Production Environment
New
- Calibration (formerly Performance):
- Super Admins will now be able to rename the Calibration module by going to Admin → Platform Configuration → Organization Branding → Naming
- Engage:
- Administrators and managers with Insights Access will now be able to view the Betterworks Engage application in their preferred language (only French - Canada supported at this time)
- Feedback:
- For anytime requested feedback and anytime manager-requested feedback, the provider drop-down menu will be replaced by a button that allows users to add multiple providers at once
- For anytime requested feedback, users will now be able to add a custom note
- For anytime give feedback, users will now be able to add a custom note
- For all anytime feedback, user email addresses will now display in the drop-down menu
- Mobile (Betterworks iOS and Android apps):
- Users will now be able to select any of the anytime give feedback templates that their organization's Super Admins have made available (as opposed to only having access to the default template)
- Managers will now be able to request feedback for their direct reports
- Managers will now be able to select any of the anytime manager-requested feedback templates that their organization's Super Admins have made available (as opposed to only having access to the default template)
- Platform:
- In Admin → User Management → Administrators, Super Admins will now be able to sort the administrator list by the "Name" and "Admin Since" columns
Updates
- Analytics:
- The Usage Dashboard's user interface will be upgraded
- Calibration (formerly Performance):
- Calibration report notifications now include cycle and session names
- The Decisions Log pagination components will be upgraded
- The Talent Records Export by Box will now include all standard and custom talent keys from the calibration template
- When searching in a calibration cycle, the fraction of completed sessions will now display as a results change
- Feedback:
- The visibility permissions for custom anytime manager-requested feedback templates will now match the default anytime manager-requested feedback template.
- The questions in an anytime requested or anytime manager-requested feedback template will no longer be editable once the feedback has been requested.
Bug Fixes
- Analytics:
- The department drop-down menu (in Admin → Program Management → Reporting → Reports) will once again display the correct list count when multiple departments are selected
- Calibration (formerly Performance):
- The column name in the Talent Record will no longer contain extra white space when viewed dynamically
- Conversations:
- If a conversation question is mandatory and accepts a paragraph response, the red asterisk will display on the same line as the end of the question (as opposed to after a line break)
- When cloning an anytime conversation template, the # of days that a participant has to complete the conversation will no longer be cloned
- Selecting a department in the Conversation Answers Report will now return data for HR Admins
- If a user does not have any questions to answer as part of a conversation they will no longer see the "You haven't started this conversation" status on their Conversations list page
- Feedback:
- When cloning an anytime requested or anytime-manager requested feedback template, the # of days that a provider has to submit their feedback will no longer be cloned
- When cloning an anytime requested or anytime-manager requested feedback template, the questions will remain editable
- Feedback requests will once again be visible by providers in Feedback → Give → To Do
- The extra white space between cards (in Feedback → Give → To Do) will be removed
- In Feedback → Give, the text over the drop-down will be corrected from "Who would you like to request feedback from?" to "Who would you like to give feedback to?"
- The broken link in Admin → Feedback → Settings will be updated so that Super Admins are directed to the correct article in our Knowledge Base
- The visibility warning text above an anytime manager-requested feedback form will be corrected to accurately reflect user visibility
- Feedback requests will no longer display in Feedback → Give → To Do once that feedback request has been fulfilled
- A user's preferred name will now be displayed over the "Notes" table in Feedback → Give → To Do
- A feedback card will no longer collapse if the feedback provider removes their response to a scale-type question
- Managers will once again be able to expand long responses (upon clicking the "More" link) when viewing the Feedback Summary for their direct reports
Preview Environment: Coming In 2 Weeks
New
- Conversations:
- Super Admins will now be able to include up to 25 options for multi-select and scale type questions
- Feedback:
- Super Admins will now be able to set a hard work limit for answers
- Super Admins will now be able to set optional questions (all anytime feedback)
- Super Admins will now be able to include up to 25 options for multi-select and scale type questions
- Mobile (Betterworks iOS and Android apps):
- Skip level managers will now be able to view conversations on mobile (if the corresponding conversation template has been set up so that skip level managers have visibility)
- Skip level managers will now be able to view feedback on mobile (if the corresponding feedback template has been set up so that skip level managers have visibility)
Updates
- Analytics:
- HR Admins will now be able to view the private objectives of users in their scope from the Manager Insights dashboard
- Report notifications will now contain download buttons (as opposed to download links)
- Calibration (formerly Performance):
- The Manager Notifications Calibration Report will now display the respective box label from the calibration template
- The 9box and histogram will now only update when there are talent record changes that directly impact them
- The styling has been changed to display a clear icon in the session search box
- Engage:
- Survey reminders will no longer be sent to terminated users (even if the survey was launched prior to their termination)
- Tenure values will now be displayed in an easy-to-read format
- Surveys will now show participants which question number they are answering (i.e. 2 of 10)
- Integrations:
- The introduction text in the Betterworks app for MS Teams has been changed to show the correct Support email address
- OKRs:
- Error messages and icons will be added to the objective creation page so that users will know which aspects of their objective need to be changed before they can successfully submit it
Bug Fixes
- Calibration (formerly Performance):
- The "Select Participant" manager drop-down menu will now display all managers in scope
- Conversations:
- The alignment error of the "End Date" column (conversation list view) will be corrected
- The Conversation module header will no longer be highlighted when a Super Admins goes to edit a conversation template (the Admin module header will be highlighted instead as that is where conversation templates reside)
- If a Super Admin elects to have confidential questions made available during a scheduled conversation cycle, participants will no longer erroneously receive the confidential questions notification after the cycle has ended
- Engage:
- Dynamic tenure dimensions will now be added automatically after setting it in Lifecycle Analysis
- Feedback:
- For anytime give feedback, providers will no longer be able to save multiple feedback cards (from the same corresponding template) in a draft state
- For anytime give feedback, the recipient drop-down menu will now display preferred names
- For anytime give feedback, changes made to a feedback template will no longer be reflected on feedback that is in-progress
- All feedback cards will now load in the Firefox internet browser
- Erroneous "Request feedback for 'user_name'" text will be corrected
- Erroneous "'User_name' has not received any feedback yet" text will be corrected
- The "Contributor" column (conversation list view) will no longer display multiple times when a user toggles from "Current" to "Past"
- OKRs:
- Private objectives will once again display a lock icon in the objectives list view
- When progress is updated, the aria-label for screen readers will now update automatically (as opposed to requiring a page refresh)
- Platform:
- For API, the "assign roles" endpoint will now only return users who were modified for PUT calls
- Error notifications related to our HRIS integration will include downloadable CSV files (as opposed to PGP files)
*All release updates are subject to change