After editing a post, the post console will now close.

As part of our Post Console update, there is now an Emoji picker

This is now available.

See this article for video specification requirements: https://community.oktopost.com/knowledgebase/articles/1865824-sharing-videos

You can upload videos to LinkedIn Company or Showcase Pages.

In addition, posting a Youtube link from Oktopost will embed the video from Youtube on LinkedIn’s side. This works for Personal LinkedIn Profiles as well.

You can drag and drop posts from the calendar by clicking the social network icon on the post, and dragging it to another day.

Our new Post Console can be moved around the screen by clicking and dragging the top of it. It can also be minimized to the bottom of the screen allowing you to navigate anywhere in Oktopost and bring it back up.

If a Campaign is not selected when scheduling a post, a prompt will now come up reminding you.

Otherwise, the Campaign will now be set as your last-used Campaign by default rather than creating a new General Campaign.

Through the newly updated Post Console, if you view your post in its Full-Screen mode, you will see how your post should appear with options to see it in desktop and mobile view.

You can save Posts or Messages as a Draft by clicking the arrow next to “Share Now” or “Schedule” and selecting “Save as Draft”. If a Post is saved as a Draft, it will appear on the Calendar with the top-right corner bent inwards so it is easily seen.

Both Twitter and Facebook have character counters now.

Twitter’s will appear as a circle that fills up and will display numbers as you get close to the character limit.

Because Facebook currently allows up to 63,206 characters and in most cases will not be exceeded, the circle will remain hidden from view until you either get close or go over the limit, at which point it will also show the number of available characters left/characters over the limit.

If there is not a Social Profile connected to Oktopost for a certain Social Network, that Social Network will no longer appear in the Post Console.

Images that are too large will now be resized.

In addition to this, when you are uploading an image for a post, you can use the crop tool to crop it to a recommended aspect ratio.

You can tag profiles and pages by using @ and then the profile/page’s name. Use underscores (_) as spaces when searching for a profile/page.

If a Campaign is not selected when scheduling a post, a prompt will now come up reminding you.

Otherwise, the Campaign will now be set as your last-used Campaign by default rather than creating a new General Campaign.

Not exactly what was asked but this should functionally serve the same purpose:

You can now start a new post, minimize the Post Console window, scroll down, bring back up the Post Console and create a post.

You can also set it to not close the Post Console window with a checkmark in the Share Now/Queue/Schedule button menu, allowing you to minimize and continue making new posts from the bottom of the calendar screen. I’ve attached a screenshot of how this looks.

With our new Workflows function, you can set up notifications for all of these. Check your settings for these by clicking your profile icon in the top right, and then clicking “Notifications”.

See here for information on how the new Workflows can help your approval process: https://community.oktopost.com/knowledgebase/articles/1895566

Your best bet to force approvals on a per-User basis is to set up a Custom User Role. With this feature, you can allow Users any set of permissions, while preventing them from being able to approve their own posts.

If it’s more of a convenience thing where you would rather it toggle the default one way or another, our new Workflows update sets your last “post” option as toggled, so if you want to make several approval posts, after setting the first one to “Send to Approval” the next posts you create will also show “Send to Approval” as the default action rather than “Share now/Schedule”.

The Approval Workflow process has been updated, and while there isn’t a tag system for sorting, there’s much more customizability for approvers and contributors and which posts they will see or not see to approve based on how your workflow is set up.

Check it out at https://community.oktopost.com/knowledgebase/articles/1895566

You can do this by scheduling a post time (even if not the final post time, perhaps a placeholder day/time at the end of the week/month for this purpose), sending it to approval, and then the approver can edit the date/time if needed and approve the post to go out. This will create the message for future posts in the selected campaign, while allowing for faster Approve and Post times.

See here for how approvals have changed with our new Workflow update: https://community.oktopost.com/knowledgebase/articles/1895566