Get a quick chronological overview of all new functions and features - independent from the module.
14. August 2023
Adjusted icons on Partner and Person card
Sections on the Partner and Person card have now their own icon. This shall help you to distinguish between the different sections more easily.
07. July 2023
Surveys: Groups are now Categories
You can categorize surveys to gain a better overview. As a consequence, we have now changed the naming of these fields: From Group to Category. The functionality is unchanged.
30. June 2023
More functionality for partners
The partner card under Contracts - Partners has now some new functions:
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You can activate and deactivate partners. Note that you can only deactivate partners that are not linked to an active contract.
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You can assign a partner to companies/departments. This setting has also been added to the partner filter in the overview list so that you can easily list only partners belonging to a specific company or department.
Tip!
The defined filter for the overview list is also displayed when picking partners for suveys.
More columns for the People List report
The People List report has been extended with login information: If a user has logged in at all as well as date and time. You can find the report under People - Reports - People list.
Setting for Digital Signature title
You can now define which title a digital signature request has per default: Either a summary of all files or just the first file - with or without file extension. You can find the new setting under System settings - General.
09.06.2022
Some design changes
On our journey to a more user-friendly design we now implemented some further adjustments. Take a look at the video to see the changes.
28. April 2023
New icons for Digital Signing
The Digital Signing module has new icons. The functionality is unchanged.
| Icon | On request level (signature list) | On recipient level (signature card) |
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The request is pending | The recipient must still sign |
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The request is signed | The recipient has signed |
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The request is rejected (only Egreement) | The recipient has rejected to sign (only Egreement) |
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The request was cancelled | The recipient has been deleted |
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The request is expired |
Unsupported file formats: This icon is, for example, displayed on the contract card or in the file directory next to Microsoft Word files.
Read more about signing statuses at recipient level her.
Read more about signing statuses on request level her.
Tip!
There is also a Dashboard widget for digital signature requests. You can also activate it on your own if your system administrator has not already done so.
21. April 2023
Undo completed events
Have you ever completed an event - only to find out that it's not finished after all? Now you can undo completed events. The event will then be reset to "not completed" and can be completed later.
The Undo button is displayed for 24 hours after completing an event.
14. April 2023
New person and partner card design
The design of the person and partner card is now aligned with the contract card for a better user experience. Also, some new functionality is implemented.
Get a first impression of the changes in the video.
Here a short summary:
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icon for access to actions such as Edit and Delete in view mode. -
Clear sectioning of content via dropdown lists. Core content is displayed in the header section on the left side.
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An Expand All icon expands all dropdown lists on one click. This icon is now also available on the contract card. -
Event notifications in the header section on the right side on the person card. On the partner card, a comment box displays the last entered comment.
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You can create contracts directly from the partner card.
17. March 2023
Send reminder before response deadline
You can now create automatic reminders that are sent out to users who haven't answered yet. How many days before response deadline this is done, is defined when creating the survey.
13. March 2023
Surveys: Save drafts
We have added a new status for surveys: Draft. This status means that the survey is still work in progress. The status allows you to leave mandatory fields open. And you can set a publishing date without the risk that the survey is published automatically.
Note!
To publish the survey automatically, fill in the publishing date and set the status to Ready for publishing.
Surveys: Possible to categorize surveys by groups
You can now categorize surveys by assigning them to groups. You can create groups under Survey - Groups via + Group. The groups are displayed on the survey card as a not mandatory field.
Tip!
You can bulk-assign surveys to groups. Open the group from Survey - Groups and pick the survey(s) you want to assign from the list. Note that this list only contains unassigned surveys.
Surveys: Recipients can now download their responses
Recipients who have sent their response, can now download a document with their answers. The last page on the survey contains the download link.
Surveys: Improved selection of partners
When selecting the recipients for a survey, you can now toggle the number of displayed partners.
Surveys: Open survey directly from Dashboard widget
Surveys can now be opened directly from the widget on the dashboard.
Surveys: Enlarged text boxes
The text boxes for the email body and the introduction text are now bigger. This shall make it easier to enter and check texts. This change is being implemented consecutively.
New window navigation
When opening a window from another window in CC5, you will now find a link on top of the window. Click to return to the previous window.
24. February 2023
Filter for survey list
The list that holds all surveys can now be filtered, e.g. by date or status.
Notifications: Next revision date displayed directly after completed revision
Complete Control sends out notifications for yearly revisions of recurring contracts. Now, the next revision date is shown directly after you Completed) the previous revision.
17. February 2023
Digital Signing: Information about rejected signing
When a recipient rejects a digital signature request, you as the creator are now notified about this. Usually, you will get a message under the bell in CC5. If you’re not logged in, you will also receive an email.
Surveys: Extend deadline and add recipients
You can now extend the response deadline until 1 day before expiry. In addition, you can add new recipients.
Note that CC5 will not automatically send a mail about updated response deadline.
Notifications: Card opens in editing mode when clicking link in email
The email that CC5 sends out before upcoming events contains a button that opens e.g. the contract in CC5. Now, the contract opens no longer in view mode, but in editing mode. This allows you to adjust the event faster.
10. February 2023
Surveys
Sorting of columns
A small but nice feature: You can now sort the columns in the Survey overview list. Mouse over the column header and click the arrow.
Tip!
By default, lists are sorted in ascending order (A - Z or 1 - 100). To change the direction from ascending to descending (Z - A or 100 - 1), click the arrow again.
Transparency Act template: now translated to Swedish and Danish
The Norwegian Transparency Act requires that businesses obtain information about fundamental human rights and working condintions from their suppliers. House of Control AS has therefore implemented a template that makes this easy.
This template is now also available in Danish and Swedish.
Tip!
All template texts are only suggestions. Adapt the text to your needs.
Survey export shows attachment names
When exporting surveys to Excel, the export now also lists the names of any attached files in the survey.
3. February 2023
Digital Signing
Egreement: Extend signature deadline for expired requests
Setting deadlines for signature requests is now even more flexible. You can now extend the signing deadline even for expired requests. This gives you as the requester more freedom and can help you prevent re-creating requests simply because one of the signing parties have forgotten to sign in time.
This possibility is limited to 4 weeks after expiry.
Signicat and Egreement: Delete unfinished signature requests
You can now delete signature requests that you have cancelled in CC5 or that haven't been signed in time and therefore are expired. The deleted request is removed from the overview list, and any signed files are deleted.
You find the Delete button in the menu.
Egreement: Reject a request until it is signed by all
Before, you were not allowed to reject a signature request if someone else had already signed it. Now, you can revoke the request until it was signed by all.
Add comment to whitelisted IP addresses
If you have the optional module for Whitelisting, you can give specific IP addresses access to CC5. When adding IP addresses, you can now enter a comment with further information.
Read more about whitelisting IP addresses here.
Surveys
Possible to download attachments and save everything to the partner card
You can now download attachments on the returned survey. You can find the Download button directly on the returned survey. Click it, wait for the download to be prepared and click Download again in the green confirmation box. The attachments are now downloaded to your PC.
Also, you can now save the survey attachments to the partner card. Click Save attachments to partner in the same window.
Tip!
This is no out-of-box functionality. The partner card must be adjusted for this feature (both for displaying surveys and for attachments). Your contact person in House of Control AS can help you with this.
20. January 2023
Digital Signing
Change order of files
After you uploaded files for signing, you can now change the order of files. This can be quite convenient in situations where your contract partners shall sign documents in a certain order. See also Signature card.
Change email recipients
In case you entered a wrong email address of a recipient, you can now easily change the address and re-send the document. See also Signature card.
Signicat only: Risk for file size limit reduced
Before, customers experienced that the signed PDF-file increased rapidly with the amount of signatures. This sometimes resulted in performance issues and trouble with maximum file size.
This issue is now resolved. The amount of signatures will no longer effect the file size considerably.
11. November 2022
Videos for IFRS 16 in Online Help
Online help contains now also all new videos for IFRS 16. All articles that have a related video, will display the video in addition.
E-learning link for signature recipients (Signicat)
If you use Digital Signing, you have maybe experienced that contract partner ask you how signing works. Therefore, we now published a short how-to guide that explains the signing process from your contract partner's perspective.
Simply add this link to the message box when creating signature requests: https://hoc.mcoutput.com/cc5.how-to-sign-digital-requests/Default.htm
4. November 2022
Bulk update of accounting settings for IFRS-16
If you have several companies, you can now update the IFRS-16 accounting settings of multiple companies together. Go to System settings - Contracts - Accounting settings, tick all companies you want to update, click edit and set the field values that shall apply to all selected companies (e.g. the same chart of accounts).
28. October 2022
Notify several people about incoming mail
Before, you could only define one person about incoming mails. But a single point-of-contact can make your company vulnerable for loss of information. Therefore, you can now define that several people are informed about incoming mail. This includes also multi-company setups.
Position shown in authority matrix
The authority matrix report does now also show a person's position. This helps readers of the report understand the underlying logic of the authority structure; it can also make it easier to discover mistakes.
7. October 2022
Copy published and expired surveys
You can now also copy published or expired surveys, not only draft surveys.
Copy digital signing requests
You can now copy all signature requests, no matter which status they have.
Copying - alongside with other secondary functionality - is now collected in the 3-dot menu to prevent an overload of buttons at the bottom of the window.
Only Egreement: Extend deadlines on signature requests
You can now extend deadlines for pending signature requests if your recipients need more time to sign. Click Extend deadline and pick the number of days. The "new" deadline will be shown in brackets behind the existing deadline. If you are happy with the change, click Save.
Only Egreement: Display rejection message
Digital signing requests that have been created with Egreement as provider, can be rejected by recipients. The recipient can in this context enter feedback.
This feedback is now also displayed on the signature card.
30. September 2022
Egreement: SMS code identification
You can now request that recipients of documents for digital signing enter a SMS code on their mobile phone before they can open the documents. This is an additional protection and especially useful for documents with sensitive data.
If you select this variant, you must also enter the recipient's mobile number when creating the signing request. Therefore, also the distribution list has now been extended with a field for recipients' mobile numbers so that you skip entering numbers manually.
Shared files: Possible to delete top folders
If you have the optional module Extended File Admininistration, you can now also delete folders on the 1st level.
Read more here.
16. September 2022: New provider for Digital Signing
Complete Control now supports Egreement as provider for digital signatures.
Egreement provides secure, flexible and eco-friendly solutions to your digital needs. Since 2006, they have been committed to providing high quality digital signing and identification services. In 2021, House of Control Group AS acquired Egreement AB strengthening in-house competence in digital signing as one major focus area within the group's portfolio.
Differences in CC5 compared to Signicat
You as a user will probably not notice many differences. The look and feel of the solution shall be more or less the same because most improvements are below the surface: You can e.g. send out more document file types (PDF, Excel, Word, PNG, JPG) - not only PDF's. And the file size has been increased substantially to 50 MB in the first version. For later versions no limits to file sizes are planned.
Differences for the recipients
Recipients will experience increased control of the signing process. They can see all recipients including their signing status and method as well as some other information that might be useful for them. It is also possible for recipient to reject signing. This will cancel the complete signature request - until it is possibly sent out again. After all recipients have signed, all files from the request are merged into one single document with the signature certificate as last page.
Note that the additional information that is displayed on the signing scheme, is determined by the browser language.
Read more here.
9. September 2022: New module for surveys
We have released our new solution for surveys. It's specifically tailored to all businesses that want to ensure their suppliers follow the Norwegian Transparency Act. The solution allows you to create surveys or other questionnaires and send them to your suppliers. Answers are automatically returned back to CC5 without any need for you to take actions. Use this module for classic surveys related to any subjects you need to get supplier feedback on or to request e.g. required supplier documentation.
Note that the solution is not "locked": You can adjust the template by adding, changing or cutting questions. And you can create surveys from scratch for completely different purposes.
Read more here.
24. June 2022: New contract card
The contract card has now a new look and feel.
Note!
All changes are pure design changes - the functionality is still the same.
More space and less scrolling via dropdown sections
The headings of the old contract card are now replaced by dropdown sections. The intention is to conserve space and help you avoid scrolling to find content on the card alongside with a cleaner look and feel.
By default, the dropdown sections are collapsed, but you can see some extracted core information about this contract on top of the card. This gives you the most important information at a glance. And if you want to dive into details, simply click the section to expand it. Then click again to collapse it again - if you want.
Tip!
If you expand a section in view mode and then switch to editing mode, sections you expanded in the view mode remain expanded - so that you quickly can enter your changes. In editing mode, the head information is also removed, and the General section is expanded.
New icon for changes to existing contracts
If you open a contract in view mode, you will see that there is a new icon on top of the card: Click to Edit, Delete and Copy the contract.
"Light" wizard for contract registration
There are many fields on the contract card - and little space. It's easy to get lost, especially if you also need to scroll upwards and downwards to find specific fields.
To avoid these situations, a "light" wizard will now guide you through the various sections when creating new contracts. Simply start by clicking + Contract in the usual way. Then, enter all required information in the first section and click Next to go to the next section.
Note that the wizard does not force you to enter information in a certain order. You can still open all sections manually.
Removed Changelog tab
The contract card is no longer divided into two separate tabs, and you can now find the changelog in the Changelog section at the bottom.
Teaser: Placeholder for notifications in top position
In the near future, notifications will be more visible on the contract card. Note that this functionality is not yet ready: At the moment, you can only see that the contract is linked to certain events. But soon, you can find and manage here all your notifications.
Watch the release-video!
10. June 2022
Asset reports: Improved depreciation handling
When opening the Values total report underAssets - Reports, you will see that the standard calendar date picker has been replaced with lists for Month and Year. As a result, the book value will now always refer to the last day of the selected month.
When exporting the report to Excel, depreciation numbers are highlighted as negative figures.
8. April 2022
Digital signatures: Icon on locked signed copies
When saving a signed file from the Digital Signature card as copy to e.g. your Shared Files directory, the file will now be highlighted with a green lock. This indicates that the file is signed, but locked for further editing.
More Dashboard changes
When opening the Dashboard this week, you will notice further UX changes:
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You can now click anywhere in a Dashboard list to open the related entry. Also, the general appearance of the list has been improved.
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If a panel contains further lists, the current list entry is displayed in blue. If there are no further lists, the entry is grey.
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Panel and Dashboard setting information is now streamlined with identical texts.
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You can use your keyboard to switch between list entries.
18. mars 2022
Event notifications on Dashboard and other changes
Users will now immediately see events when opening CC5. On top of the dashboard, they can find current events on all assets, people and contracts they have access to. Also, the welcome message has been moved to the right, and the tiles are now a little smaller. Previous tabs on the tiles are now in dropdown lists, and the module is mentioned on each tile.
Email notifications for new mails in inbox
Customers will now be notified via email when the CC5 inbox receives new mail. This is especially nice for customers who don't want to log into CC5 just to check for new mail. Recipients are defined in the email settings under General system settings
18. February 2022
CC5 has a new design
Complete Control has an updated design with fresh new look and better readability making it easier to find important content and to have better control. It's easier to navigate, everything blue is clickable and you will experience improved contrasts and readability. Note that the System settings and Help are now placed in the top menu. News and updates can be found your profile icon.
Context-sensitive help
Many windows have now a help button next to the title. It immedately opens the correct help file for this window. More windows will follow consecutively.
11. February 2022
IFRS-16: Overview of not used options
Nominal valuation of non-exercised options according to IFRS 16.59 (b ii). Finanstilsynet has recently announced that IFRS notes will be of more focus in the annual reports of 2021, and House of Control has proactively made functionality to comply with the current expectations.
The system will then calculate the nominal value of unused options.
Improved search via API against our databases
Endpoints for partners, contracts, assets and people have been improved for better integration with external services. This means basically that if you need e.g. person data, the search for this has been improved.
Budget report
Development did some back-end work, and as a result the Budget report is now faster.
Export of reports
We improved the progress bar that is displayed when export reports. This is especially useful for long reports.
04. February 2022
Digital Signing: Improved user experience when creating Digital Signing requests
The flow for adding the recipients of PDF documents that shall be signed digitally has been improved. Now, you add first the name and then the email address. And if there is any formal mistake with the email, this will be highlighted via a red frame around the field. Also, we implemented some additional messages for possible PDF errors.
Improved indexing of catalogs
General indexing of catalogs has been approved. The most visible change is that the free-text search for attachments has been improved and gives better hits.
Image gallery is now part of the standard solution
The image gallery "Arts" is now part of the standard solution. Note that customers who don't have the Art gallery from before, won't get it automatically. But your contact person at House of Control AS can give you access.
28. January 2022
Paging on budget reports
Budget reports can be large, and before it could take some time for them to load. This has now been solved via a smart paging functionality: Larger reports are now displayed on several pages, and users can simply browse to the next page for more items. A counter at the bottom of the page tells you how many additional lines the report has.
IFRS-16: Closing active accounting periods
It is no longer possible to close the current accounting period.
Digital Signing: Improved handling of PDF's
Our development team has improved handling of attachments for digital signatures. Before, some content could get lost (e.g. strikethroughs) during the signing process. Also, some other complications were discovered. Now, general attachment handling has been improved and these issues should now be solved.
File limitation: Files for signature can be max 10 MB, max. size for file uploads: 100 MB.
21. January 2022
Export audits to Excel
This week's release contains a smart feature for those of our customers who are using the Audit module. Now, users can export audits to Excel. Upon click on Export, an Excel ark is generated containing all recipients with status and more. And when clicking the "+" icon next to a recipient, the related contracts are expanded.
Tip!
Click a contract to open it directly in CC5.
14. January 2022
Search for protected fields
Some fields have a protection tag allowing your system administrator to make them only available for certain user groups. But these fields have been hidden from searches before. This has been changed now so that users with access to the protected fields can find the in the advanced search, free text search and the filter criteria on the left side.
7. January 2022
Save draft contracts
You can now save contract drafts.
Let's say you know a contract will come, but it's not yet signed. And you're unsure if the contract will start in February or March.
This shall not stop you from registering the contract already now in CC5! Simply enter whatever data you have and save the contract as a draft. Drafts don't require that you enter all mandatory fields; so, you can start with the title - and enter more information later. Other users haven't access to drafts anyway. And they are neither included in reports.
As soon as the contract is signed, you simply switch status from Draft to Active.
