Intranet

Custom hybrid app tiles 

Building on the existing ability to create custom Display App Tiles, and Form App Tiles, this release adds support for Custom Hybrid App Tiles through the tile builder and Bring Your Own Integration (BYOI) framework. These tiles allow users to show information as well as take actions for third-party applications interactions directly from the intranet dashboard to any third-party application.

App managers can configure action-oriented API actions, to power use cases like updating a service ticket, or approving for PTO without leaving Simpplr. They can also define how to handle success and error states to ensure a smooth user experience.

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More pre-built app tiles

We are enhancing the pre-built app tiles library with a powerful new visualization capability for JIRA. This update empowers users to view insightful charts derived from JIRA data, right within their dashboards, helping teams monitor and analyze key metrics at a glance.

In addition, the JIRA Service Desk pre-built app tile now allows app/site managers to configure custom cover image for the tile.

Learn more about setting up pre-built app tiles on your home and site dashboards

Configurable terms and services

Admins can now hide, rename, or replace the “Terms of Service” and “Privacy Policy” links that appear in the intranet footer, without code changes or support tickets. A one-time legal acknowledgement ensures your organization already has a signed MSA (or equivalent), so both your org and Simpplr remain protected.

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Improved content locking to prevent editing conflicts

We’ve improved the content locking feature to help prevent editing conflicts. Now, when you start editing a page, event, or album, others won’t be able to make changes at the same time. If you’re inactive for a while, you’ll get a prompt asking if you want to continue. If you close the page or remain inactive for too long, editing access will be released so others can take over. While only one person can edit at a time, everyone can still view the content. This update helps protect your changes and makes collaboration smoother.

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Filters in content feed for comments and questions

We've added filters in the content feed for questions and comments. Upon selection, the filters will also show the total number of comments and questions.

• If feed is disabled, users won't see this
• If only Questions is disabled, then only comments will be shown

New custom field types

We’re introducing new custom field types—Email, URL, Date, URL, Single select menu and multi-select menu, to give admins greater flexibility in capturing and managing user profile data. These field types help ensure data consistency, enable richer user profiles, and allow better validation of inputs. This enhancement empowers admins to collect the right kind of information based on their organization’s unique needs.

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Personalization of Apps and links

We’re introducing greater personalization for end users through custom links and enhanced favorites management. Users can now add their own custom links, mark any app or link as a favorite, and manage their favorites by sorting and reordering them to suit their preferences. All favorites are easily accessible from the Favorites page via the Apps and Links tab, giving users quick access to what matters most to them.

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Integrations

Audiences can now be created with Okta groups

For orgs using the Okta integration, you can now create new Simpplr audiences based on Okta groups.

App managers can whitelist specific Okta groups and use them to create audiences—either manually or in bulk—making it easier to align access and targeting with their identity provider structure.

Special features

Unified calendar view

Outlook meetings are now integrated into the Events Calendar. You can view Outlook, Intranet, and Google Calendar events together in one place, making it easier to keep track of all your commitments.

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Employee newsletter enhancements

Subject line personalization with recipient merge fields

Personalize subject lines using recipient-specific merge fields to make internal communications more engaging. This feature enables dynamic insertion of the recipient’s first name or full name directly into the subject line, helping to boost open rates and capture attention. To ensure a seamless experience, you can also provide fallback text in case the recipient data is missing.

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Recognition enhancements

Introducing Spot awards!

The new Spot award allows for limitations on who can give the award as well as who can receive it. It's perfect for common Spot award use cases like manager-to-direct-report spot recognition, frontline specialty awards like a 'Safety Team' award, as well as bespoke use cases like Simpplr's own 'Season of Gratitude' award.

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Introducing Milestone work anniversary awards

We're introducing an automated Milestone award to celebrate work anniversaries (tenure/service/etc). Once setup, the award will run on its own making sure people feel seen for their contributions on the anniversary of their hire date.

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Improved structure and new additions in the Extensibility center

To make API navigation easier and support more flexible workflows, we’ve made some important updates to how APIs are grouped and introduced new options for managing site and content categories with new APIs in the Extensibility center. 

We’ve added a new Sites group to both the User and B2B sections. All existing site-specific APIs have been moved here from the Content group. This change is aimed at improving how related APIs are organized, so you can find and manage them more easily.

• Updates in the Sites group: Added Sites group in User and B2B sections, moving site-specific APIs from Content for better organization.

• Updates in Site-related APIs: Added APIs in Sites group to create/update/delete site categories, create/update sites, and manage site memberships, enabling custom workflows.

• Updates in the Content group: Introduced APIs in Content group to create/retrieve/update/delete page categories, supporting tailored integrations.

• File upload API: Added presigned upload URL API in Files group, allowing file uploads for attachment to sites or content.

These updates are designed to give you more control over how site and page content is organized, especially when building custom integrations.

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Profile field mapping for API parameters

You can now map non-configurable API parameters to user profile fields. This allows sensitive or user-specific data such as user IDs or emails to be passed automatically and securely during API execution. It is especially useful when you want to restrict users from editing these values or when you are syncing external IDs through user provisioning. Only non-editable profile fields can be mapped, and once mapped, they remain locked to prevent changes. During runtime, the system fills these parameters automatically using the logged-in user’s profile information, ensuring secure and consistent integration with third-party applications.

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Filters in content feed for comments and questions

We now have achieved parity for the content feed section by adding the filters for questions and comments. It will also show the number of comments, questions and also the total number of questions plus comments. 

• If feed is disabled in content then the entire feed section will be disabled
• If only questions is disabled, then only comments will be shown

Mobile

Mobile users now have the option to copy the link of a page, even when comments or feed posting is disabled, so that they can share or save the page link.