--- title: Release Notes - 8.6.23 slug: portal-sub/release-notes-8623 docTags: createdAt: 2026-03-04T12:03:21.274Z --- ### March 1, 2023 ## Enhancements ### Encounters **Font styles icons change**New icons for the font styles Bold, Italic, Underline, and Strikethrough have been added in the Image Editor. ::Image[]{src="https://api.qa.archbee.co/api/optimize/zICxj0dnLereb6UUrBA3-/LWmkkRQEifbgd6lqlnGuZ_jz9ucnpopp4z3ukz584wvgkr9hx-q4aq.png" size="50" isUploading="false" initialPath="assets/JZ9ucnpOPp4Z3uKZ584wVGkr9H_x-q4A_Q.png" githubPath="en/Releases and Announcements/Release Notes - General/Profile for Windows 8.6/assets/JZ9ucnpOPp4Z3uKZ584wVGkr9H_x-q4A_Q.png" position="flex-start" showCaption="false"} ## Changes ### Appointments **Notification change with Telemedicine appointments (Ticket 101273)**When a change is made to a Telemedicine appointment, the Telemedicine service automatically sends a notification to the patient (by SMS and/or email, as appropriate). But a notification could also be sent at the user interface (UI) level (through Profile) as, or right after, the user made the change, resulting in the patient possibly receiving 2 notifications about the same appointment change. This second notification mechanism has been removed. While a user can always manually send a notification, if necessary, the automatic Telemedicine service notification is the only one that will go out to patients with Telemedicine appointment changes. **Telemedicine appointment issue with waiting room and Seen status in Profile (Ticket 101263)**When a Telemedicine visit is started from the Appointments view, the patient wasn’t leaving the waiting room and would also show in the virtual room without their status changing to Seen.  This has been changed. Canada - New Brunswick **Language change on exit page for Telemedicine consultation (Ticket 101464)**Text on the exit page for a Telemedicine consultation for both the provider and patient has been changed from English to French for the French Virtual Care site. **Language changes for Telemedicine provider page (Ticket 101463)**Text for prompts, buttons, and responses on the Telemedicine provider page has been changed from English to French for the French Virtual Care site. **Language changes for Telemedicine patient acknowledgement page (Ticket 101432)**Text for the prompts, buttons, as well as the responses on the Telemedicine patient acknowledgement page has been changed from English to French for the French Virtual Care site. ### Maintain **Library items display colour issue when read-only**When the Maintain library role action was not granted and the Library was accessed, items were greyed out to denote the window was read-only, making them difficult to read.  This has been changed so the items are not greyed out anymore. ### Misc **Icon image differentiated for Send Message and Chat (Ticket 100821)**The icon image for Chat is now different from the icon image for Send Message to differentiate between the two communication methods. ::Image[]{src="https://api.qa.archbee.co/api/optimize/zICxj0dnLereb6UUrBA3-/v-5MjXgr7Any-fbkKtppf_wfuymwqasc8gtpp3rn4yrvclwtv2nafgjg.png" size="16" isUploading="false" initialPath="assets/WfUYMwQasC8GtPp3RN4YrVclwtv2nAFgJg.png" githubPath="en/Releases and Announcements/Release Notes - General/Profile for Windows 8.6/assets/WfUYMwQasC8GtPp3RN4YrVclwtv2nAFgJg.png" position="flex-start" showCaption="false"} ### Canada - New Brunswick **Language change for Telemedicine default acknowledgement message (Ticket 101399)**Text for the Telemedicine default acknowledgement message has been changed from English to French for a French database and the Restore button resets it to the default acknowledgement message in French. **Language changes in Profile**English text displaying in various areas in Profile has been changed to French for a French database. ### Patient **Changes to Item type communication fields (Ticket 107679)**In the Connectivity area of the New or Alter Patient window, once the Type is changed from Patient to Item, an Email field has been added under the ‘Direct Line’ field and in the Preferred field, the 'Mobile' option has been renamed to 'Direct Line'.   ### Canada - New Brunswick **Language change for 'POS' in Care Teams view (Ticket99809)**Text displaying 'POS' in the column header in the Care Teams view for a French databasehas been changed to display 'LDS'. ## Defect Fixes ### Appointments **Telemedicine toolbar icons display issue in Appointments view (Ticket 101130)**When Telemedicine toolbar icons were added to the Appointments view toolbar, they would disappear after the Work Centre/Appointments view was closed and reopened. This has been fixed. ### Canada - New Brunswick **English text in appointment advice dialog box in French database (Ticket 100960)**In the Edit appointment window, when the Send Advice checkbox is checked, the text in the dialog box asking if it was to be printed locally was in English in the French database. This has been fixed. ### Documents **Embedded MS Word issue after MS Office upgrade**Embedded mode for MSWord for editing letters wasn’t working.  This has been fixed. We have re-enabled MS Word integration for the latest MS Word version. ### Encounters **Image Editor issue with adding text (Ticket 107427)**When an image was added to an encounter or edited in an encounter, the Image Editor did not allow text to be added to the image.  This has been fixed. ### Forms **BC Antenatal form available in non-BC databases**In the Form view of a New Encounter, when searching for 'Antenatal', the BC Antenatal form appeared as an option for databases where the Health System was not set to BC. This has been fixed. **Print display issue for forms when attached to Referrals/Letters (Ticket 98685)**A display issue for forms when attached to referrals/letters caused the form controls to be misaligned with the document. This has been fixed. ### Canada - New Brunswick **eFaxing display issue with forms (Tickets 105369, 104054)**When eFaxing a form, the checkboxes and some fields were shifted down and therefore misaligned.  This has been fixed. ### Messages **Send Message window displays print variable (Ticket 100164)**The Send Message window was displaying the print variable rather than the value of the variable This has been fixed and the value of the variable is displayed and highlighted. **Multi-participant message conversations issue**There was an intermittent issue with not being able to leave multi-participant conversations in the Medical Record/Messages view. This has been fixed. **Chat user status issue (Ticket 97833)**There was an issue where users would appear with ‘Online’ status to other users in the chat window, even when the user had already logged off. This has been fixed. ### Misc **Exception error for User Non-clinical Activity Report (Ticket 99094)**An exception error occurred if a patient was included in the search parameters when running a User Non-clinical Activity Report.  This has been fixed. **Expired POS display issue in Edit Transaction Properties window**An expired POS resulted in the POS field displaying nothing for existing transactions in the Edit Transactions Properties window. This has been fixed. ### Canada - New Brunswick **Headline icon in English in French database**The STOP icon accessed in the third Headline field in the Headline window had the English word STOP in the French database. This has been fixed, and the STOP icon shows a symbol instead. **Unresolved French print variables in Email and SMS for Telemedicine (Ticket 101430)**French print variables in the fields of the Email Formatting panel and the SMS Formatting panel for Telemedicine were not resolved in the emails and SMS messages that were sent to the patient, and would display as print variables. This has been fixed. **Browser display language issue**The various Telemedicine pages viewed through a browser set to French were displaying text in English.  This has been fixed. ### Obstetric ### Canada - New Brunswick **Print Antenatal Form icon issue (Ticket 98589)**The Print Antenatal Form option (accessed via the Print icon) in the Obstetric view of the Medical Record and the Antenatal Record icon in the Obstetric view in a New Encounter were not printing the Antenatal form for the currently selected pregnancy. This has been fixed. ### Patient ### Canada - New Brunswick **Client Registry Translation issue (99683)  **The button text for “Add Local” in the Client Registry was not translated.  This has been fixed. ### Portals **Accession Patient preference issue (Ticket 109197)**Patients were able to access the Messages functionality in Accession even though the relevant property was disabled in the OnTheGo Profile in Profile Patient Portal & Accession Patient Preferences. This has been fixed. **\[Accession Patient] Homepage error with headline edit (Ticket 103932)**The Accession Patient homepage would frequently present an error when a headline's Edit Detail information is filled out. This has been fixed. Canada - New Brunswick **\[Accession] Attachments display issue in Ask a Question section**When trying to view PDF attachments in the Previous Question area of the Ask a Question section, the attachment didn’t load. This has been fixed. **Items in Profile Patient Portal & Accession Patient preferences in English in French database**Items in the Custom Texts tab of Profile Patient Portal & Accession Patient preferences were displaying in English in the French database. This has been fixed. **English placeholders displaying in French Accession patient email**The placeholders for FULLNAME and LOGIN were displaying in English in the French Accession Patient user name retrieval email instead of resolving to the patient’s full name and their login username. This has been fixed. ### Printing ### Canada - New Brunswick **Supervisor provider information printing issue with prescriptions (Ticket 98972)**When a provider who requires clinical supervision created a prescription, the supervisor's name or provider ID was cut off on the printed output if it was long. This has been fixed.