Changelog

Technology and performance release (Rel 22.2)

23. June 2022

This release focuses on updating the underpinning tech stack of Seamless to guarantee compatibility with framework changes and to improve the overall application performance.

 

Seamless Suite

Application Life-Cycle

  • Update and unification to .NET 6
  • Update Azure Functions to V4
  • Update from Angular 10 to 14

Teams App and SharePoint Add-In

New

  • Move Teams and SharePoint App to Azure Static Apps to allow even faster loading from any place around the world.

 

 

Hello! Seamless Teams App (Rel 22.1)

25. April 2022

This release includes our first, customer facing version of the new Seamless Teams App. The AskMeWhy Team has been working for a few months on transferring the central Seamless functionalities into a native Microsoft Teams App without losing the previous philosophy and functionality. At the same time, we created the basis for future developments.

The native Seamless Apps work in the Microsoft Teams Mobile App for iOS and Android and support light, dark and high contrast, representations.

 

Seamless Teams App

New

  • Users can now see and access all their Seamless and non-Seamless workspaces in one place in Microsoft Teams. This allows users to identify all the work areas they have access as owners, members, or visitors. This not only allows a central overview, but also enables inactive work areas to be cleaned up.
  • The Seamless Teams App displays all Seamless Workspaces in SharePoint and Teams. Additionally, it displays all Microsoft 365 Groups, SharePoint Sites, private and public Teams as well as private or shared Teams Channels.
  • We have added extra space to allow full display of very long display names.
  • Teams and SharePoint Sites provisioned by the Seamless Engine additionally display their state, organization unit, workspace type, responsible, deputy, and relations to connected Seamless workspaces (e.g. Project and partial project).
  • Using the Search functionality, users can filter the available workspaces.
  • Thanks to the lazy loading approach, the overview returns all accessible workspaces with fast loading performance - even if you have access to several thousand workspaces.

Seamless Tab

New

  • The Seamless Tab is automatically installed in the "General" channel in Teams provisioned with Seamless and allows Teams owners to manage metadata and relationship to other workspaces.
  • The attributes "Responsible" and "Deputy" are decoupled from the Microsoft Teams roles (Owners, Members, Guests). As a result, organizations can still differentiate between those responsible for content and those responsible for Teams permissions.
  • To make sure that the Seamless Tab can be accessible to all project members, it can only be added once, only in the general channel and only in Seamless Teams workspaces.

 

 

Good-Bye SharePoint provider hosted app (Rel 21.3)

15. November 2021

After more than seven successful years with our SharePoint Provider Hosted App Seamless, this release is about replacing the somewhat outdated solution architecture and laying the foundation for further developments.

 

SharePoint Add-In

Improvement

  • Removal of licensed Seamless Service Account
  • Removal of SharePoint Provider Hosted App
  • Faster loading times

Governance & Life-Cycle Engine

Improvement

  • Reduction of failed provisioning due to random MFA Authentication

  • Performance improvement

 

Move to MSAL 2.0 (Rel 21.2)

29. June 2021

The move away from back-end authentication to front-end authentication based on Microsoft's authentication library MSAL 2.0 enables us to update and standardize the .Net libraries, used PnP libraries, etc. By completely separating the front- and back-end, we achieve flexibility for future developments.

 

SharePoint Add-In

Improvement

  • Implement front-end authentication to MSAL 2.0
  • Show large number of parent-child relations.

Governance & Life-Cycle Engine

New

Seamless API

New

  • Extension of the Public API to provide and return the full URL for Microsoft Teams URL

     

 

General UI Improvements (Rel 21.1)

5. April 2021

 

SharePoint Add-In

New

  • Direct opening of Seamless Teams workspaces from Seamless Add-In
  • Provide new Seamless Card for ”Shared Documents”

Improvement

  • Highlighting of linked parent workspaces
  • Search with one, single character
  • Display tool tip for all tabs/views in cards
  • Alphabetical sorting of the workspace types in the Create Workspace dialog

Governance & Life-Cycle Engine

New

  • Provisioning of Default Libraries

 

 

Reset Sharing (Rel 20.5)

24. September 2020

The main goals of this release are

  • to offer those responsible for a workspace the option of resetting shared content at the touch of a button
  • and to allow adding more than 20 users to rooms when creating new Microsoft Teams (Overcome Microsoft limitation).

 

SharePoint Add-In

New

  • Reset Sharing: This new functionality allows Managers of a SharePoint workspace to reset internally or externally shared contents to its original state.

 

Governance & Life-Cycle Engine

New

  • Add users in batches: Allow adding up to 10'000 Users when creating a new Microsoft Teams workspace using the Seamless API.

 

Seamless Suite

Improvement

  • Fix “Group not Found Error”
  • Optimization of scrolling for touch devices
  • Unification of email confirmations
  • Upgrade to Angular 10
  • Adjusted the order of Settings Tab in Seamless Add-In
  • Fix OneDrive sync link issue
  • Mobile Phone Optimizations
  • Translations in Team tab
  • Customization of Local Search Result
  • Customization view «Settings»

 

 

Multilanguage and OneNote (Rel 19.2)

26. August 2019

The following features and improvements will be provided with the new release:

 

SharePoint Add-In

New

  • Multilanguage Support for workspace attributes: Seamless now supports multilingual, custom workspace attributes.

  • Support French and Italian: Beside English and German, Seamless now supports French and Italian. Please let us know if you would like to have other languages supported.

  • Search scope in Seamless Workspaces: If you are in a workspace, the Seamless Search will search by default for documents in the current workspace only. If you would like to search for workspaces, documents and people, you simply have to change the Seamless Search Scope selector from “Current Workspace” to “All”. In the Seamless Overview or Startpage, only the scope “All” is available.

  • Workspaces with special characters: You can now create Seamless workspaces containing special characters

  • Seamless Search Result by workspace type: In the search result, there is a new filter available to filter the trimmed by returned workspace types

  • Site Notebook availability: When you create a new Seamless workspace, the site notebook will be automatically provisioned, and the name will be the same as the workspace. This will make it easy for you to differentiate between the OneNote Notebooks available in your OneNote Application. The link to the OneNote Notebook is available at the bottom of your workspace information. If your workspace does not contain a Site Notebook, the link in the workspace information will be hidden.

Improvement

  • Stop of provisioning of OneNote in “Documents” and “Restricted Documents”: As it was confusing for some customers, Seamless will no longer provision a OneNote Notebook in your “Documents” and “Restricted Documents” App of a workspace. The OneNote view in these two Apps will remain, as MS Team creates OneNote Notebooks in the document library of your Seamless Workspace. If you would like to work with a restricted OneNote in your workspace, you have to manually create it in your “Restricted Documents” App.

  • Deeper Office 365 Group Integration: As Seamless Admin User, you can connect a Seamless Workspace to a new Office 365 Group and/or a MS Teams. It doesn’t matter if you create a public or a private Office 365 group – both settings will work with Seamless. As following Office 365 Groups is not support in the classic way of SharePoint, you cannot use the following function for new Seamless Office 365 Groups. Already followed workspaces will remain in the favorites of the current user, until they are unfollowed. Seamless Office 365 Groups can be accessed using the Seamless Search.