This page lists all relevant changes that have been made during a version release. It indicates the date installed or when it was released which will approximate the installation date. Bug fixes are not itemized as they are not relevant to this page but are indicated so that you are aware no new functionality or change has been made. Only changes that have been made over the past 12 months are shown.
Version 14.6.7 (released on 2024-09-17) - (installed 2024-09-18 at 8:30 A.M. AZ Time)
BUG FIXES:
Version 14.6.6 (released on 2024-09-15) - (installed 2024-09-17 at 11:40 A.M. AZ Time)
IMPROVEMENT/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
IMPROVEMENT: The field validation type is now displayed below each Text field in the Online Designer (similar to how action tags are displayed for each field).
Version 14.6.5 (released on 2024-09-05) - (installed 2024-09-09 at 11:00 A.M. AZ Time)
IMPROVEMENT/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
IMPROVEMENT: When exporting the Project XML file for a project that has alerts, there is now a new checkbox "Leave Alerts enabled (unless disabled)" on the Other Functionality page below the "Alerts & Notifications" checkbox. Going forward, all alerts in the Project XML file will be disabled by default unless the user checks the new checkbox to keep them enabled. In previous versions, alerts in the Project XML file would import into the new project as is (i.e., if enabled, it would stay enabled, and if disabled, it would stay disabled). This new option gives users more control over the default state of alerts in the newly created project.
CHANGE: When deleting a data quality rule when the Data Resolution Workflow feature is enabled in a project, the rule deletion dialog will now display a red warning to the user to inform them that deleting the rule will also delete any data queries (open or closed) that are currently associated with that data quality rule.
Version 14.6.4 (released on 2024-08-29) - (installed 2024-09-09 at 11:00 A.M. AZ Time)
IMPROVEMENT/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
Version 14.6.3 (released on 2024-08-22) - (installed 2024-08-26 at 11:45 P.M. AZ Time)
BUG FIXES:
CHANGE/IMPROVEMENT: After completing a survey, the "Close survey" button is now displayed below the Survey Completion Text so that it is no longer the first thing that participants see on the page.
CHANGE/IMPROVEMENT: Background Data Imports would automatically be halted if they took more than 24 hours to complete. This limit has been increased to 48 hours to allow some very large imports more time to import all their data.
Version 14.6.2 (released on 2024-08-15) - (installed 2024-08-19 at 12:00 P.M. AZ Time)
BUG FIXES:
Version 14.6.1 (released on 2024-08-08) - (installed 2024-08-12 at 2:50 P.M. AZ Time)
BUG FIXES:
Version 14.6.0 (released on 2024-08-01) - (installed 2024-08-06 at 8:00 A.M. AZ Time)
NEW FEATURES, & BUG FIXES:
NEW FEATURE: Bulk Record Delete
Version 14.5.4 (released on 2024-07-30) - (installed 2024-08-01 at 11:50 A.M. AZ Time)
IMPROVEMENT/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
IMPROVEMENT: Multi-Language Management can now be utilized by MyCap. Users will see a new “MyCap” tab on the MLM setup page, which will allow them to translate their custom MyCap elements that will appear to participants in the MyCap Mobile App. Participants will be given the choice to use any of the project’s MLM languages after opening and viewing the MyCap Mobile App.
IMPROVEMENT: When using MyCap in a project, users can now customize the notification time (default 8:00AM) for MyCap notifications to participants using the MyCap mobile app.
IMPROVEMENT: The “strikethrough” styling button has been added to the toolbar in the rich text editor in all the places where the editor is used.
IMPROVEMENT: REDCap now supports the “s” HTML tag for strikethrough (note: the “strike” HTML tag was already supported).
IMPROVEMENT: The "Help & FAQ" page has been updated with new content (thanks to the FAQ Committee).
CHANGE/IMPROVEMENT: If a custom primary key field has been added to any given REDCap database table that does not have an auto-incrementing field that serves as the primary key, the "database structure is incorrect" warning in the Control Center will no longer recommend that this extra field (and its key) be deleted. This should help institutions where their local IT support is recommending or forcing them to add primary keys to all REDCap database tables (for various reasons).
Version 14.5.3 (released on 2024-07-25) - (installed 2024-07-29 at 9:35 A.M. AZ Time)
IMPROVEMENT/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
IMPROVEMENT: More user experience improvements for the Online Designer, including a new dismissible popup that alerts the user about the new “drag-n-drop” behavior for moving fields in the Online Designer. Additionally, users can now limit the deactivation/reactivation to certain action tags in the Quick Modify Field(s) popup. In previous versions, users could only deactivate/reactivate all action tags for the selected fields, but now users may provide specific actions tags that will be deactivated/reactivated.
CHANGE: REDCap has been verified to be fully compatible with PHP 8.3.
Version 14.5.2 (released on 2024-07-18) - (installed 2024-07-22 at 10:35 A.M. AZ Time)
IMPROVEMENT/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
IMPROVEMENT: When a user moves a project to production and they opt to delete all records during the process, this is now specifically denoted on the Logging page, which will now list the logged event as "Move project to Production status (delete all records)".
Version 14.5.1 (released on 2024-07-15) - (installed 2024-07-15 at 12:30 P.M. AZ Time)
IMPROVEMENT/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
IMPROVEMENT: In the “Move Field” dialog in the Online Designer, the user may now choose “Insert at top of this form” or (if the field is part of a matrix) “Insert at the top of the matrix group” from the field drop-down.
Version 14.5.0 (released on 2024-07-11) - (installed 2024-07-15 at 12:30 P.M. AZ Time)
NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
NEW FEATURE: Enhanced e-Consent Framework and PDF Snapshot Functionality
Overview
Overall Benefits of the New Features
Enhanced e-Consent Framework
New action tag @CONSENT-VERSION
Improved PDF Snapshot Functionality
Improvements to the Online Designer
Improvement/bug fix:
IMPROVEMENT: The "Help & FAQ" page has been updated with new content (thanks to the FAQ Committee).
CHANGE: In a MyCap-enabled project, if users switch from classic mode (i.e., non-longitudinal) to longitudinal data collection mode or from longitudinal to classic (via the setting at the top of the Project Setup page), the MyCap task settings and Active task formats will no longer be erased in the project when changing that setting. In previous versions, all MyCap task settings and Active task formats would be completely erased in the project when moving to/from longitudinal mode.
Version 14.4.1 (released on 2024-07-03) - (installed 2024-07-08 at 1:30 P.M. AZ Time)
BUG FIXES
Version 14.4.0 (released on 2024-06-27) - (installed 2024-07-01 at 8:30 A.M. AZ Time)
NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENT/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
NEW FEATURE: Background Data Import option for the API - Similar to using the Background Data Import on the Data Import Tool page, users may now utilize the feature when making a call to the Import Records API method. They can simply pass the API parameter “backgroundProcess” with a value of 1 (for Yes) or 0 (for No, which is the default) to invoke this option. The API will return a “success” message with “true” or “false” regarding if the data was successfully accepted. Note: This option works with any data format: CSV, JSON, or XML.
IMPROVEMENT: The Email Logging page now has its own separate user privilege. Previously, only users with "User Rights" privileges could access the Email Logging page. Now, users must explicitly be given "Email Logging" privileges in order to access the Email Logging page. Note: During the upgrade to REDCap 14.4.0 or higher, any users with "User Rights" privileges will automatically be given "Email Logging" privileges in order to keep continuity with their current access to the Email Logging page.
IMPROVEMENT: "Survey Notifications" and "Survey Confirmation Emails" were added as new filter options to the "Type" drop-down filter on the Email Logging page. Note: This change is not retroactive, meaning that any survey notification emails or confirmation emails that were sent prior to the upgrade to REDCap 14.4.0+ will not show up when filtering by these new options but will instead only show up when Type is set to "all types".
IMPROVEMENT: When using Multi-Language Management, the Twilio/Mosio text messaging text (“To begin the survey, visit [link]” and voice call text (“To begin the phone survey, call [phone]” are now available for translation on the MLM setup page.
CHANGE: The button text was changed from "Cancel import" to "Halt import" for greater clarity for Background Data Imports that are still processing on the Data Import Tool page.
CHANGE/IMPROVEMENT: The Data Access Group page in a project might be very slow to load in certain circumstances where many records exist in the project.
Version 14.3.14 (released on 2024-06-13) - (installed 2024-06-24 at 12:00 P.M. AZ Time)
BUG FIXES
Version 14.3.13 (released on 2024-05-30) - (installed 2024-05-30 at 2:00 P.M. AZ Time)
IMPROVEMENT/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
IMPROVEMENT: In the Online Designer when Ctrl-clicking multiple checkbox or radio fields to display the “Modify multiple fields” options, a new option to “Convert to matrix group” will appear, thus allowing users to merge the selected fields into a matrix. When merging fields into a matrix, the confirmation dialog will note that only the choices for the first field selected will be preserved (in case the selected fields have different choices). Additionally, the action will remove all field notes from the fields and will also remove all section headers (except for the first field's section header, if it exists).
IMPROVEMENT: In the Online Designer when editing a matrix of fields, a new button will appear at the bottom left of the “Edit Matrix of Fields” dialog that says “Save & split matrix into separate fields”. When clicked, it will convert the matrix into separate fields.
IMPROVEMENT: "For users that are not assigned to a Data Access Group, the Data Quality page will now display a DAG drop-down filter (next to the record drop-down filter) to allow them to apply any Data Quality rule only to records assigned to the selected DAG.
CHANGE: When using the Data Resolution Workflow in a project, it has always been the case that the results of data quality rules would automatically "exclude" fields that have a data query with "closed" status. Many users have complained about this behavior and have stated that the discrepancies should still be displayed in the data quality rule results regardless of the field's data query status. From now on, such fields will no longer be automatically "excluded" simply because they have a data query with "closed" status.
Version 14.3.12 (released on 2024-05-23) - (installed 2024-05-28 at 2:00 P.M. AZ Time)
IMPROVEMENT/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
IMPROVEMENT: "Phone (France)" was added as a new field validation. After upgrading, an administrator will need to enable it.
Version 14.3.11 (released on 2024-05-16) - (installed 2024-05-21 at 11:00 A.M. AZ Time)
IMPROVEMENT/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
IMPROVEMENT: In a MyCap-enabled project, all MyCap tasks can now be manually set as Active or Not Active at any time on the MyCap settings page in the Online Designer. Setting a MyCap task as “not active” will prevent the task from appearing in the MyCap mobile app for participants. Note: The previous release enabled this feature specifically for MyCap active tasks, while this change makes this feature available to all MyCap tasks (not just active tasks).
Version 14.3.10 (released on 2024-05-09) - (installed 2024-05-13 at 11:25 A.M. AZ Time)
IMPROVEMENT/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
IMPROVEMENT: When clicking on a user’s username in the user table on the User Rights page, in which the user is assigned to a user role, a “Remove from project” button was added inside the “User actions” popup that allows the user to be removed from a project directly without having to un-assign them from the role first.
IMPROVEMENT: In the Online Designer when viewing the fields of a specific instrument, a yellow star is now displayed to the right of the variable name for identifier fields to denote to users which fields are identifiers.
IMPROVEMENT: In a MyCap-enabled project, active tasks can now be set as Active or Not Active at any time on the MyCap settings page in the Online Designer. Setting an active task as “not active” will prevent the task from appearing in the MyCap mobile app for participants. Note: This is not for all MyCap tasks but only for MyCap active tasks.
CHANGE: The text in the help dialog for the option "Rename records?" on the Data Import Tool has been changed slightly for improved clarity and to reduce confusion.
Version 14.3.9 (released on 2024-05-03) - (installed 2024-05-07 at 11:00 A.M. AZ Time)
CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
CHANGE: The text for the option "Rename records?" on the Data Import Tool has been changed slightly for improved clarity and to reduce confusion.
Version 14.3.8 (released on 2024-05-02) - (installed 2024-05-07 at 11:00 A.M. AZ Time)
IMPROVEMENT/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
IMPROVEMENT: Mobile Toolbox measures have been added for use in the MyCap mobile app. The Mobile Toolbox (MTB) is a research platform that includes a library of cognitive and other tests that can be administered remotely on a smartphone. The MTB's measures include smartphone versions of assessments from the NIH Toolbox, the International Cognitive Ability Resource, and the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System. A list of all available MTB tasks in REDCap can be viewed via the “Import Active Task” button in the Online Designer for any MyCap-enabled project.
IMPROVEMENT: The Codebook page now has checkboxes that can be toggled by the user to remember the collapsed state of the tables on the page on a per-project basis for the user.
Version 14.3.7 (released on 2024-04-29) - (installed 2024-04-29 at 8:00 A.M. AZ Time)
CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
CHANGE: The video "Full Project Build" was added as a new video on the project left-hand menu and on the Training Videos page."
Version 14.3.6 (released on 2024-04-26) - (installed 2024-04-29 at 8:00 A.M. AZ Time)
BUG FIXES:
Version 14.3.5 (released on 2024-04-25) - (installed 2024-04-29 at 8:00 AZ Time)
IMPROVEMENT/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
IMPROVEMENT: The rich text editor used throughout REDCap now has a new drop-down option in the editor's toolbar for setting the "font family" and "font size" of any text in the editor.
IMPROVEMENT: When using MyCap in a longitudinal project, users can now decide on the event display format (ID, Label, or None) for titles of MyCap tasks displayed in the Upcoming Tasks section.
CHANGE/IMPROVEMENT: A few more pages were added to the "Navigate to page" widget to allow users to go to specific pages via PID and keyboard shortcuts.
CHANGE: The video "A Brief Overview of REDCap" was replaced with a new video."
Version 14.3.4 (released on 2024-04-18) - (installed 2024-04-29 at 8:00 A.M. AZ Time)
IMPROVEMENT/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
IMPROVEMENT: When moving one or more fields in the Online Designer, a new option will appear in the field selection drop-down to allow the user to move a field to an empty instrument (i.e., an instrument with no defined fields). In previous versions, fields could only be moved to an instrument containing at least one field (not counting the Form Status field).
IMPROVEMENT: New built-in PDF Viewer.
IMPROVEMENT: Videos hosted by the VidYard video service (vidyard.com) can now be utilized for the "Embed media" option on Descriptive Text fields. Thus, VidYard URLs (e.g., https://share.vidyard.com/watch/XYZXYZ) are now fully compatible, similar to how YouTube and Vimeo URLs have always been.
IMPROVEMENT: The "Help & FAQ" page has been updated with new content (thanks to the FAQ Committee).
CHANGE: New MLM tip added at the bottom of the "Forms/Surveys" tab on the MLM setup page. The tip reads as follows: "Tip: Choose your "ASI Language Source" wisely - If ASIs have been translated in your MLM setup, it is typically recommended that you utilize the "Language preference field" option for determining the translation to be used for an ASI survey invitation. Choosing "User's or survey respondent's active language" as the ASI Language Source can have unexpected results. For example, if a participant's survey response triggers the ASI, the ASI's invitation text will be output in the correct language since it uses what the participant has chosen previously. However, if the ASI is triggered by an action of the project user, such as a data import or saving a data entry form, the ASI's text will be in the language of the project user, which may not be the language that the participant prefers."
Version 14.3.3 (released on 2024-04-11) - (installed 2024-04-15 at 9:55 A.M. AZ Time)
IMPROVEMENT/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
IMPROVEMENT: When uploading static attachment files to an alert on the Alerts & Notifications page, the maximum allowed attachment size has been increased from 10 MB to 20 MB. Please note that sending attachments larger than 10 MB might cause the email to be rejected by certain email providers.
CHANGE: When editing a MyCap task’s settings in the Online Designer, if a task is scheduled one time then the "allow retroactive" option will now not be available.
Version 14.3.2 (released on 2024-04-04) - (installed 2024-04-08 at 4:10 P.M. AZ Time)
IMPROVEMENT/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
IMPROVEMENT: When moving one or more fields in the Online Designer, a new option will appear at the end of the field selection drop-down to allow the user to auto-create an instrument while moving the field(s) to that new instrument. Note: The new instrument will be named "New Instrument" by default, although the user can always rename it after the fact.
IMPROVEMENT: Various updates and fixes to the External Module Framework, including 1) Added validation button and use of Logic Editor for JSON settings.
Version 14.3.1 (released on 2024-03-28) - (installed 2024-04-01 at 2:30 P.M. AZ Time)
NEW HOOKS, IMPROVEMENTS & BUG FIXES:
IMPROVEMENT: MyCap now supports repeating instrument functionality for longitudinal projects. In previous versions, repeating instruments were only supported for class/non-longitudinal projects.
Version 14.3.0 (released on 2024-03-21) - (installed 2024-03-25 at 8:45 A.M. AZ Time)
NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
NEW FEATURE: New action tags: @MC-PARTICIPANT-JOINDATE-UTC and @MC-PARTICIPANT-TIMEZONE - These action tags will capture the MyCap participant’s timezone and also the install date/time (in UTC time) of the MyCap participant whenever the participant joins a project via the MyCap mobile app. NOTE: This is used only for the MyCap mobile app. The fields’ values are not generated when viewing the data entry form but only when the MyCap app is making a call to REDCap when the participant joins the project. Additionally, while these action tags can be added to a new field in already-existing MyCap projects, a field with this action tag will be auto-added to any projects where MyCap is enabled in the project after the fact and for any new projects created using the MyCap project template.
IMPROVEMENT: API examples in C Sharp (C#) code were added to the API Playground.
IMPROVEMENT: In the Online Designer, when a user clicks on the green button “Field is embedded elsewhere on this page” on an embedded field in the table, the page will scroll up to where the field is embedded and flash a red border around the container field. This will make it easier for users to find where a field is embedded.
IMPROVEMENT: In the Online Designer, the variable name for each field on the page is clickable, and when clicked, will copy the variable name to the user’s clipboard.
IMPROVEMENT: In the Online Designer, when a user attempts to click into the variable name field in the Edit Field popup while the project is in production, the dialog that notes that the variable name is not editable when in production will now also display the variable name as clickable in the dialog’s text, and when clicked, will copy the variable name to the user’s clipboard.
Version 14.2.2 (released on 2024-03-07) - (installed 2024-03-11 at 11:55 A.M. AZ Time)
IMPROVEMENT/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
IMPROVEMENT: The Custom Event Label, if being used in a longitudinal project, will now display at the top of the data entry form in the yellow event bar. In previous versions, it only appeared above each event column on the Record Home Page. Now it appears in both places.
IMPROVEMENT: Users may now use "now" or "today" (wrapped in quotes) instead of a field variable in the special functions day(), month(), and year() in order to capture a specific date component of today’s date.
Version 14.2.1 (released on 2024-02-29) - (installed 2024-03-04 at 1:55 P.M. AZ Time)
BUG FIXES:
Version 14.2.0 (released on 2024-02-22) - (installed 2024-02-26 at 1:55 P.M. AZ Time)
NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
NEW FEATURE: Project Dashboard Folders - Project Dashboards in a project can now be organized into folders. If a user has Project Setup & Design privileges, they will see an "Organize" link on the left-hand project menu above the Project Dashboards panel. They will be able to create folders and then assign their Project Dashboards to a folder, after which the Project Dashboards will be displayed in collapsible groups on the left-hand menu.
IMPROVEMENT: New “Test Run” option when re-evaluating Alerts and Automated Survey Invitations - When performing the “Re-evaluate” feature for Alerts and ASIs, a new toggle that says “Enable Test Run?” can be clicked in the dialog, which will perform a test run (dry run) to simulate what would have happened (e.g., schedule or send alerts/invitations) but without actually doing anything. This will allow users to feel more confident if they actually need to perform a real re-evaluation of Alerts or ASIs so that they know beforehand how many records will be affected during the re-evaluation. In addition, users may download a CSV file of all affected record names afterward, whether using the test run option or not.
IMPROVEMENT: The Project Home Page now contains an icon in the Current Users table to allow users to download the current user list as a CSV file.
IMPROVEMENT: "Help & FAQ" page has been updated with new content (thanks to the FAQ Committee). Bug fix: The EHR launch process in CDIS might mistakenly fail in specific situations where Azure AD is the authentication method in REDCap.
Version 14.1.6 (released on 2024-02-15) - (installed 2024-02-19)
IMPROVEMENT/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
IMPROVEMENT: The "Help & FAQ" page has been updated with new content (thanks to the FAQ Committee).
Version 14.1.5 (released on 2024-02-08) - (installed 2024-02-12)
BUG FIXES:
Version 14.1.4 (released on 2024-01-30) - (installed 2024-02-01)
BUG FIXES:
Version 14.1.3 (released on 2024-01-25) - (installed 2024-01-29)
BUG FIXES:
Version 14.1.2 (released on 2024-01-19) - (installed 2024-01-19)
IMPROVEMENT/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
IMPROVEMENT: The "Copy Project" page now contains more informational text when copying a project containing surveys. The new text explains that when copying all records, the survey completion time for any survey responses will not be copied with the normal project data because the completion times are considered to be equivalent to project logging, which never gets copied during this process.
Version 14.1.1 (released on 2024-01-11) - (installed 2024-01-16)
IMPROVEMENT/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
IMPROVEMENT: If a user has a sponsor, their sponsor's username, name, and email will be listed at the top of their Profile page.
Version 14.1.0 (released on 2024-01-04) - (installed 2024-01-08)
IMPROVEMENT/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
IMPROVEMENT: New “Read Only” user privilege for the User Rights page - Users and roles can now be given “Read Only” access to the User Rights page, which will allow users to view the page but not be able to take any actions on the page. Note: If a user is in a Data Access Group while viewing the page, it is still the case that they can only view users from their own DAG on the page.
Version 14.0.4 (released on 2023-12-28) - (installed 2024-01-08)
BUG FIXES:
Version 14.0.3 (released on 2023-12-21) - (installed 2024-01-08)
IMPROVEMENT/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
IMPROVEMENT: If a report has been set as "public", a link icon will appear next to the report title on the left-hand project menu. If a user clicks the link icon, the public report will open in a new tab.
IMPROVEMENT: If a project dashboard has been set as "public", a link icon will appear next to the project dashboard title on the left-hand project menu. If a user clicks the link icon, the public project dashboard will open in a new tab.
CHANGE: Some help text was added to the Form Display Logic and Survey Queue instructions to inform users that their conditional logic will be evaluated at the record level and not within the context of an event or a repeating instance, which means that it is not possible to use relative instance or relative event Smart Variables - i.e., those with the name 'current', 'next', or 'previous', such as [next-instance] or [previous-event-name].
Version 14.0.2 (released on 2023-12-14) - (installed 2023-12-18)
IMPROVEMENT/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
IMPROVEMENT: The Rapid Retrieval caching feature is now utilized for data exports and also for the API methods Export Records and Export Report, whereas in previous versions Rapid Retrieval was only utilized on report pages and the record status dashboard page.
IMPROVEMENT: If the Read Replica feature is enabled, all API export methods will now utilize the Read Replica, whereas in previous versions the only API methods that utilized the Read Replica were the Export Records, Export Report, and Export Logging methods.
IMPROVEMENT/CHANGE: For projects with the "Delete a record's logging activity when deleting the record?" setting enabled on the Edit Project Settings page, a request to the API Delete Record method may now include the parameter delete logging=0 if the user wants to prevent the record's logging activity from being deleted when the record is deleted. If the setting is enabled in the project, then the default value will be '1' for delete logging (to maintain the existing behavior in previous versions), and if the project-level setting is not enabled, the default value will be '0'. If the project-level setting has been enabled, this API parameter must be provided with a value of '0' in order to prevent the record's logging activity from being deleted when the record is deleted.
CHANGE: The PID number for a project is now displayed on the My Projects page for all user types, whereas in previous versions it was only displayed for admins (users with some kind of Control Center access).
Version 14.0.1 (released on 2023-12-07) - (installed 2023-12-18)
IMPROVEMENT/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
IMPROVEMENT: Improved user interface elements on the Codebook page. A new instrument table lists instrument names and also event designations, if longitudinal. The instrument and event tables are now collapsible. Additionally, the tables denote if an instrument is a repeating instrument or is designated to a repeating event, and the event table denotes if an event is a repeating event. All tables on the page are now collapsed by default.
IMPROVEMENT: For Descriptive Text fields on the Codebook page, the attachment's filename and its display format are now listed on the page if it has an attachment, and the media URL and its display format are now listed on the page if it has a media URL.
Version 14.0.0 (released on 2023-11-30) - (installed 2023-12-18)
NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
NEW FEATURE: New action tag: @SHOWCHOICE - When applied to a multiple-choice field, this action tag will hide all choices except for the ones listed in its argument. This action tag is useful if you wish to only show a subset of choices depending on some logic (e.g., depending on data access groups) via the IF action tag. The format must follow the pattern @SHOWCHOICE='??', in which the coded values should be inside single or double quotes for the choice(s) you wish to show. If more than one choice needs to be shown, then provide all the coded values separated by commas. For example, to show the choice 'Monday (1)', you would have @SHOWCHOICE='1', but if you wanted to additionally show 'Tuesday (2)', you would have @SHOWCHOICE='1,2'. NOTE: The @SHOWCHOICE action tag supports piping into its argument - e.g., @SHOWCHOICE=”[my_checkbox:checked:value]”
IMPROVEMENT: The @HIDECHOICE action tag now supports piping into its argument - e.g., @HIDECHOICE=”[my_checkbox:checked:value]”.
Version 13.11.4 (released on 2023-11-18) - (installed 2023-11-17)
BUG FIXES:
Version 13.11.3 (released on 2023-11-16) - (installed 2023-11-17)
IMPROVEMENT/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
IMPROVEMENT: New MLM-related Action Tags - If using Multi-Language Management, the LANGUAGE-SET action tag can now be selectively applied to data entry forms via LANGUAGE-SET-FORM) or surveys via LANGUAGE-SET-SURVEY.
IMPROVEMENT: When using MyCap in a longitudinal project, a more streamlined process is provided for helping users add new active tasks and designate them for specific events in the project. This process is now much less confusing and less disjointed than in previous versions.
IMPROVEMENT: A new parameter was added to the method REDCap::storeFile() to allow one to set the filename of the file being stored. In previous versions, the filename would be extracted from the file path itself. This new parameter is useful to assign a filename to files that have a temporary filename, such as when resulting from a file upload.
Version 13.11.2 (released on 2023-11-09) - (installed 11/13/2023)
IMPROVEMENT/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
IMPROVEMENT: When using the "Erase all data" feature on the Other Functionality page, it now lists the total number of records in the dialog so that the user is aware.
Version 13.11.1 (released on 2023-11-03) - (installed 11/08/2023)
BUG FIXES:
Version 13.11.0 (released on 2023-11-02) - (installed 11/08/2023)
NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
NEW SPECIAL FUNCTION:
NEW PIPING PARAMETERS:
IMPROVEMENT: Survey Queue Import/Export - Users can now export and import their Survey Queue settings via a CSV file in the Online Designer. After clicking the “Survey Queue” button on the page, it will reveal a drop-down list of options to 1) edit the SQ, 2) download the SQ as a CSV file, or 3) upload the SQ as a CSV file. This new feature will make it much easier for users to make modifications to their Survey Queue when they have many instruments and/or events that they wish to utilize in the SQ.
IMPROVEMENT: Form Display Logic Import/Export - Users can now export and import their Form Display Logic settings via a CSV file in the Online Designer. After clicking the “Form Display Logic” button on the page, it will reveal a drop-down list of options to 1) edit the FDL, 2) download the FDL as a CSV file, or 3) upload the FDL as a CSV file. This new feature will make it much easier for users to make modifications to their Form Display Logic when they have many instruments and/or events that they wish to utilize in the FDL.
IMPROVEMENT: The "Help & FAQ" page has been updated with new content (thanks to the FAQ Committee).
IMPROVEMENT: When using Multi-Language Management, it is now possible to preset the language of a survey by supplying the URL parameter "__lang", which must be set to a valid (active) language id (and is case-sensitive). When used, this will override both a survey respondent's previous choice (stored in a browser cookie) as well as the language preference field. The @LANGUAGE-FORCE action tag will still take precedence, though.
Version 13.10.6 (released on 2023-10-26) - (installed 10/27/2023)
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Version 13.10.5 (released on 2023-10-19) - (installed 10/20/2023)
IMPROVEMENT/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
IMPROVEMENT: When using the Field Bank in the Online Designer to search specifically within the NIH CDE Repository, a new checkbox option exists in the search utility called "Search NIH-Endorsed CDEs". If this search option is checked, REDCap will search only for fields that are "NIH-Endorsed" in the NIH CDE Repository. NIH-Endorsed CDEs have been reviewed and approved by an expert panel, and meet established criteria.
Version 13.10.4 (released on 2023-10-11) - (installed 10/12/2023)
IMPROVEMENT/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
IMPROVEMENT: When adding/editing a Descriptive Text field in the Online Designer, the text in the "Optional file attachment, image, audio, or video" section of the popup has been modified to instruct the user that the "Embed an external video" feature can be used for more than just videos but for websites and surveys too (i.e., the "Magic Box" feature, as some call it). The text has been changed to "Optional media to embed or attach:" and "Embed media (video, website, survey, etc.)", respectively. Other relevant text in the popup has also been modified to refer to "media" more generically rather than "video".
Version 13.10.3 (released on 2023-10-05) - (installed 10/09/2023)
IMPROVEMENT/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
IMPROVEMENT: When setting up recurring Alerts & Notifications, users can now set the repeating interval value as a number with a decimal (in previous versions, the value could only be an integer). This will allow users to approximate the interval of a monthly recurring alert as 30.44 days since it is currently not possible for recurring alerts to be scheduled on exactly the same day and time each month. To help users, a note has been added in the repeating survey section of the alert setup dialog to inform them how to approximate a month as 30.44 days+
CHANGE: In Multi-Language Management, the "Default" language term has been renamed to "Base Language" on the MLM setup page and in various documentation for improved clarity regarding the purpose and function of the Base Language in MLM.
CHANGE: When using MyCap in a project, the instructional text in the individual “Invite Participant” popup has been modified slightly to cater better to whether the project has been transitioned to use the new MyCap mobile app or not.
Version 13.10.2 (released on 2023-09-28) - (installed 10/24/2023)
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Version 13.10.1 (released on 2023-09-22) - (installed 09/25/2023)
IMPROVEMENT/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
IMPROVEMENT: The MyCap Help document has been updated, and a new Transition Guide has been added to help inform users regarding the process of transitioning to the new MyCap mobile app from MyCap Classic (the guide is linked in the popup that notifies users about transitioning). Additionally, a new PDF displaying a list of all MyCap app features has been linked in several places where MyCap documentation is located, in which the PDF compares the features of the new MyCap app with the previous MyCap Classic app.
Version 13.10.0 (released on 2023-09-08) - (installed 09/18/2023)
NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS/CHANGES & BUG FIXES:
NEW FEATURE: Longitudinal functionality for MyCap-enabled projects - TIn previous versions, longitudinal projects could not utilize MyCap (the feature would be disabled automatically). Now with the release of the new MyCap mobile apps on Android and iOS, longitudinal functionality is possible and is supported in the new MyCap mobile app. For any projects currently using MyCap, there will be a “transition” button on the MyCap Participants page that will allow the users to transition the project and any existing participants to use the new MyCap mobile app (note: this transition process is completely optional and not required unless wanting to use longitudinal functionality and other new MyCap features). The older MyCap mobile apps will still be available and updated in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store for the time being.
IMPROVEMENT: Enhancements to the Codebook page - For longitudinal projects, a table of all events names is displayed near the top of the page. If events and/or missing data codes exist, the table of them may be included in or excluded from the page printout via a checkbox at the top right corner of their table. Also, in the printout of the page, the time and project title are now displayed.