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Changelog

A summary of the main releases of the ChartPad Calendar, with new features and bug fixes for each version. The most recent release is listed first.

Rollout timing

After a version is released, it takes roughly 2 weeks to roll out across the Power BI online service and the Desktop applications. If you don't see the latest changes yet, allow some time for the update to reach your environment.

v1.1.0.1​

Released 2026-08-24

New features​

  • Direct license keys — a License card at the top of the Format pane accepts a signed key, licensing the visual in environments AppSource licensing doesn't cover (Report Server, Embedded, Publish to web, sovereign clouds). Keys are verified offline, with no external calls, and report a clear status line — including a distinct "requires HTTPS" message on a plain-HTTP Report Server instead of a misleading "invalid key". See Direct license keys.
  • Header controls moved to the left — the view selector and period title now sit together on the reading edge, so Power BI's own pin, filter and focus-mode icons can no longer cover the view selector.
  • Default legend position is now Bottom (it was Bottom Center in the previous release).

Bug fixes​

  • Top and bottom legends are correctly aligned to the reading edge in right-to-left languages.
  • The license notification is never shown over the landing page, and never burned into PDF or PowerPoint exports.

v1.1.0.0​

Released 2026-08-02

The largest release so far: multi-day events, holidays, tooltips and legend filtering.

New features​

  • Multi-day events render as spanning bars in Month, Quarter and the Week all-day row — one continuous bar across the days an event covers, packed into lanes the way Outlook and Google Calendar do, with squared-off edges where an event continues into the next week. List view labels each covered day "Day 2 of 6" and shows the event's true overall range. See Month view.
  • End Date Interpretation — a new setting declaring whether a date-only end date is Exclusive (iCal) or Inclusive. See End Date Interpretation.
  • End Date is now optional — single-date events such as deadlines, invoices and renewals render from a start column alone.
  • Public holidays — built-in national holiday calendars for ten countries (US, UK, France, Germany, Canada, Australia, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium), off by default, in a colour you choose. Computed inside the visual, with no external service. See Public holidays.
  • Hover tooltips, including report-page tooltips — a new Tooltips card with title, category, start/end and your Tooltip Fields. Off by default. See Tooltips.
  • Legend cross-filtering — clicking a legend category filters the whole report by every row in it, with ctrl+click to accumulate, and selections that survive bookmarks and data refreshes. See Filtering from the legend.
  • Chronological event ordering — events within a day are sorted by start time, longest first, so a multi-day event stays at the top of every day it crosses.
  • Numeric date columns — 8-digit YYYYMMDD date keys and epoch milliseconds are now read correctly, and rows whose dates can't be read are counted and reported through Power BI's warning icon instead of quietly going missing. See How dates are read.
  • Tooltip values follow their format string — currency, percentages, decimals and date formats set on the column or measure, including dynamic (DAX) format strings.
  • Full high-contrast support — extended from parts of the visual to every element.
  • Landing page refresh — a Documentation link (localized in all 42 languages), an information icon, reading-edge alignment, and a more responsive layout on small visuals.
  • Legend divider line under bottom-placed legends, and the Show Legend and Show tooltips toggles moved to their card headers.
  • Default legend position changed from Top to Bottom Center.

Bug fixes​

  • The "+N more" panel is no longer clipped by the day cell. It closes with Esc, returns focus to the button that opened it, and can no longer be left open when the view changes.
  • Background clicks on controls no longer clear the selection, and dismissal is now two-step — the first click closes an open popover or panel, the second clears the selection. Esc behaves the same way.
  • Changing Default View in the Format pane updates the visual immediately, instead of waiting for the next resize or data refresh.
  • The "now" line in Day view is drawn only on the current day, not on every day.
  • The event details popover is dismissed when navigating, switching view, or drilling into a day.
Upgrading from 1.0.x

End Date Interpretation defaults to Exclusive (iCal). If your end dates are inclusive — leave "through the 14th", a booking's last night, a campaign's final day — multi-day events will lose their final day after upgrading. Set Format → Calendar → End Date Interpretation to Inclusive to restore the previous rendering exactly.

v1.0.1.0​

Released 2026-06-24

A localization release.

New features​

  • 42 interface languages, up from English only — every string in the visual, the Format pane and the landing page. See Supported languages.
  • Right-to-left support — the grid, header, event chips and legend all mirror for Arabic and Hebrew.
  • Locale-aware times — the 12- or 24-hour clock follows the viewer's language, in event chips, hour labels and tooltips.
  • Script-aware language matching — Serbian (Latin) and Serbian (Cyrillic), and Chinese (Simplified) and (Traditional), each get their own translation instead of falling back to a single one.
  • Time ranges on event chips — timed events in Day and Week view show start – end beneath the title, hidden automatically when the chip is too short to fit it.
  • Full month names in the Week view header.
  • Localized Format pane dropdown options and a localized Untitled label for events with no title.
  • The Today button sizes itself to its translated label.

v1.0.0​

Initial release: 2026-03-17, with maintenance updates through 2026-04-12

The first public version of the Calendar.

Included at launch​

  • Six views — Month, Week, Day, List, Quarter and Year, with a view selector, previous/next navigation and a Today button, plus per-view toggles so editors can hide the ones they don't need.
  • Events from a start and end date, with all-day and timed events, category colours and a legend.
  • Density handling — a configurable cap on events per day cell with a "+N more" panel.
  • Working hours — working days and business hours, shaded on the Week and Day timelines, which open centred on the working day.
  • Current-time line in Week view.
  • Event details popover with an Open Link button driven by the Detail URL field.
  • Right-click context menu, and complete rendering in PDF/PowerPoint exports and email subscriptions.
  • Custom legend colours and report-theme palette defaults.
  • Landing page listing the fields to bind.
  • Settings validation — an out-of-range value in a saved report or a theme file can't break the visual.

Added in the 1.0.0.x updates​

  • Cross-filtering the report by clicking events (2026-03-19).
  • License enforcement through AppSource (2026-04-09).
  • Up to three Tooltip Fields instead of one (2026-04-09).

Bug fixes​

  • Fixed the details popover appearing in the wrong position.
  • Fixed the Today button in List view, column alignment in Week view, a gap in List view, the Open Link button, and Quarter view rendering.
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