💎 New features/enhancements
- Portal / Hub - Posts. Super admins can now create dynamic content using this new feature. Posts can be created and published from the super admin section, following a predefined format with basic content to fill in. It is supported in all platform languages. Last but not least, these posts can be shared directly using their dedicated link and/or added directly in a platform page (landing page for instance) in a carousel block. This carousel block is currently being finalised by Billie and will consist of a code snippet to copy/paste on landing pages whenever this carousel needs to be used.
- Global Announcements scheduling. As for regular program announcements, it is now possible to schedule global announcements.
- Generic improvements on SPA pages (new gen pages).
- [Technical] Code version upgrade
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fix ability to search by client name in the list of programs
- Fix thumbnail not displayed in the list of programs in some languages
- Fix unexpected error message when opening a project in a public Hub Catalog
- Fix deleted ideas still visible on call for ideas admin kanban (done in the scope of a larger refactor of the way we handle the technical object behind the ideas)
- Fix opening design studio shows shortly a deprectated page
- Fix unable to create admin/mentors because of password complexity
💎 New features/enhancements
- Redesign of the “gamification” tab. The gamification tab is now reorganized in order to differentiate how points are given. The ability to activate/deactivate the feature is also more obvious for super admins.
- Super admin sidebar improvement: Creation of a new super admin section to manage content at platform level. This section now includes the landing page builder (renamed into pages as it allows to create several pages, not just only one), an easy access to the design studio for super admins, and will contain the posts management once ready.
- Global Announcements criteria improved. Criteria are now displayed only if they contain selectable values inside.
- Improved cards layout. Cards inside the Admin kanban now have an adjusted size depending on the content so that the full title and description can be displayed without being truncated.
- Password complexity default value. In order to comply with security standards, the default value of the password_security_level setting is now set to 4 when creating a new platform (maximum level). Also the description of the different levels has been added into the setting description.
- Support a whitelist of domains for upload using links.
- New Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions templates.
- Partner API improvements. Include properties and values in Get Teams endpoints. Ability to discard a team
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fix language changing “randomly” when navigating from legacy to SPA pages on the admin side.
- Fix pixelized avatar in new leaderboard top 3 users.
- Fix bullet points and line breaks in new admin conversations
- Fix translations in participate modale to be adapted per program types
- Fix simple admins cannot add mentors
💎 New features/enhancements
- Leaderboard improvements: The leaderboard layout has been improved in order to make it more appealing, including a top 3 highlight. Also following feedbacks from our clients, the access to the leaderboard is now restricted to logged in users only.
- Improve design of notification bubbles. These notification bubbles are now visually aligned among all parts of the application (legacy and SPA)
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fix Partner API for step announcements that was not supporting the enqueued status
- Fix Global announcement questions available as criteria to discard questions that are not present in user registration forms
- Fix drop down actions in global announcements list when only 1 announcement is listed
- Fix admin view of global announcements generated by Partner API
- Fix save button after step transition on ideas management tab that was generating x notifications if clicking x time on save button
- Fix participation selection table not showing when creating a criteria jury
- Fix notifications that were not showing key elements in bold
Thursday, April 7th 2023 Release
📣 Global announcements
💬 Admin conversations update
💡 Ideas Management System improvements
💎 Hub improvements
💎 New features/enhancements
- Global Announcements: Super admins can now send announcements to the whole list of platform users. With this feature, they no longer need to be participants to be contacted. Additionally, an advanced selection functionality based on various criterias (whether a user participated in a given program or not, based on user questions,...) allows to target a group of users efficiently. Users are receiving a notification inside the platform along with an email. Finally, it is also possible to create and send global announcements using the Partner API in order to use it in some separate scripts.
- Admin conversations update: The admin section dedicated to conversations with teams has been migrated to the new SPA system. The layout is similar to what you are used to but it comes with visual improvements such a preload page skeleton in order to make the “wait” period less frustrating for admins before anything is displayed. This refactor also prevents any recurring indexing issue related to this page.
- Admin kanban view: Show number of ideas linked to each filter: Before, the filters were not showing to how many ideas they were linked. This is now the case.
- Property settings: Improve layout and show number of ideas linked to each value: each value now has a specific color associated depending on whether the value is associated to ideas or not, it also show the number of ideas associated if any.
- New button to create a new idea/participation in participant space. If the multiparticipation is activated, when editing or after submitting an idea/participation, participants can now directly create a new idea/participation from their space. This is applicable to any kind of program types (challenges included)
- New button to go to highlighted juries from participant space. When a jury (assessment interface) is configured to be highlighted, it already adds a button in the program interface to link to this jury. A similar button is now added in the participant space, below the button added by the above mentioned feature.
- Display an horizontal scrolling bar in the admin kanban. It allows users using mouses to easily scroll horizontally which was not the case until now. The scroll bar is visible at the bottom of the screen.
- Remove discarded teams from teams tab. Discarded teams are not meaningful anymore, as a results they should not be joinable anymore. This is why discarded teams are removed from the teams tab.
- New filter by discarded projects/ideas. This filter is already available in the admin kanban of the call for ideas. It is now also available in catalogs and kanbans of the hub.
- Challenge filter renamed into Programs
- New webhook capability. When a user is created, deleted or its role is modified, this information is pushed to a specific address
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fix notification sidebar on mobile that was not displaying notifications
- Fix “highlighted” jury feature when applied on free workflow programs (call for ideas for instance) that was not displaying the “view votes” button.
- CSS optimization (filter panels, responsiveness)
- Fix 502 error that was frequently occuring on SPA pages (leaderboard, kanban, property settings, design studio,...)
Thursday, March 22nd 2023 Release
💡 Ideas Management System improvements
💎 New features/enhancements
- Rename a specific value in property settings. The administrators now have the ability to rename values. In case they are already applied to some ideas, the name change is reflected on the idea and filters.
- Minor CSS improvement regarding search, filter and sort spacing
- Improve layout of notification bubbles
- Improve wording of notification related to sent announcements
- New icon for the announcements tab (the same icon will be used for the global announcements)
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fix Program creation from template containing announcements
- Fix Admin program dropdown that was displayed behind the sidebar on SPA pages
💎 New features/enhancements
- New setting at step level to automatically move submitted ideas to next step. When this setting is activated in a given step, participants who submit their idea (click on submit button at the end of the participation form) will move to next step automatically. This feature is applicable to any kind of free flow program (call for ideas, recruitment program, call for startups) and comes deactivated by default.
- Disable (grey out) Filters and Sort by elements if nothing to filter/sort
- Improve notified users modale layout
- Remove unnecessary scrolling on kanban to make it smoother
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fix Chat not accessible by admins when 1 to 1 message feature activated
- Fix global styles not taken into account in SPA pages
- Fix participation export that was misaligned on Participation avatar url (note: this does not fix previously generated exports)
Thursday, February 23rd 2023 Release
💬 New messaging option
💎 Translation center activation for super-admins
💡 Ideas Management System improvements
💎 New features/enhancements
- Translation center activation for super-admins. Until now the activation of the translation center could be done only by technical support. It is now possible for super admins to activate it directly inside the platform.
- Partner API improvement: Ability to move a team from step to step.
- New setting to send notifications to admins when an idea is submitted. This improvement also applies to any kind of program type (i.e. challenges included). When activated, a notification will be sent to all admins (super admin included) of the program as soon as an idea/participation is submitted. This comes deactivated by default.
- New send a message option in Hub and user profile When the feature of individual messaging is activated on a platform, it is now possible to send a message to team members/project owners from the Hub and from User profiles. This is applicable to any kind of user, i.e. admins and super admins can also contact participants individually using this feature.
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fix Property settings tab appearing in Challenges
- Hide search bar in Property settings section as it is unused
- Fix user names not displayed in individual chat
💎 New features/enhancements
- Properties and values for call for ideas. The properties are a new feature on the platform that allows admins to better qualify, structure, and select ideas. When working with multiple ideas, the pain point was that managing a large volume of ideas would become hard and painful without a way to arrange them. With the ability to add properties on them, admins can now collectively add information about them, filter them, qualify them, and apply their business case/workflow. How does it work? It is basically a "tagging" system available to any admins. They can add properties to ideas, as well as creating new properties that match their need.
🐛 Bug fixes
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Tuesday, January 10th 2023 Release
🛎️ New notification option
💎 API updates
💡 Ideas Management System improvements
💎 New features/enhancements
- New option to notify participants when moving to next step. Until now, there was no notification for that. Admins needed to manually generate announcements in order to notify participants. There is now an option to do so with a regular platform notification + email that contains a link to the participation. This option is deactivated by default so that it does not impact existing programs. It is applicable to any kind of program (challenge, call for ideas, recruitment program, call for startups).
- Improve filters behaviour in kanban view. In the ideas management tab (admin kanban view), clicking outside the filter panel now automatically closes it and keeps the filters applied. The filter panel is now also sticky on the right side of the screen (compatible with horizontal scrolling in case of numerous columns)
- Days left in admin stats based on end of registration date. For free program types (kanban mode), the days left shown in the top right of the admin stats tab is now based on the end of registration date. Before, it was based on the end of program date which was not making sense for this kind of program.
- Free programs compatibility with page visibility at a given step. Until now free program types (kanban mode) were not compatible with the feature of the page builder allowing to define the visibility of a page for given steps only. This feature is now supported for free programs.
- Add trackers column in participations export. The participants details tab of the participations export now contains a tab listing trackers related to participants. Before, this information was only available in the user export at platform level.
- Partner API improvement: Create a program
- Improve step deletion mechanism. When configuring a program, there is often the need to create steps, test and eventually delete the step. Before, the step deletion was allowed only if there was nothing associated to it. For instance it was not possible to delete a step that did not contain any participation yet as soon as a jury or an announcement was defined in that step. Admins needed to manually delete them before being able to delete the step, which is very misleading and was generating unnecessary support from us. A step can now be deleted as soon as there is no participation inside it, related predefined announcements and juries are automatically deleted if any.
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fix missing filters in Hub
- Fix assessment results tabs in idea details that was not showing the correct number of voters/comments for some ideas
💎 New features/enhancements
- Save design studio designs. Until now, designs could be done in one shot only. Admins can now access designs they made in a dedicated section. Designs are saved when downloading the image. Unfortunately there is currently an issue on Pixelixe (integrated tool used for this feature). I will let you know when the issue is fixed so that you can fully use this feature.
- German translations + translation fixes. Following the major wording refactor we did last month, we have performed a translation effort on all the platform in german so that the platform wording in german is now up to date. Also, there were some mistakes and/or untranslated elements. We also took the opportunity to fix these translations.
- Improve step ordering management in challenges. Until now, the timeline section was not allowing admins to clearly see which step is the current one and it was easy to make mistakes when managing step end dates and mess around with the whole timeline. A “current” information now shows directly to the admin which step is the current one. Also, as soon as the challenge as a start date defined, it is not possible anymore to add a step before the current one. If the start date is not defined yet, it is now allowed to define a step before the current one (i.e. changing the first step of the challenge) without causing side effects.
- Display time of flash messages increased to 5 sec. Flash messages are all messages shown on the platform a short amount of time when performing an action to provide feedback to the user about the action (ongoing, success, failure). This information was displayed a too short amount of time until now resulting in barely being able to read them.
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fix sidebar not displayed in the super admin gamification tab
- Fix landing page header to stick to the top of the screen when scrolling
- Fix impossible to create ideas in a call for ideas containing 1 step
- Remove misleading sentence in email that was saying to users that they can directly answer to emails
💎 New features/enhancements
- 🔥 Program templates. In order to simplify the program creation we are now introducing templates on all platforms. At program creation time, super admins can select templates according to the program type previously selected. Each type has the “blank template” default choice allowing to start from scratch. All templates are made available from templates.agorize.com and there is a link allowing to check the templates before actually choosing one.
- Program type in super-admin list of programs. Until now, there was no need to have this element since we only had challenges. Now that we have several types, there is the need to easily differentiate program types.
- New generic program types. We have introduced 2 new program types. One for simultaneous workflow (equivalent to challenge mode) and one for free workflow (used in call for ideas for instance). These 2 types are based on generic wording.
- Improve program duplication. Until now it was not easy to differentiate a copied program from the original one because it keeps the same name. We have changed that in order to append a “(copy)” word at the end.
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fix Leaderboard to show only basic users
Monday, November 14th 2022 Release
💎💎💎 New Call for ideas / Recruitment / Call for startups programs
💬 Rework platform wording by splitting by program type
💎 New features/enhancements
- 🔥 Call for ideas / Recruitment program / Call for startups MVP. The platform now supports 3 new products: Call for ideas, Recruitment program and Call for startups. These 3 products are based on the free workflow system (kanban view) to manage ideas/applications one by one and transition them from steps to steps using drag and drop mechanism, each ot them having a specific set of wording.
- Replace “Participation form” by Participation Name and description in preview. Until now, the participation preview could result in a quite empty space showing “Participation form” only and a blank space below. It is now populated with the Participation name and its description.
- Include participation image in exports
- Simplify super admin creation. Until now, the super admin creation was in 2 steps. First we needed to create a regular admin account and then turn this account into a super admin account. This was pretty inconvenient. There is now a dedicated button at platform level to create new super admins.
- Differentiate super admin space vs admin space. Until now the sidebar had the same color which made difficult the identification of the 2 spaces. The admin space stays with the same color, the super admin sidebar however is now in black.
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fix Community deletion when only admins and mentors linked to it
- Fix Mentor monitoring conversations not appearing in the tab (indexing issue)
- Fix wrong translations in user preferences (notifications)
💎 New features/enhancements
- New “keys” language to better use translation center. Until now, it was really difficult to properly use the translation center to modify a specific wording. It is now easy to do using a new “keys” language added on all platforms. It basically turns the pplatform into keys used for translations. Then, you just need to copy paste the key you want to modify in the translation center and modify the wording in the language you want.
🐛 Bug fixes
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Monday, October 10th 2022 Release
🏗️ Technical updates
💎 New features/enhancements
- Single community at registration time. It is now possible to configure a platform to allow single community selection. Until now users were able to select multiple communities which does not make sense (select student and startup communities for instance). This will now be the default for any new platform.
- Rework completion %. Until now, the % of completion of a participation is computed on the fly each time we need to use it, display it, export it. This is highly demanding in term of performances. We now store the information and use the stored information to display the % of completion in the participant space.
🐛 Bug fixes
- Prevent the creation of registration questions with reserved words (first name, last name, email) creating side effects
- Fix: Unable to answer profile questions on a new community when participating
- Fix: Prevent date of end of registration from being after end of last step
- Fix: Translation synchronisation at each deploy that was messing with non FR/EN translations
- Fix: Cannot edit participation form after adding a new mandatory question
💎 New features/enhancements
- Translation center upgrade. It is now possible to search by translation key and the key is displayed when selecting a translation for easier use.
- Adapt participant space in case of step without questions (evaluation steps). There is now a dedicated view on participant side when he is in a step in which nothing is expected from him. For instance a step dedicated to assessment where only assessors are doing actions. In that case the participant only sees a caption that says “Your submission is currently at this step”. This change will be mostly applicable for idea box and recruitment operations, but also applies to challenges
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fix: Deleted users are still appearing in hiring lists, admins list, mentors list
- Fix: Inconsistant team list when editing mentors (showing all teams of the platform instead of teams of the current challenge)
- Fix: Juries in steps after the first one are not displayed in challenge tabs
- Fix: Unable to add existing users as challenge admin
Tuesday, August 23rd 2022 Release
🔍 Improve participations management
💎 New features/enhancements
- Automated submission when step without deliverables. This applies to both regular challenges and idea boxes being developed. If a step does not contain any question, participations are now automatically submitted and no notification is sent to the participant. The participant cannot edit its participation anymore
- Anonymous jury. It is now possible to create juries without participant information
- Technical upgrades.
- code optimization
- version upgrades
- cleaning
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fix notifications at challenge start
💎 New features/enhancements
- Participant information in participation view. In one single place, admins can now see participation deliverables along with participants information submitted at registration time. This is also the case on participation view in juries. On top of that, this feature is compatible with the confidentiality aspects of questions. In other words, if registration questions are st as confidential, they won’t be shown in juries where confidential questions should not be displayed.
- Announcement duplication. Admins can now easily duplicate announcements from the admin section
- Close challenge button. Admins are now able to close a challenge manually, at any time. The action can be reverted and a challenge can be set back to open if required.
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fix translation missing error when creating a participation question
- Fix duplicate error in API response
Monday, June 20th 2022 Release
💎 API updates
💬 New challenge languages
💎 New features/enhancements
- Use challenge languages in participation form. Until now, the participation form was available in platform languages only. The admin is now able to translate the participation form in all available challenge languages. Participants can now use a language switcher to display the participation form in available challenge languages.
- New challenge languages:
- Turkish (tr)
- Indonesian (in)
- Danish (da)
- Finnish (fi)
- Norwegian (nor)
- Czech (cs)
- Swedish (sv)
- Participation tags in results and selection section. Participation tags are now displayed in the results and selection panel. Until now they were available in the participations tab only.
- Partner API enhancements.
- User index: filter on current_sign_in_at
- New Questions V2 show endpoint
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fix image upload in challenge builder
- Fix download button in export emails
Wednesday, June 15th 2022 Release
💎 API updates
💎 New features/enhancements
- Partner API enhancements.
- User show: Add autocomplete parent value to answers
- New Questions V2 endpoint
- Clarification of admin support. The question mark button on the top of the screen has been removed (should be used by participants only). Admins need to use the dedicated button in the side bar of their admin section
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fix 500 error on juries where allow mentoring application setting is activated
- Fix 500 error on registration/login path when using an undefined tracker
- Fix announcements indexing after creation using Partner API
- Fix project viewer on mobile that was infinitely loading
- Fix name appearing twice on the challenge header when multiparticipation activated
- Fix participation creation with the long journey (with hiring modals) that prevented to create a participation
💎 New features/enhancements
- Simplification of participation flow. Optional modals regarding Hiring, Team cover, and invite your friends are removed in order to be closer to the One Click Participation logic. This feature is activated by default
- Number of votes in user exports. This allows to easily determine in one export who is a voter or not.
🐛 Bug fixes
- Improve email notifications timing related to messages. Only one email is now sent after a series of consecutive messages sent in the chat.
- Fix participation form preview when challenge is configured with multiple categories
- Wording improvement related to the recent introduction of a date until when participants can create or join a team. It is now specified as “registration”. Also the challenge cards are now showing “registration closed” instead of “participation closed” to avoid confusion.
- Fix labels in chat
- Fix generic wording in the deliverables editor
- Fix link to user profile from Hiring tab that was leading to error 404.
- Improve selection of filters on the admin side
💎 New features/enhancements
- Leaderboard. New tracked event for user points. The full list of tracked events where number of points can be configured is:
- Ranked in final step (top 5)
- Create an account
- Join a team
- Create a team
- Selected for the next step
- Receive a like
- Like on a jury
- Receive a grade
- Grade on a jury
- Receive an investment
- Invest on a jury
- Receive a comment
- Comment on a jury
- Post on a discussion wall
- New mandatory questions for users. When new mandatory questions are configured in the registration form, existing users are asked to answer these questions on the next login.
- New option for access restricted feature. The access restricted feature now has a 3rd level allowing to dissociate the jury pages visibility restrictions and let the jury settings handle the visibility. It means that we can create easy access to jury pages even if the rest of the platform is restricted.
🐛 Bug fixes
- New participation view for participants when a challenge is closed. When a challenge is over, participants that were not selected in the final step now see that the challenge is over
- In the admin section, remove « current » on step drop down when a challenge is closed
- Fix of category display in the Hub (Catalog + Kanban)
💎 New features/enhancements
- Leaderboard. We now have a way to display the best participants of a platform according to their number of points. We also have the possibility to modify the number of points awarded for each action via an interface on the super admin side. (This feature must be activated per platform)
- New end of participation date in challenge settings. The checkbox "The participants can create or join an existing team" on the timeline of a challenge has disappeared. The opening period for participations is now determined by a new date field: "End of participations".
- A new view "All steps" is now available on the pages Statistics, My messages, Announcement and Juries allowing to have an overview of the elements all steps together. This view is accessible from the drop down at the top right of the screen.
🐛 Bug fixes
- Login redirects now work on SPA (Catalog / Kanban) pages. So if you want to access a Kanban page restricted to a group, you are redirected to a login page, then you are automatically redirected to the correct page.
- It is now possible to add columns to the block Gallery and Accordion again (without reloading the page).
- The information is back in the tracker table (Detail and Sharing view)
💎 New features/enhancements
- New notifications in juries. We introduced a new option in juries called “Notify participants” which will notify participants when someone lets a comment on their participation when activated. Also, a notification will also be sent to users persons who already let comments on the same participation. These 2 notifications follow the same principle as other platform notifications (i.e. sent inside the platform and by email depending on user preferences)
- Adapt challenge banner format. We have reviewed the way the challenge banner is displayed by adding new breakpoints. This will make sure the layout is adapted to the standard screen resolutions (720p, 1080p, 2K, 4K,...)
- New option to hide the “teams” tab. The tab listing all the teams can now be hidden if this option is activated. By default this page is always visible to fit the current behavior
- API enhancements
- Move GTM configuration to platform settings
🐛 Bug fixes
- Various fixes related to Catalog and Kanban
- Update style of buttons in challenge builder to fit more dynamically
- Enhance filter challenge tags filter list to display parent tags
- fix <BR> & <p> that appeared in announcements
- sort conversations to have the most recent messages at the top
- improve sorting of comments in jurys
💎 New features/enhancements
- Hub: Kanban view. The Agorize Hub is now enriched with a kanban view. It is a well-known visualisation model (e.g: Trello is the most known tool to use it). It is a paid feature that can be activated by EPMs.
- Participation form preview. It is now possible to preview the forms of all challenges steps. An admin can generate this preview page and share it to anyone, including unregistered users.
- Simplify User registration flow. The image profile step is skipped when there is no question on the same screen (when there is only 1 community)
- Challenge archiving for super admins. A super admin can now archive or unarchive challenges in the interface. The goal of this feature is to allow super administrators to clean the backlog of challenges and decide which ones can be accessed or not.
- Improved GA and GTM integration. In order to better track the behavior of our users on the platforms, the Google Analytics (GA) and Google Tag Manager (GTM) integration has been improved according to the latest documentation. The regular GA setting on our platforms now allows to configure both UA (legacy) and G4 (new) GA tracking ids. Also, GA is now compatible with the SPA (single page application) specificity of our platform which allows to track the full behavior of a user (not only the fist visited page as it was currently the case)
- API enhancements
- Improved chat UX
🐛 Bug fixes
- Force users to upload image formats in team/participation thumbnail
- Grade update failing from max grade to 1 in juries
- Improve challenge banner size on large screens
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021 Release
🎨 Design Studio enhancement
🔍 Participations selectors enhancement
💎 New features/enhancements
- Teams/Participations selectors enhancement. When editing a mentor, jury or announcement, already selected teams will now appear first in the table. No need to go through all pages anymore.
- Design studio enhancement. It is now possible to access the design studio directly within the challenge builder image sections, with the appropriate format.
- Autocompletes in restriction groups. Restriction groups (segmentation) can now be configured based on autocomplete questions
- API enhancements. Add created_at in Membership Index and Show endpoints
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fix When a visitor accesses a jury page, with low or medium visibility setting, on a challenge associated to a restriction group, he was redirected to the login page. Access to jury pages is now ignoring the challenge restriction so that visitors can reach the specific sign up for juries, unless a restriction is defined on the jury
- Fix Users could not change the language of jury pages even though admins can translate. A language selector has been added and navigation keeps the selected language
- Display User Name as User typed it in jury comments
- Update wording in the visio tab to be aligned with reality
💎 New features/enhancements
- Define image, title and description for social media sharing. This feature is key for sharing whitelabel platform links on social medias
- Multi-Catalog (Hub). It is now possible to create multiple Catalogs and assign specific projects inside each one.
- Ability for Admins to generate meeting rooms. Admins and Super Admins now have a dedicated section in challenges to create meeting rooms. This feature will come activated by default on all platforms.
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fix Redirected you too many times issue that was linked to the remember me tick box
- Fix Display User Name as User typed it in User profile
- Add date attribute in answers relations of User details API V2 in order to get answers related to date question type
- Fix pagination issue on Project Catalogs that was limiting projects to 1000
- Fix new challenge languages wording that was displayed using technical naming on participant side
- In juries where comments are private, display comments in the sidebar on the right hand of the screen. This corresponds to the same behavior introduced during last update on public comments.
- Fix webinar feature that was displaying a 500 error
💎 New features/enhancements
- Real time document in team workspace. This is a Google Doc like feature allowing teammates to work together on a document at the same time. Please refer to the latest technews sent by email for more information. This feature is already activated by default on all platforms.
- Support button for admins. Administrators now have a dedicated channel to send questions.
- Improve comments section of participations in juries. Comments section used to be in a tab on the left hand side of the screen and suffered from poor visibility. It is now always displayed in the right hand side of the screen. The goal is to improve interactions inside juries, especially when comments are public. This new display is active only when the option Display voter’s comments is activated.
- Restrict creation of categories. The creation of categories was too permissive and was creating some side effects on participation edition, announcements, step change,... In order to avoid these side effects, the creation of categories will now be disallowed as soon as a participation exists without any category defined on the challenge. Please make sure to tackle the category creation before the challenge starts, otherwise it won’t be possible to add them afterwards.
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fix language management of deliverables. The available languages for deliverables are now aligned with reality, i.e. only languages that are both defined as platform language AND challenge language
- Fix Design Studio accessibility. All links in sidebar were redirecting to the Design Studio, hence it was impossible for the user to navigate away from it.
Tuesday, October 12th, 2021 Release
💎 Project Catalog
💬 New challenge languages
🔐 Password security level 4
💎 New features/enhancements
- Project Catalog: A dedicated page allowing a selected set of persons to browse and filter across all platform projects.
- Add new challenge languages: French Canadian (fr-ca), Spanish LATAM (es-419), Chinese Traditional, Brazilian Portuguese (pt-br), Arabic (ar), Hindi (hi), Turkish (tr), Polish (pl), Urdu (ur), Ukrainian (uk), Romanian (ro)
- Password Security Level 4. The level 4 can now be defined in the setting “password_security_level”. It consists in 8 characters minimum, at least 1 capital letter, at least 1 numeric character, at least 1 small letter, 1 special character and 3 consecutive letters cannot be part of the user name
🐛 Bug fixes
- Words cut in announcement preview
- Words cut in admin conversations
- As a simple admin I cannot add an existing mentor to my challenge
- [Wrong notification] Team is notified that a user accepted his invitation whereas user is already in another team
- [Notifications] Delete associated notifications when deleting a Mentoring. Basically when an admin was editing a mentor to assign him to another team, the notifications of both the mentor and the previous mentored team was broken.
Monday, September 27th, 2021 Release
🛂 Pre-create mentors
🛂 Filters for mentor creation/edition
🐛 Banner and gallery block fixes
💎 New features/enhancements
- Pre-create mentors. Mentors can now be created without any associated teams. This allows pre-creation of mentors.
- Add filters in the mentor creation and edit section. Challenge filters can now be used in the mentor creation and edit section as it is already the case in the announcements and juries admin sections.
- Super-admins can edit titles of template questions.
- Pagination on admin challenge page. In the super admin section listing the challenges, challenge can now be browsed by pages of 20 per 20 challenges. This helps application performances and makes the page load faster.
- Move Videoconference link to “collaborative tools” in Workspace tab
- Add pagination on Index Participations API endpoint
🐛 Bug fixes
- Jury filters were kept as selected after changing pages
- Fix “Create your team” link in team pages.
- Fix Italic/Add the Italic version of the Poppins font
- Fix use brand display as email sender of platform emails.
- Add a minimum height (410px) on the challenge banner in order to fix banner issues that was showing blurry columns on banner sides of regular screens.
- Fix French wording of jury confidentiality descriptions that were the same for “Basse” and “Moyenne”. Description of “Haute” was also the wrong one.
- Fix duplicated images in gallery blocks
- Fix “submitted” column in participations exports which was showing true when step is over even if participations were not submitted for this step.
💎 New features/enhancements
- Challenge duplication for super admins. Super administrators can now duplicate a challenge in 1 click directly from the challenge list. Please contact us if you want to activate it.
- API GET participation details V2. This allows to retrieve all information related to a given participation in one API call (team, juries, votes,...)
- Multi-participation option is now activable after 1 participation creation.
- Add a tooltip for webinar and design studio creation.
- Optimize Webinar creation page.
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fix last_sign_in_at information in exports and API. The information returned was not exactly the latest login date, it was the previous one.
- In jury pages, the “next projects” was not taking into account the jury filters.
- In email notifications, Brand Name was used instead of the Brand Display setting.
- The setting “cookies_banner_hidden” was not taken into account.
- In jury pages, the number of pages was not updated regarding the selected filters.
- In jury pages, the number of pages was increasing when navigating to other pages.
- In admin jury pages, the criteria were displayed in the wrong order.
- Technical fix to optimize the translations synchronization task.
- Fix Gallery Block layout: titles are now aligned and the size of the cards are the same (aligned on the one containing the most content). Tablet and mobile layout is improved to remove the white space on the left
- Ensure 2 SSOs can coexist on a same platform without issues
- Fix positioning of bullet points that were too much on the left and not aligned with the text
💎 New features/enhancements
- Activation of split T&Cs and Privacy Policy opt-ins on all platforms. This change is required by the GDPR regulations and makes our platform more GDPR compliant.
- API GET List of participations V2
- API CREATE/UPDATE Participation answers. This allows to use the API to import external data into participation question fields. This can be used for instance to script an import of third-party data into the participation form so that the information can be displayed in juries.
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fix an issue related to last week’s deployment consisting of an auto-save triggered too quickly on date fields of format MM/DD/YYYY
- Fix a long-term issue preventing simple admins administrating a large number of teams to use the select all functionality in announcements and juries.
💎 New features/enhancements
- Design Studio: Enables admins and super admins to create designs directly in the appropriate formats. It is suitable for challenge banner images as well as images used in challenge builder blocs.
- Webinar: Enables admins and super admins to create webinar sessions.
- End of step time granularity: It is now possible to use 5 min granularity to define the time of challenge start and end of a step.
- Make participation questions filterable in juries: It is now possible to do it in the interface directly.
- API Memberships: Allows to manage team members (remove or add team members) via API.
- API Teams: Allows retrieving team details via API.
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fix change extra time of steps in admin timeline.
💎 New features/enhancements
- New banner format(deployed on all platforms by default)
- API capabilities: GET jury details
- New Platform language: Portuguese
- Filter in admin participations tab: untagged participations. This allows to easily focus on new participations in a process of admin review/categorization using tags.
🐛 Bug fixes
- Change “Mainland China” to “China” in country dropdown menus
- Remove the automatic addition of an “s” to autocomplete question titles in non-latin languages
- The split of opt-ins (privacy policy and terms of use) was not taken into account in the SSO path (social SSO and custom SAML SSO).
Tuesday, May 4th, 2021 Release
🔍 Improve participations management
🐛 Fix chat
💎 New features/enhancements
- Allow admins to sort participations in the admin participations tab
- Make download and delete buttons more obvious on participation preview (before we had to go over the file with your mouse pointer to make those buttons appear)
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fix “loading error” in chat. This error was quite often raised by participant and we had to tell them to logout and login again. This will be done automatically now.
Tuesday, April 20th, 2021 Release
📝 New platform font
📥 Download documents for admins
💎 New features/enhancements
- Allow admins/mentors/jurys to download participation files in their original format in the participation preview. This feature comes already activated on all our platforms.
- New font on all our platforms: Poppins (we used to have Liszt font before). This feature comes already activated on all our platforms. Note that platforms having custom fonts won’t be impacted.
- Reverse order of date fields (will start with current dates, whereas it was starting in 1930 before)
- Ability to force a page refresh when cookies are accepted.
- GDPR - split of T&C and PP opt-in will be activated in all languages (fr, en, de, es, zh, ja, ru) on all our platforms at the end of the week or beginning of next week. A bug related to some languages was preventing us from activating it until now.
- Add brand display setting. This allows to modify the name of the platform displayed in the footer and browser tab directly in platform settings.
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fix Video conference banner hides the steps selection
- Fix SSO bug making users reach the profile creation page asking for a password. This fix being related to the SSO, we could not ensure 100% that this fix will really solve the issue.
- Impossible to sign up on Agorize in de, es, zh, ja and ru when the split optin is activated
Thursday, March 25th, 2021 Release
📤 Upload files for mentors
💎 New features/enhancements
- Allow mentors to upload files in collaborative workspace of his/her assigned teams
🐛 Bug fixes
- Make the admin and mentor conversation navbar sticky in order to always have the videoroom link
- Fix API Create capability to be compatible with the confirmable_user setting
Wednesday, March 10th, 2021 Release
🖥 Video conference rooms access for admins
💎 New features/enhancements
- New Video Conferencing capability: Admins now have a link to the conference room of all teams in their conversation space.
🐛 Bug fixes
- Minor fix regarding the notify parameter of the POST User API endpoint
- New platforms will now come with confirmable_user (email confirmation at registration time) and private_profile (only registered users can visit other users’ profiles) settings activated by default
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021 Release
🍪 Cookie banner update
💎 Updates regarding the cookie banner
- Modification of the text to remove the statement that says that if a user continues to navigate, it is considered as consent. This is not the case anymore.
- When the user ignores the cookie banner by continuing to navigate or closing it using the cross, the cookie banner will remain visible until the user makes a choice. Until then, cookies are not stored.
- 3 buttons are now clearly visible: Cookie settings, Decline all, Accept all
- When the user clicks on Cookie settings, all choices are disabled by default
Monday, January 25th, 2021 Release
🎞 MOV to AVI video conversion
💎 New features/enhancements
- Convert .mov videos into .mp4 in order to allow video preview in participations
Wednesday, December 16th, 2020 Release
🎨 New default logo and favicon
💎 API updates
💎 New features/enhancements
- Change default logo and favicon to the new ones
- New API capabilities
- Create and Update Users: with email, first name, last name, password
- Delete Users with 2 options: soft delete (anonymous users) or hard delete (remove all information of the user)
- Create, Update, Read and Delete Participation Tags: This allows to generate tags or get the list of all tags. The capability of assigning tags to specific participations is not ready yet. This will be possible in the next release
- Multi-Platform Page capability
🐛 Bug fixes
- In the “Participations” tab of the admin backoffice, participations are now displayed based on their creation date. Latest participations are shown first and oldest ones will be shown at the end.
- Send notification email to the new admin when adding an existing user as an admin.
- Fix export sheet names for non latin alphabet. This will fix the export generation when triggered in Russian, Chinese, Japanese and any language using a specific alphabet.
Monday, November 2nd, 2020 Release
💎 API updates
🐛 Exports bug fixes
💎 New features/enhancements
- Technical features related to the sign-up/sign-in flow improvement (hidden for now, no impact)
- New API capabilities related to User creation, modification and deletion (first iteration for now, need a second iteration to be usable).
🐛 Bug fixes
- Social media share broken when the challenge is restricted (uses segmentation)
- User export is broken when registration form contains date fields with year only.
- Rename column Participation ID into team ID in Results exports and add a column for participation ID (for coherence with last update of participant and participation exports)
- Change export file names to reflect the changes applied during last update (participation exports will now be named Date-Time-ChallengeName-StepName-participations.xlsx and deliverables exports will now be named Date-Time-ChallengeName-StepName-deliverables.zip)
Tuesday, August 4th, 2020 Release
💬 Change challenge default language
🐛 Various bug fixes
💎 New features/enhancements
- New option for GET User API: filter by user email
- Add capability to modify cookie consent in privacy policy page
- Ability to change the default locale of a challenge in the challenge settings
- Redirect to the sign up page when trying to access a segmented challenge as a visitor (non registered user). This will remove the need for restricted access option for user registration flows on landing page + segmentation platforms.
- Do not automatically assign user to a community when signing up as jury. This will force jury users to answer all community questions if they want to participate
🐛 Bug fixes
- Multi-participations in exports
- Unable to upload pptx, docx, xlsx from Safari
- Security fixes
- Broken participations print preview
- Description of Date deliverables displayed twice
- Secret challenges listed in search engines
- Deleted User still has profile page active
- Impossible to make several mentoring requests
- Missing icon to delete a document in participation preview
- Add logs to better track issues related to Segmentation
Wednesday, June 10th, 2020 Release
🔍 New sort options in juries
🖥 Video conference for mentors
🇷🇺 New platform language (Russian)
💎 New features/enhancements
- Sort participations by total investments on investment jury pages. This is a kind of leaderboard
- Sort participations by last modification date on jury pages
- Visioconference tool in team space + possibility for mentors to join
- New platform language: russian
🐛 Bug fixes
- Password strength indication was not correctly displayed
- Landing page - impossible to upload images
- Export failing because of date format