Release Notes

For Users

Fixed

• The image preview in the Collections share window now fits a little better and fills the space.

For Admins

New

• On all screens with assets grids, you can now select and bulk-edit those assets. When working on one of these screens, you will see check boxes appear when you hover over an asset. Start checking assets to select them, then use the Bulk Toolbar that appears at the top to take action on those assets. Note that the max number of assets you can select at one time is based on the page size you have set and defaults to 25. You can increase the page size at the bottom of the grid to select and edit even more assets. This is ideal for when you need to organize lots of assets at once. For example, if you want to delete lots of assets from a previous cycle. The new capabilities include:
  • Assets Admin: Bulk Delete and Bulk Edit Status
  • Galleries Admin: Bulk Remove from Gallery
  • Labels Admin: Bulk Remove from Label
  • Collections Admin: Bulk Add to Collection and Bulk Remove from Collection

Fixed

• When you paste formatted text into a rich text input in admin (like Collections body text) Reach is now more effectively stripping unsupported formatting to better reflect what will be saved to your collection.

For Users

New

• Bulk Pipeline Transitions. From the Voter Registration tab on the My Reach screen, you can now tap the “…” button in the top right and choose “Select Registrations”. This will make check boxes appear next to each row which you can use to select many registrations and then use the Arrow button in the header to advance them all to a future stage with a single tap! Now, when you show up at the county BOE office to hand in a stack of 100 registration forms, you can mark them all as submitted in one simple action. What are you going to do with all the time you just saved? Maybe go register more voters?
• Phone dialing shortcuts from the Details tab. If your campaign has set up your Details tab on the person screen to display phone numbers, you’ll now see a little phone icon which you can tap to dial the number!

Fixed

• Going directly to a link for a campaign landing page from the Campaign Directory was broken. It’s now fixed!

For Admins

Fixed

• Some of the filters in the Content Collections admin screen were not working reliably, and now they are!

For Users

New

• Users with and without Reach accounts can browse and share content from Public Content Collections directly from a URL.

For Admins

New

Public Content Collections: You can now create collections of content and share them with a public URL. This makes it easier than ever for supporters to engage with and share your content without needing to sign up for anything.

• To get started, go to the Collections tab of the Reach Admin Dashboard.
• Create a new Content Collection and add assets from your Reach Content Library.
• Share the unique URL with your supporters so they can browse and share your content directly from the page.
• You can customize the colors, the banner image, the sorting of the assets, and even add formatted body text above the assets if you want to provide visitors with a bit more context.
• You can also add assets to a collection as you edit those assets with a new drop-down on the asset editing form.
• All data about downloads and shares via your collections will be included in all your existing Reach data flows like Admin Dashboard graphs, CSV exports and BigQuery Mirrors.

Check out a live sample collection featuring pets of the Reach team here: https://collections.reach.vote/targaryen-for-westeros/pets

Please note that content collections are not available on the Basics tier. Complete-tier subscribers can make one collection and Movement tier subscribers can make unlimited collections.

For Users

New

• Bulk Apply Tags: You can now manage your network more efficiently with the ability to add or remove tags for multiple people at once. On the My Reach screen, tap on the circle with the three dots in the upper right hand corner, and choose “select people” and put a checkmark in the box to the left of the people you wish to update. Tap on the tag icon near the top and select (or deselect) the tags you want to change. When you tap “Save”, changes will be applied to all selected people simultaneously. Tap “Done” when you are finished. This action can also be completed from the Search Results and History tabs. 

Improved

• On all list views (Search Results, History, Network, Voter Reg) view preferences, sorting, and filtering have been relocated to the three dots menu on the right.

For Admins

Fixed

• Fixed a bug that prevented assets from being cloned correctly.
• Fixed a bug where the subject line input was missing for email scripts in Network Contact Action Cards.

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.