HIFIS 4.0.60.2

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.

• 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.

• Fixed Duplicate records in HIFIS_Client_Services for Diversion (not in official release notes)

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”.

• Fixed: Chronic homelessness not working properly

• 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