PointFire 365 v3.1.0.0, November 28, 2024

This is an optional official release.  It can be used for production.  It adds few new features and corrects some issues.  Although it has little new functionality, it has major internal changes for those who use the "single page model".

If this is a new install, you will only need the "PointFire 365 Modern" app, not the "PointFire 365" add-in. It you are updating an existing install, you will still need both, as part of the transition to eliminating the add-in before Microsoft's April 2026 deadline. All configuration functionality has been moved from PointFire 365" to PointFire 365 Modern", and all PointFire screens are now side panels.

If you were using an earlier supported release, the upgrade requires no change to data or licenses, however you must press the "Activate" button on each site after upgrade or use the ActivateApp script. Some JavaScript from the previous version will remain cached until the next session unless you press Ctrl-F5 or equivalent on your browser.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

All of our PowerShell scripts use the PnP.PowerShell module. The PF365 installation script will install it if that has not already been done.  In addition, Microsoft has recently deleted the app registration on which the "Interactive" login relies.  You can run UserAuthentication.ps1 to create a new app registration in your own tenant, or to change authentication methods

Details here
https://github.com/pnp/powershell/issues/4250

New and Changed Features

• Setting or changing webpart language visibility no longer requires the site custom scripting setting 

Resolved Issues

• Some scripts now ask the user to enter the tenant root URL instead of the admin URL
   

PointFire makes SharePoint truly multilingual and lets your users collaborate in their language.  Two different users going to the same page on the same site will each see it almost entirely in their language, both UI and content.

To get your copy, go to http://community.icefire.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/List/Index/1/pointfire-installation-packages and log in or create an account.

The fully-featured trial version can be downloaded for free and can be used for development and testing, with some pre-sale support.

PointFire Translator Express version 1.3.0 has been released and is available using Microsoft AppSource.  It translates modern pages, documents and metadata, and list items fram an app, wihout the need for a server component, in your account, in your region, using a private endpoint.

The free version translates documents.  The full version also translates pages and metadata, among other features.  It works with PointFire 365, or with SharePoint's Multilingual page publishing.

New and changed features:

• New "select all" button for languages
• Removed "Translate now” button on Events page, added Events translation in list view
• New scripts to install and update app in multiple sites
• Authentication changes and UserAuthentication.ps1 script for PnP changes to Interactive login
• Add validation on SAS token expiration date, warning when about to expire
• Works with PointFire 365 to cache redirection of newly translated pages

Bug fixes:

• Update Azure AI Translator API endpoints, language detection to latest API version
• Issue: Lost pictures in news posts
• Exclude internal fields and fields starting with underscore from translation
• For new item the Translate now button is not showing first time
• Various fixes and performance improvements.

If you are not providing secure managed translation for your users, then where are they sending your internal data to be translated?

PointFire 365 v3.0.0.0, October 22, 2024

This is an optional official release. It can be used for production. It adds few new features and corrects some issues. Although it has little new functionality, it makes major changes to the user interface.  PointFire 365 is phasing out the "PointFire 365" add-in and putting all functionality into the "PointFire 365 Modern" app.

If this is a new install, you will only need the "PointFire 365 Modern" app, not the "PointFire 365" add-in. It you are updating an existing install, you will still need both, as part of the transition to eliminating the add-in before Microsoft's April 2026 deadline. All configuration functionality has been moved from PointFire 365" to PointFire 365 Modern", and all PointFire screens are now side panels.

If you were using an earlier supported release, the upgrade requires no change to data or licenses, however you must press the "Activate" button on each site after upgrade or use the ActivateApp script. Some JavaScript from the previous version will remain cached until the next session unless you press Ctrl-F5 or equivalent on your browser.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

All of our PowerShell scripts use the PnP.PowerShell module. The PF365 installation script will install it if that has not already been done.  In addition, Microsoft has recently deleted the app registration on which the "Interactive" login relies.  You can run UserAuthentication.ps1 to create a new app registration in your own tenant, or to change authentication methods

Details here
https://github.com/pnp/powershell/issues/4250

New and Changed Features

• Installation installs both apps in upgrades of previous versions, but not in new installs.
• Clicking PointFire 365 in Site Contents now only explains that configuration has moved to PointFire 365 Modern
• Clicking PointFire 365 Modern in Site Contents brings up configuration, now in a side panel
• All former PointFire 365 pages and pop-ups are now side panels

Resolved Issues

• All scripts now work in both PowerShell 5 and PowerShell 7. PowerShell 7 is recommended and will become mandatory in a future release. 

PointFire makes SharePoint truly multilingual and lets your users collaborate in their language.  Two different users going to the same page on the same site will each see it almost entirely in their language, both UI and content.

To get your copy, go to http://community.icefire.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/List/Index/1/pointfire-installation-packages and log in or create an account.

The fully-featured trial version can be downloaded for free and can be used for development and testing, with some pre-sale support.

PointFire 365 v2.7.2.0, September 20, 2024

This is a recommended official release.  It can be used for production.  It adds a new feature and corrects many issues.

If you were using an earlier supported release, the upgrade requires no change to data or licenses, however you must press the "Activate" button on each site after upgrade or use the ActivateApp script. Some JavaScript from the previous version will remain cached until the next session unless you press Ctrl-F5 or equivalent on your browser.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

All of our PowerShell scripts use the PnP.PowerShell module. The PF365 installation script will install it if that has not already been done.  In addition, Microsoft has recently deleted the app registration on which the "Interactive" login relies.  You can run UserAuthentication.ps1 to create a new app registration in your own tenant, or to change authentication methods

Details here
https://github.com/pnp/powershell/issues/4250

New and Changed Features

• Translation of items in submenus of Footer links is now supported
• UserAuthentication.ps1 now creates create an app registration in Azure, named "PointFire PnP login" to overcome the deletion of the PnP group's multi-tenant application that "Interactive" login relies on.

Resolved Issues

• In MUI 2 when translating text with certain characters, strings were untranslated or had low-quality translations
• In MUI 2 when certain characters are present error "The body of the request is not valid JSON."
• In MUI 3 when translating certain strings including those in the Asset Manager list template, error "{Culture is not supported. Parameter name: <text> is an invalid culture identifier.}
   

PointFire makes SharePoint truly multilingual and lets your users collaborate in their language.  Two different users going to the same page on the same site will each see it almost entirely in their language, both UI and content.

To get your copy, go to http://community.icefire.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/List/Index/1/pointfire-installation-packages and log in or create an account.

The fully-featured trial version can be downloaded for free and can be used for development and testing, with some pre-sale support.

This is a supported release.  It fixes several errors in v2.2.1 and adds several features.

It makes it simple to translate Modern pages such as the ones in Communication and Teams sites and those produced by the Multilingual Page Publishing feature, as well as classic pages, documents, lists, and metadata.  It has several interfaces, including via a SharePoint App, a web interface, scripting, and Power Automate.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

All of our PowerShell scripts require the new PnP.PowerShell module.  installing the latest version may require global admin consent.  In addition, Microsoft has recently deleted the app registration on which the "Interactive" login relies.  You can run UserAuthentication.ps1 to create a new app registration in your own tenant, or to change authentication methods

New and Changed Features

• Custom connector has new Advanced Parameters: To, From, Publish, IsFileNameToTranslate
• Custom connector to translate list items
• Store the settings and credentials so they are not user-specific
• Pre-populate credentials, keys, etc in Set Credentials so they don't need to be re-entered every time.
• Appropriate message when the Service is not running
• Remove the abililty for PointFire Translator Add-In to work without PointFire Translator Server. Use PointFire Translator Express instead
• Improved troubleshooting for add-in connection to server
• Translation is now possible with contribute rather than edit permission
• UserAuthentication.ps1  script can create the necessary app registtration in the tenant to replace the multi-tenant app registration that PnP deleted on Sept 8 2024

Resolved Issues

• Set Credentials is stuck for MFA
• Target page content is blank if there is a double quotation in the source page title.
• When translating items with special characters which is not the source file, the message is not showing properly.
• Changes for installing PnP.PowerShell version 1.12.0 in script
• Use -Interactive -ForceAuthentication instead of -UseWebLogin in Connect-PnPOnline
• While translating Visio file getting the Error: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x86DB03E7)
• Added support for new lanugagea including Bhojpuri
• Set the correct file version and preserve file version history history after translation
• SP Quick Links web parts containing links with MSTrans.dic terms not rendered correctly during translation
• 429 error more retries until timeout reaches 60 seconds.
• Messages improvements for error 429000, 429001, and 429003
• Error messages when translating very large pages.
• Some pages are sent for translation twice. Also the message shown for successful translations are printed twice.
• Translation service not working on some browsers when using self-signed SSL certificate
• Error 429 (throttling) when using free version ot Azure AI Translator
• After providing correct appcatalog url, it is showing "incorrect appcatalog url" in PointFireTranslatorInstaller.ps1
• SharePoint Page translation using source language other than EN produced non-translated pages
• "The given list/library is not present in the site" for certain lists created programmatically
• After updating from older verion of PointFire Translator to the newer version. If set credential is not done, then it is not showing the message properly.
• While translating through TranslateSPLibrary, the Item language for pt-br and pt-pt is set as pt. Also retranslation is not working as expected
• If Isfilenametotranslate=yes, language code has been added to translated pagename.
• After updating from older version of PointFire Translator to the newer version. If set credential is not done, then it is not showing the message properly
• While translating through TranslateSPLibrary, the Item language for pt-br and pt-pt is set as pt. Also retranslation did not work properly
• Translation for parameter IsFileNameToTranslate was not working as expected
• Issue with special character
• When MLP is enabled in the site and translating two pages at a time the translation process is in progress for a long time and later get the error "ERROR: Error updating the fields in translated item. Object reference not set to an instance of an object."
• After modifying a page whose translation is already available in MLP folder, it did not update the translation.
• When MLP and required check out are enabled in Site pages and translating through TranslateSPLibrary, it is showing errors
• For some pages, page contents are getting translated but shows incorrect error message
• When translating a lis, shows incorrect "ERROR: Detected an older version of PointFire Translator Add-in which does not support single sign on. Please update it."
• When MLP is enabled, could not translate some pages with large contents and webparts
• Translating a blank document, it is showing the error "ERROR: Error while detecting the language of the item. Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection."
• If file translation is present and checking out the source file, then it is showing "ERROR: Error while processing target language value. The file "{path and name}" is not checked out. You must first check out this document before making changes."
• If required check out is enabled and after modifying a page whose translation is already available in MLP folder, then translating did not update the page.

PointFire Translator can translate individual items or entire libraries or lists in SharePoint Online.  It includes the PointFire Translator App which will use PointFire Translator Server as a default translation service, and fall back to Azure Translation Service if configured and if PointFire Translator is not available.

It can be downloaded here (login required)

http://community.icefire.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/146/30/pointfire-translator-server

For more information, contact sales@icefire.ca