Release 5.5

Front-end Core Version:  5.5.2207.2608*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Front-end Core Functionality

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue with the EventsWidget where the ICS file from the ‘Add to calendar’ link was not populating the body field. This change requires the addition of ‘BodyOWSMTXT’ to the selectfields widget property. (57626)
• Various UI enhancements.

Mobile App Functionality

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where clicking on certain links navigated the user to the home page.
• Fixed an issue where some file types were not opening when clicking on a document link.
• Fixed an issue in iOS where download and open in new tab was not working for documents in search.

Front-end Core Version:  5.5.2207.2608*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Front-end Core Functionality

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where the SocialMediaPostWidget did not function properly on an uncached load in headed, preventing posting or modal closure. (53172)
• Fixed an issue where page previews failed to load on the search page.
• Fixed an issue where NewsDetail in FS3 was not always respecting daylight savings.

Mobile App Functionality

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue in mobile where links supposed to open in a new tab were not working.
• Fixed an issue in the iOS mobile app where preview was not working for some documents.
• Fixed an issue in the Android app where some files were not opening correctly from search results.
• Fixed an issue where the DocumentViewerWidget was not using spfile in the mobile app.
• Fixed an issue with opening links in the Mebar Management Widget in Android.
• Fixed an issue in the EventsWidget where add to calendar was not working.
• Fixed an issue on the News Detail page where clicking a reaction brought you to the home page.
• Fixed an issue where the user was redirected to the home page when changing MediaWidget search area dropdown.
• Fixed an issue on Android where adding apps was failing in Mission Control.

Front-end Core Version:  5.5.2207.2607*

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Front-end Core Functionality

Improvements:

• Mobile UI improvements.
• FS3 UI improvements.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where some files would not open on the mobile app.
• Fixed an issue where some files could not be downloaded from the search page on the mobile app.
• Fixed an issue where videos with spaces in the file name would go to spfile and not embed.aspx.
• /api/graph/authcomplete should not be used when ENABLE_IFRAME_AUTH is false
• Fixed an issue where a mention notification was still sent if a user removed the mention. (57142)
• Fixed an issue with Hive dark mode where some text was not visible in the Broadcast Center.

Front-end Core Version:  5.5.2207.2606*

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Front-end Core Functionality

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where users who had turned off comment notifications were not receiving notifications when they were mentioned in a reply. (56206)
• Fixed an issue with the StreamChannelModern view in FS3 where Font Awesome icons were not working. This requires an updated view, contact Support if you would like this functionality. (56807)

Front-end Core Version:  5.5.2207.2606*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Front-end Core Functionality

Improvements:

• Added support to media widgets to use the streams embed instead of downloading the video from SharePoint, improving performance for longer videos.
• Added support to CuratedNewsWidget to play videos using embed.aspx. (56557)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue in FS3 where the EventDetail widget sometimes failed to load.
• Fixed an issue where threshold settings were not being applied when browser language was non-English. (56470)
• Fixed an issue on news widgets where videos would not play if “is Akumina page” was unchecked. (56559)
• Fixed an issue where new instances of HTMLContentWidget had to be published twice. (56370)
• Fixed an issue with CuratedNewsWidget where some videos were not playing correctly.

Front-end Core Version:  5.5.2207.2605*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Front-end Core Functionality

New Features:

• Added support to the UserPersonalizationWidget to allow customization of the “No tags selected” message. Contact Support for steps to update the widget if you would like this functionality. (56087)
• Enabled viewing of detail pages for users regardless of their Personas. Contact Support for steps to update your settings if you would like this functionality. (55915)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue with the MyRecentFilesWidget where OneNote files were not displaying file names or icons. (55579)
• Fixed an issue with the MyRecentFilesWidget where the widget would not display when a file was uploaded via site deployer. (55995)
• Fixed an issue in the FS3 MyRecentFilesWidget where LastModifiedBy validation was missing. (55992)
• Fixed an issue where widgets were not displaying the throttling message for KQL queries when SPO was being throttled. (55814)
• Fixed an issue where notification links were sometimes not working on headed sites. (51043)
• Fixed a display issue with MyOrgTreeWidget where a manager who reports to themselves was showing on three levels. (56051)
• Fixed an issue with the GenericSearchListWidget causing the ‘Date range’ filter to stop displaying ‘Start’ and ‘End’ date picker fields when there were two instances of the GSLW in a TabWidget. (55343)
• Fixed an issue with the StreamChannelWidget where videos were not loading when folders contained spaces due to encoding in the copied path. (55576)
• Fixed an error occurring when creating a form on the root and submitting it in a subsite. (55313)
• Fixed an occasional issue where search filters were lost when changing filters on the search results page. (55813)
• Fixed an issue with the TextBlockWidget on Headless where users had to have App Manager open to see images. (55557)

Front-end Core Version:  5.5.2207.2604*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Front-end Core Functionality

Bug Fixes:

• Microsoft Stream (Classic) has reached its End-of-Life (EOL) phase. Please reach out to Support to upgrade to the new StreamChannelWidget. (51988)
• Enabled iframe embeds in CKEditor4 (HTMLContentWidget). (49460,54497)
• Fixed a threshold error that occurred in the RelatedNewsWidget (FS3) when the list has over 5,000 items. (54795)
• Added “ForceSameWindowLinksInMobile” setting to DigispaceConfigurationIDS_AK. When set to true, links are opened in the same window on mobile. (48413)
• Fixed an issue in the SLW where a link to a popup window also opened the link in the main window. (54530)
• Resolved an issue where the MyRecentFilesWidget was not loading in certain situations. (55342)
• Fixed an issue where images were not loading in search on headed sites.
• Fixed an issue where a relative URL was incorrectly rewritten to use the Tenant URL instead of the headless URL in the HTMLContentWidget. (54242)
• Fixed an issue in the PeopleDirectoryWidget on mobile where the filters were not expanding in certain situations. (54810)
• Fixed an issue where attempting to enter input in custom taxonomy search resulted in an error. (54862)
• Fixed an issue in the EventDetailWidget in FS3 where the widget was expecting a column that did not exist. (54907)
• Restored support for Custom Zone Layouts. (54891)
• Changed the link on the OOTB document viewer views to be a shareable link instead of the download link. (54524)
• Added ‘islanguageneutral’ property to the NewsWidget. If this is set to false, only articles for the current language will be displayed in Top Reacted. (54501)

Front-end Core Version:  5.5.2207.2604*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Front-end Core Functionality

Improvements:

• Added support for metadata columns in refiners in the GenericSearchListWidget. (54400)

Bug Fixes:

• Resolved an issue where clicking on a user’s name in search results would result in an error page for users who have different emails and user principal names. (54019)
• Fixed an issue in the NewsWidget with the refiner condition set to ‘AND’ where the number of selected metadata may be incorrect when selecting metadata from multiple columns. (54338)
• Fixed an issue where the FavoritesWidget was not updating without refreshing the page. (54364)
• Resolved an issue where a timeout message would pop up even when the site was actively being used. (53888)

Front-end Core Version:  5.5.2207.2604*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Front-end Core Functionality

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where the EmployeeDetailWidget would not load in some situations. (54072)
• Fixed an issue where the MyLinksWidget was not respecting the case sensitivity of URLs. (53811)
• Content outside the ExternalClass div in InternalPages is now rendered properly. (54391)
• Fixed an issue in NewsWidgets that prevented the use of a custom callback. (54287)

Front-end Core Version:  5.5.2207.2604*

Note: Self-hosted installations require 5.5.2207.2640+ AppManager version.

(*version to be used with CDN)

Front-end Core Functionality

Improvements:

• Added support to Hive to use the legacy reaction view. (51321)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an access denied error that sometimes occurred when restoring a previous browser session. (49464)
• Fixed an issue with the CKEditor where an error occurred when attempting to use spellcheck, resulting in the inability to interact with the screen until a refresh was performed. (53887)
• Fixed an issue with the BannerWidget where non-Akumina links were not opening in a new window. (37422)
• Fixed an issue in the FS3 CalendarWidget where recurring all-day events were spanning two days. (53746)
• Fixed an issue in Headless where expired site alerts were not being correctly removed from the cache. (52208)
• Fixed an issue with the DocumentViewer where the DocumentViewerTreeWidget would not display correctly when linked directly with mixed case folder names. (53495)
• Improved the DefaultCarousel view of the SummaryLinksWidget on mobile devices. (53802)
• The WorldClockWidget now displays the correct US flag. (49524)
• Added support for links in the DefaultCarousel view of the SummaryLinksWidget in FS3. (53891)

Front-end Core Version:  5.5.2207.2604*

Note: Self-hosted installations require 5.5.2207.2640+ AppManager version.

(*version to be used with CDN)

Front-end Core Functionality

New Features:

• Added property to define default sort column and sort direction for GenericSearchListWidget. (52958)
• Added a property to trim duplicated results in the GenericSearchListWidget. (53346)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where an article was not found when clicking a notification link from a different site that was generated from the default headless site. (51043)
• Fixed an issue where StaticUrl for some languages (like Chinese) was converted to all dashes, causing an article not found error on the news detail page. (52984)
• Fixed an issue where a 401 unauthorized error occurred on images in search in a new browser session. (53170)
• Fixed an issue in headless where the search document preview was not loading for Microsoft file types (excluding xlsx). (53348)
• Fixed an issue with the QuickLinks widget and not being able to click Refresh Widget during a throttle scenario (429).

AppManager Functionality

New Features:

• Endpoint added for Site Deployer – Deprecated Basic Authentication and explored OAuth. Site Deployer now supports a graph app for authentication.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed the issue where a null reference exception occurred when creating a language version when StaticUrl column is optional. (53609)

Front-end Core Version:  5.5.2207.2603*

Note: This front-end version requires new views. Please contact our support team for assistance if you would like to update. Self-hosted installations require 5.5.2207.2638+ AppManager version.

(*version to be used with CDN)

Front-end Core Functionality

• Improved handling of throttling (429) errors across all widgets
• Changed ‘Error.html’ template to load from TemplateUrlPrefix instead of Akumina CDN
• Fixed an issue causing data to not display on My News, My Blogs, and Top 5 Pages widgets (AppManager Dashboard)
• Page Builder – Fixed an issue with updating properties of React-based widgets in the Rail
• Corrected an issue causing certain images (special characters) to not load on news detail pages
• Page Builder – Fixed an issue where the cache was not getting updated when saving widget properties in certain situations
• Corrected an issue in CKEditor4 with selecting special characters in certain languages
• Resolved an issue where the CKEditor would error with Dev Tools open
• Added support for videos with large file sizes on NewsWidget and NewsDetailWidget
• Corrected a scenario that caused the user to be unable to save Dashboard Widgets
• Fixed an issue in the Document Viewer with lowercase library names
• Fixed an issue in the Document Viewer with mixed case site URLs
• Added support for displaying users’ background images on the PeopleDirectoryWidget
• Corrected an issue with the view all link for ImportantDatesWidget and the Discussion Board in subsites
• Fixed an issue where the WorldClockWidget was sometimes getting stuck in the wrong layout

Front-end Core Version:  5.5.2207.2602*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Front-end Core Functionality

• Corrected the Document Viewer Widget to show the required fields when uploading a multiple line of text in the document library
• Fixed Summary Links Widget not showing new views after page has already been saved, only new instances showed new views
• Modified the Mission Control Widget to add a UI callback to set default widget properties
• Corrected the Org Chart Widget display when viewing other people’s user profile
• Modified the Launch Pad Widget to display the selectfields in the widget modal
• Corrected an issue with the YouTube video links being case sensitive in the News Detail Widget and News Widget
• Fixed an issue with Employee Detail Widget not closing employee profile modal after editing
• Corrected News Detail Widget displaying the current article duplicated in related news

Front-end Core Version:  5.5.2207.2602*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Front-end Core Functionality

• Hive Foundation Site Update
  • Added support for Multilingual terms for use within User Preferences and related News / Event Detail Widgets
• Modified Curated News Widget and Curated Widget callback is no longer a promise. The callback is a direct return function now.

Front-end Core Version:  5.5.2207.2601*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Front-end Core Functionality

• Corrected the list selector field type not displaying libraries in the list drop down
• Fixed an issue with the widget callback method binding the UI events did not resolve to window[callback]
• Fixed the News Detail Widget not loading external images in headless
• Corrected all day calendar events from displaying start date on the previous day

AppManager Product Version: 5.5.2207.2617

SPA Version: 5.5.2205.0602

Front-end Core Version:  5.5.2207.2601*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Front-end Core Functionality

• Corrected Summary Links Widget from overwriting Sharepoint URLs when saving links
• Fixed issues with Summary Links Widget in live mode when saving/editing links or creating collections
• Corrected intermittent loading issues with Greeting Widget and My Tasks Widget getting caught with loading state
• Updated the News Detail Widget to add an expanded fields property to allow for a multi-selection of publishers, authors, contributors
• Fixed issue with images not displaying in Document Viewer when a picture library is selected
• Fixed set collection issue on Summary Links Widget when creating/editing a new page

AppManager Functionality

• Corrected error handling on service hub for News Detail Widget
• Fixed the ability to change time when the date/time field of a new column is named EndDate
• Corrected the ability to update tenant settings without template URL prefix if keyvault URI is populated
• Fixed site manager access issue in headless when a new root site is being created
• Corrected error handling on root site configuration in a headless
• Added a maximum cookie/session timeout configuration setting in tenant settings

Front-end Core Version:  5.5.2207.2601*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Front-end Core Functionality

• Corrected Latest Media Widget and People Directory Widget to display dropdown values correctly in widget properties
• Corrected Facebook Page Widget to display with friendly names in widget properties
• Corrected the News Widget to allow for query callback support

AppManager Product Version: 5.5.2207.2614

SPA Version: 5.5.2205.0602

Front-end Core Version:  5.5.2207.2601*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Front-end Core Functionality

• Corrected an accordion issue with My Teams Link Widget to display the teams and channels
• Corrected missing language tokens not displaying property names in Employee Detail Widget
• Corrected image not loading when adding Image Block Widget to a newly created page
• Corrected impersonation getting reset when switching between sites
• Corrected the image icon display on My Outlook Meetings Widget
• Added a new Comment Moderator Review type in Notification Manager to be able to customize messages for reviewers
• Corrected the Summary Links Widget custom views not displaying after a new site is created using site creator
• Corrected a pagination issue displaying duplicate articles on Top Reacted and Popular News tabs
• Corrected News Widget displaying articles in different languages as deleted on Popular News tab
• Added the Banner Widget to the Hive Foundation Site
• Corrected an issue when managing widgets in Mission Control Widget
• Corrected FAQ view styling issue in Summary Links Widget
• Corrected Generic Search List Widget to remove search suggestions for external accounts

AppManager Product Version: 5.5.2207.2613

SPA Version: 5.5.2205.0602

Front-end Core Version:  5.5.2207.2601*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Front-end Core Functionality

• Hive Foundation Site Updates:
  • Added a new search facet for media to include videos and image content types
• Corrected Document Viewer Widget to support optional fields for managed metadata, date time, people picker and single line of text
• Corrected Summary Links Widget display when user does not have persona access to the links
• Corrected an issue with News Detail Widget to show the updated select field values in the view
• Corrected page access issue with virtual pages with an assigned persona when a user does not have access to the persona
• Added a new callback property in Generic Search List Widget to allow for a customizable search query
• Updated Generic Search List Widget with a document extension property to support additional document extensions
• Corrected issue with intermittent loading of Greeting Widget and My Tasks Widget
• Corrected forms submission issue when an optional attachment field is selected on the form and the file is not chosen during upload
• Corrected issue with Me Bar Widget on the favorites tab not rendering on initial user access to the site
• Corrected Employee Spotlight Widget issue not loading properly if SpotlightType is not set
• Corrected issue in Document Viewer Widget in headless when using drag and drop of a document

AppManager Functionality

• Corrected subsite resolution issue on headless when parent site title does not match URL
• Corrected caching sharepoint user properties when the getuserproperties dictionary is empty
• Corrected issue with graph call access token expiration when site remains idle
• Corrected Quicklinks Content App to allow for an “!” character in the link to accommodate workday links

AppManager Product Version: 5.5.2207.2610

SPA Version: 5.5.2205.0602

Front-end Core Version:  5.5.2207.2601*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Front-end Core Functionality

• Hive Foundation Site Updates:
  • Added the color display of Teams presence status on the current user and all the contributor users on the page
  • Added a bookmark widget in the top ribbon of the Master page that allows for easy interaction with Mission Control

• • Added an option to display a fully visible menu in addition to the existing hamburger menu

• • Updated the Activity Streams Page with a new look and feel

• Corrected Document Viewer Widget to support checkboxes for choice field type and when two required user fields are selected
• Corrected Document Viewer Widget to display metadata columns when regional settings are not set to English language
• Corrected issue with HTML Content Widget removing http(s):// from links causing issues in headless
• Corrected language switching flow when viewing detail pages in headless sends you to an incorrect location
• Corrected issues when changing the field name within forms
• Added support for the callbackmethod property in the My Recent Files Widget

AppManager Functionality

• • Added a new feature within AppManager to present messages from the Akumina Marketing Team
  • Publishing content in the Quicklinks Content App now expires content cache automatically

AppManager Product Version: 5.5.2207.2608

SPA Version: 5.5.2205.0602

Front-end Core Version:  5.5.2207.2601*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Front-end Core Functionality

• Corrected Document Viewer Widget when uploading a document with People and Group to display required metadata fields
• Corrected My Outlook Meetings Widget to display additional select fields in data model
• Corrected Document Viewer Widget to display document icons in headless environment

AppManager Functionality

• Hive Foundation Site Updates:
  • Corrected auto-login in headless to correctly display icons
  • Updated Icon Picker to hive styles
  • Added the ability to select Fontawesome icons for Icon Picker

AppManager Product Version: 5.5.2207.2606

SPA Version: 5.5.2205.0602

Front-end Core Version:  5.5.2207.2601*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Front-end Core Functionality

• Anchor Items:
  • Added a new Comment Approvals feature allowing authorized users the ability to establish comment approval moderation (no approval, pre-approval, user reported) on user generated content. For detailed information, see Comment Approvals.
  • Enhanced Comment Widget to enable comment approval configuration properties
• Added support for global term stores in Broadcast Center
• Added ability to add an avatar for sender of type system to generate a notification message from Broadcast Center
• Enhanced Broadcast Center query builder to display friendly labels in edit schema including drop down fields with valid values to improve end user usability
• Added support of media view count in Media Widget
• Added the ability to customize the message when sharing a news article
• Corrected the News Card Widget not supporting publish start date
• Corrected My Email Widget to respect caching limits set on widget properties
• Updated My Sites Widget to retrieve frequent sites and following sites from Graph API instead of SharePoint Home Service API (requires Graph permission change)
• Corrected switching language issue on news detail page to direct user to home page if no language version is available on site

AppManager Functionality

• Anchor Items:
  • Integrated Comment Approvals with Akumina Flow to establish the comment moderation flow, establish permissions and roles, and send notifications on comment status
  • Added the ability to configure comment approvals on social tab in author type content apps
• Reworked the way persona enabled list inventory is generated – previously sharepoint was queried directly for this information, this has been changed to query the content app settings configuration for quicker performance which is more stable with larger sites.
  • This change introduced a new App Setting called ‘PersonaEnabledList”, used in the scenario that there is no content app tied to the list. Most commonly this would be used for custom lists.
• Add Broadcast Email Template sub-page to Notification Manager
• Corrected page loading issue when clicking cancel in image picker modal
• Added a “Show Cache Keys” button in /admin/debug screen to improve performance
• Added a new “Your site context has changed” message to handle the scenario when your site selection in AppManager is changed by the front end
• Updated Stream card types to support iscompact view design in Hive installation
• Added a Clean Cache button in widget manager which clears all widget instances of the widgets on that site
• Corrected the generate configuration cache to pull language token files from blob storage in headless
• Corrected the configuration cache to detect invalid file encoding in site creator steps

AppManager Product Version: 5.5.2207.2602

SPA Version: 5.5.2205.0602

Front-end Core Version:  5.5.2207.2601*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Front-end Core Functionality

• Anchor Items:
  • Added a new Broadcast Center feature allowing authorized users the ability to create corporate wide messages via alert banner and popup delivery methods, including a mandatory read option with report tracking capabilities.  For detailed information, see Broadcast Center.

• Added a new Notification Banner Widget to distribute site alert messages from the Broadcast Center
• Updated Reaction styling design to provide all reactions on hover in Hive Foundation Install
• Updated the Generic People Query Widget to allow filtering on quarter to date in Hive Foundation Install
• Updated the master page to use the Notification Banner Widget in place of the Site Alert Widget in Hive Foundation Install
• Updated the Text Block Widget to use the image picker to upload images
• Corrected the ability to delete a persona containing a space in the title
• Corrected the Media Widget detail popup not loading when the images filename contains a space

AppManager Functionality

• Anchor Items:
  • Integrated Content Workflow with Akumina Flow to automate and streamline the content approval process, allowing reviewer comments, auto approval, and sending notifications to editors and reviewers. For detailed information, see Content Workflow using Akumina Flow.

• • Enhanced Taxonomy Tags with Auto Suggestions to better integrate with Azure Text Analytics to identify “Suggested Tags” related to content. For detailed information, see Auto Suggestions for Taxonomy Tags.

• Updated Hive Content Apps to allow videos to be selected through video picker rather than a text field
• Corrected issue where persona was not saved depending on context in AppManager

Akumina Framework Version:  5.5.2112.1711*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Akumina Framework Functionality

• Added search capability to search all items on news and events listing page
• Added Dark Theme support for Hive
• Enhanced the local widget experience in add widget flow
• Updated preferences modal for mobile support
• Updated people typeahead search experience
• Enabled LinkedIn external sharing for news

AppManager Product Version: 5.5.2112.1725

AppManager Functionality

• Added Image Picker performance enhancements to support large folder structures with many images
• Corrected issue with CKeditor not including class=”ak-spalink” when pasting links from external systems

AppManager Product Version: 5.5.2206.1008

AppManager Functionality

• Fixed support in headless for view editing from the front-end for externally hosted templates
• Corrected server error in headless when editing the manage widget instance from the front-end

AppManager Product Version: 5.5.2206.1006

AppManager Functionality

• Corrected Image picker infinite spinner when paging with multiple folders and images

AppManager Product Version: 5.5.2206.1005

AppManager Functionality

• Corrected the Image Picker to allow adding a new thumbnail image before adding the new picture image
• Fixed the Image url definition when creating language versions for items with a new image

Akumina Framework Version:  5.5.2112.1711*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Akumina Framework Functionality

• Added new property fields (category, category field) to the LatestNewsWidget to display only items tagged with specified categories
• Fixed the DocumentViewerWidget to display document name in hyperlink instead of document title

AppManager Product Version: 5.5.2206.1004

SPA Version: 5.5.2205.0602

Akumina Framework Version:  5.5.2112.1711*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Akumina Framework Functionality

• Anchor Items:
  • Introduction of a new Foundation Site – “Hive”. Hive deployment package provides delivery of the best out of the box intranet starting point available on the market. For detailed information, see Foundation Site (Hive) Reference Guide.
  • Introducing a new core concept of “local” content of “page specific” content, allowing for the creation of content to only be on one designated page without the need to worry about storing this content globally or altering content that is shared across many pages.
  • Added a new Mission Control feature for a user to personalize apps, sites, and dashboard widgets. This feature allows end users the ability to create a personalized user defined dashboard page based on their selection from multiple available widgets; and define their page layout preferences.
  • Added a new User Personalization feature to provide the end user the ability to customize their user preferences for viewing site content.
  • Incorporated Search Experience 2.0 into the Foundation Hive Search box to enable a more robust search engine with expanded capabilities for search actions, ranking, and improving the user experience with customizable search refiners.
  • Added a Breadcrumbs Widget for navigational aid to show the users location in the site.
  • Added a new News widget to provide news from across sites or from the current site only, with the ability to filter news based on My Interests (defined user’s preferences), All News, Highest Rated (based on highest number of likes), or Popular (based on number of views).
  • Added a new Events widget to provide events from across sites or from the current site only, with the ability to filter events based on My Interests (defined user’s preferences), or All Events.
  • Added a new Greetings widget to provide a personalized user welcome message based on the user’s local time of day.
  • Added a new Me Bar widget to provide a quick view on the home page of work to do reminders for each of the latest Task, Meeting, Email and Document for the current logged in user. Clicking on the item will launch the full results in the associated application (Planner, Outlook Email, Outlook Calendar and Documents).
  • Added a new Call to Action feature to the main menu for marketing campaigns and announcements
  • Added a new Media Library widget to provide a media library of images and videos with search and social engine capabilities
  • Updated the Blogs widget to provide blogs from across sites or from the current site only, with the ability to filter blogs based on My Interests (defined user’s preferences), or All Blogs.
  • Added new Birthday and Anniversary widgets to dynamically display the birthday and anniversaries of users who are in the current department within a specified time duration.
  • Added Employee Advocacy to enable the ability to share news on Twitter
  • Added a new footer navigation element to appear throughout all the pages on the Hive Site. The footer consists of a logo, footer links, social links, copyright statement (dynamically updated based on year), page owner with date last modified, and ability to comment to the page owner.
  • Added a new department home page design customizing the page content specific to the department providing department links, key contacts, news, events, and documents.
  • Added a new departmental package to support provisioning site collections as well as department sites.
  • Added the ability to select a home site to be used for the foundation site when multiple delivery site collections are provisioned. The foundation home site is used for global items such as term store, main navigation, mission control apps and footer navigation.
  • Added a Text Block Widget on default provisioned virtual pages to display page titles.
  • Added a new sort by filter widget property for the News Widget for rendering news card display.
  • Added a new filter on widget property for the Site Alerts Widget to easily change the taxonomy category to filter alerts.
  • Added cross site support in Curated Widget and Curated News Widget providing the ability to curate items across multiple sites selected.
  • Included several new widget view instances to support the new Foundation Hive Site
  • Project Whisper is an initial steppingstone towards our goal, Project Voice, which will move the content authoring experience to the front-end to improve the overall user experience.
  • Implemented several Project Whisper components, including:
    • Introduction of a new Broadcast Center which provides the ability for authorized users to immediately send messages and announcements to a larger group of users via the notification bell. Broadcast Center includes a message workflow with review, approval, and analytics reporting capabilities. For detailed information, see Broadcast Center.
    • Added the ability to edit existing widget properties on the page from the front-end using the edit widget panel on the right side of the page.
    • Added a new Image Block Widget to select an image from a specified image library, add an image caption and select display alignment on the page.
    • Added a new Text Block Widget to streamline the ability of adding content to the page, using the new CkEditor 5.
  • Provide advanced headless support for SharePoint Modern site collections
  • Added several performance enhancements

AppManager Functionality

• Anchor Items:
  • Introduction of new Hive content apps
  • Implemented unified content types in Hive (news, events, site alerts, etc.) to standardize site content to improve query and searchable results
  • Implemented a unified taxonomy term store in central/delivery sites, and created a foundation home site destination for global definitions for site collections with delivery sites only
• Added a utility for time zone standardization to address time zones issues in AppManager
• Added the ability to add and delete terms for the taxonomy fields on the content app page
• Updated the default branding colors and logo icon in AppManager
• Implemented SMTP OAuth Support to use OAuth2 authorization code flow with MailKit SMTP client library as an alternative option for email notifications
• Added several AppManager performance improvements

Developer Functionality

• Lots of nice bells and whistles for developers
• Latest Framework uses Bootstrap and no longer uses Foundation CSS Framework

AppManager Product Version: 5.5.2112.1721

AppManager Functionality

• Corrected issues with form report download attachment being empty in certain scenarios

AppManager Product Version: 5.5.2112.1720

AppManager Functionality

• Fixed issue with mixed case UPN’s not allowing proper authentication in certain scenarios

Akumina Framework Version:  5.5.2112.1711*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Akumina Framework Functionality

• Corrected the Latest Media Widget to recognize isRoot properties for data selection
• Fixed Image Block Widget not displaying views in widget manager
• Corrected the implementation version to load configuration cache from SharePoint CDN

AppManager Product Version: 5.5.2112.1719

AppManager Functionality

• Corrected Dashboard Analytics page to wait for Application Insight full page load before displaying page data
• Fixed Image Picker to display the updated dimensions on the edit window when cropping an image

Akumina Framework Version:  5.5.2112.1711*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Akumina Framework Functionality

• Added better support for external link determination in Teams
• Corrected Cloud Team routing issues on subsites
• Corrected edit page menu not displaying on subsite in headless environment
• Fixed search results removing spaces in title and description
• Corrected time on title in Countdown Widget to change based on the user’s time zone
• Fixed the People search page show loading message appearing with no results
• Corrected saving a page when editing and saving the global instance widget properties

AppManager Product Version: 5.5.2112.1718

AppManager Functionality

• Implemented MCAS support in a multi-tenant environment using HostedAppHostNameOverride

AppManager Product Version: 5.5.2112.1717

AppManager Functionality

• Added SMTP OAuth Support
• Corrected Image Picker message when uploading a new image

AppManager Product Version: 5.5.2112.1716

SPA Version: 5.5.2202.0101

Akumina Framework Version:  5.5.2112.1711*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Akumina Framework Functionality

• Added support for the implementation version on the configuration file
• Fixed 4 Column Layout editing capabilities in page builder
• Corrected the edit widget property message on local widget instances
• Fixed the url route on sample Interior page
• Corrected the typeahead search box to display the full text box

AppManager Functionality

• Fixed the configuration file to be generated as a text file instead of json when retrieving from SharePoint

AppManager Product Version: 5.5.2112.1715

SPA Version: 5.5.2202.0101

Akumina Framework Version:  5.5.2112.1711*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Akumina Framework Functionality

• Corrected Design Permissions on a page to allow for view and edit
• Corrected the typeahead search box to display the full text box
• Fixed Banner Widget to support slider duration after pause

AppManager Functionality

• Fixed Image dimensions to display the thumbnail image with actual image size details

Headless Version: 5.5.2203.2902

Headless Functionality

• Implemented Headless Generation V2 into Akumina Architecture to support SaaS
• Added Multi-site support for Central/Delivery
• Ability to utilize Vanity URL
• Added Secure configuration
• Added Stateless Architecture
• Provides Enterprise caching support
• Key Vault Integration
• Logging Integration/Application Insight Integration
• Added several performance improvements to address low bandwidth scenarios

Developer Functionality

• Lots of nice bells and whistles for developers
• Dynamic configuration, no server access required for development
• No SharePoint runtime needed
• Utilizes blob storage instead of SharePoint
• Provides traceability of data calls to and from SharePoint/api endpoint

AppManager Product Version: 5.5.2112.1714

SPA Version: 5.5.2202.0101

Akumina Framework Version:  5.5.2112.1711*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Akumina Framework Functionality

• Corrected duplicate entries in PageData_AK by removing inactivity tracker URLs

AppManager Functionality

• Corrected AppManager Dashboard to load user properties from PeopleSync
• Fixed Customer Specific Message in ITP process step 2

AppManager Product Version: 5.5.2112.1712

SPA Version: 5.5.2202.0101

Akumina Framework Version:  5.5.2112.1710*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Akumina Framework Functionality

• Added a refresh button on Activity Stream Widget to allow user to initiate ITP process
• Fixed People Directory not loading on initial load of page
• Corrected links to documents for multilingual in Document Viewer Widget
• Fixed the getfolderfunction row limit to include only folders in Document Viewer Widget

AppManager Functionality

• Corrected Quicklinks to allow parentheses in URLs without domain extensions

AppManager Product Version: 5.5.2112.1711

SPA Version: 5.5.2202.0101

Akumina Framework Version:  5.5.2112.1709*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Akumina Framework Functionality

• Corrected number of groups displayed in page property permissions module
• Fixed Latest Media Widget to recognize newly added select fields

AppManager Product Version: 5.5.2112.1710

SPA Version: 5.5.2202.0101

Akumina Framework Version:  5.5.2112.1709*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Akumina Framework Functionality

• Anchor Items:
  • Search Experience 2.0 enables a more robust search engine with expanded capabilities for search actions and ranking, and improving the user experience with customizable search refiners.
  • New Search Bar features includes advanced type ahead search functionality, intelligent search suggestions, search result counts and vertical tabs for selection/refinement.

• • New Search Results Page includes advanced search features to provide the ability to search for relevant documents, pages, or people; search for promoted results; search using metadata tags; search across sites or within a specific department site; provides additional sort by options, call-to-action buttons, and additional configurable refiners on the search results page.
  • Added support for Department Search which reduces the result set for a particular department instead of searching across all sites.
  • Akumina Flow (In Beta) provides customizable multi-tiered checklist functionality for driving and collaborating a completion of tasks across a team. Great for onboarding, workflow surveys, and other tasks with the ability to integrate with 3rd party workload actions and provides reporting analytics.
• HTML Content Widget Enhancements
  • Add ability to publish content approvals from the frontend

  

  • Add ability to view publishing state of content (draft, pending, published)
• Add Image Uploader/Image Picker modal to the HTML Content Widget, Summary Links Widget and Discussion Board Widget to select and upload images from a specified library
  • Add Pagination and Search capabilities
  • Add ability to search all picture libraries
  • Add ability to upload images to a specific library
  • Add dropdown to select image library

• Summary Links Widget Enhancements provides additional front-end features for content authors across multiple pages including auto-translate support for multi-lingual, support for custom views, and support for personas
  • Add Persona support
  • Add custom views support
  • Add auto translate support
  • Add Ckeditor to customize and format a description
• Ability to define Page Specific local widgets for the rail in addition to Global instances
• Important Dates Widget Enhancements
  • Add additional select fields to allow for additional columns to be set on the list
  • Add a checkbox to display featured events
  • Add ability to show only items tagged with specified categories
• Ability to allow business users to create complete separate department sites that do not end up as “Sub Sites” or “Children” of the main intranet. These sites will be deployed in their own site collection and be referred to as a sibling site. The department/market sites can exist at the same level as main intranet and other department/market sites.
• Modified the My Links Widget to take advantage of the user preferences functionality to better support multi-site scenarios.
• Ability to add External Notifications for third party systems, such as Service Now, to be integrated into the notification bell for receiving external corporate wide notifications.
• Add new frontend Form Enhancements to provide:
  • Typeahead people search capability for single or multiple person selection
  • Lookup Field Item for a specific value or unique id
  • New form submission properties to allow for:
    • One submission per user or one submission per day
    • Ability to have multiple messages for a form based on the user response
• Provide additional headless support for SharePoint Modern site collections
• Added several performance enhancements to address low bandwidth scenarios

AppManager Functionality

• Anchor Items:
  • Added a new Search Manager management app to provide the ability to establish search configurations for the new Search Experience. The Search Manager management app defines the global search and site/lists specific search properties to render search results for the site.
  • Added new Akumina Flow Manager management apps (In Beta) to provide the ability to establish polls, surveys, and other processes to complete tasks across a team and provide analytical reporting.
    

• Added a new feature to the Notification Manager management app to configure External Notifications for third party systems, such as Service Now, to be integrated into the notification bell to enable corporate wide multi-lingual notifications for the site.
• Activate new license keys to support External Notifications and Akumina Flow.
• Added new features to the Form Manager management app to enhance frontend form submission:
  • Ability to add a typeahead search person picker to a form
  • Ability to add a look up field option to a form
  • Ability to set form submission properties on a form, to one per day or one per user
  • Ability to display multiple post back messages for a form
• Added several AppManager Performance Improvements