
<p>
  We're excited to announce that this week we launched our new template library. It lets teams add new templates with a click.
</p>

<img src="/blog/template-library.png" alt="The Template Library UI" />

<h2>The Library</h2>

<p>
  We're launching with several pre-built templates, and have plans for many more. Initially the Template Library includes:
</p>

<ul>
  <li>Task</li>
  <li>Contact</li>
  <li>Link</li>
  <li>Competitor</li>
  <li>Performance Review</li>
  <li>Retrospective</li>
</ul>

<p>
  You can access the Template Library from within the Templates tab in the app.
</p>

This week we launched our new Template Library. Teams can now add pre-designed
templates with a click.


The Template Library


<p>
It's been a very busy few weeks, and we've got lots of new features to share as
a result!
</p>

<h2>Updates</h2>

<img alt="Updates Screenshot" src="https://cardinal-production-blog.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/updates-screenshot.png">

<p>
First up is a new feature, called <strong>Updates</strong>. And yes, it's
awkward to announce the update that includes a feature named Update.
</p>

<p>
Updates lists updated cards you are watching. Each update includes a quick
summary of the latest change. You can click on the update to view it and mark
it read, or mark all updates read.
</p>

<p>
This is the new default page after you log in, so you can't miss it.
</p>

<h2>Card Types Are Now Templates</h2>

<p>
We've renamed Card Types to be Templates. It's one less character to type and
keeps us from having to say weird things like "Make a card from the new card
type."
</p>

<h2>Navigation Improvements</h2>

<img src="https://cardinal-production-blog.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/updated-navigation.png" alt="Navigation Screenshot" width="342">

<p>
We've also restructured Cardinal's navigation. We now include three links in
the sidebar for Updates, Search, and Templates.
</p>

<h2>Search Enhancements</h2>

<img alt="Search Screenshot" src="https://cardinal-production-blog.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/new-search-tab.png" width="1280">

<p>
Search is now only on the Search tab, rather than on every feed. You can still
filter feeds by clicking the Refine button from any feed.
</p>

<h2>Team Menus</h2>

<img alt="Team Menus" src="https://cardinal-production-blog.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/team-menu.png" width="268">

<p>
Finally, we launched <strong>Team Menus</strong>. Team menus let you add fields to cards
that allow you to select members of your team. Configure them to allow you to
select people, groups, or both. They're great for things like marking the
assignee for a card.
</p>



Our latest release includes a new feature called Updates, Updated Navigation, 
Search Updates, and a new Team Menu field.


Introducing Updates, and More


<p>
Back in December, right before the holiday, we shipped a new feature enabling
the ability to duplicate any card. When duplicating a card all the content of
the card itself will be duplicated, but comments won't be duplicated, and you
can choose whether or not to duplicate the current sharing configuration for
the card.
</p>

<img alt="Duplicate Card" src="https://cardinal-production-blog.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/duplicate-card-modal.png">

<p>
Duplicating cards is handy for cases where you want a template to reproduce a
common data configuration for cards. We've seen cases where that's useful over
the long term - like a document template with a series of questions that need
to be answered, but can also be helpful in the short term, like if creating
several custom task cards for a project.
</p>

<hr>

<p>
Card duplicating became a feature due to customer feedback. Is there something
we could build that would make Cardinal work better for your team? Let us know
by <a href="mailto:support@withcardinal.com">sending an email</a> or tweeting to us at
<a href="https://twitter.com/withcardinal">@withcardinal</a>.
</p>



Back in December, right before the holiday, we shipped a new feature enabling
the ability to duplicate any card.


Duplicate Cards


<p>
Today we launched a new field type for custom cards - toggles. Toggles have two
states - on or off, but allow you to re-label those states to whatever you
need, like "Yes" and "No" or "Enabled" and "Disabled." Toggle fields are fully
supported in search as well, so you can filter by toggle state.
</p>

<img alt="Toggles" src="https://cardinal-production-blog.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/toggle-focus.png">


Today we launched a new field type for custom cards - toggles. Toggles have two
states - on or off, but allow you to re-label those states...


Toggles


<img alt="Everyone can edit user interface" src="https://cardinal-production-blog.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/everyone-can-edit.png">

<p>
Today we launched a new "Everyone can edit" option for card visibility, to work
alongside the "Everyone can view" and "Invite only." When you create a card
that you want everyone on the team to be able to edit, "Everyone can edit" is
much more convenient than having to share the card with each person in your
organization.
</p>


Today we launched a new "Everyone can edit" card visibility option for teams that want to share edit access to cards with everyone on the team.


"Everyone can edit" Visibility Option


<p>
This week's release is focused on Cardinal Groups. Groups is a feature that
lets you define and then communicate with groups of people.
</p>

<p>
The Groups admin interface lets you define and manage groups:
</p>

<img alt="Define and edit groups from the admin interface" src="https://cardinal-production-blog.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/groups-management.png">

<p>
Within the interface you can name your groups, specify the handle you'd like to
use to mention the group, and add and remove members for the group.
</p>

<p>
Once you've defined a group you can mention that group anywhere you would
normally be able to mention an individual:
</p>

<img alt="Mention a group like you'd mention an individual" src="https://cardinal-production-blog.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/groups-mentions.png">

<p>
Cards can also be shared with groups, allowing you to share to more than one
person and modify the share automatically as the group changes:
</p>

<img alt="Share with groups" src="https://cardinal-production-blog.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/groups-sharing.png">

<p>
We're very excited about the flexibility that groups give teams to share and
mention without having to list out each individual. Groups make it even easier
to get organized and track everything in Cardinal.
</p>


Announcing Cardinal Groups! Groups let you create groups of team members and mention and share with them as if they were a single person.


Groups


<p>
We have a lot of cool work in flight, but in the meantime one piece was ready
for release, and hey, who ever said it was a bad idea to ship something on a
Friday (everyone).
</p>

<p>
We've added the ability to delete cards that you create under the Options
section on each card view. For now only card owners can delete cards, but that
will likely expand to include team admins in the future as well.
</p>

<p>
To delete a card that you are the owner of navigate to it and click delete in
the right hand Options section. You'll have to confirm deleting because it's a
permanent action.
</p>

<img alt="Delete Card Screenshot" src="https://cardinal-production-blog.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/delete-card.png">

<p>
Be sure you truly want to delete a card. It's a permanent action and cannot be
undone, and also deletes any attachments, comments, and activity on the card.
If you want to keep a card out of search results but also want to retain its
data, you can Archive it.
</p>


This week we have a small release, adding the ability for card owners to 
delete their cards. Deleting cards allows your team to keep information tidy.


Delete Cards


Over the past month we've been building something we're really excited to share
- the new Card Designer!

<img alt="Card Designer Screenshot" src="https://cardinal-production-blog.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/card-designer.png">

<p>
The Card Designer is focused on making it easier to define and customize custom
card types. With the new designer you can drag and drop new fields into your
card type design and customize them by clicking Edit on any field.
</p>

<p>
  We've also updated custom card types to include a new feature called
  Properties. Properties allow you to include up to five select menus in your
  card design in the left column of the card, under the labels.
</p>

<img alt="Properties Screenshot" src="https://cardinal-production-blog.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/card-properties.png">

<p>
Properties are great for emphasizing organizational fields. We use them for
Issue tracking at Cardinal, with properties like status and issue type.
</p>

<p>
  We hope you enjoy with the new Card Designer. If you have any card types
  you're especially proud of, we'd love to hear about them at
  <a href="mailto:support@withcardinal.com">support@withcardinal.com</a>.
</p>


Our new Card Designer is focused on making it easier to define and customize custom
card types to solve any problems your team has in tracking data.


Card Designer


<img alt="Card View Screenshot" src="https://cardinal-production-blog.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/card-view.png">

<p>
Today we're releasing a huge visual update to the card view. It exposes a lot
more information, like sharing settings, at a glance and sets up future updates
to the card view, especially relating to custom cards.
</p>

<p>
At the same time, we're updating how labels work. They're now only manageable
from settings, and only by team administrators. That cements their role as a
team-wide feature for card organization.
</p>

<p>
We're excited to show you how things fit together in the next few releases!
</p>



We're releasing a huge visual update to the card view. It exposes a lot
more information at a glance and sets up future updates to the card view.


New Card View


<img alt="Comments Screenshot" src="https://cardinal-production-blog.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/comments.png">

<p>
Over the past few weeks we've been improving the document commenting system. We
launched with a system that worked well but was complex and a rough around the
edges. The new system makes commenting much more consistent between desktop and
mobile web, and also adds the ability to review resolved comments.
</p>

<p>
We also did a few more card list updates this past week. If you're on a wider
screen you'll notice that the card list now displays as full width.
</p>

<p>
In general we're incredibly grateful for the feedback we've received during
the preview, and can't wait to show you the next few updates we have in
store!
</p>


Over the past few weeks we've been improving the document commenting system. We
launched with a system that worked well but was complex...


Comments!


<p>
  This week's work was focused on a smaller update that we still think will
  be quite helpful. We've added a help menu to the app. You can access it from
  the card list and from the settings pages, and future updates will get it
  onto the card views as well.
</p>

<img alt="Help Menu Screenshot" src="https://cardinal-production-blog.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/help-menu.png">

<p>
  Within the help menu you can click to get to our help documentation,
  product changelog, and send us feedback. We also added a nice new feedback
  form:
</p>

<img alt="Feedback Form Screenshot" src="https://cardinal-production-blog.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/feedback-modal.png">

<p>
  We've felt the need to be able to archive cards from the card list for a
  while, so we also went ahead and added a new overflow menu on the card list
  that will let you open less used operations. The first and currently only
  option in the menu is Archive, but there will likely be more in the future.
</p>

<img alt="Card List Overflow Menu Screenshot" src="https://cardinal-production-blog.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/card-overflow-menu-2.png">

<p>
As always, we're excited to hear what you think, so feel free to use that new
feedback form from the help menu to send us your thoughts.
</p>


This week's work was focused on a smaller update that we still think will
be quite helpful. We've added a help menu to the app.


Help Menu and Archive from Card List


<p>
  Over the past few weeks we've been building a new way to create cards. The
  new creation flow takes significantly fewer clicks than the old one did.
</p>

<img alt="Card Creation Screenshot" src="https://cardinal-production-blog.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/new-create-modal.png">

<p>
  In the process of building the new card creation flow we also made a lot of
  updates to general design elements in Cardinal. You'll notice that most
  elements feel a little more square and that we've simplified a few other
  interactions.
</p>

<p>
We hope you enjoy the updates!
</p>


Over the past few weeks we've been building a new way to create cards. The
new creation flow takes significantly fewer clicks than the old one did.


New Creation Flow and General Design Updates


<p>
  Over the past couple of weeks we have been hard at work on some big user
  interface updates based on everyone's feedback. We still have a lot of work
  to go on those updates, so we decided to switch gears for a bit and ship a
  small new feature we've wanted for a while.
</p>

<h2>Workspace Switcher</h2>

<p>
The Workspace Switcher makes it easier for people with multiple workspaces to access all of them. Each time you sign in we note what teams you know about, and then once you know about more than one team we show a handy workspace switcher in the Account menu:
</p>

<img alt="Workspace Switcher" src="https://cardinal-production-blog.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/workspace-switcher.png" />


<h2>Bugfixes</h2>

<p>
  This release also includes bugfixes for an issue where the delete button for
  saved searches wasn't hiding and displaying on hover for some browsers, and
  we made some style changes to make the default state for avatars nicer to
  look at.
</p>


Today we're releasing our new Workspace Switcher, which makes it easier for people with multiple workspaces to access all of them.


Workspace Switcher


<p>
Saved searches are finally here! We've been refining the saved searches design
for a while and were finally ready to finalize it all and ship it!
</p>

<h2>Saved Searches</h2>

<p>
  With the flexibility around defining custom cards and search that Cardinal
  has, we've always known that saving a search for later would be important.
  Our first iteration of saved searches was simply making sure that search
  URLs were consistent so that we could bookmark searches and then re-use
  those bookmarks with the latest data. We used that technique as we worked
  toward launch a few weeks ago to manage lists of release issues and other
  launch details.
</p>

<p>
  We think creating saved searches is about as simple as it could be. Simply
  refine a feed with the search bar, enter a name in the sidebar, and hit
  enter to save the search. Saved searches make it so that you can always come
  back to a perfectly refined list of cards for ongoing work.
</p>

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  <source src="https://cardinal-production-blog.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/saved-searches.webm" type="video/webm" />
  <source src="https://cardinal-production-blog.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/saved-searches.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
</video>

<h2>Bugfixes</h2>

<p>
  This release also includes bugfixes for an issue where the color selector in
  the label edit modal would lose focus on change, and an issue where
  attachment file downloads were downloading with our internal ids as the
  filename, rather than the original filename.
</p>


Saved searches are finally here! We've been refining the saved searches design
for a while and were finally ready to finalize it all and ship it!


Saved Searches


<p>
We've been working since the preview launch two weeks ago to set up some UI
improvements and bugfixes, and prepare the way for the upcoming saved searches
release.
</p>

<h2>Card List UI Updates</h2>

<p>
In preparation for saved searches and some other improvements we have planned,
and to generally improve the card list user interface, we've moved the create
button to a more prominent position and made the account menu more obvious.
</p>

<img src="/blog/new-card-list.png" alt="Card List UI Updates Screenshot" width="297" height="596" />

<h2>Data Loading Improvements</h2>

<p>
We noticed some small improvements we could make around data loading with the
card list and general session info, so we rolled that out. It should yield
smoother interactions in the app, especially when first logging in or starting
a new session, and they should make our lives easier while building Cardinal.
</p>


Cardinal v0.15.0 is out, with an updated card list design and data loading
improvements that should make using the app a lot smoother.


Changelog