In early February, we launched support for Single Sign-On (SSO). Today, we are going further and are proud to provide an official integration with Okta: Noticeable appears in the Okta catalog as a verified app with OIDC and SAML support.

One of the main targets for cyber-criminals is your username and password. Each time you log in to a new application, it provides more opportunities for hackers. SSO reduces these chances by only requiring one set of credentials and only logging each user in once per day. Furthermore, using Okta, your company can enforce the use of strong passwords but also custom policies to better protect your organization’s assets.

Single Sign-On is available on our Enterprise plan with unlimited collaborators. Drop us a line if you are interested in giving it a try or want to upgrade.

New

• Added support for text color customization with labels. When creating or editing a label, you can now set a custom text color using the color picker or the hexadecimal notation.

Enhancements

• Added support for the creation of links that include any scheme (e.g mailto:).

• Fixed an issue causing the cursor to move at the top of the editor while editing a publication on Safari.

• Fixed an issue preventing the creation of publications through the GraphQL API when no segments are specified and an organization account is on the Growth plan.

• Fixed an issue flagging some Newspage pages as insecure on Firefox due to some Gravatar images being served using http instead of https.

• Improved the display on the Noticeable dashboard of project logos not respecting the recommend 1:1 ratio.

• Inserting inline-code using Markdown back ticks (`) now has better support for underscore (_) character input.

• Pressing Enter while editing a list item is now creating a new list item instead of a line break.

We’ve added support for embedding Giphy videos.

How to embed a Giphy video?

Click on the video icon from the Noticeable editor toolbar, enter your Giphy media URL and select Insert:

Here is the full list of video providers we’re now officially supporting:

• Giphy

• Loom

• Videopress

• Vimeo

• Wistia

• Youtube (videos and playlists)

You would like to add videos using a provider that is not present in the list? drop us a line.

Did you ever expect your users or customers to act right away following an update you shared? Adding a Call-to-Action (CTA) is a means to grab attention and directing people to the next step.

For each publication you publish on Noticeable you can configure a CTA that is displayed as a button along with your publication content on Newspages and Widgets.

What's the advantage of using a CTA button over a link? CTA buttons are more prominent and analytics are collected for each click, thus allowing you to see how your actions behave, but also measuring success with a click-through rate.

How to define a Call-to-Action?

1. Create or edit a publication.

2. On step 2, select the Call-to-Action (CTA) settings group.

3. Enter a label and an URL.

We’ve introduced new options to change the visibility of your project’s Newspages. You can now restrict access to Newspages by requesting a password, thus making them private.

Private Newspages is a great way to keep content internal to your team or share project updates with a restricted audience.

How to change a Newspage visibility?

1. Open the Noticeable dashboard.

2. Click to Newspage on the left menu.

3. Select the Visibility settings group at the bottom of the page.

4. Configure the options as needed:

The feature is available with the Business plan. As part of the Enterprise plan, we also support filtering accesses by IP addresses and CIDR ranges. You can also require authentication via a header token.

What’s better than Markdown to format publications? a rich text editor!

The Noticeable dashboard is now including a rich text editor. Formatting and customizing the appearance of your publications is now simpler than ever.

You can include images, videos, format titles using different levels, put text in bold, italic, underline or even strike. Quotes are also supported along with lists, code snippets, tables, and dividers.

To apply formatting or actions, you can use the visual toolbar, shortcuts (e.g. CTRL+B to set your current selection in bold), or the Markdown syntax! Indeed, for backward compatibility but also because some of you love Markdown, we still support the syntax as you type.

There is another tip we would like to share. When writing your publication, the content is saved as soon as the editor loses focus or you click on Continue. However, it is also possible to trigger a save by pressing CTRL+S.

What about content published through the GraphQL API or Zapier? in this context, you don’t have a rich text editor. As a consequence, you can either use plaintext or the Markdown syntax.

PS: some of you asked, the editor is built on top of ProseMirror, a great open-source toolkit for building rich text editors (we contributed ESM support).

We are happy to introduce a new feature for the Noticeable widget: cross-device synchronization.

By using cross-device synchronization, users identified using our SDK will have Widget read states maintained between devices: when they switch for instance from their mobile to a laptop. This new feature is available as part of the Business plan. You can read more about how to enable the feature in our help center:

https://help.noticeable.io/en-us/article/widget-cross-device-synchronization-1m7jpkm/

PS: as you may know, we are working on a lot of new things, surprises and good news are coming!

You can now display segmented posts on your project Timelines.

Segmentation is a powerful mechanism to display posts to a given set of users based on your own conditions. Although segmentation is configurable with our Plug & Play Widget, by default Noticeable Timelines are not displaying segmented posts.

We are listening to you and starting Today, you can force a segmented posts (i.e. posts that define segments) to display on your project Timeline by adding the special segment Noticeable:Timeline to its list of segments.

Learn more in our help center.

Roles define what actions collaborators are allowed to perform. Today, we’ve introduced a new Admin role and refined collaborator permissions.

With Noticeable, project collaborators can have one of the following roles:

• Viewer: this role grants read permission to your project data with 3 exceptions: access to billing data, API tokens and Zapier API key is forbidden.
• Editor: an editor inherits viewer permissions and is granted write access to posts and labels only.
• Admin: an admin inherits editor permissions and is granted write permission to all project data (posts, labels but also project, timeline and widget settings).
• Owner: the user who creates a project is automatically granted the owner role with full read and write permissions to project data. Only one owner is allowed per project and it cannot be changed.

You can now also edit a collaborator role from your project settings without revoking and sending a new invitation.