ChildPlus 6.0 Fixes by Version Number

The following are all of the customer-reported bugs that were fixed in this update. We have organized bugs by ChildPlus version number and product.

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ChildPlus 6.0.44.0

Update:  June 25, 2022

ChildPlus Desktop

Area Description

Dashboard

We resolved an issue that, in certain situations, prevented Dashboards from automatically refreshing overnight.

Management >> PIR

We resolved an issue that, in certain situations, prevented ChildPlus from calculating PIRs.

ChildPlus Online

Area Description

Management >> PIR

We resolved an issue that, in certain situations, prevented ChildPlus from calculating PIRs.

 


ChildPlus 6.0.39.0

Update:  June 11, 2022

ChildPlus Desktop

Area Description

Management >> PIR

We resolved an issue that, in certain situations, prevented ChildPlus from calculating all PIR sections.

Services >> Application

We resolved an issue that prevented users from making a family member a participant if they did not have security privileges to No Site in Setup >> Security >> User Security >> Restrict Access by Location >> Sites.

ChildPlus Online

Area Description

Add Family

We resolved an issue that prevented you from adding family members who were not Applicants or Primary Adults.

Management >> Professional Development >> Trainings

The Topic field is no longer required when adding new Trainings to Professional Development.

Trainings that were previously added and converted over from ChildPlus Desktop now display in the Trainings list with the word (Legacy) next to them. Click or tap a Legacy training record to view details, make changes or add Attendees to it.

Report 1316 - Training History Report

We added links to the Trainings displayed on this report. Click on the blue link to see details about any Training or add an Attendee to it.

 


ChildPlus 6.0.36.0

Update:  May 21, 2022

ChildPlus Desktop

Area Description

Family Pre-application (formerly Online Application)

If your agency includes the SNAP question on the Family Pre-application, ChildPlus will populate the SNAP field in Services >> Application >> Family Information based on the parent's response. ChildPlus will also populate the applicable At Enrollment and At End of Enrollment PIR fields for the SNAP question available in Services >> Family Services >> Family Services Information and Services >> PIR >> Family Services.

We resolved an issue where, in certain situations, ChildPlus was not sending email notifications when documents were uploaded by parents using the Request Documents link. This issue was only happening if notifications were configured to be sent to multiple email addresses on the Terms and Locations tab in ChildPlus Desktop >> Setup >> Module Setup >> Family Pre-application.

Management >> PIR >> Calculate PIR

We resolved an issue where ChildPlus was not calculating question C.8 if you did not check the box to calculate question C.7 as well.

Report 2135 - Print Applications

We moved the SNAP, WIC and WIC ID fields to the Family Income section of the Family Income, Information and Contacts application form. These fields are also now available though Services >> Application >> Family Information >> Family Income.

Services >> Application >> Family Information

We added fields to track WIC and WIC ID to the Family Income section of Services >> Application >> Family Information >> Family Income.

If a participant's SANP or WIC fields are set to Yes in Family Information, ChildPlus will also populate the applicable At Enrollment and At End of Enrollment PIR fields for the these question available through Services >> Family Services >> Family Services Information and Services >> PIR >> Family Services.

Services >> Enrollment >> Location Preferences

We resolved an issue where, in certain circumstances, it was possible for a single Location Preference to be assigned a priority other than 1st.

ChildPlus Online

Area Description

DRDP

We resolved an issue where, in certain situations, ChildPlus displayed DRDP observation measures that were not consistent with the selected view.

Family Pre-application (formerly Online Application)

If your agency includes the SNAP question on the Family Pre-application, ChildPlus will automatically populate the SNAP field in Services >> Application >> Family Information based on the parent's response. ChildPlus will also populate the At Enrollment and At End of Enrollment PIR fields for the SNAP question available in Services >> Family Services >> Family Services Information and Services >> PIR >> Family Services.

We resolved an issue where, in certain situations, ChildPlus was not sending email notifications when documents were uploaded by parents using the Request Documents link. This issue was only happening if notifications were configured to be sent to multiple email addresses on the Terms and Locations tab in ChildPlus Desktop >> Setup >> Module Setup >> Family Pre-application.

Management >> PIR >> Calculate PIR

We resolved an issue where ChildPlus was not calculating question C.8 if you did not check the box to calculate question C.7 as well.

Management >> Professional Development

When added Attendees to Trainings, ChildPlus no longer includes inactive or terminated staff members in the list of choices.

We resolved a long-standing issue where, in certain situations, ChildPlus displayed an error message when you accessed a Training with a long Service Area description.

Report 2135 - Print Applications

Family Income, Information and Contacts

We moved the SNAP and WIC fields to the Family Income section of the Family Income, Information and Contacts application form. These fields are now populated with data from the Family Income section of the family's Application.

Eligibility Verification Form

We updated the label for Homeless to Experiencing Homelessness.

Report 2320 - Individual Attendance

We resolved an issue where ChildPlus was not including Attendance Reasons on this report.

Services >> Application >> Family Information >> Family Training

We resolved an issue where family trainings were not displaying in the Family Information window.

Setup >> Security >> User Security Groups

We added a new security checkpoint for ChildPlus Online >> Entry Express >> Custom Modules.

 


ChildPlus 6.0.32.0

Update:  May 14, 2022

ChildPlus 6.0.32.0 contained important 2021-2022 PIR updates and SNAP updates. To learn more about these updates, please click here.

ChildPlus Desktop

   

Report 2320 - Individual Attendance

We resolved an issue where ChildPlus was not calculating meals correctly on this report in version 6.0.28.0.

ChildPlus Online

Area Description

ChildPlus Sign In

We resolved an issue, where in certain situations, ChildPlus was prompting users to reset their password or complete 2-Step Verification each time they signed in to ChildPlus.

Management

We resolved an issue that prevented custom modules from displaying under the Management menu in ChildPlus Online.

Performance Panel

We updated the Attendance indicator so that, when the Time Frame is set to Current, the indicator will display data from the previous business day, rather than the previous calendar day. For example, if you look at the Attendance indicator on a Monday, it will now display data from Friday (the previous business day) instead of Sunday (the previous calendar day). We also added a date to the Attendance indicator so you always know exactly which day's data is displayed.

Report 1316 - Training History Report

Report 1317 - Attendee History Report

Report 1332 - Professional Development Attachment Listing

We resolved an issue where, in certain situations, this report timed out and failed to run if the Include Legacy box was checked in the Training Name section of the Report Setup screen. To resolve this issue, ChildPlus will no longer analyze legacy trainings when determining if a staff member missed a training. It will only be possible for Trainings created in the new Professional Development module to count as missed.

Report 2320 - Individual Attendance

We resolved an issue where ChildPlus was not calculating meals correctly on this report in version 6.0.28.0.

 


ChildPlus 6.0.28.0

Update:  April 30, 2022

ChildPlus Desktop

Area Description

Gear Menu >> Lock ChildPlus

We resolved an issue where, when Lock ChildPlus was used, users whose computers hibernated overnight are were asked to re-enter their ChidlPlus password at sign in.

Management >> Personnel

We resolved an issue where ChildPlus prevented you from deleting a staff member from Personnel if another staff member's To-Do List included a Calendar for the staff member you were trying to delete.

Management >> PIR 

We resolved an issue that prevented ChildPlus from saving when PIR question A.6 was blank.

We made the following PIR module updates: 

  • A.22-23 - We updated the year referenced in the label for this question to 2021-2022

  • C.9 - We added a new option that allows you to specify how many days before/after the participant's Enrollment that a Growth Assessment has to occur to be considered for PIR question C.9

  • C.29 - We removed DRDP in ChildPlus as a choice from question C.29

  • C.42 - We replaced the word "services" with the word "benefits"

Report 2005 - Management Report - End of Month Enrollment

We resolved an issue that, in certain situations, prevented participants from counting towards a previous status when you ran this report for a date in the past.

Report 2007 - Historical Enrollment Report

We resolved an issue where inactive program terms displayed on this report.

Report 2025 - Enrollment Priority Listing

We resolved an issue where, for six-digit incomes, ChildPlus was rounding the final number of a participant's Eligibility Income to zero.

Report 2131 - Participant Summary

We added a link to the Reports menu in ChildPlus Desktop that takes you to Report 2131 - Participant Summary in ChildPlus Online. To use this link, you will need access to ChildPlus Online. If you do not have access to ChildPlus Online yet, please talk to your ChildPlus administrator.

Report 2501 - Management Report - Education Services (Grid)

We fixed a typo where the column name "Third" was misspelled in the Assessments Completed area.

Report 3050 - Health Actions

We added four new options to the Report Setup screen that allow you to filter on whether treatment was received.

Report 3501 - Management Report - Disability

We resolved an issue where ChildPlus was filtering this report by Responsible Staff when Don't filter by responsible staff was checked.

Report 4210 - Family Outcomes Assessment Worksheet.

We resolved an issue where it was possible for portions of a question to be cut off when you printed Report 4210 - Family Outcomes Assessment Worksheet or entered results on the Family Outcomes tab.

Services >> Application

We resolved an issue where, if you added a new family in ChildPlus Desktop and then opened their application in ChildPlus Online, ChildPlus was not saving the participant's Language Proficiency information.

Services >> Attendance >> Attendance Follow-Up

We resolved an issue where ChildPlus was not displaying information in the Days Left column for participants with multiple follow-ups.

Services >> Enrollment

We resolved an issue where ChildPlus was automatically copying Returning Points and Adjustment/Adjustment Notes to new participation records.

Services >> Family Services >> Family Outcomes

We resolved an issue where it was possible for portions of a question to be cut off when you entered results on the Family Outcomes tab or printed Report 4210 - Family Outcomes Assessment Worksheet.

Services >> Family Services >> Family Services Information and Services >> PIR >> Family Services Received

We resolved an issue where ChildPlus was defaulting the answers for the following Services Received questions to No instead of blank:

  • Discussed screening/assessment results and Progress

  • Supporting transitions between programs

  • Education on health/developmental issues of tobacco products

  • Education on nutrition

  • Education on postpartum care

Services >> Health

We resolved an issue where ChildPlus omitted the Received Preventative Dental Care - C.17 field whenever a Dental Event was added with multiple events or the Dental Event was included as a sub-event (for example, a Well Baby Check).

Services >> Health >> Health Information

We resolved an issue that prevented ChildPlus from saving changes to Calculation Preferences for the following questions: 
C.8, C.8.f, C.8.g, C.8.h an C.8.i

Services >> PIR

We updated the PIR Calculation Preferences for PIR question C.26 to Auto, Newly Enrolled or Not Newly Enrolled. They match the Calculation Preferences available for PIR question C.26 in Services >> Health >> Health Information.

Setup >> Data Utilities >> Merge Utilities >> Merge Families

We resolved an issue where, in certain scenarios, it was possible for a family to have no Primary Adult after running the Merge Families utility.

Setup >> Data Utilities >> Prepare for Next Program Term >> Rollover Utility

We updated the footnote on the Rollover Utility window to provide a better explanation as to why you would assign participants to groups. The updated footnote reads:

Assigning participants to a group (e.g., Returning from 2022-2023), allows them to be easily selected for reports and modules (e.g., Entry Express – Enrollment). To add a new group, go to Setup | System Setup | Define Participant Group.

Setup >> Module Setup >> Family Pre-application (formerly known as Online Application)

We resolved an issue where, in certain situations, ChildPlus displayed duplicate program terms in the Terms and Locations tab.

Setup >> Module Setup >> Module Designer

We resolved an issue where, in certain situations, the default sort order for records in custom Module Designer modules was not the same in ChildPlus Desktop and ChildPlus Online.

Setup >> Security >> User Security Groups

We resolved an issue where users with access to Services >> Attendance but not Entry Express >> Attendance were unable to access Attendance Follow-ups using the link in the To-Do List.

We resolved an issue where users with View Access to the Flags/Groups security node were able to add Flags/Groups for participants in ChildPlus Online.

We fixed a typo where a security node was labeled Present Enrollment Status instead of Present Employment Status.

Setup >> System Setup >> Customize Dropdown Choices

We added Spanish choices for the Relationship to Participant field.

Setup >> System Setup >> Define Participant Group

We made performance improvements to make adding new members to a Participant Group more efficient.

ChildPlus Online

Area Description

ChildPlus Online

To improve your experience and reduce the number of clicks/taps, whenever you select a menu in ChildPlus Online, the sub-menu now automatically opens. For example, when you select the Services menu, ChildPlus Online will automatically display all of the sub-menu choices available for Services.

DRDP Assessment >> Add Observation

We resolved an issue where it was possible, in certain situations, for a participant's Observations to be listed in both the classroom where they were enrolled and the classroom where they had a Location Preference set in Enrollment. Observations now only display for the classroom where the participant is enrolled.

DRDP Assessment >> Edit/View Observation

When you attempt to delete an Observation, ChildPlus now displays a better explanation about what happens when an Observation is deleted and how to un-tag children.
We resolved an issue where it was possible, in certain situations, for ChildPlus to display duplicate Observations.

DRDP Assessment >> Portfolios and Ratings

ChildPlus now always displays Conditional Measures. As a result, we've removed Include Earlier Developmental Measures checkbox from the Change the DRDP View dialog box and the Show/Hide Earlier Development Measures from the top of the Ratings window. This change was made because it is important for teachers to see the Conditional Measures so they can make a determination if they are needed.

We simplified wording on the Parent/Guardian Observations dialog box. Only include observations by parents, guardians, etc (exclude observations by personnel) has been replaced with Exclude observations by personnel.

Entry Express >> Scanning Attendance

We resolved an issue that prevented users who only had User Security Group privileges to Scanning - Attendance from signing in to ChildPlus Online.

Management >> Custom Modules

We resolved an issue that prevented users from accessing Attachment fields for custom Module Designer modules in ChildPlus Online.

We resolved an issue that, in certain situations, caused an error message when you tried to save an event in a custom Module Designer module. This error only happened for custom Module Designer modules that were tied to events and that also had This field is required selected for one or more fields in the module.

Multiple Reports

We added links to view Attachments to the following reports: 

  • Report 1132 - Personnel Attachment Listing

  • Report 1332 - Professional Development Attachment Listing

  • Report 2132 - Participant Attachment Listing

  • Report 1432 - Community Resource Attachment Listing

  • Report 2332 - Attendance Attachment Listing

  • Report 4332 - In-Kind Volunteer Attachment Listing

  • Report 8032 - Monitoring Attachment Listing

Management >> PIR

We made the following PIR module updates: 

  • A.22-23 - We updated the year referenced in the label for this question to 2021-2022

  • C.29 - We removed DRDP in ChildPlus as a choice from question C.29

  • C.42 - The word "services" was replaced by the word "benefits"

Reports

Custom Filters

We added a new Clear Selection button that you can use to clear any Custom Filters you have applied to a report.

Report 2025 - Enrollment Priority Listing

We resolved an issue where, for six-digit incomes, ChildPlus was rounding the final number of a participant's Eligibility Income to zero.

Report 2510 - Education History

We made the following updates to this report's Setup screen to help make it more specific for Education:

  • This report now prints Education Notes instead of Health Notes

  • We removed the following options since they are not applicable to Education: Dental Coverage, Medicaid, Health Notes, Insurance Information and Allergy Problems

Report 3050 - Health Actions

We added four new options to the Report Setup screen that allow you to filter on whether treatment was received.

Report 5004 - DRDP Observation Counts by Child

We resolved the following issues with this report:

  • Checkmarks were missing if you saved this report as a PDF or printed it to a PDF

  • Some measures were highlighted in gray when they should not have been

Services

Application

  • We resolved an issue where, in certain situations, data for some Application fields was not displaying when viewed in ChildPlus Online

  • We've added the ability to specify Multi-racial/Biracial in ChildPlus Online

Custom Modules

We resolved an issue where, in certain situations, data for some custom Module Designer module fields was not displaying when viewed in ChildPlus Online.

Education >> Education Information

We resolved an issue where ChildPlus was displaying "Invalid Date" instead of results for Educational Screenings when viewed in ChildPlus Online.

Enrollment >> Eligibility

We updated the way that ChildPlus handles a family's Income Status determination in cases where their income is identical (to the penny) to the poverty line. If a family's income is identical to the poverty line, ChildPlus will classify them as Income at/below 100%.

Pregnancy

To make it consistent with ChildPlus Desktop, we switched the placement of the Expected Delivery Date and Actual Delivery Date fields.

ZIP Code Lookup

ChildPlus Online now supports ZIP Code Lookup. If ZIP Code Lookup has been turned on and configured in ChildPlus Desktop >> Setup >> System Setup >> ZIP Code Configuration, ChildPlus will automatically populate the City, State and County fields for an address based on the ZIP entered.