Release: July 19th, 2022

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.