Smart Questions and Answers for Cloud change log

New feature / Improvement / Bug fix

2024-10-26

• Upgrade to Confluence’s REST API v2 as required by Atlassian

• Fix issue which caused code snippets and content embeds to be inserted again instead of being updated

• Fix missing which resulted in some notifications to be omitted (only affects notifications limited to certain labels when the label was added later)

2024-08-28

• / Enable emojis again by upgrading to the newest Tiny MCE version

2024-08-24

• Improve support of custom domains

2024-03-09

• Allow configuration of the “All questions” view

• Upgrade to GPT-4

2023-10-23

• Implement rate limit for notifications and OpenAI actions
  (needed to reduce the likelihood of denial of service attacks)

• Limit the number of customization commands to 30
  (needed to reduce the likelihood of denial of service attacks)

2023-08-20

• Preliminary support for Confluence’s dark theme
  (some minor remaining issues will be fixed in the next weeks depending on Atlassian’s progress)

• Allow to define the cell which will be used to extract the question from

2023-06-16 - 2023-06-24

• Various improvements in the migration functionality

2023-06-16

• Add the css command to UI customizations

2023-05-27 - 2023-06-15

• Various improvements in the migration functionality

2023-05-19

• Add AI answer support (experimental)

• Improve the arrangement of the icons in the answer editor. Images and links are not behind the expansion anymore.

2023-05-12

• Fix search for labels containing a dash

2023-04-29

• Allow UI customizations

• Change migration UI and allow migration of multiple topics at once

2023-02-25

• Various UI improvements

• Show details of error messages shown in the answer section

2023-02-11

• Add check permissions link to error messages shown in the answer section

2023-02-04

• Break too long words in the overview

2022-12-11

• Allow to define other user groups (not only space admins) to use the “Create new topic” button in the topic overview

• Allow the definition of a custom SMTP server for notifications

2022-11-27

• Allow embedding of Confluence content (similar to page include and excerpt include) and iFrames in answers

• Show the selected type of content (e.g. image or link) in the toolbar and drop the context menu used up to now

2022-11-15

• Offer a totally new alternative look and feel for the overview: the metadata (number of answers, views etc.) are shown in a table as well as all contributors. Try it out!

• Start searches right after stopping typing without the need to press enter or the search button.

• Allow using a like icon or a heart icon for the voting of answers instead of a chevron.
  Remark: voting down is only possible with chevrons

• Add more tooltips for better usability

• The user ranking now shows the user’s picture next to its name

2022-11-10

• Properly catch search errors when users are using quotation marks in the overview

2022-11-08

• Fix a migration error in combination with the /export2 REST endpoint of Server/DC

2022-09-03

• Improve some Slack details:

  • Send a welcome message once a user opens the app’s tab in Slack (please note that this only works for Slack connections created after 2022-09-03)

  • Remove the welcome message to other channels again (introduced in version 1.31.0)

2022-08-22

• Improve and streamline Slack channel selection:

  • You don’t have to re-allow the app’s connection to a Workspace once you are connected

  • You can only select your own direct channel (IM)

  • Multi-person channels are not shown anymore

  • Reduce the scopes required by the Smart Q&A Slack app

  • Receive a welcome message for new Slack notification channels

2022-07-30

• Send out notifications for updated questions, answers and comments

• Improve the display of special characters in notifications

• Allow to skip notifications by setting the template to an empty string

2022-07-21

• Fix the search for content managers when entering a space

• Fix an issue not not showing all content managers if more then 2 have been defined

2022-07-10

• Improve the search for content in the insert link/attachment dialog and in the Create new topic dialog

2022-07-09

• Fix automatic creation of new topics

2022-06-27

• Avoid error message in side container if page title contains an % -sign

2022-06-12

• Allow to paste images in answers (rather than uploading them)
  Please consider this feature as beta and note that pasted images are shown as web images with a so called data URL - we did not expect that Confluence allows data URLs in images. In case Atlassian changes this we need to consider alternative options.

2022-06-09

• Improve the display of error messages in the “manage notifications screen”

2022-06-03

• Add an “all questions” tab to the topics view (the view you reach from the left navigation bar). In this tab you can see all questions from the instance.

• Add an “information” tab to the topics view (the view you reach from the left navigation bar). The tab contains links to the documentation, to this page and to the support portal.

• Respect template and width defined in the hosting topic rather than the current topic (only relevant when asking a question from a higher level topic in a hierarchical topic setup)

• Bind the new flag to the creation date not the last modification date

2022-05-15

• Add a possibility to filter topics by name of the topic or space in the topic overview

• Remove limit of topics shown in the topic overview

2022-05-08

• Show space name in the topics view

2022-04-09

• Allow to restrict the edit permission of question pages to the creator (opt-in).
  This applies for newly created questions only and requires that the app has edit access and is allowed to restrict content,

• Add an option to show the accepted answer before all other answers.

• Fix the missing translation of the overview table

• Fix the missing update of the respondents after an answer has been deleted

2022-03-24

• Show read questions differently to unread questions in the overview (unread questions have bold title, read ones a normal one).
  This applies for newly read questions only.

• Show a “NEW” sticker next to unread new questions created since the last visit to a topic.
  This feature starts to work once the first visit has been recorded.

2022-01-30

• Provide a German translation for the UI.
  Please note that due to limitations from Confluence Cloud the English UI is shown first before it changes to the German one.

2022-01-19

• Respect labels of templates.

2022-01-08

• Allow content managers to feature questions. Featured questions will always show up before other questions in the overview.

2021-12-31

• We decided to change the locking feature rolled out two days ago in the following way: there is no need to opt-in - content managers can always lock questions. The creator of a question however can’t lock questions.

2021-12-29

• Allow locking of questions (opt-in)

• Fix the display of similar questions in case the page title contains a # symbol

2021-12-13

• Fix line break issue which prevented answers from being saved which contain line breaks.

2021-12-05

• Add the possibility to import data from Smart Questions and Answers Server / Data Center (beta) - for details refer to this page

• Move comments to answers to dedicated content type - this allows disabling page comments

2021-11-14

• Show (newly inserted) emojis like Confluence ( as they are an image you may also resize them)

• Improve the pagination display in case the index is not yet current

• Init new question data earlier to avoid missing questions in the overview

2021-11-09

• Fix dialog size issue when inserting emoticons

2021-11-06

• Support of hierarchical topics. Please refer to this page for details.

2021-08-29

• Allow the notification of page (question) level comments via the channels (opt-in)

• Collect labels from all descendant questions under a topic - not only the direct children

2021-08-01

• Fix inability to delete responses on Chrome 92 and newer

2021-08-01

• Add a basic statistic (opt-in via the Question Overview macro configuration)

• Add a user ranking either based on contributions or a more complex system based on points (opt-in via the Question Overview macro configuration)

2021-07-24

• Add notification via Google Chat (requires a paid Google Workspace account)

• Allow Teams notification titles with the &-sign

• Show most current version of an image for all newly inserted images in questions

• Fix exception shown when user hits enter on some add notification screens

2021-06-05

• Allow a PDF and Word export of questions and their answers

• Allow a PDF and Word export of the overview

• Change opacity of results while collecting new ones

• Change extract creation to improve loading speed in the overview

Scroll Word and PDF Exporter work as well but with significant limitations

2021-05-22

• Use the creator of a question, answer or comment as default from name in emails and make the from name configurable

2021-05-19

• Various UI improvements in the answer editor

• Don’t show the create new question link from answers when user is not allowed to create new questions

2021-05-16

• Allow non question child pages below a topic page without displaying them in the overview

2021-05-11

• Show line numbers in added or updated code snippets

• Work around Confluence bug https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-72065 which results in wrong links to attachments

2021-05-08

• Add the possibility to add code snippets to answers

• Show the displayName rather than the publicName

• Fix context QSH as required by Atlassian to fix a security issue in the underlying framework

• Only send notification on new answers / comments - not on updated ones

2021-05-06

• Paste HTML as text to avoid saving issues of answers.

2021-04-29

• Fix a notification issue which resulted in notifications to be send out for questions even if the question labels do not match the selected labels for the notification

2021-03-29

• Fix a notification issue related to certain pages

2021-01-09

• Enhance notification possibilities (separate template for comments, general notifications by email not requiring any channel setup)

• Change the order of the icons in the question editor to make the frequently used ones more prominent

2021-01-03

• Show similar questions when entering the title of a new question

• Improve extract display in the overview

• Improve the content conversion for notifications (email, Teams and Slack) (e.g. show mentions)

2020-12-28

• Optimize the overview layout

• Change token handling to avoid token expiry issues

2020-12-27

• Fix next page issue when cursor contains a + sign

• Fix multiple issues when a question title contains the & sign

• Fix image insertion issue

2020-12-18

• Allow to receive more than 100 slack channels

• Fix select2 size for slack channels

2020-12-07

• Send notifications even if app does not have read access

• Fix placeholder issue when notifying answers via email

Earlier changes are not shown here.