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Lime CRM Desktop Client 11.0.1876

Product Lime CRM Desktop Client Version 11.0.1876 Date published 2021-09-17 Platform Windows Availability Manual installation and Automatic Updates.

This Lime CRM Desktop Client release is a stability, performance and bug-fix update.

Features

  • Added support for filters on readonly fields.
  • Increased support for dynamic menu items to 999
  • Added support for editing and printing EML-files.

Improvements

  • Updated UserAgent to enable dual login between desktop and updated Chromium-browser.
  • Improved robustness for footer sum calculations.
  • Improvements to make event listeners less error prune during cleanup.
  • Use async call to ShellExecuteEx.
  • Refined indication of pending states for explorer.
  • Updated default value handling for new records
  • Use limited trust for login dialog.
  • Added error handling for checking document read-only status.
  • Added recommendation to verify LDC in backend for 501 Not Implemented.
  • Added specific handling for deadlock-errors reported by database.
  • Added diagnostic logging for shortcut keys.
  • Improved compatibility from iframe by setting position:absolute if height=100%
  • Clear old error messages on reload.
  • Ensure filter is applied before navigating to active item.
  • Use more specific error code for argument validation errors.
  • Updated URL generation to use proper schema delimiter
  • Added database-level setting for general timeout (features.databaseTimeout) that is propagated to all legacy database access.
  • Unified explicit timeout values for backend to 60s.
  • Improved robustness for embedded XML.
  • Display warning instead of crash when document is missing.
  • Added support for JSON as “application/json+hal.
  • Added explicit logging for retried requests, not only based on ellapsed time and threshold.
  • Added general support for using “getdate()” to generete local timestamp.
  • Warn about VBScript in LBS apps.
  • Unified parsing and formatting for date/time to support timestamps < 1900.
  • Improved error handling and robustness to better handle compatibilty due to race conditions when accessing control values when underlying window is destroyed.
  • Extended general error handling for mixed content compatibility handling.
  • Switched to updated helpers for timezone adjustments to unify truncation, support time-only and avoid errors for timestamp around 1899. Also fixed rounding errors that caused timestamps to change +-1 minute during adjustments.
  • Set thread description if supported to simplify debugging multithreaded operation.
  • Added backward compatibility fix for access control when updating linked fields, including setting (features.enforceAccessControlForLinkedFields) and logging via Sentry.
  • Refactored timezone adjustments to better support time only.
  • Added binary signing for automatic updates.
  • Improved robustness in UI calculations for popup date/time-selector.
  • Extended error details and logging for VBA problems.
  • Slightly reduce memory footprint after deleting records.
  • Added user options for controlling SSO and clearing caches from login dialog.
  • Handle old servers that does not include self-reference URI.
  • Ignore certificate warnings for well-known hosting providers (ie. *.lime-crm.com, *.idenet.se)
  • Added annotations for built-in print screen.

Fixes

  • Fixes for eventhandling and lookup by name.
  • Fix to enable block loading for unlimited page size.
  • Fixed crash when opening document via related field.
  • Fix for cookie management to reduce problems with expired sessions.
  • Fix for problem with option and set fields without default value.
  • Fixed regression bug where document was opened read-only.
  • Fixes slashes in LimeLinks.
  • Fixes for handling configuration problems related to default values.
  • Fixed stability problems for Outlook integration related to missing error handling for event listeners.
  • Fixed bug in Application.ActiveControls that may result in strang side-effects when closing the active inspector.
  • Fixed potential threading issue for monitoring documents.
  • Avoid general trace helpers not to overwrite last error during processing.
  • Fixed bug in trimming for server name.
  • Fixed bug in generel trimming for COM-strings.
  • Worked around problems with async loading for mixed content due to race-conditions for callbacks in WebView2.
  • Fixed compatibility problem for loading local content via $.ajax via relative paths.
  • Handle formatting for multiple tabs.
  • Refactored async updated for singular records to avoid memory leak.
  • Fixed memory leak and internal state corruption.
  • Fixed potential memory leak and state corruption due to lingering async operation.
  • Fixed bug in numbering related to selection handling.
  • Fixed stability problem for adding records to empty explorer.
  • Fixed multiple stability problems for explorer when updating records.
  • Exclude port if default from Host-header to avoid 503-response from buggy backend server version (nginx/1.15.3.1).
  • Fixed bug where records with same ID but different class (limetype) may be removed from lists when any record sharing ID is deleted.
  • Fixed problem with delay during shutdown.
  • Fixed problem with custom ports for proxies.
  • Fixed problem with sorting applied to count-queries.
  • Set active item according to sorting for all temporal types.
  • Unordered List ItemWorkaround problems when backend send empty display_name for database.
  • Fixed regession bug related to groups in groups.
  • Fixed regression bug where vbscript:-prefix is not handled for template tags.
  • Fixed bug where coloring for out-of-range percentages is different between list and card.
  • Fixed bug in support for nested markers in formatting expressions due to changed semantics for field lookup.
  • Ignore general database timeout for procedures called via API.
  • Fixed problem with multiple invokations for window.load
  • Suppress non-interactive calls to VBA when user is idle, should effectively stop reload for info tiles when user is not active.
  • Added workaround for bug in LDC where any error results in empty response with “200 OK”.
  • Fixed rare crash when building view for records.
  • Fixed rendering bug in explorer embedded in dialogs.
  • Fixed crash during cleanup related to Inspector.Close
  • Fixed problem with list edit for fields with alias.

Lime CRM Desktop Client 11.0.1996

Product Lime CRM Desktop Client Version 11.0.1996 Date published 2021-10-11 Platform Windows Availability Manual installation.

This Lime CRM Desktop Client release is a stability, performance and bug-fix update.

Features

  • Support for looking up fields by relation.
  • Support for customizing export filename.
  • Support for setting PageSize in search dialog.
  • Support for separate implementation per file for WebView2, enabling use of modern Javascript and improved asynchronous loading.
  • Support for automatic handling of truncated data from backend.

Improvements

  • Updated WebView2 SDK.
  • Robustness fixes for error handling.
  • Internal handling of limelinks to enhance compatibility with IE/WebBrowser.
  • Improved error messages for installer signature errors.
  • Unified timeout handling for length updates.

Fixes

  • Fixes for document handling for multitab editors.
  • Fix for focus problems in HTML-UI after dismissing modal script dialog.
  • Added MS suggested workaround for problems with msForceBrowserSignIn
  • Regressing bug for VBScript in text shortcuts.
  • Fix for crash in tab handling.
  • Fix for race-conditions in timezone handling.
  • Fix for crash if PowerPoint or Excel integration fails to checkin file.
  • Compatibility fix for invalid arguments in Records.Open
  • Fix for problem with empty log messages.
  • Fix for race-conditions when switching view.
  • Fix for keyboard navigation for option-fields.
  • Fix for problems with PreTranslateMessage in desktop dialogs opened from modal VBA Forms.
  • Stability fix to prevent MFC-subclassing for VBA IDE and hidden .Net frames.
  • Compatibility fix for ignoring access rules for linked fields.
  • Fix for formatting problem in view dialog.
  • Fix for Records.Open that triggered bug in Records.Copy
  • Compatibility extensions for Lime.HttpRequest to handle more generic problems with mixed contents on custom code.
  • Compatibility fix for empty default values for options to avoid problems with NULL in legacy VBA code.
  • Fixed bug in IDispatch for LDCQuery that broke usage from JS.
  • Fix for problems with filters for time-fields.
  • Fix for parsing error in Record.Eval.
  • Stability fix for crash in related records.
  • Fix for problem where documents opened via related field always are read-only.
  • Compatibility fix for local default values.
  • Fix for Inspector.Class as null-reference.
  • Fix for problem with Application.Active*
  • Fix for incorrect formatting in error dialogs.
  • Fix for missing prompt-argument.

Lime CRM Desktop Client 11.1.2090

Product Lime CRM Desktop Client Version 11.1.2090 Date published 2021-12-16 Platform Windows Availability Manual installation.

Highlighted features

Optimized trashcan operations

Desktop can now gracefully handle scenarios where the trashcan contains litterally hundres of thousands of deleted records.

Asynchronous save for mass updates, including campaign manager

The Desktop Client will build the update locally and save changes to database without locking the user interface. Updates will indicate progress and may be explicitly aborted.

Automatic splitting of batches

Any batch containing more than a server specified default value of records will automatically split into sub-batches that are executed sequentially. This will avoid problems with timeouts and clients effectively blocking the backend during lengthly operations.

Automatic recovery for truncated datablocks

Any datablock returned by server may be truncated at around 64Mb of UTF-8 encoded XML. The Desktop Client will now detect and gracefully handle this also for legacy backend versions. Recovered data will be loaded immediately and remaining data will be block-loaded to avoid further truncation.

Automatic refresh of records after update

This is not really a new feature, but numerous issues effectively disabled updates in many scenarios… One exciting feature is that the parent record will also refresh unless modified locally. Refined handling of active inspector, explorer and controls. Desktop will now automatically guard legacy code in VBA and LBS against missuse of ActiveInspector, ActiveExplorer and ActiveControls. For the most part there should simply be less situations where the code ends up with Nothing/null or unexpected content.

General polyfill mixed content and blobs

Desktop now includes a very general polyfill that essentially should enable policy exceptions for mixed content via any legacy JavaScript API, ie. $.ajax and XmlHttpRequest.

Less reloads for ActionPad

The ActionPad will now reload automatically only after operations that update visual content of the controls or modified state.

Cached descriptions

Desktop now inludes a client-side cache for descriptive information. This will reduce number of server requests where only an single field of a single object is loaded, effectively reducing number of request when creating a new record by 50%.

Client-side defaults and backend ID

Desktop will now evaluate client-side defaults without implicit dependencies for backend generation of permanent ID. Permanent backend ID will be generated when needed. Essentially this will resolve multiple issues where solutions depended on bugs in client-side handling of dates to force backend evaluation which implicitly resulted in permanent ID.

Improved error messages

Error messages for updates now includes details on how to resolve common configuration errors, especially related to “SQL on update” and “Update on relation change”.

Optimized queries

The query builder will now build filters that run faster in the SQL-server, mostly by avoiding extensive usage of nested queries.

Missing VBA

Desktop now includes an ellaborate workaround for sitautions where VBA has been uninstalled. Essentially desktop will detect that VBA is missing even before login and silently reinstall VBA in the background before the user even notice. This silent repair runs via our system-level service for automatic upgrades and is faster and more robust than previous repaired based on our full installer.

Human readable access to configuration

Desktop is based on three major configuration sources: LISA, VBA and ActionPads. Most details are hidden in the backend and only accessible via custom tooling, until now. Desktop will now automatically export details to a local folder structure in Windows-user’s profile. This initially targets these major scenarios:

  • Human readable and text searchable access

  • Text level comparison between versions and solutions, ie using WinMerge or similar.

  • Suitable for source code management, ie check into GitHub

  • Easily exportable without any data, ie ZIP the folders and share with developer or support.

Features

  • Added external API support for async updates.

  • General support for WebView2 specific content using “_wv2”-suffix for files.

  • Extended tracking capabilities to follow requests through the entire stack to enable effective diagnostics to find problems and identify performance issues:

    • Trace id embedded in XML to LDC
    • Data structure timestamp included in queries
    • Filter metadata (ie name, description, etc) included in backend request.

  • Dynamic switching between WebView2 and IE/WebBrowser. The UI-description still says that restart is required, but generally switching is now instant, which should make testing both easier.

  • Added icon to explorer column headers for related content. If nothing else this indicator should reduce risk of confusing ID columns for the class and relations, which has been the root for some very strange errors.

  • Improved developer experience for VBA

    • Automatic file export of VBA during save, see separate note in “Human readable access to configuration”.
    • Internal VBA storage format is now automatically consolidated on save, which effectively resolves some issues with stale references and ever-growing VBA-blobs.
    • Uploading VBA is now done async in background, ie after saving you can continue working in desktop immediately.
    • Refined error handling for saving and updating VBA in backend.
    • Automatic call to VBA ThisApplication.Setup method after save to reenable integrations.

  • Refined automatic handling of date filters applied to timestamp columns, including related. This has been partially supported since 11.0.

    • “Date ⇐ timestamp” will be converted to “Date < nextDay(timestamp)”
    • “Date = timestamp” will be converted to “Date > timestamp AND Date < nextDay(timestamp)”

  • Refined handling of record field values

    • Adding items via list will now set owner field also when not visible in list.
    • Updated field values for records will be saved also then not included in fields-collections, including defaults for new records.
    • Related field values are now read-only.
    • Related field values will not be included in backend updates.

  • Status bar indication of VBA execution. This will help us track VBA bottlenecks since any VBA method causing the desktop to hang will be clearly exposed in screenshots.

  • All callbacks are suppressed while debugging VBA to avoid unexpected behavoiur.

Improvements

  • Improved robustness for COM marshalling. Previous versions were heavily dependent on fully correct COM registrations for itself, MS Office and other integrated systems. Well-known interfaces are now included in our manifests for registration free COM.

  • Improved robustness for integration with MS PowerPoint Fixed stability problems related to closing and uploading updated documents.

  • Improved robustness for embedded addins All embedded addins now include robustness fixes to reduce risk for causing desktop to crash due to minor errors.

  • Improved robustness for failed backed feature detection.

  • Timezone handling will use reasonable default

  • Retry for FileAPI detection

  • Application.DisplayAlerts will now return false if the user has been inactive for more than 10 minutes.

  • Dialogs are no longer explicitly suppressed for timers to enhance compatibility with legacy VBA/LBS-solutions

  • General support for multithreaded usage of LDE.

  • Refined internal handling of option-fields.

  • Refined internal handling of pools

    • Full support for union operations.
    • Unified API support for records

  • Refactored internal handling of API timers, ie Application.SetTimer and Application_Timer.

    • Only handlers in the same Win32 module will receive callbacks, reducing risk/problems related to event handlers failing to filter incoming calls by ID.
    • IDs are now only required to be unique per Win32 module, reducing risk/problems related to conflicting IDs.
    • Timers are automatically destroyed when all related handlers have been disconnected, reducing problems with ever-growing number of orphaned timers due to omitted calls to stop timers.
    • Timers added during a modal call will now trigger for the duration of that call, effectively to support usage of timers in modal VBA forms. Remaining timers will still be suppressed to avoid stability problems.

  • Improved performance for evaluation of VBScript based formulas.

  • Improved performance when opening inspector from explorer record where all fields are includes.

Fixes

  • Updated branding for integration with Dun & Bradstreet OneByOne

  • Improved support for Actionpad content using UTF-16

  • Improved error details for many areas:

    • File operations
    • Filter errors
    • Shell operations

  • Improved stability

    • Worked around stability problem caused by internal conflicts between custom message filters installed separately by VBA, MFC and .Net.
    • Resolved lifetime issues due to lingering COM references.
    • Fixed stability issue after aborting Inspector_BeforeShow, mostly seen for solutions with OpenedBy.

  • Refined suppression of dialogs when user inactive.

  • Compatibility workarounds to allow updates to link-fields that due to backend bugs are marked as inaccessible for the current user.

  • Fixed issues when copying records and cached descriptives acting up.

  • Fixed issue where the VBA silently ignored COM events when a modal was showing.
  • Fixed a compatibility issue for Record.Refresh/RefreshField in situations when values had changed without the timestamp being updated.

Lime CRM Desktop Client 11.1.2176

Product Lime CRM Desktop Client Version 11.1.2176 Date published 2022-02-04 Platform Windows Availability Manual installation and Automatic Updates.

Fixes

  • Fixed problems with “Ambiguous column name”
  • Fixed problem with debug show if the same LBS-app is loaded multiple times.
  • Fixed problem with 0 (zero) values instead of NULL for fields with numeric formatting that yield empty string for 0.
  • Improved compatibility for legacy VBA that modify data via Controls.SetValue or Control.Value, but commit changed using Record.Update.
  • Fixed problem where ActionPad-folder was not properly updated during initial login.
  • Fixed memory leak for VBA when loaded with warnings.
  • Fixed rendering crash seen via Sentry
  • Fixed bug where the inspector is automatically saved when opening inspector via relation field
  • Improved visual indication of empty tabs in inspector
  • Fixed problem with publishing ActionPads due to compatibility problems between XceedZip and WebView2 running in sam STA.

Notes

This is a patch release to resolve issues reported for 11.1.2160

Version 10.18.221

Released April 8, 2020.

New features

  • The desktop client now works with 64-bit Office installations!

It is not possible to show inbox/calendar/contacts as panes if using 64-bit Office. Everything else should work as with 32-bit Office.

Bug fixes

  • For 64-bit Outlook: Document preview in Outlook now works when Lime CRM is running.
  • For 64-bit Outlook: Preview of meetings in calendar now works when Lime CRM is running.

Version 10.18.558

Released October 8, 2020.

Improvements

  • Added linker flag /LARGEADDRESSAWARE to enable 4Gb addresses in Windows x64. The client now has full access to 4Gb address space when running in 64-bit Windows.
  • Enhanced error handling
  • Refactored event handling for Outlook-integration
  • Added detailed logging for VBA initialization
  • Filtering while typing is now triggered via timer to reduce risk for deadlock
  • Added support for starting with VBA-macros disabled via /SafeMode commandline switch

Bug fixes

  • Fixed problems with HTML-formatting for email
  • Fixed crash related to ActiveUser.Record in databases where current user is not associated with any records
  • Fixed problem with outgoing mail being deleted before sent
  • Fixed problem where Localize-module was not properly detected for patching against known problem
  • Excluded WorkingFolder from published settings
  • Fixed major memory leak for filters in explorer views.
  • Fixed crash for accessing XML-property of collections.
  • Fixed crash in reports for “Microsoft Print to PDF” (or any other printer without paper bins).
  • Added binary back-off algorithm when retrying after server connection errors.
  • Added retry for IO-errors for server connection.
  • Added retry for calls via FileAPI to workaround problems with lost connection while loading VBA-file.
  • Added registry settings to guard shared VBA installation against uninstall.
  • Fixed problems with certificate revocation status.

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.