Version 4.2.1
Build 598 Change Log
Features
The following features have been added:
- Improved processing of content pasted from Microsoft Word and web browsers.
Changes
The following changes have been made:
- The ScreenCapture security permission dialog now appears when ScreenSteps launches on macOS Catalina. Previously it would appear the first time a screen capture session was started and would appear behind the capture window.
- Removed the user name from the user menu in the Launch Pad.
Bug Fixes
The following bugs have been fixed:
- Text fields in the article editor will no longer disappear on occasion. On seemingly random occasions it was possible for a text field to disappear if text was selected during scrolling.
- Blur annotations were not rendering properly in the article editor when scrolled into view.
- If a content block had more than one revision note associated with it, and the first one was resolved and the others were not, then the revision note icon would not show up next to the content block in the editor.
- Clicking on the + button to add a content block could trigger an error if you were editing the image ALT tag or Anchor Name properties in the inspector.
- Using the hotkey or capture palette to insert a screenshot that uses the heading/image template no longer inserts the new content into the wrong location on macOS.
- The "Expand Row Completely" option in the outline would not expand descendants if the target row was already expanded.
- When saving a new version of an article the dialog where you assign an owner and status now displays the current owner and status of the article. Previously it displayed the owner and status of the article at the time the article was opened for editing.
- When pasting content from a web browser where image urls had certain query parameters the query parameters are no longer pasted in as text.
- HTML entities appeared in headings inserted into the article using the Heading Link menu if heading had been edited during the current sessions and the heading contained an accented character.
- An error could occur when generating the Heading Links menu if a heading only had a single emoji.
- Browsing the headings in an article with certain emojis in the KB link dialog would trigger the "invalid data returned from server for editable article" error.
- Emojis that use the zero width joiner character now display as a single character instead of two separate characters.
- Fixed an error that would occur after saving an article if the username of the user saving the article contained unicode characters.
- If the '>' character was included in a heading then it would be converted to >
Version 4.2.0
Build 592 Change Log
Features
The following features have been added:
- Support for workflow articles and the new question, answer, and step content blocks.
- Content block tray for dragging and dropping new content into the outline.
- Redesigned outline UI which is also more responsive.
- Redesigned article editor UI which is also more responsive.
- The ouline column is now resizable.
- Revision notes have been redesigned. All notes appear in the revision note property pane so it is easier to scroll through all of your notes.
- A new "Focus" feature has been added which focuses the editor on the content blocks selected in the outline.
- OPTION + Click (macOS) or ALT + Click (Windows) on a link to an article in a paragraph text content block will open the article for editing.
- When saving an article an alert now appears if the article has been updated on the server since you started editing it.
- You can now link to articles, chaptes, and manuals in your Knowledge Base while editing tables.
- When pasting content from Word the text colors are now maintained unless the color is close to black or gray.
- A "Background Color" icon has been added to the text formatting toolbar which allows you to set the background color for the seleceted text.
- The application is now notarized on macOS.
- Added support for the `start` attribute in `ol` tags when pasting HTML from the clipboard. This will set the starting number for a numeric list and Microsoft Word will sometimes use this attribute.
Changes
The following changes have been made:
- When capturing the screen the name of the operating system window included in the capture is assigned to the image ALT tag.
- The application no longer checks for SSL certificate revocation. There are too many environments where this would cause the desktop software to not be able to connect to the internet.
- Improvements when pasting content copied from Microsoft Word or a browser.
- Images being added from one article to another no longer have scaling applied to them (if scaling has been configured in preferences). Only images added from an external source are scaled.
- The text formatting toolbars in the paragraph text and table editor have been modified to be more in line with the forthcoming web editor update.
- ScreenSteps now attempts to reuse connections to a server in order to speed up multiple downloads from the same server.
- Pressing the backspace key at the beginning of an empty rich text or code field no longer deletes the content block.
- Improved error messages if something goes wrong while connecting to the ScreenSteps server.
Bug Fixes
The following bugs have been fixed:
- A number of memory leaks have been fixed which should improve performance.
- Multiple clicks on the "X" button to close an article window will no longer trigger an error.
- Using the escape key to dismiss an article window menu or contextual menu on Windows would trigger an error when closing the window.
- Screen capture now works on the Windows operating system when multiple monitors with different DPI settings are connected to the computer. Note that you will need to restart your computer if you change the DPI settings in order for ScreenSteps to work.
- Fixed a bug that would cause some types of text formatting to not be saved to the server properly. Text formatting could be silently modified.
- The web editor allows the author to set the background-color in the HTML. Maintain that when editing in desktop editor.
- Fixed some image canvas resizing bugs.
- Spell check was only finding the first occurrence of misspelled words in a paragraph on macOS.
- Fixed find and replace for words in titles.
- Fix error that would occur if the resource folder could not be renamed when saving atricle.
- Added a workaround for systems that have an incorrectly set $PATH environmental variable causing robocopy to not be found.
- Annotator handles are displayed after updating an image.
- Fixed issues with undoing a change to heading type or certain image canvas operations.
- Undoing a change to the starting sequence no longer changes the property inspector to a different pane.
- The user icon menu in the Launch Pad no longer gets stuck in the down state.
- If a canvas has an invalid image added to it an error no longer occurs when dragging the canvas resize handles.
- Inserting a link in the table editor when there was no selection would insert the link outside of the table.
- If a link was missing a manual id when it should have had one an error would occur.
- Fixed an error that could occur when quitting the application.
- Find and Replace could cause headings to disappear.
- Resizing an annotator with sequence annotations no longer causes the resize interaction to be jerky.
- Some window menu shortcut keys would not work until the menu was opened at least once.
- Annotation preset dialog is no longer resizable.
- Inserting a link at the beginning of a new line no longer tries to use the link of the preceding line if the preceding line ends with a link.
- Clicking to create a sequence annotation and then dragging while the mouse is still down no longer drags the sequence annotation around in an odd manor. The sequence annotation will be placed where you clicked.
- Dragging multiple sequence annotations on Windows no longer causes considerable lag in the annotations following the mouse.
- When saving an article whose type was changed the icon now updates in the Launch Pad.
- Mentions in revision notes are now highlighted properly.
- If the default image export format is PNG then adding a JPEG file now uses the best export quality setting rather than the preference setting.
- Spell check on macOS would not always offer spelling correction suggestions in the contextual menu when it should have.
- Fixed a bug that could cause extra paragraphs to be inserted into text content blocks when pasting HTML content from the clipboard.
- Fixed an error that would occur with articles containing multi-codepoint characters (e.g. certain emojis).