Release 5 – June 2, 2024

Recommenders Can Designate Assistants (Delegates) for Recommendations

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.

CASs can choose to opt out of this enhancement; contact a member of your account team for more information.

Recommenders (i.e., evaluators, references) can now designate assistants or "delegates" to help them submit their letters of recommendation on their behalf through Liaison Letters. Recommenders are still responsible for writing an applicant’s letter of recommendation. Designating a delegate is helpful to recommenders who are busy or less technologically savvy, as delegates can help manage and submit those letters on their behalf and/or transcribe PDFs or paper forms into the online recommendation forms.

To use a delegate, recommenders first must add their delegates in Liaison Letters. Once delegates are added, they’ll receive emails notifying them and links to create their Liaison Letters account.

Within Liaison Letters, delegates can review requests and complete, submit, or decline recommendations. Additionally, recommenders and delegates can easily identify who submitted each recommendation request (i.e., the recommender or delegate).

Delegates receive the same emails that recommenders do, so they’ll be notified when a new recommendation request is sent to the recommender, when the recommendation has been successfully submitted through Liaison Letters, and if an applicant withdrew their recommendation request.

If desired, recommenders can temporarily deactivate or permanently remove delegates from managing their recommendations. Delegates will keep their Liaison Letters account, but they will no longer be able to view or manage the recommender’s requests.

If desired, delegates can save a draft version of the completed recommendation, and the recommender can later review and submit the completed recommendation.

You will still view the recommender’s name when reviewing an application in Liaison Outcomes, WebAdMIT, and the full application PDF.

It's important to remember that Liaison Letters is a universal portal where recommenders can access their recommendation requests from any CAS. As such, recommenders will retain the ability to add delegates within Liaison Letters, even if a CAS turns this delegate feature off. However, if a CAS turns the delegate feature off, then the recommender's delegates will only be able to view the applicant's name on the recommendation request; the delegates cannot view nor complete the actual request.

TargetX Resolved Defects

Applicant Dashboard (Version 2406.0)

• (CL-1463) The confirmation window for Pay by Mail has the correct title. Previously, it was titled Pay by Check.

Events (Version 2406.1)

• PD-6564) You cannot click the Registration button on Events TX Forms more than once. Previously, if you clicked the Registration button twice while trying to sign up for an event using a TX Form, it displayed an error even though the registration continued normally.
• (PD-6560) The School Picker displays correctly in Events TX Forms featuring repeatable sections. Previously, it displayed a longer picklist than usual.

Online Application (Version 2406.0)

• (PD-1458) Autocomplete lookup questions display the applicant’s selection in Print Preview. Previously, these questions would appear blank and generate console errors.

Payment Connector (Version 2406.0)

• (CL-2147) You can submit an Application Fee or Enrollment Deposit without encountering errors, even for Application Forms with a lengthy Application Type value. Previously, such forms caused a console error during the payment process.

Portal (Base Version 2406.0)

• (CL-2148) Alt Text for images added to Portals appears when you hover over the image. Previously, Alt Text for images was not displayed.

Recruitment Manager (Version 2406.0)

• (CL-1443) The Deposit Amount field on the Application object has been updated to a (5,2) format, allowing students to submit enrollment deposits up to seven digits in total, including two decimal places. Previously, this field was restricted to four digits before the decimal point.

TX Forms (Base Version 2406.0)

• (PD-6559) When a student uses the reset button for a repeated section, the text area character count resets correctly. Previously, the text area character count did not reset until the student began typing in it again.
• (PD-6561) You can add Repeatable sections with Visibility Conditions dependent on a Boolean field without error. Previously, for repeatable sections with visibility conditions dependent on a Boolean field, the builder sometimes crashed when attempting to add another record.
• (PD-6563) Option groups display correctly in the TX Form Builder. Previously, when a picklist was assigned to a field on one object, and option groups were introduced based on a field from a different object as criteria, the criteria for the option groups would not appear until a question related to the first object was chosen.