ROADMAP.md

ONLYOFFICE Document Server roadmap

This document provides the roadmap of the planned ONLYOFFICE Document Server changes.

This is an updated and corrected version of the roadmap. We also reserve the right to change it when necessary.

Version 8.2

All editors

• Continuing work on RTL in the editors core. Support for determining correct alignment for various text types
• Ability to add custom fields to the file information
• Working on "floating for a specific selection" tabs in the toolbar
• Working on support for fonts on the user's machine in a browser
• Support for new types of charts for opening
• Optimization of script loading to speed up opening all editors
• Own rendering of some SmartArt objects instead of recorded images in the file
• Seamless reconnection after inactivity in the document
• New numbered list presets for Arabic interface
• Ability to send email notifications about warnings related to license and quota
• Java wrapper for Document Builder
• New toolbar style

PDF Editor

• Co-editing PDFs. Saving PDFs to the storage
• Improved text recognition
• Ability to add a signature to a PDF file as an image, draw, write as text

Forms

• Collection of form data
• Signature field
• Ability to sign a form as an image, draw, write as text

Document Editor

• Support for old CheckBox types
• Support for customXml
• Ability to add a frame
• Support for special frame types
• Wrapping around tables
• Showing deleted text in the version history
• Inserting the contents of a third-party document
• Adding fields

Spreadsheet Editor

• Support for RTL in the Spreadsheet Editor. Correct placement of cells on a sheet
• Support for smooth scroll
• Support for iterative calculations

Presentation Editor

• Drawing on slides in the slide show mode
• Acceleration of opening files due to delayed loading of images
• Random transition

Mobile Editors

• Support for custom functions in the mobile web version
• Ability to switch to a tile view of the file list in the document manager on iOS and Android

API

• Methods for working with pivot tables
• Methods for working with presentations, charts

Version 8.1

All editors

• Continuing work on RTL in the editors core. Support for determining correct alignment for various text types
• Working on support for fonts on the user's machine in a browser
• Ability to open the "file stream" on the client. It is required to support opening and saving encrypted files in a browser
• Working on switching to an "honest cluster", where each server is independent
• Working on private rooms in the browser version via opening on the client
• Switching to the common history for all editors
• Working on support for Screen Readers in the interface
• Support for new types of charts
• Support for trend lines in charts

PDF Editor

• Co-editing annotations in PDF. Ability to save PDF to the file manager
• Ability to rotate pages in PDF

Forms

• Improvements for working with fields: Combo box and Dropdown list improvement
• Navigation by fields

Document Editor

• Showing deleted text in the version history

Spreadsheet Editor

• Support for Undo in the Fast co-editing mode
• Working on the IMPORTRANGE function

Presentation Editor

• Working on the slide sorter

API

• Improvement of API for implementing custom toolbar buttons into any panel
• Improvement of API for the ability to show the plugin panel on the right

Version 8.0

All editors

• The ability to launch several visual plugins simultaneously (a separate button should be added to the left panel for each plugin)
• Moving background plugins to the Background Plugins button menu
• Moving the option to add a comment to the entire document from the bottom of the comments panel to the settings button
• A button for adding a comment to text in the header of the comments panel (similar to the button in the toolbar)
• Indonesian language id-id (Indonesian (Indonesia)), en-id (English (Indonesia)) in the regional settings
• The ability to set avatars for users using the onRequestUsers integrator event with the data.c="info" parameter and the setUsers method
• The ability to set an avatar for the current user using the editor config: config.editorConfig.user.image (this image will not be visible for other users)
• The interface translation into Serbian (sr-Latn-RS, Serbian (Latin, Serbia and Montenegro)) and Arabic (ar-SA, Arabic - Saudi Arabia)
• The More button on the left and right panels. All buttons that do not fit in height should be placed into it: category buttons, as well as plugins that were opened in the left panel. Remove the separator that separates the category buttons from the plugins
• The setting to enable support for screen readers
• RTL interface support, currently in beta
• Window management buttons should be redesigned to correspond to Linux

Forms

• For the radio button field, adding the setting for the name of the selected element (Radio button choice)
• Chain of tips when working with docxf files
• The .oform format should no longer be supported. Forms should be saved as PDFs with corresponding metadata

Spreadsheet Editor

• The ability to center a sheet horizontally and vertically when printing
• The ability to get a link to the selected range in the viewing mode
• The new Goal Seek functionality. It allows to determine which numbers should be substituted into the formula to get the desired and known result
• A wizard for inserting charts: display a list of recommended charts and previews for all types of charts based on the selected data
• The new Series tool for creating number sequences
• Expanding cell filling settings
• Adding the Expand/Collapse menu item to the toolbar and the context menu of pivot tables

Presentation Editor

• The ability to set the final color for animation effects that change color
• Making animation effect icons inactive if the effect cannot be applied to an object

PDF Editor

• The ability to save changes made in fillable PDF-forms
• The Date Picker for a text form with a date format in PDF

Server

• Adding the formsdataurl parameter to the Callback handler (to replace formdata), which contains a link to the json file with data from filled forms when sending with the Submit button
• Adding the following methods to API: GetFreezePanesType, SetFreezePanesType, and the FreezePanes property
• Adding the GetFreezePanes method and the FreezePanes property to ApiWorksheet
• Adding the ApiFreezePanes class with the following methods: FreezeAt, FreezeColumns, FreezeRows, GetLocation, Unfreeze
• Adding the following methods for obtaining and filling out form data to the Builder of the Document Editor: ApiDocument.prototype.GetFormsData = function(), ApiDocument.prototype.SetFormsData = function(arrData)
• Adding the ApiDocument.prototype.AddDrawingToPage = function(oDrawing, nPage, x, y) method for adding any ApiDrawing to a given page
• Support for mssql and oracle databases
• Adding JSON watermark parameter to conversion.api

Mobile editors

• The ability to switch to the system theme
• Changing the interface for working with forms
• Add formula search and list of recently used formulas in the mobile Spreadsheet Editor
• The ability to add a custom cell format in the mobile Spreadsheet Editor
• Switching to the reading or editing mode when opening the mobile Document Editor based on the mobileForceView parameter in the configuration file
• The ability to set the document language in the mobile Document Editor

Version 7.5

All editors

• Working on RTL in the editors core
• The ability to sign a file in the web version
• Switching to the common history for all editors
• Advanced settings for the AutoCorrect feature
• Work with styles and hidden styles
• New types of charts
• The ability to add words to the dictionary for spell checking in the web version
• Support for SVG

Forms

• Improvement of form fields. Advanced settings
• Field templates. Working on new fields
• Filling in forms by roles. Signing forms. Application for signing

Document Editor

• Development of automatic hyphenation

Spreadsheet Editor

• Support for Undo in the Fast co-editing mode
• Inserting images into headers/footers
• New types of formulas
• The ability to display only formulas in cells
• The ability to save spreadsheets to the .csv format with a separator which differs from comma
• The Show details feature for working with a Pivot Table. Improvement of the ability to open data on a new sheet by double-clicking a value in a Pivot Table
• Autocompletion for days of the week and months when stretching a cell value

Presentation Editor

• New types of animations and transitions

PDF Viewer

• Support for the PDF forms. Annotations

Server

• Support for mssql, oracle, and other databases

Mobile editors

• Support for protection
• Working on the common engine for the native part of mobile applications. The ability to download sdk on Android and edit files on portals natively, instead of using the mobile web version

Version 7.4

All editors

• File menu reworked: added file names, new Protect tab
• New interface language: Sinhala (Sri Lanka)
• New locale: Dansk (Danmark)
• Support for opening the following formats: MHTML, SXC, ET, ETT, SXI, DPS, DPT, SXW, STW, WPS, WPT
• New embedded Help language: Turkish
• New feature: text tips for color palettes
• New feature: headers for columns in lists
• New feature: Draw tab
• New feature: Eyedropper for color palettes
• New interface scaling options: 250/300/350/400/450/500%
• New feature: saving objects as pictures
• New feature: copy formatting for graphic objects
• New diagram type: Radar
• New feature: opacity setting for border lines of graphic objects
• Plugin Manager: added Search bar and categories

Forms

• New feature: no form field filling in edit mode
• New feature: Default value field on the right panel
• New feature: add new form without exiting the current one
• Fixed-form tracking fix
• New API method: filling forms in the interface
• Minor bug fixes

Document Editor

• New feature: advanced settings for layout columns
• Updated list settings: advanced settings for numbered and multi-level lists, the Recently Used tab for list types, creating lists in the dialogue window
• New feature: Combine documents
• New feature: exceptions for letter capitalization in AutoCorrect
• Support for saving documents in PNG and JPG formats

Spreadsheet Editor

• New feature: Print range for spreadsheets
• New formula language: Armenian
• New feature: First page number in print settings
• New feature: Page Break Preview on the View tab
• New feature: Change case
• New number formats: Short Date and Long Date
• New feature: Show Values as for pivot tables
• New contextual menu items for pivot tables
• New functions: SEQUENCE, XMATCH, EXPAND, FILTER, ARRAYTOTEXT, SORT
• New feature: protecting ranges while selecting certain users with editing rights
• The Allow edit ranges button moved to the Protect sheet dialogue window
• Support for saving spreadsheets in PNG and JPG formats

Presentation Editor

• New feature: exceptions for letter capitalization in AutoCorrect

Mobile web editors

• New interface language: Sinhala (Sri Lanka)

Mobile

• New formula languages

Plugins

• Zotero plugin updated to 1.0.1: updating bibliography and citation fields, data synchronization with Zotero, converting fields to text for improved compatibility with other editors

API updates

• New database: Dameng
• New feature: font size customization
• New license check parameter: start_date
• New WOPI discovery parameters: mobileView and mobileEdit action to open mobile editors
• New plugin methods to return and replace the current word/sentence
• New editor configuration parameter: hiding the Draw tab
• node-redis connector updated to 4.6.5
• JS core debug in Chrome
• New feature added: pluginsmanager

Version 7.3

All editors

• Styles panel now fits the whole number of visible styles
• Table templates are now categorized
• New feature: 3D rotation for diagrams
• New dictionaries: Uzbek (Cyrillic + Latin)
• New feature: presets for inserting text boxes
• New feature: hiding right and left sidebars via the View tab
• New feature: quick access panel for equations
• New feature: changing the size of dialog windows for charts, OLE-objects and Mail Merge recipients
• New feature: error bars
• New feature: inserting Smart Art objects

Document Editor

• Support for equations in Unicode and LaTeX
• New feature: word count in the status bar
• Document password protection update: editing rights restriction

Spreadsheet Editor

• Templates for tables, pivot tables, cell styles are now categorized
• New feature: Watch Window for functions
• New Paste Special feature: links to other files within the portal
• New functions added: TEXTBEFORE, TEXTAFTER, TEXTSPLIT, VSTACK, HSTACK, TOROW, TOCOL, WRAPROWS, WRAPCOLS, TAKE, DROP, CHOOSEROWS, CHOOSECOLS

Presentation Editor

• New setting: adjusting guidelines via the View tab
• New feature: Paste Special for slides

Mobile

• New feature: Sharing Settings

Version 7.2

All editors

• Ability to rename document at the top of the editor window
• Warning when a macro makes a request to any URL
• Search field is reworked
• The View tab is available in read-only mode and comment mode
• Ability to edit OLE objects
• Advanced settings are reworked
• Ability to enable/disable using the Option key to navigate the editors via keyboard
• Web editor interface theme can be synchronized with the system theme
• New web editor info: the About section contains build number
• New search panel in the embedded versions of the Document Editor and the Spreadsheet Editor
• Top toolbar is reworked
• New interface languages: Basque, Malay, Portuguese (Portugal), Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)

Forms

• New interface language: Indonesian
• Ability to add tags

Document Editor

• New interface language: Indonesian
• PDF viewer navigation panel is renamed and has its own settings: expand/collapse all, expand to level X, font size, wrap headings
• Ability to remove headers/footers via toolbar
• Ability to include current title in the table of contents via toolbar and designated button
• New spellcheck settings in the advanced settings

Spreadsheet Editor

• Ability to use custom images as bullets in bullet lists
• Ability to switch rows/columns using the diagram settings in the right panel

Presentation Editor

• New spellcheck settings in the advanced settings
• Support for PPSX files, they open in preview mode
• Ability to use custom images as bullets in bullet lists
• Reworked advanced settings' Placement tab for precise positioning of images, tables, and charts

Mobile

• New interface language: Indonesian
• New features in the Document Editor: header navigation, ability to add table of contents and configure its setting

Plugins

• New translation mechanic in plugins: ability to add langs.json to folder with translations; first there is a request for a full match in file name and language, then up to the - symbol

API updates

• New feature: live viewer for tracking changes in real-time
• The Document Server information contains live viewer/editor data
• New interface translation support: 4-letter language designation is supported. Currently it is used for Portuguese (Portugal) and Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)

WOPI

• Ability to open embedded viewer in WOPI discovery

Version 7.1

All editors

• New menu for inserting autoshapes
• Ability to edit points of a selected autoshape
• Ability to open new diagram types: Pyramid, Bar (Pyramid), vertical and horizontal cylinders, vertical and horizontal cones
• Ability to crop a selected image to shape
• Sorting comments on the left sidebar by group
• Ability to see your file protection password when entering it

Forms

• Ability to zoom a form

Document editor

• Ability to use the Page Thumbnails panel and to display the document's contents on the left sidebar for PDF files
• Ability to use special symbols when searching documents
• Ability to add a period with double-space

Spreadsheet editor

• New view settings: Combine sheet and status bars, Always show toolbar, Interface theme, Show frozen panes shadow
• New currency: CFP franc
• Using tips when working with formulas for tables
• Ability to set a text qualifier when importing text from TXT/CSV
• Using a built-in preview panel before printing out a spreadsheet

Presentation editor

• Ability to duplicate slides using the Add slide menu
• Ability to move a slide to beginning/end using a slide context menu
• Ability to insert recently used shapes using a new panel on the Insert tab
• Ability to add a period with double-space

API updates

• The last callbackUrl is needed for sending a link to a compiled file if a file was edited by the same user on different tabs
• New environment variable X2T_MEMORY_LIMIT limiting memory for the x2t process
• New sections Features and Layout for Customization, the following parameters are renamed: leftMenu -> layout.leftMenu, rightMenu -> layout.rightMenu, toolbar -> layout.toolbar, statusBar -> layout.statusBar, spellcheck -> features.spellcheck
• Ability to see the customer_id and the build type on index.html

Version 7.0

All editors

• Sorting comments on the left sidebar by date and author
• Ability to change document settings using the alt + key keyboard shortcuts
• DarkMode
• Changing contents of the Create new... section in the File menu

Document editor

• Ability to choose the display mode for review changes: Show by click in balloons, Show by hover in tooltips
• Ability to choose mail merge data from a local file and from URL
• Hyperlinks autocorrect

Spreadsheet editor

• Button with the sheet list to switch to the certain sheet
• Descriptions and names of function arguments in Portuguese (Brazil)
• Opening / saving a query table
• Version history
• Ability to open the status bar in two bars
• Saving status block in the status bar
• Ability to protect a workbook and sheet in the Protection tab
• Displaying selections made by other users

Presentation editor

• Ability to show animations contained in a file
• Moving slide transition settings from the right-side panel to the Transitions tab of the top toolbar
• Hyperlinks autocorrect

API updates

• Ability to add additional interface themes
• New outputtype: "ooxml", "odf" types in the conversionapi to convert files to any format (docx, docm, xlsx, xlsm, pptx, pptm, or odt, ods, odp)
• When opening documents with macros, the downloadAs panel contains the docm, xlsm, pptm formats (determined by the fileType parameter)
• assemblyFormatAsOrigin parameter is enabled by default to save the assemblied file in the same format, in which it is opened
• New review section and new hideReviewDisplay, showReviewChanges, reviewDisplay, trackChanges, hoverMode parameters in the customization section of the document editor config
• New fileType parameter for onDownloadAs, onRequestSaveAs, onRequestRestore
• Ability to insert several images from the portal using the insertImage method

Version 6.4

All editors

• Web Application Open Platform Interface (WOPI) support
• 125% and 175% scaling
• Resolving all comments
• Support for chart styles
• Chart styles for people with disabilities
• New previews for bulleted, numbered, multi-level lists
• Navigating controls (checkbox, radiobox, button with text) using Tab/Shift+Tab
• Updated work on the client:
  • Decoding pictures in all popular raster formats
  • Working with zip archives (open / save / edit)
  • Digital signatures

Document editor

• Converting text to tables and vice versa
• Auto-capitalization for the 1st word in a sentence

Spreadsheet editor

• Adding/setting/deleting conditional formatting
• Adding sparklines
• Importing data from txt and csv
• Changing select on Tab+Enter
• Ability to assign a macro to be executed when you click on a graphic object
• Descriptions and names of function arguments in Polish, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lao, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Catalan, Czech, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Bulgarian, Portuguese, Ukrainian
• Hyperlinks autocorrect
• Presets for Freeze Panes
• Setting for displaying zeros in cells (Show zeros)
• Argument names in the function setting dialog
• Storing comment threads in a spreadsheet

Presentation editor

• Version history
• Setting to hide the notes panel
• Auto-capitalization for the 1st word in a sentence

Mobile web editors

• Rework on ReactJS

API updates

• requestClose method for closing the editor
• Differentiation of access rights to commenting
• Setting the default co-editing mode and ability to prohibit changing it
• customization.hideNotes parameter to hide the notes panel in presentations
• New methods and properties for ApiRange for apiBuilder (spreadsheets)
• editorConfig.customization.uiTheme to set the interface theme

Version 6.3

All editors

• Dark theme
• Adding/editing/deleting passwords in the online version
• 150% scaling
• Adding files to Favorites folder*
• New chart types (line and scatter)
• Hints on creating macros
• New scheme for the spellchecker (local work)
• Entering names for anonymous users

* Should be implemented in DMS as well

Document editor

• Button to change wrapping settings on the toolbar (Layout tab)
• Changing indent in the paragraph settings on the right panel
• Changing text case
• Changing list levels
• Fixed color set in the color picker for forms/content controls
• Saving Track Changes status to file
• Downloading files as/saving as HTML, FB2, EPUB

Spreadsheet editor

• Combo chart settings
• XLOOKUP function
• Grouping/ungrouping data in pivot tables
• Left/right indent to align cell content
• New cell formats: dd/mm, dd/mm/yyyy, dd/mm/yy
• New currency for cell format - Croatian kuna

Presentation editor

• Transparency setting to slide properties in the right panel
• Column setting for text in a shape on the toolbar
• Buttons for changing text case and highlighting text with color
• Preserving animations already added to the presentation.

Version 6.2

All editors

• Setting font size up to 300px (up to 409px in spreadsheets) manually
• Navigating through fields (text box, combobox) using Tab/Shift+Tab

Document editor

• New options to work with text fields
• Table of figures

Spreadsheet editor

• Autoexpansion for formatted tables
• Slicers for pivot tables
• Data validation settings for cells
• Custom number format
• GROWTH, TREND, LOGEST, UNIQUE, MUNIT, RANDARRAY functions

Presentation editor

• Autoformat as you type settings
• Increment/decrement font size buttons on the toolbar

Plugins

• Enabling Track Changes in all docs by default

Desktop

• New Document Server integration scheme

iOS app

• The source code of the documents module is public

API

customization.trackChanges parameter to enable/disable Track Changes by default

customization.toolbarHideFileName to hide the doc's name from the toolbar

Version 6.1

All editors

• New options for operations with objects:
  • setting an arbitrary angle for a gradient fill
  • setting the picker position using a spinner in the fill settings
  • buttons for adding/removing the current picker
  • adding a new picker - without changing the current view of the gradient
• New options for proofing:
  • editing AutoCorrect options for math equations
  • recognized functions
  • autoformatting as you type
• Icons for context menu
• New File panel
• Help parameter for plugins

Document editor

• Line numbers
• Inserting, editing, and converting endnotes
• Creating cross-references
• Fb2 for viewing and html/epub/mht available for all platforms
• Differentiation for reviewing permissions

Spreadsheet editor

• Button to insert a pivot table in the Insert tab
• Custom sheet view
• Additional options for editing chart data (series and categories)
• Setting the shadows display for locked areas