Production Environment
New
- Analytics:
- The HR Insights feature will be auto-enabled for all Enterprise customers that have not opted out
- Goals:
- For organizations that use the goal weights feature, individual users will now be able to update their own goal weights
- Engage:
- The topical text analysis feature is no longer in beta and will be available to all customers
- Administrators will be warned with a pop-up message (but not stopped) if they launch a survey outside of the business hours indicated in their company settings
- Missing French (Canada) translations have been added
- Platform:
- CRUD (Created, Read, Update and Delete) API calls will now be available for goals
Updates
- Analytics:
- For organizations 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)
- Feedback:
- Feedback providers will no longer be able to submit drafted feedback after a scheduled cycle has ended and will instead see an error message explaining that the feedback request has expired
- Goals:
- 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)
- Manager requested template card no longer showing as having multiple direct reports selected in pending request tab for Manager
- 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
- 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
- A feedback provider's response to one scale-type question will no longer change their response to other scale-type questions (if more multiple scale-type questions are present in the same feedback form)
- When a feedback provider selects an option for a scale-type question, the option will once again map to the correct question instead of mapping to another question on the page
- When a manager enters a note for a feedback provider (while requesting feedback for their direct report), that note will still be visible to the manager once the feedback has been provided
Preview Environment: Coming In 2 Weeks
New
- Calibration:
- Calibration ratings and talent record fields will now lock when a cycle is reprocessed to prevent data from being overwritten
- Conversations:
- Skip level managers will now be able to view conversation notes (provided that the associated conversation template has been configured so that skip level managers can access the conversations)
- Feedback:
- Feedback providers will now be able to edit responses (if approved by an administrator)
- Platform:
- Super Admins will now be able to enable the Admin Proxy feature from the Admin module
Updates
- Conversation:
- The cycle start notification will no longer be sent to administrators (in place of the confidential questions notification) after a scheduled conversation cycle has ended
- Feedback:
- For organizations currently using the feature, the Feedback Summary will now display "No feedback received" or "Summary not available for this question" for optional questions that have not been answered
Bug Fixes
- Analytics
- HR Insights will display all conversation templates (including those that are associated with large data sets) in the filter drop-down menu
- Conversations:
- "Next Step" text will once display on the conversation detail page if the conversation cycle has ended and the participant/s has/have confidential questions to answer
- Conversation participants will no longer be able to click the "Share" button on confidential responses after the deadline for confidential responses has passed
- Conversation participants will no longer be able to answer conversation questions after the cycle has ended and the confidential question period has begun
- The grace period box will once again display in the scheduled conversation template before and after the cycle ends
- Super Admin will no longer see a console error when they attempt to edit a conversation template
- New managers who have already taken ownership of a direct report's conversation will no longer receive a notification informing them to do so
- Conversations that have been shared by a direct report's previous manager will no longer be included in the notification that is sent to new managers (if there are multiple active conversations)
- Skip level managers will no longer see a console error when viewing their skip level conversations list (Conversations → Skip Level)
- Feedback:
- Feedback providers will no longer see an error message when clicking the "Send" button on their feedback form
- For administrators attempting to allow/deny a feedback edit request, the selection made for one feedback provider will not impact the selection(s) made for others
- The notes and questions fields of the give feedback templates will be moved so that they align with each other
- Feedback providers will no longer be able to change their responses to scale-type questions after feedback has been sent
- 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
- For organizations currently using the feature, placeholder text will once again display in the Feedback Summary if a feedback provider has not yet sent their response
* 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.