Changelog - Valuedesk Weekly Releases and Updates

17.12.2025

🚀 Features and Improvements

• New dashboard default colors
• Changed default selection in decision levels to “Request Decision”
• Creating a dedicated history entry when an opportunity is converted into a process
• Allow administrators to change user names
• Add option to prevent owners from completing their own measures
• Process ID and Valuestream name are now two separate chips on measure detail page

🪲 Bugfixes

• Improved messages when entering invalid content where an integer was expected, e.g. in filters
• Fixed an issue that prevented removal of permissions of deleted dashboards
• Missing german translation added for the select fields for "No options” message

10.12.2025

🪲 Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where users that are assigned to measures in multiple ways (e.g. activities and levels) could not be deleted
• Fix a very rare transactional error that occurs while updating a measure

03.12.2025

🚀 Features and Improvements

• New admin section for dashboard management that enables admins transferring dashboard ownership to other users
• Add new columns and filter possibilities in process tables to display the deviation between planned and current due date of levels
• Replaced all info icons from filled to outline version

🪲 Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where users in rare situations got an error when filling out a sidebar field while someone else was updating the same field at the same time
• Fixed a bug that caused overflowing images in text editors in the measure sidebar
• Fixed an error that prevented display of targets in Custom Bar Chart widget
• Fixed an error on copy of level values that executed the copy operation for all effects instead of only a specific effect
• Fixed a bug in excel effect import which caused translations for recurring types to not load.

 

26.11.2025

🚀 Features and Improvements

• Improved hints on the user integrations page when an API token has been expired

🪲 Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where no targets were displayed in the Project Progress Widget
• Fixed a bug where users where stuck in a loading state after login when using Safari webbrowser
• Fixed a bug where some users were not able to login due to an error in 2-factor-authentication process

19.11.2025

🪲 Bugfixes

• Validate widget name length to avoid errors after saving a widget with a too long name

• Resolved an error that occurred when saving filters that referenced field/fields no longer assigned to the relevant valuestream.

• Fixed an issue with effect category history entries if only changing the recurrence type

• Fixed a bug that prevented users from updating recurring effects when they lacked permission to change the “End of Recurrence” date, ensuring that uploads now correctly preserve the existing “End of Recurrence” date if it isn't specified in the upload file.

12.11.2025

🚀 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