September 29, 2022

App and Intranet Improvements

Our App & Intranet products now have a more descriptive and fully automated versioning in the style of 2022.3.257. The first number represents the year. The second is raised with each major release within a year. The last shows ongoing new versions.

• In the Dashboard, the Top Post tile has been improved for clarity and better user experience.
• When coming back to the newsfeed after reading an article the previous scroll position is now saved. Users get back directly to where they left the newsfeed and can continue to scroll to the articles they haven’t seen yet.
• In widgets, the behavior of upload spinners on uploading media files has been improved.
• For Journeys, in addition to the push notifications, the user will be able to get email notifications.
• In the Journey plugin, the new role Contributor has been implemented to add, edit, or delete a journey step.
• When uploading files in the File Manager, an upload percentage is now displayed.
• Staffbase 365 News Central for SharePoint v1.9.4 has been released. The new version includes new functionality and fixes, such as:
  • Option to show web part on the full width of a section
  • Media files are now better protected and accessed in a more secure way
  • Open group subscriptions for regular users works once again as expected
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• In the Studio, the Microsoft Connections page and the option under Settings have been renamed to Third-Party Connections to accommodate newer integrations in the future.

API Improvements for App and Intranet

• When developing a custom widget, you can now make use of new profile fields for further API calls within the widget.

Bug Fixes for App and Intranet

• The unread bubbles on the navigation items were not aligned properly. This has been fixed.
• On Mac OS when using the Safari browser, the read notification was incorrectly shown as unread. This has been fixed.
• When editing pages and news posts, the Edit and Delete buttons for images did not function as expected.
• The Edit and Delete icons on images added to News posts and Pages did not function as expected.
• When editing a page, deleting a widget inside a section deleted the whole section. This has been fixed.
• When translating news, using the auto-translation turned special characters into visible HTML code in the final news. This has been fixed.
• When users added a comment under news while experiencing internet connection problems, comments were deleted again. This has been fixed.
• In the File Manager, selecting single files now works as expected. When a user selects a single file and tries to select a new one instead, the previous selection is now automatically removed.
• In some cases, the File Manager was not closed when navigating away to other parts of the Studio. This has now been fixed.
• When configuring the visibility of the Launchpad, the Visibility dropdown displayed ‘undefined’ instead of user names. This has been fixed.

Bugfixes for Native Apps

• On Android and iOS devices, notification bubbles in News channels did not disappear even after opening the corresponding post. This has been fixed.

Improvements for Employee Email

• In generated reports, the screen reader now works as expected when reading the report table. It reads across one row at a time instead of reading down one column at a time.
• The Outlook 365 Safe Links setting was generating additional click counts that weren’t meaningful for our metrics. This has been fixed.