Released: Mar 15, 2024

Updates in 2024 Volume 1 (25.1.35)

Features

• Common
  • New components - The Timeline component has been added to Blazor.
  • Preview to production-ready components - The following components have been developed to meet industry standards. These are now marked as production-ready components for Blazor:
    • Data Form.
    • Dropdown Tree.
    • Stepper.
• Timeline (preview)
  • The Blazor Timeline component enables users to display a series of data in chronological order, providing a visually compelling and user-friendly experience. This showcases user activities, tracking progress, narrating historical timelines, and more. Key features include:
    • Orientation: Display items in a horizontal or vertical orientation.
    • Opposite content: Display additional information opposite to the item content.
    • Items alignment: Items' content and opposite content can be aligned: before, after, alternate, or alternate reverse.
    • Reverse timeline: Shows the timeline items in the reverse order.
    • Templates: Customize the default appearance, including styling the dot item, templated content, and more.
• Data Form
  • Floating labels - The floating labels layout is a powerful feature in form design that enhances the user experience by providing clear guidance and conserving space. Labels seamlessly transition above input fields, ensuring that users always know what information to input while maintaining a sleek and modern aesthetic.
• Diagram
  • Create swimlane diagrams - Added the ability to create swimlane diagrams programmatically or interactively. A swimlane is a visual element used to group and categorize activities or tasks based on the role or department responsible for their execution. It helps show complex processes involving multiple participants or departments in an organization.
  • Line routing - This feature ensures that connectors in the diagrams no longer overlap with neighboring nodes when in contact, offering a more streamlined and organized visual representation. Line routing dynamically updates the connector's geometry. This process eliminates confusion about the path flow of connectors, resulting in a cleaner and more comprehensible diagram.
• Word Processor
  • DOTX export - The Word Processor now supports saving the document as a Word Template (DOTX). DOTX files are template files used in Microsoft Word to create documents with predefined formatting and styles. They serve as valuable tools for maintaining consistency, efficiency, and branding in document creation. They provide users with a standardized framework for creating professional-looking documents while saving time and effort in the process.
  • Color Picker customization - The color picker used in the Word Processor can now be customized to its default appearance or palette mode, or it can show a mode switcher between the picker and palette.
  • Comments resolved - The comment resolved state has undergone enhancements aimed at improving user interaction and comprehension within the interface. These improvements entail the implementation of visual markers that signify the resolution status of comments.
  • Change case - The change case functionality allows users to quickly change the capitalization of the selected text without having to retype it. This feature is particularly useful for conforming text to specific style requirements:
    • Sentence case: Capitalizes the first letter of the selected text and converts the rest of the text to lowercase.
    • Lowercase: Converts all letters in the selected text to lowercase.
    • Capitalize each word: Capitalizes the first letter of each word in the selected text.
    • Toggle case: Toggles the capitalization of each letter in the selected text. Uppercase letters become lowercase, and lowercase letters become uppercase.
  • Navigate headings - The Word Processor component now supports navigating the document using headings. If heading styles are applied to the document, those headings will appear in the navigation pane.
• Microsoft Excel Library
  • Chart to Image enhancements - The following enhancements have been added for chart to image conversion:
    • Line caps for line charts are now preserved.
    • The line dash style for line and scatter charts are now preserved.
    • The manually positioned chart titles are preserved.
    • The 100% stacked line chart can be converted to an image.
    • The axis titles' text is now wrapped.
    • The multilevel category labels now render properly.
• File Manager
  • Flat data - The Blazor File Manager now introduces support for rendering flat data objects, removing the necessity for HTTP client requests and backend URL configuration.
  • Custom sorting - Custom sorting support is now provided in Blazor File Manager. This feature allows users to override the standard sorting mechanism, tailoring it to suit specific application requirements.
• Gantt Chart
  • Split tasks in resource view - Users can now split tasks in the resource view of the Gantt chart. This functionality allows users to temporarily stop work on a task due to unforeseen circumstances or task reprioritization while indicating that the rest of the work will restart later in the schedule.
• DataGrid
  • Export the grid with column, caption, and detail templates - This feature allows users to export the grid with columns, which may contain images, hyperlinks, and customized text to Excel and PDF files. Users can also export the grid with a detail template and caption template containing customized text in the group caption row to Excel and PDF files.
  • Search and filter with new operators - The new operator in the search and filter feature allows users to perform precise and targeted searches on their data:
    • Does Not Contain - Allows users to search for items that do not include certain keywords or phrases.
    • Is Null and Is Not Null - Allows users to search for items that are null values and non-null values.
    • Is Like and Is Not Like - Allows users to search for items that match or do not match a specific pattern using wildcards.
    • Does Not Start With and Does Not End With - Allows users to search for items that do not begin or end with a specific string of characters.
  • Add current selection option to filter checkbox - This feature keeps the previously selected checkbox filters when making additional changes. It is achieved by showing "Add current selection to filter" as one of the checkbox options in the Excel or checkbox filter.
  • Row drag and drop using drag icon - This functionality enables users to seamlessly move multiple rows within and between grids by utilizing drag icons. This intuitive feature allows users to effortlessly rearrange data, enhancing overall user experience and productivity.
• Maps
  • Tooltip support for polygons - Tooltips and tooltip templates can now be displayed for polygon shapes. Tooltip templates can include custom items such as images, text, and HTML elements.
• PDF Viewer
  • Customize primary toolbar - The customizable primary toolbar, now allows users have the power to tailor their toolbar exactly to their needs, adding new items, hiding existing ones, and repositioning items for optimal workflow efficiency on desktop and mobile PDF Viewers:
    • Integrate custom actions, such as annotation tools, view ratio or document navigation shortcuts, directly into your primary toolbar for quick and convenient access.
    • Customize your PDF Viewer experience by removing unnecessary clutter and focusing only on the tools you use most frequently.
    • Organize your toolbar intuitively, placing frequently used tools front and center for easy access and improved productivity.
• PDF Library
  • Remote GoTo action in PDF - Added the ability for users to add or modify remote actions that navigate to an external PDF document. Users can easily add links to a specific page or location of another PDF document.
  • Digital signature enhancement - Users can now effortlessly add signature and timestamp certificates to the PDF Document Security Store (DSS), ensuring greater security and compliance with PDF standards.
  • HTML to PDF enhancements:
    • Upgraded the BlinkBinaries to the latest version 120.0.6099.110, to address vulnerabilities and ensure a secure conversion process.
    • Added the timeout option for the HTML to PDF conversion process. Users can convert HTML to PDF seamlessly, by ensuring timely completion with the new timeout option.
    • Added an option to preserve accessibility tags that are in the input HTML while converting HTML to PDF.
• Pivot Table
  • Single y-axis for multiple values - This support enables the pivot chart's series for multiple measures to be drawn on a single y-axis rather than separate axes.
• Microsoft PowerPoint Library
  • Crop an image in a PowerPoint presentation - The PowerPoint Library now includes APIs for cropping images within existing PowerPoint presentations or when creating new presentations from scratch, mirroring the picture crop options in Microsoft PowerPoint. With this feature, when the presentation contains cropped images, users have the ability to save them as they are, preserving the cropped regions instead of the original pictures.
  • Presentation merge enhancements - The PowerPoint Library now compares master and layout slides to prevent the addition of duplicate master slides and to ensure the reuse of existing master slides when merging slides from another presentation.
  • PowerPoint-to-PDF and image conversion enhancements:
    • Charts with shapes are now preserved in PowerPoint-to-PDF and image conversions.
    • The line caps for line charts are now preserved.
    • The line dash style for line and scatter charts is now preserved.
    • Manually positioned chart titles are now preserved.
    • 100% stacked line charts can be converted during PowerPoint-to-PDF and image conversions.
    • Wrapped text for axis titles is now preserved.
    • Multilevel category labels in charts are now rendered properly.
• Query Builder
  • Advanced query types - To improve the query functionality, the Query Builder has been expanded to accommodate query types, including Mongo, parameterized SQL, and named parameter SQL. Users can seamlessly import these queries into the Query Builder for enhanced versatility.
  • Lock support - The lock option is now available for rules as well as groups. When a rule is locked, the field, operator, and value will be disabled. When a group is locked, all the elements within the group will be disabled.
  • Clone support - The clone option is now available for rules and groups. It will create an exact replica of a rule or group next to the original.
• Toolbar
  • Spacer toolbar item - Added support for toolbar item's alignment with CSS flex to ensure a smoother loading experience for end users.
• TreeGrid
  • Search and filter with new operators - New operators have been added in the search and filter feature to give users greater flexibility and control when searching their data in the Blazor TreeGrid. The new operators are:
    • Does Not Contain: Allows users to search for items that do not include certain keywords or phrases.
    • Is Null and Is Not Null: Allows users to search for items that are null values and non-null values.
    • Is Like and Is Not Like: Allows users to search for items that match or do not match a specific pattern using wildcard characters.
    • Does Not Start With and Does Not End With: Allows users to search for items that do not begin or end with a specific string of characters.
  • Add current selection option to filter checkbox - This feature keeps the previously selected checkbox filters when making changes. It does this by providing "Add current selection to filter" as one of the checkbox options in the Excel-like or checkbox filter.
  • Drag and drop rows using drag icon - This functionality lets users move multiple rows within and between TreeGrids by utilizing drag icons. This intuitive feature allows users to effortlessly rearrange data, enhancing overall user experience and productivity.
• Microsoft Word Library
  • Update Table of Contents (TOC):
    • The Word Library now supports the inclusion of \c and \a switches when updating the table of contents (TOC) in a Word document. The purposes of these switches are:
      • \c: Includes captions of figures, tables, charts, and other items that are numbered by SEQ fields in TOC entries.
      • \a: Builds a table of captions by excluding caption labels and numbers.
    • With this feature, you can create a table of figures, tables, charts, and more, giving readers a clear overview of the document's contents and facilitating easier navigation.
  • Word-to-PDF and image conversion enhancements:
    • Enhanced preservation of Arabic text formatting, particularly italicized text, during Word to PDF or image conversion.
    • Headers and footers that exceed half of the page in a Word document are now preserved during Word to PDF or image conversion.
  • Enhanced Chart preservation in Word-to-PDF and image conversion:
    • Charts with shapes are now preserved in Word-to-PDF and image conversions.
    • The line caps for line charts are now preserved.
    • The line dash style for line and scatter charts is now preserved.
    • Manually positioned chart titles are now preserved.
    • 100% stacked line charts can be converted during Word-to-PDF and image conversions.
    • Wrapped text for axis titles is now preserved.
    • Multilevel category labels in charts are now rendered properly.