What's new in IBM Cúram Social Program Management 8.0.1

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For important installation information, and to learn more about product improvements and resolved issues in 8.0.1, see also the Release Notes.

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Updates for caseworkers:

Updates for developers:

Evidence change history improvements

Improvements to how information is displayed in the change history for evidence have been introduced. Caseworkers now have a more consistent view of the information regardless of where in the application they view the evidence. In addition, caseworkers can more reliably see which users made each update to the evidence over time. For more information, see How are changes to evidence recorded and WorkItem:273340 in the 8.0.1 Release Notes.

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Enhanced verification engine processing

The way that verification engine processing works during product authorization has been enhanced. When evidence is captured for an integrated case for use by product delivery cases, and verifications are configured at the product delivery case level, the verifications are created during product authorization. During the process, the status of each verification that is created is determined.

An improvement was made to help optimize product authorization, when an integrated case has a large amount of evidence of the same type that requires verification at the product delivery case level. Now, as each new verification is created, the status of only that verification is determined. Previously the status of all existing verifications for the evidence type was evaluated.

For more information, see WorkItem:273436 in the 8.0.1 Release Notes.

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Improved filtering for Carbon dropdowns

Two significant usability improvements have been made to the Carbon dropdowns that are used in the Social Program Management application. These improvements help caseworker to quickly find and select options.

• Options in the dropdowns are now filtered based on input that caseworkers type into the dropdown.
• Option in the dropdown are also filtered to show all options that contain the typed input, based on the contains filter method. Dropdowns in v7 were filtered based on 'Starts with'.

Intelligent Evidence Gathering (IEG) has not been updated to use Carbon, so it does not use the Carbon dropdown.

For more information, see the UIM FIELD element topic in the Web Client Reference.

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New in IBM® Cúram Universal Access

For more information about what's new in IBM Citizen Engagement, see the What's new and release notes for Universal Access.

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Introducing the ability to extend UIM by using Carbon, React, GraphQL, and Apollo Client

A new open source repository on GitHub provides a JavaScript™ development environment. Developers can extend UIM by using the latest JavaScript user interface front-end tools and libraries.

Social Program Management developers can now:

• Use a lightweight JavaScript development environment that complements the existing web client development environment.
• Develop complex views with the latest front-end tools and libraries, and integrate them into their Social Program Management web client.
• Develop front-end content quickly and iteratively. JavaScript developers can view their changes without a client build.
• Use GraphQL and Apollo Client to configure complex data queries.
• Build robust front-end content through easier test automation.

The Social Program Management UI Addon Development Environment provides:

• Documentation: Instructions to get up and running in a JavaScript environment, with examples and design guidance.
• Samples: For example, a sample React component that contains IBM Carbon styles and GraphQL queries.
• Storybook: Developers can use Storybook to render the sample component locally.
• Code: Commands to integrate your compiled JavaScript into the Social Program Management user interface.

For more information, see https://merative.github.io/spm-ui-addon-devenv.

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Enhanced data-testid attribute format for user interface test automation

The data-testid attribute was introduced in 8.0.0 to improve the user interface (UI) automated testing experience. The attribute has been enhanced with the introduction of a new format that concatenates the label to the UIM component prefix. The improvement helps you to target specific UI components in a UI automation test framework.

The Date and Date Time components, which previously used the data-test-id attribute, now use the new data-testid attribute format. The dropdown component was updated to use the data-testid attribute.

The following UIM components and add-ons now use the new format data-testid attribute in the Social Program Management 8.0.1 user interface:

• Cluster
• Checkbox
• Text input
• Text area
• Dropdown
• DatePicker
• DateTime
• TimePicker
• Multiselect Checkbox
• Modal buttons, such as Next, Cancel, Back, or Submit.
• Search popup
• Log in and log out buttons, which are custom additions of the attribute only to support automation.

For more information, see UI test automation.

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Introducing new customization point for product delivery case approval processing

A new customization point is now available to support compliant customization of the function that sets the case header effective date during product delivery case approval.

For more information, see Product delivery effective date hook and WorkItem:273624 in the 8.0.1 Release Notes.