations that can use this coming soon!
• Under the hood:
  • Added Docker Compose to support future automated integration testing.
  • Stability updates.

• Exclude captures and subscriptions from backups.
• Authorization updates.
  • Refresh token disabled temporarily.
  • Refresh token enabled again today - might require a hard refresh next time you log in.
• In the OfficeJS add-in, added error message when trying to generate a document that cannot be opened in the current app.
• You can delete content sources.
• Under the hood:
  • S3 storage as an alternative to Azure blob storage.
  • Added Documotor generate endpoint.
    • Only regular PDF, no UA.
• Bug fixes:
  • Integrations failing to initialize after login.
  • OfficeJS.
  • Authorization.
  • MultipleRecipeReferenceDropdown view improved for many selections.
  • Updating the values in the user identity form.
  • Backup name validation.
  • Downloading backups.

• Authentication update! The flow should now be more reliable and faster. Buttons for navigating between tenants and from user site to admin have been added.
• Support for adding and previewing static PowerPoint and Excel documents.
• External data can now be passed to a recipe directly using the AppFlow integration - it doesn't need to feed into a form first anymore.
• New icons.
• Illegal characters in data sources are now explicitly prohibited.
• Content admin role.
• Under the hood:
  • GridFS as an alternative to Azure blob storage.
• Bug fixes for:
  • Backup names and headers.
  • Applying captures.
  • New user frontend.