February 26 2018
We are pleased to announce the release of Crisisworks 4.13, which simplifies the use of resources and improves performance.
In this release we are introducing the concept of 'global' and 'on-the-fly' resources, to make the dealing with resources in events much easier.
Global resources are resources that are made available across all events without having to be explicitly added each time. This means your users can more easily search and use your key resources in new events without coordinators or administrators adding them into the current event. Like other global record types, global resources are made available across the system whenever the containing event is in an open state.
On-the-fly resources can be added into requests at the time the request is being created. They are only available to the event in which they were created, and are not available to other events.
To facilitate this change, a new event called 'Global Resources' has been implemented. Upon release of 4.13 to your site, we automatically convert all resources that were not created inline as part of a request to become global resources, and we place them into the 'Global Resources' event.
Updated documentation can be found in the Crisisworks Knowledge Base.
The following improvements have been made in this release.