Metadata 1.1.0

May 13, 2020

Markus Doggweiler

This is the second version of MatchPoint Metadata for Office 365 providing some minor UI improvements as well as enhanced configuration options like:

  • break inheritance on fields/targets
  • configure values in directly in the config
  • specify when to write a field (always, only if empty)
  • configure fields that are explicitly inherited on specific targets
  • and several more

For more information please consult our official documentation and the configuration overview.

Hub 6.4

April 22, 2020

Markus Doggweiler

Changes/Improvements

  • Improve scrolling behavior within widgets.
  • Hide dropdown in searchbox when find on type is enabled.
  • Support row limit in Reach Data Providers.
  • Render a "not supported" message when using the Twitter Widget on Internet Explorer as Twitter does not support IE in its Widgets.
  • Some performance improvements related to the initial loading of the page.

Fixes

  • Megamenu doesn't hide hubsites navigation panel anymore in edit mode.

This is a silent release. But please note that in order for performance improvements to take affect, your hub.aspx must be created using version 6. To be sure we recommend following the last step from the major update documentation (recreate the hub.aspx).

Governance 1.0.0

April 22, 2020

Mirko Riesterer

This is the first version of MatchPoint Governance for Office 365.

The MatchPoint Governance Dashboard allows users to perform administrative tasks on SharePoint resources with ease.

The first Release of the MatchPoint Governance Dashboard provides functionality for Permission Governance. The permissions tab gives users an insightful overview of all permissions on SharePoint resources within a site.

For more information please visit our official documentation.

Hub 6.3

April 9, 2020

Markus Doggweiler

Features

  • Add a basic version of a Reach Posts Widget.
  • Add scopedSettings, for example to hide the header and footer.

Changes/Improvements

  • Hero Widget: The width of the image in split mode can now be configured.
  • Add an entry to the global settings to access the JSON Editor (same as using ctrl + m).
  • SharePointSearchDataProvider: Considers "my" items in the view all URL.
  • Mobile navigation considers colors configured in the mega menu configuration.

Fixes

  • Fix bug where field names from the item expression were not parsed correctly.
  • Configs (global and user) can always be saved again.

This is a silent release.

Metadata 1.0.0

March 30, 2020

Markus Doggweiler

This is the first version of MatchPoint Metadata for Office 365.

MatchPoint Metadata enables the seamless inheritance of metadata - i.e. values from SharePoint fields, like terms, numbers, string, etc. - from a source item to other items in the same site collection.

For more information please visit our official documentation.

Hub 6.2

March 26, 2020

Mirko Riesterer

Changes/Improvements

  • Reach Dataprovider now supports paged/infinite loading of items
  • Reach News Dataprovider now supports additionalPropertyMappings
  • Dates and Times are now displayed in the users regional settings
  • Action buttons now have their own configTypeKey widget_components_actionButton(Reference) or widget_components_viewAllActionButton(Reference) if the button should open the "view all overlay".

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug related to infinite scrolling, where too many items were loaded in the view all overlay
  • Fixed a bug, where the MegaMenu flyout could not be opened anymore in special cases

This is a silent release.

Workspaces & Provisioning 1.3.0

March 19, 2020

Mirko Riesterer

Version 1.3.0 of MatchPoint for Office 365 Workspaces and Provisioning has been released.

MatchPoint Workspaces and Provisioning provides site provisioning functionality powered by the PnP Provisioning framework. It also lets you apply and manage metadata on the sites which leverages targeted content aggregation and a great governance experience for your SharePoint sites, O365 groups and teams.
Here you can find more information.

New in this version:

New Features

  • Group visibility can now be configured in the workspace form (Reference)
  • Group Owners/Members can now be configured in the workspace form (Reference)
  • The People picker component now allows security groups to be picked for site membership fields and normal people fields ( Not allowed for O365 group owners/members fields )

Bugfixes

  • Fixed a bug, where users who create a group type workspace were not owners of the new workspace
  • Fixed a bug, where new group type workspaces would not show up in the Outlook people app

Miscellaneous

  • "WorkspaceRole" config field has been deprecated in favor of the "MultiPerson" config field

This is a silent release.

Hub 6.1

February 27, 2020

Mirko Riesterer

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug, where html web parts shared styles with each other

This is a silent release.

Hub 6.0.0

February 24, 2020

Markus Doggweiler

This is a major update as we updated all of our dependencies as well as migrated to SPFx 1.10. To use this version, please re-add the newest sppkg files to your app catalog. Please visit the installation prerequisites section in the documentation to download the latest app packages.

Features

  • MatchPoint web parts can now be placed on modern SharePoint pages
  • SharePoint web parts can now be placed on the hub page - please note that this is an experimental feature
  • Add a basic version of our Client API
  • Add alternating background colors to ListLayoutTemplateConfig
  • Add support for badges in the global search results
  • Megamenu root nodes can now be styled e.g. using a background color and/or an icon

Improvements

  • Add Item Template to display Reach events in the Content Items Widget
  • Hero widget displays the total number of unread news items
  • Hero widget highlights unread items in the bullet slider component
  • Reach news and events can be filtered by keywords in the corresponding data provider configs
  • Several other UI improvements related to events
  • Buttons in the filter callout are always visible (sticky)
  • Search box in the mega menu is always visible (sticky)
  • Size of images requested by SharePoint search can now be configured - this can improve load time as well as page performance
  • Deprectaed terms can now be hidden in the Term Filter

Fixes

  • Fix translations for the mobile navigation
  • The "Not consented"-dialg is now displayed again if the MatchPoint API has not been consented

This is not a silent release, please update to the newest app packages.

For more information on the new features please consult our documentation.

Workspaces & Provisioning 1.2.0

February 7, 2020

Mirko Riesterer

We have released the third official version of MatchPoint for Office 365 Workspaces and Provisioning. MatchPoint Workspaces and Provisioning provides site provisioning functionality powered by the PnP Provisioning framework. Also, it lets you apply and manage metadata on the sites which leverages targeted content aggregation and a great governance experience for your SharePoint sites, O365 groups and teams.
Here you can find more information.

New in this version:

New required API permission:

  • Microsoft Graph: Group.ReadWrite.All (Needed to sync with O365 groups)

In order to approve the new required permission, you need to open this link with an admin account of your tenant and approve the permissions.

UI improvements

  • Workspace config search considers title
  • Added Workspaces reference, update documentation
  • Revise labels in "Manage Workspace Types"
  • Rename "Configuration"-action
  • Add logo to workspace type config
  • Show config key in admin view

Other fixes and improvements:

  • Fix "unsaved changes" in JSON editor
  • Sync O365 group title/description
  • Do not update/change visibility of groups
  • Only generate URLs when creating new site collection
  • Validate value for MultiTaxonomy
  • Ensure non-empty webhook results

Please note that all your data (configs, sites, etc.) will still be there.

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