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Road Map for Essential Studio for Blazor

Road Map for Essential Studio® for Blazor

Common

New Markdown library

The Markdown library allows users to open, edit, and save Markdown documents. This improves reusability, simplifies maintenance, and supports lightweight integration for Markdown-specific needs.

Production-ready components

The following component is to be developed to production-ready standards for Blazor: - Chat UI

New component

Chart Wizard

The Chart Wizard allows users to create charts by just selecting the required chart type and configuring a few options. This component simplifies the chart creation process and provides a user-friendly interface.

Block Editor

The Blazor Block Editor control enables users to create and organize content using flexible, structured blocks. It supports quick block insertion through slash commands, inline text formatting, and intuitive drag-and-drop functionality. The editor includes specialized block types such as quotes, callouts, and dividers to enhance content presentation. It offers smooth keyboard navigation and real-time rendering, delivering an adaptable and user-friendly editing experience for modern web applications.

Charts

Axis label template

This feature enables the use of custom HTML elements within axis labels, allowing for more flexible and visually rich label customization.

Legend template

This feature allows custom HTML elements to be rendered within each legend item, enhancing the visual presentation and interactivity of chart legends.

Last value indicator

This feature displays the last data point in a series with a label and an indicator line, highlighting the most recent data.

No data template

This feature allows users to show custom HTML content when no data is available, such as in empty chart states.

DataGrid

Row and column spanning

This feature allows users to merge grid cells across rows or columns for better data organization and a cleaner layout.

Custom tooltip

This feature enables the display of custom tooltips in both the DataGrid header and content, showing additional context and information.

Selecting a row across pages

This feature allows users to select a desired row by its index across pages, offering greater ease of use when working with large datasets.

Expand/collapse state maintenance

This feature ensures that the expanded and collapsed states of grid are preserved even after grid actions are performed.

Stock Chart

Legend template

This feature allows custom HTML elements to be rendered within each legend item, enhancing the visual presentation and interactivity of chart legends.

Last value indicator

This feature displays the last data point in the Stock Chart series with a label and an indicator line, highlighting the latest data.

No data template

This feature allows users to show custom HTML content when no data is available, such as in empty chart states.

Diagram

Collaborative editing

This feature allows multiple users to edit a diagram simultaneously. Changes made by one user will be instantly visible to others, enabling smooth teamwork and faster decision-making.

Symmetric layout

This feature automatically arranges Diagram elements in a balanced and symmetrical layout, making complex diagrams easier to understand.

Word Processor

Grouping shapes

This feature renders grouped shapes, allowing users to view them exactly as they appear in a Word document when opened or saved.

Ribbon interface

The ribbon interface is an alternative to the traditional toolbar. It organizes commands into intuitive tabs and groups, helping users locate and access tools efficiently.

Asynchronous document loading

This feature allows documents to load in the background without blocking the user interface, enabling users to interact with other parts of the webpage while loading continues.

WordML mapping

WordML mapping for rich text content control enables binding formatted XML data to specific placeholders in Word documents. This is useful for auto-filling complex, styled sections (like legal clauses) in Word templates from external XML sources while retaining formatting.

Page backgrounds

This feature allows users to add fill colors, watermarks, or images to page backgrounds to enhance the document appearance or convey branding. It can be used to apply a company logo as a background image, confidentiality watermarks, or a colored background for marketing materials.

Rotation for shapes and images

The rotation applied to shapes and images is preserved, ensuring both appear at their intended angles when a document is opened.

Scheduler

Custom toolbar

This feature allows users to customize the existing toolbar in the Scheduler. Users can add, remove, or reorder toolbar buttons to create a more personalized scheduling experience.

Summary row

This feature allows users to render a custom row to show a summary or event details at the bottom of the Scheduler.

File Manager

This feature allows users to search files or folders using tags to enhance the searching process.

Template for large icons view

This feature allows users to customize the large icons view to preview the files as a miniature.

Rich Text Editor

Markdown with auto formatting

This feature lets users get and set Markdown content in the HTML editor for seamless format conversion. It introduces auto-formatting of Markdown syntax in the editor, instantly rendering elements like headings (#), bold (*), and italics () as formatted HTML.

Checklist

This feature allows users to create checklists (to-do lists) directly within the Rich Text Editor. Users can easily add interactive checkbox items to their content, enabling task tracking and action item management within documents.

Enhance content copy

This feature streamlines content management by stripping unwanted styles when copying HTML, ensuring clean output while preserving text formatting like font styles, colors, and alignments for seamless copying within the editor or externally.

Enhance import/export security for Word and PDF

This feature enables passing authorization tokens during Word document imports and while exporting to PDF or Word formats. It ensures secure document access by validating user permissions during both import and export operations.

Quick insert for table rows and columns

This feature allows users to insert rows and columns into a table quickly. When hovering the mouse near the table edges, a “+” icon appears, enabling users to add rows or columns with a single click.

Enhance table properties

This feature allows users to customize a table’s border width and color within the Rich Text Editor.

Enhance source code view

This feature introduces improved alignment and formatting in the source code view of the Rich Text Editor. It enhances the readability of underlying HTML content by applying consistent indentation and structure, making it easier for users to review and edit code directly within the editor.

Kanban Board

Rearrange columns

This feature provides drag-and-drop functionality for Kanban columns, allowing users to easily rearrange columns within the board.

PDF Viewer

Ink annotation eraser

This feature allows users to erase specific parts of ink annotations on a page for precise editing. Instead of removing the entire annotation, users can make targeted adjustments to refine their notes or drawings.

Smart PDF Viewer

This feature introduces intelligent document interaction through our AI-powered extension for the Blazor PDF Viewer:

  • Instantly generate concise summaries for quick insights and receive clear explanations for PDF content, including complex terms or legal data. Users can also ask the AI assistant questions and get intelligent, context-aware answers about the PDF content.
  • AI-powered redaction automatically detects and removes sensitive information such as names, email addresses, and phone numbers using advanced pattern recognition.
  • Smart filling leverages contextual understanding of the document to complete form fields automatically, based on copied or existing content.

Pivot Table

Classic (Tabular) layout support

This feature allows users to view detailed and traditional data presentations, with each row label clearly visible at different levels (columns). This improves data visibility and simplifies the dataset’s structural analysis.

Excel Library

Chart-to-image conversion

The following chart types are to be supported in chart-to-image conversion. This enhancement will ensure the following chart types are accurately represented in the resulting images, providing higher fidelity to the original Excel charts:

  • Stacked line
  • Stacked line with markers
  • Waterfall
  • Treemap
  • Box and whisker
  • Volume-high-low-close
  • Volume-open-high-low-close

Word Library

CSS selectors and attributes in HTML-to-Word conversion

These features enhance HTML-to-Word conversion by supporting the CSS style hierarchy, including element, class, descendant, group selectors, and inline style attributes. This ensures that complex HTML structures retain their original formatting and styling in Word documents, minimizing visual discrepancies and preserving design fidelity.

Word comparison accuracy

This improvement enhances the accuracy of the Word Library’s document comparison by integrating the Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) algorithm. Currently, the comparison logic does not utilize LCS, resulting in differences from Microsoft Word’s comparison output. By adopting the LCS algorithm, the comparison results will closely align with those of MS Word, ensuring more accurate and reliable document diffing.

Converting Word to PDF and image files

Multilingual text and symbol preservation

These improvements enhance support for multilingual text and symbol rendering, addressing previous issues with Vietnamese, French, Spanish, Italian, Malayalam, Kannada, and Tamil. They ensure that characters and symbols are accurately preserved during conversion, significantly improving the readability and integrity of documents containing diverse scripts.

Vertical text

This feature allows vertical text flow in text boxes, shapes, and tables, enabling accurate layout reproduction for East Asian scripts and specialized formatting. This enhancement is particularly valuable for documents that rely on vertical orientation for cultural, academic, or design-specific reasons.

Line borders

This feature keeps text borders and line border styles for tables, paragraphs, and pages. This ensures that documents with custom or styled borders retain their intended structure and visual emphasis, enhancing the overall fidelity of the converted output.

Picture formatting

This feature keeps transparency and irregular cropping using predefined shapes, for more accurate rendering of image-rich documents and preservation of the visual design and layout from the original Word files.

Page number styles

This feature keeps advanced page number formatting in PDF and image conversions, including formats and separators like hyphens or colons. This is especially useful for technical manuals or academic documents that follow structured pagination for navigation and referencing.

Localized date and time fields

This feature allows date and time fields to be rendered in the appropriate regional format during PDF and image conversions based on the language specified for each field in the Word document. This ensures culturally appropriate formatting for multilingual audiences.

PDF Library

Linearized PDF creation

This feature lets users create linearized PDF documents optimized for fast web viewing.

Quad point redaction

This enhancement introduces quad point support in PDF redaction annotations, enabling precise and flexible redaction that is especially useful for multi-line text selections and complex document layouts.

Spreadsheet

Freeze panes

This feature allows users to lock specific rows and columns so they remain visible while scrolling through large datasets.

Data validation

This feature enables users to define constraints on cell values, ensuring data integrity by restricting inputs to specific types, ranges, or custom rules.

Cell merging

This feature allows users to combine multiple adjacent cells into a single larger cell. This is useful for creating headers and labels or organizing complex layouts.

Autofill series

This feature enables users to generate sequential data patterns automatically with a simple drag operation.

Cell borders and grid lines

These features provide comprehensive control over cell boundary styling, allowing users to customize border thickness, color, and style for individual cells or ranges.

Enhanced keyboard shortcuts

This enhancement expands the existing keyboard shortcut functionality with additional navigation, selection, and editing commands for improved accessibility and productivity. Advanced shortcut combinations will support faster formula editing, cell formatting, and specialized operations, allowing users to work more efficiently without relying on mouse interactions.

TreeGrid

Empty record template

This feature allows users to change the default ‘No Records’ message to custom text.

Sticky headers

This feature keeps the TreeGrid header fixed at the top while scrolling. This helps users easily see column names when working with large or deeply nested data.

Gantt Chart

Undo/redo

This feature allows users to enable undo and redo functionalities for actions like CRUD operations, zooming, drag and drop, indenting, filtering, searching, and sorting. This enhances overall usability.

Display work breakdown structure (WBS) column

The WBS column displays hierarchical structures of tasks, helping project managers organize, track, and analyze tasks based on work breakdown levels. It improves task clarity and supports structured project planning.

Column validation

Integrate validation for Gantt Chart columns to show error messages within grid cells and dialog inputs using annotation-based rules. Each column will render based on its datatype properties, allowing targeted validation behavior.

Timezones

This feaures allows users to plan and manage tasks relative to regional time differences. This ensures consistency in task scheduling across globally distributed teams.

Excel filter

This feature allows users to apply Excel-style filtering in Gantt charts for better views using checkboxes and search boxes. It improves accessibility and streamlines user interaction with task records.

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