Extended release notes

inspace app

1. Detailed Floor Plans: Floor numbers and titles are now displayed on the Floor Plan screen (floor titles are optional).

2. Easier Floor Plan Navigation: Switching between floor plans is now more efficient.

Users can easily choose different locations, buildings, and floors from a dropdown menu. The streamlined interface allows switching with just a few taps, indicating a focus on ease of use.

4. Social Connection Feature: Connect with others easily via your Profile screen. You can turn on the Social Connection toggle in the Profile Settings to see Social Notifications on the map–for example, personalized text labels.

5. People Display Settings: Choose to show or hide people on the map in your Profile settings. You can switch toggles to see everyone or only Favorites people on the floor plan.

6. New Booking Schedule Widget: Booking is now even more convenient on the Booking Now screen. Users can switch between different views – Availability and Schedule – to find the best slot when booking a desk or meeting room.

7. Enhanced Floor Plan Messaging: Communicate more effectively with improved text messaging on floor plans. Any message on the floor plan won't extend off-screen but will wrap to a new line.

8. Better Guest User Experience: Guests can now enjoy an improved app experience.

9. General Tweaks and Fixes: Bug fixes and enhanced overall usability.

inspace web platform

1. Added new booking duration options:
Now, when booking a desk or a meeting room, users can select standard time slots such as 1 hour, 2 hour, 4 hour, All day, All week, or Custom.

Note that booking duration options depend on the settings and can be specified in minutes–for example, 15 min, 30 min, 40 min, etc.

2. Refined our approach to generating initials for avatars on the People page:
Now, the initials only include the first letter of the first name and surname, even if the surname is compound. This ensures a more consistent and recognizable user representation, enhancing clarity for team interactions.

3. Updated the billing screen:
We've modified the text and relocated the Delete Demo button. These changes provide a more intuitive layout, optimizing user experience for financial management.

4. Improved widget displays in analytics:
We've removed scrolling and aligned texts to the left margin on the Spaces widget. This offers a cleaner view, ensuring data is presented in a more readable and streamlined manner.

This enhancement allows users to quickly zoom in on specific areas within our mobile table reservation app, providing a more streamlined and intuitive navigation experience.

2. Implemented a scrollable timeline for booking screens.
Before, it was a simple graph with free and occupied slots. Now, users can scroll horizontally through this availability timeline to easily find the right slot and book desks or meeting rooms.

3. Changed registration procedure on the "Sign up" screen.
Now, input fields appear step by step. Instead of displaying all fields at once (as was previously the case), the user now sees them sequentially.

These changes aim to improve the user experience during registration, making the process more intuitive and less cluttered.

We’re pleased to announce the following major updates to the inspace app:

1. Added customizable background for a Personal Hub.

Users can now choose a banner to customize their Personal Hub.

We’re pleased to announce the following major updates to the inspace web platform:

1. Updated Display Connection screen:

Users can now choose one of five displays to be configured on the Display Connection screen.

This update allows for more flexibility and accuracy when setting up displays:

• Meeting Room Display
• Meeting Room Booking Display
• Desk Display
• Welcome Display
• Visitor Display

2. New chart showing free and occupied slots:

When booking a desk or a meeting room, users will see a timeline showing free and occupied slots in the Booking pop-up on the right side of the screen.

Available slots on the timeline are colored blue, while occupied ones are gray.

3. Sign in or Sign up with your Google or Microsoft account:

In our last release, we made Google Single Sign On available for existing inspace users. Now all users can easily and securely access inspace with the ability to sign in or sign up with their Google or Microsoft account.

4. Integration with Azure Active Directory:

Admins can set up the integration with Azure Active Directory (AD) to automatically provision users from AD to inspace.

We’re pleased to announce new features and enhancements to inspace, which include functional improvements and user interface (UI) changes.

UI changes:

1. Assigned Customer Success Manager Contact Widget.

A new widget has been added to the upper right-hand of the screen providing contact details and a schedule link so users can get consultations quickly when needed.

2. The updated floor selector (see picture below).

To view logos in inspace, users select the Settings tab in the left navigational panel and then turn on the Branding toggle. Users upload only one logo, which is processed to suit different screens and backgrounds.

On the Guest Experience tab, inspace users can change Available tags, edit the existing text, and add new paragraphs to customize the email template.

Now, a Desk Display can be customized in inspace, enabling office visitors to check a desk’s availability and book it in a few clicks.

A desk display is a small digital screen used for desk booking and providing availability information. This screen is placed on the desk, and its display can be customized via inspace. Configure desk displays to make them correspond to the brand identity!

We’re pleased to announce the following new features and enhancements to inspace:

1. Ability to sign in to the inspace mobile app with Google:

Users can now sign in to the inspace mobile app using their Google account. Single sign-in simplifies the login process, improves user experience, and boosts employees' productivity.

Please note that sign-up with a Google account has yet to be implemented. Employees can use Single sign-in only if admins have added them to the inspace environment (their profiles should be displayed on the People tab).

2. Updated default avatars:

The default avatar is displayed if the user hasn’t added the photo to the profile. We didn’t want this avatar to be gray and unrecognizable and improved default avatars by changing the design and adding user initials.

3. Enhanced floor plan screen with rotation option:

We've introduced the rotation option to improve the readability of broad floor plans in the inspace mobile app. When the user rotates the phone, the inspace screen with a floor plan automatically adjusts, switching to horizontal or vertical mode.

We’re pleased to announce the following new features and improvements to the inspace web platform:

1. New functionality for customizing Welcome and Room displays via the inspace web platform:

Guest arrival displays in the office lobby or receptionist area, meeting room screens and other office tablets, panels and digital sign displays can now be customized in the inspace web platform. The information displayed on the screen can now include custom welcome text, background images, QR codes, and other details such as Wi-Fi access. These options are available for each display added to an inspace environment.

Using this feature to customize Welcome and Room displays will help streamline employees' and guests' experience, making visits to the office more enjoyable.

2. Consolidating user and admin login links https://my.inspace.app/:

To simplify desktop access, we have consolidated user and admin access to a single domain my.inspace.app/. Users will use their same login credentials to access inspace.

3. Additional meeting details for bookings:

The booking screen now contains Title and Description fields. These fields provide more context around the meeting’s purpose and can also be mapped to calendar integrations. If meetings are set up in calendar applications and integrated with inspace, details will be shown here. Alternately, users can also provide the details directly in inspace to be synched with the calendar application (Google Calendar or Outlook).

We’re pleased to announce the following new features and enhancements to the inspace mobile app:

1. New social notifications feature added:

The floor plan in inspace now offers a unique feature - Social Notifications. All users now have the ability to add personalized text labels directly to the floor plan.

With this new feature, users can look at a floor plan and know whose birthday or work anniversary it is, where social events are happening, and where to find needed materials or learn about the latest strategy session.

An admin can delete any social notifications created by users. For more, please visit the feature description page.

2. Enhanced Room Booking with additional meeting details and the ability to invite external guests:

The booking screen now contains Title and Description fields. These fields provide more context around the meeting’s purpose and can also be mapped to calendar integrations. If meetings are set up in calendar applications and integrated with inspace, details will be shown here. Alternately, users can also provide the details directly in inspace to be synched with the calendar application (Google Calendar or Outlook).

To invite external guests, the inspace user specifies their email when creating a meeting (see picture below). Adding a guest as a meeting participant to an in-person meeting adds them as a guest to inspace.

3. Booking screens now feature a useful calendar view:

Easily find availability by scrolling in the calendar view. Available time slots are shown in blue (see picture below).

4. Dashboard improved with color-coded status indicator:

Color-coded indicators help inspace users quickly see colleagues status from the people and calendar screens. Statuses are synched with integrated calendar applications automatically.

We're pleased to announce the following improvements and new features in inspace:

1. Inviting guests via creating meetings in Microsoft 365 (Outlook):

For guests, who are invited to meetings via their email addresses but aren’t the company’s employees, inspace creates guest accounts. With these accounts, guests can log in to inspace to easily find the meeting room they need. Previously, the same functionality was available only for Google Meet events.

Inviting guests via creating meetings in Microsoft Outlook is optional and can be customized based on customer needs.

2. Customized Walk-in screen and meeting room display:

The Walk-in Screen is a TV installed on the reception to display the company name, people in the office, and a QR code to connect to Wi-Fi. Before, companies that use inspace experienced difficulties when designing this screen on their own. We’ve implemented the functionality to customize Walk-in Screen using the inspace app.

We’ve also enabled inspace admins to customize tablet screens for meeting rooms.

A tablet screen displays the meeting room name, the list of bookings for the following day, Wi-Fi credentials (users can scan a QR to connect to Wi-Fi), and helpdesk information (in case of any problems with the equipment, users can scan a QR code to get assistance). Please note that the tablet app for customizing Walk-in and meeting room screens from inspace will be included in the upcoming releases.

3. Improved UX and Navigation:

We have made improvements to the UX on the pages with the Employees and Bookings. The number of displayed people can be customized, and these settings are saved if the page is reloaded. We have also added icons and a button to collapse the menu to the left navigational panel. UX improvements also involve the Calendar.

We’ve added icons and the button to collapse the menu to the left navigational panel.

4. Extended analytics:

Now, companies can view and easily analyze the company’s data for all the offices.

5. People tab updates and improved UI of the bookings list:

On the People tab, we’ve implemented new filters for searching people by department and team. We’ve also added the Manage Users button, admins can click on it to navigate to the billing page and manage employees. To provide a better user experience, we’ve updated the UI of the bookings list.

6. Fixed bug:

Previously, when checking in, the employee’s status didn’t change from “Working from home” to “In office”. We’ve fixed this bug of NFC check-in.