Countdown Card Release Notes

Counter Card

The Countdown card is now known as the Counter card as part of our rebranding exercise, and improvements made to the card.

Counter Card Improvements

Introducing a new unit based counter type, apart from the calendar based, which provides users the ability to configure count downs or ups based on any unit value. User would also be able to customize the incremental values, thus allowing the counter to count down or up in increments of twos or even fives. Apart from customizing the title, users can also include their own labels for the units.

Updated Card Theme

The following updates based on the rebranding and improvements have been made to the card theme:

• Design changes to the card editing layout such as all text customizations are moved to the Text section, while the Design section provides customization for colors and images.
• When counting up, users can now define if the counter should stop at a specific date, number of units, or never.
• The Calendar icon in the card section has been changed to a Preview (Eye) icon which allows users to preview the end messaging that is displayed when the countdown ends.

Updated Card Theme

The following updates have been made to the card theme:

• The card theme has been updated in the Library with a new design, improving card standardization.
• The card base theme will not be generated during deployment, as the BaseCardTemplate property has been set to false in the manifest.json file in the card template.
• The default fonts have been updated to the following:
  • Header text = Poppin font, previously Monserrat.
  • Body text = Roboto font, previously Lato.
• The card template has been assigned to use the “Productivity and Engagement” as the default content category.

Introducing Card Content Categories

With the introduction of Content Categories in Appspace 8.0 ac.22, all card themes will be assigned with a default content category, allowing organizations to create content, build channels, and target messaging according to workplace communications best practices and internal communication goals.

These content categories can be changed during card creation by the Publisher or Author, as the card theme has been assigned a content category based on the messaging focus. These content categories are defined as follows:

• Culture & Values – Content that promotes company values and affects the employee experience, to help customers drive company values throughout their organization.
• Goals & Performance – content that showcases both long- and short-term goals and measurements of performance, to create shared ownership of company goals and drive employee performance.
• Productivity & Engagement – content with information that keeps the company running, day-to-day, facilitating organizational productivity.
• Safety & Compliance – content with information that supports employee safety and ensures company compliance with regulatory requirements, to help create a safe environment and promote safe behavior amongst employees.

Users will also be able to view the Content Category for every piece of content within a channel playlist. However, cards created prior to this release will not contain a content category, and will be considered as “Unassigned”.