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Helio Product Updates – 7 April 2026

Helio Product Updates – 7 April 2026

Following the launch of the Helio platform to UK teams and clients, we have launched a Beta version of the platform to all EU clients now. This includes People, SRM & Procedures, Events, Agenda, Posts & Follow Ups and Institutions

People, SRM & Procedures (see previous Change release note).

Events, Agenda, Posts & Follow Ups

Events are available under Monitoring. There is a tab for EU events. Once you click into an event you can view Dates, URLs, Topic, related Procedure and Sources. You can click through to URL and Procedure. You can view Agenda, Posts and follow ups are available under Events.

 Interventions

Interventions are available to view under Events. When you click the Interventions tab you will be able to see a list of Interventions. They are grouped according to active and completed. You can also view Interventions against an organisation.

 Institutions

EU Institutions is available under People. When you select an institution you will be able to view People and Interventions under it.

Fixes

Mail Merge

·       Users have the ability to allow for pdf documents to be uploaded at a reasonable size

·       Salutations in Mail Merge now possible:

  • Personal title

  • Addressable title

·       Alias; users can add the email address/ name they want to show when an email is received

·       Email Scheduling has been corrected

·       Ability to add more people to recipient list on Mail Merge

·       Ability to Cc

·      UK Constituencies is displaying correctly

Finder

·       The filter in Finder was fixed

Follow up posts

·       Expose Event Follow-up items against events

·       View related procedures under a Follow-up Post

General Political Updates (GPUs)

·       EU Clients are not receiving the appropriate EU content

·       EU clients are now being added to the appropriate GPUs

People

·       Images are now correctly rendering on People.

·       Users are now capable of opening large groups of people

·       Users can now view Posts on a Person record

Search fields

·      Placeholder within autocomplete component is not entirely visible

Email Signature

·      The 'add new' button text on the settings email signature page is now correctly aligned

Procedures

·      External filter for Procedure type is now returning relevant options

UI fixes

·      Mentions fixes; users can now scroll through the side panel when many items are added. This allows items to be removed from the email wizard.

Distribution groups

·      Multiple organisations to a new distribution group