Product Update: December 2024

Summary

While jam-packed with national holidays in Finland and abroad, December was a great time to focus on improving the old and building the new. In a nutshell, here’s what we did:

• API improvements: Day-level allocation data for people, customers, and projects.
• Notification preferences: Role-based notification controls.
• Preference indication improvements: Expanded visibility for staffing decisions.
• A ton of UI/UX improvements: Kanban fixes, date pickers, and accessibility updates.

Let’s jump into the details.

API improvements

Similar to time reporting, getting day-level allocation data for people, customers, and projects through our API is now possible. This should provide great flexibility (and power) when using external BI tools to further sift through your data.

This improvement is part of our ongoing work to extend and improve our API to allow our customers to benefit fully from their data on Agileday.

Notification preferences

From now on, you have complete control over how and what notifications you’d like to receive. The notifications are role-based. For example, if you’re a pre-sales owner on an opening, and the opening’s information changes, you can choose if you’d like to receive a notification. Or if you’re an employee and you’re added as a candidate to an opening, you can get notified, and so on.

Preference indication

When an employee is added as a candidate to an opening, they have long been able to indicate their preference for the match (thumbs up or down). With this update, we show the indication in more places to help the staffing manager make better decisions.

Improvements and additions

No month goes by without the usual dose of usability improvements. Here's the (non-exhaustive) list in that realm:

• We fixed a minor overflow issue with the candidate kanban. While we were at it, we also restyled the whole thing and unified it with other kanbans. It should look a lot better now!
• The opening card avatars looked a bit off when there were more than three candidates. That’s fixed now. We also restyled the card to look prettier.
• Our date pickers now have week numbers.
• You can now configure Slack notifications for pulses and surveys.
• Our tabs enjoyed a new design.
• We keep on improving the accessibility of our service, and this month was no exception as we improved color contrasts, inputs, and plenty more.
• Pulse and survey features got plenty of fixes and adjustments.
• We ironed out some instances where stale data might appear. There are still a couple of places we know we need to fix, but the month ran out of days. Next month, it is.

That's it! As usual, we have plenty of new features and improvements in the pipeline waiting for the upcoming updates. In the meantime, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact us.