Release notes

November 18, 2024

• Platform: If the user clicks an expired link during account activation, a new link is automatically sent. (Improvement)

November 13, 2024

• Peer-review Module: Even outside the review period, author names are not visible in the reviewer dashboard. (Fix)

November 7, 2024

• Presentations: An organizer can no longer switch off the voting system. (Maintenance)

November 6, 2024

• Video Recordings: Participants can no longer download presentation/session videos. (Improvement)
• Registrations: Participants can no longer withdraw their registration. (Improvement)
• Submissions: Submitters can no longer withdraw their submissions. (Improvement)

November 4, 2024

• Platform: Improved display of transaction credit cards in data tables. (Improvement)

November 1, 2024

• Platform: Our data tables will be easier to browse on mobile devices. (Improvement)

October 31, 2024

• Platform: Uniform spacing between paragraphs in the rich text editor. (Improvement)

October 24, 2024

• Platform: Full page modals have been visually refreshed. (Improvement)
• Organization Dashboard: By default, the tab displaying all events is the active tab. (Improvement)
• Schedule Builder: The "Assign Track" button is always displayed. (Improvement)

October 21, 2024

• Platform: Introduced an improved sign-in/login process to improve the user experience. (Improvement)
• Modals: The progress steps have been revamped. (Improvement)
• Single Sign-On: The Name Identifier claim can be used to extract email addresses. (Improvement)

October 17, 2024

• Invoices: The name of the participant/submitter has been added to the invoice. (Improvement)

October 15, 2024

• Platform - The label of the "Name / Company" field has been changed to "Invoice To (Person’s Name and/or Company)". (Improvement)

October 11, 2024

• Payment Gateways: Fourwaves now has PayPal support for payment processing. (Feature)

October 10, 2024

• Submissions: When exporting, the Presentations sheet will include the room name. (Improvement)
• VPS: The organisation's administrators can join a virtual session without having to be registered. (Fix)

October 9, 2024

• Submissions: Program Chairs can edit submissions. (Improvement)

October 8, 2024

• Schedule: Program Chairs can export the schedule. (Fix)

October 7, 2024

• Platform: Our rich text editor has been revamped. (Improvement)
• Registrations: An additional field can be added to the badges. (Improvement)
• Invoices: Invoices has been revamped. (Improvement)

September 27, 2024

• Submissions: PowerPoint file size limit is now 100Mb instead of 10Mb. (Improvement)
• Submissions: The Excel export includes a new sheet with all scheduled presentations. (Improvement)
• Submissions: Submission files with very long names will be truncated during file export. (Fix)
• Payments: Moneris refunds are displayed in the Organizer Panel. (Fix)

September 18, 2024

• Registrations: Participants can withdraw their registration. (Feature)
• Registrations: Organizers can withdraw registrations. (Feature)
• Submissions: Submitters can withdraw their submission. (Feature)
• Submissions: Organizers can withdraw submissions. (Feature)

September 13, 2024

• Organizer Panel: Fourwaves now supports the Asia/Seoul time zone. (Improvement)

September 11, 2024

• Organizer Panel: When an organizer cancels a paid option, they can also trigger a refund. (Improvement)
• Forms: Data is automatically trimmed of leading and trailing whitespace. (Improvement)

September 5, 2024

• Form Builder: Added configuration options for the 15% VAT tax rule. (Improvement)
• User Dashboard: Presentation times are not accessible to submitters and authors if the “Schedule” page is hidden. (Improvement)
• Platform: More verbose instructions under file upload inputs. (Improvement)
• Organizer Panel: An organizer can cancel a paid option. (Improvement)

September 3, 2024

• Platform - Registrations and submissions are searchable by internal ID and public ID. (Improvement)

August 31, 2024

• Platform - The First Name, Last Name, and Company fields have been merged into the Name field in the Billing Address form. (Improvement)
• Organizer Panel - The organization name visible on the event overview page is now clickable. (Improvement)

August 23, 2024

• Organizer Panel - When the organizers change the time zone, adjust the review period and session presentations. (Fix)

August 22, 2024

• Organization Dashboard - The bank account connection request modal has been revamped. (Improvement)
• Event Website - When the page is made public, session videos are visible to everyone. (Improvement)

August 20, 2024

• Organization Dashboard - The "Requester Email" column has been added to the bank account connection history data table. (Improvement)

August 19, 2024

• Platform: Kosovo has been added to our list of supported countries. (Improvement)

August 12, 2024

• Schedule: If a virtual poster session has no presentations, a warning message is displayed. (Improvement)

August 8, 2024

• Platform: Centralize your event management by linking your events to specific organizations. Want to learn more about this? Read here. (Feature)

August 6, 2024

• Event Website: Stripe assets are not loaded until a payment is requested, resulting in improved performance. (Improvement)

August 2, 2024

• Event Website: For all events that collect payments, a "Name on card" field has been added to the credit card form. (Improvement)

August 1, 2024

• Platform: Revamped permissions system. The event organizer role is automatically inherited for all organization administrators. (Improvement)

July 25, 2024

• Organizer Panel: Fourwaves now supports the Australia/Brisbane time zone. (Improvement)

July 5, 2024

• Payments: Organizers can choose the New Zealand Dollar as the payment currency. (Improvement)
• Tax Rules: A new tax rule has been added (GST 15%). (Improvement)

June 28, 2024

• Transactions: When a payment is associated with the Fourwaves Europe Stripe account, a special credit card statement is displayed to the user. (Improvement)

June 27, 2024

• Platform: To improve the robustness and reliability of the platform, Fourwaves has developed and released a new threat detection technology. (Feature)

June 26, 2024

• Platform: The side navigation of the Organizer Panel and Organization Dashboard has been revamped. (Improvement)

June 21, 2024

• Organizer Panel: Our date picker now has support for the 12-hour AM/PM format. (Improvement)

June 17, 2024

• Page Builder: New way to add content blocks to pages. (Improvement)
• Event Committee: Users are deduplicated if they are associated with multiple roles. (Fix)
• Submission Forms: Under certain circumstances, an asterisk appeared off-form. (Fix)

May 31, 2024

• Participant Dashboard: The Transactions tab displays all transactions associated with the user's account, even those paid by another user. (Improvement)
• Forms: Users can clearly see missing answers to required questions in the organizer panel and user dashboard. (Improvement)

May 30, 2024

• Submissions: Improved visual differentiation of decisions displayed in the submission data table. (Improvement)

May 27, 2024

• Payments: A redesigned flow allows organizers to associate a bank account with an event. (Improvement)
• Submissions: Selection is retained after triggering a search in the Assign reviewers and Add to session modals. (Fix)
• Organizer Panel: Images are no longer accepted by rich text editors. (Maintenance)

May 21, 2024

• Platform: Track the user who deleted an event. (Improvement)

May 17, 2024

• Submissions: Organizers can export author information. (Improvement)

May 15, 2024

• Organization Dashboard: The Bank Accounts section has been revamped. (Improvement)

May 14, 2024

• Platform: Display time according to user's locale; 12-hour format for US users and 24-hour format for Europeans. (Improvement)

May 10, 2024

• Submissions: Add submission title to folder names when exporting submission files. (Improvement)

May 7, 2024

• Transactions: When a payment is associated with the Fourwaves Canada Stripe account, a special credit card statement is displayed to the user. (Improvement)
• Forms: The conditional field logic has undergone several fixes. (Bugfix)
• Submissions: The "Missing required fields" flag is more robust. (Bugfix)

April 26, 2024

• Submissions: An email is required for each author. (Improvement)
• Organizer Panel: Remove columns where there's no tax data. (Improvement)
• Organizer Panel: Give Program Chairs the ability to edit the schedule. (Improvement)
• Organizer Panel: The reviewers can be managed on the Configuration -> Reviews page. (Improvement)
• Organization Dashboard: Organizers have partial access to the dashboard of the organization they are associated with. (Improvement)

April 20, 2024

• Organizer Panel: An email is sent when a transaction is refunded. (Improvement)
• Organizer Panel: Decision Types have been renamed to Presentation Types. (Improvement)

April 19, 2024

• Organization Users: Administrators can view the organizers associated with their events. (Improvement)
• Organization Users: Administrators can remove an organizer's access to all the organization's events. (Improvement)
• Organizer Dashboard: Events page has been revamped. (Improvement)
• Peer-review Module: Prevent a submission from being assigned to its author. (Improvement)
• Organizer Panel: The maximum size of the logo file has been increased to 10 Mb. (Improvement)
• Organizer Panel: An organizer can resend an email from the communications page. (Improvement)

April 16, 2024

• Payment Gateways: Fourwaves now has Moneris support for payment processing. (Feature)
• Schedule: If there are no virtual sessions, the Virtual filter is hidden. (Improvement)

April 10, 2024

• Organization Dashboard: The top and side navigation has been revamped. (Improvement)

April 9, 2024

• Organization Dashboard: A settings page has been added for administrators. (Improvement)
• Organization Dashboard: Transactions page has been revamped. (Improvement)
• Organizer Panel: The 'Missing registration' flag has been renamed to 'Not registered'. This flag is applied even if the required registration option is not enabled. (Improvement)

April 8, 2024

• Platform: Our team has commissioned an external security audit. We are pleased to release a number of small enhancements to improve the safety of our users. (Improvement)

April 5, 2024

• Organization Dashboard: Administrators configuration page has been revamped. (Improvement)
• Organizer Panel: Organizers can export user-selected data table records to Excel.(Improvement)
• Organizer Panel: Organizers can generate badges for user-selected data table records. (Improvement)
• Organizer Panel: Organizers can generate a booklet for user-selected data table records. (Improvement)
• Organizer Panel: Organizers can generate poster tags for user-selected data table records. (Improvement)
• User Roles: The Treasurer role has been removed. (Maintenance)
• Organization Dashboard: Organization units has been removed. (Maintenance)

April 3, 2024

• Organizer Panel: Participants can be made private. (Feature)

March 28, 2024

• Organizer Panel: Theme & color configuration page has been revamped. (Improvement)
• Organizer Panel: General configuration page has been revamped. (Improvement)
• Organizer Panel: Payments configuration page has been revamped. (Improvement)
  
• Organizer Panel: The committee configuration page has been revamped. (Improvement)
• Full-page modals: A loading indicator appears when an action is in progress. (Improvement)

March 25, 2024

• Schedule: Organizers can export their schedule to Word or PDF. (Feature)
• Organizer Panel: Organizers can export submission files. (Feature)
• Organizer Panel: The navigation has been redesigned. (Improvement)
• Modals: A loading indicator appears when an action is in progress. (Improvement)
• Form Builder: Form field actions are now grouped in a drop-down list. (Improvement)
• Forms: User upload controls have been revamped. (Improvement)

March 18, 2024

• Organizer Panel: When not active, advanced features are more visible in the interface. (Improvement)
• Form Builder: Added configuration options for the 21% VAT tax rule. (Improvement)
• Organizer Panel: Data table action dropdowns have been visually improved. (Improvement)

March 14, 2024

• Organizer Panel: The page settings have been reorganized with the introduction of tabs. (Improvement)
• Organizer Panel: Warn organizers when they are leaving a page with unsaved changes. (Improvement)

March 12, 2024

• Organizer Panel: For easier management, organizers now have the ability to delete their events. (Feature)
• Payment Gateways: Fourwaves now has Global Payments support for payment processing. (Feature)
• Form Builder: Organizers can clone fields as they build their forms. (Feature)
• Platform: Fourwaves has an updated logo and a new color palette. (Improvement)
• Platform: A cookie consent banner is now displayed to all users. (Improvement)

March 8, 2024

• Modals: Full-screen modals have been visually enhanced. (Improvement)

February 22, 2024

• Committee: User invitation emails will appear on the communications page. (Improvement)

February 20, 2024

• Side Panels: Visual enhancements have been made to enhance the user experience. (Improvement)
• Event Overview: Visual enhancements have been made to enhance the user experience. (Improvement)

February 15, 2024

• Form Builder: To help organizers collect location data, the Country List field has been added. (Feature)
• Form Builder: Organizers can add Instructions fields to the review form. (Improvement)

February 9, 2024

• Reviews: The Submission ID is now visible in the review data table. (Improvement)
• Form Builder: Visual enhancements have been made to the way organizers can reorder content. (Improvement)
• Form Builder: Visual enhancements have been made to the way organizers can add content. (Improvement)

February 8, 2024

• Modals: We've improved the appearance of every modal in the application to enhance the user experience. (Improvement)
• Organizer Panel: There have been improvements to the look and feel of data table filters. (Improvement)

January 25, 2024

• PDF Generation: Documents containing Korean, Japanese, and Chinese characters display properly. (Improvement)
• Waitlist: Emails confirming acceptance to the registrant list will appear on the communications page. (Improvement)
• Date Pickers: Dates are no longer disabled in the calendar. The field will be validated against its corresponding "To" or "From" field, when applicable, upon closing the date picker. (Improvement)

January 26, 2024

• Email Deliverability: We've received user feedback about email not reaching certain Microsoft Exchange installations. We've introduced a fix that should resolve this issue. (Fix)

January 15, 2024

• Payments: Organizers can choose the Ethiopian Birr as the payment currency. (Improvement)

January 9, 2024

• User Sessions: We've made significant improvements to our user session handling and login process. Users will now experience less frequent prompts for entering their username/password. These changes have been implemented to provide a more seamless, convenient, and simplified user experience. (Improvement)

January 8, 2024

• Reviews: The Reviews module settings page is now located under the Configuration menu. (Improvement)

January 3, 2024

• Forms: The "VAT number" field will now be displayed in the billing form when a VAT rule applies. (Improvement)
• Forms: Taxes have been removed from the cart and will only be visible on the billing form. (Improvement)
• Forms: Event tax numbers will no longer appear next to the amount. Please note that all details will still be displayed on the invoice. (Improvement)

December 20, 2023

• Hide Reviewers' Names: A toggle in the Organizer panel that hides the names of reviewers from submitters when results are shared. (Feature)
• Tax Rules: Three new tax rules have been added. VAT 19% in Europe (27 countries), VAT 0%, and VAT Reverse Charge 0%. The 0% tax rules are special cases that appear in quotes and invoices despite their zero values. (Improvement)

November 3, 2023

• Fields set to "visible" in the Organizer panel are now displayed on the event website participant page. (Improvement)
• We've removed contextual help from the Organizer panel. We will be rolling out a brand new Help Desk with enhanced capabilities very soon. (Maintenance)

November 1, 2023

• User Dashboard: We have made significant changes to the user dashboard. The "My events", "My transactions", "My registrations", and "My submissions" sections have been updated to improve navigation and user experience. (Feature)
• My Reviews Section: We have introduced a brand new section where users can manage and track their reviews. (Feature)
• Review Results Sharing: An organizer can now share review results with authors. This allows for better communication and feedback sharing. (Feature)
• Email Content: Users now have the ability to view the contents of sent emails, providing better tracking and management of sent communications. (Feature)
• Email Attachments: We've introduced a new feature that allows email attachments, enhancing the scope of communication. (Feature)
• Inline Formatting in RTEs: Users can now apply inline formatting in all RTEs, providing greater flexibility and control over text appearance. (Feature)
• User Audit on Form Modification: We've introduced a user audit feature that tracks and logs user activity when a form is modified, improving accountability and tracking. (Feature)
• Submission Details Page: The page has been updated for a better user experience. (Improvement)
• Registration Details Page: The page has been updated for a better user experience. (Improvement)
• Review Details Page: The page has been updated for a better user experience. (Improvement)
• Schedule Builder Page: Sessions in the Schedule Builder have been redesigned to improve the user's scheduling experience. (Improvement)
• User Profile: We've made some minor cosmetic improvements to the page. (Improvement)
• Email Footer Removal: The Fourwaves email footer is removed from emails when the whitelabel feature is enabled. (Improvement)
• Zoom Embed: Our integration with Zoom is back! You can host a meeting or webinar right from within Fourwaves. (Improvement)

October 25, 2023

• Update the logic used to validate the size of the "Figures" field. (Fix)