What’s New: A summary

Accessibility

Invotra has been rebuilt with web accessibility first approach. It is at the heart of our design, development process and we are constantly focussed on delivering and inclusive digital experience for all our customers. 

Both rigorous internal testing and intense external audits has meant we have been able to identify where we can improve and where we excel. 

Not an afterthought but a core design value embedded within our product design and delivery from start to finish.

 We have focussed in fundamental areas such as:

• Landmark regions
• ARIA labels
• Keyboard order and interactions
• Zoom
• Colour contrast

 

Performance

With the new intranet running on new faster more robust technology site performance has increased both in speed and responsiveness. This is due to the new infrastructure, tech stack and architecture. And also how we have redesigned the front end user interface to be optimised for speed and agility.

 

Managing data.

 Intranet data remains constantly updated (hourly during office hours: peak) and daily during out of ours: off peak). This allows for faster page load times and less performance strain on your intranet!

Implementing limits

Limitations for features and functionality  provide optimal site performance for all site users and can prevent significant performance issues,  incidents and errors.

Types of limitations

1. Enforcing concurrency limits (The amount of simultaneous user interactions across multiple tabs for content creating)
2. Limit to files
3. Limits on WYSIWYG
4. Limits on Page Builder
5. Limits on Layouts
6. Limits on templates
7. Bulk actions and bulk uploads
8. Custom importer files
9. User management
10. Revisions limit set to 20

 

Features and Functionality

 

Social Apps

• App administration options and role added
• Group posts create experience now includes updated WYSIWYG options

 

Directory Apps

• App administration options and role added

 

Menu items

• Menu item
• Landing page
• Workflow and Revisions
• Draft, Published, Unpublished

 

Content creation

• Updated RHS drawer
• Updated configuration panel
• Updated WYSIWYG editing experience
• Improved optimised phone experience
• Multimedia improvements
• Gallery improvements
• Gallery now selects images directly from the file library
•  Users are no longer  required to create multiple image lists in multimedia
• New views are available for Gallery (Slideshow and Grid view)
• List replaces Promotion
• List creation improvement

Manuals

• Improved manual creation user experience

 

WYSIWYG

• Built from the ground up with new faster, flexible and robust technology
• Improved features for embedding media
• Improved features for inline  layouts
• Improved features for inline images
• Improved table building

 

Search

• Improved filtering
• Search results view
• Global search (dropdown)
• Search bar in Workbar option

 

Navigation

• Main menu
• Admin menu
• Mobile optimised
• Bottom navigation (Mobile devices)

 

Manage Content

• ‘My Content’ for org users will now viewed via the Manage Content views
• Bulk actions / Bulk actions messaging and error messages

 

Profile

• Following tab added to profile

 

Tokens

• Removing all unused tokens

 

Customer importers

• Redesign
• Pre file upload validation
• Flagging issues before import
• Preview and file editing options before import

 

Custom tours

• Redesigned to offer the same functionality but rebuilt as a single consolidated app experience

 

Webforms

• Built from the ground up with new faster, flexible and robust technology
• A drag and drop (WYSIWYG experience) for form creation
• Simplified and more accessible configuration options

 

Help and Feedback

• Limited In App ‘Help’ access links directly to support guidance (Extended PostBart)
• Empty state messaging for blank screens
• Error screens for 404/ 501 / etc

 

Feed/Notifications

• Improved view options for message stream view

 

Broadcast

• Updated view
• Updated config options

 

Administration

• Improved IA and navigation
• Administration options for Social apps and Directory have been removed and can be accessed via the respective apps

 

Theme

• Updated config options branding
• Added config options MUI
• Footer

 

Authentication

• Invotra Auth design updates
• Authentication via Amplify

 

Extranet Homepage 

Extranet homepage is now  available for configuration from the Navigation > Site structure screen in admin

Builder apps

• Page Builder (Complete rebuild) (WYSIWYG experience)
• Layout Builder (Complete rebuild) 
• Templates  (Complete rebuild) (Now includes a visually rich thumbnail  templates library)
• Design Builder (Complete rebuild providing features to build banners, footers and more) 

 

Widgets

New set of widgets (consolidated and improved configuration options)

• General widgets
• Content type widgets
• New set offer even more configuration options that did not exist before
• Example: News widget can display all News by author