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September - Release Notes

Explore the latest updates to Smarter Drafter, including new features, enhancements, and bug fixes.

Release Notes by date:

2 Sep 2026

2 September 2026

Version 8.1.0

This release introduces Restrict Users for user mapping, giving builders control over exactly which users and groups a drafter can choose in each user-mapped section - so the right people surface in the search and the wrong ones can't end up in a document. Other highlights include Clone & Submit, download format and print options on submission review, a set of field alias improvements, continued Form Agent updates in Co-Builder, and a variety of smaller updates and bug fixes.

What’s new:

User Mapping: Restrict Users

User mapping lets a drafter search for a person and auto-populate their details straight into a form - but until now, that search returned every active user in your tenant. A "Solicitor details" section would surface all 120 users, not just your solicitors, leaving drafters scrolling a long list where picking the wrong person means incorrect details carried into a legal document. Restrict Users changes that.

A new Restrict Users tab in the user field map lets builders define, per user-mapped section, exactly which users and groups appear in that section's search. The searchable pool is the union of the users you select directly and the live members of any groups you select, resolved at runtime - so it stays accurate as group membership changes and users are deactivated, with no maintenance on the form.

Restrict Users in User Mapping

🔗Learn more here

Other updates:

  • Clone & Submit a Test - clone a submission and submit it in one flow. Supported for tests in Submitted or Generated status.
  • Submission review now offers a specific download format and a print option.
  • Word add-in: Address component now supports address line 1 and line 2.
  • User mapping modal updates - added a help article link and refreshed the update button UI.
  • Field alias improvements:
    • Replace has been changed to search in field alias.
    • Field alias search now brings back only compatible field aliases.
    • Validation check added when changing the type of a field that has an alias.
  • Form Agent (Co-Builder) updates:
    • "New Page" now defaults to enabled for every section the Form Agent creates.
    • Selection-aware context chip added to the Co-Builder chat input for sections and fields.
    • Support for setting the layout type on radio and checkbox fields.
    • Support for adding, updating and removing "Minimum characters" and "Maximum characters" properties on text fields.
    • Restyled field and section chips in sent Co-Builder messages.
    • Restyled Co-Builder chat input scrollbar and growth behaviour.
  • Updated pagination on the Conditional Rules and Replacement Rules tables in Form Builder.
  • Calculation builder UI fixes.
  • Design system primary blue colour changes.
  • Removed the "Additional options" accordion and One Page Portal image upload from the New Folder modal.
  • Removed .zip from the accepted file types for Additional attachments on the Email template modal.
  • Ability to use a code name from a deactivated discount code
  • Intake table of contents toggle aligned to primary button color option

Bug fixes:

  • PDF generated changing text format
  • Incorrect data pulling through from Actionstep
  • User mapping: user details now populate correctly in repeated sections without needing a manual screen refresh for each repeated section.
  • Phone field: added the missing character validation for minimum and maximum character limits.
  • Email automation: fixed the signature being inserted mid-email in Outlook New.
  • Email automation: numbered lists no longer generate as plain text.
  • Dropdown selected value text is now vertically centred (removed excess padding below the text).
  • Fixed the confirmation modal lag when replacing a field alias.
  • Word add-in: the Case option no longer disappears when changing the Component on organisation/office addresses.
  • Co-Builder: a dismissed clarification no longer binds the next message as its answer in the transcript.