Skedulo Booking Application Release Notes 2021-03-17-01

We have enhanced our current third-party location functionality. Starting from this version, the app displays additional (3rd party) locations for the search and hence, offers more locations in addition to the state-run locations.

The app has an additional checkbox labeled Group 3rd party location results on the Salesforce Location Setting page. If this checkbox is enabled then the app displays all the 3rd party location search results in its own section below the standard (state-run) results.

This feature will require the following changes:

1. Addition of the following new translation keys:

   Keys	Suggested Text
   locationSelect.thirdPartyLocationsGroup.heading	Other locations
   locationSelect.thirdPartyLocationsGroup.description	Here are more locations offered by external sites. Appointments cannot be booked directly through this site, please follow the links to check availability.
   locationSelect.thirdPartyLocationsCommonDescription	No default value in the default config

2. Added config in Salesforce and in Skedulo's config. It’s called groupThirdPartyLocationResults

On the Manage your appointments page, when a user cancels an appointment, an additional confirmation step has been added before the app actually initiates the cancellation process. This avoids any accidental or unintended cancellation of an appointment. 

This feature will also use a number of new message keys, they are listed below:

Important: It is the responsibility of the Integration Partner to set up all-new message keys in Salesforce as part of the release process.

A new API has been created to list the existing access code batches. It returns a list of existing batches with the following fields for each batch:

• Id

• Description

• Quantity of codes in the batch

• Single use or not

• Start, Expiry, Created dates

• Active or not

• Location pools associated with the batch

To enable pagination, it should accept the following input parameters:

• limit: The number of batches to return.

• offset: The number of batches to skip before it starts to include records in the response.

• orderBy: The column and direction to order the list of batches in the response. E.g. id desc or id asc.

It also returns totalCount, which is the total number of batches that would be returned if no limit or offset is provided.

We have updated the email template so that now it lists all the canceled appointments too. This ensures that the booking or canceled history is easily visible to the user.

Booking issues

Location search returning vaccines without supply

When the users book a slot, the app reserves the chosen vaccine for the user. However, the reservation relies on the location search filtering down a suitable list of vaccines that have supply yet to be passed through. If that list of vaccines contains the ones which are out of stock then, the reservation may fail. To prevent this, we have enabled the app to search for the chosen vaccine intelligently. Now the app filters out the vaccine that is out of stock hence, ensuring that the user can successfully book the vaccine of their choice.

Location search returning vaccines without supply

After the vaccine supply is exhausted by booking, adding the supply for a different vaccine now re-enables booking for a given location instead of returning an error message. 

The access issues in the booking flow are being continuously improved. The Checkbox/radio button used nesting for the label text but the for/id relationship was missing. This issue has been resolved.

Some API error messages were encoded. From now, the error messages are decoded so they are more user-friendly and hence, can help in debugging the errors.