StrategyBlocks Feature Focus – New Dashboard Object Padding & Progress Bar Colors Dashboard Object Padding Having a snap-to-grid option for laying out the objects on your dashboards is very helpful, you can arrange everything to line up quickly, easily, and perfectly. However, there are those occasions when you just need to nudge an object ever [...]
StrategyBlocks Feature Focus – User Abilities StrategyBlocks User Roles Our approach to user management has always been to keep it simple! From an administration point of view, this meant not having to manage multiple tiers of users, each with a different purpose and a different cost. So, in StrategyBlocks, there are only three different User [...]
I know my company needs a strategic plan, but where do we start? One of our most read blog posts is nearly a decade old, but it continues to be a popular topic. Entitled Strategic Planning: Why Do We Need To Do It?, it outlines the value of having a strategic plan and why your [...]
Feature Focus - August Updates to StrategyBlocks There are a number of new features available in the latest release of StrategyBlocks, let's take a quick look at each one. Deeper Integration to Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AAD) We have enhanced our integration with AAD which now extends past the current Single Sign-on (SSO) capability. This [...]
Feature Focus - StrategyBlocks Integration with Microsoft PowerPoint It seems almost all organizations today are constantly striving for greater strategic transparency and want to share elements of their strategic plan with a wide variety of stakeholders. It could be shared internally or externally (e.g., to the community, customers, students, partners etc.) - and of course [...]
Feature Focus - Nested Custom Fields Available this month is a feature extension to Custom Fields. First, let's start with a recap of the purpose of Custom Fields within StrategyBlocks. There will often be times when ‘out-of-the-box’ fields don’t quite meet the specific reporting requirement you are looking for. As an example, some form of [...]
Feature Focus – StrategyBlocks V5.3 Release There are several exciting new features in the November release of StrategyBlocks! External Dashboards Dashboard Grid Metric Block Face Update Small Metric Network Block New Filter Control External Dashboards Last month we discussed the drive toward true strategic transparency and we have been actively discussing with our customers what [...]
Feature Focus - Enhancements to Multi Chart Features Following the release of the custom dashboard multi chart, we have had some great feedback from customers enabling us to add some extra features and functionality. New Pie Chart (see above!) Everyone seems to love a pie chart, so a couple of options have been added to [...]
StrategyBlocks new Features Release – February New Fully Customizable Metrics Object Last year we added a new View Type for the Custom Dashboard Block Object. It provides the ability to use HTML to create your own highly customized dashboard objects, when you need to create something that is not available from the existing view types. [...]
StrategyBlocks new Features Release – November Block Type Selector Buttons Our goal is to continuously innovate and create new ways to make StrategyBlocks more efficient and easy to navigate. Recently, it became apparent that some users didn't realise they could change the look of the block. So we replaced the old block type (face) selector [...]
