Release notes - "Next generation Explori"

Version – 4.0.0 Release Date: 04 / 06 /2025 Release Type: Major feature

Explori 4.0.0

UI overhaul and front-end redesign – end-to-end style and UI update, streamlining core actions and simplifying navigation and accessibility
Dashboards – Rolled out customisable dashboards for surveys, events, portfolios, divisions and company (dependent on user access)
Question Library – Cleaner and simplified Explori question library. New categories allow for quick search categories and navigation
Distribution – Enabled use of onsite / offline links for all surveys, and improved processes for managing email lists and contacts
Advanced analytics tools – Streamlined crosstab functionality with more advance features and functionality now available to all user levels
Centralised management – Manage events, portfolios and divisions in one place and manage mandated and recommended questions centrally

Time to fetch data improvements - Removal of various front-end libraries to optimise speed and performance of data being fetched for survey reports and dashboards
Logic readability - Optimisation to the display and clarity of language around page, question and answer logic, routing, inheritance and mapping
Tooltips - Added tooltips and guidance for many features in the platform
Email optouts – Added a landing page for optouts to present respondent with option to opt-out of all Explori surveys and prevent unintended / automatic email opt-outs
Locking and unlocking pages and questions – Master users can now lock and unlock pages and questions to prevent unintended edits and changes to wording, logic, placement and structure where consistency and standardisation are paramount
Robust and optimised data processing – Transitioned some backend functionality to lighter frameworks to improve security and performance across the platform

URL variable data not caching - Fixed issue with URL variable questions not caching variable data from the url if survey respondent refreshes survey page in the middle of response

Legacy dashboards - Hardcoded survey level dashboards will be removed on Wednesday 4^th June, with this being replaced with flexible new dashboards
PDF exports including verbatim comments - Remove setting to display comments in PDF survey results exports to improve readability and prevent errors where file size limits are reached due to large exports
Removal of legacy code structure – Continued removal of deprecated software infrastructure in our backend. This change is part of our ongoing commitment to improve the reliability, security and performance of our software in keeping with modern standards

Translations – A new way to manage translations for survey questions is next up in our product roadmap as a new feature. Stay tuned for further updates