Release notes

Release 2.10.0

Release date: March 17th 2023

Link Maker

All users

• Fixed a bug where when uploading images and video with a file type that was in capitals i.e., *.JPG, *.MOV resulted in an error.

Practitioners involved in adoption

• Implemented an increased character limit on the ‘Child wish’s’ field for sibling group adoption profiles.
• Introduced a count for incoming, outgoing, and active enquiries that is now available in profile data exports for all profiles that are ‘Live on the system now’ Practitioners involved in adoption
• Fixed a bug where practitioners were not able to show interest in a profile without an existing profile.

Adoption UK

• Fixed a bug where public users were shown an error message when trying to search forums
• Updated the address for Adoption UK

Letter Swap

Team members

• Implemented enhancements to the document header on downloaded documents to ensure that only the recipient’s information is shown on the header.

Families

• Removed the header information shown on downloaded documents
  

Release 2.10.1

Release date: March 17th 2023

Link Maker

All users

• Fixed a bug where there was an error when viewing family profiles

Practitioners involved in adoption

• Fixed a bug where you were not able to decrypt uploaded case documents.
  

Release 2.7.0

Release date: January 24th 2023

Practitioners involved in adoption

• Fixed an issue on the Performance statistics 3 Month trend graph where 0% was not showing on the graph.
• Fixed a bug in the Usage report where the family-makeup graph was not reporting correctly.
• Fixed a bug where inviting adopters resulted in the blue wait timer.
• Fixed a bug where the confirmation banner for when an adopter connects a practitioner to the case was not showing.

 AUK users

• Fixed a bug where users where not able to delete their community profile.
• Fixed a bug where full community users where not able to instigate a chat.
  

Release 2.6.0

Release date: December 12th 2022

Practitioners involved in adoption

• Fixed a bug where loading the family alerts page errored
• Fixed a bug there the number of photos and videos were not showing on a sibling group profile data export.

AUK users

• Fixed a bug that prevented users from uploading a community profile.
• Fixed an error when deleting a forum post.
  

Release 2.3.0

Release date: October 17th 2022

All users

• Fixed a bug where ‘placeholder’ was appearing in replacement of ‘Please select’ on drop down selects.
• Fixed a bug where the file type for video uploads were case sensitive.
• Fixed a bug on adopter profiles where details entered under current household were not displayed on the profile view. Fixed a bug where the familiar device cookie was not generating
• Implemented enhancements to the session cookies.

Practitioners involved in adoption

• Fixed a bug where when a user had not logged in, the last login date was displayed as today’s date on Admin, Manage accounts.
• Fixed a bug on advanced searches for adopters where various filters were not working. Adopters
• Fixed a bug where adopters who were not yet verified were not able to view profile and videos uploaded to their profile.
  

Release 1.26.0

Release date: June 6th 2022

All users

• Implemented a new PDF/document viewer which allows users to search and scroll the full document
• Catered for online events by ensuring that all event address fields are optional
• Fixed a bug removing the formatting from event descriptions

Practitioners involved in adoption

• Added functionality to profile data exports that allows exports to be generated with child /family identifiers. In addition have improved have decreased the generation time of the reports and fixed various bugs
• Improved the ‘Ethnicity’ data shown on the usage & match reports
• Improved the copy on the ‘Contact’ section on profiles
• Reduced the restriction on lowering child profile availability time from 48 hours to 24 hours
• Fixed incorrect copy on the ‘Interest shown’ enquiry item within discussions
• Fixed an error being thrown when deleting a child profile
• Fixed an issue restricting users from setting certain cases as inactive
• Fixed an issue restricting users from generating the ‘Adopter activity report’ for cases without an active profile • Fixed an issue allowing users to edit the panel date of an approved adopter
• Fixed an error being thrown when attempting to add or remove documents from the ‘Organisation summary’ page
• Fixed an issue with notification emails not being sent to family practitioners when the family have sent a message (within a discussion) to their own, and the child’s, organisation

Adopters

• Improved the copy on the ‘Contact’ section on profiles
• Fixed incorrect copy on the ‘Interest shown’ enquiry item within discussions
• Fixed an issue allowing users to edit the panel date of an approved adopter
  

Release 1.25.5

Release date: April 27th 2022

All users

• Fixed various visual/layout issues on the availability pages
• Fixed incorrect figures on the ‘Adopter activity report’
• Fixed an error being thrown when not entering a ‘County’ in the ‘Address’ section when registering
  

Release 1.25.0

Release date: April 7th 2022

All users

• Added the ability to delete your own sent messages/documents within an enquiry, practitioners can also delete any messages/documents sent by their team
• Updated the URLs within email notifications in line with recent case management changes
• Fixed an issue with the automatic inactive case deletion process

Practitioners involved in adoption:

• Added a ‘Waiting profiles’ filter to the Cases page, filtering out profiles that are hidden with the following reasons ‘pursuing a match’, ‘considering current carers’, ‘plan being reconsidered’, and ‘on hold', to enable practitioners to see profiles that are still waiting for a match.
• Corrected the copy in the ‘Ages’ section of the Usage report
• When deleting a family profile and recording a match made on Link Maker, we have filtered the agencies shown in the dropdown appropriately
• Fixed a bug preventing the child matches report from generating
• Fixed a bug displaying disconnected practitioners as having enquiry handling permissions
• Fixed a data issue on the adopter activity report where enquiries initiated by the family were not being included

Practitioners involved in commissioning

• Removed outdated hover over text on the 'Universal placement request' option when creating a child profile
  

Release 1.24.0

Release date: March 9th 2022

All practitioners:

• Added functionality allowing practitioners to create profiles for unborn children

Practitioners involved in adoption:

• Added two new fields to the ‘Contact arrangements’ section of an adopter profile:

1. ‘One off meeting’ field - allowing families to signify when they are open to a one off meeting with birth parents
2. ‘Willing to discuss’ checkbox - allowing families to indicate that they are willing to discuss further contact options regardless of their stated contact preferences
   
   

• Fixed a bug that allowed practitioners to message families within an enquiry where the family had not registered on Link Maker
• Fixed an error with national access settings, where the hover over text was displaying incorrect settings

Managers:

• Added the last login date of users to the ‘Manage accounts’ page for managers

Adoption UK community users:

• Fixed an error on the ‘Playdates’ listing page

All users:

• Fixed an error in the homepage feed where events without address were displayed

Release 1.23.0

Release date: February 9th 2022

All users

• Improved site performance and speed on the case activity record
• Updated the ISO270001 security certificate
• In line with accessibility standards, we have implemented correct heading structure on all external pages
• The address field for events is no longer mandatory, this is to accommodate online events
• Fixed inaccessible links on the external pages

Practitioners and adopters

• Added a system task to anonymise further data on family user records after deletion, in line with GDPR guidelines
• Fixed an error with the ‘Back to discussions’ button
• Fixed an error thrown when deleting profiles
• Fixed an error displaying inaccessible documents to families
• Fixed an error preventing enquiries from being listed in order of last activity on the ‘Interest and discussions’ page
• Fixed an error allowing users to send messages without recipients
• Fixed an incorrect error message on the family ‘Personality’ profile form

Practitioners involved in adoption

• Updated the family match reports, fixing some data and design issues and clarifying some statistics better within the report
• Added single measure statistics for child gender to the usage and child matches reports
• Fixed an error on the homepage and case activity feeds
• Fixed an error preventing practitioners from completing incomplete profiles
• Fixed an error preventing a system email being sent when interest is shown within a pre-enquiry message
• Fixed an error when viewing family matching profiles