May we present this month's PolicyStat Update!

May Education Schedule

Our Education sessions are complimentary webinars available to any and all PolicyStat customers who want to better understand our product.

The handout available at the link below provides a schedule of the webinars with links to register. Please distribute the link and/or the PDF to all of your applicable staff.

Writing Policies Right 

New this month, we are launching a new offering called “Writing Policies Right.” Rooted in the Plain Language movement, this 60 minute session will discuss best practices and document structure that can make policy and procedural documents easier to read and more effective, especially when reading online.

Monthly Feature Review 

The Monthly Feature Review highlights all the new features our development team has rolled out for the month, and a peek at what’s ahead. It's a great chance to review what's new and offer feedback. Please join us May 31, or check out April's session recording.

Need the full schedule?

Visit our Learning Center Education page.

From Our Product Development Team

For the latest developments as they happen, visit the PolicyStat Newswire.

New Features Launched In April

Zip files now always open with native Windows apps
When performing a PDF Backup, some zip files would present a versions of an error message and would not open. This issue has been resolved, and no longer requires the third party 7-Zip program to open your backups.

For more on this feature, see this Newswire post.

Recurring Acknowledgments Update (Admins only)
With this new feature, Site Administrators will be able to click the displayed name of the user to be taken to the user’s detail page or the user group to view all users within the group.

For more on this feature, see this Newswire post.

Projects We're Working On In May 

Scheduled Effective Dates
Some policies require a delay between the date they complete the Approval process and the date they become active and searchable for all users. This may be the result of users needing to complete training, reach an implementation date required by a regulation, or other circumstances.

This feature will allow Owners to mark an effective date (or number of days) past the final date of approval, which will determine when a policy becomes active.

Structured Headings
The structured headings feature will allow users with editor permissions to easily apply structured numbering to all headings. When applied, this feature will automatically apply subnumbered formatting (1, 1.1, 1.1.1, etc.) to all heading styled text boxes without the need to use a numbered list format.

This feature will not only help those seeking to create technical style documents, but it will also make scanning a document easier so you can locate the information you need even more quickly.

Share Your Uservoice

How can PolicyStat get even better for you?

UserVoice grants Site Administrators a voice to vote for product updates submitted by our user community. Don't see your idea? Submit it!

Our Development team uses UserVoice votes to ensure product updates match user needs.

How will you use your votes to make PolicyStat even better? 

Here are some recent changes we've made thanks to UserVoice requests

• Zip files will now always open with native Windows apps
• Recurring Acknowledgments Update (Site Admins Only)

Learning Center Updates

The PolicyStat Learning Center maintains the most current and up to date training and product information.

Writing Policies Right Webinar

New this month, we are launching a new offering called “Writing Policies Right.” Rooted in the Plain Language movement, this 60 minute session will discuss best practices and document structure that can make policy and procedural documents easier to read and more effective, especially when reading online. 

User Community Forums

We know PolicyStat works best when it works best for our users. To help open the lines of communication, we'd like to encourage you to check out our User Community! It not only provides a direct line to share your thoughts on the application, but also creates a collaborative environment for sharing and networking with other users just like you across the country.

Please check out our Learning Center User Community forums at the link below to get started!
Questions or challenges getting started? Let us know at [email protected] or in the User Community Help forum.