Include Communities in the search index so that users can easily search for community titles and descriptions. Both public and gated communities will be displayed in the results, while only private communities that the user is a member of will be shown. Communities can also be referenced in the ahead content building blocks for News and Pages.
Increase the current 1-minute duration restriction for videos uploaded to Stories.
Further personalize your people's ahead experience by adding a favicon and page title to display on desktop and mobile browsers.
Enhance the functionality by allowing users to easily reposition hero news by adjusting its placement to the left or right.
At present, videos on News and Pages can only be embedded from external systems like YouTube or MS Stream. However, with this new feature, editors will have the ability to directly upload their own videos, giving them more autonomy and control over their content.
Editors can choose a specific end date for news to be displayed on the Digital Signage solution.
Replace the text editor with Lexical. Lexical is a text editor framework that offers improved accessibility and performance, resulting in a streamlined and unified writing experience for news, pages, and communities.
- Select multiple values from the dropdown
- Search for values in the dropdown
Support same capabilities as in target audiences combobox in news settings.
Filter people in directory based on their ahead role: user / editor / admin
MS Teams has more than 270M daily active users. These desk-users spend most of their time collaborating in MS Teams. The updated ahead Teams app will make it easier to access information directly leaving MS Teams.
It's possible that you have more than one AAD (Azure Active Directory) tenant. ahead now supports multi-tenancy so you can give access to ahead to users coming from different AAD tenants.
User Profile Data is more and more important for customers. In ahead they use this data for:
- People Search
- Advanced Targeting
- Targeted Design and Quicklinks
API where customers can import data from an external source into the ahead user profile. This would involve:
- Defining custom fields in the user profile by customer
- API to import fields through an API
ahead now supports guest accounts for your Azure Active Directory, providing access to a broader range of users such as alumni, external collaborators, partners, and more.
Our new feature is available to two types of guest accounts: those with a Guest Account connected to a Microsoft Identity and those with a Guest Account not connected to a Microsoft Identity.
Note: ahead customers who wish to enable guest users will need to have a custom domain in place.
Create the option to store the ahead data (pages, images, people profiles, documents) in Switzerland.
Editors can now auto-translate their content. If you're an editor and writing ahead content in multiple languages, you may find this feature a real time-saver. Once you've written your content in your primary language, add additional languages via auto-translation*.
*) Requires premium-feature auto-translation to be activated.
In certain situations, it is essential that news are accessible only to their intended audience, as opposed to being available to all employees in the 'all news' area.