Production Environment
New
- Goals (formerly OKRs):
- To limit the chance of changes being made by multiple parties, users will no longer be able to add a department as a participant or editor on a goal
Updates
- Performance (formerly Calibration):
- API call results will now include a "matrix" field (instead of a "ninebox" field) to match the updated naming conventions in the Calibration module
- Platform:
- Custom note data will now be included in feedback API call results
Bug Fixes
- Analytics:
- The Goals reports (Admin → Reporting → Usage Dashboard) will once again export data designated by the filters selected in the user interface (if applicable)
- Engage:
- The Betterworks Engage application will once again recognize manual language translations (provided that properly formatted translation files have been uploaded)
- Deactivated users will no longer be reactivated if/when the manager hierarchy (in the reporting line that the deactivated user was once part of) is updated
- Survey previews will once again be triggered without issue
- Survey previews will now be sent in the default language of the survey (rather than the default language of the organization's instance)
- The dynamic "tenure" field will once again auto-populate based on the value in the user's "hire_date" field and the current date
- Long poll titles will no longer break through the text box on the Dashboard
- Missing French (Canada) translations have been re-added to the user interface
- Administrators will once again be able to create action plans for focus areas that were added from the "Questions" section of a survey report
- For organizations that are using the feature, errors in the "Categories" and "Topics" sections of a survey report (topical text analysis) have been corrected
- Feedback:
- A console error will no longer display if a user searches for more providers in the provider list card
- Users will once again be able to submit feedback if the visibility is configured so that only the direct report can view it
- Direct reports will no longer see any indication that feedback was requested for them (including an empty feedback card) if the visibility is configured so that only the manager and/or skip level manager can view it
- For organizations that are using the Feedback Summary, questions will once again be displayed
- For organizations that are using the Feedback Summary, the default icons for users who don't have a profile photo (i.e. user initials) will once again display consistently
- For organizations that are using the Feedback Summary, our application will no longer return a 500 error on the backend and display an empty space on the frontend when managers attempt to view the responses of multi-select questions
- Managers will once again receive a notification when a feedback provider shares responses for manager-requested feedback
- There will no longer be a delay when loading more feedback cards on any of the sections under the Feedback module
- The collection date field will no longer be truncated in scheduled feedback templates
- Integrations:
- Milestones (aka key results) that are properly connected to an organization's JIRA instance, but display empty fields, will have their data reinstated
- Goals from an organization's new fiscal year will now display in the Outlook plugin no matter what date their previous fiscal year ended on
- Platform:
- Super Admins will now be able to disconnect the BambooHR integration on their end (Admin → Platform Configuration → Integrations → Third-party Integrations)
- Use of the Admin Proxy feature will now trigger a notification to the user that was impersonated
Preview Environment: Coming In 2 Weeks
New
- Analytics:
- HR Insights will now be available as part of the Insights module
- Goals (formerly OKRs):
- For organizations that use the goal weights feature, users will now be able to update their own goal weights
- Platform:
- CRUD (Created, Read, Update and Delete) API calls will now be available for goals
Updates
- Analytics:
- For organizations who currently using the feature, Program Insights will no longer be available as part of the Admin module (as it has been sunset and replaced with the Insights module)
- Goals (formerly OKRs):
- In Permission Settings, some of the text explaining the 3 visibility options will be changed to provide more clarity
- Platform:
- Our application will now pull in the latest Transefix translations (for language and localization)
- Question UUIDs will now be included in conversation and feedback API call results
Bug Fixes
- Conversations:
- Super Admins will once again be able to create conversation templates with/without enabling confidential questions
- The misaligned "deploy" icon in conversation templates will be corrected
- Feedback:
- The user drop-down menu in the manager-requested feedback user interface will no longer display users that have already been selected (unless they've already provided feedback or have declined the request)
- Feedback providers will once again be able to see any questions that they need to answer regardless of the visibility type selected in the feedback template
- Redundant text will be removed from the Skip Level feedback list (Feedback → View → Skip Level)
- Custom notes associated with the feedback template will once again be visible to feedback providers (Feedback → Give → To-Do)
- The feedback card for manager-requested feedback will once again only be visible to the direct report that the manager requested feedback for (as opposed to being visible to that manager's other direct reports)
- For organization's currently using the feature, the Feedback Summary will once again display a tooltip containing the names of each feedback provider and their specific response to any multi-select questions
- For organization's currently using the feature, the Feedback Summary will no longer display a console error regardless of the visibility type selected in the feedback template
- When selecting a user from the drop-down menu (Feedback → Give), feedback providers will be able to re-select a feedback template even if they've already drafted a response using that template for the same user
- The duplicate text in "Step 6: Schedule feedback cycles" of scheduled feedback templates will be removed
- Super Admins will not be able to create a scheduled feedback template with a grace period unless they enter a # for the grace period
- The "Who would you like to view feedback for?" text (Feedback → View → My Team) will be reinstated
- A display issue with user profile photos in the Goals list will be corrected
- The misaligned "deploy" icon in feedback templates will be correct
* 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.