Our goal at Elium is to support the growth of businesses through effectively sharing knowledge. We believe that when knowledge is readily available and easily accessible, teams become more productive, and projects are more successful.
To consistently deliver on this promise and improve Elium, we regularly release or enhance new features.
Join us in discovering the major product updates of 2022!
Content Blocks are visibly available on the left of the story. Drag & drop or click to add them to your story.
The drawings block has been added. Create sketches or graphs.
Story-style settings are easily accessible on the right side of the page. Change text, colour and formatting with just a few clicks.
Comments are visible even when you are editing the story. This can help you to include any feedback from your colleagues into what you are doing.
Keyboard shortcuts can be kept visible on the screen at all times. This is useful for improving efficiency and productivity.
Code block refresh – The code block has undergone a small lifting. It now supports some languages better and is more readable.
We have refreshed the navigation sidebar – We’ve introduced colorised icons for the main items to improve the look, and we also added a new item to reach the page listing all the spaces.
The display of the joined spaces has also been tweaked. They now appear in lowercase and bold. Overall, we wanted to bring some freshness to the Elium interface with this update.
Grouped spaces on the homepage – The homepage now displays spaces in groups in the “My spaces” tab. This is another step towards a better coherence between the homepage and the new page displaying all spaces.
Remove the directory from the main menu – If you don’t use the Elium directory, you can now remove it from the main menu. To do so, go to the “Look and feel” tab of the administration panel.
Switch between content feed and joined spaces – This component will take into account your platform preferences. As a reminder, you can show the content feed, or the space joined by default on your platform through the look and feel preferences in the admin panel.
We have added promoted spaces –Similarly to favorites, platform and space administrators can place the most important spaces in the navigation bar. These are then placed just above the favorites. Unlike favorite spaces, however, promoted spaces are promoted for all users of the platform.
Activity Log Deactivation – The Activity Log can now be disabled and replaced by Smart Feeds. The setting can be found on the “Look and Feel” page of the administration panel.
SMART Feeds – You can now create your own smart feeds from the home page. Click on the new block between the home box and the activity feed to get started.
The goal of SMART feeds is to make the homepage more personal and relevant to end users. Read more about it here.
We have introduced protected stories – Disable content download to space readers with this new option. The purpose of this new feature is to remove all the ways to download the content from a Story.
The invitation to contribute has evolved – The invitation to contribute has been slightly redesigned. It is now possible to send a message, just like the invitation to read. We have also clarified its impact with the addition of a description text.
We have introduced the time to read a story. Often, reading a Story only takes a few minutes. To encourage reading, Elium now displays an estimation of the reading time of the content in its header.
You will soon be able to crop your images directly in Elium – We are testing a new image upload tool on Elium. It allows you to crop your images directly in Elium, without having to use complex software. In order to test the tool, we’ve decided to start with the platform’s logo.
You can now remove a language from a story – If you had to open a ticket to do this operation before, it is now possible for any contributor. A click on the language selector will also allow you to delete it. Useful when a language is no longer maintained.
Visibility of Search Feedback – For some time now, users have been able to send feedback when they did not find content that met their needs.
Sharepoint Search (beta)
This partnership gives us the technical ability to edit Office documents directly from Elium. Our engineering team has been working on integrating Microsoft 365 with Elium. For some time now, we have already integrated the ability to preview any Word, PowerPoint or Excel document from Elium. With this partnership, we are taking it to the next level.
Previously, when you needed to edit a Word document in a Story, you had to have the appropriate application installed on your computer (Word, Excel, or PowerPoint) and move outside of Elium. Now, all that is over, thanks to this new integration.
A new button has been added to the Office files: “Edit in Office Online“.
Click on this button to open the document in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint Online. All your changes are directly and immediately saved on Elium.
The cherry on the cake: multiple people can edit the document at the same time.
Updates on the header of spaces – In order to gain in readability, we have changed the header of the spaces. Previously, the name of the space as well as the various information and buttons were on the background image. This was very problematic for accessibility and readability.
We made the choice to decouple the information about the space from its image. The information now appears below the banner, and the buttons are also more defined on the right.
Easy way to check all your duplicates – A good practice when building your knowledge base is to avoid duplicates. Elium provides you now an overview of all duplicate files on the platform.
Modernisation of the admin pages – We continue the effort to modernize the administration pages. After the App Launcher management page, this time it’s the turn of the email pipelines page. This modernization will allow us to add new features in a second time.
Manage the digest frequency – The digest is a very powerful tool to encourage your users to visit your platform.
Easily download your exports – At Elium, we guarantee our customers the absolute recovery of all content that were stored by users in their own environment for whatever reason : for archival or backup purposes throughout the life cycle of the project or its end of life, for reusing or reinjecting these data in another device.
We have released a new help center. Navigation is easier, but that’s not all! This new tool allows us to update the documentation faster. The goal is to have a more lively and helpful documentation for everyone.
Elium includes an antivirus that can scan all files uploaded to your platform. After a long testing phase, we have now officially integrated it in the security page of the admin panel.