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Version 1.4

5 months ago

In this release, we’ve placed a strong focus on enhancing stability and addressing critical bug fixes to provide a more reliable and seamless experience. We've resolved a variety of issues across key areas like relationships, diagramming, and data handling to ensure smoother performance and fewer disruptions. Additionally, we’ve made significant upgrades in core areas such as visualizations, home page load times, and error handling, bringing overall performance and usability to the next level.

Along with these stability improvements, we’ve introduced exciting new features like the Template functionality for saving and reusing selections, export legends for Realtime Indicators, and the ability to copy and paste board content across tabs.

This release is all about improving the foundation of the app while adding valuable new features to help users work more efficiently.

New Features

  • Introduced the Template feature, enabling users to save reusable selections of board content that can be easily applied to any board.
  • Added "Show Unique Relationship" option to Load Dependencies and HOP.
  • Enabled the ability to copy and paste board content between tabs within the same browser.
  • Introduced legends for Realtime Indicators when exporting content.
  • Editors can now create teamspaces, based on a new Global Setting (active by default).
  • Added a Global Setting for parent field configuration in hierarchies.
  • Introduced tooltips for the Diagramming and Data Hub panels.

Improvements

  • Enhanced relationship routing for improved performance and stability.
  • Upgraded the core diagramming library for better functionality and reliability.
  • Refined note shapes for clearer and more effective usage.
  • Enhanced error handling for Attachments to improve user experience.
  • Standardized labels across the app for a more consistent appearance.
  • Added support for label separators in Filters for greater flexibility.
  • Enabled current state elements to be edited with a double-click, aligning their behavior with other shapes.
  • Centered alignment for HOP options for improved usability.
  • Simplified toolbars with a new Style icon to access style options, making the interface less cluttered and more user-friendly.
  • Synchronized dependency icons across the app for a consistent look and feel.
  • Added support for displaying multiple notifications simultaneously for better user feedback.
  • Added notifications for loading or refreshing content for indicators.
  • Visualizations:
    • Improved overral export component
    • Improved the overall layout of the Context Map for better use of space.
  • Diagramming:
    • Improved messaging when unsupported images are added to the canvas.
    • Introduced the ability to reset shapes to their default stencils.
  • Home Page:
    • Optimized response times for:
      • Intial page load.
      • Loading teamspaces and folders, with or without filters applied.
      • Opening individual folders.
    • Reduced the number of requests required to load content and optimized folder caching.
    • Added a result count when using search and filters.
    • Increased the maximum allowed characters for board names to 140.
    • Added tooltips to board names in Editor and Presentation modes.
    • Improved the responsiveness of top bars in Editor and Presentation modes.
    • Introduced an owner field for folders and teamspaces to facilitate internal use.
    • Added restrictions to prevent recursive parent/child folder relationships when changing folders via the ServiceNow UI.
  • Shape field:
    • Automatically selects the associated table when a shape is selected when changing configurations.
    • Disabled mandatory option when configuring Boolean fields for better usability.
    • Prevented the duplication of fields when changing configurations.

Fixes

  • Data Panel:
    • Resolved an issue where long text in inputs prevented publishing.
    • Removed the Publish button for Current State Relationships.
    • Corrected mandatory fields that were not displayed as required.
    • Fixed inconsistent date formats for planning and publishing date fields.
    • Addressed an issue where using the Date/Time field triggered excessive planning updates.
  • Presentaiton mode:
    • Fixed an issue preventing boards from opening correctly when accessed from external sources.
    • Resolved an issue where Viewers could not access the Realtime Indicator panel.
  • Home page:
    • Corrected sorting issues with items.
    • Fixed an issue where not all results were displayed when filters were applied.
    • Resolved an issue when duplicating board versions.
    • Fixed a bug where users with Editor access but no Editor role could see the Edit button.
    • Prevented boards from being saved with empty names.
    • Fixed issues with filters involving groups.
    • Resolved an issue where forbidden words were allowed in teamspace names.
  • Diagramming:
    • Fixed an issue where duplicated frames did not retain their content.
    • Addressed issues with transparent colors not applying to shapes.
    • Resolved an issue where resizing frames was impossible when the canvas was heavily zoomed out.
    • Fixed the "Align Shape" toolbar option, which was disabled during multiselection.
    • Corrected a bug where pasting styled text from external sources broke shapes.
    • Resolved an issue where frames disappeared after text was pasted into their titles.
    • Fixed a problem with the Tidy Icon, which caused broken links.
    • Ensured newly added images appear at the front by default.
    • Addressed issues where notes became distorted after zooming.
    • Fixed missing possible connections when dragging shapes from the Diagramming panel.
    • Resolved the "no results found" message incorrectly appearing during panel searches.
    • Addressed an issue where opening a pinned board version was blocked by another pinned version.
    • Added borders to text shapes for better clarity.
    • Prevented empty images from being added while moving uploading images.
    • Fixed image disappearance issues after cropping.
    • Resolved an issue where frame names appeared oversized after zooming out.
    • Ensured the toolbar displays correctly when selecting default shapes.
    • Table Panel:
      • Corrected newly added column headers not displaying colors.
      • Fixed layout breaks when dragging cells.
      • Adjusted toolbar options to reflect appropriate actions when selecting cells.
      • Resolved bugs with "Bring to Front" and "Send to Back" not functioning as expected.
      • Removed the cell dropdown icon in presentation mode.
      • Fixed resizing issues in tables.
      • Prevented editing of locked cells.
  • Relationships:
    • Resolved issues with relationship styles not updating after configuration changes.
    • Fixed canvas repositioning caused by initial text edits.
    • Addressed overlapping relationships.
    • Fixed a bug where the Suggested Dependencies dialog did not appear during relationship creation.
    • Resolved distortion of relationships after moving frames.
    • Fixed auto-layout icons breaking relationships after multiselection.
    • Addressed issues with duplicated relationships becoming distorted.
    • Resolved an issue with links not attaching correctly to the border of specific shapes.
  • Realtime Indicators:
    • Fixed issues where new indicators did not update table content.
    • Resolved a bug where relationships and nodes were incorrectly positioned after adding indicators.
  • Load Dependencies:
    • Addressed crashes caused by broken relationship records during dependency loading.
  • Visualizations:
    • Context Map:
      • Resolved an issue where editing and loading multiple times reduced title size.
      • Fixed an issue where resetting through the toolbar did not work as expected.
    • Hierarchy Map:
      • Fixed a bug where the level slider displayed incorrect levels after deleting content.
    • Kanban:
      • Resolved an issue allowing lanes to drop out of containers when using Kanban in frames.
      • Fixed items appearing outside the Kanban layout.
  • Resolved an issue where exporting multiple frames sometimes generated invalid ZIP files.
  • Fixed sorting issues in the Data Hub.
  • Corrected a bug where Viewers could not save side panel sizes or other preferences.