Released: Oct 3, 2019

Updates in 2019 Volume 3

Features

Chart

• Multi-region selection - Multi-select options have been provided to allow users to select multiple regions in a chart.
• Lasso select - Lasso select allows users to select a region by drawing freehand shapes.
• Data label rotation - Options have been provided to rotate data labels.

Circular Gauge

• Hide overlapping labels - Axis labels can be hidden when they overlap.
• Tooltips for ranges and annotations - Circular gauge annotations and ranges now support tooltips.
• Legend support for ranges - Circular gauge ranges now support legends with a toggle option. If you toggle a legend item, its color will change to that of the corresponding range bar. Customization options are available for legend shape, alignment, and position. There is also an option to hide axis labels when they overlap in the legend.

Diagram

• Line routing - This feature allows the connector to detect diagram shapes and reroute its path around it rather than crossing the diagram shape.

Word Library

• Custom table styles - Word Library now allows creating and applying custom table styles in Word documents (DOCX and WordML), and preserving them in DOCX-to-PDF, Word-to-image, and Word-to-HTML conversions.
• Rotation support for shape, text box, image, and group shape - Word Library now allows rotating shapes, text boxes, and group shapes in Word documents and preserving them in DOCX-to-PDF and Word-to-image conversions.

File Manager

• File system providers support - Added file system providers for the following services,
  • Amazon S3 Cloud Storage
  • Firebase Realtime Cloud Database

Gantt Chart

• Excel Export - This feature allows you to export Gantt data to Excel and CSV formats. Using the Gantt toolbar buttons, you can export Gantt data to the desired format.

Maps

• Toggle legend support - A toggle option has been provided for legends. When a legend item is toggled, its color will change in the corresponding shape item.

PDF Library

• PDF digital signatures with CAdES - Digitally sign PDF documents with an advanced digital signature standard called CAdES (CMS Advanced Electronic Signatures).
• Validating PDF digital signatures - Validate digital signatures in existing PDF documents.
• Encrypt only file attachments - Encrypt only file attachments in a PDF document.
• Find corrupted PDF documents - Find out whether a PDF document is corrupted or not.

PDF Viewer

• Form filling - Form-filling support has been added to the PDF Viewer control. It allows users to add and edit handwritten signatures in the signature fields and save the values in the form fields of AcroForms in a PDF document.
• Free-text annotation - Free-text annotation is used to add text content to a PDF document. The text content styles are customizable.
• Import and export annotation details as JSON objects - Import and export annotation details as JSON objects in the PDF Viewer control and save the JSON data in local storage.

Pivot Table

• In addition to the existing data sources, pivot table now provides an option to connect and visualize SSAS OLAP cube and its elements like dimensions, hierarchies, measures, named sets, etc. The pivot table is used to create and edit a report on the fly using field list and grouping bar options, and it can also be stored for later use. End users can visualize the results in graphical and tabular formats (chart and grid).
• Other common options like drill down/drill up, sorting, filtering, formatting, calculated field, conditional formatting, drill through, defer layout update, show/hide totals, etc. are also supported.

Rich Text Editor

• Pasting images from Microsoft Word and Outlook - Images from Microsoft Word and Outlook can be pasted along with the content, and it can be uploaded to the server before being inserted into the editor.
• Drag and drop images from the local system - This feature allows inserting images in the editor by dragging and dropping them from the local system. Images can be uploaded to the server before being inserted into the editor.
• Resizable editor - This feature allows resizing the editor dynamically by dragging its resize handler, which is positioned at the bottom-right of the control. Users can resize it in a diagonal direction to adjust its width, height, or both. The content of the editor will be adjusted automatically based on the new width and height.

Scheduler

• Timeline year view - Added timeline year view, which allows users to display the events throughout the year in the scheduler. Provided orientation support also.
• CellHeaderTemplate for month and MonthAgenda views - Provided cellHeaderTemplate support for month and monthAgenda views to format the date or other customizations.
• Added firstDayOfWeek property in view-based settings - Provided firstDayOfWeek property support in individual view. Now, different first day can be set for different views.
• Performing CRUD actions with property-based settings - Provided property based CRUD action support for inserting, updating, and deleting events. The new APIs, allowAdding is used for insert action, allowEditing for edit action, and allowDeleting for delete action.

Spreadsheet

• The Spreadsheet control is an interactive component for organizing and analyzing data in a tabular format. It has configuration options for customization, and it can load data by importing an Excel file or from a data source, such as RESTful JSON data services and local JavaScript object array binding. Populated data can be exported to Excel in .xlsx, .xls, and .csv formats. It supports the following features:
  • Data binding
  • Virtualization
  • Selection
  • Editing
  • Formulas
  • Clipboard
  • Cell formatting
  • Number formatting
  • Open and save

Tree Grid

• Row drag and drop - Provided support to drag and drop tree grid rows within the TreeGrid control, between TreeGrid controls, or between the TreeGrid control and any custom component, to change row positions dynamically in the UI.
• Frozen rows and columns - Provided support to freeze specific rows or columns and make them always visible at the top and/or left side of the Tree Grid when scrolling.

Excel Library

• Data import enhancements
  • Import data from a nested collection to Excel and group it in a hierarchy.
  • Import column headers when using the ImportOnSave option.
  • Skip a property while importing data from a collection.
• Data export enhancement - Data from Excel can be exported to collection objects so that the values can be used as models. Now, XlsIO allows exporting data to nested classes to visualize data in a relative structure.
• Excel-to-PDF conversion enhancements
  • Unsupported fonts will be substituted by a font stream in Excel-to-PDF conversions.
  • Capture and log warnings intentionally raised in Excel-to-PDF conversions.