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Development 2022

See Development for recent changes.

December 2022 

App, website:
  • Improvement to the user interface when videos are embedded in a gallery (2 or 3 columns). In such a case, playing the video will unwrap the gallery and make the video full width.
  • The video caption will now stay when the video plays. Previously it was replaced by a "Close frame" link.
  • The video play (>) overlay could be misaligned in some cases, this was fixed.
  • The "password" fields will now be styled like other input fields.

Guidelines module:
  • Minor improvements to the notification functions and listings.

ToolboxSync module:
  • The listings with specialty subfolders were uncluttered, hiding parent folder names.
  • When opening a PDF file to date it, it will now have the sidebar with the thumbnails open, so you can quickly preview and find the page with the metadata. This works on Mozilla and Firefox-based browsers, not currently in Chrome/Edge.

Embed maps module:
  • This had to be updated as the provider changed their installation and broke it.
  • If this happens again, editors will now see "Error loading tile" tiles and can notify us immediately.
  • The tiles with the error will no longer be saved, and on the next page view the server will try to reload them from the provider (if the problem is temporary).

Documentation:

Under the hood:
  • We now have an easier way to give administrator access to users.
  • Updated parts of our core software to latest versions.
  • Minor improvements to the email notification templates.

November 2022 

App/Website:
  • Add new intranet server "checkplus.nhs.uk".
  • Updates to the new technical standards Content-Security-Policy, cookies, scripts, embedded videos, animated GIFs, podcasts, visual editor, create account form, sign in form, change password form, forgot password form, settings form, Wrench menu, Analytics page.

Visual editor:
  • Updated icons, new interface for passing variables to the browser, removed unused internal comments prototype.

Guidelines module:
  • A new notification will be sent monthly to page maintainers and the contact email address for the domains, if their Guidelines modules have documents due for review or expired. A new page will list all such documents from all pages in the domain.

Remote library synchronization module:
  • Added new ways to index remote documents.
  • Linked to guidelines from the online library of University Hospitals of Leicester.

Documentation:

Under the hood:
  • Software upgrades leading to obtaining an A+ certificate for website security practices by Mozilla Observatory.

October 2022 

App:
  • Sign up page: update and automate the list of job roles, add a dropdown for specialties, the Name field is now optional.
  • The "Pull-down to refresh" label on the iPhone is now in the theme colour. Fix a minor bug where that label could appear in a flash while the sidebar / menu was sliding in.
  • The app will now automatically save to the offline storage all PDF files that the user opens. 

Website:
  • The dark theme will no longer affect the printable styles and PDF export.
  • Improvements to the dark theme (various QR codes, various buttons).
  • New video demonstration on the homepage.

Guidelines module:
  • We can now configure the document table to appear at the bottom of all pages, including newly created ones. If your toolbox relies heavily on this module, please let us know and we'll enable it on all your pages.
  • If there are no documents, the user interface will only appear to editors.

Feedback forms module:
  • Checkbox and radio controls can now be written in one line, separated by "|" vertical lines, rather than on separate lines.
  • Checkbox and radio controls: it is now possible to add a control [Text] "Other, please specify" where the user can type something that is not among the preselected choices.
  • Added a new shortcut control [Agree] that is transformed into radio controls "Strongly agree, Agree, Neither agree nor disagree, Disagree, Strongly disagree".

Administration:
  • The Analytics tables will now include a line for "Autologin sessions" - externally authenticated distinct browsing sessions - for toolboxes that have this feature configured.
  • After submitting the "Add new user" form, it will now return to the same form with a message on top, rather than a separate confirmation page.
  • We can now exclude administrators from the reception of the email notifications about new user requests.
  • Minor improvements to the email notifications to administrators.

Documentation:

Under the hood:
  • We are working on an "encryption at rest" feature for the personal information in the database (real names, IP addresses). This is currently in testing, let us know if you notice any errors.
  • Optimization of the Analytics database processing functions.
  • Optimization of the functions that allow us to review, tag, and revert new PDF files.
  • New larger phone frame for demonstrations and screencasts.

September 2022 

Website:
  • Search form improved legend and examples.
  • We are working on a "dark theme". To preview it, select "Toggle dark theme (experimental)" from the Wrench menu.
  • Improved styles in Change password form.
  • Anonymous users with "autologin" permissions will now find their domains near the top of the Hospitals page.
  • When a user opens a restricted page with insufficient permissions, a new prominent button "Back to My Hospitals" will appear near the top.
  • It is now possible to upload WEBM videos.
  • The domain Sidebars will now have a link to the Shared content section, and it will have a backlink to the Hospitals page.
  • Simplified the Sign in form.

App:
  • Removed white margins around domain covers on the sign-in page (like on the homepages).
  • Sign-in form: add "show/hide" control to the password field which reveals the typed password for 10 seconds.
  • Homepage buttons will now be a little narrower to fit 2 columns on smaller phones like the iPhone 6.
  • PDF viewer: added a new button to rotate the page. Tap it repeatedly to rotate the page in 90 degree steps.

ToolboxSync module:
  • The "Edit date" form will now more correctly show whether the file cannot be previewed or there are no more files. The button to directly jump to another file will now show the folders and filenames in a dropdown.
  • The "Add new entry" form will now allow to easily include (cross-link) in a folder a file from another folder.
  • Improve configuration functions and shorter URLs.
  • Improve storage of information about who makes changes to the file listings.

Security:
  • Failed logins are now limited to 5 tries within an interval of 10 minutes (wrong password, or wrong 2FA code, or wrong Forgot password code). If this number is reached, the user can no longer sign in within the 10 minute interval, and a message is shown (app and website).
  • It is now possible to enable 2-factor authentication via the open source FreeOTP app, or the standard Authenticator apps available for iOS and Android (Apple Contacts, Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator). To configure your account, from your Settings page select the tab "2FA" near the top.

Under the hood:
  • New admin function to easily preview and restore compressed PDF files.
  • UserManagement changed for more compact user list.
  • CRM: Add "Contract" page type, with its add/edit form, template, and styles.
  • Archived and closed one inactive domain.
  • RecentActivity listings now show an infobox when clicking on an entry, and copy the IP address to the clipboard.

August 2022 

Website / App homepage streamlining:
  • Added button links to top-level pages below the search field.
  • Moved texts from the homepages to a new top-level page "About / Welcome" or "About / News / Welcome".
  • The "About ... Welcome" button is positioned first in the Sidebar and top level pages.
  • The "Sidebar and app settings" on the website no longer has a box "Homepage buttons" to drop links: all top level pages are now on the app homepage, in the order you have configured.
  • Collapsed page tree, administration form, and QR code.

App:
  • Enabled pull-down gesture to check for updates. This feature is experimental.
  • Added "Open H1/H2 sections" control before the first heading in a page, on pages with multiple headings (like on the website).
  • Split Terms of use and Privacy policy into separate pages, added page Data privacy statement. Links to these can be found in the "Help-settings-logout" menu.
  • Updated in-app documentation.
  • Released a new version of the Android app to the Play store.
  • Replaced previous "homepage buttons" with all top level pages.
  • Removed QR codes from the bottom of the homepages.
  • Fix email links with the Subject: line pre-filled didn't work on some devices.

Visual editor:
  • It is now possible to embed a channel or an episode from Spotify, in a way similar to videos from YouTube.

Wrench menu:
  • The functions "Frameset website+app" and "Privacy mode" will now be available to editors, not only administrators.

Calendar module:
  • Saving events from a page will now return to the same page, not to the full Calendar page.

Shared content section:
  • Added podcast frame from "You Okay, doc?"
  • Improved/updated listings for NICE guidelines, BMJ Best practice, Mind the bleep and the Koha library.
  • Added new page "International Medical Graduates’ Handbook (Yorkshire and Humber)", composed by IMGs.

Administration:
  • The notification email to administrators about pending user requests will now link directly to the "Manage users" page for the domain, rather than to all domains managed by the administrator (fewer clicks).
  • User management: the page shows pending requests at the top of the listing, and the "change settings" form is at the bottom. We added to the top a link that allows to easily scroll the page to the form.
  • Analytics: since 01/08/2022 the "page analytics" tables include pages visited on the app.

Under the hood:
  • Improvements for some printing styles for PDF export.
  • Some PDF files had problems with background colours after compression -- this has been fixed.
  • Improvements to the backup report functions.
  • Improvement to the function converting attachments in bulk from a page to the standard Guidelines module.
  • Configured shortcut links to some documentation pages and to the apps.

Documentation / Help centre:

July 2022 

App:
  • New mobile apps "Health Toolbox" released on the Apple App Store and on the Google Play Store.
  • A search box was added to the hospital homepages, under the cover photo.
  • Video files attached to the Guidelines module can now be previewed directly in the app.
  • The message box about X documents (Y MB) can be downloaded will no longer show automatically: press the [X files] button near the top right to launch it manually.
  • It is now possible to hide the QR code from the hospital landing page.
  • Refactored/optimized local video and audio player functions.
  • The Android app will now report the available storage in the dev console (iOS doesn't have precise reports yet).
  • Some heavy configuration arrays can now be stored with LZ-compression.

Website:
  • It is now possible to hide the QR code from the hospital landing page.
  • The Guidelines  module, if empty, will only appear to editors.
  • Updated links to the new versions of the mobile apps on the app/play stores.

Forms module:
  • Email fields now check if the value looks like a valid email address. 
  • Updated warning message when required fields are invalid or empty.

ToolboxSync module:
  • Remove unintended warning about required fields when deleting a note.

Documentation:

Administration:
  • Certificates can now be created for people who mostly contributed offline.

June 2022 

Website:

Visual editor:
  • Editing is no longer reliable with the obsolete Microsoft Internet Explorer browser, so a message now appears to use a recent browser among Firefox, Edge, Chrome or Safari. Reading on MSIE is still mostly possible.
  • Fix a bug with the "Raleway" font in the edit form.

App:
  • New page "Delete my account" where the users can request the deletion of their accounts.
  • Remove the background photo on the Change Hospital page, and the shadows from the logo on that page.
  • Rewrite content storage to allow for larger toolboxes on the iPhone.
  • Fix a bug with the Request new access link.
  • Fix text colour of dialogue boxes, there was a bug when the sidebar was open.

Checklists module:
  • Update styles; isolate this module to be usable standalone, both from the website, and from the app.

Forms module:
  • You can now identify optional fields with [FIELD] like before, and required fields with [FIELD*] (with an asterisk in the brackets).

Documentation:

May 2022 

ToolboxSync module:
  • Work on streamlining the user interface: status checkboxes will now only be visible to editors on the website.

Visual editor:
  • The editor will now detect when you paste a table and will try to reformat it automatically per the specification at How to make tables. This should work both with HTML tables copied from internet pages, and those copied from a spreadsheet. The resulting in-toolbox table may need some manual adjustment but possibly much less work than what was needed previously.
  • It is now possible to attach CSV spreadsheets.
  • After the "Save" button is pressed, if for some reason the page is not saved within 10 seconds, the button will be re-enabled so that the user can try again.

New "Checklist" module, try it here:
  • [Checklist3]
  • It is now possible to create checklists with 2 and 3 states: task, [optional started task], finished task.
  • Add "Toggle all" button, checks or unchecks all tasks.
  • Started tasks will be in orange-red colour, diagonally half-filled.
  • Finished tasks will appear in grey and crossed out.
  • Finished tasks will now be moved to the bottom of the list under a divider line "Done----".
  • Enabled both on the website and in the app (Enterprise plans).

Feeds:
  • Updates for changing formats on some podcast feeds.

Forms module:
  • The toolboxes on the "Enterprise" plan can now have various form elements such as dates, ranges, dropdowns.

App:
  • Excellence report forms can now be filled and sent directly from the app (previously the app only showed a button to open the form in the mobile browser on the device).

Website:
  • Most tables on the website and the administrative sections will now highlight the row under the cursor, for better readability.

April 2022 

App:
  • The PDF viewer had the message "Rotate or pinch to zoom", and the arrows for previous and next pages more visible with a yellow background.
  • Optimization to the in-page filtering functions (Guidelines, Contacts, and ToolboxSync).
  • Removed "Last review" header from the homepages.
  • The button to download all files to storage is now floating over the top right of the cover photo, and instead of [301↓]  it says [301 files] with a line break, so it is easier to notice and to tap.
  • Fixed various spacings when there are no "bookmark" buttons and there are subpages on top.

Website:
  • The automatic login function used by some trusts now has a diagnostic mode, and a report appears if the login fails.
  • The Wrench menu notification badge didn't look good with 10+ notifications, and was converted from a number in a red circle to a large red dot. The individual notifications still appear grouped in the wrench menu.
  • The top blue header is now replaced with a 2mm blue band (on all sections other than "Main".
  • Subpages blocks can now be without any text or heading.
  • Search results will now have a second column with files from the shared synchronized folder matching the search terms.
  • The shared Demo section, on top of every page, now has a message that this is sample information, and a link to return to the list of available toolboxes.
  • Editors can now reorder the subpages listings by simply dragging links.

Visual editor:
  • It is now easier to include in a page a shared Guidelines folder, from a drop-down menu with the folder tree.
    • The icon and styling of the placeholder for the shared folder was improved.

ToolboxSync module:
  • Optimize storing of the editing history, for easier review of changes.
  • The links to edit a sync entry will have shorter URLs.
  • (Visual editor) It is now easier to include a folder in a page, from a drop-down menu with the folder tree.

Guidelines module:
  • The "Edit categories" page now shows the number of files in each category -- this is to relieve doubts when deleting empty categories.

Documentation:

Under the hood:
  • Improvements to the backup scripts.
  • Fix an omission since the migration to the new domain name, which could mark mistakenly some attached files as orphan.
  • Optimize some of the analytics functions to require fewer manual updates.
  • Optimize the updates for some external feeds (NICE Guidelines, Koha library) to require less manual labour, but to still allow review before publication.
  • We can now more easily email all administrators to a domain (separate from the previous contact emails of editors and champions). 

March 2022 

Website:
  • We have enabled domain name shortcuts htbx.app, htbx.eu and htbx.uk to redirect to the main domain name www.health-toolbox.com. 
    • Some of the QR codes now use the shortcut HTBx.app domain name.

Visual editor:
  • You can now embed pictures in the new WEBP file format.

Guidelines module:
  • The "expiry" dates can now be selected up to 5 years in the future.
  • It is now possible to hide expired documents. If this option is configured, expired files are hidden in the app for all users, and on the website for people with read-only access. Editors can still see and edit these files.

Forms:
  • A new toolbox core feature Feedback forms, allows to build custom feedback forms, with the results emailed to the domain's contact email and to the page maintainer.
  • We can also pre-configure forms that can be inserted from the edit toolbar. As an example, a functional "Excellence report form" was added to the Embed menu.

ToolboxSync module:
  • Improved filtering of list dividers (categories, folders).
  • We have prototyped RSS feeds integration in the Sync listings (on separate pages). Currently, feeds from the open source Koha library can be integrated.
  • Feeds with no publication date and no expiry date will now just show the link texts, without "N/A".

App:
  • Pictures in the new WEBP format are now automatically cached for offline access.
  • Feedback forms that cannot be filled in the app will now be replaced with a link to open the form in the mobile browser.
  • In-page filter boxes (contacts, feeds, guidelines) now filter the lists for search terms typed in any order, rather than the exact phrase.
  • The in-page "(x) clear search field" button, after clearing the search field, will place focus it for direct typing.

Administration:
  • The auto-login function was modified to only send hashes of time-based one-time passwords, and not the passwords themselves.
  • Analytics dashboard:
    • The "Recently active editors" table was moved upwards, before the collapsed section with detailed analytics.
    • Fixed numbers for February were incomplete (page stats showed zeroes).
    • Small improvements to the print/pdf export layout.

Documentation:

February 2022 

ToolboxSync module:
  • The front-end function was redesigned to allow various configurations.
  • Editors can now easily set the expiry dates of individual documents or of all documents in a folder.
  • It is now possible to add new items to the folders via the website interface: external links, internal page links, file attachments, and plain text notes.
  • It is possible to edit the document titles, add notes and "star" the documents to place them on top of the folder lists.
  • It is now possible to include the content pages in the listings.

Website:
  • It is now possible to hide the page tree from the landing page, or to replace it with a list of subpages.
  • The page tree on the homepage now has collapsible branches.
  • Subpages listings can now have custom headings, and can be placed before or after the page text content.
  • The subpage listings now order the pages in rows rather than in columns.
  • The" Create account" interface for unsigned users, was simplified, removing one unneeded step.

Visual editor:
  • It is now possible to attach MP3 files, and upon saving, a simple audio player will allow the visitors to play the file from within the page.
  • A bug was fixed, editing a file caption could in some cases cause the link to disappear from the page.

Administration:
  • The Analytics page was refactored with the monthly stats and the page analytics near the top, and all other charts and tables in a collapsed section "Detailed analytics..." which can be clicked to open.
  • In the Page analytics table, if a page doesn't have a maintainer, a new link "claim page" allows the current user to become the page maintainer.
  • The "Page analytics" table is now filterable.
  • We can now configure automatic login, with no registration required, for specific trusts, under certain conditions. Contact us if your trust needs this feature.
  • Update Health toolbox logos and URLs in posters, QR codes and reports. 
  • Posters A and B, fixed misalignment of the phone frame when exported to PDF, in Chrome.
  • In posters A and B, the  clock in the phone frame now shows the current time.

App:
  • The subpage listings now order the pages in rows rather than in columns.
  • Updates for the ToolboxSync changes.
  • The Services shared content domain is now open access, no registration required.
  • Fix a bug with a message when the user doesn't have access to a domain.
  • Update Health toolbox logos.

Documentation:

January 2022 

Website:
  • We have migrated the website and app content to a new hosting plan, with the new domain health-toolbox.com as primary.
  • The pages on the old dr-toolbox.com website now have a banner inviting visitors to open the new website.
  • The usernames and passwords are the same.
  • The web-app was updated for the new domain name. 
  • The Hospitals page was modified to have the open access Services domain, and the Demo toolbox, on the first row.
  • The Guidelines module now uses "expiry" dates in place of the previous "next review" dates.

App:
  • Fix a bug with the ToolboxSync listings, in some cases the labels for the checkboxes didn't check their checkbox.
  • Improve the handling of the calendar listings, and cache the pages downloaded from the server. 

ToolboxSync module:
  • It is now possible to hide expired documents or documents with unknown expiry dates.
  • The module is now able to show news feeds, notably the NICE guidelines feed has been migrated from the old Guidelines module.
  • It is now possible to include links to specific documens or to full folders in the pages, via the Embed button.

Administration:
  • The global user management page was redesigned with more efficient listings.

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