Changelog

New updates and improvements to Ideanote.

Motion Intensity and Improved Charts

  • New ‘Accessibility’ settings tab under Account settings.
  • The Browser/OS preferences for Motion Intensity are now respected, and can be customized via Accessibility settings.
  • Added a new security toggle, ‘Allow remote customer support’, that explicitly grants Ideanote support access to a workspace for support cases.
  • Creating a new idea collection template is now substantially faster and more reliable.
  • Activities made by a user can now be exported to Excel from their profile page.
  • Fixed an issue where numeric chart labels would not appear on horizontal charts.
  • Allowed text labels on charts to grow larger for improved visibility on large numbers.
  • The full non-truncated text labels are now always shown on charts inside tooltips shown on hover.
  • Added a new ‘Show Legend’ toggle to many charts that, when enabled, will always show the legend on the charts, even when presented as cards. The legend will continue to be shown when a chart is expanded or in presentation mode.
  • Added headlines to the Template Gallery pages.
  • New Scorecard charts will default to having no background fill color.
  • Funnel charts that group on phase names inside idea collections now respect their relative ordering.
  • Fixed an issue where an incorrect warning about unused dynamic bindings could appear inside automations
  • Fixed an issue where phases with Hidden Activities could still notify users about activities in those phases, despite their missing access to them.
  • Fixed an issue where moving an idea to another idea collection would appear in the UI as if it was added to all of its phases temporarily.
  • Fixed an issue where drafts would not work on form entries
  • Fixed an issue where the shareable links tab could appear inside the Share dialog even though shareable links were disabled on the Workspace.
  • Fixed an issue where toggling ‘required’ or ‘show title’ on an idea field would discard the users input.
  • Fixed an issue where the dropdown menu of suggestions for @-mentions would sometimes not appear in comment replies.
  • Fixed an issue where some users could see the ‘Export to Excel’ button without having the rights to do so.
  • Fixed an issue where admins was not allowed to export activities to Excel in some cases.
  • Improved the generated filename of activity excel exports for ideas.

More Audit Log Activities, RTL for Emails + Automation Options

  • New ‘Show as Dropdown’ option for Checkmark idea fields
  • Added various new activities to the audit log for criteria, statuses, forms, and login providers
  • URLs in Embed views can now be configured to open in a new tab, instead of being inlined on the page.
  • RTL-support in emails sent via our platform, including custom emails.
  • Optimizations for how Initial Fonts are being loaded
  • Made it possible for automations to use data from the trigger idea inside create idea actions, including for binding it to the owner of the new idea
  • Fixed an issue where a ‘Save View’ button could sometimes be shown to users without editable access to it
  • Fixed an issue where adjusting filters inside a view would not update the UI
  • Fixed an issue where the ‘Add’ button inside lists of form entries would be shown to users without the ability to add form entries
  • Fixed an issue where changing the prefix/suffix for a scorecard chart would not update the UI
  • Fixed an issue where activities would not be generated for all default content in a new workspace
  • Fixed an issue where placeholders for ‘Attachments’ idea fields could overlap with the dynamic binding button inside create idea automation actions.
  • Adjusted the width of view notices so it matches the width of the idea collection header
  • Fixed an issue where ordering by the ‘Idea’ column inside Audit log would cause an error.
  • Fixed an issue where the ‘Idea Collection’ column would be empty inside the audit log for Like activities
  • Fixed an issue where our NPS survey could appear on the login page
  • Better support for dark- and high contrast color modes inside the Trends page
  • Fixed an issue where changing view accesses would not refresh the UI
  • Fixed an issue where required member idea fields that allowed for selecting multiple users could cause validation issues when attempting to submit ideas
  • Fixed various issues related to view layout settings
  • Fixed an issue with setting up custom domains including hyphens

Improved Import and Export

  • Aggregating on numeric idea fields on charts now work correctly
  • Teams are now present inside user excel exports
  • Fixed an issue where overriden datetime preferences were ignored.
  • Fixed an issue where the default ordering direction of ideas inside views were inversed
  • Fixed an issue where slugs for created views could be empty or include non-ascii characters.
  • Fixed various issues related importing ideas via CSV
  • Other minor bug fixes and improvements

New Help Launcher and Improved Tracking

  • Introduced a new version of our in-app Help Launcher
  • Viewing idea collections from an idea widget now correctly spawns a "viewed idea collection" activity
  • Viewing ideas in column view now loads 10 ideas instead of 5 ideas as default
  • Exporting excel from audit log and people list now respects selected columns
  • Generated AI images now have correct size and aspect ratio depending on the context
  • The Ideanote logo on the login-page now correctly respects dark mode
  • Improved spacing in the "choose member" idea field
  • Fixed problem where the people list wouldn't show the teams column
  • Visual improvements and various bug fixes

Onboarding Improvements

  • Improved the layout of attachments
  • Made parts of the onboarding flow dismissible
  • Fixed the aspect ratio of the mission cover image inside the edit idea collection dialog
  • Fixed an issue where using the keyboard arrows to move the cursor position inside comment action cards in idea details would change to a different idea in the idea collection.
  • Fixed an issue where widgets embedded via custom code would auto-close after a few seconds in some cases
  • Fixed an issue where the Unsplash library was not loading.
  • Fixed an issue where tooltip onboarding flows were sometimes placed on top of other dialogs.
  • Fixed an issue where custom filters could become malformed or ignore user-provided values.
  • Fixed an issue where changing the sorting direction was not working.
  • Minor UI improvements and fixes

Ensured Updated Translations for 21 Languages

  • Improved translations for all languages. Ideanote now fully supports the following 21 languages: English, Czech, Danish, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Slovak, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Turkish, Arabic, Slovenian, Norwegian.
  • Added support for color mode customization in the widget
  • Resolved a problem where users were unable to unselect any choices after their first selection while setting image choice to a maximum of one choice.
  • Replaced the "label" attribute for idea widget fields with a unified title attribute, simplifying the design.
  • Resolved a formatting error with certain letters that occurred when using the "translate" button on ideas.
  • Fixed an issue with the drop-down list display when selecting a category in the Turning Idea Collection into a Template feature.
  • Fixed an issue where the 'is defined' operator could not be used when filtering on member fields

On-Demand AI Images, New Automation Trigger and Updated Help Center

  • Added new option to generate AI based illustrations right inside Ideanote
  • Added new automation trigger that triggers when the content of an idea has been updated.
  • Added support for Slovene and Norwegian language
  • Added a deeplink option for Microsoft Team App that allows users to correctly copy mission links
  • Improved AI Idea Generation
  • New updated help articles at https://help.ideanote.io
  • Various bug fixes and improvements

Tooltip Onboarding and Traditional Chinese

  • Implemented initial tooltips for onboarding to make it easier for new users to navigate the platform.
  • Added Traditional Chinese language support.
  • Microsoft Teams UI now automatically matches the theme for a consistent and enhanced user experience.
  • Fixed an issue where the "Add Idea" button in the side navigation was still visible when the user didn't have permission.
  • Various bug fixes and improvements

RTL Arabic

  • Ideanote now fully supports languages with right-to-left layout.
  • We have resolved an issue where users were unable to remove themselves from an idea collection.
  • Duplicated forms fields are now correctly dynamically translated
  • Other various bug fixes and improvements

New Idea Collection View: Embed View

  • We've added a new view for your idea collections: Embed View. With the embed view it's now possible to embed a specific URL directly into the view of your idea collection.
  • It's now possible to assign an entire team in the act phase
  • Added option to select multiple members when setting up a "Select member" form field
  • It's now possible to export ideas created by a specific user from user profile page
  • Fixed problems where activity actions weren't shown when "summaries" were hidden for a given phase
  • It's now possible to choose between more statuses when the last reviewer selects a status in the review phase
  • AI now generates longer content
  • Fixed problem where searching in some dropdown fields wouldn't correctly filter the entries
  • You can now submit multi-line text-fields with CTRL + Enter in the idea widget
  • Fixed flag icons in Custom Translations Variables.
  • Various bug fixes and UI improvements

Enhanced Section Ownership Control

  • It's now possible to add section owners to sections. Workspace Owners and Admins can add and rearrange Idea Collections created by or shared with them across all Sections. Additionally, any Member you add as a Section Owner can add and manage Idea Collections created by or shared with them for that specific Section. In general, Members see Sections containing Idea Collections that are shared with them.
  • Contextually relevant social link previews will now be shown when sharing an idea collection through a shareable link.
  • Added an exit survey for workspace deletion.
  • Updated Chinese and Vietnamese translations.
  • Magazine view now works for mobile users.
  • Moved icon selection into the edit dialog for sections.
  • Hid advanced settings for widgets.
  • Fixed an issue with the anonymous option missing from the drop-down selection when submitting ideas within the MS Team app.
  • Addressed the internal server error on all idea exports.
  • Fixed the action/filter dropdown to show specific phase icons instead of general phase-type icons.
  • Addressed an issue where user stats wouldn't be shown in all circumstances.