Production Environment
New
- App Platform:
- Super Admins will now be able to enable the Admin Proxy feature from the Admin module
- Calibration:
- Calibration ratings and talent record fields will now lock when a cycle is reprocessed to prevent data from being overwritten
- Conversations:
- Skip level managers will now be able to view conversation notes (provided that the associated conversation template has been configured so that skip level managers can access the conversations)
- Feedback:
- Feedback providers will now be able to edit responses (if approved by an administrator)
Updates
- Conversation:
- The cycle start notification will no longer be sent to administrators (in place of the confidential questions notification) after a scheduled conversation cycle has ended
- Feedback:
- For organizations currently using the feature, the Feedback Summary will now display "No feedback received" or "Summary not available for this question" for optional questions that have not been answered
- Administrators will now have the option to disable notifications related to feedback edit requests
Bug Fixes
- Analytics
- HR Insights will display all conversation templates (including those that are associated with large data sets) in the filter drop-down menu
- Conversations:
- "Next Step" text will once display on the conversation detail page if the conversation cycle has ended and the participant/s has/have confidential questions to answer
- Conversation participants will no longer be able to click the "Share" button on confidential responses after the deadline for confidential responses has passed
- Conversation participants will no longer be able to answer conversation questions after the cycle has ended and the confidential question period has begun
- The grace period box will once again display in the scheduled conversation template before and after the cycle ends
- Super Admin will no longer see a console error when they attempt to edit a conversation template
- New managers who have already taken ownership of a direct report's conversation will no longer receive a notification informing them to do so
- Conversations that have been shared by a direct report's previous manager will no longer be included in the notification that is sent to new managers (if there are multiple active conversations)
- Skip level managers will no longer see a console error when viewing their skip level conversations list (Conversations → Skip Level)
- Feedback:
- Feedback providers will no longer see an error message when clicking the "Send" button on their feedback form
- For administrators attempting to allow/deny a feedback edit request, the selection made for one feedback provider will not impact the selection(s) made for others
- The notes and questions fields of the give feedback templates will be moved so that they align with each other
- Feedback providers will no longer be able to change their responses to scale-type questions after feedback has been sent
- When selecting a user from the drop-down menu (Feedback → Give), feedback providers will be able to re-select a feedback template even if they've already drafted a response using that template for the same user
- For organizations currently using the feature, placeholder text will once again display in the Feedback Summary if a feedback provider has not yet sent their response
- The Feedback Answers Report will once again be generated when requested by an Administrator (Admin → Program Management → Reporting → Reports → Feedback)
- Integrations:
- An issue that caused the Outlook plugin to crash has been corrected
Preview Environment: Coming In 2 Weeks
New
- App Platform:
- The Admin Proxy feature will now be enabled for organizations by default
- Conversations:
- If a conversation participant submits a request to edit their responses and the request is approved, the conversation will only reopen for the participant who made the request (as opposed to reopening for both participants)
- Feedback:
- When a feedback provider views their open feedback requests (Feedback → Give → To-do), manager-requested feedback will now have a blue badge to distinguish it from feedback that was requested by the direct report
- Goals:
- User email addresses will now display when searching for goal owners (Goals → Filter Menu → Owner)
Updates
- Analytics:
- The HR Insights dashboard will now include the applicable date range for "Usage in past # days" (tabular view)
- Goals:
- Text in goal weights settings (Admin → Program Management → Goals → Settings) will be realigned
Bug Fixes
- Analytics:
- A data mismatch in the HR Insights dashboard for "Completion rate, ranked by manager shared" will be corrected
- Filter names in the HR Insights dashboard will now respect custom naming (as set in Admin → Platform Configuration → Organization branding → Naming)
- An overlay issue in the HR Insights dashboard (where the overlay won't close if a user clicks the back arrow on their internet browser) will be corrected
- App Platform:
- An issue where some users were receiving an error message when trying to submit recognition in the Recognition module ("There was a problem saving your recognition") will be corrected
- An issue where some users were unable to view recognition in the Recognition module will be corrected
- An issue where some users (whose organization had the SSO integration enabled) were unable to log in will be corrected
- Conversations:
- A performance issue in the Conversations API functionality will be corrected
- If the Feedback module is disabled, the Feedback widget will no longer display in the right-side panel of individual conversations
- An issue that led to a scheduled conversation cycle being automatically deleted will be corrected
- Conversation participants will now be able to click the "Confirm meeting" button after sharing responses even if the scheduled conversation template is configured so that the questions lock when responses are shared
- The distorted "Take ownership" button in a conversation email notification sent to managers will be corrected
- Incorrect tooltip text next to "Additional lock options" (scheduled conversation templates) will be corrected
- Incorrect tooltip text next to "Some questions lock on an earlier date" (scheduled conversation templates) will be corrected
- An overlap display issue in the edit history of an individual conversation will be corrected
- Data Platform:
- Conversation reports will now reflect ownership changes (i.e. when a new manager takes ownership of an existing conversation)
- Feedback:
- If multiple feedback providers submit an edit request, all of their names will display in the request list (Admin → Program Management → Feedback Settings → Request to edit) as opposed to one feedback provider's name displaying multiple times
- Skip level managers will no longer see a console error when viewing their skip level conversations list (Feedback → View → Skip Level)
- An issue where the feedback responses are not displaying in the Feedback Summary (specifically, responses to scale questions where the feedback provider chose the first option), will be corrected
- An issue where "1" is being displayed in the Feedback Summary when providers don't answer scale questions, will be corrected
- An issue where the "Submit" button in the edit request list (Admin → Program Management → Feedback Settings → Request to edit) remains active after an administrator has already submitted their selection, will be corrected
- An issue where a profile photo displays in the print preview of the Feedback Summary for a user who doesn't have a profile photo will be corrected
- An issue where the trash icon remains visible next to the selected option in a scale question will be corrected
- An issue where a scheduled feedback template is configured so that feedback is shared after the cycle ends (and the configuration isn't reflected in the Feedback Summary), will be corrected
- An issue where a scheduled feedback template is configured so that feedback is shared after the cycle ends, the print icon will no longer be visible in the Feedback Summary
- Goals:
- If goal assessments have been disabled, the assessment filter and values will no longer be visible in the chart view (Goals module)
* All release updates are subject to change. Any mobile and integration updates are also subject to approval by the Apple App Store, Google Play Store, and/or the application that Betterworks is integrating with.