Latest Staffbase Updates

June 16, 2022

In the forms plugin, Android users can now also upload files other than images, such as videos or PDF files.
Staffbase 365 News Central for SharePoint v1.9.1.0 has been released. The new version includes fixes, such as:
- Support for the new OAuth and Token URLs after Staffbase Azure migration for US environments
- With the News Pages as a source, Update posts are no longer excluded from the feed
- User avatars in Update posts are displayed once again as expected
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The Editorial Calendar received a design overhaul. All existing functionalities remain, but with a cleaner, updated look and feel.
Now when uploading a video to the Staffbase platform, a progress bar is available to show the progress.

When editing news, in some cases language content translations were switched. This has been fixed.
When translating news posts with automatic translations, the teaser text and title were not pre-filled in the translated post. This has been fixed.
In Analytics, there were blank spaces for names of deleted News channels. This has been fixed.

In News, for Content Reviews you can now invite collaborators regardless of their role in the platform, every employee can be a collaborator. Every collaborator gets a link to a review page without accessing the Studio.
In Chat, users can now delete one-on-one chat conversations. The conversation will be only deleted for them and not for the other participant.
Flemish and Bosnian are now available as interface and content languages.
Burmese and Swahili are now available as content languages.
Staffbase now supports all popular video formats. You can upload a variety of video formats even from mobile devices, but Staffbase recommends to use MP4, MOV, or AVI files.
In News and Page editors when editing media files, now you have the editing option as context menu icons. When selecting the file, you’ll see the available editing options. For example, the option to set preview images for video files and cropping and changing aspect ratios for images.

Custom icons were shown only in the menu and not in search results. This has been fixed.
On the desktop, when using the vertical menu, custom icons were displayed as too small. This has been fixed.
In some cases, videos were stopped after about 10 minutes of playback. This has been fixed.
In the News overview, changing the page size for the pagination didn't work as expected. This has been fixed.
In Pages, image cropping for the Hero Image and Portfolio widgets was not functioning as expected. This has been fixed.
On Pages, the resolution of large single images was automatically scaled-down, which led to blurriness. This has been fixed, and the image is now displayed in a resolution that fits the devices.
In the App- and Intranet Settings, after creating profile fields, settings were not saved correctly. This has been fixed.
In News channels in the app or intranet, the notification badges were displayed with wrong alignment. This has been fixed.
In the mobile app, the image description in the image gallery is now displayed again.

In the Quiz Calendar, when the Advent Calendar option for December has been selected, the word December has been removed from each individual quiz question door. This provides a neater and more seamless user experience.
In the Quiz Calendar, when ranking is disabled, editors now see a hint that they are testing the calendar.
In the Quiz Calendar, questions are shown in the user’s selected platform language. In addition, other language functionalities have been improved to provide a more seamless user experience.
When configuring a Quiz Calendar, editors can now see what the calendar looks like for users when the correct answers are not shown immediately after answering.
We implemented a new type of custom profile field, which allows displaying the manager of a user. This field can currently only be filled via a data sync. Ask your Customer Success Manager to activate the profile field.

With the new Dashboard activated, in the top navigation bar, the button for page versioning was invisble. This is fixed.
Media files with long filenames did not in all cases function as expected. File names are now limited to a maximum length of 255 characters and work as expected. The Media API documentation has also been updated accordingly.
Due to the migration to the new media server, some links to Launchpad app icons didn’t work anymore. This has been fixed.
In the Quiz Calendar, the way ranking was displayed after the 20th place did not work as expected. This has been fixed.
In the Quiz Calendar, the spacing for longer titles was not working as expected. This has been fixed.
In the Studio, when opening the settings of a new plugin, a discard changes dialog didn’t work as expected. This has been fixed.