Highlights
Reporting: 7 new reports, such as: a housing placement summary and shelter population report, a stay statistics report
The Point-in-Time (PiT) Module: Updated Point-in-time count module with stable functionalities to better support Everyone Count 2020.
Custom Tables: Expanded functionality for custom tables.
Data export: Updated export function to make the export of anonymous fields to Employment and Social Development Canada's Reaching Home easier. In particular:
Optimization changes to the export function; and
Test data exports possible from non-production instances of HIFIS.
What’s Different
Admissions
Fixed issue with dates not appearing on the form when editing bed status history
Resolved issue with booking in the starting client when booking in a family
Fixed issues with audit fields not correctly updating in Admissions
Broadcasts
Broadcast messages appear for a longer period of time for users to see on the screen
Clients
Changed the ordering of submenu items from 'position' to 'title' in Client information menu
Fixed the calculation of the DOB that appears on the client list page
Communities can customize a new stoplist for the client search
"Save and start family" button only appears if user has the add family right
Fixed issue with finding clients with known stop words in their name
Custom Tables
Auto-populated fields that show: Default HIFIS roles (such as Staff, Caseworker); Clients; People; Locations; Service Providers; Look-Up Tables
Text headers and line breaks as well as description text to create 'subsections', making custom tables easier to navigate
Custom Tables functionality extended to the Finance, Admissions, and Directory of Services Modules
Option to allow a dropdown selection (for example, 'other') to populate a text field for additional clarification
Custom tables for case management records are shown in the 'Edit' views
Fixed the issue with 'mandatory stars' appearing in the wrong field when using custom tables
Documents
Document list no longer displays html elements as plain text
Group Activities
Group activities default to sort by date rather than time
Housing
Fixed issues with audit fields not correctly updating in Housing Placement
Fixed issue with the Housing Loss Prevention List where the Start Date was not sorting correctly when adding new subsidy entries
Housing loss prevention date label correctly reflects column contents
Resolved issue with housing loss prevention start dates not saving changes
Status date in Housing Units is mandatory
Resolved layout issues with misaligned "Save" and "Cancel" button on "Edit Housing Unit" page
Fixed the time-out issue when users navigate from the Edit Placement view to Clients list pages
Lookup Tables
Drop-down menu items can be ordered
Added some missing cities/communities in
HIFIS_CityTypesTable
Medication
Medication dispensing views are updated in real-time
Medication dispensed can be 'undone'
Fixed broken link when editing Medication records on some HIFIS implementations
PiT Count
PiT Market only shows approved questions
Fixed issue with "add from PIT Market" button
Programs
Fixed broken link from the Cancel button on the 'Add Fixed Cost' page
Program history table is paginated to improve loading time and eliminate potential timeouts
Reports
The Report Marketplace is a new feature that allows communities to get updated HIFIS Core reports without having to wait for a release.
Fixed issue with label display in reports
Resolved empty error banner from appearing in reports with no parameters
New reports:
Housing Placement Summary: Provides summary information on Housing Placement records updated during the selected reporting period.
My Calendar: Provides information in a calendar layout, for the selected reporting period. For example, cases and housing placements for a particular caseworker
Client Profile: Provides information for the selected client. For example demographic information and a record of the interactions the client had with HIFIS.
Shelter Population and Stay Statistics: Provides statistics on shelter occupancy and client demographics. For example contributing factors and health issues.
PiT Count: Provides statistics about each PiT Count Survey question entered in HIFIS and a demographic summary of the population surveyed.
Survey: Provides statistics about each questionnaires question created in HIFIS.
Updated/Enhanced reports:
Bed Nights Monthly
Case Management Clients
Goods and Services – Site
SPDAT – Summary
SPDAT
VI-SPDAT – Summary
VI-SPDAT
Surveys
Turn away Summary
VAT – Summary
VAT
SPDAT & VI-SPDAT
Fixed the Pre-Survey score for the F-VI-SPDAT to reflect a single parent family
Fixed issues with audit fields not correctly updating in SPDAT
System
New Data Export table added to capture data export history.
Non-production instances of HIFIS are able to export data for testing purposes
Added notification in the Export view that indicates if the Admin user's email is not set. Automatic Export notifications are sent to the Admin User.
For unknown service providers, current users are not displayed in records that affect multiple service providers.
Users are no longer able to remove service providers from records from which they don't have the appropriate access rights.
Server status information displayed on error pages
Site managers can configure the database command timeout value
New information panel for export status added to data export view
Updated ESDC homelessness program reference to "Reaching Home"
Fixed issue with anti-forgery request tokens blocking the password reset functionality
Fixed issue with sites having difficulties connecting to ESDC's export web service (the National Homelessness Information System (NHIS) web service). Difficulties can include: mismatch of security protocols between host server and TARS; export file sizes being too large.
Fixed the URL to the registration module under the Administration module
Fixed the missing Antiforgerytoken to allow switching between users using the pop up login form
Added authentication objects to all calls made by the application even when a user is not authenticated
Fixed the client search tool when "Minimum Character Input for Search" has a value over "0" and "Restrict Client Search" is disabled
Fixed "Place" drop-down menu showing inactive locations
Users can no longer access records they don't have the rights to if they are given a direct link to a page
Resolved typos in HIFIS Labels
End date can no longer be before start date when exporting records to excel
Users & Rights
User names can no longer be created with leading or trailing spaces
User rights have been refined for the data export
Revised user rights in application settings page
Fixed the missing delete button for users who have the right to "Delete" specific values under HIFIS Modules
Fixed issue preventing users from adding contacts to user immediately after creation
VAT
Deletion of pre-saved VAT record when user clicks Cancel button from new VAT Intake page
Fixed issues with audit fields not correctly updating in VAT
Waiting Lists
"Waiting list - clients edit" page attached to the Waiting Lists – Client List user right
The alignment of the column headers on the waiting list's "manage clients" page has been fixed
Fixed issue with broken waiting list table preventing sorting functionality
Resolved issue with long waiting list load times
Watch Concerns
Watch concerns retain 'created' information when edited
Official release notes: https://housing-infrastructure.canada.ca/homelessness-sans-abri/hifis-sisa/notes-4-0-58-1-eng.html
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