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XBert Platform Updates
🎨 User Interface Improvements
Task Management & Boards
- Bulk Actions Enhancement: Updated bulk action styling and snooze options to match individual task snooze functionality for better consistency
- Bulk Selection Fix: Resolved issues with bulk action selection behavior
- Priority Quick Actions: Fixed priority icon clicking on cards - now appropriately prioritises tasks instead of opening them
- Tooltip Consistency: Standardised tooltips across all boards and cards for Actual/Estimated Time display
Visual & Style Refinements
- Hover States: Improved hover behavior across multiple components including notification status and mention menus
- Toggle Clarity: Enhanced toggle switch design for better user understanding
- Checkbox Colours: Fixed "Include overdue in capacity" checkbox to display correct brand color (#4e53bd)
- Responsive Design: Resolved text wrapping issue for "Add next week" button on 768px wide screens
Notifications
- Refactored notification slideout status handling for improved reliability
✨ Notes & Comments
Rich Text Features
- Added simple text formatting options to notes
- Introduced emoji support in notes
- Tables & Checklists: Fixed visibility of tables and checklists - now properly displayed on task notes, not just the notes page
Comments
- Removed unwanted border appearing on hover in the @mention menu
⏱️ Time Tracking & Capacity
Timer Improvements
- Fixed timer display to update dynamically with timer dropdown changes
- Resolved critical timer performance issues
Capacity Planning
- Fixed user capacity calculation issues
- Added capacity warnings for overallocation
- Corrected worklist capacity date range handling
- Ensured worklist dates display correctly
🔧 Technical Fixes
- Modal Windows: Fixed modal window display issues
- Saved Views: Corrected saved view functionality
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Performance Improvements
- Enhanced Board Performance - Optimized speed and resource usage across all board views
User Interface Enhancements
- Improved Navigation - Resolved main navigation UI issues for smoother app experience
- Refined UX Styling - Updated visual styling throughout the application for better consistency
- Enhanced Kanban Board Tiles - Improved visual design and layout of board tiles
- Optimised Slide-Out Behaviour - Fixed slide-out panels to close smoothly without triggering full page refresh
- XBert Automation Enhancement - Automation now closes automatically after saving
- Bulk Actions - Introduced UX changes to make it easier to use
- URL Parameters for Work Lists - Added Group By Type parameter support for shareable work list views
Bug Fixes
- Board Cache Synchronization - Fixed cache updating issues when switching between boards
- Work List Navigation - Restored proper slide-out functionality when clicking Due or Status fields
- Process Filter Application - Resolved issues with filters not applying correctly when used in combination
- Activity Board Navigation - Fixed activity links to properly open tasks in board view
- Firefox Compatibility - Addressed styling inconsistencies in Firefox browser
- CI Fullscreen Reports - Corrected report button linking in fullscreen mode
Removed Features
- Due Period Removed from Board Grouping - Streamlined board group options by removing the Due Period parameter, and focus on using Weeklt Calendars as the preferred board type.
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New Features
- Time Flow: A brand-new way to see and manage your work visually. View your week with clear time-based layouts, see daily capacity values, and understand if you’re set up for success right where you work.
- Visual Boards: The new Boards experience lets you manage tasks byStatusorAssigned Due Period, giving you a powerful, flexible overview of your work.
- Client Intelligence: Gain real-time client-level insights, including risk, outstanding work, and client health—right from your task view.
- Notes (Redesigned): A complete rework of Notes with a cleaner layout, autosave functionality, and a more intuitive writing experience.
- Snooze: The highly requested Snooze feature lets you pause tasks and bring them back when you’re ready, keeping your workspace clutter-free.
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Updates
- Unified Settings: All settings have been moved into one easy-to-access place. Client settings and general settings are now managed together, simplifying how you configure your workspace.
- Start Date: TheReporting Periodfield has been renamed toStart Dateto more accurately reflect its purpose.
- Multi Bulk Actions: Perform more bulk actions across multiple tasks and XBerts, saving time and reducing repetitive clicks.
- XBert Automations: Bulk actions now extend to XBert Automations—making it easier than ever to manage your automation rules and triggers.
- Polished Look and Feel: Refreshed UI styling throughout the app for a cleaner, modern, and more intuitive experience.
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Fixes
- General performance improvements and UI refinements across boards and task management.
- Fixed several minor inconsistencies in task display and settings navigation.
- Improved stability when switching between views such as Boards, Time Flow, and Weekly Calendar.
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New Features
- Capacity Bar: A new visual tool that gives you a quick and clear view of your workload compared to your available work hours.
- Client Work Data Export: A new report is now available under Client Reports. This allows teams to back up data or review reporting details before a client is removed.
Updates
- Team Overview: This page has been reoriented to focus solely on “Work Due” and upcoming capacity, aligning with future workload planning. This change also complements the upgraded capacity algorithm.
- Estimated time per task: You can now update the estimated time per task without modifying the template.
- Information icons: Support articles have been added directly to relevant areas (e.g. XBerts), providing instant access to helpful documentation.
- Collapsible XBert sections: XBerts now support expand/collapse sections. This makes it easier to access subtasks and attachments on smaller screens.
Fixes
- Custom XBerts Enhancement: Multiple enhancements in the Custom XBerts area, including: the use of broader prompts, new capabilities like time series analysis and forecasting, an updated CXB interface and descriptions in summaries.
Updates
- Task/XBert Slide-Out Sizing: Updated logic so the slide-out doesn’t switch to full screen as aggressively, improving usability on mid-sized screens.
- Repositioned the Time Tracker in the header to prevent overlap with the slide-out's tab icons.
Fixes
- Fix the Status and Assign tabs failing to open when accessing a task/XBert from the Work Priority page
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New Feature
- Task/XBert slide out: To quickly view task info and take action without leaving your current screen, a two-column layout with enhanced styling plus the action bar has been moved to the right side of the task. See what's new here.
Fixes
- Fix for sign-up issues related to specific ad blockers
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Updates
- When creating actual time using the timer control, it will now automatically check if it can link the associated XBert/Task to an XPM Job Task. Note: this will only run if your account is integrated with XPM and the 'Automatically link XBerts/Tasks to XPM Job Tasks' setting is turned on for your account
Fixes
- Fix the template schedule client list styling to better handle long schedule names
- Fix the Client Insights page so the Data Quality Score sorting works as expected
- Fix for the main navigation menus being hidden behind certain UI elements
- Fix for updating a schedule and changing the Next Reporting Period Start Date incorrectly showing a warning popup on save
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New Features
- You can now link an email directly to an existing task or xbert. More info here
- Team Overview and Client Overview pages can now be exported to a spreadsheet
- Processes can now be setup as billable or non-billable, to ensure any actual time being created is allocated with the correct billable value
Updates
- Updated the team view capacity bubble hover tooltip text for better readability
- Updated the "delete task" popup warning text to clearly outline what linked data is also being deleted
Fixes
- Minor update to the XI community items to display more text
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Updates
- Added a new activity log to track user accounts being updated
- Increased frequency of activity count updates for better real-time accuracy
- When moving a task between clients, it will now automatically re-run the XPM auto-map logic
- XI now displays a message when it cannot continue processing due to excessive data
Fixes
- Resolved an issue where the bottom of text could be cut off in the task/XBert slide-out process tag menu
- Various stability enhancements across the app
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Updates
- The Team Overview page now shows each users' capacity percentage, reflecting how much of their capacity has been allocated with work
- The Team Overview page has had three new dedicated XI prompts added to it: Practice Capacity Review, User Capacity Review and the User Estimated Time Against Actual Time Review
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