Appspace SharePoint Intranet 4.14 Release Notes

The Appspace SharePoint Intranet 4.14 release notes contain valuable information on the latest features, enhancements, bug fixes, and resolved escalations available in each public cloud release.

The following is the release management schedule as per our Release Calendar for Appspace SharePoint Intranet:

New Appspace SharePoint Intranet functionality and major platform optimizations will now be released under quarterly release cycle.
Critical updates including security patches or emergency fixes that support the reliability and availability of the Appspace platform will be deployed as necessary and as soon as it is administratively feasible.

Important

For previous Public Cloud release notes, please refer to the following:
- Appspace SharePoint Intranet 4.13 Release Notes

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28 June 2024, Friday

Appspace SharePoint Intranet 4.14

NEW FEATURES & UPDATES

Features	Description
Enhanced Discovery Cards	An exciting addition to Discovery Cards. With the latest update, adding custom cards to the platform has become a breeze for Editorial Managers. These cards come with predefined layouts that perfectly match our design style, ensuring seamless integration. Offering a range of options, such as banners, lists, and event listings, these cards enhance the user experience. Users can enjoy a more tailored and engaging newsfeed with the flexibility to display up to 10 cards. The new discovery cards only apply to the 3 columns layout.
Productize Intranet Branding Customizations	By 2024, Appspace is modernizing its intranet to enhance efficiency and innovation using the React.js package and a single-page application (SPA) strategy. While encouraging out-of-the-box use, Appspace acknowledges the need for modifications to meet specific business requirements. Consequently, Appspace will end support for previous free modifications and focus on the Feed Translator this quarter. The feed translation tool will be rolled out in two phases, allowing users to easily translate community postings from the ellipsis button. In Cygnus, we are adding translation customizations for the following activity types: Post (Update) Praises Poll Share Future releases will add support for: Questions Events Blogs Wikis The translate option is available in the following feeds: Start page Communities Profile
Editorial Experience Unification	This release introduces an array of updates aimed at optimizing community engagement through Community Wikis, Standalone Wikis, Community Questions, Corporate Sites Questions, and Community Ideas. Improvements: Streamlined Content Creation: Appspace has revamped content creation and editing features across Intranet platforms. Enhancements include updates to stories, pages, community blogs, wikis, and questions, aligning with Microsoft’s phase-out of SharePoint add-ins and the classic SharePoint editor. Unified Editorial Experience: By unifying the editorial experience, users can expect a more intuitive platform, streamlining the editorial process and boosting efficiency. This results in faster and smoother content creation and management. Cygnus Updates: Community and Standalone Wikis: Both Community and Standalone Wikis now feature the new Cygnus editor experience, replacing the classic SharePoint editor. Community and Corporate Sites Questions: Similarly, Community and Corporate Sites Questions now incorporate the updated Cygnus editor experience, replacing the classic SharePoint editor. Deprecated Features: Community Ideas: In this release, we have deprecated the Community Ideas feature. New installations will no longer support the Ideas feature, as it has been completely disabled. For existing installations, the Ideas feature remains in its current state, whether enabled or disabled. However, users will no longer be able to create or edit ideas. Despite these changes, interactive functionalities such as commenting, championing, deleting, highlighting, and bookmarking ideas remain intact. Essentially, all interactions with community ideas are permitted, except for editing them.
Responsiveness Improvements	This enhancement ensures enhanced accessibility and user-friendliness on smaller screens, effectively addressing the requirements of on-the-go users who heavily depend on their mobile devices for browsing and interacting with content. With this upgrade, users are empowered to: Reorder favorite apps Edit Stories or Pages through the display of the edit link in detail Add a favorite app via drag and drop functionality Change profile pictures Incorporate personal quick links, facilitating their opening in a new tab Prevent inadvertent redirection to Settings, thus streamlining the user experience.
Remove Tags Counter	Inconsistency in the Tags counter has been a concern, as the counter displayed a number that did not correspond to the actual returned results, causing confusion and misunderstanding. To resolve this issue, we have removed the counter altogether. In this release, we have also introduced an enhancement to tag interactions. Here’s a summary of the improvements we’ve made: Users hovering their mouse over a tag will now see the tooltip “Show results for this tag.” Ensures consistency between the tooltip information and the action of clicking “View more tags for this activity.” These updates are part of our ongoing effort to improve user experience and interface reliability.
Language Picker for Pages	A new enhancement has been implemented on the page, granting users the ability to select their preferred language. When a page offers content in multiple languages, a language picker feature has been integrated into the user interface (UI), enabling users to select the language in which they wish to view the content. Additionally, when multiple languages are available, the original language is indicated, allowing users to opt for the original content should they prefer.
App Store Categories	A minor enhancement for editorial managers and admins involves adding a “View More” button and a scroll bar to display all categories in the App Store widget, configured by admins or editorial managers in the editorial settings. This ensures greater consistency and more comprehensive category visibility on the Intranet UI.

Customer Issues

BZP-19081 – Deleting a community results in a “Request too large” error due to Base64 encoded image data in the community’s JSON file.
BZP-19645 – Community members cannot submit new blog posts because the option is missing.
BZP-19745 – The “Show more” option is missing from blog posts in communities.
BZP-19901 – Unfollowing a news channel with many followers is time-consuming.
BZP-21514 – Inactive users receive community announcement email notifications.
BZP-22420 – Blog or wiki titles copied from external sources are rejected, preventing saving or publishing.
BZP-22827 – Site Pages on public Sites are accessible to users with necessary permissions.
BZP-23803 – The Screen Reader does not announce the app name when adding a new app to favorites.
BZP-23873 – Avatar pictures in activity comments redirect to the user’s own profile instead of the commenter’s.
BZP-23887 – Tab-panels are experiencing functional issues.
BZP-23996 – The screen reader fails to announce the aria label.
BZP-24112 – An image overlaps the hyperlink URL box on certain pages.
BZP-24117 – Add automatic translation functionality to the editor’s tables feature.
BZP-24151 – The screen reader fails to read poll results when using keyboard input.
BZP-24515 – Users are experiencing difficulties embedding Microsoft Stream videos, PDFs, and Excel spreadsheets into blogs.
BZP-24736 – The screen reader does not function as expected on the Recommended and My Shortcut tabs in Quick Links.
BZP-24745 – Local Entity changes automatically elevate all administrators from writer to editor role.
BZP-24984 – Tagging with the “#” symbol is inconsistent between Spaces and activities.
BZP-25033 – The screen reader provides no feedback after clicking the share button.
BZP-25179 – Incorrect German and English translations exist for the “Load older activity” button in the Newsfeed.
BZP-25197 – Read-only settings for Editorial Managers restrict access to viewing all users and groups in the security section.
BZP-25249 – The read-only settings checkbox for the editorial manager has inconsistent behavior.
BZP-25420 – Users cannot modify images in responsive view; the modal is not displayed, and resizing is not functioning.
BZP-25440 – URLs are improperly linked when empty paragraphs are used in the editor.