Appspace SharePoint Intranet 5.0 Release Notes

The Appspace SharePoint Intranet 5.0 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.

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11 April 2025, Friday

Appspace SharePoint Intranet (5.0)

NEW FEATURES & UPDATES

Features	Description
Sharebox: A Modernized & Contextualized Experience	We’ve completely redesigned the Sharebox, aligning it with Appspace’s modern design standards to provide a more intuitive and streamlined user experience. Key improvements include: Modern Modal Presentation: The Sharebox now opens as a modal window, rather than a dropdown, providing a more focused and engaging experience with smooth animations. UI Text Consistency: We’ve refined all user interface text, including buttons, placeholders, error messages, and aria-labels, to ensure a consistent and clear experience. “Post to” Placement: The “Share with” option has been renamed to “Post to” and moved to the top of the Sharebox, making the preferred community to be the first selection for users on this journey. Contextual Default Messages: Default messages have been updated to be more contextually relevant, changing based on the activity type. Enhanced Rich Text & Hyperlinks: You can now add richer context and direct links to your activities, making communication more effective and engaging. Polls: We’ve streamlined the number of options available for polls, reducing them from 15 to a maximum of 6. This simplification provides a more focused and efficient polling experience, encouraging clearer and more decisive responses. We retained the single and multiple choice options. Tagging & Settings: A new settings section allows you to organize and categorize your posts with tags, laying the foundation for future advanced features. Targeted Posting: The posting workflow from Newsfeed and Communities has been streamlined to focus on relevant audiences (i.e. communities for people). Posting to “My Followers” remains accessible through the My People’s tab and My Profile, where also the user has the full context of the audience. Improved Attachment Handling (Files & Media): Uploading attachments is now more intuitive. The journey clearly distinguishes between file attachments and media attachments, providing clear visual cues. Mentions and Inline Tags: You can now use mentions and inline tags within events, blogs, and wikis, enhancing collaboration and content organization. “Open in Editor”: The “More Options” button within Wikis and Blogs has been renamed to “Open in Editor” for clarity. The user will continue to benefit from more advanced Editing options for Wiki Pages and Blog posts. Enhanced Social Cards and Detail Pages: The content within social cards and detail pages now supports rich text formatting, improving visual appeal and information delivery. Note: Only the content of the cards was changed, no functionality has been altered. WCAG 2.2 Compliance: We continue our commitment to accessibility, ensuring all users can engage with the Sharebox using keyboard navigation, screen readers, and clear visual cues. This update delivers a more contextualized and user-friendly Sharebox, minimizing confusion and maximizing engagement. For more information about Sharebox enhancements, refer to this article: Appspace SharePoint Intranet Sharebox Enhancements Learn more here: How to Configure and Use Sharebox in Appspace SharePoint Intranet
Editor: Powerful Content Creation Tools	We’ve significantly upgraded our editor with new tools to empower content creators: Strikethrough: to easily indicate edits or deprecated content. Inline text toolbar: has been improved for a more organized and intuitive experience, providing quick access to essential formatting options. Call out blocks: were introduced to let you draw attention to important information with visually distinct blocks. This functionality is available in Wiki and Corportae Pages. Link tiles: are now more versatile with enhanced UI and functionality. You can choose to expand them to fill the page responsively or maintain their smaller size. Plus, you now have control over the image overlay, allowing you to add or remove it as needed. Table of contents: available for Corporate Pages can be automatically generated, making long documents easier to navigate. Learn more here: Appspace SharePoint Intranet Editor Enhancements
Default Language Setting	Editorial managers can now efficiently manage the default language and translations across global and local entities (when enabled). This includes a new setting page in the editorial dashboard where users can enable different languages available for each entity, manage available languages through the editorial dashboard UI, and maintain translations, all without requiring direct database access. Learn more here: Configure Language in Editorial Settings
Replace Editor in Corporate Sites	The new enhanced editor is now available for corporate sites widgets, providing a consistent editing experience across the platform.These enhancements provide a more robust and efficient content creation experience for Sites.
Standalone (SA) Blogs Auto-Translations:	We’ve introduced auto-translations capabilities for SA Blogs, ensuring your content reaches a global audience as we have for Corporate Pages and Stories currently. Learn more here: Auto-Translation for Blog Posts

Customer Issues

BZP-18421 – Users who have not accepted or have dismissed the Term of Use (TOU) appear in the People directory.
BZP-18157 – Users who have not accepted the Term of Use (TOU) do not appear in the people picker within site settings.
BZP-21661 – The ‘Last Updated’ date fails to update when modifying corporate site settings.
BZP-24058 – When the user opens the three-dot menu and expands the comment input to type, the menu remains open, occurring in Startpage, Community, and My Profile.
BZP-24471 – When a user makes an update in the design tab of a site, the ‘Updated’ column in the database is not updated.
BZP-24603 – An error occurs when saving the ‘Generate newsfeed updates when uploading files’ checkbox setting.
BZP-26079 – The newly uploaded image for the Hero Highlight block does not appear in the Hero preview on mobile devices.
BZP-26521 – The notifications are not correctly translated into Russian.
BZP-26574 – The file uploader incorrectly mentions PDF as a supported format for Discovery card images.
BZP-26595 – In the Sharebox, active elements are omitted from the logical keyboard focus order.
BZP-26653 – The image title used in Activity has low contrast.
BZP-26712 – When activity or content contains Chinese text, the screen reader ignores it.
BZP-26763 – The user encounters a white blank screen in the SA Blog if they hit Enter without adding any search words.
BZP-26765 – The custom logo on the start page is broken if the responsive logo is not added in the LE settings and Intranet settings.
BZP-26766 – The search button and follow button UI in SA Blogs are not aligned.
BZP-26769 – When a user adds an image, table, or grid at the beginning of a story or page, an empty line appears above the component that cannot be deleted.
BZP-26840 – The screen reader does not allow navigation through authors.
BZP-26841 – The screen reader does not notify the user that the feed has been filtered when using sidebar filtering.

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Appspace SharePoint Intranet Hotfixes

25 Apr 2025, Friday

NEW FEATURES & UPDATES

Features	Description
SA Blog Enhancements	Enhancements to SA Blog aim to improve accessibility by replacing infinite scroll with a Load More button for easier navigation.
Newsfeed Translator: Mentions Translation	Improvement on the Newsfeed Translator will implement the simplest solution (plain text only), as the initial approach was to integrate the existing branding solution, where translated card text is added to the rendered HTML; however, rendering mentions and quickprofiles would require a full overhaul of the translator to integrate it with the card component/view.

CUSTOMER ISSUES

BZP-14119 – After editing an activity, the user is unable to select an activity type when creating a new one, and the layout appears broken.
BZP-20563 – Unexpected behavior may occur when searching for people with more than the maximum 4096 characters.
BZP-24047 – Screen Reader does not announce when a notification category has no notifications and skips directly to the notification on/off button without indicating the absence of notifications.
BZP-25262 – User unable to edit their profile using only the keyboard.
BZP-26154 – The active element is not descriptive in the app details.
BZP-26160 – The contrast of the ‘Change’ button on my profile background is very low.
BZP-26463 – The ‘Stories’ header is missing from the Site Overview page when story channels are added in site settings.
BZP-26543 – In the Sharebox, active elements are omitted from the logical keyboard focus order.
BZP-26650 – The Aria label for bookmarks must be place-specific and differentiated based on the destination they link to, providing clear context for users.
BZP-26763 – A white blank screen appears in SA Blog when the user presses Enter without entering any search terms.
BZP-26766 – The Search and Follow buttons in SA Blog are not aligned as expected.
BZP-26840 – User unable to navigate through the authors list in SA Blog using the down arrow key with a screen reader.
BZP-26848 – In SA Blog, the publish button remains available even after a title is removed, allowing the blog to be published with an empty title.
BZP-26851 – When a filter is applied or removed on the Startpage, the displayed content updates accordingly to reflect the selected criteria or restore the original content.
BZP-26881 – In Community, an error occurs when attempting to uncheck the ‘Generate newsfeed activity for files‘ checkbox.
BZP-26893 – In Sharebox, the leave page modal is not displayed when exiting using the ESC key.
BZP-26958 – In SA Blog and Community Blog, the like/unlike button is not marked up correctly.