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Navigator 365 for Teams & SharePoint Release Notes

Paul Shkurikhin
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v 2.16.4 (in works...)

Improvements

  • Caching system improvements
  • Rounding up number of available items when more than 10,000. This feature improves user experience when the number of results fluctuates due to the nature of SharePoint Search technology
  • Sort folders/groups by setting added to allow for the reverse alphabetic ordering of groups and folders

Bug Fixes

  • Configuration Settings import feature broken in 2.16.3

v 2.16.3

Improvements

  • Always Load Search Wizard configuration option added (improves loading speed for large datasets)
  • Subscription expiration date is added to the About section
  • Hide search box when query is passed in URL setting allows to control the visibility of the search box when search parameter is passed in URL
  • Maximum number of items to allow displaying search results setting added
  • Caching system updated to support page copies
  • General initial loading performance improvements

 v 2.16.2

Improvements

  • Initial loading performance improved for large datasets

v 2.16.1

Improvements

  • Show document in a folder feature (available in Settings > Documents)
  • Open in Office apps feature (available in Settings > Documents)
  • Open PDF in browser feature (available in Settings > Documents)

v 2.16.0

Improvements

  • Folder Search document library extension added
  • Folder Search extension activation button added to Settings panel
  • Folder Search extension activation step is added to Configuration Wizard

  • Title, Versioning, Content Type fields added to document panel

  • Skip top level feature logic enhanced

v 2.15.9

Improvements

  • Folder filter/refiner is trimmed based on initial search configuration
  • Close button added for folder filter/refiner panel

v 2.15.8

Improvements

  • Folder search functionality is added in Folder filter and Search Wizard

v 2.15.7

Improvements

  • Document type selection is now available during search source configuration, with the following options: All, Documents, Pages, News, Videos, Images

v 2.15.6

Improvements

  • Duplicates detection feature disabled due to deprecated Microsoft Search API.
  • Target Audience grouping option added
  • Target Audience refiner support
  • Target Audience property pane support

Bug Fixes

  • Links ".url" document processed incorrectly for Site Pages library

v 2.15.5

Improvements

  • Target Audience support
  • Free version performance improvements 

v 2.15.4

Improvements

  • Trial Registration Screen shows up before Configuration Wizard

v 2.15.3

Improvements

  • Web Part Configuration Export and Import
  • Number of Views property is included in Export to Excel report when Documents > Show views count setting is on 

v 2.15.2

Improvements

  • Search wizard first load performance improved
  • Filter panel settings renamed to Search & filter panel settings
  • Filename and Path refiners/filters added to default configuration

Bug Fixes

  • Filter/refiner setting allows to skip save action, causing user confusion
  • Configuration Wizard titles may be partially hidden

v 2.15.1

Bug Fixes

  • Search and filter toolbar hidden due to SPFx 1.13 upgrade

v 2.15.0

Improvements

  • Update to SharePoint Framework 1.13
  • Allow to download group of documents in archived format (up to 30)

v 2.14.4

Improvements

  • Hide sorting and ordering options for Text and Single Date filters/refiner

Bug Fixes

  • Videos bitrate calculated and titled incorrectly

v 2.14.3

Improvements

  • New Text and Single Date refiner templates
  • Video documents opened using Office 365 preview by default
  • Disable Skip level feature for All SharePoint sites source

Bug Fixes

  • Removing refiner from settings when data refined using the same refiner trigger exception

v 2.14.2

Improvements

  • Home site Folders refiner performance improvements

Bug Fixes

  • Disabling folders refiner is not saved
  • Folder Filtering fails for some folders/document libraries

v 2.14.1

Improvements

  • Full Text search is set to be used by default for any new board

Bug Fixes

  • Search Wizard Native Mobile Teams app layout updated

v 2.14.0

Improvements

  • Rename "Tags" refiner to "All Tags"
  • "All Tags" refiner shows tags grouped by managed property / field name
  • Increased the maximum number of refiner values from 100 to 1,000
  • Custom search results page support

v 2.13.2

Improvements

  • New Tags refiner is available by default - allowing to filter documents by managed metadata (taxonomy) tagging 

Bug Fixes

  • "Multi-column with Search" preset applied incorrectly 
  • Preset property title "Show Search Wizard" is missing

v 2.13.1

Improvements

  • When navigating between boards search restarted automatically
  • Default view is set to "All Documents"
  • "Multi-column with Search" is set as default preset in SharePoint

Bug Fixes

  • Trial registration page not loading properly
  • Selected filters formatting issue when many filters selected
  • Mobile version touch behavior

v 2.13.0

Improvements

  • Folders filter/refiner added
  • Skip top level(s) feature adjusted to activate for the single site and single team only.

Bug Fixes

  • Folders source selection adjusted to render up to 2,000 folders per site

v 2.12.0

Improvements

  • Search Wizard implementation

v 2.11.0

Improvements

  • Ability to skip top level(s) of the hierarchy if the level contains single group
  • Render root level folder of the search source on the same level of hierarchy as subfolders if there is a single top level group with “Folder” grouping type

Bug Fixes

  • OneNote files are located in the root of the library instead of appropriate folder

  • Issues when selecting multiple filters in Filter panel

v 2.10.1

Improvements

  • Support for tenancies without Microsoft Teams license

Bug Fixes

  • Clicking on Reindex, Delete Board, Delete View does nothing (Chromium-related issue)

v 2.10.0

Improvements

  • Refine wizard and configuration behavior to allow sub sources selection: channels, document libraries, folders

  • Change search experience to require clicking search button or pressing Enter to initiate search

  • Sensitive Information Types update

  • Due to various technical limitations, IE11 support has been discontinued.

Bug Fixes

  • Alert is shown when opening SharePoint page from Navigator

  • Incorrect grouping behavior when document library’s default view has modified Title

v 2.9.1

Improvements

  • Add views count to document tile

  • Mobile devices UI update: content should be always rendered as Groups, switch between Groups and Grouped List should be hidden from the Command Bar

Bug Fixes

  • Document preview doesn’t work on iOS (Native Teams app, Native SharePoint app, Safari)

  • iOS: download button behaves incorrectly in native SharePoint and Teams apps

  • Content is not scrolling in iOS Native Teams app

v 2.9.0

Improvements

  • Outlook Add-in Preview 

v 2.8.2

Bug Fixes

  • Modern links: http:// links don’t work

v 2.8.1

Improvements

  • Update “Too many Items” notification

  • Update Document Settings section items

Bug Fixes

  • When view settings are accessed directly, board settings are wrongly overridden

  • Default state for “Show link to details view” for Groups is not working

  • Navigator displays nothing if there are no items to display and “Refresh” button is clicked

v 2.8.0

Improvements

  • Add Path property to the document’s card

  • Verify API permissions during app initialization

  • Rename all Navigator settings starting with “Hide” to “Show”

  • Change refresh UI when Refresh button is pressed

  • Add support for modern links

  • Add additional configurations to control when various links/icons are shown for group tiles and documents

Bug Fixes

  • Sometimes links to teams/channels don’t work

  • Apply preset function stoped working

  • Duplicate refiners error out

v 2.7.3

Bug Fixes

  • “Browse to the team” and “Browse to the channel” behavior is incorrect when Navigator is hosted on SharePoint page

  • “Browse to the channel folder” doesn’t work for subfolders

  • Navigator fails when small number of documents is displayed

v 2.7.2

Improvements

  • Initial Loading performance improvements

  • User-friendly display name for Managed Metadata and Enterprise Keywords refiners

  • Add new column type for the grouping by Managed Property - Enterprise Keywords

Bug Fixes

  • Some documents are missing if the first level of grouping is set to Site

v 2.7.1

Improvements

  • Update views selection in wizard based on presets

  • Update Single Column Preset to expand all groups by default

Bug Fixes

  • Reindex fails on Site Collection level in Teams tab

  • Site Collection Card: description field has never been loaded
  • Items limit warning shows incorrectly when selecting views in the wizard

v 2.7.0

Improvements

  • Revised Settings panel for better user experience

  • Add “Show Expand All button” setting

  • Add Presets to quickly configure Navigator for commonly used scenarios

  • Add settings to show/hide different types of warnings

v 2.6.1

Bug Fixes

  • Navigator fails on Hub Sites data source selection when hub site has no corresponding URL

v 2.6.0

Improvements

  • Refine Wizard for better user experience

  • Rebrand Navigator to Navigator 365

  • Update to SharePoint Framework 1.11

  • Promote Navigator 365 to Office AppSource

Bug Fixes

  • Export to Excel and document download don’t work in MS Teams

v 2.5.1

Improvements

v 2.5.0

Improvements

  • Ability to switch between Filename and Full Text search

  • Expand/collapse performance improvements

  • Provide more granular default Group By settings based on data source selection in Wizard

  • Add “Send Error Diagnostic Data” setting

  • Display “open in SharePoint” note for List/Document Library and Folder cards

  • Enhance Refiners experience to be similar with Document Library filter panel

  • Allow to display Web Part Title in SharePoint

Bug Fixes

  • Expand icon in “Showing M from N” message should be removed

  • Rename View Title dialog text box doesn’t react on mouse events

  • Lookup Column with Date type is displayed as plain text

  • Correct spelling for “Sort items by” label

v 2.4.2

Bug Fixes

  • Personal App may not work on some tenants

v 2.4.1

Improvements

  • Ability to initiate search reindex: Navigator source, Hub site, Team, Site collection, Site, Document Library

  • Add Filter option for the Search Source on the Board Settings panel

Bug Fixes

  • “Settings are not saved” message is displayed when no changes were made

  • IE 11: hover over board name doesn’t work

v 2.4.0

Improvements

  • Enable users to expand all levels under selected group

  • Add notifications if settings for View or Board have been changed and are not saved

  • Change default click behavior: Expand/Collapse a group on group tile click, open document preview on document tile click

  • Improve IE 11 performance

Bug Fixes

  • Tooltip for Close button of Board/View Settings panel is positioned incorrectly

v 2.3.0

Improvements

  • Dark and custom themes support for SharePoint

  • Additional sorting options: Recently added/updated, Modified date, by Contributor

Bug Fixes

  • IE 11: Hover style is incorrect when zoom is applied

  • Setting Freeze Filter Pane to No doesn’t take effect in Teams

  • When updating Group By Managed Property Settings and trying to delete (by typing) Property Name, it returns the original value back

  • Unclassified groups should be ordered last by default

v 2.2.1

Bug Fixes

  • IE 11: hover over tile leads to title offset

  • When all command bar items are hidden, space is still allocated

  • IE 11: group tile actions are not shown

  • "Cannot read property ‘toLowerCase’ of undefined" error when selecting "Selected sites" data source

  • Navigator should correctly support page sections' background-color

v 2.2.0

Improvements

  • Ability to display actual Title of List or Document Library instead of Path

Bug Fixes

  • IE 11: Loading issues

  • Handlebars.js is not used

  • In Teams Personal Tab, user does not have options to configure the Navigator app

  • Configuration Wizard is truncated on small screen resolutions

 v 2.1.0

Improvements

  • Display site URL in site’s tile if site name has not been set

  • Document Card: after editing the item redirect back to Navigator

  • Allow hiding Refresh command

  • Allow hiding Board title

  • Allow hiding Download command from document’s tile

  • Add All Documents view to OneDrive board

  • Display “Switch to Edit Mode” message when Navigator has not been configured and Page/Tab is in “Read” mode

Bug Fixes

  • Preview for .xls and .doc files doesn’t work in SharePoint

  • Preview doesn’t work in Personal App if the document is located on a subsite

v 2.0.2

Improvements

  • Display available view in the context menu when hovering over the board’s name

Bug Fixes

  • Navigator behaves incorrectly when there are multiple Navigator web parts on the page

  • Navigator error out when navigating between pages using Megamenu

  • Retention Label Applied field is displayed in a text format instead of date

v 2.0.1

Improvements

  • Disabling Expand/Collapse all button instead of hiding

Bug Fixes

  • Lookup fields are not shown up in Document Card

  • Navigator is not loading as a Personal App when installed for the first time

v 2.0.0

Improvements

  • Two-level navigation: Data Source as a “board”, tabs as “views” for the same “board”

  • Setting to hide Export to Excel command

  • All Teams as a source option

v 1.10.0

Improvements

  • MS Teams Dark Mode support

v 1.9.0

Improvements

  • Group By: any retrievable Managed Property

Bug Fixes

  • Navigator fails in IE 11 and Firefox Private Mode

  • Entity Card header alignment looks incorrectly

v 1.8.0

Improvements

  • Updated App installation mechanism

Bug Fixes

  • Document card moves to the center of the screen on small resolution displays

  • List/Document Library card displayed incorrectly when there is a Taxonomy grouping

v 1.7.0

Improvements

  • Export to Excel

Bug Fixes

  • Renamed channels are displayed with the old name

  • Private Channel Card is displayed as “Shared Folder”

  • Navigator shows old results when changing search source and applying refiners

  • By Contributor tab misses “By Contributor” grouping

v 1.6.1

Bug Fixes

  • Stability Improvements

v 1.6.0

Improvements

  • Sensitive Information Type auto-classification grouping and refiner

Bug Fixes

  • After adding and deleted Navigator web part in the same editing session on the page grouping duplicates

v 1.5.2

Improvements

  • Ability to enable logging to console
  • Document Card: Show Asset ID and Item is a record if applicable

Bug Fixes

  • Stability fix: Navigator fails if Group By contains 2+ Metadata Hierarchy levels

  • Inconsistency in the user’s display name

  • Entity Card: entity card for Unclassified term is hanging

v 1.5.1

Improvements

  • Stability Improvements

v 1.5.0

Improvements

  • Hub Site(s) as a Search Source
  • Custom Search Source to provide direct links to document libraries and folders

  • Hub Site as a Group By option

  • “Current Site” Search Source option for Navigator as a SharePoint Web Part

  • Sensitivity Labels: Refiners and Group By option

  • Ability to filter out unclassified items: non-tagged, not labeled, not in a hub site

Bug Fixes

  • Duplicates filter (dropdown in the panel) is visible even if there are not duplicates found

  • List/Folder Card - errors for lists and folders from subsites

v 1.4.0

Improvements

  • New display mode: Grouped list (grid)

  • Show NEW/UPD flag in document’s card

Bug Fixes

  • Filter by duplicate doesn’t respect “Ignore document’s title” setting

  • Configuration wizard: warning items are disappearing when renaming the tabs

v 1.3.0

Improvements

  • Showing documents' duplicates

  • Open .aspx page in a separate tab instead of showing a preview

  • Ability to relaunch configuration wizard to bulk add of tabs

  • UI: display groups (tiles) actions (Open in Teams, Open in SharePoint, etc.) on hover

  • Make tabs' names unique

Bug Fixes

  • Document Cards UI: incorrect actions' icons alignment for documents with long titles

  • Entity Cards UI: header looks incorrectly in mobile apps

  • Request a quote notification UI: the notification looks incorrectly in mobile apps

v 1.2.0

Improvements

  • Retention Labels support - refiners, grouping, display in document card

  • Sensitivity Labels support - display in document, site and team card

  • Propagate icons for more file types. Example: .pbix (Power BI) files

Bug Fixes

  • Personal App is failing if a user doesn’t have permissions to the root site collection

v 1.1.1

Bug Fixes

  •  Personal App: cannot finish the Configuration Wizard after deleting all tabs

  • Tab state is not restored after document preview in Teams Desktop app

  • A trial version information message is cropped in Teams Desktop app

v 1.1.0

Improvements

  • New Search Source: OneDrive

  • Support for Microsoft Teams Personal App

  • Ability to define columns count for each user

  • Ability to delete all tabs and launch the configuration wizard

Bug Fixes

  • Open in SharePoint doesn’t work for Root-level site collection

  • Site Card: Recycle Bin button navigates to Admin recycle bin instead of the standard one

  • Conversation button is not visible in file preview

  • Navigator is crashing when changing refiner’s settings

  • Document Card: the card is never loaded if the author or editor user is deleted from Azure AD

  • Two “Request quote” messages are displayed in Settings Mode for expired version

  • When new Navigator web part is added to SharePoint page the Configuration Wizard overlaps other web parts

  • Navigator display incorrect results for Teams with '-' in name

v 1.0.5

Improvements

  • Configuration: Selected SharePoint Sites dropdown is sorted by site name

  • Configuration: ability to hide Search & Filter pane

  • Configuration: ability to unfreeze Search & Filter pane

  • Quick links (open in Teams, open in SharePoint, etc.) are added to Entities Cards

  • Provide the ability to edit documents metadata from Document Card

  • Provide Navigator hints in SharePoint Framework Property Pane

Bug Fixes

  • Selected SharePoint Sites - some sites are missing

  • Navigator fails in IE

  • Subsites are displayed as Teams with no Open in SharePoint link

  • When a document is deleted/renamed but still present in Search Index - its Document Card never finished loading 

v 1.0.4

Improvements

  • Configuration: Dropdown instead on multiline text for Selected SharePoint Sites option

  • More user-friendly error handling

  • OneDrive documents preview when working with Navigator in SharePoint

  • Settings: Group By → Channel (Folder) → Display Document Library (List) title as a separate level of hierarchy got additional option Auto 

Bug Fixes

  • Title of Team (Site Collection) group levels is incorrect when all the documents are located in subsites

  • When clicking on a preview for a document with no preview available, there is no way to close it and return back to Navigator

  • No way to completely remove filters if they were set previously

v 1.0.3

Improvements

  • Configuration: additional setting to exclude standard SharePoint libraries like Site Assets

  • Support for renamed channels

  • Entities details cards: entity type icons are added to the card

  • Performance updates

v 1.0.1 

Improvements

  • Improvements for Private Channels

  • Site/Site Collection grouping improvement - root site is not included as a separate grouping level

v 1.0.0

Improvements

  • Initial Release

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