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You'll find new feature or improvement announcements here 📈 = Improved; 🐛 = Bug fixed; 🆕 = New

14.05.24 - Full Excel Import for Comprehensive Employee Management 🆕

We have expanded the capabilities of our Excel import feature to include options for both updating existing employees and removing inactive ones. This new functionality addresses the critical need for maintaining up-to-date and accurate employee records within our system. Admins can now choose between a partial import, which updates and adds employees without deletion, and a full import, which removes employees not listed in the uploaded file. 🔗 Help Center

08.05.24 - Enhanced Employee Attribute Management 📈

This update introduces a more streamlined and efficient way to manage employee attributes, ensuring a user-friendly and error-free experience. Attributes can now only be added or edited within the dedicated "Attribute Management" tab, with new safeguards against duplicate entries and more intuitive navigation options like sorting, search, and pagination. This alignment with survey property management practices improves consistency and ease of use across our platform. 🔗 Help Center

23.04.24 - Update on Dashboard Chart Loading 🐛

We have improved the loading behavior of charts on your dashboards. Previously, some users experienced issues where charts did not load correctly on the first attempt. This has now been addressed, and you should see all charts loading smoothly when you access your dashboard.

09.04.24 - Consistent Logo Placement in PDF Reports 📈

We've standardized the logo placement in PDF reports across all accounts to ensure a uniform appearance. Regardless of the dashboard title length, the logo will now always be centered at the top of each report, maintaining a professional and consistent layout.

04.04.24 - Improved Tooltip Display for Chart Selection 📈

We have updated the tooltip functionality when adding new charts to a dashboard to ensure clarity and ease of use. Now, tooltips that explain why certain chart types cannot be selected for specific question types will appear directly when you hover over the respective chart type.

02.04.24 - Dashboard Data Refresh Information 🆕

To enhance your experience and ensure optimal performance, we've implemented a caching system for dashboard data, refreshing it every 10 minutes. To keep you fully informed, we've added an info icon next to the dashboard controls, which explains the refresh timing when you hover over it.

27.03.24 Update on Survey Question Deletion 🐛

We've made improvements to ensure that deleting a question from your survey no longer causes the question edit form to disappear.

Enhanced Survey Deactivation Process 🐛

We have updated our system to ensure that deactivating a survey no longer impacts the associated thank you or goodbye messages. Previously, deactivating a survey from the survey page inadvertently deleted these messages, which did not occur when deactivating within the survey itself. This inconsistency has been corrected across all platforms, and you can now deactivate surveys without affecting any custom messages.

26.03.24 - Survey Deactivation Modal Update 🐛

We have resolved an issue where the modal window did not automatically close after successfully deactivating a survey when the language was set to English. Now, once a survey is deactivated, the modal will close as expected, streamlining the process and enhancing your user experience.

25.03.24 - Improved Chart Loading Performance 📈

We've optimized the loading process for charts on our dashboards to enhance your experience. Initially, simultaneous chart requests resulted in cache misses, causing slower load times.

14.03.24 - Improved Labeling in Heatmap PPT Exports 📈

We have enhanced the labeling functionality in our heatmap PPT exports to ensure a more consistent and readable presentation. Now, x-axis labels are correctly rotated to avoid inconsistencies across similar scenarios, and we've eliminated issues of label overflow, guaranteeing that all information is fully visible without any cutoffs. Additionally, we've fixed a problem where y-axis labels were previously truncated; now, all labels are displayed in full. These updates collectively improve the clarity and usability of your charts, enhancing the overall quality of your presentations.

08.03.24 - Enhanced Search Functionality for Dashboard and Employee Permissions 📈

We have improved the search capabilities within our dashboard and employee permissions modules to address issues where users could not find specific employees by typing their full names or email addresses. Previously, searches were limited to the first few suggestions, and users experienced difficulty when entering complete names, which did not yield the expected results. To resolve this, we have now included email in our search queries and enhanced the filter to recognize and handle multiple words—such as both first and last names—individually.

06.03.24 Navigation Update: Employee Management Moved to Settings Menu 📈

To streamline your experience and maintain a focus on our core survey solutions, we've relocated the "Employees" section from the main top header to a more suitable area within the settings menu. This change aligns employee management with other administrative functions like account settings, imports, exports, and integrations, ensuring that these tasks do not interfere with your daily operations.

Enhanced Chart Management in Dashboards 📈

We've improved the functionality of moving charts within the dashboard to enhance user experience and efficiency. Previously, when creating a new chart, it was automatically placed at the bottom of the dashboard, and moving it to a desired position, especially towards the top, was cumbersome and often caused the chart to get 'stuck' during drag-and-drop actions outside the current viewport. That works now much smoother.

05.03.24 - Enhanced Attribute Management: Age Group and Seniority 🆕

We've upgraded our attribute management system to include new attribute options such as Age Category and Seniority. This update ensures attributes like birthdate and employees' start date are automatically transformed into these new categories during imports, providing more insights and options for results' analysis.

The recent updates to our system include several key changes aimed at enhancing data handling flexibility and accuracy. Firstly, attribute matching has been improved to be case-insensitive, which allows for more flexibility in how data is uploaded. For optimal use, data should now be inputted exclusively in the year format (yyyy), as other date formats like dd/mm/yy or mm/yy will no longer be accepted. Additionally, there is now more flexibility in renaming attributes: changes to capitalization won't affect data linkage. However, more significant name alterations could result in the creation of new attributes, which may lead to duplicate data columns unless these are managed with care.

To effectively utilize the new attributes, integrations with platforms such as Personio will require reauthorization and must be set up from scratch.

08.12.2023 - Customizable Survey Banners 🆕

We've launched a new feature allowing you to add customizable banners to your survey invitations. Now, you can personalize each survey with attractive banners that reflect your brand and theme, enhancing the visual appeal and engaging your participants more effectively. This update simplifies the process of making each survey feel unique and tailored, potentially increasing response rates and improving participant experience.

31.10.2024 - Dynamic Text Anonymity Settings for Surveys 🆕

We've introduced dynamic anonymity settings for text responses in surveys, providing more flexibility than ever before. This new feature allows you to apply different anonymity levels specifically for text responses compared to other types of responses.

01.10.2024 - Survey Properties: Expanded Survey Annotation Capabilities 🆕

Enhance your survey management process with our new feature that allows you to add detailed annotations to each survey. This functionality is ideal for accounts with numerous surveys, facilitating better organization and retrieval of specific survey information. By enabling more robust metadata handling, this update simplifies the task of tracking and categorizing surveys, making it easier to manage and analyze large volumes of data efficiently.

18.07.23 - New HCM integrations

We have released many new native HCM integrations. On top of the HCMs we already support you can now directly import data from rexx systems, Oracle HCM, Hailey HR, Sesame HR, Azure AD, Eurécia, Sage HR, PayFit, BambooHR, Rippling, Charlin, Lucca, HiBob, HeavenHR, Nmbrs, AFAS Software, Officient, People HR or Humaans.

13.07.23 - Our browser policy

We wanted to inform you about an important update regarding our supported browsers policy. In order to provide you with the best experience possible, we recommend to use the most recent versions of the following browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari.

All of these browsers will automatically update to their latest version. Therefore, we will only support the last 10 released versions of each of these browsers.

We hope this update ensures a seamless experience while using our product. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this change, please do not hesitate to reach out to our customer success team.

29.06.23 - Enhanced AI Capabilities for Employee Comment Analysis 🆕

We have upgraded our platform with advanced artificial intelligence features that can efficiently cluster and analyze large volumes of employee comments. This new functionality enables deeper insights and trends to emerge from your feedback data, helping you understand employee sentiment more comprehensively and make informed decisions based on nuanced employee feedback.

05.04.23 - New HCM integration: HRworks

We have released a new native integration with HRworks. This allows data from this HCM to be imported directly, via API, to Honestly and kept up to date.

04.04.23 - Periods on dashboards with multiple surveys.

From now on, survey periods can also be used on dashboards that display results from multiple surveys.

13.03.23 - Improved employee import

We have improved our import in a few places. The new import is many times faster and works more reliably. In the manual Excel import, you now have the option to import user roles and the hierarchy of employees. In addition, you will now receive a meaningful email with any errors that may have occurred during the Excel import.

08.03.2023 - Survey based anonymity settings

From now on you have the possibility to configure your anonymity settings not only for the whole Honestly account, but per survey. No matter if you want to survey different countries with exactly adjusted anonymity settings (still comparable among each other!) or just want to conduct exit surveys where every single feedback counts: We have the solution for you.

Your administrator can set up all anonymity thresholds available in the account settings. From now on, these thresholds will be available to all users who have at least the Manager role when creating surveys. Once created, the anonymity settings of a survey cannot be adjusted.

17.02.23 - Change template

With our "use existing survey" feature, you already have the ability to use surveys as templates for other surveys. If something changes in the template and you want to apply these changes to an existing survey or you want to change the template of a survey completely, you can use our new function "Change template". You can find this function on the survey overview.

14.02.2023 - Topics

With "Topics" you get the possibility to classify comments of your employees into different topics. Each feedback can be assigned to one or more topics.

"Topics" makes it particularly easy for you to sort large quantities of free feedback and to process it analytically. This gives you the opportunity to share targeted comments with the right stakeholders in the company and derive effective initiatives.

19.12.2022 - External Benchmark Data

As an addition to the internal benchmarking, which you can already use flexibly in the Honestly system, we now also offer external benchmark data for our new Honestly Engagement concept.

Compare your key figures with other companies from the financial sector, industry, the service sector or others and gain valuable insights for your company.

In future, just contact us and we’ll be happy to send you the benchmark data best-suited to your company.

19.12.2022 - Honestly Engagement Solution™

Would you like to have a validated insight into your business? Simply use our newly developed and scientifically validated Honestly Engagement Solution™ - a fully comprehensive concept for direct implementation.

With the help of our large Honestly Engagement Survey and the Honestly Pulse Survey, you are now optimally equipped to collect valid data on the satisfaction of your employees and to continuously develop your corporate culture!

Our new concept is based on the JDR model (Job-Demands-Resources-Model) and describes the connection between characteristics of the work task, the situation at the workplace and the well-being of the employees.

Find out more here.

04.10.2022 - Question numbering in survey editor

Have you ever been in the middle of creating a survey, only to realize that you are not sure if you have created all questions or make sure they were in order? If so, you'll be happy to know that we now offer automated question numbering in the survey editor and show the count of questions.

Automated question numbering streamlines the survey creation process, making it easy to keep track of your questions and ensure they are in the correct order. I

Using automated question numbering in your surveys will help you create surveys quickly and accurately, so you can get the responses you need without worrying about the details of numbering and organization.

24.08.2022 - Email notification when survey ends and its data is available

You may wish to inform all those with access to the survey that it has ended and the data is now available. This can be done by the system automatically, all you have to do is activate the feature!

You can read all about it here.

18.08.2022 - Removal of survey creators

Our survey creator permissions have been updated: If a user who wouldn’t usually have access to a particular survey (according to our permission system) creates one, they will be added in the Permission section of the survey editor and can later be removed.

25.07.2022 - Limit access to results until the survey has closed

People's opinions can be influenced by the general trend of results already collected, so to avoid this happening, admins can now prevent report viewers (who haven't been granted access to all surveys and results) from seeing the data ahead of time.

More details can be found here.

16.05.2022 - Trend Chart

A dashboard can quickly become crowded if you want to run a lot of different charts and evaluations on different employee attributes. In order to quickly get an overview of all results of a survey and the associated distributions of the results, it is now possible to create a trend dashboard chart. In addition to the overview of all result distributions, it is possible to compare results across three survey periods.

The chart can be created using the Bar chart and Split by question and period option.

You can find more information about the new chart here.

16.05.2022 - Height adjustment of charts

In the case of very long charts, a scroll bar was previously displayed so that all charts had a fixed height. This can now be freely determined by the user, so that charts can also be displayed in their full height immediately.

09.05.2022 - End of support for Internet Explorer 11

Last year, Microsoft stopped supporting the Internet Explorer 11 browser for its MS Teams and Office 365 applications. We ourselves have seen a decrease in views using the Internet Explorer 11 browser since then. Furthermore, the support of Internet Explorer 11 makes testing and adding new features to the application much more complex. In order to be able to provide you with new features and improvements as quickly as possible in the future, we are ending support for Internet Explorer 11 as of today.

16.03.2022 - Survey activity log

When more than one admin or manager works on setting up a survey coordinating the changes to the survey can be tricky.

To make it easier for employees working on the same surveys you can now see in the survey activity log which employee made which change.

03.03.2022 - Status information of integrations

When using integrations like our Personio integration, it was not clear when the import of the integration last ran and if there were any errors. We now show this information on the integration page. By clicking on 'Details' you can then also see the specific errors that happened while the integration sync ran.

That way, you are able to find out if everything runs smoothly and pinpoint any errors.

14.02.2022 - Suggest improvements and request features

You can now suggest to us improvement and request features directly through a link in the application. By sharing your thoughts on what is missing, how can we improve and why the feature is important to you, you help us improve our product overall and make the right decision while prioritizing.

Find more details about the process here

31.01.2022 - Improved dashboard selector

You may have noticed that getting to the right dashboard when you have created many of them can get complicated.

To make it easier, the dashboard selector has now changed. The old version has been replaced with a drop-down list that divides dashboards into your "favorites" and "Other dashboards". All dashboards are sorted alphabetically. It's now also easier to mark a dashboard as your favorite too. Just click on the star icon to make it one of your favorites.

With these improvements it's very easy to jump to the results that really interest you. With the updated favorite functionality you are able to keep the dashboards that you most often need at the top of the list.

The component also remembers the last visited dashboard and reopens it when you come back.

20.01.2022 - New dedicated Export page - along with the dashboards, it's replacing the Analysis page.

We have improved the raw data export that allows you to export all survey response data. Furthermore, we have improved the file name, creation speed and removed irrelevant columns.

The new Export page and the existing dashboards replace the Analysis page in functionality. This has now been disabled completely. You'll find the export functionality that was there on the new Export page now. Similar functionality that was available in the Analysis page is available through the dashboards.

Find more details in this guide

15.11.2021 - Surveys can now be duplicated or updated via a CSV file

With the survey import surveys can be newly created, updated and recipients can be added and removed automatically.

Find more details in this guide

18.10.2021 - User rights are now managed on Employee page

We got a lot of Feedback to have only one page to manage all employees. In the future you can manage all rights and roles under employees.