New

• You can now add multiple organizers to Events and Appointments. You can also change the organizer from yourself to someone else.

• If you integrate with Bynder digital asset management, the asset selector is now also available when editing News articles, Pages, and Events

Fixes

• Fixed: In some cases, the search function would not find status updates and pages

• Fixed: Events widget listed more than the configured maximum number

• Fixed: On the groups page, sorting by last activity date would not work

• Fixed: PDF export solid borders of a table and numbered list not rendered correctly

• Fixed: PDF export would turn numbered lists into bulleted lists

• Fixed: Events could not be planned as whole day event for one

  day

• Fixed: In richt text, external links would not open in a new tab

• Fixed: Favorited news items would not appear in the Favorites widget

• If you like or dislike an item, your own name will now be shown as “You”.

• Several smaller fixes and performance improvements

API

• In News, we now support both a parameter ‘featuredimage’ and a parameter ‘attachment’, to post files in a multipart/form-data

• In News, when you provide a parameter ‘tag’, it will now search both in tags and topics

• A fix for the Shortcuts widget, that sometimes not properly displayed on mobile devices

• The My Groups widget now displays the number of updates per group in a more neutral colour

• Some fixes for the new Statistics page

• An increased number of search results is shown when mentioning someone

• Performance improvements

• A bug has been fixed where it sometimes it would not be possible to save a status update after editing.

Statistics

Viadesk intranet is packed with statistics to get the most out of the platform. To put these metrics to even better use, some helpful refinements were implemented:

• We improved the statistics screens in Setup, Groups, and News: the layout of these screens is now uniform.

• All metrics, including the new ‘Active members’ and ‘Pageviews/Member’, are now gathered into one chart.

• Flexible filtering (such as filter on Member list!) and sorting options allow group managers and webmasters to dive deeper into the data and see how the platform is performing.

• Read more about Statistics >

• Note: on big platforms, the first few times you visit Statistics the screen could take some time to calculate

Changelog

In addition, we have made lots of improvements and bug fixes. 

Font

• The default font has been changed from Arial to the device system font.

• If you already use an alternative font, nothing will have changed.

• In case you specifically want Arial as the font on your platform go to: Setup > General > Logo and Colors > Titles and Text and in the Body Font Family field add the following: Arial, sans-serif

Mentions

• Mentions are now correctly displayed on all item pages

• When mentioning someone, more results are shown 

• News articles don't notify non-editors anymore if they are mentioned before the publication date 

• A bug has been fixed where, sometimes, it was possible to mention someone that was not a member of the group the item was in.

Appointments and Events

• Removing a recurring appointment instance is now possible via the Calendar widget. Click on the link in the calendar widget and choose Delete to delete the instance

• We've made the unregister link on the events page more visible 

• Repeating appointments would sometimes not appear in external calendars (via iCal). This has been fixed. 

• A bug has been fixed where an appointment reminder email would be sent even if you didn't participate 

• A bug has been fixed where members would still be able to create appointments by clicking in the calendar, even though adding appointments was disabled

• Some bugs were fixed when saving changes to appointments with a large number of attendees 

Items

• The bookmarklet (see Help > Bookmarklet), which allows you to quickly share web links in groups, has been improved and now has the option to add the title and add tags. 

• Videos in status updates now have a download button.

• If you like or dislike an item, this is now better visible to yourself: the icon becomes solid 

• The option to add a 'Heading 1' (H1) has been removed from the rich text editor, because of accessibility reasons

• We now use the default browser method for picking times and dates. This ensures a more accessible experience for all users and improves the experience on mobile platforms. Refer to the manual of your browser if you have questions.

• There is now a better message for users, indicating whether a survey is public 

• A bug has been fixed where special characters were broken in file names, if a ZIP was downloaded 

• A bug has been fixed where sometimes wrong folders would be shown when moving items 

• Clicking on a response notification of an item now redirects to the comment, rather than the top of the page 

• Exporting surveys to XLS now uses the correct cell type for time and date.

• A bug has been fixed where incoming e-mails would be shown in the timeline of a group, even though this was supposed to be hidden 

• Hyphenation has now been enabled, which improves the layout when very long words or URLs are used 

• News portal editors now have permission to edit replies and comments to news articles 

Setup

• Forms and item templates now have a duplication option 

• Webmaster user export now includes the external ID 

• System events now log member changes in a group (members added/deleted in a group, member permissions changed in a group)

• A bug has been corrected where webmasters were unable to change a members email address on SAML domains 

• A bug has been fixed where sometimes the registration link would be shown on the login page, even though this was disabled on the platform

• A bug has been fixed where new members sometimes would not go through the activation wizard but immediately would go to the portal or start page.

• A bug has been fixed where member export in groups didn't contain members in member lists 

• A bug has been fixed in the Members module in Setup, where filtering on a group would not work correctly 

More

• The performance of the All Groups page has been improved 

• The performance of the Task manager pages are improved

• The birthday widget had a cap of 8 birthdays; this cap has now been removed. 

• There is now a better message for users, in case they are locked out because of multiple wrong password entries 

• A bug has been fixed where login pages with a lot of text could have two scrollbars instead of one 

• A bug has been fixed where a notification would be sent with the wrong text after a member requested access to a group 

• Some translations are fixed on the platform and in the emails 

Viadesk API

• The Viadesk API documentation for developers has been moved to support.viadesk.com

• A bug is fixed in the News API, where trying to update an existing article would result in a new news article 

• There is a new Page API 

• We have added an API for adding, editing and deleting Pages. More info in the Viadesk API documentation

• A bug has been fixed in the activation wizard. This page works correctly again.

• A bug has been fixed where sometimes News widgets that use ‘filter by keywords’ didn't show any articles

• A bug has been fixed where, if German is set as the language, sometimes dates were not saved correctly in forms with a date entry field

• This changelog is now easy to find in Setup: use the button on the bottom right

• In the news widget, there is now an option for selecting ‘All’ or just ‘One of the’ tags

• Fixed an issue with all-day appointments in Lotus Notes

• There is now a Resend invitation email for users invited to a group

• The ‘Hide Menu’ button in Setup now has a tooltip, and is now only shown on smaller desktop sizes

• A bug has been fixed where the option ‘Remove from the Chat” didn’t work

• Viadesk mailings are now also sent from [email protected] for existing domains

• Item templates now have the opportunity to insert a horizontal line (“<hr>”)

• Activation keys now have a validity of 30 days instead of 7 days

• Existing users now get a notification if they are invited to a group

• A bug is fixed where automatically forwarded emails from the Inbox of a group would always use Dutch text; now the language of the domain is used.

• A bug is fixed in the calendar where sometimes you would be redirected to the wrong appointment after saving an appointment

Calendar

• Recurring appointments now offer the ability to create exceptions, on which the appointment doesn't take place. Simply click on the date in the calendar, then use Delete to delete a single instance, or all appointments. Exceptions will be shown on the appointment page, and members will be notified. Tip: to change a recurring appointment on only one date, simply create an exception for that date, then create a single new appointment with the alternative time and date

• A bug has been fixed where the body text of appointments would not have been included in the iCal feed

• A bug has been fixed where all day appointments with no reminder set, would sent reminders at seemingly random intervals

• A bug has been fixed that in some cases would prevent searching for locations in appointments

• If you create a copy of an appointment, now all properties are copied, including start and end time

• Unpredictable results with using parameters start and end in the calendar URL are fixed

• A bug was fixed with responding to Appointment emails in Lotus Notes

Chat

• Chat export didn't correctly encode the title of the chat; this has been fixed

News

• Activity on news items or pages before the publication date is now hidden

• Some issues with the RSS import are fixed

• A bug has been fixed that could throw an unexpected system error when changing a news article

Startpage

• A layout bug has been changed when hiding items from the timeline on mobile devices

• A bug has been fixed where groups would be displayed multiple times in the preferences of the Activity widget

Groups & Items

• The group's creation date is now added to the group management page

• A bug has been fixed when moving an item, where sometimes incorrect folders would be shown

• A bug has been fixed where, when exporting a folder to a ZIP file, the setting of “Also download older versions of documents” would be ignored

• A bug has been fixed with inconsistent naming of files with identical names

• The Groups widget on the profile page now has the option to sort per category

• A download button has been added to the preview page of files

• An option has been added in the 'Activity mail' screen to (de)select all members at once

• A bug has been fixed where the group menu would not be shown on the definition page of a tag 

• The page for selecting a related items had been improved with pagination. Before, large lists could make the page slow in the browser 

• A bug has been fixed enabling the delete button, after selecting an item

• A bug has been fixed that could throw an unexpected system error, when viewing a task that is not linked to a task list

• A bug is fixed where the notification email that is send after someone submitted an anonymous survey, contained the name of the person who submit the survey

• The Groups / Managers page under Setup has improved performance 

And more…

• The default mail adres [email protected] is now renamed to [email protected]

• The embed code for Microsoft Streams is now whitelisted, meaning you can easily add Microsoft Streams videos in your content

• The interface language can now be quickly changed from the bottom of the page (on desktop only)

• In forms, you can now see who approved or rejected a form

• A bug has been fixed that would stop importing members completely from an Excel sheet, if one of the email addresses would be invalid

• In the rich text editor it is now better possible to change the color of text on mobile devices

• Viadesk member export now happens in XLSX format instead of XLS

• A bug was fixed where form instances used the creation log date for the accepted or declined date instead of the submission date

• Chat exports now replace relative dates (like ‘Today’) with the actual date

• A bug was fixed where in rare cases labels could not be saved