2023 Release Notes

January releases
February releases
March releases
April releases

Release April 19th, 2023

CORE 1.27.1 [SciNote Premium & Free]

Mobile app is available for download

Download the SciNote ELN mobile app (beta) for iOS and Android devices in app stores to access your tasks on your smartphone or tablet.

Simply monitor the progress directly in the app by completing the protocol steps on the fly. You can also add comments to protocol steps or read those added by others. You can download step attachments and open them on your device. Check the task details, notes, and protocol description when needed. You can simply create text results and attach images or other files to the task results directly in the app. Update the task status when you’re done with your work.

All the updates you do in the mobile app will be reflected in your web account right away (internet connection required).

Release April 5th, 2023

CORE 1.27.0 [Premium & Free]

Protocol template versioning

With this release, we enhanced protocol templates with additional functionalities to make them even more useful.

Versioning of protocol templates with the publish function is now available. You can easily create, edit and publish a protocol template. Once published, the protocol template can be loaded to the task and used in your experiment.

Individual and team access management is now possible also on the level of protocol templates. You can easily add and remove team members or change their roles on a selected protocol template.

There are additional improvements:

Improved tables for active and archived protocol templates
New option to grant access to the whole team when creating protocol templates or after they are created
Protocol template ID and version number exposed in tasks
List of linked tasks can be filtered by selecting a specific version of protocol template
Improved importing of protocol templates from protocol.io
Bottom action toolbar for easier management of protocol templates

We’re releasing several other improvements and bug fixes listed below.

Improvements:

Blank spaces reduction in printed protocols
Improvement for table of contents in rich text fields (premium only)
Enabled moving of archived tasks and experiments
Small updates in reports
Improved sorting in tables
Improved access management in projects, experiments and tasks

Bug fixes:

Syntax highlighting fix in rich text fields (premium only)
Other small bugs

Release March 23rd, 2023

CORE 1.26.6.3 [SciNote FREE]

This SciNote Free release includes relevant updates that were released from CORE 1.26.6 to 1.26.6.3 [SciNote Premium].

Check out the list of updates:

Visible step timestamps
Cell formatting saving for native tables in steps and results
Updated behavior for completing steps in linked protocols on tasks
Loading speed improvements for inventories and current tasks widget
Updated behavior for Office files on task results to support simultaneous editing
Other small improvements
Security fixes and bug fixes

Release February 22nd, 2023

CORE 1.26.6. [SciNote Premium]

Rich text fields upgrade

With this release, we enhanced the rich text editor with additional functionalities, some of which were based on your requests.

Copy-pasting of formatted text together with images into the rich text fields is now supported. You can also copy and paste images from the clipboard.

Image editing in rich text fields offers more options in the quick toolbar displayed when the image is selected. If you wish to adjust the image (for example, its brightness or contrast), select the Image editor icon to change (marked with the yellow arrow on the figure below).

Table content sorting and row numbering are available for tables in rich text fields. When the table is selected, you’ll find a new sort option in the toolbar table dropdown menu (marked with the blue arrow on the figure below). To number the rows, find the “Row numbering” option in the toolbar’s three dots menu (marked yellow on the figure below).

When you have text with multiple titles, you can create a table of contents. It will be automatically generated and added where you position the mouse cursor. Make sure you first apply header formatting to all your titles.

You can find other new editing options in the toolbar’s three dots menu: case change, format painter, image editor, and help with shortcuts.

Single sign-on and two-factor authentication

We added a new single sign-on addon and updated the 2FA feature in
SciNote.

We’re releasing several other improvements and bug fixes listed below.

Improvements:

Visible step timestamps
Cell formatting saving for native tables in steps and results
Updated behavior for completing steps in linked protocols on tasks
Updated behavior for Office files on task results to support simultaneous editing
Loading speed improvements for inventories and current tasks widget
Small updates in reports

Bug fixes:

Issue with printing protocol
Other small bugs

Release February 15th, 2023

CORE 1.26.5.2 [SciNote FREE]

This SciNote Free release includes the updates that were released in CORE 1.26.4 and
1.26.5 [SciNote Premium].

Check out the list of updates and materials to learn more:

Experiment canvas updates
New table view of tasks – learn more about the first two in this blog post
Rich text fields upgrade throughout SciNote – read more here
Visible IDs – read more here
Task results sorting improvements
Other small improvements and bug fixes

Release January 25th, 2023

CORE 1.26.5 [SciNote Premium]

Experiment canvas updates
This release brings you improvements in the experiment canvas view.
We moved the button for creating new tasks directly into the toolbar. The Experiment actions are now located next to the experiment title.

A new table view of tasks
For those who don’t utilize the experiment canvas for creating a task workflow or prefer having tasks organized as a list, we added a table view option inside experiments. This view also comes with new filters and sorting options.

To help you navigate SciNote quicker and easier, we’ve added some shortcuts to the table. For example, you can jump directly to a task’s results page by clicking on a number in the Results column or assign a task to someone without going inside the task. You can also tailor the column based on your needs via the Task data display column management option.

Read more about the feature update in this blog post here.

Rich text fields upgrade throughout SciNote

We upgraded the rich text field editor in SciNote to deliver a few improvements you were asking for:

Copy & paste image files from your computer
Copy & paste images from the clipboard
Text and table formatting preserved when copying and pasting
New text formatting options
New rich text field table options available at right click

We are releasing a number of other improvements and bug fixes listed below.