Release 8 – September 7, 2025

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 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 Analytics and Othot: advanced analytics solutions and data reporting tools.
  • 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.

Annual Fall 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 colleges, degrees, languages, and majors. Review the Shared Lookup Table Updates page for a full list of updates. Note that the Master High School List will be updated in the next release.

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Coming Soon!

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

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Shared Lookup Table Updates for Spring 2026

March 2026

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 October 31, 2025.

New lookup table values will appear in the CAS Applicant Portal in March 2026 (subject to change).

Visit the Shared Lookup Table Updates page for more information.