Weekly Patch - June 2, 2024
🐞 Bug Fixes 🐞
Project Templates & Cloning
- A rare issue with legacy project templates leading to malformed feedback tickets has been corrected
Santa Claus is off for the year, and the Easter Bunny has come and gone, but is the lack of a nearby gift-giving holiday going to stop us from showering you with an absolute avalanche of updates and bug fixes? Heck no! It's time for another Centercode 🎊DevJam🎊!
Just like last time, we gathered up a huge number of fast-but-super-impactful bugs and improvements from nearly every area of the platform. Our devs competed to implement the highest number, the most valuable, and the most anticipated improvements. At the end of this round, you're getting nearly a hundred bug fixes, UI tweaks, and string clarifications (listed in detail below!) And that's not all—we've also got great new features and data engine improvements coming to our GoEarly servers, so power through that DevJam list and check those out as well!
And here it is! The List™! Just like last time we’ve highlighted a few of the bigger changes and summarized the rest. You’re welcome to reach out to us via in-site chat or email if you’d like clarification on any of these items!
Here’s a short list of the most impactful, important, and shiniest updates from this DevJam:
Hover over a survey's 'Completed' number to see how many users completed it out of those with access.
Doubled the number of characters available for the tester engagement bot from 15 to 30! Get creative with Ted's name, or include the entire name of your community to keep things clear for your user testing products from multiple companies!
Switch from your pending candidate pool to converted users with a single click!
Improved element selection for Macro survey reports
Made survey report element selections easier to click (the whole row is now a clickable area) and improved text wrapping and spacing!
And more!
Added a Feedback Reply attachment download button with on demand S3 link
We've added a discrete download button to easily download (or link to!) files in feedback replies!
And more!
Added a button when modifying a survey’s properties to take you to modifying the form
Jump straight into modifying your survey form elements without returning to the survey management screen!
When hovering a survey, a count will display displaying completion stats
Hover over a survey's 'Completed' number to see how many users completed it out of those with access.
And more!
Added a copy button for copying API keys
Easily copy an API key from the API key management page at the click of a button!
Forms set as a notice will now show in the menu
See surveys in the menu, even when they are set as notices. Useful for testing access when assuming a user!
And more!
The Converted pill within invite types is now linked to a User view
Switch from your pending candidate pool to converted users with a single click!
Changed the "Submit button" to “Send email” on the Preview this email page
The button now better reflects the action that will occur when pressed!
And more!
Increased the character limit when customizing Ted’s name
Doubled the number of characters available for the tester engagement bot from 15 to 30! Get creative with Ted's name, or include the entire name of your community to keep things clear for your user testing products from multiple companies!
Updated the Logo background to better display white logos
The Logo preview area will now dynamically update to better display white or black logos!
And more!
Whew, you made it all the way down here! And your reward? Even more improvements! Coming soon to our GoEarly implementations is a new and improved Community home view, designed to simplify and streamline the page to make things more easily navigable for customers with very large project lists. In addition, we've also got a whole host of new data columns being added to the Centercode data engine, giving you even more options when filtering and viewing your data!
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
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!