23.09 Major Release Notes

The Manage > Application menu has several key updates to configuration and functionality, including:

• SSO menu updates
• A new tab for non-SSO user configuration (Simpplr IdP)
• MFA option has been removed
• Security questions setup no longer optional
• SFTP is now available for provisioning and syncing users
• CSV bulk upload user option has several enhancements
• Login screens for non-SSO will feature company branding

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Daily digest emails have been improved to show the following topics:

• A change in a user's site role (i.e., if they're made a Site manager)
• Survey reminders
• Survey actions taken
• New social campaigns that have been created
• New requests for membership to the user's site(s)
• Content the user authored has been shared
• Another user is following the user
• Someone has endorsed the user for an Expterise
• Someone likes the user's post
• Someone mentions the user in a post
• A user has been recognized via Recognition Suite
• A user's recognition has been shared
• Someone commented on a user's post
• Someone mentions the user in a reply
• Someone replied to a post the user liked
• Someone liked a user's reply
• Someone replied to the user's recognition
• Someone commented on a user's post with a file
• Someone replied to a user's liked comment
• Someone mentioned the user in a recognition
• A site membership request has been approved/rejected
• Someone liked the user's content
• Auto-approved site membership

When users are setting up a custom domain, Simpplr now offers better feedback in the UI, including:

• Post-activation steps
• Clear info text: 'Click here'
• Certificate validation button
• Domain configuration refresh option to see if domain is configured

The Brand editor has made several improvements, including: 

• A Company Corporate Palette, which allows Branding managers to add up to five primary/secondary colors for their branding

• In the Color section of the Brand editor, the ability to choose a link color has been added

• By default, the hyperlink color will be set to the brand's primary color

• As a Branding manager, I can choose from customized hex colors with a color grid

• A dark theme and light theme will be optional

• Once I select a color, all hyperlinks on the page will update to reflect that color

• When I click Save & close, the changes will apply to the entire application

• Branding configurations are now applied to:

  • Enriched text editor within pages

  • Enriched text editor within Rich text tiles

  • Enriched text editor within Employee Newsletter

Users in the people directory are not showing up in alphabetical order for last name when first name matches

Internal server error when connecting to MS Teams integration

The Activate and Edit buttons for Recognition awards are hidden in the scroll bar

Intermittent APIs failures with 503 status code, which also has significant contribution to blank page issues encountered during automation

Users logging in with Employee number are locked out

Missing images when user logs in

Customer received low license count email when plenty of licenses were available

User taken to home dashboard instead of link if they click on a link while signed out

Missing subscriptions

Subscriptions not counting users properly

Unable to open newsletter draft

Unable to disable 'Location' filter on mobile app

An unpublished event in upcoming events and old content in Popular content appeared on branded app

Scheduler was not running correctly, remained in 'Initialized' status

Schedulers 'next run' and 'last run' time discrepancy

Unable to add 'Link' to the Apps Launcher

Inconsistent link appearance on the page

App manager can't update content (make changes)

RSVP attendance is mismatched with the count on the dashboard and the number of users attending the event on UI

Images are being lost when moving content from one site to another

Files sort dropdown is not changing sorting on the files

Page freezes and the scroll bar stop working randomly