Compusense Release Notes

Compusense Release Notes

Overview

With you, our clients, in mind, Compusense is dedicated to continuous improvements in our software functionality and performance.  Your success is our success!

On this page you will find highlights of the new features implemented in the software during our Maintenance Windows . In addition to the highlighted features, we always work on security- and performance-related enhancements, and bug fixes.

Info
All Maintenance Windows start at 10 pm Eastern Time (ET) on dates outlined below (always a Friday ET), ending approximately 5 hours later (on Saturday ET).

All of our users get monthly email notifications about upcoming Maintenance Windows outlining the exact start and anticipated end time in their local time zone. Please be sure to check your Spam/Junk folder if you have not seen these emails yet!


The Latest Release

November 14/15, 2025 - Version TBD

PowerPoint Report Builder Improvements
  1. Include preference data with preference related comments in the PowerPoint Report Builder.
  2. Ability to upload your own logo for branded presentations in the PowerPoint Report Builder.

Other Changes:
  1. Consistency reinforced to sentence cases in the PowerPoint Report Builder.
  2. Wording update for 'Show comparison letters' info icon in the PowerPoint Report Builder. 
  3. Fixed issue where incentives weren’t automatically assigned when manually assigning incentives with excused panelists present.
  4. Sample sets increased correctly when updating test type.



Past Releases


October 17/18, 2025 - Version TBD

PowerPoint Report Builder
Our PowerPoint report builder helps you design personalized Microsoft PowerPoint reports tailored to your specific needs. Select the data you want to include, arrange it in the order that suits your workflow, and save templates for consistent reporting across your team or organization. 


Other Changes:
Improvements in the Product card functionality. 


September 12/13, 2025 - Version 25.0.34

Rescheduled Sittings Notifications
We are implementing automated email notifications for analysts to inform them when panelists reschedule their sittings.

Other Changes:
  1. Refined capabilities in the panelist search.
  2. Functionality added to graphs in the AI Comment Insights for non-sample related comments.



August 15/16, 2025 - Version 25.0.30

  1. Consistency reinforced to field naming in the Pivot table area.
  2. Page loading improvements in the Advanced search & analysis across tests Recent reports area.
  3. Added ability for analysts to manage translations for Assessor websites.
  4. A solution implemented to prevent potential repeated send action for a single email.



July 11/12, 2025 - Version 25.0.26

Panelist Daily Attendance Report Update
The fourth sheet is added to the Panelist Daily Attendance Report providing an overview of how many samples panelists completed per day.

Other Changes:
  1. Improvements made to the existing sheets in the Panelist Daily Attendance Report.
  2. Results overview tab now reflects the change made by using the Increase sample sets feature in running tests.
  3. PowerPoint Report generated across tests when the Only include in the report if the p-value is significant option was selected, will not include the post-hoc letters if the p-value does not indicate significant difference.



June 13/14, 2025 - Version 25.0.23


A new sheet in the Panelist Daily Attendance Report providing an overview of how many tests panelists started and may or may have not completed.

Additional API calls added to the common API bundle. If you are interested in learning more about our API bundle, please contact the Support Team.



May 23/24, 2025 - Version 25.0.21


In the Panelists library generate a new Panelist daily attendance report. The first version of this report will include details on whether or not testing was completed on a given day, and how many tests in total were done per day.


Other Changes:
  1. The following fields made available in the panelist export: Date created, Last login date, Last survey test, and Last product test.
  2. Pivot table alignment improvements.
  3. The date picker tool updated to the latest version.
  4. Tukey's HSD test made available in the Summary report and Descriptive Analysis Workbook report for the 2way mixed model ANOVA with samples fixed and panelists random.


April 11/12, 2025 - Version 25.0.16

PowerPoint Report Improvements
  1. New slides.
    1. Data from every Category scale question type will be combined in one graph. E.g. All Category Liking questions in a test will have a new slide with their data graphed together. The same is true for all Category Intensity question types and all other Category question types in the test.


    2. All Line Scale questions in a test will have a slide with their data graphed together.

    3. Each JAR question will have an additional slide displaying frequency percentages for each JAR point per sample.


  2. Existing JAR legend update. In addition to the current Bottom/Middle/Top indication in the legend, you will be able to see the actual descriptors added to each JAR scale.


Conclusion & Decision Visibility Across Tests
The conclusions and decisions you enter inside individual tests are now visible and can be exported across tests.


Other Changes:
  1. Data split options for Consumer report updated in multi-section tests for better clarity on questions included in the selected section.
  2. Display improvements made in the Tags library for longer tag names.


March 14/15, 2025 - Version 25.0.11

Generate a summary on your comment data based on Artificial Intelligence generated themes, or customize the themes for your summary.


Additional Data Splits in the Consumer Report
In addition to the existing data splits in the Consumer report, the new data split options will enable you to:
  1. Split sample related data by selected demographic fields to look for significant differences between population segments within a sample.
  2. Look for significant differences within your non-sample related questions (even in survey tests) by splitting the data on selected demographic questions.
The new data splits will have their own sheets in the report.

Permissions for Analysts at the Group Level to Access the Tags Library
If you want to designate specific analyst(s) to manage all of your test tags, you can now request from our Support Team who should and should not have access to the Tags library.

Other Improvements:
  1. Fix to a scenario where date and decimal format were updating in custom sample fields when number of samples was reduced.
  2. Improvements made in the Advanced search & analysis across tests when multiple criteria is applied in the search.
  3. The Rewards feature will now be available in the Libraries drop-down list, however only those with sufficient permissions will be able to access.
  4. French and Spanish analyst software translations updates in the software.
  5. Security updates applied to the text editor tool.
  6. Improvements in the Discrimination analysis reports for Tetrad, Triangle, and Duo-trio when the Alpha values for UCL and LCL are the same.
  7. Email validation applied to the file updates to panelist records.
  8. Improvements made in the email logs to capture additional information on unsuccessful email attempts.
  9. Previewing a test as a panelist no longer updates the last product and last survey test dates for that panelist.
  10. Improvements made in the email validation to allow emails containing only images (no text) to send successfully.
  11. Hits and misses report updated with headings that used to be blank in two columns.
  12. Updates applied to the scripting language and other packages used in the software.


February 21/22, 2025 - Version 25.0.4

New Analyses for Tetrad, Triangle, and Duo-trio Data
In addition to the existing analyses for Tetrad, Triangle, and Duo-trio test types, new analyses are implemented to reflect the changes in this area established by ASTM International.


Additional Graphing Image Export Format - .png
In Graphing across tests, in addition to the .svg image file format, it is now possible to export graphs in the .png file format as well for added reporting flexibility and compatibility across various devices.


Other Improvements:
  1. Wording improvement in the Designs library for the Duo-trio designs to clearly specify the control position.
  2. Updated our ANOVA Mixed Model analysis tool to R.
  3. Graphing across tests copies data rounded to two decimals now to match the view in Compusense.
  4. Category scales in Question options consistently display three decimal points to assist with analysis across tests.
  5. Test status references throughout the software now use consistent terminology.
  6. Image size limits increased to 10 MB when inserting images in the text editor in the Build tab of a test.


January 17/18, 2025 - Version 24.0.59


New Modules
Two new modules are available to add-on to your subscription at a cost:
  1. SMS Module: Enables you to communicate with panelists via SMS in addition to email.

  2. Panelist Single Sign-On: Similar to our SSO option for analyst access to Compusense, you can simplify employee panelist testing with a special SSO panelist website.
For more details about or pricing for these modules, please contact our Support Team.


Permissions for Analysts at the Group Level to Access Schedules Module
If you want to designate specific analyst(s) to manage all of your panelist scheduling, you can now request from our Support Team who should and should not have access to the Schedules module. By default, all analysts have access to the module if the module is included in your subscription.


Other Improvements:
  1. In the screen for emailing panelists who have not completed the test, we made wording updates to clarify the functionality.
  2. Improvements made in user experience when Category Wheel and standard Category questions are displayed on the same page.


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