📈  Improvements 📈 

Additional UI/UX improvements!

• Further enhancements to the user and feedback management list pages UI/UX 

We're starting the year off with a refreshed design to enhance your testing experience! Centercode's January release focuses on visual and UI changes designed to bring you and your users a cleaner, more modern interface that improves usability, improves the use of screen space, and highlights the features that keep your tests moving. We've revamped the look of multiple areas of the platform, as well as made a few site-wide layout and UI changes that you're sure to love!

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📈  Improvements 📈 

Keep those New Years (screen) resolutions!

The first changes you'll probably notice (especially if you're on a wide monitor!) are the adjustments we've made to the global UI to better use your available screen space. We've tweaked various page widths across the site to improve visual consistency and better utilize existing screen real estate! 

Along those lines, we've made some updates to top headers on many pages. In general, top headers will no longer be sticky, which will save screen space when scrolling around pages at lower resolutions. Additionally, top headers and header buttons will now rest on top of your background and will share visual theme color choices with your existing background text options, so as long as you've got those set up appropriately no adjustments should be necessary.

These changes, in addition to some color and spacing adjustments, are designed to keep your site looking readable and consistent across a much wider range of screen resolutions!

No place like (Project) Home!

Next up we've got some exciting changes coming to your project home pages! We've made a few tweaks to both the look and layout of your project home pages designed to improve test flow, and help you get important information in front of your testers. The first change you'll notice is that now any content you have set to display on the project home will appear at the top of the page, with the feedback buttons now appearing after any custom content, ensuring that the first thing your users see is any important test information you want to get out to them! 

Additionally, we've given our feedback buttons a more compact modern design, while maintaining all the same viewing, submitting, and informative capabilities. 

One last change that is not specific to the project home (but IS in this screenshot!) is the addition of a tester-facing "Highly confidential project" warning in the menu bar for any of your projects set to "Private", to provide testers with a constant reminder of their non-disclosure and to keep project info confidential.

Feedback list changes!

And finally, we've made some big changes to the layout of our feedback list, presenting all of the same handy information rearranged for visual clarity and readability! 

First on the list (and farthest to the left!) is an update to the vote/score widget. Both the admin and tester-facing versions have been given a facelift to improve their visual clarity, and the admin-facing version of this new design places a larger emphasis on the impact score of the ticket.

Next up, we've made some adjustments to the Feedback title area and how that information is presented. Both the "archived" and "blocked" icons will now appear to the left of the title, as well as archived ticket titles now appearing in grey, to help you visually determine which tickets need immediate action (or have already been acted on). Additionally, we've adjusted the styling for how statuses are presented, now giving them a visually distinct foreground color (but no background color), to reduce clutter in the title bar while still presenting all the same visual information you're used to seeing.

Lastly, we've moved the ticket submitter avatar to the right side of the bar, to keep it grouped with the other user-focused information (such as total replies and last reply.)

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🐞  Bug Fixes 🐞 

Data Engine & Custom Reports

• Charts have been corrected in generated report PDF & PNG files. 

🐞  Bug Fixes 🐞 

Data Engine & Custom Reports

• Report refresh date configuration now supports years beyond the current one.

It’s that time of year when twinkling lights go up, cookies are in the oven, and we’re gathering with friends and family to celebrate the joy of the season. And what would the holiday season be without a few new toys to play with? Well, Centercode has you covered! Say hello to Ted AI survey generation, a brand new toy in Ted AI's toolbelt to make creating surveys as easy as pie (or fruitcake, if that’s your thing). This marks the first of Ted AI's premium features (with more to come, read below!), and if you like what you see there's no time like the present to get on board!

And like the industrious little elf that he is, Ted AI has even more surprises in store for our GoEarly participants! Get a sneak peek at the next upcoming Ted AI feature, AI Data Analysis, and let us know what additional features and functionality you'd like to see before release! Click here to sign up now!

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✨ New Features ✨  

Let Ted AI build your surveys while you enjoy(?) the eggnog!

The star on top of this holiday release is Ted AI's brand-new survey creation capability! Let Ted AI do the heavy lifting of creating your survey while you focus on consuming a (frankly unhealthy) amount of festively shaped cookies. Or, if you know what you want to ask but aren’t sure how to ask it, the same functionality can be used to generate that perfect individual question. Similar to AI Test Plan generation, AI survey creation leverages a selection of your basic product info, existing product documentation, and/or a set of custom instructions to create a survey tailored to your needs in an instant! 

Here's an example of generating a full survey:

Navigate to the survey management section (at the community or project level) and start a new survey. Choose the “Help Me” option to unlock Ted AI’s assistance.

Next, pick a survey objective—think of it as writing Ted AI’s wishlist! Objectives help guide the questions he generates to align with your goals. Answer a few prompts to let Ted AI know the sort of data you're looking for, then, sprinkle in some additional details to give Ted more context like project details, product files, and any custom instructions you'd like Ted AI to consider.

Once you hit submit, Ted AI will use a little Christmas (or other seasonally appropriate holiday) magic to whip up a complete survey in just moments!

After that, all that is left is to hit the "Review my survey" button to go over the result, where you can review, edit, and publish the survey!

Ted AI takes the stress out of survey creation.Plus, with expertly crafted questions tailored to your goals, you’ll collect better feedback faster than ever before!

💡 Centercode GoEarly features 💡 

GoEarly AI Data Analysis!

That Naughty or Nice list is getting out of hand, and we thought Santa could use a second set of eyes on it. This month's GoEarly release features another Ted AI feature, AI data analysis, that will make sorting through and summarizing large amounts of data a snap! This brand new reporting element style will quickly scan through the data you provide and give you a quick, easy-to-digest summary of your data! Sign up now to get your hands on this feature early!

GoEarly Interface Updates

Alongside the upcoming AI data analysis feature, we’re also delivering some significant updates to the platform’s interface, which include a new streamlined look for multiple prominent tester-facing areas of the platform, including the project home and simple feedback lists!

🐞  Bug Fixes 🐞 

Localization & Strings

• A string change was made for a message in the test plan archive.
• A couple of additional small string adjustments were made in test planning and reporting. 

🐞  Bug Fixes 🐞 

User Interface & Experience

• An access warning UI was corrected related to Test Platforms on Feedback being modified.

Localization & Strings

• Email from name sourced from Community or Projects containing an "&" no longer deliver as &Amp; in the from name.

It's turkey (or your chosen plant-based substitute!) season again! That means it's time to gather together with friends and family and stuff yourselves silly, and Centercode has a new friend we'd like to introduce you to who has a lot to bring to the (proverbial Thanksgiving) table. 

We've hinted at it before, and this month we're finally ready to let Ted AI out into the world to show you what he can do! Ted AI marks Centercode's entry into the intelligent tools space, with a new family of smart agents expanding Ted's reach far beyond tester engagement.

In the first (of many to come) batch of Ted AI agents we've got a brand new way to generate actionable test plans for your project that you're going to love. And if that's not enough to whet your appetite, we've got the usual spread of improvements and bug fixes to make sure you leave satisfied. And if you happen to leave some room for dessert, we've got yet another tantalizing set of upcoming AI features in our GoEarly program that you won't want to miss! Sign up here, and get a slice of the action.

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✨ New Features ✨  

Let Ted AI take care of your test planning!

The main course for this November's release is a whole new way to generate test plans in a flash! You provide the ingredients, and Ted AI will do the cooking! Centercode's AI test plan generation allows you to use your basic product info, existing product documentation, or a set of custom instructions to instantly create a full set of features and phases, a short focused one-week test, or a set of features you can schedule yourself. Generate a fully featured test plan, complete with a balanced set of features and phases, to help get your project off of the ground, or use what Ted AI whips up as a starting point for a more customized test plan!

Once you've enabled test plan AI generation in your Community AI settings (learn more here!), simply navigate to the new AI test plan generation tool via a new button located on your test plan management page!

From here you just need to give Ted a few starting parameters, and then as much information as you would like for him to work with (more is better, but you'll be surprised what he can put together with just a few basic details!), and any custom instructions you'd like incorporated into your test plan. After that, simply select the default team access you'd like for your features and phases, hit submit, and let Ted work his magic!

And, voila, a fully featured test plan ready for testing! Simply follow the new test planning infobox prompts (added with last month's release!) and you'll have your test up and running faster than ever before!

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📈  Improvements 📈 

Making it feel like home

And if all that wasn't exciting enough, we've also got a few additional options and improvements for your project home! A new set of checkboxes in the Feedback properties page of each feedback type lets you individually control which feedback buttons appear at the top of your project home, as well as which feedback buttons are presented on the page shown to testers after they complete an activity. Got a feedback type that doesn't need to be in the limelight, or one you'd particularly like your testers to see after completing an activity? These new checkboxes have got you covered! Additionally, we've removed the percent of activities completed bar from the project home to keep your testers' attention focused on the more information rich list of complete and incomplete features below.

💡 Centercode GoEarly features 💡 

Ted AI is ready for seconds with AI survey generation!

Not one to rest on his laurels (even after a healthy dose of turkey-delivered tryptophan), Ted AI is ready and rarin' to go with his second set of AI tools, this time focused on AI survey generation. Just tell Ted what sort of survey you want to create, and provide a few quick details or specific question you want included and he'll have something ready before you can say "Another slice of pie, please!" Not a member of our GoEarly program yet? There's always room at the table, so sign up now!

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🐞  Bug Fixes 🐞 

Data Engine & Custom Reports

• Cloning Project Reports was being incorrectly gated by Community access in addition to Project access
• Feedback comments now return from the data engine sorted oldest to newest (instead of alphabetical)

Test Planning

• Test Plan imports will now properly respect the initial Survey selection value

📈  Improvements 📈 

Form Engine & Custom Surveys

• Feedback choice element impact is now available on initial element creation

🐞  Bug Fixes 🐞 

Miscellaneous

• An issue with feature flow submission related to prior Praise completion on that same feature was corrected.

🐞  Bug Fixes 🐞 

Miscellaneous

• Resolved issue related to video recording upload/playback

🐞  Bug Fixes 🐞 

Localization & Strings

• Added the ability to customize some strings on the project invite account settings page variant.