CivicWeb needs your help!
Call for Pilot release participants – Item Flow and Minutes Numbering
Interested in aiding the iCompass team in bettering our services?
An upcoming release of CivicWeb has been scheduled and we would appreciate your involvement prior to its release to everyone. Our approach to releasing new software features incorporates a ‘Pilot’ phase, whereby a subset of our customers use the new release prior to updating all of our customers. This would be a great opportunity for you, as a valued customer, to participate in the development of our services.
The upcoming release has improvements to our Item Flow and Minutes Numbering functions and includes other minor improvements requested by our customers. These changes touch only a few aspects of CivicWeb which include:
1. Item Flow: Consistent and improved means of copying meeting items to other meetings (from the meeting item detail and from the agenda build page) and of exporting AT items into meetings
2. Item Flow: MS Word style of ‘Save,’ ‘Add New’ and ‘Close’ – more standard approach to leaving an item detail page after working on it
3. Item Flow: Creation of ‘Temporary Item’ – removing awkwardness of multi-step item creation – now all item tabs available on initial creation. This is done in both Action Tracking and Meeting Management
4. Item Flow: Improved tool for adding item attachments – control over security of attachment, drag and drop ordering, more standard ‘select item – take action’ approach – i.e. select attachment, then delete
5. Minutes: Enhanced Minutes Numbering capabilities – new tool providing much more flexibility in Numbering Minutes – set at Meeting Type level and applied to related Minutes when they are created
6. FilePro: deletion changes to support deleting the file you are looking at – was not intuitive how to delete current file
7. A handful of ease-of-use improvements and requests from customers
This Pilot phase has already begun. We have several customers using this release but we would like to add more as soon as possible. We have created Quick Reference Guides for these enhanced features and we have Pilot overview webinars scheduled for:
- Mondays at 1:00 pm Pacific (4:00 pm Eastern)
- Fridays at 10:00 am Pacific (1:00 pm Eastern)
We are working toward adding another group of customers to this Pilot release for use starting the morning of Tuesday, August 31st. We also expect to add more to the Pilot group weekly, as customers wish to sign up. We expect to update our entire customer base to this release no later than September 14th.
Your input is of utmost importance to us and we would love your feedback, therefore YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THIS PILOT RELEASE WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED. Your early involvement provides an opportunity for us to incorporate your specific feedback quickly into the system.
Please contact customers@icompasstech.com to schedule your participation in our expected August 31st update and in the related Pilot overview webinar.
Thanks very much!
-Paul Blanchet, VP Operations
