!Change Log – Add-in

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Version 11.34.0 (2024-11-11)

  • Bing Webmaster: fixed a problem when editing date ranges; added report dimensions and metrics lists for reference
  • Google Search: MultiQuery options moved to Fields section (no functional change)
  • Repeat Macro: added option ‘Do not clear cell formatting’ when clearing worksheet before run

Version 11.33.0 (2024-11-07)

  • Ribbon status section now displays Open Wizard button to quickly find a wizard that may be behind the Excel window; wizards should always open in front
  • Bing Webmaster: added pivot by date and metric selection for some reports; supports favorite website per account
  • Google Search: correctly handles empty metric columns during pivot operations
  • Fixed a problem where previous selections appear twice in some function wizards
  • ReadWorksheet, RepeatMacro: adjusts workbook folder reference to current folder if it has been moved
  • Now supports license file in located installation folder

Version 11.32.0 (2024-10-28)

  • Bing Webmaster: fixed several reports; added date range capability; added preset date ranges
  • Google Search: removed unsupported connection type from Chrome UX report
  • Arrange function: fixed insert column by name selection

Version 11.31.0 (2024-10-12)

  • Handles large data significantly faster, especially Pivot and writing to Excel
  • Pivot: added option to limit data processed to reduce likelihood of out-of-memory errors
  • Updated algorithms for Combine, Compare, Lookup, Pivot to improve speed and use less memory
  • Improved speed of writing very large blocks of data to Excel with status updates
  • Writing to Google Sheets now properly reports any errors
  • LinkedIn Ads: updated to 202409 API (no functional change)
  • License: activate buttons for license keys now appear as ‘activate’ text to avoid confusion
  • Cancel button moved above status dropdown on ribbon
  • All data processing pushed to background thread to keep product responsive
  • Cleaned up some threading problems to make the product more stable
  • Implemented security updates in underlying technology
  • Ensured that all functions are cancellable
  • Updated code to use optimizations available in .NET 8

Version 11.30.0 (2024-09-15)

  • Combine function: fixed problems with ‘First’ aggregation
  • Google Search: properly indicate account problems in wizards
  • LinkedIn Ads: update to API 202408
  • Bing Ads: updated fields list
  • License wizard: added checks for entered but unactivated license keys; About tab improvements
  • fixed item deletion problems in reorderable lists in several wizards
  • column name match is now case insensitive
  • improvements to connector error reporting
  • improvements to debug and exception logging
  • privacy improvements: exceptions now logged only to local files when in debug mode

Version 11.29.2 (2024-08-26)

  • should stop 0x800AC472 errors when interacting with Excel during a refresh

Version 11.29.0 (2024-08-14)

  • Facebook Insights: removed deprecated metrics
  • fixed changes to lists reverting to previous state
  • added shadow to dropdown lists

Version 11.28.0 (2024-07-31)

  • Google Search: Chrome UX Report fixed cell references for Url/Origin; fixed checkbox for Url selection
  • Google Search: Url Inspection fixed cell references for Url
  • Google Search: PageSpeed Insights fixed cell references for Url

Version 11.27.0 (2024-07-30)

  • Facebook Ads: updated Reports wizard and fixed several bugs with By Action breakdown reports; properly report errors
  • fixed problems when deleting entries in several wizards and connectors
  • improved error handling
  • updated installer to check for latest .Net Desktop Runtime version (8.0.7)

Version 11.26.1 (2024-07-22)

  • debug mode enhancements

Version 11.26.0 (2024-07-20)

  • auto-activates connector trials on first use
  • debug mode (per Options) now dumps full debug info for API calls
  • exception logging (when in debug mode) now keeps timestamped exceptions
  • Microsoft Ads: fixed login problems when using multiple accounts
  • Microsoft Ads: added error in Reports wizard when selected account requires refresh
  • Bing Webmaster: fixed problem when Reports wizard opened without a saved account
  • Facebook Ads: properly reports bad account errors
  • deletes old temp files monthly

Version 11.25.0 (2024-07-15)

  • Google Analytics: added the ability to create your own dynamic calculated metrics that do not affect your account limits
  • Google Analytics: fixed a problem were comparison date ranges are reversed in reports
  • Google Analytics: now properly reports errors when there are account permission problems
  • debug mode now captures a stack trace to a local file
  • Pivot: now properly handles a datetime column with different time components as a key column
  • Google Search: PageSpeed Insights, Chrome UX Report and URL Inspection now accept range names with multiple values for bulk queries

Version 11.24.0 (2024-06-29)

  • Removed Universal Analytics functions from the Google Analytics connector (goodbye UA!)
  • Fixed a problem with GA4 reports involving multiple properties
  • ‘Accounts’ button on ribbon renamed to ‘Options’; added debug mode option
  • Added YouTube Analytics connector (early release, only in debug mode, contact support for access)
  • Fixed a problem with running multiple Analytics Edge queries or macros from VBA
  • Added option for VBA RunMacro commands to run without popup messages
  • Fixed some bugs when working with multiple workbooks
  • Removed old MailChimp connector
  • Added option to turn off usage tracking in License wizard

Version 11.23.0 (2024-06-16)

  • Read Google Sheet: updated wizard layout; bug fixes
  • Write to Google Sheet: updated wizard layout; bug fixes
  • improved validation checks in several wizards

Version 11.22.1 (2024-06-11)

  • Google Ads: fixed a problem with some combinations of fields in the new views in v17 API
  • Google Search: fixed the Search Analytcis wizard to clarify that date comparison cannot be used with multi-query options
  • Write to Text File: fixed a problem when writing an empty table where the add-in did not create any file;  now it creates an empty file

Version 11.22.0 (2024-06-09)

  • Google Ads: updated to v17 API (adds campaign aggregate asset view and channel aggregate asset view)
  • fixed a problem when working with multiple workbooks open
  • fixed note functionality in several wizards (adds comment to macro entry in task pane)

Version 11.21.0 (2024-06-07)

  • Constant Contact: added V3 API support with new functions (Accounts, Account Information, Campaign Reports, Campaigns, Contacts); fixed cell references for dates
  • Fixed some misbehaving cell reference buttons in several connectors (Facebook Insights, Facebook Ads, Google Analytics) and function wizards (Read Google Sheets, Write Google Sheets

Version 11.20.0 (2024-05-31)

  • Constant Contact: implemented workaround to retry intermittent API problems
  • Facebook Insights: updated to API v20; removed permission request causing error during login
  • Facebook Ads: updated to API v20; fixed a problem when deleting accounts; fixed a problem when using ad account id cell references
  • Google Ads: updated to API v16; added autoretry when API return null response;
  • Google Analytics: changed filter indenting to make filter priority more obvious; made filter list boxes bigger in wizards; fixed a problem with duplicate filter expressions
  • LinkedIn Ads: updated to API v202405; added impression device and placement name dimensions, qualified lead metrics
  • Filter, RunMacro, QuickFunctions: changed filter expression indenting to clarify priority
  • Updated ExcelDna to v1.8 (technology enabling Excel add-in)

Version 11.19.0 (2024-05-10)

  • Facebook Ads: fixed Ads Listing when referencing cell for account and ad account
  • Facebook Ads: added ability to query per campaign, or query per ad set, to avoid 500 internal error caused by asking for too much in a single query
  • Google Analytics: now automatically updates to new fields when editing queries (e.g. conversion -> keyEvents)
  • Google Analytics: fixed multi-property queries when referencing a worksheet [range]

Version 11.18.7 (2024-04-29)

  • fixed a problem with scheduled refreshes that may have caused double refreshes or errors

Version 11.18.6 (2024-04-27)

  • fixed start and end date editing problems with several connector wizards
  • Google Business Profile: fixed Last 6 Months selection; fixed search terms editing problems

Version 11.18.5 (2024-04-22)

  • Facebook Ads: fixed filtering on campaign/ad set/ad names
  • Google Ads: filtering on text filed now auto-wraps expression in single quotes as required
  • Google Ads: fixed some error handling problems
  • LinkedIn Ads: updated to latest API

Version 11.18.4 (2024-04-08)

  • fixed scheduled refresh functionality

Version 11.18.3 (2024-04-04)

  • improved startup stability
  • improved Facebook login stability; enabled retry of Code login

Version 11.18.2 (2024-04-02)

  • added SMTP back into Save to Workbook/PDF functions
  • Accounts (Add-in): fixed SMTP settings not being saved

Version 11.18.1 (2024-03-31)

  • Convert: fixed date->text with ISO Year and ISO Week conversions
  • Filter/Run…If…: fixed And/Or missing on second filter added

Version 11.18.0 (2024-03-27)

  • cleaned up help references
  • Bing Webmaster: reports wizard updated for consistency with other connectors
  • Google Search: fixed date comparison options for difference and % changed

Version 11.17.0 (2024-03-24)

  • Google Search: fixed country filtering
  • Fixed a variety of user interface quirks in selected fields, filter rules and sort rules list boxes
  • Fixed several account wizards not properly closing

Version 11.16.1 (2024-03-20)

  • License wizard: fixed licensing problems with Microsoft Ads connector

Version 11.16.0 (2024-03-14)

  • Google Analytics – GA4 Report: added Minimize Sampling option
  • Google Analytics – Realtime Report: fixed filter and sort options, field names
  • fixed a problem where caching prevented downloading of the latest release
  • Replace function: fixed a problem for [range name] usage in find or replace text field
  • fixed a problem where some text in wizards was obfuscated (made meaningless)

Version 11.15.1/11.15.2/11.15.3 (2024-03-11)

  • fixed Google Analytics UA Report filters

Version 11.15.0 (2024-03-07)

  • Microsoft Ads: fixed problem refreshing security tokens
  • fixed a problem where wizard Cancel buttons don’t work
  • added ability to type-to-filter in many dropdown controls
  • fixed a problem where dropdowns may not close when selection clicked
  • Google Ads: fixed a problem where opening the wizard crashed
  • faster wizard opening
  • Google Business Profile: consolidated single/multiple metric functions into single Performance Report function

Version 11.14.0 (2024-03-05)

  • Added Google Business Profile connector (early release – contact support for access)
  • cleaned up login functionality in many connector wizards
  • cleaned up multithreading problems in several wizard Fields panels
  • Google Ads: fixed a pagination problem; fixed sort panel problems
  • Google Analytics: now reports sampling metrics in Status log after each query
  • SaveToPdf/Workbook: proeprly offer Microsoft Email and Gmail account options
  • Read/Write To Google Sheets: properly offer Google account options
  • License: fixed browse button for user configuration folder

Version 11.13.0 (2024-02-29)

  • Ribbon now shows version of update available
  • License: added Update section to simplify updates
  • Fixed stability problem affecting several wizard and connectors
  • Add-in should properly resume from Sleep mode
  • Microsoft Ads: improved login experience for multi-account users
  • Fixed problems with several connectors when modifying selected fields

Version 11.12.1 (2024-02-22)

  • updated Microsoft Ads and Microsoft Email logins to permit specifying an alternative email address to log into (other that the default that the browser remembers)
  • updated Add-in Accounts login wizard to properly report status in the wizard title
  • Add-in should properly resume after computer resuming from sleep/suspend
  • improved error handling in Read/Write Google Sheets wizard

Previously in version 11.12.0 and earlier

  • added Date Comparison capability to the GA4 Reports query
  • fixed problems with Read/Write Google Sheets wizards
  • fixed a problem where wizards sometimes open empty
  • fixed problems licensing and logging in with the Microsoft Ads connector
  • Fixed a problem with scheduling a workbook refresh
  • Fixed a problem with updates not picking up new metadata files
  • Microsoft Ads: fixed Budget report
  • Facebook Ads: updated wizard UI; breaking changes: metrics always follow dimensions, dropped filter by Placement
  • Google Ads: fixed cache file location
  • LInkedIn Ads: updated to 202402 API; limited to 1000 rows due to bug in API
  • reintroduce Task PAne button on ribbon
  • fix Facebook Ads 250 row limit; update Ads Listing wizard
  • fixed loss of Microsoft Ads connector from License wizard; removed Google BigQuery connector early access warnings
  • Google Ads connector now automatically handles multiple assets in reports (as multiple rows)
  • fixed Facebook login in Facebook Insights and Facebook Ads connectors
  • Facebook Ads connector now displays campaigns properly
  • added new Google Big Query connector (early release)
  • added filter expression copy button to GA4 Report wizard
  • fixed a problem for grandfathered Basic add-in licenses
  • fixed the expiry date display for the Add-in in the Licnese wizard
  • fixed a problem with the Step Results sheet not properly displaying during Quick Query
  • properly handle large Google Analytics account listings
  • new function Google Analytics > GA4 Realtime query
  • fixed the refresh selected queries dialog
  • fixed Google Search > Search Analytics query with cell reference for date end
  • fixed problems with multiple connectors when adding new accounts
  • fixed Facebook Ads connector changing previous selections when editing query
  • fixed multiple connectors not handling cell reference values properly when editing query
  • Google Ads connector now rebuilds account in-memory cache if Excel is restarted
  • updated Facebook Insights connector to latest API release
  • updated Facebook Ads connector to latest API release
  • 1.7.1 – fixed Facebook account problems with Facebook Insights and Facebook Ads connectors; may require account refresh
  • fixed problem editing Google Ads queries
  • updated Google Ads to v15 API with latest fields; may affect how assets are reported
  • added to Quick Filter > Arrange function the ability to convert MultiColumn (-1,-2) to MultiRow similar to full Arrange  function in macros
  • cleaned up Google Sheets folder navigation in Read Google Sheets and Write Google Sheets functions
  • fixed configuration folder handling for non-typical installations
  • added split by semicolon option to Web Request function
  • skipped version numbers to synchronize with the Desktop App (Addin v11.5.0 shares code with Desktop App v1.5.0)
  • production release of the Add-in, stability and bug fixes to the Desktop App
  • dropped SMTP email, added Microsoft email to the Save to PDF/Save to Workbook wizards