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DataSnipper Changelog: 2023

Every DataSnipper for Excel release from 2023 (v4.1.x, v5.x, and v6.0), newest first. Part of the year-by-year DataSnipper changelog.

Each entry is tagged with its product, change type (new feature, improvement, bug fix, and so on) and release stage (GA or Preview), so you can scan the page or use your browser find (Ctrl+F) to locate a specific product or change. This page is part of the full DataSnipper changelog, which is organized by year.

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Releases in 2023

v6.0.4 (2023-12-14) Preview

Preview release for testing clients.


Workbook file conversion to v6 fix

Excel Workbook Bug fix Preview

Issue with converting files included in the workbook from the old version to v6 is resolved


Formulas across multiple sheets fix

Excel Workbook Bug fix Preview

Issue with formulas referencing multiple sheets was broken in the last version. It is now resolved.


v6.0 (2023-11-17) Preview

Preview Release of DataSnipper v6.0 with Co-authoring and FSS improvements.


DataSnipper Co-authoring real-time

Co-authoring New feature Preview

With the newly updated data storage, DataSnipper now allows multiple users to create, update, and delete Snips on the same workbook in real-time.


Co-authoring SharePoint requirement

Co-authoring New feature Preview

For simultaneous editing and collaborative work, users need to import documents to the same SharePoint folder.


Backward workbook conversion to v5.1x

Excel Workbook New feature Preview

Workbooks can now be converted to be compatible with older versions (v5.1x or lower).


Snip All Tables option

Snipping New feature Preview

Table Snip: New 'Snip All Tables' option allows users to extract all tables from a document with page numbers.


Table Snip column/row UX

Snipping Improvement Preview

Table Snip: User experience improved for adjusting the sizes of columns and rows in table snips.


OCR for Hebrew, Greek, Arabic

OCR / Text Recognition Improvement Preview

OCR recognition for Hebrew, Greek, and Arabic has been significantly improved for accuracy.


FSS decoupled from Excel

Financial Statement Suite New feature Preview

FSS is decoupled from Excel and can be launched separately.


FSS built-in calculator drag cursor

Financial Statement Suite Improvement Preview

Added drag cursor to the built-in calculator and flyout.


FSS Version Compare always current/previous

Financial Statement Suite Improvement Preview

The document drop-down has been removed from the Version Comparison page. Now, the comparison is always done between the current and previous versions of the current year document.


FSS PDF export custom tickmarks

Financial Statement Suite Improvement Preview

The left click on the index does not apply the correct tickmark automatically and opens a flyout to allow users to define the tickmark.


FSS index left-click flyout

Financial Statement Suite Improvement Preview

The left click on the index does not apply the correct tickmark automatically and opens a flyout to allow users to define the tickmark.


FSS IC algorithm missing notes

Financial Statement Suite Improvement Preview

IC algorithm has been improved to produce better results when some notes missing in the document.


FSS export and import project

Financial Statement Suite New feature Preview

Export and import project functionality has been added.


FSS Project list view

Financial Statement Suite New feature Preview

Project list view has been added to make it easier to access previously created projects by individual users, only visible to them.


FSS built-in calculator across pages

Financial Statement Suite New feature Preview

The new built-in calculator is accessible across all test pages.


FSS Document Viewer rewrite

Financial Statement Suite Improvement Preview

FSS Document Viewer has been completely rewritten.


FSS data in APPDATA folder

Financial Statement Suite Improvement Preview

All the FSS data is stored in the APPDATA/DataSnipper/FSS folder


v5.1.2 (2023-09-07) GA

Enterprise release with date and view-only fixes.


Date and time formatting regions

Platform Bug fix GA

Resolved a bug related to date and time formatting in shared documents across multiple regions, ensuring consistent date formats.


Document viewer view-only after validation

Licensing / Admin Bug fix GA

Fixed an issue where the document viewer in the view-only version was not opening properly after user license validation.


v5.1.1 (2023-07-05) GA

Enterprise release.


Version compare license update

Licensing / Admin Improvement GA

Licensing for the version compare feature has been updated. It is now accessible when FSS is enabled.


Delete-redo multiple snips in same cell

Snipping Bug fix GA

We have rectified a problem where users encountered issues when deleting and redoing multiple snips in the same cell.


Rename extractions popup fix

Document Extraction Bug fix GA

An issue with renaming extractions and information not displaying correctly in the popup window has been fixed.


v5.1.0 (2023-05-01) GA

Enterprise release with new packaging and licensing.


Licensing for new packaging with granular flags

Licensing / Admin Improvement GA

Updated the DataSnipper licensing to work with new packaging, each feature now has more granular feature flagging to show/hide the button.


Document viewer Include PDFs off fix

Document Management Bug fix GA

Fixed an issue whereby the document viewer would sometimes not show if "Include PDFs" was turned off.


Table snip negative values characters

Snipping Bug fix GA

Fixed an issue whereby Table snipping was adding characters to negative values


Find All Sums Parts column accuracy

Cross-references / Find all sums Improvement GA

Updated the "Parts" column of the "Find All Sums" output to be accurate


Create Folder removed from import menu

Document Management Deprecation GA

Removed the "Create Folder" option from the import menu


v4.1.7 (2023-03-31) GA

Enterprise release with bug fixes.


Snip data serialization with multi-workbook

Snipping Bug fix GA

Fixed snip data serialization issue when multiple workbooks are opened at the same time.


v5.0.7 (2023-03-15) GA

Enterprise release with improvements on opening existing workbooks.


Multi-workbook snip data serialization fix

Snipping Bug fix GA

Fixed snip data serialization when multiple workbooks are opened at the same time.


Linked PDFs backward compatibility

Excel Workbook Bug fix GA

Fixed backward compatibility issue for workbooks with linked PDFs.


v1.2 or lower backward compatibility

Excel Workbook Bug fix GA

Fixed backward compatibility issue for workbooks created with DataSnipper v1.2 or lower.


v5.0.6 (2023-03-01) Preview

Preview release.


Document matching fewer than 4 chars

Platform Bug fix Preview

Fixed issue where document matching didn't work for strings with fewer than 4 characters.


FSS scrollbar annotations

Financial Statement Suite Bug fix Preview

Resolved issue in FSS where annotations on scrollbar were not showing.


FSS document level automation backward compat

Financial Statement Suite Bug fix Preview

Fixed backwards compatibility issue for document level automation not showing in the FSS.


v5.0.5 (2023-02-15) Preview

Preview release.


OCR on rotated text

OCR / Text Recognition Bug fix Preview

Fixed a bug where OCR was not working on rotated texts,


Page rotation works with OCR

OCR / Text Recognition Improvement Preview

Users can now rotate the page & OCR will work.


Document Matching xml corruption

Platform Bug fix Preview

Fixed a bug where the xml of Document Matching templates could become corrupted.


Document Organizer popup consistency

Document Management Improvement Preview

Improved consistency of popups in the Document Organizer


Document viewer dropdown sync

Document Management Improvement Preview

Improved synchronisation of document viewer drop down selectors when a document is removed.


FSS semi-automated tickmark workflow

Financial Statement Suite New feature Preview

Added semi-automated workflow where DataSnipper FSS now adds suggestions and the user must click these suggestions to add tick marks.


v5.0.4 (2023-02-07) Preview

Preview release with performance, bugfixes, and new snip-within-snip feature.


Importing a file for the first time

Performance Preview


Deleting a range of snips

Performance Preview


Export folder opening in background

Platform Bug fix Preview

Export folder opening in the background


Form extraction templates scroll viewer

Document Extraction Improvement Preview

Form extraction templates now has a scroll viewer


Version compare ribbon visibility

Version Comparison Improvement Preview

Version compare button in the ribbon (where applicable) is now visible before a file is imported


File naming Windows-compatible restrictions

Excel Workbook Bug fix Preview

File naming now has relevant restrictions and matches the windows standards, this fixes Excel crashing issues.


Repeat table snip dialog digits only

Snipping Improvement Preview

Now only allow setting digits in the repeat table snip dialog box


Document matching Force Same Page column scope

Platform Bug fix Preview

Fixed a bug where Forcing Same Page in document matching would force it for all columns instead of the column it was set on


Message boxes blocking Excel actions

Platform Bug fix Preview

Fixed a bug where some message boxes were blocking Excel actions


OCR failure error messaging

OCR / Text Recognition Improvement Preview

When the OCR fails, now we can see the appropriate error message/condition


Right-click does not deselect in Document Organizer

Document Management Bug fix Preview

Right-clicking no longer deselects the items on the document organizer


Imported folders display in organizer

Document Management Bug fix Preview

Imported folders are now properly displayed in the document organizer.


Create snip within a snip

Snipping New feature Preview

Its now possible to create a snip within a snip


v4.1.6 (2023-01-27) GA

Enterprise release with bug fixes and improvements.


NotSupportedException import fix

Document Management Bug fix GA

Solves issue were it is not possible to import documents from certain workbooks, often this is related to the location of the workbook. You can benefit from this version if you see a System.NotSupportedException in your log file.


v5.0.3 (2023-01-03) Preview

Preview release.


Document organizer UX and Command Menu

Document Management Improvement Preview

Improvements to Document organiser UX and Command Menu.


CTRL+V shortcut blocking with paste-to-import

Platform Bug fix Preview

Fixed issue where the CTRL + V Shortcut being blocked in excel when the "Paste to import" setting was turned on.


Message-boxes transparent

Platform Bug fix Preview

Fixed issue where message-boxes were consistently being shown as transparent.


Exclude PDFs export fix

Document Management Bug fix Preview

Fixed issue where exclude PDFs caused exporting functionality not to work in some cases.


Delete sheet performance

Performance Preview

Performance improvements for deleting sheets.


Dates after 2100 indexing fix

Platform Bug fix Preview

Fixed issue where no indexing of dates larger than the year 2100 was causing document matching to not pickup some text.


Other minor fixes and performance

Platform Improvement Preview

Other minor bug fixes and performance improvements.


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