November brought plenty of improvements throughout the Scholarly platform, with a focus on workflows and adding to the capabilities of our API. Here are the big takeaways:

Workflow Collections

• Faculty-initiated Workflows can now belong to collections

• Collections are groups of workflows

• Collections display on faculty dashboard when a faculty member is eligible for any of the workflows within a collection

• Collection text can be configured by institution admins

• These are a great way of surfacing leave workflows

API Improvements

• Leave records are now available in the API

• Created a Backups API endpoint, for programmatically creating backups of all data for customers

• Added list endpoints for both addresses and phone numbers to list all records within an institution

• Emails can now be managed through the API

Miscellaneous Improvements and Fixes

• Limited profile views (i.e. how faculty members see their peers) can now be configured on a per-institution or per-department basis

• Improved performance when adding many faculty members to a workflow

• Leave records can now have custom fields configured

• Rolled out a new multi-select input component for easier selecting of multiple values

• Folders within My Documents can now be downloaded as a zip file

• Improved a bug with email addresses in sandbox accounts

• Improved our Web of Science synchronization to automatically find faculty members' Researcher IDs at an institution

• Renamed "Display ends at" and "ends at" to "Due by" and "Closes on", respectively

• Fixed a few design bugs with scrollbars showing up when they shouldn't

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