Release Notes

For Users

New

• Contact scripts on web! Your campaign can set up scripts for the emails and texts you send from Reach so you can text those contacts at lightning speed! (Coming soon to web) [4e87r7]

Fixed

• When you delete a phone number or email address, the Contact Actions buttons were not immediately updating into their disabled state. [4ef67r]
• If you saved survey responses and contact info in the same Save operation, the screen was not re-drawing properly to show the survey response even though it was properly saving. [50f6xa]
• Emails from contact scripts without subject lines sometimes were not formatting properly in email clients. [4j9x7w]

For Admins

Improved

• Survey question names can now only be 50 characters. This makes for a better experience with exports which use those question names as column headers. Old questions are grandmothered-in but names of new questions or edited questions will only be able to be 50 characters long. If you want a longer name to show up in the app, you can use the Display Name field. [4rfhzt]
• Question Mapping for integrations has improved keyboard accessibility. [3ubz7v]
• The Admin Dashboard has improved keyboard accessibility. [4wb4dy]

Fixed

• When selecting a user group to target a push notification, deleted groups will not show up. [4m6hh6]
• Rows in admin tables will only have a hover style if they are clickable. [4ubcxg]

For Users

New

• Contact scripts! Your campaign can set up scripts for the emails and texts you send from Reach so you can text those contacts at lightning speed! (Coming soon to web) [4e8717]

Fixed

• The “More” icon shown on the empty Network screen is now the right one.. [4gdyuv]
• Email contact scripts without a subject line should now work properly. [4j9x69]

For Admins

New

• Contact Scripts Admin. Make and manage the contact scripts that your users will see in the app. [4c8vmw]
• Canvass Results in VAN Integration. Now you can map Reach responses to Canvass Results in VAN like “Not Home” or “Do not walk”. [4gekn1]

Improved

• For multi-campaign orgs, campaigns should be sorted alphabetically in the the admin header drop-down. [4ef5j5]
• Rows in admin tables now have a nice hover styling. [4pbzvu]

Fixed

• Sometimes, when editing a survey question and using Enter to make a new response option, you could get an error when saving your changes. [4pf6a3]

For Users

New

• “Phone call” contact action to call a person right from the app.

Improved

• Redesigned person profile screen for more prominent contact actions.

Fixed

• Connection errors in Reach should come much less often.
• Refreshing right after saving a phone number or email address would sometimes make the newly-saved info invisible. No more!
• If you try to visit the URL of a person in a different campaign, this will be handled more gracefully.

For Admins

Improved

• Clearer branding controls in Admin for organizations who are not Reach Movement subscribers.

Fixed

• When editing questions, the warning about overwriting someone else’s changes was coming up incorrectly.

For Users

Improved

• We’ve changed the way grouped questions display to make it much prettier.

Fixed

• We’re more reliably saving nicknames when you edit the name of an added person.
• We’ve fixed some navigations flows around the search button in the main navigation bar that we introduced in the previous release.

For Admins

Fixed

• We have fixed a bug that didn’t show dates properly in the admin export screen.

For Users

Fixed

• Fixed a rare crash when viewing the refine screen.
• Cleaned up touch targets to make it easier to use the Campaigns screen.
• Fixed some occasional issues where the screen would not refresh properly when switching between campaigns.
• Logging out is more reliable.
• Odd characters in user names are now properly displayed on the Dashboard Home Screen.
• Some placeholder text was misaligned on Android. We’ve fixed that right up.
• Navigation back from search results was broken on campaigns with Home Screens configured.

For Admins

New

• Push Notifications v2: Admins can now target push notifications to specific users by role or user group (more support for making and managing user groups coming soon!), schedule push notifications to be sent later, view and edit drafts of push notifications, and see stats of previously sent notifications.

Fixed

• When editing questions, the warning about overwriting someone else’s changed was coming up incorrectly.

For Users

Fixed

• If I’m only a member of one campaign, I should not see the quick-switcher appear when I tap on the campaign name

For Admins

New

• VAN Integration Read all about it here.

Fixed

• Styling bug on the date picker in admin
• Styling bug in Admin Tags table on hover over the delete button.

For Users

Fixed

• In the web app on mobile browsers, the Auth Code screen was providing the full soft keyboard instead of the number pad. Now it’s numbers all the way.

For Admins

New

• Easier sharing of invite codes and link: You can now tap a new “Share” button next to the invite code on the Invite Code admin screen. This will pop up a new window where you easily copy the code in its raw code form, or in link form!

For Users

New

• There is a new “Mx.” prefix option when editing the name of an added person.
• Major accessibility improvements for our users who use screen readers.
• The Smart App Banner for iOS will remind you about the native app if you’re using the web app on your iPhone.

Improved

• The full screen pop-ups in the app are now a bit more fun to use. You can see the context behind them and you swipe them down out of the way. So swipey!
• The Rankings screen loads faster and more smoothly as you switch back and forth between tabs.

Fixed

• It was sometimes possible to see the wrong name when editing the name of an added person.

For Admins

New

• Network Admin: You can now fully control and customize the My Network feature. You can decide whether new relationships are all automatically listed as one default type or whether your users can pick from a list of relationship types and you can build that list! You can also disable the feature entirely if you hate friends and family. And winning. Read more about the Network Admin screen in our knowledge base here.
• Push Notifications: Ever wish you could just get the word out to all your volunteers and encourage them to keep using Reach and contacting more voters or give them updates from the campaign? Now you can! Send push notifications to all your users right from a new admin screen!
• Invite Links: If you liked Invite Codes, you’re gonna love Invite Links! Now, every invite code also works as a link. Just add your code to the end of a URL like https://app.reach.vote/#/j/{YOUR CODE HERE} and it will allow anyone who clicks the link to be automatically added to your campaign as soon as they log in or create an account on the web app.

Improved

• Revamped Survey Question Response Options: We have reworked the way you set up and edit single choice and multiple choice survey questions. Now, you can drag-and-drop to rearrange response options and use a new “Clear All” button to start over if you don’t like how your question is turning out. You can also now edit the label of a response option without the app getting confused by previously-saved responses with the old wording. Use this to fix typos or clarify your response options without changing their underlying meaning. Also note that you can now only add additional response options in bulk – you cannot edit or remove existing responses using the bulk window.
• Response List Exports now include a “Choice ID” column which will let you map the responses that have been saved without depending on the label (which could change). These choices are UUIDs. If you don’t know what this means, don’t worry about it!

For Users

Improved

• There is now an indicator dot if you haven’t verified your email address right there on the empty campaign manager screen too.
• When you tap to resend a verification email, the link animates to let you know something is happening.
• The rankings screen will now loader faster than before and do a better job of cacheing data as you switch between rankings views.

Fixed

• Scrolling on the Person Profile screen is improved.
• Some placeholder text was misaligned on Android. We’ve fixed that right up.

For Admins

Improved

• The Invite Codes admin screen is now totally redesigned to better handle large numbers of invite codes and let you search, filter, and page through your codes.

For Users

New

• Edit the Names and Address of Added People: If you added someone new to Reach and then realized you made a mistake or typo with their name or address, there used to be nothing you could do but those sad days are gone! Now, using two new options on the Action Menu, you can edit the name or address of a person you added!
• Verification of Email Addresses: We want to make sure we know how to get in touch with all our users and we’re planning some upcoming Reach features that will depend on reliable, verified email addresses for the folks using the tool. So, you are now going to be asked to verify your email address by clicking a link in an email. If you have not verified, you will see a little orange dot on the Settings button in the app to remind you to do so. You can always change your email address from the Settings screen too.
• Multiple Relationship Types: Now, when you add someone to your Network, you can pick from a whole different range of relationship types. These must be enabled and set up by your campaign admins.

Improved

• Rankings screen for Reach Basics: Our Reach Basics campaigns now have access to the Rankings screen like every other Reach campaign!

Fixed

• Better, smoother loading of the Rankings screen.
• Changing your last name as a user was causing some faulty validation errors. All fixed!

For Admins

Nothing in this version