ACRE Consulting's Summary
A lot of issuse with 4.0.60.1 are addressed in this update, but a small number of issues were created. It's almost there! Hold off until the remaining major bugs are addressed.
Addressed 25 votes
Highlights
Fixed issue displaying housing status records multiple times
Historical chronicity information is now stored properly in the database
Fixed rights issues linked to the diversion form
What's Different
Administration
Fixed error message when a user attempts to delete a Diversion record using the Client Service Delete module.
The header on the Diversion Workflow steps has been translated when using HIFIS in French.
Merging clients no longer results in an error
Admissions
Fixed bug where users were not able to reserve beds that are currently being used.
Fixed bug where users were not able to deactivate a room.
Users can now add a Diversion Attempt from the Admissions module (Front Desk and Client Management menu).
Assessments
The scorecard and the administration section of the VI-SPDAT v3 Adult, v3 Family, and v2 Youth are now in the same order as the survey.
Fixed bug where if your first response to a new VI-SPDAT assessment, after filling out the administration section, is to “Refuse” a question, then an error message would appear.
When editing a VAT record, the “File on Record” field has been fixed to be properly aligned.
Case Management
Fixed issue where users could not close cases.
Client Details
Client’s details page now has a matching header. Client - Vitals --> Client - Details
The “Date of Death” field has been fixed and no longer appears as a dropdown field.
The “Private Service Provider” label now appears as “Fournisseur de services privé” in the client tombstone when using HIFIS in French.
Coordinated Access
Fixed issue where if there were housing records that started over 30 days ago, and ran into the “Last 30 Days”, they were not counted towards a client’s percentage housing completed statistics. Housing Records
Diversion
Clients with a recent diversion attempt will now have an alert on their profile, similar to a service restriction alert.
Users can now add a housing history record to a client’s diversion record, regardless of whether they were housed safely the night before.
Here's what the official release notes say:
Edit Diversion screen is now the same for form and workflow
HIFIS_Services now has an end date for Diversions with Goods & Services attached
Fixed bug where the “Client Information” and “Client Management” options no longer appeared when a user was on a client’s diversion list.
Users are no longer able to access modules they do not have the proper rights to from the Diversion forms.
The “Scheduled Follow-Up” field in the Workflow version of the diversion form is no longer mandatory.
Users who are editing a diversion record can now cancel the process without changing the status to “Abandoned”.
Users can now add Goods and Services in the diversion form when the program field is mandatory.
Encampments & Outreach
Added Bing key to viewbag on all pages to remove message requesting credentials when using the map view.
Fixed issue with outreach capable services always creating address relations in the database.
The Outreach module now only displays records associated to the Service Provider you are currently logged into.
Housing Status & Chronicity
Fixed issue where a new entry was added everyday for the client’s housing status in the client’s vitals history.
When you delete a client’s Housing History record, if there are no other records in their file, the housing status will now change back to “Unknown”.
A historical record of a client’s chronicity information is now properly recorded and stored in the database.
Landlords
Reintroduced the Geo Region and City filters to the filter options menu.
PiT Count
Changed the naming of COH/COH CORE questions to Optional questions when setting up a PiT Event.
When adding local questions, if you create a single or multi selection question and use the same response in 2 or more questions, the response will now appear for all questions it is assigned to, instead of only the original.
The PiT Survey will now only accept integers (non-fractional numbers) in fields that only accept numerical values.
Updated export files to match the 2024 version of the Poin-in-Time (PiT) Count Survey.
When users create a local question and select the “Yes/No” type, the question now will have the same type of available responses as the Core survey.
Programs
Fixed bug where inactive programs without an end date were not appearing in the inactive tab.
Service Restrictions
Fixed issue where if a Service Provider had too many service restrictions, the page failed to load and returned an error if they selected to view “All”.
System
User can now change the language of the End-User License Agreement (EULA) when accessing HIFIS for the first time.
When viewing the “Bed Count History” tab on the Data Export, the page now properly shows the number of entries, instead of “Showing 0 to 0 entries”.
Users & Rights
Users who don’t have the right to edit or view the Workflow steps no longer see these actions.
Reorganized the SPDAT/VI-SPDAT rights tree and removed duplicates.
Reintroduced the “Add PiT Volunteer” button from the User list page.
Removed the ability of non-admin users to clone Admin user rights.
Updated Goods and Services rights labels to be more accurate. Previously, Services were described as "Activities"
Database Changes
New tables:
HIFIS_BedCountHistory
HIFIS_Client_RacialIdentities
HIFIS_ClientRacialIdentityTypes
HIFIS_Clients_Diversions
HIFIS_DiversionDestinationTypes
HIFIS_DiversionDestinationTypes_SP
HIFIS_Diversions
HIFIS_DiversionStatusTypes
HIFIS_DiversionStatusTypes_SP
HIFIS_DiversionWorkFlowSteps
HIFIS_EncampmentLocationTypes
HIFIS_EncampmentLocationTypes_SP
HIFIS_Encampments
HIFIS_Encampments_Clients
HIFIS_ReasonForDisbandedTypes
HIFIS_ReasonForDisbandedTypes_SP
HIFIS_SPDAT_HousingYouthv2Types
HIFIS_SPDAT_YesNoNATypes
Chronic homelessness is now stored in
HIFIS_ClientHistoryChanges.FieldTypeID= 18 instead of 17
Official Release Notes: https://housing-infrastructure.canada.ca/homelessness-sans-abri/hifis-sisa/notes-4-0-60-2-eng.html
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