Production Environment
New
- Engage:
- Benchmark data for survey template questions will now be available even when those questions are used in a custom survey
- Feedback:
- Users who have been nominated to provide anytime feedback will now be able to save their responses in draft mode
- Users will now be able to request anytime feedback from the same user once their initial request has either expired or been actively declined
- Performance:
- Administrators will now be able to filter on a user's name within a Calibration session
- The Calibration cycle tables will now show the reason for any processing errors
- The Calibration cycle tables will now show when the cycle was last processed
- Administrators can now export the Talent Records Report by box for an entire Calibration cycle
Updates
- Engage:
- Admins and managers with Insights Access will now be able to apply the search filter on the "Questions" column when reviewing survey comments
- Feedback:
- The feedback cards in Give → To Do will now display the template name and due date at the top
- Performance:
- The styling for the talent record table will be updated
- Filter values that do not apply to the user pool in a session detail will now be grayed out
- HR Admins will be able to use the "Export by 9box" option from within a Calibration cycle
- The pagination bar will be moved to the bottom of the cycles table within the updated user interface
- The "Export" button in the Calibration session detail will now have a tooltip
- Lock icons will now indicate locked Calibration sessions and cycles
- When filtering in a Calibration session, the "Cancel" and "Apply" buttons will no longer display as active unless applicable
Bug Fixes
- Conversations:
- Skip level managers will once again be able to share conversations (provided that they have "can edit" access)
- If a user has received feedback, the feedback will once again display in the right-side panel of the conversation response page of future conversations
- Display cursors will be corrected for locked questions (i.e. scale and multiple-choice)
- An informative validation message will now display if a manager attempts to initiate an anytime conversation using a template that only their own manager can trigger
- Super Admins will no longer be able to save conversation templates where confidential questions are due the day after the cycle ends (2 days will be the default)
- In conversations where all questions (including confidential questions) have been answered, the status will once again display as complete
- HR Admins will once again be able to generate the Conversation Answers Report for conversation participants within their scope
- Engage:
- Applying the "Manager" filter in the User Management module will once again display the correct user count
- Links to the "Action Plans" tab in the Action Center module will once again redirect to the correct URL
- Feedback:
- The padding & styling of collapsed feedback cards will be made more uniform
- Feedback will no longer be marked as "shared" when the provider has not actually shared feedback
- If a user is nominated to provide feedback, they will once again be able to see requests under Give → To Do
- Feedback providers will once again be able to open and collapse feedback cards under Give → To Do
- If a user has already been nominated to provide feedback (and the request has not yet expired or been answered), that user will no longer display in the drop-down menu of potential providers
- The banner that informs feedback providers of who will see their feedback will be corrected to reference the correct parties
- The feedback template name will once again be displayed in feedback reports
- Feedback will be sorted in descending order under Give → Completed
- The text in the manager-requested feedback templates will be updated to reference "manager" rather than "people"
- Stale anytime feedback requests (requests that have either not been answered or actively declined) will be automatically cleared after 28 days
- Mobile:
- Organizations using the EU data center will once again be able to access Betterworks via the Betterworks iOS app
- Platform:
- Missing created/modified_on and UUIDs will be added to various endpoints
- The bell at the top-right corner of a user's Betterworks account will no longer show a To-Do notification if there aren't any actions to take
- In-app guides will no longer display on the Betterworks login page (only once the user has successfully logged in)
Preview Environment: Coming In 2 Weeks
New
- Feedback:
- Super Admins will now be able to configure a custom due date for Anytime feedback (specific to give and manager-requested templates)
- Users and/or their managers will now see a "Please add providers" prompt during scheduled feedback cycles
- Integrations:
- Outlook plugin v2 (comment on OKRs and give/receive feedback directly from Outlook)
- Platform:
- Error notifications for the HRIS integration will now contain a downloadable file and direct recipients to an article that explains common errors in detail
- Custom module naming will now extend to organizations that have their default language set to "English - UK"
- The API integration will now have an endpoint that shows recently active users (the default is 1 hour, but can it be increased to 24 hours)
Updates
- Analytics:
- In the Usage Dashboard, the "Export to CSV" button will be replaced with a "Generate Report" button that triggers an email notification containing a download link
- The functionality of the "Breakdown" and "Underlying Data" tabs in the Usage Dashboard will now allow for more granular filtering and exports
- The "Underlying Data" tab in the Usage Dashboard will now include pagination to limit the need for continuous scrolling
- Performance:
- The Calibration cycles list in the Admin module will now include pagination to limit the need for continuous scrolling
- Talent keys that do not yet have a value will now say "None" (as opposed to "No") for clarity
- The "Talent Record Export" icons will be swapped out for larger/bolder versions to increase visibility
- The Calibration cycle filter will no longer be case-sensitive
Bug Fixes
- Analytics:
- In Manager Insights, the tooltip on "Effective Communication" will be changed to clarify that the data shown is for all conversations in the designated timeframe, not just active conversations
- In Execution Insights, the "Department" and "Department-owned" views will be fixed so that they no longer break when users select the individual filter
- In Execution Insights, the heatmap will be fixed so that the objective count is correct in the "Entire Org" view
- Conversations:
- Super Admins will once again be able to generate the Conversation Answers Report based on the filters selected in the Betterworks user interface (Admin module → Reports)
- A manager's conversation status will no longer display as "Complete" when responses have not yet been shared
- Feedback:
- The "Skip level" tab will once again be available under Feedback → View (provided that the there is feedback
- "The is an error saving the responses" will no longer display while users are entering their feedback responses
- The scrollbar will no longer display under Feedback → View if there is no data
- Integrations:
- Recognition that is entered into Slack (and contains a line break) will no longer be cut off when posted to the Betterworks Recognition module
- Mobile:
- Users will once again be able to access and use the Feedback module in the Betterworks iOS and Android apps
- Platform:
- Calibration session reports will now pull in custom fields data
- Administrators at organizations that are not using Calibration will no longer see a flag to enable ratings in a user's Performance Snapshot
- The correct timestamp will now display on the Calibration cycles page
- The Calibration module will no longer display a console error upon loading
*All release updates are subject to change