Admins can now further define users' faculties over a task's lifecycle in a workflow. With this new security update, users can be required to have specific permissions to change a task's state or create a subtask.

Cotalker's routine automation potential just stepped up a level with its brand new Custom Javascript Code stage-bot. This latest arrival to our army of bots is a powerful tool that runs safely in a sandboxed node.js environment with the ability to extract, process, and return data for use in the rest of your routine. Check out the documentation, complete with descriptions and examples.

While doing some housework on our BI & SQL database service, we removed the clutter and re-wrote the table names. With our newly instated naming convention, it is now visually easier to understand the content of your SQL database tables. Find out more about the new table name structure and our BI & SQL service in the documentation.

To help make your conversations in chat channels more fluent and participative, you can now react to chat messages with an emoji! Simply right-click on a message bubble and choose react from the menu options. Go to the documentation for more information about this feature and the other chat message menu options.

Through a new stage-bot for your routines, you can now integrate Cotalker with Google Calendar. This integration allows you to create Google Calendar events and send invitations to fellow Cotalkers or external invitees. Invite as many external invitees as you want by just adding their email addresses (even if they're not Gmail accounts).

NOTE: This feature requires that your organization's Google Workspace has domain-wide delegation enabled.

WhatsApp is what's up! By simply adding a stage or step to your routines you can now send messages through WhatsApp. You'll need your recipients' complete international phone number (e.g., +1 234 555-6789), your contract code, and some information to fill up a template.

Note: Contact your Cotalker representative to get started.

We've added more functions when you click on a chat message bubble. Now, not only can you delete a chat message, but also give a reply or even copy its text to your clipboard. Message replies embed the original message (attached files and media included), which helps maintain the context in long, diverse, or overpopulated conversations.

With the subproperty filter, you can easily customize multiple-choice surveys, i.e., answers to one survey question will filter the possible options in the following questions. Though similar to our hierarchy selection tool, the subproperty filter gives you greater control to set the elements users will be able to choose. (Thanks to all of our users' feedback we were able revise and edit this section to include more examples.)

Just when you thought the task viewer couldn't get any better, our engineers came up with a neat new feature. Managing tasks and checking up on the channels related to them can now all be done from the task viewer. All the information you need at a glance!

Working on a global scale requires adjusting clocks. With timezone integration in our surveys, it's now easier to manage dates and times across the globe. For example, if an administrator sets a survey's timezone to Australia/Sydney (UTC +10), and a user replies with 2021-05-05 6:00, the answer will read as 2021-05-04 20:00 in Europe/London (UTC +0).