August 22, 2024 - Human Ethics Release Notes v1

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Release Summary

Here's a quick overview of the updates in this release:

• Admin Check-in Date has been added as an optional field to extract data from reporting tool.
• Primary Investigator, Primary contact and Co-Investigator email extract option has been added to our reporting tool .
• Accessibility improvements for keyboard navigation, visualization and more.
• Admin>Roles page displays additional roles over 250 results 
• Compare functionality errors addressed
• Improved sorting has been added to Study > Submissions tab
• Attachment stamping error has been resolved
• Job titles in the IRB database have been increased to 255 characters to allow for proper synchronization.

Release Dates and Downtime

Release dates are subject to change. Release date changes will be noted in the Change Log below.

Downtime required: 30 minutes

Change Log:

Aug 22: Correction to Prod CA and Prod US release times

Detailed Release Notes

New and Enhanced

• A new option has been added into the reporting tool to extract Admin Check-in Date values for studies. This will allow us to extract reports of studies without expiration dates and be able to know when check-in dates are available in studies.
  
  
  
  
• A filter has also been added with this new option that allows filtering records by time frame in the Admin-check in date.
  
  
  
  
• A new functionality has been introduced allowing email addresses to be extracted for the Principal Investigator (PI), Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI), and primary contacts from studies. This allows the creation of custom reports to ensure that personnel are using the correct email addresses for notifications.
  
  

Accessibility

The following accessibility improvements have been made.

General

• Screen readers are now reading labels in questions along with language in the icon for Find People. 
• Content from tables in the Studies and Submission pages are now being read row by row to make things easier to understand.
• URL links are now read in areas where links are added to the form.

Keyboard Navigation

• When navigating the submission table, each record is now read with its corresponding column headings.
• Keyboard navigation is now available inside the My Meetings table in the main dashboard and the Make Decision component.

Visualization

• In Application Settings, the disabled Save buttons have been updated with proper contrasting ratio.
• Adjustments have been made in Application Settings to allow the Firefox browsers to properly zoom to 400%.
• Text color contrast has been enhanced in the Make Decision and Notification components.

Resolved

Issue: A maximum of 250 roles are shown at one time on the Admin>Roles page, despite previously showing more than 250 roles at one time.

Resolution: The ability to view more than 250 roles at a time on the page has been restored by allowing pagination functionality.

Issue: An error message was appearing in the Compare function at the top of the screen when clicking the repair button.

Resolution: The repair button can be used without causing an error in the Compare function.

Issue: Due to inadequate sorting capabilities, issues were experienced with missing submissions under the Study > Submissions tab.

Resolution: Improved sorting has been implemented under the Study > Submissions tab to list submissions by created date.

Issue: The attachment stamping process was failing and marking the document in the Database as stamped without actually adding a stamp to the file. When attempting to stamp the document again, the system showed an error message indicating that the document has already been stamped.

Resolution: Updates have been made to correctly identify and process the stamping of attachments.

Issue: A unit synchronization issue occurred for IRB users where the unit information was not being displayed if the job title exceeded 100 characters. The IRB database had a 100-character limit for job titles, causing the synchronization to fail.

Resolution: The character limit for job titles in the IRB database has been increased to 255 characters.

(Ref ID: 24.02.35)