2024 Volume 1 boosts our Blazor collection with a new Timeline component; production-ready versions of the Data Form, Dropdown Tree, and Stepper components; and swim lane and line routing features in Diagram.
The Timeline component has been added to Blazor.
The following components have been developed to meet industry standards. These are now marked as production-ready components for Blazor.
The Blazor Timeline component enables users to display a series of data in chronological order, providing a visually compelling and user-friendly experience. This showcases user activities, tracking progress, narrating historical timelines, and more.
The floating labels layout is a powerful feature in form design that enhances the user experience by providing clear guidance and conserving space. Labels seamlessly transition above input fields, ensuring that users always know what information to input while maintaining a sleek and modern aesthetic.
This feature lets you create swimlane diagrams programmatically or interactively. A swimlane is a visual element used to group and categorize activities or tasks based on the role or department responsible for their execution. It helps show complex processes involving multiple participants or departments in an organization.
This feature ensures that connectors in the diagrams no longer overlap with neighboring nodes when in contact, offering a more streamlined and organized visual representation. Line routing dynamically updates the connector’s geometry. This process eliminates confusion about the path flow of connectors, resulting in a cleaner and more comprehensible diagram.
The Word Processor now supports saving the document as a Word Template (DOTX). DOTX files are template files used in Microsoft Word to create documents with predefined formatting and styles. They serve as valuable tools for maintaining consistency, efficiency, and branding in document creation. They provide users with a standardized framework for creating professional-looking documents while saving time and effort in the process.
The color picker used in the Word Processor can now be customized to its default appearance or palette mode, or it can show a mode switcher between the picker and palette.
The comment resolved state has undergone enhancements aimed at improving user interaction and comprehension within the interface. These improvements entail the implementation of visual markers that signify the resolution status of comments.
The change case functionality allows users to quickly change the capitalization of the selected text without having to retype it. This feature is particularly useful for conforming text to specific style requirements.
The Word Processor component now supports navigating the document using headings. If heading styles are applied to the document, those headings will appear in the navigation pane.
The following enhancements are added for the chart to image conversion.
The Blazor File Manager now introduces the support for rendering flat data objects, removing the necessity for HTTP client requests and backend URL configuration. You can explore a demo of this feature here.
Custom sorting support is provided in Blazor File Manager. This feature allows users to override the standard sorting mechanism, tailoring it to suit specific application requirements.
Users can split tasks in the resource view of the Gantt chart. This functionality allows users to temporarily stop work on a task due to unforeseen circumstances or task reprioritization while indicating that the rest of the work will restart later in the schedule. Find the demo link here.
This feature allows users to export the grid with columns, which may contain images, hyperlinks, and customized text to Excel and PDF files. Users can also export the grid with a detail template and caption template containing customized text in the group caption row to Excel and PDF files. Find the demo link here.
The new operator in the search and filter feature allows users to perform precise and targeted searches on their data. These operators provide greater flexibility and control over how users can search and filter data in Blazor DataGrid and find the demo link here.
This feature keeps the previously selected checkbox filters when making additional changes. It is achieved by showing “Add current selection to filter” as one of the checkbox options in the Excel or checkbox filter. Find the demo link here.
This functionality enables users to seamlessly move multiple rows within and between grids by utilizing drag icons. This intuitive feature allows users to effortlessly rearrange data, enhancing overall user experience and productivity. Find the demo link here.
Tooltips and tooltip templates can be displayed for polygon shapes. Tooltip templates can include custom items such as images, text, and HTML elements.
The customizable primary toolbar, now allows users have the power to tailor their toolbar exactly to their needs, adding new items, hiding existing ones, and repositioning items for optimal workflow efficiency on desktop and mobile PDF Viewers.
Integrate custom actions, such as annotation tools, view ratio or document navigation shortcuts, directly into your primary toolbar for quick and convenient access.
Customize your PDF Viewer experience by removing unnecessary clutter and focusing only on the tools you use most frequently.
Organize your toolbar intuitively, placing frequently used tools front and center for easy access and improved productivity.
This feature allows users to add or modify remote actions that navigate to an external PDF document. Users can easily add links to a specific page or location of another PDF document.
Users can effortlessly add signature and timestamp certificates to the PDF Document Security Store (DSS), ensuring greater security and compliance with PDF standards.
This support enables the pivot chart’s series for multiple measures to be drawn on a single y-axis rather than separate axes.
The PowerPoint Library now includes APIs for cropping images within existing PowerPoint presentations or when creating new presentations from scratch, mirroring the picture crop options in Microsoft PowerPoint.
With this feature, when the presentation contains cropped images, users have the ability to save them as they are, preserving the cropped regions instead of the original pictures.
The PowerPoint Library now compares master and layout slides to prevent the addition of duplicate master slides and to ensure the reuse of existing master slides when merging slides from another presentation.
To improve the query functionality, the Query Builder has been expanded to accommodate query types, including Mongo, parameterized SQL, and named parameter SQL. Users can seamlessly import these queries into the Query Builder for enhanced versatility.
The lock option is available for rules as well as groups. When a rule is locked, the field, operator, and value will be disabled. When a group is locked, all the elements within the group will be disabled.
The clone option is available for rules and groups. It will create an exact replica of a rule or group next to the original.
With the spacer toolbar, provided support for toolbar item’s alignment with CSS flex to ensure a smoother loading experience for end users.
New operators in the search and filter feature give users greater flexibility and control when searching their data in the Blazor TreeGrid. You can try a demo here. The new operators are:
This feature keeps the previously selected checkbox filters when making changes. It does this by providing “Add current selection to filter” as one of the checkbox options in the Excel-like or checkbox filter.
This functionality lets users move multiple rows within and between TreeGrids by utilizing drag icons. This intuitive feature allows users to effortlessly rearrange data, enhancing overall user experience and productivity. Find the demo link here.
The Word Library now supports the inclusion of \c and \a switches when updating the table of contents (TOC) in a Word document. The purposes of these switches are:
With this feature, you can create a table of figures, tables, charts, and more, giving readers a clear overview of the document’s contents and facilitating easier navigation.