Skip to content

Version: v260112 (BC 2.4.4)

Summary

This is mainline version upgrade for Brief Connect - please see our product documentation for full notes around the added features and included core bug fixes: Brief Connect v2.4.1 Release Notes - Brief Connect Documentation

This release contains the following requirements changes, bugfixes and record subtype configuration items (NOTE Configurations agreed to in the standardisation session held on 12/01/2026 are not included in this release):

ID Title
667704 Parliament configuration - DHPPQ
667703 Parliament configuration - QWN
667702 Parliament configuration - PQN
667700 EOB configuration - EOB
662893 (REQ-019) Marking documents as permanent / temporary
662891 (REQ-080) Lead Author prompt for adding recommendations
663422 (REQ-035) Prevent records being sent to the Decision Maker without at least 1 recommendation.
666653 Parliament: Primary Contact should be at the top of the Initiate list

Manual post-deployment steps

Import config

Config file to import: DFFH Configuration v260108-config.zip

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

  • Confirm availability and successful initiation of DHPPQ, QWN and QON Parliament record subtypes for DH
  • Confirm availability and successful initiation of EOB record subtype for DFFH
  • Confirm the availability of document tags in the Documents tab of newly created DFFH records complete to specifications outlined in comment section of associated PBI
  • Confirm new prompts have been configured for transitions from the Lead Author and from the Recommender
  • Re-confirm correct 'Primary Contact' positioning on previously incorrect record subtypes

Rollback steps to previous version

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