Release Notes

For Users

New

• You can now merge Reach Adds you created into other Reach Adds or into voters! Every interaction you’ve had with the Reach Add will be copied to the new person and the Reach Add will be deleted. Just navigate to a Reach Add you have created and click the “…” menu in the top right corner of the Person Screen and select “Merge person into…” to get a new window where you can search for the person you want to merge them into.

Fixed

• The Network Contact Action Card experience was broken on desktop web. The window was the wrong size and it was cutting off important elements like the send buttons. That is now fixed!
• Pop-up menus on desktop web are now more reliable.
• Cleaned up the width of the address fields on the Add Person form.
• Fixed an incorrect font being used in the title of the Network Contact Action Card modal.

For Admins

Nothing in this version

For Users

Improved

• We know user-created tags only just recently arrived, but we’re already making them better! Now, instead of having to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the tag picker to find your user tags, you’ll see a new “My Tags” tab right at the top. This tab is where you’ll be able to make and manage your user tags.
• User-created tags can now be made and managed while you’re in offline mode.

For Admins

Nothing in this version

For Users

Improved

• When using the type-to-filter feature of the Quick Filter bar on the Network screen, you can now filter based on Survey Question responses, including open text responses like Notes fields.

Fixed

• We have cleaned up some areas where text had started displaying in the wrong fonts.

For Admins

Improved

• The time zone drop-down on the Campaign Settings screen now has clearer, more specific options.
• The exports screen table and date range picker are now more clear about how time zones are handled and displayed on the screen and within the exported CSVs.

Fixed

• There were some issues surrounding the creation of new tags from templates and clones that were causing errors. Those should be resolved!

For Users

New

• Create, edit, delete, and apply User-Created Tags from the Tag Picker modal! They’re pretty and purple.

Improved

• Campaigns which do not use addresses will now hide the Address block on the Location tab of the Person screen.

For Admins

New

• Enable or disable the User Created Tags feature on the Campaign Settings screen.
• Manage User-Created Tags on the Tags admin screen.

For Users

Improved

• Lots of changes and improvements to Reach chat including:
  • New UI and permissions system around attaching images and files and gifs in chat. It will look prettier and require fewer permissions on Android.
  • New UI when you long press on a message to react to it or take action on it. Say goodbye to the clunky overlay which tried to include the whole message and say hello to a new bottom sheet that gives you easier more consistent access to the actions you want to take.
  • New option to pin channels in the channel info screen. Keep your most important channels at the top of their section!
  • New “Unread” section in channel list. Now you never need to scroll way down to find the channel which new messages.

For Admins

New

• When you have the admin dashboard loaded in your browser and we push out updates to Reach in the background, you’ll now get a notification at the bottom of your screen that there is a new version of Reach. Be sure to refresh the page in your browser to get the latest version of Reach!

For Users

Improved

• The button label for “Register a New Voter” has been changed to “New Voter Registration” to help reduce confusion when campaigns are using this feature to update an existing voter’s registration.

Fixed

• Switching campaigns while on the Network screen on web could lead to incorrectly-sized rows.
• Sometimes voter registration pipeline steps would appear out of order on the timeline view on the Person screen.
• Incorrect font being used in the state drop-down on web.

For Admins

Fixed

• You could not re-direct an internal link action card after it had previously been set to “Other” with a custom URL
• When editing the Call to Action button label of an action card, filters you had set could get cleared.

For Users

New

• Your campaign may now require you to collect the date of birth of each new Reach Add. When you do so, you’ll be able to skip the first step of the voter registration flow.

Fixed

• Content sharing should be smoother and more reliable on slow network connections.

For Admins

New

• There is a whole new row of pretty graphs and data roll-ups on the main Admin Dashboard screen helping you understand your content library usage at a glance. See content engagements over time, shares by platform, and top assets.
• You can now choose to enable an option to require DOB for all Reach Adds. This makes for a faster flow into the voter registration process and a guarantee of birthdate data, but makes it harder to create Reach Adds for other uses.
• You can now choose to default new Reach Adds to also be added to the user’s Network. If you want to make sure each users’ added land in their Network, this will save your users a step.
• You can now choose to hide the Contact Import UI from users on your campaign, even if you want to use the My Network feature for other reasons.

For Users

Nothing in this version

For Admins

New

• We have replaced the editor we use for action card bodies and campaign descriptions. This will lead to a more consistent look for your action cards between admin and the various platforms your users access Reach on. And best of all, you can now add images and tables to your action card bodies and campaign descriptions.

For Users

Improved

• When going back to your Network from the Person Screen the web version of Reach would forget your scroll position. No longer!
• When editing your user profile your address will be autosuggested by your phone’s OS in more cases. Think of all the things you can do with this newly saved time.

For Admins

New

• When creating a new Action Card we now make it easier to first choose the type of card you are creating. It’s very inspirational.

Improved

• We made it more clear that you can also invite additional admins from the Users admin page.
  

Fixed

• We fixed a sneaky bug where the Action Card wouldn’t be fully filled out when cloning an existing card or using the template library.

For Users

New

• From the chat channels list, you can now use the plus button to both make a new DM and to open the User Group directory to join new user groups!

Improved

• We’ve added a loader animation during the content upload process on web to make things a bit more clear.
• You can now filter the action card feed by tasks that are still To do.

Fixed

• The spacing on the campaign directory campaign key input was not quite right in Safari
• The save and cancel buttons on the person screen on mobile web were mis-aligned
• Animations throughout Reach now work more smoothly on Android

For Admins

Nothing in this version