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Lime CRM Desktop 11.0

Product Lime CRM Desktop Version 11.0 Date published 2021-02-12 Plattform Windows Availability Manual installation only. Download here.

Important Changes

🕸️ WebView2

We have replaced Internet Explorer! As default, Lime CRM Desktop now embed web content using Microsoft Edge WebView2.

  • Improved performance and stability
  • Easier development and troubleshooting

🛠️ VBA Compiler

Compiling VBA will now reveal more errors.

  • Improved stability
  • Easier development and troubleshooting

Features

🔐 Login with Azure AD

Support for Azure AD while login. Previously released for the web client only and thanks to WebView2 now also possible in the desktop client.

🐞 Crash Dumps to Find Bugs

We can now collect crash dumps. Alla data is saved on our server, we don't save any sensitive data and logs will only be saved for a limited time. Everything to make sure it's GDPR compliant.

  • Easier to find bugs
  • Easier troubleshooting

🔧 Sending crash dumps is on by default. It's possible to turn off in windows registry.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Lundalogik\Lime\UsageFeedback 
Disable = DWORD(0|1)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Lundalogik\Lime\UsageFeedback
Disable = DWORD(0|1)

Improvements

📋 Detailed Error Messages

Error messages will provide more details. This will make it easier to fix problems.

  • Refined error dialog
  • Preserve error details
  • Additional details from previous errors

🔃 Loading of Data

In most cases data will now load asynchronously. This will prevent the desktop client from freezing when large amounts of data is loaded.

▶️ Installation and Automatic Updates

  • Fixed known issues with VBA
  • Added missing dependencies

⏰ Date and Time Formats

The client APIs now has general support for date and time formatted according to ISO8601.

♾️ Support for long paths

Previous versions had an internal limit of total 256 characters. This limitations has now been removed for most usage scenarios.

📂 Open Linked Files

General support for opening linked files have been improved to workaround known issues:

  • Images (GIF, PNG, JPEG, etc.) now opens correctly in Windows
  • PDFs are tracked for multi-tab viewers
  • Temporary files are valid minimum 10 seconds or until associated program is closed
  • Files opened via separate launcher are now tracked via Window-title instead of associated process

📉 Scalability and Performance

  • Reduced memory usage
  • Multithreaded workload
  • Doubled available memory

⚙️ Backend Integration

  • Manage session and cookies between different HTTP-stacks
  • Preserve error details from business logic, server and database
  • Binary back-off when retrying operations
  • Better handling of intermittent backend errors
  • Better handling of unexpected results

📥 Transfer Selection

Now possible to transfer selection to tabs that are not visible.

Bugfixes

🌞 Stability

Over 100 code paths that previously caused the application to crash are now fixed.

📄 Convert Multiple Documents to PDF

Fixed bug where it was not possible to convert multiple documents to PDF.

✂️ Copy Special

Fixed bug where copy special included more records than the selected ones.

Lime CRM Desktop 11.0

Product Lime CRM Desktop Version 11.0 Date published 2021-02-12 Plattform Windows Availability Manual installation only. Download here.

Important Changes

🕸️ WebView2

We have replaced Internet Explorer! As default, Lime CRM Desktop now embed web content using Microsoft Edge WebView2.

  • Improved performance and stability
  • Easier development and troubleshooting

🛠️ VBA Compiler

Compiling VBA will now reveal more errors.

  • Improved stability
  • Easier development and troubleshooting

Features

🔐 Login with Azure AD

Support for Azure AD while login. Previously released for the web client only and thanks to WebView2 now also possible in the desktop client.

🐞 Crash Dumps to Find Bugs

We can now collect crash dumps. Alla data is saved on our server, we don't save any sensitive data and logs will only be saved for a limited time. Everything to make sure it's GDPR compliant.

  • Easier to find bugs
  • Easier troubleshooting

🔧 Sending crash dumps is on by default. It's possible to turn off in windows registry.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Lundalogik\Lime\UsageFeedback 
Disable = DWORD(0|1)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Lundalogik\Lime\UsageFeedback
Disable = DWORD(0|1)

Improvements

📋 Detailed Error Messages

Error messages will provide more details. This will make it easier to fix problems.

  • Refined error dialog
  • Preserve error details
  • Additional details from previous errors

🔃 Loading of Data

In most cases data will now load asynchronously. This will prevent the desktop client from freezing when large amounts of data is loaded.

▶️ Installation and Automatic Updates

  • Fixed known issues with VBA
  • Added missing dependencies

⏰ Date and Time Formats

The client APIs now has general support for date and time formatted according to ISO8601.

♾️ Support for long paths

Previous versions had an internal limit of total 256 characters. This limitations has now been removed for most usage scenarios.

📂 Open Linked Files

General support for opening linked files have been improved to workaround known issues:

  • Images (GIF, PNG, JPEG, etc.) now opens correctly in Windows
  • PDFs are tracked for multi-tab viewers
  • Temporary files are valid minimum 10 seconds or until associated program is closed
  • Files opened via separate launcher are now tracked via Window-title instead of associated process

📉 Scalability and Performance

  • Reduced memory usage
  • Multithreaded workload
  • Doubled available memory

⚙️ Backend Integration

  • Manage session and cookies between different HTTP-stacks
  • Preserve error details from business logic, server and database
  • Binary back-off when retrying operations
  • Better handling of intermittent backend errors
  • Better handling of unexpected results

📥 Transfer Selection

Now possible to transfer selection to tabs that are not visible.

Bugfixes

🌞 Stability

Over 100 code paths that previously caused the application to crash are now fixed.

📄 Convert Multiple Documents to PDF

Fixed bug where it was not possible to convert multiple documents to PDF.

✂️ Copy Special

Fixed bug where copy special included more records than the selected ones.

Lime CRM Desktop 11.0

Product Lime CRM Desktop Version 11.0 Date published 2021-02-12 Plattform Windows Availability Manual installation only. Download here.

Important Changes

🕸️ WebView2

We have replaced Internet Explorer! As default, Lime CRM Desktop now embed web content using Microsoft Edge WebView2.

  • Improved performance and stability
  • Easier development and troubleshooting

🔫 Lime Bootstrap

We recommend to use Lime Bootstrap 1.12 since this is the version used when developing and testing Lime CRM Desktop 11.0. LBS 2 or 3 (beta releases) are not supported.

🛠️ VBA Compiler

Compiling VBA will now reveal more errors.

  • Improved stability
  • Easier development and troubleshooting

Features

🔐 Login with Azure AD

Support for Azure AD while login. Previously released for the web client only and thanks to WebView2 now also possible in the desktop client.

🐞 Crash Dumps to Find Bugs

We can now collect crash dumps. Alla data is saved on our server, we don't save any sensitive data and logs will only be saved for a limited time. Everything to make sure it's GDPR compliant.

  • Easier to find bugs
  • Easier troubleshooting

🔧 Sending crash dumps is on by default. It's possible to turn off in windows registry.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Lundalogik\Lime\UsageFeedback 
Disable = DWORD(0|1)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Lundalogik\Lime\UsageFeedback
Disable = DWORD(0|1)

Improvements

📋 Detailed Error Messages

Error messages will provide more details. This will make it easier to fix problems.

  • Refined error dialog
  • Preserve error details
  • Additional details from previous errors

🔃 Loading of Data

In most cases data will now load asynchronously. This will prevent the desktop client from freezing when large amounts of data is loaded.

▶️ Installation and Automatic Updates

  • Fixed known issues with VBA
  • Added missing dependencies

⏰ Date and Time Formats

The client APIs now has general support for date and time formatted according to ISO8601.

♾️ Support for long paths

Previous versions had an internal limit of total 256 characters. This limitations has now been removed for most usage scenarios.

📂 Open Linked Files

General support for opening linked files have been improved to workaround known issues:

  • Images (GIF, PNG, JPEG, etc.) now opens correctly in Windows
  • PDFs are tracked for multi-tab viewers
  • Temporary files are valid minimum 10 seconds or until associated program is closed
  • Files opened via separate launcher are now tracked via Window-title instead of associated process

📉 Scalability and Performance

  • Reduced memory usage
  • Multithreaded workload
  • Doubled available memory

⚙️ Backend Integration

  • Manage session and cookies between different HTTP-stacks
  • Preserve error details from business logic, server and database
  • Binary back-off when retrying operations
  • Better handling of intermittent backend errors
  • Better handling of unexpected results

📥 Transfer Selection

Now possible to transfer selection to tabs that are not visible.

Bugfixes

🌞 Stability

Over 100 code paths that previously caused the application to crash are now fixed.

📄 Convert Multiple Documents to PDF

Fixed bug where it was not possible to convert multiple documents to PDF.

✂️ Copy Special

Fixed bug where copy special included more records than the selected ones.

Lime CRM Desktop 11.0

Product Lime CRM Desktop Version 11.0 Date published 2021-02-12 Plattform Windows Availability Manual installation only. Download here.

Important Changes

🕸️ WebView2

We have replaced Internet Explorer! As default, Lime CRM Desktop now embed web content using Microsoft Edge WebView2.

  • Improved performance and stability
  • Easier development and troubleshooting
  • Open up the door to modern customizations and add-ons

🔫 Lime Bootstrap

We recommend to use Lime Bootstrap 1.12 since this is the version used when developing and testing Lime CRM Desktop 11.0. LBS 2 or 3 (beta releases) are not supported.

🛠️ VBA Compiler

Compiling VBA will now reveal more errors.

  • Improved stability
  • Easier development and troubleshooting

Features

🔐 Login with Azure AD

Support for Azure AD while login. Previously released for the web client only and thanks to WebView2 now also possible in the desktop client.

🐞 Crash Dumps to Find Bugs

We can now collect crash dumps. Alla data is saved on our server, we don't save any sensitive data and logs will only be saved for a limited time. Everything to make sure it's GDPR compliant.

  • Easier to find bugs
  • Easier troubleshooting

🔧 Sending crash dumps is on by default. It's possible to turn off in windows registry.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Lundalogik\Lime\UsageFeedback 
Disable = DWORD(0|1)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Lundalogik\Lime\UsageFeedback
Disable = DWORD(0|1)

Improvements

📋 Detailed Error Messages

Error messages will provide more details. This will make it easier to fix problems.

  • Refined error dialog
  • Preserve error details
  • Additional details from previous errors

🔃 Loading of Data

In most cases data will now load asynchronously. This will prevent the desktop client from freezing when large amounts of data is loaded. So you can keep on working with other stuff while waiting for data to load.

▶️ Installation and Automatic Updates

  • Fixed known issues with VBA
  • Added missing dependencies

⏰ Date and Time Formats

The client APIs now has general support for date and time formatted according to ISO8601.

♾️ Support for long paths

Previous versions had an internal limit of total 256 characters. This limitations has now been removed for most usage scenarios.

📂 Open Linked Files

General support for opening linked files have been improved to workaround known issues:

  • Images (GIF, PNG, JPEG, etc.) now opens correctly in Windows
  • PDFs are tracked for multi-tab viewers
  • Temporary files are valid minimum 10 seconds or until associated program is closed
  • Files opened via separate launcher are now tracked via Window-title instead of associated process

📉 Scalability and Performance

  • Reduced memory usage
  • Multithreaded workload
  • Doubled available memory

⚙️ Backend Integration

  • Manage session and cookies between different HTTP-stacks
  • Preserve error details from business logic, server and database
  • Binary back-off when retrying operations
  • Better handling of intermittent backend errors
  • Better handling of unexpected results

📥 Transfer Selection

Now possible to transfer selection to tabs that are not visible.

Bugfixes

🌞 Stability

Over 100 code paths that previously caused the application to crash are now fixed.

📄 Convert Multiple Documents to PDF

Fixed bug where it was not possible to convert multiple documents to PDF.

✂️ Copy Special

Fixed bug where copy special included more records than the selected ones.

Version 12.15.1.67

Released October 26, 2016.

New features

Web Client

  • Notify users when information is updated on object (LCWC-115)

Users are notified when changes have been made to object and when trying to leave object without saving * Support for multiline text fields/controls - single line fields (LCWC-113)

Simplified way of reading and writing long lines of text * Thousand delimiters for decimal controls (LCWC-18)

More easily see values through thousand delimiters

Improvements

Web Client

  • Allow the use of “Booked customer visit” when creating activity (LCWC-133)

Now possible to add activitytype “Booked customer meeting” * Fix input field zooming in iOS10/Safari (LCWC-121) * Open and close card sections with keyboard (LCWC-118)

Possible to open and close separators on object-page using keyboard * After creating new related limeobjects, return to the list (LCWC-75)

When creating a new related limeobject, the user is returned to the list of related objects directly

Bug fixes

  • Application metadata changes are incorrectly cached (PRO-1557)

Datastructure changes in LISA are now directly reflected after a refresh in the browser. * Search indexer fails when it encounters an unknown limetype (PRO-1553) * Search queries do not reflect changes in metadata (PRO-1528) * Administrators should be allowed to unlock files locked by other users (PRO-1522)

Administrators are allowed to unlock files locked by other users in the desktop client. * limefu database delete should not be available (PRO-1481) * LDC ignores sys_session_timeout setting, hardcoded @ 72h (PRO-1472)

Fixed an issue where the session timeout setting was not used

Web Client

  • Saving a new document when using drag n drop does not refresh document list (LCWC-107)
  • It's easy to miss if create activity fails (LCWC-89)

When creating an activity (e.g. sales call) for an object, and the creation fails, the UI now displays a warning that the activity failed to be added * Dates in activity feed should use moment formatting (LCWC-11)

Nicer-looking formatting of dates in the activity view (e.g. “August 5, 2016”)

Version 12.17.4.26

Released December 28, 2016.

Improvements

  • JSON error logging support (PRO-1680)
  • Block certain applications during installation to prevent service uninstallation problems (PRO-1665)
  • Support entering of service number in hosted LISA (PRO-1664)

Service number can be input for hosted customers * Add the inactive attribute on Option and in the API (PRO-1627) * IPv6 support (PRO-1626)

The server now supports ipv6 * Limefu improvements (PRO-1625)

Improved documentation for all limefu commands. * Improved search performance in webclient (PRO-1599) * Run text file imports in low priority mode (PRO-1588) * API is always enabled (PRO-1587) * Improve scheduler reliability on startup (PRO-1583) * Improved error message when upgrading databases and RabbitMQ is not running (PRO-1562)

Web Client

  • Notify user when leaving the app without saving changes in limeObjectCard (LCWC-138)

When has made changes to an opened card and tries to close the tab or to change URL, she or he will be prompted to confirm the action.

  • When creating a new object with relation to coworker, active user should automatically be attached (LCWC-58)

When creating a new object, the currently logged in user is automatically attatched as coworker.

Bug fixes

  • Lime CRM Server could stop responding to requests. (PRO-1653)
  • Unable to use limefu if Swedish is not one of the active languages (PRO-1650)
  • Migration status shown as OK when outdated (PRO-1649)
  • Saving activities does not trigger post-processing logic (PRO-1595)

csp_afterupdate is run when a new activity is added in the web client * Sign in form application list not always populated (PRO-1591)

The user is no longer sometimes unable to select application when using IE11 * Webfront service cannot start when data directory is not on C: drive (PRO-1561)

Installing Lime CRM Server now possible on other drive than C: * Auto import does not update the search index (PRO-1474)

Imported objects show up in the search queries in the web application * “limefu database upgrade” may create objects in the wrong database schema (PRO-1318)

Web Client

  • Scroll on iOS does not work properly when creating new related object (LCWC-228)

  • Empty search view in some cases, iOS/safari (LCWC-183)

When entering search mode on iOS/safari, the search result were empty in some cases. Now they are displayed.

  • Search debouncing is always 0 ms (LCWC-176)

Fewer useless requests means faster handling of useful requests, especially in hosting

  • Lime-spinner causes CPU to reach 100% in Internet Explorer (LCWC-175)

  • Edge: Input fields in related sometimes have height of four rows. (LCWC-170)

In Edge and IE11 the user will now have correct height of textarea fields on related cards and in closed sections that are opened up.

  • Date/time picker: you can't input time using English locale (LCWC-154)

It's now possible to set time in the datepicker when using English locale.

  • Text is overflowing in card header (LCWC-48)

Each card headers title will now have a maximum amount of three rows.

  • Clicking on a todo in the list to display the card will only work if the todo table is named “todo” (LCWC-42)

  • Option fields should show inactive options when they are the current selection (LCWC-10)

Inactive options in option controls are not possible to select in the web client

Version 12.19.3.97

Released February 8, 2017.

New features

  • Possible to search for data in option fields (PRO-433)

Possible to show and search for information in option-fields.

Web Client

  • Link to object page in the card header for a related object (LCWC-285)

Adds a link to the “main object page” in the top of the card when opening a related object. This link will open the object's full page.

  • Suggest related objects when adding new activities (LCWC-217)

Easier to attach activities to person and deal when adding an activity when relations are automatically suggested.

  • Email address links in search results (LCWC-136)

Possible to click on an e-mail adress in search results which will open an empty e-mail with the e-mail adress added.

  • Belongs-to controls should show a list of suggestions before a search criteria is given (LCWC-55)

The suggestions will make it much easier to attach a related object.

  • Phone number links in search results (LCWC-22)

Phone numbers are now clickable in search results.

Improvements

Web Client

  • Keyboard navigation for relation controls (LCWC-283)

The user can now use the arrow keys and Enter to select in the suggestions box.

  • Use search view format for related item lists (LCWC-226)

Items are shown using the search view for the respective type.

  • Allow data from related objects in search results (LCWC-191)

It's now possible to show data from related objects in search results, for example the company name in search results for person.

  • Formatted decimalfields in search results (LCWC-126)

Decimal fields are formatted in the same way as on cards, which will make it easier to see the actual value of the field in search results.

  • Formatted date and time in search results (LCWC-125)

Search result items can now include nicely formatted dates/times, e.g. “Q3 2017” or “2017-09-01”.

Bug fixes

  • Files are not considered accessible by the ACL (PRO-1722)

  • Installation fails on certain servers (PRO-1720)

  • System properties cannot be used as keys when importing (PRO-1715)

  • Importing decimals or integers with empty values should populate entries with the defaultvalue. (PRO-1714)

If an empty string is mapped to a number-field, the defaultvalue set in lisa will be set as value.

  • Installation may fail due to COM security initialization timing (PRO-1711)

  • Import fails for types having record access enabled (PRO-1710)

  • Imports created with limeclient.py cannot import to option fields (PRO-1705)

  • Importer does not display required fields. (PRO-1703)

Importer GUI displays all required fields.

  • limefu importer list –state failes (PRO-1702)

Bugfix such that limefu cmd: limefu importer list –state <state> works.

  • Only administrators can open document files when the document table has an access query (PRO-1701)

  • Files that have been deleted could show up in the desktop client (PRO-1700)

  • Lime CRM Server may become unresponsive due to there being no available database connections (PRO-1698)

  • Lime CRM Importer can't import decimal-numbers with comma (PRO-1697)

Possible to import decimal numbers with comma via lime-import.

  • Cannot save objects with XML properties longer than 128 characters (PRO-1669)

Possible to save objects in the webclient containing xml-properties.

Web Client

  • Cannot fetch more todo items on dashboard (LCWC-298)

  • Belongsto control dropdown should be displayed on top of other controls (LCWC-284)

The line from the numeric controls used to be shown on top of the dropdown.

Version 12.20.1.115

Released March 1, 2017.

New features

  • Possible to search for related information (PRO-1503)

It's now possible to search for related information, such as company name when searching for persons.

Web Client

  • Support set fields in web client (LCWC-288)

It is now possible to use set-fields on the object page in the web client.

  • Category-search in global search (LCWC-110)

Introducing a category search in the web client! This makes it possible to search for specific object-types, through the selection of that type in the category bar.

Improvements

  • Search Indexer Robustness (PRO-1724)

  • Searching for “special”-characters should be prioritized in search results (PRO-1686)

Gives more correct search results when including a search string with special characters.

  • Fulltext search support for integer fields (PRO-1505)

Possible for users to search for integer fields in the web client.

  • Exact match on first- or lastname should yield better searchresult (PRO-1288)

Users will get better results when searching for persons.

Web Client

  • Sort the steps in the salespipe widget according to the order of the options in “dealstatus” (LCWC-320)

Options in salespipe widget is sorted according to order of options in LISA

Bug fixes

  • Incorrect filename when downloading files using Edge/IE (PRO-1727)
  • Installation fails on certain servers (PRO-1720)
  • The setting 'updateonchanges' for relation fields is ignored (PRO-1718)
  • Browser instructed to open downloaded files (PRO-1682)

Files are now being downloaded instead of opened directly in browser. * If you add an option field to a Lime type without updating the index, search results may turn up empty in the web client (PRO-1745)

Web Client

  • In salespipe; total number of deals always with English number formatting (LCWC-314)

The total number of deals in the salespipe widget is now formatted according to the logged-in user's language

  • Cannot search for special characters in IE11 (e.g. åäö) (LCWC-312)