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OS EDU - What's so great about the latest OnSemble 7 update? Follow

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Sarah Steele-Lindner
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Everyone is talking about OnSemble 7!

So what's the deal anyways?

 

7.1 - Structures - the best way to build pages EVER, plus Workgroup Essentials 

7.2 - Alerts, Announcements, and a whole new look for the Document Repository! 

7.3 - Birthdays, Anniversaries, 'Clear' Page headers and lots of 'quality of life' improvements! (Nov 30, 2020)

Mostly, these are improvements based on feedback from 7.1 & 7.2 - so if you're going RIGHT TO 7.3, you won't even "notice" most of this stuff; you're just getting the improvements!

  • Expanded drop-zone for moving islands in structures.
  • Better navigation to/from Workgroup Essentials.
  • Expanded ability to manage members/assistant managers from Workgroup Essentials.
  • Better usage of Alerts and Announcements from Workgroup Essentials.
  • Set all users to have "clear" page headers via User Interface Settings. 
    • All of this info (plus Bug Fixes and a downloadable "checklist") is at your fingertips. Click here.
  • Modernized Birthday Island - check out this new Guide.
      • There are two known issues with the Birthday Island that will be fixed later in 2021. If a user has a birthday on Feb 29th, it will break the page. If ANY user has a birthday on the 29th of ANY month, it will only display if you are using the "Date Range" feature, not current month.
  • Modernized Anniversary Island - check out this new Guide.
      • There are two known issues with the Anniversary Island that will be fixed later in 2021. Users with a work anniversary of 2.29 cannot be shown and if you choose to display ONLY workgroup members AND have workgroup members added by Role, those in ONLY a role will not show.

7.4.0/7.4.1 - The new (super-beefy) List Island, updated root folders in the document repository, feedback from 7.3, "quality of life" and more! (March 2021)

  • Complete new look and feel for the List Island!
  • Root Level folders in the document repository have been modernized.
  • TONS of bug fixes and Quality of Life Improvements
  • All the full details can be found here!

There were two known issues with this update. Link Items containing a semi-colon ( ; ) will not work properly in the new List Island (Honestly, they are pretty rare in URLS.) Also, a rare-but-odd issue that if there were multiple List Islands on a page and the page also contained a calendar, then the List Islands would begin to clone each other.  Both of these issues are fixed in 7.4.3. 

 

Announcements 7.4.0 - Feedback Release (March 2021)

(This comes with the Framework 7.4.1 Release)

We updated Announcements back in November 2020 with the 7.2/7.3 release. We got some great feedback from you, and are incorporating some of that now!  The new 7.4.0 Guide is here.

  • When exporting the Read Receipt excel file, the Subject, Author, and Date of the announcement are now part of the Excel file. If there was an attachment, the name of the attachment is included as well.
  • Announcement "preview text" was just too light of a grey. This has been made darker, and has been added to our design standards.
  • If an announcement is  is edited by someone other than the original author, the editor now becomes the new author. (This is important to track who made what changes!)
  • The four announcement 'default' sending options can now be set for the entire Workgroup. These boxes can still be overridden by the Announcement Sender at the time of the Announcement creation.

7.4.2 - The Rackspace Time Zone Release (April 2021)

This release primarily impacts our Rackspace users, as it allows them to choose a "Home Time Zone" that will allow the portal to use the time zone you set instead of the default Central Time Zone. However, even if you are NOT on Rackspace, you should STILL update, as it also contains a few important bug fixes from 7.4.0/7.4.1.

  • The Time Zone Release works for all parts of Framework (documents, pages, alerts, and more.)* 
  • It ALSO now applies to Announcements and Help Desks (as of 4.22.21)
  • It already works for Calendar and Reservations.

 

  • *It does not work yet in one known area: Page Hit By Hour Report (Usage Traffic) - we missed that one! We will add it as soon as we can.
  • **Right now, Help Desks is the only add-on application chosen to receive this update. If you are a RackSpace user and feel this update should be applied to another add-on application, please open a Product Change Request ticket and let us know!

7.4.3 - Fixes, Feedback, and Quality of Life (May 31)

This is our last official release before 7.5 (Policies and Procedures.)  We are squeezing in a few highly requested Bug Fixes (.pdf downloading instead of opening in the List Island, public page subscriptions & more) plus a few other small requests. You can check out the full list of features here.

 

7.4.4 - Document Lock: Hot Fix (June 16)

This hot fix is VERY small; literally only a single line of code. It fixes a nagging issue regarding documents that get "locked" and then cannot be unlocked without a SQL script being run.

 

7.4.5 - Bug Fixes, Prep Work, and More (Early Q3)

{This framework release contains three very important fixes that we want to get into your hands quickly. 1: An issue where Chrome has not been displaying all of the the "history columns" in the Document Repository. Now, it will again. 2:  An issue with anyone who had a birthday on the 29th of any month not appearing on the Birthday Island. Now they will. 3: An issue where OnSemble would try to request a permission from one of our pages. This created latency and other issues in some clients and has been resolved.}

 

7.4.2 - System Permissions: Update (Early Q3)

{This will be the first real update we have had to the System Permissions Add On Application! We are addressing several pain points, adding some quality-of-life fixes, and a few new features we know you've been asking for. We hope to also have one or two more System Permission updates before the end of the year! It will require your framework to be on 7.4.2 or higher to take advantage of the new tools - so get ready. Stay tuned!)

 

7.4.2 - Help Desks: Update (Early Q3)

{This will be the first of two or three updates we have planned for the Help Desks Add-On Application! To help set expectations, this first one is SMALL... just a modernization or two and some bug fixes while we prep the tool for more features.  It will require your framework to be on 7.4.2 or higher to take advantage of the bug fixes and modernization - so get ready. Stay tuned!)

 

7.4.2 - Learning Management: Update (Early Q3)

{Learning Management needs a little bit of a boost. We are giving it Customized Alerts for completed courses. We are updating the 'Telerik' editor controls as well, but are NOT modernizing YET. We hope to return to Learning Management in 2022.  This update will require your framework to be on 7.4.2 or higher to take advantage of changes - so get ready. Stay tuned!)

 

6.3.1 - Lobby Management: Update (Early Q3)

{This is a fix for our Lobby Management users to repair an important flaw in Reports. This is not modernization, or other added features. We hope to return to Lobby in 2022. It will require your framework to be on 6.3.1 or higher to take advantage of the report fix. Stay tuned!)

 

7.5.0 - Policies and Procedures (Late Q3)

{This will be the full P&P add-on release with Acknowledgements - our first completely new innovation in a LONG TIME. Chock full of new features, new tools, and great reporting... we can't wait to show you what we've done!)

 

 

 

As always, if you are on a full version or more (v5, v6, etc) below current, or if you have custom projects installed, please contact your Customer Success Manager before attempting a self-update!

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