The Q4 2024 Release is here, wrapping up the year with a bundle of exciting new features and improvements! Get ready to supercharge your strategic planning and communications with Mission Control, automate your workflows with three new APIs, and take your comms to the big screen with Screens. Step outside of internal comms using External Content to publish posts from the Staffbase platform to external platforms.
Let your users enjoy their modernized user profile, along with a whole new level of search experience, thanks to the redesigned search page and new search integrations.
And wait! There’s much more in store. Read the release notes to find out. Mark your calendars — these amazing features and improvements will be at your fingertips on October 17, 2024.
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Redesigned User Profile
The redesigned User Profile is here to stay with its modern, state-of-the-art look. New system fields — including a header image, pronouns field, and profile headline — let your employees’ personalities shine. Use the edit mode to easily update your information and preview your profile before saving any changes.
Spaces API
Improved Email Personalization
With the new update, it's easier than ever to personalize your emails! Add custom attributes from a CSV file, such as department names or project titles, to make your messages more relevant and tailored to your audience. To get started, simply download the sample CSV file to familiarize yourself with the data requirements. Get ready to take your communication to the next level and see how impactful it can be!
Screens
Your digital signage just got a major upgrade! Say hello to Screens, replacing the old Screen Embedding feature with enhanced features and a more intuitive interface. Easily accessible from the top navigation, Screens offers Device Management to display content in a more secure way, a news source selector with search, and media upload via My Files.
File Management Improvements
Strategic Planning View
Check Strategic Planning to see your campaigns and news posts in a Gantt chart layout for months, quarters, or the whole year. Plan ahead, focus on your key goals, and track progress with ease. You can even create new campaigns in the Strategic Planning timeline. Start optimizing your communication strategies today!
Redesigned Search Results Page
The redesigned Search Results page elevates your search experience on desktop devices to a whole new level. It introduces new sections, including a dedicated section for integrations, along with improved sorting and filtering options for a more efficient search experience. These improvements make it easier to find exactly what you’re looking for.
Confluence and Box Search Integrations
Two new search integrations allow you to bring other productive tools closer to your Staffbase platform. Whether you use Box as a storage solution or the Confluence Cloud as a knowledge management tool, you can now search for content in Box and Confluence within the comforts of your Staffbase Search.
External Content
External Content streamlines your external communications by enabling you to create, schedule, and publish posts directly to LinkedIn from the Staffbase platform. You can also create and schedule posts for custom channels, such as blogs or other social media platforms. For custom channels, posts must be manually published on the respective platform.
Pages API
The Pages API simplifies creating new pages with content from external sources. Whether you're migrating to the Staffbase platform or bringing together scattered information, the Pages API ensures a smooth transition while preserving your valuable content. With this API, you can effortlessly manage your pages and create a unified experience for your users.
Improvements
Automatic Rollout
Alternative Text for Images on News and Pages
You can now provide alternative text (alt text) for images, increasing the accessibility of media for your users. The alt text you provide allows screen readers to convey important visual content, fostering inclusivity and ensuring that everyone can engage with shared information. Learn more.
New Studio Language
The Studio is now available in Japanese, expanding it to a wider audience. Learn more.
Duplicate Journeys
No need to start creating Journeys from scratch every time. If you want to create a journey that's similar to an existing one, speed up the process simply by duplicating it. Learn more.
Multiple Image Upload on Mobile Devices in Chat, News, and Pages
Mobile users can now upload up to 10 images at once on Chat, Update and Article posts, and Pages. This enables easier interaction and content sharing, contributing to higher engagement within the mobile app.
Improved Campaigns Experience
The Campaigns overview page has been redesigned for a more modern look and feel. Enjoy a new search function and pagination for quick access to your campaigns. Additionally, creating articles, updates, or media posts is now streamlined — you can do it directly from the overview page or within individual campaign detail pages.
Activation
Users in Multiple Groups
The new Users in Multiple Groups feature allows seamless collaboration across teams, sharing drafts, emails, and templates without group restrictions. Boost collaboration and streamline operations with this enhancement.
Syncing User Group Distribution Lists
Eliminate the hassle of uploading user groups from the Employee App or Intranet to Employee Email as user group distribution lists. Now, you can effortlessly sync user groups from the Studio to Employee Email, ensuring consistency and saving time. Learn more.
Open Beta
Navigation Enhancement in the Staffbase App in Microsoft Teams
Giving you more control over your browsing within the Staffbase Connect App in Microsoft Teams, these new navigation buttons allow you to easily go back and forth between pages as you would in any other browser window. If you're already using Staffbase Connect App in Teams, the navigation is automatically available to you. Learn more.
Activation
Search Tab in the Analytics Dashboard
Introducing the new Search tab in the Analytics dashboard. Gain insights into search behavior on your platform with metrics around specific search terms, including the number of times it was searched, the unique users searching for it, and its trend. This feature helps you proactively address popular topics, identify knowledge gaps, and align content with employees' interests and current trends. Learn more.
Improved Mobile Navigation
Mobile navigation has been upgraded to align with the global visual language, offering a modern and intuitive experience. With this improvement, the menu takes the fifth position within the quick link navigation. Learn more.
Improved Editorial Calendar Weekly View
The new weekly view in the Editorial Calendar shows each day structured in hourly grids. This allows editors to easily see all planned and scheduled posts for the current week, while also facilitating strategic planning for the week ahead. Learn more.
Menu Item Visibility
Now, by default, newly created plugins and other menu items are hidden in the menu. This prevents editors from accidentally cluttering the menu with too many visible items, which could degrade the user experience and disrupt the overall look and feel of the menu.
Download PDFs on Mobile Devices
Users can now directly download PDFs on both iOS and Android devices, providing easier access to documents on the go. Perfect for easily sending out payslips or important documentation your users might want to keep.
Included Minor Releases Since Q3 2024
September 18, 2024
App and Intranet Improvements
- In the File Manager, you can now copy the URL from any file easily.
Mobile App Improvements
- In the mobile app, it is now possible to open multiple tabs. For example, you can now link from a custom plugin to another page.
- On iOS devices, it is now possible to preview, store, share, and print files, such as PDFs directly from a native tab (for example, SAML Plugin, Embedded Pages, Links).
- In News and Pages, the button widget has been improved. An option to open the button's link in the mobile browser has been added.
Mobile App Bugfixes
- On Android devices, when sharing a news post internally with a coworker, the post link was not copied to the clipboard. This has been fixed.
Mission Control Improvements
- In Smart Impact, Alignment surveys are now included in the engagement metric in the Campaigns tab and the Engagement By Post Ranking tile in the Smart Insights Dashboard. Surveys are a form of engagement and this is now reflected in the specific metrics.
September 4, 2024
App and Intranet Improvements
- In the redesigned desktop app header and navigation bar, you can now upload a new custom icon to first-level menu items and custom app header links. Contact your Customer Success Manager or Staffbase Support to enable the redesigned desktop app header and navigation bar.
App and Intranet Bugfixes
- In News, when users were @mentioned in scheduled posts, they did not receive a notification about the mention. This has been fixed.
- In News channels, in some cases, sharing settings were not updated after saving a previously created draft. This has been fixed.
- In the Microsoft Store, iOS users of the Staffbase Connect App were unable to sign in via SSO in certain scenarios. This has been fixed.
August 21, 2024
App and Intranet Bugfixes
- In posts and pages, clicking the preview image of a PDF file caused an error. This has been fixed.
Mission Control Bugfixes
- In the Studio, when opening the review link of a published post, the draft banner was still shown. This has been fixed.
August 7, 2024
App and Intranet Improvements
- The Studio interface is now available in Japanese.
App and Intranet Bugfixes
- In News, the sharing option did not appear in some cases when activated after drafting a post. This has been fixed.
Mobile App Improvements
- In News and Pages, the viewing and downloading experience for PDFs has been improved. When the download is clicked, they now open automatically in a viewer for all users, allowing for easier access and downloading.
Mission Control Improvements
- In the Editorial Calendar, the campaign filter option has been improved for the weekly and monthly views. Besides filtering news posts for their assigned campaign, the filter now also takes into account the displayed campaigns. When applied, the calendar shows all the campaigns you have selected on the filter.
July 31, 2024
App and Intranet Improvements
- In screens with a built-in browser, the recommended Chromium version is now raised from 63 to 66 and above as part of the security update to display a Screen Embedding slideshow in the browser.
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