# Community Catch-Up (Late July - Early Aug 2024) **URL:** https://community.tulip.co/t/community-catch-up-late-july-early-aug-2024/12133 **Category:** Announcements **Tags:** community-catch-up **Created:** [August 5, 2024, 3:31pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/community-catch-up-late-july-early-aug-2024/12133 "2024-08-05T15:31:26Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![Beth](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/beth/32/5987_2.png) [@Beth](https://community.tulip.co/u/Beth) #### Post date: [August 5, 2024, 3:31pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/community-catch-up-late-july-early-aug-2024/12133/1 "2024-08-05T15:31:26Z")
A summary of all things happening in the Tulip Community 🌷 from the last 2 weeks ## Last call for Groundbreaker Award nominations! Nominate yourself, a teammate, or your team/company for a Groundbreaker Award before the end fo the day on Friday August 9th! > **[The Tulip Groundbreakers Awards | Honoring Innovators on the…](https://tulip.co/groundbreakers/)** > > The Tulip Groundbreakers Awards program recognizes innovators on the frontlines of operational industries for their exceptional use of the Tulip platform… ## New Releases and Resources #### Tulip Releases > [@Release 284 - July 2024](https://community.tulip.co/t/release-284-july-2024/12036): > > Hello everyone I’m excited to introduce Release 284! This release brings a lot of updates to different features. Here are some worthy highlights: Copilot will no longer reference archived fields from a trained table When using the Table API, you can limit the result to only provide data for specified fields in query parameters User groups info is now included when you export Workspace settings to a CSV UI updates to the Stations page There are also some performance improvements and bug fixes… #### Tulip University - New automations walkthrough: [Automations Walkthrough](https://university.tulip.co/learn/courses/115/automations-walkthrough) - Digital Transformation Checklists: [Site Maturity Assessment](https://university.tulip.co/learn/courses/116/site-maturity-assessment) - Setting Business Objectives and Metrics Template: [Setting Business Objectives and Metrics](https://university.tulip.co/learn/courses/117/setting-business-objectives-and-metrics) #### Knowledge Base - We have a lot of new import / export content (tables, connectors, machines, etc.) to check out - [user-site](https://support.tulip.co/docs/import-export) - Learn how to use the HTTPS portal for edge devices - [user-site](https://support.tulip.co/docs/edge-device-https-portal) There is a new suite of articles on how to achieve Digital Transformation! - [What Does Digital Transformation Look Like?](https://support.tulip.co/docs/what-does-digital-transformation-look-like) - [Governance](https://support.tulip.co/docs/governance) - [Digital Maturity](https://support.tulip.co/docs/digital-maturity) - [Productivity Gain](https://support.tulip.co/docs/productivity-gain) - [Capabilities and Skills](https://support.tulip.co/docs/capabilities-and-skills) ## Upcoming events Wednesday, August 21st at 11am ET - Build Better: Building a Business Case for Tulip Inspection Have you seen first-hand the impacts of Tulip on your shop floor, but are unsure how can you effectively show the financial value Tulip creates to support broader adoption to new use cases or other areas of your organization? Then this session is for you! - We will cover what KPIs you should measure, how to quantify (in $) the impact Tulip is having in your production through a financial framework we have developed, and walk through and example together. - Register here: [Loading](https://university.tulip.co/learn/courses/15/build-better-sessions) > [@Maintenance Event - August 2024](https://community.tulip.co/t/maintenance-event-august-2024/11993): > > As part of Tulip’s new policy for [maintenance events](https://support.tulip.co/docs/maintenance-event-schedule), we plan to post announcements in advance to Community. What work is being performed? Continuing work from July 2024 maintenance, Tulip must perform a third-party database version upgrade. This window may not be necessary pending the work in July. Who is impacted? The database version upgrade will impact customers hosted in the United States with the Garden identifier prefix us-14\*. What is the impact of the work? This maintenance is defin… ## Community Highlights #### Community Spotlights > [@Community Spotlight: Meet Carol Lin!](https://community.tulip.co/t/community-spotlight-meet-carol-lin/12073): > > It’s time for another Community Spotlight! These are special features to introduce you to the awesome folks working beside you in the Tulip Community slight_smileThis month, I am so excited to feature Carol Lin (@carlin ), a Materials Design Engineer at DMG MORI in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. With a strong background in materials engineering as an application specialist in a metallographic lab, she was recruited for her well-rounded skill set and passion for materials science by DMG MORI to w… #### Featured threads We have had some great threads around best practices lately - Feel free to chime in on the topics below and share your insights! > [@How are you soliciting User Feedback on your operations and your apps?](https://community.tulip.co/t/how-are-you-soliciting-user-feedback-on-your-operations-and-your-apps/12108): > > I’m sure I saw it somewhere prior, but it came (back) to mind when I awoke the other night that I should include some kind of user survey in my apps - something really brief, perhaps two questions worded something like this (still workshopping the verbiage): What is working well? What is blocking me from working better? How are you all soliciting feedback on your operations and your apps? > [@Friday Food for Thought - How does your organization handle Change Management?](https://community.tulip.co/t/friday-food-for-thought-how-does-your-organization-handle-change-management/12059): > > So you’ve made changes to the development version of an app that’s in production… what do you do now? The question of change management comes up fairly often, and I wanted to crowd source some discussion from the Tulip Community on this! How do you and your organizations do change management with Tulip? Some questions to think about: How to evaluate the change and determine what steps to follow next What changed and how significant is the change? (ex. changing a button color, maybe not a bi… > [@Best Practice for Custom GxP DateTime Format for Export & Excel Analysis](https://community.tulip.co/t/best-practice-for-custom-gxp-datetime-format-for-export-excel-analysis/12122): > > I’m wondering if anyone can recommend a best practice for the Custom DateTime format for GxP use such that it still is month apparent but is also recognized as a proper datetime when the exported CSV is opened in Excel. I’ve posted about another DateTime export/import issue we’ve had before ([CSV File Uploader Date/Time Format Issues](https://community.tulip.co/t/csv-file-uploader-date-time-format-issues/9628)), and we think leveraging the Custom DateTime setting could resolve this, but before we move forward with the Change Request to have IT effect that change in our Pr…