v8.0.0 (August 31, 2015)

Enhancements

• Survey Changes
  • Longitudinal surveys can be launched and assigned to users, ex:
    • s = Survey.find_by_slug 'about-me'
    • s.launch_single(user, '6month')
  • Followup surveys are launched automatically based on encounter conditions
    • Email are sent to alert users of new available surveys
  • Pediatric survey functionality has been added
    • Caregivers of children can fill out surveys about their children
    • Baseline surveys are immediately assigned when a child in the proper age range is added by a caregiver of a child
    • Data export excludes pediatric surveys
  • Reports are now additionally scoped by encounter (ex: baseline, followup)
  • Reports that do not have custom reports now redirect to the detailed report view
  • Minor UI updates to completion display
• Online Survey Builder
  • Started work on an online survey builder for researchers and team members
  • The online survey builder will let survey builders specify the following:
    • The target audience (ex: diagnosed, at risk)
    • The age range for pediatric surveys (ex: 2..8, 4..10)
    • The number of encounters and spacing between surveys (ex: baseline, 6 month followup)
  • Questions can be added to surveys in online builder
    • Question text and slug can be modified
    • Answer Templates can be added to questions
    • Answer Options can be added to answer templates
    • Question display_type and AnswerTemplate data_type and allow_multiple are no longer used to determine how to display questions on surveys
    • AnswerTemplates now allow a template_name to be specified of the following types:
      • "date", "radio", "checkbox", "string", "height", "number"
    • Conditional AnswerTemplates now require a valid parent AnswerTemplate as well as a valid value
  • Encounters can be added to surveys in online builder
    • An encounter specifies when the survey is launched, in days after sign up
• Onboarding Changes
  • Reduced consent and privacy into one step in the process
  • Removed progress indicators (due to shorter process) and switched to simple layout (without sidebar)
• General Changes
  • Minor updates to layout of forums, specifically in the headers
  • Minor updates to layout of highlights to keep consistency with other internal links
  • Account settings layout updated with improved, less intrusive navigation
  • Terms and conditions forums displayed in scroll container
• Admin Changes
  • Administrators can now unlock surveys for users from the user show page
  • Updated the Version Stats report to be monthly, and renamed to it to the Timeline Report
  • Owners receive survey followup digest emails when new surveys are assigned to users
  • All admin pages now use fullscreen layout
• Gem Changes
  • Updated to Ruby 2.2.3
  • Only run web-console in development mode

API Development

• API
  • Users
    • Added capability to create new users and login existing users via JSON request
      • Cookies are passed back to allow use of devise user authentication
      • Home added to test for current session
    • Photo URL passed for created posts and research topics, if available
    • Allows capturing of information during onboarding process
      • Includes consent, user_type, and basic demographic information
  • Research Topics
    • Added capability to create new research topics as user
    • Added capability to cast vote as user
    • Index page lists all posts
  • Votes
    • Added votes, scopable by relevant fields and ratings
  • Forums
    • Added capability to get viewable topic index, ordered by activity, and topic show data
    • Added capability to create new forum topics
    • Added capability to create new posts
  • Surveys
    • Added getter for user's answer sessions
    • Added survey show page to allow dynamic building on app side
    • Survey submission will automatically lock surveys if complete

Bug Fix

• Fixed and simplified date input parsing to better handle consistency issues across browsers and devices
• Surveys are now correctly reassigned when a user changes their user type
  • Unstarted surveys that are no longer applicable are discarded, and started surveys are kept
• Fixed a bug that could cause users to have above 100% completion on surveys
• Fixed a bug where new users weren't always marked as ready for research due to consent update dates
• Flash notices are now being rendered on every page, to ensure they appear at the proper time
• Fixed an issue displaying pie charts for My Quality of Life survey report

Refactoring

• Simplified processing single answers for surveys
• Reduced JavaScript footprint by removing unused JavaScript files
• Overwriting views are no longer stored in myapnea subfolder
• Restructured tests for surveys and improved overall test speed
• Refactored Survey class in favor of an AnswerSession-centric model
• Removed unused methods from the User model
• Removed unused views and partials
• Health Conditions report no longer relies on extra server JSON request
• Removed old registration views and methods
• Removed unused attributes from AnswerSession model
• Removed unused attributes from Survey model