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Citizen Portal Enforcements Release v1.8 - Release Notes Released April 2025

Enhancements to addresses and My Account

Address enhancements 

The address now has the Flat Name in addition to house name and house number. 

Now the address is automatically verified in APAS when an address is selected from the gazetteer. 

Display text of the address and order of the fields are:  

UK 

Ireland 

  • Flat Name 
  • House Name  
  • House Number  
  • Street  
  • District 
  • Town/City 
  • Postcode 

 

  • Flat Name 
  • House Name  
  • House Number  
  • Street  
  • Locality 
  • Town/City 
  • Eircode 

 

Address changes applied to My Account, Submit Enforcement Applicant, Submit Enforcement Location and Submit Enforcement Offender 

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Figure 1: Addresses verified in APAS from Enforcement Submission 

New configurations have been created to manage the gazetteer integration: 

  • ADRESS_LINK_USE_GAZETTEER 
  • ADRESS_LINK_REFRESH_DATA 

Application details – Hide enforcements by type. 

Now we can configure to hide enforcements by notice type: 

  • HIDDEN_NOTICE_TYPES 

Framework Update 

The framework of API and Web sites has been upgraded to .NET 8 

My Account – Delete user account 

A new button has been added to “My account” to delete a user account. 

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Sign up and My Account – New username features 

We have updated the sign up page and now it is not necessary to create a username, just enter an email and password. 

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Username will be generated automatically when signing up to the portal. 

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We have also added a new 'Username' field on the My Account page to allow you to change your APAS username or leave it as it was generated when you registered. 

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Once you have saved your account details, the “Username” field will not be editable. 

Cookies statement 

We added a new page to inform about the cookies we use in the portals. 

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