Updates

New updates and improvements to Ideanote.

Additional Options for Review

  • The Review phase has been redesigned, offering more control over the acceptance or rejection of ideas.
  • Statuses can now be reordered effortlessly using drag'n'drop.
  • Users' email addresses can be updated by adding a new_email column to a CSV and importing it via the Invite people dialog.
  • Deep-linking is now available within the Microsoft Teams Integration.
  • You can now view the Idea ID directly from List Views.
  • Enhanced the performance for AI-generated content, reducing wait times.
  • Increased the number of ideas displayed in the Most Ideas Ideas insight.
  • Fixed an issue where AI-generated images were not displaying correctly.
  • Resolved a bug causing the text Empty to appear during idea submission.
  • Addressed an issue causing incorrect shareable links within the Microsoft Teams integration.
  • Fixed a login issue experienced in the desktop client of the Microsoft Teams integration.
  • The unnecessary sign-up button no longer appears on the login page under certain conditions.

AI Cover Images and Improved Filters

  • Account owners can now schedule workspace deletions.
  • You can now filter ideas inside idea filters based on form entry fields.
  • Cover images for Idea Collections are not AI-generated when using the 'Standard' template.
  • Image attachments on generated AI ideas are now AI generated.
  • Sorting the Teams column is now possible within the Members overview.
  • Number of Comments, Number of Ratings, and Number of Form Entries filters now allow specifying the phase.
  • Idea Collection Access filters now include the option to filter based on user contribution to a specific phase.
  • Improved German translations.
  • Rounding of UI elements has been refined.
  • User experience enhancements to creating new idea fields.
  • Fixed an issue where operators could be ignored on Member idea fields.
  • Fixed an issue with incorrect cloning of View Accesses for Templates.
  • Fixed an issue where dynamic bindings referencing idea fields were not replaced correctly inside Templates.
  • When changing the category on an automation action, the accordion menu will now remain open.
  • The simple idea collection filter now displays only relevant sections to the user.
  • Automation triggering based on an idea meeting its Review threshold is now possible.
  • Various bug fixes and UI improvements for filters and automations.
  • Fixed an issue where rating icons could appear too small.
  • Shareable links from the Microsoft Teams application now deep link into the Teams application.
  • Improved dark and high contrast mode.
  • Cards and toasts now have a more prominent display.
  • Increased the number of automations loaded at a time in automation settings.
  • Hovering over the status chip at the bottom of idea cards now reveals the full status of an idea.
  • When changing the idea status, the existing status is shown inside the dialog if it is of the same kind.
  • User experience improvements to the Add Idea Collection flow.
  • When navigating back from an empty idea collection, users are now prompted to either keep or delete it.

Localized AI and Form Entry Automations

  • AI mission creation process is now localized to support multiple languages.
  • Filter by phase and status is now available while creating conditional fields.
  • When using an idea collection template, the correct view will now be displayed after the creation of an idea collection.
  • A new filter option to sort by the number of form entries has been added.
  • Form entry field data can now be utilized in automation filters.
  • Updated the default workspace statuses for new workspaces.
  • The process of selecting values from dropdowns in idea generation has been made less biased.
  • It is now possible to set up a filter based on whether or not a user has access to an idea collection, and to which degree.
  • Empty translation variables are now handled more gracefully.
  • Resolved an issue where the ampersand character would be incorrectly displayed in emails.
  • Fixed the issue of missing tooltips in phase settings.
  • Addressed an issue where the workspace cover would sometimes be overly compressed.
  • Resolved an issue where cloning an idea collection template from another workspace would sometimes fail.
  • Fixed an issue where, for some users, linked ideas and comment replies would not load properly.
  • Rectified an issue where setting up tabs for Microsoft Teams would sometimes not display the text correctly.
  • Fixed an issue where the analytics page would not load in Microsoft Teams.
  • Conducted additional bug fixes and performance improvements to enhance overall user experience.

Import Ideas and Comments

Easily import ideas and comment into Ideanote by uploading a CSV or XLSX. from another source.

Filtering by Form Entry and Higher Image Quality

  • Implemented field-based filtering for form entries.
  • Introduced a new setting to define preferred date formatting for workspace, which will be the default for new users, while still allowing individual preference selection.
  • Increased maximum resolution and quality for uploaded images and videos post-encoding.
  • Added a tooltip to the 'Private' label for idea collections.
  • Made UX improvements in the 'Add Idea Collection' flow.
  • Implemented minor UX enhancements in the 'Save View' experience.
  • Added feature to hide 'Add' button in view layout settings for plot views.
  • Optimized display by removing redundant white-space when only the cover image is shown in an idea collection per view layout settings.
  • Fixed an issue causing progress bars to incorrectly display as empty.
  • General bug fixes and stability improvements behind the scenes.

Automation Updates and Arabic Language

  • Added 'Duplicate' option for Automations.
  • Extended the maximum delay for Automation triggers to 12 months.
  • Introduced Arabic (LTR) as a new language option.
  • Added toggle to anonymize IP-addresses collected for Audit Log
  • Private label now features a tooltip with a share button.
  • Adjusted heights on some dialogs for improved user interface.
  • Resolved several issues related to publishing and cloning templates.
  • Fixed a problem where duplicate options would appear in some dropdown menus.
  • Corrected an error causing duplicate rows in Excel exports for some sorting selections.
  • Rectified an issue where some UI labels would disappear.
  • Going forward, when an idea is moved to a Review phase, potential existing reviews for the idea in that phase are reset.
  • Fixed a server error caused by applying a filter on the goal of an idea collection.

Goals

Idea collections work best when they are supporting a company goal. Now, each idea collection will work towards one of the workspace goals. Use the standard goals or define your own to keep your innovation goal-driven and measurable.

Idea Collections and Goals

  • Renamed missions to idea collections for a more intuitive onboarding.
  • Completely redesigned flow for creating idea collections.
  • Redesigned inline editing experience for idea collections.
  • Added the ability to associate Goals with idea collections and templates, customizable from workspace settings.
  • Improved workspace creation speed.
  • Introduced a Private badge on idea collection headers indicating unshared collections.
  • Implemented Title Casing on all buttons.
  • Improved aesthetics with better default cover images for idea collections.
  • Added an Add button to the mission filter toolbar on the homepage.
  • Revamped template preview design.
  • Added a new colorful gradient background to some loading skeletons.
  • Enhanced legibility with better contrast between font colors and background colors, for example on buttons.
  • Users can now adjust their preferences for date formatting.
  • Resolved an issue where new workspaces couldn't be claimed if their subdomains included non-ASCII characters only.
  • Fixed an error displaying incorrect text for template stats.
  • Addressed an issue where images in custom emails were served as .webp, which is unsupported in many email clients.
  • Corrected an issue preventing dynamic binding suggestions for idea fields from appearing.
  • Fixed an issue where searching for Unsplash cover images would sometimes fail.
  • Resolved a line height issue for multi-line text fields.
  • AI-generation related errors are now handled more gracefully.

Missions Renamed to Idea Collections

In the upcoming days, as part of our effort to make innovation easy to understand, we will rename Missions to Idea Collections. This change aims to make its purpose more intuitive for new customers while maintaining the same functionality. Our help articles will also be updated with the new Idea Collections terminology. We believe that this upcoming update will make Ideanote more intuitive for everyone.

Idea Generation With ChatGPT

  • Introducing ChatGPT-powered AI idea generation.
  • Updated the 'New' button to 'New Idea' for clarity.
  • Resolved an issue with filters not working for undefined idea field values.
  • Fixed a problem with custom translations and dynamic data bindings not displaying correctly in all notifications.
  • Enhanced tooltips with improved contrast: black background and white text.
  • Added the ability to use @-mentions for teams.
  • Rectified missing text in notifications for specific activities.
  • Fixed a problem with automations using "updated idea mission" triggers.
  • Addressed an issue with automations where referencing a user from a "Member" idea field didn't work in certain cases.
  • Resolved a problem where team owners lost permission to create missions in workspaces where the policy previously allowed it.
  • Fixed an issue where workspace descriptions didn't appear on the login page.
  • Moved 'Templates' to a dedicated page accessible via URL.

New Sidebar Design

  • New design for the sidebar
  • New Idea Field: "User" which allows for selecting a user as part of the idea submission form.
  • SCORE idea fields can now be displayed with a color gradient
  • Added email- and alias filtering to custom filters for users.
  • Added "updated idea mission" trigger to automations
  • Added "delete idea" action to automations.
  • Updated design for the mission picker dialog
  • Updated idea link activities to be more compact
  • Fixed an issue with filtering where it would sometimes collapse ANDs into ORs.
  • Fixed an issue where the "Activities" tab in profile settings said "Assignments".
  • Mission template preview images are now refreshed when the mission changes
  • Labels in plot view no longer collapse their padding when it is scrollable
  • All insights are now accessible for all plans

Teams and Sections

  • It is now possible to customize the sections on the homepage without adding or removing teams.
  • Revamped onboarding flow in the Microsoft Teams integration
  • Completely new onboarding flow for creating new workspaces
  • You can now customize which phase ideas will move to when they are accepted from the Review phase
  • You can now configure embedded widgets to use the browser's preferred language.
  • We have removed Serbian, Russian, Romanian, Korean, Japanese, Norwegian, Croatian, Polish as selectable languages from the platform.
  • Multi-line text fields are now taller
  • Needs action filters now correctly handle cases where an idea is only partially evaluated in a Rate phase
  • You can now see average ratings by individual rating criteria in List views
  • Fixed an issue where the list of activity types was empty inside custom filters for activities
  • Fixed an issue where using query params from automation triggers didn't work inside automations
  • Fixed an issue where the incorrect dynamic binding suggestions were shown inside automations sometimes
  • Notifications are no longer sent for new likes or status changes on ideas when the idea owner no longer has access to the mission they are placed within