Our goal at Fuel Cycle is to release software updates approximately every two weeks to ensure consistency and constant innovation. While some updates are more "under the hood," others include exciting new features to enhance your experience!
June 2025
Community Name in Browser Tab
What's New
The titles of browser tabs now display the community name.
Why it Matters
Indicating the specific community in a tab can enhance how users organize and oversee their different communities. By knowing which community a tab pertains to, users can navigate and manage their responsibilities more effectively.
How to Use It
No action is required; the community name should appear automatically in the browser tab.
May 2025
Statistical Significance in Crosstab Reports
What's New
Create crosstabs and request statistical significance with a defined confidence interval and minimum count threshold.
Why It Matters
This represents a significant advancement for our crosstab tool, pun intended. Crosstabs can often feel overwhelming, and statistical significance has traditionally been a key indicator for identifying insights. With this new enhancement, we are leveraging AI to improve our summaries, helping to highlight the insights that truly matter.
How to Use It
When you build your crosstab report, there is a settings tab in the crosstab settings interface where you can configure your confidence interval and minimum count threshold. After those are set, generate your crosstab and you will notice highlighted cells where there is significance detected. On hover, a tooltip will appear informing you of the related cells.
Sharing Crosstab Reports
What's New
Share your crosstab reports with a simple link and passcode.
Why It Matters
Sharing our reporting has been a cornerstone of our design principle, and that continues with our crosstab reports. Create a crosstab in minutes and share preliminary findings with your stakeholders just as quickly.
How to Use It
While in your report, click the share button and the sharing interface you are used to appears. From here, copy the link and passcode to share with your stakeholders.
FC Survey Updates
What's New
The system now places the "None" answer option last in FC surveys, following the "Other" option.
Why It Matters
This order aligns closely with the standard practices observed on other platforms, reflecting industry norms and ensuring a familiar experience for users.
How to Use It
There is nothing for end users to do.
Survey Listing Import Flow Update
What's New
For accounts with multiple communities, a banner informs users about the community into which they import their survey.
Why It Matters
This alert helps users by pointing out potential errors. It encourages them to check their entries. This way, the import process becomes more accurate.
How to Use It
The system automatically displays this alert at the top of the import modal.
FC Surveys in Public Beta 
What's New
All internal users can access FC Surveys in internal environments, and clients can access FC Surveys when opting into our Beta Program.
Why It Matters
Our first clients in the Beta phase of FC Surveys will migrate by the end of May. This marks a significant step toward the adoption of FC Surveys! The Beta clients will provide valuable insights into the required migration resources and help identify gaps, allowing us to iterate quickly.
How to Use It
FC Surveys is available for internal environments and communities. If you need access to an internal environment, please submit a ticket for access.
Once you have access, click the Surveys menu in the left navigation bar. Click on FC Surveys in the float-out menu to access the builder. You can also access the builder on the survey list page by clicking the Launch Survey Tool button and selecting FC Surveys.
Organization Setting Defaults
What's New
The organization settings page now includes a Defaults tab where moderators can update the universal information, which will automatically populate when creating a project or activity.
Why It Matters
The Defaults tab in the Organization Settings page provides a single place to update field values, such as points, that repeat without extra effort.
How to Use It
Click on the gear icon at the upper right-hand corner of the Research Engine platform. Click on the Defaults tab. Fill out the default values for author, incentive, and custom activity points. Make sure to save them to apply those as default values in the platform.
Automated Transcriptions
What's New
After users upload video or audio files, they can view auto-generated transcription text in comments, delta test tickets, and the gallery.
Why It Matters
Automated transcriptions significantly improve the accessibility of our community platform. This helps us achieve AAA for WCAG ADA compliance.
Members can upload audio or video responses, facilitating seamless qualitative reporting from any comments.
How to Use It
The transcription will automatically appear shortly after a member uploads audio or video in a comment, delta test, or gallery.
Autonomous Insights
What's New
Autonomous Insights is now accessible to all users.
Why It Matters
FC Labs has been deprecated in favor of the ‘Agent Exchange’ within Autonomous Insights. Over the coming months, Autonomous Insights will power complete end-to-end project research flows.
How to Use It
To access Autonomous Insights, navigate to the dropdown menu from your profile and click on Autonomous Insights, which will open in a new tab.
Export Crosstabs
What's New
You can now export Crosstabs to an Excel file.
Why It Matters
Our primary goal is to enable users to analyze their data within the platform. However, it's also essential to keep their data accessible through other methods. In the Share window, the Export tab allows you to extract source data for your own analysis.
How to Use It
On the Crosstabs page, click the Share button. The Export tab is the only tab available. Click the button to Export Crosstab to Excel.
FC Survey Updates
What's New
There are some design and functionality updates to the FC Surveys tool:
- Updated Design
- Full-Screen mode
- Discard Changes Warning
- Preview Survey
- Duplicate Survey
Why It Matters
This update incorporates comments from Alpha release testers to deliver a best-in-class product for general release.
How to Use It
New design items:
- Zoom in and out within the design surface using magnifying glass icons.
- Added a descriptive-text question type.
- Added a Rich Text Editor.
- Added support for Custom Themes.
- Expand to full screen: click the double-arrow icon in the top right to expand your survey designer. Click again to restore the view.
- If you don't save your changes before navigating away, you will be prompted that you have unsaved changes. You may save or discard.
- There is a new Preview button in the top right to preview your survey as your participants would see it.
- In the Survey List Actions menu, there is an option to Duplicate your survey.
New Group Targeting Criteria
What's New
You can form groups based on whether members did or did not complete an FCX Study.
Why It Matters
We can now create groups based on member activity, which was unavailable before.
How to Use It
On the group configuration page, locate the Complete FCX Study criteria for either dynamic or subset group types. Select "Did" or "Did Not" and then specify an FCX Study.
April 2025
Crosstabs
What's New
Crosstab reports are now available to all customers!
Why It Matters
Crosstabs are an integral part of the research cycle—they add a new dimension to how our clients interpret the data they’ve collected and help them drive towards better solutions. With the release of this report, we continue to drive on our commitment to make the Research Engine the best research platform on the market.
How to Use It
When you navigate to your insights step in the platform for custom survey projects, customers will now be able to select a crosstab report type.
This is the first release in a series of improvements that will be iteratively released over the next few months, including stat testing, AI analysis, and more.
Delete Surveys
What's New
Moderators can now delete an imported survey from the listing page.
Why it Matters
Users now have more control and flexibility in survey management by enabling them to delete surveys easily. Previously, users would accidentally import surveys into the wrong community – now they can delete that survey if this occurs, so it can be imported into the correct one.
How to Use It
On the Survey listing page, identify the survey you wish to delete. Click the action dropdown and click the delete action. Confirm by clicking the Delete button in the pop-up, and the survey is deleted.
Listing Page Actions Changes
What's New
All listing pages now use the word "duplicate" instead of "copy" for duplicating information. There is also now an icon associated with every action.
Why It Matters
Promoting consistency across our platform will enhance user experience and trust.
How to Use It
There is nothing to do; you can find all modifications in the actions dropdown on any listing page.
Group Criteria—Additional Cooldown Timeframes
What's New
We added new timeframes for the Cooldown criteria while creating groups.
Why it Matters
We have gathered user activity data long enough to provide our clients with longer cooldown timeframes. Cooldown criteria can now extend back to the past 365 days.
How to Use It
Find cooldown criteria when building either dynamic or sub-set group types. Select the variable, then choose Did or Did Not. For the value, choose Past 180 days or Past 365 days.
Organization Settings Page Updates
What's New
The Organization Settings page has received some updates:
- An Integrations tab has been added to display a list of integrations enabled/available for the account. The existing Legacy Force Qualtrics Panel Update function is now listed on this page in the Research Engine.
- A Details tab has been added that serves as a central place to store and update the account’s organizational strategy and goals.
Why it Matters
The updated Organization Settings page centralizes key account information. The new Integrations tab offers a view and management of the Qualtrics integration and will evolve into a hub for all enabled integrations.
The new Details tab captures organizational goals and strategy, serving as a single source of truth and potential input for personalized AI.
How to Use It
Click on the gear icon at the upper right-hand side of the Research Engine platform. The default page should the Details tab. Update and save the fields as necessary.
Click on the Integrations tab, and find the Qualtrics Contacts option. Click the Update button to schedule a job to update all P2 and Group data for each community member.
Navigation update: Switch to Legacy UX
What's New
We updated the icon in the left navigation bar to switch to the Legacy application.
Why it Matters
We received feedback that the previous icon looked like a sad face, which was not the intention.
How to Use It
There is nothing to do; you can find the modification in the left navigation bar.
March 2025
Surveys—Link to Legacy Surveys
What's New
We have added a navigation icon to the left navigation bar that links to the Legacy Surveys listing page (click on the image to zoom in).
Why It Matters
While the new Surveys Listing page is in the Beta phase in the Research Engine, we want to ensure that users still have easy access to the Legacy version of the page. We will remove this navigation icon once we make the survey listing page exclusive to the Research Engine.
How to Use It
Click the Surveys button in the left-hand navigation bar to navigate from the Research Engine to the Legacy application Surveys menu.
FC Surveys 
What's New
We have introduced a native survey builder to create surveys.
Why It Matters
FC Surveys represents a significant advancement in our platform's native survey capability, allowing Fuel Cycle to have complete control and ownership over both survey creation and survey data.
How to Use It
In the Survey flyout menu, click on the FC Surveys menu item in the left navigation bar. You can also access this by clicking the Launch Survey Tool button on the Survey List page.
Dashboards—Chart Data Sort
What's New
Sort chart data alphabetically or by count, in ascending or descending order.
Why It Matters
This sorting feature allows users to customize the display of data. Save settings separately for each chart.
How to Use It
- Click on the pencil icon on a chart in the dashboard.
- Expand the Field Properties section.
- Click on the Sort By dropdown.
- Choose either Alphabetically or Count.
- Click Apply to apply the sort setting.
Dashboards—Quick Filters
What's New
Utilize new dashboard filters to apply filters based on groups, user status, and activation status. Use these three filter elements simultaneously. The "Is In" statement is automatically chosen when the element is selected.
Why It Matters
The quick filter expands the filtering capability and allows users to rapidly narrow datasets with few clicks. Save dashboard views that serve diverse purposes.
How to Use It
- On a dashboard page, click on the Filters icon.
- Click into the dropdown of each element (Group, User Status, and Activation Status).
- Select the ones you desire to filter use.
- Click Apply.
Text Editor—Added Font Sizes
What's New
We’ve extended our support of font sizes in certain Research Engine text editors.
Why It Matters
Our clients adhere to very strict rules about their branding. This change easily supports whatever branding details they may have.
How to Use It
When you interact with a text editor in the project builder or when you edit an AI Qualitative Summary, you will notice support for font sizes ranging from 8pts to 36pts.
Surveys—Beta Release 
What's New
Manage your surveys now from the Research Engine!
Why It Matters
Moderators can now import and manage surveys and launch survey tools directly from the Research Engine platform.
How to Use It
Access the survey listing page from the left navigation bar. Import surveys using the "Import Survey" button and launch survey tools available to the community using the "Launch Survey Tool" button.
February 2025
Email Campaigns Exclusive to the Research Engine
What's New
Email Campaigns are now exclusive to the Research Engine. All the functionality in the Legacy application can be found there. For now, you can still find the Legacy email application through an Activity build (Save & Email feature), where you are alerting a segment of your community to a study.
Why It Matters
Moving email campaigns to the Research Engine allows us to provide better support and improve the email campaign experience while also encouraging Research Engine adoption.
How to Use It
The Campaigns tab in Legacy now routes to the Campaigns page in the Research Engine.
Support is now the default landing tab when accessing the Communication Center from both Legacy and the Research Engine.
Qual Report Enhancements
What's New
Renamed response AI tagging actions:
- Hybrid Tags–Define your tags, and AI will apply them for you
- Autonomous Tags–AI defines and applies tags for you
Enhanced qualitative reporting by refining AI classification tag behavior, handling edge cases in category names, resolving console errors, improving loading indicators, preventing unnecessary actions when no comments exist, and adding AI icons for better visibility in shared reports.
Why It Matters
These enhancements improve the stability, usability, and clarity of qualitative reporting by streamlining interactions, preventing errors, enhancing visual feedback, and ensuring a smoother user experience.
How to Use It
You can see these in the Qualitative Report Responses tab under the Add New Tag Category button.
Member Composition Dashboards – Mark as Favorite While Viewing
What's New
The Favorite button is now available next to the Actions button on your custom dashboard.
Why It Matters
Allowing users to favorite a dashboard while viewing it enhances efficiency by providing quick access to essential settings without disrupting their workflow. Previously, this was only available on the listing page and a user couldn't tell if a dashboard was a favorite when viewing it.
How to Use It
Click the star button: a filled star indicates it is a favorite, while an unfilled star means it is not a favorite.
Note: Favorites apply across all moderators, they are not unique to each mod.
Dashboards – Listing Page Updates
What's New
- Changed “Updated On” column to “Updated Date”.
- Placing the “Created by all/Created by me” filter at the top, with “Created by all” as the default.
- Limiting description length (35–50 characters) with full text on hover.
- Displaying usernames instead of email addresses in "Created By" and "Updated By" columns.
Why It Matters
These updates enhance clarity, usability, and organization by improving labeling, optimizing filtering, streamlining descriptions, and displaying user-friendly identifiers.
How to Use It
Go to the Dashboards listing page to see these updates.
Rewards—Rewards Messaging
What's New
We've added messaging to the member rewards pages to clarify whether their redemption has been completed.
Why It Matters
Community members did not receive clear messages communicating whether their reward had been successfully redeemed. No feedback, especially in the case of a system error, left members confused about whether they’d done something wrong.
How to Use It
These messages are automatic when redeeming rewards.
Sharing—AI Summaries
What's New
Share your Qualitative Report AI summaries securely with your stakeholders.
Why It Matters
Sharing AI-generated summaries enhances our mission to make deliverables more accessible, centralized, and distributable.
How to Use It
When viewing your AI summaries, click the Share button in the top right corner. Copy the external URL and password to share with your external stakeholders.
In addition, we've changed the background image on the share login page to align with our brand identity.
One-Click AI Tags
What's New
Qualitative Reporting now features automatically generated response tags that categorize responses according to your research objectives.
Why It Matters
Historically, analyzing hundreds of open-ended study responses could take weeks of manual effort. The first step is to tag each response with a relevant keyword related to the comment. Structuring these elements is crucial for making large datasets manageable and aligning qualitative data with research objectives.
How to Use It
You can see these in the Qualitative Report Responses tab under the Add New Tag Category button.
January 2025
Navigation Made Easy
- The buttons to open the Community, view Release Notes, and switch to the Legacy UX have been anchored in place at the bottom of the left navigation menu, ensuring they are always visible.
- The Survey Menu now features a secondary menu linking to various Survey options: Surveys, Polls, FCX, and any third-party applications currently associated with that account.
- You may now collapse the Quantitative Report right side pane (containing your survey questions) by clicking the carat button between panes
Info at a Glance
Email Campaign and Project Lists now contain new information when you hover your mouse over the row. For example, when you hover your mouse over the Email Recipients column, you will see which roles and statuses you’ve selected for your audience.
Fixes and Enhancements
- We have made various design updates like changing spacing, padding, and color references.
- We have resolved the issue where Email Campaign names were truncated prematurely.
December 2024
Qualitative Reports V2
This release marks the first step toward automating Qual Report generation through AI.
Managing Qual-at-scale demands robust functionality to not just easily tag, but also categorize tags by objective. This update introduces a framework for manually adding tags to responses and organizing them into categories. Soon, this process will be partially or fully automated.
Additionally, P2 points can be added in the response view along with a detailed response overview in a pop-up window.
Additional enhancements include frequency counts of tags generated for the AI summary in the summary view. At this time, these are read-only and not connected to the response view, but will change very soon!
Custom Dashboards
Moderators can create multiple, personalized dashboards to visualize member activity, segment performance, and profile point trends—all at a glance. This new capability makes tracking engagement, identifying key patterns, and making informed decisions easier. Whether you’re exploring specific member segments or evaluating overall community health, your data is now right where you need it.
November 2024
Groups Exclusive to the Research Engine
Clicking on the Groups tab in the Legacy application logs you into the Research Engine and takes you immediately to the Groups page.
Answer Bot in Research Engine
Get help with the Fuel Cycle application at any time. The Fuel Cycle Answer Bot is available through the purple help button in the bottom right. The bot suggests help based on the page you're on. If you don't find what you're looking for, click Get in touch to send a request form to our Customer Solutions team.
Qual Report Evolution
The Qualitative Report AI summary has been enhanced to boost the reliability and actionability of the insights.
Email Campaign Adjustments
In the Email Campaign Builder...
- Email campaigns are sorted by created date.
- if you move between steps, you are prompted whether you want to save any changes before moving.
- Closed projects or activities are unavailable.
Quant Report Filtering
We've added a filter button to the Quantitative Report so that researchers can segment their reports, limiting results to members who answered a particular survey question or can be found in a specific group of any type.
October 2024
Aesthetic Changes
Our engineers constantly evaluate the consistency and user experience to improve the Research Engine's look and feel. This week's changes included design updates to static group management, quantitative report filtering, and project building.
Fuel Cycle Labs
Fuel Cycle Labs: the place for new ideas and experiments, inspired by customer feedback, market research problems, and new technology. These prototypes (written in Superblocks) illustrate an idea in a 'hands-on' manner, enabling better feedback and validation.
New Dashboard Charts
In addition to seeing P2 and Group charts at a glance on your Member Comp Dashboard, now you can visualize member information such as age, gender, and mobile number validation.
Email Campaigns
Manage your project launches with email campaigns to your audiences within your workflow.
Group Builder Adjustments
- You can now use a subset group as a condition when creating dynamic/subset groups.
- When choosing members for the Audience during a project or Static group configuration, you now see their active/inactive status.
September 2024
Community Launch
Moderators can launch the community to a new browser tab from the Research Engine’s left navigation bar.
Legacy Navigation
New Legacy Pages icons in the left navigation section represent links to functions currently available in the Legacy platform and have not yet been incorporated into the Research Engine: Members, Communications, Moderator Feed, Surveys, Gamification, Exports, and (General Community) Settings.
As before, Home, Projects, and Groups represent functionality in the Research Engine (note the icons for Projects and Groups have changed).
Design Updates
Various design changes have updated chart colors, button shapes, icon choices, and text alignments. The user profile menu now accommodates longer names. A separation now exists between Profile Settings and other options such as Organization Settings.
Bug Fixes
A calculation affecting grid questions in the Quantitative Report table has been fixed.
Fuel Cycle Audience Network
The Fuel Cycle Audience Network is a cutting-edge approach that combines the company's proprietary insight community with an extensive network of general population panels.
Member Composition Dashboard
View aggregated member data in the form of dashboard charts.
The first 3 dashboards display charts on User Status, Gender (if collected), and Age (if collected). Choose up to 20 more data points from P2 Points and Groups to visualize on the dashboard.
Share your dashboard with stakeholders using a secure hyperlink and password similar to your project insights reports.
August 2024
Anything with the BETA tag in the app or Help Center is new functionality in its original release state. This functionality is currently undergoing real-world testing and may be further enhanced. These tags are also the new button to click to revisit that page's walkthrough guides.
Anything with the ALPHA tag is a prototype (written in Superblocks) to illustrate an idea in a 'hands-on' manner, enabling better feedback and validation.
Reference or Copy Subset Group Conditions
- Reference—When creating a new Dynamic group, you can now search for completed (or “locked”) Subset groups using the existing group conditions option to reference the chosen subset group conditions. Previously, only "completed" dynamic groups were searchable.
- Copy—You can now copy completed (or “locked”) subset groups from the listing page Actions menu. Users will be taken to the group builder with pre-selected conditions, and the count/percentage value will be copied over.
Quantitative Report Enhancements
- Persistent list of questions—In our quantitative reports, we previously had a chart settings button on the right side that let you adjust which data points you could see. We've updated this to a persistent list of questions from your project, which now matches the shared version of the report. This adjustment will make it easier for you to navigate through the report and quickly find the specific question you're looking for.
- Report Data Settings—For clarity, we have moved the data settings to a pencil icon from a gear icon, making it easier to understand how to edit your report.
- P2 Question Search—The list of P2 data was formidable for some communities, so we brought search bar functionality from member composition to Quantitative Reports.
Qualitative Report Bulk Tag Management
- Bulk Merge Action—Merge tags into an existing tag or a brand new one.
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Bulk Delete Action—Delete a tag and remove it from all comments it’s currently attached to.
Project List Updates
- Previously, some project actions were shown or not shown based on certain conditions in the projects listing table. Now, all of them are displayed whether they are enabled or disabled.
- In the past, the table navigation at the lower right showed the number of items displayed out of the total items. We have now updated it to show the number of pages, which allows for proper table navigation. The total number of pages will adjust based on the count selected for "Items per page."
July 2024
Activity Card Color Customization
You can now set the activity card background and text colors while generating your project in the Research Engine.
Member Profile Data in Qualitative Reports
You can now access P2 data about the member who created a comment. Click the member profile icon next to the username to see the member's profile information.
User Interface Enhancements
- We have removed the Group Type card icons for simplicity and space considerations.
- The Group Details container automatically collapses once the group has been saved and is in edit mode. You can still expand it by clicking on the caret
icon. While collapsed, the group's name and type still display.
- The Actions dropdown in the listing page now displays all available actions and indicates which actions are disabled based on the group's type and status.
Group Favorites
Users can now mark groups as favorites from the Groups List page. The star icon represents a group's favorite status.
Check for Group Members
The Groups List Actions dropdown menu contains a new entry: Check for Member. You can check whether a member exists in that group, and even if a member is part of the community or not.
Check Dynamic Group Size
As you assemble the requirements for your dynamic group, you can now monitor the group size in real time.
Two charts display a breakdown of active, inactive, and dormant status: one for available/activated members and the other for members who are pending activation.
Moderators Lacking Survey Provider Access May Build Custom Survey Projects
Moderators who do not have Survey Provider access can now create custom survey projects using surveys imported by someone else. Only the Existing Survey option will be available to these moderators.
Navigation Breadcrumbs
To improve navigation in the Research Engine, breadcrumb links have been added at the top of pages where it would take at least three clicks to return to the Home screen.
Immediately, you will find these breadcrumbs at the top of the Quantitative and Qualitative Report screens when viewing reports or AI summaries. More of these will be added as development progresses.
Qualitative Reports
We are overjoyed to bring Qualitative Reports to the Research Engine for all users. This report is automatically included as an Insight report for all discussion boards and surveys where comments are enabled.
You will be able to...
- Disqualify unnecessary comments or re-qualify them.
- Add Tags to comments—search from a list of all existing tags or create a new one.
- Search by Comments, Username, and Tags.
- Sort by—re-organize to prioritize Response Date, Username, Reply Count, or Likes.
- View and download attached images or videos.
- Read through comment chains.
- Share your report securely with stakeholders just like the Quantitative Report.
AI Comment Summaries
We are equally excited to bring the existing AI intelligence from our Community platform for discussion boards to the Research Engine. You can request a summary of your responses at any point in the discussion, refresh the summary when you receive new responses, and even edit your summary.
June 2024
Group Builder
Inspiring news to wrap up June with our release of Groups in the Research Engine! Groups assist you in better understanding and connecting with specific cohorts in your research.
Access your groups from the Groups icon in the navigation menu on the left. With this release, several enhancements and refinements have aimed to improve the overall user experience.
In addition to adding static and dynamic groups, you can now add Subsets of members that are "locked in" based on AND/OR logic and various criteria. For example, highly active responders, first responders who are potentially over-positive, or speeders. This group type is perfect for differential sampling.
In the Groups list in the Actions column, the Check Size action displays a pop-up showing 2 charts: one with the breakdown of user status for activated members and another for pending activations.
Improvements and Bug Fixes
- We improved the copying functionality, so activity and feature card images will also be copied over.
- The error messaging for importing Alchemer surveys has been reinstated, so you will once again receive information on why your survey failed to import.
- You can now adjust the closed date of published projects without unpublishing them.
- You will no longer receive the “Are you sure?" pop-up when navigating to the legacy system from the Research Engine.
- The tag containers in the Qualitative Report have been improved to dynamically size based on the number of tags present.
- We fixed an issue with the search function in the form builder dropdowns.
- We fixed some console errors on the Teams page.
Survey Alias Field
There is a new field in the Survey Details step that allows for adding or modifying a survey alias. This enables members to see more appropriate names instead of internal naming conventions.
Help Center Redesign
This new Help Center design template improves on the previous template:
- Cleaner, less distracting design.
- Better adherence to core UX guidelines.
- Better adherence to web accessibility guidelines.
- A proper image "lightbox" functionality to images, allowing a zoom-on-click experience.
- An accordion-style navigation element on the left side of any article enables quick access to any article in any section.
- A navigation element within every article to any internal header makes a table of contents inside the article unnecessary.
- The nav elements highlight what article you're viewing and what section of the article you're viewing.
May 2024
Set Research Engine as Default Landing Page
In our pursuit to establish the Research Engine as the premier platform for community research, we are offering a seamless transition for existing users. Upon logging in, you will see a banner enabling you to set the Research Engine as your default home page. This setting can be found in the Core platform under Account Settings and is specific to the Community you are in at the time you save the setting.
Quantitative Report Exports
While our main objective is to enable you to analyze your data within the platform, it’s also important to ensure that your data remains easily accessible through other methods.
In Quantitative Reports, you will see a tab for Exports within the Share interface. From here you can request two types of files:
- Data File—Similar to how survey data displays in activity exports but provides all the survey data in your quantitative reports. We’ve included the low-quality flag from the Table view for you to filter out data you don’t want in Excel.
- Frequency Tables—This file takes the table data for each chart into Excel. The purpose of this file type is to make populating a report shell much easier as the data will be ready to copy and paste into PowerPoint.
Notifications
As a first step to improve information delivery, we have added the Notifications alert icon at the top of the screen for downloads and complex workflows.
When you request a Quantitative Report export, for example, you will now receive a notification from the system once your file is ready to download. Instead of being directed to an export listing page, you can download the file directly from the notification. This allows you to continue working without interruption.
Improvements and Bug Fixes
- Improved charts in quantitative reports should utilize more space and accommodate longer labels within a survey.
- The tabs in the Edit Chart Interface and Data Settings in Quantitative Reporting can be opened by clicking anywhere on the tab, as opposed to only clicking the caret.
- Fixed an issue causing charts to infinitely load in Quantitative Reports.
- Fixed some issues causing charts on the Project Dashboard to intermittently not load.
April 2024
Quantitative Reports
This is an exciting release of the first round of insights in the Research Engine!
When you publish a custom survey project through our Research Engine, instantly access the quantitative report. Keep track of your data while conducting your survey or review your response data once the survey is completed.
Then, share your report with your stakeholders with just a link and a password.
Custom Redirect URL
You can now redirect members to a new location at your survey's end while still rewarding and logging the survey as complete in Fuel Cycle.
This new functionality is for those who may want their members to land somewhere else upon survey completion instead of bringing them back to the community.
March 2024
Edit Published Projects
You can now edit custom surveys, discussion boards, and ignition projects while they are published. So, if you need to make an adjustment (with caveats) to a landing page, or include more members or groups, you don’t have to unpublish first.
December 2023
Survey Import Validation Messaging
When importing a survey to the Research Engine, you will now be given further details on import status. Now, if your import fails due to an issue with redirects, you will be given more specifics on what is wrong and where it is wrong in your survey.
Improvements to Discussion Boards
- The Force Private Response option now appears only when allowed.
- When you create a new block, it will be added below existing blocks instead of above them.
- Added previews to DOCX, PDF, and video files.
General Improvements
- Category and Topic will now be displayed at the publish step of the project builder.
- Optimizations for RE interface on smaller devices.
- Improvements to incentive settings that don't allow options (like commenting) to be selected if other options are selected (like the landing page being disabled).
November 2023
Discussion Boards
Discussion Boards offer a platform that allows members to engage in textual interactions, enabling them to share insights, ask questions, and collaborate on ideas. This space is a hub for meaningful discussions and knowledge exchange among your community members.
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