Release 12.7 – April 2025

LearningBuilder 12.7 is here! This release contains a number of performance and stability improvements, as well as some new PDF functionality.

Usability Improvements:

• We have been working to unify the system around a single approach: extensible, maintainable, and designer-friendly PDF generation. With that in mind, our new “Generate PDF” Behavior allows us to render a template and store the result as a PDF file in a user’s file library. This means it’s now possible to generate a certificate using the data that currently exists at that point in time and store it for future reference. This sort of point-in-time template rendering “snapshot” is especially helpful to track certificates that display different organization signatures and other details that change over time.
• We’ve also improved Email Template validation to spot cases where a template may be syntactically valid but references an attribute name that may not exist. This can reduce cases where a template successfully compiles but fails to render the correct value at runtime.
• We changed our assignee system to only match emails in the system to a Person type. This ensures that when an Organization exists in LearningBuilder and its Primary Email is the personal email address of its Executive Director, others in the Organization can’t and won’t receive notifications intended for that Individual.
• A little less than a year ago, we introduced Large File Uploads via S3. Since then, we’ve been making them better and better. The work continues! Our Merge Account feature now extends to merging the files in a member’s Large File Library. Especially with larger file sizes, it’s nice not to worry about re-uploading or deleting duplicates.
• In addition, Microsoft Word documents uploaded via Large File Upload can be viewed as a PDF directly in-browser without the need to download and open them in a separate application.

Configuration Improvements:

• Large File Uploads are also now enabled by default for all clients and new implementations moving forward. If Large File Libraries are not configured for direct upload, system administrators will see a call-to-action banner.
• This release adds and links numerous “Insights” views to the configuration UI to help System Administrators understand how a piece of configuration is used or has changed over time.
• We’ve also made System Search, an internal tool for finding configuration elements by a text search, more accurate and comprehensive.

Performance Improvements:

• Meanwhile, we have gone “under the hood” to improve the stability of background queue processing services (like the system that powers our Enhanced Data Import Tool) to make those services more resilient and lessen the chance of a queue processing job getting “stuck” (therefore requiring manual intervention).

Reporting:

• Izenda 7 has been upgraded to version 2024.4.3 and is now available for our self-hosted clients. This upgrade removes a dependency on .NET 6, which Microsoft no longer supports. In the future, this version of Izenda will roll out to Heuristics-hosted clients, as well.

Bug Fixes