Overview

This product release is aimed at continuing improve the user experience with the Agenda setting and starting to improve the user experience in Evaluate; however, there are more Evaluate improvements to follow in coming releases. With this release, we will also be launching our new Language support! 


These updates are aimed to be deployed to demo on Thursday 5th May 2022.


The target release date for this release is Thursday 12th May 2022.



Evaluate Improvements

General Evaluate Improvements

  • The 1,000 character limit has been removed for:
    • Manager evaluation responses
    • Employee self-evaluation responses


Evaluate Permissions Update

  • Create/Edit allows for the following access rights: 
    • Creating Evaluate Review Templates & Cycles
    • Editing Evaluate Review Templates & Cycles
    • Manually update submission statuses. Learn More
    • Downloading the CSVs

  • View Submissions/Approve allows for the following access rights:  
    • Viewing/downloading CSVs 
    • Where the user has been added as a "Reviewer"
      • Approving submissions
      • Responding and Submitting on behalf of managers



Agenda Improvements 

Discussing Blend Drivers

  • Newly added Blend Drivers will automatically add a corresponding Agenda Item
  • Removed Blend Drivers will automatically add a corresponding Agenda Item, which cannot be removed, only Discussed. 
  • When clicking to "Discuss" in session, this will lead to the Blend Progress page


Discussing Objectives

  • Closing Objectives will automatically add a corresponding Agenda Item, which cannot be removed, only Discussed. 
  • When clicking to "Discuss" in session, this will lead to the closed Objective details page.
  • Closing an Objective in session will add a Discussed card into Agenda Items, regardless of who closes it


General Agenda Improvements 

  • When in a session, “Back to Agenda Items” now appears on all sidebar menu pages except Agenda Items
  • There is now a higher level taxonomy for Additional Agenda Items to give more context to the manager:
    • Users will see a new dropdown with the options:
      • Home
      • Work
      • Home and Work



NEW! Language Support

OpenBlend now supports French, German and Dutch translations inside of the app. 


Interested in learning more? Please contact with your Customer Success Manager, for more information. If you are unsure who your CSM is, please feel free to get in touch with our Support team: helpdesk@openblend.com



Other Items

Team Dashboard

  • The "Next Session" tile is now time limited to within the next week and if there are no sessions within the next 6 months, it will show as no sessions booked.
  • Leaders can now send a nudge email to their employees to remind them to add Agenda Items before their next session from their Team Dashboard.



Please note, release dates are subject to change, but the OpenBlend team will always ensure that the release notes are kept up to date.