Latest OBA Production Update (11.4.18)

Visual reports and statistics update — Reports can be presented as a bar chart or table for your convenience.

New Visual Reports on OBA

Further changes include:

• A Country field has been added to the existing Badge Statistics.
• Badge Statistics now shows e-mail awards as awaiting claim.
• Awaiting Claim will become Awarded once claimed.
• New Report — Badge Evidence Report
• Some new reports are planned, but will be ready in a future update.

An improved interface for e-mail awarding — You’ll receive feedback as soon as you click Award in case of failed entries.

Individual Email Award Screen

New Walled Garden Reports

• To integrate, enter the Centre Number in the Academy Settings.
• Each badge specifies a Catalogue Code.

Look out for these:

Badge Catalogue Code

• 3 new reports are available to download in EDI format from Academy Stats:
• Walled Garden Results
• Walled Garden Registrations
• MyCertis eCerts

Records can be downloaded from a specified start and end range.

Being awarded a badge via e-mail invites you to join OBA… or push to Backpack if the user so wishes.

Awarded Acceptance Screen

Changes

• In Account Settings, the link to a connected Google+ and Facebook profile was removed due to inconsistencies.
• Technically improve how users receive e-mail awards.
• Minor improvements to visuals in various areas.
• Improve robustness of blacklisted usernames and names.
• Reinstate a missing “teasing” paid feature — Featured Badges.

Security

• There is now a maximum number of attempts for logging in.
• Mistakenly enter your password way too many times?

• That’s a 30 minute time out for you, in order to prevent hackers guessing user passwords.

Fixes

• Fixed many issues related to multiple email awards.
• Share button did not appear on badge submissions.
• Exports via CSV no longer breaks its structure when there’s a comma.
• It was impossible to blank a site description.
• General fixes for Cognito — single sign on service.
• Fix a Captcha error when resetting password.
• Fixed a Captcha error when registering with LinkedIn.
• Fixed an error when trying to create a new account after being e-mail awarded a badge.
• Fix a missing notification when new users join an academy.
• Fix a textile parsing issue for single characters.
• Addressed an issue with badge assignment after deleting a manager.
• Fix inability to scroll within a popup layer.
• General improvements to Captcha and processing logins.