Brightidea Product Release Notes - October 1st 2013

Brightidea is so excited to discuss the changes for our Fall 2013 release! These changes will take effect on Tuesday, October 1st 2013, 8:30PM EST.If you have received these release notes via email, this post may be truncated.

Release Focus

WebStorm Scheduler

• Set start and end dates for your WebStorms, as well as for idea submission, voting and commenting
• Newsletters and blog posts can also be scheduled in advance
• Notifications and configurable reminders ensure you stay up-to-date on triggered events in your WebStorms

 

• Learn more about the WebStorm Scheduler, here!

WebStorm Feedback

• Gather information about the performance of your WebStorm directly from your sponsor
• Easily assign, remind and track requests for WebStorm Feedback
• Exports and dashboard panels help prove the value of your innovation program

 

• Learn more about WebStorm Feedback, here!

Idea Boards

• A new, engaging UI to drive campaign participation and superior idea management
• Deep filtering lets you quickly and easily find the ideas you want

 

• Learn more about Idea Boards, here!

Enterprise Dashboard

• Updated with new mini-graphs to provide a quick view into the most important information in your system
• Track ideas and activity from across your system for multiple WebStorms

 

• Learn more about the new Enterprise Dashboard, here!

Global Navigation

• A unified navigation menu for all users, providing a consistent interface across multiple Enterprise, Community and WebStorm pages
• Provides a consolidated location for Notifications, Action Item Alerts and Private Messages, with quick links to Profile, Settings and Logout
• Configure which WebStorms inherit the Global Navigation

 

• Learn more about Global navigation, here!

Also new in BETA!

• Additional Info Fields

• Switchboard Round reports

• WebStorm 'Phase' widget

• A number of previously BETA features are now available to all administrators, including:
• Idea Tags, User Tagging, Action Item Alerts, Scorecard Compare, Notifications, Pipeline Results, Asynchronous reporting, Rules Engine, and more!
• See a complete list of new features and enhancements here.

Other Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed an issue with Action Item alerts not clearing out correctly when completed.

• Fixed an issue with User Tagging & editing comments
• Fixed an issue with number format in submission form, not formatting correctly in the idea & idea list.
• Fixed issue with tags not saving correctly when using foreign characters
• Fixed issue with tag subscription happening when users commented on ideas
• Trend Tracking report is now Asynchronous
• Fixed security issue with duplicate checker & anonymous submission
• Fixed issue with hidden ideas being removed from widgets for administrators

• Fixed issue with rules engine emails not sending successfully