Friday’s Channeltivity Release: Admin, Data & Security Improvements

Our 4.4.0 release will be going live tomorrow Friday, November 9th. It focuses on security and increased usability and data consistency in the Admin module.

Here’s a breakdown of key improvements:

Security

We’ve upgraded our security infrastructure and added a number of new features that you can access in the new Security Settings section:

• Ability to require complex passwords and set a minimum password length.
• Automatic User lockout after too many failed login attempts.
• Improved encryption algorithms.
• Ability to force Users to change their passwords at regular intervals.

Admin Module Usability

We updated the Admin module to improve data consistency and usability:

• Updated Admin dashboard with easier access to frequently used functionality.
• Improved User creation process that ensures that every user is assigned to the correct Organization.
• Updated User details page with more consistent layout.
• Combined User search and User listing pages for quicker filtering and searching.
• Removed confusing “Testing Users” functionality
• Simplified User status codes:
• Active: This User has an active account and can log in.
• Pending: This User has been sent a link to activate an account, but hasn’t activated it yet.
• Inactive: This User is assigned to a non-active Organization. This usually happens when an Active Partner Organization gets deactivated.
• Disabled: This User has been disabled by an administrator and cannot log in or receive Leads etc.

Other Improvements

• Partner module: Improved layout and navigation of the Partner details page (see screenshot above).
• Single-Sign-On (SSO) integration with SproutLoud, a provider of distributed marketing solutions.
• Manage Partner regions on a more granular level with state/provinces now available for all countries, not only United States and Canada.
• Many bugfixes and other small improvements.

As always, there’s nothing that’s needed from you – all customers on the current cloud version will be automatically upgraded.