Release: Aug. 30th, 2021

Production Environment

Conversations

• Updates: 
  • If/when a user's "request to edit" is approved, they will now have 7 days to enter responses (instead of the previous 4 days)
• Bug Fixes:
  • If a conversation contains direct report questions that lock before the conversation due date, Admins will now be able to submit a "request to edit" for the direct report right after the lock date (as opposed to waiting until after the conversation due date)
  • "View edit history" will now display to Skip level managers if their permissions on the conversation template were set to "can view"

Feedback

• New:
  • If a Skip level manager has access to feedback cycles, they'll now be able to view feedback via a side panel within the Conversations module
• Updates:
  • Admins will now be able to rename the default anytime feedback templates
  • When a user is in the "View" or "Give" tabs, the objective side panel will now collapse by default

Preview Environment: Coming in (2) Weeks

Conversations

• Bug Fixes:
  
  • Anytime Conversation question numbers will now be in alignment (format) with the associated questions
  • On the Conversations list page, the "Contributors" column will no longer appear for Conversations that don't have additional contributors enabled
  • If the questions in a Conversation template are changed while a Conversation is in progress, contributors who were invited after the change will no longer see those changes reflected and instead will see the same questions provided to the manager and other contributors
  • Super Admins will now be able to submit a "request to edit" on a participant's behalf ever if only that participant's side of the Conversation is locked (i.e. questions for the direct report were set to lock before that of their manager)

Feedback

• Bug Fixes:
  
  • Permissions text for Skip level managers will now display under Feedback -> Summary
  • Feedback templates will no longer be referenced by "Topic" under Feedback -> Request
  • If Skip level managers are included in the permissions for a feedback template, the text will now inform feedback providers that "Only Admins and [name of Skip level manager]" can see their responses (rather than "Only Admins")

Engage

• Bug Fixes:
  • New surveys that are linked to previous surveys will no longer error out when launched

Performance

• New:
  • Calibration
    
    • Landing page will now display one cycle at a time
    • Columns will now be sortable
    • "Facilitators" column will be available (and contain user profile photos
      • Facilitators are the users who are calibrating the specific session
    • Custom filters will now be available 
      • These filters will correspond to the custom fields in the organization's user file and can be viewed by going to Admin -> User Management -> Users -> Custom Fields 
•  Updates:
  • Custom fields will be added to the Talent Record export
•  Bug Fixes:
  • Calibration cycles will now process in Preview Environment

Platform

• New:
  
  • Super Admins will now have the ability to rename custom fields from the organization's user file (replacing the default names of "custom_01", "custom_02", etc.) by going to Admin -> User Management -> Users -> Custom Fields
• Updates:
  • Users can now deactivated on a future date (rather than as soon as any value is detected in the "deactivation_date" field) 
• Bug Fixes:
  • HRIS file processing will no longer be intermittently interrupted

*All release updates are subject to change