Release Notes

1.12.1

Released June 16, 2020

Some handy improvements to the Contact Import workflow and some other small bug fixes.

For Users

Improved
  • We’ve made contact import faster to use! You can now skip contacts who don’t seem like a good fit and they’ll move over to the new “Skipped” tab and we’ve simplified what used to be two button at the bottom into one. Crank those contacts out!
  • We’ve added a much more in-depth tutorial the first time you launch contact import. It walks you through the steps and shows you some cute animations. Everyone loves animations!
  • Switching between campaigns, logging out, and leaving a campaign should all be more reliable now.
Fixed
  • Some phone numbers y’all had in your phone contacts were making Reach all confused and crashy. It should now be more accepting of odd phone numbers.
  • It was possible to accidentally save changes to someone’s name with prefixes and suffixes of “None”. Weird name, right?

For Admins

Nothing in this version.


1.12.0.2

Released June 11, 2020

Small bug fixes and performance improvements.

For Users

Improved
  • When using contact import and bouncing between the list of search results and the matching screen, you will no longer lose your scroll position on the list view.
Fixed
  • Fixed a rare crash when your contact matches hadn’t fully loaded for contact import.
  • Prevent a Reach add with only spaces in their name.

For Admins

Nothing in this version.


1.12.0

Released June 10, 2020 via the App Store and Play Store

Looking for a way to scale up your relational organizing efforts?

Introducing: Contact Import! Fill your Reach Network with all the people you already know, who your campaigns need you to reach. From the My Network tab, you can now tap a new Import button and auto-search the contacts already in your phone or tablet Contacts app. You’ll have complete control over which contacts are uploaded via privacy pre-screening and we’ll then help you match them to your campaign’s data set. And now that your Network is full of your peeps, get Reaching!

For Users

New
  • Contact Import is here.
Improved
  • You can now use the Enter key on your computer when first creating your account and entering details.
  • Leaving a campaign now provides more feedback that it’s working.
Fixed
  • Leaving campaigns should be more reliable and more graceful.
  • We’ve ironed out some aspect ratio weirdness on banner images when switching between the action cards feed view and the full-screen details view.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur if you had a relationship using a relationship type that was later hidden by an admin.
  • We’ve fixed some odd wrapping of text in some of the list views in the app.
  • On web, Action Cards without a Call-to-Action button now look better in their details view, with more padding at the bottom of the description.
  • If you try to visit the URL of an action card that can’t be found, we’ll let you know gently and politely.
  • We were showing the wrong image on the screen after you successfully verified your email address.
  • When adding a new user, the settings (like the Send SMS switch) sometimes looked like they changed as the modal was closing. Now everything should remain as you left it.

For Admins

Improved
  • We’ve rearranged some of the settings for your Network and Relationship Types. You can now control the Network feature’s mode from the Campaign Settings admin screen.
Fixed
  • The Contact Script creation modal will now fit better on small screens.


1.11.4.4

Released June 1, 2020

Small improvements and bug fixes.

For Users

Improved
  • When creating your account for the first time on desktop, the Terms of Use screen looks much better. Snuggle up with a cuppa for some page-turning reading.
  • From the My Account screen, you can now tap on your active campaign to navigate to it in addition to tapping the Back button in the header. Plus, this nav action now has a nice animation.
Fixed
  • Action cards featuring banner images with white near the edges will now look better because our action card border will border the image too.
  • The animation from your full-screen actions cards back to the feed view is smoother. Like buddah’.
  • The progress animation in buttons wasn’t aligned quite right.
  • Loading individual people’s profiles should be faster.

For Admins

Fixed
  • There was a bug since the last release on Friday where you couldn’t save new integration instances. All fixed!
  • You no longer need to specify a people source when creating a Slack integration.


1.11.4.3

Released May 29, 2020

Bug fixes for invite links

For Users

Fixed
  • Invite links would sometimes not work on the first attempt for a brand new user creating an account.
  • Successfully joining via invite links would sometimes lead to way too many green success notifications. So much success it would make your head spin. You’d get sick of all the success. Now they should be chilled out.

For Admin

New
  • When setting up an integration, you will now specify which set of people (voters vs. Reach Adds) it should process. Should lead to more effective VAN integrations.

1.11.4.2

Released May 27, 2020

Small improvements and tweaks

For Users

Improved
  • You can now page through your history on the My Reach tab to go back as far as you want.
Fixed
  • Fixed a formatting issue with the header of the My Account screen for new users who are not yet members of any campaigns.
  • Trying to refresh your browser while on the chat tab would sometimes fail.

For Admins

Fixed
  • Tooltips were offset incorrectly when the admin sidebar was collapsed.
  • The count of “People Reached” on the users admin table and Stats drawer was wrong for newer campaigns.


1.11.4.1

Released May 22, 2020

Small improvements and tweaks

For Users

Improved
  • Better spacing for the header of the home screen on desktop for campaigns without logos.
Fixed
  • If external links on your action cards were invalid, it could make you unable to tap on them, even once you fixed the links. Now, the Call-to-Action buttons should work any time the link is valid.
  • Some users were seeing red connection errors when app-switching to Reach. No more.

For Admins

Improved
  • New reminder on Campaign Settings screen to add a logo when you’re configuring your Home Screen.
  • Help tooltip to explain the Expiration Date field in Action Cards Admin.
Fixed
  • You were able to save invalid external links on your action card. Now we’re going to force you to include http:// or https://
  • The image preview for the icon fill now fits better in its container.


1.11.4

Released May 21, 2020

Feast your eyes and fingers on the all new design for the Home Screen and Action Cards making them better and more action-y than ever! Now, every card can be expanded into a full-screen view with a beautiful animation, each card can have a customized Call to Action button which appears in the feed and the Details view, cards can have Banner Images, and users can see when cards are pinned to the top and when each card was published.

For Users

New
  • Brand new home screen design with full-screen cards.
Improved
  • The Contact Actions sub-header on the Person Profile screen is now smoother and more reliable.
  • Pull-to-Refresh looks better and works better on the Person Profile Screen
  • Shadows look better and more consistent throughout the whole app.
  • On the Person Profile screen, the Add User button is easier to tap now.
  • In Chat, the Message Read indicators no longer will say “and 0 more”. That was silly.
Fixed
  • When joining a new campaign by invite code or invite link, you may have seen a red error notification even when it worked great. Sorry for the false alarm.
  • Sometimes My History was appearing empty for users who had canvassed a LOT of voters. Awesome work on that Reaching. It should now show you your 50 most recent interactions. Coming soon, you’ll be able to page through more.
  • On Web, after selection a contact script, it was possible for scrolling to stop working correctly for a bit. All fixed.
  • Sometimes, Reach was confused about your device’s push notification settings. It’s seeing more clearly now.
  • Logging out is a bit more reliable.
  • The header Save animation on the Person Profile screen failed to animate in some cases. That is now fixed.
  • When deciding to trigger a contact action without using a contact script, Reach will no longer deselect your script and look confused.
  • When adding a user from the Person Profile screen, toggling the SMS switch was re-drawing the page. Yuck.

For Admins

Improved
  • Majorly revamped Action Cards admin. Now you can add banner images, customize the Call to Action label, and even set an expiration date.
Fixed
  • When adding users from Admin you were previously not able to specify their role. That is now fixed.
  • Fixed a typo in Notifications admin.
  • When uploading images to Reach, certain advanced options like Image Search and importing images from social media weren’t working perfectly. They should be all better.


1.11.3.3

Released May 15, 2020

Minor bug fixes

For Users

Fixed
  • The “Today” rankings screen was showing numbers for more than just today.
  • Sometimes street addresses were being mis-capitalized. Say goodbye to 42Nd Street and hello to 42nd Street!

For Admins

Fixed
  • Mapping counts could be wrong in Survey Questions admin if you had deleted integration instances.

1.11.3.2

Released May 8, 2020

Minor bug fixes

For Users

Fixed
  • Refreshing your web browser could break the Rankings screen.
  • Search results would sometimes re-draw incorrectly if you were executing consecutive searches very quickly.

For Admins

Fixed
  • Survey Questions Admin could crash if there were existing integration mappings for integration instances you had deleted.