Release 8 – September 8, 2024

New Othot Platform User Experience

Behind the scenes, we are working on an overhaul of the Othot application to improve the user experience. We have completed a comprehensive set of user studies and built out the scaffolding for the new application. Over the next few releases, we will continue to build out the new workflows, and continue to iterate with feedback, to ensure they meet user needs and improve their experience using Othot.

The redesign includes improvements to the analyze functionality, with a streamlined report framework that enables users to easily navigate through simulations and prescriptions. We’ve also streamlined our insights grid experience to make it easy to segment and view insights for a population of students in your model. Our redesign leverages Liaison’s new component library to ensure continuity with other Liaison products.

Likelihood Factor, Top Impacts, and Deciles Now Available for Additional Predictions

For customers who have additional predictions enabled, we now offer the ability to see likelihood factor, top impacts, and deciles for each additional prediction. This allows users to better analyze a student’s additional prediction relative to each lifecycle phase, and to understand the causal factors that are driving the prediction.

Please note that this feature is not enabled by default for every customer but can be enabled upon request. If you would like to have this feature enabled, please talk to your Client Success Director.

New Data Dictionary Section on the Admin Page

We’ve added a new link to the Data Dictionary on the admin page, making it easier to access and find for our users. The dictionary is also still accessible on the model page.

Bug Fixes

• Improved correction factor calculation to produce more realistic results in specific cases.
• Improved the range selection for Recommendation variables.
• Fixed an issue with matrix constraint calculation for nested calculated features.
• Fixed an issue to restore the change data capture functionality.
• Fixed an issue that prevented some values from saving to pivots.

Events

Version 2409.2

• The Internal Events Calendar allows you to filter by Location, allowing you to quickly limit the calendar to a specific Campus. For more information, see Navigating and Filtering the Events Calendar.
• A Skip Calendar option on the Events Calendar allows you to bypass tabbing through each date individually. This feature is beneficial for screen reader users with visual impairments. The button appears when a user enters a search term and navigates through the window using the tab key.

Recruitment Manager

Version 2409.0

• A new field for Mobile Phone (TargetX_SRMb__Mobile_Phone__c) is available on Relationship (v1) records.

TargetX Resolved Defects

Engage (Version 2409.0)

• (CL-2124) Engage permissions allow users to delete an Engage meeting without error. Previously, non-Admin users needed to have ‘Modify All’ permissions to delete an Engage meeting.
• (CL-2165) Engage Permission Sets can be included in Permission Set groups. Previously, Users of a Permission Set Group did not appear as an ‘Available Advisor.’

Online Application (Version 2409.0)

• (CL-2179) Conditions for filtering Read-Only cards will correctly display Read-Only cards. Previously, only the “equals” operator in filter criteria worked properly.
• (CL-2187) Online Application deadlines correctly display for Hawaii Standard Time (HST). Previously, deadlines in HST were displayed as one day later.
• (CL-2212) Valid date fields save properly. Previously, certain dates generated an ‘invalid date’ error when data was resaved.

Portal (Base Version 2409.0)

• (CL-2203) The App Dashboard widget correctly displays the Start New Application button based on your configuration. Previously, the Start New Application button display setting didn’t work correctly when an application already existed.

Recruitment Manager (Version 2409.0)

• (CL-2199) Inquiry records properly roll up to the Contact when using Source to Master. Previously, when using the Batch Rollup defined in RM Preferences, the roll-up would fail when Id was configured as a Tracked Field, creating a TargetX Log.

TX Forms (Base Version 2409.0)

• (CL-2115) The General TX Forms embed code displays properly. Previously, when a General TX Form was embedded in a webpage, the form did not display properly.

Field Updates: Ordering, Naming, and Availability

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.

We recently completed an audit of the fields available within several of WebAdMIT's features. Updates include:

• Reordering fields within field groupings for logic and flow (e.g., all address fields are together).
• Updating field names for consistency (e.g., the organization field name across experience types is the same).
• Adding fields to the List Manager as new search criteria.
• Making fields available to different types of WebAdMIT users (e.g., admissions users versus advisors).

We encourage you to download your CAS's data dictionary to view all updates. If desired, you can then use this to update any templates you've built in the following features:

• List Manager
• Export Manager (and your program's associated integrations, if applicable)
• Applicant Header
• Scoring
• Email Template merge fields

High School Metadata Available in the Applicant Details Page

AAMC is providing high school metadata for its applications. You can access this metadata under the Education panel, High School subpanel on the Applicant Details page. It will appear similar to how college metadata displays; when you click on the school’s name, a new window appears with the metadata.