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Release Notes 2025

Learn about new features added to Sideways 6

Updated over a week ago

Release Notes 27/01/2025

Core

New Features

  • New Engagement Dashboard: The campaign dashboard has been replaced with the new Engagement Dashboard, featuring key metrics like submissions, audience engagement percentages, funnel and pipeline insights, and time-based trends in a modernized user interface. It now provides everything you need to measure and improve campaign engagement in one place.

Teams App

Improvement

  • Images on idea details are now shown in Teams in an image viewer.

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where Idea cards were are rendered incorrectly (as a column)

  • Options in the sorting dropdown are now translated

  • Customized submission names are now translated


Release Notes 15/01/2025

Teams App

New Features

  • Anonymous Submission: A campaign-level setting that allows users to submit ideas anonymously, offering them the choice to share ideas without revealing their identity. This ensures full anonymity, meaning even administrators cannot see who submitted the idea. This feature is available as an add-on—please contact your Customer Success Manager for more details.

    • Hide Anonymous ideas on submission: A new setting linked to anonymous submissions, allowing campaign managers to automatically hide all anonymous ideas. This feature provides greater control over managing anonymous contributions, ensuring a more streamlined review process.

Improvement

  • “Most Votes” sorting option is now available in any campaign with at least one vote and is also available in global search.

  • AI Search now highlights matching keywords in the search results, making it easier to identify relevant information at a glance.

Fixes

  • Voter list now shows all users in global search

  • A rare case of voter list showing up empty on ideas has been fixed

Core

New Features

  • We’ve added two new charts to the campaign dashboard:

    1. Current Pipeline – Tracks the number of open and closed ideas in each stage throughout the entire campaign duration.

    2. Teams App Campaign Visits – Displays the total campaign visits and unique visitors over time, tracking login-based access to any page within the Teams App campaign as of Nov 19th, 2024.

Fixes

  • Custom fields with 1000 or more possible values can be now saved

Integrations

Fixes

  • An improvement on Viva Engage syncronization has been made to improve how ideas with and without tags are synced.

  • Fixed a case when some private messages were not sent via automations to Teams and Viva Engage

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