Production Environment
* Any mobile or integration updates are subject to approval by the Apple App Store, Google Play Store, and/or the application that Betterworks is integrating with.
New
- 1:1s:
- Super Admins will now be able to enable/disable the 1:1s module from the Admin module
- Analytics:
- Users in HR Insights will now be able to view completion statistics on the Conversation Responses metric card
- Conversations:
- Super Admins will now be able to edit an Admin Review Period if the dates have not yet passed
- Feedback:
- Unanswered questions will no longer count toward the averages in the Feedback Summary
- The table in Admin → Feedback → Settings → Request to edit will now contain a "Shared" column, displaying the date that feedback was originally shared
- Goals:
- Administrators will now be able to set up goal and milestone locking
- Integrations:
- Betterworks will now access BambooHR via OpenID Connect to improve the flow of data (no change to the way the integration is used)
Updates
- 1:1s:
- The help text for re-linking a previously disconnected 1:1s series will be expanded for clarity
- Analytics:
- Confidential questions in the Conversation Responses metric section of HR Insights will now be labeled to differentiate them from general conversation questions
- The "Department" segment in the Conversation Status and Conversation Responses metric sections of HR Insights has been changed to "Employee's Department"
- App Platform:
- A translation audit and cleanup has been completed to address sections of text that remain in English when a user or organization's default language is changed
Bug Fixes
- 1:1s:
- A participant will no longer receive notifications for a 1:1 or 1:1 series that was deleted by the owner participant
- A bug that caused the wrong participant name to display in the 1:1 details has been fixed
- A bug that prevented the owner participant from archiving a 1:1 series that already ended has been fixed
- Conversations:
- An erroneous visibility message in the conversations popup modal has been fixed
- A bug that triggered the calendar in the "Submit Deadline" field of a conversation template to display after the date passed has been fixed
- A bug that prevented Super Admins from editing conversation templates that contained submit and review deadlines has been fixed
- A bug that triggered a "you have met with [user] on invalid date" message to a new manager after they took ownership of a conversation has been fixed
- Feedback:
- A bug that triggered a console error when a user attempted to open a feedback card (Feedback → View) has been fixed
- A bug that triggered a decline notification if a user canceled their feedback submission (anytime give) has been fixed
Preview Environment: Coming In 2 Weeks
Updates
- 1:1s:
- The list of 1:1s will no longer auto-refresh as a user scrolls down
- Analytics:
- A tooltip in the Usage Dashboard (Admin → Program Management → Report Usage Dashboard) will be expanded for clarity
- Tooltips throughout the Insights module (Manager Insights, Execution Insights, and HR Insights) will be expanded for clarity
- Notifications that are generated from the Conversation Responses metric section of HR Insights will now contain question details (i.e. question type, optional/required, which participant responded, etc.)
- The response legend in the Conversation Responses metric section of HR Insights will now include percentages (i.e. if a scale question has a potential response of "Agree" or "Disagree", the response legend will now include the percentage of conversation participants who selected each response)
- If a conversation template was not configured to grant skip level visibility, skip level managers will no longer have access to the "View Conversation" button for the related conversations from within Manager Insights
- Program Insights will be sunset now that the Insights module (which includes Manager Insights, Execution Insights, and HR Insights) has been available to all Betterworks Enterprise customers for several months
- Manager Insights v1 will be sunset now that Manager Insights v2 has been available to all Betterworks Enterprise customers for several months
- Feedback:
- The feedback edit request table (Admin → Program Management → Feedback → Settings → Request to edit) will be updated to display checkboxes as opposed to radio buttons
- Integrations:
- The Betterworks mobile app (Android) will no longer require the "usesCleartextTraffic" permission (no visible impact to the mobile app)
- Authorization for the Google Sheets integration will be upgraded to improve connection (no visible impact to the integration)
Bug Fixes
- 1:1s:
- A bug that allows 1:1s notifications to be generated after the 1:1s module has been disabled will be fixed
- A button display issue in the 1:1s Weekly Summary notification will be fixed
- A bug that prevents an updated meeting time in Outlook Calendar from being reflected in the connected 1:1 in Betterworks will be fixed
- A bug that prevents a deleted meeting in Outlook Calendar from deleting the connected 1:1 in Betterworks will be fixed
- Analytics:
- A tooltip in the HR Insights Settings (Admin → Program Management → HR Insights → Settings) that is missing information will be fixed
- App Platform:
- A bug that triggers a 500 sever error in response to conversation API calls will be fixed
- A bug that causes a delay between when goals are created and when they appear in the Goals module will be fixed
- Calibration:
- A bug that limits the number of visible calibration templates to 20 (Admin → Program Management → Calibration → Cycles → Create Calibration Cycle → Select Calibration Template) will be fixed
- Conversations:
- A bug that allows Super Admins to delete an Admin Review Period from a scheduled conversation template during the Admin Review Period will be fixed
- Incorrect translations in the Conversations list view (for organizations or users whose default language is Español) will be fixed
- A bug that allows managers (whose direct reports were deactivated) to view the "Create" button in their Conversations list view, despite having no one to engage in an anytime conversation with, will be fixed
- A bug that allows users to submit a new conversation edit request after a previous edit request for the same conversation was approved, will be fixed
- A bug that triggers a "You have met with [name] on invalid date" message when a conversation participant clicks the "Confirm Meeting" button on their conversation will be fixed
- A bug that allows conversation participants to submit their conversation responses without answering a mandatory question will be fixed
- A bug that allows Super Admins to grant skip level visibility when creating anytime give and anytime request templates (even though anytime manager-requested templates are the only templates that should allow this) will be fixed
- A bug that triggers edit request notifications when there are no edit requests present will be fixed
- Feedback:
- A bug that prevents data validation messages from displaying when a Super Admin is filling out an anytime feedback template will be fixed
- A bug that triggers a feedback request declined notification to a direct report, despite the feedback template being configured without direct report visibility, will be fixed
- Integrations:
- A bug that triggers a 500 server error when a user attempts to integrate their milestone with MS Excel 365 will be fixed
* All release updates are subject to change.