PCC Change Log

- 2025 Week 49 -

2025 Week 08

GENERAL

NEW: New Navigation option GOVERNANCE.
CHANGED: Navigation option name changed from ITEMS to CATALOGUE.
CHANGED: Forums moved from ORG->FORUMS to GOVERNANCE->FORUMS.
IMPROVED: Display of ORG->ME->MY ACTIVITIES
NEW: Users can set MY ACTIVITIES to be emailed to them on frequent basis. See MY ACTIVITIES->ACTIONS->Settings
NEW: Pseudo-states implemented for BCX.
NEW: State Log implemented that tracks duration per state.
FIXED: Large notes that exceeded the GET REQUEST size now addressed by changing form submission to POST, which can handle much larger submits.
NEW: Entity Specifications enables more info on entities, as well as cataloguing, as well as instancing.

2024 Week 49

FORUM MEETING

NEW: New and Improved meeting agenda management with capturing of notes and outcomes in real-time.
NEW: Inline Attendance Management with learning of regular attendees for each forum.
NEW: Recap display of attendees and also incorporated attendees list into MoM PDF.
NEW: Added settings manager for member to manage notifications from forums.

NODE ACTIVITY

FIXED: Assigned To did not always capture.
IMPROVED: Assignment to PERSON or TEAM or changing between PERSON and TEAM.

DOCREVIEW

FIXED: Fixed ByUser that did not always display.
NEW: Improved Pre-Read document not found responses.

2024 Week 46

ORG->ME->My Activities

NEW: Users can now create and manage stand-alone activities, not associated to any demand or item.

2024 Week 43

DEMANDS

CHANGED: Since 100% of demands created on PCC are already approved, the policy was changed to have BID generation done with the creation of the Demand. No need to generate a BID anymore as each demand will have a BID ("Business Identifier") after creation.
IMPROVED: Added descriptive titles on email icon for node stakeholders.

ORG->ME->My Demands

IMPROVED: Demands created by me also show demands created in another organisational context.

2024 Week 36

DEMANDS

FIXED: Issue with send mail on Define Node Stakeholder.

FORUM MEETINGS

CHANGED: Updated meeting locked time from 5 days to 30 days so that forum admins have more time for updates to meetings.
IMPROVED: Display of Outcome and Notes screen always display details of a related node.

2024 Week 32

GENERAL

IMPROVED: Display of System Events.
IMPROVED: Added indicators to demand and item tabs. Improved tab indicator display everywhere.

ITEMS

FIX: Fix for creation of new items if the type selection changed.

NODE STAKEHOLDERS

IMPROVED: Inline create of new contact from define node stakeholder.

2024 Week 30

FORUMS

NEW: Submission to Forum user interface improvements and the ability to attach a pre-read at this time.
IMPROVED: Forum Management and Forum Meeting Management user interface improvements.
FIXED: Fixed bug when removing a submission that was automatically created with the new demand.

2024 Week 25

DEMANDS

IMPROVED: Demands Browser added to filter option for user's selected organisation, selected organisation + sub-orgs, or all organisations.

2024 Week 24

GENERAL

IMPROVED: Improved theme and display of login and 2fa screens on mobile devices.
IMPROVED: Added display of images on Download PDF for any node.
IMPROVED: Improved search bar. Ability to remove help display, and help only displays on dashboard screen.
IMPROVED: Improved system event info for items and demands create.
IMPROVED: Adding Item creator as Item Owner when creating an item.
RE-FACTORED: Different methods for UserComment and SystemComment. Different methods to set milestones for DEMANDS vs ITEMS.
FIXED: Fixed bug in search query when searching specifically on activities.
FIXED: Fixed bug on node PDF view. Schedules still used entityType and entityId, instead of node reference.
FIXED: Removed duplicated function "stakeholder_names_autocomplete" and added email to "contacts_autocomplete".

DOCREVIEWS

IMPROVED: Added additional instructions for RATING 2 and additional indicators and color schemes for RATING 2 and RATING 3 on activities display.
IMPROVED: Also added information pertaining to RATING 2 to the progress_update email when a rating was received.

2024 Week 22

GENERAL

IMPROVED: Display also the email of a contact when selecting a contact. To assist with contacts that have different email accounts.
IMPROVED: Transformed Karabo attributes by key: "Association" into actual Associations on PCC.
IMPROVED: Updated the Classifications->Add Attribute modal to be more intuitive, and less typing oriented.

DOCREVIEWS

NEW: Added ability to change the title of a document review while it is still in progress. SysAdmins can also change the title of completed Document Reviews.
NEW: Also display the email address of the reviewers in the document review initiation email.

SYSTEM ADMIN

NEW: Master Data Management: Improved Attribute Management and added Merge Attributes capability.
DATA UPDATES: Cleaned up ATTRIBUTES and MERGED attributes that were similar.

SCHEDULES

NEW: Ability to define schedules for ITEMS. This assists with frequent/in-frequent activities that must take place on items, e.g. yearly funding activities, record compliance, etc.

2024 Week 20

SEARCH

IMPROVED: Tags, Attributes and Schedules added to System-Wide Search. Improved look.

DASHBOARD

IMPROVED: Dashboard landing page re-vamped to have more used functions on top.

2024 Week 19

ITEMS

NEW: Items opened up for some roles.

SEARCH

NEW: System-Wide Search implemented.

FORUMS

FIXED: Fixed error when removing an Agenda Item that has a pre-read attached. Pre-reads are now automatically removed when removing an agenda item with a pre-read attached.

2024 Week 17

SYSTEM

REFACTORED: Many aspects of DocReview and Pre-Reads refactored to make use of PCCFileManagementService component.
MAINTENANCE: Added ClearTrash, ClearUploading and ClearGenerated to PCCFileManagementService.
MAINTENANCE: Added removal of pre-read documents from LOCKED forum meetings.

ANALYTICS

NEW: Added Hourly System Activity Report.
NEW: Added Daily System Activity Report.

DEMAND MANAGEMENT

NEW: Added the title of the Demand to the State Change Notification.

2024 Week 16

DOCREVIEWS

IMPROVED: Various improvements to emails, color coding responses, better structuring, etc.
CHANGED: Default Target Date changed from +2 days to +3 days.
NEW: Document Reviewers that are added, and who are not stakeholders on the DEMAND, are automatically added as stakeholders to the DEMAND.
FIXED: Bug fix when DocReview User as default Author does not have contact record that matches his/her name.

REGISTRATION

NEW: Added welcome email for new registered users with brief overview of the application.

FORUMS

NEW: Access Policy control to define who can access the forums. Forum Managers can set their preferred access policies for the forum based on the forum's purpose. See Forum->Settings
FIXED: Bug fixed when new Members are added to a forum, and they are also on other forums.

DEMANDS

NEW: Access Policy for DEMANDS now shown as it was set, or default setting. In preparation for other access control policies on some demands as a setting.

ITEMS

NEW: Added HOSTING SERVICES / PLATFORM SERVICES as an item type.

SYSTEM

REFACTORED: Moved NodeStakeholder Add, Update and Remove functions to PCCNodeManagementService in order to streamline controller and make more functions re-usable as a service.
COMPOSER: Core and Dependencies upgraded and removed redundant components.

2024 Week 14

SYSTEM

NEW: More Organisation theme settings.
CHANGED: Discontinued random quote.

ORG

NEW: Ability to update name and colors of organisation (selected roles).

NODE

NEW: Added Schedules to both ITEMS and DEMANDS PDF view in preparation for SCHEDULES implementation.

ACTIVITIES

NEW: Lifecycle Classification of an Activity, e.g. REQUIREMENTS, DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, TESTING, etc.
NEW: Ability to cancel an integration activity (before it was sent).

DOCREVIEWS

IMPROVED: Improved doc review reminder and progress update emails. Added colors to ratings overview on the email.

2024 Week 12

FORUMS

NEW: Tab ribbon implemented for forum meetings to structure views and actions.
IMPROVED: Cleaned up display of meeting agenda, and moved potential stakeholders to different tab-pane.

DEMANDS

IMPROVED: Moved Related Documents to Contents section.

2024 Week 11

ANALYTICS

NEW: Chart for Document Review Responded Stats.
NEW: Displaying current session org for user in active users, instead of allocated business unit

CORE

UPDATED: Replaced deprecated usage of Symfony\Component\Routing\Annotation\Route with Symfony\Component\Routing\Attribute\Route.

FORUMS

NEW: Agenda Items can be re-ordered by drag and drop.
NEW: Added contents for agenda items so that textual descriptions can be defined where needed.
FIXED: Fixed bug in team view when checking permissions.
IMPROVED: Added additional check for valid Forum when re-arranging item order

DEMAND

NEW: Added ability to set actual dates (overrides) on tracking activities.

2024 Week 10

ANALYTICS

NEW: Chart for Document Reviews by Person and State.

FORUMS

IMPROVED: Removed the display of submissions on viewing a LOCKED meeting. No use there.
IMPROVED: Meeting agenda/minutes filename updated to PCC_{Org}{Forum}(MeetingDate}.pdf

TEAMS

NEW: Ability to define teams, members, and view assignments to the team.

DEMANDS

NEW: Notification to user on Demand State Change if there are still open activities on the demand.
NEW: Ability to assign activities on demands to TEAMS, instead of just individual PERSONS.

2024 Week 9

OTHER

NEW: New view - Org : My Perspective : "Document Reviews Assigned to me".
NEW: Ability to download open demands in Excel format for your (user session) selected organization.
DISCONTINUED: Ability to opt-in and receive Excel file of open demands via email.

FORUMS

IMPROVED: Added the ability to change the meeting date up until the time the meeting is locked by the system.
IMPROVED: Added functionality to show/hide submissions to forum. Cleans up GUI when there are lots of submissions.

2024 Week 8

ANALYTICS

IMPROVED: PCC Demands over time report now shows the demands by created date and the aggregate status count.

DEMAND

FIXED: Remove Stakeholder not visible for most users.
IMPROVED: Impacted entities.

OTHER

IMPROVED: Context and type identification of items in portfolio.

2024 Week 7

DEMANDS

IMPROVED: Made filter area more clear on Demands > Assignments Overview.
IMPROVED: Removed the word 'Add' from all activities menu items.
IMPROVED: Assignments Overview. Made Systems as a separate tab/view for assignments.
NEW: Instructions for Document Review Certificate on successful document reviews.

DOCREVIEWS

IMPROVED: Updated menu option verbiage on activity menu when document review and activity is COMPLETE.

OTHER

IMPROVED: System Report Email message to system administrators re-worded.
CONFIG: Updated system notification mute period to new dates: 2024-12-22 to 2025-01-06.
IMPROVED: Icons display on some page that did not show on production.

2024 Week 3

FORUM

NEW: View for all demands that is/was assigned to a forum meeting. (requested by Donald Hassett)

2024 Week 2

PORTFOLIO OVERVIEW

FIXED: Implicit conversion from float to int for activities average progress on Portfolio Overview Page.

DEMAND

IMPROVED: Validation when adding a stakeholder to ensure that a name is provided for the stakeholder.

2024 Week 1

SYSTEM UPGRADE 6.2 - 6.4

Upgraded Symfony Core from Symfony 6.2 to Symfony 6.4.
Attended to Deprecation Notices after upgrade.

2023 Week 52

Other

IMPROVED: Added mute period for notifications so that system don't send notifications between 2 configured dates.

2023 Week 49

Demand Browser

IMPROVED: More information directly visible on Demand Browser.

Other

IMPROVED: Tom select (UX Autocomplete) updated to make use of Bootstrap 5 theme.
NEW: Add and display system event when agenda item concludes at a forum.

2023 Week 48

Security

IMPROVED: Message displayed to user on Invalid credentials.
IMPROVED: Ability for single org users to also have access to the switch organisation screen - for consistency.

Demands

FIXED: Demand Browser - Fix for download of browse results when single records are selected.

Document Review Helper

IMPROVED: Display of comments provided by a reviewer inline with the Document Review Activity.

2023 Week 47

Forum Meeting

FIXED: Pre-read share not accessible to anonymous users.
IMPROVED: Updated email template for pre-read share on agenda item.
IMPROVED: Show Forum default meeting time if no start and end time was captured for a historical meeting.
IMPROVED: Updated permissions for agenda item where the presenter has some rights on an item.

Security

IMPROVED: Removed remember_me functionality as it was causing issues for users that uses different browsers to access PCC.

2023 Week 46

Other

IMPROVED: Permissions checks simplified and re-organized for Forum Meeting Management.
IMPROVED: Stats cards calculations and display.
IMPROVED: Dropped unused entities. Added PCCUploadedFile Entity to standardize uploaded file management.

2023 Week 45

Forums

IMPROVED: Ability to add agenda items to recently completed meetings.
IMPROVED: Cleaned up menu for handling submissions for the forum.

Document Review Helper

FIXED: Bug when removing a rater to initiate automatic finalization if that was the last rater.

Other

NEW: PCCUploadedFile entity to help with management of uploaded files.
NEW: Functionality to remove uploaded files from server when not needed anymore.

2023 Week 44

Document Review Helper

FIX: Bug fixed when adding a reviewer.

Forums

IMPROVED: Added ability to "view details of demand" on the outcome and notes modal for agenda item on forum.
NEW: Added ability to attach a pre-read to an agenda item, and which also shares with the members and other stakeholders.

Demands

IMPROVED: Demand PDF now has links to the other demands that a demand is associated with.

Other

IMPROVED: pcc:maintain account emails to go out only during business days. Mon-Fri.
IMPROVED: pcc:maintain additional system events generated.

2023 Week 43

Analytics

NEW: The Active Portfolio Overview Analytics report shows Demands that are not updated as faded items.

Forums

IMPROVED: Alphabetical listing of forum members.

Other

IMPROVED: Dashboard GUI minor changes.

2023 Week 42

Demands

NEW: Assignments Overview page
NEW: [Edit Title] option for Demands on the Content section.

Analytics

NEW: Active Portfolio Overview Analytics - insightful!
FIXED: PCC Demands over Time report showing incorrect data with sorting on array.

Other

NEW: View of active users available for all users on the dashboard.

2023 Week 41

Demands

IMPROVED: Browse Demands now always includes closed demands in search.

Document Reviews

IMPROVED: Additional CR Number info in email content and subject line for both reviewers and authors.

2023 Week 40

Other

IMPROVED: Updated label for COMPLETED activities board to indicate COMPLETED / CANCELLED.

System Admin

NEW: Views for Feature Requests and Bug Reports.

Demands

*NEW: Ability to capture historic presentation at a forum and the outcome on the demand.

Forums

FIXED: State display of meeting. Was showing COMPLETED instead of TODAY for meetings on the current day.
NEW: Basic editor for notes so that user has more control and that formatting stays right.
NEW: Forum meetings on forum page excludes meetings that were cancelled.

Document Review Helper

IMPROVED: Rating 2 now treated as interim feedback without progressing the activity. Only Rating 1 and 3 results in progress on the activity.
NEW: Background process to remove uploaded documents after document review activities have completed or were cancelled.

Analytics

FIXED: PCC Portfolio demands over time now displaying in chronological order.

2023 Week 39

Document Review Helper

NEW: Additional review options for informal review where only a check is required that the document was reviewed.

Forum Meeting

NEW: Capture Chairperson for the meeting to be displayed.

Other

FIX: Counts on main dashboard updated to show all open states and not just active states.
IMPROVED: Cosmetic changes to login screens. Reduced verbiage.

2023 Week 38

Forums

FIX: State display for forums.

Registration

IMPROVED: Message displays and hints.

Document Review Helper

NEW: Ability to share the document under review by uploading it to PCC.

Other

IMPROVED: Split screen for Open vs Completed activities on all views.

2023 Week 37

Demands

NEW: Document Review Helper improved
FIX: Edit Title/Objectives of Tracking Activity
NEW: Shortcut for milestone on Activities menu for activities completed in the past - just to be captured as a milestone.

Forums

IMPROVED: Display latest meetings on top of list.

2023 Week 36

Org->Me

IMPROVED: Display of activities in order of progress.
NEW: Display of stakeholder assignments by selected role.

Forum Meeting

IMPROVED: Extending certain forum meeting actions when meeting is completed.

Demands

NEW: Document Review Activity available as a tool to help with document reviews.
NEW: Document Review Details display inline on Activities.
NEW: Cancel Document Review action.

2023 Week 35

Navigation

IMPROVED: Moved [ME] link to [Org].
NEW: Cards for dashboard landing page.

Demands

IMPROVED: Improved tabs on Demand. Improved Icons.
NEW: Prevent emails from being sent to stakeholders and followers when changing the state of the demand.
NEW: Inline Chart for impacted areas on the demand.

2023 Week 34

Navigation

IMPROVED: Moved FORUMS and PEOPLE to new main nav item ORG.

Analytics

IMPROVED: Updated leaderboard to differentiate between PCC User points and general Participant points.

Demands

NEW: Milestone for Activity completions.
NEW: Milestone for state transition from NEW to ANALYSIS.
NEW: Milestone for state transition from ANALYSIS to DELIVERY.
NEW: Milestone for Demand Closed.
IMPROVED: Demand Browser refinements.
NEW: Prevent an email from being sent to a stakeholder when adding the stakeholder.
NEW: Prevent an email from being sent to a person when assigning an activity to a person.

Forums

IMPROVED: Updated display of forum meetings. Alignment corrections.
IMPROVED: Restrict actions on Forum Meeting when meeting changes to COMPLETED state.
NEW: Bulk remove of submissions that were submitted to the forum.
FIXED: Forum creations failed. Type was not needed anymore, but was still validated.
NEW*: Limiting owner org to org visibility of user. Also displaying parent org for orgs listed.

2023 Week 33

Demands

IMPROVED: Stakeholder notifications only when the Demand has a number, with retrospective notifications once the CR number is generated.
IMPROVED: Browser can show results from all organisations, with limiting visibility to a demand where a user does not have access to the demand.

Other

NEW: Preparations for org-restructuring on PCC.
FIXED: User search on password reset gave error if email case was different from registration. Made search case-insensitive.

2023 Week 32

Demands

NEW: New Demand state "DELIVERY: implemented".
NEW: New Demand Milestones feature. PCC will capture some milestones, but also possible to capture more, such as the Implementation Date.
NEW: On Browse Demands, it is now possible to export the presented results by selecting the specific demands (or all), and on [Bulk Actions] menu, select [Export Results to XLS]

Analytics

IMPROVED: Now also counting demands that came from Karabo, but closed on PCC under [Demands on PCC over time].

2023 Week 31

Demands

IMPROVED: Checking whether the demand was already submitted to a forum when submitting it to a forum.
NEW: Display of open submissions to forums.
NEW: When using PCC to ratify demands, the default configured champion can be overridden by defining a [CR Executive] Stakeholder.
IMPROVED: Only notify a stakeholder once when state change if the stakeholder appears more than once on stakeholders list.

Forums

NEW: Points for submitting outcomes to an item reviewed at a meeting.
FIXED: Forum Member Roles autocomplete.
IMPROVED: Capturing Demand state at time of meeting when Demand is added to a meeting as agenda item.

System

NEW: Event and Command Bus implementation to handle heavy workloads asynchronously.

2023 Week 30

Analytics

IMPROVED: Impacted Areas Display ordered by impacted area count DESC to show highest impacts first.

Demands

NEW: Added ability to delete a content item associated to a demand.
NEW: A new view mode is available that is more organized and displays better on screen.
NEW: A new and improved Impact mechanism that can learn about Business, Information System and Technology areas.
NEW: Improved State change modal with better feedback and reward indications.

Other

NEW: More configuration for Organizations, such as color, logo.
NEW: Improvements to User and Stakeholder Points allocation.
NEW: Awards Processor.
NEW: Awards Display under Me menu.

2023 Week 29

Forums

NEW: Users can add/remove individual submissions to the forum.

Demands

FIXED: Fix for searching an attribute value.
FIXED: Fix for activity showing assigned when not assigned.
NEW: Stakeholders and Followers are notified of state changes on demand (if PCC knows the email).
IMPROVED: Moved [Add additional Content Section] to Contents menu to be consistent with the menu of other sections on Demand.
IMPROVED: Additional validation on demand contents before a BID/CR Number will be generated. This is to prevent CR creations where there are no content for the CR.

Analytics

NEW: Chart for demands per user.

Integrations

NEW: Integration mechanism now active for configured mailbox end-points.
NEW: Integration processing now active for Integrations defined using activities.

My Perspective

NEW: Info cards and Basics of a Gantt Chart available on [My Activities].

Other

NEW: Help Snippets introduced that pops up.
NEW: SysAdmin can manage Stakeholder record association of a user.

2023 Week 28

Other

IMPROVED: Generation of org stamp and org key when creating organizations.
IMPROVED: Visibility of active users on system for system admins.

Demands

IMPROVED: Demand Browser searches any state by default instead of just active demand states.
NEW: Integrations are shown on the demand.
NEW: Added help text at each of the sections that makes up a demand.

Forums

FIXED: Display of Meeting state for Forum.
IMPROVED: Organisational context added for Forum and constrained browsing in this context.
IMPROVED: Added new entity ForumSubmission to handle submissions with more control.

Analytics

NEW: Added chart for demands created on PCC over time.

2023 Week 27

Migration

IMPROVED: State determination for Karabo Migration run.
NEW: Demand Registration has been re-enabled.

PCC is operational. Karabo has been switched off.

Other

FIXED: Added yp.co.za and gyrogroup.co.za as valid domains.
NEW: Added pcc:apply-fixes command for adhoc data fixes.

Demands

IMPROVED: Removed comment from comment with Association as a comment into comments.

System Administration

IMPROVED: Link for Manage System Requests now goes straight to the requests browser.

2023 Week 26

Security

IMPROVED: Added [X-FRAME-OPTIONS: Deny] to platform.sh headers configuration to prevent ClickJacking attacks.
IMPROVED: Added [X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff] to platform.sh headers configuration to prevent Content-Sniffing XSS (CS-XSS) attacks.
IMPROVED: Added [Content-Security-Policy: self] to platform.sh headers configuration to prevent Cross-Site scripting attacks.
IMPROVED: Added nelmio-security bundle to control headers for improved security.

Karabo Import

IMPROVED: Identification of organization that the demand belongs to.
IMPROVED: Handling of duplicates coming from Karabo.

System Administration

FIXED: Organization Lock indication was inverted. Corrected.

Demands

TEMP: Temporarily disabled Demand Creation in preparation for launch. Recent data from Karabo can be viewed.
IMPROVED: Display of Demand Analytics.

2023 Week 25

Demands

IMPROVED: Renamed demand context -> INFORMATION REQUEST to -> ASSESSMENT.
FIXED: Error on Download Legacy CR when the org for the demand did not have a defined template.

Security

IMPROVED: Increased Authentication Code digits from 4 to 5.

Other

REFACTORED: Moved Subscription handling out of pcc:maintain and to own command (pcc:subsmailer) and cron time setting.
IMPROVED: Added Owner Organization for each demand to the reports that are sent as part of subscriptions.
IMPROVED: New icons and logo for app.

System Administration

IMPROVED: Added Last Subscription Run health data for visibility.
FIXED: Filter on users did not show results. Was case sensitivity issue. Made search case-insensitive.

2023 Week 24

Other

IMPROVED: User's [My Account] page now has tabs for different sections on the page.
FIXED: URL sent for password reminders now using correct environment host.
NEW: Added view and form for user's own management of subscriptions to notifications from the system.
NEW: Added chart for user registrations over time under system administration.
NEW: Added subscription files generation (xlsx) and email function to pcc:maintain in order to send the subscriptions daily.
NEW: Random splash image for front page (when locked out).

Sys Admin

NEW: Added display of user's password change date as well as the next calculated password reset date.
FIXED: Broken link on recent comments section fixed.

People

IMPROVED: Removed default display of all people. You have to know what you are looking for by using search functionality.

2023 Week 23

Demands

NEW: Added view for all organization activities. It is now easy to see all open activities and track progresses from one view.
IMPROVED: Added links on followers to view the stakeholder info of the follower.
FIXED: Added DELIVERY: planning as active state to policy config so that change states are available.
IMPROVED: Ability to add an artefact by only supplying the ITSD number. PCC will complete the link to bookshelf for the ITSD-number.
FIXED: Display issue fixed when showing demand as PDF and there were artefacts assigned to the demand.

Sys Admin

IMPROVED: Display of user information on user management screen for small screens. Better alignment.

Forums

IMPROVED: Added artefacts to agenda/mom so that readers have access to documentation, which could be the objective of the review, for demands on the agenda.

Other

IMPROVED: Updated User manual for Part 2 Demand Management.
IMPROVED: Added default config for analytics display relating to organizations, and the organization does not have a specified config item.

2023 Week 22

Other

IMPROVED: Composer.json - dev autoload improvements for spec and tests to comply to psr-4 autoload standard.
IMPROVED: Removed timezone from date storage field for all other entities. Using App timezone settings only.

Demands

IMPROVED: Added a "show all" option on demands browser when search yields less than 200 records. Enables the user to view all related demands in one go without having to page.
IMPROVED: Unique Tags and Attributes per organization, and filtered according to the organization of the demand. So each org can have unique tags and attributes, which improves analytics and contextual information on the demands.
IMPROVED: Added available states in policy config for imported demands from Karabo with UNKNOWN states so that their states can be updated.

2023 Week 21

Security

FIX: Updated password constraint validator to check for 10 characters instead of 8, and also to check for special characters used in password.

Demands

FIX: Updated check for Demand in Active Lifecycle to include [NEW: endorsed] demands.

Other

IMPROVED: All emails to use config for app name.
IMPROVED: Added additional help comments to demand attribute management GUIs.
IMPROVED: Removed timezone from date storage field for AppHealth entity. Using App timezone settings only.

2023 Week 20

Security

IMPROVED: Updates to session model to allow org admin to create forums and assign admin members for the new forum.
NEW: Added Account Disabled notification to user.
NEW: Added Account Expired notification to user.
NEW: Added in-app flashes notification on login to notify on imminent password expiry.

Demands

IMPROVED: Removed 'High Level Requirements' as a required content for general demands on policy configuration.

Other

IMPROVED: More data on Automated System Report send to system admins.
IMPROVED: PWA icons and splash screens - new design and better clarity.
UPDATED: PCC User Manual 1.
NEW: Added PCC User Manual 2.
IMPROVED: Moved User Manuals from teams to app.
UPDATED: WebManifest to accommodate new splash screens.
IMPROVED: 2FA Email Subject changed from 'Telkom PCC Auth Code: xxxx' to 'PCC Auth Code is xxxx'.
MAINTENANCE: Doctrine Migrations versions cleanup.
IMPROVED: Additional consents for password management on login screen.
FIX: Fixed Maintenance Command not indicating correct run times.

2023 Week 19

Security

NEW: 2FA implemented. Authentication code is sent to user's email. This also ensures alignment with corporate policies. If the user's account is disabled, the email is disabled, and consequently, the user's PCC account cannot be accessed.
NEW: Added display of security compliance info on login and 2FA authentication forms.
IMPROVED: Sys Admin ability to manage user's assigned roles.
IMPROVED: Timeout of session set to 5 hours.
IMPROVED: Live Session reload when a user's permissions are changed. No more logout, re-login frustration.
IMPROVED: Login form to show email as the user identifier.
IMPROVED: Implemented custom loadUserByIdentifier so that usernames can be case-insensitive.
IMPROVED: Updates to maintenance command to notify users of imminent expiry of passwords.

Forums

NEW: Forum Meeting. Administrators of a Forum can now send meeting agenda/MoM directly to members' emails.
NEW: Ability for members to opt-out of forum emails.
NEW: Forum admins can manage member subscriptions to forum emails.

Demands

IMPROVED: Updates to Policy Model for padding of BID number.

Analytics

FIXED: Removed node contexts for RESOURCE from chart for nodes by context

Other

NEW: Change Log display (this) - link available in footer area
NEW: Additional maintenance service to send report to admin users of PCC users.
IMPROVED: Moved admin emails from config to using users roles identification. Removed System from email
FIXED: Portfolio image on About and ChangeLog pages now the correct image
IMPROVED: User report now only send to sysadmins on week days.
IMPROVED: Icon size for links on footer reduced.
IMPROVED: Custom mailer implemented for 2FA so that authCode can be displayed in the email subject for easier visibility for the user.
IMPROVED: Display of a user's last login date on sysadmin screens.

2023 Week 18

Forums

NEW: Added initial forum config for an organization and submissions of NEW:endorsed demands is automatically to this configured Forum.
NEW: Improved permissions check on forum members and updated email content for forum assignments.

Demands

NEW: Automatically submit to Forum upon Demand Create and approved.
NEW: Manual assignment to a forum for rest of lifecycle.
FIXED: Added fix to set state to NEW: endorsed when BID strategy is on_create.

Analytics

NEW: Added NodeImpacts view to Analytics Browser.
NEW: Added NodeTags analytics browser.

Other

IMPROVED: Moved system feed from dashboard to sysadmin landing page.
IMPROVED: Policy Model updates. GetNodePolicyModel.

2023 Week 17

NEW: Activities on Demands now also show the total business hours for the activity.

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