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HIFIS 4.0.59.6

Minor Release·Ali Ryder·Mar 24, 2022· 5 minutes

Highlights

  • Code refactoring to improve the performance of the Coordinated Access and Admissions modules.

  • Validation rules added to improve data accuracy.

What's Different

Admissions

  • Code refactoring performed in the Admissions module.

Appointments

  • Fixed clients from other clusters appearing in the "With" field.

Application Settings

  • Removed dependency between the Application Settings module and HIFIS.ca This will allow users to continue using the Application Settings module even if communication with HIFIS.ca cannot be established.

Case Management

  • Multiple attachments can be added to a record at once.

Clients

  • Added a validation rule to the Veteran Status field. Only clients who are 16 years of age or older can have a relevant Veteran status. Clients 15 and younger are automatically recorded as "Not a Veteran".

  • Users who add new clients are asked to confirm the clients age if they are 85 years of age or older.

  • The client list page shows active clients by default when producing initial results. Client List Columns on the client list page can be sorted.

  • Clients remain active while they are booked into a shelter.

  • Fixed the Client Vitals History log not recording changes from the Veteran module.

Client Service Delete

  • Users can now delete a housing loss prevention record.

Consent

  • Multiple attachments can be added to a record at once.

  • Coordinated Access + Explicit consent type is now available as a bundle in the Consent module.

  • Fixed clients appearing across the cluster once their declined-anonymous consent expired.

Coordinated Access

  • Code refactoring performed in the Coordinated Access module.

  • Fixed clients appearing multiple times on the Unique Identifier List if they have duplicate income amounts across multiple records.

  • Fixed clients appearing multiple times on the Unique Identifier List due to housing placement, service restriction and household records.

Documents

  • Multiple attachments can be added to a record at once.

Family

  • Clients associated to another service provider with declined consent now appear as “Hidden Client” in the Family module.

Financial Profile

  • Added a validation rule to the following income type: Aboriginal Band Council. Only clients who identify as Indigenous can be tagged with this income type.

  • Added a validation rule to the following income type: Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and Old Age Security. Only clients 60 years of age or older can be tagged with these income types.

Food Bank

  • Fixed the form to allow the creation of new food bank records when accessing it via the Front Desk.

Help

  • Fixed grey "Get Help" icon that produced an error message.

Housing History, Housing Placement, Housing Loss Prevention

  • "Landlord" field added to the housing history form Users can now add, remove or change the landlord for housing records.

  • Fixed the "Next Follow up" date field not remaining mandatory when trying to edit a housing loss prevention record.

  • Fixed housing loss prevention records not updating the move in date when editing the information under housing history.

Housing Unit

  • Fixed user rights for housing units. Users no longer see the buttons for actions they do not have the rights to for other service providers.

Incident

  • Fixed incident records allowing clients to be both involved and a witness to an incident.

Look Up Table

  • Removed "HPS" (Homelessness Partnering Strategy) in the "Program" look up table and replaced it with the current program name RH (Reaching Home).

  • Added a new look up value in the Income table: English: Other Canada Pension Plan Benefits, French: Autres prestations du régime de pensions du Canada

Mandatories

  • The "Treaty Number" and "Home Reserve" fields can now be disabled or tagged as mandatory.

Pit Count

  • Fixed COH questions not deactivating properly when removing question from the PiT Count survey.

  • Fixed PiT Count export list not loading when an old export exists.

Questionnaire

  • Fixed and added missing "Delete" action. Users can now delete questions from a questionnaire. Note: Only questions that have not answered can be deleted.

Reports

  • Removed dependency between the Reports module and HIFIS.ca This will allow users to continue using the reports module even if communication with HIFIS.ca cannot be established.

Rights

  • Fixed "List Stay Records" right, users without the appropriate right can no longer see stays from other service providers.

  • Replaced "HIFIS" with "SISA" in the rights tree when using HIFIS in French.

Rooms and Beds

  • Fixed the form to add new beds; leaving the "Additional Beds to add" field empty does not prevent the creation of a single bed.

Service Provider

  • Added validation to prevent duplicate service provider names on the same HIFIS site.

Service Restriction

  • Fixed the missing delete action on the service restriction list on the front desk.

System

  • Refactoring JavaScript to be more general and robust for future development.

  • Added security directives to web config template to tighten up security according to best practice.

  • Fixed the ELMAH log displaying password inputs.

Users

  • Added a proper error message when attempting to clone a user with an existing username.


Official release notes: https://housing-infrastructure.canada.ca/homelessness-sans-abri/hifis-sisa/notes-4-0-59-6-eng.html