Here's what you need to know about the February 2021 Product Release
 | What's included in the February Product Release?
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New Celebrations Widget
One of the best ways to engage employees at work is to recognize their achievements and milestones. Celebrating birthday milestones is a great way to build team culture. As part of this release, Administrators can now easily highlight their employee birthdays with the new Celebrations Widget. The new Celebrations Widget increases efficiencies and productivity for Administrators, removing the requirement to create special posts to spotlight an employee's birthday.
The Celebration Widget is enabled by default in the digital workplace. Once the Celebration Widget is published in the Digital Workplace, the user's birthday and profile will be displayed if their birthday falls within the configured timeframe. All birthdays displayed in the Celebration Widget will be sorted by ascending birthdate, followed by an alphabetical sort when the birthdate is shared. Clicking on an employee's profile picture or employee's name in the Widget will re-direct users to the employee's user profile. If the default number of results displayed is less than the number of results available, an option to view additional results will be presented. All instances of the Celebrations Widget will inherit the workplace widget styles defined by the Administrator. The Celebrations Widget is not supported in IE 11.
New Widget Styles for the Celebrations Widget
As part of this release, Digital Workplace Administrators now have the ability to select a Widget style from a selection of styles for all instances of the Celebrations Widget. When changes are saved, Celebrations Widgets will inherit the new design options. This enhancement allows for bulk management of the Celebrations Widget increasing productivity for Administrators by allowing them to have increased management, scalability, and governance of the configured Widget styles in their Digital Workplace.
Digital Workplace Administrators can select from the following Widget Styles:- Contained
- Background Color and Lightness
- Border Style: None, Squared or Rounded
- Border Color: Only applicable if border style is defined.
- Separated
- Background Color and Lightness
- Border Style: None, Squared or Rounded
- Border Color: Only applicable if border style is defined.
- Transparent
WYSIWYG Editor enhancement for pasted content
In the release, we have enhanced the Paste feature in the WYSIWYG Editor for all non-Microsoft copied content in the Digital Workplace by automatically removing the formatted styling. This new feature enhancement meets the various needs of Digital Workplace users by creating a seamless experience when managing content no matter what platform content is copied from.
Marketplace link relocation
Igloo's Marketplace provides our customers with a single location to view our list of available solutions, services, and integrations developed by Igloo and third-party vendors. Currently, Digital Workplace users can access Marketplace by clicking on the shopping cart icon located in the user bar of their Digital Workplace.
In this release, we have relocated the Marketplace link to the Control Panel. This enhancement has been added to provide Digital Workplace Administrators visibility to the Igloo Marketplace. Digital Workplace Administrators can now navigate to the Igloo Marketplace using a link located under the Resources heading in the Control Panel. This makes it easier for Digital Workplace Administrators to discover the range of options available to customize their Digital Workplace to meet the evolving needs of their workforce.
Accessibility updates
In this release, a number of accessibility issues related to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) were addressed. These updates are related to color contrast issues as well as enhancements to support customer deployments.
Resolved issues
View the list of issues addressed in this month's Product Release:
| Issue key | Summary |
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| IGLOO-17817 | SSO user creation fails when matching on customIdentifier |
| IGLOO-17868 | An apostrophe in email addresses breaks the Action Button in Manage Members |
| IGLOO-17601 | Search shows Posting/Modified Date In Greek if language is set to Latin American Spanish |
| IGLOO-17718 | Search does not fully support Traditional Chinese |
| IGLOO-17622 | Members Widget throws error & is not editable when group is deleted |
| IGLOO-17571 | URL Shortcut Page allows you to create a redirect for that page |
| IGLOO-17226 | When Space has special characters < or > it shows incorrectly in the navigation bar and source picker |
| IGLOO-17957 | Colour code for background image exceeds the display frame |
| IGLOO-16913 | Bullet points not displayed for list items in Content Slideshow Widget |
| IGLOO-17847 | SAML logout fails when Identifier Type set to customIdentifier |
Known critical issues
View the list of known critical issues, impacting multiple digital workplaces, that are currently being addressed:
| Issue key | Summary |
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| IGLOO-17844 | Links Widget disappearance keeps occurring |
| IGLOO-17818 | SSO fails to set custom identifier |
| IGLOO-17955 | Forum Post API does not create post with attachment |
| IGLOO-17937 | Cannot @mention user with apostrophes in their name |
| IGLOO-17706 | Using spaces/templates API does not return results with some keywords parameter |
| IGLOO-17678 | Data Feeds timeout for customers with large amounts of data |
What's available for testing in my Preview environment?
All of the features and bug fixes, except File Manager updates, are now available for testing in your Preview environment.
When will this release be available in my digital workplace?
Stay tuned! We'll publish a post on the Product News channel once the February Product Release is live in your digital workplace. Visit the Target Release Calendar to find out when.
11 Comments
Gwendolyn Dillingham Check out the Celebrations widget on the way! That could be cute above your new microblog.
Ginger Avenali Laura Shapiro this new celebrations widget could be cool!
Do we have an exact deployment date for the celebrations widget?
The target release is tomorrow at 5:00 pm.
For future reference, targeted release dates at listed at https://customercare.igloosoftware.com/support/product_zone/target_release_calendar
William Robertson Thank you very much.
Are there more details available on the accessibility updates?
Travis LaFleur,
Yes, I do have details. It may be easier if I send it to you directly. Why don't you email me at wrobertson@igloosoftware.com and I will reply with the specifics.
William Robertson Emailed — thank you!
Jumped out of my seat at the news of the Celebrations widget! We do a monthly post on the 1st to celebrate that month's birthdays -- this will keep the party going!
Love the new Celebrations Widget, it would be great to have the same thing but with Service Anniversaries as well :)
UBC Sauder Project Contractor Yes! i was just thinking the same thing. an option for Career Anniversaries would be fantastic