Release Notes 4/30/25
What’s New
Create Placement Request: The following updates were made to the Create Placement Request form:
Separated date and time into two separate fields.
Removed default time of midnight in time picker and made both fields required.
Support Page: Gave administrators access to make updates and updated training videos for legacy clients.
Notes field: Set character count and added wrap to text for the Notes field in the following areas:
Add/Edit Client Form
Create Placement Request
Make a Placement
Add/Edit Agency: Updated color of success messages when an Agency is added or edited.
Clients Awaiting Placement Page: Made updates to the following:
Updated success message when placement request information is edited and
saved.
Updated success message when a group is removed or added.
Add Provider: Gender Preferences: Added option to Select All
Reverse Match: Added Placement Worker column to results
Best Match Page: Added additional provider information to the Provider pop up.
Password Emails: Streamlined information sent via email when new users are added.
Add/Edit User: Made Updates to the following:
Updated success messages for each action.
Updated form to show that required fields are showing as required.
Client History: Made provider names bold to make them easier to identify.
Release Notes 4/2/25
What’s New
Continued upgrade for legacy client.
Record Known Placement: Updated messaging that lets users know that an open placement request needs to be closed in order to record a known placement with the same program type.
Add/Edit Client Form: Completed request to make the Case Number field required.
Add/Edit Provider Form: Added “Select All’ option to ‘Ages Licensed For’ dropdown to allow for a more efficient experience.
Bugs
Addressed the following:
Clients not being removed from the Clients Awaiting Placement page after a placement is made.
Respites not showing on the client profile.
Mobile users not being able to reset password.
Release Notes 3/17/25
What’s New
Continued upgrade for legacy client.
Continued working on performance improvements to increase efficiency.
Added DOB to sibling dropdown to differentiate clients who share the same name.
Update was made that allows for recording a non-respite placement if there is an open respite placement request and vice versa, without removing that open placement request.
Bugs
Addressed issue where certain fields were hindering saving a provider for legacy client.
Release Notes 3/5/25
What’s New
Completed upgrade for legacy client.
Updated the verbiage and timeout of success/error messaging for a cleaner user
experience.
Continued with setup for additional legacy client.
Working on performance improvements to increase efficiency.
Added messaging that informs the user that they must address any active providers when trying to deactivate an agency.
Added additional Level of Care (AWOL) for Texas providers.
Made updates to ensure that assigned IDs stay consistent as different placements are made for a client.
Bugs
Addressed the following:
Level of Care times were not aligned with placement start times.
Getting errors when trying to edit multiple LOCs
Permissions for reviewing family app user registrations needed to be updated.
Release Notes 1/13/25
What’s New
Reverse Match: Updated so that counties for clients in a placement do not show the county where the provider is located, but rather the legal county for the client.
Reports: Updated verbiage for Removed Placement Requests clarifying that the report will only show 30 days at a time.
Made additional features configurable to allow for faster updates to be made as needed.
UI Updates:
Various updates were made to provide a cleaner user experience:
Best Match Page: Updated info icon colors for Texas initiative.
Client Assessment: Updated field size through assessment.
Clients Awaiting Placement: Updated verbiage when there are no clients
awaiting placement.
Started setup for additional legacy client.
Release Notes 12/09/24
What’s New
Continued with state specific updates to make sure workflows run smoothly.
Continued testing for legacy client.
Fixed issues that were a hinderance to the sync process.
Release Notes 11/18/24
What’s New
The following updates were made to Reverse Match:
Including clients who have a placement ending within 30 days of the running reverse match to cut down on search time when workers know a provider will have an opening during that timeframe.
Checking providers licensed capacity instead of preferred to aid in getting more clients placed with available providers.
Bugs
Fixed permissions issue so Foster Care Supervisors can view providers and run reverse match for their agency.
Release Notes 11/4/24
What’s New
Continued migration for legacy client.
Reports-Contact History by Client: Updated default to start with the most recent call logs showing at the top, allowing users to view in chronological order from the most recent call log.
Add a Client modal: Updated Race, Gender and Ethnicity fields to be required to improve the matching experience.
Add Contact Log Modal on Best Match Page: Added new decline reasons to Call Log Response Reason dropdown so that users can choose the most accurate reason when entering the call log.
Release Notes 10/21/24
What’s New
Continued with migration for legacy client.
Improved verbiage on error messaging/field validation throughout the application to provide a better user experience.
Bugs
Fixed client history modal on client profile to restore the following on contact logs:
Provider name
Agency name
Role of user who created the contact log
Release Notes 10/7/24
What’s New
Performance updates were made to the following areas of the client profile:
Current Placement Details
Placement History
Client History Modal: Updates include displaying the top 100 records in modal.
Improved verbiage on error messaging/field validation throughout the application to provider a better user experience.
Continued with migration for legacy client.
Release Notes 9/23/24
What’s New
Continued migrating legacy client to new platform.
UI updates made to provide cleaner user experience:
Client and Provider Profiles: Added pagination to Placement History section.
Assessment History: Added more space to historical entries.
Timeout: Updated Timing on when the warning message shows before a user timed out, as well as when a user is timed out to reduce interruptions.
Release Notes 9/9/24
What’s New
Continued migrating legacy client to new platform so they can utilize the most recent version of the application.
Added new distance filter on the Best Match List to accommodate court request.
Placement Request Report: Added a new column that will provide more insight into the date/time of when referrals are being sent.
Client History: Updated the client history to make sure that the most recent records for the clients with extensive history are still available.
Release Notes 8/26/24
What’s New
Placement Referrals: An ‘agency’ column has been added to the Placement Referrals page, which will give a better visual of which agencies are sending the most summaries.
Began migrating third party to updated platform so they can utilize the most recent features.
Bugs
Fixed users getting logged out when using the browser back button.
Release Notes 8/12/24
What’s New:
Best Match List: Updated to make the highest tier clickable on page load only to ensure that the providers who fall under this tier are all contacted before moving on to the next highest tier available.
UI Update: Added pagination to the Client Assessment History on the Client Profile to provider a better experience for users who are viewing previous assessments.
Click Tracking: Implemented additional tracking and logging to gain more insight into how users are interacting with ECAP.
Translations: Continued updates for French, Spanish and Polish Speakers for the following pages: Admin, Reports.
Bugs
Level of Care on Client Profile: Fix to restore ability to change date/time of Level of Care, as well as add additional levels of care to a current placement.
Release Notes 7/29/24
What’s New
Translations for Illinois:
With continuous updates to translations, this provides an easier and cleaner user experience for speakers of the following languages:
French
Spanish
Polish
The following pages were focused on for translation updates:
Search Page
Reverse Match
Support Page
Continued research for click tracking to gain more insight into how users are utilizing ECAP.
Release Notes 7/15/24
What’s New
Translations: With continuous updates to translations, this provides an easier and cleaner user experience for French, Spanish and Polish speakers.
Google Analytics: Page view tracking has been implemented as well as tracking for the following:
Provider Comparison on the Best Match List
Map View tab on the Best Match List
Running of each individual report
Tracking how users are interacting with these specific features will provide
more insight into how we can train and assist our users.
UI Updates: For mobile users, we have added a notification that will more clearly show which potential matches have not been viewed yet, providing a cleaner experience.
Bugs
Fixed issues with overlapping dates on new, existing and
historical placements.
Release Notes 7/1/24
What’s New
UI updates:
Various updates were made to provide more clarity to the user and a better overall user experience. Updates made to the following:
Send Email Notification to the Contracted Agency:
Verbiage in the email was adjusted to account for different types of possible contact logs.
Shows ‘Current Only’ on the Search Page:
Update was made so that only current FFP users show when the ‘Show Current Only’ toggle is on, in addition to current ECAP clients and providers.
Date Validations:
Update made to provide messaging if error does not enter date in correct formatting.
Release Notes 6/17/24
What’s New
Translations for Illinois:
With continuous updates to translations, this provides an easier and cleaner user experience for speakers of the following languages:
French
Spanish
Polish
UI Updates:
Various updates made to provide more clarity to the user, and an overall better user experience. Updates made to the following areas:
Edit/End Placement Modal on Client Profile:
Notification Indicators on mobile
Selectable Algorithm dropdown on Best Match List
Send Email Notification to Contracted Agency:
The agency will receive a notification through email that a family has received a match to review when a worker not yet part of the contracting agency contacts a provider associated with the contracting agency. This will provide more awareness for the agency when a family is contacted.
Bugs
Contact History by Provider or Provider Agency:
Restored Client County and Contact Log Date/Time where previously these were not returning results.