v6.1.2 (May 12, 2015)

Bug Fix

• Added support for JavaScript functions that were not available in Firefox and Internet Explorer

v6.1.1 (May 1, 2015)

Enhancements

• Temporarily removed the video from the landing page and moved to learn page
• Updated a link on the learn page
• Minor website copy changes
• Email field now gets focus when clicking the Login button in the top navigation bar
• Added bitly links to landing page for engagement tracking

Bug Fix

• Fixed the Sleep Apnea and BMI tool not loading correctly in certain instances
• About My Family Report now properly displays the member's selected country of birth

v6.1.0 (April 27, 2015)

New Features

• New landing page redesign
  • Removes 'walled garden' feel by showing top navigation immediately
  • Better highlights 4 key values for possible MyApnea members

Enhancements

• Layout
  • PAP devices added to learn panel
    • Minor updates to styling
    • Improved navigation between these pages
  • Navigation expanded to include distinct 'Learn' and 'Research' tabs
• Tool Updates
  • Updated layout of BMI calculation and graph for Sleep Apnea and BMI tool
  • Minor edits to wording of results on Risk Assessment tool
  • Minor edits to wording of results on Sleep Apnea and BMI tool
  • Cleaned up layout on Risk Assessment tool
  • Fixed minor issue with display labels for height on Sleep Apnea and BMI tool
• Survey Changes
  • Clarified wording of family diagnostic question in About My Family survey
  • Fixed a typo in the income question in About Me survey
  • Admins can now specify members to be excluded from data exports and reports
• Forum Changes
  • Posting on a multi-page topic now correctly loads the last topic page and post
  • Non-square member photos now display better on the forums
• General Changes
  • Standardized text sizes on partners page
  • ASA correctly listed as promotional partner
  • Minor copy changes throughout the site
  • Mailings that reference https://myapnea.org/bwh now forward to the BWH provider page
  • Fixed margin and spacing on FAQs
  • Privacy Policy URL now uses hyphen to be consistent with other links
• Gem Changes
  • Updated to Ruby 2.2.2
  • Removed slow capybara test framework
    • Tests will be handled by integration tests

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with academic users not being able to see surveys
• Fixed styling on button to accept the consent and privacy policy updates

v6.0.0 (April 15, 2015)

New Features

• Survey Updates
  • Survey reports restyled to be more easily digested, and appear as infographics
    • All surveys except for 'My Interest in Research'
    • Users are able to toggle and view the original detailed reports
    • Researchers and providers are immediately shown the original reports, with option to see new reports
    • Formatting and content based on feedback sourced from members via the forums
  • System for adding custom validations for specific Survey questions
    • Date of birth validation
• Administrative Changes
  • Cross-Tabs admin panel added
    • Lists information about demographics of enrollment per type of referral source
  • Location breakdown admin panel added
    • Shows breakdown of member location by state and country
• Survey Exports
  • Common Data Model Version 2.0 exports implemented
  • ESS export task added for reporting purposes
  • PROMIS export task added for reporting purposes
  • Location Report added that shows membership by country and state
• Public facing tools
  • Sleep apnea risk assessment tool added
    • Based on the STOPBang survey
    • Social sharing of results added for social media
  • Sleep apnea and BMI assessment tool added
    • Transformed from BMI/AHI calculator
    • Relates sleep apnea severity to BMI category

Enhancements

• Gem Changes
  • Updated to rails 4.2.1
  • Updated to redcarpet 3.2.3
• Documentation Changes
  • Consent and Privacy Policy updated based on need in order to do coenrollment
  • Method for users to accept this update added
    • This acceptance is required to for users to complete new surveys
    • New users will automatically accept the update when they accept the consent
  • Governance policies added to footer
• Added American Sleep Association as a partner

Bug Fixes

• Date of birth bug fix addressed now from the backend for better handling
• Partner ISSS link updated

v5.2.0 (March 25, 2015)

Enhancements

• Forum Changes
  • Submitting a post on a topic now disables the button to prevent double-posting
  • Images in forum posts now scale correctly
• Survey Changes
  • Users can now toggle a simple survey display if they have trouble inputting answers

v5.1.0 (March 13, 2015)

New Features

• Administrative Changes
  • A user registration and survey completion report added
    • The report provides comparison across different MyApnea.Org releases
• Forum Changes
  • Posts can include mentions of other users by their social profile names
  • Topics can be searched by authors of posts within that forum
  • Moderators can now move topics between forums
• Content Additions
  • About Sleep Apnea
  • About PAP Therapy
  • PAP Quick Setup Guide
  • PAP Troubleshooting Guide
  • PAP Care and Maintenance
  • PAP Masks and Equipment
  • Traveling with PAP
  • Side Effects of PAP
  • Sleep Tips

Enhancements

• Fixed some minor typos
• Social profile information is now automatically displayed after being added by member
• Providers index now properly paginates, with 12 providers listed on each page
• Forums slightly restructured
  • Introductions -> General
  • Rank the Research -> Research
  • Removed Daytime Sleepiness and Performance Outcomes
  • Removed Network Member Feedback Regarding Proposed Studies and Clinical Trials

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a survey bug where users had incomplete multiple radio button questions locked
• Fixed a minor error generating a lottery winner
• Added redirect for deprecated 'research_surveys' to 'surveys'
• Fixed survey error when all options for a checkbox question were unselected
• Fixed incorrect answer option migration mapping for the my-sleep-apnea survey
• Hotkeys disabled for locked questions
• Topics with slug new cannot be created
• Google Analytics compatibility with Turbolinks

v5.0.0 (March 4, 2015)

New Features

• Major Survey Updates
  • Surveys have received a major update and have been restructured.
    • The three existing surveys have been split across 11 smaller surveys
  • New surveys have an exciting new interface!
    • Users are able to scroll through survey by using keystrokes
    • Answer options now have hotkeys and values
    • Animated scrolling now used to move between questions
    • Survey urls have been simplified
    • Surveys can display nested questions
    • On submission, surveys are locked, but can be reviewed when revisited
    • Surveys are assigned based on user role selected during the registration process
• Member Roles
  • Members are able to define one or more of the following roles:
    • Adult who has been diagnosed with sleep apnea
    • Adult who is at-risk of sleep apnea
    • Caregiver of adult diagnosed with or at-risk of sleep apnea
    • Caregiver of child(ren) diagnosed with or at-risk of sleep apnea
    • Professional care provider
    • Research professional
• Registration Process
  • Upon registration, users are asked to describe their role on the site
  • Upon registration, users are automatically sent through consent process
    • For providers:
      1. Privacy Policy
      2. Terms of Access
      3. Provider Profile
    • For researchers who only identify as a researcher:
      1. Privacy Policy
      2. Terms of Access
      3. Social Profile
    • For all other members:
      1. Privacy Policy
      2. Consent
      3. About Me Survey
• Terms of Access (ToA)
  • ToA will now be shown to the following groups, in place of the consent:
    • Members who identify as a provider, but not any patient or caregiver role
    • Members who identify as a researcher, but not any patient or caregiver role
    • Still visible by other members of the community for transparency

Enhancements

• Administrative Changes
  • Added an admin dashboard to provide a central place to reach reports and research topic moderation
• Research Study Changes
  • Clicking "Leave Research Study" on the Consent or Privacy Policy pages now removes the member from the study
    • In the past, the member would be redirected to the account page where this question would be asked one more time
• Forum Changes
  • Added indication of additional posts on forum index and pagination on individual forums
  • Forum post anchors now correctly offset based on the top navigation bar
  • Forum markdown has been improved and examples are provided under the Markup tab
    • Blockquotes: > This is quote
    • Highlight: ==This is highlighted==
    • Underline: _This is underlined_
    • Superscript: This is the 2^(nd) time
    • Strikethrough: This is ~~removed~~
• Community Page Changes
  • Removed state labels from USA map to provide cleaner overview
• Lottery Updates
  • Lottery random drawing code has been added, and can be run using Lottery.draw_winner
• Search Engine Optimization
  • Added sitemap_generator gem for dynamic SEO via sitemap creation
  • Added unique meta descriptions to several key pages
  • Added unique page titles to several key pages
• Gem Changes
  • Updated to Ruby 2.2.1

Bug Fixes

• Password fields now display correctly in IE9
• Topic slugs are now generated correctly for topics with titles that start with numbers
• User dashboard displays correctly even without the presence of the forum

Refactoring

• Centralized application configuration further by using figaro environment variables
• Beta UI pages are now set as the default
• Several OpenPPRN features have been disabled or removed
  • Removed OODT and Validic integration
  • Removed blog controller and views, this functionality is currently being handled by the "News Forum"
  • Removed unused pprn.rb initializer file
• Several survey model simplifications have been made:
  • Renamed QuestionFlow to Survey
  • Simplified survey load files
  • Answer sessions are only created when surveys are launched, and encounter identifiers
• The Forums Terms and Conditions now uses the new layout
• Reduced dependency on authority gem
• Cleaned up the account controller and updated tests
• Cleaned up the static controller and added appropriate tests
  • Moved views/myapnea/static files into views/static folder

v4.2.0 (January 29, 2015)

Enhancements

• Provider Changes
  • The provider sign up page now better indicates what users can do who are already signed in
    • Allows users to contact support to become a provider
    • Allows providers a link to their account settings to set up their custom pages
• Rank the Research
  • New UI/UX built and is now enabled for all members regardless of beta opt in status
  • Statistic shown is now percentage of voters, rather than vote count
  • Reduced complexity by displaying all data on one page (with possible need for pagination)
  • Users are able to see statistic for any questions, but will be alerted if they have used all of their votes already
• General Changes
  • The Privacy Policy popup now uses the identical text to the Privacy Policy page
  • Shortened the length of news posts description shown in the right hand side bar
  • Added The Health eHeart Study under Promotional Partners
  • The Partners page now uses the new layout exclusively

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the providers "Create Your Page" button not working for logged in users
• Fixed a bug that prevented linking a provider to a newly registered user if the user ran into other registration validation errors during the sign up process
• Fixed link to CMB Solutions
• Removed link from Recent News in old layout as the page no longer exists
• Advisory member bios now open correctly on mobile devices

v4.1.0 (January 21, 2015)

Enhancements

• Consent and Privacy Policy Changes
  • The Consent and Privacy Policy were updated to reflect the latest IRB-approved documents
• General Changes
  • Minor changes to UI (links, text, sizing)
  • Fixed display of personal provider page to have fullscreen/landing layout
  • Fixed display of video and added autoplay/autopause features
  • Recent News posts now link directly back to the topics
  • Started work on allowing members to identify themselves as one of the following:
    • Diagnosed With Sleep Apnea
    • Concern That I May Have Sleep Apnea
    • Family Member of an Adult with Sleep Apnea
    • Family Member of a Child with Sleep Apnea
    • Provider
    • Researcher
• Forum Changes
  • Topics with posts that are pending review now show up as well when a moderator filters by topics that are pending review
  • Topics are now sorted by their last visible post, and the last post by field is also filtered by the last visible post for the user
    • Moderators will see the last post made that's pending moderation
    • Regular members will see the last approved post in the forums index
  • Moderator posts are now automatically approved
  • Post links in emails now directly reference the post and are the server will redirect these links to the correct topic page
  • Post Approval and Reply emails now reference the title of the topic so that email clients can group these together more naturally
  • Topic and Post status has been simplified to include hidden status, along with approved, pending_review, and spam
• Community Page
  • Added quick link to change your account settings to be included in the map
  • Community map now displays US and World membership counts
• User Interface Changes
  • Added user stats to side navigation bar (beta version)
  • Administrative link added into the new UI menu (beta version)
  • The terms of service, privacy policy, and consent pages have been updated to match the new UI (beta version)
  • Learn page added as a quick link beneath the 'About Us' dropdown, and updated to fit new UI (beta version)
    • Added 'additional resources' to learn page
  • SAPCON Advisory Council added as a separate page
  • Partners and promotional partners added as a separate page (removed from Our Team)
    • Industry relation text added
• Email Changes
  • Updated styling on Password Reset and Account Unlock emails to match new MyApnea.Org themed email layout
  • Added a new member welcome email
• Administrative Changes
  • Member management page has been updated and now proplery paginates members
  • Moderators can now create approved Research Topics
• Provider Changes
  • Providers are able to sign up with minimal information
    • Only require name, email, and password to create account
    • Will input slug, provider name, location, etc. in provider_profile page

Bug Fixes

• Reformatted beta alerts so they would be dismissable on mobile devices
• Fixed sidebar on mobile devices
  • Now only relying on JavaScript for class changes (instead of framed animations)
  • Only using fixed-positioning for the user sidebar on medium and large screens
• Removed provider name as a field on the member registration page
• Fixed a bug that prevented topic replies from being sent out to email subscribers
• Clicking Leave the Research Study now properly reflects the member's choice on the account page

Refactoring

• Removed all remaining forem gem code

v4.0.0 (January 15, 2015)

Enhancements

• PCORNET Updates
  • Added script that extracts data into the PCORNET Common Data Model 2.0
• Forum Updates
  • Redesigned internal forums engine
  • Posts can now be previewed before being submitted
  • Added a forum digest email
  • Members can now subscribe and unsubscribe to forum topics
    • Members receive email when a reply is made to one of their subscribed topics
  • Members can opt out of receiving forum emails in their account settings
• General Changes
  • Changed image sizes to speed up loading on mobile browsers
  • Members of MyApnea.Org may opt into upcoming design changes and provide feedback directly to the MyApnea.Org team
  • Readded the MyApnea.Org favicon to quickly identify the website when it is pinned in the browser
  • The new UI better handles text sizes on mobile devices
  • Links are now easier to distinguish in the new UI
• Administrative Changes
  • Admin Survey overview now correctly shows the number of completed surveys
  • Website roles have been simplified
• Provider Updates
  • Providers can now sign up and create a unique URL that they can share with their members
  • Members of MyApnea.Org can visit existing provider pages and add themselves as one of the provider members
• Survey Changes
  • The new UI redesign includes a new survey report overview to better display a member's survey answers compared with others

Bug Fixes

• Confirmation boxes now properly display when deleting or removing posts

Refactoring

• Internal post model changed to notification
  • Old Post class has to do with Site Notifications and Blog Posts
  • New Post class will be specific to Forum Topics