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Hey there! Nominations are open for the Benchtalk 2026 Changemaker Awards recognizing users and admins doing exceptional work with Benchling, from breakthrough research to standout community contributions. Winners are announced live at Benchtalk and featured on the Benchling blog. Winners also get a very cool trophy 🏆Nominations take ~10 minutes: https://www.benchtalk.com/event/boston2026/changemaker-awards.Deadline is August 4 📆

Configuring a flowchart in Benchling used to be uncomfortable. We heard it directly from customers:"It feels like you're doing a lot of the same things twice." "I didn't create my flowchart in Benchling first. That's impossible. I create it outside of Benchling and then I'll recreate it in Benchling."That's not the experience we want users configuring Workflows to experience. So we’ve greatly improved how flowchart workflows are configured. Earlier this year, we ran an early access program with customers to test the new experience. We also gathered feedback from Benchling implementation managers who configure flowcharts on behalf of customers every day. The feedback we received helped shape the improved configuration experience.What changedThe old editor forced you to do a significant amount of pre work before you ever saw a flowchart. You defined allowed transitions, set up data mappings, and built task schemas, all before the flowchart existed. Only then could you assemble everything

Multi-Image Viewing now allows multiple images to be uploaded and viewed side by side within notebook entries and documents! Today, images stack vertically, making visual comparison difficult on limited screen space. This slows down interpretation of image-based data such as assay results or before-and-after comparisons.Scientists can now upload or drag-and-drop multiple images within a single entry and view them next to each other to support easier visual inspection and explanation. See a 50 second demo below! 

Summary We’re bringing access policies to task schemas, enabling access policies on specific schemas and READ and NONE access policies  Once access policies are enabled on task schemas, you can’t disable them, and we plan to complete this rollout by end of July  If you’re interested in enabling task schema access policies earlier than by end of July, reply in this thread or get in touch with your Benchling representative -------------Today, Benchling users either have ADMIN or CREATE access policies for task schemas.If you're an ORG Admin, you have ADMIN access policies on ALL task schemas If you're an ORG member, you have CREATE access policies on ALL task schemasWe’ve heard from many of you that this is an issue for two reasons. Every member of the organization has CREATE access, and perhaps they shouldn’t The list of all the tasks you can create is EXTRA LONG because everyone has access to create a task for every task schema Once we introduce Task Schema Access Policies we'll introd