Release 8 – September 7, 2025
New Features and Enhancements
Cross-Portal Enhancements
Disclaimer: on rare occasions, a new feature or enhancement may be moved to a future release or otherwise subject to change.
Liaison Outcomes Enhancements
The following enhancements are now available in Liaison Outcomes. 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.
Fully Redesigned Application Review Experience
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.
Based on user feedback, we're excited to introduce a new application review experience built for efficiency, clarity, and ease of use.
This update includes a number of features designed to help you navigate and evaluate applications faster and more intuitively:
- A new Applicant Header that provides quick access to contact details and other key information, fully customizable to suit your review priorities.
- An interactive timeline with scrolling and zooming capabilities to make reviewing an applicant’s academic history easier than ever.
- A modernized navigation menu with enhanced search, bookmarks, and easy section-to-section navigation.
- A collapsible sidebar, allowing you to complete review forms, add comments, or see key information while navigating the application.
Enhanced Archived Application Management
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.
After a cycle ends, you can keep your applications organized by archiving past programs. With this enhancement, you can now quickly toggle between current applications, archived applications, or all applications together from the Applications Grid. This provides a more streamlined way to access historical data when needed. Archived applications remain hidden from your regular tasks, but are still available to include in reports and exports without additional steps.
Enhanced Applications Grid Functionality
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.
Several enhancements have been made to the Applications Grid functionality:
- Resizable grid columns: you can now click and drag the column headers on the Application Grid to improve visibility.
- First column can be pinned: you can now "pin" the first column of the Applications Grid, causing it to stay in place while you scroll to the right. To enable this, go to the Application Grid settings, click Customize Columns, and check Pin First Column.
- "Many fields" are available as column headers: "many fields" are fields that allow applicants to enter several answers for the same question, such as colleges attended, test scores, or experiences. Previously, these types of fields were not available to add as headers in the Applications Grid. With this enhancement, those fields can now be used as headers, and the grid adjusts when several values apply to the applicant.
Any customizations you make to the grid, such as column widths or selections, are saved for future sessions.
Suggested Values for Building Segments
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.
When configuring Application Properties or Application Forms, you can now enable Suggested Values for text fields. With this enabled, the field you are configuring becomes easier to use in segments and filters, as a picklist appears when you query using the is exactly operator.
For example, if one of your forms has a question asking the applicant to enter their course titles, with Suggested Values enabled, Outcomes will keep a record of all values for each applicant. Then, when you build a segment for that field using the is exactly operator, the Value field will suggest all the available options with a type-ahead feature, allowing you to select the appropriate value.
The Suggested Values feature is best enabled on text fields with values that will be repeated, rather than highly variable fields. To request that Suggested Values be enabled for one of your text fields, contact your account team.
Outcomes Primary Font Refreshed
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.
For enhanced accessibility and special character handling, the primary font in Outcomes has been updated.