Release Highlights
- With the new Impact Over Time Report, you can track the impact your Projects and Improvements have had over the history of your improvement efforts.
If your organization has enabled the Advanced ROI module, you can also track the Forecasted and Targeted Impacts over time. - The Cost Avoidance Impact Type helps you further break down the financial impact of all your Improvements and Projects.
- You can now use multiplication and division with Calculated Series in Charts .
- Advanced filters have been added to the Reports Snapshot.
- Filters added to the Snapshot will be automatically applied to every Report.
- Set the default view (Detail, List, Tree, Kanban, or Gantt), settings, and filters on Nested Item Lists for any template.
Reach out to your Customer Experience Lead to take advantage of this new feature.
Complete Release Notes
Improvements
- Roles have been made more granular and unified, giving administrators more control over what people can see and do within KaiNexus.
- Notifications for drafts, overdue items, and requested reminders will stop appearing after one year.
- Adding an Impact to the Resolution was cleaned up and made more user-friendly.
- With the new “Request” permission for Improvements and Incidents, users can now request that someone take responsibility for working an Improvement or Incident.
- Projects, Tasks, and Charts can now be saved into a Draft status.
- The User Incident Activity Reports now includes Incident Users.
- If the “Create” button on a Widget Card is set to only enable the creation of a single template, the “Create” screen for that template will always open directly upon the button being clicked.
- Hovering over a Board Filter will display all current filters applied to that Board.
- The horizontal bars on the Impact Summary now show the number of items (Projects, Improvements, etc.) that resulted in that Impact Type or No Change Reason.
- Shared Series are now denoted by a
icon. Hovering over the icon will show the name of the original Chart; clicking the icon will open the original Chart. - You can now choose whether a Shared Series should be displayed along the X or Y-Axis.
- You can now convert Value Attribute Types into Weighted Attribute Types.
Reach out to your Customer Experience Lead to take advantage of this new feature. - Weighted Attributes can now be multi-select or required on a template.
- Weighted Scores can now be assigned to specific Network Locations or Level Types .
- Weighted Scores can now be calculated using averages, multiplication, or by the percentage of the max.
- The option to save a list or item as a spreadsheet is now labeled as
; a tooltip has been added to that option as well. - A number of tooltips have been updated and added to to the “Edit” and “Create Roles” screen.
- The Nest Under Field in the Edit Board window will now read "Start typing to search..."
- The Attribute filter will now read “Attribute Value(s)”.
- The filter for Items in Calendar now reads “Workflow(s)”.
- The filter for Templates in Calendar now reads “Template Type(s)”.
- The filter for Roles in Calendar now reads “Team Role(s)”.
- The option to Delete a Card is now labeled as
in the ellipsis. - The list sorting icons have been updated for clarity. Click
to sort the list by a particular item in ascending order, or click 
to sort in descending order. - The tabs in the “User Activity” section have been reordered.
- Bowling Chart color settings will default to Green for “Color to show if Target is met” and default to Red for “Color to show if Target is not met”.
- Threshold Chart color settings default to Red for “Color on marker on Actual when Target is met” for Second Threshold, Third Threshold and Baseline.
- Charts will now show the type of Chart - Bowling, Threshold, Line/Bar, or Pareto - in the upper left-hand corner of the Chart.
- Selecting Edit Profile in the ellipses of the User Profile menu will now read “Edit Profile”.
- The result type checkboxes have been reordered on the Search results window.
- The “Edit” option on a Card is now labeled with a
icon. - The “User Profile” icon on the user drop-down menu is now labeled with a
icon. - The “Change Profile Picture” icon under the ellipses of the“User Profile” page is now labeled with a
icon. - The “Add Standard Work” icon is now labeled with a
icon. - The button used to bulk create Weighted Attributes is now signified with the
icon. - The button you click to create a new Widget Card now says
. - The option to begin the Board Slideshow is now labeled
. - The button you click to create a new Board now says
. - KaiNexus will now remember the last Location filters you applied to a Board, the last workflow types you checked or unchecked on the Search results window, your most recent Slideshow selections, and your latest PDF export selections and automatically apply those settings the next time you access those screens.
- When bulk editing users in the People section,
will now be displayed near the top left corner of the list of users. - The “Primary Header” and “Secondary Header” options on Cards have been cleaned up and made more user-friendly.
- Hovering over the title of a Widget Card will now show the title in a tooltip.
- The tooltip on the Close Dialog Box
icon has been removed. - The tooltip on the Close Notification Window
icon has been removed. - Users able to edit a Board will now be referred to as Editors.
- The ghost text seen when searching an Item List or People List Card now says “Search Card.”
- Spacing has been fixed around the
icon in the “Dates” section. - Ghost text in the Attribute filter will now read “Attribute Value(s)”.
- Template Header fields have been made larger and darker so they are easier to see.
- Shared Series can now be added to and shared from category Charts without error.
- Board Users can now view People List cards.
- A notice was added when a title tooltip on a custom template exceeds the character limit of 152 characters.
Bugs
- A bug was fixed which caused the screen to freeze when users on certain older devices opened some Charts’ “Edit Data” window.
- A bug was fixed in which the translation of field titles were lost on the export of a PDF.
- A bug was fixed which prevented advanced filters from applying to specific Reports.
- A bug was fixed which caused Tasks in a Standard Work Group to not appear in a nested template for certain users.
- The HTML formatting in the web browser tab will now display correctly
- A bug was fixed which prevented non-Latin-based characters from showing up in PDF exports.
- A bug was fixed which caused Chart templates to be displayed as options when users added Tasks to an Improvement or Incident, and Task templates to be displayed when adding Charts.
- A bug was fixed which prevented users from nesting new Locations under certain existing Locations.
- A bug was fixed which prevented users from opening the Time Tracking window in templates using a custom layout in specific instances.
- A bug was fixed which prevented the Board Location Filter from filtering properly.
- A bug was fixed in which two items could not be nested when one of the times was an inactive template.
- A bug was fixed which caused the Attribute Activity Report to miscount and break when changing pages.
- A bug was fixed which caused the selections in the Location Filter to improperly load Card data when set to “User’s Current Location”.
- A bug was fixed which caused credit to not split accurately when one user was assigned as more than one Team Role on an item.
- A bug was fixed which caused a Nested Items List on a custom layout template to infinitely load when its title’s tooltip was too long.
- A bug was fixed which occasionally caused the right-hand column in a template that contains Dates, Team, Links, and Files to display below the “Details” section.
- A bug was fixed which prevented text from being displayed in bold on Free Style Cards.
- A bug was fixed which caused Tasks users assigned to themselves to show up as ‘Requested’.
- Clicking a Chart thumbnail embedded in a text area will now correctly open that Chart.
- A bug was fixed which prevented Calculated Series from updating on the “Edit Chart” window before saving.
- An error will no longer be generated when exporting a Chart to a PDF while viewing its data.
- The Chart preview now updates correctly in real-time as users edit its data.
- A bug was fixed which showed the name of the Weighted Score in the Attribute title. It will now only show the name of the Weighted Score if there are multiple Weighted Scores being used.
- A bug was fixed which cleans up the appearance of the Chart date axis.
- A bug was fixed which caused the “Show All” option to be visible in the legend even when no series was hidden.
- A bug was fixed which prevented Weighted Scores from clearing out when hitting the “Cancel” button.
- A bug was fixed which caused Threshold Charts to not properly appear in filters.
- A bug was fixed which caused the link of the success message of an item created under a certain template to fail.
- A bug was fixed which added too much padding in the field that allowed images in a custom layout template.
- A bug was fixed which sometimes prevented Weighted Scores from appearing in custom layout templates.
- A bug was fixed which caused the reordering of columns in List and Tree View to misbehave when adding new options to the list.
- A bug was fixed which prevents sorted columns from affecting a filter.
- A bug was fixed which prevented the “Choose Password” header from displaying correctly when resetting a password via email.
- A bug was fixed which caused column orders to not always save correctly when quickly or repeatedly reordering them
- A bug was fixed which caused the graphics on Widget Cards to get smaller as the browser size increased.
- A bug was fixed which caused the List and Tree View columns to change order if a column was added or removed after the existing columns were reordered.