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Feature Guide · May 20, 2025
How to Record Street Outreach in HIFIS 4 (2025 Edition)
Back in 2018, we originally posted some guidelines on how to handle street outreach in HIFIS 4. Then in 2021, we updated that post. Why did we bothe…Read more
Feature Guide · Jan 13, 2025
Which look-up tables should I customize?
There are, at the time of writing, 115 look-up tables in HIFIS that you can customize. For a new HIFIS community, this can be overwhelming! I've se…Read more
Feature Guide · Feb 16, 2023
What's the difference between the Unique Identifier List and the Coordinated Access module?
Communities are often confused about the Unique Identifier List (UIL) which is found in the HIFIS Reports section of the Report Manager, and the Coor…Read more
Feature Guide · Jan 16, 2023
Activity and Inactivity
One of the new features of HIFIS 4.0.59 is an automated client inactivity function. This makes use of a pre-existing field called Client State/Statu…Read more
Feature Guide · Dec 2, 2021
New Feature: Clone Users
In HIFIS 4.0.59.5 (December 2021), there's a new feature that allows you to clone an existing user. (If this sounds familiar, that's because we post…Read more
Feature Guide · May 1, 2018
A Primer on Attestation in HIFIS 4
As previously discussed, client privacy is a key concern for communities using HIFIS 4. One of the approaches to protect client privacy is to restri…Read more
Feature Guide · Apr 13, 2018
A Primer on Consent in HIFIS 4
Client privacy is a primary concern for a number of communities who are considering using HIFIS 4. It can be quite a challenge to understand the le…Read more
Feature Guide · Feb 15, 2018
New HIFIS 4 Feature: Report Categories
One of the privacy issues in HIFIS 4 has been reporting. You could set up your user rights templates to be as limited as you wanted, but when it cam…Read more
Feature Guide · Sep 6, 2017
New HIFIS 4 Feature: More Secure Passwords
In HIFIS 3, the strength of users' passwords didn't matter as much, because a user had to be at the physical computer in order to login, which meant…Read more