HighQ Release Notes for 2023-05

May 2023 updates

Overview
HighQ May 2023 Collaborate updates will be applied to customer-facing sandbox/UAT instances over the weekend of the 29th/30th of April, with production deployments taking place from the weekend of the 6th/7th of May onwards.
There are no HighQ Publisher updates this month.
Feature release highlights this month
This month's updates include:
  • The new HighQ add-on for Google Workspace lets you work directly from Google Workspace with your legal and corporate legal use cases. It allows you to:
    • Save a message from a Gmail inbox to HighQ
    • Save an attachment from a Gmail message to HighQ
    • Add a link to a document/file in HighQ to an outgoing Gmail message
    • Edit documents from HighQ in Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Slides
  • The description of a document template shown in a HighQ dashboard or during the document template creation process is now automatically updated when you change the description in Contract Express
  • The 'use the name of the top template, even when it produces no document' setting in Contract Express ensures the name of created folders reflect the name of the top template
  • When duplicate file detection is enabled, you can now choose to skip all duplicates
Technical details and dates
UAT updates start the weekend of the 30th of April 2023
Customer updates during contractual service windows, starting from the 6th of May 2023
HighQ internal version number 5.7.21
No HighQ Publisher updates this month.
Updates for users
These updates affect normal users and the user interface:
Files
iSheets
  • iSheet alerter emails are now sent only for records that were updated up to 90 days in the past
AI Hub
Updates for site administrators
These updates affect site administrators:
iSheets
  • Metadata iSheets (folder, file or task) are now highlighted with a prefix for easy identification
Workflow
  • You can now use a 'site name' variable to insert the site name into generated emails and descriptions
Contract Express
AI Hub
  • The AI Hub now receives notifications when a user 'confirms facts' in Document Intelligence, the user no longer needs to 'Refresh AI' for the whole iSheet or for an individual row
  • Update notifications are no longer sent for a file on Document Intelligence if they are not required by the AI Hub (i.e. files or folders were removed from HighQ, the AI assignment was removed, or Document Intelligence was removed from a site or instance)
  • The handling of job status in Kira has been improved for easier troubleshooting and to reduce unnecessary API calls
  • Enhanced support in Kira for nested folders, and if HighQ folder names contain characters that are not supported by Kira, they are replaced with an underscore
Updates for system administrators
These updates affect System administrators:
iSheets
  • iSheet alerter emails are now sent only for records that were updated up to 90 days in the past
Updates for HighQ apps
These updates affect HighQ apps for mobile and desktop:
Google Workspace add-on
  • The new Google Workspace add-on allows you to file emails, attachments and files directly to HighQ, from your Gmail inbox, Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Slides.
Google Workspace Add-on (external video link)
Performance improvements
Our May 2023 release implements the following performance improvements:
Files
  • Increased reliability when generating PDF documents
  • Caching and processes for file storage are now more efficient
  • Exporting ‘access by user’ reports is now 11x faster
  • Recurring sync of data now occurs almost instantly
iSheets
  • More efficient alerting reduces the load on iSheets
  • Searching for content in user-defined link columns is now 40% quicker
  • Processes when adding or editing iSheets are now twice as fast
  • Daily and weekly alerter emails are now processed over 60% faster
Q&A
  • Listing filters on a Q&A page is now 8x quicker
Search
  • Retrieving all documents for version indexing is now 17x faster
Sites & Templates Lists
  • Performance has been improved when navigating dashboard site lists by removing additional calls
  • Retrieving site and templates list performance has been improved
Workflow
  • During periods of instability in the system Workflow messages will no longer be lost and actions will always execute as expected, regardless of any connectivity issues
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