What has changed

Feature requests

• Documentation at docs.rescueconsole.com: every screen of RescueConsole explained page by page, in the words the screens use, and every route an API key can reach, which you can try against your own organization with your own key.
• The Public Registry asks for reviews. When a rescue files a flag shared with the network, the people at every other rescue who may review flags get a bell notice and an email; the flags wait under Waiting for your review, and a pending flag says plainly that it is not yet a finding. Choose how you are told on your account.

Enhancements

• The Adopt-a-Pet listing was checked against their own importer with a sample of every kind of animal, and comes back with a clean log. It sends only what their importer takes: no size for a small animal, declawed for a cat alone, no FIV column, and photos as JPEG.
• Adopt-a-Pet is sent hourly at most. Each send replaces your whole listing and their site reads it within a few hours, so the shorter intervals are gone from its settings.
• A Help button at the top of every screen opens the documentation at the page for the screen you are on, in a new tab, so nothing you were in the middle of is lost.
• In Shifts, approving volunteers, recording and signing off hours, answering cancellation requests, and setting roles and rules are a coordinator's to do. A volunteer signs up, gives up their own sign-ups, and sees who else is on their shift, without anybody's hours or notes.
• The API's refusals all answer the same way, one sentence under error, and a refusal for want of a permission names the permission.

Bug fixes

• Tasks due today on an animal record were judged by the date in UTC, so on a North American evening a task due tomorrow showed as due today. They go by your own time zone, as the medical items beside them do.
• Registry search from the app searched as though nobody was signed in: a search by name, email or phone was refused, and your own pending flags never showed. It searches as you.
• Settings, Microchip registry now lists everything a stranger's chip search shows before you publish: breed, colours, pattern and whether the animal is still with you, as well as its name and species.
• Hints that pointed to Settings, Pet configuration, which no longer exists, point to where the lists are now: Settings, Medical and Settings, Animal statuses.

Feature requests

• The public roadmap lists each adoption listing site, microchip registry, clinic system, insurer, licensing programme, data dashboard, CRM and lost-and-found database as its own entry, so each can arrive on its own. Settings / Integrations groups what is connected and what can be added by kind.
• Opening hours by the day: every day with open and close times, or by appointment only, and a note for the exception. The words on your public page are written from them.
• Housing for a larger rescue: filter the board by location, building and kind, and see the foster homes with animals in them as cards of their own, counted, shown alone or left off.
• Public forms are laid out like the record layout's form: the fields offered in its order, at the widths it gives them, on your hosted site and in the widget. Arrange like the record puts an existing form in that order.
• Adopt-a-Pet: your listing sent to them as their AutoUpload feed, on the schedule, in their own breed, colour, age and size words, with up to four photos from the Media tab. Nothing to match by hand: an animal your public site shows goes as Available, one you have placed goes as Adopted, and anything else goes as Deleted. Under Settings / Integrations, with the FTP Server, FTP Username and FTP Password from your Shelter Zone; Test the connection, then Send the listing now.

Enhancements

• An application's Workflows block, on the queue card, the submission and the record, lists what runs on the application and what runs on the applicant for it, tagged, and Start offers both kinds. A checklist that starts when an adoption application arrives is seen where the application is worked.
• The PetSmart cage card prints the programme's sponsors, Hill's and Dr. Elsey's, on every card; any logos you add print after them.
• The flyer carries your logo in place of your name when you have one, and a QR code to the animal's page on your website in place of the feed's address.
• Preferred locations on a volunteer's record read as a list until you press Edit, as the rest of the record does.
• The public registry names the chip's maker, with its lookup and the AAHA one, even when nothing is registered here, for a finder whose rescue has closed.
• The animal record keeps what a listing site asks: good with small animals, good with birds, house trained, crate trained, leash trained and Indoor or outdoor under What this home needs, and Declawed and the FIV result for a cat on the medical Summary. Adopt-a-Pet is sent the ones their importer takes, and the date of birth, for the kinds of animal they take each for; an answer nobody has given is left blank. The FIV result is kept here and not sent: their importer refuses the column. An exotic animal is listed under their Reptile type.
• For small mammals, large mammals, birds, farm animals, fish, reptiles and exotics the list says what the animal is, so the field reads Kind, and a Breed or variety box sits beside it: a guinea pig, an Abyssinian. The two print together on the record, the cage cards, the flyer and your public site, and listing sites are sent the kind as they expect it.

Bug fixes

• Our own cage card printed cut short at the right and the foot; it prints as shown, on a page its own size.
• The queue card's Start a workflow offered nothing for an application; it offers the application's checklists and the applicant's.
• The breed picker offered nothing for a species until somebody pressed Add the common breeds under Settings, so intake asked for the breed of a small mammal in a bare text box. Every species now starts with its common breeds, fish, large mammals and exotics included, and the list is yours to change from there.
• A species reads as its name everywhere: Small mammal, where the intake form, the registry flag form, quick search, the cage cards, the flyer, your public site and the widget showed small_mammal.