Release Date: 
Thursday, 4 February, 2021

Version: 
2021.02
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Better user experience / Reducing the burden

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Improved - Replaced British Heart Foundation (BHF) platform specific guidance text

Improved - We now allow Researchers to filter on agreed columns when looking up publications. When a user searches and results are returned, they can  filter on the agreed columns by journal and year.

Improved - Publications search look up - Web of Science ID is included within the search results posted back as expected. When a Researcher is adding a publication entry with a Web of Science id or manually, and enters text in the search box and gets results, they are able to see the Web of Science ID as a clickable link in the listing.

Improved - Replaced Researchfish Platform User Guide Documents. Updated a number of support publications / guides:

Funder User Guide 2020
Research Organisations' User Guide 2020
Centre Administrator User Guide 2020
How the information is used by your funder v2 - 2020

Fixed - When a PI/delegate/research team member, selects an award from the "My Awards" page and clicks on "Publications” to "Add new entry" and then searches for a publication, any located publications are returned, and the columns of the table are aligned correctly. Previously the columns of the table were NOT aligned correctly if browser window is minimised, or if the publication information was too lengthy.

Fixed - Unexpected fields are no longer exposed as part of the Datacite search.

Fixed - Fixed issue with Funders experiencing errors when trying to use the "Extend Submission Period by Award" tool. In certain situations clicking “Apply extension” would result in an error message at the top of the page: "An illegal value has been detected. Please contact the site administrator." The date fields were also highlighted in red even though the values had to be selected from a drop-down. This now works as expected.

Fixed - In Add New Award - the Date picker appears as expected  when filling in the Funding Start and End date fields. When a PI adding a New Award clicks on the Funding Start or Funding End Date fields, the date picker was not displayed and the user had to  enter dates manually. This is fixed.

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Enhanced data collection

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Improved - Added Additional Funder Question: Progress report added to RESAS.

Improved - Refreshed Further Funding Microservice data. Refreshed to reflect additional data that can be collected from  Further Funding sources. This reduces the time for the RESEARCHER and increases the quality of the data collected.

Sources
RESEARCHFISH
EPMC
GTR
Wellcome

Improved - Renamed a new additional question. The previous section name of  COVID-19 Impact Information, ahead been changed to  “Effect of COVID 19”.

Fixed - Updated Versus Arthritis - Further Info Additional Question Typo & Title. There is a typo in one of the Versus Arthritis Further Info Additional Questions. Question Q8a, corrected typo. Question now reads: Do you have any suggestions of how your research can help us to raise awareness of arthritis and the difference that Versus Arthritis is trying to make through our research funding? Also corrected the internal facing  title of the AQ section.

Fixed - In Additional Questions, the user is able to save as draft or cancel when a mandatory field is left blank. When a PI editing an Additional Question leaves a mandatory field blank and clicks on the CANCEL or SAVE buttons, they are able to CANCEL and revert the form OR SAVE AS DRAFT as expected.