Compyle Roadmap 2024

Roadmaps are fluid documents that evolve frequently to adapt to changing conditions. The further out we are in time from a product destination, the more likely our path will diverge before we get there. This flexibility allows for new adventures and organic growth.

Compyle: Smarter Forms & Better Management: Form Logic & Form Management Interface

Form Logic allows you to make responsive forms that change as users enter information. This lets you ask questions when--and only when--they are needed, so you can streamline data collection and ensure crucial info is captured.  A simplified form management interface makes it easier to focus on the form changes you need to make, review or revise form settings, and communicate with constituents. 

Features

• Form Logic for Notes & Survey Forms: If-Then rules that can be copied alone or when copying surveys. 
• Form Management Folder: UI update for Survey Forms & Note Type Forms
• Communication Tools: QR Code generator, share menu, User submission confirmation email, unsaved data entry warning
• Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion feature: Scorecard Feeds to Variable Measures 

Release Date: Feb. 6, 2024

Compyle: Software Spring Cleaning: Backend Maintenance

This release is focused on annual behind the scenes maintenance for Compyle, which includes updating integrated tools, upgrading component libraries, and refining database queries for greater efficiency. Basically, we're making sure Compyle is working well and is in the best position to support all of the new features and functionality we plan to add this year. Users will also benefit from a reduction in errors and response times, which will improve the user experience  while ensuring security compliance. 

Release Date: April 17, 2024

Compyle: Divide & Conquer: Dedicated Reporting Server & Additional Spring Cleaning

The number of organizations who rely on Compyle is growing at a steady pace, and this is expected to continue to increase. To support this growth, development efforts will focus on improving Compyle's performance from a number of different angles. For instance, we can improve performance (speed) for users if we direct read-only queries to a reporting server. This reduces the competition for server resources and allows records to save in the database faster as data updates do not have to wait for long running report queries. 

Optimization Efforts

• Greater Efficiency - Refine & Update: Queries, Components, and Tools

• Performance - Resource Expansion: Dedicated Reporting Server

While much of the optimization efforts occurred behind the scenes, there are feature enhancements for data collection navigation, segmenting data in analytics, viewer user experience, using the Anonymous Response feature, and various assorted bug fixes.  

Release Date: May 29, 2024

Compyle: August Upgrade: Refining While Working on Reporting

These refinements are what we could fit in while working on a larger project: expanding the reporting tools in Compyle. That project has taken a few different direction while we sought the best path. After a mid-August reset & refocus, we are on track with a sustainable solution that we hope to release in early fall. 

• Notes tab updates: Note categories phase I: Notes tab sections & save note changes 
• Form Logic expansion: Demographic filtering capabilities for rules
• Compylations enhancements: filtering by file, url, and email fields; segment by file field
• Time Spent field usability: Field saves as decimal number and works with mathematic summary options in calculations
• Support Menu modernization: clearer options and cleaner user interface

Released August 26, 2024

Compyle: Amplify Reporting: Integrated Report Builder

Currently, Compyle aggregates data for Compyle-to-Scorecard feeds and allows for some disaggregation of summary data, but organizations need to know more than just numbers. By expanding the reporting tools in Compyle to generate a variety of reports with different levels of information, including identifying information, we can make Compyle a more valuable tool for supporting program delivery and organizational optimization.  

Features

• Ability to run “list” type reports with identifier data, such as participant names and organization addresses
• Ability to filter by survey or note data for fields other than the summarized field
• Ability to see summary data per participant beyond the outcomes tab in the folder
• Ability to generate a greater variety of graphs and charts to summarize data

Work began in June 2024. After a mid-August reset, report tool integration is in progress along with building out a set of standard reports. The reporting tools were released for Clear Impact staff in Sept. 2024, and reports are being built out prior to release to customers.

Augmented Access: Improved Screen Reader Accessibility & CI Suite User Authentication Upgrade

Scorecard and Compyle together are updating our user authentication software to Amazon Cognito, which will give us access to enhanced security tools and provide a framework for advanced security features in the future. This proactive shift will extend our already robust security measures and set the stage for future refinements.

While this joint effort is our primary focus in October 2024, Compyle is also becoming more user friendly for users working with screen readers, which involves about fifty minor changes. Most are behind the scenes, but you may notice new labels for previously unnamed columns and improved navigation when tabbing through forms.

• Accessibility - improved labeling for screen reader access
• Accessibility - enhanced tabbing functionality - for navigation without a mouse

Released November 13, 2024

Compyle: Data Import Expansion & Friends

•  Data Import Expansion: ability to update participants by import, assign groups, and import survey/note responses.
• Additional Improvements: tbd

Compyle: Better Together: CI Suite User Interface Convergence

Our integrated product family should present a clean, consistent, and welcoming layout while still providing a strong sense of place. By transitioning to a similar, familiar User Interface (fonts, sizes, colors) and User Experience (navigation, menu styles) across our products it will make it easier for users who work in multiple suite applications to feel at home. Additionally, this release will include improvements based on our recent Voluntary Product Accessibility Testing (VPAT) for ADA Compliance report completed in summer 2024.

• Accessibility - higher contrast color changes - for low vision & partially sighted users
• Accessibility - better experience when at 200% & 400% zoom - for low vision & partially sighted users
• Interface - refine menu colors, page headers, and title text - for alignment with Scorecard & usability

Compyle: Family Time: Households & Linking

Many nonprofit and government organizations serve families or households rather than individuals. Being able to capture, modify, and report on these relationships is important for service delivery, performance measurement, and fulfilling grant reporting obligations. By adding a Household form to Compyle and adding the capacity to link participants to households, Compyle will become an even more valuable resource for social sector organizations.

Features:

• Linking: connect participants to other participants as households
• Household record: household will be searchable and maybe connected to surveys/notes

Compyle: The Journey Matters: User Experience & Navigational Ease

Improve the Compyle user experience through increased simplicity for data entry and data management. Expand search capabilities, add more layers of information organization, and simplify survey response entry.

Features

• Search: Search by survey responses, notes, and “has attachments” for surveys/notes
• Create: connect participants to surveys from the folder more easily (favorites/my surveys list? Links?)
• Organize: categorize notes 

Beyond 2024

Compyle: Better Data Transfer Options – Data Import Expansion, Customer Facing API, Form Template Library, and File Storage Enhancements

Ease onboarding & expansion efforts for customers: Provide value to customers during the onboarding process and as they add more partners/programs/services in the future by making it easier to add and retrieve information from Compyle in batches and with automation. Make best practices form samples available to help new and existing customers with their data collection processes. Improve the organization of customer information at the server level.

Features

Customer API: retrieve data for reporting, add or update data

Data Import Expansion: ability to import survey/note form instances and survey/note responses.

Form Template Library: similar to Scorecard Template Library but for Survey Forms and Note Forms in Compyle

File Storage Restructure: improved organization and segmentation of attached files from the documents tab and forms

Compyle: Notes Categories, Permissions & Roles Renovation

Complex organizations with many staff and programs need more nuanced permissions than what we currently offer, which allows ask to all participants or to certain participants by group. Compyle needs the capacity to allow assigning access to specific data collections (sets of survey forms) and note form categories for specific participants.  Administrators will be better able to manage access in Compyle to sensitive information across groups, programs, and roles.

Proposed Features

• Assign access to data collections and note categories as well as groups to restrict access to forms
• Possibly assign access to specific forms or records of a form.
• Add ability for administrators to lock fields on saved records to prevent editing data
• Add ability for administrators to lock editing of specific form fields in Participants fields, Organization fields, Anonymous fields, and Household fields
• Add ability for administrators to hide specific form fields from users but not administrators in Participants fields, Organization fields, Anonymous fields, and Household fields

Compyle: Assisted Intelligence: Workflow Logic & Automation

Administrators will be able to develop branching logic workflows to automatically enroll participants in groups, assign surveys to them, create tasks, and schedule in-product alerts for users when forms are created or updated.  

Thank you for your continued partnership! If you have feature suggestions, please send them to support@clearimpact.com.

-- The Clear Impact Product Team