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2022 Our Cat Herder Updates

Updates to the Our Cat Herder system in 2022.

December 2022

  • Preparations & planning for 2023 major system updates.

  • Routine system updates, security improvement, patches etc...

November 2022

New Features

  • No new features this month.

Minor Updates

  • Minutes & Agenda PDF styling updates
  • Update to word document processing for speed improvement
  • Routine system updates, security improvement, patches etc...

Bug Fixes

  • Fix display of external links in Minutes PDF
  • Meeting Actions PDFs fix for long action names

October 2022

New Features

  • No new features this month.

Minor Updates

  • Updates to users sessions
  • Routine system updates, security improvement, patches etc...

Bug Fixes

  • Comments time stamp is 30mins out for some timezones.

September 2022

New Features

🎉🎉🎉 Full portal wide search introduced 🎉🎉🎉

Minor Updates

  • Decision Maker invites can be resent by Admin or decision creator.
  • Updates to improve user reset flows.

Bug Fixes

  • Bug in MFA setup for Microsoft Authenticator users

August 2022

New Features

  • Admin users or decision creator can mark a decision as resolved and it moves to Past Decisions immediately.

Minor Updates

  • Discussion Topic Titles can be edited.
  • Past Decisions, update to order newest to oldest instead of oldest to newest.
  • Routine system updates, security improvement, patches etc...

Bug Fixes

  • File upload closing modal issue affecting some users resolved.
  • Meeting delete issue resolved.

July 2022

New Features

  • No new features this month.

Minor Updates

  • Updates to OCH infrastructure to improve system stability and speed.

Bug Fixes

Meeting Creation - selecting "Other" bug resolved

June 2022

New Features

  • No new features this month.

Minor Updates

  • Routine system updates, security improvement, patches etc...

Bug Fixes

  • Background Paper Numbering Issue fixed.
  • Duplicate agenda item names in meeting actions affecting some admin users resolved.

May 2022

New Features

  • On "Actions" users can export the actions they are currently viewing to a PDF or to CSV file.

Minor Updates

  • On Actions page users able to sort and filter actions & select time period for action viewing
  • Routine system updates, security improvement, patches etc...

Bug Fixes

  • Actions PDF Generation Improvements to increase speed of PDf creation and updating.
  • Comments on Docs bug fixed.

April 2022

New Features

  • Admin user can turn on automatic numbering of action items.
  • User can choose to set start date on Actions

Minor Updates

  • Routine system updates, security improvement, patches etc...

Bug Fixes

  • Background Paper Attachments occasionally showing in Agenda PDF attachments list when they should not.
  • Background Paper Adding Attachments issues resolved.
  • Batch Add Viewers 404 issue affecting some admin users
  • Resend action without meeting bug
  • In discussions post creator/file uploaded cannot delete own file

March 2022

New Features

  • Admin can star discussion groups so they are featured at the top of the discussion groups list.

Minor Updates

  • Background Paper stability updates and general improvements.
  • Routine system updates, security improvement, patches etc...

Bug Fixes

  • Outlook Office 365 and Our Cat Herder Links Issues

February 2022

New Features

  • Setting for Meetings added so that Actions can be excluded from Minutes PDF

Minor Updates

  • Stability updates to Bulk Extract feature
  • Routine system updates, security improvement, patches etc...

Bug Fixes

  • Returns/New Lines in the text when an action is entered sometimes causing user issues.

January 2022

New Features

  • Added a "Public Version" button to download Minutes PDF without document links for organisations that distribute minutes publicly.

Minor Updates

  • Routine system updates, security improvement, patches etc...

Bug Fixes

  • Background papers were not showing in order of Agenda but order of creation
  • Background papers very rarely missing from Agenda PDF