v5.0.0 (March 4, 2015)

New Features

• Major Survey Updates
  • Surveys have received a major update and have been restructured.
    • The three existing surveys have been split across 11 smaller surveys
  • New surveys have an exciting new interface!
    • Users are able to scroll through survey by using keystrokes
    • Answer options now have hotkeys and values
    • Animated scrolling now used to move between questions
    • Survey urls have been simplified
    • Surveys can display nested questions
    • On submission, surveys are locked, but can be reviewed when revisited
    • Surveys are assigned based on user role selected during the registration process
• Member Roles
  • Members are able to define one or more of the following roles:
    • Adult who has been diagnosed with sleep apnea
    • Adult who is at-risk of sleep apnea
    • Caregiver of adult diagnosed with or at-risk of sleep apnea
    • Caregiver of child(ren) diagnosed with or at-risk of sleep apnea
    • Professional care provider
    • Research professional
• Registration Process
  • Upon registration, users are asked to describe their role on the site
  • Upon registration, users are automatically sent through consent process
    • For providers:
      1. Privacy Policy
      2. Terms of Access
      3. Provider Profile
    • For researchers who only identify as a researcher:
      1. Privacy Policy
      2. Terms of Access
      3. Social Profile
    • For all other members:
      1. Privacy Policy
      2. Consent
      3. About Me Survey
• Terms of Access (ToA)
  • ToA will now be shown to the following groups, in place of the consent:
    • Members who identify as a provider, but not any patient or caregiver role
    • Members who identify as a researcher, but not any patient or caregiver role
    • Still visible by other members of the community for transparency

Enhancements

• Administrative Changes
  • Added an admin dashboard to provide a central place to reach reports and research topic moderation
• Research Study Changes
  • Clicking "Leave Research Study" on the Consent or Privacy Policy pages now removes the member from the study
    • In the past, the member would be redirected to the account page where this question would be asked one more time
• Forum Changes
  • Added indication of additional posts on forum index and pagination on individual forums
  • Forum post anchors now correctly offset based on the top navigation bar
  • Forum markdown has been improved and examples are provided under the Markup tab
    • Blockquotes: > This is quote
    • Highlight: ==This is highlighted==
    • Underline: _This is underlined_
    • Superscript: This is the 2^(nd) time
    • Strikethrough: This is ~~removed~~
• Community Page Changes
  • Removed state labels from USA map to provide cleaner overview
• Lottery Updates
  • Lottery random drawing code has been added, and can be run using Lottery.draw_winner
• Search Engine Optimization
  • Added sitemap_generator gem for dynamic SEO via sitemap creation
  • Added unique meta descriptions to several key pages
  • Added unique page titles to several key pages
• Gem Changes
  • Updated to Ruby 2.2.1

Bug Fixes

• Password fields now display correctly in IE9
• Topic slugs are now generated correctly for topics with titles that start with numbers
• User dashboard displays correctly even without the presence of the forum

Refactoring

• Centralized application configuration further by using figaro environment variables
• Beta UI pages are now set as the default
• Several OpenPPRN features have been disabled or removed
  • Removed OODT and Validic integration
  • Removed blog controller and views, this functionality is currently being handled by the "News Forum"
  • Removed unused pprn.rb initializer file
• Several survey model simplifications have been made:
  • Renamed QuestionFlow to Survey
  • Simplified survey load files
  • Answer sessions are only created when surveys are launched, and encounter identifiers
• The Forums Terms and Conditions now uses the new layout
• Reduced dependency on authority gem
• Cleaned up the account controller and updated tests
• Cleaned up the static controller and added appropriate tests
  • Moved views/myapnea/static files into views/static folder