HIFIS 4.0.60.4

Big changes to activity and inactivity which might have big impacts on your Coordinated Access data. We recommend rigorous testing before updating.

Addressed 9 votes.

Highlights

• Big changes to activity and inactivity

• Fixed bug preventing Housing Loss Prevention subsidies from being edited or deleted

What's Different

Activity and Inactivity

• The clients state will now be based on the date an activity took place as opposed to when it was entered in HIFIS.

• The following actions now consitute Activity:

  • Adding a new appointments record;

  • Adding a new consent record; and

  • Adding a new turn away record.

• Cases and housing placement records will maintain a client’s active status as long as they remain open.

• The following actions no longer count as Activity:

  • Adding a comment to a case management record;

  • Adding a session to a case management record;

  • Adding a follow-up to a housing placement record;

  • Adding a placement attempt to a housing placement record.

• The inactivity threshold is now set and locked at 90 days.

• The Inactivity Threshold field has been removed from the cluster settings.

• All client activity records have been recalculated to align with the new 90-day inactivity threshold.

Application Settings

• Resolved an issue where newly entered attestation messages were not saving properly.

• Update labels in the cluster settings

Case Management

• Added "Referred From" and "Referred To" fields

Clients

• Added functionality to ensure a merge comment is left on the remaining client after a merge.

• Fixed an issue that prevented clients aged 50-62 from being flagged as veterans.

Consent

• Enabled editing or removal of the Consent End Date for the "Declined - Anonymous" Consent Type.

• Resolved an issue where clients with expired consent were not exposed to the cluster.

Data Export

• The Client State and the associated Date of Change are now exported with client records.

• Corrected an issue where some fields displayed "Select an Option" as a value.

Directory of Services

• Fixed an issue where international addresses were not displayed when viewing a record.

Diversion

• Fixed an issue where workflow diversion attempts did not appear in the Client Activity Log.

• Improved the alignment consistency of the workflow diversion form.

Encampments

• Addressed an error that occurred when the description contained more than one line.

Group Activities

• Added an error message when assigning a client with an active service restriction to a group activity.

Housing History

• Fixed an issue where deleting a Housing History record left orphaned records.

Housing Loss Prevention

• Users can now delete subsidies from Housing Loss Prevention records.

Housing Placement

• Added "Referred From" and "Referred To" fields

PIT Count

• The latest versions of the VI-SPDAT are now used for Registry Week.

• Fixed an issue where switching from English to French in the scrolling version deleted numerical values.

• Corrected alignment issues in the Event Details page.

• Fixed an issue in Question 1b, where users were not allowed to select an option.

• Properly organized the values in Question 13.

• Resolved an issue where selecting a community deleted other responses in Question 8.

Reports

• Removed the dependency on hifis.ca from the Report module.

Turnaways

• Fixed an issue where Turnaways Client Service was not updating in the database.

Users

• Added an attachment feature for HIFIS user files to allow better file management.

• Resolved an issue where multiple volunteers could not be added using the Excel template.

• Users with the "Get new reports" right can no longer view custom reports from other Service Providers.

Database Changes

• Removed InactivityThreshold  column from HIFIS_Cluster

Official release notes: https://housing-infrastructure.canada.ca/homelessness-sans-abri/hifis-sisa/notes-4-0-60-4-eng.html