# April 30th, 2026 We're excited to introduce the following updates to participant uploads, lifecycle email scheduling, survey translations, and questionnaire export. 1. **A Faster Way to Add and Update Participants** Adding new participants mid-survey no longer requires the export-edit-import workaround. The Import dialog now gives you direct control over how a file changes your participant list. **What's new:** When you click **IMPORT** on the Participants page, you'll see a new dialog with two options. **Upload / Replace full list** swaps your current list with the uploaded file. **Add or update participants** keeps your existing list and either updates demographics on matching emails or adds new rows. After your first upload, **Add or update participants** becomes the default.
**Why it matters:** Mid-survey participant changes were one of the clunkiest tasks in Compass. Whether you needed to fix a department name on five people or add a new cohort to a running survey, the only path was a full export, hand-edit, and re-import. The new dialog handles each case directly, with file validation that surfaces errors before anything changes. **How to use it:** Open your survey, click **Participants**, then click **IMPORT**. Pick the option that matches your goal, attach your file, and click **OK**. [Add New or Updating Participants](/knowledge-base/survey-design-and-deployment/import-participants/adding-new-or-updating-participants.md)\
2. **Lifecycle Survey Scheduling: Defer Sends and Skip Weekends** Lifecycle survey emails can now wait a set number of days after a participant is added, and you can choose to count weekdays only so messages do not land on Saturday or Sunday. **What's new:** When you click **SCHEDULE** beside any email on a lifecycle survey, you'll see a new **Days After Respondent Added** field and a **Weekdays only** toggle. Set the wait period in days, flip on **Weekdays only** if you want to skip weekends, and Compass times every send from the participant's add date.
**Why it matters:** Uploading participants on Friday afternoon and watching invites land in inboxes Saturday morning is a recurring frustration. Now you can upload anytime and trust the first email to arrive when employees are actually working. The same logic applies to every reminder, so a 3-day reminder always lands on a working day. **How to use it:** Open your lifecycle survey, click **Schedule Survey**, then click **SCHEDULE** beside the email you want to configure. Enter the wait in **Days After Respondent Added**, toggle **Weekdays only** on if needed, and click **OK**. Repeat for each email in the campaign. [Scheduling Lifecycle Survey Emails](/knowledge-base/survey-design-and-deployment/scheduling-emails-quick-start/lifecycle-surveys-complete-guide.md) 3. **Translations Are Now Yours to Manage** Translation management has moved out of TalentMap-only territory. Survey Creators and HR Admins can now upload, preview, and export translations directly from the Design Survey page. **What's new:** A new **TRANSLATION** dropdown sits in the top-right toolbar of every survey design page, with **IMPORT** and **EXPORT** options. Upload one Excel file containing every language you want to support, and respondents see a language picker on the survey page automatically.
**Why it matters:** Multilingual surveys used to mean a back-and-forth with TalentMap every time a translation needed a tweak. Now you can manage your own languages on your own timeline, export the file when you need to send it to a translator, and re-import the moment the updates come back. Same benchmark integrity, same survey logic, faster turnaround. **How to use it:** Open your survey, click **Design Survey**, then click **TRANSLATION** in the top-right toolbar. Choose **IMPORT** to upload your translation file or **EXPORT** to download every translation already on the survey. [Adding Translations to a Survey](/knowledge-base/survey-design-and-deployment/creating-surveys-quick-start/adding-translations-to-a-survey.md) 3. **Export Your Survey Questionnaire to PDF** We're excited to introduce **Export to PDF**, a faster way to share your survey questionnaire with executives, reviewers, and translators without sending them into Compass. **What's new:** When designing or reviewing a survey, you'll see a new **EXPORT TO PDF** button in the top-right toolbar. Click it, choose the language, and download a print-ready PDF that mirrors your participant survey, including your logo, instructions, and every question grouped by section.
**Why it matters:** Getting executive sign-off on a questionnaire used to mean screenshotting the design view or walking someone through the platform live. Now you can hand over a clean PDF that mirrors what respondents will see, so review feedback comes back faster and launches stay on schedule. **How to use it:** Open a survey, click **Design Survey**, then click **EXPORT TO PDF** in the top-right toolbar. Select the language and click **OK**. The PDF downloads automatically. [Export Survey Questionnaire to PDF](/knowledge-base/survey-design-and-deployment/creating-surveys-quick-start/export-survey-questionnaire-to-pdf.md) --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.talentmap.com/knowledge-base/general/product-updates/april-30th-2026.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.