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Changelog
18 Sep 2023
We’ve added the ability to create and manage teams:
You can now associate users to one or many teams
You can set a default team for a user
You can associate proofs to one or many teams
We’ve added the ability to create and manage user roles:
You can manage account permissions, including access to billing, user management and account settings
You can manage proof access permissions, including the ability to limit proof access to user teams, owned proofs, or nothing at all
We’ve added the ability to filter proofs by teams on the Proof List page
24 May 2023
We’ve added the ability to rotate images and PDFs on review screens
We’ve made some minor responsive changes
We now display your Postmark DNS records in your account to help you improve email deliverability
We’ve fixed an issue that prevented other approvers from making a comment after an approval decision was made with the proof toggle “Disable Commenting After Decision” was turned on.
We’ve created a more sophisticated verification system for integrating your email with Postmark or setting up your SMTP. When you verify your email with SMTP, we’ll send you an Ashore verification email and double-check that your settings are correct.
30 Mar 2023
We’ve improved our direct SMTP feature (the ability to send emails from your own email server). We’ve added queued, sent, error, and opened email status’ for emails sent via Direct SMTP
If you use a custom domain, we now whitelabel every link in your Ashore emails to improve deliverability
We’ve updated the email template HTML for Ashore notifications to have a less opinionated design, a stronger call-to-action, and improved deliverability
We’ve added the ability to use emoji’s on the review screen
We’ve fixed an issue that prevented commenters from receiving notifications when “view all comments” proof toggle is turned on
We’ve fixed an issue where a null value for a custom dropdown property did not display on the Proof List page correctly
We’ve fixed a very rare, intermittent issue where the wrong approver may receive an email notification when a user is mentioned in a review screen comment
We’ve fixed an issue where a “>” symbol displayed on the Proof Timeline PDF Export under each comment
We’ve fixed a UI issue where users with many checklists were sometimes unable to see all of their options when managing a workflow due to the dropdown being hid by other elements
We’ve fixed a styling issue for the “return” button on the proof version comparison page
We’ve introduced some small responsive changes for the Workflow Details an Account Settings
23 Feb 2023
We’ve released a new feature that allows users to integrate their own email server with Ashore to send emails. You can do this from Profile > Email Settings. We’ve built this feature in response to an issue where emails sent to Microsoft365 servers were being quarantined.
If you’re adding proof thumbnail images to your emails, we now update the proof thumbnail image with every version of your proof.
We’ve improved the mobile responsiveness of Ashore in many parts of the application and review screens
We’ve made many small UI improvements as we convert the rest of our application to our new UI
20 Jan 2023
We’ve updated the logic on review screen comments. To prevent the user from having to open each comment to read it, we’ve made them all open by default
We’ve improved the responsiveness of the menu in Ashore
We’ve fixed a bug that prevented commenters from displaying in the contacts lists on review screens when the “view all comments” proof toggle is on
We’ve fixed a bug that sometimes prevented the correct checklist from displaying in an approval stage when there are multiple approval stages using different checklists
19 Jan 2023
We’ve made many small UI improvements as we convert the rest of our application to our new UI
We improved the validation errors that display when you make a mistake while creating a new account
We’ve increased the inactivity counter time so Ashore is less likely to “randomly” log you out if you’ve left Ashore inactive in your browser for long periods of time
We’ve added the ability to overwrite an approver’s status to “Waiting for Review”. Previously, you could only overwrite the status to either “Approved” or “Not Approved”
We’ve updated the logic on the “Approved With Changes” proof toggle. When approvers make a comment, we now hide the “approve” button and only allow the user to select “approved with changes”
We’ve fixed a bug that prevented custom labels for approval decisions from being displayed in the selectable status drop-downs when the “approve individual files” proof toggle is turned on
We’ve fixed a bug that prevented the list of associated proofs from displaying when viewing a single approver profile
10 Jan 2023
We’ve added a recent activity log to Overview that highlights the most important events in your account
We’ve added a new chart to Overview that gives you high-level insights into proof sent, files uploaded, proofs approved, proofs not approved, and proofs waiting for review
We’ve redesigned the Contacts List page to match the rest of our UI. You can also now select all viewable contacts and manage them.
We’ve made small UI changes to many buttons, fields and modals as we convert the rest of our application to our new UI.
22 Dec 2022
When users who have not verified their email with Postmark send messages to contacts, Ashore will use the account no-reply email address. Previously, these messages were sent from no-reply@ashoreapp.com.
13 Dec 2022
Fixed an issue that prevented users from copying text on the review screens
Added the ability to add multiple files at once to a comment on the review screens
07 Dec 2022
Added Microsoft SSO
Added the ability to add a note when archiving a proof (either singularly or in bulk)
We now allow contacts to have special characters in their name
We updated our WYSIWYG to the latest version, which includes new UI
We’ve fixed an issue when pasting into the WYSIWYG while in HTML mode
We’ve implemented our loom integration any time you’re writing a message
You can now add or remove files to a version after you’ve sent it for review
You can now hide versions of a proof from all contacts
You can now select which contacts to message when you send a message to the current proof stage
Updated UI on Create Proof page
Updated UI on Overview page
05 Oct 2022
Fixed an issue that occurred when a user pasted content into the email body of an approval stage and the content would be pasted at the bottom of email bodies in other approval stages
Fixed an issue that prevented a workflow from starting if the user created multiple versions of a proof before starting the workflow
Fixed an issue that updated the parent workflow when an instance of a workflow was applied to a proof and modified before the user started the workflow
04 Oct 2022
Fixed an issue that prevented Ashore users from creating a new contact on a workflow after the workflow was started
Fixed an issue that prevented new stages from being added to pre-saved workflows when the workflow had no stages
03 Oct 2022
Fixed an issue that prevented accounts with over 20 users from uploading multiple files to a proof
Fixed an issue that prevented sub-users from archiving proofs
30 Sep 2022
Added Google SSO
Added the ability to create many approval checklists and assign the checklists to workflow stages
Updated pricing plans to per-user pricing
Updated new UI for workflow management
Updated new UI for email template management
Updated new UI for checklist management
Updated new UI for the proof timeline
Moved checklist management to the automation page
Fixed an issue that prevented webpages with extensions greater than 6 characters
Fixed an issue that prevented users from updating their no-reply email address after changing it
You can now bulk archive, delete and restore proofs
Custom fields are now viewable on each proof from the Proof List view
13 July 2022
Fixed a bug that prevented the Contact list page from sorting by “Most Recent” by default
Slight UI changes to the Contacts list page
11 Jul 2022
You can now create and manage custom fields for your proofs. Field properties include:
Single field text
Dropdown select
Multi-select
Date picker
You can also filter by your custom fields on the proof list view
Small redesigns to the proof list view and proof timeline
Two new Zapier Actions: 1) Upload file to proof and 2) Create proof
19 May 2022
Fixed an issue where commenters received an email when a new version was sent with a send option “Send to None”
Hid the email-related fields when a user selects a send option “Send to None” when creating a new version
06 May 2022
Added Spanish version for review screens
Redesigned the Account Settings page
Added the ability to customize every label on review pages for Spanish and English
30 Mar 2022
Added the ability to have comment-only reviewers
15 Mar 2022
Added the ability to preview email templates while creating them.
10 Mar 2022
We developed a custom PDF viewer to solve PDF issues once-and-for-all!
Bugfix: We fixed an issue that caused comments to save on the incorrect version when creating new versions with our files from previous versions feature.
Bugfix: We fixed an issue that prevented users from downloading the PNG from a webpage screenshot capture.
We added a chart on the Overview page for free users to know how much storage they have left in their account.
10 Feb 2022
Bugfix: We fixed a rare bug that sometimes caused events in the proof timeline to not display
We reduced the length of the cached filters on the Proof Archive to reduce confusion
8 Feb 2022
Bugfix: We fixed a bug that allowed sub-users in Ashore to delete proofs.
4 Feb 2022
We introduced automatically higher contrast between approver colors on review screens
28 Jan 2022
Comments in timeline now include screenshots of proof with annotation for every media type
14 Dec 2021
Introduced drawing annotation tools
Threaded comments now appear in the Proof Timeline
10 Nov 2021
Redesigned audio and video player; includes volume control
Added ability to add bulleted lists on the Approver’s general feedback modal
25 October 2021
Bugfix: Added support for WAV files on Safari/Firefox
