Change Log

Samaritan's Development department will be focussed on new features to improve the ability to Scale to Enterprise. This work will not be released to clients until the entire project is complete. Each sprint will continue to have minor improvements, performance enhancements, and low-risk fixes. 

 

 Sprint Number

 QA Release Date:

 Production Release Date:

 
 
Sprint 139                     QA - 12/10/2025                             Production  - 12/17/2025
Sprint 138                     QA - 11/26/2025                             Production  - 12/03/2025
Sprint 137                     QA  - 11/12/2025                            Production  - 11/19/2025
Sprint 136                     QA  - 10/29/2025                            Production -  11/05/2025

Sprint 135                     QA  - 10/15/2025                            Production  - 10/22/2025

  • Ability to Resend a Waiver to a recipient when they forget to sign

  • Ability to use Logged Data email fields to add email recipient in PDF editor
  • Master Grid: Ability to view Records by profile type: 


Sprint 134                     QA - 10/01/2025                             Production - 10/08/2025

  • New Grid column Day in Week. This allows visibility of day of the week a shift occurs.
  • Ability to Resend an email Survey with a signature field to remind user to sign
  • Placement Privacy control has been added to the NG form editor
  •  eSignature: Volunteer are now able to sign waivers throughout their workflow
  • Enhancements for Master Grid, including grouping values in a column (see below)
        Column Summary at the Top of the Grid              + Totals records number 

 9/17/2024  9/24/2025 Sprint 133
  • Performance_Improvements
  • Improved Scheduling (see below)
 
 Improvements to the Scheduling feature for Activities and shifts : 

 9/03/2025 9/10/25 Sprint 132
  •  Significant Performance Enhancements 
     though front end Data processing. 
  • Improvements to the Calendar when adding a date to a survey:

 8/20/25 8/27/25 Sprint 131

Ability to use Current Date in filters

 8/06/25  8/13/25 Sprint 130

Ability to see Volunteers listed in Day view

  07/22/25  07/29/25  Sprint 129

Automation Enhancements:

 07/8/25  07/15/25  Sprint 128

Ability to Rotate image from Vol Attachments

 06/24/25  07/01/25  Sprint 127
  • Resend Waiver option to remind signers
  • Ability to store Waivers as flat PDFs
  • Permissions for QR Codes for Surveys         articles coming soon.....
 05/27/25  06/06/25  Sprint 125
  •  Multi-Factor Authenticator for Coordinator Login enhancements.
  • Resend Waiver option to remind signers
 05/14/25  05/21/25 Sprint 124
  • Global Status changed from ACTIVITY to just Volunteer Status or Organization Status (note: this is configurable so you can keep the name Activity Status if that is what you are used to seeing).
  • New record in the Volunteer's history when a placement with and opportunity fails.
 04/30/25  05/07/25 Sprint 123
  04/16/25  04/23/25 Sprint 122
Sign-In Station: we removed the options to "undo sign in" and "undo sign out" because it              was causing a number of people to think they had signed in or out but hadn't.
 04/02/25  04/09/25 Sprint 121 Calendar: Option to show all placed volunteer names in the shift while in Month View to print out to see who's coming.
 03/19/25  03/25/25 Sprint 120 Grid Enhancement: Ability to filter drop- down lists by "is empty" or "is not empty"
https://help.samaritan.com/grid-search-by
   
 03/06/25  03/13/25 Sprint 119 Grid Enhancement: Ability to include UDF group name in Grid Reports
   
 02/18/25  02/27/25 Sprint 118 Samaritan's eSignature Enhancements 
 02/03/25  02/11/25 Sprint 117 QR Codes for Surveys
 01/21/25  01/28/25 Sprint 116 Samaritan's eSignature Enhancements 
 01/07/25  01/14/24 Sprint 115 Vol email Addresses In Calendar View

By request, email addresses will show next to volunteer names in the Calendar view. To hide this option, click: View Settings and select Hide Volunteer email.
12/17/24 12/23/24 Sprint 114 Internal: New Features
11/26/24 12/03/24 Sprint 113 Internal: Refactoring
11/12/24 11/19/24 Sprint 112 Enhancements to PDF editor and eSignature on Waivers
10/29/24 11/11/24 Sprint 111 Additional Client Fields available on Calendar Grid and Reports
10/15/24 10/22/24 Sprint 110 Internal: Refactoring
10/01/24 10/08/24 Sprint 109 Internal: New Features
 09/17/24  09/24/24 Sprint 108 Internal: New Features
 09/03/24  09/10/24 Sprint 107 Internal: New Features
 08/20/24  08/27/24 Sprint 106 Internal: New Features
 08/06/24  08/13/24 Sprint 105 Internal: New Features
 07/25/24  07/30/24 Sprint 104 Internal: New Features
 07/09/24  07/14/24 Sprint 103 Internal: New Features
 06/25/24  07/02/24 Sprint 102 Internal: New Features and Enhancements
   

Enhancements to Mobile Options on the Sign-In Station

This feature is design to set parameters for the distance around the Sign-In Station to assure that Volunteers are logging in and out within range of their service.

When the checkbox is selected, set the parameters for the Sign-In Station based on the:

   Organization Coordinates
   Opportunity Coordinates or
   Custom Coordinates*

Once the coordinates are entered, you can verity the accuracy by selecting "Show Map"


*You can find coordinates to just about anything by searching on Google Maps and clicking on the Long/Lat values. 

 06/11/24  06/18/24 Sprint 101 Internal Improvements Release
 05/28/24  06/04/24 Sprint 100 Internal Feature Release
 05/14/24  05/21/24 Sprint 99 Ability to Search by Grid Name or Filter

 To see a complete list, click in window and full list will appear


To Search, start typing in window to see results

 
 04/30/24  05/07/24 Sprint 98 New Permissions for Volunteers on Surveys

Item removed: For consistency, the ability to generate a QR code has been removed from the Sign-In Station editor but will still be accesses from the Main Grid for Sign-In Stations.

  Import tool enhancement Ability to use the Organization ID when Importing Opportunities (previously only Title was allowed.
 04/16/24 04/23/24 Sprint 97  
     


Grid Search Option added to Columns

     
 04/02/24 04/09/24 Sprint 96 New Feature Development
 03/19/24  03/26/24 Sprint 95
 03/05/24  03/12/24 Sprint 94
 02/21/24  02/21/24 Sprint 93
       New UDF type: Icon UDF 
     
 Sign in Station Message when a volunteer tries to sign out too soon.
   

 02/07/24

 02/14/24

Sprint 92

Ability to download QR code for Sign-In Stations from Admin tab or Org profile
 
 

 01/23/24

  01/30/24

Sprint 91 Enterprise internal development, cont.

  🔁  Automation: Ability to Enable or Disable Automation upon creation 


 

  📅  Calendar: update

 Before: less contrast between views made it less clear about which view is selected


 After:
more contrast makes it clearer which view is selected

 

  📒 Log Book Entry: New feature in Logged Data Field

                    Hours displayed as %                                              Display as HH:MM         

                             

 

 01/09/24

 01/16/2024 Sprint 90 Internal Samaritan Release

 

    When a copy of an Automation is created, it will be turned OFF by default.

 

  Calendar Enhancement  Shift Reminders will now automatically save 
 to Outlook or Google Calendars
 12/26/23  01/02/24  Sprint 89
  •   Hotfix: Bug fixes to eRecruiter Attachments (Version 2222)
    **please contact your account manager
       if you would like to enable this feature.
  • eSignature: Ability to assign and email 
      template for multiple signers
 12/12/23  12/19/23  Sprint 88

Ability to view Background Check History from the Volunteer History Tab.      

       

    Volunteer Grid

Ability to view the "most recent Recruiter login" from the grid view. Now you can see in the grid view when volunteers last logged in to their profiles. You can also filter for date ranges to see patterns. 

 11/28/23 12/05/23  Sprint 87

   Enterprise Scalability and other new   
   development work (future releases).

 11/14/23  11/21/23  Sprint 86
10/31/23  11/07/23  Sprint 85

 New field: Shift Title

  10/17/23  12/09/2023  Sprint 84

     

 *please contact your account manager
   if you would like to enable this feature.

 10/03/23   10/10/23  Sprint 83

 Recruiter Availability

 09/18/23  09/25/23  Sprint 82

Enterprise development work  (unreleased)

  • Activities Feature

 
  Admin Options:         Prerequisites Tab 

 Ability to add a message     with details about the   prerequisite. 

Released: Add message for volunteers about a prerequisite

⭐ Recruiter compatibility coming soon!⭐

 09/05/23 09/11/23  Sprint 81

 Enterprise development work  (unreleased)

  • Activities Feature
  • AFF  Grid
08/22/23 08/29/23  Sprint 80

 Scale to Enterprise development work  (unreleased)

  • Activities Editor
  • AFF Grid 
08/08/23 08/15/23  Sprint 79

 Scale to Enterprise development work  (unreleased)

  • Activities Editor
  • Logic Editor
 07/25/23 08/01/23  Sprint 78

 Scale to Enterprise development work   (unreleased)

  • Activities Editor
  • Relationships between organizations
 07/11/23 07/18/23  Sprint 77

 Scale to Enterprise development work  (unreleased)

  • Organization Enhancements
  • New Profile: Activities
      Ability to set permissions per value of a dropdown UDF
06/26/23 07/04/23  Sprint 76
  • Samaritan eSignature Solution work
  • New Feature: Affiliation or the ability to associate volunteer records with organizations to include a status and tracking dates
      Ability to add multiple signers
06/26/23 07/04/23 eC: Grids Ability to access Account UDFs in filters
Q2 Ends
06/13/23 06/30/23 Sprint 75
    Email Templates Ability to access Account UDFs to insert into email templates
    Sign-In Station  Ability to create a link that expires in 12 hour or a link that expires in 24 hours
05/30/23 06/6/23 Sprint 74
     Recruiters  Notice that character limit has been reached

  CHANGE NOTICE from 3rd Party Plugin :

Oracle has announced that they will terminate the AddThis plugin starting on May 31, 2023. In order to avoid confusion for volunteers, Samaritan has decide to remove it from all recruiters. Please see this site for more information:  https://www.addthis.com/

05/16/23 05/23/23 Sprint 73
    Ability to add system wide message to eRecruiter
05/02/23 05/09/23 Sprint 72
   

Sign-In Station improvements:

URLs and QR code use Station ID # rather than eC user login.
Ability to set early sign in 2 or 3 hours in advance. 

04/18/23 04/25/23 Sprint 71
    Secure Messaging Feature - Phase I

04/04/23

04/11/23

Sprint 70

 

 

Automation

ID Column added to the grid for Automations to make it easier to search by ID number.

 

 

Automation

Add the ability to enter a numeric field when setting automatically create hours for multiple opportunities.

 

 

Automation

Add Survey Title as available options in Trigger

 

 

Calendar

When shift end time is 12:00 a.m. store as 11:59 so that the shift does not span two calendar days.

   

AMS

Refinements:  set eC user with multiple roles to log in 

    Maintenance TestProject
03/21/23 03/28/23

Sprint 69

   

ALL

Enhancements, bug fixing and & Refactoring

   

AMS

BETA:  set eC user with multiple roles to log in to

03/03/23 03/14/23 Sprint 68 

  🎉  Automation Enhancements to have a big impact on the overall performance for users!


 *Note: this feature must   be enabled. Contact   Support or your account   manager to enable.

The new Automation running indicator will show possible delays in the system due to an Automation currently in  process.

When this displays, you can go about your work as usual, you do not need to wait until it is complete.*

   

 
Another item you may notice is a toast that appears when an on-save automation is triggered. This message displays if your changes have triggered automated emails. It also appears on the main grid. If you did not ant to trigger and email, you can click "Don't Send". If you're not sure, you can click on "See Details."

02/21/23 02/28/23 Sprint 67
     eC Show Shift Conflict Message 
02/07/23 02/14/23 Sprint 66
     Waivers Ability to add a secure signature to a waiver or agreement (BETA)
01/24/23 01/31/23 Sprint 65
     Automation Filter group of Opportunities
01/10/23 01/17/23 Sprint 64
     Verifier UDF Addition of a "Due Date"

2022

12/20/2022 12/27/2022 Focus on Performance issues
12/13/2022 12/20/2022  Log Book Ability to run on-demand automation from the log book

11/28/2022

12/06/2022

 Calendar

The setting in the calendar "min/max" has been replaced with [number placed] of [Max number allowed]. 

11/28/2022

12/06/2022

Sign-In Station

 Editor for Global Message: 

Search options for columns:

11/28/2022

12/06/2022

ADMIN
options

 Allows administrators to import data to Volunteer, Opportunity and Organization Profiles. 

11/15/2022

11/22/2022

ALL

  • Automation and Performance Enhancements

09/07/2022-11/08/2022

ALL

  • Ability to Automate a message on the Sign-In Station
  • Performance Enhancements

   09/06/22

    09/13/22

ALL

Work in progress has not yet been released. No other changes to report at this time.

   08/22/22

    08/30/22

ALL

Work in progress has not yet been released. No other changes to report at this time.

   08/09/22

    08/16/22

ALL

Work in progress has not yet been released. No other changes to report at this time.

  07/26/22

  08/02/22

ALL

Work in progress has not yet been released. No other changes to report at this time.

  07/12/22

 07/26/22

eCoordinator

New formatting layout for  Sign-In Options

  06/28/22

 07/05/22

Email

Start typing the name of the field that you want too insert:

  06/28/22

 07/05/22

Automation

Ability to send a text message reminder for shifts.

 06/14/22

 06/21/22

Email

We have added the ability to create a message to appear to volunteers (individual or group) as they sign in. 

  05/018/22

05/31/22

ALL

This past Sprint cycle included general maintenance, security updates, and work on internal projects not yet deployed. Small, low risk bug fixes have been added.

 04/19/22

 04/26/22

eC

Display error corrected: 

Any of you who might have seen this display error will be happy to know that it has been corrected!

 04/05/22

 04/12/22

eC

 04/05/22

 04/12/22

ALL

General Maintenance and Internal Projects not yet deployed

 03/08/22

03/15/22

ALL

General Maintenance and Internal Projects not yet deployed

 02/22/22

2/29/22

AMS, RMS, eC, Sign-In Stations

 Added link to Samaritan's     Privacy Policy to all pages

  02/8/22

  2/15/22

eC

Two new options for Automation Actions:

article pending

  2/8/22

  2/15/22

eC

Ability to copy filters in "Apply To" step

1/24/22

1/31/22

eC

Ability to copy value from Log Book to Vol, Opp or Org UDF
article pending

1/24/22

1/31/22

eC

Ability to create corresponding UDFs between Vol, Opp and Org Profiles

article pending

1/24/22

1/31/22

eC 

  • Expanded the width of Filters so full name shows 
  • Expanded the length of UDF fields so more can be shown
  • Expanded the width of UDF tab so full title can be shown
  • Expanded the Permissions tab in Automations to scroll the length
  • New LDFs permissions and sharing default to unshared

1/11/22

1/18/22

eC

Add Permissions to UDF panel like on all Shared items

1/11/22

1/18/22

eC

Attachment Type UDFs available for Snapshot type Automation

1/11/22

1/18/22

eC

Shared items: add ability to select all per column (view, or edit, or delete) to share with multiple roles at once

article pending

1/11/22

1/18/22

eC

Allow other types of fields to be updated: text, date, etc. for corresponding UDFs 

article pending

2021

12/28/21

1/18/22

eC

NCSI - New Samaritan integration for new clients

12/28/21

 1/04/22

eC

Ability to add Attachments to snapshot type Automations 

12/28/21

 1/04/22

eC

Search for Automation preserves previous settings

12/28/21

 1/04/22

eC

Added the ability to Select All Roles and give permission to individual columns (see below)

Before: only ability to select all 

After: Ability to select all or all per column

 12/14/21

 12/20/21

ALL

Development continues to work on new features that have not been deployed and other Productivity tools to increase efficiency and performance.

 12/14/21

 12/21/21

eC

Added Columns: Most Recent and Last Automation 

 12/14/21

 12/21/21

AMS

Reordered Action buttons on Right Panel to: Edit, New, etc. Moving Delete to the bottom

12/01/21

12/08/21

websites

Legal Requirement: 
Display message about the use of cookies. (Note, this item will be available upon client request)

 

 

12/01/21

12/08/21

All

Security Enhancement: Prevent the Password reset link from being used more than one time. 

12/01/21

12/08/21

Sign-In Station

Instead of showing the generic "Custom Sign-In options" while viewing "Other methods" the name of the field now appears: 

11/02/21

11/18/21

all systems

Samaritan has been working on system optimization and research for a new feature that will be available in early 2022

10/11/21

11/01/21

all systems

Samaritan has been undergoing an internal security audit so no new development items to report

09/21/21

10/04/21

none

This past Sprint was primarily small fixes and development research on new features that have no yet been built.  

09/14/21

09/28/21

AMS

Ability to assign multiple users to a role at one time

09/14/21

09/28/21

AMS

Ability to control folder access by role 

09/14/21

09/28/21

eC 

Ability to drag items to reposition them in the search filter 

09/07/21

09/14/21

eC

Removed the option to use condition/filters from Log Book and Schedule type Automations

09/07/21

09/14/21

AMS

Ability to click and drag elements

08/24/21

08/31/21

Coordinator

UI enhancements to Account UDFs 

08/24/21

08/31/21

Coordinator

Hide Condition/Formula to SCH and LB type Automation

08/03/21

08/09/21

Sign-In Station

Sign-In Enhancements 

07/27/21

08/03/21

Sign-In Station

Changed to "custom" method because "other" method was to vague

07/27/21

08/03/21

AMS

Reassign all items to another user or role

07/27/21

08/03/21

Sign-In Station

Sign in Confirmation Screen

07/27/21

08/03/21

Coordinator

Enhancements to Language 

07/20/21

07/27/21

Coordinator

Performance Enhancements

07/12/2021

07/20/2021

Coordinator

Allow eC users with non-Administrative Options checked to access the email queue

07/12/2021

07/20/2021

Coordinator

Add a Back button to the top of the Automations History page in eCoordinator

07/12/2021

07/20/2021

Coordinator

Double Click To Edit UDFs and UDF groups

07/12/2021

07/20/2021

Coordinator

Move Save & Close and Cancel buttons to lower right of UDF Buttons

07/12/2021

07/20/2021

Coordinator

Highlight history entries of security automations in red.

06/22/21

 

  07/06/21

 

 AMS

 

Ability to detach and reattach Automations, email templates, filters, and grid from one user to another. Article coming soon.

  06/15/21   06/22/21

            Sign-In Stations

  Sign-In Stations: New look!
  06/15/21   06/22/21  Coordinator   Recycle Bin for Calendar Shifts
  05/04/21   05/18/21  Coordinator   Text messages on Calendar
  04/19/21   05/03/21  Coordinator   Auto reset of email editor
  05/03/21   05/18/21  Recruiter   Reset Password Enhancements

                  2020    
   Version 8305 **  Coordinator  

 
  04/15/21

 

 
  05/23/21

 

** This release was the last of major releases, followed by 12 months of restructuring development cycles. The major feature was the ability to grant Permissions for various items.

     Coordinator: Log Book   Quick Add Hours
     Coordinator: Vol Profile   Activity Status Enhancements
     AMS: Account Settings   Time Zone Feature

 

Full list of engineering notes available upon request.