Changelog - Valuedesk Weekly Releases and Updates

Here you get information about all changes and releases of Valuedesk (English only).

17.11.2025

🚀 Features and Improvements

  • Added an Audit Log to the Admin Area so that Administrators can track which users could access which content at what time and which users or administrators made these changes.

🪲 Bugfixes

  • Fixed a bug where Ideators and Contributors could not access the News Feed Page while having the correct permission
  • Fixed a bug where Administrators could not change the formatting of an Announcement
  • Fixed a bug in “Rolling Run-Up” Widget that made it impossible to delete a target
  • Fixed an error if converting an Opportunity into a Valuestream without a default “description” field

05.11.2025

🚀 Features and Improvements

  • Improved error handling if SAML login returns a different email address than entered

🪲 Bugfixes

  • Added a specific error message if a tree node is selected in measure sidebar that has been deleted by an admin
  • Do not show an error when two users create a link between two measures at the same time
  • Fixed an error during query cache persistence of process pulse data

29.10.2025

🚀 Features and Improvements

  • Added a feature to access effects from measure history. This also includes deleted effects.
  • Hide tree structures that belong to not used fields in admin view

🪲 Bugfixes

  • Better handling of if the view access to a measure is removed by a different person while viewing the measure
  • Provide more detailed error information to the user when identity provider returns email that is not associated to a user
  • Improved error message when a user creates an effect with a value that an admin has deleted in the same moment so that the user knows, that the field doesn’t exist anymore

22.10.2025

🚀 Features and Improvements

  • Add the possibility to filter measure by their last modification date in the OData API to make incremental updates possible

🪲 Bugfixes

  • Adding exchange rate to a currency with no existing rates will no longer fail.
  • The “default” setting of Sign-Ons can no longer be edited manually. There is now a separate action to “switch” the default setting to another Sign-On to avoid a configuration state where no “default” Sign-On exists.
  • Initial Live-Run-Up widget time frame now uses client fiscal year start setting
  • Streamline validation rules for email addresses between frontend and backend
  • Fixed a bug in the White Spot Matrix Widget where the measure drilldown was empty when a scope on effect type was configured
  • Fixed some bugs with the support link edit view
    • Save button was active although no changes were made
    • Wrong hints shown on validation errors
  • Streamline updates of the last modification date of measures
  • Fixed a bug that allowed the width of the process pulse column to be changed, which led to an inconsistent UI
  • Fixed a bug where generating an import template might result in different column order

16.10.2025

🚀 Features and Improvements

  • UX: Title case is used for more action elements, headlines, and labels
  • Add a feature that allows admins to create announcements in the Newsfeed for their organization

🪲 Bugfixes

  • Add missing translations for effect category fields in OData
  • Deletion of empty support links no longer requires confirmation

08.10.2025

🪲 Bugfixes

  • Fix non compliant OData API response
  • Add missing translations in OData MeasureFieldTranslations

01.10.2025

🚀 Features and Improvements

  • New possibility to add custom links in the support menu for admins
  • Added scope by savings/extra cost for all widgets that support scoping
  • Improve text and UI of the OData info page
  • The setting if an initial value is needed for an effect will be applied to all calculation levels and not just the first one
  • UI Improvements
    • Title case formatting for actions of dashboards and opportunities
    • Display a border on hover over a widget
    • Optimize “+” button for adding filters in processes view
    • Add “close” button on mobile for process filters

🪲 Bugfixes

  • If the aggregation method of a Custom Bar Chart widget is changed to “count”, the “Relative Representation” toggle will now be disabled
  • Fix "new version" toast being shown in both languages at once
  • Fix race condition for concurrent dashboard view updates
  • Fix empty user/group column in permission table. Permissions with empty user/group column belonged to deleted users.
  • Fix incorrect activity history entries when an activity is deleted
  • Fix copy of effects from one level to the next one
  • Fix a bug in the funnel chart widget that shows no processes when the effect of all levels is negative

 

17.09.2025

🚀 Features and Improvements

  • Axis selects in White-Spot-Analysis widget configuration are now sorted alphabetically and searchable
  • Search in “Create” dialog is now restricted to measure and idea titles
  • Improved tree path resolving performance in CSV export for group columns
  • OData API for process, effect and user data
    • A basic API following the OData specification (https://www.odata.org/) for processes and users
    • API endpoints return localized data based on Accept-Language header. Custom client translations of values are supported.
      • An additional endpoint is available to fetch display names for process fields
    • Processes endpoint allows basic OData operations: $count, $skip, $top, $search, $filter (only for scope and project), $extend (for fetching monthly effects optionally)
    • A new page in user settings includes further documentation and necessary steps to integrate the API for users that have permissions to use the API

🪲 Bugfixes

  • Level specific “planned due date” columns are no longer available for selection if the corresponding feature flag is not enabled
  • Timezone dropdown fields are now anchored correctly and are no longer hidden behind other elements
  • Improved behavior of line breaks in text editors
  • Deleted currencies are now ignored if they are still configured as scope in a search configuration in processes view
  • Fixed an error if the same decider was added at the same time by multiple users on the same process
  • Fixed duplicate history entry on effect category creation
  • Fixed an error that caused invalid CSV data if exporting other text fields than “description”

03.09.2025

🪲 Bugfixes

  • Fix selection state not being visible in admin tables
  • Removed all links on licenses page
  • Removed vendor links from licenses page

27.08.2025

🚀 Features and Improvements

  • Improve performance when resizing table columns
  • Improve application startup performance if the last visit of Valuedesk was within the last day. This also applies when opening Valuedesk in multiple tabs.
  • Added a page that lists licenses of all packages that are used to build the Valuedesk application

🪲 Bugfixes

  • Fix drill downs in widgets when a filter on efficiency fields is configured but the measure is not in scope
  • Fix incorrect behavior when starting a document upload during a deployment downtime

13.08.2025

🚀 Features and Improvements

  • Improve label positions in Custom Bar Charts Widgets when relative presentation is selected and there is a gap to target
  • Enhanced the performance on fetching data in several places
  • Small UX improvements
    • Swap user and group tabs in access dialogues of dashboards and processes
    • Measure ID in chip is shown with larger typography
    • Updated design of Navbar’s Plus button and it’s dialog
    • Improved usability of tree selection dialog
    • Show 15 instead of 10 search results of global search
  • Order or values in "potential type” has been changed for a quicker selection
  • Improved loading experience on all table components
  • Improved performance in certain scenarios on opportunity and process tables

🪲 Bugfixes

  • Fix a bug that occurred when a new value was added in an extendable combobox field by a user inside the measure view
  • Fix a bug when the currency of an effect that was entered with the customers default currency was changed
  • Fix a bug where it was possible to convert an idea into a process twice
  • Fix buggy behavior due dates for activities, when a date is entered that is too early or too far in the future
  • Fix a bug where the outdated browser hint was only shown once

🚪 Other/Internal (not for public!!)

  • Add explicit client id tag for sentry events in frontend
  • More strict code quality checks on test files through co-location of source code and test files
  • Enhance performance of super admin custom field and values endpoints
  • Move Container.get usages into try catch blocks

01.08.2025

🚀 Features and Improvements

  • Performance improvements in Feed, Dashboards and Activities view

30.07.2025

🚀 Features and Improvements

  • Performance improvements

25.07.2025

🚀 Features and Improvements

  • Performance improvements
  • Make it more clear which bars in the Waterfall widget offer a drilldown by using the correct mouseover cursor
  • Hide hint regarding end of recurrence in calculation table, when end of recurrence is editable in that Valuestream.

23.07.2025

🚀 Features and Improvements

  • Improve behavior of the frontend after the deployment of a new version to minimize errors due to mismatching frontend and api versions
  • Add the possibility for admins to create a note on user entries in the admin section
  • Add help texts when linking two measures and the user gets no search results
  • Decouple bar and flight path visibility in Weekly Funnel Progression widget to always show the configured flight path even when there is no measure data yet
  • Add measure drilldown in Potential KPI widget to see which measures are behind the shown potential

🪲 Bugfixes

  • Fix empty currencies cell in process lists

16.07.2025

Features and Improvements

  • Make it configurable per Valuestream if the End of Recurrence is changeable by users in the effect edit dialog
  • Add localized errors for the excel import view

Bugfixes

  • Update the last modification date of an archived measure if a link was changed

10.07.2025

Features and Improvements

  • Add a new column in process tables to show the ID of the Opportunity the measure originated from in case the Opportunity Space is used

Bugfixes

02.07.2025

Features and Improvements

  • Add the possibility to duplicate an existing widget from a dashboard you can view to one or more dashboards you can edit
  • Improve delete dialogs for users and groups in admin section

Bugfixes

  • Widget templates that include umlauts are now correctly sorted in “Add widget” dialog in dashboards.
  • Fix a bug where the loading skeleton in the funnel widget was shown even when an error occurred
  • Fixed an error that occurred when using the MethodExplorer while no method field is used in any of the customer's Valuestreams