Crisisworks 4.11 Released

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