Release 3 – April 2, 2023
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New Features and Enhancements
CAS Application Enhancements
Annual Spring 2023 Lookup Updates
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.
Disclaimer: on rare occasions, a new feature or enhancement may be moved to a future release or otherwise subject to change.
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 housed in shared "lookup tables." Periodically, we update these tables to include additional response options.
The new lookup values will be released in two phases: the first phase was released in Release 2 and the second phase is released in Release 3. The second phase of the new lookup table values are now available in the Applicant Portal.
These lookup table updates impact the following portals, some of which you may use. If you created a "crosswalk" from our portals to your local data in your SIS/CRM, you may need to update this crosswalk for the newly added options. For guidance on optimal implementation of the new values, review the Shared Lookup Table Updates for Spring 2023 page.
CAS API Enhancements
The following enhancements are automatically available to all CASs and participating programs using the CAS API. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. If you have any questions about these features, contact your Account Manager or support.
Disclaimer: on rare occasions, a new feature or enhancement may be moved to a future release or otherwise subject to change.
Increased Reliability for CAS API Subscriptions Using SFTP Destination Type
The CAS Subscription APIs have been enhanced to provide better reliability for subscriptions using the SFTP destination type. This enhancement introduces a new grouping mechanism to de-duplicate similar events, which reduces the chances of SFTP server errors that interfere with data and document delivery.
New Gender JSON Node
In Release 2, the CAS API Application response now includes a new Gender JSON node under the BiographicInfo node (i.e., persInfo.biogInfo.gend.gender) that captures all the CAS-specific gender/sex options. For more information, review the Application resource in the API technical documentation.
If you currently use the CAS to Slate integration, we recommend you update your data integration and change the sex mapping from the previously-used field (persInfo.biogInfo.prof.gender) to the new CAS- and cycle-aware field (persInfo.biogInfo.gend.gender). While the previous field will remain in the payload, the data populating it is applicant-scoped instead of application-scoped and may not accurately reflect the options available in your CAS. The specific prompt value mappings vary from CAS to CAS; refer to your CAS for the custom gender answer value.