Introduction​

This release contains new features, bug fixes, and performance improvements. Please note the section “Breaking template changes”.

 

Prerequisites​

There are no prerequisites for this release

Please check previous release notes if you are not upgrading from the latest version.

This release has been tested in the following environment:

• Office 365 tenant and Azure
• SharePoint Server 2013​
• SharePoint Server 2016

 

​UX Improvements

• Solved error with image slider set-up.
• Introduction of descriptions and translations to Noticeboard configurations.
• Introduction of page layout thumbnails.
• New image styling on Noticeboard mentions.
• Improved arrangement of controls in modal dialogs.
• Introduction of new UI styling in modal dialogs. This will be fully improved for next release.
• UI changes can appear in the Course module. This will be fully improved for the next release.
• Introduction of email addresses in all people pickers.

 

​​​Perfo​rmance improvements

 

JQueryUI loading​

jQueryUI is no longer loaded initially on pages in normal mode.​ JQueryUI is now only loaded if the page contains one of the directives kanbanSortable and wizdom365EditLinkList.

 

Angular one-time-bindings

HTML templates and directives have been updated to use angular one-time-bindings wherever appropriate in the following modules / directives:

• Megamenu
• Breadcrump
• Footer
• Phonebook
• Noticeboard
• Commentspanel
• Presencepicture
• Pagecontact
• Servicemenu buttons
• Servicemenu list template
• Departmentusers
• Pagetags
• Birthday
• CanteenMenu
• Corporate news
• Editor revision
• Other improvements​​
• Generally more focus on only loading scripts and templates on demand.

 

Resolved issues

 

Course module​

• ​​”All courses” and “Previous courses” views looked strange in Internet Explorer 11.
• Course filtering did not work for AD groups.
• Users were redirected to “Page not found” after copying a course.
• Setting “Everyone” to be allowed to create courses didn’t work.

 

Handbook​

• “Pages I must read” and “Pages relevant for me” were not showing correct results.
• “Pages I must read” did not show results – happened when user login name were not the same as user email address.
• “Contact person” disappeared when set to a department​.
• “Must read” using AD groups: “Mark as read” control were not shown as expected.

 

Corporate News​

• ​​​Corporate News web part occasionally “collapsed”

 

​​NoticeBoard

• ​​NoticeBoard Archive ignored search string.
• “Page not found” when attempting to go to author’s MySite by clicking his avatar.
• Print of news item were not readable.
• Having a long URL in a news item caused content to go beyond the view limits when news item were viewed from the archive.
• Weekend dates could not be selected as start and end dates.

 

Project​​

• ​​Creating projects failed when using the Collaboration template (and similar templates).

 

Accelerate​

• ​​SetViewFieldsOfListViewWebpartAction parameter ListTitle translation wasn’t handled correctly.
• Adding sample content fails​.

 

Webform​​

• ​Submitting a form failed if a field has no label.

 

Kanban

• ​Moving an item to another swimlane didn’t work.

 

Megamenu

• Megamenu item was added when a Handbook site​ was created.
• “Open in new window” didn’t work​.

 

Other​​​​

• Timeout when using the CreateNoticeboardChannel endpoint.
• Service Desk tickets disappeared upon creation.
• Lightning page: Error using the “desktop” template.
• CSS generator: Missing default value.
• Clicking the search button failed in mobile view.
• No revision email sent if no contact person were set (should be sent to author).

 

Breaking template changes​

 

​NoticeBoard​

• ​Noticeboard/Templates/ViewTemplates/Webpart/ArchiveOverview/Default.html
• Noticeboard/Templates/ViewTemplates/Webpart/ArchiveOverview/DefaultSmall.html

In these templates ng-model=”searchText” are changed to ng-model=”searchObj.text”
 

​Course module​

• ​CourseManagement/Templates/ViewTemplates/Details/header.html
• CourseManagement/Templates/ViewTemplates/Overview/OverviewSites.html
• CourseManagement/Templates/ViewTemplates/Roles/ CourseParticipantsShowAll.html

In these templates data-courseData er is changed to courseData

 

Lightning page considerations

%SPSOD% will now be replaced with all script references from the welcomepage of the current sitecollection each time the lightningpage is saved.​

 

​Modified system templates​​

 

Birthday

• ​​BirthdayPicture.html
• defaultlist.html

 

Today’s Menu

• ​Fullweek.html
• Singleday.html

 

CorporateNews

• ​newscarousel2images.html
• newscarousel5images.html
• newscarouselfullwidth.html
• newsgallery.html
• newslist.html
• newsrotator.html
• newsslider.html
• newstiles2.html
• newstiles3.html

 

CourseManagement

• ​​Details/Header.html
• Overview/OverviewSites.html
• Roles/CourseParticipantsShowAll.html

 

Department Users

• ​​defaultlist.html
• horizontal-list.html

 

​EditorRevision

• ​​EditorPages/revision-my-editorpages.html
• RevisionPages/revision-my-contacpages.html
• RevisionPages/revision-my-editorpages.html

 

FAQ

• ​​​webpartSimpleAccordionList.html
• webpartSimpleList.html

 

Mega Menu​

• ​​ElementTypes/Heading_edit.html
• ElementTypes/Link_edit.html

 

Noticeboard​​​

• ​Webpart/ArchiveOverview/Default.html
• Webpart/ArchiveOverview/DefaultSmall.html
• Webpart/NewEditForm/news.html
• Webpart/NewEditForm/video.html
• Webpart/Overview/clicklist.html
• Webpart/Overview/default.html
• Webpart/Overview/defaultSmall.html
• Webpart/Overview/defaultSmall2.html
• Webpart/Overview/onlyHeading.html
• Webpart/ShowItem/ContentTypes/News.html
• Webpart/ShowItem/ContentTypes/Office365Video.html
• Webpart/ShowItem/ContentTypes/RSS.html
• Webpart/ShowItem/ContentTypes/Video.html​
• Webpart/ShowItem​/default.html

 

Page Contact​​

• ​​DefaultPageContact.html

 

Phonebook​​

• ​ResultTemplates/defaultResults.html
• ResultTemplates/​extendedResults.tml
• SearchTemplates/advancedSearch.html

 

​Service Menu

• ​servicemenubuttons.html
• servicemenumobilebuttons.html
• simplelist.html
• servicemenuButtonsV2.html
• servicemenumobilebuttonsV2.html
• simplelistV2.html​