HighQ Release Notes for 2023-04

April 2023 updates

Overview
HighQ April 2023 Collaborate updates will be applied to customer-facing sandbox/UAT instances over the weekend of the 1st/2nd of April, with production deployments taking place from the weekend of the 8th/9th of April onwards.
There are no HighQ Publisher updates this month.
Feature release highlights this month
This month's updates include:
Contract Lifecycle Management and Document Automation
  • A Basic user can now start to fill in a document questionnaire, save it and return to it later
  • Dynamic 'other' choices in a questionnaire are now stored in the output iSheet and are available to use in workflows and data viz
  • When approval templates require multiple document approvers, the audit trail now shows all approvers
Legal Project Management, Transaction Management and Litigation
  • Quickly see which tasks are most urgent in card view, based on their due dates.
Additional improvements
  • Set the default start of the week in the calendar picker to support regional differences
  • Save HighQ Form settings and styles in solution templates. Add them to your legal solutions, legal intake, etc. to rapidly replicate and deploy sites
Technical details and dates
UAT updates start the weekend of the 1st of April 2023
Customer updates during contractual service windows, starting from the 8th of April 2023
HighQ internal version number 5.7.19
No HighQ Publisher updates this month.
Updates for users
These updates affect normal users and the user interface:
iSheets
  • You can now drag and drop when uploading files to an attachment column
Search
  • Users now have a more coherent search experience as search terms are now retained when they switch from a global search to an advanced search and vice versa
Contract Express
  • Improved credential handling now means you are logged in automatically when generating documents; avoiding error messages and repeated log-in processes
  • Basic users can now update and edit saved Contract Express questionnaires, without the need to complete the whole questionnaire again to generate the correct document
Contract Express - Edit Questionnaires (external video link)
Tasks
Updates for site administrators
These updates affect site administrators:
iSheets
Contract Express
Remove Empty Categories (external video link)
Audits
Solution templates
Workflow
AI Hub
Updates for system administrators
These updates affect System administrators:
System settings
Performance improvements
Our April 2023 release implements the following performance improvements:
Data Visualisation
  • Loading times for fusion charts are now twice as fast
Files
  • Retrieval of folder permissions is now over 20% faster
  • Listing types of documents within a site is now 70% quicker
  • Searching content across multiple areas has seen a significant improvement and is now almost instant
  • Retrieving group folder access lists now occurs in near real-time
Tasks
  • 'My Tasks' now load almost instantly
  • Listing all site tasks is now 10x quicker
  • Retrieving task lists now occurs almost instantly
iSheets
  • Loading iSheet grids when searching document metadata is now almost instant
  • Retrieving auto-suggest data in lookup columns is now 9x quicker
  • Grid rendering performance when a user searches a column is now 6x faster
Sites
  • Fetching site lists when the user inserts a macro is now 38% quicker
  • Exporting site summaries is now twice as fast
Reports
  • Retrieving login reports by organisation is now 2x quicker
  • Calculation column reporting is now 3x as fast