Changelog / Release Notes

Novigem Wallboard 1.0

A new product alongside the package: put your leaderboard on a TV. Live points, badges, the active challenge, and a confetti celebration within seconds of a badge being earned. Runs at dashboard.novigem.com .

How it works

• Your login, your data. Every screen signs in with its own Salesforce account. The board queries as that user, so sharing rules apply and nothing is stored on our side. Signing out revokes the login at Salesforce.
• Live. Awards appear on the board within seconds through a per-screen event subscription, with a 30 second refresh as fallback.
• Configurable per screen. A settings page composes the board: theme, period, team, widget arrangement by dragging them in a live preview, and colors. The result travels in the screen’s URL or is remembered on that device, so two screens in one org can show different boards. Period, team, and theme can also be switched straight from the header. See the Wallboard guide.

Admin actions

• Install the Wallboard Connector package in your org before users sign in. It contains one OAuth app definition and nothing else: install link . Novigem 1.8 or later recommended. The connector carries the Novigem app icon, so users see the logo rather than a blank placeholder on the sign-in approval screen and in the connected apps list.

Novigem 1.9.0

A starter library so a fresh install is not an empty page, head-to-head battles, rules that compare dates without hardcoding them, and team scoping. One admin action, and only if you want to use teams.

New features

• Challenge Library. Twelve ready-made starter templates: challenges, their rules, and badges, installed in one click from the admin app. Everything arrives inert, challenges as Draft and rules inactive, so nothing awards a point until you have opened it in the builder and switched it on.
• Head-to-head battles. Put two people, or two teams, against each other on a rule you already run. Both sides see a live score, and a winner is declared at the end date. Team battles score either the average per member or the team total, so a big team does not win on headcount alone.
• Relative dates in rule conditions. Compare a date field against TODAY, YESTERDAY, N_DAYS_AGO:30, or a period boundary like START_OF_QUARTER and END_OF_MONTH, with offsets. A rule keeps working without anyone editing it, instead of going stale the way a fixed date does.
• A date editor that works like the report builder. Date fields in the rule builder now have a calendar and relative toggle, rather than asking you to type a token.
• Team scoping. Limit a challenge, rule, or leaderboard to one team instead of the whole org. Sales and Customer Success can run different challenges, and each team sees its own leaderboard. When a rule is linked to a challenge, the challenge’s team applies.
• Challenge completion posts to Chatter. Optional, alongside the existing notifications.

Improvements

• Only licensed users earn points. Points are awarded to the person a record belongs to, so someone without a Novigem licence could previously end up on the leaderboard because a colleague touched their record. They no longer do.
• Expired Timebound challenges no longer read as active. When the end date passes, the challenge ends automatically: it stops awarding points, no longer counts as active on the admin dashboard, and no longer appears in Team Pulse or raises behind-pace flags.
• Run Now on the Scheduled Jobs screen runs the full nightly job, including coaching signals. It previously reset recurring challenges only.
• Rep coaching messages rewritten in plain language, leading with the action.
• The admin console remembers which section you were on across a refresh.

Bug fixes

Fixes across the rule builder, the coaching feed, and the admin console, including more reliable point awards when a challenge is completed.

Admin actions

• Check any rule that scores queue-owned records. Records owned by a queue rather than a person are now skipped, because a queue holds no licence and there is nobody to award. If you score Leads or Cases before they are assigned, those rules stop awarding on unassigned records.
• Only if you want teams. Go to Novigem Admin → Settings → General → Teams and switch teams on. Every Public Group is selected by default, so remove the ones that have nothing to do with Novigem. Leave teams off and everything stays org-wide exactly as before.

Novigem 1.8.0

Coaching and extensibility release. Two admin actions are required to get everything working (see below).

New features

• Gamify any Salesforce object. Rules and challenges are no longer limited to Opportunity, Lead, Task, and Event. Register any object from Novigem Admin → Settings → General, then feed record saves into the engine with a record-triggered Flow. See Gamify a new object.
• Evaluate Record with Novigem, a new Flow action. Call it from a record-triggered Flow on any registered object to award points and challenge progress. No Apex required.
• Coaching feed for reps. A card on the rep home page shows the single most useful thing to do next, written in plain language with the rep’s own numbers. It stays quiet when there is nothing worth acting on.
• Goal pace on challenges. Every time-boxed challenge now shows whether a rep is ahead, on track, or behind, plus the daily rate needed to still finish on time.
• Team Pulse, a new tab for managers. One screen showing every team member’s engagement status, goal pace, last activity, and recent points, with the people who need attention sorted to the top.
• Suggested challenges. When most of the team earns points from a behaviour that some reps never touch, Novigem proposes a two-week challenge to close that gap. One click creates it.
• Challenge Impact. Compare participants’ tracked activity before, during, and after a challenge, so you can see whether it changed behaviour and whether the change held.
• Streaks and personal bests. Reps see daily and weekly activity streaks, best day, and best week alongside the leaderboard. Optional bonus points at streak milestones.
• Custom coaching messages. Novigem writes its own coaching copy. Admins who want their own wording can rewrite any of the six message types under Settings → General → Coaching messages.

Improvements

• Tracked objects now have their own card in General Settings, separate from the engine kill switches, with a per-object toggle.
• The default leaderboard timeframe is now configurable.
• The empty rules state on a challenge now links straight to rule creation.

Bug fixes

• Large point totals now round correctly. Values no longer display as 1000.0K instead of 1.0M.
• Cancelling an edit in the rule builder no longer leaves a spinner running.
• The admin overview now reports an error when its statistics fail to load, instead of failing silently.
• The rule and challenge builders no longer fail silently when a record loads read-only.

Admin actions

• Schedule the nightly job. Coaching signals, streak milestones, and recurring challenge resets all run from it. Go to Novigem Admin → Settings → Scheduled Jobs, then schedule Nightly Maintenance. Until this is scheduled, no coaching signals are generated. Note that the Run Now button on that screen only resets recurring challenges. To generate signals on demand, use Run analysis now on Team Pulse.
• Assign the Novigem Manager permission set to anyone who should see Team Pulse. Assign it in addition to Novigem User, not instead of it. Team Pulse uses the standard Manager field on the User record to work out who reports to whom.

Novigem 1.7.0

Reporting and security release. No admin actions required to upgrade.

New features

• Custom report types for native Salesforce reporting on points, badges, and challenge progress. Build your own reports and dashboards on Novigem data with the standard report builder.

Bug fixes

• Point totals and other metrics now show a zero value instead of hiding the field entirely.
• Users assigned a Novigem permission set but no package license are now skipped during rule evaluation, instead of causing an error.

Security

• Consolidated hardening from the latest round of AppExchange Security Review audits, including tighter access control on internal engine, controller, and Lightning component methods, and reduced personal data read by internal queries.

Novigem 1.6.0

Access and security release. One admin action is recommended after upgrade (see below).

Improvements

• Non-admin users who open the rule, challenge, or badge builder now see a clear “admin access required” message instead of a blank screen.

Bug fixes

• Users with the Novigem User permission set no longer hit “insufficient access” errors when saving Opportunities, Leads, Tasks, or Events, or when points are awarded. The permission set now includes the Apex access and the platform event permission the engine needs.

Security

• The rule, challenge, and badge builders, the points ledger admin view, and the badge activity panel now require the Novigem Admin permission. The admin-only object and field lookups in the rule builder are gated the same way.
• Removed a user email field from an internal badge query that never needed it, reducing the personal data the package reads.
• Further Apex and Lightning hardening ahead of the AppExchange Security Review.

Admin actions

• The builders now require the Novigem Admin permission set. After upgrading, confirm that everyone who creates or edits rules, challenges, or badges is assigned Novigem Admin.

Novigem 1.5.0

Security and stability release. No admin actions required to upgrade.

Security

• Badge icons are now restricted to same-origin Salesforce static resources. Badge images can no longer be loaded from external URLs.
• Additional Apex and Lightning component hardening ahead of the AppExchange Security Review, including tighter access control on internal settings methods.

Bug fixes

• More reliable settings deployment. Settings are now namespace-qualified and no longer assert on values that can change, preventing setup errors in some orgs.

Novigem 1.4.0

Bug fix release. No admin actions required to upgrade.

Bug fixes

• Users without Novigem access no longer hit an error when saving Opportunities, Leads, Tasks, or Events. The rule engine now skips users who do not have a Novigem permission set assigned, instead of throwing an exception.

Novigem 1.3.0

Security and bug fix release. No admin actions required to upgrade.

Bug fixes

• Badge icon color now persists correctly when editing an existing badge
• Sample badge awards now route through the standard BadgeService, fixing inconsistencies between manually-created and sample-generated awards

Security

• Additional defence-in-depth hardening

Novigem 1.2.0

Maintenance release. No admin actions required to upgrade. No user-visible changes. This version contains internal preparation work for the next AppExchange Security Review submission.

Novigem 1.1.0

Security hardening release. No admin actions required to upgrade.

Security

• Points, badges, and challenge progress can no longer be written directly to Salesforce, Novigem now enforces this at the database level
• Only admins can modify challenge completion dates, preventing users from backdating their own progress
• Configuration change log entries cannot be edited or deleted after the fact
• Manual badge awards are rate-limited per hour to prevent abuse

Bug fixes

• Leaderboard rank no longer exceeds the total number of participants at the boundary
• Points sparkline on the My Points component now shows data in the user’s local timezone, not UTC
• Leaderboard shows initials when a user’s profile photo fails to load
• Rules with large condition groups no longer fail in high-volume transactions

Novigem 1.0.1

Maintenance release. No admin actions required to upgrade.

Bug fixes

• ConditionEvaluator: Internal error messages are no longer exposed in exception output. Error handling is now properly contained.
• Lightning components: Replaced selectors that violated Shadow DOM encapsulation. Components are now fully compliant with Salesforce’s LWC security model and less likely to break on platform updates.

Improvements

• Chatter notifications: Added error observability to the notification queueable. Uncaught exceptions during badge award notifications are now logged rather than silently lost.

Novigem 1.0 · General Availability

What’s in 1.0

• Rule Engine: real-time point awards on Opportunity, Lead, Task, and Event activity, with full AND/OR condition logic, 11 operators, relationship field support, and deduplication
• Challenges: One-time, Timebound, and Recurring challenge types with progress tracking, completion bonuses, and badge rewards
• Badges: manual and automatic badge awards, five icon colors (gold, silver, bronze, ruby, emerald), three shapes (hexagon, circle, shield)
• Leaderboard: all-time, weekly, monthly, and quarterly period filters with dense ranking and podium view
• Ledger: append-only, immutable point history with full Salesforce reporting support
• Celebrations: real-time in-app celebration component powered by Platform Events. Place the Novigem Challenge Celebration component on your Opportunity record page and Salesforce Home page
• Notifications: Chatter (in-app) notifications for badge awards
• Admin Console: general settings, badge style, notifications, scheduled jobs, and configuration audit log
• Scheduled Jobs: automated recurring challenge resets with configurable cron expressions

Curious what’s coming next? See the Novigem Roadmap  for what’s in progress and planned.