Dear Powell Intranet users,
We're excited to unveil a new version to enhance your intranet management experience.
❓If you have any questions about this release, you can ask here. 🙋
Here's a quick overview:
🧙 For administrators
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Powell Manager: Webpart depreciation (Calendar, Twitter embed, Application categorized, Dynamics)
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Powell Manager: improvements for Search Queries
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Mobile Premium Apps: Improvement on package creation to check mandatory prerequisites (logo and icon transparency, certificate, and provisioning file)
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Vcard / My profile: Banner Builder functionality
✍️ For Contributors
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New Webpart: Rich text
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Contribution: Schedule your content by managing the publication date
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Yammer: Replace Yammer per Viva Engage
👪 For everyone
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Event Hub: Let users add an event to the calendar only if it is public or registered
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Employee Advocacy: Share on social media with content image
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Share Prices: Display the currency
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Front: In translation context, send an email regarding the page language and not the site
👑 For Powell Intranet Advanced SKU only
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Powell Buddy: Create multiple images for generating process
🎨 Design improvements
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Accessibility: Improvements on user preferences feature
❗ Important announcements
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New Demo environment: Gaia is ready
🧙 For administrators
Powell Manager: Webparts depreciation
We have depreciated some web parts for various reasons:
- Events ( Calendar) Lack of usage
- Twitter embed Depreciation from X API provider. An alternative with a 3rd party vendor will be proposed in the next weeks.
- Dynamics: Lack of usage
- Application without categories : Other webparts available with the same functions
These web parts will no longer be available in the catalog but will still be functional if configured in your portal.
Powell Manager: Improvements for Search Queries
We improved Powell Manager with some minor functionalities for Search Queries updates:
- When you load a search query via the search query selector inside a search or graph, it will now be correctly updated upstream when synchronized from Powell Manager. You will no longer need to save the site collection for the change to be applied.
- When you modify a search query template in Powell Manager, you will no longer need to save the site collection in which the template is used for the change to be applied within the site.
Powell Mobile Apps Premium: package creation validation checks
We improved clarity when creating a Powell Application :
- When a certificate is uploaded, we check to validate whether the certificate is correct or to explain any error that may have occurred.
- When profile provisioning is uploaded, we check to validate whether the certificate is correct or to explain any error that may have occurred.
- When logos and splash screens are uploaded, we check to ensure they are correct. We now check for transparency or size problems or explain any errors that may have occurred.
Vcard / My profile: Banner Builder functionality
Inside My Profile webpart and Vcard settings, we've added a new way to customize your banner. It will now be possible for administrators to define ;
- Color or image for the background of the banner
- User properties displayed inside the banner
- Specific links with URLs, logos, and audiences.
📖 Related documentation
✍️ For Contributors
New Webpart: Text
Explore the latest addition to Intranet Manager and the webpart catalog – the Text webpart
Now, you can effortlessly generate and personalize text through a user-friendly editor, providing an efficient solution for managing your page's static content.
📖 Related Documentation
Contribution: Manage publication date on content
In content creation and edition, it will now be possible to define a publication date.
The content will remain in draft mode until the publication date is reached, when it will be published for itself and all its variants.
This feature will not be available yet for content with notifications, frontline worker functions and site in Powell variations
📖 Related documentation
Yammer: Replace Yammer with Viva Engage
All mentions of Yammer logos, links, and functionalities will now be replaced by "Viva Engage".
Here is the list of impacted components
- My profile webpart → Yammer link replaced by Viva Engage
- Powell Vcard → Yammer link replaced by Viva Engage
- Office groups / Teams /Yammer webpart → replaced by Office groups / Teams / Viva Engage
- Yammer webpart → replaced by Viva Engage
- Search Webpart → display Yammer comments
👪 For everyone
Event Hub: Let users add an event to the calendar only if it is public or registered
Previously, a user could add an event to their calendar even if they had no rights to it. Now, adding an event to a calendar is conditional on the event being advertised or the user registering for it.
Employee Advocacy: Share on social media with content image
Share Prices: Display the currency
The Share prices webpart now displays the currency to make it easier to understand.
Front: In translation context, send an email regarding the page language and not the site
In the context of Sharepoint page translation, when e-mails are sent to the user via various features and sharing, they will now be sent in the language of the current page.
👑 For Powell Intranet Advanced SKU only
Powell Buddy: Create multiple images for generating process
Available for Azure (Preview ) and chatGPT.
When creating an image with Powell Buddy, several variants are created directly, allowing you to choose the one that best suits your needs.
🎨 Design improvements
Accessibility: Improvements on user preferences feature
Inside User preferences, When “ Select all filters” and “Remove all filters” actions are carried out; they will now be localized to the screen reader only. For example, when all filters are selected, a voice message will inform the user that all filters have been selected.
❗ Important announcements
New Demo environment: 🌐 Gaïa is ready! 🌐
What to Expect:
Explore a dynamic showcase of key Powell intranet features, from intuitive user interfaces to advanced collaboration tools. Experience the simplicity of content management, discover the efficiency of our customizable web parts, and see how our different templates help create the perfect intranet for our users!
Storytelling:
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You can follow this link to learn everything about the Demo environment: Powell 365 Demo Environments (sharepoint.com). You should have access to Powell Software's Community Center to get access to this page; please get in touch with your Account Executive or Partner contact if necessary.