Rounding out 2025, the Scholarly team shipped more great functionality to our customers. We're incredibly thankful to have partnered with some great institutions this year to build a platform that improves academic operations. We love working with you day in and day out.

2026 is going to be big!

Workflow Upgrades

• Steps can now have a "begins at" date and time set. This allows administrators to set specific times when steps in a workflow should begin

  • These times can be configured for everyone in the workflow, everyone in a group, or individuals

• Rich text questions in workflows can now have file attachments and links disabled

• Appointment track type can now be used as an eligibility criterion for faculty-initiated workflows

• Changed the automated emails from the system to use a new email address

Read-only Permissions

• Introduced a new permission variant, read-only

• The read-only permission does what it says on the tin: opens up different parts of the application but does not allow for modifying the data

• The read-only permission level is great for folks that might need information but not the ability to manage workflows and data

• This can be applied to our existing base roles of institution admin, department admin, and workflow manager

• Permissions and roles can be further configured on an institution-by-institution basis. If you have questions about this, please request a demo!

API Upgrades

• Folders within My Documents can now be managed through the API

• Files can now be uploaded via the Scholarly API into a faculty member's My Documents

• Leave objects can now have an external ID set from the API, allowing for more predictable syncing from other systems

• Added MD5 checksums to all file attachment properties in the API, which makes for easier create-or-update semantics

Miscellaneous Improvements and Fixes

• We squashed the last accessibility (a11y) violations within our application and re-published our Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT)

• We fixed a few miscellaneous issues with Web of Science integrations

• Added integrations for Canvas and One45

• Improved performance across the application to keep the Scholarly experience snappy

• Added Academic Year as a possible type for a faculty activity property

• Fixed a bug where the page would turn blank after uploading a file in Google Chrome

• Fixed an issue with character encodings in CV exports

• Improved our matching and deduplication algorithm to better associate faculty activities when being ingested from multiple sources

• Fixed a bug with grid scrollbars

• Fixed a bug with sorting issue with faculty activities by date

• Committee roles can now be self-served

That’s a wrap for December and for 2025. Questions or feedback? Your account team is here to help at support@scholarlysoftware.com. See you next month!