Roadmap
Keep track of new Zealous features, improvements and fixes.
For Organising Calls
NEW
- Invite judges to specific categories
- View judge progress from your judges page
- Special deals now show up directly on your packages page
- Clearer access to our services from the home page
IMPROVED
- Complete redesign of the judges page to allow for simpler management of judges
For Creative Talent
NEW
- Submit to the same opportunity even faster with previous answers preloaded in the application form.
For All
NEW
- Major framework update introducing new payment plan structure for organising opportunities
- Granularity in package structure to allow organisations with different budgets access to our services
- Decrease in our commission fee across all package.
IMPROVED
- Clearer progress bar when images are uploading to a submission.
- Optimised CSS files for faster loading times.
For Organising Calls
NEW
- View the total amount of public votes on a new graph on your dashboard.
- Download reports of your public votes and newsletter signups.
- Brand new “Recommendation Emails”.
IMPROVED
- Optimised speed of submitting to opportunities.
FIXES
- Allow special characters in names.
- Draft submissions now drop on the date when they were converted (not completely) from the dashboard graph.
- Multiple image uploader optimisations.
For Creative Talent
NEW
- Brand new “Recommendation Emails”.
IMPROVED
- Company and website no longer required field on creative profiles.
- Optimised speed of submitting to opportunities.
- Optimised speed of loading and saving projects.
FIXES
- Allow special characters in names.
- Multiple image uploader optimisations.
- Once submitted, the application now shows “Save” instead of “Save as Draft”.
For Organising Calls
NEW
- Complete upgrade of our public vote function requiring email confirmation on voting.
- GDPR compliant way of allowing users to subscribe to your newsletter on public voting for submissions.
- Candidates answers are automatically saved as they move onto the next question.
IMPROVED
- Disallow candidates to drop their submission once the selection has been made.
For Creative Talent
NEW
- Never lose submission answers with our brand new auto-save function on application forms.
For Organising Calls
NEW
- Streamlined registration, allowing for faster creation and submission to opportunities.
- Upgraded cities and countries across Zealous to be tags.
- Dedicated invoices page for any payments made to us.
- Increase engagement with your audience by adding social media links to your profile.
IMPROVED
- Upgraded cities and countries across Zealous to be tags.
- Custom dates on schedule now ordered by date (earliest to latest) on the opportunity.
- Increased the speed for judging and selection.
FIXES
- Judges can now sort by public vote.
- Allow candidates to go back a step in submission, without the need to have completed the current step.
- Default end times for submissions and judging to be 23:59:59 – solving the ambiguity of ending calls at the end of one day but it showing the next.
- Increased javascript performance across the whole of Zealous.
- Remove rogue “Show more” button on submitting.
For Creative Talent
NEW
- Streamlined registration, allowing for faster submission to opportunities.
- Increase engagement with your audience by adding social media links to your profile.
IMPROVED
- Upgraded cities and countries across Zealous to be tags.
FIXES
- On occasion the submit button wouldn’t work when the page was still loading – this has been fixed by freezing the button until the page is fully loaded.
- Allow candidates to go back a step in submission, without the need to have completed the current step.
- Increased javascript performance across the whole of Zealous.
For Organising Calls
NEW
- Filters now shown on the side menu whilst navigating submissions (e.g. Subcategory, Score…)
IMPROVED
- Improved embedding of 3D content on submissions and projects with Sketch Fab
- Automatic removal of empty text elements on saving projects and submissions.
FIXES
- Changing username, updates the links to previewing the opportunity (instead of linking to a broken link).
For Creative Talent
NEW
- Add, remove and move roles for your projects directly from your profile side-menu (even without projects with those roles). These roles are used to recommend opportunities based on your skill sets.
IMPROVED
- Improved embedding of 3D content on submissions and projects with Sketch Fab
- Automatic removal of empty text elements on saving projects and submissions.
version 206 / deployed 2018-05-10
For Organising Calls
NEW
- Introduced payments and invoicing for listings
- Introduced a “Draft” state for opportunities, allowing you to review information before publishing to the network.
- Simplified managing opportunities from the dashboard with a new side menu.
IMPROVED
- Upgrade filter by draft loading times.
- Fixed judging going to home page when submissions had dropped out.
- Payment form optimised and loaded faster.
- Optimised loading times for submissions by loading entries across pages.
FIXES
- Remind user to save changes when some are made on managing opportunity.
- Improved communications to judges (fix of a typo in the alert).
For Creative Talent
IMPROVED
- Remind user to save changes when some are made on submission.
For All
NEW
- Loading cycles updated across the whole of Zealous.
- Optimised framework and code base for faster loading times.
IMPROVED
- 82 micro improvements to allow for an improved experience whilst submitting – including clearer communications at every step.
FIXES
- Fixed corner case where judges were not showing on the opportunity page, even after confirming.
For Organising Calls
NEW
- New embeddable content on submissions, including:
- Spotify
- Soundcloud
- Slideshare
IMPROVED
- Improvements to mobile user experience for submissions to opportunities.
- Improvements to mobile user experience for managing submissions.
FIXES
- Fixed corner case where judges were not showing on the opportunity page, even after confirming.
For Creative Talent
NEW
- Embed new types of files to submissions and projects:
- Spotify
- Soundcloud
- Slideshare
FIXES
- Allow candidates to go backward on submissions
For Organising Calls
NEW
- Download a report with all payments and fee types
- Filter submission by Scored/Unscored
IMPROVED
- Show judges scores on entries in the round view.
For Creative Talent
IMPROVED
- Performance updates on profiles.
- Performance updates on projects.
January '18
version 199 / deployed 2018-01-30
For Organising Calls
NEW
- Create multiple types of payments for paid opportunities (e.g. Student, Adult, Senior).
- Allow for special deals (e.g. 2 for the price of 1).
- Allow candidates to pay for multiple submissions in one go, and then submit to them.
- Added list boxes to custom forms.
- Show payments on the opportunity dashboard.
IMPROVED
- Improved invoicing for multiple submissions.
- Share pages with brand new social media links.
- SEO update to make your profile stand out in Google.
For Creative Talent
NEW
- Share pages with brand new social media links.
- SEO update to make your profile stand out in Google.
IMPROVED
- Confirmation emails and popup improved for candidates submitting
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