What's New in Workplace?
September 2023
All the latest Workplace product announcements and feature releases.
This month, we’re excited to share the following Workplace updates - including the much anticipated MAKU permissions scope, as well as other features such as the ability to create personalized quick links in the Knowledge Library, increased participant limit in Work Chat threads, plus updates to the API enabling customers to remove profile fields and expose account deactivation dates. This release also includes more email controls for admins and a new look for the admin panel.
Create personalized quick linksCreate personalized quick links
Knowledge Library admins can now create multiple quick links collections with different audience types. This will improve the quick links personalization for customers as they will have more relevant links presented to them, grouped in an easy way to access. Available on desktop.
Increased participant limit in Work ChatIncreased participant limit in Work Chat
We’ve increased the maximum number of participants allowed in a Work Chat thread from 250 to 500. Work Chat end users can now add up to 500 participants to chat threads. Available on desktop and mobile (Android/iOS).
Ability to scope MAKU permissionsAbility to scope MAKU permissions
System admins can now grant group admins the ability to market their own group's content as important. This will allow companies to take better advantage of MAKU and allow key group admins to boost relevant content for employees. Available on desktop.
Learn more here.
More email controls for AdminsMore email controls for Admins
Admins can now control the frequency of 'engagement' emails sent per day, between 3 to 5, for all the users in their Workplace instance. Available on desktop.
A Fresh admin panelA Fresh admin panel
We’ve given the mobile admin panel a fresh look to make it more consistent with the rest of the app and have also addressed admin panel bugs that were causing the mobile apps to crash. Available on mobile (Android/iOS).
Exposing deactivated dateExposing deactivated date
Users can now retrieve their account deactivation date through the member API. Available on desktop and mobile (Android/iOS).
Remove profile fieldsRemove profile fields
Admins can now use the remove profile information API to remove data from a deactivated profile. This will keep the deactivated users’ posts, comments, and messages, but remove their name and other profile fields. Available on desktop and mobile (Android/iOS).