Release notes

Release 2.3.0

Release date: October 16th 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 5th 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 26th 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 6th 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
  

Release 1.22.0 - 1.22.9

Release date: February 3rd 2022

All users

• Improved site performance and speed on the case activity record and user homepage
• Added outgoing activity to the homepage feed
• Fixed an error preventing outgoing activity appearing on the case activity feed
• Fixed accessibility issues with field focus
  
• Fixed an error causing videos not to play correctly
• Fixed an issue with date formatting across the site
  

All practitioners

• Fixed an error preventing a practitioner to access the case activity record
• Fixed an error allowing the last remaining practitioner to unsubscribe from a discussion
  

Practitioners involved in adoption

• Fixed an error when attempting to enter approval information
• Fixed an error preventing an activity record from being generated when reducing availability from consortium to agency with a sibling group matching profile
  

Community users

• Fixed an error for community adopters when accessing the ‘Matching’ menu

Release 1.21.2 - 1.21.4

Release date: December 3rd 2021

All users

• Fixed error causing issues with document sharing
• Fixed an error where users were unable to see their encrypted content which they should have had access to
  

Practitioners and adopters

• Fixed an error when deleting a family matching profile 
  

Release 1.21.1

Release date: November 25th 2021

All practitioners

• Fixed an error displaying case activity for organisation cases, not just assigned cases
• Fixed an error where viewing a profile was causing the profile to enter the alerts queue
• Fixed an error causing the hover over on ‘National access’ to display incorrect settings
• Fixed an error causing multiple email alerts to be sent
• Fixed an error causing the filters on the search pages to be hidden om mobile
• Fixed an error causing the homepage to timeout for community moderators
• Fixed an error causing the lat/long to be hidden for exclusion areas
  

Release 1.21.0

Release date: November 23rd 2021

All practitioners

We have made major updates to how you manage your cases, including:

• Adding a list of your 10 most recently visited cases to the ‘Cases’ page. You can use this list to quickly switch between cases without having to go through the full case listing.
• Moving the case actions to the top of the case management interface, allowing you to make case actions no matter which tab of a case you are viewing.
• Adding the ability to review and manage which team members are assigned to each case, using the new ‘Assigned to’ section at the top of the case management interface
• Adding a brand new ‘Activity record’ tab to each case. Here, you can see the history of all activity that has taken place for the given case, from profile creation to discussions. Please note that this page will only list activity taken place after the date this feature was released (23rd November 2021).
• Adding the ability to add a ‘Case note’ to a case. These case notes can be assigned to team members who will be notified by email. Case notes can also be attached to any open enquiries for the case and will be seen by your organisation only.
• Adding the ability to upload a ‘Case document’ to a case.
• Consolidating all profiles into a single tab for practitioners who manage both adoption and commissioning cases.

For more information about the new case management interface, see our PDF and video guides by clicking the links below:

• PDF guide - https://www.linkmaker.co.uk/static/new_case_management_interface.pdf
• Video guide - https://www.linkmaker.co.uk/pages/view/165

We have also made the following changes:

• Removed the ‘Outgoing interest’ and ‘Incoming interest’ fields from the ‘Cases’ page to accommodate the cases sidebar
• Removed the auto-link option for practitioners when verifying accounts, due to phasing out auto-linking
• When recording a match made on Link Maker, we have appropriately filtered the list of organisations shown
• Fixed a bug preventing print permissions for documents to be set as printing allowed
• Fixed a bug causes the last activity date to appear incorrectly in certain situations
  

Practitioners and adopters

• Fixed incorrect button labelling on the ‘Delete profile’ page
• Fixed a bug causing incorrect formatting for ‘Ethnicity’ and ‘Religion’ fields on family matching profiles
• Fixed a bug preventing community updates from being shown on the homepage feed
• Fixed a bug preventing the favourite things entries from displaying on the profile. 

Community users

• Fixed a bug preventing users from deleting community profiles