PointFire 365 v2.6.2.0, August 31, 2023

This release introduces new features, including translation of Choice columns, translation of modern page titles and webpart titles using the Single Page Method.  It also allows MUI translation and Clear Cache to work if scripting is off

This is a supported official release. It can be used for production.  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

Starting in March 2022, all of our PowerShell scripts have switched from the legacy SharePointPnPPowerShellOnline module, which stopped being maintained in 2020, to the PnP.PowerShell module.

The PF365 installation script will uninstall the old module and install the new one on the workstation if that has not already been done. If no one has yet run the command "Register-PnPManagementShellAccess", you must get a global admin to consent for the Tenant. This only has to be done once for the entire tenant.

Details here

https://pnp.github.io/powershell/cmdlets/Register-PnPManagementShellAccess.html

New and Changed Features

• Changes to the dialogue to localize choice columns. Rather than a dropdown and an "Apply" button, there is a list of choice columns each with a checkmark that applies/removes translation of choice columns. The JSON code is no longer being shown.
• Choice column translation skips hidden and other inappropriate columns
• Support of Azure Translator private endpoints if applicable
• Support for forcelocale parameter to change the language within a URL
• New script for setting PointFire365 footer option at the site collection level: SetFooterPropertyInSiteLevel.ps1
• New script to store Azure text translation API key and region in the sitecollection level: SetAzureTranslationPropertySiteLevel.ps1
• New script UserAuthentication.ps1 to set default authentication method to be used in other scripts
• Changes to SetTenantLicense.ps1 to call the script 'TenantLicenseRequest.ps1', if the number of users is not valid.
• New script to deactivate PF365 app: DeactivatePF365.ps1
• get MTL item and its variations from the Tenant root site and parent hub site, if available
• in DeployingMUIForSite.ps1, include Translate Interface step 1 and step 2, previously only step 3
• PF365 now declines to make the MTL multilingual.
• Detect whether this is an initial installation to the app catalog and skip the upgrade of the apps
• New script SetSinglePageMethod.ps1 to indicate to PointFire that the Single Page Method will be used in a site. This can reduce performance, so it is off by default.
• New script PF365MigrationTenantLevel.ps1 goes through all the sites of a tenant and then migrates the Item Language and Source Item columns that come from PointFire 2016 or earlier.
• Making a list/library multilingual now adds the calculated column "ItemLanguageCalculated", which makes searching easier
• Some scripts are now logging messages to a text file
• Several changes to support Viva Connections

Resolved Issues

• Language selector for Web Parts sometimes shows no languages.
• Do not show 'display this webpart in' option for section property panel since PointFire does not support language setting for sections
• Some UI elements not being translated when there was a large number of languages
• Reduce the number of page loads while navigating to another site
• Issue: Sometimes the redirected URL, for example in Quick Links, is not correct when the link contains special characters.
• Added changes to skip the translation of read-only Content types.
• Added changes to retrieve and apply translations in Content Type, inherited from parent site or from content type hub.
• Personal Menu (me control) items are sometimes in the wrong language
• Issue: In "New" and "Display" Form, the language change stuck.
• Some view names not translated correctly.
• Catch error in activation
• Fixed styling for translated navigation text when it is selected
• If we switch libraries using the new Library switcher navigation, the filter field was not getting added to the URL.
• If choice column value contains single quote value from the beginning, then Json column is not applied successfully.
• the installed script was first checking for tenant license and then it was again checking the license in site level.
• While activating PointFire 365 app in a sub site, it was sometimes showing the Error : The managed path sites/demosite is not a managed path in this tenant
• After changing the language using the Microsoft account setting rather than the language toggle or the profile, list/library was not being filtered.
• When switching between different views, the language filtering was not automatic, need to refresh the page.
• More issues related to old Serbian language code, and more still.
• Improved performance for MUI translation
• In team site, change the language to French in Home page, then navigate to multilingual Document/sitepage library, language menu is not showing, and language filtering is not working. Need to refresh the page.

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, without using Variations.

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.