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Release: March 15th, 2022

Production Environment

New

  • Conversations:
    • Anytime conversations will now have a configurable due date (as opposed to just the default of 3 days with a 57 day grace period where the conversation will display in "Past")
  • Engage:
    • Administrators can now view category favorability trends in the dashboard
  • Feedback:
    • Feedback cards in View and Give → Completed will now be collapsable
    • The "Decline request" option will now appear at the bottom of the feedback form
    • "Stale" requests (requests that remain unfilled after the cycle has ended) will now be removed automatically 
    • Feedback cards in the Feedback Summary will still be collapsable, but will be easier to read
  • Performance:
    • HR Admins can now only create Calibration sessions for users within their scope 
    • The Calibration histogram will now display the percentage of the total population
    • The text area for Calibration talent keys now expands into a text modal

Updates

  • Analytics:
    • There will now be a limit to the time range available when generating reports in the Usage Dashboard (1 year prior to current date)
    • There will be visual changes to the Usage Dashboard including a category filter for objective reports, an update to the "Overview", "Breakdown" and "Underlying data" tabs, updated buttons and a more clear success banner that references the report queuing process
  • Engage:
    • Linking duplicate surveys will also link the survey questions
    • The audience consistency script has been updated for offboarding surveys so that the additional of new email addresses will not cause the audience page to error out
  • Performance:
    • API calls that previous pulled data from the "Breakdown" and "Underlying Data" tabs in the Usage Dashboard, will now point to the updated "Overview" tab instead
    • API calls for hashtags and teams can now filter on date and time

Bug Fixes

  • Engage:
    • The Betterworks Engage mobile app link has been removed from the Engage login page as the app doesn't allow access to Insights (i.e. dashboard, reporting, etc.)
    • Survey data will once again display when filtering by a dimension containing "-" as a special character
  • Feedback:
    • Feedback will once again be visible to managers (provided that the feedback template was setup so that managers can view feedback for recipient)
    • Feedback will once again be visible to feedback provider under Give → Completed once the feedback has been submitted
  • OKRs:
    • Key results that are connected to any of our integrations (i.e. JIRA, Udemy, etc.) will once again update progress automatically
    • Users will once again be able to update scope (attribute) on an objective or key result via the "Bulk Edit" option.
  • Performance:
    • HR Admins can now delete sessions that they've created

Preview Environment: Coming In 2 Weeks

New

  • Conversations:
    • There will now be a manager-only visibility option for anytime templates
  • Feedback:
    • There will now be more templates for peer-initiated feedback
    • There will now be more templates for manager-requested feedback
    • There will now be an option for users to request feedback during the grace period of a scheduled feedback cycle
  • OKRs:
    • HR Admins will now be able to view/edit private objectives
  • Platform:
    • Administrators will have the ability to assign an HR Admin's scope by user group via the API

Updates

  • Analytics:
    • In the Usage Dashboard, if a Super Admin selects a different conversation template, the page will now automatically refresh to show the applicable data
    • Help text for Summary & Detailed reports will be added
    • Reports will no longer be exportable to a Super Admin's browser, instead Super Admins will receive an email containing a download link to their report; this change is being made to increase speed and reduce overall platform load
    • For reports that contain a large amount of data, the report will be broken into multiple links
  • Conversations:
    • There will now be a max character limit of 75 for scale labels 
  • OKRs:
    • The JIRA integration has been upgraded (Python 3)
  • Performance:
    • New managers will be able to view Calibration labels that are uploaded
    • The 9box export will contain new fields and the existing fields will be rearranged
  • Platform:
    • Profile images hosted on s3 (AWS) will be served with a Betterworks URL so that firewalls don't block them and prevent the images from displaying

Bug Fixes

  • Analytics:
    • The discrepancy between the Execution Insights landing page and the overlay (re: progress updates) will be corrected
  • Conversations:
    • New anytime conversations will no longer auto-populate
  • Feedback:
    • "Shared" status will no longer display in Feedback Summary when user has not provided feedback
    • Formatting and styling issues have been corrected in the Feedback module
    • Users will once again be able to collapse feedback card (in Feedback → View)
    • Star rating responses will no longer display as blank (in Feedback → Give → Completed and Feedback → View)
  • Performance:
    • Calibration labels that are uploaded will once again display under the correct start/end date
    • Calibration cycles will once again be successfully processed

*All release updates are subject to change