Year 2023

🐞 Bug fixes

• When copying a distribution, if there were any inactive/deleted users in the older distribution, the current distribution would not complete and no proper error message was displayed which confused the users. Now fixed with proper messaging and indications of inactive/deleted users.

• Changed the color picker at different places like calendar, leave type, etc. as it was not convenient for the end user. Now replaced it with the other atlas kit component of color picker.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Patch release for a bug introduced in last release.

Release date 19th December 2023

🎁 Enhancements

• Now UpRaise calendar can be accessed from other calendar applications like Google, Teams, etc.

• Minor bug fixes.

Release date 12th December 2023

🐞 Bug fixes

• The job was not scheduled for users with different time zones that were not present in the DB which caused no leave accrual for that user, now fixed.

• The calendar Owner name was not displayed in linked format on Add existing calendar pop-up window, now fixed.

• The confidence status and score don't get changed automatically to Not Applicable for Metric and To Do KR when status of objective is changed to Ready for Grading, fixed.

• System was displaying blank page when a large file is added as an attachment to leave application, fixed.

• Minor bug fixes.

Release date 01st December 2023

🎁 Enhancements

• Introduced the possibility of creating default leave calendars

• Easier calendar setup & filtering introduced that enhances the calendar creation and filtering

• Revamped the Manage tab under Leaves for a better UX experience for users

🐞 Bug fixes

• Team members could see their confidential review forms on their reviewer’s user profile’s forms tab, now fixed.

• The disable option was not displayed for leave types associated with leave requests, fixed.

• The system was taking time to add users midway in distribution when the number of users was more, fixed.

• Other minor bug fixes.

Release date 09th November 2023

🐞 Bug fixes

• On Browse OKR’s list view, the progress bar for Jira issues was not displayed. I was only displaying progress %, now fixed.

• In Date and Time settings, blank date format are allowed, although date format is mandatory, now fixed.

• Multiple duplicate history entries were getting inserted in database for leave policy and workweek scheme, fixed.

• Unknown Error occurred while adding users in midway into the distribution, fixed.

• Same objective alignment was getting added multiple times to an objective, now fixed.

• No history was displayed for Leave policy, Holiday scheme, and workweek scheme on User’s history, now fixed.

• Objective status was not getting updated to In progress even if TO DO KR is In progress, now fixed.

• Some other minor bug fixes.

Release date 07th November 2023

🐞 Bug fixes

• Customer was facing issues with leave accrual as system was not able to recognise user’s timezone. This issue was fixed on priority in this patch release.

Release date 01st November 2023

🎁 Enhancements

• Ability to view the previous cycle's responses in forms is now available. Now users can fetch older forms while responding to the current form.

• UpRaise now supports Jira’s Dark theme

🐞 Bug fixes

• The Unit was not pre-populating when created an objective from the particular teams page. Unit was not even searchable by typing in the Unit field, now fixed.

• Title was not displayed in Slack notifications if Objective and KRs were deleted, fixed.

• Dashboard page was getting blank.

• Minor bug fixes

Release date 11th October 2023

🎁 Enhancements

• Now it is possible to add a comment on KR from the objective details page’s key results list

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor UI changes

• Minor bug fixes

Release date 04th October 2023

🎁 Enhancements

• Now it is possible to abandon a KRs like objectives

🐞 Bug fixes

• An error occurred when adding a user midway while distribution async process was in progress. fixed.

• If the latest comment column is added to the OKR view, then an unknown error message was displayed, now fixed.

• Some UI issues.

Release date 29th September 2023

🎁 Enhancements

• Now it is possible to delete a form from a distribution (except 360 review template)

• Jira issue KR progress calculation is now possible based on status category rather than resolution

  • We have deprecated the possibility of having progress calculations based on resolution.

• Redesigned the OKR Grading experience, complete revamp of the grading page is done.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Unnecessary space is identified between 2 comments on forms response page, now fixed.

• On the History tab of objective details page, similar multiple entries of progress history were displayed if user clicked multiple times on the refresh button of progress, now fixed.

Release date 21st September 2023

🐞 Bug fixes

• Default values for questions in the form templates were not getting updated in distributed forms, fixed in this patch release.

Release date 18th September 2023

🎁 Enhancements

• The app time-outs are in sync with Jira to minimize timeout occurrences for UpRaise apps.

• On the KR details page, JQL is now displayed as linked text so users can easily navigate to the same JQL with a click

• UI Changes to the right-hand panel on the view form page

  • The right-hand panel is now revamped. The 4 tabs are now displayed in the collapsable mode

• Add comments option now made available on OKRs view listing page

🐞 Bug fixes

• Unknown error exception was coming on adding 400-500 users in leave policy from manage leave tab, fixed.

• Incorrect Date Format was being displayed while creating Form Template, fixed.

• On Browse OKR page, when any filters were applied, displayed objective count was incorrect, fixed.

• Actions button was not available against the KRs on browse OKR page which belongs to Abandoned, Closed, and Carried forward objectives, not it is available.

• Other minor bug fixes

Release date 01st September 2023

🎁 Enhancements

• Ability to rectify wrong punch-ins on the progress chart

  • When users update the wrong punch-in value and change it, both the wrong and corrected punch-ins are displayed on the progress chart. This leads to some weird ups and downs on the graph. To avoid this we have introduced a function to hide these punch-ins.

🐞 Bug fixes

• UpRaise Role field was not marked mandatory on create/edit pop-up, fixed.

• Minor bug fixes.

Release date 14th August 2023

🎁 Enhancements

• Importing 'relevant' OKRs in forms is now made easy.

  • Clicking on 'Import OKRs' would now show an enhanced view to select relevant view along with Objective details and filters.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Fixed some UI issues related to filter on company directory

• No validation was being provided if same date is entered multiple times as a reminder date while distributing the form, fixed.

• Fixed some issues with OKR Pie chart configuration when logged in user does not have access to the selected OKR view.

• Other minor bug fixes

Release date 09th August 2023

🎁 Enhancements

• And here we take our first step towards getting AI within UpRaise!

  • Now you can use AI to get suggestions to create KRs within an objective.

  • This feature is still in BETA and we will be enhancing the experience in subsequent releases.

• UI enhancements in custom reports. Decluttered the UI for creating reports. Moved filters and some fields to make the look and feel cleaner.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Data-related issues fixed for the Pie chart within the custom report

• icon on the edit feedback pop-up was not properly aligned and was showing empty space at the top of the pop-up, now fixed

• OKR label-related messaging corrected

Release date 12th July 2023

🎁 Enhancements

• Now you can disable or enable objective labels.

  • Once disabled, the previous objective association of the disabled label will remain intact

  • Disabled objective labels will not be available for users to associate with any objectives further

  • If the label is not associated with any objective, you can delete them

  • If the label is associated with one or more objectives then you can only disable them to prevent its use

• Added three new default segments as below -

  • Active users

  • Inactive users

  • All users

• Now existing custom and default user segments can be used in custom reports

  • In this enhancement, we have replaced the User status filter with user segments filter

  • We have added three new default segments called Active users, Inactive users and All users to support user status-based chart creation.

  • Along with default segments now you can also use custom segments to create charts

  • This change now brings more flexibility for chart creation as you can pull the relevant user data based on the segments you have created.

  • This change allows you to create charts more dynamically instead of just selecting active, inactive, and all users like before

• Enhancements in 'Add team' team pop up

  • ‘Parent team’ field is now brought up in the pop-up, it was listed at the bottom before

  • Messaging related to Unit selection is now more clear for user’s better understanding

  • Unit field now allows setting the Unit if the new team you are creating does not have any parent team

  • Earlier, you could set up the unit only from tree view for the orphaned teams

• Feedback labels management now made easy

  • Now you can disable or enable feedback labels.

  • Once disabled, the previous feedback association of the disabled label will remain intact

  • Disabled feedback labels will not be available for users to associate in any feedback

  • If the label is not associated with any feedback, you can delete them

🐞 Bug fixes

• Weights were editable for aligned objectives in Abandoned status

  • Abandoned objectives weights should not be editable, however, the system was allowed to edit them and showed progress impact on parent objectives when weights are non-zero.

  • This issue has been fixed and we have done some UI changes and message corrections so users understand the function correctly.

• Now we have corrected Contributes to the objective search dropdown and it won’t list down the already aligned objective when aligning another objective.

• Fixed some discrepancies in the Users section of Form distribution page

• Fixed some filter behaviors on edit and create pop up for OKR views

• Fixed some filter behaviors on edit and create pop up for OKR views

• Objective cycle containing abandoned objectives was not getting cloned, fixed

• Need my approval gadget showing duplicate leave request entries,fixed

• Other minor bug fixes

Release date 17th July 2023

🐞 Bug fixes

• On Hierarchy tab, the labels of objectives should are now displayed as they are displayed on explorer view, objective details page and browse okr page.

Release date 06th July 2023

🎁 Enhancements

• In 360-degree distributions, you can add new users in a distribution midway

• In 360-degree distributions, you can do a bulk import of users through Excel file upload

• Leave reason field is now made configurable for each leave type while creating leave types

• The bulk user update feature that we launched recently has become more robust. It will now surface the errors encountered during bulk updates.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes related to the bulk user update

• Some bug fixes related to the user import function of the forms

Release date 09th June 2023

🎁 Enhancements

• Migration path developed for People server to People Cloud app

Release date 05th June 2023

🎁 Enhancements

• Once the bulk user update is started, system now shows up the progress bar so UpRaise admin can see the ongoing progress status.

🐞 Bug fixes

• In earlier releases, list of profile attributes on bulk user updates was not categorized as per profile attribute sections, now fixed.

• While adding or editing user profile attribute of type Single Select, it was not possible to clear the value, it is fixed now.

  • Clear value option provided for Single select type attributes in bulk users function

Release date 30th May 2023

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

Release date 17th May 2023

🎁 Enhancements

• It is now possible to bulk update users along with their default & custom profile attributes. This is a three-step process analogous to Jira issue bulk update action.

• We are now introducing OKR trends report to keep an eye on different patterns across multiple objective cycles.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

Release date 03rd May 2023

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

Release date 28th April 2023

🎁 Enhancements

• It is now possible to create 3-dimensional charts based on user profile attributes within the reports section. This lets you dig deeper into user profile attributes and draw the desired insights.

• We have also extended the reports to now support number type of user profile attribute.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

Release date 25th April 2023

🎁 Enhancements

• We have renamed some of the actions on form templates/distributions to make them more intuitive.

• Now you can import users in a form distribution using an Excel sheet. Makes your life way easier.

• Minor remaining pieces of OKR weight display in percentage are now addressed.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

Release date 11th April 2023

🎁 Enhancements

KR weightage impact is now visible in the form of percentages. Before, it was only in the form of actual weight numbers.

• It is now also possible to look at all the relevant weights in a single click rather than look at them one by one.

• And the weightage can now be configured with any number between (including) 0 and 100.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

Release date 22nd March 2023

🎁 Enhancements

• All form templates (except 360) now offer the possibility to add user(s) in a distribution as long as the distribution is not closed. This will help in containing number of distributions created only for a handful of users who were missed in the initial distribution.

• Roadmap view for OKRs is now enhanced to show all the nested elements. It also offers support for zooming in & out along with the ability to choose a starting month.

• Company directory now allows user segmentation with the help of default & custom profile attributes.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

Release date 16th March 2023

🐞 Bug fixes

• Custom report was showing no data available error message even if data is present for the attribute, now fixed.

Release date 02nd March 2023

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

Release date 06th March 2023

🎁 Enhancements

• Ability to create and manage user segments in Company directory

  • Like OKRs view, this feature allows you to create and save company directory filters called as 'Segments'

  • Below are some use cases of using segments for -

    • Sending onboarding forms to users who have a joining date = “Today”

    • Sending quarterly review forms to users who have the designation = “Manager”

    • Sharing holiday scheme with users who have location = “Mumbai“

  • This will help you to manage users in a better way.

  • This is the first step towards having more automated processes for Company directory

• Latest comment from Jira issues (which are linked as KRs or KR actions) now appear on the Browse OKRs page (if the relevant columns are displayed on the screen).

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

Release date 23rd February 2023

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

Release date 22nd February 2023

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

Release date 21st February 2023

🎁 Enhancements

• Introduced workweek off and holidays in Resource Availability view of Calendar

• Ability to sync holiday schemes with Tempo timesheets

• OKR custom field delete & disable flows have been updated so that only unused custom fields could be deleted. Used custom fields can only be disabled.

• It is now possible to move an objective cycle into ‘Ready for grading’ (or ‘Ready to close’ depending on its grading configurations) manually. This will allow situations where teams want to grade/review their OKRs before the cycle due date.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

Release date 06th February 2023

🎁 Enhancements

• Create & edit view UI improved for better user experience.

• Now it is possible to find out Jira issues via JQL that are linked as key results or key result actions to UpRaise objectives & key results respectively.

• Distribution user limit is now brought to 500 users from the earlier limit of 200.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

Release date 19th January 2023

🎁 Enhancements

• Beta version of the ‘Roadmap view’ for OKRs is here. Right now, it only supports display of first level of nesting. However, based on the feedback we receive - we will enhance this feature further.

• Form templates can now be shared with other users so that they can use these templates in their own distributions. Up until now, you either had to be creator or a super admin to be able to do this.

• New permission option introduced to prevent certain roles from being able to access profiles of inactive/deleted users.

• Number of key results that can be configured for progress calculation is now 50. Earlier, this number was restricted to 10.

• Objective cycles were sorted only based on Status, now added 2nd level sorting by the due date

  • Cycles with same statute will be sorted based on their due dates

• Similar to Metric KR progress calculation, To Do key results can be configured (for progress calculation) to depend on any type of key results - be it metric, to-do, or even Jira issues.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

Release date 04th January 2023

🎁 Enhancements

• On user listing added filters for leave, holiday & workweek schemes

• Part 1 of the OKR summary page revamp is now available & will be enhanced with a few more sections in the upcoming release.

• The deletion and Deactivation flow for OKR custom fields is now improved to keep the data integrity in place.

• Now Metric KR progress calculation can be configured to depend on any type of key results - be it metric, to do or even Jira issues.

• There is a new section on the feedback summary page for managers. They will be able to see the feedback their direct reports have received in the given duration as well as see when they had given feedback to those direct reports. Will help managers quickly understand how their direct reports are doing.

• Clicking on feedback type on Summary page will direct user to the Feedback tab with respect to the selected feedback type and show feedback and stats for selected type of feedback

  • Click on Summary page >> Click on Given

  • Notice you are navigated to Given feedback on the Feedback tab

🐞​ Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes