Weekly Patch, May 12, 2024
🐞 Bug Fixes 🐞
Feedback Management
- Corrected a workflow issue with "Send to Previous Owner" to make it more reliable and handle quick updates via the simple feedback list properly
Spring is in full swing with Centercode’s garden of new features and improvements! Last month in our GoEarly program, we planted the seeds for our new embedding system for content within resources, and now those features are ready to bloom. And that’s not all! This month’s GoEarly release includes the results of our second DevJam, bringing you a bouquet of nearly one hundred small improvements, bug fixes, and quality-of-life features!
new features
This month’s main feature is the full release of our brand-new content embedding system, adding even more functionality to our recently updated resource creation system! These new embedding features bring you a more feature-rich, streamlined, and intuitive new way to embed a wide range of custom and preset embed options. It's never been easier to add external video, social media, and scheduling tools (with many more to come!) into your Centercode resources (content, releases, and activities).
When creating a resource, you’ll now find the “External embed” option listed in the “Include” portion of the resource. Selecting that will present you with a drop-down menu that allows you to select the type of embed you’d like to include. We've expanded the capabilities of Centercode’s embedding system to include inline JavaScript and link assets via the “Custom embedded script” option, and you'll also get a number of pre-built embed selections.
Selecting any of the pre-built embed types will present you with a helpful infobox (and accompanying linked help article), telling you how to acquire the embed code from the external source (YouTube, Loom, Figma, etc) and which field to embed the code in.
If you don't see the option you are looking for on the list, we also have a custom embedded script option that now includes the ability to include inline JavaScript and linked file assets. This custom embedding option will cover the vast majority (if not all) of proper embeds - we haven’t met one we couldn’t support!
These powerful new embed tools give you a new degree of freedom in presenting vital testing material, visual aids, and scheduling tools to your testers—and we can’t wait to see what you do with them! For more detailed information on these tools and how to use them, see our helpful knowledge base article here!
This release also includes some long-overdue data column updates that bring the Centercode Data Engine (CDE) in line with the copy and formatting changes we've made throughout the site. Generally speaking, most changes are capitalization changes - adjusting from title casing to sentence casing. For example: Email Address is changing to Email address. In some cases, however, we're adjusting the terminology: EA Integration ID is changing to SSO integration ID, and Engagement Score is changing to simply Points.
This change impacts data elements throughout the platform including User Management, Feedback Management, and Custom Reporting. While generally not something an in-site user would need to worry much about -- Single Sign-On, Webhook, and Jira integrations won't be affected -- the data column name change will likely affect reporting integrations. For example, data being ingested by external analysis tools like Power BI, Tableau, Splunk, or Excel may be looking for data that is being renamed. In this case, the data won't be found until those systems are updated with the new data column names -- so they know which columns are which.
I've linked a spreadsheet that shows all the copy changes below.
Centercode Data Engine updates - Column name changes (April 2024)
Coming soon to a GoEarly implementation near you are the results of Centercode’s second DevJam - back by popular demand! We gathered another huge batch of small but impactful bugs and improvements that spanned all aspects of the platform and set our dev team loose on them. The result? Nearly a hundred bug fixes, UI tweaks, and string clarifications! Check out that DevJam hand-off board!
If you’re not already participating in our GoEarly program, sign up here to get your hands on these new updates before they go live!
fixes
This week we've got a few updates in addition to our usual bugfixes, making some improvements to our new resource creation system, as well as some general email updates!
Spring has officially sprung! In the spirit of the season, Centercode is also springing forward, with this month’s focus being on a redesign and refresh of our GoEarly program, making it easier than ever to provide feedback and shape the future of upcoming Centercode releases!
announcements
This month the focus is on our newly revamped GoEarly Program, freshly redesigned to streamline your access to upcoming releases while amplifying the value of your feedback. With this revamped structure, you'll now have access to up to three distinct Centercode sites at all times: your unchanged Live Site, a Stage Site (if included in your license) for testing new processes and configurations against production code, and an opt-in GoEarly Beta Site exclusively for exploring forthcoming features. The Beta Site, private to your team and pre-loaded with demo data, provides an opportunity to test monthly releases ahead of schedule, enabling you to provide feedback and shape the development process before these features reach your Live Site in a zero-risk environment!
In the new GoEarly program, we'll be implementing Centercode's structured Delta methodology in a continuous project format. Regular weekly patches will ensure that all three site types are kept up-to-date with bug fixes.
Your participation in the GoEarly Program is crucial in shaping Centercode's evolution, so please join us for the next testing phase that starts on April 1, 2024! Click here to check it out!
The first set of features we’ll be introducing into the 2024 GoEarly program is a more feature rich, streamlined, and intuitive new way to embed a wide range of custom and preset embed options for many popular external video, social media, and scheduling tools (with many more to come!) into your Centercode resources (content, releases, and activities).
We’re excited to get this new tool into your hands and hear what you’ve got to say about it, so get in there and get testing!