Production Environment
New
- Engage:
- A new Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) survey template will be available
- Integrations:
- Users will now be able to integrate milestones with Microsoft Excel 365
- Betterworks plugin for Gmail - Users will be now able to answer or skip optional feedback questions
- Mobile (Betterworks iOS and Android apps):
- Users will now be able to answer or skip optional feedback questions
- Additional security is being proactively added in order to prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- Platform:
- Super Admins will now be able to filter the administrator list (in Admin → User Management → Administrators)
Updates
- Engage:
- The "Submit" button on open text questions will be changed to "Next" unless the participant is on the last question of the survey
- Feedback:
- All visibility warning text will be made more clear (i.e. "Avery and their manager can view this feedback" and "Avery and their manager will know you wrote this feedback")
- Goals (formerly OKRs):
- Super Admins will now be able to limit the number of default tabs that display in the Goals module
- The text that displays in the Goals module list view when a user's search returns zero results, will now read: "There are either no goals for this business period, or the goals matching your criteria are confidential"
- The text that displays in the Goals module chart view (specifically, Goals Contributing to Top Company Goals) when a user's search returns zero results, will now read: "None of the goals in your current filter align to any Top Company Goals"
- Platform:
- Audit logging will now contain conversation, feedback, and recognition data
- Audit logging will now contain expanded goal data (i.e. cheers, nudges, etc.)
Bug Fixes
- Calibration (formerly Performance):
- User and department names (as opposed to user and department IDs) will once again display when a session has been filtered
- Conversations:
- The Request to Edit list (in Admin → Program Management → Conversations → Settings) will no longer show requests for anytime conversations that have since been deleted by the manager
- Super Admins will once again be able to clone inactive templates
- Engage:
- Action plans will no longer fail to generate when initiated from an individual focus area
- Survey names will once again be editable after the survey is closed
- Feedback:
- Incorrect visibility text will be corrected
- Users will no longer be able to add the same feedback provider multiple times (in the same initial request)
- The broken link in scheduled templates will be corrected
- The "To-Do" count (bell at the top-right corner of the Betterworks application) will once again match the actual number of feedback requests
- Anytime requests - The description will no longer disappear when the template is active (aka "deployed")
- Goals (formerly OKRs):
- The "Updated" column (Goals module) will now accurately reflect goals and milestone updates
- Integrations:
- Betterworks plugin for Gmail - If a Super Admin sets the plural of "Feedback" to "Feedbacks" (in Admin → Platform Configuration → Naming) will now default to singular when appropriate in order to match the surrounding text
Preview Environment: Coming In 2 Weeks
New
- Conversations:
- Users will now be able to select up to 5 stars on star-rating questions while historical ratings are preserved (i.e. "4 out of 4 stars" vs. "4 out of 5 stars")
- Feedback:
- Users will now be able to select up to 5 stars on star-rating questions while historical ratings are preserved (i.e. "4 out of 4 stars" vs. "4 out of 5 stars")
- Mobile (Betterworks iOS and Android apps):
- Users will now be able to select up to 5 stars on star-rating questions (conversations and feedback) while historical ratings are preserved (i.e. "4 out of 4 stars" vs. "4 out of 5 stars")
Updates
- Feedback:
- Anytime manager requests - This template will now require that Super Admins select a manager, direct report, or both to view the feedback contents
- Platform:
- Custom naming will now be available to organizations and users whose default language is set to "English - UK" (custom naming was previously restricted to "English" only)
Bug Fixes
- Calibration (formerly Performance):
- Anonymous feedback contents and provider names will once again be visible to Super Admins and HR Admins (scope applied) in a user's Performance Snapshot
- Conversations:
- The misalignment of multi-select options compared to the associated questions in all conversation templates will be corrected
- Super Admins will once again be able to include additional lock options to an active (aka "deployed") template when the cycle has not yet started
- Engage:
- Once an administrator adds a language translation to a survey draft, the translation will remain available even if the language option itself is inadvertently deleted
- Feedback:
- Anytime request and anytime manager-requested - The "Choose a template" menu will now be disabled for providers
- The validation highlight for required questions will no longer display once the provider has entered a response
- The visibility warning text error will be corrected
- The console error will be corrected (in Feedback → View)
- Providers will no longer be taken to the bottom of the page when a feedback form is open and active (in Feedback → View → To-Do)
- A user's title will now display under their username instead of directly under their profile photo (in Feedback → Request → Scheduled)
- The Feedback Adoption Report will no longer display number values (other than zero) under the "Request" column for anytime give templates (since this type of feedback cannot be requested)
- Question numbers will no longer be misaligned (in Feedback → Request)
- Mobile (Betterworks iOS and Android apps):
- Anytime manager requests (feedback) - This template will once again be visible and available to users when active (aka "deployed")
- Creating a goal will no longer log users out (EU version of the apps)
- Platform:
- API - The results of a progress update call will once again be consistent with the Betterworks user interface (i.e. users cannot directly update the progress of a goal if it has contributing milestones or aligned goals)
- Recognition:
- Users will once again be able to search each other's names when providing recognition
- Submissions will no longer include users that were not manually selected
* 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.