Release Notes.
Release 2.18.0 (11/21/2019)
Local synchronization of files
- Remote files of corporate design feature are locally synced and updated. Thus, a user can use them also when he is offline. Furthermore, they can be accessed much faster. user request
Local storage of preview thumbnails
- Preview thumbnails of slides are stored locally in one folder. Thus, disk space of folders with presentations is immensively reduced. Furthermore, if presentations are stored remotely thumbnails are accessed much faster. user request
Optimization
- Presentation parsing is optimized and faster.
- Search results are cleared when leaving an empty search box. user request
- Slide compare shows difference of each shape.
Bugfixes
- Slide search with AND does not work
- The search for slide copies does not work
- The search for similar slides does not work
- Empty tags appear in 'manage tags' list
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Release 2.17.0 (07/15/2019)
Search
- The search finds slides with differently written search terms, for example for spelling mistakes or subwords user request
Integration with SharePoint / OneDrive
- Folders from SharePoint or OneDrive can also be reliably added and edited in the SlideManager via network drives without further configuration. user request
Optimization
- The display of content in the SlideManager is considerably faster user request
- The indexing of the presentations is considerably faster user request
Bugfixes
- After slide editing thumbnail is not updated
- The search for slide copies does not work
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Release 2.16.0 (11/08/2018)
Extension of Corporate Design Features
- Choose from multiple presentation masters to create a new presentation (no longer restricted to one master) user request
- Choose from up to 100 slide templates to create a new slide (no longer restricted to five slides) user request
- Choose from arbitrary number of company presentations or icon galleries (no longer restricted to one presentation or icon gallery) user request
- Company slides and icons are now searchable user request
Bugfixes
- After slide editing thumbnail is not updated
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Patch 2.15.1 (09/25/2018)
Bugfixes
- Context menu on slide does not open
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Release 2.15.0 (09/24/2018)
Improvements of Tag Management
- Clicking on a folder executes combined search for all the tags included
- Tags can now be managed in Excel by exporting all tags to and importing tags from Excel user request
- In tag and favorites manager, tags and presentations can now be moved from a folder to the main list
Optimizations
- The slide diff function is now available in the context menu of a slide in PowerPoint. When a copied slide has changed, either in your opened presentation or in the orginal presentation, you can compare the two versions of the slide before performing a 'copy back' or 'update' action. user request
Bugfixes
- In some OS and Office configurations, slides could not be inserted from the SlideManager reported by user
- The index status dialog did not open reported by user
- In favorites manager, a NullPointerException was thrown on opening the context menu when no presentation was selected
- In favorites manager, after dragging presentations to a folder did not refresh the view
- In tag manager, tags could not be dragged to a folder
- In tag manager, tags with spaces could not be found
- Searching for copies of a slide did not work
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Patch 2.14.7 (08/27/2018)
Bugfixes
- In some system configurations inserting or adding slides to a presentation do not work reported by user
- Presentations are not indexed when currently open
- Deleted slide entries are re-created by search module
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Patch 2.14.6 (07/17/2018)
Small changes
- Removed 'Recently opened' folder from Slide Manager as it slowed down the initialization of the search engine
- Action toolbar removed since no longer needed
- Icons added to Icon Gallery at original position user request
Bugfixes
- Issue with files on OneDrive: Indexing and inserting slides not working for all mappings
- Issue with files on OneDrive: When inserting a large number of slides, not all are inserted
- Issue with updating thumbnails: Thumbnails sometimes not updating reported by user
- Corporate Design configuration: Reloading template slides not working properly and not listed in menu
- Corporate Design configuration: When inserting a template slide that has been deleted, the wrong slide is inserted
- Settings dialog displayed on wrong monitor
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Patch 2.14.5 (07/12/2018)
Bugfix
- PowerPoint files are not shown in SlideManager due to change in license management
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Patch 2.14.4 (07/10/2018)
Bugfix
- iSpring Quizzes of version 9 are not suported
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Patch 2.14.3 (07/05/2018)
Bugfixes
- Thumbnails not correctly updated reported by user
- Specific OneDrive folder not searchable
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Patch 2.14.2 (05/29/2018)
Bugfixes
- New presentations cannot be loaded reported by user
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Patch 2.14.1 (05/25/2018)
Bugfixes
- The first launch of SlideKick takes too much time due to load the most recently opened presentations reported by user. Now, most recently used files are only loaded after user request
- Presentations are still open after indexing
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Release 2.14.0 (05/07/2018)
New features to better manage slides in companies
- Support use case for companies to ensure employees use the current presentation master and approved corporate slides user request
- Quick access to current presentation master
- Quick access to corporate slides, template slides, icons, and images
- Receive slide updates of corporate slides
- Support use case for storing and distributing presentations using OneDrive and SharePoint
Usability improvements
- Updated ribbon design to improve usability
- Quick access to recently opened presentations in SlideManager user request
- Show recently opened presentations in search results user request
Usability improvements for slide update management
- Sync status of a presentation shown in ribbon user request
- Sync status of a slide shown on slide user request
- Context menu on slide in PowerPoint with possible sync actions user request
- Context menu of a presentation or icon gallery in Slide Manager with function to select all slides or icons for insertion user request
- Shortcut Ctrl+a to select all slides / icons in a preview page user request
- Shortcut Ctrl+a on a presentation / icon gallery preview to insert all slides / icons of the selected presentation / icon gallery into the currently opened presentation / slide user request
Optimizations
- Optimized load behavior of presentations with meta data user request
- Slide thumbnails generated incrementally when slides change
- On operating systems other than German, English, or French, the default language is English user request
Bugfixes
- Adding slides to a presentation does not always work reported by user
- After successful adding slides to a presentation the preview is not updated reported by user
- Context menu of an icon gallery in list view does not show up
- Moving a slide within a presentation leads to false change recognition
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Patch 2.13.2 (02/27/2018)
Bugfix
- Smart links are lost, if slides of the master presentation are updated with SlideKick reported by user
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Patch 2.13.1 (02/20/2018)
Bugfix
- "Edit and synchronize" over multiple presentations does not work reported by user
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Release 2.13.0 (02/17/2018)
New search features
- Search for copies of a slide possible user request
- Search for similar slides possible user request
Usability
- Deleting of search results possible user request
- New button in tab to clear all meta-data user request
- Linking between slides for team work made more flexible, source presentations no longer need to be mounted in the same drive user request
- Filenames and paths are now searched by default
- Refresh of the view after changing the slide-per-page option
- Display of search hits for the field "Last modified by"
- Selecting the option 'Copy With Formatting' the slide master is only copied if it is not already present in the presentation. As a result, the file is not bloated unnecessarily with the same slide masters.
Bugfixes
- Deleting of slides does not work
- Slides of open presentations are not displayed correctly in SlideManager
- PowerPoint process continues to run in the background after quitting
- The search results are loaded several times, the display appears unsteady
- Search filter by folder does not work
- Paging of search results does not work
- Switch to "Used presentations" and "Status" via symbols does not show any slides
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Patch 2.12.2 (02/05/2018)
Bugfixes
- License activation message always indicates that the license key could not be validated reported by user
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Patch 2.12.1 (11/29/2017)
Bugfixes
- Preview images are not immediately regenerated after a change to a presentation reported by user
- Slides with special characters are coded incorrectly, so that differences between slides are mistakenly recognized reported by user
- The default search text in the search line only disappears very slowly reported by user
- License can not be re-validated on Premium reported by user
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Release 2.12.0 (11/22/2017)
Performance user request
- Improvements to the loading time between 30-50%
- Improvements to the loading time of the SlideManager
- Initialization of the search engine is only executed when used
Usability
- Keyword manager integrated in SlideManager
- Paging renewed at the slide preview and placed visible upwards
- Rearranged tab and SlideManager buttons
- Screenshots updated in "Getting started"
- Note when adding new search paths that folders should not be too large user request
SlideKick for iSpring Quizzes user request
- Activated quiz search
- Regenerating the quiz questions from Settings -> View
Bugfixes
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Release 2.11.0 (09/14/2017)
Library
- The "Add New Search Folder" button in SlideManager is back
SlideMachine
- Searching for and downloading slides directly from PowerPoint has been redesigned
Bugfixes
- Exception within indexing presentations and icon galleries
- Exception within keyword management
- Layout of SlideManager at low resolution is not correct
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Patch 2.10.1 (08/22/2017)
Bugfixes
- New indexing results in an exception because Unique-Id is not set
- New indexing of all presentations from version 2.10. necessary
- Exception after opening a new presentation
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Release 2.10.0 (08/21/2017)
Recommendations
- Recommend SlideKick via the button in the tab and use the premium features for one month for free
Index
- Slides are uniquely identified by Unique-Id
SlideMachine
- Enabled slides search on the internet
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Release 2.9.0 (07/13/2017)
New products
- New product "Community" replaces "Home and Student" and now displays 100 search results
- New product "Simplify your PPT work" with all the features for the perfect slides and images search at your own workplace
- New product "Simplify your PPT team work" with all features for the perfect teamwork when creating presentations
Bugfixes
- Version history is not displayed
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Usability
- Storage of Internet proxy credentials to simplify the use of SlideMachine
- Inserting slides from the keyword manager
- Tagging of search results user request
Bugfixes
- Slides with new keywords are not indexed reported by user
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Bugfixes
- Keyword menu does not appear when the keyword list is empty reported by user
- Text message in the indexing dialog is not correct reported by user
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Bugfixes
- Exception appears with inconsistent index
- Communication with the SlideMachine does not work
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SlideMachine (online search engine)
- Activation of the SlideMachine as a new product (beta)
Bugfixes
- Code signing certificate has expired and needs to be renewed
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Release 2.8.0 (04/26/2017)
Usability
- Activation of fuzzy search for all searches user request
- Global Keywords Management user request
- Keywords search in the context menu user request
- Keywords only available in the context menu user request
- Tag icon in slide preview user request
- Tooltip with keywords in slide preview user request
Bugfixes
- Keywords can not be removed from the overall list reported by user
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Bugfixes
- Keywords from read-only files can not be unified reported by user
- Tag enumeration lists removed tags reported by user
- Tag menu does not appear when selecting slides without tags reported by user
- Slide number in SlideManager too low reported by user
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Release 2.7.0 (03/19/2017)
Usability
- Presentation of the SlideManager in a separate window user request
- Central keyword database for the reuse of keywords user request
- Several keywords from the context menu selectable user request
- Open the keyword editor by clicking the keyword icon user request
- Presentation of the presentations in the SlideManager without opened tags user request
Bugfixes
- After closing the keyword editor, the application blocks even if no changes have been made reported by user
- After a keyword has been added, it does not appear in the context menu reported by user
- „Goto Presentation“ does not work within search results
- When "removing" a folder from the library is asked for a re-indexing and the view is not updated reported by user
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Release 2.6.0 (11/28/2016)
Usability
- SlideKick features available in its own tab user request
- Dialog for advanced search for filename, path, title, content etc.
- Function for zooming the slide preview more obvious user request
- Slide selection highlighted in clearer color in the preview user request
- Assign keywords to multiple icons and slides
- Navigation from a search result to the presentation user request
- Position feedback dialog centered, necessary due to different screen resolutions user request
Improved user help
- Improvement 'Getting Started'
- Tips and tricks, videos, instructions
Look and Feel
- Slides preview in the correct format (16:9 / 4:3) user request
- User option to set the number of slides displayed in the preview user request
Bugfixes
- Navigation in the SlideManager jumps back and forth
- Text comparison between two slides is reversed
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version management
- Detecting slides changes in the library user request
- Versioning of presentations user request
- Migration function of existing presentations in version history user request
- Retrieving a version
Improved Teamwork Support (Premium Features)
- Detection of local slides changes user request
- Aborting the update process if changes would be overwritten user request
- Resolution features in case of conflicting changes user request
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Release 2.4.0 (08/11/2016)
Professionalization
- Search results in Google style
- Paging in the slide preview for better loading performance
- Display and edition of the last searches below the search line user request
- Correction of overlapping labels in many dialogs user request
Advanced settings
- Language translation "French" (translation by Annie David)
Requirement of IT security user request
- No logging of OS and Office version
- No sending of OS and Office version with feedback
Bugfixes
- Adding many icons does not work
- Selecting multiple slides in the preview view does not work
- Suspend indexing of the currently edited presentation until it is closed reported by user
- Login to the proxy always requires domain name reported by user
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Release 2.3.0 (07/11/2016)
Advanced options for the search
- by selecting "Search for Icons" and "Search for slides" user request
Simplifications (general)
- Insert icons on current slide with double-click user request
- Select individual search terms with a double-click user request
User Help
- Display of the release note after product update user request
Bugfixes
- Search does not show all found slides reported by user
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Release 2.2.0 (07/03/2016)
Simplifications (general)
- Action "Update" in the context menu user request
- New button to open the Sync Toolbar in the menu bar user request
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Release 2.1.0 (07/02/2016)
Privacy Requirements user request
- Send feedback with optional email address
- Note on Privacy Policy
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Bugfixes
- Support small / capitalization of keywords reported by user
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Release 2.0.0 (06/19/2016)
New product variant IconGallery user request
- Create new icon libraries
- Add icons directly from PowerPoint
- Insert icons on the current slide
Tags user request
- Add, rename and remove keywords
- Keywords of individual slides and icons
- Search for slides and icons with certain keywords
Advanced settings
- Language change German / English user request
Portability
- Tested functionality for Office 2016 user request
Presentation
- New icon for PowerPoint files user request
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User Help
- Page display (bullets) in "Getting Started" user request
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Release 1.6.0 (04/13/2016)
Performance search index
- Parser optimization
- Index optimization reported by user
Product variants
- Home and Student, Share and Premium
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Release 1.5.0 (02/25/2016)
User Help
- "Getting Started" at first start
Favorites
- Create, rename, and remove favorite folders
- Add presentations to favorite folders by dragging and dropping
Simplification (general)
- Simplified interaction with dialogues
Bugfixes
- Calculation of the file number before indexing
- Handling DirectoryNotFoundException
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Release 1.4.0 (02/08/2016)
Simplified input for search paths
- New tab "Library" to manage all folders where slides are searched for
- Navigate through search folders and view the presentations they contain
- Add or remove search folders via the context menu
- Add search folders via drag and drop
- When adding search folders, specifying the expected duration of indexing
Search index
- New button in menu bar for display of the search index
- Status display, pause, reset or clear the search index
Advanced options for searching for specific slides
- by specifying "period from dd.mm.yyyy and interval" and "user"
- by specifying a slide header ("Title"), content ("Content"), or file name ("FileName") in the input field
- Beispiel: Title:<Suchbegriff > oder Title:“Exakter Titel“
Improved display of search results
- in tree view (but not yet clickable)
- in preview view or detail view with metadata
Advanced settings
- Quality of the preview pictures and thus the size of the occupied memory space in 10 steps adjustable
Simplification (general)
- All action buttons for an item in the context menu
- New feature to open a presentation in PowerPoint in the context menu
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