REDCap 8.2

BUG FIXES & OTHER CHANGES

• Improvement: Added new filter on the Survey Invitation Log table to allow users to filter the invitations by record ID.

• Improvement/change: Added new "Record ID" column in the Participant List table. In previous versions, the record ID was appended to the email address in the "Email" column. Having its own column will allow users to find specific participants more efficiently.

• Improvement: When opening the "Add/Edit Branching Logic" popup in the Online Designer, it could sometimes be very slow to open if the project contains many fields, especially many multiple choice fields. The popup could even be slow when the selected field does not even have branching logic yet. To improve this, it now defaults to selecting the "Advanced" option first when the popup opens and only attempts to load the "Drag-N-Drop" draggable field choices when that option has been selected by a user. While this won't completely alleviate the issue of the "Drag-N-Drop" option being slow when there are many fields, this will make it much more palatable in a majority of situations when branching logic is being added/edited in the Online Designer. (Ticket #1905)

• Improvement: If a field has branching logic, the Online Designer now displays the logic (up to the first 65 characters) on the field so that the user can view it easily without having to open the Add/Edit Branching Logic popup.

• Change/improvement: If an administrator is moving a project in production back to development status and the project is in Draft Mode, it will now automatically create a Data Dictionary Snapshot of the drafted changes and store the snapshot on the Project Revision History page.

• Improvement/change: The project Logging page now provides useful contextual information for the ASI logged event "Automatically schedule survey invitation", in which it will display the record name, survey title, and event name (if longitudinal).

• Improvement/change: The project Logging page now logs when a survey invitation that was scheduled via ASI gets deleted due to the ASI option "Ensure logic is still true before sending invitation?", in which the logged event will display useful contextual information, such as the record name, survey title, and event name (if longitudinal).

• Improvement/change: The project Logging page now logs when a survey invitation is deleted or when its send-time is modified on the Survey Invitation Log, in which the logged event will display useful contextual information, such as the record name, survey title, and event name (if longitudinal).

• Performance improvement: For projects containing a large number of records (i.e., thousands or tens of thousands), some pages in the project might become very slow and reduce performance over time. A new mechanism has been implemented that will improve server performance in these cases.

• New feature: Sponsor Dashboard

  • The Sponsor Dashboard can be utilized by users who have been designated as a sponsor for another REDCap user. In many cases, a sponsor is a secondary contact person for the user or someone that helps manage the account (or perhaps they requested that the account be created). The Sponsor Dashboard allows sponsors to manage their sponsored users by viewing various information about them, such as username, name, expiration, suspended status, and some general activity. The dashboard contains various functions to allow sponsors to make requests to REDCap administrators to help manage their sponsored users by performing the following actions: 1) resetting passwords (Table-based authentication only), 2) Setting/expiring a user’s account expiration, 3) suspending users, and 4) unsuspending users.

  • A link to the dashboard will be displayed at the top of the My Projects page for any users that are a sponsor.

  • If an institution decides not to allow sponsors to use the Sponsor Dashboard, it can be disabled on the User Settings page in the Control Center.

  • Note: The User Settings page in the Control Center also contains a setting “Default amount to set/extend user expiration times”, which sets the default time (in days) for setting or extending a user’s account expiration time when requested by a sponsor. In the specific case where the expiration time is being set (not extended), the administrator has the ability to modify the exact expiration time during the request approval process.

• Improvement: New "compact" option for PDFs of forms/surveys in which a compact-formatted PDF is produced that excludes fields that have no data saved and excludes unselected multiple choice options, thus producing a smaller PDF file. (Note: Section headers and descriptive fields will still be included.) On all pages that offer a PDF download option, there is now an extra "compact" option. The REDCap::getPDF() developer method and the "Export PDF file" API method both have the compact option added as a new parameter that can be passed to the method.

• Improvement: Minor aesthetic improvements in the display of PDFs of forms/surveys, such as divider lines between questions and gray background color for section headers.

• Change/improvement: When adding/editing Automated Survey Invitations, the "Send after lapse of time" value for "days" may now be 4 digits in length (specifically up to 7300 days = 20 years), whereas previous versions limited the days unit to 3 digits. This change allows for a much longer wait time before sending the scheduled invitations.