Release notes - Ikonix Connect
Ikonix Connect is a full-featured critical messaging app built for healthcare. It’s a vital part of the Ikonix Unified Messaging Suite.
As Ikonix Connect continues to grow, it’s already complex enough to demand its own set of release notes.
To ensure cross-platform performance, we ensure compatibility for iOS (Apple iPhone); Android; Connect for Web, the browser version; and then the expanding collection of integrations via Ikonix Messenger, to deliver alerts to frontline team members’ phones. The full IUMS release notes can be found here.
Release 9.0 — November 2024
In many circumstances we understand that clinicians will share a single mobile phone, handing this between them as they take over an on-call shift. This poses obvious issues for audit trails and data attribution, when different people share an interface with the critical messaging system.
In this update we significantly upgrade the role-based messaging facilities of the app to cater to this. Now, as the phone is handed over, users can switch profiles with ease. This change in identity is then synchronised with rosters and WebConnect, so everyone else can see who is now on call.
Major upgrades to broadcast messaging, including performance, support & reliability.
With the release of encrypted paging we have upgraded Connect to support in-app paging by encryption.
Roles have been updated to include the ‘Unit’ detail as an additional subheading under a Department.
All Platforms
- OTP registration security upgrades
- Push notification backup for network disconnection
- Improved refresh of on-call roles
- Broadcast message read receipts
- Pushed log-out for administrators to log out users
- OAuth2 for sending emails authenticated for Azure
- Improved admin reporting for Roles
- Improved support for simultaneous login between mobile phone and web editions
- Contact list searching
- Incoming call popups
- Global sites design flow
- Roles page reorganised
- Log out flow redesigned
- Forgotten PIN interface flow
- Sites and contacts header design uplift for readability
- User attribution fixes for changes applied via WebConnect
- Authentication for licenced Connect users via Messenger
- Forced end of session when de-registering users
- Admin reporting and data export errors resolved
- Two-way conversation with Aliases issue resolved
Android
- Teams, Contacts & Roles navigation updates
- Inbox page navigation to call/message contact
- Search page design
- MySite Roles page design
- Acknowledge, Accept/reject message receipt handling
- Incoming call app crashing bug
- PIN scaling for smaller screen devices
- User timeout security update
- Improvements supporting gestures to navigate
- Long chat history scrolling performance upgrade
iOS (Apple)
- User registration flow changes
- PIN entry updates
- Role screen reorganised
- Message contact page flow
- PIN reauthorisation delayed until idle
- Engaging push notifications no longer changes status to ‘read’
- Hanging fixes to improved continuity
- Swiping action navigation fixes
- Priority message display repair
- Reliability improvements (roles tab crashes)
Connect for Web
- UI sync with Android
- Role screen reorganised
- MySiteContacts cleanup
- Received message and on-call mgmt. name text alignment
- Safari browser UI revisions
- Active typing when chatting now displayed
- Team name display in bubbles on recent chats
- Roles not displaying alphabetically on search
- Team name change display
- Search scroll issues
- Name changes not applying when also logged in on mobile – synchronicity issue
- Profile image update fixes
- Accept/reject, acknowledgement status update