At Caelor, our driving force is you, our customers. This changelog reflects our commitment to being customer-centric, highlighting features that have been prioritized and developed based on your invaluable feedback and requests.
Gliffy Diagrams widget
We are excited to announce the integration of Gliffy Diagrams into Cosmos. This new feature allows users to embed either one or multiple Gliffy Diagrams directly within Cosmos dashboard. By incorporating Gliffy, renowned for its powerful diagramming capabilities, users can enhance collaboration and increase the visibility of information.
Cosmos navigation supports emojis
Previously limited to icons, Cosmos navigation now supports the inclusion of emojis and the ability to upload custom logos via the Optics styleguide. This update introduces more color and variety, making the navigation interface more engaging and visually appealing to users.
Dark mode colors for the Navigation Menu
We're excited to introduce Dark Mode colors for the navigation menu, a feature highly requested by our customers. Users can now define distinct color palettes of the Navigation Menu for light and dark Confluence themes, enhancing visual comfort and personalization. This update offers the flexibility to maintain a consistent and aesthetically pleasing interface across different viewing modes, including the customization of the main navigation bar and the separate menu entries.
Microsoft Active Directory (Entra ID) integration
We are happy to announce that Cosmos now offers Active Directory integration. This exciting new feature streamlines user management and enhances security by allowing synchronization between your Microsoft Active Directory and the Cosmos.
Be part of the Beta testing
We're currently in the beta phase of our Microsoft Azure Active Directory integration and looking for users to join the beta program. This is a unique opportunity to get early access to this feature and help us refine its functionality → Join now
Add News to navigation
We're happy to announce a feature highly requested by our customers: display your latest news directly in the navigation bar. Users can now quickly access company blogs, keeping them updated with the latest news and announcements.
Countdown widget improvements
Cosmos admins now have the option to set the countdown to disappear upon completion. Additionally, the widget can be linked to specific Confluence pages or external sources, providing more functionality and user engagement once the countdown ends.
Org. Charts
We are excited to announce the release of the Org. Chart feature in Cosmos. Automatically generated from Cosmos employee database, this feature offers a live, accurate representation of your organization's structure, ensuring that any changes in the database are immediately reflected in the Org. Charts.
Under Construction Mode
While setting up your Cosmos - Intranet for Confluence, you might want to keep the changes hidden from the broader employee base until everything is perfectly in place. Activating an "Under Construction" mode is an excellent way to achieve this.
This step is not mandatory but highly recommended for maintaining a seamless transition to your new intranet solution. Additionally, using a sandbox environment for initial setup and testing can also be a beneficial strategy.
Dark Mode Compatibility
With Atlassian's recent release of dark mode, we are excited to announce that we will be updating our app to fully support and embrace this new feature. This adaptation not only ensures a visually pleasing user experience that aligns with Atlassian’s interface, but also demonstrates our commitment to staying current and responsive to new developments. Users can soon enjoy an eye-friendly dark mode version of our app that looks not just professional but absolutely stunning.
Display spaces in Cosmos navigation
Boost the visibility and accessibility of your most improtant Confluence spaces. Cosmos now allows you to display spaces using their native design directly within its navigation, ensuring that key spaces can be quickly and easily accessed by all relevant stakeholders. This enhancement is beneficial for organizations where certain spaces hold a central role in daily operations and decision-making processes.
Enhanced YouTube Video Integration
With the latest update to Cosmos, users now have additional views for displaying YouTube videos, alongside the newly implemented capability to play these videos directly within Cosmos.
Users can choose from various view options for displaying YouTube videos, selecting the one that best suits their needs and preferences → Grid, Magazine, Highlight. Videos can now be played directly in Cosmos, offering a more seamless and integrated user experience as viewers no longer need to navigate away from the platform to watch videos.
Recently active users
Promote engagement and collaboration by displaying recently active users, along with a showcase of their contributions and activities within Confluence.
Dynamic or manual people overviews
Introducing a more engaging way to showcase individuals or groups on your Cosmos Dashboard with our latest feature. Users now have the flexibility to display people dynamically or manually, providing overviews using visually appealing cards or lists.
Engaging Confluence Pages overview for Dashboard
Given that Confluence pages are a fundamental feature within Confluence, improving their visibility is crucial for an optimized user experience. This update allows users to showcase Confluence pages, either manually or dynamically, making them more engaging and visible in a way that is not only more appealing but also easier to navigate. With this features, Cosmos users can enjoy a more streamlined and visually engaging way to access and interact with Confluence pages, directly from their intranet dashboard.
Navigation entry permissions for anonymous users
In our ongoing mission to enhance the Cosmos experience, we've rolled out a feture to add navigation entry permissions for anonymous users. This ensures a streamlined and intuitive browsing experience for every visitor, whether they're logged in or just passing through.
Sync guest users
Cosmos now seamlessly integrates the “Guest User” functionality in Confluence. With this update, guest users can experience and utilize Cosmos just as any regular employee would. During the user sync within Employee Database, administrators are given the flexibility to decide whether they wish to synchronize guest users or not.
Some features within Cosmos may not be available to guest users, depending on how permissions are configured. Guest users can only access the content within the one specified space and have no access to People Network and People Modules.
Anonymous users in Cosmos
Cosmos admins now can define which Dashboard modules and features are accessible to anonymous users. This provides a higher degree of customization and control, ensuring that the content made available aligns with organizational needs. With these improvements, Cosmos extends covered use cases. It can now be used as an extranet portal or a comprehensive documentation center, opening the content to wider audiences without the need for user authentication.
Use Confluence Groups when creating Collections
When creating Cosmos Collections you can start with selecting a Confluence Groups. Additional filters based on Employee Database helps you to define Confluence Groups more precisely. This feature was requested by many Cosmos customers.
Introducing Cards to Cosmos Dashboard and People Network
Enhance Cosmos dashboard experience with Cards inspired by our popular MacroSuite app. Cards can now be added to the main content areas, providing a flexible, visually appealing way to display information and shortcuts. Cards module also improves the user experience by providing a more organized and interactive way to navigate through the People Network.
Fully Customizable & Personalized Navigation Menu
Configuration options for every entry! Choose from various design styles and display your navigation menu bar in specific Confluence spaces and to custom user groups. Tailored to the unique needs of each team
Personalized Dashboard and People Network
We've integrated advanced personalization for both Dashboard and People network screens. Using “People collections”, administrators can tailor the content displayed, ensuring that each user sees only what's relevant to them. This enhancement not only improves the user interface but also ensures a more focused and relevant user experience by selectively displaying modules on the dashboard.
New features for Brand and Colours
Select between white and light grey for the background color to match your brand's palette, adjust the banner's size for a harmonious on-screen presence, and finetune the roundings of all Cosmos elements. This suite of customization options ensures your intranet doesn't just work effectively but also resonates seamlessly with your corporate identity.
Customize People Network
Add new, delete, reorder, and completely customize the People Network to fit all your needs. Know your team, Upcoming birthdays, New starters, Recently active users and more.
Toggle Cosmos Features Off and On
Our latest release introduces an exciting feature that puts Cosmos administrators in control. Now, admins can turn on/off specific intranet features, tailoring the platform to their organization's needs. They can make buttons disappear from the sidebar with a click, like magic!
Cosmos Admins
Get ready to meet the "Cosmos Admin" role, revolutionizing the permissions landscape within our intranet app. Previously, Confluence site admins had exclusive control over Cosmos settings. However, we've now created a dedicated role within Cosmos itself, granting users the same privileges as Confluence admins, regardless of their Confluence site administrator status.
Gradient & Color Pickers
We are excited to announce that the solid and gradient color pickers feature, previously available in the People Network, Newsroom, and Spaceroom headers, has been extended to the Welcome Banner and Countdown panels on the Dashboard. Users can now customize the appearance of these panels by choosing from a wide range of solid colors or creating visually appealing gradients.
Unique URLs for Cosmos Features
Good news from Cosmos! We’ve enhanced the feature accessibility within the app! Users can now copy and share URLs for specific features like People Network, regardless of their current location in the app. Each feature within Cosmos, including Dashboard, People Network, Newsroom, and Space Station, is assigned a unique URL identifier. Farewell to confusing codes and numbers! The updated URLs make it easier to identify and navigate to desired features.
Collections
The latest update introduces the Collections feature, allowing admins to create custom user groups based on specific criteria. Collections are designed to improve user navigation and filtering options within People Network and personalization. Discovering and engaging with relevant user groups in People Network has never been easier!
People Network Redesign
We've got some exciting updates for our People Network feature. We've added panels to People Network to make it more engaging; the "Get to know your team" panel lets you discover and connect with random team members. The "Recently active" panel lets you see who made recent changes and access links to those changes. The "Content creators" panel: Explore user-generated blogs and content. We've also revamped the "Meet the Team" panel, where you can view all users for better communication and collaboration.
Email Sync
We've expanded our employee database to include the user's email address during the initial database sync. We don't store any personal information, including user emails. Feel free to use it User Profile or in the People Network.
Hide/Show users in the database
Admins now have the power to hide users from the Employee Database. This will also hide users from People Network. Have some external users who don't bring value to your intranet? Hide them from sight. With the "Hide" button, selected users can be hidden from the regular database view. The 'View' button reveals the hidden users, allowing admins to bring them back to light with the 'Show' button.
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Dashboard Builder
Counting downtime until that important release? Oh, but you're also super excited about that big event? Don't worry. We got you! You can now add as many dashboard panels as you'd like. Add new, delete, reorder, and completely customize the Cosmos Dashboard to fit all your needs.
MacroSuite Styleguide & Cosmos
We're happy to announce that you can now connect your MacroSuite and Cosmos apps, allowing you to use new or existing app icons in the App Links on the Cosmos dashboard. More customization is coming your way! Stay tuned.
Brand and Colors
Get ready for a pop of color! That's right, your colors, your brand, your intranet. Upload your logo and headers, and change titles, descriptions, and colors. Incorporating these elements will create a sense of consistency throughout your intranet.
