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2018 - Data center for UpRaise Employee Success (with OKRs)

2018 - Data center for UpRaise Employee Success (with OKRs)

Release Date - 08th December 2018

Bug Fixes

  • Form distribution page was breaking when a user's key contained a comma, that is now fixed.

Release Date - 03rd December 2018 

Enhancements

  • Revamped Browse OKR experience with deep filtering & ability to choose visible columns

  • Objective start dates are now editable

    • Previously start date of the objective was the first day of an objective cycle by default, now it can be any date between current date & objective cycle due date. 

  • Improved Jira group-based access setting UI for better understanding

    • On the request of a few existing customers, labels/heading of this setting are changed to Grant access, Deny access.

Release Date - 04th November 2018 

Enhancements

  • Ability to edit column list on browse OKRs page.

  • Ability to move KRs (Metric & to do) from one objective to another.

  • Three types of OKR progress reports for all levels of OKRs. Read OKR progress charts for more details. 

    • Progress view

    • Progress over time - Week over-week progress view

    • Progress over time - Month-over-month progress view

  • Ability to bulk sync UpRaise users with Jira.

  • Objectives that do not need grading now will have the status 'Ready to close' rather than 'Ready for grading'.

Bug fixes

  • Minor bug fixes

Release Date - 10th October 2018

Enhancements

  • Continuous feedback REST API is now available. For more details read REST APIs.

  • Progress calculation when Jira issues are KRs is now much more configurable. One can now make use of custom fields on Jira issues to calculate progress on UpRaise objectives.

    • With this change, it is possible for Jira issues to progress as any number and not just 0 or 100 based on resolution.

Bug fixes

  • Minor bug fixes & UI improvements

Release Date - 04th Sept 2018  

Enhancements

  • My dashboard & company dashboards are merged to form a single dashboard with multiple tabs.

    • Soon a team dashboard will be released.

  • Team OKRs progress comparison section now lets the end user choose what team's to see in the chart.

  • Ability to connect feedback with Objective as well as a Key result, in addition to Jira issue. Read How can I request feedback? & How can I give, edit, or delete feedback?

Bug fixes

  • 360 template visibility bug is now fixed.

  • Past dated objective cycle creation bug is now fixed.

  • Logging clean up for Datacenter instances. 

Release Date - 21st September 2018   

Enhancements

  • Ability to export forms in PDF format

  • A couple of default templates now available

Bug fixes

  • Objective & KR progress chart was displaying incorrect values

  • Other minor bug fixes

Release Date - 13th September 2018     

Bug fixes

  • OKR Hierarchy View loading time optimization.

    • There were a few reports that OKR hierarchy view was taking a bit of time to load. That is now optimized for quicker loading time.

Release Date - 05th September 2018     

Bug fixes

  • 360 template anonymity bug that was introduced in the last release is now fixed.

Release Date - 04th September 2018

Enhancements

  • My dashboard & company dashboards are merged to form a single dashboard with multiple tabs.

    • Soon a team dashboard will be released.

  • Team OKRs progress comparison section now lets the end user choose what team's to see in the chart.

  • Ability to connect feedback with Objective as well as Key result, in addition to Jira issue.

Bug fixes

  • 360 template visibility bug fix

  • Past-dated objective cycle creation bug fix

  • Logging clean-up for Datacenter instances

Release Date - 22nd August 2018          

Enhancements

  • OKRs section on My Dashboard now lets you drill down into an objective to view further details.

  • OKR hierarchy view search filters are improved to be searched by Team as well as objective owner.

  • Date type question is now available in the form builder.

Bug fixes

  • Minor bug fixes

Release Date - 08th August 2018          

Enhancements

  • Jira issue linking via JQL 

    • It is now possible to link Jira issues as key results. Read more here.

    • This allows updating of linked issues automatically.

    • You can also add Jira issues as actions directly via JQL. Check out more details. 

  • Synchronise team data from any other tool via the HRMS sync. Read more here.

  • Ability to categorize review form templates.

    • In the upcoming releases, this enhancement will make way for the better organization of forms.

Bug fixes

  • Minor bug fixes

Release Date - 13th July 2018        

Bug fixes

  • Objective description was not visible in thumbnail view.

  • There was an error while creating alignments on SQL server.

  • UpRaise admin page was not accessible to Jira admins.

  • Fixed a few issues in the company directory.

  • Users added in team not having Employee Success access were not visible to non-admin users.

Release Date - 10th July 2018    

Enhancements

  • Ability to connect Jira issues to KRs as Actions.

  • Jira admin now has a screen where they can see a list of current UpRaise admin/super admins.

  • UX improvements in hierarchy view.

    • Nodes in the hierarchy are now ordered alphabetically.

    • it is now possible to search for an objective & view its entire alignment tree (from top to bottom).

  • User profile & team profile page UI improvements.

  • Improvements in UpRaise panel on Jira issue details page.

  • Add tagging feature for KR description same as objective description.

  • Improvements in add alignment pop-up.

Bug fixes

  • Minor bug fixes

 

Release Date - 14th June 2018   

Enhancements

  • JIRA issue progress calculation when it is a KR (epics & sub-tasks handling)

    • Jira issue & epic KR progress can be tracked on the subtasks within Jira issue.

    • Configurable setting to track the progress of Jira issue & epic KR.

  • 'Contact Support' link made configurable from general settings option.

  • UI/UX improvements for the creation of key results.

  • Additional sections on My Dashboard

    • The number of objectives & KRs details section.

    • KR punch-in graph.

  • Base template names are now displayed in template list.

  • Improved navigation for viewing form responses (for admins).

  • UI improvements for browse OKRs page. 

  • UpRaise is now compatible with Jira 7.10.x.

Bug fixes

  • Minor bug fixes. 

Release Date - 21st May 2018       

Enhancements

  • My OKRs section on my dashboard is now modified & gives clean overview of all the OKRs logged in user owns

    • My OKR section is enhanced with new progress chart.

    • The progress chart and OKR list are prioritized depending on actions need to be taken.

    • OKRs that need immediate focus are listed first.

    • This view now shows a lot of minute details about OKRs with its visual cues, such as : 

      • Green or red up & down arrows for OKRs contribution information.

      • Green or red calendar icons for start/end date.

      • Green or red dots for last punch-in date.

  • To Do gadget for Jira dashboards introduced to easily keep track of assigned items.

    • This gadget displays below items that need logged in user's inputs or immediate focus.

      • Pending feedback requests

      • Pending form inputs

      • Objective grading reminders

    • These items in the ToDo list can also be dismissed by clicking on 'x' sign.

  • UI/UX improvement for creation of objectives.

    • There is now a single pop-up to create any level of the objective.

  • Grades of objectives are not ceiled anymore, they are displayed upto decimals.

    • Now the objective grades are stored/displayed in absolute values upto 2 decimals.

  • Now thumbnail view also displays grades.

  • Now admins have the option to re-open an objective even after it is closed

    • Admin & super admins can reopen closed objective.

    • This action is available in 'More' button on objective detail page.

Bug fixes

  • Minor bug fixes.

Release Date - 02nd May 2018 

Enhancements        

  • Version 3.8.0 had some incompatible classes for Jira versions before 7.6.1 - that is now handled

Release Date - 02nd May 2018   

Enhancements

  • Now it is possible to create an upward alignment at the time of objective creation.

  • Continuous feedback UI improvements along with performance enhancements.

    • UI changes on my feedback page.

    • 'Yet to shared' tab is now renamed to 'notes'.

  • Impact of import OKRs is now addressed on print form, export responses, etc.

    • Added valid notes in reports if import OKRs question is available in form.

    • Enhanced the Excel export of form distribution. 

    • Enhanced the UI of print form. 

  • Now the app does not import all Jira users on install, rather admin has the option to import users from one or more Jira groups.

    • At the time of installation, system will not auto-import all Jira users, only selected users can be added to UpRaise. 

    • Admins or super admin can import different Jira groups. 

Bug fixes

  • Minor bug fixes

Release Date - 16th April 2018     

Bug fixes

  • Browse OKR pages were taking too much time to load if filtered on OKR owner

    • If the browse OKR pages were filtered by user, it took a lot of time for them to load. This issue is now fixed.

Release Date - 10th April 2018       

Bug fixes 

  • DB Connection Issue on Jira versions 7.0 to 7.4

    • After recent performance improvements, older versions of Jira - from 7.0 through to 7.4 were throwing DB timeout exceptions on browsing OKRs. This issue is now addressed. We strongly recommend updating to this version.

Release Date - 04 April 2018          

Enhancements

  • Ability to include objectives in the review form

  • Ability to add section-level weightage in review forms

  • Improvement in view responses UI

  • Ability to convert team objectives into individual objectives & vice versa

  • Ability to sync UpRaise team members with Jira user group members

Bug fixes

  • Minor bug fixes

Release Date - 19th March 2018       

Bug fixes

  • Bug fixed that prevented objective cycles from being created. Was introduced in the last release - 3.7.8

Release Date - 09th March 2018   

Enhancements

  • Code refactored to improve the performance of OKR features

Bug fixes

  • Bug fixed that didn't allow 0 as a value in OKR grading - opinion scale type

Release Date - 19th February 2018     

Enhancements

  • Continuous Feedback

    • Ability for receiver to modify feedback sharing is now available

    • Administrators can now delete the feedback even if they were not the creators

    • Better filtering & sorting on the insight view page

    • Response to feedback requests can now be created in a single click via email

    • Ability to delete a feedback request

    • Conversations are deprecated due to low adoption

    • Default labels for continuous feedback are modified for fresh installations

  • Review Forms

    • UpRaise admins can now see distributions that they have created

    • Super admins will be able to view all the distributions in the system

  • OKR

    • Experience with OKR grading is enhanced

    • There is a possibility to remove the grading option so the users can directly close the objectives

Release Date - 25th January 2018 

Enhancements

  • OKRs

    • Ability to retrieve comments & their details on OKRs, via REST API

  • Continuous feedback

    • It is now possible to restrict feedback label creation. Also, administrators get the ability to manage these feedback labels.

    • Similar to OKR sharing, continuous feedback can now be shared with the teams as well as users.

  • Review forms

    • Auto-save is now available. When you are filling up a form, every 1 minute it will be auto-saved.

    • Review form assistant now allows you to view Jira issues that the team member had worked on.

  • HRMS sync now supports xls file format in addition to existing JSON.

Bug Fixes

  • When all the key results and contributing alignment had 0 weightage, progress calculation of the objective was incorrect.

  • KR add/edit/delete emails were not triggered.

  • Minor issues related to Oracle DB addressed (in some places, the variables showed up when the field was null)

Release Date - 04th January 2018          

Enhancements

  • UpRaise objective attributes in issue custom fields - Read this article for setup steps. This now allows you to look at different Jira issues that are connected to UpRaise objectives as key results, in a Kanban or Scrum board. You can also include UpRaise objective attributes to be shown in the card layouts on these boards.

  • UpRaise feed gadget - More interactive UpRaise feed is now available & can be added to your Jira dashboards. One can add comments right from this gadget.

Bug Fixes

  • Minor enhancements & bug fixes