Release Log: Draftable Legal

• Improved iManage integration workflows:
  • Add a "Compare with most recent" option to the context menu when launching from iManage (this loads the two most recent versions when a file is selected, or loads the version selected and other most recent version if a version is selected)
  • Add 'Compare versions" option to the context menu when launching from iManage (this opens the Draftable version selector menu for the relevant file)
  • Add a 'save to iManage' option when generating a Redline as 'Word with tracked changes'
• Ability to load files (including versions of files) and launch a comparison from Sharepoint Online (web browser)
• Launch the New Comparison window after Draftable is activated 
• Support for Sharepoint remote located files when loading files from the Draftable Word add-in 
• Allow multiple files to be selected when browsing for local input files in Windows

• Fix for PDF files timing out when loading from network drives
• Fix for error dialog appearing unnecessarily when trying to cancel "Save to iManage"
• Fix for error when loading iManage files from "Favorites" tab using context menu integration
• Updated image hash not to use MD5
• Fix for a regression introduced by Draftable.Office refactor that broke MSI detection

App improvements & new features

• Automatically launch the New Comparison window after product is activated 
• Support .rtf files in redline comparisons

Bug fixes

• Fix issue failing to load Password protected Office documents
• Fix defect where it was not possible to select files from the iManage "Favorite" tab

App improvements & new features

• Keep input files after compare to enable rerunning comparisons with 1-click
  • Create user setting provide option to clear input files after running comparison 
• Added Group Policy support to disable Redline comparison types
• Improvements handing Structured Document Tags to reduce false positives

Bug fixes

• Fix for header/footer false negatives
• Fix to reduce word-related issues by avoiding breaking Word conversion on error overriding Word settings

App improvements and new features

• Select input file from a list of recent documents in the launcher

• Improved iManage integration
  • Allow multiple input files to be loaded when selecting from iManage
  • Provide list of other versions after first input document from iManage
  • Show iManage document number and version details in new comparison window and comparison summary page
  • Default compare output name to reflect versions when comparing iManage files

• New functionality for updating Word-Add-in

• Default insertion color change from "Blue" to "Dark Blue"

• Upgrade viewer to v3.6.18, including the following changes to Side by Side comparisons:
  • • Add status tags (e.g. “Needs Review” or “Low Priority”) and custom entry notes to changes in list
    • Configure rich rules for which changes are shown, including using statuses and notes, (this replaces the previous “Visible Categories” feature)
    • Ability to export a list of changes from the document (as .csv or copy to clipboard) to share review work with others. Change report includes tags and notes. Users can control if the report includes all changes, or only the changes matching the current filters

• Option to improve troubleshooting with extra error logs recording from iManage 

Bug fixes

• Fix for Word add-in not working for paths containing "&"

• Fix for author name in new compare window changes when changing comparison type

• Improvement in how Draftable handles error when closing Word document

• Fix for compare result window getting stuck at spinner when loading output PDF

• Word Add-in now displays warning when trying to compare an unsaved file

• Fix for exception during export causing app to freeze

• Fix for error when running side by side for docx: Pdf copy of the original document should be created at this stage.

• Remove false error message on timeout when loading files

• Update to extend output file name limit from 30 to 70 characters

Bug fixes

• Add iManage credential input for On-Prem instances

App improvements and new features

• Sanitize filename function to be used for iManage files (clean up problematic characters)

Bug fixes

• Fix redline compare for text input

App improvements and new features

• Allow users to Drag and Drop from iManage

Bug fixes

• Fix for Error loading files from iManage

App improvements and new features

• Compare Excel files (csv, xls, xlsx) Natively with Spreadsheet Compare) from Draftable

• Improved validation of Comparison Type on Compare Selector window

• Add group policy support for option to disable iManage integration, remove from input selection
• Set default to hide style changes by default in Side-by-Side

Bug fixes

• Fix patch version for MSI installers
• Fix for Draftable opening word files when running compare
  

   

Bug fixes

• Improved error handling for PowerPoint, retrying RPC server issues
• Fix leaking Word instances

App improvements and new features

• Give users the ability to set default content & style changes (shown / not shown) for SBS

• New internal setting to remove iManage from file input selector

• Group Policy fix

Bug fixes

• Fix for error disabling the PDF warning in Office in some scenarios

App improvements and new features

• Load files from within iManage via right click, the context menu

• Compare PowerPoint (native)

• Show progress bar while compare is loading

• Support open link features from the Viewer

• More dialogs shown when we face error will have option to export & send logs

• Include User Desktop settings while exporting error logs

• Viewer now can log custom errors

• Add Option to Repair Word Add-In

Bug fixes

• Fix for error when Office is not installed

App improvements and new features

• Better default types for save to iManage DD-1013

• Double underline & strikethrough option for mark up styling DD-1045

Bug fixes

• Word integration cleanups

• Block possibility to click redline side panel buttons multiple times 

• Extend the app log to include info about sentry & telemetry configuration 

• Update error logs to record current timezone at time of start (from windows) 

• Fix Draftable.CompareTool.Updater.WindowsUtils.OpenOrCreateKey NullReferenceException 

• Refactoring of comparison tasks execution, moving PDF generation step to progress window 

• Improving handling defaults in redline settings 

• Fix for Word Single Instance policy breaking OCR

App improvements and new features

• Improving handling defaults in redline settings

Bug fixes

• System.NullReferenceException when doing redline compare

App improvements and new features

• Smarter default FILE NAMES for save to iManage

• Sanitize file names from iManage for invalid characters

• Author (full name / initials) as per Word settings to be an option in the Settings

• Outlook window via "Email Comparison" shown in front of other applications

• Improve file names sanitization

• Add document obfuscator and Group Policy setting to disable it

Bug fixes

• Fix for Error while doing export of the redline

• Fix for Tracked Changes outputs

• Fix long temporary file paths to stop long names crashing comparisons
• Fix for issue with Track Changes output interacting with third party PDF software during saving (software was trying to save outputs as pdf)

• Fix for Save to iManage as a 'New version' - remove error pop up on cancellation

App improvements and new features

• Add OCR test to system verification step

• Use viewer 3.6.14

• Increase file load and comparison timeout to 15 min
• Change Default RedlineProfile to have Headers & Footers on by default

Bug fixes

• Compatibility option to resolve security pop up issue - setup signle instance of Word Application (also added Group Policy support for this setting)

• Refresh runner pool after changing the setting
• Fix to issue impacting redline comparisons documents

• Fix for OCR issue

App improvements and new features

• Use viewer 3.6.13

• Default to always log telemetry data locally (for troubleshooting)

• Can select Changed pages output when exporting to email when document is not ready

Bug fixes

• Fixes Comparison Progress window (not including OCR step in some cases)

• Office integration cleanups and fixes

• Fix to enable compatibility with KOFAX 

• Exclude Draftable.Xml from obfuscation - fixing some comparison errors

• Update to better handle encoding in logs

• Small clenaups and bugfixes in algorithm code

• Fix for Error while trying to do side-by-side compare

• Fix viewer errors for redline

• Switch to the Blue Theme

  • All installers and Add-In included

• Ability to manage profiles at team level

App improvements and new features

• Increase memory limit on CompareRunner

Bug fixes

• Fix issue with Comments in Redline

• Add support for more than only Preferred Library database in iManage

• Fix word template issue & skip word add-in and templates on start

Bug fixes

• Fix Fatal crash when switching from old version

• Handling TargetInvoationException from Word API

• Fix for issue triggering Word Macros warning

App improvements and new features

• Add help articles to issues found in diagnostic tool

Bug fixes

• Avoid opening key for DisableConvertPdfWarning if already setup as expected
• Create Word Options key if it's missing
• Fix for issue with OCR 
• Fix for unresponsive Settings window when first opened
• Fix for CompareSelector lagging after closing compare window
• Several algorithm improvements and cleanups

App improvements and new features

• Update viewer to v3.6.12

Bug Fixes

• Can't read statistics step in onboarding
• Attempt to fix Normal.dotm Word popup issue
  

App improvements and new features

• Compare comments: Display changes and preserve authors

• Improved moves for Redline:

  • Grouping consecutive moves together (Including fixes for some cases of last row not being included in the move)

  • Detecting moves within same paragraph

  • Account for moves that split from one to many paragraphs and vice versa

• System Verification: upfront testing to ensure correct user settings
• Added links to Draftable Pro Knowledge base throughout application
• Group policy for setting up iManage on prem (Service URL, Draftable App ID)

Bug fixes

 Bug fixes

• Updated OCR settings to ensure this is enabled when user selects to enable as 'automatic' or 'always' 

• Fixed issue when unable to create Draftable.dotm

 App improvements and new features

• Improved show steps in comparison progress dialog

• Updated viewer to the latest v3.6.11

 Bug fixes

• Fix for Unknown error when running side by side compare with 1 pdf and 1 word doc

• Fix for issue when Draftable unable to override Word settings

• Potential fix to avoid Word Popup relating to Normal.dotm file

 App improvements and new features

• Show steps in comparison progress dialog

• Telemetry improvements 

 Bug fixes

• Fix for issue occurring when loading documents into new comparison window 

• Potential fix for running comparisons when system language is not set to English

 App improvements and new features

• Group Policy for Redline Profiles

 Bug fixes

• Removed error when free text input was used 

 App improvements and new features

• Add missing Group Policy Template for Draftable Pro

• Better handle iManage On-Premise

• Manage Word options to avoid default pop ups

 App improvements and new features

• Release 'Changed pages only' feature to allow dynamic toggle of in viewer and export as PDF

• Improvements to iManage integration

 App improvements and new features

• Added Profiles for Redline settings

• Released MS Word Add-In (automatically installed after starting the app)

• New Group Policy template for Draftable Pro

  • With options to set iManage on-premise credentials

• Extension for existing Draftable Group Policy to set auto-updates on/off for per User & per-User MSI

• Native menu is now enabled for Redline output, with options to

  • Start new comparison

  • Open settings

  • Close window

• Save File to iManage as new version

 Bug fixes

• Various Redline algorithm bug fixes

• Bugfix for Comments

 Bug Fixes

• Fix for Headers and Footers not being visible in side-by-side view for standard license

 Bug fixes

• Updated default Move From and Move To text decoration

 App improvements and new features

• Compare progress dialog with spinner 

  • Gracefully dispose of cancel in-progress comparison

• Extend markup customization & add option for users to ignore moved text (show as insert / delete instead)

• Set default markup colours to align with word

• Allow users to save their preference to open or save when Word tracked changes output is selected

• Updated to Viewer 3.6.9

• Speed improvements

  • Generate preview pages of redline PDF while waiting for comparison to complete

  • Maintain pool of compare runner processes

  • Remove unnecessary preprocessing steps to speed up comparisons

 Bug fixes

• Various bugs removed from Redline algorithm

 Bugfixes

• Fix for issue preventing saving documents to iManage from the viewer right hand side panel

 Bug fixes

• Bug fix for issue preventing select file from iManage

 Bug fixes

• Compare Selector visible before accepting Terms & Conditions on fresh installation

 App improvements and new features

• Fix a bug where some fonts (mostly Asian) were not loaded

• Support iManage on-premise

• Fix bug where file name was expanding the control instead of wrapping text

• Keep the launcher open after a comparison is created

• Introduce spinners in buttons for actions that might take time

• Show license key in settings window

• Change "Redline" label to "Redline (.pdf)" in comparison launcher

• Add an option for users to switch between word-level or character-level

• Telemetry improvements

  • We're able to group actions that happened in context of a specific comparison

  • Create id after file drop and not changing it until the comparison is triggered

• Prepopulate email body when emailing outputs

• Ship language specific fonts with desktop

 Components

• Use viewer v3.6.8 with better handling of long list of changes handle language specific fonts

 Bug fixes

• Various bugs removed from Redline algorithm

 App improvements and new features

• Respect summary page setting when doing comparison with output set to Word Track Changes

• Redline comparison execution time improvements

• Introduce session concept to improve telemetry

• If a word or pdf document doesn’t have an author we’ll use the file owner

 Redline compare algorithm improvements

• Improved support for headers and footers

• Maintain and merge comment threads

• Partial support for embedded objects

• VML textbox support

• Fixed several edge cases that cause false positives

 App improvements and new features

• Support txt and txt blob

• Customize Track Changes Author

• New viewer v3.6.7-pre.3

• UI fixes

 Bug fixes

• Assertion Error in HandleInsert/HandleDelete

• Bug fixes in Redline compare algorithm
  • Bookmarks
  • Comments
  • Header & footers
  • Numbering

 App improvements and new features

• UI improvements

• User statistics from Redline/Pro

 App improvements and new features

• Option in Redline settings to keep comments in the Track Changes from one/both of the documents, or skip
• Compare Launcher will now be closed if the app is deactivated
• Settings window closed if the app is deactivated
• No dialog when Redline Markup Scheme not saved
• There should be no dialog when TC Compare is in progress and app was deactivated

 Bug fixes

• Sentry log in the File Explorer Integration/Start the app from Shortcut

• Global Shortcut no longer freezes the app

 App improvements and new features

• Streamlined redline compare

• Word Track Changes support

• iManage support

• OCR support

• Compare Selector Ui improvements

• Settings Ui improvements

• New update engine

• New installer engine

• URL Scheme improvemnts

• Internal .draftable support

• Introduce Draftable Pro mode

• Export share with Outlook

• Viewer 3.6.7

 Dependencies update

• Viewer rendering engine - CEF Sharp

• Migrate from deprecated Microsoft.Toolkit to CommunityToolkit

• Other dependencies updated

 Bugfixes

• Update process bugfixes