To Display Command Badges for New and Updated Commands and Property Panel Feature Options

New and Updated badges show which commands were new or updated for a given release. Learn how to use them.

What's New: 2019.1, 2021, 2021.1

When the Ribbon option is selected, new and updated commands display a badge. The badges make it easy for you to identify and explore new or updated commands. You control the badge display and the release or update that displays the badge.

The list displays three previous release versions beyond the current release, e.g. if the current release is 2021 the list also includes 2020-2018. Dot releases, or updates, are listed only for the current release. This keeps the list limited. Non-current releases include the dot release information.

How can you use this feature? Imagine you were using an earlier version, for example 2019, and are moving to 2021. You would like to know what has been added and updated since 2019. You select 2019 and all new and updated commands after 2019, release and updates, display a badge.

To Show Highlight Badges on New or Updated Commands and Property Panels

1. On the Get Started tab > New Features panel click Highlight New . The list of Releases and Updates displays. Off is the default setting.
2. Select a release or update. Badges display on the Ribbon commands that were updated or new after the selected release or update. For example, in the following image commands that were new or updated after 2018.3 will have badges on them.

   

To Hide Badges

To hide the badges, uncheck either Property Panel or Ribbon. At any time you can turn them back on and refresh your memory about the new or updated commands.

The Auto-Hide option turns off the badge display after first use of the command or option. This makes it possible to work through the new or updated commands and know which ones you have not used or explored. Turn off Auto-Hide to keep the badges visible.

Property Panel Badges

Badges on property panels indicate new feature options and feature options that are not readily visible, such as those on the Advanced Settings menu. You can change the badges display by selecting or deselecting the box in the Highlight New dropdown menu.

Corresponding Help Page Change

For commands displaying a New or Updated badge, when you use F1 to get to a Help page, at the top of the page you will see links to the What's New topic that explains the change to the feature or command. The links show the release in which a related change took affect.