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Desktop Build Notes

Track the latest features, improvements, and fixes for the ActivityExchange Desktop application. Stay up-to-date with our continuous development and enhancements.

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Build 325

22nd January 2026
  • Major: Saved Spreadsheet Report Formats now stores/re-applies many more settings such as Titles, Page Sizes and other selected options. 1101

  • Improvement: A new option has been added to Activity PDFs that allow you to include PDFs embedded in the Activity Type. 1106

  • Improvement: Pivot Trees can now be pivoted on the Activity Type Verb. 1094

  • Improvement: PDFs now allow for custom page sizing. 1105

  • Improvement: A new 'Open in Report Format' function has been added to many context menus, allowing you to select a Saved Report Format as opposed to the generic spreadsheet. 1101
  • Behaviour Change: Adhoc activity naming has been revised to allow more flexibility. You can now include the Tag Name *and* have a custom suffix appended. 1103

  • Behaviour Change: Pasting from Excel into the spreadsheet will now paste blank cells also (as opposed to ignoring them). 1095
  • Fix: Fixed a Pivot Tree issue when trying to scope to multiple DAD Folders. 1104
  • Fix: Fixed a minor issue in the 'Application and User Settings' window when clicking the Working Directory link that caused a crash (when not logged in). 1096
  • Fix: Fixed a minor issue when resequencing Activity atttributes. 1111
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Build 318

17th November 2025
  • Improvement: New "Browse By Hierarchy" tab has been added to allow users to navigate the dad Location view and Raise adhoc activities. 1077


  • Improvement: You can now navigate between dad components and connectors via the Connections tab. 1081
  • Improvement: Exporting attribute data to dad now can populate attributes in properly configured Work/Group folders in dad. 1083
  • Imrpovement: Activity Type export/import to JSON now includes "Verbose" attribute descriptions. 1091
  • Improvement: Spreadsheet attribute list now also show the verbose description of AE attributes. 1085
  • Improvement: Attachments tab now shows more information about each attachment. 1089
  • Improvement: Activity PDF now allows you the ability to toggle Attribute Data on/off. 1087
  • Improvement: Activity PDF now has a new option to make a copy of all relevant attachments to an output directory. 1072
  • Fix: Activity PDF now attempts to fit activity data on to the first page. 1075
  • Fix: Bulk populating dates (Fill Down) in the spreadsheet wasn't saving correctly. 1092
  • Fix: Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause "open in spreadsheet" buttons to show an empty spreadsheet. 1079
  • Fix: Exporting attribute data to dad was not working in some circumstances. 1083
  • Fix: Work History was filtering on the main dashboard filter which wasn't obvious to the user. The filter has been removed and now all activities are displayed. 1080
  • Fix: Fixed an issue in large teams when loading the Email Options which sometimes caused users to appear as never logged in. 1061
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Build 316

20th October 2025
  • Improvement: Added a new 'Ops & Maint mode' for projects. 1070
  • Improvement: Change Confirmation window has had significant performance improvements when updating many activities. 1068
  • Improvement: Project Approved activities now default to visible for Teams (except when project is in Ops & Maint mode). 1062
  • Improvement: File size limitations have been increaded to 100MB maximum (subject to Acceptable Use Policy). 892
  • Fix: Fixed an issue causing Comments text to not scroll properly in the Change Confirmation window. 1069
  • Fix: Saved Report Formats, an error message was appearing for no reason. 1057
  • Fix: Activity Search was raising an error when there was a space in the search query (a recently introduced issue). 1076
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Build 314

23rd September 2025
  • Improvement: Exporting an PDF will now include the dad Saved Layout PDF if you tick "Include PDFs". 1018, 1022, 1044
  • Improvement: Activity Search speed has been significantly improved for large projects. 1039
  • Improvement: Activity Details now has a new Attachments tab to give quick access to all attachments. 1059
  • Improvement: Teams can now reject approved activities back to themselves. 1037, 1053
  • Improvement: Spreadsheets now include a blue indicator to display the page width. 1036
  • Improvement: Dashboard charts now have a new button to copy them directly to the Windows clipboard. 1024
  • Improvement: Exporting a spreadsheet now has a new option to exclude page numbers. 998
  • Improvement: Added a new filter by date option for "Modified Date Range". 1040
  • Fix: Spreadsheet columns widths are now restored correctly when using Reports. 1035
  • Fix: Certain JPEG images were not coming through when exporting to PDF. 1056
  • Fix: Integration fix for exporting data. 1055
  • Fix: Exporting activities, with PDFs included and images not included wasn't working. 1054
  • Fix: When saving a Scope in Scopes & Reports, a meaningless error message was displayed. 1052
  • Fix: Duplicate search results have been removed from the Activity Search. 1051
  • Fix: Spreadsheet Attribute List was showing invalid options. 1060
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Build 309

21st August 2025
  • Major: Introduced new "Viewer" roles for Teams and Projects.
  • Improvement: Background loading of "Email Distribution" has had its performance been significantly improved (noticably better for Teams > 50 active members). 1008
  • Improvement: The performance and efficiency when rebuilding pivot trees has been significantly improved > 50% 1009
  • Improvement: Spreadsheets now have new "Connected From" and "Connected To" columns to show the source and destination of an associated SIM Connector. 1027
  • Improvement: 'Modified' Activity Alerts now expire after 30 days. 1010
  • Improvement: Pivot Trees deriving from multiple values from multiple scopes now are ordered and discriminatory, choosing the first good value in the sequence. 1025
  • Improvement: Minor dasboard UI improvement and consisten application of icons and "Pivot Tree" verbage. 1012
  • Fix: Connector SIM objects now display their From and To components again. 1028
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Build 302

1st July 2025
  • Major: Introduced new "Viewer" roles for Teams and Projects.
  • Improvement: Added Search support for Wiremarkers. This will also find relevant Saved Layouts. 968
  • Improvement: Attribute categories are now supported when exporting/importing from JSON. 975
  • Improvement: Picklist values are now supported when exporting/importing from JSON. 974
  • Improvement: Dashboard tabs/headings are now frozen when scrolling. 971
  • Improvement: Search headings are now frozen when scrolling through results. 991
  • Fix: Some circumstances were causing headers to be missing when exporting a Spreadsheet to PDF. 843, 999
  • Fix: Opening "dad Object Details" on a Saved Layout via the Quick Search. 982
  • Fix: Unknown scenario which caused a crash on startup setting the ClickOnce icon. 997
  • Fix: Unresponsive scroll wheel over some portions of the Search results window. 994
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Build 292

29th April 2025
  • Security: updated authentication to patch known security vulnerabilities. Also includes some small performance improvements.
  • Improvement: added new "Open In..." command to spreadsheet. 930
  • Improvement: Teams, Project Approve (dark green) activities are now hidden by default. 930
  • Improvement: added support for dad "Saved Layouts". 935, 959, 960
  • Improvement: added support for multiple cameras. 944
  • Improvement: added additional functionality for linked items in the Activity Details window. 942
  • Improvement: added ability to "Raise Adhoc" directly from External Object window. 948
  • Improvement: Applying a custom description to an Adhoc activity now warns you to save any data. 950
  • Improvement: dad icon/labelling updated to latest. 948
  • Fix: random tree issue "collection was modified" has been fixed. 924
  • Fix: dad Relationships loading in the Activity Details window. 918
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Build 286

10th February 2025
  • Security: updated authentication to patch known security vulnerabilities. Also includes some small performance improvements.
  • Major: support added for DAD X1.
  • Improvement: Search, any searches for activities now will also query the user comments. 890
  • Improvement: Mega-pdf is now available to everyone. 908
  • Improvement: Spreadsheet, you can now see which column is sorted. 910
  • Improvement: Spreadsheet, column widths are now retained when saving report format. 911
  • Improvement: Spreadsheet, column sort order is now retained when saving report format. 907
  • Improvement: Adhoc activities, due date is now set when created. 903
  • Improvement: Pivot Trees, setting due dates now refreshes pivot trees so they always show correct results when pivoted on Due Date. 897
  • Improvement: Pivot Trees, new menu added "Open In..." which allows quick access to Saved report formats. 902
  • Improvement: Scopes & Reports, you can now select multiple Scopes when clicking Generate and it will generate multiple reports at the same time. 893
  • Fix: Pivot Trees, Activity Types with same names can confuse results. 895
  • Fix: Export special characters out to Excel wasn't handled. 888
  • Fix: Rounding error on some activities which were being reported as overdue. 894
  • Fix: updated support for dad date changes coausing them to not be visible in AE. 905
  • Fix: Add/remove programs icon isn't correct. 912
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Build 283

7th November 2024
  • Improvement: Attributes, linked attributes now show SIM layer and hierarchy to avoid any ambiguity. 596

  • Improvement: Search, now also includes activity attribute names in the search. 881
  • Improvement: Export to DAD, generated activity PDFs now appear in the main object window in DAD (under Work tab). 848

  • Fix: Spreadsheet, fixed an error when sorting on SIM Layer column. 882
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Build 282 Beta Only

3rd November 2024
  • Improvement: Activity comments on attached images will now appear as a footer in the PDF report. Greatly enhanced the PDF merge process which now goes via a JSON intermediary file. 870
  • Improvement: Spreadsheet, when generating individual PDFs there is a new option to combine all results into a single mega PDF (customer specific, by request only). 872
  • Improvement: Link Activity to SIM Object, the search has been expanded to also query SIM attribute values. 874
  • Improvement: "Attribute Quick Filter" will now also query if its included in the SIM and the attribute usage stats. 879
  • Fix: Attribute picklist values, when changed at the attribute level, were hiding their old existing values if they were no longer in the picklist. 877
  • Fix: Fixed a few buttons related to the camera appearing when they shouldn't. 864
  • Fix: PDF output was showing various buttons when it shouldn't have. This has been cleaned up. 865
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Build 281 Beta Only

19th September 2024
  • Improvement: Annotations for image attachments when PDFs are generated. 858
  • Improvement: Trigger to update linked attributes at the time a DAD object is linked to an adhoc activity. 855
  • Improvement: PDF reports should have same page size for activities and images. 852
  • Fix: Camera preview would crash when clicking the X (close) button for the window. 860
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Build 280

15th September 2024
  • Security update: Minimum version upgraded to TLS 1.3. Note: rolled back after release to TLS 1.2.
  • Fix: When viewing the change log for an activity, the mouse wheel would stop scrolling when the cursor was over a file attachment. 844
  • Fix: PDF generation would fail when corrupted image files were attached. 845
  • Fix: Export to DAD, when exporting activity PDFs to DAD the generator would look at the most recently used flag for opening the PDF once it was generated which was both humorous and horrific for those generating hundreds of activities. This is always now set to false. 835
  • Improvement: When viewing the change log for an activity, DAD design changes would sometimes clutter the log with unnecessary info. These have been removed. 842
  • Improvement: You can now select activities in the pivot tree and “Open in new Spreadsheet” 849


  • Improvement: A new camera preview has been added when updating activities. 841

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Build 278

7th July 2024
  • Improvement: Exported files now include their original file names. 810
  • Improvement: Added a maximum cap to DAD search results to prevent the UI hanging. 825
  • Fix: Users were able to spam the "Finish" button when editing Activity Types. 826
  • Fix: Spreadsheet wasn't loading values for picklist attributes. 823
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Build 276

20th June 2024
  • Improvement: PDF output now supports the BMP image format. 822
  • Improvement: When adding new pivot trees they now appear at the bottom of the list, not the top. 821
  • Improvement: A minor UI adjustments around Scopes and Reports. 813, 815
  • Improvement: Added a new Help/About window and link to Online Support. 811
  • Fix: An issue when signing out has been resolved. 817
  • Fix: Fixed a very specific crash for activities with signoffs having missing data. 819
  • Fix: Fixed "DAD Connections" display of block connected component names for connectors. 820
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Build 275

17th June 2024
  • Improvement: A minor UI adjustment changing "Switch" menu item to say "Project Selection" making its purpose clearer. 805
  • Improvement: Client, Asset, Project text removed from PDF output. 809
  • Fix: Some projects were getting an error when selecting "Due Date" on spreadsheets. 816
  • Fix: Browsing DAD folders was sometimes showing duplicate folders. 802
  • Fix: Identified and rectified a deployment issue related to on-premises .MSI installations. 798
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Build 273

2nd April 2024
  • Improvement: Added an "Export to Excel" function for the Progress Breakdown dashboard. 791
  • Improvement: New roles have been added to separate configuration privileges from Project Controllers and Team Leaders.

  • Improvement: Added a new camera function to attachments. 790
  • Fix: An issue with signoff team synching has been resolved. 787