Release 3 – April 6, 2025

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New Features and Enhancements

Cross-Portal Enhancements

Liaison's suite of portals work together to help you collect and manage applications. The CAS application, also referred to as the CAS Applicant Portal, is the system where applicants find and apply to your programs. You receive these applications in WebAdMIT or Liaison Outcomes, where you perform your review processes. The appearance of your program and your requirements are customized in the CAS Configuration Portal, where you establish the program-specific elements that your applicants will interact with. Additionally, your program may use one or more of the following tools and platforms:

API: a data integration tool.
CAS Analytics by Liaison and Othot: advanced analytics solutions and data reporting tools.
CAS Applicant Gateway: a platform for applicants who have already submitted their CAS application to complete and upload additional materials requested by their programs.
CAS Liaison Letters: a platform for evaluators to submit their letters of recommendation.
Enrollment Marketing and TargetX: customer relationship management (CRM) systems for student lifecycle management.
Living Profile: a platform where students can connect their academic pursuits with their career aspirations.
SlideRoom: a platform for collecting digital portfolios.
Time2Track: a platform for tracking, verifying, and managing experiences.

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

Internal-only Recommendation Questions

This enhancement must be approved by the CAS association or UniCAS client for use in the next cycle. If activated, this enhancement will be available for all participating programs in the next cycle. CAS association and UniCAS clients: contact a member of your account team for more information or to enable this feature.

CASs can choose to configure letter of recommendation (i.e., letter of evaluation, letter of reference) questions to be internal only, meaning that the question and its answers will not be sent to other portals such as the CAS API, Liaison Outcomes, and WebAdMIT. This enhancement allows CASs to continue to collect data while restricting who can view it. To request reports on the data, contact support.

Liaison Letters

Recommenders can answer internal-only questions and view their responses in the full application PDFs they download from Liaison Letters.

CAS API, Liaison Outcomes, and WebAdMIT

Internal-only questions and answers are not accessible. They are also not available in the evaluation or full application PDFs you download from WebAdMIT or Liaison Outcomes.

Annual Spring 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 a member of your account team 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 housed in shared "lookup tables." Periodically, we update these tables to include additional response options.

The new lookup table values include updates to degrees, languages, majors, and visa types. Review the Shared Lookup Table Updates page for a full list of updates.

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 the optimal implementation of the new values, review the Shared Lookup Table Updates page.

CAS API Enhancements

The following enhancements are automatically available for the CAS API, and no action is required on the part of any school or program. If you have any questions about these features, contact support.

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

New lastEventDate Property

A new property, lastEventDate, has been added to the application v1 and v2 data models. If you are using subscriptions for application delivery, this serves as a single property to determine when the application was last updated. The value reflects the date and time of the most recent business event. See the CAS API Technical Documentation for more information.

Enhanced POST Subscription APIs Allow Multiple Events of the Same Type with Different Data Hold Configurations

The Subscription APIs now allow multiple event definitions of the same type. For example, you can establish two application.updated event definitions, one that delivers the application in JSON format for In Progress and Submitted applicants, and another that delivers the application as a PDF for submitted applicants only. This enhancement enables you to use a single subscription, rather than two or more. See the CAS API Technical Documentation for more information.

Coming Soon!

Please review the list of upcoming events, including product updates and regional training opportunities.

Event	Date	Details
experience: LIAISON \| San Antonio	June 16–18, 2025	Refine your skills, broaden your perspectives, and elevate your strategic thinking alongside like-minded higher ed professionals at experience: LIAISON, June 16–18, 2025 in San Antonio, TX. Register now!
Shared Lookup Table Updates for Fall 2025	September 2025	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" which are viewable in your CAS's/UniCAS's data dictionary file. Lookup table change requests can be sent to a member of your account team, who will compile and review these requests. The last date to submit lookup table update requests is June 13, 2025. New lookup table values will appear in the CAS Applicant Portal in September 2025 (subject to change). Visit the Shared Lookup Table Updates page for more information.

Event

Date

Details

experience: LIAISON | San Antonio

June 16–18, 2025

Refine your skills, broaden your perspectives, and elevate your strategic thinking alongside like-minded higher ed professionals at experience: LIAISON, June 16–18, 2025 in San Antonio, TX. Register now!

Shared Lookup Table Updates for Fall 2025

September 2025

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" which are viewable in your CAS's/UniCAS's data dictionary file.

Lookup table change requests can be sent to a member of your account team, who will compile and review these requests. The last date to submit lookup table update requests is June 13, 2025.

New lookup table values will appear in the CAS Applicant Portal in September 2025 (subject to change).

Visit the Shared Lookup Table Updates page for more information.