Crisisworks 4.5.0 released

Crisisworks 4.5.0 continues the trend of accelerating feature releases, and contains a range of exciting features and improvements.

Summary of new features

• Publishing (e.g. announcements) has been improved and standardised across all information registers
• A bulk user import tool has been launched
• Templates have been rebuilt to make it easy to create events and items with more complexity
• A Copy Items feature has been added to the information register to duplicate items for re-publishing — great for recurring items such as situation reports
• A Merge Items feature has been added to all registers allowing multiple items to be merged into a single item. This recreates a single item resolving duplicate data by replaying all edits made to each source item as if they were made to a single record. 

Operations Improvements

• Resource assignment is now clearer and easier to use, and shows the unit rate at the time of assignment
• Information forms have been streamlined and share common functionality and layout to publish and share information of different types
• It is now possible to separately publish information to the dashboard versus sending via email/SMS
• A copy of the sent email or SMS message are stored against the record in the activity feed
• It's now possible to create advanced templates for all operations registers, which will appear via a 'Templates' counter in the datagrid.

Recovery Improvements

• A new Agriculture register has been added, to track agriculture damage against cases
• You can now merge duplicate cases together
• It is possible (via the advanced fieldset) to specify a case name, which will override the default property address for the record title
• Services Required are now organised to allow services to be assigned to service providers either during the case creation or later, in bulk via the data grid.

Other improvements

• Performance and stability continues to improve
• Activity feed errors on some forms requiring users to close and reopen the containing fieldset has been fixed
• Instant updates in the browser is now more robust
• Users can now edit items containing relationships to other items they cannot access
• Visual improvements have been made to the top navigation bar
• All data grids now default to the "active" counter rather than the "total" counter.
• An improved "New" button now prevents confusion with in "All Participating Events" mode
• Data exports now use the reporting engine — this provides the ability to customise fields, add filtering and take data snapshots

This release also has loads of minor tweaks, improvement and refinements to make it our best version ever. We hope you enjoy it.