11 May 2018
Consentua Roadmap now on Trello
The Consentua team is pleased to publish the Consentua Roadmap.
We wanted to improve customer trust in our brand by sharing upcoming developments. Our brand ethos is always to be as open and transparent as possible.
We invite suggestions, comments and votes for promoting changes on the existing cards. As well as suggestions for new functions and enhancements that you need to make Consentua the best tool for your needs.
How it works
Each release of Consentua is based on a ‘build’. We give the build an obscure mammal names so we know which release we are working on.
Candidate improvements, including those from your suggestions, are added to cards that have been allocated a target build.
We have outlined plans our next release, Dugong. The focus for Dugong is the Consent Receipt. However, plans are always subject to change especially when driven by customer demands.
Vote with your thumbs
The intention is to have the majority of future functional changes driven by customer demand. This seems much better than sitting back at Consentua HQ thinking we know best.
Of course, sometimes we will be selfish and promote a change that benefits Consentua, but only because that change will benefit the majority through improved performance, security, resilience or function.
To that end we ask our followers and users to help us prioritise the next functions and vote with your thumbs.
Understand the Key
We have colour coded the cards to give readers an understanding of where the change will impact and who it will benefit. What is interesting here is that we are shifting from an engineering driven set of changes to more customer driven changes. May that long continue!
Consentua Roadmap
To check out the Consentua Roadmap go to this link:
https://trello.com/b/AktQXrOh/consentua-roadmap
Or you can let us know how we can improve this process using the comments below!
09 May 2018
In this release we have some exciting new features. The first is the enablement of a multi-lingual SDK. The second is a new admin view which allows you to search a users consents direct from the dashboard. Our third new capability is the automatic notification of a right to be forgotten to the consent service admin.
Plus we have some other bug fixes and enhancements, including template versioning and allowing for additional information to be included in a new extension to the API when calling /userconsent/setConsents.
Supporting Multilingual Deployments
Consentua is being used in more countries that do not speak English than those that do. At first we enabled multi-lingual support with the ability to append a translation table to the original template. This is still there, and in a future release we will give admins the ability to append child translations to a parent template.
This however, did not address the fact we had hard coded some elements of the SDK. So we have done some internal engineering changes that have made the SDK’s completely language independent. Now it is possible to change the static text to what is required for that language.
If you have a need for a specific language template, then now you just write the template in that language from the start. Append that template to a specific service. Then add those users to that service using that languages template.
User Consent View
This is one change I have been waiting on for ages. How does an admin quickly check a user consent without having to revert to the command line? Answer: Use the dashboard! We have a new view which supports two queries into Consentua.
The first is a user query. This gives us the purposes that this user has agreed (or not) too. Returning the true/false to a particular purpose ID. The admin will need to know the purposes they have under their control.
The second is the purpose query. This gives the admin a list of users that have agreed to a specific purpose.
Right to be Forgotten
A key new right for us citizens with GDPR is the right to be forgotten. Now Consentua can support this use case. We have created a specific public template that you can append to your consent service. This will always be the last template a user will see.
The template when interacted with by a user will send an email notification to the client consent service admin. The admin can then inform the data owner and insure that the request is followed up.
We have made a conscious decision to stop at this point. Some of our competitors will start digging through the weeds of your data in your organisation to make sure that the data is truly forgotten. This is a step to far in terms of making Consentua easy to install. Hence we have left it at the notification only stage at this time. However, we do have a future collaboration planned depending on customer sponsorship with this use case in mind. Watch this space!
Ready
Beluga has exited our development environment and is released to test for current customers to check out the new features.
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