# March & April 2025 Release v3.8.0

**INVISION v3.8.0** introduces significant new features, platform enhancements, and stability fixes across Field Operations, Trial Management, GIS Workstation, Enrollment workflows, and Exports.

#### New Features

##### 1. **Fields Administration – Full Control** 

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Users with the appropriate permissions can now directly manage field data from Trials Overview & Project Management.

- **Client Admins** can:
    
    
    - Rename fields within their account.
    - Reassign field ownership within their scope.
- **Super Admins** can:
    
    
    - Rename fields.
    - Reassign ownership.
    - Edit field boundaries.
    - Delete fields (with safeguards to prevent deletion when associated data is present).

**Value:** Reduces helpdesk reliance, empowers client-admins with self-service tools, and ensures better data governance while protecting trial integrity.

##### 2. **Season Start Dates in Protocols**

Protocols now allow admins to configure custom season start dates.

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- Options:
    
    
    - **Default** → Actual planting date.
    - **Custom** → Manually defined season start date.
- Impacts:
    
    
    - Growing Degree Days (GDD) accumulation.
    - Field Weather timelines (Season at a Glance).
    - Imagery timelines.
    - Visit schedules.

##### 🌱 Why Season Start Dates Matter

Most crops are managed by their **planting date**. That date drives everything downstream:

- **GDD (Growing Degree Days)** accumulation → determines crop growth stage and development rate.
- **Imagery timelines** → when NDVI/biomass images are available and meaningful.
- **Weather summaries** (Season at a Glance) → tied to the crop’s growth window.
- **Visit scheduling** → when agronomists go to the field for stand counts, tissue samples, etc.

If you only use the planting date, this works fine for spring-planted crops like corn or soybeans. But some crops don’t fit that model.

##### 🌾 Examples of Region & Crop-Specific Needs

1. **Winter Wheat / Dormancy Crops**
    
    
    - Planted in the fall (Sept–Oct), but growth *pauses* over winter.
    - If you use planting date as the start, the system would “accumulate” GDD through the winter, even when the crop is dormant.
    - With **custom start dates**, an admin can set the season to begin when the crop “breaks dormancy” in spring (e.g., March 1).
    - This aligns weather, GDD, imagery, and visits with *actual biological growth*.
2. **Double-Crop Systems**
    
    
    - Some crops are grown in off-season windows (between harvest and next planting).
    - A farmer might plant soybean harvest in October, but the relevant growth season is late fall and early spring.
    - A **custom season start** ensures trial analysis reflects the right timeframe, not just the raw planting date.

##### 3. **Automated Trial Summary Exports**

A new **Automated Exports page** provides a one-click export of Trial-Level Summary data.

- **Field Export:** Core field, grower, location, and protocol details.
- **Yield Export:** All Field Export details plus yield insights (yield, product/treatment, sample size, standard deviation, etc.).

**Benefit:** Standardized, repeatable data exports for client reporting and trial analysis.

##### Enhancements:

##### **Enrollment & Grower Management**

- **Trial-Level Grower Document Signing**
    
    
    - Collect signed documents at the trial level (consent forms, agreements, trial-specific contracts).
    - Configurable as required or optional.
    - Controlled under **Trials Management → Project Management** settings.

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- **Enrollment User Tracking**
    
    
    - INVISION now records the **specific user** who enrolled each grower and field into a protocol, ensuring auditability and accountability.
        
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- **Trial Tags Requirement**
    
    
    - When **Field Access Management** is enabled, **Trial Tags are now mandatory** during enrollment to enforce categorization and consistency.

##### **GIS Workstation**

- Added ability to **archive Zone Files** and reprocess original planting/application data into new zones.
- Improved shapefile handling:
    
    
    - Full support for **multi-polygon shapefiles**.
    - Accurate zone selection logic.
    - Functional buffer controls for precision in product assignments.

##### **Enrollment – Field Boundary Upload**

- Optimized Township/Section/Range (TSR) boundary upload.
- Significantly reduced load times when using TSR input.

##### **PDF & Exports**

- **Harvest PDFs** updated to include **photos and external links** directly in the generated document.
- Boundary files are now automatically included in **Protocol-Level Automated Exports**.

#### Bug Fixes

- **Mobile – Field Visits**: Fixed issue where photos were duplicated when captured during field visits.
- **Field Visit Planning**: Dropout fields now correctly excluded from planning views.
- **Machine Data Setup**: Resolved initialization errors for John Deere assets during setup.
- **Exports**: Boundary files are now properly included in Protocol-level automated exports.
- **GIS Workstation**:
    
    
    - Operation Dates “eyeball” toggle fixed to properly hide/unhide map layers.
    - Pin Tool bug resolved: pins now remain visible during selection and no longer trigger errors.