Production Environment
New
- Feedback:
- Super Admins will now be able to configure a custom due date for Anytime feedback (specific to give and manager-requested templates)
- Users and/or their managers will now see a "Please add providers" prompt during scheduled feedback cycles
- Integrations:
- Outlook plugin v2 (comment on OKRs and give/receive feedback directly from Outlook)
- Platform:
- Error notifications for the HRIS integration will now contain a downloadable file and direct recipients to an article that explains common errors in detail
- Custom module naming will now extend to organizations that have their default language set to "English - UK"
- The API integration will now have an endpoint that shows recently active users (the default is 1 hour, but can it be increased to 24 hours)
Updates
- Analytics:
- In the Usage Dashboard, the "Export to CSV" button will be replaced with a "Generate Report" button that triggers an email notification containing a download link
- The functionality of the "Breakdown" and "Underlying Data" tabs in the Usage Dashboard will now allow for more granular filtering and exports
- The "Underlying Data" tab in the Usage Dashboard will now include pagination to limit the need for continuous scrolling
- Engage:
- When updating user information via CSV upload or SFTP, users without employee IDs will now be identified by their email address
- Settings related to the Voice module will now display under User Management → Roles (only for legacy customers who have the Voice module)
- Help text under Integrations → Slack has been updated with details about the current Slackbot
- Help text under App Settings → Anonymity Threshold has been updated for clarity
- Administrators will now be able to download a list of all users participating in a particular survey and/or poll
- Performance:
- The Calibration cycles list in the Admin module will now include pagination to limit the need for continuous scrolling
- Talent keys that do not yet have a value will now say "None" (as opposed to "No") for clarity
- The "Talent Record Export" icons will be swapped out for larger/bolder versions to increase visibility
- The Calibration cycle filter will no longer be case-sensitive
Bug Fixes
- Analytics:
- In Manager Insights, the tooltip on "Effective Communication" will be changed to clarify that the data shown is for all conversations in the designated timeframe, not just active conversations
- In Execution Insights, the "Department" and "Department-owned" views will be fixed so that they no longer break when users select the individual filter
- In Execution Insights, the heatmap will be fixed so that the objective count is correct in the "Entire Org" view
- Conversations:
- Super Admins will once again be able to generate the Conversation Answers Report based on the filters selected in the Betterworks user interface (Admin module → Reports)
- A manager's conversation status will no longer display as "Complete" when responses have not yet been shared
- Engage:
- The answer options in surveys will no longer "overflow" from their designated text container
- Selecting a specific tenue in a survey report will once again show the users in that tenure
- Feedback:
- The "Skip level" tab will once again be available under Feedback → View (provided that the there is feedback
- "The is an error saving the responses" will no longer display while users are entering their feedback responses
- The scrollbar will no longer display under Feedback → View if there is no data
- Integrations:
- Recognition that is entered into Slack (and contains a line break) will no longer be cut off when posted to the Betterworks Recognition module
- Mobile:
- Users will once again be able to access and use the Feedback module in the Betterworks iOS and Android apps
- Platform:
- Calibration session reports will now pull in custom fields data
- Administrators at organizations that are not using Calibration will no longer see a flag to enable ratings in a user's Performance Snapshot
- The correct timestamp will now display on the Calibration cycles page
- The Calibration module will no longer display a console error upon loading
Preview Environment: Coming In 2 Weeks
New
- Feedback:
- Administrators will now be able to include a description in anytime-requested and manager-requested feedback templates
- Administrators will now be able to include a custom note in anytime-requested and manager-requested feedback templates
- The will be some visual changes to the user interface in the Feedback module for increased visibility and ease of use
- Performance:
- A new view state will be added to the Calibration interface to collapse the 9box and histogram from within a session
- Platform:
- Administrators will now have access to audit logging so that they can see which users made certain changes and at what time
Updates
- Analytics:
- Manager Insights v1 will be sunset and replaced with Manager Insights v2 (which was previously in beta)
- Conversations:
- Conversations details will now be collapsible
- Feedback:
- Saved (but not submitted) anytime-give feedback responses will now display above all other feedback forms under Feedback → Give → To Do
- If a feedback recipient has no current objectives, the panel to the right of their feedback form will now indicate this
- Feedback providers will now be prompted to confirm that they wish to send feedback via a pop-up modal
- Performance:
- Calibration
- The Decisions Log will now be enabled for all customers by default
- Values in cycles will now be properly aligned
- The menu action icon will now display differently in its hover state for increased visibility
- When processing a cycle, a processing icon will now appear
- The first column of the Talent Record table will now remain docked as the user scrolls
- The pagination on the Talent Record table will now match the surrounding user interface
- Calibration
Bug Fixes
- Analytics:
- In Execution Insights, the "Objectives Recently Updated" will now show an accurate representation of activity within the given timeframe
- Feedback:
- If a feedback provider cancels a draft of their response, they will no longer be prompted by the erroneous "decline feedback" pop-up modal
- A padding issue under Feedback → Give will be corrected
- A scroll bar display issue under Feedback → View will be corrected
- The description box will no longer hide the rich text option in the anytime manager-requested feedback template
- The due date for anytime-requested feedback will once again display when the feedback card is collapsed
- Removing the "https://" from a URL in the description of a feedback template will no longer cause the URL to display in a different field
- If a feedback recipient has no current objectives, the panel will no longer display a link
- OKRs:
- The "Update Frequency" section of the dashboard view (in the Objectives module) will once again display the correct data
- The "Convert to an objective" option will once again display in the Additional Actions drop-down menu of a key result
- Platform:
- Notifications will once more be sent out in advance of a conversation cycle's start date (provided that System Notifications and notifications in the conversation template are enabled)
- The BambooHR section (under Admin → Platform Configuration → Third-party integrations) will now verify customer subdomains before saving credentials
- Conversation data pulled via the Betterworks API will no longer contain extraneous digits in the timestamp
- Calibration
- The Talent Export by Box will now be available even if the box labels contain special characters (the characters will just be converted to "-")
- Custom talent keys will display properly on the Talent Record Export by Box
- Long usernames will be properly shortened with ellipses in the Talent Record table
- The Decisions Log will properly extend to the bottom of the screen
- The Decisions Log will once again display even when the count is just 1
- The "department" filter in sessions will once again show the appropriate data
- The "employee" column will no longer be highlighted when viewing the Decisions Log
- The Talent Record Export headers will now remain docked as the user scrolls
*All release updates are subject to change