GideonSoft 18.3 (Jan 2019)

[Final Production version 3.183.1.5]

Goals and Goal Setting

• The Goal point system has been replaced with a more intuitive percentage progress system. This new system will help you clearly see how far you’ve come!
• The new Goal Library allows users to select and add Goals to their profile from a collection of Goals. Administrators can also add and maintain the goals in the library. 
• We’ve added two new status options for Goals (Pause and Drop) for more flexibility.
• We’ve made it quicker and easier to access your Goals and record progress, via the web and in the mobile app.
• Instructors and Administrators can now view the Goal Report, which lists out all the people in the Instance and how many goals they have. There are options to filter by role as well as to just show the people with goals. Details about public goals can quickly be viewed as well.

Integrations (3rd Party)

We’ve redesigned and simplified the process to set up an integration with 3rd party / external data sources. In just a few steps, data can start flowing in to GideonSoft!

Scheduler / Event Builder

• The Event Builder is designed to help leaders organize what their people spend their time doing, but even more critically, to link these activities to desired outcomes.  This tool connects your schedule to a performance model, coordinating a strategic ‘plan of attack’ to make your vision happen and aligning it with a system to help assess its effectiveness. 
• Enter your Events and Activities to build out your Calendar, and use What’s Being Measured to connect or overlay them to GideonSoft data tools like Surveys, Observations, Spreadsheets and Reports to see a bigger picture. Leaders can then start to answer “How do you know that what you are doing actually works?” and “Are we improving?”
• These Events and Activities can be integrated with Google Calendar!

Reports

• The new Person Selector has been added for Custom Person reports. This allows you to quickly switch from one person to another. You can filter the list by Role or by a text search. You can also add a Team filter to the Person Selector panel. When this option is selected, the report opens directly and the first person in the list of people is selected (instead of being prompted to pick a Person prior to opening the report).
• All HTML reports now include an option to export to PDF! Look for the icon towards the top of all HTML reports.
• More report customization options! GideonSoft now has the ability to display a person’s real name or Identifier.
• Formatting options have been added to the Data Grid. Format as time, string replacement, combine values from multiple columns.
• The Header widget now supports limited HTML formatting. Bold, italics, underline & more!

Module / Instance Builder

The Instance Builder (or Module Builder at the Module level) provides a view of the entire Instance in one place, allowing you to quickly see whether there are any gaps in the configuration and preparation of the system for use. Tiles representing each of the main sections are displayed with a total of items configured within each.

Feedback Library System

• We’ve added a Reset Notification option! The notification action for rules can now be set to apply feedback or reset notifications. This allows rules to be triggered and notifications to be sent again after a set amount of time has passed.
• We’ve added flexibility by enabling you to sort Rulesets. Gone are the days of deleting rulesets and starting over!
• Why do the work twice? You can now import a Ruleset from another Instance.

Miscellaneous Updates 

• For admins, Survey Analytics can now be printed or exported to PDF.
• You can now bulk delete variables at once in the variable manager, and help keep the data clean.
• We’ve extended Broadcast messaging capability to the mobile app! Look for the message icon on the instance home page in the web app and in the timeline in the mobile app.
• If you are an overlord or above you can access your profile settings and request an API token. We do not save the token so if you lose it you have to request a new one each time.
• In the Org settings for Organization Admins there is an option to manage API tokens. You can view who has requested a token as well as revoke a token.
• The Basic Calculations scripted score now supports the modulus operator (%). This is an operation that finds the remainder after division of one number by another.

What’s New in GideonSoft 18.3 (PDF)