What's new in Hive
New features and improvements in Hive: the product updates and release notes from the Hive team.
Save and reuse annotation styles in Proofing
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Apply a complete annotation look in one click with named style presets in Proofing. Use built-in presets or save your own to reuse colors, fills, stroke widths and opacity without adjusting each setting again. Presets are grouped by tool, with up to 10 saved presets per group. Ap
Update goals and project status from App Studio apps
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App Studio apps can now update goal values and statuses, add project status updates, and mark milestones complete. Apps can also read which projects are associated with a goal. These capabilities let apps support check-in workflows that update goals, projects, and milestones with
Change action comment visibility after posting
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You can now switch an existing action comment between internal and external visibility when editing it. The saved visibility is retained when you reopen the comment, so you can adjust who can see it without reposting. Where to find it: Edit an action comment you authored and use
Compare budget, estimates and actuals in burndown charts
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Configure burndown charts with a starting amount and separate lines for total budget, estimated remaining and actual remaining, so you can compare planned and actual consumption against the same baseline. Use resourcing allocations or action time estimates for estimated consumpti
Submit unsubmitted timesheets in bulk
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Workspace admins can now submit all eligible unsubmitted timesheets for a selected week in one confirmed operation, instead of opening each person's timesheet individually. Before confirming, review a preview of the affected users, timesheets, and total logged time. External user
Create subactions inline in a refreshed List View
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List View now makes it easier to add subactions and distinguish them from parent actions. Hover over an action you have access to and click the + button to create and name a subaction directly below it. Press Enter to start another subaction row. Refined styling adds clearer acti
Report on net availability with your choice of leave source
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See availability after leave with the new Net Availability value in Pivot reporting. Choose either Time off or Timesheet leave hours to subtract from Availability—never both. Source explanations help you choose, with a recommendation when only one source contains leave hours. You
Sign in to the reviewer portal with SSO, Google or Microsoft
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The reviewer portal now supports Google, Microsoft and workspace SSO sign-in. If your workspace requires SSO, entering your email takes you to SSO sign-in instead of asking you to wait for an email code that won’t arrive. If you belong to multiple workspaces that require SSO, you
Show section phase durations in Roadmaps
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See the span of each phase in a Roadmap grouped by section. Optional section duration bars run from the earliest action start date to the latest action due date in each section, using the available date when an action has only one. Each bar uses the section’s color and is labeled
Report on Time with the Buzz AI dashboard widget
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The Buzz AI dashboard widget can now report on Time as well as on actions and projects. Choose a time metric, such as time tracking hours, timesheet hours, estimates, or resourcing. Then choose how to group the results and set the date range. Buzz writes a summary, or in Custom m
Work in one scrolling action card on mobile
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Mobile action cards now bring details, descriptions, apps, subactions, attachments, and comments into one scrolling view instead of separate Info, Related, and Apps tabs. A section rail lets you jump between sections or drag to move through the card, and sections can be collapsed
Edit PDF text and apply review feedback as a new version
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Edit PDF text directly in Hive Desktop and save your changes as a new file version. Edits preserve the original font when it supports the replacement text, using a matching installed font when needed. Agents can also read human comments and Buzz AI suggestions on a proof, apply e
Track review progress in Proofing
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See how much feedback still needs attention with open and total counts on the Comments and AI review tabs in native Proofing. Hover over or keyboard-focus either tab to see a progress summary, including the number and percentage done, a progress bar, and a breakdown by status. Co
Schedule multiple dashboard reports in one setup
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Set up scheduled sends for multiple dashboards in a single batch flow, reducing repetitive dashboard-by-dashboard setup for recurring reporting. This release focuses on batch sends. Buzz-written summaries and individual-widget exports are not included, and existing single-dashboa
Choose your notification sounds and volume
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Customize how Hive alerts sound with a shared notification volume control and selectable tones for messages, mentions, assignments, and meetings. Preview your choices before relying on them for incoming alerts. Your existing tones and volume stay the same unless you change them,
Start your own file reviews from the reviewer portal
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External reviewers can now upload their own files and request approvals directly from the proofing portal. Permanent Shared with me and My reviews tabs separate reviews shared by others from reviews you create, while preserving access to the original customer's reviews. A compact
Compose richer messages in mobile chat
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Mobile chat now uses a rich composer with bold, italic, underline, lists, emoji, and @mentions. Paste an image or pick files and images to stage them in the composer, then send them with your typed message instead of posting a separate file message. You can also edit messages and
View Hive action cards in Claude and ChatGPT
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Hive actions can now appear as visual action cards in Claude and ChatGPT through Hive's public MCP connector. Each card shows the action title, status, deadline, project colour and assignee avatar, and follows the host's light or dark theme. Click a card to open the action in Hiv
Use dynamic date conditions in Forms
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Forms can now compare requested dates against dynamic thresholds based on today’s date, plus or minus a defined number of days. This lets you build rules around relative time windows, such as identifying urgent requests within a 14-day SLA window. Dynamic date conditions can driv
Flip between proof pages to check layout alignment
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You can now choose page-by-page viewing for multipage proofs to check whether headers, lines, and graphics shift between pages. Each page replaces the previous one in the same position without scrolling through neighboring pages, preserving your zoom and crop where page dimension
Work with Claude sessions in Buzz
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You can now select a paired Claude host and work with Claude in Buzz, using the same conversation timeline and composer. Start a session, send messages, follow streamed progress, approve tool requests, and interrupt a turn when needed. Claude sessions can also control Chrome thro
Build a workflow by describing it to Buzz
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Feature overview Describe what you want to automate in plain language, and Buzz builds the workflow for you. Buzz sets up the trigger and steps, asks when something is missing (for example, a status that doesn't exist in your project), and helps you connect Gmail or Outlook when
Map project and action locations alongside your team
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Feature overview See where work and people are on the same map. The Map dashboard widget now plots Location custom fields from projects and actions alongside workspace member locations. Combine several location sources, each in its own color, narrow them with widget filters, and
Collapse images, GIFs and link previews in chat
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Feature overview Keep conversations easier to scan by collapsing images, GIFs and link previews in chat messages. A compact label identifies what’s hidden, and clicking it shows the media again. Message text and document attachments stay visible. Your collapsed messages stay coll
Review proofs in the External Review Portal
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External approvers, such as clients and vendors, now have one place to see and act on every proof waiting on them, from every company that works with them in Hive. They sign in with an emailed link or a 6-digit code, with no password needed. Shared with me sorts proofs into To re
Set your own reminder in the new Dates field
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The action card's Dates field now puts the due date, due time, start date, repeat and your reminder in one place. Type dates like tom, +3d or fri 5pm, add a due time, set a date range, or make the action repeat, all from one picker. Reminders are now personal. Each assignee sets
Open prefilled Forms from action workflow buttons
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Collect structured information without leaving the action that needs it. An action-card workflow button can open a configured Hive Form in a full-screen modal, prefilled with the action's title, project, custom fields, or other supported mappings. The workflow continues after sub
Add Buzz as an approver
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Buzz can now be an approver in an approval stage. When his stage starts, Buzz runs an AI proofing review on the current proof and approves, approves with changes, or requests changes based on the categories you choose (Spelling, Grammar, and Brand guidelines by default). Teammate
Open someone's timesheet from a dashboard pivot
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Click a Timesheet hours or Timesheet status cell in a Time pivot to open that person's timesheet for the week, right on the dashboard. Edit, submit, approve, and comment as your permissions allow, and the pivot refreshes when you save. Open in Timesheets takes you to the full pag
Set clearer goal status rules and fixed limits
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Feature overview: Choose goal status rules that match what success means. The redesigned settings distinguish manual status from automatic status, and automatic number goals can either track progress toward a target or stay within a fixed limit. Fixed limits support values at or
Prepare every meeting in one Sidekick panel
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Keep your meeting briefing, goals, agenda, and run sheet together in one Sidekick preparation panel. Generate a run sheet for a meeting even when you wrote the goals and agenda yourself, without depending on automatic preparation or Hive CRM. For qualifying customer meetings, bac
Set default bill and cost rates for projects
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Set a project's default bill rate and cost rate once, and let its sub-projects inherit them, including sub-projects added later. Individual project rates and role-specific rates keep priority over the project default. You can optionally apply the change to historical time within
Use project conditions in reusable workflows
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Give project-created workflows the conditions needed for more specific automation. Shared project-trigger conditions and reusable-step scope let a workflow respond to the relevant project context rather than treating every new project the same. This change is focused on project c
Create multiple Tables records from pasted text
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Turn a pasted list into separate Tables records instead of adding rows one at a time. Pasting multi-line text into an editable record-name field offers a choice to keep it in one record or create a record for each non-empty line. Choosing multiple records preserves an existing so
Build Resourcing Estimates from project actions
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Start resource planning with the assignments and time estimates already entered on your action cards. Resourcing Estimates can pre-populate the selected project's estimate rows and weekly hours from eligible assignees, placeholders, and action estimates. Refreshing reconciles the
Include placeholder hours in team reporting
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Assign a team to a resourcing placeholder and include its estimated hours in that team’s Resourcing and dashboard reporting totals. This gives teams a combined view of planned placeholder capacity and team workload without combining separate exports. Where to find it: Assign the
Use rolling date presets in Dashboard chart filters
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Chart widget advanced filters now include rolling date presets such as Today, This week, and This month. Unlike a fixed calendar date, a preset updates over time, so saved filters continue to reflect the selected period. Custom dates and existing saved date filters remain support
Compare yearly trends on a shared year-long chart
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Compare monthly activity across years on one shared January–December axis. Hive displays a separate series for each year, making seasonal patterns easier to compare while retaining the chart’s metrics, filters, and drill-downs. Where to find it: In a chart-builder series widget,
Show unsubmitted timesheets and missing users in pivots
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Time pivots now distinguish an unsubmitted timesheet from a period with no timesheet data. When grouped by user, the report can also include eligible workspace users who have no time entries for the period. An information indicator clarifies missing data, while saved timesheet st
Bill by progress, sync QuickBooks jobs, and report by project in Hive Finance
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Feature overview New in Hive Finance: Progress billing. Bill a proposal line by percent complete. Each billing run asks for percent complete × the line total, less what's already been billed. The percentage is either reported each period on the project or based on hours burned ag
Review form answers with AI before submission
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Feature overview Catch incomplete or unclear answers before a form reaches you. Form creators can add AI review rules to individual questions, for example "the budget must include a currency". Each rule is either blocking, so the submitter fixes the answer before sending, or a wa
Track project archive status in pivot tables
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Pivot tables and pivot-style Numbers widgets now include a Project archive value for reports on Actions, Projects, and Time. Who this helps: Teams reviewing action, project, or time reports who need to distinguish active projects from archived ones. Where to find it: In Dashboard
Timesheet status in Pivot tables
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See** Unsubmitted** time as reported in Dashboards pivots. Cells without a timesheet show an info icon with the explanation “No timesheet data for this period.” For top-level User rows, pivots include eligible workspace users even when they logged no time. User, team, and tag fil
Rolling date presets for chart widget filters
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Chart widget advanced filters now support rolling date presets like Today, This week, and This quarter, so date-based reports stay current automatically. How it helps: Filter by useful date ranges such as Today, This week, or This quarter. Presets update over time, so a filter li
Trigger workflows when project custom fields change
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Respond to changes in project-specific information with Workflows. The "Project is updated" trigger can watch a selected project custom field, using the same change-rule approach as action custom fields. A watched field change can start the workflow, while unrelated project edits
Schedule approval stages relative to action deadlines
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Reuse an approval schedule without setting every stage date by hand. Approval templates can define each stage's due date as a number of working days before or after the action deadline. Workspace workweeks and holidays are respected when the template is applied. If the action has
Use dark mode in Hive Mobile
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Choose a darker appearance for Hive on your phone. The mobile app can follow your phone's system appearance, or you can set a Light or Dark preference that stays in place after restarting the app. The theme covers native mobile surfaces such as navigation, action cards, messages,
Fill and repeat staffing estimates in bulk
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Build recurring staffing plans without entering the same hours cell by cell. Resourcing Estimates supports filling selected weeks, copying a row's estimate pattern, and pasting or repeating that pattern across multiple selected resource rows. Bulk changes are staged for review, w
Ask Buzz to schedule focus time for an action
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Book calendar time for the action you need to work on, rather than creating an unrelated calendar hold. Buzz can schedule a time block linked to an action, keeping the action as the source work item and providing a reference back to it. Buzz can check calendar availability before
Public Gantt sharing option
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People you share a Gantt view with can now see action descriptions, giving them more context than titles and dates alone. Description sharing is optional and read-only. Who it helps: Anyone sharing project timelines with external collaborators or temporary teams who need more det
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