November 2022

New features

Just released: Preview as a user! Owners and program managers can preview the Award Force platform as another user. Preview mode is read-only, so no changes can be made.
Assigning judges to entries one-by-one can now be done via the Manage entries list view. This feature comes with two notification triggers: assignment created and assignment judging completed.
Judges leaving entrant feedback can now upload images in any judging mode.

On the blank entry form PDF, we added text clarifying it can’t be completed offline.
On the new downloads page, a column with search filters has been added to make it easy to see what’s in each export.
When assigning judges, we added a status update message that tells users the number of assignments created and any that couldn’t be created.
On the manager’s judging dashboard, we updated the text for top pick score sets to highlight that the number shown is the number of winners.
Users can’t be permanently deleted by program managers anymore – only by account owners.
Individual user language preferences are now available in the columnator at /users and in the Get user and List user responses in the API.
We’ve added support for webp images to attachments and single file uploads.
Counters have been added for min/max attachments to let entrants know the requirements before they submit.
Multiple improvements were made in line with WCAG accessibility standards:

Our field settings page has been improved for accessibility
We added the <main> landmark to the app, so screen readers and keyboard users can navigate easier
The hover colour contrast of the country code in the phone field dropdown has been improved
We improved the focus order on the homepage to make keyboard navigation easier.