Release 7 – August 6, 2023

New Features and Enhancements

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 a member of your account team or support.

Disclaimer: on rare occasions, a new feature or enhancement may be moved to a future release or otherwise subject to change.

   Prerequisite Course Properties Available in Application API

You can now extract additional properties for prerequisite courses when using the optional query parameter "expand=config | all" in the Application API:

  • Course Prerequisite Description
  • Course Prerequisite Example
  • Course Prerequisite Minimum Credits
  • Course Prerequisite Minimum Grade
  • Course Prerequisite Name

See the API technical reference page for more information.

   Enhanced Replay Date Filters

The Replay API date filters (i.e., fromDate, toDate) now have additional date types for certain event types. The following events now consider both the created date and updated date of each record:

  • application.updated
  • application.calculatedGpa.updated
  • file.attachment.updated
  • file.gatewayAttachment.updated
  • file.supplementalAttachment.updated
  • file.externalDocument.updated

The following events now consider both the received date and updated date of each record:

  • file.transcript.updated
  • file.vendorTranscriptEval.updated

Finally, the file.evaluation.updated event now considers both the evaluation response date and the updated date of each record.

See the API technical reference page for more information.

   Header Properties for Document Import Processor (DIP) Manifest

The Document Import Processor (DIP) manifest now includes the following header properties for application data:

  • First Name
  • Last Name
  • Date of Birth
  • Foreign Flag

See the API technical reference page for more information.