February 2025 Release Notes: Updates & Enhancements!

Product Updates - February 2025

- The Alerting/Polls Templates page and the Send Alert form now provide the ability to search for templates by name.
- The Public Signup Configuration page has been updated. The ‘Home & Cell Phone Voice Calls’ section now allows a subset of weather categories to be included or excluded from the Public Signup form.
- The file generated by selecting 'Export Selected' on the History/Reports page now includes timestamps for the sent alert or poll in both local and UTC formats.
- A fix has been implemented on the Send Alert form to address an issue where customized voice messages were sent to non-ETN recipients, while ETN recipients received the message formatted in the rich text editor. With this update, all recipients will now receive the customized voice message, as intended.

- Access to legacy Administration management pages has been removed.
- The rich text editor on the Send Alert form has been updated to allow the message body to be left, right, or center justified.
- The Unsubscribe Report page’s informational text has been updated.

- IPAWS - Support has been added for the event code, ‘Missing and Endangered Persons Emergency’.
- IPAWS - The ability to manage template groups has been added for administrators with proper permissions. The Manage Template Groups page can be accessed from the Admin menu. For further details, see https://support.konexus.com/ipaws-permissioned-templates
- IPAWS - A few event code names were updated to match FEMA’s current descriptions.

- When creating an Alert with a text message, if the text message length exceeds the allowed character limit, the alert sender will be given the option to do one of the following:
  1. Provide a shorter alert message.
  2. Provide a shorter customized text message.
  3. Have the text message be automatically truncated.