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Sat Philora edited this page Jan 15, 2025
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Deployed: 2025-01-15
- Fixed a bug that caused admin exports to fail where lead and supporting sector values were missing from initiative data
- Fixed a bug that prevented update of initiatives where there are gaps in the version history
Deployed: 2025-01-14
- Updated SMTP settings to reflect new infra
Deployed: 2025-01-07
- Fixed a bug that (incorrectly) informed users that help widget form submissions were unsuccessful. Bonus: added the page on which the user submitted the form to the metadata, providing additional context when analysing help requests.
- Fixed a bug where discontinued, completed or deleted initiatives incorrectly generated notifications prompting users to keep them up to date
- Updated Goal Areas and Result Areas to reflect the current Strategic Plan
- Deactivated reminder notifications for the deprecated Portfolio Review functionality
- Added configuration option to reduce spam by sending all new taxonomy requests (software, hardware,... ) to INVENT team email address instead of all superusers
Deployed: 2023-09-27
- Technical updates
- Upgrade technical components improve INVENT stability and security.
- Upgrade Django to v4.2.3
- Update supporting libraries
- Replace legacy authentication system
- Upgrade Postgres to v14
Deployed: 2023-09-14
- Display UNICEF office name on initiative cards
- Allow admins to set the latitude and longitude of UNICEF offices. This will allow dataviz e.g., Magasin, to position initiatives more precisely on a map Solutions
- Allow a solution to be tagged with a funding source of Set Aside 2021 or Set Aside 2022. This will support analysis
- Minor email wording tweaks
- Improved application performance monitoring
- Fix a bug due to duplicate user entries
Deployed: 2023-09-11
- Users can now delete any initiative that they are able to edit.
Users have always been able to request new entries in the taxonomy fields in the Technology section when creating/editing an initiative, allowing administrators to approve or decline these requests. This release enhances this workflow by providing feedback to users who have made such requests.
- Inform users when an administrator approves or declines their request for a new taxonomy tag in the Technology section of the form
- Allow administrators to add a comment when approving/declining a request, and display this comment in the notification email to the user
To support the soft integration between INVENT and the Technology Playbook, this release adds a link to each phase on the create/edit initiative form, allowing users to consult the relevant content of the Playbook.
- Allow administrators to define a url for each phase. If this url is provided, a Learn more link will be displayed when to users when they expand the phase description.
The notion of a solution previously existed in INVENT to model the solutions in the innovation portfolios. This has now been generalised to support work that is not in an innovation portfolio.
- Allow solutions to exist outside of portfolios
- Move Solutions from under portfolios/innovation/solutions to top level of site hierarchy
- Improve email template (e.g., cosmetic changes, fix broken / incorrect links,…)
- Improve synchronisation of INVENT's user list (displayed when you add a team member) with UNICEF's directory (technical improvement)
- Improve management of translation texts during deployments (technical improvement)
Deployed: 2023-08-11
Introducing the new Country Office board! This board allows anyone to see the status of a CO's initiatives, by sector, including a highlight of those initiatives that have not changed phase in over 6 months.
- Guide shared separately
Improve configuration of initiative phases to allow an admin to select which phases represent the end of active work on an initiative. Currently set as Handover and Complete and Discontinued. This will allow INVENT to adapt to changes in underlying processes. Other
Improve UX when viewing initiatives by using Initiatives as the breadcrumbs text instead of My initiatives. (Unfortunately, for technical reasons, this value is shared, so this change fixes most page views (in the inventory) but means that the My initiatives page shows Initiatives and links to the Inventory)
Deployed: 2023-08-04
Improve admin user export (prevent timeout on larger exports, include job title and section where available)
- Allow clients to retrieve unpublished initiatives
- Fix inconsistent history for initiatives published before November 2021
Deployed: 2023-07-13
- Some last updated dates were incorrectly displayed
- Initiatives sometimes momentarily display incorrect/cached information (under investigation)
- Focal point contact details sometimes missing from initiative header section
Deployed: 2023-07-11
- Split sector field into a required Lead sector and optional Supporting sectors fields.
- Use the new Lead sector and Supporting sectors fields in display and exports. Note: one single sector search field searches across all of the initiative's sectors, lead and supporting Improvements to focal point selection UX
- Reducing first load time for homepage and inventory page
- Timeout error on admin pages
- Horizontal scroll bars in all search fields in Firefox
- Security fix on exposed projects endpoint
- Use same (smaller) logo everywhere
Deployed: 2023-05-31
- Allow team members to be chosen from all UNICEF colleagues. Until this update you could only add a user if they had previously signed into INVENT.
- Select a user as a focal point. In previous versions users has to type a name and an email address. This didn't allow any kind of autocompletion, and created bugs when the email address didn't match a UNICEF account, etc.
- Display job title and section (where available) when choosing team members
- Display portfolios of solutions, not initiatives.
- Allow portfolio managers to update portfolio metrics (cumulative funding, etc).
- Fix bug that resulted in incomplete exports
- Fix bug that prevented users from being redirected to the homepage after login
- Fix bug that showed incorrect dates to some users
- Fix bug that resulted in blank user names, making it impossible to add those users as team members
- Fix bug that prevented some links from being clickable
- Fix bug that generated duplicates of a draft initiative
- Fix bug that resulted in some initiatives not appearing on the map
- Remove footer
- Remove redundant "Organisation: UNICEF" field
- Allow access to portfolio edit from the portfolio page
- Improve API for Magasin integration
- Essential security improvements
Performed: 2023-05-04
- INVENT was migrated to a UNICEF-standard hosting setup to improve reliability and scalability, reduce vendor lock-in.
Deployed: 2022-06-01
- Innovation Performance Portal improvements for Windows users who have activated text scaling
- Improved developer-facing documentation
Deployed: 2022-04-11
-Innovation Performance Portal embed mechanism added but not exposed
Deployed: 2022-03-22
- API changes for Innovation Performance indicators
Deployed: 2022-03-11
- Admins can now generate larger initiative exports asynchronously. This avoids the timeout that prevented exports of large sets of initiatives.
Deployed: 2022-03-11
- Bug fix: Initiatives list now appears again on home page and country page maps
Deployed: 2022-03-10
Maintenance release with enhanced API for future data visualizations
- Safari layout
- End dates no longer default to 01-01-1970
- DHA logo no longer appears on some pages
- Translation engine fixes
- Problem statements now appear correctly in portfolio manager exports
Deployed: 2022-02-02
- Lists of initiatives now include a column called Current phase that indicates the inferred current phase. The inferred current phase of an initiative is determined as follows:
- If no phase is marked as completed, then the current phase is the first phase (Opportunity and Ideation)
- If the last completed phase is Handover or Completed or Discontinued then this phase is retained as the current phase, as it is an end state for an initiative.
- In all other cases, the current phase is set to the phase immediately following the last completed phase.
- The multi-select Current phase filter filters on the new Current phase field.
- Exports now include the Current phase column
- Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented accessing a published initiative directly via saved/shared URL
- Other minor bug fixes and improvements
Deployed: 2022-01-05
- Country managers can now export the list of initiatives for which they are an INVENT country focal point
- Some initiatives showed erroneous predicted end dates as the 01-01-1970. These have been removed, and the bug that caused this date to appear has been fixed
- An error that caused the export of some EAPRO initiatives to fail has been fixed (cause: special characters in text fields, possibly due to an import glitch)
- Minor bug fixes and improvements
Deployed: 2021-11-09
- Super admins can now designate country managers who automatically have read/write permissions for all initiatives based in a country office in their area
- The current user’s initiatives and/or recently updated initiatives are shown above the map
- Featured initiatives can be defined by super admins and are shown on the homepage
- A cover photo can be defined for each initiative, and will be shown on the homepage card views of that initiative (My initiative, recently updated initiatives, featured initiatives)
- Home page visual design improvements
- Added pagination to the lists under My Initiatives (will fix timeout for those with many initiatives, favorites, ...)
- Removed redundant handshake and investor icons and labels
- Format numbers according to language preference
- Optimized text search performance
- Made number of initiatives per page setting global (applies wherever lists are paginated)
- All support requests via the widget are now sent to invent@unicef.org and subsequently to the ticket tracking system to ensure that the correct admin can respond
Deployed: 2021-08-24
- Reviewers can add a summary to their review
- Portfolio managers can add a summary to overall scoring
- Added basic Matomo tracking to understand user behavior
- Superadmins can now export user data in the admin interface
- Added Innovation Categories to table and export
- Various fixes and improvements
Deployed: 2021-08-04
- Portfolio managers can now export initiatives with scoring and review data
- Reviewers can save their reviews as draft in order to work on them over multiple sessions
- Portfolio managers can move initiatives out of the review stage back into the inventory without losing the associated review data.
- Portfolio managers can remove reviewers and the associated review data from an initiative
- Superadmins can now search initiatives in the admin interface
- Superadmins can now export initiative data in the admin interface
- Navigating to a search URL will now open the search results page, allowing URLs to be shared or saved for later use. This also means clicking the back button on an initiative page will return to the inventory view without losing any search criteria.
- Only fields selected for display in the inventory table (using the gear icon) are now exported
- It’s now possible to open initiatives in a new browser tab using the standard link behavior (right click, open in new tab, or ctrl-click/cmd-click) New initiative :
- The person added as the focal point for an initiative is now automatically added to list of initiative editors.