What's new in Hive
New features and improvements in Hive: the product updates and release notes from the Hive team.
Admin birds-eye view of all projects
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With this update, admins will be able to see a list of all projects in their workspaces, even if they're not a member of the project. This will allow admins and team leads to have a clearer view of the campaigns, tasks and projects that are in progress across their organization.
Rearrange custom field order
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With this update, we've added further customization options for custom fields. When teams have many fields, action cards previously listed them in the order they were added. This can be difficult when there are dozens, and a user wants to access and edit one particular field repe
Quick Gantt update: visible Start/End weekdays
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Just dropping by to let you know that Start/End weekday dates are back in Gantt View. You'll now have both the numerical date and day of the week. Not seeing either of those? Visit the gear icon in the top Gantt bar and check "Start date" and "End date."
Forms 2.0 - Reject and and resubmit form changes
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Last week, we unveiled a series of new form updates that allowed users to access submitted forms and actually edit their contents. This has already helped teams cut down on duplicative work and streamline processes. This week, we're adding another component to this update, which
Auto-set OOO message
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Just in time for summer vacation 🌴 we've added an automatic OOO status set if there is an out of office on your Google or Outlook status. This will help users streamline OOO comms, as they won't need to set their status in multiple places, and colleagues can be alerted in Hive i
Form updates and ability to resubmit forms
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Forms are a much-loved part of Hive, and we've just added the ability to resubmit and edit a form after it's been submitted. This allows for users to make tweaks without duplicating forms, which can be very confusing and create excess work for the submitter and receiver. An impor
NEW: Agile sprints in Hive
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With our latest update to our new agile app, users will not only be able to designate Story Points to each task, but will also be able to choose which Sprint the task is associated with. Agile sprints are a critical part of many team's workflows, and this addition will help team'
Public Projects just got more secure 🔑
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With this new update, public projects are now read-only for anyone who is not a project member. Let's take a look at this public project, New Restaurant, denoted by the globe icon: When a non-member views the project, they will now see the below banner. They can open action cards
Notes notifications when entry is created
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Notes serve as a single source of truth for many teams, helping them organize next steps or consolidate project feedback. To help users identify new or relevant information, we've added the ability to send a notification when a new entry is added to a Note. To add a new Notes ent
Workspace Activity hub 🗂
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Remote work can make individuals feel isolated from their teams, but our latest feature aims to bring teams closer together with our Workspace Activity hub. This new feature will display highlights from activity in your workspace, similar to the Project Activity section that alre
NEW: Resourcing analytics dashboard 🤩
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This new dashboard provides a comprehensive overview of all resourcing in your workspace, helping remote teams understand where their internal and external efforts are allocated. In this dashboard, you'll find data on everything from total hours resourced to total hours per proje
Workspace overview Analytics
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Analytics is one of the most powerful Hive Apps, with the ability to give you magical insight into everything happening in your workspace. Since teams are more distributed than ever before, we wanted bring everyone up to speed on our newest analytics offerings. Our general Worksp
Updates to labels in forms
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With this change, we've upgraded and streamlined the label selection option in forms. It will be easier to navigate and select the label you need for your forms moving forward. To create a form, visit the "+" sign in the upper right hand corner of your Hive window and select "Req
View My Actions in Table format
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We've been updating My Actions to give users more viewing flexibility over the last few months. With this update, we've added Table view to the list of views you can utilize for My Actions. To change your My Actions view, select the "Change layout" button in the top right and sel
Link or unlink subaction status to parent
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With this update, subaction statuses can now be customized to either change WITH the parent action, or remain the same. When a parent action's status is changed, and the action has one or more subactions with the same status, you'll be served a pop-up asking if you'd like to move
Timesheet recording format change to HH:MM
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With this timesheet update, users timesheet recording format will now be in HH:MM, instead of recording using decimal places. When adding your time into your timesheet, using the "." or ":" key after inputting your hours will move your cursor into the minutes field. This will pro
Add multiple holiday calendars
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With this latest update to holidays in Hive, users will now be able to add more than one holiday calendar into their workspace and select their individual holiday calendar. In the past, teams had the ability to add one holiday calendar to a workspace, which inhibits actions from
Quick-access Hive University
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Hive University, your one-stop-shop for learning everything there is to know about Hive, is now accessible from the Apps page in Hive. To access Hive University, simply visit Apps -> Hive University.
Attach Note to Action Card 🔗🔗🔗
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Hive Notes are often related to specific actions in your team's workspace, and it's now possible to directly attach a Note to an action card with a few clicks. This will help teams consolidate all relevant materials for projects or tasks. To attach a Note to an action card, simpl
View archived projects in approval reporting
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With this update, teams will now be able to filter in archived projects into approval reporting. This will help streamline reporting into one view, instead of having to unarchive projects or create a separate view for them. Users will be able to choose any combination of active a
New filter look in My Actions View
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My Action view is easier to navigate than ever before with our filters makeover! To access the filter panel, simply click "Filter" in the upper right hand of your My Actions view. From there, a wonderful, streamlined panel will magically appear to guide you through the filter pro
Quick-access Google Meet from Hive
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Just like we did with Zoom, we're bringing Google Meet into Hive by allowing quick-click access to your Google meetings. If you're using My Day in Hive, which is our built in calendar functionality displaying your daily meetings in Hive, Google Meet links will automatically be ad
Proof documents on mobile
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In the latest update to mobile proofing, users can now view and add annotations on all proofs in the Hive mobile app. To utilize the mobile proofing and annotations feature, you must upload a document for proofing on the desktop app. From there, you can visit the action card asso
Link action card to form submission via email
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When a form is submitted, users will now receive a confirmation email with the action card linked for easy access. This will prevent users from having to search for the related action card in their workspace -- instead, they'll be able to easily click into the submission via emai
Hive Automation App rebranding
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Looking for your Hive Automation app? We have renamed the Hive Automation app to 'Workflow Buttons'.
Find Hive Notes on the Hive Apps page
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For further Hive customization, we've made it possible to pin or unpin Hive Notes from your left-hand side bar. By making Hive Notes an app in the Hive App Store, you've now got the freedom to include Notes, or keep it toggled off.
Better visualize your agile workflow
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With this update, we've made it easier to track your team's agile progress in Table View. If your team operates within the agile framework, Table View can now feature Agile Points per task, so you can better understand workload and prioritization. From there, you'll be able to fi
Make project public by default
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Want to ensure that everyone in your organization has access to all your projects? You can set your project default settings to make all projects automatically public. This latest update saves you the hassle of having to go back and share new members on your projects. Don't want
Quick-edit your time recording experience
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With this new feature, you no longer have to go back to an action card to make edits to a recorded session. Quickly access the editing options in the top right of your screen. From there you can edit the time, date, category, and description without any additional clicking. Thank
Dark mode is live in beta!
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We are excited to announce the top requested feature is live in beta! You can test out giving your eyes a break with Hive dark mode. Don't be scared of the dark, go to beta and check it out for yourself.
Bring projects back from the archives by unarchiving projects
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Need to reference an old project? You can now easily bring projects back from the archives. Head to the project navigator and hover over the project you'd like to reactive, select 'unarchive'. This will bring this project back to your active projects view. *Only admin users can a
Easily jump into your Google Meet from your Hive Calendar
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Using Google Meetings instead of Zoom? Easily join your Google Meetings directly in your Hive Calendar. With this latest update, the meeting link will automatically populate in the invite. Thank you Hunter Kronberg from Papa Johns for requesting this feature!
Save time with bulk edits in Gantt
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Gantt is one of our most-used views in Hive and helps teams visualize projects of all sizes and scopes. With this latest update, we've added the ability to archive or delete a group of actions from the Gantt right-click menu. This eliminates the need to archive or delete each act
Save time on repetitive approvals
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Proofing and approvals are used by thousands of teams all over the world to route documents, videos, PDFs, and images through feedback loops. One of the great parts about approvals in Hive is that you can stack a series of approvals to happen one after the other, and sort them in
Quick-edit actions with one click
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The right-click menu on action cards is an easy way for users to make quick changes without having to open every card individually. If you need to edit something simple on a task in My Actions, for example, all you have to do is right-click on the action card and you'll see this
Consolidate meeting files in your Notes
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We designed Hive Notes to be a single source of truth for all relevant meeting information -- agenda, next steps, comments on action items, and more. With this update, we listened to your requests to add attachments to Notes. This will help teams keep track of all relevant docume
Introducing Hive Notes Templates
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Our goal with Hive Notes is to improve productivity before, during, and after your meetings. We've added a new layer to the existing Hive notes templates to allow teams to create their own Hive notes templates. This will reduce work for recurring meetings and streamline task trac
Enhanced sorting for pending approval
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With this latest update, pending approvals are sorted in two ways - either by the due date or by the approval request date. Pending approvals with a due date are sorted by the soonest due date Pending approvals without a due date are sorted by the oldest pending approval to the n
Don't let the highest priorities fall through the cracks
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Quickly focus on your top priorities without eliminating other items on your list. In the Kanban view, filter My actions view to show the most pressing statuses and automatically consolidate the other actions into the 'Other' column.
Share summary view with everyone
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Summary views are a great way to consolidate all projects into one view, it helps to visualize the big picture - especially for managers or team leads. Whether it's looking internally at team capacity or reporting project statuses to clients, a summary view is a great resource. N
Create dependencies on recurring actions
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Need to streamline tasks? Want to ensure that actions are completed on time? Enter dependencies. They're a great way to show which actions are reliant on others, limiting excess communication and streamlining activity. With our latest dependency update, they will now carry over o
Declutter and organize your group chats by threading your chats
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When you have 2 or 3 topics active in your group chats at once, it can be hard to track down earlier comments. But now you can respond directly to a message in chat and create your own thread. This new feature will help keep group chats organized and focused, while reducing the n
Take control of your notifications
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Want to limit your notifications and increase focus time? You can now set Hive to 'low notification' mode, which will only inform you of notifications that @ mention you, action assignments, or approvals that require your attention. Jump to your notification settings by clicking
Rescheduling just got easier
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Project dates can feel like a moving target and changing the date can seem like a huge undertaking. Well, it doesn't have to be. To ensure that your actions and scheduled items are in sync with any changes to the project date, simply check the 'Shift action dates' and/or 'Shift r
Resourcing planning just got easier
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Trying to set task start and due dates, but not sure when someone is out of office? Our enhanced pop-up OOO notification solves this problem. If you try to set a due date that is conflicting with a teammate's time off, you will get a notification informing you of their OOO dates.
Right-click menu updates
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Need to quickly duplicate an action? Say no more. Now you can right-click to duplicate an action, transferring over all relevant information into a fresh action card. But, that's not all...you can also follow/unfollow action cards in the same right-click menu. Following action ca
Admin timesheet privileges
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Out of office? Change in plans? Hive admins can now edit/submit timesheets on behalf of other users. To submit timesheets for others, admins can go to the timesheet app, click the dropdown menu under their avatar to choose a new user from their list to submit a timesheet for and
Control table view color-coding
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You can now toggle the color-coding feature on/off in your table views. Color coding helps teams visualize the status of actions, but for teams that want more simplicity, we've added the option to remove color coding To change the color-coding feature on/off in the table view, cl
Action card icon changes
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To make specific actions more obvious in Hive, we've added icons to the bottom right corner of your action cards to denote the ability to: Follow Share Archive Delete This will help users quickly identify and execute on important actions.
Milestones duration updates
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Milestones are an easy way to track major accomplishments in your project. They are generally used as an indicator to call out a significant event or key date on your Gantt Chart, such as a project launch, key deliverable, or presentation date. As of March 2nd, milestones now hav
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