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v10.2024.14

04 Jun 16:18
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Adds Captcha, Special-Item collection, Interactive charts

Digital Service Release Notes

DIG-4438 [Update Interactive Charts for Budget]

  • This work added an interactive chart graphic to the FY25 Budget page on Boston.gov. Users can hover over the revenue and expenditure growth graphics and read text explaining each chart segment

DIG-4451 [Special Item collection boston.gov page for widget embed]

  • This work will allow us to embed the Special Item scheduler web app onto a Boston.gov page, when it is ready to launch, so users can schedule a special item pick up for their City of Boston address

DIG-4455 [Add CAPTCHA to Boston.gov feedback form]

  • This adds CAPTCHA to our feedback form to try to cut down the amount of spam we have been receiving
  • CAPTCHA v3 will assess the page interaction and if it thinks it is not human it will show the "Not a Robot" checkbox

DIG-4511 [Postmark emails missing contact information]

  • This fixes a bug where staff was not seeing users contact information when they received emails submitted through the Boston.gov contact form
  • The bos-email component was updated so it sends contact form emails in plain text not HTML text(unless required), thus providing the contact information

Related Jira tickets

DIG-4511 Postmark emails missing contact information
DIG-4455 Add CAPTCHA to Boston.gov feedback form
DIG-4451 Special Item collection boston.gov page for widget embed
DIG-4438 Update Interactive Charts for Budget

Acquia tags

tags/2024-05-31

What's Changed

  • (develop) Update Interactive Charts for Budget - DIG-4438 by @davidrkupton in #3492
  • (develop) Add CAPTCHA to Boston.gov feedback form DIG-4455 by @davidrkupton in #3496
  • (develop) Postmark emails missing contact information DIG-4511 by @davidrkupton in #3497
  • (develop) Special Item collection boston.gov page for widget embed DIG-4451 by @davidrkupton in #3495
  • (stage) Adds Captcha, Special-Item collection, Interactive charts by @davidrkupton in #3498
  • (production) Adds Captcha, Special-Item collection, Interactive charts by @davidrkupton in #3499

Full Changelog: tags/2024-05-24...tags/2024-05-30

v10.2024.13

28 May 19:18
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Site/Emergency Alerts and Drupal Maintenance

Digital Service Release Notes

DIG-4428 [Create a permanent anchor for sanitation web-app scrolling]

  • This work created a permanent anchor in the Drupal code for the sanitation apps

DIG-4391 [Adjust display logic for 'site alerts' content type]

  • This work gives content editors the ability to add "Site Alerts" to the top of content pages so it is the first section users see when they land on a page
  • Editors will also see a "Pages to Include" text box so they can add the alert to certain content pages

DIG-4448 [Drupal Maintenance]

  • This is regular Drupal Maintenance work

Related Jira tickets

DIG-4428 Create a permanent anchor for sanitation web-app scrolling
DIG-4391 Adjust display logic for 'site alerts' content type
DIG-4448 Drupal Maintenance

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tags/2024-05-16

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v10.2024.12

16 May 15:51
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Generative AI summarized roll call votes, Sanitation Scheduling App

Digital Service Release Notes

DIG-4213 Mattress collection boston.gov page for widget embed

  • This work embedded the Mattress Collection Scheduler web app into a Boston.gov page so users can schedule a mattress pick up for their City of Boston address

DIG-4317 Create email endpoint for Sanitation Scheduling Apps

  • The work created an email end point for the Sanitation Scheduling apps so we can send confirmation, reminder and cancellation emails for pick up requests
  • This allows the service to send on-demand emails and schedule emails for reminders and cancellation emails

DIG-4373 Create beta site for Generative AI summarized roll call votes

  • This work created a beta site to showcase Generative AI on a Boston.gov
  • The beta site features the first public use of Generative AI to summarize key votes by the City Council so users can quickly review the information

DIG-4393 Translation fix for Mattress App Embed

  • This work ensured our Google Translate tool works on the entire Boston.gov Mattress Recycling page including the Mattress Scheduling app embed

Related Jira tickets

DIG-4213 Special Item collection boston.gov page for widget embed
DIG-4317 Create email endpoint for Sanitation App
DIG-4373 Create beta site for Generative AI summarized roll call votes
DIG-4393 Translation fix for Mattress App Embed

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tags/2024-05-10

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v10.2024.11

01 May 19:07
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311 Mobile App Status of City Services

Digital Service Release Notes

DIG-4340 Fix for API to Correct 311 Mobile App Status of City Services

  • This work fixed a bug where the Status of City services in the 311 mobile app did not match what was published on Boston.gov
  • The API calls were fixed so the 311 mobile app information is the same as Boston.gov

Related Jira tickets

DIG-4340 Fix for API to Correct 311 Mobile App Status of City Services

Acquia tags

tags/2025-04-25

What's Changed

  • (develop) Fix for API to Correct 311 Mobile App Status of City Services DIG-4340 by @davidrkupton in #3429
  • (stage) Fix for API to Correct 311 Mobile App Status of City Services DIG-4340 by @davidrkupton in #3431
  • (production) Fix for API to Correct 311 Mobile App Status of City Services DIG-4340 by @davidrkupton in #3432

Full Changelog: tags/2024-04-18...tags/2024-04-25

v10.2024.10

22 Apr 17:45
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Metrolist, Feedback Form, Icon Manifest, Theme and config_split updates

Digital Service Release Notes

DIG-4158 Make department contact field required in 'Article' and 'How-to' pages; display optional

  • This work updates the contact field on the "Article" and "How-to" pages to make it required so they can be leveraged on the Zencity Dashboards as a filter for users
  • This work also added an option to click a checkbox so users can choose to not show the contact information, that will be required, from appearing on a page if the user does not want to show it

DIG-4282 Review and confirm text for blue theming of components

  • This bug fix updates the final two components that were having issues with blue theming. These last two components are News and Announcements and Grid of Programs/Initiatives
  • The text on these components were appearing white against a white background

DIG-4306 Drupal Maintenance

  • This is regular Drupal Maintenance work

DIG-4307 Icon manifest importer not working

  • This work fixes an issue with the Icon Manifest Importer which synchronizes the Patterns Library with Drupal

Metrolist Release Notes

DIG-4305 ML: Reorder Listing Request page

  • This work reorganizes the Metrolist Request Form to fix the order on the page and delete duplicate information

Related Jira tickets

DIG-4158 Make department contact field required in 'article' and 'how-to' pages; display optional
DIG-4282 Review and confirm text for blue theming of components
DIG-4305 ML: Reorder Listing Request page
DIG-4306 Drupal Maintenance
DIG-4307 Icon manifest importer not working

Acquia tags

tags/2024-04-18

What's Changed

  • (develop) ML: Reorder Listing Request page DIG-4305 by @davidrkupton in #3417
  • (develop) Make department contact field required in 'article' and 'how-to' pages; display optional DIG-4158 by @subaha-cob in #3415
  • (develop) Review and confirm text for blue theming of components DIG-4282 by @subaha-cob in #3416
  • (develop) Drupal Maintenance by @davidrkupton in #3419
  • (develop) Fix Icon Manifest Importer DIG-4307 by @davidrkupton in #3421
  • (develop) Fix Icon Manifest Importer DIG-4307 by @davidrkupton in #3423
  • (stage) Metrolist, Feedback Form, Theme and config_split updates by @davidrkupton in #3420
  • (production) Metrolist, Feedback Form, Icon Manifest, Theme and config_split updates by @davidrkupton in #3425

Full Changelog: tags/2024-04-11...tags/2024-04-18

v10.2024.9

12 Apr 18:13
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Drupal Maintenance, Metrolist listing form mobile

Release Notes

DIG-1777 Listing Page Filter Drawer updates for mobile

  • This work fixes a number of issues with filter drawers on the MOH listing page for mobile users, these fixes include:
  1. Primary filter drawer's default state is closed
  2. Individual filter drawers default to closed so users can see all available filters without scrolling
  3. When drawers are expanded any listings are pushed to bottom of screen and not hidden
  4. Filter drawer open and collapse language is updated to "Show/Hide" language from our Patterns Library
  5. "Filter Listing" heading is changed to "Filters"
  6. The order of the drawers is updated
  7. Added a header to the Mobile view of search results

DIG-4300 Drupal Maintenance

  • This work is our regular Drupal Maintenance

Related Jira tickets

DIG-1777 Listing Page Filter Drawer updates for mobile
DIG-4300 Drupal Maintenance

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tags/2024-04-11

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V10.2024.8

11 Apr 18:45
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Q3 Updates

Release Notes

Digital Service Tickets

DIG-3839 Alert Boston API integration of Genasys with Drupal

  • This work set up an API integration between Drupal and Genasys so users have the ability to sign up for emergency alerts via Boston.gov

DIG-3968 Add AI summaries to roll call site

  • This work updates our new City Clerk Roll Call Votes search page to show users the summary of each docket on the top section of the drawer before they click the drawer to see vote information
  • This page will be published to production for further validation and testing in April
  • This was implemented using generative AI search leveraging Google’s Vertex AI

DIG-4111 Investigate issues with unofficial election results data

  • This work fixed a bug where the .xml file of the elections results was not uploading properly because of sorting issues with candidate's surnames
  • The solution was to append candidate's records with the candidate_id from the import file to make sure each record was unique for sorting purposes

DIG-4124 Zencity API integration with Drupal feedback form

  • This work set up API integration between Drupal and Zencity in order to send data from feedback forms to Zencity dashboards

DIG-4167 Drupal Maintenance

  • This is our regular Drupal maintenance work

DIG-4170 Listing 'Intro' class text not appearing in blue background of 'formatted text' component.

  • This work fixes a bug where users were seeing that the formatted text component was not rendering white text against a blue background when they selected "intro" class for that component. The text was appearing the same color as the background making it unreadable

DIG-4251 Drupal Maintenance

  • This is our regular Drupal maintenance work

DIG-4258 Update JSON payload for API submissions

  • This work updates the API integration between Drupal and Zencity with the following fields: "Entity Title" and "Entity URL"

DIG-4260 Update feedback link in top navigation

  • This work updates the Feedback link at the top of Boston.gov pages that is now connected to Zencity so that the feedback form data goes to Zencity instead of 311

DIG-4261 Document links without titles causing error

  • This fixes a bug where Boston.gov pages were breaking if the "documents" links component is used but the "title" field was not completed

DIG-4272 Fix deploy pipeline due to next cloud update

  • This work fixes issues with the deploy process that appeared with latest update to Cloud Next at Acquia

DIG-4280 Add Gen-AI prompt testing

  • This work creates a new form as a pop up so users can test generative AI on Boston.gov
  • Users will be able to test the Summarizer, Rewriter and Translation prediction actions from this page

DIG-4290 Set up config for domain redirects to point to new budget site

  • This work updates our domain redirects to point to the Fiscal Year 2025 budget website

Related Jira tickets

DIG-4280 Add Gen-AI prompt testing
DIG-4290 Set up config for domain redirects to point to new budget site
DIG-4272 Fix deploy pipeline due to next cloud update
DIG-4260 Update feedback link in top navigation
DIG-4261 Document links without titles causing error
DIG-4124 Zencity API integration with Drupal feedback form
DIG-4258 Update JSON payload for API submissions
DIG-4251 Drupal Maintenance
DIG-4167 Drupal Maintenance
DIG-3968 Add AI summaries to roll call site
DIG-4170 Listing 'Intro' class text not appearing in blue background of 'formatted text' component.
DIG-4111 Investigate issues with unofficial election results data
DIG-3839 Alert Boston API integration of Genasys with Drupal

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tags/2024-04-10

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v10.2024.7

12 Mar 15:19
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Elections update, Department Profile Contact / MOH Configs

Digital Release Notes

DIG-3428 Add link option to replace contact email in department profile pages

  • This work gives content authors the ability add a contact form link instead of just an email address to the contact information component
  • A "Content Link" Button was added to the Content Information component
  • When the new "Contact Link" button is clicked the field switches to accept external links
  • The user will see a "Contact Us" link on the website instead of "Send an Email" when published

DIG-3715 Update drupal logic to use new "Web Page Status" field to display project pages on map

  • This enhances work released on this ticket in January to change the SalesForce/Drupal sync from being a Drupal initiated pull every 5 to 10 mins to being an on-demand push from SalesForce to Drupal
  • This means that SalesForce updated data is instantly available on Drupal.

DIG-4111 Investigate issues with unofficial election results data

  • This work fixes a bug that caused issues when uploading elections data to Boston.gov via an .xml file
  • An investigation revealed there was an issue with the sorting algorithm of the elections results

Related Jira tickets

DIG-3428 Add link option to replace contact email in department profile pages
DIG-3715 Update drupal logic to use new "Web Page Status" field to display project pages on map
DIG-4111 Investigate issues with unofficial election results data

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tags/2024-03-07

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V10.2024.5

13 Feb 14:15
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Drupal Maintenance, Emergency Alerts Update and Theme fix

Digital Release Notes

DIG-3839 Adds Geocoding to Genasys

  • This work allows users to sign up for emergency alerts via boston.gov and receive a confirmation message that validates the user has been added to the Emergency Alerts System
  • API integration between Drupal and Genasys allows for the user to sign up for these alerts

DIG-3979 Blue text not appearing on white background in components

  • This work completes the bug fix where users were not seeing text against a blue background on “3-column w/ image” and “formatted text” components.
  • White text will appear when these components are used by content authors

DIG-4012 Drupal Maintenance

  • This is regular Drupal Maintenance

Related Jira tickets

DIG-3979 Blue text not appearing on white background in components
DIG-3839 Adds Geocoding to Genasys
DIG-4012 Drupal Maintenance

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tags/2024-02-08

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V10.2024.4

07 Feb 21:11
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Release Notes

Digital
DIG-3979 Blue text not appearing on white background in components

  • This work fixes a bug where the text in the “3-column w/ image” and “formatted text” components was showing as blue against the blue background instead of white and thus the text seemed to be missing
  • When using these components with the blue background the text will always show as white

Metrolist
DIG-3715 Update drupal logic to use new "Web Page Status" field to display project pages on map

  • This work enhances development that was done previously to handle the management of how housing projects are displayed on maps on Boston.gov. This updates the logic to use the 'Web Page Status' field to determine what projects appear on the housing map based on the status used for a project.

Related Jira tickets

DIG-3715 Update drupal logic to use new "Web Page Status" field to display project pages on map
DIG-3979 Blue text not appearing on white background in components

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tags/2024-01-06

What's Changed

  • (develop) Genasys API for Emergency Alerts DIG-3839 by @davidrkupton in #3312
  • (Develop) Genasys integration for emergency alerts DIG-3839 by @davidrkupton in #3335
  • (develop) DIG-3979 Blue text not appearing on white background in components by @subaha-cob in #3338
  • (develop) Update drupal logic to use new "Web Page Status" field to display project pages on map by @davidrkupton in #3280
  • (develop) DIG-3979 Blue text not appearing on white background in components by @subaha-cob in #3340
  • (stage) MOH BH Map and SF sync DIG-3715 / DIG-3979 by @davidrkupton in #3339
  • (production) MOH BH Map and SF sync DIG-3715 / DIG-3979 by @davidrkupton in #3342

Full Changelog: tags/2024-01-26...tags/2024-02-06