From Storyboards and Frames to an improved calendar and task boards for Getting Things Done, the latest updates for Orchestrate make it easier to connect strategy, storytelling, and execution in one shared workspace. Discover how these features help your teams in our Facelift Autumn Release edition.
Storyboards in Facelift Orchestrate are designed to support the whole creative process, from the first idea to structured editorial planning. Beyond a simple board, they offer a flexible workspace where teams can collect, develop, and manage stories collaboratively.
Customizable buckets help organise workflows across phases, such as idea collection, planning, and review. Story Cards show key information like status, tags, and assignees at a glance, making tracking and updating progress easy.
Each story opens into a detailed view where teams can add descriptions, attach files, comment, and connect related tasks. Built-in filters and search help users focus on specific content by tag, due date, or assignment, with preferences saved locally for easy access.
To support secure and structured collaboration, Storyboards include granular permission settings. Teams can define who can view, edit, or manage boards and stories, making it easier to collaborate across roles without losing control.
Facelift Orchestrate makes it easier to structure and manage your communication strategy by topics. With Frames, teams can visually map content hierarchies and understand how individual posts relate to broader themes.
This topic-based planning approach helps maintain consistency across channels, formats, and departments. It also supports better alignment between strategic goals and day-to-day content creation.
By using Frames in Orchestrate, teams can collaborate more effectively and keep complex campaigns organised from planning to execution.
Facelift Orchestrate brings all your content planning into one shared workspace, whether you are managing blog articles, social media posts, or multichannel campaigns. Everything is organised in one place, so you can stay on top of your strategy without switching between tools.
You can filter and save views by campaign, channel, or content type to get a clear overview of what is planned, what is already published, and what is still in progress. This helps teams coordinate more effectively, avoid duplicate efforts, and keep messaging consistent across all formats.
With one central system to manage your communication activities, you can move from planning to publishing with more clarity and control.
Facelift Orchestrate includes a dedicated space for unscheduled drafts, helping teams manage content that is still in development. Ideas, early versions, and postponed posts can be stored separately without appearing on the main calendar.
This keeps the calendar focused on confirmed content while offering quick access to drafts when needed. It also helps maintain a clean overview of what is planned versus what is still under consideration.
With complete visibility into scheduled and unscheduled content, teams can collaborate more effectively and stay organised throughout the planning process.
The calendar in Facelift Orchestrate includes a preview hover state that makes reviewing content faster and more efficient. When hovering over individual posts, key details such as title, status, and publishing time are immediately visible, no clicks needed.
This update helps teams get a quick overview of scheduled content and make faster decisions during daily planning. It reduces the need to open full views for simple checks, keeping your workflow smooth and focused.
The detailed view remains available for more complex items like post sets to support deeper coordination and editing when required.
To support more organised and collaborative workflows, Facelift Orchestrate offers team-based task boards that follow the principles of the GTD (Getting Things Done) method. This approach helps teams turn ideas into structured tasks, categorise responsibilities, and move work forward. It’s beneficial for managing content pipelines, coordinating campaign activities, and keeping track of shared responsibilities.
Boards can be tailored to match different workflows and departments. Users can save custom views, mark boards as favourites for fast access from the main menu, and collaborate directly in the shared workspace.
Granular permission settings allow for precise access control, making it easier to manage who can view or edit tasks, columns, or entire boards. This ensures clarity and security when multiple teams are involved.
With integrated task management inside Orchestrate, teams stay aligned from strategy to execution without switching between tools.
Saveable views in Orchestrate give your team more control and clarity in daily planning. You can create, name, and save views across the calendar, task boards, storyboards, frames, and content types, tailoring each workspace to your work style. Favourite views can be pinned to the side navigation, making them instantly accessible without extra clicks.
This flexibility keeps the focus on what matters most, whether it’s a campaign overview, a team’s task flow, or content filtered by type or status. By reducing repetitive setup and surfacing the right information at the right time, saveable views help teams work faster, stay organised, and align more effectively across roles and projects.
Advanced permission sets in Orchestrate give companies more clarity and security when managing access across calendars, task boards, storyboards, frames, and content types. Company admins can define detailed permission sets with create, read, update, and delete options, tailoring access precisely to roles and responsibilities.
This level of control keeps sensitive information protected while empowering teams to collaborate without confusion. By ensuring the right people have the right access at the right time, advanced permission sets reduce errors, support compliance needs, and create a more structured foundation for teamwork at scale.
With these updates, Orchestrate strengthens its role as the central hub for communication planning and execution. From strategy and storytelling to campaign management and daily collaboration, the Autumn Edition brings more structure, flexibility, and alignment to every team working on communication.