Version 3.0.8537.19008
(17 May 2023)[Current]
- No new features.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Change to search criteria for visit calendar diary view to be able to view all carers or all customers.
- Change made to remove the use of smtp and use email service to send emails.
BUG FIXES
- No new bug fixes.
Version 3.0.8490.24061
(15 May 2023)
- Invoice summary report added to batch invoice download.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Push notification messages to be obtained from database.
- System admin account and code fixes put in place.
- Setting dictionary descriptions added to inputs.
BUG FIXES
- Fix to revenue by tariff report to calculate charge correctly.
Version 3.0.8490.24061
(09 May 2023)
- No new features.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new changes / enhancements.
BUG FIXES
- Fix to sending of emails within Alice to use SSL.
Version 3.0.8490.24061
(25 April 2023)
- Push notifications for changes to visits to the mobile app in development.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new changes / enhancements.
BUG FIXES
- Fix to visit plans to fix issue with removal of mars tags.
Version 3.0.8490.24061
(04 April 2023)
- No new features.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Adding carer photos to customer portal so that the customer knows who will be turning up on the visit.
- Added preferred name property to carer portal visit display.
BUG FIXES
- Fix to national minimum wage value for internal journeys.
Version 3.0.8472.24014
(14 March 2023)[Current]
- No new features.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Change to diary view to add contracted hours, scheduled hours worked and actual hours worked as shown from NMW report.
BUG FIXES
- Fix to the diary controller to display missing availability.
Version 3.0.8452.22680
(24 Febuary 2023)
- No new features.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new changes / enhancements.
BUG FIXES
- Fix to mars tags to resolve issue of tags not appearing in dropdown in planned and diary visits.
Version 3.0.8452.22680
(23 Febuary 2023)[Current]
- No new features.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new changes / enhancements.
BUG FIXES
- Fix in place to change duplicate 5 to missing 6 on bodymap.
- Customer portal code change to include visits where the end date overlaps another day.
Version 3.0.8353.28679
(05 December2022)
- No new features.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new changes / enhancements.
BUG FIXES
- Fix in place for error of max node count on mars mapping.
Version 3.0.8353.28679
(02 December2022)
- No new features.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Changes made for email templates to be from global settings and use email service.
- Change to visit live completed table to take account of connectivity status when completing checkin for mobile api.
BUG FIXES
- No new bug fixes.
Version 3.0.8353.28679
(11 November 2022)
- Added body maps to mars prescribed to show where medication is applied. This change is in the admin area adding and editing of prescribed medication on customer. The change is also in the carer portal where the system will show the body map if used with the selected points on checking in and out of visits.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new changes / enhancements.
BUG FIXES
- No new bug fixes.
Version 3.0.8343.27830
(04 November 2022)
- No new features.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new changes / enhancements.
BUG FIXES
- Fix to issue of downloading of documents.
Version 3.0.8341.28534
(02 November 2022)[Current]
- No new features.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Change made for separating authentication from business layer into it’s own service.
BUG FIXES
- Fix to issue saving new planned visits.
Version 3.0.8340.17827
(01 November 2022)
- No new features.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Created two new report in the report section of admin for customer and carer contracts by status.
- Changes made to automatically create a incident when the yes check button is clicked on checkout of a visit, if a incident is occurred.
BUG FIXES
- No new bug fixes.
Version 3.0.8319.26551
(27 October 2022)
- No new features.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Change around medication and application of medication to customers to try and reduce the number of medication a carer had to fill and to medication not needed.We have added the section Mars Tags to the Mars Prescribed of a customer in the following path: Customer button left menu -> select customer to edit -> mars prescribed tab -> edit a medication or add new.You will currently have no tags to select from but you are able to add new by typing into the mars tags box. Once done click the enter button to save, the entry will then appear in the dropdown. Once the tags have been applied you are free to add the tags to planned visit or live visits in the Mars Tab that will appear in the a new visit and edit visit popup.The mars tab will only appear if the customer has prescribed medication that has a tag applied. Also the mars tags dropdown will only show tags applied to the customer.Planned visits when diarised will also carry over the medication tags applied.Once a carer checks in / out of a visit the only medication that should be shown are the ones with with tag(s) specified on the visit.If no tags is allocated to the visit then by default it will show all the applied medication like normal.
BUG FIXES
- Fix for Mobile view font looking thin and grey and hard to read.
- Fix for visit live update button stopping load of data after absence register register is viewed.
- Spelling mistake in admin for absence.
Version 3.0.8319.26551
(12 October 2022)
- No new features.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Changes made for admin absence register and month view for font colour.
- Change made to cache absence reasons.
- Change made to remember state change of new buttons in absence register.
- Change made for add absence register button to appear in new views.
BUG FIXES
- Fix for absence event in visit live calendar edit save.
Version 3.0.8313.26419
(05 October 2022)
- Absence calendar view (shows absence for active carers and status such approved or declined).
- Absence month view (shows absence for active carers for day with absence reason such annual leave and sickness).
- Change made for checkout of mars for carer or admin to use check-in date time instead of manual entry.
- Mars log to show visit number for applied medication.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new changes / enhancements.
BUG FIXES
- No new bug fixes
Version 3.0.8299.20554
(23 September 2022)
- No new features.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new changes / enhancements.
BUG FIXES
- Fix to revenue by tariff report.
- Fix icons displaying as html on visit financials tabs.
- Fix to download of care plan reports for base64 images.
Version 3.0.8248.22515
(16 August 2022)
- No new features.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Changes made to the incidents report to allow the section of carers.
BUG FIXES
- No new bug fixes
Version 3.0.8228.24152
(13 July 2022)
- No new features.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Changes made to manage business contacts section in care manager portal for search filtering.
BUG FIXES
- Change to buttons so they align in manage business contacts list.
Version 3.0.8223.27419
(07 July 2022)
- Create new report for mileage to and from home and between grouped by mileage rate.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Changes to add administered type to the medication administered grid in the customers portal.
- Changes made to admin portal to add transport type against carer drop down items and visits in diary on hover.
BUG FIXES
- No new bug fixes
Version 3.0.8207.28225
(23 June 2022)
- No new features
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Changes made to the NMW report to separate the hours worked weekdays and weekends as well as travel time.
BUG FIXES
- No new bug fixes
Version 3.0.8139.17509
(20 April 2022)
- No new features
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Changes made to the login authentication to handle accounts across tenants with same username and password.
BUG FIXES
- No new bug fixes
Version 3.0.8124.22353
(31 March 2022)
- No new features
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Changes made for carers portal / mobile for the font colour and font size to make the text easier to read
BUG FIXES
- No new bug fixes
Version 3.0.8118.28008
(24 March 2022)
- No new features
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Absence request email to receiver email setting when a absence made in carer portal.
- When the status is changed on the absence request to approved or declined a email will be sent to the carer informing them of the change.
BUG FIXES
- No new bug fixes
Version 3.0.8084.29905
(18 February 2022)
- No new features
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Added drop-down to customers medication administered section for filtering active and in-active medication.
BUG FIXES
- No new bug fixes
Version 3.0.8075.30309
(09 February 2022)
- No new features
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new changes / enhancements
BUG FIXES
- Fix to hours worked display on the resorting diary page.
- Fix to care plan notes with the issue around spacing between words.
- Fix to care plan to only display active medication.
Version 3.0.7986.39627
(15 October 2021)
- No new features
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new changes / enhancements
BUG FIXES
- Fix to absence section under roastering for the contact type dropdown being included into filter
- Fix to delete of runs removing the allocations
Version 3.0.7943.25316
(30 September 2021)
- New link on the main menu for displaying medication logs inside the customer portal.
- Displaying medication prescribed and logs inside visits in the customer portal.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new changes / enhancements
BUG FIXES
- Changes made to the customer notes report to resolve issue with export pdf.
- Change made to check out to exclude expired medication.
Version 3.0.7923.20007
(13 September 2021)
- No new features
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Change to move bulk diarise button from the visits tab to the plans tab.
- Adding are you sure you wish to continue to bulk diarise modal.
BUG FIXES
- No new bug fixes
Version 3.0.7916.22878
(08 September 2021)
- No new features
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Change the colour of the bulk diarise button to red in visits tab in rostering as well as moving the button to the right side.
BUG FIXES
- Fix for runs carer select dropdown not showing duplicate carers.
Version 3.0.7867.23645
(02 August 2021)
- No new features
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new changes / enhancements
BUG FIXES
- Training matrix report change to resolve issue about background color in pdf appearing on correct cell
- Fix courses validation on visit save for selected carers
Version 3.0.7867.23645
(19 July 2021)
- No new features
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Performance increase on the visit diary multiple customer / carers view
BUG FIXES
- No new bug fixes
Version 3.0.7857.22776
(12 July 2021)
- No new features
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new changes / enhancements
BUG FIXES
- Fix for email template to resolve issue with replacement of text
- Fix to plans validation on runs
Version 3.0.7857.22776
(06 July 2021)
- No new features
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new changes / enhancements
BUG FIXES
- Fix to saving of plans validation of runs
Version 3.0.7856.23660
(05 July 2021)
- No new features
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Change to time inputs to use arrows for up and down
- Change to the rules for runs – removed rule for having to at least one day on each week having the same amount of carers as the selected.
- Change to the rules for runs – change the validation for visit overlap to use the week as well to solve problem with conflicts on different weeks
BUG FIXES
- Fix to Scheduler service to resolve issue with timezone
- Fix to diary section and the saving of visits when moved
Version 3.0.7838.19455
(28 June 2021)
- No new features
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new changes / enhancements
BUG FIXES
- Fix to diarise and jobs service for timezone
Version 3.0.7838.19455
(25 June 2021)
- No new features
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new changes / enhancements
BUG FIXES
- Fix to batch invoices funder dropdown displaying data
Version 3.0.7838.19455
(24 June 2021)[Current]
- No new features
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Update to utilities for mileage re calcualtion
BUG FIXES
- Change to update of visit and overriding pay and charge values
- Fix to transport type being set to null
Version 3.0.7838.19455
(18 June 2021)
- No new features
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new changes / enhancements
BUG FIXES
- Change to carer allocation on visits to stop issue with not adding transport type
- Fix to hours worked report breakdown to resolve issue with figures
Version 3.0.7836.21938
(15 June 2021)
- No new features
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new changes / enhancements
BUG FIXES
- Change to upload image for notes to upload to Amazon S3
Version 3.0.7830.20670
(11 June 2021)
- Pick up transport type and code for mileage calculation / travel time / geo
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new changes / enhancements
BUG FIXES
- No new bug fixes
Version 3.0.7830.20670
(10 June 2021)
- NMW Summary Report
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new changes / enhancements
BUG FIXES
- No new bug fixes
Version 3.0.7829.24780
(08 June 2021)
- No new Features
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new changes / enhancements
BUG FIXES
- Changes made for birthday report to fix issue with filtering date of birth
- Changes made for nmw report data matching
Version 3.0.7817.29150
(28 May 2021)
- No new Features
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new changes / enhancements
BUG FIXES
- Changes to visits plan save to speed up save of visits and resolve issues
Version 3.0.7815.26496
(26 May 2021)
- No new Features
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Menu in mobile mode to close once link is clicked
BUG FIXES
- The hidden content on calendar not causing a expand in mobile mode effecting double click of calendar visits
- Double click on calendar on a mobile not working
Version 3.0.7794.30369
(11 May 2021)
- Email service to handle all emails
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Diarise service to use new email service to handle emails
BUG FIXES
- No new bug fixes
Version 3.0.7794.30369
(06 May 2021)
- No new Features
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new changes / enhancements
BUG FIXES
- Resolve issue with loading customer and carer reports that contain html tags
Version 3.0.7782.25593
(25 April 2021)
- No new Features
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new changes / enhancements
BUG FIXES
- Resolve issue with loading image attach modal for notes rich text editor
Version 3.0.7782.25593
(23 April 2021)[Current]
- No new Features
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new changes / enhancements
BUG FIXES
- Resolve issue with loading of visits in diary that had multiple courses allocated
Version 3.0.7776.26084
(19 April 2021)
- Rich text editor for notes
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Care plan pdf modify to include html
- Travel time for foot included into data
- Grand total added to NMW report
- Portal notes html to display correctly
BUG FIXES
- No new bug fixes
Version 3.0.7759.24736 (24 March 2021)
- Draft nmw report
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new Changes / Enhancements in this release
BUG FIXES
- No new bug fixes
Version 3.0.7741.29263 (22 March 2021)
- No new features in this release
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Custom error on late checkout in elmah
- Partially allocated report merge into unallocated report
- Customer / Carer profile image rounded corner.
BUG FIXES
- Fix to update visit so it does not remove jobid on update
- Fix to diarise to include only active holidays
- Fix initial load of images in customer carer profile not appear as the generic avatar image
Version 3.0.7741.29263 (16 March 2021)
- No new features in this release
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new Changes / Enhancements in this release
BUG FIXES
- Email async issue on check in / out for recording incidents, late checkins
Version 3.0.7731.30829 (10 March 2021)
- No new features in this release
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new Changes / Enhancements in this release
BUG FIXES
- Bug Fix to diarise service for visit number not duplicating
Version 3.0.7731.30829 (04 March 2021)
- No new features in this release
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new Changes / Enhancements in this release
BUG FIXES
- Bug Fix to multiplier in Calculations
- Fix to Staff Listing Report to display items in contact dropdown
- Fix to Training Undertaken Report to resolve problem with courses that have duration but no end date set
Version 3.0.7710.30996 (26 February 2021)[Current]
- No new features in this release
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new Changes / Enhancements in this release
BUG FIXES
- Bug Fix to multiplier in Diarise Service
Version 3.0.7710.30996 (10 Febuary2021)
- Birthday Report
- Sql changes made for white list global setting to add tenant
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Single invoices to include cancelled visits in the select
- Bulk Invoice to include cancelled visits
BUG FIXES
- Documents download
- Calculating mileage on hours worked report fix
- Displaying selected service contract on edit visit
Version 3.0.7654.28954 (16 December 2020)
- Bulk diarise located under rostering -> live diary
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Supervisor role can now view Background jobs and bulk diarise
- Email template stored within database
- Whitelist for enabling bulk diarise
- Tenant setting for email bulk diarise to
BUG FIXES
- Fix to diarise causing issue with visits no mapping
Version 3.0.7628.17116 (24 November 2020)
- No new features in this release
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new Changes / Enhancements in this release
BUG FIXES
- Fix to resolve issue with multiple runs in a plan and diarise
Version 3.0.7613.29786 (05 November 2020)
- No new features in this release
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- The interface of Alice redesign with Left Menu
- Table style changes
- Button Style changes to use Icons with title on hover
- Edit Visit modal to layout change
- Tabs style changes
- Login Layout change
BUG FIXES
- No new bug fixes
Version 2.0.7583.27678 (08 October 2020)
- Runs Summary Report
- Dashboard Runs
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Tenant setting to control how mileage is calculated by travel time or distance
- Carers Dropdown in runs, visit live and plans to only display active carers with only to display in-active
- Runs error messages made more readable
BUG FIXES
- No new bug fixes
Version 2.0.7523.24503 (28 September 2020)
- No new features in this release
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Changes made for emails to be using html template
- New email for late checkin for carers onto visits
BUG FIXES
- No new bug fixes
Version 2.0.7523.24503 (07 August 2020)
- No new features in this release
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Disable save button on run’s when save is clicked to stop double clicks of save adding multiple runs
BUG FIXES
- Resolve issue with duplicate visit numbers appearing when multiple people diarise
Version 2.0.7479.21768 (23 June 2020)
- No new features in this release
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No new Changes / Enhancements in this release
BUG FIXES
- Resolve problem with carers dropdown in runs having null values
Version 2.0.7474.26774 (18 June 2020)
- No new features in this release
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Performance enhancement to runs allocations to speed up save, validation
- Changes made to plan for performance on selecting multiple visits and allocating run.
- Ordering of runs list
BUG FIXES
- No new bug fixes
Version 2.0.7473.27289 (17 June 2020)
- No new features in this release
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Performance changes to runs allocations to speed up save, validation
- Enabling Supervisors to view runs tab
- Node count for visit plans on saving run and node count on carer allocation in Plans causing error
BUG FIXES
- Resolve issue with Diarise containing multiple carers that was not in run
Version 2.0.7471.23563 (15 June 2020)
- Runs
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Displaying on planned visit if applied to a run with a star and a label for what run on hover
- Mars Customer Records Start and End date and filters carer portal of expired medication
- Service contract drop down in visits to removed expire contracts from list unless already selected, then highlight in red
BUG FIXES
- No Bug Fixes were in this release.
Version 2.0.7283.18618 (08 January 2020)
- No New Features were in this release.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Plan items added to calendar by double click
- Carer checking in performance enhancements
- Visit rota font size change for Customer / Carer download in PDF
- Login placeholder text colour from grey to black
BUG FIXES
- Tooltips to appear under item instead of to the right
- Background colour change of badge for carer portal number of items in tab
Version 2.0.7241.22014 (29 October 2019)
- Release of Actual hours worked report.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Change made to Mars Administered Report to switch administered date time to Visit End date time based on rules.
- Admin settings having rule for enabling mars report change under report settings section, set the value to 0 to disable
BUG FIXES
- No Bug Fixes were in this release.
Version 2.0.7209.25098 (30 September 2019)
- Release of Actual hours worked report.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No Changes or Enhancements were in this release.
BUG FIXES
- No Bug Fixes were in this release.
Version 2.0.7185.27333 (03 September 2019)
- No new features were released in this update.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Mileage Report to include check in and checkout time
BUG FIXES
- Change made to Payroll Report changes to Hours Report Breakdown as well as resolving problem with calculations
- Remove html not closed in carer portal for medication
Version 2.0.7171.17707 (20 August 2019)
- No new features were released in this update.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No enhancements were released in this update.
BUG FIXES
- Changes made to hours worked report so that calculations are accurate
- Change made to customers search box title in customer tab so that it is labeled correctly
Version 2.0.7156.26855 (06 August 2019)
- Care manager checkout to include mar details
- Missing visit report to include / exclude cancelled visits
- Report Customer Note Audit
- Report Emergency Next of Kin
- Note types sort order for carer portal
- Date time of created note added to carer portal
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Partial allocated visits query for visits calendar extra performance increase
- Absence register performance increase
- Performance increase on searching for customers / carers – separate name from address
- Hours Worked report change time format
- Hours Worked report separate into first / last visit and between
BUG FIXES
Version 2.0.7087.25507 (06 June 2019)
- Customer Visit Group Report
- Partially allocated visits added to visit diary extended view
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Customer Profile page speed increase of load
- Carer Profile page speed increase of load
BUG FIXES
- Employee number issue – when saving new carer with employee number included
Version 2.0.7075.21168 (16 May 2019)
- Carer Revenue Analysis Report
- Customer Revenue Analysis Report
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- No enhancements were released in this update.
BUG FIXES
- No bug fixes were released in this update.
Version 2.0.7069.16739 (10 May 2019)
- Training Matrix Report
- Employment Audit Report
- Mileage First Last Report
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Report Customer Visit – changes for selecting the yes no options in filter
- ISA Fast Track Date added to Recruitment
BUG FIXES
- No bug fixes were released in this update.
Version 2.0.6907.30405 (29 Nov 2018)
- No new features were released in this update
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Cancelled visits are highlighted and displayed with a red background when carers views list of visits in the home page on the the carers portal.
- Improve page load time when viewing Batch Invoices.
- Improve time taken to load customers dropdown when creating single invoices.
BUG FIXES
- When a carer had checked in but not checked out for a specific customer, an error occurred when care managers viewed the customer’s basic info page.
Version 2.0.6780.39817 (07 Aug 2018)
- No new features were released in this update
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- The display of dates in Carer portal is displayed in a better format from : Jul 24 14:31 to Tue 24/07/2018 14:31 Careplan list in manager order by date created desc Carer portal to display latest careplan for customer
- Changes to visit rota’s to highlight those visits that are un allocated / under allocated / cancelled better
- Stop loading icon when saving a single visit plan, issue having to scroll back down
BUG FIXES
- Style change on Cookie law so that the grid lines of the calandar appear behind the cookie content
Version 2.0.6703.27130 (10 May 2018)
- No new features were released in this update
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- A loading icon will be displayed whenever Alice is waiting for data
- A notification showing success/failure is displayed whenever data is saved/updated/deleted
- Alice will now utilize the entire viewport
- The ‘Revenue by Tariff’ report has been altered to include more relevant and useful information
- When carers view past visit report notes, they will see the name of the carer who wrote them
- You now have the option to include an employee number when creating a carer, or editing a carer’s details
- If a carer has an employee number entered into the system, it will appear in payroll reports
BUG FIXES
- The system will no longer reject diarisation when an assigned carer has pending or declined leave
Version 2.0.6687.39858 (25 April 2018)
- No new features were released in this update
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Can now download the following as CSV for use in spreadsheets: single/batch invoices, detail/summary payroll
- Bulk download option added to invoices – all invoices within a run can be downloaded as a single pdf
- Can now edit a tariff to show/hide a customer’s name from an invoice
- The ‘Hours Worked’ report has been re-done and now includes payroll information and calculates fractional hours correctly
- Analytics tools implemented to help us understand how users experience Alice
- Optimisations were made to visit plan/live diary tab to speed up interactions such as selecting/deselecting multiple entries or switching carers/customers
- Can now create visits from a visit plan when associated carers are on leave during the diarisation period – the visits are created unallocated instead of rejecting the diarisation
BUG FIXES
- Editing some carer’s Recruitment Info would result in an ‘unexpected error’ message
- A condition whereby cloning visit plan entries, opening one of them and saving, then saving the others would cause them to disappear has been fixed
- When entering new visit plan items into the system, they will no longer default to an ended service contract
- When a system error has occurred, the message no longer asks the user to contact the helpdesk, as the helpdesk is no longer used
- Editing a visit from the Visits tab would fail to update the costs for the visit when adding/removing carers
- Changes made to fix impact of daylight saving time ending
- The system would display the same error message multiple times if a holiday overlapped with a visit time
Version 2.0.6652.19450 (19 March 2018)
- No new features were released in this update
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Performance enhancements made to Diarisation, Visit Plans and Live Diary
- Performance enhancements made to Visits tab, improving search functionality here
- Clicking ‘Save’ from within a Visit Plan dialog now saves that single entry to the database, as with the Live Diary
- Live Diary now displays a message warning when unsaved changes have been made
- Can now diarise a customer’s visits even if assigned carers have leave during the diarisation period – these visits will now be created unallocated
BUG FIXES
- When downloading an invoice, the name given to the PDF is no longer undefined_invoice
- A browser update was causing some PDFs to be viewable only after pressing ‘Enter’ from the browser’s address bar; the system now automatically downloads the invoice
- The system no longer subtracts one hour from Live Diary entries when they have been dragged to change their start/end time
Version 2.0.6625.41987 (22 Feb 2018)
- ‘Live Diary’ tab (previously ‘Diary’) now has a ‘Timeline’ view, showing customers or carers and their visits; has the option to show unallocated visits as well; can edit visits from here by double clicking a timeline entry.
- Carer Relationship tab added to Rostering section to manage customer/carer relationships
- System will prompt for confirmation when trying to assign a carer with a ‘Poor’ relationship to a customer visit
- System will remove banned carers from visits for the customer from which they are banned, after confirmation from the user
- Banned carers will not display in the list of carer options for visits for customers that they are banned from visiting
- Course Management section added to Admin tab
- You can specify a default set of training requirements for visits, and carers that do not meet these requirements will require confirmation when assigning them to calls; further, individual visits can have additional training requirements applied.
- Ability to enter min/max requested weekly hours per carer has been added to Staff Availability tab; the system will prompt for confirmation when this is exceeded upon assigning the carer to a visit or visit plan
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Renamed Rostering->Visits tab to ‘Plan’; Renamed Rostering->Diary tab to ‘Live Diary’
- Can now select only one carer OR customer at a time in the Live Diary (previously ‘Diary’)
- Text in Admin->Preferences info pop-up now correctly explains the function of the switch for the Prevent Carer Visit Overlap option
- Staff Availability now represents time slots for which the carer IS available
- Next Occurring or ‘Due’ date now displayed on staff availability and visit plan entries, clarifying when alternating entries apply
- Staff Availability is displayed as a green coloured underlay from the Live Diary tab, when viewing visits for a carer
- Absences are displayed as editable dark grey entries in the Live Diary
- You can toggle the view in Staff Availability section to display all visit plan entries for the selected carer, and make edits to them
- Staff Availability entries, and Visit Plan entries display a thatched pattern whenever they are an alternating-week cycle type (not 1 week)
- Annual Leave Register renamed to ‘Absence Register’ and moved to Rostering tab
- Can now record customer absences/suspensions
- Absence Register has filter for carer/customer
- Can delete/edit approved/declined leave
- Inactive carers are by default removed from displaying in lists when creating visits, with the option to show them (for the sake of them appearing on past visits)
- A carer who has visited a customer previously will have their reputation with each customer displayed alongside their name in add/edit visit screens
- The system will now prompt for confirmation when assigning a carer to a visit when the customer has a different gender preference than the gender of the carer
- When changing a carer’s transport type, system now gives the option to change on existing visits in the system – removing issues related to incorrect mileage calculations for these particular visits
- Font size increased on customer visit rotas
- Visit entries in the Staff Availability tab are now displayed on top of the availability entries
- Removed requirement for ‘Conducted by’ when entering a Review into the system as this will not always be known in advance
- Diary view now displays Monday – Sunday
BUG FIXES
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- Declined leave requests no longer block visit allocations
- Can no longer create visits with start time after end time
Version 2.0.6401.31020 (13 July 2017)
- Invoices tab in Customer Details section displays all invoices associated with the selected customer
- Customer Group Report lists customers that are associated to the selected group
- Carers can now change their own password
- Documents can be uploaded to individual care plans
- Mileage rates can now be altered by care managers by accessing the ‘Mileage Settings’ tab under the ‘Admin’ tab
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Ability to manually add an address. The address needs to include accurate latitude and longitude details, otherwise mileage will not be correct
- ALICE will now remember the number of items to display for each individual tab, based on the user’s previous selection. This will reset to a default value of 10 upon logging out or closing the browser tab
- Invoices can now be searched for by visit number from either the Single Invoices tab, or the Batch Invoices tab
- Financial Report now has optional Travel Time Pay, which when set to a value other than ‘0’ will display travel time pay and deduct the value
from the Gross Profit. The report functions as it currently does when ‘0’ is entered
BUG FIXES
- Fix to deleting a batch invoice run causing an error and not actually deleting the invoices
- When overriding charge value for a cancelled visit, the value would reset to the original value, and
not respect the overridden change
Version 2.0.6373.17801 (14 June 2017)
- Ability to categorise customers into defined “groups” allowing customer segmentation.
- Ability to manage holiday register for carers which is taken into consideration during carer allocation whilst editing visits.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Display on Overrun Visits Report whether or not the customer was charged for the overrun.
- Show ended service contracts in ‘Edit Visits’ view. Validation to prevent scheduling or diarising visits with ended contracts.
- Display of bank holiday rate on holiday charge / pay rates instead of 0.00
- Ability to export Mars Administerd Export in .xls format
- Payroll totals now appear in 4 decimal precision for greater accuracy.
BUG FIXES
- Side effect column size increased to support recording and display more than 1000 characters.
- Ability to calculate mileage based on a defined motorbike mileage rate.
- Ensure visits with a cancelled visit type cannot be created via the ad-hoc visit feature.
Version 2.0.6346.17776 (18 May 2017)
- Team portal that gives group of carers delivering services to a set of customers at one location the ability to collaboratively view visits under a common team account.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Customers can be searched by NHS Customer Reference aka Conni Numbers.
- Mars Administered Report can be downloaded in excel format
BUG FIXES
- Searching of customer/carer notes by “created by” column in search criteria is now resolved.
Version 2.0.6324.21087 (27 Apr 2017)
- No new features were released in this update.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Uploading of mp4 video files now is supported.
- Add ‘Delete’ button to visits tab to facilitate deletion of visits
- Highlight cancelled visits in visit rota report
- Cancelled visits now are displayed with a “Red” background in diary.
- Several performance optimisations for improved user experience
BUG FIXES
- Visits that are “Late Cancellation By Customer” are now included in invoices regardless of where a carer is allocated or not.
- Fixes to Pay Breakdown Report to ensure that bank holiday visits are only counted once
Version 2.0.6297.25187 (30 March 2017)
Version 2.0.6268.24033 (28 Feb 2017)
- Customer and Carer names now appear in the details header when viewing information for a specific customer or carer.
- New report added and highlighted with the NEW badge
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Performance optimisation leading to significant improvements in response times for all Payroll functions.
- When viewing visit details, the dialog box now shows the name of the customer that is associated to the visit
- Alice records timestamp generated on the server rather than client when recording checkin and checkout times for requests via the carer portal.
- Carer rota’s updated to ‘new’ pdf format
- Logo removed from all reports and replaced with organisation’s name and address for consistency purposes.
- Added ‘Home’ button on the dashboard page giving users the ability to navigate back to the home page.
- Customer name is now displayed when viewing mileage info via view/edit
- Where specified NHS reference is also displayed along-with customer name on all detailed format invoices.
- Payroll History displays payroll runs ordered by recent payroll run date.
BUG FIXES
- Asthetic improvements to ensure consistent look and feel when navigating between payroll summary and payroll detail pages.
- Fix to error that was ocurring when creating adhoc visit with “late cancellation” call type.
- Fix to address duplication of funders when adding a credit note
Version 2.0.6242.18503 (22 Feb 2017)
NEW FEATURES
- Ability to manage alice system preferences that can be found under admin –> preferences.
- Customer photos feature: Upload customer images which are also viewable to carers via the carer portal
- New reports published highlighted with the NEW badge
- ‘Add All’ button added to single invoice payments to faster visit selection.
- New “Route Info” tab that shows stats for a specific carer route including carers planned movements plotted on a map.
- Second reference info in “recruitment info” dialog is now optional.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Change Incidents from versioning to keeping only one record
- Display two new columns invoiced and payrolled when viewing carer and customer visits. Visit editing is disabled if the visit is invoiced and payrolled.
- Customer name now appears in the dialog title when viewing visit details.
- Payroll functions optimised for quick response times.
BUG FIXES
- Fixed hidden error that was ocurring when adding new care manager / supervisor where email format is invalid.
- When adding a carer to a visit beyond the first in Rostering > > Visits > Select customer, if the number of carers is set to a number less than the number of carers added, the additional carers appear in the financials information, though they are not saved to the visit. Fixed.
- ‘Add Invoice’ for single invoices was taking a long time to query after filling in reference, dates, and tariff.
- Saving ‘Pay Rates’ confirmation dialog was inconsistent with ‘Holiday Rates’ and ‘Charge Rates’.
- Visit Mileage Customer filter not working (both filtering and clearing). Fixed.
- ‘View PDF’ buttons are inconsistent in ‘single invoices’ vs ‘batch invoices’ sections. Fixed.
- ‘Search’ button in Financials > Payroll was displaying as a link, not a button
- ‘Back’ buttons styled in some sections
- The ‘View/Edit’ button for batch invoice runs should say ‘View’ or ‘View/Delete’ as no editing is possible
- Edit Organisation Information ‘Find Address’ button was breaching modal border
- Add Invoice ‘Template’ in single invoices should read ‘Tariff’ for drop-down menu
Version 2.0.6186.18210 (08 Dec 2016)
NEW FEATURES
- No new features were released in this update.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Pagination and Single call improvements enhancing system scalibility.
- Web servers optimised with increased worker threads.
BUG FIXES
- No bug fixes were released in this update.
Version 2.0.6179.26619 (01 Dec 2016)
NEW FEATURES
- Ablity to download reports in csv/xls format.
- Ability to add Ad-Hoc visits available via Customer –> Visits, Carer –> Visits and Rostering –> Diary pages.
- Ability to edit visits when viewing completing notes for customers and carers.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Performance improvements by enhancing the caching framework.
- Replace existing address search feature with powerful post code lookup feature for accurate address and geo data retrieval when adding customers, carers and personal contacts.
BUG FIXES
- Enhancements to Payments feature for performance purposes.
Version 2.0.6165.27795 (17th Nov 2016)
NEW FEATURES
- New reports added on to the “reports” page highlighted as “NEW”.
- Alice now displays slider notifications that appear in the bottom right highlighting important alerts/notifications.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Performance improvements by enhancing the caching framework.
BUG FIXES
- Fix to address the issue where reports were not being loaded in certain IE browsers.
- Fix to address the “null” display issue in interviewer lists when adding recruitment info.
- Fix to address the customer name “null” display issue when adding Invoice Payment.
- Fix to address error that was occurring when a duplicate Mars Dose Type, frequency type is added.
Version 2.0.6157.25692 (9th Nov 2016)
NEW FEATURES
- Alice now supports viewing and editing mileage logs associated to carer(s).
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Minor asthetic improvements relating to tab icons.
- Improvements to ensure duplicate http requests are not fired which were in some cases resulting in duplicate carers mapped to visits.
BUG FIXES
- No bug fixes were released in this update.
Version 2.0.6150.28013 (3rd Nov 2016)
NEW FEATURES
- Alice now supports uploading of .eml files.
- New reports added on to the “reports” page highlighted as “NEW”.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- New Tariffs now can be created without the intervension of the Alice support team.
- Additional checks in place to ensure duplicate carer visits are not included in the payroll process ensuring carers are not paid twice for the same visit.
- Support for “special” charge and pay rates to be defined for “specific” bank holidays.
- In cases where visits overlap multiple service bands alice now uses overlap rules that dictate what charge or pay should be for the visit in question.
- Show Carers button that appears against each visit record when clicked also displays “checked in/checked out” status.
BUG FIXES
- Removal of duplicate payroll visit records that are displayed in cases where multiple payroll runs were executed.
- Addresses issue where emails were not sent when alice users requested assistane via the “Forgot Password” or “Reset Username” or “Reset Password” feature.
Version 2.0.6134.26966 (18th October 2016)
NEW FEATURES
- New reports added on to the “reports” page highlighted as “NEW”.
- Block pay rates supported defined at Call Type level.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Improved caching to boost general performance.
- Charge structures can now be defined to be time sensitive.
- Creation of new tariffs uses default service bands
BUG FIXES
- No bug fixes were released in this update.
Version 2.0.6122.19362 (05th October 2016)
NEW FEATURES
- New reports added on to the “reports” page highlighted as “NEW”.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Special characters are now supported when adding notes.
BUG FIXES
- Fix to “null” issue in the Conducted By list when adding customer reviews.
- Fix to “null” issue in the Conducted By list when adding customer supervisions.
- Hours worked report updated to display accurate hours worked info.
Version 2.0.6103.17710 (16th September 2016)
NEW FEATURES
- Integrated reporting feature now released with new reports added in the next upcoming releases.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Widgets showing stats in the dashboard have been further optimised for performance reasons.
BUG FIXES
- Fix to the carer filter issue in the diary.
- Carer’s rota download issue has been fixed and changed to be consistent with customer rota feature
Version 2.0.6093.18905 (07th September 2016)
NEW FEATURES
- No new features were released.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Additional validation checks to ensure unallocated visits cannot be invoiced.
- Improved care and customer visit layouts allowing viewing of visit reports for all visit associated carers in one place.
- Additional username checks now in place in care manager and supervisor account creation.
- Customer visit lists now shows unallocated visits as well.
- Performance improvements relating to caching engine.
BUG FIXES
- Fix to the overrun filter in customer and carer visits page.
Version 2.0.6080.23025 (24th August 2016)
NEW FEATURES
- Advanced Carer Search – gives care managers and coordinators the ability to see a list of carers that have previously visited or see a list of carers based on the distance from there home address to the customer address. Information relating to “call clash” status is also displaying informing care managers and coordinators where the carer is available to service the customer or not.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Visits associated to a specific customer can now be seen under the “Visits” tab when viewing details of the customer.
- Carers can now view customers previous visit notes for the last 10 visits via the carer portal. This has been changed from displaying the last 24 hour to last 10 visits.
- Speed improvements to carer diaries in rostering.
- Additional validations in place to ensure visits cannot be over-allocated.
BUG FIXES
- Fix to the issue with visit rota pdf not downloading.
- Fix to the issue with Alice not displaying correctly on certain iOS platforms.
Version 2.0.6061.24498 (15th August 2016)
NEW FEATURES
- “CareManager” role users can now manage existing pay rates associated to their organisation account for each worker type.
- “CareManager” role users can now define “special” pay rates if visit is on a “specific” public/bank holiday.
- Support for block charging and tariffs
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Additional validation checks to detect clashing calls ensuring carers cannot be in two places at the same time.
- Minor aesthetic improvements to ensure responsive support on smart devices.
- Minor performance level improvements to dashboards
BUG FIXES
- Fix to error that was occuring when Mars records where being updated.
- Fix to pay not being calculated on certain “Late Cancellation By Customer” visits.
Version 2.0.6036.21740 (11th June 2016)
NEW FEATURES
- Alice users can now submit feedback to Agile Link about their experience of Alice.
- “CareManager” role users can now manage existing tariffs associated to their organisation account.
CHANGES / ENHANCEMENTS
- Minor aesthetic improvements to ensure cross browser compatibility.
- Minor performance level improvements to dashboards
BUG FIXES
- No bug fixes were released.