MangoApps 12.12 Release Notes

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What’s New For Domain Admins

Here is the list of new admin features & controls that are available in this release

  • Private Message New Settings

    • There are 2 new settings in private messages that domain admins can setup for all users in the domain.
      • Mode: This allows domain admins to choose from these 2 options
        • Topic Based Conversation – This enables email like private messages with a subject line among a set of users
        • Single Continuous Conversation  – This enables a chat like single conversation thread among a set of users
      • Show Subject Line: This enables having a subject line for private messages. This setting is available when mode is set to ‘Topic Based Conversation’ only
    • All settings apply to both network & guest users

  • Calendar New Settings

    • Who can create company events. There are 2 options
      • Any network user can create
      • Only domain admins, intranet admins and a specific set of people can create
    • Who can create team events
      • This is setup by the team admin at a per team level.
        • The 2 options are
          • Any team member can create (including guest users)
          • Only team admins can create
      • Who can create meetings
        • Any network user can create a meeting
      • Who can create appointments
        • Any network user can create an appointment

  • Holidays/Important Date Improvements & New Holidays Widget

    • Holidays have been moved to be directly under Domain on the admin portal
    • Holidays & important dates that you add (or edit) from now onwards require a country to be associated to them
    • To make it easier to add holidays there is a new popular holiday finder in which you select the country and year to get a list of popular holidays. You can then pick the holidays that are applicable for your company and add them to everyone’s calendar. There are about 50+ countries that the popular holiday finder currently supports.
    • The view of holidays & important dates for the domain admins now has 2 filters
      • Country
      • Year
    • You can now edit or clone any holiday or important date from the list
    • Company holidays & important dates added here are seen by users with matching country (derived from user’s office location) on their calendar
    • As before the users receive an automatic notification from MangoApps a day before the company holiday or important date
    • There is a new widget called Upcoming Holidays that you can add to everyone’s dashboard that shows the list of upcoming holidays based on the user’s country  (derived from user’s office location)

  • Branding Enhancements

    • For the Icons used in the MangoApps web app you now have a choose of 3 styles.
      • Solid
      • Regular
      • Light
    • By default icons are set to be regular

  • SSO Enhancements

    • SSO configuration for MangoApps as a consumer and as a provider have been consolidated under the SSO module now
    • New setting added for OAuth based SSO to auto-redirect the user to the provider’s login page when they visit their MangoApps site.

  • 2FA Enhancement

    • You can now control if 2nd factor authentication (2FA) is activated when the users uses SSO to login into MangoApps.
    • Default the 2FA is OFF for SSO (SAML & OAuth)

  • Reporting Improvements

    • Domain admins can now select a custom date range for any report in addition to the pre-defined date ranges as part of generating a report
    • The network-wide content report has been enhanced to include a secure link to the actual content in MangoApps

  • File Upload Via Email Settings

    • Files module has a new setting to allow users to upload files to a folder using it’s email address. By default this setting is ON.
    • Audit log would track any changes made to this setting

  • Delete Someone’s Feed With Notify/Don’t Notify Options

    • As a domain admin when you delete someone’s feed you will now have an option to delete & notify or delete & don’t notify the user who posted it
    • If you check the notify option, the user who posted the feed would get a private message with a snippet of the content that was deleted.

  • 2 Way Profile Sync Via Webhooks

    • As a domain admin you can now define secure HTTPS callbacks to a HR information & payroll system interested in being notified when user information in MangoApps changes. These are called outgoing webhooks and can be configured under Modules > People > Webhooks
    • Outgoing webhooks can be triggered when one or more of the following conditions become true.
      • A new user is created in MangoApps
      • A user profile information is updated
      • A user is activated or de-activated
    • MangoApps now also supports incoming webhooks through which MangoApps can be notified everything the user profile info in the HR system changes
    • As a domain admin you can map the request & response webhook fields to MangoApps user fields and this enables MangoApps to integrate with any system that supports webhooks
    • Webhook communication is secured using OAuth based password authentication and is over HTTPS
    • Additional IP based access security can be configured to allow incoming webhooks to be from a set of white listed IP addresses. This can be done under Integration > Webhooks

  • Import Users Via API

    • You can now auto-provision users and keep their profile information upto date in MangoApps by integrating with your HR information & payroll system using a RESTful API
    • You can configure MangoApps to
      • Perform a one-time import from your HR system -or-
      • Perform a auto-sync from your HR system when the user logs in
    • Auto-sync from your HR system can further be setup to be done
      • Only when the user logs in for the first time -or-
      • Every time the user logs in
    • As a domain admin you can map the request & response API fields to MangoApps user fields and this enables MangoApps to integrate with any system that provides an API
    • As a domain admin you have an option to preview the data prior to performing the one-time synch of users and get an opportunity to review the information
    • API communication is secured using OAuth based password authentication and is over HTTPS

  • Organization Field On Profile

    • Domain admins can now turn on / off organization on the user profile for type 1 domains also
    • When turned on, this field is available on user profile, office card and in people directory to filter users belonging to a particular organization