Year 2023

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

20th July 2023

🎁 Enhancements

• 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

• Error messaging improved when team is moved from one Unit to another where team owns some objectives

  • When a team owns one or more objectives, user cannot move the team from one Unit to another

  • For a better understanding of users, we have improved error messaging when user tries to execute above scenario

• 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

• 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

🐞 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.

  • Already selected alignments were shown in suggestions for adding alignments as Contributes to.

• Error messaging UI fixes for Users section of form distribution

  • Fixed some UI issues of the error messaging displayed on the User section of form distribution.

  • Error messages were not displayed properly on user import in the form distribution, now this issue is fixed

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

• 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 users were able to view unshared segment data through custom reports, fixed

• Results of the deleted segments were displayed to the All users segment, now fixed

• Some UI fixes in Labels section of OKRs Manage tab

  • UI changes in the Labels section for better user experience

6th 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

• This enhancement is related to the bulk user updates. Once the bulk user update operation is completed, system displays the failure logs if any user updates failed along with the reason for the failure

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes related to the bulk user update

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

5th 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.

• Once updates are completed, it shows a quick report on the records that were completed and failed.

🐞 Bug fixes

• 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

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

03rd May 2023

🐞 Bug fixes

• An unknown error occurred when user edits group by field in custom report, now fixed.

17th May 2023

​​ 🎁 Enhancements

• 1st part of OKR trend reports is now Live!

  • This feature now allows you to compare a maximum of three objective cycles to understand OKR trends from the below perspectives -

    • OKRs created across the organization

    • The average number of KRs per objective

• The most awaited feature of bulk user updates is here!

  • Now UpRaise admins can do bulk user updates.

  • A three-step process is added to bulk update default and custom user profile attributes

  • Read Bulk edit user profile attributes

🐞 Bug fixes

• The wrong timestamp of form distributed action was being recorded in form history for new user, fixed.

• Super admin / logged-in user was not prepopulating by default in HR field when new user was added midway, now fixed.

• We are wrapping KR titles on objective details page and under alignments now.

• In the shared with users section in Forms, now clicking on Show More displays a pop-up of all users with whom the form is shared, earlier it was expanded on the page itself.

• Users with No Access role are shown in a dropdown, earlier it displayed only 'No option' text.

• In UpRaise custom reports, sections are sorted in the order they are added. Recently/latest added section will be displayed at the top.

• Pie chart was not available for date-type attributes in custom reports

• Blank page was being displayed in custom reports for inactive profile attributes

• In the French language app, while editing the custom report, users dropdown was shown in English

• A timeout error was occurring while trying to import 500 users through Excel, fixed

• Documents attached in Objectives were being downloaded in 0kb, fixed

• Admin was allowed to change Super admin's role through bulk edit user action, now restricted

• In bulk edit user action, even deleted user was being assigned as manager, now restricted.

• Edit bulk user option was not displayed properly for non-English app language

• Sync and import action was available for user role as well, now fixed as it should be available only for admin users

30th May 2023

🐞 Bug fixes

• System was displaying reviewer/s even if anonymity is true in 360-degree review form, now fixed.

11th April 2023

​​ 🎁 Enhancements

• Ability to update OKR weights in bulk & change OKR weight scale to '0 to 100'

  • Instead of just 0-10 now weights are possible from 0-100

  • One can update the weights of multiple KRs and alignments in one place

  • Weights for Jira issue KRs can be updated now

🐞 Bug fixes

• Clicking on JQL as KR link from hierarchy was not directed to the correct Jira issue listing, fixed

• Fixed UI issues on give/request feedback pop-up from Jira issue detail page

• The wrong feedback count was shown to admins under Admin view of feedback page, fixed

• When only max value is mentioned, it was showing all results in the filter for numeric attributes on OKR views and users filter, now fixed

• Success message after edit/add segment is corrected

• Incorrect data pagination issues fixed for segments

• The error that was displayed on clicking Show More option under direct reports on the user profile

• Applying subfilters in segments was showing incorrect results is now fixed

• Single-select user attribute permissions were being applied to all other attributes in the section, now fixed

• In OKR gadgets, the OKR view data was not displayed, now fixed

• On OKR Roadmap view, if the current month filter is selected, current month was not displayed, fixed

• Whitespaces added for better UI experience on update weightage pop-up

25th April 2023

​​ 🎁 Enhancements

• Rename actions & UI changes on distribution listing, view responses and view form pages. This brings a better user experience and under friendly look and feel.

  • Open form action renamed to Start accepting inputs

  • Close form action renamed to Stop accepting inputs

  • Similar actions in the action menu are reordered and re-grouped

  • Actions UI changed in the distribution view page

• Bulk import users option in distribution through Excel file upload

  • Now along with manually adding users, you can import users via Excel files in the distribution

  • Read Bulk importing users to a distribution via Excel upload

• Handled the impact of the bulk weightage enhancement feature that was released in one of the recent releases.

  • At few places like glance view and grading page, weightage display is now displayed as per the weightage set up done by users

  • Weightage is now not clickable

🐞 Bug fixes

• Shared comments were being shown repeatedly in OKR views if Latest comment column is added to the OKR view, now fixed

• Browse OKR page was taking time to load when latest comments column was present in OKR view, now fixed

• Unknown error while modifying the filters in a user segment is now fixed

• Super admin was not able to view received feedback on receiver's profile if it is shared with only receiver, now fixed

• User’s entry count was being displayed incorrectly when users were imported through an Excel file, now fixed

• Export actions from different UpRaise modules were not working, fixed

• When tried to enter decimal value in weightage, invalid input error message was thrown, now fixed

• The empty sample template for the Confidential review form was not wrong, now fixed

• Extra columns not ignored from the user export file for in one on one template distribution is now handled properly

• NA was displayed in place of template description, now fixed

• Fixed all the improper error messaging in user section on import user file action

• Inconsistencies in form action menu fixed

28th April 2023

​​ 🎁 Enhancements

• Support for 3-dimensional charts based on user profile attributes.

  • Now you can create custom reports that are grouped by profile attributes

• Number-type profile attributes can be used in custom reports

🐞 Bug fixes

• Value in Stacking Field was not being retained on the edit report, now fixed

• Value in Group by fields was not being removed, now fixed

• UI issues fixed in 3-dimensional reports

• Unknown error for user picker field in 3-dimensional charts is fixed

• Proper validation message was not displayed when no value was selected in profile attribute dropdown, now fixed

• Updating 3-dimensional bar chart into 2-dimensional bar chart was not working, now fixed

• If no data is available for the selected attribute then NA bars are generated with users count, earlier it was showing negative numbers

​​ 22nd March 2023

🎁 Enhancements

• Now it is possible to add users to the distribution midway.

  • This function is available for all other form templates except 360 review form. We will add it in future releases.

  • This option will be available only when the distribution is open (Distributed status). Once the distribution is closed, add user button will not show up on the screen.

  • Users who have access to create a distribution will be able to add users to a distribution

• As a second part of OKR Roadmap view we have added below enhancements -

  • Users can see linked KRs & objectives of the nested objectives.

  • Users will also be able to customize the timeline view as per their needs.

• In segment creation, now we support custom profile attributes

🐞 Bug fixes

• On Users tab of the Company directory page, User filter role was not showing results properly, fixed

• UI changes in Create segment pop-up

• The progress calculation of parent KR was not visible on timeline of Roadmap View, fixed

• Add user midway of distribution was not working for One on one type of self and manager review template

• The container for progress calculation on Roadmap View when progress calculation is selected as Jira Issues now displays proper JQL. It was blank.

• Segment filters were not updated when any attribute is made inactive/deleted, fixed

• Issues related to adding user functions in the distribution are fixed

• Import objective field was being skipped for new users when added midway to the distribution, fixed

16th March 2023

🐞 Bug fixes

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

​​ 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

• In the ‘Latest comments’ column on OKR views, you can now see latest comments from Jira issues added as KRs and KR actions

🐞 Bug fixes

• Exact matches & closest matches on Team name search was not showing up correctly, fixed

• Closed OKRs were shown Active on user profile. fixed

• The user fields were not searchable by typing the name or by copy pasting the user’s name on add/edit objective pop-up

• The columns position were not getting updated in results after moving up/down, fixed

• Reset button was not available for create segments columns tab

• In the Segmements dropdown, newly created segment was not listed, now fixed

• The Visibility section was showing up the Details page of shared segments, now it is removed

• Heading of the View details changed to Segment details for the details pop-up

• On Create set=gemnet pop-up incorrect data was shown for filters, now fixed

• Deleted user attribute-related column was visible in segments until it’s first edit after deleting the attribute, now fixed

• Edit, create segment Pop-up was getting overlapped, now fixed

• On view responses page, template label keys were displayed instead of Tamplate name tooltip, fixed

• Unknow error fixed for edit segment action for segments with team filters

• Improper validation message fixed on edit custom field pop up

• Team names were not being fetched on edit objective pop-up for team’s visibility fields, now fixed

​​ 21st Feb 2023

🎁 Enhancements

• OKR custom field now can be set as Inactive only if it is associated with any OKRs. Else only Delete option will be available.

  • This change will stop users from making custom fields inactive if they are not in use so having too many unused custom fields impacts the performance.

• Introduced ‘Ready for grading’ & ‘Ready to close’ actions for objective cycle. Earlier there was only close option for objective cycles.

  • This will allow users to grade the OKRs before the due dates are reached. This was quite demanded option from our customers

🐞 Bug fixes

• Other Key results dropdown on create/edit KR pop-up was taking much time, fixed.

• Filters on OKRs view was taking some time to load, fixed

• Some German language corrections done

06th Feb 2023

🎁 Enhancements

• UI Improvements in Create view pop up.

  • This now leads to a better user experience while creating/editing OKR views

• Now you can consolidate the list of Jira issues added as KR and KR action is Jira

  • Read How to make OKR data available in JQL through issue properties?

• Increased the users limit from 250 to 500 for the form distribution

🐞 Bug fixes

• Objective Archival functionality rectified.

  • Earlier we had introduce an archive status for objectives, which is now removed

  • The objective archival will happen based on objective cycles archival

  • If Cycle is in archive status all objectives of that cycle will also be archived and displayed on objective and KR detail page with a note

  • This way, original objective statuses, like closed, ready for grading, or abandoned will remain intact

• Archiving a cycle was not impacting on Abandoned & Carried forward objectives, fixed

• User was able to view deleted Form templates, now fixed with proper messaging and template will not be displayed

• User statuses for Estonian, Russian and Polish languages were not displayed incorrectly, now fixed

• Changes made in OKR view while editing was reflected even if changes were not saved, fixed

• In Dashboard's Pie Chart, archived objective cycles were also displayed when the Statistic type is selected as Objective cycles and Status, now fixed

• Updated the success message for template update action

• Users were not able to fetch existing Jira issues linked as KR /KR action even when setting enabled

• Jira API (Jira issue properties) response was not returning Jira issue properties, fixed

• Added a backend validation for archived objectives and KRs while Give Feedback and Request Feedback, so user should not be able to give feedback on archived objectives

• Already selected custom filters were also displayed in the dropdown of Filters while editing OKR view, fixed

• The default visibility of views will now remain as Private while creating new views even without refreshing the page

• User were not getting saved in distribution when distribution was saved as a draft or scheduled

• Universal search-related issues fixed

19th Jan 2023

🎁 Enhancements

• To visualize the OKRs on a timeline, we have introduced Roadmap view for OKRs

  • It is in BETA version currently. Right now, it only supports the display of first level of nesting. 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. Now, if shared, users can also view and distribute templates. They will not be able to edit these shared templates

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

• 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.

• Increased KR metric progress calculation dependency limit to 50 from 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

04th Jan 2023

🎁 Enhancements

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

• 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

• 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.

🐞​ Bugs

• Minor bug fixes