Release 1 – February 4, 2024

New Features and Enhancements

Configuration Portal Enhancements

Disclaimer: on rare occasions, a new feature or enhancement may be moved to a future release or otherwise subject to change.

Sorting Now Available When Bulk Editing

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 making bulk edits to programs in the Config Portal, column headers now feature sort icons. This allows you to more easily find the programs you are looking for. With this enhancement, you can sort programs based on their:

Program Name
Term
WebAdMIT Name
Start Date
Deadline
Status
Date Updated

This enhancement was inspired by user feedback.

WebAdMIT Enhancements

Enhanced Splash Message Features

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.

Disclaimer: on rare occasions, a new feature or enhancement may be moved to a future release or otherwise subject to change.

Splash messages allow Liaison to send communications to you within WebAdMIT. With this enhancement, these messages have the following improvements:

Increased character limit
Support for clickable links
Expandable message box size to display entire messages

This enhancement was inspired by user feedback.

Line Breaks and Carriage Returns Now Honored in Long-Form Question Answers

Disclaimer: on rare occasions, a new feature or enhancement may be moved to a future release or otherwise subject to change.

When typing a response to an Essay, Personal Statement, or other long-form question, applicants can use a line break or carriage return to create a new paragraph of text. With this enhancement, WebAdMIT now honors these line breaks and carriage returns, so they are displayed properly when viewed on the Applicant Details Page and the full application PDF.

Coming Soon!

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

Event	Date	Details
Shared Lookup Table Updates for Spring 2024	March 3, 2024	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 (located under the Help panel in WebAdMIT). Lookup table change requests should be sent to your Account Manager, who will compile and review these requests prior to inclusion in the next lookup table update taking place this fall. The deadline to submit change requests was November 1, 2023. New lookup table values will appear in the Applicant Portal on March 3, 2024 (subject to change). You can view the upcoming lookup value changes on the Shared Lookup Table Updates page.

Event

Date

Details

Shared Lookup Table Updates for Spring 2024

March 3, 2024

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 (located under the Help panel in WebAdMIT).

Lookup table change requests should be sent to your Account Manager, who will compile and review these requests prior to inclusion in the next lookup table update taking place this fall. The deadline to submit change requests was November 1, 2023. New lookup table values will appear in the Applicant Portal on March 3, 2024 (subject to change).

You can view the upcoming lookup value changes on the Shared Lookup Table Updates page.