Release 8 – September 12, 2021

    Annual Fall Lookup Updates (2021)

This enhancement is automatically available for use by all CASs and participating programs. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact your Account Manager for more information.

Many fields in the Applicant Portal contain predefined answer values that applicants can select. For example, the Country and County fields both have predefined answer values. These values are contained in shared “lookup tables.” With this release, the second of two semi-annual updates to these lookup tables has been implemented. Review the Shared Lookup Table Updates for Fall 2021 to learn what changes are new in the Applicant Portal and WebAdMIT. Note that the changes in WebAdMIT are scheduled to be released later this week; review the Timeline for more information.

    Programs Can Request Foreign Transcripts Separately from Domestic Transcripts

This enhancement is available in 2021 Release 9.

    Ability to Customize Internal Question Labels for Custom Questions

This enhancement is automatically available for use by all CASs and participating programs. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact your Account Manager for more information.

You can now assign Internal Question Labels to the Custom Questions in the Program Materials section of the application. This enhancement allows those questions to have a name that remains the same for each cycle, which is helpful for data integration (e.g., "legacy"). It also allows you to add more descriptive field names.

    Enhancements Made to Likert Scale and Browser Support

This enhancement is automatically available for use by all CASs and participating programs. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact your Account Manager for more information.

Likert scales are enhanced to no longer default to the selection of Not Observed. Also, recommenders are now unable to save their progress if all their Likert scale responses are Not Observed.

Lastly, if a recommender attempts to access Letters by Liaison through Internet Explorer browser version 11 or earlier, they are alerted that they are using an unsupported browser and are prevented from continuing their session. The recommender must then switch to a supported browser to continue their work.

    Footer Added to Login Page

This enhancement is automatically available for use by all CASs and participating programs except for Common App for transfer. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact your Account Manager for more information.

Letters by Liaison now features a footer that includes links to the Privacy Policy and the Accessibility Statement.

    WebAdMIT Now Links to CAS Status Page

This enhancement is automatically available for use by all CASs and participating programs. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact your Account Manager for more information.

A Current Status of CAS and WebAdMIT link has been added to the Menu Bar, linking to https://status.liaisonedu.com/.

    Special Characters from Custom Field Names Removed When Used as Merge Fields

This enhancement is automatically available for use by all CASs and participating programs. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact your Account Manager for more information.

When you create Custom Fields, you can include special characters in the label (i.e., name) field. Additionally, you can include Custom Fields labels as merge fields in the File Name Pattern field in the PDF Manager. Previously, if you used a Custom Field label containing a special character as a merge field, the PDF template would not save. This enhancement automatically removes special characters from the Custom Field merge field names on screen. The special characters will still be included in the file names for any PDF Manager jobs you run and download.