Product Updates, August 2025

Summary

Scholarly Software’s August 2025 product updates focus on enhancing collaboration, configurability, and reliability for higher education administrators and faculty. Key improvements include real-time collaborative review editing, expanded custom fields for appointment data, and robust admin controls for user provisioning and security. The platform’s API and integrations have been strengthened for faster, cleaner data flows, while new features in profiles and activities support smarter identifier management and improved publication matching. Data quality and performance have been addressed through comprehensive audit trails and refined analytics, all designed to help institutions unlock the power of their data and streamline workflows. Scholarly’s commitment to secure, user-friendly innovation is evident throughout these updates.

What new collaboration features were introduced in August 2025? * Scholarly now supports live rich-text editing in review steps, enabling committees to collaborate directly in real time, along with new question types for more flexible team reviews.
How has appointment data management improved? * Administrators can now configure custom fields (text, rich text, date, boolean, integer) for appointments, ensuring data reflects each institution’s unique model and integrates seamlessly with exports and downstream systems.
What enhancements were made to admin controls and security? * Self-serve academic term management, institution-level provisioning controls, and SSO group-hierarchy mapping have been added, making access management more secure and user-friendly.
How has Scholarly’s API and integration support evolved? * The API now features cursor-based pagination, new endpoints and webhooks, improved performance, and expanded import tooling, supporting smoother integrations and public hosting needs.
What steps has Scholarly taken to improve data quality and reporting? * Comprehensive audit trails, refined analytics (including histogram improvements), and better error handling ensure reliable, transparent, and actionable data for institutions.

Anything else worth mentioning:

Scholarly encourages feedback and offers dedicated account team support at support@scholarlysoftware.com.
All updates align with Scholarly’s mission to automate workflows and improve faculty experiences, while maintaining a strong focus on security and institutional trust.

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Aug 29, 2025

Product Updates, August 2025

August at Scholarly was all about collaboration, configurability, and rock‑solid reliability. We shipped a host of updates that make multi‑reviewer workflows smoother, give administrators more control, and strengthen our API for the integrations you run every day. (Missed the July edition? Catch up on recent momentum in our monthly series.)

Collaborative Reviews — Real‑Time Editing & Better Questions

Live rich‑text editing in review steps so committees can collaborate directly in Scholarly.
New question types for team reviews, expanding what you can collect and how you can structure responses.
Quality‑of‑life fixes: collaborative mode surfaces clearer date‑override displays and we added validation for choice‑based questions.

Appointment Data — Custom Fields, Your Way

Configurable custom fields (text, rich text, date, boolean, integer) for primary and additional appointments.
Designed to surface in grids, exports, and downstream integrations so appointment data can reflect your institution’s exact model.

Admin Controls — Self‑Serve & Secure by Default

Self‑serve academic terms: edit and manage term definitions directly in the app.
Provisioning controls: institution‑level setting to enable/disable automatic user provisioning, plus SSO group‑hierarchy mapping for cleaner access control. Unauthorized users can be guided to the right admins instead of creating accounts automatically.
Simpler account management: edit primary vs. secondary email addresses right from the user panel.

Public API & Integrations — Faster, Cleaner, More Complete

Cursor‑based pagination and streamlined routes for improved performance and cleaner integration code.
New endpoints & events: departments, ranks, primary appointments, and additional appointments; plus webhooks for create/update/delete on core profile data.
Performance & stability: faster activity‑index responses; better handling of employee‑ID feeds; fewer edge‑case errors during formula evaluation and imports.
Import tooling: we've improved tooling and integration support for SFTP sources, as well as bulk data ingestion.

Profiles & Activities — Smarter IDs, Better Cloning, Stronger Exports

Multiple identifiers per profile (e.g., HR IDs and external scholarly IDs), making it easy to store many different IDs that might exist for faculty members at the institution.
Publication matching: continued rollout of our probabilistic matcher to reconcile works from multiple sources.
Export fixes: addressed CV edge cases like truncated descriptions and non‑current appointment titles.

Data Quality, Reliability & Performance

Audit trail: comprehensive change history for key resources with an in‑app review UI.
Grids & labels: fixed a by with roster searches by ID; appointment grids now label future‑dated appointments as “Future.”
API hardening: eliminated several error conditions and improved error messages when they do occur. Added capacity to our API to allow for public hosting of university sites.