Release 10 – October 29, 2023

New Features and Enhancements

CAS Application Enhancements

Liaison’s suite of portals work together to help you collect and manage applications. The CAS application, also referred to as the 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 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:

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

New CAS Configuration Portal Help Center

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.

The existing CAS Configuration Portal help content has been migrated to the new CAS Configuration Portal Help Center. This help center includes all the existing documentation, videos, and guides for the CAS Configuration Portal, and now lives separately from other product help centers.

Liaison Outcomes Enhancements

The following enhancements are now available in Liaison Outcomes. All enhancements are automatically available to all CASs and participating programs using Outcomes. 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.

Applicant Profile Pictures Now Available in Outcomes

If your program works with the Student Portal in Liaison Outcomes, your applicants can upload photos of themselves in the My Profile section. Alternatively, you can upload these photos on the applicant's contact record.

Add Photo option on the My Profile page of the Student Portal

Upload Profile Picture option on a contact record

In both cases, the photo appears on their corresponding applications.

Removed Race and Ethnicity from CAS Application PDFs

If your organization receives full application PDFs from a Centralized Application Service (CAS) within Outcomes, starting with the 2023-24 cycle, these PDFs have been adjusted to no longer include race and ethnicity. Where allowed by your Role, race and ethnicity data is still available onscreen within the Personal Information section.

New Documentation for Outcomes

Please review the list of new reference guides, all accessible in the Liaison Outcomes Help Center.

Document	Details
Creating Custom Text Translations for Exports	Our Advanced Configuration Library provides guidance to help you build custom configurations in Outcomes. In our latest article, Creating Custom Text Translations for Exports, you'll learn to use JavaScript to convert specific values before exporting them. This can be important if the system you're importing data into will not accept the values in their current format.
Include Letters of Recommendation Data in Files Export Manifest File	In this article, you'll learn to use JavaScript to pull the LOR metadata (e.g., the recommender's contact information) into the manifest file of your Files Export. This can be useful if you want to see key information at-a-glance without opening the LOR files.

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Creating Custom Text Translations for Exports

Our Advanced Configuration Library provides guidance to help you build custom configurations in Outcomes.

In our latest article, Creating Custom Text Translations for Exports, you'll learn to use JavaScript to convert specific values before exporting them. This can be important if the system you're importing data into will not accept the values in their current format.

Include Letters of Recommendation Data in Files Export Manifest File

In this article, you'll learn to use JavaScript to pull the LOR metadata (e.g., the recommender's contact information) into the manifest file of your Files Export. This can be useful if you want to see key information at-a-glance without opening the LOR files.

Upcoming Events

Event	Date	Details
CAS Migration to the Cloud	January 20 through January 22, 2024	To allow for greater scalability, faster response times, and improved security, Liaison is migrating our Centralized Application Service (CAS) (i.e., the student application) to the cloud. Review the CAS Migration to the Cloud article to learn more.