Features release

We are improving Synapse on a monthly basis, this page is there to help you to learn about updates and new features that are appearing on each release 👨🏼‍💻

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Version 6.2.0.
17 November 2021

⏰ Released on 08.11.2021

🌍 Intro

In this version, we have focused on multiple improvements and fixes on the platform as well as new feature development to simplify item upload and on Synapse.

💡What is new?

👩‍🏫 Training

  • Most connected training now appear on the listing page

⚙️ Organization contact page

  • Now an organization admin has the ability to choose the main point of contact for a certain country and a certain condition

📅 Events and sessions

  • New ‘Editor’ role now available for events
  • Old sessions are now available to users as well
  • All  roles a user can have for an given event are displayed under the event boxe in the user profile

Listing pages

  • The filters system has been improved allowing the users to select one or multiple values for each filters and perform better search
  • The filters values containing 0 element are hidden on the initial load of the pages preventing the users to see too many values containing 0 element

 Other:

  • Reports are now accessible from the initiative page menu (when available)
  • Buttons to add items on the platform have been added on most pages
  • Badge detail page design update
  • The title of most connected people is now changed when the user is logged in for most connected people in your country
  • Add analytics events on users action on a couple of CTA already existing on the platform and also on new button that has been rolled out in this release

🛠️ Enhancements and fixes:

  • Fix in initiative upload questionnaire
  • Fix in initiative upload questionnaire
  • Fix initiative download error
  • Improved listing pages filters behavior
  • Fix initiative display
  • Improve and prevent issue when a user validate his account twice with the same email link. A message is now displayed explaining that this link is already used instead of a “Not found” page
  • Improve a fix marketing slider behavior

Version 6.0.0
17 September 2021

⏰ Released on 24/08/2021

🌍 Intro

In this version we have focused on multiple features on the platform, first, we added an automatic animation slider to the homepage and all listing pages, this slider will be used by synapse admins to choose what banners to display on the homepage or on any listing page on Synapse. On the other hand, we solved the issue with creating user accounts on synapse by admins, by allowing users to claim these accounts, and our admins after verifying these claims.
This version includes also, Precision medicine questionnaire updates and other improvements.

💡What is new?

👩‍🏫 Training

  • Training box update
  • Add related pieces of training tabs to all items (organizations, users ..etc) and add pieces of training section in the all profile overview pages
  • Ability to follow a training
  • Improve the training box image

⚙️ User’s claimable accounts

  • Differentiate between user profiles created by themselves and user profiles created by admins
  • Ability for some accounts to be claimed by any person visiting the page
  • This claim will be sent to synapse admins and then they can contact the person to verify the information

📅 Events and sessions

Improve the information on the event box by displaying the number of sessions and organizations on the box info pop up.

 Other:

  • Update partnership page header
  • Improve smart search API
  • Differentiate between items linked to the therapeutic area or to the condition on the condition pages
  • Add cookies policy page
  • Update cookie banner and the privacy policy page
  • Add social media share buttons to all item profiles on the platform
  • Initiative questionnaire for Precision medicine Synapse

🛠️ Enhancements and fixes:

Fix most connected people component on disease pages

Version 5.9.0
15 July 2021

⏰ Released on 14/07/2021

🌍 Intro

In this version we have focused on the UX/UI experience on the whole platform and improved the boxes designs and profiles for all items, also the conditions page design was improved to include more interesting information and useful functionalities. Not to forget security and performance enhancements.

💡What is new?

🧾 Designs and user experience

  • Design update of all the boxes (user, organization, resource, event, training, initiative)
  • The boxes now all have a unified footer that shows relevant information
  • Animation movement on all the boxes 
  • Improve images quality on organization and user profile
  • Improve tags display on all items profiles
  • Improve colors and banners on all items profiles 

🔬 Conditions :

  • New design for a condition page
  • An expandable animated map that shows the conditions links
  • Highlighted section with the most  connected items related to a condition
  • Ability to filter the items related to a condition by tag, locations, and query search
  • Enhancement on the display of related diseases and synonyms
  • Condition box update -unified footer with relevant information –

📅 Events

  • Improve the way that related/upcoming sessions are displayed on the main event page and in an event session profile page
  • Add the number of speakers to the related/upcoming sessions displayed on the main event page and on an event session profile page
  • differentiate an ended session or event from an upcoming one in the event box

 Other:

  • Ability to have a description for an organization type when you choose the type of your organization
  • Update the Banner on Home page to promote the trainings

🛠️ Enhancements and fixes:

  • Fix issues when editing an organization
  • Fix issue with the email template ‘you have been linked to an event’
  • Enhance the page load time for listing pages
  • Enhance the cache

Version 5.8.0
18 June 2021

⏰ Released on 18/06/2021

🌍 Intro

In this version, we have focused on the events feature and Patient Engagement Open Forum, we also implemented multiple security enhancements that will secure Synapse. Also, the user and the organization boxes design was updated.

💡What is new?

📅 Events and PEOF

  • Improve events sessions boxes designs, and fade out past sessions
  • Order items on the events page (start with recent connections)
  • Order sessions by closest upcoming sessions
  • Change language on the events page (registration process and overview page)
  • Define new roles for organizations linked to events (Owner, Organizer, Sponsor, Participant, Contributor)
  • Separate event organizers from other organizations on the event organizations page.

🧾 Designs and user experience

  • User box update
  • Organization box update
  • User profile update

 Other:

  • Put links to the other Synapses in the footer
  • Prepare settings and Infra for SSO for any organization
  • Update email templates including Account confirmation email

🛠️ Enhancements and fixes:

Fix issue with user images on the platform

Version 5.5.0
31 March 2021

⏰ Released on 03/02/2021

🌍 Intro

In this version, we have focused on the events feature and PEOF branding.

💡What is new?

📅 Events and PEOF

  • Update PEOF banner to add the logos of the organizers
  • Ability to see the event in your time zone

🧾 Designs and user experience

 Other:

Recaptcha when registering a new user and when subscribing to the newsletter

🛠️ Enhancements and fixes:

  • Fix issue with adding initiatives on Maternal Health Synapse
  • Remove organization switcher when you have one organization only

Version 5.3.0
30 March 2021

⏰ Released on 02/03/2021

🌍 Intro

In this version we have focused on the events feature and PEOF branding, we also did quick wins for SEO in addition to normal fixes.

💡What is new?

 📅 Events and PEOF

  • Implement Sessions for events
  • Ability to add a registration link to an event
  • Improve events page design with a clear CTAs
  • Select an events time zone from an existing list and see the event in your time zone if different
  • Interested in an event feature  (works like other platforms like Facebook)
  • Ability to filter events by online events

Registration process

  • Redirect to registration flow after email confirmation instead of the dashboard
  • Enable SSO for all Synapses

🔎 SEO and performance :

  • Add proper schema to items listing pages
  • Add schema to all items on Synapse 
  • Hotjar code improvements
  • Improve pages crawled by google
  • Reports cashing
  • jQuery library usage 

🛠️ Enhancements and fixes:

  • Fix issue with Hyperlinks in the rich editor
  • Fix issue with organization resources
  • Fix issue with initiative permissions
  • Some wrong routes in email templates

Version 5.2.0
04 February 2021

⏰ Released on 03/02/2021

🌍 Intro

In this version, we focused on SEO quick wins like the sitemap,Opengraph data, and URLs. We also pushed the new terms and conditions, improved the smart search feature, and general improvements on pages and menu styles. Below you can find the detailed list.

💡What is new?

🔎 SEO:

  • Site map to help google indexing new pages and recognize the website structure
  • Improved URL
  • Canonical pages
  • Improved Opengraph data (social network sharing)

🧾 Public pages:

  • Improve menu style
  • Add the number of related items next to any list in an item profile
  • Improve listing pages for resources
  • Description text on every Synapse homepage

  🔎 Smart search:

  • Improve smart search fonts and styles
  • Improve search experience on all listing pages 

 Other:

  • Update terms and conditions page
  • Improve add organization flow on Synapse
  • Display all linked organizations to training on the training profile page
  • Improved badge tooltip display
  • Add rich content interpolation for badge pages

  🛠️ Enhancements and fixes:

  • Export initiative function
  • Fix issue in smart search page when navigation to Listing pages

Version 5.1.1
20 January 2021

⏰ Released on 20/01/2021

🌍 Intro

This version includes small fixes related to search filters.



Version 5.1.0
20 January 2021

⏰ Released on 19/01/2021

🌍 Intro

In this version we have introduced the Devices topic to PE Synapse, which will allow users to search for specific items related to Devices development and link to it, we also improved the search on the listing pages, admin side, and the smart search tab to work better for users.

💡What is new?

📟 Devices Integration:

  • The ability for users to choose if their items are focused on devices
  • The ability to filter each item on the listing pages by the devices focus or the devices development phase
  • Show the  devices focus and devices development phase on items profiles if they exist

🔎 Search improvements:

  • Improve how the search works on every listing page
  • Improve the smart search
  • Improve the search from the admin side 

 🏠 Homepage

Add profile completion percentage widget on the loggedIn homepage to enhance the users to complete their profiles

  📔 Initiative data

  • Update the questionnaire flow where you can pick which topic you focus on and then answer questionnaires depending on the topic
  • Improve initiative questionnaire flow in Maternal health Synapse
  • Improve initiative form UI

 🏢Organization pages :

  • Improve the way ‘My organization’ items are listed 
  • Improve the search filters related to ‘My organization’ listing pages
  • Ability to order ‘My organization’ items in different criteria’s 

🛠️ Enhancements and fixes

  • Fix the issues related to the People and organizations widget on the PEM suite website
  • Fix issue with organization types
  • Fix issue with Pledge pages
  • Fix issue with download initiative button
  • Fix issue with links from the admin side to public profiles

Version 5.0.1
04 January 2021

⏰ Released on 23/12/2020

🌍 Intro

In this version we released the new Architecture for Synapse, which will allow us to integrate and leverage the network from all the ecosystems, we also updated the look and feel of all Synapses to unify the branding and increase the clarity for the users.

💡What is new?

🕶️ Improved look and feel

  • Unified the logos for all Synapse platforms
  • Coherent futuristic look and feel for all the synapses (fonts, colors…etc )
  • Updates on the style in the Public menu
  • Updates on the Style of the User menu

🛠️ New Architecture for all Synapses

  • Update Synapse Infrastructure in order to make it the ‘HUB’ of all the ecosystems

🗓️ Events

  • Ability to add an online event
  • Hide events from the homepage map (because the majority of the events are now online) and keep it only in the upcoming events section

🔐 GDPR

  • Make synapse more GDPR friendly by switching off all unnecessary cookies by default
  • Provide the users with a link in the footer to access the cookies settings

🆕 Synapse for Precision Medicine

🔥 Other

  • Ability to add rich text with links and styles for all items descriptions
  • Change titles on the homepage and public listing pages

🔧 Enhancements and fixes

  • Update download link for the BOGP
  • Subscribe to newsletter feature
  • Improve error messages
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