Roadmap.

Involv core

New

• Quick Print* – Now you can quickly print any news article with a single command.

*Needs to be activated on your environment – Please contact our support team at [email protected]

Improved

• [News] We’ve improved the sliding direction of the news carousel

• [Recent hires] We’ve added a new design template

• [Who is who]

• • When clicking on the Teams chat icon, it now opens the link in a new tab (or in your Teams Desktop)
  • The template “modern” now supports the manager field
• [Design]

• • We’ve added 5 standard themes, allowing you to quickly change the styling of the entire intranet in seconds.
  • We’ve optimized the styling of the top bar
  • We’ve added the ability to have a favicon installed
• [Events] Added the link to the event page in the ICS generated by “add to Calendar” link
• [Org chart] When a profile image isn’t available, it now shows that person’s initials.
• [My apps] We’ve added a new backend UI to manage your Apps
• [Search] With our Import / Export settings option in the property pane you can now quickly recreate components in seconds
• [My projects] We’ve added a scrollbar and limited height
• [Analytics] We’ve optimized the way scripts are injected for GA4 and GTM (Google Tag Manager)

• [Navigation – Mega menu] – We’ve added the possibility to open the mega menu on click or by hover

• [Incidents] We’ve enhanced the scheduling function in incidents

Fixed

• [Navigation Mega menu]  Solved an issue where the menu on mobile responsive mode didn’t load for >100 items
• [News] Solved the issue in the template “simple” where in some cases the date languages randomly changed
• [Search]
  • Solved a paging issue with news archive
  • Solved broken links for sites in the template “Default”
• [Events] Solved the issue where the panel crashes when adding an event registration with limited signups
• [Birthday]
  • Solved the issue where the profile image has a loading lag
  • Solved the issue where the months weren’t translated to the user’s prefrerred language
  • Corrected the directing links in the template “modern”

• User Templates – Made some optimisation in the rendering of all user templates

Involv enterprise

👈 Everything from Core +

New

• Work anniversary – You can now share your employees’ work anniversaries on the intranet.

• Reporting comments – In addition to liking and replying a comment, employees now have the option to report a comment.

• Employees now can choose to show/hide certain webparts on their homepage for a more personalized experience.

• Welcome tour – Designed to help onboard your intranet users, the welcome tour guides them through the key intranet components.

• Synonyms functionality for search helps employees to find the information even if the words they use in their query aren’t exactly the words used in your content.

• Call-to-action Banner – You can now quickly create a banner with a call-to-action. Choose between 3 different templates.

• New integration – Involv now offers an integration with Bynder – a digital asset management platform.

• Custom navigation – You can now have multiple navigation modes on your intranet page like a breadcrumb or a collapsible left navigation menu

• Handlebar template – When using our custom template builder we have now added support to use Search Filter Categories

Improved

• [Multilingual]
  • Added the possibility to use subregions like Flemish or Catalonia
  • Added Translations + styling for Favorite Sites
  • Added the possibility to autotranslate a page to all languages with just one click

• [Notification center]
  • Added support to send out push notifications through AD groups
  • Added the ability to send out a push notification without being linked to an article
  • Added support for target audience groups  > 100 users

• Infoland/Zenya integration
  • • Added new functions
    • Rebuild to new Zenya API
• [Involv page properties] Added support for default site pages (can now be used everywhere in sharepoint)
• [Involv Tiles] Added a back button
• [User profile] Optimized the My Team with the Involv organizational chart

Fixed

• [Accessibility] – Some texts were hard to read in Dark Mode. This has been fixed.
• [Notification Center] – Solved an issue in the “ignore user preferences” option in the notification center.
• [Delve Profile] – Solved an issue where it’s unable to save a profile image
• [Multilingual]
  • Solved the issue where the language toggle didn’t show a popup for new intranet users without a preferrred language set
  • Solved an issue where the top level navigation links didn’t translate correctly

Involv core

New

• Involv Cast Free – the digital signage solution for Microsoft 365

Improved

• [News] Search Templates – Don’t stretch last item
• [News] News template (with images) – made the area for clickthroug bigger
• [Search component] Search Templates – Add date range refiner has been added for date properties
• [My Apps] My Apps – Prevent users to be able to change the tekst of a suggested link
• [Incidents] Incidents & My Apps – Changed the color for the cancel icon
• [Property Tagger] Content creation panel – Added a user friendly message when a user wants to create a page where the name already exists
• [Recent Hires] Recent hires and Birthday templates – Date must be set as site regional settings
• [Recent Hires] Recent Hires – tweaked the templates
• [Search] Global search – Added the option to only show people that are also in the who is who and the mobile app
• [User templates] Add the initials of the user if there is no profile image
• [User templates] Put department and jobtitle in different spans to optimize customization
• [Who is who] Optimisation of the initials in the user templates
• [Other] Navigation – Added the possibility of having a secondary navigation

Fixed

• [Multilingual] Some Translation improvements for our French customers
• [News] News template Images on the left – crashes
• [Navigation] Navigation – Search box overlaying top right profile user info
• [Org Chart] Org Chart – in some cases the user images are not showing up
• [Page actions] Made it possible to use the copy page function to work for outdated involv or non-involv sites
• [Property Tagger] Content creation panel – Fixed an issue when creating content with target audience
• [Search component] News template 5 – Added a fix for images of certain resolutions showing moderate quality
• [Search component] Search templates – some templates were not using the ‘open in new tab’ configuration
• [Recent Hires] Template “recent hires involv profile” – fixed wrong link to involv profile page
• [Other] Adjustments to let Involv work on rootsite installations
• [Other] Target Audiences will now work with more than 100 groups
• [Other] Content creation panel – Issue with the preview of templates that don’t appear completely
• [Other] Content creation panel – Fixed the issue that an error message appeared when you select “Templates” as content category

Involv enterprise

👈 Everything from Core +

New

• Article pages – Added the posibility to get user feedback through a feedback button
• New component – Involv Page Properties
• New Component – Involv My Teams
• New component – Involv Glossary

Improved

• [Calendar] My Calendar & My Email – Added 12 hours & AM/PM support
• [Graph] My plans – Added default sorting on name
• [Ideation] Added the possibility to let images load based on the “Use DelveImages” config key
• [Multilingual] Added automatic translation through Azure Cognitive Services in any language
• [Multilingual] Added the posibility to also translate refiner titles
• [My Page] Involv user profile – Added a user profile image size limitation of 5Mb
• [My Page] My Emails, My Calendar – Added the option to open items in a new tab
• [Involv Profile] Involv Profile – Added titles and ability to choose your own icons
• [Search] Search templates – Added the option to make ‘content categories’ tags clickable. A click will bring you to a filtered overview of the chosen content category.
• [Other] My Tasks & My Plans component – Added integration with MS ToDo and made it possible to create and complete tasks from within your intranet
• [Other] Involv Planner, Involv Tasks, Involv Calendar, Involv Mails – Optimized the components for future use

Fixed

• [Ideation] Fixed an issue where ideas could not be created from the homepage
• [Multilingual] Fixed an issue with linking articles in another language
• [Multilingual] Language choice popup will now always show the language name instead of country name
• [Multilingual] Fixed an issue when language is not found
• [Multilingual] Fixed an issue with corrupt data in the mapping tables
• [Recent Hires] Fixed an issue where the initials were not available to show
• [User Templates] Fixed an issue where the user presences did not showe in a specific scenario for one customer
• [Who is who] Fixed an issue where in some cases the MS Teams user presence was not showing correct

Involv core

New

• See the user’s presence status from MS Teams
  You can now show the Microsoft Teams presence status in these components: Who is who, Birthdays, Recent hires, Org Chart, User profiles.

• [Design]
  We’ve added a new template for the search result page for documents.

Improved

• [News] We’ve improved the thumbnail image usage in the slider.
• [Admin configuration panel] We’ve optimized its UI, using toggle buttons instead of yes/no.
• [Events] We’ve improved the events timeline template and added a “add to calendar” option.
• [Incidents] We’ve changed the styling of the icon to look more polished.
• [My apps] We’ve updated the icons set to the latest version.
• [Search] We’ve made it possible to sort on multiple fields.
• [Content creation] The content-type field is now hidden.
• [General] We’ve added the “About” section to every webpart with “Version Number” included.

Fixed

• Resolved an issue where images in the Birthdays modern template didn’t change when sliding through the birthdays.
• Resolved an issue that stopped the use of Content admin per site collection.
• [My Apps] We’ve made it possible to have more than 100 items.
• [Org chart] Resolved an issue where images didn’t always show.
• Resolved an issue where the “Edit page” button bar was visible in the view mode.
• We’ve improved the way of caching for multiple functions in Involv.
• Resolved an issue where Page actions – Copy page didn’t work in some scenario’s.

• [Recent hires]

– Resolved an issue where the profile images didn’t load since update 3.2.
– Resolved an issue where the job title was displayed twice.
– We’ve added support for datetime, region and language.

• [Search]
  – We’ve added support for refiners with brackets and/or slash.
  – We’ve made it possible to have more than 100 refiner values.

Involv enterprise

👈 Everything from Core +

New

• Accessibility
  – Font size selector
  We’ve added a font size selector on the top right corner of your Involv, allowing users to adjust the font size for best readability.
  – Dark mode
  Users can use the dark theme in Involv by simply turning on the dark mode at the top right corner of your Involv.

Improved

• [Notification center]
  – We’ve added a scheduling function to send out notifications at a specific time.
  – We’ve improved the template of the notification email.
  – We’ve added support for nested AD groups.

• [Analytics]
  – We’ve added an export function, letting you export data that is shown in a table to an Excel file.
  – We’ve changed the metric title “Total views” to “total homepage views” for better understanding.

• [Multilingual]
  – We’ve improved the translation for Admin config and content admin.
  – We’ve improved the translation for My Apps.
  – We’ve changed the styling of the language page selector.

• [My tasks] We’ve set the default amount of tasks to 10.
• [My Emails] We’ve improved the text handling so that the words won’t be interrupted.
• [Mega menu] We’ve provided the styling for 2-level drop-downs.
• [Infoland search integration] We’ve renamed “iProva” to “Zenya”.

Fixed

• [Multilingual]
  – Language Toggle component: We’ve added the possibility to show a pop-up that asks users to choose their preferred language.
  – Search components: We’ve added missing translations.
  – We’ve improved the way of copying/creating/linking pages in other languages.
  – Resolved the issue where the language selector on a page didn’t reload when going to a non multilingual article.
  – Resolved an issue that caused a page crash when clicking the multilingual panel on the homepage.

• [Notification center] We’ve updated the search filter for news/events/jobs/faqs.
• [Sandwich shop] We’ve added support for multiple currencies.

Involv core

New

• • • [User profile] You can now quickly go to “edit your profile” by clicking on the profile icon in the Involv toggle menu.
    • [Involv toggle menu] You have an option to place the Involv toggle on the right of the screen.

Improved

• • • [Design] We’ve added some margin between image and title in News Template.
    • [Event templates] You can now show the event hours and end dates on event calendars.
    • [Content creation] When creating a page based on a template, the title field will be used as page title. Previously this was the template title
    • [Incidents and Apps] You can now use audience targeting in Incidents and Apps
    • [User profile image] We’ve improved the user profile pictures when user images are not available in Who is who, Birthdays, New Hires
    • We’ve created a CSS file that connects to all Involv customers through CDN. That way we are able to solve general design issues due to Microsoft updates much faster
    • [Incidents] We’ve added the ability to show the incident component on every site (with the same or new app data)
    • [Incidents] We’ve added the ability to show a ‘onetime’ popup on the homepage
    • [Google Analytics] We’ve added support for the GA4 code tracking
    • [Design] We’ve added a new Organisational Chart
    • [Navigation] The navigation menu items will stay with hover color after being clicked.
    • [Navigation] Improved performance
    • [General] When you have users in different timezones the datetime handling has been improved.

Fixed

• • • [Involv content creation panel] We’ve improved handling of un-allowed characters in title
    • Resolved an issue where the Birthdays template always shows months in English
    • Resolved an issue in the layout of ‘News Template 5’
    • Resolved an issue with the News carousel template date formatting
    • [Event templates] We’ve improved datetime handling
    • Resolved an issue where the News carousel template always opens in new tab
    • Resolved an issue where the button “Check it out” in the News carousel always showed in English
    • Resolved an issue with the “show more” property
    • [Design] Resolved an issue that caused different sizes of the colour block on which the event date shows

Involv enterprise

👈 Everything from Core +

New

• • • [Mandatory read] Let your employees know what important content they are required to read.
    • [Event registration] Make event registration management easier and improve attendee experience by adding a Registration Limit, Waitlist function and “Not interested” button.

Improved

• • • [Design] You can now add a css class to create a unique styling per component in News, Faqs, Jobs, Events.
    • [Design] We’ve improved the design of the Analytics center
    • [Who is who] We’ve added the ability to randomize the results, so that the same people won’t always appear on the first page.

Fixed

• • • Resolved an issue where Page Actions – Copy Function didn’t show all the available team sites
    • [Multilingual] We’ve improved the way of linking multiple pages
    • Resolved an issue where Multilingual flag in the Involv toggle menu didn’t show on all the intranet sites
    • [Analytics center] Resolved an issue where the number of comments are the same as likes in Top creators
    • [Analytics center] We’ve improved the ordening of data in Mobile

Involv core

Optimizations

• • • Change all component logo’s to involv logo – when adding a component to a page
    • Recent hires: add hire date & only show recent results (last 3 months)

Bugfixes

• • • Page got stuck when creating an event marked with ‘event registration’
    • Spacing issue in the News Template “(with images) compact”
    • Date formatting bug caused by MS

Mobile app

• • • New designs
    • Some images were not showing
    • Incidents – make hyperlinks in text clickable
    • Change the title “EMAILS” to “Email”
    • Email – Change the text in the reply section

Involv core

New functionalities

• • • Ability to change the appearance of the “show more” buttons
    • Add newsletter/digest to content admin
    • A new who is who template
    • Even more page templates for news and events
    • Analytics module

Optimizations

• • • Renewed content after installation
    • Search components: every template can show the plus button
    • Orgchart: Open user profile in new tab

Bugfixes

• • • Google Analytics tracking
    • Personalization category didn’t show in some cases
    • We added the plus Button to the News Modern template
    • Who is who Involv People cards template minor issues
    • Recent Hires
      • Fix profile pic when source is user profile
      • Template “Recent Hires Involv Profile” component didn’t show in specific case
  • • Involv spacing: interference with default colored sections
    • Search templates: We optimized the word break launched in update 2.7 
    • Search component: template “Documents (simple)” opens library instead of document (since update 2.7)
    • Event Timeline template doesn’t have + icon

Involv enterprise

👈 Everything from Core +

New functionalities

• • • Involv Profile
      • Added a Birthday field
      • Added a team org chart section
  • • Enhanced Analytics Module
    • Ideation
    • Advanced Target Audience: ability to set target audience on components

Optimizations and Bugfixes

• • • Multilingual
      • Multilingual flag had a design flaw in some cases
      • Set a new page as “promoted news” when using the “Create a new page based on another” function
      • The language switch in a page did not refresh when opening a new page
      • Multilingual flag was in some cases visible for read only users
  • • Involv profile
      • Adding “manager” field as persona to section “personal info” made web part invisible
      • Caching issue when changing profile picture
      • Minor issue with multistring
      • Multi Value types (projects, skills, …) showed empty circles when no data was available
  • • My Tasks caching issue

New features (available as add-ons)

• • • Involv Analytics shows you important KPI’s such as page visits, top authors, top contributors, top creators and top performing content.
    • Involv Ideation enables you to collect, discuss, and manage ideas across the organization directly from your Involv intranet.

Optimizations

• • • All document templates do now open the document in the browser when you click it
    • Global search bar can now search for people
    • Incidents now include the possibility to order items and can render HTML or links
    • The old My Apps component will be deprecated – all functionalities and more have been made available in the new ‘modern’ my apps component
    • A lot of small optimizations

Updates

• • • Two new “upcoming birthdays” templates
    • A new “Events” timeline template
    • A new “who is who” template
    • A new “profile page” template
    • A new “FAQ” template
    • A new “news” templates
    • Revamp of the toggle button menu
    • Revamp of the content admin panel with links to how-to video’s and our new customer portal
    • You can now add or change icons in the My Apps component

New features

• • • Use Page actions as shortcuts to manage your pages. There are 3 available page actions.
      • Delete this page when you no longer need the page
      • Copy this page to another site when you want to replicate a page (because of its nice design or content for example) to another site, rather than manually starting over.
      • Make this page a news when you want a regular page appears as a news page
  • • Create a dynamic org chart in your intranet with the Involv Org Chart add-on
    • Build your custom component templates by adding your own code

Optimizations

• • • Improved loading time components
    • Improved navigation experience including mega menu
    • Improved Multilingual
    • A lot of small optimizations

Updates

• • • News can now be marked as “Important” for faster searching and filtering
    • Content creation form supports to hide fields that you have no need to use
    • A new Who is who template with round profile images
    • Sorting on My Apps are now alphabetical
    • A new carousel template for News items
    • A new template for News items (Asymmetrical layout)

New features

• • • Add target audience functionality to your news, events, faq, …
    • Switch your homepage easily to a different layout with our homepage design functionality
    • Create your own page template and use them to create news, events, faq, …
    • Have a better overview of all user profiles with a new people profile + edit my profile
    • Add a ticketing module to your intranet with the “Ticketing” add-on
    • Keep informed on changes to your documents with My Recent Insights
    • Schedule the date and time to publish news, events, Incidents
    • Get an instant overview of your scheduled content with the Publishing calendar

Optimizations

• • • Improved loading time of the news, events, Faq, Jobs components
    • See sharper images in the news component
    • A lot of small optimizations

Updates

• • • The propertypane of the involv components will now use tabs to give a better overview
    • Redesigned content admin panel
    • Ability to open items in a new tab
    • My apps can now show icons as suggested
    • Who is who design templates with direct mail/call/chat functionality

This update contains general bugfixing and extra features.

New features

• • • Navigation: availability of a megamenu
    • Calendar webpart to show events or listitems on a calendar view
    • Event registration webpart to register/unregister for events
    • My Emails webpart to show your mails from Outlook
    • Availabilty of the site/department template creator: Now it’s possible to create your own (department) site based on a template or creating your own organizational template with a no code solution.

Optimizations and fixes

• • • Admin configuration:
      • Divided the administration panel in 3 tabs: General, Theming, Page Designs
      • New functionality “Page Designs”: You now have the possibility to switch between 3 different home pages. They can have different components and different setup
    • Event webpart: added the possibility to register to an event
    • Multilingual Add-on:
      • Bugfixes
      • Spanish and German are now available as an out of the box language next to English, French, Dutch and Polish
      • Added multilingual page administration

This update contains general bugfixing and extra features.

New features

• • • My Calendar webpart to show your upcoming meetings directly out of your outlook calendar
    • My Plans webpart to show the MS Planner plans where you are a member of
    • My Tasks webpart showing all your tasks from the MS Planner plans where you are a member of
    • Integrations: Due to our partnership with Infoland, a supplier of Quality management software, we announce the availability of the integration package with Infoland DMS*
    • Availability of templates: *
      • Customer portal where Involv can serve as a communication portal with your customer
      • Knowledge base where Involv uses the power of SharePoint DMS and metadata to store your different types of documents

Optimizations and bug fixes

• • • Search: added the possibility to disable live search
    • Event webpart: Changed the standard query
    • Who is who: added the option to only show results after searching. Standard: showing all people
    • Birthday webpart
      • Set the birthday sorting to ascending
      • Added the name underneath the picture instead of only when hovering over the image
    • Multilingual Add-on: Polish and Spanish are now available as out of the box languages next to English, French and Dutch
    • General
      • Fixed the issue that the general navigation in the header was in some cases not visible when you were in the sharepoint back end pages. This issue occured after a Microsoft update.
      • Fixed a specific issue in FireFox where wide logo’s were not entirely visible
      • We removed the pencil icon for viewing properties of articles when in edit mode. You can now click on the new standard “page details” button of a page to view, edit or remove properties.
      • Added the possibility to change the order of refiners
      • We made changes to the standard template of a department site. This is only visible with new department sites.
      • Fixed the issue where in some case changing the profile time zone would show wrong dates in your search results. For example News articles would show the previous day as the entered Article Date in the news overview
      • Removed showing GUID (Example 3f74a1-b30b-484e-b36a-90e3f7bdb6cb) in newly created articles where the intro text is not long enough.
      • Fixed the issue with personalization where hiding a category containing spaces in the title would fail

These three webparts are part of our mission to use involv as your ‘start of the workday’ platform giving you all the tools to be productive. They will be used in the “my” page but can also act a social intranet homepage as you can add the separately to every page.

This update contains small optimizations, general bugfixing and the availability of a full multilingual experience as an add-on.

New features:

• • • Full multilingual experience
    • Powerapp/flow “Expenses”
    • Powerapp/flow “Time off requests”
    • Lunch order app

Optimizations and bug fixing:

• • • News component: Changed standard sorting from created date to article date
    • Apps: Styling – bugfix IE
    • General search webpart: Speed optimization
    • New hires: Bugfix userimage
    • Search:
      • Added grouped information in live search
      • Added possibility to find “my teams” in live search
    • Events: Bugfix default sorting upcoming events
    • Who is who: bugfix styling
    • Incidents: added “hiding” option for admin
    • New webparts:
      • Basic modern script editor
      • Tiles webpart