Hello everyone,
We are pleased to announce our latest update on 2024-11-12, which includes a wide range of changes. Besides bug fixes and the removal of a deprecated item, we’ve optimized the system processes and implemented several enhancements to our existing features. Here’s a breakdown of what’s been updated in this release:
Improvements
Showing participants’ PII
Study owners can now directly enable or disable Personally Identifiable Information (PII) access for their studies. Previously, this required contacting support. For more details, please refer to our Learn website.
Placeholders in Page activity URLs
You can now use placeholders (only {{participant_id}} for now) in the URL of a Page activity to display different web pages to participants based on their context. For more details, please refer to our Learn website.
Exporting survey media-based responses
You can now export survey responses as a ZIP file, which includes both textual data and media-based files (images, audios, and videos), if any. For more details, please refer to our Learn website.
Performance optimization for activity response submission
We enhanced system performance by streamlining the activity response submission process, which has reduced processing time.
Bug Fixes
Persistent “Application is paused” notification
We partially addressed an issue on the iOS app where some participants persistently received the “Application is paused” notification. This caused background crashes and disrupted the data collection process. Plans are underway to enhance the flow and fully resolve the issue in the future.
Filter condition value reset
We fixed a bug where the selected value in a filter condition within the data filtering dialogs was reset when changing the operator.
Crash on the Participation page
We resolved an issue causing the Participation page of the researcher dashboard to crash for studies with participants who joined the study before one of our releases.
Study background image disappearance
We fixed a bug where the study background image disappeared on the Basics page in the researcher dashboard after saving changes in the Edit Study dialog.
Push notifications for Televisit
We fixed an issue in our web apps where push notifications for Televisit messages and calls did not appear for any browser. Additionally, we addressed a related issue where notifications were not delivered to participants on mobile apps.
Study background display
We fixed an issue in the participant web app where the study background was not displaying as intended.
Activity editor page error
We addressed an issue where switching between activities and reopening them multiple times could result in a “Something went wrong” error on the activity editor page of the researcher dashboard.
Removals
Text input’s height lines property
We removed the deprecated “height of the text box (in lines)” property of Text or Audio/Text questions from survey definition files (JSONs). Now, multiline text inputs will consistently display as 5 lines, though this does not limit the number of characters that can be entered.
Thank you for your continued feedback and support which helps us make Avicenna Research better with each release. We hope you find these updates useful. As always, we welcome your feedback and encourage you to reach out with any comments or questions on our Community Forum or contact us directly via Email. Stay tuned for more updates coming your way!