HTML Form Entry Release Notes

For most recent release notes, see module change log in JIRA:

https://tickets.openmrs.org/browse/HTML#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Achangelog-panel

Version 4.0.0 (unreleased as of September 2020)

Backwards-incompatible changes:

• Increase minimum required OpenMRS version from 1.9 to 2.1.0
• Remove support for Logic expressions
• Remove support for the <standardRegimen> tag with drug orders

Version 2.0.8

Version 2.0.7

Version 2.0.6

Version 2.0.5

Version 2.0.4

Version 2.0.3

Version 2.0.2

Version 2.0.1

Version 2.0

Version 1.10.0

Version 1.9.4

Version 1.9.3

Version 1.9.2

Version 1.9.1

Version 1.9.0

Version 1.8.2

Version 1.8.1

Version 1.8.0

Version 1.7.3 (@revision 20615) (JIRA)

Thanks to the contributors for this release: dthomas, kayb, mogoodrich, peichenauer, akanter, ball, jarbaugh

New Features:

• HTML-111 - Show/Hide extra fields should show additional fields
• HTML-169 - No error checking on concept ids for answers in htmlform manager
• HTML-180 - add a drugOrder tag attribute that allows you to pre-specify a default dose

Bug Fixes:

• HTML-167 - Unable to delete an encounter while viewing an HTML form
• HTML-116 - Editing a patient while creating a new encounter isn't possible

Version 1.7.2 (@revision 19568) (JIRA)

Thanks to the 9 contributers to this release! (djazayeri, dthomas, kayb, mcunderlik, mogoodrich, mseaton, neumann, peichenauer, slorenz)

New Features:

• HTML-94 - Create a patient by filling out an HTML Form
• HTML-145 - new patient tag - referenced metadata should be exported properly when using the Metadata Sharing module
• HTML-120 - create a DrugOrder tag
• HTML-142 - the drugOrder tag should allow for explicit listing of discontinue reasons and discontinue reason labels
• HTML-143 - provider list is too slow to load
• HTML-118 - Add label/style/translations to submit button
• HTML-119 - wrap print and discard links in spans so that they can be more easily accessible to form javascript
• HTML-129 - Add links to all HTML Form Entry pages
• HTML-161 - Provide access to most recent PatientState of program enrollments for 1.5
• HTML-162 - the size attribute should be applied to the NumberFieldWidget if present on a value numeric obs
• HTML-155 - Refactor ShareableHtmlForm and id-to-uuid replacer to use AttributeDescriptors

Bug Fixes:

• HTML-117 - Htmlform should not clear checkboxes and other inputs with input error
• HTML-154 - fn.latestObs and fn.earliestObs return opposite values
• HTML-148 - Date picker widget doesn't appear when clicking on date fields (again)
• HTML-135 - the following simple htmlform throws error if both fields are edited at the same time
• HTML-136 - Error exporting an HTML Form with Metadata Sharing module when the form has dependencies within macros
• HTML-128 - Creating a new HtmlForm fails to correctly set the Encounter Type on the underlying Form
• HTML-133 - ShareableHTMLForm should be updated to calculate drug dependencies
• HTML-130 - Form Schema Preview page is not presented well
• HTML-137 - Preview HTML Form from File doesn't execute jquery
• HTML-113 - java.lang.NullPointerException in PersonByNameComparator when one of the compared persons is null

Version 1.7.1 (@revision 16751) (JIRA)

New features:

• HTML-105 - HtmlFormEntry should have the util methods necessary to support data export of htmlform encounters (Ability to do "form data export" of HTML Form sections.)
• HTML-104 - You should be able to do nested section tags in an htmlform
• HTML-106 - ObsGroup schema object should be able to contain other ObsGroups

Bugfixes

• HTML-110 - Concepts of type Time cause problems; unable to save form when filling it out (new since OpenMRS 1.7)
• HTML-82 - obsGroup recognition should consider nested obsGroup hierarchy in XML vs. nested obsGroup hierarchy of obsGroup in enc
• HTML-83 - obsGroup tags weren't being properly ended: nested obsGroups weren't propertly setting current obs group session properties
• HTML-81 - nested obsGroups thowing a hibernate error if inner obsGroup doesn't contain any obs

Version 1.7.0.1 (@revision 16340) (JIRA)

This is just a bugfix release.

Bugfixes

• HTML-103 - Cannot export an HTML Form with Metadata Sharing module
• HTML-102 - Exporting Rwanda Heart Failure DdB from PIH staging server fails
• Fixed NullPointerException in PersonByNameComparator when there's a person with no name

Version 1.7.0 (@revision 16276) (JIRA)

Instructions

• Install the 1.7.0 version of the module
• On the Administration page, under Manage HTML Forms, choose "Migrate Names and Descriptions"
  • Once you run this migration, you may not go back to an earlier version of HTML Form Entry

New Features and Bugfixes

• Improved workflow for creating and editing forms
  • HTML-21 Fix workflow of creating a new HTML Form
  • HTML-98 Provide a Starter Form
  • HTML-93 Improve navigation on the htmlform entry management pages
  • HTML-25 Improve display of the HTML Form Entry "Manage HTML Forms" page
  • HTML-22 Remove name column from the htmlformentry_html_form table
  • HTML-20 HTMLforms require unique form id
• Display historic patient data on a form
  • HTML-96 Allow access to Logic service through HTML Form Entry
  • HTML-97 Allow access to existing Obs data in HTML Form Entry
• Additional improvements
  • HTML-95 Discard Changes link doesn't work
  • HTML-30 Misleading error with empty form content

Version 1.6.8 (@revision 16009) (JIRA)

• HTML Forms may now be shared via the Metadata Sharing Module
• Support for scripting of forms using Javascript (See the Javascript reference in the HTML Reference)
• Edit and Delete links are now displayed when viewing a form on the encounters tab (HTML-38)
• encounterProvider tag now behaves intelligently when given no arguments
• Programs, Locations, and default Provider may now be specified by UUID, which allows forms to be more portable (HTML-63)
• Support for specifying a limited list of providers (HTML-55)
• Support obs elements where the user chooses the question, but the answer is fixed, (conceptIds argument to the obs tag) (HTML-16)
• Bugfixes in handling obs groups (when multiple obs groups on a form have the same questions but different answers) (HTML-78, HTML-68)
• For developers: support for exporting data entered via a particular section of a particular form (HTML-90)

Version 1.6.7 (@revision 15357)

• Fixed bug when redisplaying forms containing obsgroups (introduced somewhere around version 1.6.4)
• Improved performance by caching tag handlers
• Added delete and print links to view-mode pop-up
• Improved provider widget so that providers are sorted by name

Version 1.6.6 (@revision 14939)

• Added style="autocomplete" option to obs tag
• Added includeIf & excludeIf tags

Version 1.6.5 (@revision 14430)

• Added ability to reference a concept by mapping, or by uuid
• Added ability to handle nested obsgroups
• Replaced dojo functionality with jquery
• Minor bug fixes

Version 1.6.4.1 (@revision 13717)

• Changed all controllers so that sessionForm=false
• Minor tweak to assure properly compatibility with HTML Form Designer module
• Minor layout tweaks

Version 1.6.4

• Updated so that HTML Forms now have uuids and other BaseOpenmrsMetadata. This will allow Html Forms to work with the sync module.

Version 1.6.3.2

• Fixed bug with HTML Form Entry privileges

Version 1.6.3.1

• Fixed #2261 - Problem using an obs with the same concept id in two obsgroups on one form
• Fixed #2262 - encounterProvider defaults broken in OpenMRS 1.6
• Updated rendering of date/time widgets to be compatible with OpenMRS 1.7

Version 1.6.3

• Added support for handling observations of types Time and Datetime with appropriate widgets - #2231
• Fixed bug with setting time using the Time widget
• Fixed bug with rendering international characters in "Preview HTML Forms from File" on systems when UTF-8 is not set as default in JVM - #2218

Version 1.6.2

• Significant performance improvement in generating forms
• Fixed #1993 - HTML Form Entry visible to all users under Administration

Version 1.6.1

• #2084 - Allow constrained options for numeric and text obs in HTML Form Entry

Version 1.6.0

• Works with OpenMRS 1.6 (since encounter.provider is now a Person, not a User). Incompatible with version of OpenMRS before 1.6.

Version 1.5.4

• Backported fix for bug setting time with Time widget

Version 1.5.3

• Fixed Linux Velocity Errors: Failed to initialize org.apache.velocity.runtime.log.Log4JLogChute (#1953/#1960)

Version 1.5.2

• Added ability to make encounterProvider default to the currently logged in user (#1925) (credit: Daniel Futerman)

Version 1.5.1

• Added ability to enroll a patient in a program
• Added ability to specify encounter time (#1910)

Version 1.5.0.2

• Bumped up the version number due to a build error, no code changes occurred

Version 1.5.0.1

• Fixed the log4j.xml file that ships with the module so that logs can be viewed in the openmrs admin interface again

Version 1.5.0

• Exactly like 1.4.0 but it attaches to the new extension point in OpenMRS 1.5.
• Incompatible with versions of OpenMRS before 1.5.0 RC1

Version 1.4.0

• You may now edit a form after having entered it.
• Enable opening a form based on either formId or htmlFormId
• i18n:
  • translations element so you can localize your form for different languages
  • Fixed #1630 - htmlformentry: international characters not allowed
  • support for date formatting within the velocity lookup tag
  • support for translation of values within the velocity lookup tag
  • localization of boolean obs, location widget, and user widget
  • Support for answerCode/answerCodes in obs elements
• Widgets and elements:
  • a section tag
  • a repeat element which provides the ability to display a repeating section with different parameters
  • a location widget to enter a locationId in valueText for concepts with text datatype
  • radio button inputs for coded questions
  • Support for answerClasses attribute in obs elements
  • boolean obs elements can have their yes/no text customized
  • encounterLocation and encounterProvider tags now allow default values
  • encounterDatetime is no longer allowed to be in the future
  • coded obs lists are now sorted by display name by default
• Designing forms:
  • Display a Form Schema that shows concepts and the text that maps to them
  • ability to view an in-progress form during design from a file on the filesystem
  • fix htmlform edit page to ensure that the html form that is displayed in the textbox is first escaped correctly
• Random:
  • enable opening a form based on either formId or htmlFormId
  • Fixed some inconsistent behavior because of an upstream bug in Concept.equals(Concept)

Version 1.3

• Fixed #1302 - Html Form Entry module doesn't clear old error messages
• Fixed #1303 - Html Form Entry module doesn't warn you if you leave out a required encounter metadata component

Version 1.2

• Exactly like version 1.1 except compiled with Java 1.5 compliance.

Version 1.1

• If your session expires while entering a long form you are prompted to re-login, instead of losing your work.
• You may now fill out multiple forms simultaneously in different windows.

Version 1.0

• Initial alpha release