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2024 Volume 3 for JavaScript delivers new Smart Paste Button, Smart TextArea, and AI AssistView components; improved performance for the PDF Viewer; and smooth animations in Charts.
What’s New
What’s New in Essential JS 2
The following controls have been added to the Syncfusion Essential JS 2 suite:
The OTP Input control has been developed to meet industry standards. It is now marked as a production-ready control for Essential JS 2.
All Syncfusion JavaScript controls support the Fluent 2 high contrast design, improving accessibility and user experience for visually impaired users.
All Syncfusion JavaScript controls support the Bootstrap 5.3 design, offering enhanced styling and features for modern web development.
The Essential JS 2 Smart Paste Button automatically fills a form with content from the user’s clipboard by utilizing text-generative AI functionality. This control enhances the user experience by simplifying data entry and minimizing manual input for forms.
The Essential JS 2 Smart TextArea is an advanced control designed to elevate the text input experience by providing intelligent autocomplete suggestions for entire sentences through text-generative AI functionality. This control enhances user productivity by predicting and offering relevant completions based on the context of what is being typed.
The Essential JS 2 AI AssistView is a versatile and modern UI tool designed to seamlessly integrate AI services into your web applications. It enables users to send prompts, execute commands through a feature-rich toolbar, and effortlessly display AI-generated responses in a user-friendly interface.
This feature allows you to embed a logo or image in the center of your QR codes, enhancing brand visibility and making your QR codes more visually appealing. You can customize the logo size, which defaults to one-third of the QR code’s dimensions and is automatically adjusted to ensure it doesn’t exceed 30% of the code’s width or height, maintaining scan efficiency. The logo can be sourced from a local image path, Base64-encoded image, online image URL, or icon.
When sorting data in the chart, the data transitions smoothly with an animation effect.
This feature supports smooth animation transitions when zooming and panning the chart.
This feature allows users to disable the risers in the stepline series.
This feature allows users to add, remove, or update data with smooth animation transitions for series, data labels, and legends.
This feature allows users to apply rounded corners to pie, donut, pyramid, and funnel charts.
In addition to the fill option, users can now apply different patterns to accumulation chart types.
The DateTime Picker now supports restricting time selection to specific daily ranges, such as business hours. Users can only choose times within defined limits, like for appointment scheduling. The feature improves the user experience by allowing easy configuration of time.
A flowchart visually represents a process, workflow, system, or algorithm. This feature automatically creates flowcharts by arranging diagram elements clearly, logically, and visually appealingly. This feature leverages an advanced layout algorithm that automatically positions nodes and connectors, whether sourced from the NodeCollection and ConnectorCollection or business objects defined in the DataSource.
Mermaid syntax is a Markdown-inspired syntax that automatically generates diagrams. This feature enables you to generate mind map and flowchart diagrams directly from Mermaid syntax data, making it easier to visualize complex ideas and processes without manual drawing. Additionally, you can export your mind map and flowchart diagrams to Mermaid syntax, enabling easy sharing and editing, and use it across various platforms. You can also leverage AI assistants to generate Mermaid syntax for mind map and flowchart diagrams and directly import the generated code into the JavaScript Diagram component.
This feature allows you to insert content controls in your document that are linked to custom XML data.
By mapping specific parts of your document to XML data, you can ensure that the content within these controls is automatically updated whenever the underlying XML data changes, making it ideal for dynamic documents. Please refer to the documentation for more details.
This feature allows you to preserve shapes in Word documents when opening and saving them in the Word Processor. Please refer to the documentation and demo for more details.
List of shapes preserved:
This feature lets you customize the display of selected values in the Dropdown Tree component. Format and present the selected items in a way that aligns with your application’s specific needs. You can explore a demo of this feature here.
The File Manager now allows users to select a range of files or folders by dragging the mouse pointer over them, just like in the Windows File Explorer. You can explore a demo of this feature here.
Users can now easily zoom in and zoom out by pinching directly on the chart pane. This intuitive touch gesture makes it more convenient to navigate through Gantt Charts on touch-enabled devices, providing a seamless and user-friendly experience.
When the adaptive layout feature is enabled, the same layout is rendered on both mobile devices and desktops, by default. Now, Grid provides an option that allows rendering an adaptive layout exclusively for mobile screen sizes.
Redact support allows users to conceal sensitive information by applying blur or pixel effects to specific areas of an image. This feature is particularly valuable for protecting privacy and complying with data protection regulations, making it easier to securely share images without compromising sensitive information.
The enhanced text-annotation feature in the Image Editor allows users to customize their annotations with fill color, outline color, and outline width. Ideal for making text stand out and improving readability, this tool ensures that your annotations are both clear and visually appealing in any image.
The enhanced rectangle-annotation feature in the Image Editor now supports adjusting the border radius, allowing users to create annotations with rounded or sharp corners. This enhancement provides greater flexibility in customizing the look of your annotations, adding a touch of style and refinement.
The Mention control provides options for individual items to be put in an enabled or disabled state for specific scenarios. This ensures that disabled items cannot be selected as values within the control.
The standalone PDF Viewer now loads large documents more quickly. This enhancement is achieved by loading Base64 strings directly into a byte array, boosting the loading performance and efficiency by up to 45% on large PDF files.
The Javascript PDF Viewer includes the following enhancements in the text search functionality:
External PDF documents can be imported anywhere within an existing PDF document in the PDF Viewer.
Signature and initials fields allow the use of custom fonts for e-signing.
The slash menu allows users to seamlessly apply formatting options like headings, lists, and quotes, as well as open insert dialogs and execute custom commands all within the editor. This dynamic menu is easily triggered by typing the “/” character, providing a quick way to access the editing features.
This feature enables users to easily export content from the Rich Text Editor to PDF or Word documents, as well as import Word document content into the editor. This intuitive feature enhances document management, providing a smooth and user-friendly experience.
Users can now easily highlight small code snippets, commands, or keywords directly within the Rich Text Editor. This feature enhances readability and ensures that important text elements stand out, providing a seamless and user-friendly experience.
