Hello everyone,
I hope you have all had a wonderful, relaxing summer vacation and are feeling recharged and ready for the second half of the year! Whether you are stepping back into the office tomorrow with a fresh cup of coffee or soaking up the final sunrays during your last week of holiday, we are excited to welcome you back. ☀️
As always, summer is a busy and productive season for us at Catenda. While many of you were out catching waves or enjoying time with family, our team has been hard at work behind the scenes to get new features, smoother workflows, and powerful updates ready for your return.
In this changelog, you’ll find everything from our new Kanban view for topics and major enhancements to Approval Workflows, to exciting milestones like Catenda AI Connect and Catenda Data Export. As Catenda evolves, so do our support guides, so we’ve put together this handy overview to help you quickly catch up on everything that’s changed.
Take your time easing back into the work routine, make sure to stay hydrated (and keep applying that sunscreen if you're still near the beach!), and enjoy exploring the latest updates!
Welcome back! ☀️😎🏖️🌊🍦☕
In this article you will find updates about the following:
Articles
As new features roll out and bugs are fixed articles are updated with the changes that are made. Please find the following articles that have been made and changed since the last changelog.
New articles:
Product Features
Use cases
Troubleshooting
Articles that have changed:
Account management
Product Features
Troubleshooting
New tutorial videos
Bugs Resolved
Thanks to your valuable feedback we have been able to squash many topics that you may or may not have noticed existed. Below is a list of smaller changes that have been made by the development team as a result of conversations with users.
General
[Projects] Project creation restored
It is once again possible to create projects.[Projects] Creation in orgs with project limits
It is once again possible to create projects in organizations with a limit of less than 100 projects.[Navigation] Blank screen on activity resume
Pages no longer intermittently display a blank screen when resuming activity after a period of inactivity.[Localization] Non-English language access
It is once again possible to access Catenda if the language preference is set to something other than English.
Topics
[Topic board] Select all checkbox behavior
The select all checkbox in a topic board table is once again properly checked and unchecked after selecting all topics.[Kanban view] Subfilter visibility toggling
In Kanban view only the topics from the subfilter now appear and disappear when checking the filter in the filter menu instead of all topics of that filter type.[Formatting hint] Logo in markdown preview
The inline markdown image in the topic post formatting hint once again displays the Catenda logo
Documents
[Document preview] Download process error fix
The document download process is changed such that an error that some users experienced on some documents when viewing them in the document preview no longer appears.[Approvals] Legacy approval draft status handling
It is once again possible to submit legacy approvals and update legacy approval settings where a draft status is configured as an outcome for a rejected document.[Document preview] Download/Save as menu options
The Download/Save as menus are once again visible in the document preview action menu.[Document preview] Filenames with periods in name
It is once again possible to preview documents that have a period mid document name in addition to the extension.[Document preview] Image filetype previews
It is once again possible to preview image filetypes in the document preview[Downloads] Lithuanian and Hungarian language fix
It is once again possible to download single documents when the language preference is set to Lithuanian or Hungarian.[Naming conventions] German umlauts validation fix
File naming convention validation no longer fails when uploading documents with custom field codes containing German umlauts.[Document list] Whitespace layout on scroll fix
Whitespace is no longer covering some document rows after scrolling down long lists of documents in collections where added documents have since been deleted.[Document preview] Pre-optimized preview loading
When a document preview was opened a raw, slow version was initially displayed until an optimized, faster to work with, version was displayed.
Especially for larger files it could take a while until this optimized version was ready. Now, for all new files, an optimized version is prepared even before the document preview is opened. Older files will be optimized when the preview is opened and might have ot be reloaded. Additionally the server preparing optimized previews has been upgraded making it less likely a gray processing screen is displayed when the document preview is opened.
This change will mostly be noticable on larger files such as PDFs with many pages or heavy images and CAD formats.
Models
[Info panel] Linked topics are visible again.
Topics that are linked to objects are once again visible in the inspect menu of the information panel under the topics tab.[Storey configurator] PDF underlays display fixed.
It is once again possible to preview PDF underlay documents in the storey configurator document preview for PDFs that do not have embedded fonts.
User voices completed
Topics
A new view for topics has been added: Kanban
Organize, filter, and update topics directly on a Kanban board, improving issue management, task management and team collaboration in Catenda Hub.
Change the filters to view not just all topics in one list like with list view but see the topics in columns based on the different filters that are available.
For example one column per assignee so you see topics assigned to people next to each other or one column per status or one column for topics that are due today, due within a week, due in more than a week and overdue.The topics statistics page
has gotten a visual overhaul making it more responsive. It is now possible to hover anywhere on the graph volume to see the amount of topics with different statuses at that a given point in the project timeline instead of just when the graph line is hovered.
Documents
Flexible Submitter Team Management
It is now possible to add or remove submitter teams on existing approval workflows after they have been saved.
Project administrators can update who is permitted to launch new approval requests without having to recreate the entire workflow template from scratch.Require Review from All Team Members
A new setting has been added to approval review steps that requires every individual member of a reviewer team to submit their own validation indication.
Instead of advancing as soon as a single member responds, the step will now remain open until every member of the assigned team has completed their review.Automatic Topic Creation on Approval Completion
Approval workflows can now be linked with topic templates so that topics are automatically created when an approval request completes.
Selecting a topic template for specific outcome decisions ensures that follow-up remarks and issues are immediately logged into a topic board for tracking.Document Revisions Overview Tab
The approvals page now features a dedicated "Document revisions" tab that provides a full table overview of all files currently undergoing review across all open approvals.
You can now search, sort, and filter individual document revisions by team assignment, review state, and due date without needing to open each approval package separately.Japanese Localization for Approvals
Full Japanese localization has been implemented across the approvals interface and workflow configuration pages.
Teams working in Japanese can now navigate approval cards, document review tools, and setup menus with accurate and consistent localized terminology.
Project settings
Invite page overhaul
The project invite page has been changed so that there is no longer confusion about having the click the add button before being able to click on send invitation.
It is now possible to click outside of the field to apply before clicking invite user.
New releases - Plugins and integrations
Catenda AI Connect
The Catenda AI Connect is now live, bringing advanced intelligence seamlessly into your existing workflows. This capability can be unlocked as a feature extension for existing project licenses, or requested directly by external project members. Contact our support team to request enablement for your workspace.
Catenda Data Export
Catenda Data Export is now available, providing flexible recurring or one-time extractions tailored to your total export size.
Existing clients can integrate this capability across their current projects, while external project members can request standalone access. Get in touch with our support team to configure and enable this feature.
Export to Amazon S3 or Azure Blob storage
Tekla plugin v1.5.0
Support for Tekla 2026