Release Notes

24.2.0

Released March 25, 2024 over the air

For Users

New

  • Support for users abroad! Just because you’re not currently living in the US, and maybe you don’t have a US phone number, doesn’t mean you don’t want to help save American democracy and power progressive victories! Now, users can sign up for Reach using international phone numbers and specify their country on their profile. You can also invite users to your campaign even if they have phone numbers with different dial codes.
  • User-Generated Content! Want to help your campaign fill up their Reach Content Library? If you are given permission by your campaign, you will now see a new “My Uploads” section of the library where you can upload your own images! You will give them a name and description and choose their labels. Then admins on your campaign will review them and pick ones to approve so everyone can see your amazing content!
  • Content Upload Action Cards. Now that you can upload content, why not do it via an Action Card? This is a quick way to give your campaign the content they’re asking for.

Fixed

  • Address forms are now better at handling Puerto Rican zip codes.

For Admins

New

  • User Assets Screen. Use this new screen to review all the assets your users upload. You can click into each one, add a Suggested Post, assign it to a gallery, and approve it. If you don’t think the asset is a good fit for your campaign, you can easily reject it.
  • Support for International Users. You can now view and filter by country on the Users Admin Screen. You can also see international dial codes in phone numbers throughout the Users and Pending Invites screens.
  • Configure settings for User Generated Content. Which user roles can upload content? Which gallery should be the default destination for approved user generated content? Do you want to display a legal disclaimer for users who will be uploading content? Set it all up in the new “Content Library” feature block on the campaign settings screen and at the top of the Galleries screen.
  • Create Content Upload Action Cards. Specify labels. Force square crop.

Improved

  • Phone numbers which have been verified will now have a green check next to them on the Users screen just like email addresses.

24.1.0

Released February 27, 2024 over the air

For Users

New

  • Voter Registration Pipelines for Puerto Rico

Fixed

  • Organization Logos were mis-aligned on the campaign directory landing pages on web.’
  • The Search Results filter window wasn’t accurately reflecting the state of your search filters or sort.
  • Tab switching on the home screen is back to being animated and is less likely to freeze.

For Admins

New

  • User Group Moderators. When editing a user group, you can now decide whether each user in the group should be just a member of the group, or a moderator of the group. Moderators have the ability to edit and delete messages of other users in the User Group’s chat channel.
  • Settable Role Permissions for Address and Contact Info Masking. Traditionally, it has been a hard-coded rule that privacy masking of addresses and contact info always applies to only basic Users. Now, from the campaign settings screen, you can decide which roles should see unmasked addresses and unmasked contact info.

Improved

  • Tighter spacing on the Asset Screen filters sidebar.

Fixed

  • When you are trying to un-pin a gallery or label that had previously been pinned, Reach was making that difficult. Now it works just how you’d hope!
  • For new unpublished campaigns, the Publish button wasn’t always enabled when it was supposed to be.

24.0.0

Released February 8, 2024 in the App Store and Play Store

The Content Library just keeps getting better and betters, doesn’t it? With bookmarks, a new info popover, and the ability to have labels travel with shared galleries, all you content-sharers out there are in for a treat!

For Users

New

  • Content Library Bookmarks. You can bookmark any piece of content in the library and view all your bookmarked content from the new “My Bookmarks” screen.
  • Content Info Popover. When viewing a piece of content, you can tap the new info button to see more information about the content, including your sharing and downloading history on that piece of content.
  • When you are working in a campaign that subscribes to another campaign’s shared galleries, you will see any labels that are attached to the content in the shared gallery. If your campaign has labels with the same names, they will be merged seamlessly.

Improved

  • Any campaigns and orgs who have not uploaded logos will be displayed throughout the app as a colorful placeholder feature their first initial, rather than a Reach logo.
  • In the contact script picker, if a script has an image attachment, it will be shown above the script rather than below it.

For Admins

New
  • From the Users admin screen, you can now set any user, regardless of their role, as a chat moderator for all the chat channels they are a part of.
Fixed
  • When viewing content reviews or share feedback on a specific asset, there is no longer an asset filter available. That didn’t make much sense now, did it?


23.10.0

Released January 3, 2024 over the air

For Users

Fixed

  • On Android, some text formatting options within Action Card descriptions were causing the wrong font to be used.
  • Quick Filter toggle buttons are a little more responsive now.

For Admins

New

  • You can now limit your campaign’s list of Mobilize events to show only events pinned as “Highest Priority” in Mobilize or events owned by your organization.

Improved

  • You can now make Internal Link Action Cards which link to the various home screen tabs on your campaign. Plus, links that you share to the home screen will more reliably bring the person who clisk the link to the correct tab.

Fixed

  • There were some bugs and odd behaviors on the Create/Edit Gallery from which we have squashed.
  • Cleaned up some messy styling on the corners of dialog box modals. You had to look really closely to notice it, but it’s fixed now!

23.9.0

Released December 20, 2023 over the air

It’s the holiday season, grinch hearts are growing three sizes, and sharing is caring, so welcome to the world of Shared Galleries in Reach. Now, when campaigns are making Galleries for the Reach Content Library, they can choose to share those Galleries with other campaigns in their organization, a specific list of other campaigns, or even all of Reach! Then, admins can browse all the shared galleries their campaign has access to and choose to add some to their Content Library so their users can interact with that Gallery and the content within it just like it was their own. Admins on both the campaign who owns the Gallery and the campaign where the interactions are happening will be able to see and learn from the Content Reviews, Share Feedback, and Content Actions.

For Users

New

  • Shared Galleries are now visible in the Content Library if your campaign admins have added them to your campaign. You can tell a Gallery is a Shared Gallery by the banner displaying the campaign name at the bottom of the thumbnail.

Improved

  • In the Content Library’s “Recent Content” and “Galleries” lists, items will no longer float to the top of the list just because they are “new” and unseen. Previously, if you looked at a “new” item that was at the top of your list, then tapped back to the gallery, it might have shuffled to a different place in the list since it was no longer “new”. Now, these lists will always be order by when the item was last updated, regardless of whether it is new to you or not.

Fixed

  • For the past month or so, Users who started using Reach on iOS were not getting an option to turn on Push Notifications. That is now fixed and any of those users who have never been asked about push notifications permissions will be asked next time they launch the app.

For Admins

New

  • New Shared Galleries Admin screen lets you browse all available Shared Galleries, see a preview of what is in them, and add some to your campaign.
  • You can now see a users’ My Campaign VAN ID in the User drawer, if they have been synced to My Campaign.
  • You can now set your campaign’s default home screen tab from the Home Screen section of the Campaign Settings screen.

Improved

  • On the Content Reviews, Share Feedback, and Actions lists, you can now customize the column visibility and order, and turn on a new Campaigns column to let you see when actions or feedback came from users on other campaigns via Shared Galleries.
  • When editing Galleries you can now set Sharing preferences.

Fixed

  • The “File Upload” label in Action Cards Default Template Library modal’s filter drop-down is better.
  • The Layout of the Action Card creation form’s Push Notification toggle is better.
  • The placeholder of the Labels thumbnail image is now the correct aspect ratio.
  • Action Card Default Template Library browser windows were looking a bit messy when there were no templates to browse. Now they look neat.

23.8.0

Released November 30, 2023 over the air

For Users

Nothing in this version

For Admins

New

  • You can now see two new fields in Users admin: First Seen” and “Last Seen”. These are visible in the table view and in the sidebar for a given user.
  • You can now configure which columns are visible on the Users admin table.
  • Your VAN MyCampaign integration can now send new users who join your Reach campaign to VAN My Campaign! To enable this, you’ll need to edit your My Campaign integration instance and visit the “Features” tab and enable the two new features.

23.7.0

Released November 9, 2023 over the air

For Users

New

  • The bottom bar in the Content Viewer has been redesigned to include a new option: Content Reviews! Now you can leave reviews of each piece of content with a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down and a comment to let your campaign know what you think of the content they’re providing. That same bottom bar will also indicate if you’ve already reviewed or downloaded a piece of content.
  • At the top of the Library screen, you’ll see a new button for My Sharing History that lets you see a running list of every piece of content you have shared or downloaded. From there, you can then leave Share Feedback for each of your shares! Did your share go viral? Answer a few quick questions to let your campaign know how the sharing went and even provide a link to your social media post so they can check it out and maybe amplify it.
  • If you tap to “See All” Recent Content, you’ll see a new “…” menu in the top right of that list. Tap there and you can “Mark All As Seen” to clear ALL “new” indicators from this campaign’s content so you can get a clean slate.
  • Every evening, if you’ve shared any content the previous day, you’ll get a Push Notification from Reach reminding you to leave feedback for those shares.
  • In the Campaign Settings window’s Notifications section, you’ll have a new toggle switch to turn on or off Content Feedback Reminder push notifications per campaign.

Improved

  • On the Action Feed tab, when your action cards are loading, you should now see a loader animation rather than a message that there are no action cards.

Fixed

  • The hover tooltips for Content Viewer action buttons on web were sometimes obstructed by the content itself. They’re now back on top where they belong.

For Admins

New

  • New Content Reviews admin screen lets you see all the pre-sharing reviews your users have left about content.
  • New Share Feedback admin screen lets you see all the post-sharing feedback your users have left about content and links you to their posts when provided.
  • On the Asset editor, there are Content Reviews and Share Feedback tabs, and the Actions tab now has expandable sections detailing any share feedback that has been provided from each Share or Download action.

Improved

  • Your Contact Feedback Export contains a bunch of new fields to provide you with all the data from the newly-launched Content Feedback features. More about export and BQ mirror data schema changes here.

23.6.3

Released November 7, 2023 over the air

For Users

Improved

  • Loading the Reach native should now be faster than before if you’re loaded it previously on this device. You should skip the loading screen entirely in most cases!
  • Tapping on a push notification to launch Reach should get you to the related screen more quickly than before.

Fixed

  • In the Native App, expired and inactive action cards were lingering in your Action Feed. They should now disappear as intended.
  • Some pop-up windows throughout the app like customize script, share helper, and search again were not woking in Safari. They now work!

For Admins

Fixed

  • Some pop-up windows in the admin dashboard like Invite User were not woking in Safari. They now work!

23.6.0

Released October 26, 2023 over the air

For Users

Improved

  • The Voter Registration feature now includes New York City’s new e-register portal for New Yorkers.
  • On large screens like web and tablet, the Content Library grid views now more elegantly fill the full width of the screen.

Fixed

  • On Android, when using the Library screen, it was too easy to accidentally swipe open side drawers when trying to horizontally scroll
  • Crash when tapping into a deep link from a content asset viewer screen
  • Sometimes, the Sort By pop-up on the home screen action feed tab would be obstructed by the header

For Admins

New

  • It is now possible for admins to filter their Mobilize events list by Mobilize tags.
  • When admins make new questions, tags, action cards, or contact scripts based on Reach’s Template libraries, your data will now include permanent references showing you which templates were used for which new items. More on the data schema changes here.

Improved

  • All the various drop-downs throughout admin have been improved and standardized to make them more accessible and make their type-to-filter behavior more helpful.

Fixed

  • Action Card Admin form is not showing the asset preview properly when creating or editing a content share action card

23.5.0

Released October 19, 2023 over the air

For Users

Improved

  • On the Action Feed, we’re displaying dates in a better way for Action Cards that are more than a year old.
  • On Android on the Content Asset Viewer screen, swiping between assets should work better without accidentally triggering the Campaigns Drawer or User Drawer to open.

Fixed

  • Reach was sometimes crashing when sorting the Action Feed on old versions of Safari
  • The Content Asset viewer screen filmstrip was not displaying Link assets properly.
  • The save and cancel buttons on the Survey tab of the person screen were too high on web.
  • There was a stray border on Landing Pages in the Campaign Directory

For Admins

New

  • If you create a Question Set with no Display Label, Reach will display it in the app without the collapsible header and dividers so it can blend seamlessly with your Primary Question.

Improved

  • On the Assets screen, the filter sidebar now has drop-downs for Gallery and Label pickers so campaigns with lots of Galleries and Labels are still easy to use.
  • On the Feedback screen, the post column is now a icon button with a tooltip.
  • When users view an asset by tapping into a Content Share Action Card, we will store a view_asset content action so that asset will no longer appear as “new” to them.