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Version 3.3 (November 2024)

Deployment allows you to share a kaizen from one site to another or multiple sites at the same time, either with full or limited details

- Plant or company admin selects in Plant settings to which other plants a kaizen can be shared to
- Deploying is done with a new button and can be limited to particular user roles
- Once a kaizen is deployed to a new plant, you can easily watch the progress of the deployed kaizens
- Users can communicate about the deployed kaizen in the Communication tab of the kaizen
- Possibility to change the author of the deployed kaizen to another user so that the team can contact the person who led the project rather than its original author

Replacing General information – new look, new functionalities:

Adding co-author
WYSIWYG editor – edit the text with bold and italics, save or discard the changes
Easily track who made the last change to a field
Favorite/pinned kaizens moved to the top right corner. Tags and Stage change button now placed in the same area
Stage change button now allows you to move kaizen back to its previous stage
Side bar:
- Project type
- Properties
- Milestones (target start/completion)
- Shorted timeline – with full details in one click
- Linked kaizens

Streamlined user authentication at the eKaizen portal
Submitters can use their employee badges (where applicable), their employee number or email – this leads to their faster recognition
My kaizens at the eKaizen portal
Submitters can view the list and details of kaizens they submitted
eKaizen portals (previously known as Homepages) & Submission forms signpost
Links to the submission form has been taken out from the menu available by clicking on your name & profile in the top right corner and moved to a new button

Fiscal year
- Fiscal year has been added to eKaizen: each plant can set its own fiscal year dates
- Fiscal year filters have been added to applicable widgets

Cost center
Cost center can be added in the submitter’s/employee detail
Linked kaizens
Each kaizen can be linked to another either as a related kaizen or a duplicate
Extended timeline
Significantly more events have been added to the timeline

Old submission forms are no longer available, only new forms created via Submission Form Designer are available
New setting for automatic / manual move of kaizens from Fresh ideas to To be validated
Project leader can now be added to the kanban card detail
Kaizen detail window removed, one less click to get from Kaizen overview to your kaizen
Additional currencies added to the Plant settings
New user role rights to address major improvements
Improved information about scrolling

Homepage – new way of organizing information on the homepage of each plant. Add forms, internal or external links to guide your eKaizen users to where they should go to
Full application localization – as of this version, Hungarian and Slovak languages are fully localized

Comments while switching kaizen’s phase were made optional
Non zero scores in the Scoring module are now properly displayed
Project type can now be properly unselected in General information
Project type field can be added to the submission forms introduced in 3.1.25
Linked user role rights between the ability to edit an idea submission and deleting idea’s attachments

Widgets:
- 1. Submitted Ideas (Number of submitted ideas by project type in a selected time frame)
- 2. Completed Ideas (Number of completed projects by type in a selected time frame)
- 3. Unassigned tasks

Improved functionality of previously entered email addresses in the login interface
Better alignment of columns in Metrics
Fixed behavior of date selection in Financial indicators, fully ignoring browser settings and/or time zone
Support of redirecting addresses of the existing submission forms to the new ones so that your QR codes can remain the same
Breadcrumbs translations fixed [CZ]
Homepage language consistency fixed
Costs/Benefits entries are now always ordered based on the time of their creation (previously it was based Start date and lines were rearranged so the new entry would not stay at the end)
Project type can be reverted back to “Default”
Multiple new languages supported for the upcoming new submission forms
Multiple localization fixes
Better logic of email notification when no comment is provided by the user when Accepting (moving to In progress) a kaizen
Chinese yuan supported as a currency
Project type added as a new column to CSV export of Kaizens
Enabled sorting of columns in Users under Plant administration
Kaizen overview filter based on Score (from-to range) enabled
Project type dropdown now available in all new types of submission forms
New email notifications