HighQ Release Notes for 2023-09
September 2023 updates
Overview
HighQ September 2023 Collaborate 5.7.29 updates will be applied to customer-facing sandbox/UAT instances over the weekend of the 2nd/3rd of September, with production deployments taking place from the weekend of the 9th/10th of September onwards.
HighQ Publisher Q3 2023 release version 5.7.22 updates will be applied to customer-facing sandbox/UAT instances over the weekend of the 2nd/3rd of September, with production deployments taking place from the weekend of the 16th/17th of September onwards.
Technical details and dates
UAT updates start the weekend of the 2nd of September 2023
Customer updates during contractual service windows, starting from the 9th of September 2023
HighQ internal version number 5.7.29
HighQ Publisher 5.7.22 also receives updates this month
HighQ Collaborate Updates
Google Add-on
The HighQ add-on for Google Workspace is now live and available on the Google marketplace. The add-on 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
Greater flexibility in transaction management
Boost your Virtual Datarooms with the new bidder group creation process. Designed for complex organisations, this allows users to be marked as bidders/sellers/non-bidders and assigned into separate Q&A groups despite belonging to the same organisation
Protect your data with the iSheet recycle bin
You can now restore Deleted iSheets at any time within a 30-day window, ensuring your data is more protected
This new restore feature allows accidentally deleted iSheets to be easily recovered along with all associated data, attachments, permissions, workflows, rules, filters etc. It provides a simple way to rescue iSheets that should not have been deleted
Document status in Tasks view
Access important document version and document status information without switching between the Tasks and Files module for a more integrated and seamless user experience
Adjust the column width on the Tasks Hierarchy Board
You can now easily see all the relevant information without having to click into individual tasks by adjusting the width of columns
New Open-in button when viewing files
Cut down on the number of clicks to open your files for editing in MS Word with the new Open-in button on the file previewer
Document Intelligence integration
You can now import multiple documents from Document Intelligence
HighQ Publisher Updates
Publisher 2023 Q3 release (external video link)
- We have introduced the email frequency field which enables users to filter records by Daily, Weekly, Bi-Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly. This filter allows you to get faster access to more relevant content and eliminates the need to manually filter by frequency
- Content lists now remember what page you were on as you are browsing. This means if you select a piece of content from a content list and then return to the page after viewing the piece of content, it will remember which page you were initially viewing
- You can now include smart folders in dashboards giving you greater control over the content you can surface from Collaborate and giving you more options on how to display content
- You can now retrieve content through APIs instead of relying solely on RSS feeds. This will empower developers with comprehensive access to the necessary content elements for effective integration
- We have added a 'Clear filter' button for users to quickly and effectively clear any filters they have added when viewing content in a content list, on a dashboard
Performance and Security improvements
Site homepage
- We have introduced an improved site homepage experience. Dashboard content is now loaded as you scroll down, improving load times as content is loaded on-demand
Files
- Document page counts determined for services such as OCR are now more accurate
- The Add new folder action has been optimised for faster execution
- Improved support for very large files in the file viewer
- Deleting file versions is now 4x quicker
- Removing document versions is now 40% faster
- Updating folder access is now twice as fast
- Third-party DocuSign status now updates 8x quicker
- You can now permanently delete files 22% faster
- CSV retrieval is now 7x quicker
- Updating document links for XML is 56% quicker
- Retrieving folder document details is 30% faster
- Shared files are more secure, with a timeout period if too many failed password attempts are detected
HighQ Forms
- Improved form performance when there are over 500 columns and a large number of iSheet records
Activity
- Activity notifications are now 6x faster
Audit
- User log-in data reports are now twice as quick
Drive
- Performance has been improved for downloading the drive application by 50% on average
People
- Retrieving panel data is now almost instantaneous
Site Groups
- Finding groups is now 3x as fast
Reports
- Retrieving user summary reports is now 4x quicker
HighQ Connector
- HighQ SQL connector performance has been improved by 20% for insert and 60% for update operations
iSheets
- Retrieval of user lookup columns is now 6x quicker
Dashboards
- Dashboard content performance is 5x faster through the removal of irrelevant received items
Reports
- Performance has been improved when exporting group permission reports
HighQ Drive
- The synchronization time for the full site/folder/files structure has improved to offer a more efficient collaborative document management solution