Brightidea Product Release Notes - October 16th 2013



In the past several weeks we have made a number of enhancements and bug fixes. These changes will take effect on Wednesday, October 16th 2013, 8:30PM EST.  If you have received these release notes via email, this post may be truncated.

To read complete documentation, please visit the Product Release Notes forum in the Brightidea Support Portal.

 

 8.png Enterprise Dashboard Updates!

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  • A number of enhancements and fixes have been made to the Enterprise Dashboard (BETA) to improve functionality and make the dashboard clearer.
    • Enterprise Dashboard is now available only for viewing by System Administrators
      • In Enterprise dynamic navigation setup, the dashboard defaults permission settings to "Admin"
      • End users who attempt to access the Enterprise dashboard will be redirected back to Enterprise home page.
    • The dashboard boxes at the top of the dashboard have been updated to the following:
      • Move to the Activity Metrics section
      • Date ranges for Activity Metrics now apply to the dashboard boxes
      • Updated titles and hover-over tool tips provide a clearer explanation of metrics and how they are calculated
    • A quick date range drop down has been added the Activity Metrics section, allowing users to select:
      • Year to Date
      • Month to Date
      • Past 3 Months
      • Past 6 Months
      • All-Time
        • Custom date ranges may still be selected by clicking "Custom date range"
    • The Dashboard now spans the entire page
    • Several metrics have been corrected for improved accuracy
    • Fixed an issue in which large numbers in the Activity Metrics dashboard would wrap incorrectly
    • Read more about the Enterprise Dashboard feature, here.

 2.png WebStorm Countdown Widget

  • The new Countdown widget allows for an elegant and built-in solution of adding a simple count-down widget to WebStorm pages.

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  • Administrators can configure the following options for the Countdown widget:
    • Countdown Widget Title
    • End Date and Time (Select from the Date Selector and hour/minute drop-downs)
    • End Message
    • Once the configuration is set, select the Pencil icon once more to save changes.
  • The widget will countdown to the selected date and time
  • Once the Countdown is complete, the end Message (below) will appear within the widget
  • Read more about the Countdown widget, here!

 

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  • Turkish characters now correctly save in Enterprise/WebStorm setup banner section
  • Enterprise Footer is no longer a BETA feature and is available for editing in the Design tab of Enterprise setup.
    • Read more about this feature, here.
  • Corrected Enterprise Dashboard statistics to correctly reflect Enterprise data
  • Resolved IE8 compability issues with WebStorm management in Enterprise Setup.
  • Fixed issue which caused user profile feed to show updates from the WebStorm updates feed in IE8
  • Plus sign now correctly saves when used in Enterprise/WebStorm dynamic navigation
  • When submitting an idea via Enterprise Post Idea, the campaign selector now correctly says to select a campaign
  • Fixed an issue in which the login history export contained an incorrect column
  • Embedded video links from YouTube now appear correctly in Activity Feeds
  • Resolved issues with Idea Voting History export not generating correctly
  • Foreign characters are now supported for Enterprise and WebStorm banners

 

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  • Made a number of fixes and enhancements to the Phase Widget (BETA):
    • Added date validation to Phase widget so that dates occur in chronological order
    • Fixed an issue in which the Phase widget would not appear in some pages
    • Fixed several UI cross-browser issues
  • Fixed an issue in which creating new email addresses for Email Idea Submission (BETA) would not appear correctly.
    • Read more about this feature here!
  • Updated WebStorm Scheduler email templates for improved usability.
    • Read more about this feature here!
  • Relative widget options may now be edited by administrators
    • See example with Updates widget, here.
  • Resolved issues with HTML code showing in email notifications from comments
  • Brightidea's Countdown widget now correctly appears for end users
  • Fixed issue with editing ideas & Idea tags not saving correctly
  • Links for status and category widget now works correctly with WebStorm vanity names greater than 35 characters
  • Ideas report at the WebStorm level now correctly displays foreign characters under the 'title' column
  • Fixed an issue in which idea tags were not correctly removed when editing an idea
  • Fixed an issue in the Blog editor, in which links set to open in a new window would not open correctly
  • Fixed an issue in which text formatting through the idea submission rich text editor would not appear correctly in the final idea view
  • WebStorm Moderators may now see hidden ideas in their WebStorms.
    • Read more about this feature here

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  • Fixed an issue in which text formatting for Admin Comments and Idea Status Change reason would not be reflected in email notifications.
    • Read more about this feature here

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  • Made several small UI enhancements to Switchboard pages for improved usability
  • The Proposal version list is now collapsible
  • Fixed an issue that allowed batch administrators to access Setup area in Switchboard
  • Fixed several permissions issues with Batch Admins, including viewing Switchboard setup and scorecard summary pages

 

If you have any questions about these updates, please let us know.  And stay tuned for more – our next release is scheduled for October 30th, 2013!
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