2020 - Data Center UpRaise People

By Anand Inamdar
5 min

Release date - 23rd November 2020

Enhancements

  • Jira 8.13.1 compatibility

    • OKRs

      • Information from OKRs can now be pulled into Jira issues with the help of custom fields

      • While importing OKRs into forms, we are no longer forcing any restricted set. User can pull any OKRs they want.

Bug fixes

  • Minor bug fixes

Release date - 11th November 2020

Enhancements

  • Jira 8.13 compatibility

    • OKRs

      • Labels are now displayed on the OKR hierarchy/explorer view

      • Metric KR progress automation is now available

        • Customer satisfaction from Jira service desk tickets can also be used for KR progress automation

      • It is now possible to search OKRs by IDs

      • App now allows multiple contributing alignments

      • Filters for alignments and KRs are now available

      • Ability to watch OKRs

      • Thumbnail view for OKRs

    • Feedback

      • Continuous feedback tab is available on user profile page

      • Granular feedback permissions are now available

    • Leaves

      • Leave balance page is completely revamped for better UX

    • Company directory

      • UpRaise access settings introduced for better managing large organisations

      • HRMS sync is now available

      • Create/edit user is now possible via a single pop-up

Bug fixes

  • Other bug fixes

Release date - 22nd July 2020

Enhancements

  • Jira 8.11 compatibility

    • OKRs

      • OKR summary page is now available

      • Alignment suggestions now make it easy to create objective alignments

    • Feedback

      • It is now possible to export feedback in excel format

    • Forms

      • It is now possible to categorise templates

      • Forms now allow date type of questions

    • Leaves

      • ‘Leave’ word is now configurable. You can call them ‘Time off’, ‘Vacation’ or whatever makes sense for your team

    • Company directory

      • Teams can be marked as active/inactive

      • Numeric attributes can be added to the user profiles

    • Generic

      • Comments whenever more than 5, are collapsed automatically

      • Usage report is now available

Bug fixes

  • Minor bug fixes

Release date - 10th June 2020

Enhancements

  • ​Ability to sync UpRaise users with Jira

    • Multi-line type of profile attribute now allows formatting. So it can be now used to store links & formatted content

    • Ability to add/edit start date on key results

    • Universal search feature is now available

    • Leave summary screen is now improved for better UX

    • OKR progress charts improvements

    • OKR actions messaging changes

    • OKR granular permissions are now available along with a more robust roles/permissions screen

Bug fixes

  • Minor bug fixes

Release date - May 11, 2020

Enhancements

  • ​Jira issue search is now easier with a single search box without basic/advanced mode. Simply search with issue key, issue summary or description & relevant search results should be available immediately.

    • UI/UX improvements on manage leaves screen for administrators.

Bug fixes

  • Minor bug fixes

Release date - 11th April 2020

Enhancements

  • OKR progress charts report is now available

Bug fixes

  • Calendar was not showing more than 3 items on a single day, fixed

    • OKR owners were missing certain permissions, introduced in one of the recent releases. Addressed

    • Other minor bug fixes

Release date - 06th April 2020

Bug fixes

  • KR drag & drop feature was not working, fixed

    • Leave type dropdown on leave balance page was broken due to a JS error, addressed

    • Ready for grading status was reached a few hours before what should have been, resolved

    • User links were not working from the team hierarchy view, solved

Release date - 01st April 2020

Enhancements

  • Leaves - There is a UI change for the manage leaves screen. There will be another revision for this UI to make it much more easier to access your leave policies/schemes.

    • OKRs -

      • New explorer view is now available along with the hierarchy view.

      • Filters on the hierarchy & explorer view are a bit modified for better UX.

Bug fixes

  • Form entries were displayed even for deleted distributions

    • OKR hierarchy view was not showing Epics & other Jira issues

Release date - 20th March 2020

Enhancements

  • ​Company directory - Now it is possible to export the user profile attributes in an excel

  • Continuous feedback - New feedback summary page is now available to increase feature adoption

  • Calendar - Calendar now enhanced to display additional event details without needing an extra click

  • OKRs - Objective cycles UI now improved for a better UX

  • Generic - Now it is possible to manage your notification preferences on the user profile page  

Release date - 28th February 2020

Enhancements

  • Incorrect comment/action attribution error fix was not merged into the Version 1.7 build so it reappeared. Addressed.

Release date - 28th February 2020

Enhancements

  • Incorrect comment/action attribution error fix was not merged into the Version 1.7 build so it reappeared. Addressed.

  • Objective & KR details page loading time performance improvement

  • OKR actions made async to improve their performance

Release date - 12th February 2020

Enhancements

  • One of the customers reported weird behaviour where the comments were attributed to the wrong user. While we were not able to reproduce the issue, we've made a change that maybe the underlying root cause. We will be monitoring this behaviour in the next few days.

Release date - 07th February 2020

Tech

  • Jira 8.7 compatibility

Bug fixes

  • OKR owner filter result was incorrect in case if there was a deleted KR under an objective.

    • Leave approver was not displayed in some cases while looking at the listing view.

    • In case of 360 distribution, admin was shown an empty page if the pagination was used on Distribution → View responses

Release date - 07th February 2020

Enhancements

  • Calendar page performance is now drastically improved

    • Irrespective of number of events displayed on screen, page load times are better

  • There are couple of configurable leave statuses now - Availed - past dated & Availed - without approval

  • It is now possible to rename the templates even if they are distributed

Bug fixes

  • There was an error when trying to add actions under key results

    • Mentions were not working while punching in on an objective or key result

    • Reset width option is now available on Browse OKRs screen

Release Date - 24th January 2020

Enhancements

  • Further performance improvement in browse OKRs page loading time

  • Performance improvement in OKR Hierarchy view page loading time

Bug fixes

Minor bug fixes

Release Date - 15th January 2020

Enhancements

  • Browse OKR page now lets you see a few more data points

    • Grades

    • Latest comments

    • Alignment

  • Ability to rename different levels of OKRs

    • For example, call top level goals as 'Corporate' rather than 'Company' or 'Personal' instead of 'Individual'

  • Performance improvement in browse OKRs page loading time

Bug fixes

  • Minor bug fixes

Release Date - 2 January 2020

Enhancements

  • It is now possible to resize column widths on browse OKRs screen

  • New configuration introduced to let you decide which levels of Objectives are suitable for your team’s needs

Bug fixes

  • Minor bug fixes