The Hive

Many of the updates to WizeHive today are thing you’ll notice, right away. The biggest changes are to the login screen, menus and navigation on our application forms.

First, since thousands of applicants submit applications each day through WizeHive, we thought we’d streamline the layout and update the graphics on the login screen. Here’s what it looks like:

Another change is the look and feel of the window used to manage an application form. We’ve updated links to buttons and formatted the sections.  In addition, we now have an HTML editor for the places in WizeHive you can use HTML text.

Other changes  include:

• Tab appearance for forms with multiple upload fields:  When you have a form with multiple upload fields, we can now display the file names as tabs in the order in which they were on the form, using the field names showing on the form.
• Application start and end dates/times:  Our application forms now have the ability to set a start time and end time for an application, in addition to the date.
• A new assignment screen:  You can not only assign applications to an individual judge to review…but you can assign an entire folder for review – and it will dynamically keep the assignments fresh.  In other words, if you use assignments on a review portal and assign a folder to specific reviewer; they will always see the contents of that folder when they sign into the review portal.
• When you have a form with multiple upload fields we used to display the file name as tabs when you went to review the form.   That often was meaningless because the file names were meaningless.  Now we display the file names in the order they were on the form and using the field names showing on the form.   So if you have “Resume” as the field name in one place and “Reference” in another; they will be the tabs you see for each candidate.
• Our application forms now have the ability to not only set the start date and end date for an application – but they can now also have a start time and end time… so applications can be set to turn on or off in advance at any time.
• For our self service contests we now automatically generate an email to the entrant on your behalf thanking them for their entry.   Inside the self service contest screen you can set the “from” email address information.
• We also added a checkbox in the self service contest system so you can turn on or off the display of vote counts.
• And, while we are on the self service contest, you can now easily generate a receipt for the contest once you have paid.

As always, we love hearing feedback on what we’ve launched, drop us a line anytime.

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We’re just about half way through the winter with only a light dusting of snow. Since we’re not out on the slopes, we’ve had time to make some more updates.   Over the last four weeks, many of these updates were behind the scenes focused on performance, but there are a handful of helpful ones on the front end too.   Here is a review of some of the more significant changes:

When WizeHive is used to deploy an online application, the application requests an email address as a login ID and a password.   By default we confirm the password and if someone forgets the password it’s easy enough to reset it.  But if someone makes a typo entering their user id we have no easy way for our client administer to help them out.  Inevitably, 3 to 5 people out of 2000 applications make a typo while entering their email.    So we now have a setting that allows our login screen to request a confirmation of the email address.   This way, even if someone types in their ID/email once; the system will catch it unless they type it into both fields incorrectly.    While we have this as a setting you can turn on or off, we will highly recommend to our customers to leave it on.

Most customers use our “Actions” app to email groups of people, copy data, move data, and print in bulk.   This release includes a refresh of the look and feel of this page.   As shown in the picture below, the whole screen has received a face lift, including how we list out the field that you can embed/merge into your email:

Next up are some upgrades to our form builder.    In our prior release we added the ability to copy and paste a group of fields multiple times into a form by highlighting them and dragging the group into a new place on the form.   This release, we’ve changed the paste function so it automatically names the new field similar to the old one (that was copied from) but increments a number after it.  So Project Name would become Project Name 2, etc. as fields are pasted in.

We’ve also added an interface to a feature previously only available to implementation people, which is the ability to hide a field from limited users.  If you build a form and want to have judges, board members or anyone else log into a portal to rate and review applications, you can easily hide sensitive data fields like a social security number or financial data when viewed through the portal.

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