Production Environment
New
- Conversations:
- Additional contributors will now be able to share their responses with managers before and during the Admin Review Period (if an Admin Review Period has been configured)
- Feedback:
- Super Admins will now be able to set a hard word limit for paragraph responses
Updates
- Platform:
- The Program Insights feature (which was previously replaced by the Insights module and more comprehensive administrator reports) has been officially sunset
Bug Fixes
- Conversations:
- If a participant has already submitted a request to edit, any attempt to resubmit will trigger a pop-up modal informing the participant of their previous action and preventing them from submitting a new request until the first one has either been approved or denied
- Responses to star rating questions will now display in the same color scheme in both the Betterworks user interface and the printed PDF
- In the Conversation Answers Report, responses to star rating questions will now display as "X/5" or "X/4" for conversations that took place before our star rating system was updated from 4 to 5 stars
- The Feedback section (right-side panel of individual conversation pages) will no longer be visible to additional contributors
- Feedback:
- Users will once again be able to see the full extent of a paragraph response that is longer than 4 lines
- Any notes included in the anytime feedback template (recipient-requested) will once again be visible to the provider in the feedback form
- An extra blank response box will no longer display when a provider reopens a feedback form that was already in progress (i.e. saved as a draft)
- Confusing text in the Give Anytime Feedback pop-up modal (i.e. "The following questions will be asked about [User].") will be clarified
- A typo in the edit approval notification will be corrected
- Goals (formerly OKRs):
- The "Add a milestone" button will once again display when users click the "⌄" beneath a goal or another milestone while in the Goals list view
- Platform:
- An organization's Technical Contact (designated during the HRIS setup process) will once again receive a notification if/when they have run out of licenses
- API calls that contain delta dates (i.e. "delta_start=2022-08-01T15:00:00") will once again return the applicable results (as opposed to erroring out)
Preview Environment: Coming In 2 Weeks
New
- Conversations:
- When a manager change occurs during a scheduled conversation cycle, the new manager will now receive a notification informing them that they need to take ownership of the existing conversation
- Feedback:
- Administrators will now have the ability to delete feedback templates
- Super Admins and HR Admins (scope applied) will no longer be able to view the provider names for feedback that was configured to be anonymous if they are the feedback subject (this includes restricting visibility in reports and printable summaries)
Updates
- Feedback:
- Question validation will be added to feedback templates to prevent the accidental duplication of questions
- The language around feedback visibility will be changed slightly (i.e. "[User A], their manager and their skip level manager will not know you wrote this feedback." will become "[User A], their manager and their skip level manager will not see who wrote this feedback.")
- Platform:
- Organizations that utilize our API integration will now be able to call for feedback requests that have an "answering" or "completed" status
Bug Fixes
- Conversations:
- The tooltip (indicated by the "?" icon) for dates in scheduled conversation templates will no longer overlap with the date fields
- When reviewing conversations (Admin → Program Management → Conversations → Settings → Review Conversations), Super Admins and HR Admins (scope applied) will no longer need to reenter a user's name each time they click on, then back out of, a specific conversation
- Spacing and hidden text issues (near the header of scheduled conversation templates) will be corrected
- "You are ready to meet..." text will no longer be shown to additional contributors via they view their conversations list page (in Conversations → Current)
- The start date field's format and iconography will be changed to match other dates in scheduled conversation templates (i.e. "Tue Aug 30 22" without a calendar icon will become "08/30/2022" with a calendar icon)
- The tooltip (indicated by the "?" icon) for grace periods in scheduled conversation templates will be updated for clarity (i.e. "Allow employees to share answers after the cycle end date. Feedback will lock after the number of days you set.")
- Feedback:
- Optional questions (in Feedback → Summary) will now display even if a feedback provider has not responded to those particular questions
- Settings (in Admin → Program Management → Feedback → Settings) will no longer display a blank page when administrators navigator to it from the left-side panel (as opposed to using a direct URL)
- Feedback card display issues (in Feedback → Summary) will be corrected
- The collection date field will no longer be truncated in scheduled feedback templates
- Managers will once again receive a notification when a feedback provider shares responses for manager-requested feedback
- Platform:
- Field display issues (in Admin → Program Management → Admin Proxy → Impersonate) will be corrected
- The search function (in Name → Teams → All Teams) will now load and register a user's input even when there is a long list of teams (i.e. > 20)
- The user will now be redirected to the applicable team goal when clicking that goal (in Name → Teams→ All Teams) even when there is a long list of teams (i.e. > 20)
* 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.