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DHS1: A roadmap for using data to end homelessness
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Community Call Summary

Big group today! It was great to welcome some new members like @Alysia Woelbern. Today we talked about:

  • Housing Placements, in particular what to do when clients need to be re-housed as a continuation of the same service. Technically you're supposed to start a new Housing Placement, but then there's some confusion about whether that would count as multiple move-ins or not (since HIFIS would count it as a new, distinct service).

  • Data wrangling, in which you can arrange your data to be more usef…

Community Call Summary

Today, we talked about the following:

  • Update frequency. Do people prefer multiple small updates throughout the year that are minor in scope, or a smaller number of big updates that have lots of stuff in them? The general consensus was that it didn’t matter, so long as the latest version didn’t have any new bugs in it.

  • Hamilton has just re-launched after 6 months of downtime. Woo woo! 🎉

  • Some discussion about reporting after updating to 4.0.60

  • Some discussion about upcoming PIT counts

Community Call Summary

Quiet end-of-summer chat today. Here are some of the things we discussed:

  • Some issues with Attestation in version 60.3 and higher

  • Outreach was up for discussion, in particular as it related to Goods & Services

  • People are gearing up for their PIT counts

  • We talked about Reaching Home, RROL reporting and Housing Placements

Community Call Summary

Today was a super lively conversation! Here are some of the things we discussed:

  • PIT counts are on everyone's mind! But in order to run the fall 2024 PIT count, your HIFIS instance must be on 4.0.60.4. This is an issue because it also introduces significant changes to how activity works, and it feels really fast to have to update immediately without testing the impacts, just to do a PIT count.

    • Another option is to gain an instance of HIFIS Lite, or just put your data into a spreadsheet and ex…

Updating to 60.4 is slow

I just updated my database to 60.4 and it took ages. Over 17 minutes for a database with only 14 clients. I noticed in the log files that it was because the script is re-running the determine chronicity status, which it probably doesn't need to do.

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New "Get New Reports" right causes some additional unintended access

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Configure a CUSTOM report to only be visible at one Service Provider.

  2. Grant a user access to ONLY a service provider that is not the one selected above. Give them rights that include Log On, Display Reports, Generate Reports, and View Report Manager (but no other rights in the Report Manager category)

  3. Log in as that user. Go to the Report Manager and attempt to locate the report.

  4. Report should NOT appear, as expected (this is good)

  5. Now, modify the same user account and gran…