Workplace 3.5

Private communities is a completely new additional Workplace communities feature that refines team collaboration, by enabling discrete working or interest groups to discuss topics and tasks within an invitation-only community.

Workplace users who are not members of a private community do not have access to any content within the community, and the community is hidden from view.

When a private community is created, individual members can be added/invited, based on their involvement in a particular project, department, team, or any other working or interest group.

Within a private community, members can create discussions (each with their own comments and threads), as well as share documents exclusively amongst the private community members.

Private community members with manager-level access can:

Learn more about private communities in Managing a private community.

All Workplace users can now create and update communities themselves.

This alleviates pressure on Workplace system administrators, who previously were required to create, edit and archive communities.

Any Workplace user can now:

^* For private communities, only members with manager-level access can perform these functions.

Learn more about creating communities in Creating a community.

When the organisation (org) chart is initially loaded, it does so more rapidly, as only users presented in the visible org chart view are loaded as opposed to all users in the organisation.

The org chart also loads in its entirety without cards being repositioned upon page load completion. This makes it easier to navigate between users at different levels within the org chart. Additionally, the cards of people in an org chart who do not have Workplace user accounts are no longer clickable, and no longer lead to an empty staff profile.

The ability for all users to mark a read notification as unread is now available.

Keyboard scrolling and user selection have been made easier and load times for this functionality has been reduced.

For security reasons, URLs that are automatically generated by navigating the staff directory or searching for staff members, no longer contain username values.

Therefore, third-party applications that integrate with Workplace, like Google Analytics, no longer have direct access to this anonymous data.

Any newly created staff profile field is now automatically included in search results. Therefore, the search configuration step required when creating a new staff profile field is no longer required.