Blog from January, 2016

Crisisworks 4.1.6 released

This release includes the following bug fixes and updates:

  • Addition of basic Report building to the Bootstrap
  • Fix to issue where the Log Item form on the Dash was defaulting to the Global Event rather that the default one.
  • Remove spinning icon (where the New Register Item buttons normally are) when in All Events.
  • Update to the label of the "Additional Notes" field on the Recovery form to "Special Case Notes"
  • Update to CouncilVic bootstrap to add new Security Policy and the assocaited Position "Recovery Read Only".
  • Fixed issue with the Affected Property Field set not show if the field "Does the applicant have interest in a property within the municipality?" was set to false.
  • Added a new Property Type option for the Recovery Case Register Form.
  • Fixed issue where the thumbnail images were not displaying when printing from the Register Item View.
  • The addition of a Status field to the Affected Animals (Livestock) register form.
  • The addition of a  script to move duplicate Recovery Case sub register items created on some sites to a 'Duplicate' state


Crisisworks 4.1.4 released

This release includes the following bug fixes and updates:

  • Addition of basic Report building to the Bootstrap
  • Fix to issue where the Log Item form on the Dash was defaulting to the Global Event rather that the default one.
  • Remove spinning icon (where the New Register Item buttons normally are) when in All Events.
  • Update to the label of the "Additional Notes" field on the Recovery form to "Special Case Notes"
  • Update to CouncilVic bootstrap to add new Security Policy and the assocaited Position "Recovery Read Only".
  • Fixed issue with the Affected Property Field set not show if the field "Does the applicant have interest in a property within the municipality?" was set to false.
  • Added a new Property Type option for the Recovery Case Register Form.
  • Fixed issue where the thumbnail images were not displaying when printing from the Register Item View.
  • The addition of a Status field to the Affected Animals (Livestock) register form.
  • The addition of a  script to move duplicate Recovery Case sub register items created on some sites to a 'Duplicate' state
  • Move Tag Field in FPN register back to the Metadata fieldset (i.e. to RHS of the form)
  • Fix to error for enabling notification in the Request and Message registers
  • Add extra options to the Property Type field in Recovery Case. These are 'Residential Primary' and 'Residential Secondary'
  • Added a new field called "Case Details" to the Recovery Case register.
  • Add ph and email field to Related People subform (affectedPeople)
  • Add due date to Immediate Need Register
  • Add status and due date to Required Services subform (immediateNeed)
  • Update the layout of fields in immediateNeed register (Services Required)
  • Add due date and date updated to the datagrid of the immediateNeed register (Services Required)
  • Removed the order able flag from the Category heading in the immediateNeed register (Services Required) as it can not be ordered as it is virtual
  • Added a new state (mean for internal use), called "Duplicate" to all recovery related registers in preparation for cleaning up duplicate date.


Crisisworks 4.1.2 released

This release contains a number of improvements to application stability and functionality and has been released to all customers.

  • Enhanced auditing for activities relating to assets
  • More flexible workflow configurations for registers
  • New timesheeting and scheduling modules
  • Support for event-based teams
  • Improved handling of data issues when submitting register items (highlighting of form fields that need correcting, friendlier messages)
  • Reports can now output in PDF format
  • Improved resource management screens
  • Performance fixes around creation and updating of registers
  • Support for customer-specific custom attributes for users (e.g. photos, signatures, skill sets, etc)
  • Better handling of browser cache (Javascript files), and improved page load time (better JS minification)
  • Allowing for arbitrary register forms to be configured that public users can submit without the need for an account
  • Allow multiple form layouts for manipulating registers in different use-case scenarios
  • Improved geo filtering for registers
  • Improved transactional support for nested registers to ensure false notifications are not sent out for sub-item updates when master updates are rolled back (think: Recovery cases and associated EHAs or Affected Persons)
  • UI improvement:  New select field with opt-grouping and icon support
  • Allow changes in certain register fields to implicitly change other fields (e.g. assigning a request to a user sets status to 'Assigned', changing status to 'Unassigned' or 'Resolved' auto-unassigns the request)
  • Improvements to search and counters on user management datagrid
  • VPR integration improvements
  • An extension to the full-text searching system to allow wildcard prefix searching (e.g. *mith) in addition to the existing wildcard suffix searching (smit*)


Crisisworks 4.0.135 released

This release contains a number of improvements to application unctionality and has been released to all customers.

  • Fix to full text Indexing run in real time rather than an async process
  • CW3 - CW4 Migration Doc Fix script.


This release contains a new full-text search implementation, which allows users to find records containing certain text phrases, using an extension of MySQL's boolean full-text algorithm described at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/fulltext-boolean.html - see this page for examples of how boolean operators and wildcards can be used to filter searches.  

Here are some examples of search patterns and what they find.  

Pattern
Meaning
smit*Any record containing a word beginning with 'smit'
*mithAny record containing a word ending with 'mith'
john smithAny record containing either the word 'john' or the word 'smith'
+john +smithAny record containing both the words 'john' and 'smith'
"john smith"Any record containing the phrase 'john smith' (note, double-quotes)
-"john smith"Any record not containing the phrase 'john smith'
+bob -"john smith"Any record containing the word 'bob' but not the phrase 'john smith'
-john +smithAny record containing the phrase 'smith' but not 'john'
+*ohn +smithAny record containing a word ending in 'ohn' and also having the word 'smith'
-*ohn +smithAny record containing the word 'smith' and not containing a word ending in 'ohn'
-joh* +smithAny record containing the word 'smith and not containing a word starting with 'joh'

Note that this is a boolean search system. The wildcard (*) operator works either at the beginning or end of a word, not in the middle, so rather than searching sm*th one would search for +sm* +*th.

Note that for clarity it is recommended to use spaces between search terms.  While -john+smith may work, more advanced queries will not parse correctly if using e.g. -john+*mith instead of -john +*mith


This series of releases contains a number of improvements to application stability and functionality and has been released to all customers.

  • Fixed the case where assignment counters read as the same value for all assignees
  • Pressing the 'Refresh Counters' button now clears the counter cache to force a recalculation of all counters
  • Selecting 'Clear Caches' from the user profile menu will now clear server-side caches as well
  • Added additional Private Asset types to the recovery form 


This series of releases contain a number of improvements to application stability and functionality and has been released to all customers.

4.0.127

  • Fixed issue when attempting to Bulk Edit the Assignment Field for the Environmental Health register. 
  • Bulk editing Register Items with multiple assignment fields will now allow all assignment fields to be bulk updated.

4.0.128

  • Added a migration  for Recovery Cases to update the newly added isApplicantKnown field for existing cases. 

4.0.129

  • Updated the state control centre feed script to copy SCC files to web servers (This updated incorporated a change which was made locally on CWAM)