# What's New in ReportingCloud in 2016 > ReportingCloud in 2016: the release in July, templates/info, document/findandreplace, CORS, the test parameter, the API sandbox and the X14 template editor. - **Product:** ReportingCloud - **Section:** Documentation - **Kind:** Topic - **Path:** ReportingCloud > What's New > Older Versions > What's New in ReportingCloud in 2016 - **1045 words** - **Web URL:** https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/whats-new/older-versions/2016/ - **LLMs URL:** https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/whats-new/older-versions/2016/llms.txt - **LLMs-Full URL:** https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/whats-new/older-versions/2016/llms-full.txt --- Text Control released ReportingCloud in July 2016. In the months that followed, the Web API gained template information, find and replace, CORS and a test mode that doesn't count against the document quota, and the portal gained template management, a test sandbox and the template editor of TX Text Control X14. ### Changes at a Glance | Date | Change | |---|---| | December 9 | TX Text Control X14 template editor | | October 7 | Web API Test Sandbox | | October 6 | Test mode | | September 26 | CORS | | September 7 | Find and replace | | September 5 | Template management in the portal | | August 30 | Template information | | July 13 | The release | ### Release - **Release (July 13).** Text Control released ReportingCloud, announced on May 25, 2016: a Web API that merges MS Word compatible templates with JSON data, converts documents, manages the template storage and renders template pages as images, and a portal with an HTML5 template editor and datasource excerpts. The SDKs for .NET, PHP, Ruby and Java were published as open source on GitHub; the first .NET, PHP and Ruby packages appeared in June 2016. See [Introduction](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/overview/introduction/llms-full.txt) and [Text Control ReportingCloud Released: Web API Powered Reporting Platform](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2016/07/13/text-control-reportingcloud-released-web-api-powered-reporting-platform/). ### Web API - **Test mode (October 6).** The parameter `test` of `POST /v1/document/merge`, `POST /v1/document/convert` and `POST /v1/document/findandreplace` creates documents with a watermark that don't count against the document quota. See [Plans and Licensing](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/overview/licensing/#test-mode) and [ReportingCloud: New Test Parameter for Document Quota Related Endpoints](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2016/10/06/reportingcloud-new-test-parameter-for-document-quota-related-endpoints/). - **CORS (September 26).** The Web API answers requests from any origin, so JavaScript in a browser can call it directly. See [Architecture](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/overview/architecture/llms-full.txt) and [ReportingCloud Web API Supports Now Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2016/09/26/reportingcloud-web-api-supports-now-cross-origin-resource-sharing-cors/). - **Find and replace (September 7).** [POST /v1/document/findandreplace](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/reference/web-api/document/findandreplace/post/llms-full.txt) replaces pairs of strings in a document, including its headers, footers and text frames. The .NET SDK added it the same day. See [Find and Replace](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/document-processing/find-replace/llms-full.txt) and [ReportingCloud: New Endpoint to Find and Replace Text](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2016/09/07/reportingcloud-new-endpoint-to-find-and-replace-text/). - **Template information (August 30).** [GET /v1/templates/info](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/reference/web-api/templates/info/get/llms-full.txt) returns the merge fields of a template and its structure of nested merge blocks. See [Managing Templates](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/document-processing/templates/llms-full.txt) and [New ReportingCloud Endpoint: Retrieving Template Information Including Contained MergeFields and the MergeBlock Structure](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2016/08/30/new-reportingcloud-endpoint-retrieving-template-information-including-contained-mergefields-and-the-mergeblock-structure/). ### Portal - **TX Text Control X14 template editor (December 9).** The template editor of the portal moved to the MVC editor of TX Text Control X14, [version 24.0](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/whats-new/older-versions/2400/llms-full.txt). The new editor enabled its save button only when the template had changed. See [Template Editor](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/portal/template-editor/llms-full.txt) and [ReportingCloud: Reference Implementation of TX Text Control X14 (24.0)](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2016/12/09/reportingcloud-reference-implementation-of-tx-text-control-x14-240/). - **Web API Test Sandbox (October 7).** A sandbox in the portal sent Web API calls with your account and template storage without counting them against the document quota. See [Portal](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/portal/llms-full.txt) and [Web API Test Sandbox Released on ReportingCloud Portal](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2016/10/07/web-api-test-sandbox-released-on-reportingcloud-portal/). - **Template management in the portal (September 5).** The template list gained actions to rename, copy, download and delete a template, and datasource excerpts got the Ace code editor. See [Template Storage](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/portal/templates/llms-full.txt), [Datasource Excerpts](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/portal/datasource-excerpts/llms-full.txt) and [New Features in ReportingCloud Portal](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2016/09/05/new-features-in-reportingcloud-portal/). ### Related Pages - [Introduction](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/overview/introduction/llms-full.txt): what ReportingCloud is and what you build with it. - [Web API](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/reference/web-api/llms-full.txt): every endpoint as it works today. - [2017](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/whats-new/older-versions/2017/llms-full.txt): the next year, with API keys, spell checking and the template gallery. --- ## Nearby - **Previous:** [What's New in ReportingCloud in 2017](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/whats-new/older-versions/2017/llms-full.txt) - **Next:** [API Reference](https://docs.textcontrol.com/reporting-cloud/reference/llms-full.txt)