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!
-
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)
-
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
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
-
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
- /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:
- 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:
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
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:
- Template Rescheduling
- Drag & Drop assignments from parent to sub-cards in modal
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.