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      edison365 Release Notes | October 2024

      Let's get innovating.

      What’s new? 

      Innovation in edison365

      We’re excited to welcome ideation and innovation features to edison365! Meet two powerful, interconnected capabilities: Challenges and Ideas.  

      With Challenges, you can define specific objectives or problems and invite your users to provide their creative solutions. Ideas allow users to submit their suggestions, whether they’re responding to a challenge or sharing new concepts. All ideas are easily accessible in one central location. Plus, our flexible forms and workflows let you decide what information is captured and when. The coolest part? You can seamlessly transform these ideas into business cases and projects, with all the important data carried over.   

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      Note: These capabilities are available under all licensing models, so you have immediate access to start innovating right away. Please contact support if you would like ideas and challenges enabled on your instance.

      Is that all? Not even close!  

      We’re just getting with our big plans for innovation within edison365. Here’s a sneak peek of what’s coming soon:  

      • Revamped Triage Analysis: Use this powerful feature across all capabilities.  
      • Undated Board View: A fresh and improved look.   
      • Industry-Leading Gamification Suite: Get ready to make innovation fun!  
      • edi, Our AI Companion: From creating ideas to sentiment analysis, edi will assist you in numerous ways.  

      General Updates 

      • Program cards are now configurable, just like Projects and Business Cases. 
      • URL fields now utilize the horizontal space provided, making them easier to read and use 
      • Persistent filters in the discover pages, so you don’t have to reapply them.  
      • The home page has been revamped to make it easier to find the records you want within the carousels.  We have replaced individual capability carousels with combined and filterable carousels. 
      • The left navigation panel has been tweaked to make it easier to use on smaller screens.  

      Record Page Updates  

      • Schedule Tables
        • New keyboard navigation. You can now add a new row from the last current row using just the Enter  key. 
        • Task dependency tooltip (shown on selection of dependency line) updated to display the names. 
        • Task information modal updated to display the Predecessor and Successor names. 
        • You can now choose the Schedule mode for new tasks from the settings menu.  The default is Fixed Duration. 

      Known issue with Schedule tables.  The first time you edit a cell, you have to double click.  Once the first double click has been done and the cell is in edit mode, other cells you enter will be in edit mode with a single click.

      • Read-Only indicator: A padlock icon now appears next to table names that are in Read-Only mode.  
            • Made some adjustments to improve the web accessibility keyboard navigation, in-line with our Accessibility Goals.
            • We have updated the appearance of various elements in the table setting menus. 
            • Programs now support Challenges. 

            Personal Page Updates 

            Thank you for your feedback on the Personal page experience. We’ve listened and are working hard to improve it for you.  In future releases, we plan to introduce advanced filtering, sorting, more consistent interactions, and the ability to hide items and tasks.  

            Resources Updates 

            • We have improved search to include all text-based columns, making it easier to find what you are looking for. 
            • We have introduced a new utilisation view within the Reports tile.

            Admin Updates  

            • You can now Create Versions in default workflows. 
            • Cards (Program) now support additional fields being added. 
            • Business Case Workflows: The option to Allow Project Creation has been moved to newly named section, Scope Options, for easier identification.  
            • Introduction of Challenges and Ideas has brought a lot of new changes: 
            • Forms:
              • Added a Challenge scope. 
              • Added an Idea scope.
            • Cards:
              • Added a Challenge scope. 
              • Added an Idea scope.
            • Workflow:
              • Added a Challenge workflow scope
                • By default, Allow Idea Submission stage option is enabled, allowing ideas to be submitted in this stage.  
              • Added an Idea workflow scope
                • Stage options ‘Allow Project Creation’ and ‘Allow Business Case Creation’ are disabled by default. If you enable them, you allow a project or business case to be created and associated with the record by the Process Manager and Owner.
            • Templates:
              • Added a Challenge scope.  These are some new Idea settings:  
                • Ideators - these are the people or groups that will be able to create ideas against a challenge using this template.
                • Idea Workflow - set the workflow that ideas of this challenge will follow.

            The Challenge template image will be the default image for all ideas submitted against the Challenge.  A new input will be added to set the default Idea image independently soon. 

              

            Wow, you made it to the end! Clearly, you’re one of us – someone who loves diving into the details. 🎉 Our design team loves soaking up all your brilliant ideas, big or small.  Seriously, there’s no such thing as a bad idea around here. Got something in mind? Drop it here, and let’s make some magic happen together!