2020 - Cloud UpRaise for Employee Success (OKRs)

​​ Enhancements

• Added reports & setting related permissions to 'Roles & permissions section'.

• Performance improvements on My forms page

🐞 Bug fixes

• Team member pagination list was not working properly, now fixed.

• Team OKR dashboards were showing incorrect confidence statuses & progress percentage, now fixed.

• Import objective scale was not working as expected, fixed.

• Multiple email notifications on profile updates, now fixed.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes.

​​ Enhancements

• Handled impact of HRMS sync feature that was recently released.

• Added Jira admin facing screen to manage UpRaise admins

• Introduced units feature, for more details read What are 'Units' and how to use them in UpRaise?

​​ Enhancements

• Jira admin facing screen has been added that allows Jira admins to show/manage UpRaise admins & super admins when UpRaise is set to Group-based access.

• Default form templates inserted as sample templates

• Introduced 'Edit user role' permissions in roles & permissions.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Jira-group sync with UpRaise teams was not working, now fixed.

Enhancements

• UpRaise can be synced with HRIS tools. Read How do I integrate with AD, LDAP & other HRIS tools for centralized user management? for more details.

• Previously, objectives from selected statuses were displayed on import objective pop-up. Now that restriction is removed for that pop-up.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Field type of default custom attribute called Job description is now changed to single-line from multi-line type.

Enhancements

• Enabled OKRs search with OKR ids via UpRaise Universal search.

Enhancements

• Enhancements in the hierarchy explorer view.

Enhancements

• UpRaise access can now be based on Jira user groups

• Integrated bulk sync & import from Jira user groups option is now available

Enhancements

• User create & edit now happens via extended pop-up, all attributes can be added/edited rather than just the default ones

🐞 Bug fixes

• When epics from next gen projects were linked as KRs, progress calculation was failing. Now fixed.

Enhancements

• Thumbnail view on the browse OKRs screen is now available

• Metric KR progress automation is now in place

  • Customer satisfaction from JSD can also be tracked using this automation approach

Enhancements

• One objective can now contribute to multiple objectives

• New filters added for Alignments & KRs section on objective details page

• Quick links to assigned OKRs to logged in user or team lead (in case of team objectives) on create objective pop-up

• Cascade invisibility on hierarchy & explorer view settings are now available

  • Read Hierarchy view (Cascade Invisibility) for more details

Tech

• Security bug fixes

  • Users with no access can fetch users history

  • Users with no access can fetch teams details

  • Low role user can change roles & permissions

  • Normal user can access and change the company settings

  • View key results added to a private project's issue under restricted objective

  • User with no access role can delete other users' views

  • Users with no access role can create and fetch views under OKRs

  • Users can link issues of a private project as a key result

  • IDOR - Users with no access role can view company objectives

  • No access user is able to fetch okr progress data

  • No access user is able to fetch usage report data

  • No access user is able to fetch all dashboard data

  • No access user is able to update limited roll out setting

  • Backend validation missing on objective api's

Enhancements

• Ability to move KRs from one objective to the other

• Change in sequences of actions on objectives for improved UX

Tech

• Security fixes that came out of our ongoing bug bounty program

🐞 Bug fixes

• OKR filters return different results in browse and hierarchy

• Form permissions related fixes

Enhancements

• Complete flexibility in setting up granular permissions around forms

Enhancements

• Complete flexibility in setting up granular permissions around company directory

Tech

• Security bug fix - normal users were able to manage custom profile attributes

🐞 Bug fixes

• When adding KR comments, error was thrown if KR owner was different from comment creator - addressed

Enhancements

• Ability to watch Objectives & Key results

🐞 Bug fixes

• Epic statuses were not correctly reflected within UpRaise, addressed

• Fixed the root cause of new relic errors

Enhancements

• Extensive feedback permissions are now available

🐞 Bug fixes

• Epics due dates were not populated within UpRaise OKRs when they were added/updated after linking. Fixed

• Metric does not allow same original & target values anymore

🐞 Bug fixes

• When confidence score setting was set to manual & someone updated the score manually, threw an error but the score was updated correctly. Now fixed

Enhancements

• User profile pages now have an additional tab that display feedback for & by the user.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

• Tech

  • Security enhancements & bug fixes

• Enhancements

  • It is now possible to categorise templates for better organisation.

• ?? Bug fixes

  • Objective serial numbers were causing a problem in some corner cases, potential solution deployed.

• Enhancements

  • Usage report is now available.

• Enhancements

  • When aligning objectives, suggestions now show up by default. Ability to search/create an objective for alignment still exists but we’ve made it secondary.

• 🐞 Bug fixes

  • Objective alignments were not displayed in any specific order, fixed. Now they are displayed in the order in which they were aligned.

• Enhancements

  • UpRaise administrators can now export the feedback data in an excel.

• Enhancements

  • It is now possible to mark a team as inactive, when it is not active anymore but you don’t want to delete it.

• Tech

  • Security enhancements & bug fixes

• 🐞 Bug fixes

  • KR dates were resetting to one day before what was entered, fixed

  • Scheduled form distributions were not working as expected, resolved

• Enhancements

  • Review forms now support date type of question

  • Comments when more than 5, are hidden under ‘Show x older comments’ button

• 🐞 Bug fixes

  • Only one item from the KR history was being displayed, fixed

• Enhancements

  • Ability to add numeric attributes to user profiles

• 🐞 Bug fixes

  • Some profile attributes which shouldn’t be, were editable

  • Security bug fixes

• Tech

  • Evaluation license abusers can be blocked from using the app

• Enhancements

  • Ability to bulk sync UpRaise users with Jira

  • Now multi-line attribute supports WYSWYG editor

• 🐞 Bug fixes

  • Security bug fix - User without permission was able to delete the objectives, fixed.

  • Some profile attributes were editable in cases when they were not supposed to be, resolved.

  • Minor fix related to leave application.

• 🐞 Bug fixes

  • Form response sharing was throwing error due to a previous change, resolved.

  • OKR comments were indirectly referenced and it was possible for someone to impersonate other users by modifying the HTTP requests. No evidence of any tampering exists, but we are fixing these security issues as part of ongoing initiative.

  • Form builder was behaving erratically when questions were moved up & down or when multiple choice questions were used, now fixed.

• Enhancements

  • OKR module is now live with customisable roles/permissions. We will soon be extending other modules with this possibility.

  • Key results now also have start dates. Up until now they were same as that of the objective start date.

  • Objective & KR progress charts enhanced to display ideal vs actual progress. Also, the charts now display progress comparison according to the ‘current date’ on which user is looking at them.

• 🐞 Bug fixes

  • Objective dates were not considered during alignment. So it was possible for two objectives with completely different dates to align with each other. Now fixed.

  • Minor fixes

• 🐞 Bug fixes

  • After the last release, OKR hierarchy view was not showing user avatars. Resolved.

• ?? Bug fixes

  • Due to a security related fix some users were not able to delete their OKR comments, now fixed.

• Enhancements

  • Universal search feature to easily search for OKRs, users & teams is now available.

• 🐞 Bug fixes

  • Change in sequence of objective cycles displayed in filters to make them reverse chronological

  • Improved handling of Browse OKRs column size drag & drop, now much easier than what was before

  • Minor issues related to forms - extreme labels for opinion scale questions were not visible while responding to a form, renaming template was resetting pagination, distribution description was displayed as empty despite setting a value

• 🐞 Bug fixes

  • We got the security/penetration testing done via a 3rd party & received few bugs that needed fixing. With this release, we’ve fixed first lot of items that are important to make the app secure.

• Enhancements

  • Jira issue search is now improved. No basic/advanced modes. Simply type in issue id or other search params & results will be displayed.

• 🐞 Bug fixes

  • Non-admin users were not able to access teams in the OKR alignment pop-up, that is now fixed.

  • When adding Jira issues as KRs, if the summary was lengthy it would hide the ‘Weight’ field - addressed.

• For some reason there were many user update events from one Jira instance & that led to application crash. Temporarily disabled the event to identify the root cause.

• 🐞 Bug fixes

  • OKR progress charts were showing for the entire X axis even if the current date was somewhere in the middle, fixed

  • OKR summary tab UI improved a bit

  • Add users in bulk pop-up had a checkbox missing in the table header, addressed

  • Objective cycles dropdown sequence rearranged for better UX

• 🐞 Bug fixes

  • Jira cloud’s REST API does not send user keys anymore. While we had already handled this change for accountID across the app, the pop-up for adding users was not handled. This is now fixed.

• Enhancements

  • Default OKR configurations are modified for better user experience on fresh installs

• 🐞 Bug fixes

  • Some permissions for OKRs were not behaving as expected, addressed

  • Minor bug fixes

• 🐞 Minor bug fixes

  • User profile links on team tree view were broken, fixed

  • Grade & carry forward action failure in some cases, addressed

  • Drag & drop key results action was not working, resolved

• 🐞 Bug fixes

  • OKR hierarchy view was not showing company objectives when they were not aligned, fixed

• 🐞 Bug fixes

  • Browse OKRs filter toggle was not working, fixed

  • There was a bug in one specific case when an objective was moved to a different cycle, addressed

• Explorer view is now available for visualising relationships between OKRs

• Filters on the Hierarchy/Explorer view are modified for better UX

• Bug fixed - deleted distribution was visible on ‘My forms’ page

• OKR progress chart report is now available

• Email notification preference centre introduced on user profile page

• OKR summary page further enhanced to display stats about the currently selected view

• Some templates (even when distributed) were showing no questions inside of them, when viewed. Fixed.

• Form distribution responses, when exported were empty. Addressed.

• OKR summary page part I is now live

• Feedback summary page go live

• Ability to export user profile attributes from UpRaise company directory

• UI improvement for objective cycle listing