The latest from FeedBear.

Check this page for updates on new features and other product changes.

Newest updates

Idea form auto-saving

Whatever you write in the idea form will now be auto-saved, so if you go to a different page and then back to the form, everything you wrote will still be there.

New Import tools for comments, and upvotes

You can now import ideas, comments, and upvotes from any other tool.

For each import type, we have a template file that you can use as a reference. All templates are available to download from the Import area.

The new FeedBear Import Tool



Loading effects

Ideas will now display a nice loading effect while they are loading.

This is an improvement to the user experience, and we plan to incorporate similar effects in other areas soon.

New loading effect

Email notification settings

You can now easily enable or disable certain email notifications that are sent to users and admins.

In your project "Email Settings", scroll to the bottom to see the notifications types.

Email notification settings

Posting ideas on behalf of a customer

Adding ideas on behalf of your users can now be done directly from your board.

Admins will now see a field called "Author", where you can search for existing users or add a name and email.

This makes it a lot easier to add ideas shared by your customers through other sources to your FeedBear board.

Add idea on behalf of users



Add new ideas from Roadmap

You can now add ideas to your board directly from your Roadmap page.

The new author selection input also allows you to add ideas on behalf of users, so you can easily gather their ideas from other sources and add them to your boards.

Add ideas from Roadmap

Ideas Moderation

You can now moderate which ideas will be visible to users.

From the board settings, you can assign the "Not set" status for all new ideas and then hide that status from users, so only admins will be able to see them.

This is extremely useful for those that want to review the ideas provided by users before making them visible on the boards.

Moderation



Translations

If English is not the primary language of your users, you will be happy to hear that we have implemented translated interfaces for our boards, roadmap, and updates pages.

To activate a different language for your project, go to "Project Settings > Translations Settings", there you will find a list of all the available languages that can be applied.

We are looking for people to help us translate FeedBear into more languages, if you are willing to assist let us know!

Translation Settings

Improvements to Widget

We have performed some nice improvements to our widget, in order to make it more flexible and easier to use.

You no longer need to generate an SSO token to use the widget, you can now simply copy its code and paste it directly on your website. In this case, users will be asked to provide a name and email.

The documentation on how to use the widget has also been updated accordingly. You can find the documentation clicking here.

Make sure to give it a try and start asking your users to share their ideas with you!

FeedBear Widget

Embeds

You can now embed your boards, roadmap, and updates page directly into your website.

Allow your users to submit their ideas and check your roadmap and updates without ever leaving your site.

You can find a quick guide on how to incorporate the embeds into your pages by clicking here.

FeedBear Embeds


Email settings

You can now customize some aspects of email notifications that are sent to users, allowing you to better incorporate your company details on those messages as well as better manage any responses that are sent to those emails.

The "Email settings" can be found in your "Project Settings".
FeedBear Email Settings

Single Sign-On

You can now integrate your website login system with your FeedBear project.

We are slowly rolling this feature out to our customers, if you are interested in using SSO for your project send us a message at support@feedbear.com and we will be happy to help with activating it for you.

Single Sign-On

Webhooks

You can now use Webhooks to integrate your boards with third-party platforms.

Create cards in Trello, add entries to a Google Spreadsheet, or simply send an email to your team members when an Idea is added to your board, the possibilities are endless.

The "Webhooks" tab can be found in your "Project settings".
FeedBear Webhooks

Added unique IDs to HTML elements

We've added HTML IDs to most elements to help you styling your FeedBear board with custom CSS.

Hide the count of votes for ideas

You can now hide the count of votes for ideas in any of your idea boards.

This can be useful if you don't want people to be influenced by existing vote counts or if it's not information you'd like to display publicly. You can access this setting from "Board settings" for all of your boards.

Open the board, then Board Settings to enable this

You can now import ideas along with a custom status

Any custom status you used in a different system will be imported automatically.

Edit roadmap view, add and edit statuses

You can now edit the roadmap to choose which statuses are displayed, create custom statuses or rename the existing ones, change their order.

This allows you to have any number of statuses showing in the roadmap, translating the statuses or using your own names.

To make these changes, you'll find Edit Roadmap and Edit Statuses buttons in the roadmap page.

Edit status names, add new ones and change the roadmap view

Easily export all your data

You can now export your entire's project data, including feedback, comments, users and upvotes. You'll find this in the "Export" tab in "Project settings".

Export all your project's data in one click

Custom CSS

You guys have asked for it and we listened. You can now add Custom CSS to your FeedBear project, allowing you to customize its design to match your requirements and branding guidelines.

The Custom CSS feature is located under the Project Settings.

We hope you all enjoy this feature! Get creative with the possibilities!


Style your project as you want with custom CSS




Voter emails are now more visible to admins

You can hover on the name of a voter to see their email. You can also click on their name to open their profile and see their email address.

If you want to get name and email for all voters, you can click on the export button next to the list of voters.
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