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Velocity6.3

SmartSuite adds tracked changes to SmartDocs, so policy edits need an approver.

work managementdocument controlaudit trailsautomationadmin controls
◆Current state
SmartSuite is a no-code work management platform adding governance and developer surfaces. SmartDoc fields can now turn on Change Tracking: every edit, including writes from forms, imports, the API and automations, becomes a suggestion that named approvers accept or reject, with inline redlining and a three-year decision trail. It follows linked-record defaults, Service Accounts, Azure gateway support, the Script Engine and Managed Secrets.
◆Where it's heading
October built the developer stack (secrets, scripts, service accounts); November is about controlled data: records that arrive already linked, and documents that cannot change without review. Both point at regulated teams that need audit trails inside the tool they already use for workflows.
◆Prediction
Expect approval and audit controls to spread from SmartDocs to other field types or record-level changes, given that tracked changes already capture API and automation writes.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2d ago

    SmartDoc: Track Changes

    Change Tracking turns a SmartDoc field into a suggest-and-approve editor with named approvers, redlining, comments and a three-year history, and it also catches edits made by forms, imports, the API and automations. It extends the month's governance thread from Service Accounts to the documents themselves, aimed at teams keeping policies and procedures in SmartSuite.

  2. 9d ago

    Linked Records: Dynamic Default Values

    Linked Record fields can now default to a fixed record or to the record a button was pressed on. It removes a manual lookup step in risk and audit workflows, a core data-model fix after a month of developer features.

  3. 16d ago

    AI Platform: Support for Azure API Gateway

    Azure AI connections now accept custom headers and deployment paths, so requests can pass through a corporate API gateway for logging, policy and chargeback. It removes a common enterprise blocker to turning SmartSuite AI on.

  4. 16d ago

    Workspace: Service Accounts

    Service accounts move integrations off personal logins onto workspace-owned identities with least-privilege scopes, rotation, rate limits and owners for access reviews. It is the identity layer that the Script Engine and MCP work was missing.

  5. 22d ago

    SmartSuite Script Engine

    ⚡ SPARK

    Script Engine completes the developer stack SmartSuite has built this month. Managed Secrets supplied the credentials and the MCP server supplied agent access, and now there's a place to run scheduled code with history.

  6. 29d ago

    Filter Widget: Multiple Operators in Dynamic Filters

    Dynamic filter widgets now support Is and Is Not per filter, with a chosen default and viewer-side switching. It removes the duplicate-widget workaround for views like open tickets and continues the dashboard-depth track.