🔁 Summer 2026: Recent Updates

Summer 2026 product updates: what changed for customers, when each update became available, where it applies, and how it helps you get more value from Ardoq.

We refreshed the presentation experience over the last month. These updates are now available to customers and make it easier to build, review, and present slide decks with clearer navigation, faster editing, and a more polished play mode.

Play mode got a proper set of controls

The bottom navigator is redesigned. The bottom bar now holds the slide controls, the current slide title, and a "Slides" toggle that opens a list of every slide in the presentation, so you can see the whole deck and jump straight to one.

The slide description moves out to a right-hand sidebar. Both the dismissed bar and the sidebar's expanded state are remembered, so a presenter's setup survives moving between slides and coming back later.
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Viewers can filter dashboard slides

In play mode, a viewer can apply dashboard filters on slides where the author did not save filter values, and their selections carry across every slide using that dashboard. Slides with author-saved filters behave exactly as before, which covers every presentation that exists today.

Better tell which slide you are on

The presentation header now leads with the current slide's title, with the deck name as a subtitle underneath. Previously, every slide just showed the deck name.

Play starts where you are

Play begins from whichever slide is selected in the sidebar. Before, it always went back to slide 1.

Reordering slides is much less fiddly

A new grid drawer shows all slides as thumbnail cards across the full width of the screen. Pick a slide up and drop it anywhere in one gesture, and the order saves immediately. Drag-and-drop in the sidebar still works if people prefer it.

Editing is quicker

Click the presentation title in the sidebar to rename it in place. Enter saves; Escape cancels. Requires write access.

Slides visually tell you what they contain

Slides now show the view type graphic and a viewpoint thumbnail instead of a blank card. Long decks are easier to scan.

No more fighting with the legend

Your legend preference is remembered per slide and survives slide transitions 🤯

Other tidy-up

Slide cards, spacing, and icon sizes now match Ardoq's new design and UX. The uppercase header above the description editor was replaced with a proper input field, and the description editor now has an accessible name.

What changed?

Double-clicking a component now keeps the current viewpoint when the component is the same type as the viewpoint context. If the component is a different type, Ardoq opens the top-priority viewpoint for that type, where one is configured.

Our rationale

Every double-click used to drop you back to a generic overview. You lost the visualization you had chosen and had to set it up again. Drilling down now keeps the viewpoint you were already in, and switching to a different component type gives you the viewpoint that the architecture team decided matters most for that component type. This was the most consistent piece of feedback on the priority viewpoints release.

New Discover only

Surveys are now a native Quick Link type alongside dashboards and reports. Admins select a survey from a list instead of pasting a URL. The link opens the in-app survey modal.

We observed that customers regularly created Quick Links using absolute survey URLs to create entry points to key surveys. We now support native surveys, so users can open a survey without leaving their current tab/window.

Survey approval configuration has a new Approval setting that allows you to disable automatic approvals:

“Short-circuiting” makes it so a survey respondent who is also an approver has their submission auto-approved instead of raising a change request that they then have to approve themselves.

Short-circuiting was previously invisible and caused confusion: submissions could produce no change request, and the interface gave little explanation. Admins can now decide in configuration whether a survey will auto-approve and disable it when every change requires an audit trail.

Related change: Backup approver audiences can now include contributors and readers. Any organisation user, regardless of role, can be included in a survey's backup approver audience.