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Feb 2026 ( 21 items) – 69 Total 1.0.5
The February release introduces powerful new workflow capabilities, expanded API functionality, enhanced form design options, and important performance improvements — including a new US service endpoint. This update continues to strengthen automation, user experience, and developer flexibility across the platform.
Task Approval Step – Identity Verification:
A new Task Approval Step with Identity Verification has been added to workflows. e.g. This ensures that approvals are validated against the correct user identity.
Workflow and Action Enhancements:
This release delivers significant improvements to workflow functionality:
- Action Button Behaviour – New configurable behaviour options for action buttons allow more flexible execution control within forms and workflows.
- Workflow Approval Signature – Approval steps now support capturing signatures directly within the workflow process.
- Confirmation Screens – Designers can now configure confirmation screens to provide clear feedback to users after submissions or actions.
- Hide Workflow History in Anonymous Mode – The workflow history icon can now be hidden in anonymous forms for cleaner public-facing experiences.
- Latest Comment Token – A new token allows easy referencing of the most recent workflow comment in notifications and templates.
- API Integration at Workflow Action Level – Workflows can now directly integrate with external APIs at the action level, enabling advanced automation scenarios.
- Embedded forms: – Forms can now be embedded externally, enabling seamless integration into Sintel BI.
Expanded API Capabilities
This release significantly expands available APIs for developers:
- getCurrentUserGroups (JS API) – Retrieve current user group memberships directly within logic scripts.
- getCurrentUser (API) – New API method for retrieving information about the current user.
- User Properties API – Extended user property access, with the frontend email property renamed to emailAddress for improved consistency.
- queryParam (API) – New API function to retrieve URL query parameters.
Enhanced Form Design and Layout Options:
- Signature Field – A new signature field type enables capturing handwritten approvals directly within forms.
- Multi-parent Cascading Dropdowns – Dropdowns now support multiple parent relationships for more complex dependency scenarios.
- HTML Support in Field Labels – Field labels now support HTML formatting, offering greater design flexibility.
- Support for Field Tokens in HTML Widget – Form field tokens can now be used inside the HTML widget for dynamic content rendering.
- Contextual Tokens (with and without brackets) – Improved token handling within templates and email notifications.
- Improved Email Editor Styling – Additional styling improvements enhance usability and formatting options.
- Elevated Border Setting for Sections Layout – New layout setting allows visual elevation of form sections for clearer UI structure.
- Support for notEditable and notDeletable Markers in Related Lists – Related list items can now be programmatically marked as non-editable or non-deletable.
Performance and Infrastructure Improvements:
US Sintel Apps Service Endpoint – A dedicated US service endpoint has been introduced to improve performance and response times for customers located in the United States.
Fixes
This release includes numerous stability and usability improvements:
- Fixed HTML widget designer issue
- Fixed related list item deletion issue
- Modified lookup field validation in Designer
- Fixed logic section visibility run-once issue
- Resolved PnP initialization issues in certain scenarios
- Fixed run-once rules and reworked form loaded state calculation
- Fixed percentage field (1%–100%) issue
- Fixed editor token issue in email notifications
- Fixed empty tags issue in rich text editor
- Logic condition – field value check fixes
- Fixed OR operator logic issue
- Fixed public API button issue
- Fixed missing QR code modal in external submission flow
- Fixed license limit issue
- Fixed single lookup field value check
- Fixed redirect issue on new item
- Fixed hidden required field issue in new forms
- Fixed missing default value field tag
- Fixed null value issue in field value check condition
- Additional minor fixes and improvements
Jan 2026 (15 items) – 1.0.4
The January 2026 update continues to introduce features.
Features
- Tabbed sections with JS API
- Related document libraries
- Workflow action confirmation screen with comment
- Logic: external user condition
- Logic: attachments count condition
- Logic: tab visibility step
- Support for related picture library
- Viewing legacy workflow history data
- Redirect after save/close/action
- People picker behavior settings for external forms
- Logic: field value condition
- Viewing legacy conversations
- Migration from legacy configurations
- Yes/no field appearance improvements
- JS API: setCurrentUser function
Minor bug fixes
Radio button choice fields in related lists
Dec 2026 (14 items) – 1.0.3
Features
- Tabbed sections with JS API
- Workflow action assignees from user field
- Calculated fields incl. aggregations
- Anonymous submission
- Logic: Button – change visibility step
- Added page background theming
- Added SharePoint JSOM, PnP and axios as well as support for querying user profiles in JS API
- Cascading lookup dropdowns
- URL field
- Configuration import/export
- Added customizable placeholders to form fields
- External script locations will be listed on app update and added to tenant whitelist
- Custom top bar buttons JS APIAdded support for the conversations feature within forms, which enables richer communication around form submissions and workflows. This feature supports contextual discussions tied directly to items, enhancing collaboration across teams and departments.
App permissions model changes
Our app now only requires delegated permissions
Minor bug fixes
UI improvements and resolutoin of layout issues
Nov 2025 (9 items) – 1.0.2
The November 2025 update introduces several important features, enhancements to the JavaScript API, improvements to form logic, and multiple quality-of-life updates throughout the application. This release focuses strongly on extensibility, customisation and improving the developer and form-builder experience.
Conversations
Added support for the conversations feature within forms, which enables richer communication around form submissions and workflows. This feature supports contextual discussions tied directly to items, enhancing collaboration across teams and departments.
JS API updates
The JavaScript API has been significantly expanded, providing developers with more power and flexibility when building dynamic forms and custom interactions.
New JS API methods include:
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saveForm – Allows developers to trigger form saving, enabling advanced automation scenarios.
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executeAction – Provides the ability to run configured actions directly through JavaScript, supporting more interactive user experiences.
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getListItems – Offers dynamic retrieval of SharePoint list items, allowing for real-time queries and responsive UI components.
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setErrorMessage – Allows setting detailed custom error messages during form validation.
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showErrorMessage – Displays message prompts directly to users, improving error visibility and user guidance.
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updateLookupOptions – Enables dynamic modification of lookup field options, allowing lookups to be filtered or updated based on user input or logic.
These additions make the platform far more scriptable and customisable.
After save JS script
A new After Save JavaScript execution point has been introduced. This allows running custom scripts immediately after a form is submitted.
Append-only multiline text field
Users can now access a dedicated panel to review the history of a form, facilitating tracking and auditing of form activities.
Custom HTML Widget
A new widget has been introduced that allows embedding custom HTML directly inside forms.
Ideal for:
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Custom layouts
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Special instructions
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Embedded visuals or external content
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Branding or styled elements
Button Widget
A configurable Button widget has been added to forms, enabling custom actions such as:
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Triggering JavaScript
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Navigating to pages
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Opening dialogs
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Executing logic steps
This creates more interactive and guided user experiences.
Granular app permissions option
We added support to reduce the permissions required to use Sintel Apps, read more here: Sintel Apps Required Permissions
Updated Terms of Use Link
The Terms of Use link in the app manifest has been updated to reflect the latest policy documentation.
Minor bug fixes
Resolving Display Issues with Longer Group/Person Names in Configuration Fields
Oct 2025 (9 items) 1.0.1
The October release delivered a wide range of improvements, particularly focused on logic enhancements, user experience improvements, and extended support for SharePoint integration.
Application consent flow updates
The application consent process has been completely redesigned with a new consent confirmation page, providing clearer guidance on required permissions and improving the onboarding experience.
Logic updates
This release significantly strengthened the platform’s logic engine:
- Set Workflow Action State Step
Allows workflow creators to change the state of workflow actions. - Added Moment and Luxon Libraries
Developers now have access to moment.js and luxon, enabling advanced date and time calculations directly in logic scripts. - Related List Support for getValue/setValue
Logic steps can now programmatically read or update related list fields.
Extended choice field options
Choice fields now support more advanced configuration options, providing greater flexibility in designing intuitive user inputs.
Improved email editor layout
The email editor has been improved with a more modern layout and better formatting controls, making communication templates easier to create and manage.
Improved PDF handling of attachments and workflow history
Enhancements have been made to PDF handling, including better representation of both attachments and workflow history.
Link to SharePoint field in field properties in Designer
A new option allows designers to quickly navigate to the underlying SharePoint field directly from field properties, streamlining configuration and troubleshooting.
Extended License Information
When form usage exceeds the licensed limit, the system now provides more detailed information—helping customers understand usage patterns and potential upgrade options.
Configuration Schema Validation
The Designer now validates configuration schemas directly against SharePoint, ensuring that forms and workflows are aligned with underlying list structures.
Bug fixes
- User permissions query in designer failing
- Issue with possibility to save form without validation
- Fixed related list headers text wrapping
- Default field values issues
- Fixed failing reading nullable SharePoint field value
- Workflow diagram behaviour and layout issues
- Issues with numeric field
- Number field formatting in lookup fields
- Input performance issues
- Actions cannot be performed without Edit list item permission
- more minor fixes
Sep 2025 (Initial release) 1.0.0
New Sintel Apps product to replace Sintel Forms
We’re excited to launch our new SPFx based product named Sintel Apps, which will replace our current product Sintel Forms. The new product will contain the same feature set as the current product but will provide some significant improvements in layout, logic and workflow, along with better integration with Sintel BI. Some of the Key highlights include:
- Enhanced Layout options
- Extended Logic options with more control of conditions including grouping
- New Visual workflow designer which makes configuring workflows a breeze
- New Dialog and Panel open options from Sintel BI-You can now open forms directly on top of a dashboard without losing any filters or sorting that you had applied.
We invite you to add the app from App Source and try it out for yourself. Get Sintel Apps from AppSource