Web Interface Enhancements & UI/UX Improvements

From the feedback we received from our customers, here are the highlights of the enhancements that made it into this release.

1. Post, Wiki, Page Editor Improvements:

  • New toolbar with easy access to text tools, media and embedding of other MangoApps content like files, posts, polls etc is now available
  • Workflow of adding media (pictures, videos and audio)  into a post, wiki and page has been re-designed. There are now 3 options to add media
    • Pick from your media gallery
    • Upload from your desktop
    • Get media from any web URL
  • Insert videos into your post / page / wiki from You tube, Vimeo and Wistia using ‘Add Media > Insert from URL’. You can also drag and drop media or can just copy/paste any image or video directly in the editor
  • You have a choice of two display options for images
    • Responsive (fit the container)
    • Fixed size
  • For image links you now also have a choice of 2 options
    • Text
    • Inline Preview
  • Ability to add other MangoApps objects in the editor is now available via the ‘Add More Items’ in the toolbar . You can include other posts, wikis, pages, quizzes, surveys,  forms and trackers that you have access to and can choose from the display options of  bar, tile, embed (for forms & trackers only) and text link
  • You can use the ‘Add More Items > Embed Code’ option to embed external and internal codes (both iFrame & non-iFrames are supported). Some examples of external embed codes include Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Maps, Google Sheets, You tube videos and more. Internal embed codes support includes codes from media gallery, forms and trackers

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2. Ability to Duplicate Posts, Wikis, Pages:

  • You can now duplicate any post, wiki or page that you can view. This allows you to re-use existing content as a template for creating new content faster
  • All duplicated items are first saved in draft and you can choose to publish them when ready
  • The place where the new content can be duplicated is still determined by your creation rights e.g., you need to be a team admin to create a duplicate page in the team etc.,
  • You will be the author of the duplicated content

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3. Page Improvements:

  • When you have a large number of company pages on your intranet, a sitemap like page automatically becomes available which includes all the company pages
  • Multiple slider widgets can now be added to both Dynamic pages & Dashboard
  • Ability to get a page link for company page (like team pages) has been added
  • Dynamic page widgets like Multimedia, Rich Text Box with Media and Slider widgets have been improved to make it easy to add and replace media in them

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4. Survey Improvement:

  • Opinion Scale Question has been enhanced to support icons for left and right values along with the ability to specify the default start position on the slider

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5. New All Notifications Page:

  • There is a new page to list all your notifications (both unread and read)
  • Notifications are actionable directly from the new all notifications page
  • Opening a notification automatically marks the notification and it’s corresponding news feed item (if one exists) as read for you

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6. File & Folder Improvements:

  • File viewer has been enhanced to support viewing of files with “.msg” extension
  • The files dashboard widget has been enhanced to support an additional filter to show recently added files
  • File reference attached to updates now have the same actions on them as the original file making it easy to view, upload new version or comment on file references
  • On the file viewer all actions like share, view access history, upload new version etc are now just a click away

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7. Team Improvements:

  • In a project, group and department the members tab now has a quick find. Just start typing in the first or last name of a user to see if he is already a member
  • Wikis now have a easy way to see wikis recently updated by other users in your network. This is available inside a project, group, department and in the wiki module
  • The date field in forms & trackers has been enhanced to support accepting time in 12 hr and 24 hr formats
  • Project/group/department description fields now support embedding code (e.g., a countdown time embed code)

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8. Profile  Improvements:

  • On the profile you can now specify your date of joining. Your followers will receive a system notification on the day of your work anniversary.
  • On the profile when entering your birthday, you now have the ability to hide the year field and only specify day and month

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9. Miscellaneous UI/UX Improvements:

  • Compose button UI has been updated with bigger icons and text. Additionally you can drag & drop files anywhere on the compose to upload
  • Primary navigation when collapsed shows the module names on hover now alongside the module icons
  • In Questions module you have new filters to list which questions have an accepted answer and questions with no accepted answers
  • News feed notifications and Chat notifications now open up on mouse hover and don’t need a click
  • Private chat history search has been improved with ability to jump to messages after or before the matching message
  • From the user profile dropdown on the top right corner the user can now go to the profile info and their activity directly
  • The requirement to have flash installed in the browser for “copy link” menu item to work has been removed

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