We’re back with another product update as we continue to make Outlign more useful for the creative community.

New Embeds

We’ve added the ability to embed a few key services into the main content area of a task and in comments, both to allow users to preview some content without leaving Outlign, as well as tidy up those ugly share links to keep things feeling more professional and organised for clients.

Services that provide a preview include:

• Figma - design files, prototypes and slides

• Dropbox files

• Google Drive files - pdfs, videos, etc

• Whimsical boards

Services that provide an attachment style and pull in the relevant title include:

• Dropbox folders

• Google Drive folders

• Google Docs, Slides and Sheets

We’ll continue to add more services to this list over the coming months - feel free to reply and let us know which ones you really want to see.

We’ve also created embeds for popular calendar booking services Calendly and Cal.com - for these you can choose to embed the full calendar booking widget in the content, or a simple “Book Now” type button that opens the full calendar booking UI in a modal when clicked.

To get started with any of these embeds, simply paste in the share link from the external service and you’ll be prompted to paste as a preview or you can always still paste it as a URL if you prefer.

Improved Approvals

We’ve also added a couple of key improvements to our Approvals feature:

You can now customise the Approval Message that your clients will see when they go to approve a task. So now you can make it extra clear what they are agreeing to when they are marking something as Approved

We’ve also added the ability for you or the client to mark a task as Not Approved. This way if the client needs more changes, you can still complete that task but with a clear status that it was not approved at the time

We think this will help even more with reducing scope creep - by making it clearer what clients are signing off on, as well as a clear status when things aren’t approved and additional changes are required (i.e. more scope is needed!).