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Release Notes

      March 2023

      • GiftingEvents.com:
        • General:
          • Performance, Security, and Stability improvements
        • Resolves:
          • [CVE-2023-22797] Possible Open Redirect Vulnerability in Action Pack
          • [CVE-2022-44566] Possible Denial of Service Vulnerability in ActiveRecord’s PostgreSQL
          • [CVE-2023-22795] Possible ReDoS based DoS vulnerability in Action Dispatch
          • [CVE-2023-22794] SQL Injection Vulnerability via ActiveRecord comments
          • [CVE-2023-22796] Possible ReDoS based DoS vulnerability in Active Support’s underscore
          • [CVE-2023-22792] Possible ReDoS based DoS vulnerability in Action Dispatch
      • Recognition Wall Viewer for Public:
        • General:
          • Performance, Security, and Stability improvements
            • Upgraded from Rails version 7.0.4 to 7.0.4.2 (current).
            • Upgraded from Ruby version 3.1.7 to 3.2.1 (current).
        • Resolves:
          • [CVE-2023-22797] Possible Open Redirect Vulnerability in Action Pack
          • [CVE-2022-44566] Possible Denial of Service Vulnerability in ActiveRecord’s PostgreSQL
          • [CVE-2023-22795] Possible ReDoS based DoS vulnerability in Action Dispatch
          • [CVE-2023-22794] SQL Injection Vulnerability via ActiveRecord comments
          • [CVE-2023-22796] Possible ReDoS based DoS vulnerability in Active Support’s underscore
          • [CVE-2023-22792] Possible ReDoS based DoS vulnerability in Action Dispatch
      • RecognitionNotes.com:
        • General:
          • Performance, Security, and Stability improvements
        • Resolves:
          • [CVE-2023-22797] Possible Open Redirect Vulnerability in Action Pack
          • [CVE-2022-44566] Possible Denial of Service Vulnerability in ActiveRecord’s PostgreSQL
          • [CVE-2023-22795] Possible ReDoS based DoS vulnerability in Action Dispatch
          • [CVE-2023-22794] SQL Injection Vulnerability via ActiveRecord comments
          • [CVE-2023-22796] Possible ReDoS based DoS vulnerability in Active Support’s underscore
          • [CVE-2023-22792] Possible ReDoS based DoS vulnerability in Action Dispatch
      • GiftnetOnline.com:
        • SF 00205795 – GOL Enhancement – Capturing size for 2nd Gift for NXJ
      • Recognition Wall Album:
        • SF 00204960 – Rec Wall Album — Issue with Manager Post Dislocation & No manager post case
      • Surveys (MCFApps):
        • SF 00205375 – Survey Template Adjustment – style for a new addition to the general survey template
      • HaloDirect.com

      Any questions – please contact your Account Manager

      February 2023

      • GiftnetOnline.com:
        • GiftnetOnline.com R4 layout includes WCAG improvements
        • Security Updates
        • Minor Improvements and bug fixes

      Any questions – please contact your Account Manager

      December 2022

      • GiftingEvents.com:
        • Security:
          • Resolved CVE-2021-33621: HTTP response splitting in CGI.
      • Recognition Wall Viewer for Public:
        • Performance and stability improvements
        • Security:
          • Resolved CVE-2021-33621: HTTP response splitting in CGI.
      • Recognition Notes:
        • Security:
          • Resolved CVE-2021-33621: HTTP response splitting in CGI.
      • GiftnetOnline.com:
        • General:
          • Removed COVID-19 message.
          • Updated the editing default to disable names on checkout.

      Any questions – please contact your Account Manager

      November 2022

      • GiftingEvents.com:
        • Performance and stability improvements

      Any questions – please contact your Account Manager

      October 2022

      • GiftingEvents.com:
        • General:
          • (Fixed) Addressed an issue where, under certain circumstances, the FAQ button became partially obscured by flash messages.
          • Performance Improvements:
            • Removed calls to decommissioned web services.
            • Removed legacy framework defaults.
        • Under the hood:
          • (New) US zip code format validation

      Any questions – please contact your Account Manager

      April 2022

      • GiftnetOnline.com:
        • Fixed the issue with multi-signer text font color
        • Fixed the issue with hyperlink color on FAQ
        • Updated the footer copyright to 2022

      Any questions – please contact your Account Manager

      January 2022

      • GiftnetOnline.com:
        • Added missing Polish translations
        • Increased employee ID field length
        • Filter Category option for ‘Toys, kid, baby” for responsive 3 layout
        • Fixed an issue with the language pulldown for multiple languages and color schemes
      • Recognition Wall:
        • Fixed an issue with ecard images appearing blurry on modal pop-up

      Any questions – please contact your Account Manager

      November 2021

      • GiftnetOnline.com:
        • Responsive 3+ improvements to the user experience.
        • Upgraded underlying library (Bootstrap) on the recognition cards page.
        • Web service to support Recognition Wall Viewer for Public (RWVP)
        • Other minor tickets
      • Recognition Wall:
        • Web service to support Recognition Wall Viewer for Public (RWVP)
      • Recognition Wall for Public released into production.

      Any questions – please contact your Account Manager

      October 2021

      • Recognitionnotes.com:
        • Version 2.2.3.0.5:
          • Home Page:
            • (NEW) Certificate notes – optional card assigned to one person who functions as a certificate producer. Requires population data.
            • Addressed an issue where notes scheduled in the future showed time using GMT rather than the user’s time zone.
          • Registrations:
            • (NEW) Added eea_resident to the form.
            • (NEW) Added eea_country to the form.
          • Confirmations:
            • (NEW) Added eea_resident to the form.
            • (NEW) Added eea_country to the form.
          • My Profile:
            • Edit Note form:
              • (NEW) Added eea_resident to the form.
              • (NEW) Added eea_country to the form.
            • Show Note form:
              • Added the time to the ‘send date’ field.
            • Index:
              • Addressed an issue where scheduled noted displayed time using GMT rather than the user’s time zone.
          • Notebook:
            • (NEW) Added a ‘Copies’ tab that is only visible for population data configured companies with managers that receive notes when the ‘copy manager’ check box is checked.
            • Improved internationalization of the tabs.
          • Emails:
            • Note email:
              • Separated the manager’s note to a separate email that doesn’t include the reply or view notebook links.
              • Corrected a typographic error.
            • (NEW) Send Manager’s Note email
            • Import Report email:
              • (NEW) Added an overview table that includes counts of new, updated, disabled, and failed records.
          • Admin Page:
            • Dashboards and Reports:
              • General:
                • Addressed an issue where, under certain conditions, red text printed in black.
              • Company Card Waterfall section:
                • (NEW) Display disabled card names in red.
                • (NEW) Added a legend to explain the red-colored card names.
              • Department Card Waterfall section:
                • (NEW) Display disabled card names in red.
                • (NEW) Added a legend to explain the red-colored card names.
            • Reports:
              • (NEW) Birthdays section
              • Company Cards section:
                • (NEW) Added an option to hide inactive cards.
                • Company Cards Details sub-section:
                  • Addressed an issue where certain columns would not properly hide when viewed on mobile devices.
              • Company Departments section:
                • (NEW) added ‘CC Manager’ column.
                • (NEW) Added an option to hide inactive cards.
              • Company Recognition Sentiment section:
                • (NEW) Added an option to hide inactive cards.
              • Department Cards section:
                • Addressed an issue where certain columns would not properly hide when viewed on mobile devices.
              • Department Recognition Sentiment section:
                • (NEW) Added an option to hide inactive cards.
              • Disabled Email Accounts section:
                • (NEW) Employees with Alternate Departments section.
              • Notes Details section:
                • (NEW) Certificates Details section
              • Schedule Notes section:
                • (NEW) Hid the sender email address and recipient email address on mobile devices.
            • Account Settings:
              • Departments:
                • (NEW) Added ‘CC Manager’ field to set copy manager as default for department emails.
            • Member Management:
              • Permissions:
                • Addressed an issue where, under certain circumstances, the cancel warning dialog displayed over one time.
              • Import:
                • Addressed an issue where, under certain circumstances, new employees were registered as special.
                • (NEW) Added counts of ‘disabled’ and ‘unknown_disabled’ accounts.
          • ActiveAdmin:
            • Dashboard Page:
              • (NEW) Added ‘Recent Note Volume’ panel that shows the past seven-day activity.
            • Domain Page:
              • (NEW) Added ‘Confirmed Plus Members’ count to the show page.
            • (NEW) EEA Countries
            • Person Page:
              • Changed ‘note sent’ panel contents to descending order by date.
              • Changed ‘notes received’ panel contents to descending order by date.
              • (NEW) Added eea_resident field to show and edit pages.
              • (NEW) Added eea_country field to show and edit pages.
            • Note Page:
              • Added the cc column to the index page.
              • Added the cc filed to the show page.
          • Security:
            • Updated all script tags to include nonce attribute.

      Any questions – please contact your Account Manager

      April 2021

      • Giftnetonline.com:
        • General:
          • Addressed an issue where under certain conditions, an email error message displays rather than the correct error for incorrect state/province.
          • (Improvement) Added id attribute to the “Choose this Gift” button.
        • Mobile:
          • Addressed an issue where Arabic the phone number was cut off the return policy.
          • Addressed an issue where the phone number text color same as the background color for French users.
          • Privacy Policy: Addressed an issue where the privacy policy font was incorrect.
        • Security Improvements:
          • (Improvement) Logout button redirects and ask for login details.
          • (Improvement) Employee information shown in URL on Create PDF on R3 Page and download PDF without Login.
          • (Improvement) Prevent direct URL browses company with no browse configuration.
          • (Improvement) Search and Filter works with direct URL and gives error without company code.
          • (Improvement) Some direct URL links redirect to Error Page.
          • (Improvement) Contact Form security Testing: Fixed an issue where the browser Hangs when the user enters an invalid Email Id.
          • (Improvement) Bulk shows View Celebratory messages and there are no ecards.
          • Addressed an issue where a console error on the company login screen occurs when the user clicked forgot password.
          • Addressed an issue where the contact form’s email field accepted invalid email id when Contact by Phone is selected.
          • Addressed an issue where a direct link after user login redirects to the gift selection page.

      Any questions – please contact your Account Manager

      March 2020

      • GiftingEvents.com:
        • General:
          • (NEW) Added modal dialog to select optionally between multiple source codes.
          • Replaced multiple selection lists with a calendar control to accept a date.
        • Security:
          • (NEW) Added anti-clickjacking protection for older browsers.
          • Moved database credentials to the encrypted credentials datastore.
        • Pick an Award:
          • Minor styling update to the product description box.
          • Minor placement update to the product image.
          • Addressed an issue where changing the award type cleared the new selection after clicking the okay button on the dialog box.
        • Summary Tab:
          • (NEW) Hide the Recipient Type if display_recipient_type attribute is true.
          • Do not display image if the image is unavailable.
          • Display appropriate column headers for retirement awards.
          • (NEW) Hide the billing information when the show_billing_information attribute is false.
        • Email:
          • (NEW) Hide the terms and conditions when not defined.
          • (NEW) Hide the billing information when the show_billing_information attribute is false.
          • (NEW) Hide the receipt type when the display_billing_information attribute is false.

      Any questions – please contact your Account Manager

      January 2020

      • Recognitionnotes.com:
        • Version 2.2.3.0.2:
          • Notes form:
            • (NEW) Added buttons for users that are part of companies with population data AND special_rules enabled to send notes to non-population email addresses.
          • Notebook:
            • Addressed an issue where under certain circumstances, clicking the unfavorite button could adversely affect note placement.
            • Addressed an issue where the favorite and unfavorite icons printed with the incorrect colors.
          • Emails:
            • Note email:
              • Addressed an issue where the special attribute was incorrectly set for recipients added through sent notes.
          • Admin Page:
            • Dashboard Designer Modal:
              • (NEW) All Members Pie Chart panel.
              • (NEW) Department Card Waterfall Chart panel.
              • (NEW) Department Sentiment Radar Chart panel.
              • (NEW) Non-Plus Members Pie Chart panel.
              • (NEW) Plus Member Pie Chart panel.
              • (NEW) Plus Non-Confirmed Pie Chart panel.
              • Dashboard Designer form:
                • Improved placement of the help icon on each section tile.
                • Improved the way section parameters work.
            • Report Designer Modal:
              • (NEW) All Members Pie Chart panel.
              • (NEW) Department Card Waterfall Chart panel.
              • (NEW) Department Recognition Sentiment panel.
              • (NEW) Department Sentiment Radar Chart panel.
              • (NEW) Non-Plus Members Pie Chart panel.
              • (NEW) Plus Member Pie Chart panel.
              • (NEW) Plus Non-Confirmed Pie Chart panel.
              • Report Designer form:
                • Improved placement of the help icon on each section tile.
                • Improved the way section parameters work.
            • Dashboards and Reports:
              • General:
                • System level section can override default attributes.
                • Waterfall Charts:
                  • Addressed an issue where the drop line would not extend to the x axis for tall charts.
                • Pie Charts:
                  • Reduced the legend font size to 11 point.
              • (NEW) All Members Pie Chart.
              • Company Sentiment Radar Chart section:
                • Limit company sentiments to those associated with company level cards.
                • Sort by sentiment name for consistent output.
              • (NEW) Department Card Waterfall Chart section.
              • (NEW) Department Sentiment Radar Chart section.
                • Sort by sentiment name for consistent output.
              • (NEW) Non-Plus Members Pie Chart.
              • Plus Confirmed Pie Chart section:
                • Renamed from ‘Confirmed Plus Pie Chart’ for improved consistency.
              • (NEW) Plus Member Pie Chart.
              • (NEW) Plus Non-Confirmed Pie Chart section.
            • Reports:
              • General:
                • (NEW) Key section data appears as part of section title.
                • Updated footer related sections to exclude all unselected sections.
                • Addressed an issue where column sorting was not available until after a page refresh.
              • System Default Report:
                • Disabled HR Invalidated Email Accounts section.
                • Disabled Non-Confirmed Plus Members section.
                • Disabled Special Email Accounts section.
              • Company Departments section:
                • Addressed an issue where the department notes sent does not agree with other report sections.
              • Company Recognition Sentiment section:
                • Limited company sentiments to those associated with company level cards.
              • Department Cards section:
                • Removes self-referencing related sections entry.
                • Added overview section entry.
              • (NEW) Department Recognition Sentiment section
              • Index section:
                • Updated titles for sections that include parameter value.
              • (NEW) Notes Details section – optional
              • Overview section:
                • Reformatted the members group for improved clarity.
                • Reformatted the excluded members group for improved clarity.
                • Updated the Related sections list to include relevant new report sections.
                • (NEW) Notes scheduled count.
              • Top Recipients section:
                • (NEW) Count appears in the section title.
              • Top Senders section:
                • (NEW) Count appears in the section title.
            • Account Settings:
              • Improved the clarity of the tooltip associated with the Account Settings menu.
            • Member Management:
              • HR Invalidated Members:
                • Set the SK field when an email account is removed from HR_invalidated.
              • Addressed an issue where some buttons displayed unlined text on mouseover.
          • Under The Hood:
            • General:
              • Improved the check for emails belonging in a company’s allowed_domains list.
              • Internationalized alert text in registrations.js.
              • Internationalized alert text in notebook.js.
            • Configuration Changes:
              • Replaced the classic autoloader with the preferred Zeitwerk autoloader.
              • Made Active Record use stable #cache_key alongside new #cache_version method.
              • Made ‘form_with’ generate id attributes for any generated HTML tags.
              • Return false instead of self when enqueuing is aborted from a callback.
              • Sent Active Storage analysis and purge jobs to dedicated queues.
              • When assigning to a collection of attachments declared via ‘has_many_attached,’ replace existing attachments instead of appending.
              • Use ActionMailer::MailDeliveryJob for sending parameterized and normal mail.
              • Enabled the same cache key to be reused when the object being cached of type ‘ActiveRecord::Relation’ changes by moving the volatile information of the relation’s cache key into the cache version to support recycling cache key.
          • Security:
            • Use AES-256-GCM authenticated encryption for encrypting messages instead of AES-256-CBC.
            • Added default protection from forgery to ActionController::Base instead of in ApplicationController.
            • Use SHA-1 instead of MD5 to generate non-sensitive digests, such as the ETag header.
            • Don’t force requests from old versions of IE to be UTF-8 encoded.
            • Embedded purpose and expiry metadata inside signed and encrypted cookies for increased security.
            • Changed the return value of ‘ActionDispatch::Response#content_type’ to Content-Type header without modification.
            • Send Note Form:
              • Updated recaptcha to use TurboLinks.
              • Added nonce attribute to JavaScript tag.

      Any questions – please contact your Account Manager

      December 2019

      • GiftnetOnline.com:
        • Template enhancements.
        • Time-out redirect breaks if user clicks on item detail.
        • International email setup.

      Any questions – please contact your Account Manager

      October 2019

      • GiftingEvents.com:
        • General:
          • Improved instructions modal font size to improve formatting and readability.
          • Addressed an issue where, at certain screen widths, the instructions modal displayed wider than the screen resolution.
          • Addressed an issue where field validations produced browser console errors when attempting to clear nonexistent error messages.
        • ‘Pick an Award’ partial:
          • Addressed an issue where, at certain screen widths, the product image could become distorted.
          • Addressed an issue where, at certain screen widths, the price, if present, could overwrite its label.
          • Addressed an issue where, at certain screen widths, the product image could obscure the price, if present.
          • Addressed an issue where, at certain screen widths, the product image could obscure the CA Prop 65 link, if present.
          • Addressed an issue where the CA Prop 65 modal would not close.
          • Addressed an issue where the change warning dialog cancel button cleared the previous Team/Individual selection.
        • Under the hood:
          • Updated application to use encrypted credentials.
          • Improved performance.
          • Technology Updates.
      • Recognitionnotes.com:
        • Version 2.2.3.0.2:
          • What’s New page:
            • Updated the details about the new Favorites notebook tab.
          • Join NotesPlus form:
            • Addressed an issue where under certain rare circumstances, the search key value was not set.
            • Addressed an issue where under certain rare circumstances, the domain was saved with the wrong case.
          • Send Note form:
            • All address lookup and manually entered recipient information for companies with population data that use special mode.
          • My Profile:
            • (NEW) Added Favorites count on the ‘Your Account Highlights’ pane.
            • (NEW) Added a pill on the ‘Upcoming Notes’ menu containing the upcoming notes count.
            • (NEW) Added hyperlinks to notebook tabs from non-zero items under ‘Lifetime:’
          • Notebook:
            • (NEW) Added a ‘Favorite’ tab
            • (NEW) Added a favorite toggle (heart icon in the upper right corner) to each note.
            • Improved tooltip text for viewed (green checkmark) icon.
            • Addressed a page layout issue affecting users who are not logged in.
          • Emails:
            • Note email:
              • Improved resiliency when an email contains missing company logo or card art.
              • Addressed an issue where under certain rare circumstances, the timezone is not set for new unknown email addresses.
          • Admin Page:
            • Dashboards and Reports:
              • Sentiment Radar Chart section.
                • Renamed to ‘Company Sentiment Radar Chart’
              • Card Waterfall Chart section.
                • Renamed to ‘Company Card Waterfall Chart’
            • Reports:
              • Company Cards section:
                • (NEW) Added table footer with the total for the notes column.
              • Department Cards section:
                • (NEW) Added ‘No Assigned Department’ as the last row with people and notes counts.
                • (NEW) Added table footer with the total for the notes column.
                • Removed the legend. (no longer necessary with the ‘No Assigned Department’ row.)
                • Addressed an issue where ‘shared with’ indicated ‘Others’ rather than ‘None.’
              • Company Departments section:
                • (NEW) Department Cards Sent column.
                • (NEW) Total Cards Sent column.
                • (NEW) Legend added to the footer.
                • Updated Employee Count format.
                • Updated Cards count format.
                • Updated Total format.
              • Unsubscribed Email Accounts section:
                • Updated report to sort by email address.
                • Updated Total format.
              • Blocked Email Accounts section:
                • Updated report to sort by email address.
                • Updated Total format.
              • Disabled Email Accounts section:
                • Updated report to sort by email address.
                • Updated Total format.
              • HR Invalidated Email Accounts section:
                • Updated report to sort by email address.
                • Updated Total format.
              • Non-Confirmed Plus Members section:
                • Updated Total format.
                • Significant performance improvements.
              • Top Senders section:
                • (NEW) Count of notes sent by top senders.
                • Performance improvements.
              • Top Recipients section:
                • (NEW) Count of notes received by top recipients.
                • Performance improvements.
              • Note Open Rate section:
                • Fixed an issue where division by zero displays ‘NaN.’ Replaced with zero.
              • Special Email Accounts section:
                • Updated Total format.
              • HR Administrators section:
                • Updated Total format.
                • Set the initial sort order by email address.
              • Recognition Sentiment section:
                • Renamed as ‘Company Recognition Sentiment’ section.
            • Account Settings:
              • Advanced Settings:
                • Improved the way missing logos are updated.
                • Addressed an issue where ‘Delete FAQ Page Marquee’ failed.
                • Addressed an issue where ‘Delete Home Page Marquee’ failed.
              • (NEW) Department index page, show, and edit forms.
            • Employee Management:
              • Employee Management
                • Removed a stray </div> tag.
            • Employee Management:
              • Import:
                • Set employee’s special attribute to false when the employee is included in the population spreadsheet.
          • Under The Hood:
            • Added checks to prevent emailing scheduled notes for opted_out, disabled, blocked, and hr_invalidated senders or recipients.
            • Addressed a typographical error with a message about the sender’s email address being hr_invalidated.
            • (NEW) Person can have an ‘include with department.’ If present, it is treated as their assigned department.
            • Migrated application-specific keys to encrypted credentials.

      Any questions – please contact your Account Manager

      August 2019

      • GiftnetOnline.com:
        • Security improvement:
          • Updated Sophos UTM from Version 9.603-1 to 9.605-1.
      • Recognitionnotes.com:
        • Version 2.2.3.0.2:
          • General:
            • Updated the company information in the terms and conditions text.
            • Updated the application favicon.
          • Join NotesPlus form:
            • (NEW) Allow email added with population data to receive validation email rather than a flash message.
          • My Profile:
            • (NEW) Display ‘Scheduled’ section when the company account has allow_events enabled.
            • Improved the vertical spacing of ‘Your Account Highlights’ section.
            • Removed label redundancies.
            • Removed date of birth year from the form.
            • Addressed an issue where the wrong date field was displayed when showing a scheduled note.
          • Notes Form:
            • Improved the first name lookup performance significantly for population data.
            • Addressed an issue where the submit button validation executed multiple times.
            • Addressed an issue where replying to a note while not logged in failed to validate.
            • Addressed an issue where validation of the recipient email address failed when the user logged in mid-form after previously entering a blocked, disabled, or hr_invalidated email address.
          • Notebook:
            • Increased the vertical height of the note message area.
            • Reduced the note footer height and improved footer item placement.
            • Updated the page where moving the mouse over the sort icons changes the cursor icon.
            • Addressed an issue where repeated clicks of any sort button caused images and messages to alternate positions.
            • Addressed an issue where the first click on the ‘sort by date’ switch had no effect.
            • Addressed an issue where after archiving or unarchiving, items on sent and received tabs could be incorrectly sorted.
            • Addressed an issue where the animation was not executed when archiving or unarchiving a note.
            • Addressed an issue where the viewed indicator (green checkmark) for sent notes was not properly displayed when archiving or unarchiving a note.
            • Addressed an issue where the responding_to indicator (blue chain links) for received and sent notes was not properly displayed when archiving or unarchiving a note.
          • Emails:
            • Note Email:
              • Addressed a cosmetic issue when the email is viewed using Outlook 16 (Window 7, Windows 10, Windows 10 – 120dpi).
            • Upcoming Notes Email:
              • Addressed a cosmetic issue when the email is viewed using Outlook 16 (Window 7, Windows 10, Windows 10 – 120dpi).
            • Goal Met Email:
              • Addressed a cosmetic issue when the email is viewed using Outlook 16 (Window 7, Windows 10, Windows 10 – 120dpi).
            • Goal Short Email:
              • Addressed a cosmetic issue when the email is viewed using Outlook 16 (Window 7, Windows 10, Windows 10 – 120dpi).
            • HR Weekly Digest:
              • (NEW) Added Scheduled Emails table grouped by company.
              • Restructured the Email Activity table grouped by company.
          • Disclosure form:
            • Improved form placement.
          • Admin Page:
            • Menu:
              • Dashboard submenu:
                • (NEW) Added all hr_admin user’s dashboards.
                • (NEW) Added a menu item highlight to the displayed dashboard.
                • (NEW) Added a horizontal separator between the dashboards and dashboard designer.
              • Report submenu:
                • (NEW) Added all hr_admin user’s reports.
                • (NEW) Added a menu item highlight to the displayed report.
                • (NEW) Added a horizontal separator between the reports and report designer.
            • Dashboard Designer Modal:
              • Updated the default dashboard button (flag icon) behavior also to toggle.
              • Updated the default dashboard button tooltip.
            • Report Designer Modal:
              • Updated the default report button (flag icon) behavior also to toggle.
              • Updated the default report button tooltip.
              • Addressed an issue where attempting to show a non-default report failed.
              • Addressed an issue where the default icon tooltip did not display properly.
            • Dashboards:
              • Performance improvements.
            • Reports:
              • Overview section.
                • Updated people count to exclude hr_invalidated people.
              • Company Card Details section:
                • Updated the initial sort order to card order, ascending, and start date, descending.
                • Improved column sizing.
              • Department Card Details section:
                • Updated the initial sort order to card order, ascending, and start date, descending.
                • Improved column sizing.
              • Card Waterfall Section:
                • Addressed an issue where card counts were artificially high.
              • Allowed Only Domains Section:
                • Updated initial sort order to the Name column.
              • Blocked Domains Section:
                • Updated initial sort order to the Name column.
              • Top Senders:
                • Removed email addresses that are hr_invalidated, blocked, disabled, or opted out.
              • Top Recipients:
                • Removed email addresses that are hr_invalidated, blocked, disabled, or opted out.
              • Recognition Sentiment section:
                • Added details to the legend in the footer.
                • Added Cards column to mobile view.
                • Updated the sort order of card names field in the cards column. Active primary, display name secondary.
                • Minor formatting tweaks to the column spacing.
              • Addressed an issue where under certain circumstances user-initiated column sorting occurred multiple times per click.
              • Performance improvements.
            • Account Settings:
              • Permissions:
                • (NEW) Allow HR Super Admin to bulk send confirmation emails. (The default is checked.)
            • Employee Management:
              • (NEW) Import Results Email – provides fine-grain details about an import to the HR_SUPER_ADMINs.
              • Employee Management:
                • Significantly faster form rendering.
              • Send Confirmation Emails form:
                • (NEW) Hide the ‘Send Confirmation Emails’ menu item when ‘Allow HR Super Admin to bulk send confirmation emails’ is unchecked.
                • Disabled the Submit button when the list is empty or no items are selected.
                • Significantly faster form rendering.
            • Member Management:
              • Removed date of birth year from show and edit forms.
              • Removed mail_to hyperlink from all forms.
            • Employee Management:
              • Import:
                • Improved performance.
          • Under The Hood:
            • Improved encryption on blind index fields.
            • Improved flash messaging.
            • Significant database query performance improvements.Any questions – please contact your Account Manager

      Any questions – please contact your Account Manager

      June 2019

      • GiftnetOnline.com:
        • Security improvement:
          • Updated Sophos UTM from Version 9.510-5 to 9.603-1.

      Any questions – please contact your Account Manager

      April 2019

      • GiftnetOnline.com:
        • Security improvements:
          • Added HTTP Strict-Transport-Security response header instructing browsers to only be accessed using HTTPS.
          • Added the X-Content-Type-Options response HTTP header to prevent the MIME types advertised in the Content-Type headers from being changed.
          • Migrated to Content Security Policy to help guard against cross-site scripting attacks.
          • Added the X-Frame-Options HTTP response header to avoid clickjacking attacks, by ensuring that iframe content is not embedded into other sites.
          • Added additional clickjacking prevention to support older browsers.
          • Confirmed all cookies are secure and Http-Only in code.
          • Improved CSRF protections.
      • Recognitionnotes.com:
        • Version 2.2.3.0.1:
          • General:
            • (NEW) Recognition Notes is SAML capable.
          • Devise Pages:
            • General:
              • Addressed an issue where using the links at the bottom of the form could take you to a page with an incorrect header logo.
            • Reset Password:
              • Addressed an issue where under certain conditions an incorrect header logo was displayed.
          • Home Page:
            • Addressed an issue where the card title, if present, printed in black rather than the screen colors.
            • Addressed an issue where card titles were misplaced on very small mobile devices.
          • Note Form:
            • Addressed an issue where the recipient’s email domain was not confirmed against the company’s allowed_domains or blocked_domains lists.
            • Addressed an issue where the sender’s email domain was not confirmed against the company’s allowed_domains or blocked_domains lists.
          • What’s new page:
            • Improved the annotations on the notebook_detail image.
            • Clarified the meaning of a footnote.
          • Admin Page:
            • Dashboards/Reports:
              • Significant performance improvements.
              • Pie Charts:
                • Improved text placement within arcs.
                • Added thousands separator.
              • Card Waterfall Charts:
                • Added thousands separator.
            • Dashboard Designer/Report Designer:
              • (NEW) Show report sections based on company account settings.
            • Reports:
              • Non-Confirmed Members section:
                • Addressed a cosmetic issue where the total line appeared incomplete.
                • Significant performance improvement.
              • Allowed Only Email Domains section:
                • (NEW) Added a total line to the table footer.
              • Blocked Email Domains section:
                • (NEW) Added a total line to the table footer.
              • Unsubscribed Email Accounts section:
                • (NEW) Added a total line to the table footer.
              • Blocked Emails Accounts section:
                • (NEW) Added a total line to the table footer.
              • Disabled Email Accounts section:
                • (NEW) Added a total line to the table footer.
              • HR Invalidated Email Accounts section:
                • (NEW) Added a total line to the table footer.
              • HR Administrators section:
                • (NEW) Added a total line to the table footer.
              • Special Email Accounts section:
                • (NEW) Added a total line to the table footer.
                • (NEW) Show Special section when company’s use_special is set.
              • Recognition Sentiment section:
                • (NEW) Display disabled cards in red.
                • (NEW) Added a legend to the table footer.
              • (NEW) Unknown People section.
              • (NEW) Show Department Cards section when the company has departments.
              • (NEW) Show Company Departments section when the company has departments.
            • Account Setting:
              • Advanced:
                • Improved render efficiency.
            • Employee Management:
              • Import Employee Spreadsheet:
                • Improved import performance

      Any questions – please contact your Account Manager

      March 2019

      • Recognitionnotes.com:
        • Version 2.2.3:
          • General:
            • New art:
              • Happy Birthday – cupcake with a single lit candle.
              • Get Well – teddy bear with a bandage.
              • Congrats! – Horn and confetti.
            • Updated art:
              • Rescaled all 300X389 cards to 4 times original size and generated all intermediate sizes.
              • Rescaled all 900X500 cards to 4 times original size and generated all intermediate sizes.
            • Accessibility improvements
            • Improved favicons.
            • Improved look and placement of table column sorting icons.
            • Discontinued support for Google G+ social media.
          • (NEW) Events
          • (NEW) Person profile page:
            • Added page to manage events.
              • Added a link to view scheduled recognition notes.
              • Added a link to update scheduled recognition notes.
              • Added a link to delete scheduled recognition notes.
            • (NEW) Recognition reminders and goals:
              • Added, “Remind me about upcoming scheduled recognition.”
              • Added “My weekly Recognition Notes goal.”
          • Notebook:
            • Added a recipient reply link to received notes.
            • Improved the way note messages display.
            • Improved email tracking for email clients when the user clicks the back-at-you button (if the email view was not previously recorded).
            • Addressed an issue on the sent tab where the sender’s email address is displayed rather than the recipient’s email address.
            • Added a responding to indicator showing note is a reply to another note. (Both sender and recipient)
            • Added a link to the responding to indicator that shows the note responded to.
            • Added tooltips to the icons.
          • Note Page:
            • Improved the validation messaging for the recipient email field.
            • Add checkbox to CC manager (available for pop data and employee with the identifiable manager)
            • Add feature to set a future note delivery date.
            • Log in while mid-entry without losing your note.
            • Addressed an issue where on certain browsers duplicate editor controls display.
            • Addressed an issue where certain browsers did not disable autocomplete.
            • Addressed an issue where under certain conditions an email address with an unknown domain would be blocked for the default company.
          • Log In, Join Notes Plus, Forgot/Change Password, Resent Confirmation Instructions
            • Internationalized text.
            • Links:
              • Centered links at bottom of forms.
              • Simplified text.
            • Resend confirmation email form:
              • Added field validation.
            • Change password form:
              • Added field validations.
            • Join Notes Plus form:
              • Removed redundant link to ‘Join Notes Plus’.
              • Addressed an issue causing the fields jump after the ‘next’ button is pressed.
              • Improved form layout.
              • Improve email check.
          • Mailers:
            • Weekly Digest Email:
              • Addressed an issue where under certain conditions the card title text color was not properly rendered.
              • Addressed an issue where under certain conditions an incorrect label was displayed.
            • (NEW) Goal Emails:
              • (NEW) Goal Met Emails
              • (NEW) Time Running Out Email
            • (NEW) Hr_admin_digest_report email:
            • (NEW) Member_goal_reminder email
            • (NEW) Upcoming_event email
          • For HR Administrators:
            • Profile:
              • Menu/Navigation pane:
                • Removed excessive white space above and below menus.
                • Addressed an issue preventing Member Management >> Blocked Members from becoming highlighted.
                • Added tooltips to menu icons buttons.
            • Dashboards:
              • Add links to related hr_admin forms for HR_SUPER_ADMIN only.
              • Improved no data message.
              • Performance improvements.
              • Charts:
                • Card Waterfall Chart Section:
                  • Addressed an issue where excessive blank space displayed below the image.
                  • Addressed an issue where horizontal rows could become crowded.
            • Reports:
              • Add links to related hr_admin forms for HR_SUPER_ADMIN only.
              • Related sections sorted alphabetically.
              • (NEW) Department section. (Useful for population data only!)
              • Improved no data message.
              • Overview Section:
                • Added ‘Departments’ to the General group.
                • Added ‘Active Department Cards’ to the Cards group.
                • Added ‘Inactive Department Cards’ to the Cards group.
                • Updated ‘Total Cards’ to include Active and Inactive Department Cards.
              • Cards Section:
                • Renamed to ‘Company Cards’
              • Cards Detail:
                • Addressed an issue where the ‘Show Name’ and ‘Active’ columns would not sort.
                • Renamed to ‘Company Card Details’
              • (NEW) Department Card Section.
              • Card Waterfall Chart Section:
                • Addressed an issue where excessive blank space displayed below the image.
                • Addressed an issue where horizontal rows could become crowded.
              • (NEW) Special Members
              • Non-Confirmed Plus Members:
                • Added total count in section footer.
          • For HR Super Adminstrators:
            • Members:
              • (NEW) Subscribed previously unsubscribed members
              • (NEW) Subscribed previously unsubscribed non-members
              • (NEW) Unsubscribe Members
              • (NEW) Unsubscribe Non-Members
            • (NEW) Employees:
              • (NEW) Employees Form
              • (NEW) Import Employees Form
              • (NEW) Migrate email addresses
              • (NEW) Manage Employees Form
            • Performance Improvements.
          • Security:
            • General:
              • Added fallback javascript to remove X-Frame scripting vulnerability for older browsers.
            • Recognition Note Email:
              • Restricted messages to prevent malicious javascript injections.
            • Weekly Member Digest Email:
              • Restricted messages to prevent malicious javascript injections.

      Any questions – please contact your Account Manager

      January 2019

      • GiftingEvents.com:
        • Changes:
          • Updated CA Proposition 65 product data.
          • Disabled autocomplete (browser dependent feature) for all fields on C partial.
          • Added required indicator and validation to the D partial for city, state, and zip code fields.
        • Performance Improvements:
          • 1.7X performance improvement.

      Any questions – please contact your Account Manager

      September 2018

      • GiftingEvents.com:
        • (NEW) Support for CA Proposition 65 warnings.
        • Improved accessibility.
        • HTML improvements.
        • Performance and stability improvements.

      Any questions – please contact your Account Manager

      August 2018

      • GiftingEvents.com:
        • General:
          • Improved HTML styling.
          • Updated technology.
          • Removed unnecessary libraries.
          • Improved application performance and stability.
        • Forms:
          • Refactored coding to improve rendering performance.
          • Set the focus on the first entry field of each form page.
          • Addressed an issue where, under certain conditions, the zip code label did not display on the ‘Billing Information’ page.
        • Web services:
          • Added ship_to.
          • Added bill_to.
          • Remove blank entries returned from billing_unit as a safeguard.

      Any questions – please contact your Account Manager

      June 2018

      • GiftingEvents.com:
        • Updated numerous library.
        • Performance and stability improvements.
        • Added support for Portable Network Graphics (PNG) formatted product image files.
        • Added support for JPEG formatted logo image files.
        • Accessibility improvement:
          • Default home page:
            • Improved link contrast
            • Corrected header level
          • Order form:
            • Changed logo alternate text to the company name.
            • Added product name as alternate text to product image on the summary page.

      Any questions – please contact your Account Manager

      May 2018

      • GiftingEvents.com:
        • Language and numerous library updates.
        • Compressed stylesheets for better performance,
        • Removed support for older, unsupported browsers,
        • Numerous small fixes and performance improvements,
      • GiftnetOnline.com:
        • Addressed an issue where under certain circumstances Giftnettrack produced an invalid link.

      Any questions – please contact your Account Manager

      April 2018

      • General:
        • Universal Threat Monitor (UTM) was updated to version 9.509-3
      • Recognitionnotes.com:
        • Version 2.2.2.1:
          • Addressed an issue where under certain conditions, an unknown domain was treated as if it were a blocked domain.
          • Addressed an issue in the Notebook on the sent tab where the sender’s email address was displayed rather than the recipient’s email address.
          • Numerous small improvements to dashboard and report tooltip text.
        • Version 2.2.2:
          • General:
            • Improved consistency of page elements
            • Improved application performance and stability
          • Page Header:
            • Addressed an issue where, under certain conditions the logo becomes partially obscured by the page content.
          • Page Footer:
            • Display the support email label and link if the support_email attribute is present.
            • Display the support phone label and link if the support_phone attribute is present.
            • Addressed an issue where, under certain conditions the footer does not extend to the edges on tablets.
          • Note Page:
            • Addressed an issue where notes containing html tags could shift the note message under the viewport requiring the member to scroll.
            • Addressed an issue where tooltips would not center of plus member logo.
          • Registration:
            • Updated to prevent unapproved emails domains registration based on the company’s allowed only and blocked domain lists.
            • Addressed an issue when an already registered email address attempts to re-register, the member is taken to the default company regardless of the company to which the email address is registered.
            • Addressed an issue where the required indicators on labels did not display until page reload.
          • Confirmations:
            • Addressed an issue where the required indicators on labels did not display until page reload.
          • Sessions:
            • Addressed an issue where the required indicators on labels did not display until page reload.
          • HR_ADMIN:
            • General
              • (NEW) ‘are you sure?’ dialog for dirty cancels.
            • Profile
              • Production Switch:
                • (NEW) Warning dialog when subdomain_locked is false about going into production locks the subdomain.
              • Dashboard/Report Designer Form:
                • (NEW) Help icon on the right side of each tile with informational tooltip.
                • (NEW) Index section sticky (not moveable) at top of tiles.
                • Improved navigation.
              • Dashboards and Dashboards:
                • General:
                  • (NEW) “how to read” button that provides how to use the section. Only displayed when details are available.
                  • Addressed an issue where clicking the section top button sometimes positions the section under the navigation bar.
                  • Improved printing.
                • Report Section Footers:
                  • (NEW) Section footers including a list of generated related sections with bookmark links.
                • Links to Sections section:
                  • Updated list of sections to be sorted alphabetically.
                  • Improved section names.
                • Overview Section:
                  • (NEW) cards group
                • (NEW) Notes Reply Depth Section
                • (NEW) Non-Confirmed Member Section
                • Membership Chart:
                  • (NEW) Confirmed and non-confirmed plus members counts.
                • Card Waterfall Chart:
                  • Corrected an axis labelling issue.
              • (NEW) Member Management (for HR_SUPER_ADMINS):
                • (NEW) Members
                • (NEW) Non-confirmed Members
                • (NEW) Disabled Members
                • (NEW) Blocked Members
                • (NEW) Non-Members
                • (NEW) Disabled Non-Members
                • (NEW) Blocked Non-Members
              • (NEW) Account Settings (for HR_SUPER_ADMINS):
                • (NEW) Basic Form
                • (NEW) Advanced Form
                • (NEW) Permissions Form
                • (NEW) Email Setup Form
                • (NEW) HR Admin Roles Form

      Any questions – please contact your Account Manager

      February 2018

      • RecognitionNotes.com version 2.2.1:
        • General:
          • Improved consistency of page elements
          • Improved performance and stability
        • Email:
          • (NEW) Customizable the subject line
          • (NEW) Customizable button text
          • (NEW) Optional framing around note body.
        • Person Digest Mailer:
          • Addressed an issue where ‘small value’ footer color codes were misrepresented.
          • Updated the title tag to use the message subject field’s content.
        • HR_ADMIN:
          • Reports:
            • Cards section:
              • (NEW) Card Details subsection (included with the Cards Section):
              • (NEW) Note Open Rate section:
          • (NEW) Email Option Form
          • Dashboard/Report Designer modal:
            • (NEW) Sort by Name.
            • (NEW) Sort by Comment sorting.
        • Notebook:
          • (NEW) When a person shows a note to which they are the recipient, the note’s viewed_at date is set unless it has already been set.
        • Show Note page:
          • Updated the page to only show the framed note (company logo, note title, if present, card, and note text).
          • Removed disclaimer text.

      Any questions – please contact your Account Manager

      January 2018

      • General:
        • Security patches addressing MELTDOWN and SPECTRA CPU vulnerabilities.
      • GiftnetOnline.com:
        • Corrected Track Your Order issue
        • Corrected Ecard Text Word Wrap issue
        • Added white border at the bottom when video plays
      • Recognition Wall Editor:
        • Corrected issue with browsing and uploading video
        • Corrected caching issue for non-milestone users – custom image upload
        • Create sample MN email with PDF certificate as attachment
        • Added redo capability to Responsive 3 layout
      • Recognitionnotes.com:
        • Version 2.2.1.1:
          • Improved HTML standards compliance
          • Email improvements
          • Dashboard and Report Designer improvements
          • Dashboard and Report improvements:
            • (NEW) ‘no data available’ message when no data is available to graph.
            • Improved table sorting.
          • General performance and stability improvements.
          • Numerous minor improvements and bug fixes.
        • Version 2.2.1:
          • Updated all marquees.
          • Improved printing.
          • Improved page styling.
          • Dropped support for Microsoft IE8 and older browsers.
          • General performance and stability improvements.
          • General:
            • Updated the “What’s New” page to agree with UI changes.
          • Confirmations:
            • Updated to only send confirmation emails to plus members who are not blocked or disabled, and who have not previously confirmed their email address.
            • Improved placement of secondary links.
          • Sessions: (login page):
            • Updated ‘remember me’ to remember the plus member for up to 2 weeks.
            • Prevented validation error message from appearing when clicking a link.
            • Improved placement of secondary links.
          • Passwords: (change password page):
            • Prevented validation error message from appearing when clicking a link.
          • Registrations:
            • Improved validation messaging.
            • Improved placement of secondary links.
            • Prevented validation error message from appearing when clicking a link.
          • Notebook:
            • Improved printing.
            • Updated Notebook sort controls tooltips to look and act like tooltips in the header.
          • HR_ADMIN/Profile:
            • Dashboard/Report Template form:
              • Added validation for required Name field.
              • Added validations for required numeric fields (Report Template only).
              • Updated styling of the section tiles.
              • Updated the cursor to indicate move when hovering over containing panel text.
              • Updated the menu selector to keep working menu open.
            • Dashboard/Report:
              • Updated the menu selector to keep working menu open.
              • Corrected sorting controls disappearing from table headers when the page is refreshed.
              • (NEW) Visual indicator for long running operations.
              • Updated styling:
                • Added colored accent line above title.
                • Added shadow around reports.
              • (NEW) Sections can optionally be only printable.
              • (NEW) Sections can optionally be only displayable on the screen.
              • (NEW) link on the right header of each section to go to the page top.
              • Improved printing.
              • Improved performance of complex queries.
            • Report:
              • (NEW) index section with links to all generated sections.
              • Card Section:
                • (NEW) column for related sentiments.
              • Sentiment Section:
                • (NEW) column for related cards.
              • Overview Section:
                • Vertically centered titles that span multiple lines.
                • Centered ‘Value’ over column.
                • Address and issue causing note count to disagree with Company Domains section notes total.
              • Company Domains Section:
                • Improved number formatting by adding commas.
                • Updated footer text to bold
              • Donut/Pie Chart Section:
                • Corrected tooltip and arc highlight from disappearing when the mouse passes over the arc number.
                • Updated cursor to remain default when the mouse passes over the arc number.
                • Updated cursor to remain default when the mouse passes over the legend text.
              • Card Waterfall Chart Section:
                • (NEW) Added axis titles.
                • Updated the tooltip text to number of cards sent.
                • Updated the cursor to remain default when passing over axis, text, and label text.
              • Radar Chart Section:
                • Updated the cursor to remain default when passing over axis and label text.
              • Charts (general):
                • Updated to be responsive.
                • Centered charts vertically and horizontally in section.
              • Employee:
                • Corrected sorting controls disappearing from table headers when the page is refreshed.

      Any questions – please contact your Account Manager

      December 2017

      • General:
        • Universal Threat Monitor (UTM) upgraded to version 9.506-2
      • GiftnetOnline.com:
        • GiftnetOnline.com Responsive 3 UI/UX updates
        • SF 117983 – NV Energy Bulk
      • Recognition Wall:
        • Recognition Wall Editor Responsive 3 UI/UX updates
      • Recognitionnotes.com:
        • Version 2.2.0.1:
          • Addressed an issue when registering new email addresses confirmation emails were not sent.
          • Addressed an issue where weekly digest email links contained malformed parameters.
        • Version 2.2.0:
          • Language and library updates
          • (NEW) Support for HTTP/2 protocol
          • Improved art quality:
            • (NEW) Background image
            • (NEW) Marque art
          • HTML styling improvements
            • (NEW) tooltips available for each card
          • (NEW) Admin Link
            • (NEW) Dashboards
            • (NEW) Reports
            • (NEW) Account setup
          • (NEW) FAQ Link
          • Emails:
            • Improved formatting.
            • (NEW) CAN-SPAM disclosure.
          • Personal Digest Email:
            • Fixed an issue with the link to user preferences
          • Plus Member improvements:
            • (NEW) member can set their time zone.
            • Improved field validations.
            • Notebook improvements:
              • (NEW) Sort notes by date
              • (NEW) Sort notes by domain/email
              • (NEW) Recipient viewed note indicator
            • Updated What’s New page
            • Numerous bug fixes

      Any questions – please contact your Account Manager

      November 2017

      • General:
        • Universal Threat Monitor (UTM) upgraded to version 9.505-4
      • GiftnetOnline.com:
        • Responsive 3 layout updates
      • Recognition Wall:
        • Recognition Wall Editor Responsive 3 updates
      • MCFAPPS:
        • SF 116277 – ESR Enhancement Request – Personalized PDF
        • SF 116720 – Please create sample MN email with PDF certificate as attachment

      Any questions – please contact your Account Manager

      October 2017

      • General
        • Branding changes:
          • Copyright owner updated
          • Company name changed
          • Company logo changed
          • Links to marketing website updated
          • Disclosures updated
        • GiftingEvents.com:
          • Library updates.
          • Minor user interface improvements.
          • General performance and stability improvements.
          • (NEW) Default home page with details on how to gain access to giftingevents.com.
          • Page header:
            • Improved company logo placement.
            • Progress bar:
              • Corrected an issue where text was cut off at certain screen widths.
              • (NEW) Progress bar text added to the screen for clarity on mobile devices.
            • Page footer:
              • Phone numbers can be clicked and will dial phone number on telephony enabled devices.
            • Corrected issue where the ‘continue’ button shifts left when product image is displayed.
            • Added email address format validation.
            • Conditionally remove country field from address for companies only using the service in the United States.
            • Conditionally remove second and third blank address lines when left blank.
            • Corrected an issue where, under certain conditions, the enter/return key behaved erratically.
            • Emails:
              • Improved the formatting of entered phone numbers.
              • Conditionally removed second and third blank address lines when left blank.
              • Conditionally removed country field from address for companies only using the service in the United States.

      Any questions – please contact your Account Manager

      September 2017

      • GiftnetOnline.com:
        • GOL R2+ Version 1.1.1
        • Performance and Stability updates
        • Corrected issue affecting colors on custom UI elements

      Any questions – please contact your Account Manager

      August 2017

      • General:
        • Universal Threat Monitor (UTM) upgraded to version 9.502-4
      • GiftnetOnline.com
        • GOL R2+ Version 1.1
        • Activated UPS address validation with suggested address corrections.

      Any questions – please contact your Account Manager