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Version: v260326 (BC 2.5.3)

Summary

This release contains the following requirements changes, bugfixes and record subtype configuration items:

ID Title
693016 Outstanding Role config items
https://engagesq.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/15949 Remove date auto-calculation for Parliamentary record subtypes
https://engagesq.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/15939 Key Dates Sequence Reorder - CABMC & CABCC
https://engagesq.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/15938 Meeting Dates for all Cabinet and Appointment record subtypes
https://engagesq.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/15933 Document Required Signature for CABCC
https://engagesq.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/15882 Remove Ministers from DFFH Minister(s) dropdown values
https://engagesq.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/15881 Add a new Submission Type dropdown value for all DFFH CAB record subtypes
https://engagesq.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/15880 Due Dates and Time not to be required when Decision Maker records decision (sending on to Completer)
https://engagesq.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/15875 DFFH - Send back to previous role option appearing for Lead Author
https://engagesq.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/15869 move final reviewer out of recommender stage
https://engagesq.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/15859 Create a new permission group
https://engagesq.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/15935 PQN Not appearing on dashboard - DH Parliamentary Question subtype

Manual post-deployment steps

Import config

Config file to import: TBD

Role required: Brief Connect Administrator

If there is no configuration set, you have to set up Administrator user Id in the Environment variable AdminEntraId in the Azure Function App. The value should be the Object Id of the user in Entra ID (Azure AD).

  1. Log into the target Brief Connect environment as the Brief Connect Admin user and open the Admin Panel (https://[WEB_APP_URL]/#/adminPanel).
  2. Select Import from Zip and upload the new configuration ZIP file.
  3. The system will process the file and refresh the list of available configurations. Once it appears, select the newly imported configuration from the dropdown.
  4. Click Apply to apply the imported configuration.
  5. Wait for the confirmation message that the configuration has been successfully applied.
  6. Make sure the active configuration is selected in the dropdown.
  7. In the menu bar, click Update SharePoint Content Types.
  8. Tick Clean up unused fields from content type. It won't remove any data, only detach unused fields from Content Types, then click Confirm.
  9. Wait 20 minutes for the process to finish.
  10. Click Cleanup Unused Fields from SP Lists, then Confirm in the confirmation dialog. This process will cleanup unused fields from lists (fields provisioned with old configs and removed in later configs).
  11. Wait for 10 minutes for the process to complete.

Clear the Server cache

Role required: Brief Connect Administrator

  1. Log into the target Brief Connect environment as Brief Connect Admin user. Open the Admin Panel (https://[WEB_APP_URL]/#/adminPanel)
  2. Open browsers Developer Tools, open Console tab and run the command window.clearCache() there. After successful execution, you should see Cache cleared. Server Result: true message in the console.

Smoke Tests

We recommend following our basic testing guide after this release: Basic testing of Brief Connect - Brief Connect Documentation

  • TBD

Rollback steps to previous version

Execute all deployment steps for the target release from related Release Notes.