September 29, 2025
Bug Fix
- Member Profile (Settings) - Trim Internal ID to prevent whitespace
September 27, 2025
CCSG Data Table 2 Updates
- New filtering option added for Project Status (Active, Pending, Developmental Funds)
- Column display added for displaying Justification, Internal Project ID, and Allocation Type (Automated/Custom Allocation)
Top Publication Selection
- Ability to choose to include Cancer Only publications for publication selection
- Export to Word/Excel
- Column Selection for viewing/interacting with data
- Improved Search Capability
- Addition of "Tag" column for identifying impactful publications
September 23, 2025
Top Publication Selection - Publication Workspace
- Enhancements to loading
- Design updates
- Ability to delete created campaigns
September 15, 2025
New Feature: Institutional Funding Analysis for Member Recruitment
**What It Does**
The Institutional Funding Analysis tool is a powerful new feature that helps research institutions identify potential new members by analyzing NIH funding data from their affiliated organizations. This tool leverages the NIH Reporter API to discover researchers who have received funding from your institution but may not yet be members of your research group or center.
**Key Capabilities**
**Smart Member Identification**
- Automated Discovery: Automatically finds researchers who have received NIH funding from your institution
- Membership Status Detection: Distinguishes between current members and potential new members using NIH Profile IDs
- Duplicate Prevention: Excludes projects that have already been imported into your system
**Comprehensive Analysis**
- Two-View Interface:
- Summary View: Quick overview of potential members with project counts
- Detailed View: Complete project information with full funding details
- Cancer Relevance Filtering: Optional filter to show only projects matching your institution's cancer research terms
- Flexible Search Options: Search by fiscal year(s) or specific project numbers
**Rich Data Insights**
- Project Details: Title, grant number, funding source, award type, dates, and costs
- Principal Investigator Information: Names, NIH Profile IDs, and membership status
- Organization Context: Full institutional details including location
- Cancer Relevance Analysis: Automatic matching against your configured cancer research terms
**How It Helps Your Institution**
**Strategic Member Recruitment**
- Identify Hidden Talent: Discover researchers who are already receiving funding from your institution but aren't formal members
- Data-Driven Decisions: Make informed recruitment decisions based on actual funding history and research focus
- Efficiency Gains: Automate the manual process of identifying potential members from funding databases
**Enhanced Research Management**
- Comprehensive Coverage: Ensure you're not missing researchers who should be part of your research community
- Cancer Research Focus: Leverage cancer-specific filtering to find researchers aligned with your mission
- Historical Analysis: Review funding patterns across multiple fiscal years to identify long-term collaborators
**Operational Benefits**
- Time Savings: Eliminate manual searches through NIH databases
- Accuracy: Reduce human error in member identification and data entry
- Integration: Seamlessly works with your existing member management system
- Scalability: Handle large datasets efficiently with built-in filtering and pagination
**Prerequisites for Optimal Performance**
To get the most value from this feature, ensure that:
- NIH Profile IDs are added to existing member profiles - This enables accurate identification of current vs. potential members
- Institution affiliations are properly configured - This determines which institutions to search for funding data
- Cancer research terms are defined - This enables the cancer relevance filtering feature
**Use Cases**
- New Member Recruitment: Identify researchers who should be invited to join your research group
- Grant Portfolio Analysis: Understand the full scope of funding associated with your institution
- Collaboration Opportunities: Find researchers with complementary funding who could become collaborators
- Compliance and Reporting: Ensure comprehensive tracking of all researchers associated with your institution's funding
This feature transforms the way you discover and recruit new members, turning funding data into actionable intelligence for growing your research community.
September 5, 2025
Publication Collaboration Report
CCSG > Reports > Publications > Publication Collaborations by Program
What It Is
A new interactive dependency wheel chart that visualizes collaborative publications between research programs, showing the strength of inter-programmatic collaborations through cancer-relevant publications.
How It Helps Clients
Visual Collaboration Analysis
- Easy identification of which research programs collaborate most frequently
- Connection strength shown through line thickness - thicker lines = more collaborations
- Quick overview of the entire collaboration network at a glance
Data-Driven Insights
- Collaboration counts between specific program pairs
- Detailed publication list showing exactly which publications drive each collaboration
- Date range filtering to analyze collaboration trends over time
Business Value
- Identify strong partnerships between programs for strategic planning
- Spot collaboration gaps where programs could work together more
- Support funding decisions by showing existing collaborative relationships
- Track collaboration trends over different time periods
Key Features
- Interactive dependency wheel chart showing program connections
- Detailed table of all collaborative publications
- Export capabilities for presentations and reports
- Date range filtering for trend analysis
- Cancer-relevant publication filtering for focused insights
This tool helps clients understand their research program collaboration landscape and make data-driven decisions about fostering inter-programmatic partnerships.
September 4, 2025
AUTHENTICATION & SSO ENHANCEMENTS
• Added Pitt logo for SSO - New Pitt University logo added to the SSO authentication system
PUBLICATION EXPORT & DATA MANAGEMENT
• New NIH Publication format utility - Implemented new NIH Publication format utility for the Exporter system
• Enhanced data dump exporters - Updated data dump exporters to utilize the new NIH Formatter
• Added CCM specific dump of publications - New functionality to export publications specifically for CCM (Cancer Center Members)
• Enhanced publication exporter with author bolding - Added new bolding of authors capability without requiring MySQL functions
FUNDING & PROJECT MANAGEMENT
• Added instructions for Incoming SubAward - New instructional content added to project console modules for SubAward handling
• Enhanced funding information dropdowns - Updated funding modules to add "Information" option in dropdowns and set to open new pages for all options
• Budget Period Institution ID editing - New ability to edit Budget Period Institution ID for projects
• Improved sort order for Master/Allocations - Updated sort order to use coreProjectNum instead of actual grant number
REPORTING & UI IMPROVEMENTS
• Added notes column to In Reporting - New notes column functionality added to reporting modules
• Direct link to notes panel - Added direct link functionality to access notes panel from funding modules
• Column shift adjustments - UI improvements with column positioning adjustments
COMMUNITY & NOTIFICATION FEATURES
• Community post response notifications - Multiple pull requests merged to implement notification system for responses to community posts
BUG FIXES & MAINTENANCE
• Grammatical error fixes - Fixed grammatical errors in the system
• Code cleanup and optimization - Various maintenance updates and code improvements
TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
• Widget class enhancements - Updates to the widget class for improved functionality
• Database query optimizations - Improvements to database queries and data handling
Key Focus Areas: Publication management, funding administration, user interface improvements, and community features
September 1, 2025
Duplicate Funding Records Merge Implementation
(Only available for accounts using Budget Periods)
The duplicate funding merge functionality allows you to:
• Detect duplicate funding records using soundex matching algorithms
• Merge multiple duplicate records into a single master record
• Preserve all related data including:
- Investigator assignments
- Budget periods
- Program allocations
- Subcontracts
• Log all merge operations with detailed history tracking
• Soft delete merged records (mark as merged rather than hard delete)
This was a significant feature addition that provides comprehensive duplicate management for funding records in the RLOGX CCSG Funding Module.
Training Program Module - Publication Summary Reporting
The Publication Summary reporting functionality provides:
• Comprehensive publication analysis for training programs
• Interactive charts and visualizations using Chart.js
• Date range filtering for publication analysis
• Multiple data views including:
- Publications per trainee
- First author vs co-author analysis
- Publications by training type
- Co-authored publication distribution
• Excel export functionality with multiple worksheets
• Summary statistics dashboard
• Advanced SQL queries with LEVENSHTEIN_RATIO for author matching
• Responsive design with modern UI/UX
Key Features:
• Trainee publication tracking with first author identification
• Training type analysis and breakdown
• Co-author collaboration analysis
• Interactive data visualization
• Export capabilities to Excel format
• Date range filtering
• Summary statistics cards
• Responsive table displays
This was a significant feature addition that provides comprehensive publication analytics specifically designed for training program evaluation and reporting.