HIFIS 3.7 – Release Notes

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What’s New since version 3.60.2072?

The following is a summary of what’s new or improved in the HIFIS 3.7 software:

Reports

• New: there are many new reports that have been created since the previous release. Below are a few highlights:
• Program Billing: this is a better version of the Client Billing report
• Turnaways Report
• Shelter Occupancy
• Family Composition Report
• Improved: in addition to new reports, most existing reports have been modified and known bugs have been fixed.
• Ability to run reports based on stays or Goods and Services activity
• Calculations have been improved for more consistency across reports
• Reports that run for All Clients now do so automatically, while in reports that require a client selection only one client can be selected
• You can now choose to run reports by date, year or month in the Reporting Period

Conflict Module

The Conflict Module has undergone an overhaul based on user feedback

• People Module added: there is now the option to add details about Staff members, Contacts and Outsiders
• Can record conflict with Staff and Outsiders (one of which may be called 'Unknown')
• Conflicts can now be deleted
• The Conflict Grid in Client Details now contains a letter indicating the role of the client in the conflict: V (victim) A (aggressor) or = (neither)

Stays

• Historical Bookings: Any NON-CURRENT (Historical) stays should now be entered through the new Historical Booking. This avoids the current problem of multiple stays without an OUT date
• HIFIS now prevents Book Ins that overlap previous stays
• Ability To Undo a Book Out to extend a stay
• Stays can now be merged in the STAYs screen if the Book Out date is the same as the subsequent Book In date
• Programs now close automatically for family/graphical book-outs

Reception Window Enhancement

• Client name is now highlighted YELLOW if booked in at a shelter not available to the user and cannot be booked out by this user. Also, a new shelter icon on the bottom left indicates which shelter a client is booked into
• Visual markers now indicate if client is member of a family, a family head or disabled
• Can now search by File Number in Reception

Administration

• Automated Updates: Administrators can now select Check for HIFIS updates under the Help menu and the software will update automatically
• Lookup values can now be activated/deactivated in batch. Centrally deactivated values can no longer be activated
• HIFIS sites now manage their email type and SMTP from the Defaults screen and not by editing the .ini file(s)
• On startup, HIFIS will now check if central lookups are modified and make the update if needed

Other Changes

• Addresses are now geo-coded and can be looked up in map view if an internet connection is available
• You can now manually change the status of a bed to be unavailable for a number of reasons.
• Can now set a program rate to $0
• Bulletins now appear in the order they were created
• Bulletins for a service provider that is not accessible to this user do not show up
• All user-defined mandatory fields are now highlighted in red
• Can no longer add multiple financial profiles for a single client
• Can no longer deactivate or bar a client who is booked in
• Cloning a client now copies all specified fields
• Age brackets are now available for Coordinators
• CSV files now named after the report and are placed in the Exchange folder