We take product discovery seriously at Productboard. That includes both problem validation and solution validation to ensure we're always solving the right problems in the best possible way.
We use our in-app Labs page to provide our most curious users with advanced previews and other features we're still perfecting, including the New Productboard experience.
Note: At this time, only customers on an Enterprise plan (or older equivalent plan) can activate the New experience through Labs.
In this article:
- Step 1: Activate the New experience in Labs
- Step 2: Setup new access controls
- Step 3: Explore the New experience
Step 1: Activate the New experience in Labs
Note: Only admins can activate the New experience through Labs. If you aren't an admin, you'll need to ask one for help.
You can access Labs by opening the workspace dropdown in the top left corner of the workspace and selecting Labs.
On the Labs page, find the New experience item and toggle it on. You'll immediately be able to make use of the New experience capabilities, though other members of your workspace will need to refresh their browser first.
Note: The New experience is workspace-wide. You can't enable it for just a handful of users; it's all or nothing. However, enabling the New experience doesn't disable the Legacy experience. People can still create features boards if they wish.
Step 2: Setup new access controls (Enterprise plans only)
If you have any products which are Read-only or Restricted under the Legacy access model, you'll want to make sure the equivalent New experience settings are configured properly before continuing. If you don't do this, your products will not appear on New boards.
- From the main menu, in the Data section, Select Products. From here, you can give New access levels to products which previously only had Legacy access levels, allowing them to be displayed on New boards.
- Products that don't have a New access level set yet will have a + Add button in their row, under the New access column. Click this button.
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In the menu that appears, choose a New access level for the selected product. In short, you can allow everyone to interact with the product according to their role, allow everyone view-only access except for members of certain teamspaces, or prevent anyone from even seeing it unless they're members of certain teamspaces.
When you're happy with your selection, click Share.
See New product access management for more details about New access levels.
Step 3: Explore the New experience
The New and Legacy experiences will operate simultaneously throughout the extended transition phase. That gives you enough time to familiarize yourself with all the great features of the New experience.
Some elements of Productboard will be common across experiences, while others will be unique to one or the other.
- The New experience includes the new board types (Grid, Columns, Timeline, and Document), as well as new functionalities like initiatives, objective hierarchy, key results, and advanced filters. Some Legacy board elements which aren’t compatible with New boards will be unavailable on New boards until use-case parity is achieved.
- The Legacy experience retains Legacy board types: Features boards and Roadmaps (Release Plans, Sprint Plans, Now-next-later roadmaps, Kanban roadmaps, Features timelines, Releases timelines, High level objective timelines, and Feature launch timelines).
Both experiences will receive access control changes to accommodate an eventual migration from the Legacy experience to the New one. Neither experience will receive changes to the core functionalities of insights boards, reports, portals, or the Customers board.
Step 4: Read the New experience FAQ (optional)
For a more detailed comparison of the capabilities available on the New and Legacy experiences, and for answers to questions you might have about migration tools and timelines, see The New Productboard experience: FAQ.
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