Release Notes

AppManager Product Version: 6.0.2301.1523

SPA Version: Headless/6.0.2303.2403

Front-end Core Version:  6.0.2301.1503

(*version to be used with CDN)

Release 6.0 Project Voice delivers an enhanced editorial experience by moving the content authoring and content administration experience to the front-end. AppManager will become primarily an “administrative” or “configuration” interface, rather than an “editorial experience”

The Akumina tray has been replaced with a Content Manager Rail and includes an introduction of a new “Modules” concept as well as a NEW top action bar to handle Author actions such as “Preview, Save, Publish, Submit to Workflow” to provide a unified experience across Modules.

The new Content Manager can be overlaid onto any existing installation for customers on version 5.0+ or higher, regardless of site installation type.

Front-end Content Manager Functionality

• Create New Module
  • Merges the creation of Structured Content and Free Pages together. It also contains the ability to create new template pages, and new components replacing the need to create new items within content apps.
• Pages Module
  • To search for existing pages, organize pages into folders, manage page versions, and support deleting a page
    • Pages can now be bucketed into folders for easy management as well as driving breadcrumbs
  • Added description fields for pages and page layouts
  • Enhanced the page builder experience with the ability to support row level CSS on a page container or widget container
  • Enhanced Quick content edit support to seamlessly edit content
  • Added delete page capabilities
• Structed Content Module
  • For editing content on pages and components for Author, Slider, and Curated app types. Provides the ability to create content from structured templates or freeform pages utilizing the page builder experience platform
  • Introduction of Editorial Pane and Non-Editorial Pane field organization
    • Editorial Pane – primary view of “Rich Text” or “Priority” fields (configurable)
    • Non-Editorial Pane – Supporting tabs for properties, search criteria, personas, permissions, and engagement for all content (configurable)
  • Added cross device page preview for viewing content on various sized devices (mobile, tablet, desktop) before content is published
  • Added version history capability for content
• Asset Library Module
  • For organizing documents, images and video libraries, or any library content across the sites, support file and folders hierarchy, ability to drag and drop, crop/resize, and define asset library properties
• Menus Module
  • To define all menus and hierarchies established for the site for Quicklinks app type
• Broadcast Center Module
  • Incorporated the Broadcast Center Module to create and send messages and announcements to a larger group of users via the notification bell, email, and site alerts
• Workflow Module
  • Added a Workflows Module for content reviewers to approve/reject content based on established content workflow moderation capabilities
  • Enhanced Content Workflow capabilities using the new Akumina Flow
• Editorial Notification Module
  • Added an Editorial Notifications Module to provide notifications to content editors for required tasks and approvals
• Incorporated the Debug Module (Akumina Debugger) to easily show properties on the page and assist in troubleshooting issues (CTRL+UP arrow)
• User’s Avatar (in the rail) of the current logged in user providing access to:
  • Help Center to provide quick access to valuable links to user and developer documentation sites and training videos
  • Settings for users to define their preferred languages for UI and content display, specify date, time zone display preferences, and specify editor preferences to enable the CKEditor version and auto-save content functionality.
    • The UI of the Content Manager now supports the following 4 languages as a default: English, Spanish, French, German (additional languages can be added upon request)
  • Version number to provide current core framework version
• Ability to modify content module and top action bar display based on authoring permissions
• Added a global site picker to switch sites within the Voice content module
• Added a status display in top action bar for editorial state for new, pending, saved, published including warning messages for unsaved content. The top bar actions will vary based on the module and user permissions
• Added a low-resolution status if using a lower than optimal resolution of 1920px by 1080px
• Added Auto Save capability within Structured Content and Menus Module
• Added new capabilities for field sorting, editorial and non-editorial panels in tabs, and back button flow across the Modules

Front-end Core Functionality

• Added a new HTML Tab Widget to support the creation of tabs containing HTML blocks
• Enhanced error logging with application insights logs to appropriate content
• Added several performance enhancements

AppManager Functionality

• Ability to configure the display of the Content Apps TAB in the event you want to maintain this feature until your team is completely moved over to the front-end Content Manager experience.
• Added a new Module Permissions Management App to provide the ability to configure editor permissions for each Voice module and display only permissioned modules in the front-end rail
• Added new Content App Settings to configure the content author experience to support content app usage, description, and managing editorial and non-editorial property fields
• Added a new Management App to support custom field views for content authors to be able to select their own custom views when editing content to streamline the authoring experience – a developer can register new field views for use within the new front-end Content Manager.
• Added several performance improvements

Headless Functionality

• Introduced a new UI for manipulating the ImplementationVersion,FrameworkVersion, etc. without the need to go into Keyvault

Developer Functionality

• Lots of nice bells and whistles for developers
• Fontawesome 6 support
• Added new Ckeditor 5 plugins
• Added new react components and controls
• Added authoring event actions for client customizations to hook to an event when content is saved/published
• Added ability to set custom UI for field types for single line of text, hyperlink, etc.

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
  • Added a new 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
• 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
• Fixed 4 Column Layout editing capabilities in page builder

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

AppManager Product Version: 5.0.2011.2358

SPA Version: 5.0.2111.0401

Akumina Framework Version:  5.0.2011.2321*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Akumina Framework Functionality

• Added the ability to add/show a description for a collection in the SummaryLinksWidget
• Added the ability to publish with approvals and versioning from the front end
• Corrected the FetchUser properties to be returned from PeopleSync instead of Azure AD
• Corrected the persona filtering for author content type when accessing the FriendlyURL
• Corrected calls to auto translate in SummaryLinksWidget when auto translate is disabled
• Added several performance enhancements to address low bandwidth scenarios

AppManager Functionality

• Added support for /api/connector/license to clear response cookies for ACS flow
• Corrected User Context Fetch from Graph to Cosmos for AD
• Added several performance updates

SPA Updates

• Legacy SP JS bundle improvement

AppManager Product Version: 5.0.2011.2353

SPA Version: 5.0.2110.2001

Akumina Framework Version:  5.0.2011.2320*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Akumina Framework Functionality

• Corrected the Saved Page Layout in a central site to display the image layout from Images_AK
• Fixed the users front-end site logout to enable the auto logout of AppManager
• Corrected the Widget Manager to prevent opening of widgets that have the edit property disabled
• Corrected the Exit Preview button not to display on the main page ribbon
• Added pagination to the page modal in search existing page

AppManager Functionality

• Added support for /api/connector/signout to enable AppManager logout from the front-end site
• Fixed the button display on the select image library modal within Ckeditor
• Corrected the initial load of AppManager to load site provisioning

SPA Updates

• Added support for CSS theme key to SPA

AppManager Product Version: 5.0.2011.2352

SPA Version: 5.0.2106.1501

Akumina Framework Version:  5.0.2011.2318*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Akumina Framework Functionality

• Fixed template urls and select fields when language is undefined
• Corrected Saved Layouts to include widgets for page versions
• Fixed table pagination icon images in select a page modal in SummaryLinksWidget
• Added a scrollbar to select a page modal in SummaryLinksWidget when searching for a page name
• Added the ability to allow global term set selection for virtual pages
• Corrected scaling issue impacting performance with ActivityStreamsWidget
• Fixed limitation on Discussion Board titles to allow special characters

AppManager Functionality

• Fixed Activity Streams API 401 error when AzureAD=false and Autologin=true
• Fixed unable to access configure root sites

AppManager Product Version: 5.0.2011.2350

SPA Version: 5.0.2106.1501

Akumina Framework Version:  5.0.2011.2317*

(*version to be used with CDN)

Akumina Framework Functionality

• Added a new AppManager Dashboard Widget, TopViewedNewsReportWidget, to provide reporting metrics of the top 30 viewed news articles in the current site including the number of views and count of comments and reactions for each article
• Fixed the answer duplication in the FAQ view of the Summary Links Widget
• Corrected News widgets to pass related news category on custom callbacks issue for next/previous articles
• Fixed duplication error when creating case sensitive collection names in Summary Links Widget
• Fixed usercontext userproperties being lost during setuserpersonas due to repeated graph calls on each page refresh
• Corrected MyEmailWidget to use the CacheInterval widget property
• Fixed the refresh list button icon on add new widget instance to display dropdown of lists in list selection
• Corrected Activity Comments Widget error handling for failed comment requests
• Corrected Activity Comments to prompt user to refresh if comments are not returned in 10 seconds
• Fixed reaction code display name
• Corrected configuration endpoint error when switching languages from English
• Corrected Activity Comments Widget to prevent duplicate comment creation when a user double-clicks
• Corrected Non SPA sites from processing SPAMode only steps
• Fixed HTMLContentWidget to save content on the page when persona is enabled
• Fixed ability to update widget properties with greater than 5000 items in PageWidgets_AK
• Corrected issue with SummaryLinksWidget not displaying with personas in a new created language version

AppManager Functionality

• Corrected Curated App Type in content edit adds multiple list entries in the content App Definition
• Fixed white text color issue for dark theme on filter dropdown in ContentEditorsTrendWidget

Akumina Framework Version*: 5.0.2011.2309-k

(*version to be used with CDN)

 Akumina Framework Functionality

• Corrected logging issue into 2 different site collections with 2 different app managers causing Valdate call to be skipped
• Fixed usercontext userproperties being lost during setuserpersonas due to repeated graph calls on each page refresh
• Corrected Activity Comments Widget error handling for failed comment requests
• Corrected Activity Comments to prompt user to refresh if comments are not returned in 10 seconds
• Fixed reaction code display name
• Corrected configuration endpoint error when switching languages from English
• Corrected Activity Comments Widget to prevent duplicate comment creation when a user double-clicks

AppManager Product Version: 5.0.2011.2349

 AppManager Functionality

• Added four new AppManager Dashboard Widgets to provide trend reporting metrics for a selected duration within a site:
  • ContentEditorsTrendReportWidget provides a listing of the top updated articles by modified date
  • PageViewsTrendReportWidget provides a chart of the pages viewed by date
  • UserTrendReportWidget provides a chart of the number of unique users visiting the site by date
  • DocumentsTrendReportWidget provides a listing of the top viewed/downloaded documents by modified date
• Updated the AppManager Dashboard Widgets for Top Commented Items, Top Reacted Items, Top Commenters, and Top Reactors to include a dropdown selector to define the duration for metrics reporting
• Corrected the AppManager Dashboard report height to display without the need to scroll
• Fixed Site Deployer allowing content apps to be created with the same name
• Corrected Site Deployer error handling when adding Content App when json value type is different
• Fixed data interception attribute missing on root site notifications from a subsite page
• Added AppManager endpoints to get all content apps and lists for Content Editors Trend Reporting Widget
• Fixed auto translation for content when a columns interior name does not match the display name
• Fixed configuration for api/connector/pageobjects to load from delivery site instead of central site
• Corrected auto translation tenant setting to use global value for TranslatorServiceTokenURL when tenant specific url is not updated
• Fixed persona enabled lists settings being overwritten when configuration cache is generated
• Corrected issue with auto translate not being disabled when auto-translate=true
• Corrected issues in Site Creator:
  • Fixed issue with missing lists on newly deployed site creating image popup message “Selected folder has more items than list threshold”
  • Fixed “PageListsPerSubsite” to move from global app settings to tenant specific app setting value
  • Fixed backward compatibility issue for DashboardWidgets_AK

AppManager Product Version: 5.0.2011.2337

SPA Version 5.0.2106.1501

Akumina Framework Version*:  5.0.2011.2309-g

(* version to be used with CDN)

 Akumina Framework Functionality

• Added a new Summary Links Widget providing front-end content management and design without having to create content apps or maintain multiple lists
• Added new Dashboard widgets, Dashboard Configuration Widget and Dashboard Renderer Widget, to enable quick configuration for managing and ordering the widgets on the Employee Dashboard page; and allows for customized page layout configuration.
• Added support for ‘save content as’ in the HTMLContentWidget
• Added ability to manage site specific saved layouts
• Added support for icons for pages in saved layouts
• Added tray widget property “AccessManageLayouts” to restrict the access to manage saved layout options
• Added ability to show the page version layout specific to a persona when impersonating
• Added the option to store page data within subsites to allow for catered page list permissions
• Added Experience Builder Tray usability enhancements for the tray buttons to appear smaller and translucent until hover
• Fixed Activity Stream Posts to use display name in @mentions
• Corrected PeopleDirectoryWidget to use display name to search people
• Added ability for filtering subscriptions to certain lists in Activity Stream
• Fixed Activity Stream Notifications to display load more when additional items available to display
• Corrected language token display on impersonate
• Fixed error when loading default content in HTMLContentWidget
• Corrected Notification Bell intermittently loading – widget was not waiting for authentication
• Added a new property in RelatedNewsWidget to point to category field in the list
• Corrected NewsCommentsWidget showing wrong comments count for 100+ comments
• Corrected Internal Page widget to respect the viewxml property
• Fixed Employee Detail to support userprincipal name instead of userlogin name
• Fixed mobile search icon to enable the search bar
• Corrected mobile display with inactivity message
• Corrected Employee Spotlight widget to remove inactive employees from list results
• Added language neutral images for praise to allow for horizontal scrolling with multiple images
• Added ability to remove users reaction
• Added ability to support default and custom praise images in Social Media Post widget
• Added IsDashboardWidget widget property to enable personalized dashboard widgets
• Fixed autologin setting to be configurable
• Fix for 3 step Process gets stuck on step 3, won’t reload
• Updated min width to allow modal to resize on smaller devices
• Added support for NoIndex callbacks on search
• Corrected search page results rendering duplicate entries due to the different urls associated with the same page id
• Fixed duplicate articles being associated in RelatedNewsWidget
• Added several performance enhancements to address low bandwidth scenarios

 AppManager Functionality

• Provisioned a new Dashboard Widget Manager management app to enable the available widgets for selection on the Employee Dashboard
• Fixed People Directory widget to support contains clause in search
• Corrected issues in Site Creator:
  • Foundation Site dashboard.aspx page is now provisioned by default
  • Fixed issue with deployment randomly failing on Provision AppManager Dashboard Widgets
• Stability with caches when using redis
• Added a Refresh button on the Dashboard page to assist with updating widgets where properties have changed Corrected recurring events in daylight savings time having wrong end date
• Added support for deploying app manager content apps from the Site Deployer (requires latest Site Deployer tool)
• Added AKSearchExclusionCallback model to allow a no index option
• Added several performance updates

SPA Updates

• UseSPAccessToken logging updated to reflect new code
• ValidateSpToken renamed IsAzureEnabled to UseSPAccessToken
• Automatically hide the Microsoft SharePoint App bar (https://support.akumina.com/hc/en-us/articles/360061000551-Microsoft-SharePoint-App-Bar)
• Added Teams Social support (https://community.akumina.com/knowledge-base/microsoft-teams-personal-app-setup/)
• Added Android support for Teams Mobile

AppManager Product Version: 5.0.2011.2335

SPA Version 5.0.2106.1501

Akumina Framework Version:  5.0.2011.2311

(* version to be used with CDN)

 Akumina Framework Functionality

• Corrected internal pages widget to respect the viewXML property
• Fixed Employee Detail widget to support userprincipal name instead of userlogin name
• Fixed search type ahead to use display name on people search instead of searching all fields
• Fixed mobile search icon to enable the search bar
• Corrected mobile display with inactivity message
• Corrected search page results rendering duplicate entries due to the different urls associated with the same page id
• Corrected Employee Spotlight widget to remove inactive employees from list results
• Added language neutral images for praise to allow for horizontal scrolling with multiple images
• Added support for NoIndex callbacks on search
• Added several performance enhancements to address low bandwidth scenarios

 AppManager Functionality

• Corrected recurring events in daylight savings time having wrong end date
• Added support for deploying app manager content apps from the Site Deployer (requires latest Site Deployer tool)
• Added several performance updates

 SPA Updates

• Automatically hide the Microsoft SharePoint App bar (https://support.akumina.com/hc/en-us/articles/360061000551-Microsoft-SharePoint-App-Bar)
• Added Teams Social support (https://community.akumina.com/knowledge-base/microsoft-teams-personal-app-setup/)
• Added Android support for Teams Mobile

AppManager Product Version: 5.0.2011.2325

SPA Version 5.0.2105.1201

Akumina Framework Version:  5.0.2011.2310

(* version to be used with CDN)

 Akumina Framework Functionality

• Added new Dashboard widgets, Dashboard Configuration Widget and Dashboard Renderer Widget, to enable quick configuration for managing and ordering the widgets on the Employee Dashboard page; and allows for customized page layout configuration.
• Added ability to support default and custom praise images in Social Media Post widget
• Added several fixes to Summary Links Widget:
  • Fixed re-ordering issue when moving items across groups
  • Added ability to include numbers in collection name
  • Added better validation for URL fields
  • Added improved upload image error handling
  • Added improved support for Multi-lingual
  • Corrected UI to show newly added collection items as selected
• Corrected Discussion Board Widget to support relative URL in URL properties
• Corrected rendering issues with Social Widgets on an uncached load

 AppManager Functionality

• Provisioned a new Dashboard Widget Manager management app to enable the available widgets for selection on the Employee Dashboard
• Fixed QuickLinks App when provisioning a new quicklinks LIST and adding a content app with persona enabled, publishing root node does not assign ALL persona
• Fixed People Directory widget to support contains clause in search
• Corrected issues in Site Creator:
  • Foundation Site dashboard.aspx page is now provisioned by default
  • Fixed issue with deployment randomly failing on Provision AppManager Dashboard Widgets

AppManager Product Version: 5.0.2011.2324

SPA Version: 5.0.2105.1201

Akumina Framework Version:  5.0.2011.2309*

(* version to be used with CDN)

 Akumina Framework Functionality

• Added AppManager Dashboard Widgets for Top Commented Items, Top Reacted Items, Top Commenters, and Top Reactors
• Added SPA Version to the Akumina Debugger
• Corrected issue where page would tell widgets to load prior to authentication being complete
• Added Implementation Version to all view calls

AppManager Functionality

• Added refresh button to Author App listing page
• Corrected recurring events starting during daylight savings having the wrong end time
• Corrected proper filtering within taxonomy selector using translated tags
• Stability around disappearing content apps due to context issues
• Added a Refresh button on the Content App Listing Screen to show the apps from the current site
• Resolved an issue with quick content edit not switching context properly when in a sub-site
• Fixed QuickLinks App when provisioning a new quicklinks LIST and adding a content app with persona enabled, publishing root node does not assign ALL persona

AppManager Product Version: 5.0.2011.2317

SPA Version 5.0.2105.1201

Akumina Framework Version:  5.0.2011.2310

(* version to be used with CDN)

 Akumina Framework Functionality

• Added a new Summary Links Widget providing front-end content management and design without having to create content apps or maintain multiple lists
• Added support for ‘save content as’ in the HTMLContentWidget
• Added ability to manage site specific saved layouts
• Added support for icons for pages in saved layouts
• Added tray widget property “AccessManageLayouts” to restrict the access to manage saved layout options
• Added ability to show the page version layout specific to a persona when impersonating
• Added the option to store page data within subsites to allow for catered page list permissions
• Added Experience Builder Tray usability enhancements for the tray buttons to appear smaller and translucent until hover

AppManager Functionality

• Added a Refresh button to Author App listing page to assist with viewing the most recent content
• Corrected proper filtering within taxonomy selector using translated tags
• Stability with caches when using redis
• Added a Refresh button on the Dashboard page to assist with updating widgets where properties have changed
• Added a Refresh button on the Content App Listing Screen to show the apps from the current site
• Resolved an issue with quick content edit not switching context properly when in a subsite

AppManager Product Version: 5.0.2011.2311

SPA Version: 5.0.2104.0801

Akumina Framework Version:  5.0.2011.2309*

(* version to be used with CDN)

Akumina Framework Functionality

• Fixed FriendlyUrls for sites deployed to root collection
• Corrected ‘Add to Menu’ in edit page content for root site page links
• Added page builder stability improvements to handle duplicate instances of Ckeditor
• Fixed dashboard loading in root site within AppManager
• Fixed updating global widget instances after changing properties in page edit mode
• Added widget property editing stability improvements for multiple delivery sites using the same widget id with different site ids
• Fixed performance of search results in root sites
• Corrected redirect link to home page in root sites
• Corrected ‘My Sites’ in Me Bar Management Widget in root sites
• Fixed Document viewer issues with download and delete in root sites
• Added Save Page Layout stability improvements for editing widget properties
• Corrected Activity Stream event card display for all day events
• Fixed Important Dates Widget all day events display when viewing cached data
• Corrected My Org Tree Widget to display profile images
• Added an all date picker and moment js files to CDN
• Updated Page Builder for add new instance and additional properties to be collapsed
• Corrected page preview to reset state in Page Builder
• Corrected Activity Stream comments widget error

AppManager Functionality

• Fixed Site Deployer for ‘Add Modern Pages’ in root sites
• Corrected cache key issue with ‘spfile’ endpoint for Headless configurations
• Corrected Activity Stream Event Subscription with missing group ID or persona
• Fixed loading issue in Curated Content App when publishing content tied to a persona
• Corrected select site in Curated Content App in root sites
• Corrected form link display in Quick Links App in root sites
• Added fail safes to prevent Content Apps from disappearing
• Added ability for deleting pages in Page Manager
• Added an ‘AllDayEvent’ for event card type in Activity Stream
• Added an OData filter to SharePoint event subscriptions for Activity Stream items
• Added support for “Content App Settings administrator” on the global settings page

AppManager Product Version: 5.0.2011.2310

SPA Version 5.0.2012.2201

Akumina Framework Version:  5.0.2011.2309*

(* version to be used with CDN)

Akumina Framework Functionality

• Added Virtual Page loading performance improvements
• Added ability to support firstname / lastname query string search parameters in People Directory
• Corrected widget icon from image path to font-awesome in Activity Stream Widgets
• Fixed sticky rails scrolling in Activity Stream to be supported across all browsers
• Corrected a usability issue with Swap Widget to not allow a widget to be added when swap widget is enabled
• Corrected ROOT Site Page loading issues on delivery site
• Corrected going into live mode or clearing content cache loses AppManager Context
• Corrected the ability in page builder to remove the first row when it is blank

AppManager Functionality

• Added support for “Content App Settings administrator” on the global settings page
• Corrected Activity Stream to return latest item title/url within metrics date range
• Corrected /api/connector/currentusergroups to no longer throw 500 errors in certain scenarios
• Added the ability to support more than 5000 global widget instances in widget manager
• Added Microsoft Teams Auth Flow support
• Fixed landing on the Site Provisioning Page in site creator
• Corrected Ckeditor document picker to create a new link for documents in resource picker
• Fixed Override Subsite Cache to support more than 100 subsites in Azure tables
• Corrected updating wrong widget instance properties when the same widget id exists in multiple delivery sites
• Corrected a usability issue to not auto update Static URL field if content is in edit mode
• Fixed language neutral list character limit in AppManager

AppManager Product Version: 5.0.2011.2306

SPA Version: 5.0.2012.2201

AppManager Framework Version: 5.0.2011.2309*

(* version to be used with CDN)

Akumina Framework Functionality

• Added Progress Bar functionality to display progress when navigating pages
• Added a Saved Page Layout to provide the ability to save widget instances with the page
• Added the ability to Delete Saved Layouts
• Fixed the search result page to return the same number of results as displayed in the dropdown
• Corrected the Activity Stream subscription modal from scrolling to the top of the stream upon automatic refresh
• Fixed the ability to upload files to folders with special characters in DMS and Document Viewer
• Corrected api connector isloggedin to not probe islogged when timeout has occurred
• Fixed the create button functionality on DMS drag and drop file on page refresh
• Removed follow button on DMS and Document Viewer in Modern as SharePoint no longer supports follow
• Fixed configuration to allow a maximum of 100 user groups to be returned from graph
• Fixed duplicate page results in search in on premise
• Corrected SPA links in the HTML content widget
• Corrected user personas to display the personas for logged in user instead of showing all personas

AppManager Functionality

• Removed trailing slash in site address when generating site unique ids
• Corrected issue with user preferences to reduce 404 errors when preferences are not found
• Fixed Persona Builder to display under management apps when cloning an existing persona
• Updated api/health route to return UTCNow.Ticks
• Implemented support for external links in Quicklinks to modern pages outside of the Akumina Framework

AppManager Product Version: 5.0.2011.2303

AppManager Functionality

• Added a “Switch to Central” button on the switch site modal for Central/Delivery configured sites
• Fixed the delete option display on Document Viewer when a file name includes special characters
• Implemented Redis improvements to avoid large read/write in redis (page and widgetinstance) caches
• Corrected the runtime error on load of the ImageGallery Content App for supporting multiple nodes in Azure Web Apps

AppManager Product Version: 5.0.2011.2302

AppManager Functionality

• Corrected message for CKEditor tenant id config lookup to display debug message
• Fixed the AppManager Dashboard Manager widget display when a site has multiple delivery sites
• Corrected the clear all cache to clear all keys from redis storage
• Fixed the Forms Background Processor to ensure the forms processing site urls are valid before processing
• Corrected the widget definitions to validate multiple views pointing to the same template url
• Added the ability to select site collection URL for Activity Stream Rollup type
• Implemented usability improvements for working with dark theme and forms

AppManager Product Version: 5.0.2011.2301

Akumina Framework Version: 5.0.2011.2309*

(* version to be used with CDN)

Akumina Framework Functionality

• Anchor Items:
  • Intelligent Activity Streams provides a multi-lingual feed experience with M365 and 3rd party providers, with the ability to share and promote content, communicate critical and time sensitive messages and ties comments and notifications to user personalized collaborative activity stream

• • • Ability to send stream praise posts to team members

• • • Ability to send stream polling posts to team members

• • • Ability to post important messages that are pinned to the top of the stream

• • • Ability to receive SharePoint subscriptions in the stream

• • • Ability to receive Outlook subscriptions in the stream

• • • Ability to receive third Party Connectors with Power Automate in the stream

• • • Ability to personalize your activity stream configuration

• • • Ability to filter the activity stream by subscription type and priority.  Ability for users to create folders to organize filters.

• • Comment Engine provides ability for threaded and nested comments, likes with emoticons and @mentions; and provides ability to report a comment concern for administrator review

• • Reaction Engine provides the ability to react on comments and stream events with user defined reaction type icons, displays label on hover, and rollup counts by reaction

• • Notification Engine introduces social network functionality in the notification bell with clickable links for redirect to the item and ability to customize which notifications are received

• • Experience Builder 3.0 provides true page version personalization by driving different experiences per Persona on the same URL.  In alignment with the employee journey strategy, for example, the newly onboarded employee will see a different experience than the tenured employee
    • Added a new preview page version button on the Akumina tray

• • • Added a new persona personalization button on the page editor bottom tray

• Optimizer Experience 1.0 allows customizable checklist functionality for driving a completion of tasks. Great for onboarding and other tasks with the ability to integrate with 3rd party workload actions

• Several performance enhancements included to improve overall performance

AppManager Functionality

• Anchor Items:
  • A new AppManager Dashboard page allows AppManager users the ability to create a personalized user defined reporting and analytics dashboard specific to each AppManager site

• • Locale formatting allows for a personalized user experience providing the ability for the user to select their AppManager color preference for theme setting, and control the date and time format display in AppManager (Date Format – EU date format DD/MM/YYYY; US MM/DD/YYYY and Time – 12 hour time (12:00 am to 11:00 pm); military time (0000 to 2300))

• • AppManager Branding Rework enables customized app manager experiences for enhanced usability

• Added several new Management Apps to support the new Activity Streams and Socialization Experience:
  • Activity Streams Manager provides functionality to establish customized feed subscriptions with M365 and 3^rd party providers

• • Comment Manager provides clients with a customizable repository to track and report comment concerns, establish comment concern thresholds, review flagged concerns, and generate historical reporting

• • Cosmos DB Manager provides clients with a mechanism to view and query their Activity Stream data, troubleshoot data concerns, and identify areas for data cleanup

• • Message Notification Manager provides clients the ability to send multi-lingual notifications to an activity stream for a group, persona or specific user, and identify important messages for the stream

• • Notification Manager provides the ability to configure notification rules for the site, establish multi-lingual messages by notification type, and define email digest templates

• • Reaction Manager provides a customizable reaction repository for users to engage with posts on Activity Streams and Commenting system

• Added a new Activity Stream User Manager content app to define the widgets to display, the order of the widgets and if they are expanded on the Activity Stream

• Added a new AppManager Dashboard Manager management app to enable a site-specific dashboard that provides user defined statistical and analytics reporting with updated links to personalized information for enhanced usability

• Added a new Step Planner Management App to establish and maintain customizable checklist functionality for monitoring and driving a completion of tasks

• Added a new Social tab to enable the content app comment and reaction rules used for displaying content in the Activity Stream and Social Engine

• Enable multi-lingual as a default and provision multi-lingual columns for all lists
• Enhance Switch Site Collection to easily view current site from AppManager ribbon, provides a drop down to switch site collection and configure subsites

• Activate new license keys to support Activity Streams, Social Engine and Optimizer
• Enable license key expiration to provide a countdown and alerts for upcoming expirations

• Enhance user experience by providing knowledge-based links in AppManager to Akumina Community user guide documentation

• Added upgrade compatibility to ensure all content apps and configurations are enabled from any previous 4.8 version

Akumina Foundation Site Functionality

• Foundation Site Branding for FS’20
• Added Activity Streams and Optimizer to FS’20 Foundation Site
• Upgraded third party library versions for font awesome and zurb foundation css framework

PeopleSyncV2

• Restructure PeopleSync entities into a single container with the option to switch to multi-containers
• Support for 5.0 PeopleSync using Microsoft graph.microsoft.com
• Modify PeopleSync to persist the data to Cosmos DB (SQL API)

Developer Functionality

• Lots of nice bells and whistles added for developers
• Provide dashboard analytics using AppInsights with CosmosDB
• Upgraded frontend framework to Jquery version 3.5
• Remove the Verb from the REST API’s
• Build Akumina 3^rd Party connectors for use with Activity Stream
• Supporting new Safari Flow ITP
• Multi-tenancy CORS support
• Remove and refactor the Session State Variables – author, forms, actionresults

AppManager Product Version: 4.8.2007.1334

SPA Version: 4.8.2110.2601

Akumina Framework Version: 4.8.2007.1531*

(* version to be used with CDN)

Akumina Framework Functionality

• Added a {Now} token for date and time in Generic Search List Widget
• Fixed “show more results” button on Announcement Items Widget
• Corrected outdated events from appearing on Important Date Widget
• Corrected forms chart to display on subsite form
• Fixed date range display on Event Detail Widget for all day events
• Corrected video tags from being stripped and video icon not working in CkEditor
• Corrected aksearchexclude class in PageData_AK
• Corrected mobile display with inactivity message
• Fixed autologin setting to be configurable
• Fixed ability to update page widget properties with more than 5000 items in the list
• Corrected document library list selector on Generic List Widget
• Corrected News Comments Widget showing wrong comments count for 100+ comments
• Updated min width to allow modal to resize on smaller devices
• Added ability to use employee images from Azure Ad in Foundation Employee Spotlight Widget
• Implemented front-end performance improvements

AppManager Functionality

• Updated SearchPageExlusionList to exclude pages/teamshosted
• Corrected configuration endpoint error when switching languages from English
• Stability with caches when using redis
• Added a Refresh button on the Content App screen for content apps not loading
• Fixed persona enabled lists settings being overwritten when configuration cache is generated
• Fixed the ability to enter decimals in a numeric field in a content app
• Added several performance updates

SPA Updates

• Automatically hide the Microsoft SharePoint App bar (https://support.akumina.com/hc/en-us/articles/360061000551-Microsoft-SharePoint-App-Bar)
• Added early load JS option support

AppManager Product Version: 4.8.2007.1325

SPA Version: 4.8.2105.0301

Akumina Framework Version: 4.8.2007.1524*

(* version to be used with CDN)

Akumina Framework Functionality

• Implemented 4.8 front-end performance improvements across the board
• Corrected disappearing instances on the tray for improved stability
• Corrected personas not being recognized in subsites
• Supporting new Safari Flow ITP
• Added page builder stability improvements to handle duplicate instances of Ckeditor
• Azure AD flow now operates in an iframe rather than full redirect
• Added Teams as a Canvas
• Added Save Page Layout stability improvements for editing widget properties
• Added ability to manage saved layouts
• Fixed duplicate records in pagedata_ak in certain circumstances
• User property improvements with user names containing special characters
• Multiple delivery sites now function using the same widget id

AppManager Functionality

• Added ability for deleting virtual pages including page references in Page Manager
• Preview button now supports static url token
• Fixed Quicklink URL encoding issues
• Added Content app permission improvements with various button states
• Corrected Azure AD cookie stability reducing logout scenarios
• Added performance improvements when using multiple subsites
• Added support for “Content App Settings administrator” on the global settings page
• Corrected ‘spfile’ endpoint to not share cache keys
• Added ability to sort in curated app content picker
• Corrected recurring events starting during daylight savings having the wrong end time
• Corrected proper filtering within taxonomy selector using translated tags

AppManager Product Version: 4.8.2007.1501

SPA Version: 4.8.2012.1401

Akumina Framework Version: 4.8.2007.1501*

(* version to be used with CDN)

Akumina Framework Functionality

• Anchor Items:
  • Introduction of a new Foundation Site Three (FS’20) site.  FS’20 deployment package provides a Modern site allowing a choice of one of three home page layout options (center, left, or right focus) to be selected for the site during deployment. For detailed information, see Foundation Site FS’20 Reference Guide
  • Added a new rail layout option that is available with FS’20 Home Page, please reference Using Rail Layouts to Customize Your Pages
  • Added a new InternalPage dynamic page used to display a detailed internal page view for each of the current site section’s with/without related articles
  • Added a new footer navigation element to appear throughout all the pages on the Foundation Site. The Footer consists of a logo, footer links, world clock items, social links and copyright statement
  • Added new features to the Foundation Site Search box to enable search of the entire site for relevant pages, documents, and people in a tabbed display.  Clicking on the results for the selected tab are displayed a drop down list
  • Added a new edit profile modal to provide the ability to customize the user properties and configure the background of the user profile, please reference Updating the User Profile’s Background Image
  • Included several new widgets to support the new Foundation Site Three (FS’20)
• Added support for default language other than English
• Added new button to page builder tray to launch rail modal
• Fixed adding a page with premade layout to display the page in edit mode
• Corrected toggle button being enabled on second page creation in modern
• Corrected page edit add to menu to add links in AppManager to be multilingual enabled to save the language columns
• Fixed Document Viewer and DMS required text field character limit to maximum length
• Corrected error message in DMS when required fields are not filled in with check-in
• Fixed the page navigation when click on view more button
• Corrected page navigation access with unique page permissions
• Corrected search query to retain/pass search item to search detail page
• Fixed site search to work in Headless
• Added support for reusable content in edit mode in HTMLContent
• Added documentation links to widget properties
• Added additional widget properties and property text to display in Multilingual

AppManager Functionality

• Anchor Items:
  • Introduction of new Foundation Site Three (FS’20) content apps.  For detailed information, see Foundation Site FS’20 Content Apps
• Corrected clearing configuration cache in delivery site
• Fixed message for managing master page widget instances from subsite
• Added friendlynames for uicallback and callback and updated all FS3 widget configurations
• Fixed PublishedBy/Title in FoundationNews_AK
• Fixed get_site of null console error while adding indexpage data to PageData_AK
• Replaced a11yclick calls with WCAGClick
• Fixed language tokens to display friendly names in Multilingual
• Added languageid to URL on cache clear, language switch and inactivity
• Fixed AppManager autologin truncating query string parameters
• Added support for multiple taxonomy categories

Developer Functionality

• Lots of nice bells and whistles added for developers
• Upgraded to Owlcarousel version 2.3.4 to fix swiping on mobile devices
• Upgraded handlebars from version 4.1.1 to 4.7.6
• Updated IsSpaClass for all AddSPALinks
• Change all widget js to pass the “Image Description” as part of the image object to the view for accessibility

AppManager Product Version: 4.8.2004.0201

Akumina Framework Version: 4.8.2004.0201*

(* version to be used with CDN)

Akumina Framework Functionality

• Anchor Items:
  • Enhanced front-end Framework to run seamlessly in a SharePoint Modern environment.  Introduced a new SPA package for use in Modern:
    • Single Page Application (SPA) – Akumina acts as a layer on top of the SharePoint modern canvas with full brand ability options and introduces a virtual master page
  • Introduced public CDN for Akumina Framework files which will greatly improve performance out of the box, lower the maintenance of upgrades as well as easily roll out patches in the event a fix needs to be made
  • Now supports new “Akumina Library” instead of “Style Library”:  Akumina library houses all Akumina assets due to SP put an extra permission on the style library
  • Enhanced Quick Content Edit to provide the ability to add content directly from the front-end site alongside the existing edit feature
  • Added a new Auto Provisioning Widget for the content author to provision the necessary list elements from the front-end Framework to easily manage and extend the DWP solution
  • Added a new content site selector in widget manager properties
• Added Additional Headless Support for:
  • Like and Share Functionality
  • Document Viewer Folder and DragDrop functionality
  • Discussion Board
• Enhanced widget manager to provide a widget description for all widgets to improve usability when adding and editing widgets
• Enhanced HTML Content Widget to provide language fallback support on root/subsite for multilingual enabled users
• Enhanced Quicklinks widget to support 500 plus quicklink items

AppManager Functionality

• Anchor Items:
  • Added Support for SharePoint Modern
  • Added Central/Delivery Support for rapid re-use of Akumina tooling across many site collections using an ‘install once’ model providing for easy maintenance, upgrades and code deployments
  • Added a new Theme Manager management app to easily establish and change the appmanager theme to provide custom branding for the site
  • Added a new Configuration Evaluation Tool which provides configuration validation of App Mgr settings to help with setup and trouble shooting
  • Added ability to select SharePoint Image Renditions upload dimension images and allow user to choose image sizing for Image Picker and increases the performance of the front-end site
  • Added improved Friendly URLs feature to allow content authors to create their own vanity URL
  • Added Additional Support for Headless:
    • ON Premise
    • Headless Infrastructure of only sub-sites (Headless/sub-site Architecture)
• Now allow the Service Hub and AppManager to be separated. This removes a single point of failure, makes it easier to scale and provides the ability to upgrade without any downtime.
• Site Creator Step Performance Improvements to expedite the deployment process
• Implemented ‘Throttling decoration’ best practices to help reduce interruption of service due to high volumes of requests
• Added a new Management App for managing Page Cache to provide the ability to cache all pages, or a specific page object for sites with many pages
• Added upgrade compatibility to ensure all content apps and configurations are enabled from any previous 4.5 version

Akumina Foundation Site (FS’19) Functionality

• Added a new Mega Menu view feature to FoundationTopNavigation widget to provide a structured and visible relationship to all site options that is easily viewable at a glance
• Enhanced CSS theme files to eliminate !important tags and provide a consistent front-end user experience
• Added a new Language picker view to display above the language selection in main menu bar when multi-lingual is enabled
• Added a page URL to improve usability when searching for existing pages
• Enhanced Mobile View to improve mobile display presentation of content
• Added a department listing landing page

PeopleSync V2

• Support for On-Premise using SharePoint User Profile Service

AppManager Product Version: 4.5.1909.1336

Akumina Framework Version: 4.5.1909.1331

Akumina Framework Functionality

• Added commenting support for GenericItemWidget
• Corrected document viewer to allow metadata tagging on content upload
• Corrected quick content edit for widgets on master page
• Added better support for large attachments within form widget
• Fixed the margin between widgets when tray widget is not viewable
• Fixed navigation subcategory view on mobile
• Fixed an error message in search refiner popup results when valid results are displayed
• Fixed the dropdown menu for view profile and sign out
• Fixed Latest Media Widget to allow for configuration of selectfields property
• Corrected Quicklinkswidget to allow for publishing category names with quotes
• Added a property default “defaultitemopensetting” to enable loading of document tree in documentviewertreewidget for On-Premise
• Added HTMLContentWidget stability improvements
• Added title property to FAQ widget

AppManager Functionality

• Corrected SubsiteisRoot to IsSubsitePageDeliveryMode to handle multiple subsites on modern platform
• Fixed content app filtering functionality to support more than 5000 content items in multi-lingual mode
• Corrected auto-translation within body of content in multi-lingual to support rich text fields
• Fixed Enterprise keyword tagging to allow IsAvailableForTagging to be editable within the metadata selector field type
• Fixed link display in appmanager when adding a new category in Quicklinks
• Corrected FriendlyURLSearch in multi-lingual
• Addressed issue with EmployeeDetail page not functioning properly when using AzureSearch
• Added support for SSL SMTP connections for o365 configuration
• On-Premise:
  • Provide support for People Sync with Sharepoint user data
  • Provide support for Persona On-Premise
  • Corrected forms manager subsite navigation when reference list name is missing in forms_ak list

AppManager Product Version: 4.5.1909.1328

Akumina Framework Version: 4.5.1909.1322

Akumina Framework Functionality

• Added stability updates to Experience Builder to create more reliable page widget rendering
• Added support for Central Site collection mode and Page Delivery mode with Experience Builder – this allows for different page list configurations and storage per site collection
• Fixed tray widget callback functionality
• Corrected propcallbackmethod property to allow for a property bag callback (before render) for quicklinkswidget and genericitemwidget
• Corrected the widget manager to enable editing listname properties with a type of “string”
• Corrected the widget manager to allow for updates of multiple list selector properties in the same widget
• Updated SharePoint On-Premise stability

AppManager Functionality

• Fixed content app intermittent loading issue when changing sites
• Added multilingual support for languages with special characters, i.e. Norwegian (Bokmâl)
• Corrected the quicklinkswidget instance selected view for department site
• Corrected missing page issue when creating a department subsite of a subsite

• Content Authoring:
  • Corrected an invalid registration expression in security.js extension
  • Corrected security registration expression to handle newline in script tags

• Corrected Content Distribution to support push and pull for subsites
• Fixed Content Distribution to work for single valued person type columns
• Corrected preview content during import process for Content Distribution
• Updated SharePoint On-Premise stability

AppManager Product Version: 4.5.1909.1320

Akumina Framework Version: 4.5.1909.1320

Akumina Framework Functionality

• Anchor Items:
  • Added a new Curated Widget for the content author to display a curated list of items (news, events, people, etc.) to drive home site or sub-site page experience pulling curated items from multiple sites/lists to present one targeted list
  • Enhanced Search Experience to create a more robust search feature with the ability to work with headless and modern platforms
  • Updated the front-end Framework to run in a headless environment to work with experience builder, persona builder and impersonation engine creating faster performance and increased configurability
• Enhanced Single Page Application functionality to dynamically load and change page URL to create a page performance advantage and presents a single pane of glass to the user
• Enhanced HTML Content Widget to display user preference for multilingual enabled users; provide ability to insert images from image gallery and link to other pages
• Several performance enhancements included to improve overall performance

AppManager Functionality

• Anchor Items:
  • All new Curated Content App Type provides the ability to create a new curated list of items to establish a definitive sortable list from multiple SharePoint lists and multiple SharePoint sites
  • Added Content App Field Order Display to provide an authorized user the ability to reorder the display of content app fields to list the most important fields at the top to improve the content authoring experience
  • Phasing out of Interchange settings config to use a business friendly UI within the settings area – to allow an IT admin to easily see the configured settings.

• Added ability for content authors to create new sub term for taxonomy categories within metadata field types
• Corrected Metadata Taxonomy Label textbox display when multilingual enabled
• Azure Traffic Manager Real user measurement thru settings
  • MIME Check
  • Simultaneous login controls
  • Third party Java script updates
• Translation API updated to use version 3 of Microsoft Cognitive service

Akumina Foundation Site (FS’19) Functionality

• Enhanced Profile Page to add additional user information and provide standard look and feel modals
• Enhanced News Experience allowing users to like and share articles, and provide additional commenting features
• Enhanced My News functionality to provide search results across all 4 news lists (blogs, breaking news, foundations news, special announcements) utilizing NewsCardsWidget
• Enhanced Directory Page to provide additional contact details, enhance profile detailed page and provide a consistent front-end user experience
• Enhanced Department/Sub site page to provide a consistent front-end user experience; providing standard look and feel modals
• Enhanced Mobile View to improve mobile display presentation of content
• Enhanced Workspaces to provide a consistent front-end user experience; providing standard look and feel modals

PeopleSyncV2

• Ability to store all sensitive keys in KeyVault URL as one JSON file

Developer Functionality

• Lots of nice bells and whistles added for developers
• Additional https://akumina.github.io items:
  • Virtual page deployment developer functionality https://akumina.github.io/docs/AK-Virtual-Page-Builder
  • Documentation framework alignment
  • Better Typescript support – @types/akumina-core added
  • Enabling website search

AppManager Product Version: 4.5.1907.0366

Akumina Framework Version: 4.5.1907.0344

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Functionality

• Anchor Items:
  • Included upgrade compatibility support for customers converting from 4.1 to access the latest 4.5 features.
  • All new Widget Instance Creation allows an authorized user to add new widget instances to the Experience Builder page during page creation (auto list provisioning coming soon).
  • Added a new widget HTMLContentWidget to provide inline editing of existing or newly created content within the Experience Builder.
• Enhanced the main menu directory functionality to enable keyword search of the entire user directory in addition to name search capabilities.
• Enhanced Virtual Page load time significantly.
• Added iFrame Buster to Page Lifecycle to remove iFrames from o365 page loads which would intermittently cause IE to crash.

• Corrected global search to search entire site directory and activate search after hitting enter key.

• Corrected multilingual fallback language for widgets when no content is available in the appropriate language.

• Enhanced mobile support of OOTB widgets.

• Several performance enhancements included to improve overall performance.
• Enhanced debug panel information to display cache counts, persona properties, performance updates, and widget instance displays.
  • “Widgets on page” has been cleaned up and introduced a widget search.

AppManager Functionality

• Anchor Items:

• • Added Content Distribution to enable push/pull technology to seamlessly distribute content across multiple sites for authoring and publishing of content.

• • Added cache management screen to configure cache intervals on certain objects (more configuration coming soon).
• Added ability to access user fields and values from other third-party data sources; in addition to Azure directory.

• Added friendly labels within the persona edit schema screen to allow business users to customize field labels.
• Added better usability around advanced search capability of Content App listing screen with lists having more than 5000 items.
• Introduced language label support for taxonomy selector.
• Corrected download widget instance on subsite for a selected instance.
• Added multilingual metadata taxonomy label support to display appropriate language labels.
• Corrected Content App settings permissions to distinguish member and owner groups permissions when members part of owner group.
• Widget packaging system supports 4.1 widget packages.

Developer Functionality

• Added new Yeoman generator – “yo akumina.”
• Lots of nice bells and whistles added for developers.
• Launched https://akumina.github.io/ for developers (more documentation and videos coming weekly).

AppManager Product Version: 4.5.1905.0795

Akumina Framework Version: 4.5.1905.0796

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Functionality

• Enhanced the front–end management UI to provide a consistent front-end user experience; providing standard look and feel modals, consistent displays, branding and debugging tooling.
• Revamped the Akumina Tray widget from a spinner on the left side to a more modern experience on the bottom of the screen, and added tray functionality:

• • Added a new icon for the Impersonation Engine for an authorized user to act as an Incognito user.
  • Added a new icon to search for existing pages to easily locate and edit pages.
  • Updated existing icons with robust functionality and color coding when selected.

• EnhancedPage Builder functionalityto create Experience Builder, the next–generationtechnology. Experience Builder allows for maximum flexibility to define pages, page layouts and page types based on a desired user experience.

• • Added a new Virtual Experience Canvas (VXC) component within Experience Builder for ease of use in creating customized page layouts and re-useable page designs.

• • • Added a Zone Edit Mode feature to allow for widget customization of the row and column cells within a page layout.
    • Added an Exchange Edit Mode feature to allow widgets to be easily moved or re-ordered between cells.
    • Added a Container Edit Mode feature to restrict cells to specified widget instances within a page layout.
    • Added a Zone Restriction ability for saving and reusing page layouts.
    • Added Clone page ability to easily and quickly create new page layouts.

• Added two new VXC page editing tray widgets; a bottom tray and a right panel tray:

• • The VXC bottom tray provides unlimited flexibility to modify and edit the page layout by specific cells.
  • The VXC right panel tray enables page edit mode to allow for the new page to be added to a menu, save the page layout, save page for future editing, and publish the page.

• All new Impersonation Engine functionality allows an authorized user to preview the content through the lens of another user (persona); navigate the entire site based on the personato ensure their content is being personalized properly and the right personas are consuming their content. It can also be used to troubleshoot content issues and make adjustments as needed without involving additional resources

• Added ability to reuse widgets on multiple pages by providing page specific property bag functionality for widgets.Allowingthe same widget instance to be used across multiple pages with different properties without the need to create a new instance.
• Added new alert dialog box to track inactivity and assist users in maintaining active sessions in the case they may get signed out due to inactivity.
• Several performance enhancements included to improve overall performance.
• Enhanced debug panel information to display cache counts, persona properties, performance updates, and widget instance displays.

AppManager Functionality

• All new Persona Builder Management App provides ability to personalize content to targeted employees. Allows content authors to customize the messaging content based on the persona; providing a filtering ability to create a relationship between content and employee user attributes.

• • Added a new friendly UI for business users to create new personas based on user fields and values selected from a subset of Azure directory or other available third party directories.
  • Persona Builder dynamically creates a highly targeted and personalized user experience based on real-time user attributes; without requiring development resources.

• Added persona tagging ability on Author and Quicklinks App types for quick tagging of content and menu items to a certain persona.
• Added ability in Content Apps to enable and require personas.
• Added a new widget PageListWidget to provide a list of pages based on persona/metadata filtering.

PeopleSync Functionality

• Enhanced Persona Support functionality to provide faster data retrieval.

• • Added schema extraction capability for query fields.

• • Added Query Execution functionality to populate user persona.

• Added ability to synchronize data from any enterprise provider.
• Added ability to synchronizedata from multiple data sources into a single gold source for Azure Search Service.
• Added new capabilities to enable OOTB functionality for API and tokencalls for Okta.
• Added user/group faceting support to provide the ability to merge values from group to user groups within Azure search service.
• Added new live Azure Search Index update capabilities during data extraction.
• Several command file enhancements included; sync, add/delete search Index, and cleaning stale objects; to improve overall performance.

Developer Functionality

• Lots of nice bells and whistles added for developers.

https://github.com/akumina/AkuminaDev/wiki/Akumina-Framework-4.5.0.0-Overview

AppManager Product Version:  4.1.1901.0122

Akumina Framework Version: 4.1.1901.0112

AppManager Framework Functionality

• Corrected rendering of HTML in Discussions Widget
• Corrected survey form field data saving for date formatted fields

AppManager Functionality

• Fixed the View Manger to display duplicate name folders as separate folders
• Added ability for content authors to create new sub term for taxonomy categories within metadata field types
• Fixed intermittent editing issue to remain on page after save

• Corrected Metadata Taxonomy Label textbox display when multilingual enabled
• Corrected paging functionality within the content app image picker when paging back one page at a time
• Corrected permission issue for publish and save content on Author, QuickLinks and Slider apps
• Added multilingual support for languages with special characters, i.e. Norwegian (Bokmâl)

AppManager Product Version:  4.1.1901.0118

Akumina Framework Version: 4.1.1901.0115

Foundation Site Version:  4.1.1901.0112

BackgroundProcessor: 4.1.1901.0115

AppManager Functionality

• Added support for adding term sets from appmanager on taxonomy columns that allow it.
• Addressed issues with taxonomy selector where selection contained approximately 20 or more values.
• Added better support for File App in Multilingual mode – addressed publish and save issues.

AppManager Product Version:  4.1.1901.0115

Akumina Framework Version: 4.1.1901.0115

Foundation Site Version:  4.1.1901.0112

BackgroundProcessor: 4.1.1901.0115

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Functionality

• Weather widget – Updated to support Yahoo API changes.
• Document Viewer – Corrected issue with displaying sub-folders in certain circumstances.
• Enhanced DMS widget to support additional special characters within files and folders.
• Page widget – corrected page rendering issue in sub-sites.
• DashboardContainerDragDropWidget – added integration point to allow for save widget call back feature.
• GenericItemWidget – addressed “isroot” property not working correctly.
• Added “UseEncryption” setting in DigispaceConfigurationIDS_AK.
• Corrected issue with Akumina tray not loading properly with EnableAzureAD set to false.
• Performance update – Resolved issue within workspaces where the group to page map was fetched in large query rather than incrementally.
• Added base64 conversion support on email addresses passed in query string.

AppManager Functionality

• web.config updates are required for this release.
• Added RSS endpoint in API connector to support RSSWidget.
• Management Apps – Forms Manager – corrected Z index field display which prevented proper editing of forms.
• Updated endpoints to support base64 conversion of parameters.
• Added additional XSS sanitization for input fields across the application.
• Fixed date time conversion issues related to daylight savings time.
• Office PNP Version Upgraded to 3.6.1902.
• Numerous fixes related to “Service Hub” and “Headless” experiences.

AppManager Product Version:  4.1.1901.0108

Akumina Framework Version: 4.1.1901.0108

Foundation Site Version:  4.1.1901.0111

PeopleSync V2: 4.1.2018.1205

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Functionality

• Added support for upgrading from existing 4.0 version to 4.1 version
• Multilingual – QuickLinks and Slider Apps – fixed caching issue with new language version not displaying content when created
• Restored Tooltip on Content App Fields missing in initial 4.1 release
• View page – if a visitor has only VIEW permissions then hide the Edit button
• Slider App – corrected an issue where infinite spinner displayed when approval settings enabled
• View Manager now displays views within sub-folders

AppManager Functionality

• IE11 Dashboard My Apps Widget – fixed issue with app list not refreshing when selecting a different site
• Workspace – Create Task – fixed issue with Task Description not being SAVED when created in Bucket view
• Added Akumina Version to front end debugger
• Workspaces Tasks Widget: Made due date optional instead of required
• Workspaces Tasks Widget: Addressed issues with dates due to cross browser timezone detection
• Workspaces – corrected issue where an uploaded photo from a mobile device was being rotated 90 degrees
• Workspaces – Document Detail page – corrected issue where changes where not being displayed immediately after checkin
• Corrected process to not copy the workflow stage status when creating a multilingual language version of an item

• DMS widget updates

• • Major performance updates, added lazy loading to FolderTree and Grid components to support thousands of documents
  • Removed DMS Spinner at global page popup level – displays only within the grid / folder /refiner
  • DMS Control – Added ability to Sync Folder / Library for Offline Use
  • Added support of DMS control in workspace context
  • Address numerous issues related to special characters within folder or file names
  • Removed DMS refiner component – use DocumentViewer if this is a requirement

• Corrected multiple mobile / Android S7 issues

• • Dashboard My Team widget bottom person was cut off
  • Search icons positioning
  • Left rail was cut off in landscape mode
  • Directory page – Filters not working

AppManager Product Version:  4.1.1809.1925

Akumina Framework Version: 4.1.1809.1923

Foundation Site Version:  4.1.1809.1916

PeopleSync V2: 4.1.1809.1900

BackgroundProcessor: 4.1.1809.1925

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Functionality

• Introduced the Akumina Widget Builder, which provides developers with a development tooling/process (inside Visual Studio Code using Node.js) and automated packaging tools that ensure widgets are built with the new Akumina Widget structure so they can fully integrate with the Akumina tool set. (The “akumina-widget-builder” package can be found on npmjs.com)
• All Akumina Widgets built with the new enhanced Widget Model and packaged for portability
• Akumina Foundation Site now deployed with new enhanced widgets
• All new “Add Page” functionality which allows authorized users to create a new page and add widgets to that page all from the front end site with no need to access SharePoint.
• Added Content Quick Edit – quickly jump right from a front-end content item to its Edit screen in AppManager
• Akumina Tray Widget (spinner) now supports permissioning of each tray item to control access to the tray functions (and the tray itself)
• Document Viewer is now the default document management solution deployed in the Foundation Site (replaces DMS)
• Reorganized and simplified the Widget Properties Panel for better usability – this includes quick preview of view selections
• Added the “digitalWorkplace.env.js” file, which is where the InterchangeURL and the InterchangeQueryKey are now stored. They will no longer be stored in the digitalWorkplace.custom.js. The site creator will use the same logic on this file for replacing the “tokens” based on the inputs from site creator. This way, the digitalWorkplace.custom.js can be deployed for testing and final production without worrying about cleaning out the environment variables.
• Performance enhancements on the core page lifecycle steps to take advantage of the $batching API
• Added “Performance” tab to the debug screen which displays execution times for all of the steps in the page lifecycle to help with performance optimization
• Added more support for offloading SharePoint queries to Akumina web APIs to reduce load on O365

AppManager Functionality

• All new AppManager user interface, focused on significantly improving the user experience in both look and feel, and most importantly in usability and productivity.
• Enhanced the Akumina Widget Model and Widget Manager to support Auto Provisioning Widgets – which automates the creation of the supporting list assigning of content types and term sets when creating a new widget instance
• All Akumina Widgets added to the Widget Store (50+ widgets) for easy addition to any project
• Widget Store enhanced with one-step “Upgrade” function to get the latest changes to any existing widgets – this allows for quick upgrades or patches of widgets without having to update the core framework
• Added ability to set permissions on a content item in Author Type apps
• Added instance count to Widget Manager for each definition (on View Instances button)

AppManager Product Version:  4.0.1802.0184

Akumina Framework Version: 4.0.1802.0189

Foundation Site Version:  4.0.1802.0159

PeopleSync V2: 4.0.1808.0855

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Functionality

• Improved overall page lifecycle times – use of event loop has been reduced – most notably an improvement in o365
• Improved the getwidgetjs bundle call performance – browser cache now handles caching this file properly – mostly affected a IE 11
• Added new setting to ConfigurationContext to prevent the Azure AD user group fetch from executing during page lifecycle (LOADER_STEPS_ENABLE_FETCHADGROUPS)
• Added new Performance tab – Total Connect Time and Total Render time
• Core updates related to DateTime / DST / reoccurring events
• Calendarwidget DST updates
• Added new Performance tab to Akumina developer debugger

AppManager Functionality

• Added minor integration point to Content App Listing screens to allow for various column data to be shown (Images, etc)
• Addressed error with SP Onprem ‘Method System Update does not exist’ when updating a content item

AppManager Product Version:  4.0.1802.0180

Akumina Framework Version: 4.0.1802.0181

Foundation Site Version:  4.0.1802.0159

PeopleSync V2: 4.0.1808.0855

AppManager Functionality

• Enterprise Keywords Columns are now supported in AppManager
• Additional Date/Time fixes to allow for multiple off sets of time in a single time zone.
• Deselection fixes for metadata columns

AppManager Product Version:  4.0.1802.0179

Akumina Framework Version: 4.0.1802.0181

Foundation Site Version:  4.0.1802.0159

PeopleSync V2: 4.0.1808.0855

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Functionality

• Addressed issue in getwidgetjs call not functioning predictability in Safari
• Enhancements in the areas of both performance and security

AppManager Functionality

• Enhancements in the areas of both performance and security

AppManager Product Version:  4.0.1802.0177

Akumina Framework Version: 4.0.1802.0179

Foundation Site Version:  4.0.1802.0159

PeopleSync V2: 4.0.1808.0855

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Functionality

• Added capability to set the default controls which appear in the dashboard on a user’s first access
• Improved performance by removing creation of a separate widget instance for each user accessing the Dashboard.
• Made a change to the page lifecycle to acquire the Azure AD token earlier which alleviates the “refresh” effect
• Reduced size of Important Dates query to SharePoint for performance
• Added minification to digitalworkplace.css to reduce file size and increase performance
• Updated error messaging when FormDefinition is out of sync with form list columns (column missing or named differently)
• Fixed issue with LiveMode not working correctly in previous patch release
• Fixed issue with calendar displaying wrong time when user has no time zone set
• Fixed issue for Forms with “Upload File” – form was not getting processed if no file was added.
• Fixed issue with tooltips showing as question marks on Forms fields – (Support-256)
• Fixed issue with MY Forms Dashboard widget not displaying in some cases

AppManager Functionality

• Added capability to disable the duplicate title uniqueness check in AppManager content app to allow for situations where duplicate titles are needed
• Added a “Created By” filter to the Content App Settings which will only show items created by the logged in user
• Fixed issue with required date fields not being enforced
• Corrected validation message for required multiline fields
• Fixed issue with the Comments section of the content apps not displaying correctly
• Fixed issue where two versions of an item were being created in a list on Publish when “Create Versions” was enabled in the list
• Fixed issue with Link Resources in CKEditor not displaying all items in the selected list

AppManager Product Version:  4.0.1802.0175

Akumina Framework Version: 4.0.1802.0174

Foundation Site Version:  4.0.1802.0158

PeopleSync V2: 4.0.1805.3139

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Functionality

• Improved performance by reducing the number of calls to Languages_AK in multlingual sites
• Corrected issue with the loader step GETWIDGETJS in the front end not respecting setting in DigispaceConfigurationIDS_AK

AppManager Functionality

• Forms – provided option for submission notification emails to be sent to all users in the list as one email rather than separate emails
• Corrected issue to allow {{Site Members}} and {{Site Visitors}}, and {{SiteTitle}} for apps provisioned by the Site Creator
• Corrected issue with widget views not importing correctly when on the root tenant site
• Corrected issue with Managed Metadata filter in Akumina app when the list field internal name and display name do not match

AppManager Product Version:  4.0.1802.0173

Akumina Framework Version: 4.0.1802.0172

Foundation Site Version:  4.0.1802.0157

PeopleSync V2: 4.0.1805.1438

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Functionality

• Corrected Daylight Savings Time (DST) issue with Event Detail and Department Calendar date/time
• Corrected issue where the Important Dates widget was showing the incorrect display name during loading

AppManager Functionality

• Users outside of the OWNERS group can now create forms when using OAuth for authentication

PeopleSync

• A new version, PeopleSyncV2, with increased capacity and much faster sync times.
  Note: PeopleSyncV2 can only be used with AppManager 4.0.1802.0173 and above.
  Important: If you are upgrading your PeopleSync to V2, you will have to delete the existing aaduser.xml file from your storage location so that the new sync information can be generated.

AppManager Product Version:  4.0.1802.0171

Akumina Framework Version: 4.0.1802.0171

Foundation Site Version:  4.0.1802.0157

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Functionality

• Fixed intermittent footer logo not loading on Foundation Site
• Improved page performance by reducing the initialization time for widgets
• Improved the “snap in” effect of the workspace featured listing widget
• Corrected issue in generating departments (subsites) with “&” in the title
• Improved reliability of the PeopleSync process

AppManager Functionality

• New web.config setting to improve caching support for widget.js calls through the Services Hub improving site performance. Can be enabled in any 4.0 based site.

AppManager Product Version:  4.0.1802.0170

Akumina Framework Version: 4.0.1802.0169

Foundation Site Version:  4.0.1802.0156

AppManager Functionality

• Fixed issue which prevented Akumina forms workflows from executing (introduced in 3/1/18 release)
• Added capability to autofill one column field based on another column field in the AppManager content editor (requires javascript added to akumina.custom.js)

AppManager Product Version:  4.0.1802.0169

Akumina Framework Version: 4.0.1802.0169

Foundation Site Version:  4.0.1802.0156

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Functionality

• Fixed issue with the DigitalWorkplace Site Search, where the type ahead search results did not always match the results on the Search Results Page.

AppManager Product Version:  4.0.1802.0169

Akumina Framework Version: 4.0.1802.0168

Foundation Site Version:  4.0.1802.0156

AppManager Functionality

• Fixed issue with Reusable Content not functioning if HTML is encoded
• Fixed issue with the Image Picker pagination of images
• Fixed issue causing error when a user tries to access a content app where they have more than one permission set on the associated list (through multiple group memberships for example)

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Functionality

• Fixed issue with Reusable Content not functioning if HTML is encoded
• Fixed issue with Generic Search List not returning results if the default SharePoint Results Source was set to any option other than “Local SharePoint Results”

AppManager Product Version:  4.0.1802.0167

Akumina Framework Version: 4.0.1802.0167

Foundation Site Version:  4.0.1802.0155

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Functionality

• Fixed issue with the disabling of the “Submit” button once a form is submitted

AppManager Product Version:  4.0.1802.0165

Akumina Framework Version: 4.0.1802.0165

Foundation Site Version:  4.0.1802.0155

AppManager Functionality

• New Advanced Filtering in the AppManager Author Apps listing page allows for filtering based on any list column data
• Support for Reusable Content insertion in the AppManager editor
• Enhancements to the View Manager to display fully highlighted source code with line numbers
• New security encryption options for Azure Table stored data for both in-transit and at-rest data
• Enabled the use of Azure Keyvault to secure the Azure Table connection string data as well as the Background Processor credentials
• For on-premise installs, enabled the use of certificate serial number for the SSL high trust certificate
• Enabled support for Redis shared cache for AppManager load balanced environments
• In addition to the enhancements, the following issues were addressed:

• AppManager not displaying time fields correctly when Server time was not set to UTC
• AppManager not recognizing users added via AD Group nested in SharePoint group
• Addressed issue with required rich text fields not validating correctly on publish

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Functionality

• Support for Reusable Content rendering in the front-end framework
• Enabled new integration points with Akumina Workspaces
• Enabled a new token mechanism between the front-end framework and the Akumina Services Hub for handling the Graph Token duration and security using OAuth
• Added a front-end View Manager editor for fast access to make modifications to views
• Increased limit on forms attachments to 2GB
• In addition to the enhancements, the following issues were addressed:

• User time zone adjustments for Department Calendar and Event Detail views
• Akumina Workspaces document preview pane completely leveraging user permissions
• Apostrophe in search terms not returning correct results
• Firefox adding %20 in search widget when a space was used in search term

AppManager Product Version:  4.0.1712.1100

Akumina Framework Version: 4.0.1712.1100

Foundation Site Version:  4.0.1712.1100

AppManager Functionality

• Fixed logic issue with Save button functionality when versioning is disabled
• Corrected issues with image editing in the Image Picker under certain conditions
• Added a configuration key to disable the Widget Store
• Added a “Show Asssigned Views” to the Widget Manager to display views that are in use
• Fixed IE11 issue with tabbing between fields in Content App
• Added changes in Site Creator for description and help text on multilingual logo images
• Fixed IE11 issue with missing logo image in Site Creator

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Functionality

• Added support for Workspaces to function when O365 Group creation is locked down for the tenant
• In Workspaces Tasks, added an “unassigned” category when sorting by People
• Fixed issue with email address case sensitivity for authentication
• Fixed issue with IE11 not recognizing users who exist in mapped AD group
• Fixed issue with IE11 not recognizing rail item enable setting until refresh
• Added performance improvements for large number of users in user file (aadusers.xml)
• Made changes in the Foundation Site footer control list to address footer widget reordering
• Fixed permission access for visitors to enable site features such as dashboard, forms and favorites
• Fixed issue with left rail flyout conflicting with refiners on Directory page in Foundation Site
• Fixed issue with Important Dates widget not correctly displaying Featured recurring events that started in the past
• Corrected link in My Apps flyout for IE11 to enable Apps display

AppManager Product Version:  4.0.1711.0605

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Version:  4.0.1711.0606

(For O365-based Installations ONLY)

New Functionality

• New Akumina Workspaces project-based collaboration solution (licensed separately)
• Auto Translation for multilingual (machine translation using Microsoft Cognitive Services)
• New Drag/Drop interface for managing dashboard widgets (replaces checkbox selection)
• New Content App Creation Flow (enables multiple content apps/list !!!)
• New Employee Detail page
• File encryption capability for sensitive files stored in the AppManager end point
• AppManager sub-site selection configuration

Performance/User Experience Enhancements

• Streamlining of the Graph API connection for added performance
• Performance enhancements to the Page Life Cycle
• Ability to set widget loading priority in the Page Life Cycle
• Ability to have a custom loading view to replace the standard “Loading…” to improve the user experience
• All widget instances now loaded from AppManager endpoint for optimum performance on page load
• Improved performance in communication between AppManager and SharePoint

Developer/Admin Functionality Enhancements

• Import/Export of widget instances/definitions/views/JS code – useful for promotion of code from development to production and sharing of widgets
• Preview of the new “Widget Store” to enable access to new widget solutions
• “Nesting” of widgets – adding a widget to the view of another widget
• Ability to enable/disable Page Life Cycle steps via configuration list (no js code changes needed)
• DigispaceConfiguration list items redefined for enhanced performance
• Separation of the core framework from the Foundation Site for individual deploy/update
• Enhanced the Debug Pop-Up page for usability (Ctrl-uparrow)
• Removed requirement to create a callback to bind image and link fields to view
• Jump point from front end widget view to AppManager Content App
• Jump point from front end widget view to widget instance
• Improved Generic List widget to auto map URL and image fields without the need for a callback
• New licensing mechanism using single key
• Added new widget icons and descriptions which appear in AppManager and in Drag/Drop interface
• Enhanced People Directory filter conditions to include “contains” operator

Additional Items Addressed:

• New PeopleSync Console app enhancements

• Auto-detect if service is running longer than expected
• Phase out of PeopleSync Management app

• Updates to My Activity to support new GraphAPI calls
• Alphabetized filters in the People directory
• Client Secret expiration notice
• Addressed issue with Date/Time Picker and Daylight Savings time
• Extended the number of form report entries from 1000 to 5000
• Added ability to exclude menu items from search info so that when someone searched on a term that is included as a menu item all pages don’t get returned.
• Cleaned up the themes css files for the Foundation site to organize common classes
• Addressed an issue with the “My Recent” tab in the Document Summary List (DSL) widget not returning all the correct files
• Addressed Department News List widget to pull back summary and postdate
• Increased unique widget instance support from 1000 to 4999 per site collection

AppManager Product Version:  3.4.1704.0364

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Version:  3.4.1704.0377

AppManager Functionality

• Improved performance in communication between AppManager and SharePoint

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Functionality

• Addressed an issue with the “My Recent” tab in the Document Summary List (DSL) widget not returning all the correct files

AppManager Product Version:  3.4.1704.0363

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Version:  3.4.1704.0376

AppManager Functionality

• Addressed issue with the AppManager User Picker not listing all users for selection

AppManager Product Version:  3.4.1704.0362

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Version:  3.4.1704.0376

AppManager Functionality

• Addressed issue with Quicklinks when a Managed Metadata column was included in the list
• Addressed issue with AppManager User Picker not displaying all users (was only showing users in the current site)

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Functionality

• Address an issue where the GenericSearchList widget was ignoring the “Enable Paging” setting

AppManager Product Version:  3.4.1704.0361

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Version:  3.4.1704.0375

AppManager Functionality

• Addressed issue with certain users not seeing the Content App “Add New” button and Image Picker based on their permission

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Functionality

• Enhance the Banner widget with more integration points (additional fields, callback)
• Addressed an issue where the Graph API token was not refreshing
• Updated My Activity rail item to support new Graph API call (previous call was deprecated).  This fix can be applied without updating the core files by adding to the custom js file (see documentation)
• Added new condition to the People Directory filter to allow for setting a facet condition of “contains”

AppManager Product Version:  3.4.1704.0360

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Version:  3.4.1704.0370

AppManager Functionality

• Added ability to specify which subsites to manage using AppManager to optimize performance of “Change Site” modal

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Functionality

• Resolved performance issue where all metadata fields were being returned even if selectedFields were specified
• Added support for partial widget instance loading as a part of the page lifecycle – currently all widget instances are being returned – this applies mainly to customers who have over 250 widget instances

AppManager Product Version:  3.4.1704.0359

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Version:  3.4.1704.0367

AppManager Functionality

• AppManager login page – Icon missing
• Fixed issue with Forms submission report – getting error when two users share same display name
• Fixed issue with App access permissions on a list where inheritance is broken
• Fixed issue with adding a line feed in the Form Description impacting Forms Manager

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Functionality

• Fixed issue with Calendar widget filter not working when using with non-Calendar_AK named list
• Fixed issue with Important Dates widget date display for all day event, or when start time was in last four hours of a day

AppManager Product Version:  3.4.1704.0357

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Version:  3.4.1704.0366

AppManager Functionality

• Updates to the Akumina Forms logic to address issues with editing and deleting existing form fields and data retention

• User will be asked to confirm deletion of a form field and warned that all data will be lost
• Once a form is published, will not be able to change the “Name” property of any existing field

• Fixed issue with handling authentication in AppManager for users whose email address was not available in the Site Collection

AppManager Product Version:  3.4.1704.0356

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Version:  3.4.1704.0365

AppManager Functionality

• AppManager performance enhancements
• Addressed issue where AppManager was not correctly granting permissions for users mapped using Active Directory Groups
• Added differential sync to People Sync so that only new/changed users are processed each sync

• Includes differential sync console app to schedule synchronization times

• Added new keys to interchange.settings.config to enable performance improvements by disabling certain options if not needed.
• Addressed issue with the FAQ Widget only displaying first 10 FAQ questions.
• Addressed issue in People Directory widget that caused filters with commas in them to not filter results correctly.
• Resolved AppManager caching issue causing reordered content apps to appear to revert their order
• Forms Manager – Added clarification note that users without email addresses are not available to assign to workflow or email notification.
• Site Creator – Added additional checking to prevent illegal characters in Department URL
• Site Creator – Allowed use of “&” and ” ‘ ” in Department title.  Added additional checking to prevent illegal characters.
• Resolved issue with Image Picker introduced in Patch 3 that prevented newly uploaded image from appearing in image list

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Functionality

• Fixed problem with GetPageLevelPermissions step if “_spPageContextInfo.listPermsMask” is null
• Fixes issues with Graph redirect issues in certain circumstances
• Performance enhancements around getting neutral lists in multilingual enabled front ends
• Fixes for department colors not being properly loaded in our foundation site
• Fixes for double ‘loader/completed’ call when using Graph and first loads
• Updated naming of the ‘prefix’ in our logs to include Akumina branding
• Added support for loading widget instances from Interchange endpoint when dealing with large number of widget instances (configurable)
• Addressed issue with the Rail not returning the Rail Items in the correct order
• Added support for the recycle bin in the DMS widget
• Updates to the GenericItem widget to support “viewxml” and “idOrTitle” properties
• Addressed rare scenario of multiple calls to Error.html if Error.html view is not found

Product Version:  3.4.1704.0351

AppManager Functionality

• Addressed issue with Multilingual setting not being recognized during subsite creation when DSS config is in Load Balanced scenario
• Made performance improvements with Image Picker when traversing lots of folders with lots of images
• New Feature – Added the ability to configure the logging path which allows logging files to be outside of the web directory
• Addressed issue when Deleting items from AppManager and it not honoring the recycle bin settings
• Addressed issue with some systems not converting or recognizing UTC to GST time zones properly
• Site Creator tool – Subsite dropdown no longer appears empty during individual step execution
• The search page is now deployed correctly during i365 intranet deployment
• Addressed issue with Add Page Content step failing if versioning was enabled on the Pages Library
• Performance enhancements made to speed up form processing

Akumina Framework/Foundation Site Functionality

• My Forms widget has been improved to prevent forms from being edited if they are still in workflow
• Fixed Calendar Title property to not be hardcoded in English for multilingual default installs
• Form widget now supports Multilingual tokens
• Some vendor files were being double included (handlebars and magnific-popup) these have been removed (file size reduced for digitalworkplace.min.js)
• Directory widget has been updated to show correct avatar sizes
• Friendlier error messages added for developers when querying non-multilingual lists when multilingual is enabled
• Addressed caching issue on subsequent page loads requerying the list of Widget instances (performance enhancement)
• Form widget no longer allows multiple submissions when the form properties are configured to restrict submissions
• Added CSS commenting for easier customization
• Loader steps have been optimized to use REST calls instead of CAML and multiple steps have been merged into ASYNC calls instead of Sequential
• Search List widget has been improved to support Hybrid search environments
• Addressed a rogue console.log in custom.js sample file which would cause issues in certain IE browsers
• Added support for turning off certain steps in the page lifecycle and also still supporting live mode
• Event Detail widget now queries correct site collection for the view template (instead of the / site)
• The Akumina Tray now hides the edit widget properties instead of just preventing clicking if proper permissions are not detected
• Added jquery and jqueryui check in case there is already a version of jquery or jqueryui being loaded
• Removed use of window.load for jquery 3.0 support

Product Version:  3.4.1704.0350

AppManager Functionality

• Multilingual Support (licensed featured) including:

• New Language Manager App to enable languages, set their fallback and control visibility on the front end
• Language variations of a content item can be easily created from the default source language and be instantly ready for translation.
• A side-by-side comparison mode allows the content author to be editing or translating one language item while viewing the same item in a second language for reference.
• Dynamically switch between content language views of an item using the Language Selector
• New Site Creator functionality for deploying a new multilingual site (with placeholder English and Spanish content) OR adding multilingual to an existing site
• Supports the full set of 205 IETF language tags using the language-country code designations
• Support for Left-to-right and Right-to-left languages

• Ability to specify multiple admin and reporting groups in Global Settings
• Addition of a “Delete” function in the content apps in AppManager (under Admin control) so that Content Editors don’t have to ask their admins to remove old content
• Ability to sync user profile data from EITHER the SharePoint Profile Service OR the AzureAD service through simple dropdown selection (Also deployed in 3.3 Patch)
• Displaying of the SharePoint list name in its associated Content App editing interface (for Admins only) to help with initial setup and IA tasks
• Improvements to the integrated view management in the Widget Manager, including the ability to upload new view HTML directly in the Widget Manager
• Performance improvements to both the backend AppManager and the front-end framework
• Improvements to the Site Creator interface to ensure only applicable options can be selected – preventing accidentally redeploying and existing site or set of assets
• Added refresh button to View Manager folder display to ensure latest Style Library assets appear
• Added a new configurable logging framework to select the type of data to log, as well as where to save the log (selected file location, Azure table, or both).

Foundation Site/Akumina Widgets Functionality Fixes/Improvements

• Multilingual Support (licensed featured) including:

• Language awareness is built in to the framework and applicable OOTB widgets
• Versions of managed content items are linked to each other, changing languages on the site simply renders the newly selected language version of each managed content item.
• Can also have language versions of Widgets – change widget functionality based on the language!!
• Fully supports “fallback”.  Where there is no matching language version available for an item, the options exist to either not display any content or to display content from the specified fallback language.
• For static content (labels, messages, etc.) our unique “token” technology dynamically changes all static content in the site to the selected language.

• Introducing a new “Live Mode” switch in the lower left access point which disables the caching for Content Editors so that they can view their changes immediately
• Enhanced Search UI with new layout and facet displays, and full multilingual awareness
• Significantly Improved initial load times for the Digital Workplace site
• Page Life Cycle framework enhanced to allow developers to modify the steps that it executes (i.e. the Interchange Query Key check can be turned off once the site is setup)
• New “white background” built in style template for the Digital Workplace
• Converted the Alert to a Generic List widget so that it can be managed as a content app and also support multilingual (removed control app)
• Added “Clear Language Cache” function to the debug panel for use with multilingual content
• Added link to AppManager in the lower left access point (spinner)
• Improved page load times by using parallel step execution

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IMPORTANT: Beginning with the 3.4 release, the following key must be added to the “interchange.settings.config” file to enable the processing of forms.  If you are using the forms functionality in an earlier release, please add the following key to interchange.settings.config after upgrading:

<!–Forms Processing Site Collection List–>

<add key=”akumina:FormsProcessingSiteCollection” value=”” />

Value is a comma separated list of the site collections on which you are using the forms functionality.  The site collection full path (https://akuminadev1.sharepoint.com/sites/SiteCollection1 e.g.) must be specified for each site collection.

Product Version:  3.3.1612.2865

AppManager Functionality

• Updated People Sync Management App to support synchronization from SharePoint User Profile Service in addition to AzureAD

• NOTE: CONFIGURATION CHANGES REQUIRED. See “Using SharePoint User Profile Service with InterChange 3.3” below.

• Upgrade Subsites option moved to Site Collection root site update process in Site Creator
• Corrected issue with launching of Image Gallery content from My Latest Content panel
• Corrected time zone issue between user timezone and site timezone causing event hours to be changed on edit

• Corrected issue with Change Site modal not displaying button when only one subsite exists

Foundation Site/Akumina Widgets Functionality Fixes/Improvements

• Updated People Directory to support the display of people data from SharePoint User Profiles Service
• New integration point for adding custom steps to the Digital Workplace page lifecycle to increase customization options for developers
• On Upgrade, all widget instances for the default site controls are generated.  For snippet based sites, this means that changing to the new widgets functionality only requires replacing the current snippet code with the widget instance code (don’t have to spend time creating the instances).
• Deactivated site setting in SharePoint (Mobile Browser View) which was causing issues with responsive view on mobile devices

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IMPORTANT: Using SharePoint User Profile Service with InterChange 3.3:

For InterChange 3.3, to enable syncing from the SharePoint profile service, the following changes need to be made:

In the unity.interchage.config file, UNCOMMENT the following lines:

<!– Sharepoint People Sync –>

<!–register type=”IPeopleDirectoryUserFetcher” mapTo=”PeopleDirectoryUserFetcherServiceSP” /–>

AND COMMENT OUT the following default line for AzureAD:

<register type=”IPeopleDirectoryUserFetcher” mapTo=”PeopleDirectoryUserFetcherService” />

Finally, download the appmanifest file from the current InterChange APP in SharePoint, ADD the following line and then reupload the InterChange App package as a new version:

<AppPermissionRequest Scope=”http://sharepoint/content/tenant” Right=”Read” />

Product Version:  3.3.1611.1722

AppManager Functionality

• Modified the token renewal logic to extend sessions and avoid the frequent timeout errors
• If session timeout in InterChange, redirects to Interchange login page and/or provides message and link to login page (depends on the timeout location)
• Fixed View Manager to support multiple Site Collections on one InterChange

Foundation Site/Akumina Widgets Functionality Fixes/Improvements

(enabled by updating digitalworkplace.min.js on an existing site except where noted)

• Support for external users – disables AzureAD for the external user so that site loads correctly
• Fix to SharePoint Bar hide/show to eliminate space at bottom when toggling
• Additional help text displayed for resolving GraphAPI connection issues
• Fix to RSS feed widget to support additional feed constructs
• Calendar control enhancements
  • ability to display events from root calendar in a subsite
  • widget property to auto filter on a specified category
  • widget property to show or hide the category filter dropdown
• People Directory – (also requires updated PeopleDirectory/default.html and digitalworkplace.css in addition to new js)
  • First or Last name search boxes added (“search type” in control app is now ignored)
  • Ability to configure the directory to point to a different source file (instructions to come from Jason)
• Added “isroot” property to the event detail widget
• Corrected a display issue on the Video Summary widget for more than 3 videos
• Important Dates – added support for displaying calendar events that include times, dates, etc.
• Fix to Image Gallery custom app parameters in web.config

Product Version:  3.3.1611.0814 (Hotfix)

AppManager Functionality

• Fix to support IE11 and Edge browsers in high trust configurations with self-signed certificates (required for supporting the SharePoint Marketplace distribution)

Foundation Site/Akumina Widgets Functionality Fixes/Improvements

• Important Dates Widget: Added additional detail fields to support display of calendar events
• Department News Widget: Resolved issue causing infinite loop when no departments specified
• Resolved display issue with “Hide SharePoint Bar” left rail function which could cause a blank space at the bottom of the browser when toggled on/off.

Product Version:  3.3.1610.2813

AppManager Functionality

• Improved AppManager log file messages
• Fixed issue with site logo display in Site Creator
• Increased default forms to display before paging to 20 in General Forms Reporting

Foundation Site/Akumina Widgets Functionality Fixes/Improvements

• Added a SharePoint Bar hide/show function to the left rail in DWP for individual users
• Added a scroll bar to My Activity in DWP to support longer activity lists
• Added the ability in Site Creator to specify pages to exclude from search results
• Added Banner widget support in Digital Workplace
• Corrections to left rail styles in DWP on infinite scroll pages
• Added support for high-trust on-prem configuration in Firefox/Chrome
• Modified Home Page Department News widget to display with only one department
• Corrected “View All News” link in Department News summary widget
• Corrected handling of intermittent IE/AzureAD delays in DWP with messaging and auto-retry
• Fixed issue with Content Block widget support in Digital Workplace
• Fixed default template support for Important Dates widget

Product Version:  3.3.1610.0661

Key features delivered for this release:

• For Developers/Designers
  • All new dev framework which provides a true PLATFORM for the development of state-of-the-art digital workplace solutions
  • New View Manager App – allows developers/designers or advanced users to quickly make modifications to the HTML markup of ANY of the Digital Workplace controls.
  • New Site Creator SDK – allowing developers to make changes to default deployment process of the Digital Workplace, or to allow them to start from scratch in deploying their own custom site.
  • New Management Apps Settings – ability to create, add, rename and set permissions on individual Management Apps (just like Content Apps)
• For Admins/Business Users
  • All new Image Gallery Custom Content App (built with our SDK and deployed with Digital Workplace) to manage the Photo Gallery with ease!
  • Image resizing/cropping integrated into the Image Picker for all apps
  • Ability to access folder properties, change folder names and share folders in the DMS (Document Management Control)
  • 50% reduction in Quicklinks publishing times, with the ability to add links to Category nodes
  • Completely revamped Site Creator for amazing ease of use!
    • Streamlined Configuration Management Screen (instead of the multiple control apps in earlier releases)
    • New Branding settings with Themes as part of the Configuration Management screen
      • Logo uploader
      • Theme Selector with 9 built-in themes (Blue, Lightblue, Light, Gray, Green, Midnight, Orange, Purple, Red)
    • Default provisioned site that renders content completely without Azure AD dependencies (removed targeting as a default).
    • New deployment option which can generate the Digital Workplace Foundation Site and 4 default departments in one action
    • All required deployment keys (such as the department name, color, Azure AD on/off) set as part of deployment – little or no post deployment configuration!!
• Critical product defects addressed
  • Functional and performance defects addressed across the product functionality

Product Version:  3.2.1607.2209

• Support for Creation, Submission and Reporting of Forms
  • Forms Manager Admin App for Forms creation
  • Forms Reporting App for access to submission data and submission approvals
  • My Forms to allow users to keep a record of all their form submissions right from their intranet
  • Additions to CKEditor and Quicklinks to enable browsing and adding of form links
  • Prepackaged approval and notification workflows that can be assigned to any form
  • Pre-packaged forms (Feedback, IT Request and Vacation Request) provided
• Enabled spell checker in CK Editor
• Google Maps control updated to support latest Google API Key technology and allow for setting of default location
• Simplified sub-site creation screen
• Critical bug fixes including
  • Announcements ordering logic based on start date
  • DSL Modified Date fix
  • And more