Product Enhancements – Release Notes May 2025

We are happy to announce our May enhancements & fixes:

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Released May 26, 2025

New Features & Enhancements

• Goals: Linking Goal modal now includes a year filter with the current year selected by default, making it easier to filter and link relevant goals.

• Settings: Added collapse/expand functionality to the Settings menu, similar to the “My Project” section.

• Idea Funnel
  • Edit Columns: Idea Funnel now includes options to hide or show actual and target start/end dates and days-open columns.

Bug Fixes

• Projects
  • Task Edit Model: Mention functionality in the task edit pop-up now correctly shows user suggestions.

Performance Improvements

• Work Time by Team Member Report: Work Time by Team Member report now loads significantly faster for better usability.
• Work Time by Project Report: Optimized backend processing to enhance responsiveness in the Work Time by Project report.
• Team Engagement Report: Reduced load time and improved experience on the Team Engagement report page.

Released May 20, 2025

New Features & Enhancements

• Metrics
  • Data Tab: Metric owners and editors can now successfully add and manage custom columns.

• Settings
  • Notifications: Added opt-in checkbox to allow users to subscribe to the Mailchimp newsletter directly from the notifications settings.

• Main Nav Bar
  • Task Creation Model: Updated task creation modal to include a department selection option for setting project visibility when creating a new project.

Bug Fixes

• Ideas
  • Charter Tab
    • Key Dates tile: When creating a new idea, only the idea submission date is populated; target completion and actual start dates no longer auto-fill.

• Projects
  • Status Report Tab: Status reports can now only be submitted after all associated files have completed uploading.

Performance Improvements

• Huddleboard
  • Project Task Tiles: Only 5 tasks per group are shown by default, with a “show more” option if additional tasks exist.
• Project Summary Table Report: Improved initial page load time for better performance.

Released May 12, 2025

New Features & Enhancements

• Main Nav Bar
  • Users can now only select an accessible department to create ideas, projects, goals, or metrics if the default department is inaccessible; the submit button stays disabled until selection.
  • Project: Creation model now supports department selection with a dropdown and applies default admin-set visibility.
    • Visibility modal also supports double-click to select a department and its child, similar to global filters.

• Workflows
  • Status Reports Tab:Status report is now auto-populated by default when the workflow has no assigned status report.

• Global Filter
  • Levels filters are now only visible on Goals and Metrics views where they are applicable.

Bug Fixes

• Metrics
  • Charts: Pareto charts now display entries correctly even when the reason code is a number.
  • Export option on Metric View is now visible only to Admin and Executive license types.

Performance Improvements

• Project Benefit Exception Report
  • Exception report performance optimized to prevent slowdowns.
• Custom Huddleboard
  • Huddleboard project list tile now loads with a default size of 10 projects for better performance.

Released May 05, 2025

New Features & Enhancements

• Settings
  • Status Report Templates: This page now includes default “KPIFire Status Report Templates” tab and supports adding custom tabs for better organization.

Bug Fixes

• Custom Huddleboard
  • Metric Charts: Added “Last Data Points” dropdown option to Pareto Reason Chart on huddleboards.

• Metrics
  • Data Tab :
    •  Creating new Pareto reasons and adding them to any cell now reflects instantly without needing to reopen the modal.
    • Metric R/Y/G % calculation feature is now working properly.

• Projects
  • Tasks Tab :
    • Introduced a “Fix Conflict” button for task dates—if a start date conflicts with a prior task’s end date, it will auto-adjust to the valid date.
    • Edited comments on the Task tab are now saving successfully after update.

Performance Improvements

• Projects 
  • Improved performance of opening projects from the Project List View by reducing load time.
• Custom Huddleboard
  • Improved  performance and experience when viewing and editing text tiles on Huddleboards.

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