Newly Upgraded Survey Module

• Improved user experience

  • Creating of a survey workflow experience has been improved
  • Support for the survey having a featured image and color has been added
  • Name and description of the survey has been made a step
  • Ability to preview the survey on web & mobile has been enhanced
  • User experience to take a survey has been improved
  • Survey feed UI has a featured image now
  • Survey insights page UI has been enhanced
  • Survey module landing page UI has been improved
  • Survey created with an audience of any network user can be taken by users who joined the network in future also.

• New survey settings

  • Survey questions can be all on 1 page or 1 question per page
  • Default is 1 question per page
  • This setting can be edited after the survey has been published also

• New ability to schedule a survey

  • Surveys can now be scheduled to be published later
  • Scheduled survey prior to the scheduled time is visible/accessible to the survey creator only
  • Scheduled survey prior to the scheduled time can be edited or deleted by the survey creator
  • A news feed is generated for the audience at the scheduled time and then the survey  becomes visible/accessible to the audience

 

• New ability to share via link

  • Ability to publish a survey and not generated a news feed is now supported with the share via link option
  • After the survey is published the survey link can be shared with the audience members via a post, private message, IM etc
  • Only the users who are in the audience list can take the survey using this link

• New ability to boost a survey

  • A published open survey can be boost (a.k.a. resend) to the audience to increase participation on it
  • Boost/Resend of the survey can be on private message, email or SMS
  • Boost via email & SMS options are available to domain & intranet admins for company surveys and to team admins for team surveys
  • Boost via message option is available to survey creators

 

Newly Upgraded Quiz Module

• Improved user experience

  • Creating of a quiz workflow experience has been improved
  • Support for the quiz having a featured image and color has been added
  • Name and description of the quiz has been made a step
  • Ability to preview the quiz on web & mobile has been enhanced
  • User experience to take a quiz has been improved
  • Quiz feed UI has a featured image now
  • Quiz insights page UI has been enhanced
  • Quiz module landing page UI has been improved
  • Quiz created with an audience of any network user can be taken by users who joined the network in future also.

• New quiz settings

  • New setting to view correct answers always vs when passed has been added
  • New setting to allow user to move to the next question without answering the current question has been added

• New ability to schedule a quiz

  • Quiz can now be scheduled to be published later
  • Scheduled quiz prior to the scheduled time is visible/accessible to the quiz creator only
  • Scheduled quiz prior to the scheduled time can be edited or deleted by the quiz creator
  • A news feed is generated for the audience at the scheduled time and then the quiz  becomes visible/accessible to the audience

• New ability to share via link

  • Ability to publish a quiz and not generated a news feed is now supported with the share via link option
  • After the quiz is published the quiz link can be shared with the audience members via a post, private message, IM etc
  • Only the users who are in the audience list can take the quiz using this link

 

New Web Chat Module

• New chat module experience

  • Chat module on web now supports a full desktop like experience
  • Ability to start team chat, 1-0-1 chat, share screen are now available on the web like they are on native desktop client
  • Real time chat notification area on the top bar in the web portal is now integrated with the new chat module

• Chat user settings

  • Ability to switch between full view (new experience) and bar view (older chat bar experience) is available from user’s ‘change my settings > chat’ page
  • In full view users have the choice to open the web chat in a new browser tab or a new browser window

• Chat admin settings

  • Ability to set the default web chat view (full view or chat bar) for all users has been added
  • Ability to turn on/off the reactions in chat is supported

 

New Resource Reservation Capability

• Setup resources list

  • Ability to add/edit resources of type room, equipment and others from ‘domains > resources’ in admin portal
  • Assign resources to an office location
  • Identify  each resource with a picture
  • Ability to enable users to reserve resources
  • Ability to setup a custom admin role to manage resources

• Reservation resources flow

  • Users can reserve one or more resources for a time period from ‘compose > create event > reserve resource’
  • A resource can only be reserved by a user for a time period if that resource hasn’t already been reserved by anyone else
  • By default the resource picture becomes the event featured image
  • At the end of the reserved time, the resource becomes available for reservation by anyone.

• Create meeting flow

  • Users as part of creating a meeting event can now reserve one or more resources
  • If the resource requested is not available then meeting event can’t be created
  • When the event gets over (a.k.a. is in the past) or the event is cancelled the resource associated is free to be reserved by anyone else
  • When the event gets cancelled the resource associated to the cancelled event is free to be reserved by anyone else

• Reserved resources listed on calendar

  • The calendar now lists all the reserved resources in the company
  • Ability to filter resources by office location or resource type is supported in the calendar
  • Clicking on the reserved resource on the calendar will show all the details of the resource

 

New Timer Customizable Widget

• Ability to count up or down

  • Timer widget can count down to a date and show days/hours/mins/secs remaining
  • Timer widget can count up from a date and show days/hours/mins/secs elapsed

• Ability to customize the UI

  • The UI (layout, color etc) is highly customizable
  • Timer widgets can be added to dashboard, company & team pages

Post Enhancements

• Intranet admins can post & manage projects & groups

  • New permission setting to allow ‘admin access in all projects & groups’ for intranet admins has been added
  • This setting allows intranet admin to
    • View and post content in all public and private projects, groups & departments in the domain without being a member in them
    • Get access to admin tools in all public and private projects, groups & departments in the domain without being a member
  • Intranet admins will see all private & public teams in the teams look-ahead when composing an update/post so they can post content in them

• Content posts preview improvement

  • Ability to preview a content post prior to publishing it has been added
  • Preview shows how the post content and the post notification will appear on MangoApps web, mobile, desktop platforms

• Post review process improvement

  • Post prior to publishing can be send for review.
  • Reviewer comments are posted in the message that’s send to the reviewer
  • Now the sender/creator of the post can edit the post directly when opened from the message that has the reviews comments from the reviewer

Calendar Enhancements

• RSVP’ed as not attending & non RSVP’ed events

  • Users will now see events that they have RSVP’ed as not attending with event name struck off on their calendar
  • Users will now see events that they have not yet RSVP’ed in grey color and they can RSVP by clicking on it

• Custom events permission

  • Domain admins can now control who can create a specific custom event
  • Domain admins can choose between
    • Any network user
    • Only domain admins & a list of specific users

• Attaching files to meeting events

  • As part of creating a meeting the user can now attach one or more files
  • Attached files are accessible from event popup (opened on calendar) and event details page
  • All invitees will get ‘Viewer’ privilege on the attached files

 

Tracker Enhancements

• Ability to hide system columns

  • System columns – lock status, mention & comment are now listed in the edit table > setup columns
  • Tracker creator / team admins have option to show / hide these 3 system columns for a table like any other columns

• Set row height improvements

  • Row heights supported are short, medium, tall and extra tall
  • These row heights settings have now been enhanced to also wrap text values in them appropriately making content visibility aligned with row height

 

• Table widget on dashboard & pages

  • Table widget in dashboard and pages now automatically adjusts the column widths based on available space
  • No horizontal scroll bar will come in the widget now.

 

Mobile Dashboard Setup Enhancement

• Mobile dashboard can be different than web dashboard

  • New setting to enable mobile specific dashboard is now available for domain admins
  • New action to copy over the web dashboard widgets to mobile widgets with 1-click
  • Use widget gallery add widgets to mobile dashboard or remove widgets from it
  • Each widget properties for the mobile dashboard can be different than web dashboard
  • Ability to publish dashboard to mobile is now independent from publishing it to web

• Empty widgets, preview, notification etc improvements

  • On the mobile dashboard, if a widget has no data then they would be automatically hidden from display now
  • Ability to preview both web & mobile dashboard before publishing is available for domain admins
  • Domain admins have an option to notify users when the mobile dashboard is published

 

File Improvements

• New flip book viewer for PDF

  • Users with file owner privilege on a PDF can set the viewer preference to be ‘Flip book’
  • This view will give users a flip book like experience to view the pages of the PDF document online

• File viewer next/previous improvement

  • Next/previous on the file viewer will now be available for media (images, video) files
  • Users will not see next/previous on office documents, PDF document, text etc

• File access tracking report

  • The file access tracking export on a file has new columns manager and employee id
  • The access tracking & user details sheets in the exported xls have been combined into 1 sheet for easier analysis

 

LMS Updates

• New transcript template which has the user score has been added to the list
• New substitution tags support to transcripts has been added. The new tags include
  • Course Score
  • Consolidated Score

 

eDiscovery/Legal Hold Updates

• Ability to create legal hold with no end date is now supported
• Legal hold once created can’t be edited
• Learn more about eDiscovery/Legal hold here

 

Two New Languages Support Added

• MangoApps in this release has been translated into two new additional languages
  • Spanish
  • Simplified Chinese
• MangoApps is now available in 8 languages
  • English
  • Dutch
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Chinese (Traditional)
  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • Turkish

 

Messenger (Universal & Windows) Improvements

• User setting to control chat selection on a new message
• Rendering pinned & active lists performance improved by 33%
• Unread indicator on system tray updated
• Issue with chats not being locked in the pinned list has been fixed

 

File Sync Client Improvements

• New file check-out feature added

  • New check out / check in feature provides control via locking on who can make changes to a file
  • When file is checked out by a user, it will be locked and other users can’t edit the file. They can only view the file
  • Users can request the person who has checked out the file to check in
  • New panel in sync client to list the checked out files
    • Self checked out  files are shown in the you tab
    • Other users checked out files are shown in others tab

• Files explorer integration

  • Checking out of a synced file can be done from file explorer  > right click on a file > MangoApps file sync menu > check out
  • Checking in the checked out file can also be done from the file explore > right click on a file > MangoApps file sync menu > check in
  • To discard the changes on the checked out file go to  file explorer > right click on a file > MangoApps file Sync menu > discard changes

 

TinyTake Client Improvements

• Removed the alert which got shown when there was a screen resolution change
• Face time camera crash on Big Sur OS has been fixed
• Crashes that happened on using eraser or on using pixelate have been fixed

 

 

Mobile App Enhancements

• New org chart

  • MangoApps iOS & Android app users now have a view of the organization chart in the mobile app
  • Org chart can be viewed from these 2 places
    • User’s profile page
    • People module
  • Org chart shows direct reports and peers
  • Org chart supports scroll top to bottom and bottom to top to view see the direct reports
  • Org chart supports swipe right to left and left to right to view the org chart of peers

 

 

• Chat module UX upgraded

  • Chat Module now has chats organized in 2 sections
    • Pinned
      • Lists the people & teams that are pinned by the user
      • This list is build by the user
      • Most recently pinned item comes on top
    • Active
      • Lists the people & teams the user has recently had a active chat on
      • This list is automatically build by the app
      • Most recently active item comes on top
  • If there is a new message “new” is shown against the person/team in the list
  • Right swipe on the chat item to see additional actions like un-pin, remove from active list etc

• LMS enhancements

  • New tab to view “My staff’s learning” is now available in the learn module on mobile
  • This lists the direct reports of the user
  • For each direct report it shows the
    • Training time
    • Assigned courses count
    • In-progress courses count
    • Completed courses count
    • Certificated earned count
    • Overdue courses count

• Wiki module enhancements

  • Create wiki workflow has been enhanced to include options to assign an icon and background icon color
  • Sub-wikis can now be listed from the main view itself by tapping on the arrow against the parent wiki
  • Direct access to sub-wikis is available from the main wiki list module

• List UI of modules upgraded

  • List UI of the following module has been upgraded – Posts, pages, documents, hashtags, news feed, notes, files, wikis
  • Fonts size & styling on the list UI across module has been made consistent for improved readability

 

What’s deprecated/removed?

• As the list view of the survey module was enhanced the grid view for surveys has been removed
• As the list view of the quiz module was enhanced the grid view for quizzes has been removed
• Chat bar view has been deprecated and will be removed in Mango 16.0 (Jan 2022)