February 26 2018

We are pleased to announce the release of Crisisworks 4.13, which simplifies the use of resources and improves performance.

Global resources

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.

Additional improvements

The following improvements have been made in this release.

Performance improvements to datagrid loading times.
Updated description to the postal type field on Persons Register to avoid confusion with the temporary address.
Updated the Information reports to add the extended fields from all its schemas, as well as filter for a given schema — the Information register includes the Situation Report and Briefing schema types.
Update activity feed for published message. It now shows when an item is queued to send and when its sent.
Fix for global counters on register data grids not being clickable.
Media files uploaded by the app are now allocated a more friendly file name rather than 'blob'.

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