NEW FEATURES
New Access Controls
Why we built this
Administrators asked to adjust who can do what from the same place they see their team, rather than raising a request each time somebody changed role.
How it works
Manage Access is a new panel in your team settings. Select a member and assign their role directly; the permissions matrix shows exactly what each role can see and do before you confirm. Only administrators holding the access-management permission can open it, and roles can only be assigned at or below your own level.
Manage Access opens from any member in your team settings, with the permissions matrix showing what each role can see and do before you confirm.
What to do
Open your team settings and select Manage Access to review current roles.
Spreadsheets in Knowledge Bases
Why we built this
Reference material for fund and entity structures often lives in spreadsheets — entity registers, director lists, standing schedules — and until now only documents could be added to a knowledge base.
How it works
Knowledge bases now accept Excel workbooks and CSV files alongside Word documents and PDFs. Uploaded spreadsheets are indexed the same way as any other reference material and are drawn on when minutes are drafted.
What to do
Open a knowledge base and upload an .xlsx or .csv file as you would any other document.
Transcript Import from Teams Exports
Why we built this
Clients want to import Teams transcripts from meetings that took place before Starlight was implemented, so we are expanding the supported formats, as some required manual edits to be usable.
How it works
Transcript files exported from Microsoft Teams can be imported directly into a meeting, with speakers, timings and turn boundaries read straight from the export. Long transcripts import in full, and speaker labels carry through to the minutes.
What to do
Open a meeting and use transcript import, then select your Teams export file.
IMPROVEMENTS
Speaker Attribution Across Rejoins
Why we updated this
Long calls frequently involve attendees dropping out and rejoining, and each rejoin was treated as a separate participant.
How it works now
Speaker mappings you have set are kept for the whole call, so an attendee who leaves and returns stays attributed to the same person throughout the transcript and the minutes. Live calls also pick up speaker changes as they happen.
What to do
No action needed — this applies to new meetings automatically.
Template Deletion Shows Its Impact First
Why we updated this
A template can be in use by several agents, and administrators asked to see that relationship before making a change rather than after.
How it works now
Deleting a template now lists exactly which agents are using it and asks you to confirm, so you can see the impact of the change before it happens.
What to do
No action needed — the confirmation step appears the next time you delete a template.
FIXES
Fixes and Refinements
In this release
- Attendance and Present columns hold their width in the minutes editor, and tables stay mappable when a document is reopened for editing.
- Numbered agenda titles keep their sub-items on separate lines rather than running them into the heading.
- Word downloads of minutes that use a custom template complete as expected.
- Calendar connections that can no longer be refreshed now prompt you to reconnect instead of retrying quietly in the background.
What to do
No action needed.