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PO v0.5

SIG Bleeding Edge Release Date

  Mar 29, 2023

Please note that this update is only available for TASS Orbit Special Interest Group members. 

Important!

  1. Please ensure you upgrade your TEST environment through TASS Software Update before updating the app. 

  2. Navigate to System Admin > Utilities > API Gateway Maintenance: Edit Parent Orbit and tick the new scopes. 

Major Items

Module

Details

School Links - Side Menu

Within the hamburger menu (side menu) in the app, this version includes:

  • School Links menu: This includes all school links within their respective categories that have been ticked to 'Include in Parent Orbit App'. 

  • School Links on the left menu as menu items: This includes all school links that have been ticked to 'Include in Parent Orbit App' and 'Side Menu'

Enhancements have been made in v58.4.200 (a development build is ready on your test environment) to Staff Kiosk > School Links > School Links (Maintain) to include: 

  • A Yes/No column for Parent Orbit on the landing page of School Links 

  • New tick box to 'Include in Parent Orbit App'

  • New tick box to include on 'Side Menu'

  • New tick box to include on 'Homepage' 

Extra Curricular 

Within the Student area, the Extra Curricular tile includes: 

  • A summary page per student including a count per year, Activities they're a part of, and a filter to include previous years.

  • Within the drill down on the Extra Curricular Activity, the following details are included: 

    • Activity Details e.g., Level, Year

    • Other Details (User Defined from setups) and attachments 

    • Comments

Illness Details

Within the Student area, a new Illness Details tile has been added for parents to view see Illness History. 

The Illness history includes: 

  • Quick view of why the student is/was in sick bay, date and check in time. 

  • Within the drill down (tapping the incident), the Description note, Treatment and Discharge Date/Time are visible. 


We are currently investigating the following:

  • Including 'active' illnesses on the homepage where the parent/s have children currently in sick bay i.e., no sign out time. 

  • Enhancing the UI for Illness Details to include more of a dashboard style.


What's New?

Program

Details

Reference

Students - Extra Curricular

New Extra Curricular activity data and history including Activity details e.g. Level, User Defined data and Comments.

OB-151

Calendar - Daily Notices

Enhancement to include both the start date and end date for multi-day notices.

OB-149

Side menu

Decrease the school logo size in the side menu to create more real estate for other menus and to ensure it's smaller than the one on the homepage.

OB-148

Side menu - School Links

New 'School Links' side menu which includes all School Links that have been flagged to 'Include in Parent Orbit App' from Staff Kiosk.

New links included in the side menu based on those School Links that have been flagged to 'Include in Parent Orbit App' and ticked for 'Side Menu'.

OB-144

Calendar - School Calendar

Include new icons for an event and notice to distinguish between the different types.

OB-138

Homepage - Invitations - Events & Payments

Update the colour on the Events & Payment tile to include a shade.

OB-137

Homepage - Invitations - Extra Curricular

Update the Extra Curricular tile to include a new icon. The new tile is updated on the homepage and the student landing page.

OB-136

Homepage - Invitations - Parent Teacher Interviews

Update the PTI tile to include a new icon style and rename to 'Parent Teacher Interviews'.

OB-135

Homepage - Notifications

Unbold the text in Notifications to improve user experience.

OB-132

Homepage - Notifications

Enhancement to combine the notifications to one line per notification, if the same notification has been sent for multiple students. Also, student names will be tagged and coloured to differentiate who the notification is targeted at.

OB-131

Students - Attendance

Enhancement to hide the the Attendance tile and loader if the Attendance scope if disabled.

OB-130

Students - Illness Details

New Illness Details tile to display the Illness Details history i.e. sign ins to sick bay with Condition and Treatment information.

OB-125

Students - Attendance

Enhancement to include a new ‘Select Dates’ option under the ‘Date Range’ filter which includes a date range picker.

OB-122

Login

Return device information and store in the TASS database to cater for push notifications. 

OB-118

Calendar - School Calendar

Enhancement to the School Calendar to allow for sticky filters when loading between months.

OB-76

Corrections

Program

Details

Reference

Students - Attendance

Correction to ensure the user can tap between the tick box and left side of the tick box when adding a new absence (on all radio buttons). 

OB-147

Students - General Details

Fix slow load times causing a white screen to appear. 

OB-129

Students - Medical Details

Fix to ensure UD Areas within Student and General Medical Details loads without crashing the app; ensuring different data types are accepted.

OB-128

Profile - Address Details

Resolve issue with parent address blocks being hardcoded headings.

OB-127

Students - Medical Details

Update Medical Conditions to return live UD field descriptions in the other details section.

OB-126

Students - Attendance

Correction to Attendance history to include all 4 Parent Acknowledgement statuses: Yes (A + tick), Parent Lounge (PL), N/A and No.

OB-120

Homepage

If a site was slow to load the homepage a warning message was displaying notifying the parents no students are available to view. This message has been updated to only display after the page has finished loading if not students were found.

OB-117

Homepage

Resolved issue where disabling the attendance scopes was preventing the app from loading.

OB-116

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