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2017-12-26 - Version 2.4 released

• Faster loads – load times are up to 40% faster
• Support for SharePoint List forms – download the latest FVLinks.js file to configure them
• PDF Rendering – render PDFs in your form using qRules RenderForms command
  • See our recent webinar for more details
• People Picker gets easier to use – focus defaults to search box and search runs on enter key
• SharePoint list person columns can now be queried – please download the latest .app file
• Date formatting – calculated value controls now support date formatting
• Dropdown bug fixes
  • Selecting a value from a dropdown would show the next value as selected
  • Selecting the blank option from a dropdown would show the blank option’s display text (e.g. “Select…”)
• Rich Text Box improvements
  • Added selectors for font style and size
  • More easily adjust tables by clicking and dragging their borders
• qRules improvements
  • CopyRichText command – fixed a bug that caused this command to fail in certain circumstances
  • ChangeConnectionUrl – redirect ShP list connections by changing site and list name (GUID no longer needed)
• FormsViewer App improvements
  • Rule Editor – edit your form’s rules and add new rules from the browser
  • Access the new Form Designer features from the Upload Template page

US 2017-10-27 / EU 2017-11-01 – Version 2.3 released

• Rich Text Box
  • Support for underline, superscript, and subscript
  • Change to add single line breaks on Enter key (previously, double line breaks were added)
  • Fix bug with duplicate text in Internet Explorer
  • Fix bug where tables could be invisible in certain situations
  • Fix bug when Submit clicked after editing would not save edits
• People Picker
  • Include e-mail addresses in search results
  • Reorganize Provider dropdown to place the most commonly used Providers first
• Data Connections
  • Support query library option to “include data for the active form only”
  • Support querying data from attachment columns
• Tools
  • SharePoint List Mapping: support mapping form data to lists on other sites
  • New JSON ↔ XML converter and query test tool (added to qRules Builder page)
  • Manage Hrefs: fix bug where associations were not site specific
  • qRules Builder: include command descriptions and guidance text
• qRules Commands
  • MakeRequest: fix bugs querying non-ASCII text and receiving large responses
  • GetDayOfYear: fix bug where white space before date or no date specified return NaN

2017-08-31 – Version 2.2 released

• Manage Templates
  • Template categories and search
    • Group your templates for better organization
    • Search for a template when you don’t know what group it is in
  • Safeguards to prevent accidental template overwrites
    • More thorough version checks to ensure that you are uploading the right form
• Date Formatting for Date Pickers
  • Customize how your dates display – great for country specific formats
• Custom Controls Framework
  • Build custom controls with code (like signatures) that respond to user input and read-write form data
• qRules Commands
  • DateAdd and DateDiff
    • Fixed browser-specific bugs that resulted in incorrect results
  • SubmitToSharePointlist
    • Fixed bug that prevented saving blank values on top of non-blank values in date columns
  • Reduce rule actions by specifying where the Result field gets saved in the qRules command
    • Use /resultdestds and /resultxpath to set the Result into a specific field in your form
  • New Commands!
    • GetConnectionUrl – get the URL for your data connections
    • GetAttachmentAttribute – get info about files attached to your form
    • GetDayOfYear – get the day of year for a specific date
  • Designer Baby Steps
    • Inject qRules into your form using the web interface – no local injector install!
    • Build qRules commands with an easy to use web interface
    • Build InfoPath to SharePoint list mappings right in your browser
• SharePoint list connection fixes
  • Getting date values is now consistent with InfoPath (uses time zone of SharePoint site, not UTC)
  • Fixed bug where list connections would not work if columns’ StaticName was different from their InternalName
• Miscellaneous
  • Fixed bug in SharePoint list connections where they would not work if columns’ StaticName was different from InternalName
  • Support for setting your rich text boxes to read-only
  • Fixed bug where switching views did not scroll to top of form
  • Fixed errors when refreshing FormsViewer forms
  • Manage Hrefs to open previously saved forms from libraries with multiple content types
  • Support for image controls that link to a URL outside the form

2017-06-09 – Version 2.12 released

• Additional form loading time improvements
  • We have added new caching features to FormsViewer’s loading of view definitions, which means you should see an additional 1-3 second improvement in initial loading time for forms that you have used recently.
  • This also provides a 1-3 second improvement in the time to switch between views when using a form.
• Allow querying manager data using the GetUserProfileByName qRules command (requires upgrading to the latest .app file)
• Date pickers now allow manually editing their date value
• Fixed issue with date pickers not showing forward/back arrows
• Changed date handling behavior of SubmitToSharePoint to be consistent with the InfoPath/IPFS version of qRules (dates are treated as being in the timezone of the destination site)
• Fixed issue that caused submitting to SharePoint libraries to fail for certain forms
• Speed improvements for uploading templates to FormsViewer
• Stability improvements to Rich Text Boxes and fixed issue that prevented rich text box edits from being stored in their corresponding field under certain circumstances
• Improved error handling for the SubmitToSharePointList command
• CreateSharePointFolder qRules command – create folders in SharePoint libraries 

2017-05-09 – Deployed fix for issue with form timeouts after extended use

Updated US servers to fix issue with form timeouts after extended use. On prem users contact Support@Qdabra.com to upgrade. Timeout fix coming to Europe servers on 2017-05-10

2017-04-28 – Version 2.11 released

• Smarter client caching of static data
  • Recently used forms should open much faster
  • No lag when displaying images
  • Speed-ups for XSLT, XML and other static data sources
• Smarter server caching of sessions
  • Fewer ~10 minute timeouts
  • Note: we have more work to do here as testing showed this was not fixed entirely

2017-04-03 – Version 2.1 released

• Performance improvements. Form load time reduced by ~20%
• Fix issues with date handling
  • Date pickers were switching back to a date that was one day earlier under certain circumstances
  • Textboxes and Calculated Values were showing a date one day earlier than the actual value under certain circumstances
• Fixed limitations on the size of responses from SOAP web service requests
  • This limitation prevented loading XML documents from DBXL if they contained large attachments.
• Allow including digit grouping symbols (commas) in formatted numbers

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• Fixed issue preventing downloading file attachments in the Edge browser
• qRules Commands:
  • GetValue – Retrieve field values using dynamically-generated XPaths. Helpful for making data-driven form logic.
  • Copy and Move – Quickly and easily copy and move XML from one place to another, including copying it between data sources. Useful when copying information between similar documents.
• Allow selecting month and year in date picker – allows selecting dates far in the future or past without a lot of clicks.

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• Fixed font size and font style issues with textboxes and with controls with conditional formatting applied

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2016-12-22 – Version 1.3 released

• Better organization – manage form templates by site
• Quick intel – usage stats are displayed on the manage templates page
• Support for large files – upload attachments > 2mb

Fixes:

• CopyTable supports copying rich text
• SharePoint Submit now handles large files (>2Mb)
• Time controls now show 12-hour format
• People Pickers support conditional formatting rules
• qRules command parameters can recognize capital letters
• Rich Text fields don’t blank when switching back and forth between views
• SubmitToSharePointList now supports rich text

2016-11-16 – Version 1.23 released

• SortTable command implemented
• Data connections now can query rich text from SharePoint list connections
• People Picker now supports querying distribution lists
• Fixed an issue where Web service connections could fail sometimes

2016-10-31 – Version 1.22 released

• Clone existing forms - support for querying XML across site collections
• Performance - reduce form load times by 25-50%
• Rich text box – reduce bulky controls
• Date Picker issues – fix incorrect display of date
• View spacing issues – fix layout issues

2016-09-29 – Version 1.21 released

• Submit data from your form to one or more SharePoint lists/libraries
• Save attachments to a document library and replace with URLs
• Copy repeating data from a secondary data connection
• Copy rich text from and to SharePoint
• Pass a parameter from one form to another
• Submit your form to separate libraries depending on form values
• Dynamically change data connections after load so one XSN can be deployed to multiple sites (without fixup)
• Easily integrate with Qdabra’s Azure Web service (DBXL)

2016-08-28 – Version 1.2 released

• Faster Form Loads – ~30% faster
• Improved dashboard with drag-and-drop publish, diagnostics, and other enhancements
• On Prem support – SharePoint 2013 with Active Directory
• New controls – support for Rich Text and People Picker controls (with a few limitations)
• More qRules – additional support added for following commands
  • SubmitToSharePoint
  • CopyRichText
  • GetListGuid
  • ReplaceString
  • DelimitedList
  • ChangeSubmitUrl
  • Encrypt
  • Decrypt
  • SetXml
  • DateAdd
  • GetUserProfileByName
  • SaveToDBXL
• Deployment tools to help automate config changes to multiple sub-sites

2016-02-20 – Version 1.12 released

• More qRules – additional support added for following commands
  • AssignDocument
  • Encode
  • FormatNumber
  • GetWeekDay
  • LoadResource
  • SaveToSharePoint

2015-09-29 – Version 1.1 released

• SharePoint list and library filtering
• Web service calls
• qRules commands – 24 qRules commands are supported.
  • DateDiff – calculate difference between two dates
  • SubmitToSharePointList / RefreshSharePointListItems – maps data to a list
  • GetInputParameter – pass data to a form via the open URL and use it on load
  • SwapDom – store forms in a database and use SwapDom to load them on open based on an input parameter
  • Transform – map a large amount of data into the form based on an XSLT transform file
  • GenerateGuid – create a unique ID for your form
  • DeleteFromSharePoint – delete files from SharePoint
  • SetValue – set a value in a table based on a filter
  • Insert – programmatically insert items into a repeating table or section (enables picture button add for rows)
  • Delete – programmatically delete items from a repeating table or section
  • and also ChangeConnectionUrl, CopyTable, GetFormProperty, GetXML, InsertPI, JsonToXml, MakeRequest, RemoveDbxlPi, RemovePi, SetCase, SetDefultView, SubmitToDbxl, XmlToJson.
• Anonymous submit – support external users who may not have access to your internal SharePoint site

2014-07 - Version 1.0 released