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VisualSP Help System, Version History

Version 5

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October 15, 2018: v5.5.9.0 Minor release

  • Updated moment.js to the latest version (addresses a DoS service vulnerability with the library).

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September 19, 2018: v5.5.8.0 Minor release

  • Added a parameter to the Set-VisualSPSettings cmdlet to allow users to disable the preview feature when editing items or viewing items from analytics. This is to address the potential to exploit the feature in a XSS attack.
  • Changed how the help item is passed to the media window (now uses the help item identifiers instead of the link tags).
  • Removed all references to the now removed Lite version (just a code cleanup effort – not sure if it needs to be mentioned anywhere).

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July 13, 2018: v5.5.6.0 to v5.5.7.0 Minor release

  • Fixes an issue with help items not displaying on Analytics Page – Enterprise
  • Minor bug fixes

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May 28, 2018: v5.5.3.0 to v5.5.5.0 Minor release

  • Fixes an issue with the encoding of the help tab label and description
  • Includes a fix to consider the entire URL and not just the server-relative URL
  • Minor bug fixes

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May 2, 2018: v5.5.2.0 Minor release

  • Added Get-VisualSPSettings PowerShell cmdlet

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April 25, 2018: v5.5.0.0 to v5.5.1.0 Minor release

  • Security enhancements

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February 23, 2018: v5.4.0.0 to v5.4.0.1 Minor release

  • Improvements to Inline Help toggle panel
  • Bug fix: Language issue on sites with Minimal Download Strategy enabled.

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December 26, 2017: v5.3.5.0 to v5.3.6.0 Minor release

  • Fixed issue with ribbon tabs momentarily contracting on page load.
  • Updated code signing certificate.

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November 2, 2017: v5.3.1.0 to v5.3.4.0 Minor release

  • Improved performance when using inline help tags on SharePoint 2010 with Internet Explorer 8.
  • Installer updated to proceed when status is inconclusive instead of blocking installation
  • Minor bug fix in installer for SharePoint 2010
  • Updated installer to continue if unable to restart the SPAdminV4 service on all servers. A warning will be displayed.

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September 15, 2017: v5.3.0.0 Minor release

  • Added Auto Load functionality

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July 20, 2017: v5.2.3.0 Maintenance release

  • Minor issue fixed related to the “Web Part Sort Filter Header” inline help target

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November 24, 2016: v5.2.1.0 Maintenance release

  • Minor bug fixes

September 9, 2016: v5.2.0.0 Minor Release

  • Added in-context editing of help items
  • Manage Help Items page
    • Added a ‘Group by Type’ grouping
    • Added a way to export all list of help items as a csv file
    • Added the ability to selective export help items as xml or csv file
    • Added Modified and Created date stamps
    • When an items is being deleted, a ‘working on it’ pop-up will appear
  • Customizing Help Item page
    • Scope wording changed to ‘Help tab scope’
    • Added better error handling for cases when a scope is not chosen
    • Added URL defined scope for inline help items
  • Web Part
    • Changed the phrase “scope key value” in the web part to “Custom Scope”
  • Installer
    • Now checks if Timer Service is running on all web front end servers
    • Added the ability to change the Help tab text at install time
    • Added a checkbox to confirm if Help feature should be turned on at all site collections created in future
    • Ability to choose to turn on the inline help icons by default

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June 20, 2016: v5.1.2.0 Maintenance release

  • Minor bug fixes

June 16, 2016: v5.1.1.0 Minor release

  • Added better support for jQuery custom selectors
  • Started adding support for SharePoint 2016

January 11, 2016: v5.0.0.10 Maintenance Release

  • Added anonymous access to help items
  • Removed necessity of user to have read access at root site to see the help items
  • Added ability to disable inline help at web app and farm hub levels
  • Fixed a small bug in Analytics

December 2015: v5.0.0.5 to v5.0.0.9 Internal Testing Releases

  • None

December 7, 2015: v5.0.0.4 Major Release

  • Inline Help now available in the product
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Version 4

September 3, 2015: v4.7.0.5 Maintenance Release

  • Minor bug fixes in the VisualSP web part

March 18, 2015: v4.7.0.4 Maintenance Release

  • Additional Help scopes added: Community Sites, Site Contents, Site Permissions, People and Groups, About Me, Newsfeed, OneDrive for Business, VisualSP Help, VisualSP Web Part Help
  • Support for URL defined scopes. A Help tab can be put on ‘any’ SharePoint page by declaring the URL path (relative or absolute) to it
  • Ability to preview the Help item from the Help item configuration page
  • Ability to rename the Help tab to any other word matching the organization brand (available in VisualSP Standard and Enterprise versions only)
  • Help videos and reference documents available in context at the Manage Help Items screen to help SharePoint administrators configure the VisualSP Help System
  • Help context available at the VisualSP Web Part, providing in-context help for the web part itself
  • Ability to show Help items from a specific Group added to the VisualSP Web Part
  • Ability to define the sequence (priority order) for Help items and Groups
  • Ability to set pagination of Help items as needed (default is viewing 500 items)
  • Permissions section expanded to show all SharePoint rights in Permission Level page
  • Context for Help items is kept when refreshing screen or returning to it after customizing/adding a Help item
  • The look and feel of the scopes section changed to a tab format to support a large number of scopes
  • On the Help item page, the OK button changed to Save
  • On the Help item page, ‘small icon with label’ is now the default choice on the Help item page
  • Added additional safety mechanisms to the jQuery library instantiation to make sure it doesn’t conflict with other instances of jQuery on the page

February to March, 2015: v4.7 to v4.7.0.3 Internal Testing Releases

  • None

October 9, 2014: v4.6.1.7 Maintenance Release

  • Added the scenario for using the URL address of the zone from the current request

September, 2014: v4.6.1.6 Internal Testing Release

  • None

September 16, 2014: v4.6.1.5 Maintenance Release

  • Fixed a JavaScript bug that a customer was experiencing

September, 2014: v4.6.1.4 Internal Testing Release

  • None

August 26, 2014: v4.6.1.3 Maintenance Release

  • Added a jQuery conflict check

August 4, 2014: v4.6.1.1 Maintenance Release

  • When a site collection admin activates the provider feature, it will Not add the NT Authority\Authenticated Users group to the Visitors group

April 14, 2014: v4.6 Minor Release

  • Added the Lite version to the product
  • Addition of ‘please wait while action is processed’ dialog
  • Analytics added for VisualSP Enterprise
  • Added managing hub sites from Central Administration

February 6, 2014: v4.5.4 Maintenance Release

  • Added Nintex Help

January 20, 2014: v4.5.3 Maintenance Release

  • Added the ability to use the web part to override the ribbon tab

December 1, 2013: v4.5.2 Maintenance Release

  • Added the Delete button within the Help item page
  • Ability to ‘browse to’ and select Videos and Icons from individual Help item page

October 17, 2013: v4.5.1 Maintenance Release

  • Added blog posts, categories, and comments as scope options

June 5, 2013: v4.5 Minor Release

  • Added and changed a few scopes to respond to customer request

March 7, 2013: v4.0 Major Release

  • Re-architected major portions of the application for performance improvements
  • When watching video, pop out video to view in separate window
  • Support for streaming videos from all different places online or offline
  • Help items configured using list interface
  • Security trimming of each Help item
  • Management of Help items at Farm, Web Application and Site Collection level
  • Ability to import and export Help items
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Version 3

December 5, 2012: v3.0 Major Release

  • Added the automated installer
  • Addition of the feature stapler
  • Ability to turn on/off Help tab at a site collection level
  • Site collection scoped feature
  • Automated import of Help items from the zip package
  • Added Help tab to MySites
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Version 2

August 21, 2012: v2.5 Minor Release

  • Added the ability to provide a trial

June 12, 2012: v2.0 Major Release

  • Tab name changed to Help
  • Ability to host documents and images in the Help tab
  • Ability to manage videos from a Web Application and the Farm Level
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Version 1

April 25, 2012: v1.0 Major Release

  • VisualSP is born
  • Added a SPVideos tab in the wiki page ribbon of a site
  • Added ability to launch videos directly from the SharePoint ribbon
  • Added ability to manage Help items for the entire site collection
  • Configuration of Help items driven through XML
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January 2012 –  VisualSP is envisioned

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