Tech

• User profile custom attribute delete/update actions performance improvements
  • When a custom attribute was used for 1000+ users (had a not null value for them), taking any action on it was a slow process. That is now addressed.
• Distribution/distribution user reopen action was taking 20+ seconds to complete. Now resolved.

New features

• Team list size increased to 25 from 10. Now majority of the times, the team you are searching for will be visible by default.
• Role is more appropriately now called UpRaise role.
• Ability to search by OKR title is here on the browse OKRs page.
• OKR excel export now also populates Team column for KRs for easy manipulation/visualisation in spreadsheets.

🐞 Bugs

• JQL progress calculation job wasn’t working based on provided cron expression, now fixed.

Detailed release notes available here

Includes breaking changes, please go through https://amoeboids.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/UP/pages/2578284564/V+5.x+-+Milestone+releases+notes

Tech

• User profile custom attribute delete/update actions performance improvements
  • When a custom attribute was used for 1000+ users (had a not null value for them), taking any action on it was a slow process. That is now addressed.
• Distribution/distribution user reopen action was taking 20+ seconds to complete. Now resolved.

New features

• Team list size increased to 25 from 10. Now majority of the times, the team you are searching for will be visible by default.
• Role is more appropriately now called UpRaise role.
• Ability to search by OKR title is here on the browse OKRs page.
• OKR excel export now also populates Team column for KRs for easy manipulation/visualisation in spreadsheets.

Bugs

• JQL progress calculation job wasn’t working based on provided cron expression, now fixed.

Detailed release notes available here

Includes breaking changes, please go through https://amoeboids.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/UP/pages/2578284564/V+5.x+-+Milestone+releases+notes

👨💻 Tech

• Performance improvements across the entire app

:check_mark: New features

• Info drawer now brings along a consolidated view that shows information about the installed app, license as well as important links
• OKR progress chart report now supports Quarter over quarter option
• Browse OKR screen now also displays number of OKRs based on applied view/filters

🐞 Bugs

• Export action was not working due to the symlink, issue fixed
• OKR summary screen was being displayed on the grade page, addressed
• Impact on WBS gantt chart due to css conflict, resolved
• OKR views were not working as expected when shared only with one or more teams, corrected
• Next reminder date was being calculated based on objective start date & not today’s date, rectified
• KRs were not being searched on when Jira used MySQL database, resolved
• Alignments for deleted objectives are also now marked as deleted

Tech

• Performance improvements across the entire app

New features

• Info drawer now brings along a consolidated view that shows information about the installed app, license as well as important links
• OKR progress chart report now supports Quarter over quarter option
• Browse OKR screen now also displays number of OKRs based on applied view/filters

Bugs

• Export action was not working due to the symlink, issue fixed
• OKR summary screen was being displayed on the grade page, addressed
• Impact on WBS gantt chart due to css conflict, resolved
• OKR views were not working as expected when shared only with one or more teams, corrected
• Next reminder date was being calculated based on objective start date & not today’s date, rectified
• KRs were not being searched on when Jira used MySQL database, resolved
• Alignments for deleted objectives are also now marked as delete

With this release, we are bringing in the new UpRaise experience to the DC version. This is a potentially breaking version, please refer release notes before executing the upgrade.

Includes all the changes that went live for server in all previous 5.x versions. Release notes here.

• Performance improvements across the entire app
• In some cases UpRaise was adding # to the Jira urls, fixed
• Listing of teams now displays 25 records instead of earlier 10
• OKR visibility bug fix that occurred in a specific condition

Tech

• Performance improvements across the entire app
• App is now Data center compatible (Migration to the new consolidated platform for DC)

Bugs

• In some cases UpRaise was adding # to the Jira urls, fixed
• Listing of teams now displays 25 records instead of earlier 10
• OKR visibility bug fix that occurred in a specific condition

New features

• Reports are now available to even non-admin users. Right now only OKR reports are made available. Others will follow soon. Please do remember though, visibility is honoured at all times. If something is not meant to be visible to you, it won’t be seen in the reports as well.

Bugs

• Ability to set/see view id in the url is back.
• Translated versions of the app were not working as desired when Jira default language and user profile language were same, fixed.
• Upgrade to V 5.0.7 directly from V 4.5 was throwing errors, addressed these

Potentially breaking change if upgrading from any version < 4.5. Please go through these release notes first.

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Tech

• Jira 8.15 compatibility

New features

• Support for German language is back. What’s more we are now supporting French language as well.

Bugs

• Inactive teams were not called out while searching, now fixed.
• Objective cycle sequence in dropdowns wasn’t correct, resolved.
• In a corner case, OKR summary page was throwing NPE. Now it doesn’t.

We are continuing to get closer to our DC compatibility release with new migrated platform.

This release includes some more performance improvements along with a few bug fixes that were reported by some customers.

Detailed release notes here

In the next week, we will release German & French language packs.

• 'Feedback formats' are predefined templates for giving & requesting feedback. Usually the exercise of feedback exchange is daunting if you have to start from scratch. To counter that we are introducing 'Feedback formats'.
• Minor bug fixes

• Form description as well as instructions on questions can now be configured via WYSWYG editor
• Objective suggestions were not being displayed when Units were enabled, addressed
• Other minor bug fixes

• Company directory pages performance improvements
• OKR pages performance improvements
• Minor migration related bug fixes

👨💻 Tech

• Further migration related fixes

🐞 Bugs

• Non UpRaise Jira admins were not able to access the UpRaise configurations screen, fixed
• User profile → Feedback tab was missing some feedback messages, now addressed
• Form shared email notification was navigating users to incorrect link, resolved
• Search was not working for KRs on Oracle database, quashed
• Dashboard chart related errors addressed
• Pagination was not working as expected while viewing listing of team members, fixed

• Some customers had reported failures in migration, addressed the root causes
  • If you had tried upgrading to V5.0 but failed and are on MS SQL database, please run script linked below on your database (if you are not on MS SQL database, no need to run the script)
  • DB script

Bug fixes

• OKR export was failing in the new app, fixed
• Links in the feedback notifications were incorrect, addressed
• Default templates were not being displayed in reports, resolved
• Form response sharing was not behaving as expected, fixed
• Handled system comments on KRs post migration
• Other minor fixes

💥 Potentially breaking changes, please read the details below💥

We are now moving the Employee Success server app to our new consolidated platform. We have been working on this migration project for more than 6 months now.

Must do -

• This version involves potentially breaking changes, thus ensure that you are verifying this first on a test Jira instance where your previous data is restored.
• Please perform this upgrade on your production Jira instance over the weekend to avoid any potential downtime.
• This is a milestone release. Meaning, Before the earlier versions can upgrade to any version that is higher than 5.0, they have to first upgrade to 5.0 & then only they can jump to the desired one (e.g. 5.3 whenever it is released)
• At the time of upgrade, all the UpRaise screens will be blocked from access & you will be able to see a migration in progress screen.

For further detailed instructions, refer these release notes.

• Compatibility with Jira 8.13
• Bug fixes
  • Grade option was failing for closed OKRs, now fixed
  • Another error at the time of upgrade from a very old version now addressed.

• Compatibility with Jira 8.13
• Bug fixes
  • Grade option was failing for closed OKRs, now fixed
  • Another error at the time of upgrade from a very old version now addressed.

Tech

• Jira 8.12 compatibility
• Forms module migration is now complete to new platform

Bugs

• Bulk sync action in UpRaise company directory was removing admins, now addressed
• Email notification for comment Mentions had a broken link to the objective, fixed
• Other minor bug fixes

Tech

• Jira 8.12 compatibility
• Forms module migration is now complete to new platform

Bugs

• Bulk sync action in UpRaise company directory was removing admins, now addressed
• Email notification for comment Mentions had a broken link to the objective, fixed
• Other minor bug fixe

• UpRaise for Employee Success is in the last phase of migration to a new revamped platform. To ensure that all your data is properly migrated in the next couple of releases, we are introducing a 'migration check' screen.
  • This screen is available only to the UpRaise admins & clearly tells them if something needs to be fixed or if all is well for the migration to happen.
• SFTP sync failover library added
• When the JQL was more than 300 characters, app was throwing error. We have increased this limit now to 450 characters.
• Jira 8.11 compatibility

👨💻 Tech

• Jira 8.11 compatibility
• UpRaise for Employee Success is in the last phase of migration to a new revamped platform. To ensure that all your data is properly migrated in the next couple of releases, we are introducing a 'migration check' screen.
  • This screen is available only to the UpRaise admins & clearly tells them if something needs to be fixed or if all is well for the migration to happen.
• SFTP sync failover library added

🐞 Bugs

• When the JQL was more than 300 characters, app was throwing error. We have increased this limit now to 450 characters.

• Conflict between UpRaise for Employee Success and another Jira app, Clone + was reported. That problem is now resolved.
• Cleaned up logs to stop cluttering Jira error logs.
• Punch-in action accessibility made consistent from all the screens. Now the action is available only as part of the additional ‘actions’ menu and not from the ‘current value’ link or checkbox.
• Additional logging related to SFTP sync added for debugging a customer’s connectivity problem.

• Conflict between UpRaise for Employee Success and another Jira app, Clone + was reported. That problem is now resolved.
• Cleaned up logs to stop cluttering Jira error logs.
• Punch-in action accessibility made consistent from all the screens. Now the action is available only as part of the additional ‘actions’ menu and not from the ‘current value’ link or checkbox.
• Additional logging related to SFTP sync added for debugging a customer’s connectivity problem.

🎁 Enhancements

• Now a configuration is available to allow multiple contributing OKRs
• Migration to new db structure
  • Settings
  • Company directory
  • Continuous feedback
• Jira 8.9.1 compatibility

🐞 Bugs

• Bug related to hierarchy view filters fixed
• Minor bug related to permission of re-sequencing key results on objective details page addressed

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In the next 4 weeks, we will be releasing a couple of more updates focused on migrating the existing modules to the new db structure. Post that, a brand new app will be available for you.

🎁 Enhancements

• Now a configuration is available to allow multiple contributing OKRs
• Migration to new db structure
  • Settings
  • Company directory
  • Continuous feedback
• Jira 8.9.1 compatibility

🐞 Bugs

• Bug related to hierarchy view filters fixed
• Minor bug related to permission of re-sequencing key results on objective details page addressed

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In the next 4 weeks, we will be releasing a couple of more updates focused on migrating the existing modules to the new db structure. Post that, a brand new app will be available for you.

⚠️ This is a major update and can potentially break UpRaise for Employee Success if you haven’t updated the app for a long time.

✅ We strongly recommend verifying the new version on a test environment before promoting it to your production Jira.

🎁 Enhancements

• Main navigation is now modified. User & admin facing screens are now merged onto a single screen in the form of multiple tabs. This gives us a lot more space to provide more quick actions to the end users.
• Robust roles & permissions module is now available.
  • It is now possible to update permissions for ‘User’ role as many of you requested.
  • Existing permissions are migrated to the new structure but wherever conflicts were seen, we’ve put in the default set of permissions.
    • Thus, potentially some of the permissions may be different for some roles on your instance before & after the update.
• Minor bug fix where ‘Give feedback' action was giving an error in a specific scenario.
• Jira 8.8.1 compatibility

⚠️ This is a major update and can potentially break UpRaise for Employee Success if you haven’t updated the app for a long time.

✅ We strongly recommend verifying the new version on a test environment before promoting it to your production Jira.

🎁 Enhancements

• Main navigation is now modified. User & admin facing screens are now merged onto a single screen in the form of multiple tabs. This gives us a lot more space to provide more quick actions to the end users.
• Robust roles & permissions module is now available.
  • It is now possible to update permissions for ‘User’ role as many of you requested.
  • Existing permissions are migrated to the new structure but wherever conflicts were seen, we’ve put in the default set of permissions.
    • Thus, potentially some of the permissions may be different for some roles on your instance before & after the update.
• Minor bug fix where ‘Give feedback' action was giving an error in a specific scenario.
• Jira 8.8.1 compatibility

Enhancement

• It is now possible to update metric KR based on Customer satisfaction score on Jira service desk

Bug fixes

• Edit objective cycle was not working due to a conflict with Tempo timesheets
• Ideal KR progress & progress tracking chart broken in some cases
• Insight view error for graphs

Performance improvements

• Performance improvements for Data center version

Enhancement

• It is now possible to update metric KR based on Customer satisfaction score on Jira service desk

Bug fixes

• Edit objective cycle was not working due to a conflict with Tempo timesheets
• Ideal KR progress & progress tracking chart broken in some cases
• Insight view error for graphs

Performance improvements

• Performance improvements for Data center version

• Progress automation for metric types of key results is here. Read more here.
• 'UpRaise admin deleted' notifications are now configurable
• Visibility issue when using ‘Units’ feature
• Minor bug fixes & German translation corrections

• Progress automation for metric types of key results is here. Read more here.
• 'UpRaise admin deleted' notifications are now configurable
• Visibility issue when using ‘Units’ feature
• Minor bug fixes & German translation corrections

• The app interface is now available in German language
• Minor bug fixes

• App interface is now available in German language
• Minor bug fixes

• Employee Success server & DC versions now support REST APIs to get the forms data in your own tools for further processing.
• Now punch-in automatically turns To Do key result status into in progress. Up until now, To Do key results only had Pending & Done statuses.
• Minor bug fixes

• Employee Success server & DC versions now support REST APIs to get the forms data in your own tools for further processing.
• Now punch-in automatically turns To Do key result status into in progress. Up until now, To Do key results only had Pending & Done statuses.
• Minor bug fixes

• App now supports the interface in multiple languages
  • This release only deals with the support. In an upcoming release (before EOY) we will ship with German language.
• REST API added to fetch a list of all teams within Company Directory
• Bug fixes
  • When UpRaise gadgets were added to Jira dashboards, they made end user login twice (when user was not logged into Jira).
  • While filling up forms, 'This field is required' error message was not being displayed on screen due to 'auto-save' functionality.
  • API to get KR grades was throwing an error when remarks were empty

• App now supports the interface in multiple languages
  • This release only deals with the support. In an upcoming release (before EOY) we will ship with German language.
• REST API added to fetch a list of all teams within Company Directory
• Bug fixes
  • When UpRaise gadgets were added to Jira dashboards, they made end user login twice (when user was not logged into Jira).
  • While filling up forms, 'This field is required' error message was not being displayed on screen due to 'auto-save' functionality.
  • API to get KR grades was throwing an error when remarks were empty

• A configuration is now available that lets you cascade invisibility within the hierarchy view. Read more details here.
• Confidence score column was not being displayed on the browse OKRs screen, that is now corrected.
• Objective & KR detail pages were not loading if they were linked to a deleted Jira issue, now rectified.

• A configuration is now available that lets you cascade invisibility within the hierarchy view. Read more details here.
• Confidence score column was not being displayed on the browse OKRs screen, that is now corrected.
• Objective & KR detail pages were not loading if they were linked to a deleted Jira issue, now rectified.

Minor bug fixes - release notes here

Jira 8.4 compatibility

• Jira DC compatibility
• REST API updates

• REST API updates
• Minor bug fixes

• Keyboard shortcuts introduced for all important actions
• Filters added on objective details page to sift through the list of KRs & alignments
• Objective owners are not populated automatically, anymore
  • Assign to me, assign to team lead - actions appear beside the owner field
• Feedback can now be given to multiple users at a time
• Minor bug fixes

We recommend upgrading to this version whoever is using V3.9.7, released about a week ago.

At the time of upgrade, some background jobs are going to run for correcting OKR progresses/confidence statuses that were wrong. Thus, we encourage to perform this upgrade when there is minimal activity expected in Jira.

• Hierarchy view is now complemented by 'Explorer view'. A treelike presentation of OKR hierarchy view.
• In the last release (V 3.9.7) there was a bug that caused progress percentages & confidence statuses to go wrong. That is now corrected. At the time of upgrade app will scan through all OKRs & ensure their confidence status, progress percentages are correct.

• This upgrade enhances OKRs in UpRaise to have confidence scores. Read more about this feature
  • Please note that this feature is still in Beta.
• Few bug fixes
  • HRMS sync team upload
  • Grading errors
  • Other minor bug fixes

• My Dashboard --> OKRs section now allows choosing any view
• Browse OKR page now has the ability to display latest comment, description, grade remarks on OKRs
• Reports page layout update

• Additional on screen filters added on browse OKRs page (Team, Owner's team, Confidence status)
• Objective start date is now displayed on objective details page, in all cases
• Company objectives are now associated with objective cycles
  • Existing company objectives are migrated to corresponding objective cycles (based on start & due dates for the objectives)
  • If the dates do not fit, a new objective cycle is created to accommodated those company objectives
• New workflow is added for 'One-on-one discussion' within the 'Team member & Reviewer template'
• Incomplete social features are removed

• Now it is possible to have multiple separate units created within Employee Success & then create independent OKRs for them

Refer this documentation

Enhancements

OKRs

• It is now possible assign team OKR create/edit permissions to normal team members (who are not team leads).
• In addition to being able to create 'views' on browse OKR screen, we have brought back the on-screen filters (as many of you requested). This ensures that you don't have to 'store a view' even for a quick temporary search.
  • On-screen filters apply on top of the 'view' that is selected (useful to pin down a specific set of OKRs within a view during meetings)
  • On-screen filters can be hidden from the screen (thereby reducing the clutter)
  • You can also choose which filters you want to be displayed
  • Finally, your latest view & the on-screen filters are persisted to be used for your next visit to browse OKR screen
• Views can now be shared across users and/or teams (similar to how you would define visibility for an objective)

Forms

• It is now possible to 'Clone' a distribution

Bug fixes

• Team searching performance issue
• Epic link JQL issue
• Grading related issue

• Jira 8 compatibility
• Enhancements
  • Ability to mark a team as inactive
  • ChartJS used to render graphs instead of Google charts. Thus, no internet connection required.
  • Ability to add Confidence Status to objectives manually
    • Filters added for Confidence status
  • Team filter extended on browse OKRs to allow 'Logged in user is a member of'
  • REST API for GetObjectiveCycles
  • OKR screens optimised especially for cases where visibility is set to a large number of users
• Bug fixes

• Bug fixes
  • Team dropdown was broken while creating/editing team objectives
  • Dashboards now do not need to connect to internet for displaying charts/graphs
  • Sorting was broken on Browse OKR columns after the last release
  • Unknown error occurred error while adding objective

• More powerful OKR filtering based on labels
  • Labels are now clickable & display all OKR view filtered based on the clicked label
• It is now possible to have OKR levels that meet your needs e.g.
  • Corporate level
  • Department level
  • Division level etc
    • These levels are completely customisable & can be configured based on your needs.
• It is now possible to rename/delete a 'view' from browse OKRs screen. In the upcoming release, we will enhance this with ability to share the views with other UpRaise users/teams.
• Custom field selector dropdown was not populating for older versions of Jira, that is now fixed

• OKR punch-in report
• Ability to enable/disable specific level of OKRs
• Allowed all types of custom fields in OKR progress calculation config

Forms were breaking when a user's key contained comma, that is now fixed.

• Revamped Browse OKR experience with deep filtering & ability to choose visible columns
• Objective start dates are now editable
• OKR detail API was throwing 500 error for some of the objectives, that issue is now fixed

• Ability to move KR from one objective to another
• Ability to select 'visible columns' on browse OKR page
• New progress report added for OKRs
• Ability to bulk sync UpRaise users with Jira
• Objectives which do not need grading now will have the status 'Ready to close' rather than 'Ready for grading'

• Continuous feedback REST API is now available
• Progress calculation when Jira issues are KRs is now much more configurable. One can now make use of custom fields on Jira issues to calculate progress on UpRaise objectives.
  • With this change, it is possible for Jira issues to have progress as any number and not just 0 or 100 based on resolution.
• Minor bug fixes & UI improvements

• Ability to export forms in PDF format
• Couple of default templates now available
• Bug fixes
  • Objective & KR progress chart was displaying incorrect values
  • Minor bug fixes

There were a few reports that OKR hierarchy view was taking a bit of time to load. That is now optimised for quicker loading time.

• 360 template anonymity bug that was introduced in the last release is now fixed.

• My dashboard & company dashboards are merged to form a single dashboard with multiple tabs.
  • Soon a team dashboard will be released.
• Team OKRs progress comparison section now lets the end user choose what team's to see in the chart.
• Ability to connect feedback with Objective as well as Key result, in addition to Jira issue.
• 360 template visibility bug fix
• Past dated objective cycle creation bug fix
• Logging clean up for Data center instances

• OKRs section on My Dashboard now lets you drill down into an objective to view further details.
• OKR hierarchy view search filters are improved to be searched by Team as well as objective owner.
• Date type question is now available in the form builder
• Minor bug fixes

• Jira issue linking via JQL - It is now possible to link Jira issues as key results or actions directly via JQL. This allows updating of linked issues automatically. Read more here
• Synchronise team data from any other tool via the HRMS sync. Read more here
• Ability to categorise review form templates.
  • In the upcoming releases this enhancement will make way for better organisation of forms.
• Bug fixes

• Team chart was not displayed for non-admin users
• Minor bug fixes

• It is now possible to connect Jira issues to key results (as actions).
• Jira admin now has a screen where they can see a list of current UpRaise admin/super admins.
• UX improvements in hierarchy view
  • Nodes in the hierarchy are now ordered alphabetically
  • it is now possible to search for an objective & view its entire alignment tree (from top to bottom)
• Minor bug fixes

• UpRaise is now compatible with new Jira UI
• When Jira issues/epics are connected to UpRaise objectives as KRs it is now it is possible to take into consideration sub-tasks involved.
• UX improvements for creation of KRs
• Additional section on My Dashboard
• 'Contact Support' link can be made invisible for non-admin users
• Easy navigation for viewing form responses
• Base template name is displayed in the template listing view

• My OKRs section on my dashboard is now modified & gives clean overview of all the OKRs logged in user owns
• To Do gadget for Jira dashboards introduced to easily keep track of assigned items.
• UI/UX improvement for creation of objectives
• Grades of objectives are not ceiled anymore, they are displayed upto decimals
• Now admins have the option to re-open an objective even after it is closed

• Version 3.8.0 had some incompatible classes for Jira versions before 7.6.1 - that is now handled

• Now it is possible to create an upward alignment at the time of objective creation
• Continuous feedback - UI improvements along with performance enhancements
• Impact of import OKRs is now addressed on print form, export responses etc
• Now the app does not import all Jira users on install, rather admin has the option to import users from one or more Jira groups
• Minor bug fixes

When browse OKR pages were filtered on objective owners, the query took long time & thus the page load time was high. This is now addressed.

After recent performance improvements, older versions of Jira - from 7.0 through to 7.4 were throwing DB timeout exceptions on browsing OKRs. This issue is now addressed.

We strongly recommend updating to this version.

• It is now possible to sync users from Jira group/s to team/s in UpRaise. That way, if you already have a proper structure in terms of your Jira groups - you don't need to do any additional set up.
• Ability to convert team objective into individual one, and vice versa.
• Ability to add sections in review forms & then assign weightage to these sections.
• Ability to import Objectives in the review form so that they can become part of the performance review process.
• Minor bug fixes

• A bug was introduced in the last release that prevented creation of new objective cycle, this is now fixed.

Enhancements

• Code refactored to improve performance of OKR features

Bug fixes

• Bug fixed that didn't allow 0 as a value in OKR grading - opinion scale type

• Continuous Feedback enhancements to help manage feedback sharing properly.
• OKR grading experience revamped.
• UpRaise admins can only view distributions that they have distributed. Super admins will be able to view all the distributions in the system.

Read the detailed release notes here.

• OKRs
  • REST API to retrieve comments on OKRs
• Continuous Feedback
  • Ability to manage continuous feedback labels
  • Ability to share feedback with teams/users
• Forms
  • Auto-save in review form
• HRMS sync now supports xls format

• UpRaise objective attributes can now be pulled into Jira issue custom fields. Read this article
• UpRaise feed gadget is now available for Jira dashboard.
• Minor enhancements

• Automated KR Reminders
  • One of the long standing requests was automated reminders to key result owners. The intention is to increase OKR adoption & keep the progress updated for as much duration as possible.
  • One can now set up KR reminders from key results detail page. These emails are dispatched to the KR owners & are completely configurable.
• 360 Review Base Template
  • 360 review base template for performance reviews now incorporates lot of feedback points we received in the past month or so. Reporting around this template will be available in the upcoming release.
• Minor bug fixes

UpRaise is now compatible with Jira 7.6 version.

• Because of a typo, bug was introduced in the last release. That lead the daily jobs to run more frequently than needed. There was no functional impact. But if you have upgraded to 3.7.3, we recommend upgrading to this version - 3.7.3.1

• Objective cycle attributes cleaned up. The ones that were rarely used are taken out for ease of set up.
• From an UpRaise admin's point of view, the view responses page has better filtering since only applicable statuses are displayed.
• My Forms screen is now better sorted to help end users' see relevant forms in less number of clicks.
  • Forms with due date past 6+ weeks are auto-marked as Historical.
• Review form reminders.
  • Now while distributing a template, there is the possibility to send automated reminders to participants who haven't completed the process yet.
• Ability to watch a key result, similar to an objective.

• Average scores from forms are now displayed on 'View Responses' as well as 'My Forms' page
• Improvements
  • Ability to delete objective cycles irrespective of the status
  • Easy access to call to actions
• Minor bug fixes

• OKR REST APIs
  • Use REST APIs to search OKRs & fetch their details.
  • Also, the API to update progress is now available.
    • This should allow you to update progress in UpRaise from other systems
• Global Search
  • One can now search OKRs, Users as well as Teams in the UpRaise global search.
  • Helpful in quickly finding the relevant data
• Objective Cycle Report & Gadgets
  • Gadgets
    • Team & Individual OKR status distribution
    • Team & Individual OKR compliance
  • New report for objective cycle

Regression issue was introduced in the last release which led to teams being removed for users updated from the HRMS sync. That is now fixed.

• Team listing & Team profile pages are now available
• Usage report - 1st release
• Improvements in User profile pages

• Drift Messenger Removed
• All OKR in Place of My OKRs
• OKR Export Enhancements
• Attachments to OKRs
• Company Directory for Non-admins
• Additional Issue Update Events Handled

Detailed release notes here.

• Key result detail page is introduced
• UpRaise panel on issue detail page modified
  • Quick access to linking Jira issue as a key result
• Continuous Feedback tab on User profile detail page
• Objective Cycle filter in OKR hierarchy view
• 360 review template in Beta

Detailed release notes here.

• My Forms UI Redesign
• User Profile & Team Changes Are Audited
• Enhancements in Clone & Move Actions
• User Profile Page

Detailed release notes here.

• Jira Group based user access
• Ability to share objectives with team/s
• Clone, Move, Carry forward OKRs
• Export OKRs in Excel
• Oracle DB compatibility

Read detailed release notes here.

• On some of the large instances hierarchy view was very slow while loading the data due to recently introduced 'expand all' feature
  • 'expand all' feature is now taken out & the loading time is back to normal
• Other minor bug fixes

• In the last release, a bug was introduced. When updating any user attribute the role was automatically updated to 'user' from any other role. This is now fixed.

• Pagination on teams listing
• Insight view filters enhancements
• Minor bug fixes

Detailed release notes here.

• Jira Issue search pop-up improvements
• Order KRs within an Objective
• Super Admin Role Enhancements
• Objective Detail Page in Same Tab

Detailed release notes here.

Milestone release with a number of critical enhancements

• Column sorting on OKR views
• Super Admin role is introduced
• Filters are now applied as URL parameters
  • Allows you to share URLs with each other
• Epics are handled uniquely when associated to Objectives as KRs
• Number of minor bug fixes

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• Now automatically update user attributes in UpRaise from any other HRMS systems
• Read on for details here

• Forms reporting in Beta
• Team member & reviewer in parallel workflow for performance review
• UX improvements for review forms

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• Timezone issue fixed
• Slow down in case of accessing My Forms for some users, resolved

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In this release, further performance improvements are implemented as well as some feature enhancements.

• Ability to print review forms
• Team levels for further classification of Team OKRs
• Mention related performance issues
• Displaying comments against associated KRs

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• Review forms performance optimisation
• General settings minor UI bug fix

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• Ability to add weightage against scored questions
• Project restriction configurations
• In-app support messenger

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• UpRaise is now DC compatible
• Ability to score questions in Review Forms
• Ability to preview template

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• Responsible HR User in Performance Review Base Template
• Further Enhancements in OKR Grading
• Review Forms UI Cleanup
• Objective Cycle Status Streamlining
• Align Objectives From Different Cycles
• Objective Status in Hierarchy View

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• UpRaise Onboarding on Installation - set up wizard to get you started
• Ability to Enable/Disable Features - show links & screens related to the features that you need, just disable the rest
• Ability to Create & Align an Objective from Hierarchy View - use the hierarchy view to build the complete OKR structure
• Actions on KRs in List View
• Quick access to actions such as Give & Request feedback, Punch in

Detailed release notes here.

• 'License is for an older version and maintenance has expired' error resolved.
• Happened to users who were installing UpRaise for the first time.

• Now one can add remarks while grading OKRs
• Each KR can have an associated remark/assessment

• Review forms optimised to handle large distributions and concurrency.

• Company Dashboard page is now available
  • Shows progress & confidence status of company & team level OKRs
  • Recent activity & Know your team
• Ability to add private comments on objectives
• Minor bug fixes

• Ability to manually sync user's status in Jira with UpRaise added. This lets UpRaise administrators keep the data in UpRaise & Jira in sync manually.
• Automated sync is already in place, the manual sync is required only when there is an inconsistency between the two.

• KR can have a different owner than the objective owner.
• Alignment of different levels of objectives is highly flexible, one can align at the same level or one step higher. This allows you to create multi step hierarchy that involves Departments, Divisions, Team & Sub-teams levels of OKRs.
• Progress is now rolled up from lowest level in the alignment to the highest level. This rolling up impact can be controlled by weightage.
• Hierarchical view is released in Beta. It gives you the entire alignment structure in one view.
• Objective detail page is more structured with feedback incorporated from previous releases.

• Ability to @ mention UpRaise users on Objective screens.
• Ability to delete a form as well as distribution, irrespective of their status
• Consistent pagination on Company directory & review forms
• Quick access to actions on Objectives from thumbnail & list view.
• Review forms can now display an 'Assistant'
  • It lists out all the continuous feedback that the subject has received and shows it while filling up the form.
• Minor bug fixes

• Some of the AUI controls that were used now modified for compatibility.

• Performance Improvements -
  • Objectives module is now optimized for faster page loads even in case of large number of OKRs.
  • Review forms are optimized for distributions with large number of users.
• Different templates added for review forms.
  • New one that can be used to conduct complete Performance Reviews is now available.
• Service Desk integration deprecated because of the issues it was causing on customer portal (issue is now fixed)
• My Feedback page layout modified.
• Character limit restriction removed from all places.
• Issue fixed that caused developer tools section to disappear in some cases.

• i18 properties had a merge error causing misbehaviour in Service Desk.

• Fixed a bug that displayed team member name instead of manager name on the company directory page.

• Delete/Deactivate Jira user event handled
• Error logs now easily available immediately
• UX improvements - alphabetical sorting, auto-suggestions
• OKR alignment feature improvement

One of the settings during installation was not getting correctly saved for MS SQL connected Jira instances, this is now fixed.

• Ability to grade company objectives
• More granular permissions added for managing team & individual objectives
• Ideal vs Actual progress now available on the objective detail page
• Ability to delete an objective cycle along with the team & individual objectives that it contains
• Weekly summary emails to all the UpRaise users summarising their weekly activities
• Fixed a bug that caused only 50 objectives to appear on the objectives listing & thumbnails pages

• Bug fixed that was caused because of UpRaise users who were deleted from Jira.
  • Any item - Company, Team, Individual objectives that were shared with all were throwing an error because of this. Now they work normally.
• Enhancement that allows managing company directory including the users who do not have access to UpRaise.
  • Ideal use case would be - someone from HR department want to set up the company directory right before turning off the limited rollout.

• Ability to create an org hierarchy within the team tabs, in the upcoming releases this will be extended to non upraise admin users. So anyone using UpRaise can view the org chart.
• Ability to grade Team & Individual OKRs. From rating scale to radio buttons, assess the goals after the due date is reached.
• Empty state messages are now more informative
• Email notifications are more streamlined.

Fixed a bug introduced in the last release.The bug caused 'Limited rollout' & 'Self service' switches on the company directory page to always appear as turned off.

With this release we start on the path towards better Goals alignment for your teams.

• Company OKRs can be linked to Team objectives
• Team OKRs can be linked to Individual objectives
• This will help us create better one glance views for understanding overall alignment. In the next 2-3 upgrades (over a period of 5-7 weeks) we expect to complete the hierarchy & matrix view for goal alignments.

• Email notifications are now more consistent and provide immediate access to UpRaise screens.
• Timing of email notifications is more opportune.

• Objectives
  • Company, Team & Individual level objectives segregation.
  • Grouped the pages for better navigation.
  • Comments mandatory while updating the OKR progress
• Continuous Feedback
  • Ability to 'label' feedback, so the measurement can happen against values or tasks
  • Ability to request feedback for another user
• Recent activity section on the Dashboard

With this release comes the ability to

• Set & track company level OKRs
• Set & track team level OKRs
• Change question positions in review forms
• Minor bug fixes

• With this release we move towards the ability to build Org charts by grouping users under Teams.
• Objective detail UI is completely revised displaying all the vital info in a single view
• Metric type Key Results can now be added to Objectives.

• Jira Issue status lozenge colour inconsistency removed from Key Results.
• Filter fixed on Performance Reviews page
• Incorrect progress % calculation fixed on Company Overview page of Objectives
• Minor UI fixes

By end of May 2016 - we expect to roll out the capability to align individual OKRs with Team & Company OKRs.

UpRaise Admin can now set the UpRaise visibility to a select users. This will allow companies to pilot UpRaise with small groups before adopting it for the whole team.

List of Features Released in 3.3

• Ability to link Objectives to Jira Issues
  • Objective progress will be auto-updated when the Jira issue is resolved
• Limited rollout feature under User Management
• UX enhancements for Review Forms

Review forms module enhanced further with

• Form distribution can now be scheduled
• Forms can be set up to auto-close after the process end date
• Individual distribution instances can be opened for inputs by Admin for a while after closing

• Review Forms are now enhanced so that one form can be distributed multiple times
• Actions on Objectives - Copy, Move
• Conversations - Ability to Offer & Request Help via Conversations
• Objective Cycles - now accept start dates from the past

• Fixed a minor bug that was blocking Insight view filters from showing up

Here is the list of enhancements released in this version

• Ability to add Checklist against Objectives as Key Results
• Ability to clone questions in the review form
• Helpful charts & graphs for UpRaise Admin
• Bug fixes
  • Bug that prevented graph from rendering on Insight view page
  • Feedback template UI issues fixed
  • Other minor fixes

Here's what we have added to UpRaise in this release

• Objective overview - filters & graphs
• Granular configurations for Objective creation
  • Ability to allow/restrict objective creation/edit
• Easy overview of Objective cycle stats for UpRaise Admin
• Ability to archive review forms
• Ability to view history of changes in the Objectives

• Minor bug fixed that caused 'unknown error' when service desk request was unassigned.

• Ability to share the review form with additional users
• Mail notifications on different events of the review form
• New actions on review forms - Copy & Create, Delete
• Information architecture improved for User facing Review Forms page.

• Fully flexible form builder
• Question level configurations to best match review form with your needs
• Ability to assign different workflows to each individual form

• Ability to restrict Continuous Feedback from select projects through a configuration
• Consolidated Admin section so that there are 4 different pages for major features - Company Directory, Objective Cycles, Continuous Feedback, Review Cycles
• Ability to like and cheer on an Objective.

Minor updates release

• Ability to edit/delete comments on Objectives
• Reorganised Admin pages to introduce a centralized company directory.
• Minor bug fixes

• Objective Detail page added
  • Timeline view on Objective detail page
• Company overview page for Objectives
• My Objectives section on dashboard updated

Minor fix for issue encountered on MS SQL Servers.

• Objectives can be classified (e.g. Marketing, Sales, Product management etc.) for easy tracking.
• Ability to add comments on objectives
• My Objectives are now available on the dashboard.

• Ability to create Objective Cycles and related Objectives is now available.
• Set your goals, assign them to your employees and track how they achieve them - all within Jira.

Company overview for Objectives, Objectives classification is set to be released in the next couple of weeks.

UpRaise modified to be compatible with later version of Jira i.e. 7.0

• Reduced the backend job frequency.

• New Dashboard
• Company Overview for Performance Reviews
• Service Desk Integration

- Bug where default Tags were not inserted during a fresh install.

- other minor fixes

Performance Reviews module released with this version

• Ability to create review cycles and review forms.
• Conduct and manage performance appraisals.

Continuous Feedback module is now available with this release. Important functionalities include

• Give/Request Feedback
• Dashboards (My Feedbacks & General Feedbacks)
• Insight View
• Admin functionalities such as Tags, Users & Designations