Save your Dashboard customizations and 10 other great updates

We are committed to making Sprout better for you. Continuous improvement.

For 540 weeks (and counting), we’ve been relentlessly committed to the photography industry and making the best all-in-one business tool for photographers. Sprout gets better every day.

This week, you can enjoy 11 updates. They are:

• The global search in Sprout Studio is now faster and only shows results after typing three characters, reducing delays and improving accuracy.
• Your dashboard display preferences are now saved, allowing for faster load times by customizing features like turning off dates if you don’t need them.
• The text overlay issue in the “create lead” and “create shoot” popups is fixed, providing a cleaner user experience.
• You can no longer delete a workflow if another workflow uses it, preventing issues with workflow references.
• The “copy filenames” function in galleries now correctly handles filenames with quotes and special characters.
• Your clients will now receive a warning if they attempt to order a digital file in a package they have already ordered individually, avoiding duplicate digital file purchases.
• You can now create dates for the exact hour during DST without issues.
• The “continue shopping” button in galleries works consistently.
• Sprout AI no longer generates unnecessary HTML tags, improving the quality of generated content.
• All Sprout AI functionalities have been upgraded to the OpenAI model 4o, enhancing performance and capabilities.
• The styling issue with the “expiration date” chooser in gallery settings is fixed, ensuring consistent visual presentation.
• Improvements to Sprout Studio SPF records provide more room for DNS lookups for users who manage their own SPF records.

This week, you’ll also enjoy our spotlight of the week

Saved Dashboard Customizations.

Over 8 million dates are recorded in Sprout. If you have Google Calendar syncing turned on and a busy schedule with recurring dates, you likely have a lot of them, too.

Your Sprout Studio dashboard loads all your dates for the next 7 days by default every time you visit it. While this might not seem significant, parsing through 8 million dates and processing recurring ones can slow down your dashboard’s initial load time.

Many users don’t need to see their dates on the dashboard, preferring to use a calendar for that. Instead, you might want to focus on upcoming invoices, expiring galleries, and other important tasks.

So why slow down your Sprout experience unnecessarily?

Now, you turn off dates on your dashboard and save that customization settings. Here’s how:

1. Navigate to your dashboard in Sprout.
2. Click the new “Customize” button.
3. Select “By Category” to choose which categories you want to see on your dashboard.
4. Uncheck the “Dates” category if you wish to hide it from your dashboard.

That setting is saved every time you return to your dashboard, so Sprout won’t load all of your dates each time. This results in a much faster and smoother experience using Sprout!

Alex, a Senior Developer on our team, had this to say about it:

“I’ve noticed that a user’s Sprout experience can slow down if it tries to load too much at once. While it’s not a major issue on its own, the delays can add up, so I understand why our users would be excited for a more responsive Sprout. Even on my local testing account, it can sometimes take a while to get going, so this is definitely something I am going to use personally!”