Main changes

• Microsoft 365 users are probably familiar with Teamsites. These are the handy groups in which documents can be shared. As of today, it is possible to create these groups directly within Viadesk. To create a Teamsite in Viadesk, go to the corresponding Sharepoint group. Under 'Add' click 'Teamsite'. On the screen that appears you will see a big button with 'Create Teamsite'. Click on it and you're done!

• Finding the right images to complement a text can be tricky. Fortunately, this is now easier when you edit a news article in Viadesk. On the right side of the screen you will find the new option to add images. Within Viadesk this option gives you direct access to Pexels, an online database with thousands of beautiful pictures. All for free!

And more…

• Labels adjusted in the German appointment confirmation.

• Search engine now finds results based on file names.

• The creation of table borders now works correctly in rich text editor.

• Added a “do not reply” text to emails that are being sent from the [email protected] domain.

• It is now possible to add extra (non-Viadesk member) event participants to a public event page.

• A bug has been fixed in the event link for all-day events that could sometimes cause the date of the event to be displayed incorrectly.

• If a password that is about to expire needs to be reset, a corresponding alert message is now displayed.

• Small text addition in the label for submitting forms.

• A bug has been fixed where it was not possible to lower a member's permissions during a bulk import.

• Increased the visibility of the buttons on the News Management page.

• A bug has been fixed where sometimes the wrong color highlighter was used when selecting a highlighter color in the rich text editor.

• A bug has been fixed where images could not be dragged and dropped into the chat.

• A bug has been fixed that caused the automatic assigning of experts for questions with selected expertise to not always work properly.

• A bug has been fixed that caused group managers to not always be notified when a new aspirant member subscribed to their group in the second step of the registration wizard.

• An appointment confirmation screen is now shown before an email is sent to large number of recipients. 

• Status of courses in the Coursepath widget are now shown correctly.

• If a group manager selected a different layout for the start page, but cancelled this, the selected layout would still be activated. This has been fixed.

• A bug has been fixed that in some cases allowed copying or moving an item from a sub folder to its parent for which this user only had read permissions.

• The “last login” field has been removed from the member export for group managers.

• The “Show versions” button has been made more visible below an item or document.

• The warning notification when you try to leave a page but there is text in the body of the rich text editor now works properly again.

• The invitation email for working in a group, for members who still need to activate their account before using it, now states to which group they are invited to.

• The bookmark widget no longer displays an error message when the “https://” part is omitted.

• The link in the “activate your account” mail is now shown as a button.

• A checkbox option has been added that allows autoplay for YouTube videos on NewsRead. Videos are initially played with the sound muted.

• White space in the poll is now removed when there is no background color in the title.

• Icons of subfolders are now shown properly in FolderRead.

• Appointment poll: An email is now sent to the organizer as soon as all participants have made their choice.

Main Changes

• With Viadesk it is already possible to organize events. But what if the event has reached the limit of attendees? From now on, as an organizer, you will receive a notification by email. It is now also possible to export the list of attendees as an Excel file. Very handy to keep an overview of who is present!

• In the search function of Viadesk you can now indicate that you are specifically looking for Office 365 documents. This will help you find the right files quicker. Make use of this function by clicking the 'dropdown' in the search function. Then choose 'Search in Office 365'.

Search widget

• From now on it will be possible to add a search widget to group start pages or portal pages. The widget has a simple search field and submit button. Results are displayed, as with the normal search option, on the search page. The title of the widget is adjustable, with the default name being: Search.

• Within the search function, it will be possible to select different domains to be searched from a dropdown menu (other than Viadesk). These are Google, Bing, Duckduckgo and Office 365.

Events

• It is now possible to create an export of the enrollments for events.

• The organizer of an event will now receive an email when an event is fully booked.

• A bug has been fixed that caused body images not to be displayed in event notification mails.

Appointment poll

• Read page: Improved design (e.g. for long lists of dates). Sometimes when users added a high number of possible appointment dates to pick, it affected the readability.

• Details page now shows a sum of the votes per date.

• Extra text has been added to the notification mail for appointment changes, in order to notify the participant.

• Inserting end times for appointments is now optional.

 And more…

• An option is added to remove cookies when users logout.

• A bug has been fixed that could sometimes cause deactivated users to be added to task lists and tasks.

• Changes to sending Activity mails to improve usability in groups with many members.

• A bug in Search is fixed that in some cases would show profile webmaster notes in the results.

• The maximum number of calendar locations has been increased to 50.

• Item Filter widget now correctly displays only uncompleted tasks view for groups.

• News sources for the news-widget are now looking identical for portal, news-portal, and groups.

• As a group administrator, it is now possible to create an export of all group members.

• Group statistics now show the number of unique visitors correctly in all cases.

• A bug has been fixed which caused some buttons on the rich text editor and iFrame widgets to not work properly.

• It is now possible to send a file as an attachment even if it has a very long file name.

• Status updates in a folder are now always displaying the full title in the folder view.

• Status updates now show the full title in Favorites and Featured widget.

• The responsive version of the read page of a wall message now includes an author line (like other items).

• Horizontal rulers (HR) are displayed normally again in the rich text editor.

• A bug has been fixed that could cause an unwanted redirect when saving or canceling from the trashcan.

• To make it more clear which tasks are relevant in the task widget, the widget no longer shows tasks that have a start date in the future.

• In some cases, it was no longer possible to add images to surveys, this is possible again now.

• Special characters are now displayed correctly in the list view in the trashcan.

• Fixed: Text items could be saved without providing a title. This is not possible anymore.

• New: Preview option for attachments.

• Providing colors is now enforced to a 6-character hex code.

• Automatic hyphenation is now only applied on smaller screen sizes (smaller than 1280 px).

• Default lock time for Document and Text has been set to 4 hours instead of 24.

• Theming/CSS: Move from static color codes to CSS variables. Logo & branding functionality will remain the same, just the way we deal with it under the surface has been changed. Chances of any changes in customer's house style are very slim.

• Accessibility: In the Domainnewsread, alt text for images has been added instead of file name.

• Accessibility: Translations have been added for the emoji panel.