Version 1.4.0.43037
Release Date: 2019-05-29
Bug fixes
- Fixed issue causing an Excel window to randomly appear when updating the chart on an interactive slide.
- Fixed issue where an existing Office installation was not detected when opening OMBEA Response.
- Fixed issue causing manual chart customizations to be lost when resetting an interactive slide.
Version 1.4.0.43036
Release Date: 2019-03-22
New or updated features
- Added support for new response device type.
Version 1.4.0.43035
Release Date: 2018-10-02
Bug fixes
- Fixed issue in the General slide properties where the "Show chart" property contained a value not applicable to all pollable slide types.
Version 1.4.0.43034
Release Date: 2018-06-07
New or updated features
- In case the end user has not yet opened Microsoft PowerPoint after Microsoft Office installation the end user is no longer asked to open Microsoft PowerPoint at least once before opening OMBEA Response.
Bug fixes
- Fixed issue which in some scenarios prevented the current session from being saved when using roaming user profiles or folder redirection.
Version 1.4.0.43033
Release Date: 2018-03-05
New or updated features
- Added setting "Session auto repair mode" which specifies with which level of detail an opened session presentation should be validated and repaired.
Version 1.4.0.43032
Release Date: 2018-01-31
New or updated features
- Added support for Vietnamese language.
Version 1.4.0.43031
Release Date: 2018-01-11
Bug fixes
- Fixed issue where changing the general slide properties "Open poll" and "Start countdown" did not have any effect when subsequently creating a new interactive slide.
- Fixed issue where changing the slide property "First position" for an existing Quickest Participant Leaderboard slide did not have any effect.
Version 1.4.0.43030
Release Date: 2017-03-15
Bug fixes
- Fixed chart issues when running under Windows 10 and Office 2016.
Version 1.4.0.43029
Release Date: 2016-11-04
Bug fixes
- Fixed issue where clicking on an embedded hyperlink on any slide causes PowerPoint to crash when the next results chart is about to be shown.
Version 1.4.0.43028
Release Date: 2016-09-20
New or updated features
- Added support for voting via SMS.
- Improved support for high resolution DPI settings.
- Word cloud slides now support the use of compound words where two or more words are connected by a hyphen. E.g., "word-cloud" is now counted as one word as compared to previous versions where it was counted as two separate words.
Version 1.4.0.43027
Release Date: 2016-05-23
Bug fixes
- Fixed bug where reports could not be generated in some language versions of Microsoft Office.
Version 1.4.0.43026
Release Date: 2016-03-21
New or updated features
- Added support to use OMBEA Response from multiple Windows user accounts at the same time (e.g., via Terminal Services).
Bug fixes
- Fixed ResponseApp related issue where a slow Internet connection sometimes caused the PowerPoint user interface to become temporarily unresponsive.
Version 1.4.0.43023
Release Date: 2015-12-14
New or updated features
- Added support for Microsoft Office 2016.
- Added the new slide type "Quickest Participant Leaderboard" which shows the fastest responding participants for the last polled question or for the whole session.
- Added the new report "Shareholder meeting report" providing improved support for shareholder meetings.
- Added slide property "Non-responders classed as" where the user now can select a default answer option to which non-responding participants are counted.
- Added slide properties "Percentage denominator" and "Fixed percentage denominator" where the user now can set a fixed denominator value used for calculation of the percentages shown in the results chart.
- The "Chart value format" slide property now allows the user to select the number of decimals of the percentages shown in the results chart.
Bug fixes
- Fixed bug where a single criterion Advanced Comparison slide was colored with the PowerPoint scheme colors even though the user had set the slide property "Apply OMBEA chart template" to "No"
Version 1.4.0.43019
Release Date: 2015-11-16
Bug fixes
- Fixed bug where the slide show advanced from a grouping slide to the next slide when a participant was added to a second group.
- Fixed bug which prevented a Group Results Slide from being inserted when multiple presentations were open.
- Fixed bug where the "Save to File" button in the participant list management dialog did not have any effect in some scenarios.
Version 1.4.0.43018
Release Date: 2015-10-27
New or updated features
- Added slide property "Open Poll" where the user now can select if the polling should be started automatically or manually.
- Removed slide property "Show countdown". A countdown object is now always inserted when a poll time limit is specified.
- Added slide property "Start countdown" where the user now can select if the countdown should be started automatically or manually.
Version 1.4.0.43017
Release Date: 2015-08-20
New or updated features
- Improved report generation performance
- Improved processing of large participant lists
- Improved performance when applying changes made in the Slide Properties dialog.
- When inserting an interactive slide using the "New" button in the "Quick Start" group of the OMBEA Response ribbon tab the chart type is now determined by the "Default Chart Type" property.
Bug fixes
- Fixed bug where attempting to rename a custom column in the session participant list had no effect.
Version 1.4.0.43016
Release Date: 2015-07-17
New or updated features
- The Scoring Report, Participant Report and Response Report now all include the selected answer option text for multiple choice questions.
Version 1.4.0.43015
Release Date: 2015-05-29
New or updated features
- Added a new word cloud slide.
Version 1.4.0.43014
Release Date: 2015-05-06
New or updated features
- The Result Monitor is now showing the results in real-time.
Version 1.4.0.43013
Release Date: 2015-02-26
Bug fixes
- Fixed issue with Excel add-ins causing a conflict with OMBEA Response.
- Fixed bug where the Advanced Comparison slide dialog was not shown when running under Windows 8.
Version 1.4.0.43011
Release Date: 2015-02-04
New or updated features
- Added an Advanced Comparison Tool. The Advanced Comparison Tool allows you to measure or score a list of items
against a scale, and then summarize all the results at the end on a single slide which illustrates how the items compare against each other on your scale.
- Improved support for high DPI.
Version 1.4.0.43009
Release Date: 2014-10-28
New or updated features
- A Connection Status window displaying the current ResponseApp Session ID and/or ResponsePad channel code can now be shown during the slide show by pressing F11.
- Improved web proxy server support. Web proxy settings can now be specified by the user.
Version 1.4.0.43008
Release Date: 2014-08-12
New or updated features
- Preventing non-compatible PowerPoint add-ins to be loaded
Bug fixes
- Fixed bug where the Group Results slide dialog and the Comparison slide dialog were not shown when running under Windows 8.
Version 1.4.0.43007
Release Date: 2014-07-08
New or updated features
- Preventing non-compatible PowerPoint add-ins to be loaded
Version 1.4.0.43006
Release Date: 2014-06-17
New or updated features
- Support for dedicated ResponseApp Device ID
- Added option for ResponseApp participant info prompt
- Added option to require ResponseApp participant login
Version 1.4.0.43005
Release Date: 2014-05-02
New or updated features
- Support for custom ResponseApp Session ID
- Support for merging sessions
- Support for XML export
Version 1.4.0.43004
Release Date: 2014-01-27
Bug fixes
- Fixed bug where an existing participant list could not be added to the Participant List Manager.
- Fixed bug where the default column headers in the Participant List Manager were not localized.
Version 1.4.0.43003
Release Date: 2014-01-20
New or updated features
- Support for showing top 1-9 most common free text responses in a chart.
- Support for voting weight.
- Support for pasting data into the participant list.
- Improved ribbon design.
- Added setting for selecting the OMBEA documents path.
- New report showing all responses per question.
Bug fixes
- Fixed exploded pie chart issue.
Version 1.3.0.43002
Release Date: 2013-09-27
Bug fixes
- Fixed keyboard shortcuts issue for Office 2013
Version 1.3.0.43001
Release Date: 2013-09-01
New or updated features
- Priority ranking questions
- Free text questions (available to ResponseApp users)
Version 1.2.1.43000
Release Date: 2013-06-26
Bug fixes
- Preventing OMBEA Response from blocking the keyboard during chart updates.
- Preventing PowerPoint from automatically disable the OMBEA Response addin.
- OMBEA Response incorrectly detected a crash and showed the message for automatic recovering of result.
Version 1.2.1.42000
Release Date: 2013-03-21
New or updated features
- Now supports Microsoft Office 2013.
- Net Promoter Score is now calculated and presented in the statistics board.
- The Result Monitor now displays each participant's answer and the corresponding response time and score.
Version 1.2.1.37355
Release Date: 2013-02-18
Bug fixes
- Fixed two bugs related to Answer Points controls in the Ribbon. When changing the selected slide (in the slide design view) during the slide show the Answer drop down was previously enabled. When existing the slide show all Answer Points controls were previously enabled (regardless if the selected slide is interactive or not).
Version 1.2.1.41029
Release Date: 2013-01-28
New or updated features
- Added support for OMBEA RemotePad.
Version 1.2.1.25527
Release Date: 2012-10-15
Bug fixes
- Fixed bug which prevented the user from generating a scoring report when the participant list contained an empty row.
- Fixed bug that prevented saving of sessions larger than 800 mb.
Version 1.2.1.10423
Release Date: 2012-08-29
Bug fixes
- Fixed the bug that the count down doesn't stop the poll.
Known Issues
- Not possible to save sessions larger than 800 mb.
Version 1.2.1.5151
Release Date: 2012-08-05
New or updated features
- New report engine with 11 new designed Excel reports.
- Now possible to export PDF reports.
- Improved flow of insertion of group results slides.
- Now possible to show more than 10 participants and groups in the leaderboards.
- Improved Properties dialogue.
- Improved Ribbon design.
- Added shortcut to OMBEA Support Center.
- Added support for uploading results to OMBEA Connect.
- New application icon.
Bug fixes
- Fixed bug which caused Microsoft Equations to not be displayed properly in the reports and properties windows.
Version 1.1.11.1854
Release Date: 2012-06-19
New or updated features
- Now possible to allow participants to submit multiple responses.
Version 1.1.11.1759
Release Date: 2012-05-08
Bug fixes
- Fixed bug which caused the OMBEA Response ribbon tab to be disabled.
Version 1.1.11.1637
Release Date: 2012-03-11
New or updated features
- Added new slide type "Accumulated Results". Insert of an Accumulated Results slide is currently only available via the "OMBEA Response Plugins Add-in".
Version 1.1.11.1592
Release Date: 2012-03-01
New or updated features
- Now possible to set which monitor the poll info window will be displayed on.
- Now possible to set which monitor the presentation windows will be displayed on.
Bug fixes
- Fixed bug that caused the result chart to not be displayed correctly when PowerPoint presenter view was active.
Version 1.1.10
Release Date: 2012-01-19
New or updated features
- Now possible to insert a question on the fly by pressing F9 on the keyboard.
- Now possible to insert a statistics board showing the mean value, median, standard deviation, average response time and standard deviation of the response times.
- Improved installation process.
- Now possible to play a sound file during the polling.
Bug fixes
- Fixed instability bug that caused OMBEA Response to crash when using Microsoft Office 2010 64 bit on Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit.
Version 1.1.9
Release Date: 2011-11-06
New or updated features
- Introducing OMBEA ResponseApp which enables the audience to answer the questions using any web enabled device.
- New keyboard shortcut to easily repoll a question.
Bug fixes
- Fixed bug which caused OMBEA Response to crash if the user rapidly switched focus between the question and answer alternative box.
Version 1.1.8
Release Date: 2011-09-08
New or updated features
- Introducing a comparison slide that shows a comparison between the last two results of a question.
Version 1.1.7
Release Date: 2011-08-15
New or updated features
- Introducing the Result Monitor in where the user can view the result in a separate window without revealing it to the audience.
- Introducing a new property "Show chart" which allows the user to specify whether the chart should be shown directly after the polling is closed or after an additional advancement in the slideshow.
Version 1.1.6
Release Date: 2011-06-13
New or updated features
- Now possible to insert a competition leaderboard for participants.
- Now possible to insert a competition leaderboard for groups.
- Now supports Microsoft Windows 64 bit and Microsoft Office 64 bit
- Now possible to change the appearance of the charts freely.
Bug fixes
- Fixed bug that prevented the user from opening a session containing a line feed character in one of the questions.
- Fixed bug that prevented the user from opening an additional session by double clicking a session icon.
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