Release Summary

• Introducing the call to action widget
• New Multi-Service Search functionality
• Upgrade to the WYSIWYG editor
• Making Igloo more accessible to all
• Planned Briefcase removal
• Bug Fixes

Introducing the Call to Action widget.

Call to Actions, or CTAs, can be used to provide a means for administrators to help drive traffic to the correct location in pages or spaces (Text Layout) as well as providing more detailed navigation guidance to users in a visually compelling manner. In this release you will be able to use a new widget to define Call to Actions within your digital workplace. 

There are two layout options available in this release, Text and Description. The Text layout allows you to create a set of CTA buttons with a single text element. The Description layout allows you to specify a Title, Secondary Text and Link Text in your CTA. You can select the number of buttons to appear in a CTA (1-4) and specify attributes like background colour, border or fill, text alignment and rounded or squared corners. CTAs are a great way to highlight or guide users in your digital workplace.

Read the Call to Action Widget KB Article

New Multi-Service Search functionality

Continuing towards IGLOOs commitment to provide a better search experience to our enterprise users, several key changes have been made to the Multi-Service Search widget.

Support for SharePoint Cloud Hybrid Search.

With an increase move of enterprise resources from on premises hosted solution to the cloud, customers need an intermediate solution that will allow their users to access their SharePoint on premises and SharePoint online data in one location. With Microsoft Cloud Hybrid Search for SharePoint users are able to search and access their indexed on-premises data within SharePoint Online.

With the cloud hybrid solution configured, you will now be able to search both SharePoint Online and SharePoint on Premises indexed results through the Igloo Multi-Service search widget.

Everything search in SharePoint.

Like the native SharePoint application, moving beyond finding just files and folders, you will now be able to search for events, tasks, contacts, whole sites and libraries. This moves you much closer to brining the complete SharePoint experience right within your IGLOO!

People search in the IGLOO repository.

Continuing our efforts to improve on the search experience, the IGLOO repository within the Multi-Service Search widget will now support searching for people within your organization.

Read the KB article

Making Igloo more accessible to all.

Igloo helps organizations cultivate a strong corporate culture by connecting your employees though a single digital destination but if some of your employees are unable to effectively use your digital workplace then not only are they excluded from engaging in your corporate culture but ALL employees in your organization are missing out on engaging with them! Igloo is investing in improving accessibility within the digital workplace to ensure that all employees are able to participate, share their knowledge and feel engaged!

A number of accessibility enhancements have been tackled in this release including improvements to keyboard navigation across the user bar, drop downs, search, microblogs, and when using Giphy. Enhancements have also been made to the content creation/edit pages as well as a number of other small improvements throughout the application.

Upgrade to the WYSIWYG editor.

Authoring and publishing content is integral to the success of your digital workplace. In this release we have once again upgraded the WYSIWYG editor that you use to author content. There are numerous improvements in this release including improvements to:

1. Responsive support
2. Pasting from MS Office applications
3. Accessibility support

Planned Briefcase removal

The Briefcase feature in Igloo will be deprecated in Release 31. To ensure all users are aware of this change in advance, a banner has been added to the Briefcase page. As of Release 30, the Briefcase will become read-only. Users will be unable to add, update or delete content from Briefcase, however, they will still be able to download their files from Briefcase. Following Cycle 31, Briefcase will no longer appear in the UI and any files stored in Briefcase will no longer be accessible. All users must download their files from Briefcase if they still wish to access them following Cycle 31. Files can be moved to personal drive services such as OneDrive, Sharepoint, Box or Dropbox and then surfaced within Igloo using the Integration Widget.

Bug Fixes

The following bugs have been fixed in this release:

• 4156 - Download contact card only includes name and email address. 
• 4240 - Uploading an empty file to a comment or reply results in an error.
• 6485 - Space names that include apostrophes change to special characters on save. 
• 7621 - Incorrect title when downloading a file in Internet Explorer.  
• 8527 - Difference in iconography between quick search and advanced search. 
• 8644 - The word commented appears concatenated with the user name. 
• 8857 - Fixed a layout issue with how ‘My Achievements’ appear in an individual’s profile.
• 8995 - Checkboxes are cut-off when printing a task list in Firefox. 
• 9045 - Checkboxes disappear when printing a task list in Chrome and Internet Explorer.
• 9111 - Fixed an issue when sorting folder contents by file type.
• 9133 - Fixed a formatting issue when adding a hyperlink to a comment. 
• 9137 - Hyperlink options box appears wider in small resolutions. 
• 9200 - Updating the content slideshow layout does not show the ‘read more’ value. 
• 9208 - Fixed an issue with sign-in and forgot password. 
• 9220 - Adding a moderator to an article duplicates the moderator’s name. 
• 9221 - Editing a calendar event created via email changes the event time. 
• 9231 - Adding a note to a comment awaiting moderation does not show action buttons.
• 9232 - Deleting a moderated comment redirects user to blog channel instead of blog article.
• 9255 - Data unavailable in Workplace Analytics.
• 9297 - Title color in the content slideshow widget appears incorrectly in Internet Explorer.
• 9300 - Importance disappears when printing a task list. 
• 9404 - Session not expiring as expected when microblog widgets are on a page. 
• 9424 - Fixed a layout issue with the user subscriptions page.
• 9442 - Fixed a misspelling in an error message concerning permissions.
• 9479 - API calls run successfully on disabled communities.
• 9572 – Instant subscription email notifications are not received.