Blog from October, 2017

October 30, 2017

This series of maintenance releases contain the following improvements and has been released progressively according to our staged release cycle. 

4.11.5

• Fixed: Routes recorded via the app's Track my route feature were not showing on the web's datagrid and map
• New: Infrastructure Assessment Tasks now support sending notifications to assignees
• Updated: Baw Baw's FPN Information Schema is now updated for the 2017 fire season
• Updated: EPAVic's incident report workflow now allows authorised users to send report from the initial edit

4.11.6

• Fixed: Assignments of Infrastructure Assessments sometimes contained no selectable resources
• Fixed: Infrastructure Assessment titles on the mobile app have been cleaned up
• New: Recovery Tasks now support attaching media and taking photos as part of the fulfilment of the task
• Fixed: Removed the duplicated filter message from the top of the datagrid

4.11.0 (October 9, 2017) — 4.11.4 (October 20, 2017)

Crisisworks 4.11 brings a series of enhancements, quality improvements and performance improvements.

Key improvements

• A tighter security model has been created for limited access users — this improves the experience of delegating tasks to contractors in recovery, FPN and weed treatments.
• Significant upgrades to our infrastructure provides faster and larger auto-scaling of the environment to cater for peak needs, as well as faster experience overall
• Multiple improvements have been made to the counters
• A powerful import facility provides self-service imports for assets, contacts and some registers
• Regions have been added to allow multiple councils to share a single Crisisworks instance

Performance & reliability improvements

This release sees a significant performance increase across the board.

• Saving items is now 69% faster
• Searching the datagrid is now 56% faster
• Searching via the mobile app is now 76% faster

Also, our infrastructure now auto-scales more smoothly with load, and it handles larger peak demands.  

Changes to MAV forms

• Recovery Case has moved the "Special Notes" form field to the bottom of the form
• Changes have been made to the workflow sidebar (status, tagging, assignment, etc) to ensure improved consistency across all registers 
• FPN Task now has a task duration calculation that can be overridden 

Notable improvements

• Significant performance improvements
• The request datagrid has been streamlined and the requestor added
• FPN counters have been improved
• Added tag counters to the log register
• Moved the user agreement to the login screen to remove the interim legal agreement step during login
• Rostering now has support for multiple shifts
• Improved audit logging to show position names, event names and priorities rather than their IDs
• Improved the layout of the security policies listing when creating new positions
• Improved the interaction flow when creating new reports
• Improved the default selection of event following a user changing their duty status
• Status colours have been tweaked to ensure red is consistently used for high priority items
• Added bulk management to the documents library
• Improved reliability when running the web application on iOS Safari 

Notable fixes

• Fixed issues with viewing geospatial data from imported datasets
• Fixed occasional issue searching the datagrid by map
• Fixed configuration of some registers that exposed a second audit log option
• Various fixes have been made to minor issues searching rostering availability
• Fixed difficulty selecting assets from the map on apps
• Fixed issue where viewing data on the datagrid map sometimes showed other event data, if the user was on duty to multiple events
• Fixed issue where some datagrids could not be sorted by their priority field 
• Fixed issues with creating mail merges for some FPN configurations
• Fixed issues with menus sometimes not showing configured registers
• Fixed issue for some customers with some audit data for recovery records not appearing
• Fixed issue when creating new events from event templates sometimes would return error messages when attempting to copy  the template's items.
• Fixed request item workflow to allow Requested → In Progress (jumping the Assigned status)
• Improved security to prevent XSS injection
• Improved the performance of imports