Preliminary release notes
New features
Submissions & Review
Abstract Reviews
The new review component lets a committee of reviewers do a review of abstracts in multiple variations. Abstract can be reviewed all by the same committee, they can be separated by e.g. topic or in multiple rounds of reviews by different committees.
The reviewers will first see a list of review processes they are assigned to.
From there, they are taken to their actual list of abstracts for review in that process.
The review allows suggestions and scoring in multiple criteria. Additional questions are raised using review custom queries. Also, reviewers can decline a review if they have a conflict of interest.
To make the process work, both abstracts and reviewers need to be assigned to a review. Then it is possible to assign abstracts to the reviewers using the automation and manual assignment as before.
Session Review
The new review component lets a committee of reviewers do a review of sessions in multiple variations. Sessions can be reviewed all by the same committee, they can be separated by e.g. topic or in multiple rounds of reviews by different committees.
To make the process work, both abstracts and reviewers need to be assigned to a review. Then it is possible to assign abstracts to the reviewers using the automation and manual assignment as before.
Review Helpdesk
A new review helpdesk offers options to verify the status of the review for sessions and abstracts. Bulk operations allow acceptance & rejection of both.
Registration
Swiss QR-Bill
Following the requirements in https://www.six-group.com/dam/download/banking-services/standardization/qr-bill/ig-qr-bill-v2.2-en.pdf and Swiss law, we implement the Swiss QR-Bill for international payments including the reference. Clients will need to include new mergefields in the template used for bank transfer payments and define their financial institution.
E-Mail
Mail merge
We introduce a new type of mass mail. To summarize, it offers the flexibility of office mail merge, with the benefits of sending E-Mails via the m-anage system.
It is possible to define custom data-sources (e.g. as an excel upload) and custom mergefields based on the column headers of the data-source. The system then offers sending of tests and keeps them in the E-Mail history.Improvements
System
Country translations
The setup to translate countries for a company has been improved.
Changes in navigation
The “Submissions” and the new “Reviews”-section move to the top of the navigation on event level. The previous “Abstracts“-section will still be available for legacy support.
Abstracts
Affiliation defaults
We set the default fields for affiliations to Institute, Clinic, Department, City, Country. Changes are still possible in the setup.