3.5.0 Is Now Available
Anthology Reach
October 2022
What You Should Know
Release Overview
The Reach team is excited to share several features, updates, and enhancements in our Fall 2022 (3.5) Release.
Anthology Inc. continues to improve performance and reliability in the product as described in the Resolutions section of the release notes.
Timeline
October 7, 2022 - Fall Release Available
Check Service Desk to confirm your upgrade window.
Download the Release Notes (MCI Logon required)
Visit the Product Information site
Read the release notes, online help, and watch training videos at the Product Information site.
Release Highlights
Application Management
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Our new Agent Portal experience functionality allows an agent to apply on behalf of an applicant.
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You and your constituents will now have more flexibility to handle individual and partial application and enrollment fee payments.
Application Review
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When building a review bundle, instructions can now be added that will show on the review form to the reviewers.
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In some scenarios, you may receive information after new application requirements have been submitted. To account for those scenarios, we added the ability to regenerate the Application PDF and Review Form with the "new" data.
Event Management
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With the new Public Event Calendar functionality, your constituents can now view, register, and pay for an event on a public calendar without requiring a login.
Payment Gateway
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Out-of-the-box configuration for ACI Transact.
Manual Activation for Portal User Accounts
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There are times when a constituent registers for their portal account; however, they do not receive the email, or it goes into a spam folder, and the link to activate the account expires. Now, a Reach user can log into the CRM and manually activate that account.
Success Network
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We've extended the functionality of Reach to enable staff members who are contacts in Reach to also be a part of Success Networks.
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Introduced the creation of a Success Network between a Student and a group of Staff Members.
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Success Networks can now be created with a fixed duration (an effective end date).
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Bulk deactivation of Success Network records, E.g. If a staff member leaves the Institution or their role changes, then all the existing associated Success Network records can be deactivated.
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Support for the creation of Success Networks for prospective students.
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The addition of a new "Publish Status" for better control for those of you who manage Success Networks.
Letter generation as part of the Marketing Customer Journey
Many of you requested the ability to print letters as party of your community strategy and we've responded Reach now provides the ability to automatically generate documents, letters, etc., within a Marketing Customer Journey.
File Imports
A parser utility process for converting EDI files to CSV will now be available.
