Announcing the release of 4.9.0 of the CHT Core Framework

We’re excited to announce the release of 4.9.0 of the CHT Core Framework!

See below for some highlights, read the release notes for full details.

Following our support policy, the version 4.5.x is no longer supported. Projects running this version should start planning to upgrade in the near future. For more details read our software support documentation.

Check out our roadmap to see what else is currently being working on.

4.9.0 Highlights

Allow multiple places to be assigned to users

To better support Supervisors who manage CHWs across multiple areas, it is now possible to assign more than one “Place” (ie Community Health Unit, Health Center, etc…) to a user. To enable this feature, simply assign the can_have_multiple_places permission to the relevant user role(s) and add the desired “Place(s)” to the user.

Setup:


User experience:



Signature widget

For some time now there has been interest in having the CHT support the ability for a CHT to collect a hand drawn signature from a patient. With this release, app developers may now implement the draw widget in “signature” mode. Here is an example of both the draw widget and signature widget on a demo app in the CHT:


And more…

We’ve also implemented other improvements and fixed bugs.

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