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May 21st, 2025

Motion.io Release Notes
🎉 Features
  • Populate Custom Fields Multiple Times in the Same Contract: You can now populate the same custom field value in multiple places within a single contract. Learn more ›
  • Weekly Recurring Tasks: In addition to the existing monthly recurring tasks option, you can now set tasks to repeat weekly—on the day of the week you choose.
  • Custom Names for Automations: Give each automation in a project a custom name using your internal language. This makes it easier to understand what each automation does at a glance—no guessing required.
  • Redesigned Automations Page: We’ve overhauled the Automations page to improve clarity and usability, making it easier for your team to quickly understand what each automation does and when it last ran. Learn more ›
🐞 Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where deleting the “Tasks” tab from a project made it impossible to re-add. This tab is now protected and cannot be removed.
  • To prevent team members from messaging clients who can’t see the message, chat functionality is now hidden in both the project view and message center when the “Messages” page is removed from client portals.
  • Notifications for new client chat messages now automatically clear once the client views the messages in their portal.
  • Resolved an issue that prevented annotations from exporting when multiple reviewed files were included in a single proofing task.

May 13th, 2025

Motion.io Release Notes
🎉 Features
  • New Roles and Permissions: You can now assign one of four distinct roles when inviting team members to Motion.io: Administrator, Manager, Employee, and Contractor. Each role comes with tailored permissions to fit your team's needs. Learn more about each role ›
  • Customize Portal Header Images: You can now upload a custom header image from your Settings page to further personalize the look and feel of your client portals. Once uploaded, the image will automatically appear across all portals.
  • New Zapier Trigger – “Tag Added”: Create powerful automations by triggering workflows whenever a tag is added to a Motion.io project. Use it to send updates to your CRM, kick off tasks in other tools your business uses, and much more.
🐞 Bug Fixes
  • Clients who click the call-to-action in welcome emails will now land directly on the Home page of their portal as expected.
  • Resolved an issue where bulk assigning tasks in the List view did not work as expected.
  • Fixed an issue where project tabs were not displaying in the correct order after being rearranged in the portal editor.

May 1st, 2025

Motion.io Release Notes
🎉 Features
  • New “Tasks” View: The “My Tasks” tab is now simply “Tasks”—a centralized view showing all tasks across all projects. Filter by due date, assignee, and more for full visibility and control.
  • Streamlined Task Assigning: When you create a new project, you'll now have the option to assign all its tasks to the first client you add.
  • Task Visibility Improvements: On the "Tasks" page of your projects, a new column in the list view titled "Portal" helps your team quickly understand what Tasks are visible to clients in their portal and why or why not they are shown.
🐞 Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the AI Task Builder being accessible in certain projects.
  • Performance improvement to make Forms with a significant number of blocks/fields load faster.
  • Update to prevent tasks not shown in Client Portals being included in client digest emails.

April 23rd, 2025

Motion.io Release Notes
🎉 Features
  • Rename Portal Pages: Easily rename the Files, Helpdesk, and Messages pages from your account settings
  • Task Context in Message Center: Client messages you generate tasks from now include a link to task details.
  • Enhanced Message Center Task Creation: Use the full task composer when creating tasks in the Message Center.
🐞 Bug Fixes
  • Custom fields will not save without a slug assigned.
  • Request changes button is present when viewing a task via the project activity bell.
  • “View All” activity button the the project homepages is fully functional.

April 15th, 2025

Motion.io Release Notes
🎉 Features
  • New Task Filters: You can now filter project tasks by stage, assignee, due date, and latest comments.
  • Simplified Form Creation: When building Motion.io forms, you can more easily add elements anywhere within the form.
  • Highlight Required Form Fields: Clients will now see a more prominent notification if they miss required fields on a form.
  • Project Names in Form Exports: Bulk exports of responses to a specific form now include the project name associated with each entry.
  • Activity Notifications: We’ve added an activity bell icon for notifications in the corner of all project pages.
🐞 Bug Fixes
  • Admins will no longer receive email notifications for their own in-app updates
  • The “Visit Task” button in the message center will now direct you to that specific task in the board view
  • Client email notifications to “View Task” now direct them to the Tasks page and not the Welcome page
  • We’ve improved the auto-saving functionality of Motion.io form for a more consistent experience

April 9th, 2025

Motion.io Release Notes
🎉 Features
  • Custom Portal Pages Added to Client’s Portal Sidebar: Now clients can find their Custom Portal Pages an additional way: within the Project section of their Portal’s sidebar.
  • Improved Stage Design: When viewing your Projects in List View, Stages now have a sleeker, more separated look.
  • Redesigned Menu in Project Pages: No more drop-down menus on Project-Related pages; now the menu is cleaner and easier to navigate.
🐞 Bug Fixes
  • Fixed a “Resource not found” error when selecting project chats in the message center
  • All tasks types will be able to save properly

April 2nd, 2025

Motion.io Release Notes
🎉 Features
  • New Client Portal Design: Client portals have received a major upgrade—featuring a refreshed design and a brand-new homepage and are now organized by client instead of by project.
  • Kanban Project Management: The new Board View introduces a visual, Kanban-style layout where tasks are organized into columns based on their status. You can drag and drop tasks between columns to instantly update their status—making it easier than ever to manage project workflows at a glance.
  • Create Tasks From Client Messages: From the Message Center, you can now instantly convert client chats and task comments into internal tasks.
🐞 Bug Fixes
  • In addition to the new features detailed above, this release also includes several minor bug fixes and performance upgrades to ensure the Motion.io platform runs smoothly for all users.

March 12th, 2025

Motion.io Release Notes
🎉 Features
  • New Team Review Option for Internal Tasks: We’ve now added the option to add a required review to team tasks. This allows you to have someone from the team double-check an internal completed task.
🐞 Bug Fixes
  • Fixed the inability to delete a checklist item when editing a task that has already been saved.
  • Team members can preview project tabs within the new portal.
  • Resolved a bug that prevented the system from properly turning on “require review” on tasks.
  • Messages can be unflagged in the message center.

March 5th, 2025

Motion.io Release Notes
🎉 Features
🐞 Bug Fixes
  • Automated task reminders will no longer be sent for tasks that have been set to the “Archived” status.
  • Client annotations on file approval and feedback tasks with multiple images will now display correctly on the corresponding images.

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