Boards Cloud Updates

Please see here for recent changes to Huddo Boards Cloud

2024

July

2024-07-18

Improvements:

• remove margins on images in comments so they make better use of available space

Fixes:

• en-AU locale using incorrect date format
• bug when pasting an image in a new comment

2024-07-17

Improvements:

• reduce themed card title image height on extra small and small height screen sizes
• use card theme colours for multi-assignments section
• minor changes to icons and tooltips when selecting colours on a card
• always show remove buttons on fields and dependencies when using a touch screen

Fixes:

• due date translation for NL

2024-07-10

Features:

• Ability to add/remove board members/colours from card details action bar

Improvements:

• Card details refresh (new styling & theme updates)

  

• Todos filtering by Board - move under filter options

  

Fixes:

• Issue when filtering todos by selected Boards, showing cards outside of the selected Boards if also filtering by text/color with "Match All Filters" disabled

2024-07-08

Improvements:

• Board autocomplete - search boards immediately, show in drop down, dont filter by current selection

Fixes:

• support Drag-N-Drop transitions from touch to mouse devices and back again
• show number of comments on private cards

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June

2024-06-27

Improvements:

• list menu - show for authors/readers (hide menu options per access)
• restrict the selectable roles available in the dropdown when creating new/editing existing members

Fixes:

• Regression bug causing @mentions to not send in comments
• bug where possible to reduce role of other member with higher privelleges than current member
• fix wrap/styling issues for board calendar feed section

2024-06-25

Features:

• Click on images in comments to preview

Improvements:

• caching of API requests (features & login methods)

Fixes:

• auto authenticate regression in Collab Cloud

2024-06-24

Improvements:

• responsive design of cards in Activity view and modal (small screen)
• card display - cursor & border updates
• create card - don't hide input/buttons on blur if text has been entered

Fixes:

• card link in node view on small screen
• fix rich text fullscreen issue

2024-06-19

Fixes:

• Parse email to card when dragging from HCL Notes

2024-06-13

Improvements:

• Mobile: save/cancel buttons when creating comments
• Mobile (Android): fix for keyboard covering input fields

Fixes:

• loading wrong page/route when logging in with multiple windows (e.g. Community widget & Related Tasks)

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May

2024-05-31

Improvements:

• only allow link on card to bookmark (not uploaded files)
• performance of data selection from redux
• mobile: always show rich text editor toolbar in comments (to access @mentions)

Fixes:

• issue where dual tooltips in collapsed Board sidebar
• Assign Member list overflowing on phone
• issue with text overflow in card links
• issue with center alignment of login page on small extra screen devices
• issue with toolbar position for comments (balloon) under header when adding new comment in sidebar

2024-05-27

Features:

• Drag and drop of cards between browser tabs/windows
• Drag and drop bookmarks into Board lists/cards

2024-05-17

Accessibility fixes:

• Focus highlighting overrides
• use focus outline rather than background colour
• Fix for keyboard access to CreateCard app clear buttons to choose board/list
• MenuHelper.jsx - pass the disabled prop to the button
• position of assign members menu
• better focus styling for add board tile button
• better contrast when focusing on boards logo
• board tiles sort dropdowns - use defined focus bg and colours
• minor fixes for focused input controls

2024-05-07

Improvements:

• Collab Cloud header integration for Cnx8

2024-05-06

Usability improvements:

• Timeline: add zoom -+ controls that increment zoom levels

• Mindmap accessibility

  • 1st tab selects board node, allow arrow key nav, and tab to access actions from there
  • sidebar controls - use mui checkboxes + ensure hover effects on buttons
  • clear node selection on escape keypress
  • fix text cutoff/ensure ellipsis on longer node titles
  • add help link to sidebar
  • allow keyboard pan and zoom using shift+arrow and +- keys

• add contact support button to error catch page

• add severity levels when showing toasts, fade transition
• ensure board creator is displayed as a non-editable owner on board/template creation
• ensure board tile labels are sorted in selection menu
• make 'Recent' heading in sidebar look less like other actionable items
• use delete icon (bin) for remove actions for member tiles, dates, tags, and board tile labels

Fixes:

• Board tile label delete - ensure tile label is deleted from the label object in store

2024-05-03

Features

• Card and Board recent updates feed - filter to show all or comments/updates only

Improvements

• add a permanent but closable info level toast when board is read-only
• update rich text editor to latest version

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April

2024-04-29

Fixes:

• update material-ui libraries to fix date picker display issues on small screens
• ensure card header theme displays correctly when card is opened via direct link

2024-04-24

Improvements:

• card details view improvements
  • show card fields/data in defined sections in a grid formation with headings and add buttons
  • change "add a comment" action to start as a button

Fixes:

• minor styling fix for dependencies section on a node
• board/activity lists - more precise and consistent footer spacing/padding
• create card and add comment actions - ensure entered text persists on unfocus + other focus related fixes

2024-04-17

Fixes:

• issue with exporting a board in Teams client
• date picker error on mobile/touch devices

2024-04-11

Improvements

• tooltips on date picker
• add invalid date error message
• primary session expired message - show as info alert
• tab color and style improvements
• more consistent use of primary/secondary action colours on buttons
• no collapse for empty lists activity todo pivot views
• auto collapse empty lists initially and after a card is dragged out of them
• New Board Wizard - more specific label for board name and template name

• Activity view improvements

  • styling (shadows, spacing, border edges when expanded/collapsed)
  • drop cards on list header (highlight like shadow)
  • add card at top hides the bottom add card

Fixes:

• issue with format of dates in date picker
• issues in list header title - not full width, no-wrap ellipsis, use correct cursors
• don't show grab cursor on lists in todos / pivoted views
• issue saving tags when creating new template
• ensure tags are copied from template/source

2024-04-02

Improvements:

• Streamlined /todos/assigned & /todos/created API, separating out the Board labels to /board/labels & /board/{boardId}/labels endpoints
• Loading feedback when creating a board

Fixes:

• Issue with board label history
• create board from template when opened and only a reader

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March

2024-03-25

Features:

• Emoji reactions on comments

  • Quick selection

    

  • Picker

    

Improvements:

• Editing of comments on mobile (focus at end of text, save/cancel buttons)

Fixes:

• Creating Board in group restricts to the group's Organisation
• Better handling of authentication when provider session changes user account
• Visibility of 'Embed Link' when viewing Boards by Group
• Creation of Board in Group when using /group/{groupId} route (embedded)

2024-03-21

API Documentation:

• /todos/next
• /todos/summary
• /board/{boardId}/labels
• /board/labels
• /user/auth/{provider}/{externalId}/apitoken

2024-03-20

Fixes:

• View cards in fullscreen on small screens

2024-03-15

Features:

• My Tasks Summary micro app
• My Next Tasks micro app

Fixes:

• Issue when deleting all Boards tile colors
• Links to card ancestors (Todo view)
• Prevent date selection incorrectly showing today when no date set

2024-03-06

Fixes:

• Issue with communication between Boards and Collab Cloud

2024-03-05

Fixes:

• Upload files to Teams private channel OneDrive

2024-03-04

Improvements:

• Loading feedback of recent boards sidebar
• Card link opening behavious (links to other boards open in same tab)
• Teams board links open tabs
• Show loading spinner while waiting on clicked link to open in a teams tab

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February

2024-02-28

Improvements:

• Add copy/paste list option in list menu
• Add duplication list option in list menu
• More comprehensive history feed details for moving or reordering cards

Fixes:

• Scroll to bottom of a list when creating a new card
• Delete action in card dialog / in archive view
• Add card section in a list delays retract/height change to prevent card drag issues
• Dragging empty colour labels in Firefox
• Filter/search by list name

2024-02-22

Fixes:

• Unauthorised error when adding existing board as Teams tab
• Fix potential onEnter errors in rich text editor
• Prevent overflow on file preview
• Load board members on fullscreen list view (for @mentions)

2024-02-16

Fixes:

• Fix potential onBlur errors in rich text editor
• Don't show iCalendar feed options in Teams

2024-02-14

Fixes:

• Translation fixes
  • Move translations inside functions to help prevent premature translate calls
  • Use date-fns locales to show months in user's language
  • German translation amendments
  • Other translation fixes and improvements

2024-02-08

Fixes:

• Microsoft Teams private channels
  • Link to File will now show the private channel's files.
  • Owner/Author access level was setting all members to Author.
• Microsoft Teams Mobile: Removed licence related cards in org admin view.
• Microsoft Teams: Removed obsolete "Disable Notifications" button.
• Rich text editor dialog - allow scroll on overflow

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January

2024-01-25

Fixes:

• Use SMTP email address before using Exchange address when parsing email attachments
• Don't show organisation admin links from Boards sidebar menu in Teams on a mobile device

2024-01-17

Fixes:

• Activity view scrolling issue

2024-01-09

Improvements:

• Microsoft Teams integrations

  • UI redesign when adding new Boards tab
  • Onboarding Tours

• faster opening of cards

• allow clicking links in description when content locked for editing
• allow reordering private cards
• US English updates
• organisation plan loading feedback

Fixes:

• issue where completing a new task showed incorrect icon
• issue where Board content deleted when hovered and press Ctrl+Alt+Delete
• issue when opening a card by link, then a subcard within that card
• issue when reordering cards with filtered (hidden) content
• visibility of card title in header breadcrumb (Component Pack)

2024-01-04

Fixes:

• RichText saving when used @symbol (but not an @mention)
• @mentions keyboard navigation improvements (home/end, up to bottom, down back to top), escape without closing modal
• @mentions only considered new on first save

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2023

December

2023-12-22

Fixes:

• issue where mentions popup partially hidden at top
• issue where could not mention users when opening a card directly by link
• hide private cards when viewing board by assignments
• create card from Outlook/Verse - fix toggle of attach body, ordering of recent boards
• drag dependency links in Firefox

2023-12-18

Improvements:

• Accessibility (keyboard navigation - colors/members dialog, aria-labels, popover, html.lang attribute, improved roles, aria-selected, aria-expanded, hover/focus on cards)
• Drag email to card - attach .eml and .msg file
• Positioning of unscheduled cards in Timeline
• Improved document titles based on context
• Smoother drag scroll on Kanban
• Ensure grab cursor for Kanban drag scroll
• Update childcounts in activity lists when filtering
• Visibility of selected board filters
• Searching for a board includes the description

Fixes:

• Card label overflow issue when 5 lines
• Issue where comment events sent to mentioned users

2023-12-13

Improvements:

• API documentation for /user/{userId}, /user/group/{groupId} etc
• Support for latest MongoDB (v7)

2023-12-12

Fixes:

• Link to File dialog options

Fixes:

2023-12-07

Fixes:

• Issue saving card name when editing it directly on the card

2023-12-04

Feature:

• Drag emails from Outlook to create as card

2023-12-01

Fixes:

• Issue when focusing on boards search input

November

2023-11-29

Feature:

• Support for Domino by REST API

Fixes:

• Debounce User/Group searching

2023-11-28

Fixes:

• Issue where menu buttons in the open card view were not overflowing to the 'more' menu correctly and causing a flickering effect
• Issue where lists in board view could not easily be dragged to re-order
• Issue with board title button long text overflowing
• Issue with card background images

Improvements:

• Minor accessibility improvement - add aria-labels

2023-11-23

Fixes:

• Fix template description not showing in new board wizard

2023-11-13

Improvements:

• Accessibility

  • more consistent tooltips (for screen readers and better explanation of functionality)
  • Keyboard navigation (particularly in the Board Tiles, Kanban view, Card dialog) - (vision & motor impaired)
  • better screen reader information (vision impaired)
  • improved colour contrast (low vision users)

2023-11-09

Improvements:

• API for Member deletion

Fixes:

• Email for mentions missing fields

October

2023-10-31

Improvements:

• Translations (German and English US)
• Use https protocol for iCal feed instead of webcals
• Hide unusable Colors button when read-only access when sidebar collapsed
• Consistency of Board colour feature naming

Fixes:

• Issue where iCal feed dates off by 1 due to timezone differences
• Issue where page blank in Firefox when loading with Connections 7 header via SSO

2023-10-25

Improvements:

• Show Member/Labels buttons in collapsed sidebar
• added translations to missing fields

Fixes:

• Issue where page crashed when reloaded page with Card open, then opening member dialog

2023-10-23

Features:

• Board iCalendar feed
• Personal iCalendar feed

2023-10-20

Fixes:

• Collab header regression

2023-10-19

Improvements:

• loading of Board task stats on tiles as required
• performance of loading My Boards
• redirect in place for expired session of Collab/Connections with SSO header

September

2023-09-29

Improvements:

• More German language translations

Fixes:

• Ability to paste images into descriptions

2023-09-22

Improvements:

• API security, added 'Strict-Transport-Security' & 'X-Content-Type-Options'

Fixes:

• (regression) encoding of file names when uploading special charactors (e.g. Japanese)
• issue where deleting a dependency changes the current view

2023-09-19

• update of busboy dependency used for file upload (includes security patches, node support etc)

2023-09-14

Improvements:

• consistency of sidebar icon positioning when collapsed/expanded
• allow case insensitive Collab login
• update to teams-js v2
• open filesin Teams in-place (deep links)

Fixes:

• public member creation when creating Board
• whitespace of cards in Activity list
• HCL Connections 8 CR3 whitespace

2023-09-12

Improvments:

• loading speed of the 'My Boards' data

2023-09-08

Fixes:

• membership role options when created inside a Team/Community

2023-09-07

Features:

• Organisation content administration & membership management
• Labels pivot view for Board and Activity views

Improvements:

• Pasting URLs into description and comments automatically converted to clickable link

Fixes:

• issues in dependency arrow positioning
• auto reschedule dependencies when dates change
• selecting the same file to upload after cancelling
• expand/collapse lists when pivoted by dates/assignment

August

2023-08-15

Fixes:

• Reload loop during login with Firefox

2023-08-09

Fixes:

• Ensure assignments are duplicated when copying and pasting tasks

2023-08-07

Improvements:

• Users with the author role now have full edit access on cards that are assigned to them (rather than complete and comment access only)

Fixes:

• Prevent cards from being moved to another list at the same time they are archived by dragging to the archive button
• Ensure the current user has the correct actions available according to their board role when opening cards from the My Todos view

July

2023-07-14

Fixes:

• Drag & Drop from rich email clients onto a list

2023-07-12

Fixes:

• Activity list missing action menu

2023-07-05

Fixes:

• Ability to edit nodes when opened directly

2023-07-04

Fixes:

• Assignments to non-primary aliases

2023-07-03

Improvements:

• Improved author experience - restrict to allowed actions
• Board title/board options button - styling and usability improvements
• Current member role now highlighted in members dialog and links added to member permissions documentation
• Improved randomisation and readability of Assignment Role colours
• Added tooltips to Assignment Role avatars

• Microsoft Teams

  • detect members in private sub channels (OAuth Admin consent must be certified again)
  • fix for creating Board in private sub channels
  • loading spinner positioning

Fixes:

• Connections 8 styling fixes
• Fixed coloured role borders when assigning member roles
• Fix URLs pointing to old docs pages
• Issue detecting highest licence when multiple
• Minor fixes to Welcome and Plan Selection dialogs

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June

2023-06-26

Improvements:

• Readers can now select text in descriptions
• General reader experience

Fixes:

• Tours appearing incorrectly
• Template role assignment on touch devices

2023-06-21

Fixes:

• Move button now appears again

2023-06-19

Fixes:

• Timeline group-by colours

2023-06-15

Improvements:

• Readers no longer see actions they cannot perform

Fixes:

• Getting members from private sub-channels

2023-06-06

Improvements:

• Member promotion emails - add invite and membership details to give more context
• New configuration option to enable/disable member promotion requests
• Do not clear edited name/description when changing templates
• Ability to create new organisation from guest is reader popup

Fixes:

• Issue with exporting Board as CSV with special characters (e.g. Umlaut)
• Issue affecting Org config when user has multiple orgs
• Color selection/editing on small screens (e.g. mobiles)
• German translations with extra '}' character
• Issues with Role Assignments (duplicates etc)
• Collab - fix for offering user org trial
• Issue in create first board tour

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May

2023-05-26

Features:

• Organisation Guests are now treated as Reader
• Ability for guest to request a promotion to member, sent to admins via email & socket

2023-05-23

Improvements:

• Drag and drop of lists

  • drag by header
  • fix blank list when scrolled and dragged
  • prevent scrolling of list in drag mode

• Cards can be Archived+Deleted from the card modal toolbar.

• Enable "Assign to Roles" when creating a new Board via 'Create Template from Board' button.
• More compact Board Members view on small (phone) screens.

Fixes:

• Issue with blank tile label
• Issue with empty Assign Roles in new Board wizard
• Board Tiles sidebar shadow regression bug

• Card drag and drop

  • issue where a duplicate card appears when drag to end
  • issue where card jumps back to top when dragging a card to end of same list

• Button for copying a template says "Copy Template" instead of "Copy Board"

• Fixed loading of template description in to board description field in the new board wizard.
• Deleting an open template now redirects to template list instead of board list.
• Fixed "Assign to Roles" screen appearing in Board wizard without any roles to assign members.
• When creating a new Board, edited name and description fields are not lost when changing the selected template.

2023-05-16

Improvements:

• Organisation view of members & groups

  • loading feedback
  • virtualised scroll for faster render
  • show membership of linked aliases
  • prevent duplicates of invites to org

• localised format of dates in CSV export

Fixes:

• Security issue affecting external users and public communities (Connections)
• issue where Organisation invites not visible if members with linked aliases

2023-05-05

Features:

• Drag card to archive

Improvements:

• Auto-move dependency parent
• Expand all in activity view
• Hide edit options on archived card
• Performance improvements related to icons used on Template Roles
• Show count of tasks assigned to Role in Board Members view

Fixes:

• Dragging card from assigned user created user image as card
• Sending duplicate due date reminders

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April

2023-04-21

Features:

• Button to assign all sub-tasks as dependencies of parent
• Template Roles - base functionality

Fixes:

• Removed Connections community members not removed from Board membership
• Deleting an assigned label

2023-04-12

Features:

• Custom Colours. Colours and tags have been merged. You are now able to create as many colours as you like in a Board

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March

2023-03-20

Fixes:

• Group member changes not being picked up

2023-03-17

Improvements:

• Timeline card title always visible

2023-03-15

Improvements:

• UI for member adding on Mobile

Fixes:

• Kanban Printing
• Timeline calendar shifting when opening a card

2023-03-10

Features:

• Template Rescheduling
• Drag & Drop assignments from parent to sub-cards in modal

Fixes:

• Assign users to a named licence

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February

2023-02-20

Fixes:

• Attachments are moved in child nodes when the parent is moved
• Updated attachments to correctly show when their parent had been moved

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January

2023-01-31

Features:

• New Organisation summary view

Improvements:

• Outlook attachments using plugin
• Copy/Paste functionality

2023-01-24

Improvements:

• Styling for HCL Connections 8 new UI
• Handling of default profile images in Connections
• Detect language from Connections dropdown
• Security updates (node 18)

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History

See the full history of updates for 2022 and earlier.