fixed
improved
Minor Release
4.0.60.2
ACRE Consulting's approval rating: 6/10
Highlights for Release 4.0.60.2
- Fixed issue displaying housing status records multiple times;
- Historical chronicity information is now stored properly in the database;
- Fixed rights issues linked to the diversion form;
- 10 minor changes and 34 bug fixes.
What's Different
Administration
- Fixed error message when a user attempts to delete a Diversion record using the Client Service Delete module.
- The header on the Diversion Workflow steps has been translated when using HIFIS in French.
- Merging clients no longer results in an error
Admissions
- Fixed bug where users were not able to reserve beds that are currently being used.
- Fixed bug where users were not able to deactivate a room.
- Users can now add a Diversion Attempt from the Admissions module (Front Desk and Client Management menu).
Assessments
- The scorecard and the administration section of the VI-SPDAT v3 Adult, v3 Family, and v2 Youth are now in the same order as the survey.
- Fixed bug where if your first response to a new VI-SPDAT assessment, after filling out the administration section, is to “Refuse” a question, then an error message would appear.
- When editing a VAT record, the “File on Record” field has been fixed to be properly aligned.
Case Management
Client Details
- Client’s details page now has a matching header. Client - Vitals --> Client - Details
- The “Date of Death” field has been fixed and no longer appears as a dropdown field.
- The “Private Service Provider” label now appears as “Fournisseur de services privé” in the client tombstone when using HIFIS in French.
Coordinated Access
- Fixed issue where if there were housing records that started over 30 days ago, and ran into the “Last 30 Days”, they were not counted towards a client’s percentage housing completed statistics. Housing Records
Diversion
- Clients with a recent diversion attempt will now have an alert on their profile, similar to a service restriction alert.
- Users can now add a housing history record to a client’s diversion record, regardless of whether they were housed safely the night before.
- Here's what the official release notes say: "When Anonymous is selected in the scrolling Diversion form, users can now enter the following information: Add Income if “Financial Assistance Provided” is toggled to Yes, Add Contact, Add Contributing Factors, Add Goods and Services"- what it means is probably When Anonymous isnotselected...
- Edit Diversion screen is now the same for form and workflow
- HIFIS_Services now has an end date for Diversions with Goods & Services attached
- Fixed bug where the “Client Information” and “Client Management” options no longer appeared when a user was on a client’s diversion list.
- Users are no longer able to access modules they do not have the proper rights to from the Diversion forms.
- The “Scheduled Follow-Up” field in the Workflow version of the diversion form is no longer mandatory.
- Users who are editing a diversion record can now cancel the process without changing the status to “Abandoned”.
- Users can now add Goods and Services in the diversion form when the program field is mandatory.
Encampments & Outreach
- Added Bing key to viewbag on all pages to remove message requesting credentials when using the map view.
- Fixed issue with outreach capable services always creating address relations in the database.
- The Outreach module now only displays records associated to the Service Provider you are currently logged into.
Housing Status & Chronicity
- Fixed issue where a new entry was added everyday for the client’s housing status in the client’s vitals history.
- When you delete a client’s Housing History record, if there are no other records in their file, the housing status will now change back to “Unknown”.
- A historical record of a client’s chronicity information is now properly recorded and stored in the database.
Landlords
- Reintroduced the Geo Region and City filters to the filter options menu.
PiT Count
- Changed the naming of COH/COH CORE questions to Optional questions when setting up a PiT Event.
- When adding local questions, if you create a single or multi selection question and use the same response in 2 or more questions, the response will now appear for all questions it is assigned to, instead of only the original.
- The PiT Survey will now only accept integers (non-fractional numbers) in fields that only accept numerical values.
- Updated export files to match the 2024 version of the Poin-in-Time (PiT) Count Survey.
- When users create a local question and select the “Yes/No” type, the question now will have the same type of available responses as the Core survey.
Programs
- Fixed bug where inactive programs without an end date were not appearing in the inactive tab.
Service Restrictions
- Fixed issue where if a Service Provider had too many service restrictions, the page failed to load and returned an error if they selected to view “All”.
System
- User can now change the language of the End-User License Agreement (EULA) when accessing HIFIS for the first time.
- When viewing the “Bed Count History” tab on the Data Export, the page now properly shows the number of entries, instead of “Showing 0 to 0 entries”.
Users & Rights
- Users who don’t have the right to edit or view the Workflow steps no longer see these actions.
- Reorganized the SPDAT/VI-SPDAT rights tree and removed duplicates.
- Reintroduced the “Add PiT Volunteer” button from the User list page.
- Removed the ability of non-admin users to clone Admin user rights.
- Updated Goods and Services rights labels to be more accurate.
Activities --> Services
Add Activity Record --> Add Service Records
Delete Activity Record --> Delete Service Records
Display Activity --> Display Service
Edit Activity Records --> Edit Service Records
Database Changes
New tables:
- HIFIS_BedCountHistory
- HIFIS_Client_RacialIdentities
- HIFIS_ClientRacialIdentityTypes
- HIFIS_Clients_Diversions
- HIFIS_DiversionDestinationTypes
- HIFIS_DiversionDestinationTypes_SP
- HIFIS_Diversions
- HIFIS_DiversionStatusTypes
- HIFIS_DiversionStatusTypes_SP
- HIFIS_DiversionWorkFlowSteps
- HIFIS_EncampmentLocationTypes
- HIFIS_EncampmentLocationTypes_SP
- HIFIS_Encampments
- HIFIS_Encampments_Clients
- HIFIS_ReasonForDisbandedTypes
- HIFIS_ReasonForDisbandedTypes_SP
- HIFIS_SPDAT_HousingYouthv2Types
- HIFIS_SPDAT_YesNoNATypes
Alterations:
- Chronic homelessness is now stored in HIFIS_ClientHistoryChanges.FieldTypeID = 18 instead of 17
Known Issues