Forest XVII (July 2022)

Dashboard Content Carousel

When a user first logs into Forest, the first thing they’ll see is the “Featured Campaign/Portfolio” section on the main dashboard. This prompts many users to look at the featured content, and if they like, submit a new idea to a featured campaign. However, prior to this release, administrators could only feature one campaign or portfolio at a time. This was a problem for administrators who wanted to feature more than one campaign or portfolio for their organization or business unit. 

With this release, we added the ability for administrators to feature more than one campaign or portfolio. The featured content will be displayed in a carousel, which will allow users better visibility and prompt them to take action on more than one campaign or portfolio from the main dashboard. 

Users impacted by this feature: Global Admins, Workspace Admins, and General Users

Evaluation Enhancements

If you’ve ever facilitated an evaluation in Forest, you may have noticed that there were two different buttons to manage evaluators: a plus button (to add users) and a vertical ellipsis (to remove users). Additionally, there wasn’t an option to add user groups to an existing evaluation. The option to add user groups to an evaluation was only available when creating new evaluations. This experience caused some confusion among evaluation facilitators.

To streamline this process, we’ve replaced the plus button with an “Manage Evaluators” button and a “Remove” button under each evaluator to make it clear for evaluation facilitators where they can make these changes. In addition, the “Manage Evaluators” menu will include an option to add and remove user groups from an existing evaluation. 

Note: If an evaluator also belongs to a user group that is being added to an existing evaluation, that evaluator will not be added twice to the evaluation. 

Users impacted by this feature: Global Admins and Workspace Admins

Campaign End Time Improvements

When an administrator launches a campaign for their organization or business unit, they may have noticed that some team members who work in different time zones may not exactly know what time a campaign will be closed for idea submissions. This is especially evident when users try to submit their ideas on the last day that a campaign is open. 

To help last-minute idea submitters get their ideas in on time, we’ve made improvements to the idea submission process so that on the day a campaign is set to end, users can submit their ideas up until midnight, regardless of their time zone. Campaign administrators can also see an updated description when setting the campaign end date so that they will know exactly when a campaign will be closed for idea submissions. 

Users impacted by this feature: Global Admins, Workspace Admins, and General Users

Skip Email Notifications

As part of an idea team, you may have received email notifications from Forest about a change in your idea’s stage, status, or milestone task. Sometimes, these email notifications can get overwhelming due to the number of changes or updates on an idea. 

To help manage and reduce the number of email notifications received by idea team members, we’ve added the ability for these users to disable specific email notifications related to changes in an idea’s status, stage, or milestone assignments. 

Users impacted by this feature: General Users

Pagination Improvements

As part of their workflow, many users (especially idea guides and administrators) may need to view and manage hundreds of ideas, campaigns, and portfolios at a time. Previously, the tool only allowed users to view a list of 24 items on a paginated list. As a result, this sometimes created more work for guides and administrators who needed to manage more than 24 items on a single page. 

To solve this problem, we’ve added the ability for users to select how many ideas, campaigns, and portfolios they can view on a paginated list. This feature improvement removes the aforementioned pagination limitation, and allows for a more seamless content management experience. 

Users impacted by this feature: Global Admins, Workspace Admins, and General Users