Discover Release Notes 18 July (v1.24.14)

Modified on Thu, 18 Jul at 4:08 PM

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Features & Enhancements

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(Released 11 July 2024) We have updated the name of the child to the Official Child Name on invoices and statements related to FamilyBoost.

In the last release, we mentioned that the online enrolment widget confirmation pop-up was improved to make more sense when completing an enrolment.
An addendum to this: it only works with the new version of the widget—which is available now! New instructions are in the PDF available on the Setup Widgets page, with minimal changes required. This new flow reduces the seven or eight pages to four and prefills data wherever possible. It’s more secure and asks for the parent or guardian immediately rather than at the second step, meaning there is no longer any chance of creating accidental duplicates of children that were Enquiries.
Centres that have the original Enrolment Widget on their website can update to the new form simply by changing the API URL, as outlined in the PDF instructions. We have also updated the labels for the phone number fields to match what they are on the administrator view of the contact record.

There is now a frequent absence report that can be run across multiple services inside a Group. Under Children Reports > Ministry, there is a new report called Frequent Absence Summary, which will provide an overview of how many children have broken a certain frequent absence rule, and the number of recurring months those children have broken it for.
There is a new checkbox on the Bill Payer profile that allows administrators to shift the bill payer into Debt Collection. Because debt is handled differently across centres, this checkbox allows users to quickly identify any bill payer that has moved into a debt collection status by including this in the newly released Weekly Aged Debtors report as ‘DC’ in the Type column.

The Registered Teacher count will continue above the recommended amount to clearly show users how many registered (or non-registered classed as discretionary) teachers are rostered on for any given fifteen-minute period.

We have increased validation on the Arrival and Leaving Destination questions for the ECE Census. Services affected by this intermittent bug who have been contacted by the Ministry of Education will need to resubmit. The Discover Support Team will be in contact with the affected services to ensure that these questions are revisited prior to resubmission.
The Children Attendance and Child Weekly Attendance reports were magically swapped—we have magically unswapped them.

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