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Boards Cloud Updates

Please see here for recent changes to Huddo Boards Cloud

2024

September

2024-09-30

Improvements:

  • Members and colours can be assigned to a card by dragging from the sidebar within the card options dialog view
  • Tasks with a due date only (no start date) will now appear in the timeline view
  • Minor style, position calculation and other improvements to the timeline view

Fixes:

  • Themed card title appearing in the background in card details dialog

2024-09-11

Features:

  • PDF zoom/paging controls

Improvements:

  • Allow caching of uploaded files based on unique etag
  • Simplification of task/entry. Add icons to their create buttons to clearly differentiate. Allow setting dates and dependencies on entry, auto converts to task
  • Simplification of dates. 'End Date' has been merged into 'Due Date'
  • Styling of recent updates loading progress bar
  • better grid spacing for board members and colours
  • Rename entry to note for clarity
  • Performance improvements for kanban list scrolling

Fixes:

  • Positioning of rich text toolbar when card title long
  • Export Board with creator/updater null (data imported from Activities)
  • Protection against assignments to user null (data imported from Activities)
  • Dark mode styling of transfer ownership dialog

August

2024-08-28

Improvements:

  • Organisation logo - show white background in dark mode for images with transparency

2024-08-27

Features:

  • Dark mode!

    dark mode

  • Welcome Tours in

    • Bulgarian (bg)
    • Catalan (ca)
    • Chinese (Simplified) (zh)
    • Chinese (Traditional) (zh-TW)
    • Czech (cs)
    • Danish (da)
    • Dutch (nl)
    • French (fr)
    • German (de)
    • Italian (it)
    • Japanese (ja)
    • Polish (pl)
    • Portuguese (pt)
    • Romanian (ro)
    • Russian (ru)
    • Slovak (sk)
    • Slovenian (sl)
    • Spanish (es)

Fixes:

  • Issue with Board tile height in Connections since grid size change (18 Aug)
  • Issue moving cards by DnD in Kanban in Firefox with Linux OS

2024-08-26

Improvements:

  • Onboarding for Microsoft Teams customers - allow selecting simple plan (free or enterprise)
  • Onboarding for users starting in micro apps (e.g. Verse, Outlook)
  • Create a Card button spans full width of list

Fixes:

  • Issue with reloading data in Teams tab settings if no personal or team boards

2024-08-22

Improvements:

  • Organisation content administration.

    • Delete functionality for Boards which user is not an owner of
    • Search by board name - case insensitive
    • Sort by Archive column
    • Select all only selects visible

2024-08-16

Fixes:

  • Issue with webhooks

2024-08-15

Improvements:

  • Board tile grid auto-sizing

Fixes:

  • Content Admin - scrolling issues (wobbling and while filtered)
  • MindMap - dont show edit option on hover while creating new card

2024-08-02

Improvements:

  • Cache theme colour palettes for faster rendering
  • Added missing translations for the following languages:

    • Bulgarian (bg)
    • Catalan (ca)
    • Chinese (Simplified) (zh)
    • Chinese (Traditional) (zh-TW)
    • Czech (cs)
    • Danish (da)
    • Dutch (nl)
    • French (fr)
    • Italian (it)
    • Japanese (ja)
    • Polish (pl)
    • Portuguese (pt)
    • Romanian (ro)
    • Russian (ru)
    • Slovak (sk)
    • Slovenian (sl)
    • Spanish (es)

Fixes:

  • Issue when selecting an uploaded image as theme from new dialog removing other non-image bookmarks
  • Text overflow issue in Activity view 'add a card' at top button
  • Issue with incorrect number of Microsoft users in organisation admin view

July

2024-07-29

Improvements:

  • use bolder Roboto fonts to emphasise headings and actions
  • use more contrasting (darker) colours for card title and icons

Fixes:

  • fix a bug where the card updates sidebar will incorrectly initiate as closed
  • reinstate create template from board action

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)

    card details

  • Todos filtering by Board - move under filter options

    todos board filters

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

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)

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

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

March

2024-03-25

Features:

  • Emoji reactions on comments

    • Quick selection

      emoji quick

    • Picker

      emoji 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

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

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

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:

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:

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:

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

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

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

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

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:

Fixes:

  • Assign users to a named licence

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

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)

History

See the full history of updates for 2022 and earlier.