eChanges (2.11.0) - DWP Changes April 2020

1) Schema Update

From this release of eChanges the version of the schema that will be used will be the April 2020 version. This is backward compatible and so no change to councils. However, if you upgrade to this version and the back office does not yet support this, then that could cause an issue. So before upgrading to this version ensure that your back office is also at a version that supports the capture of IP address as highlighted below.

2) Capture of IP Address

The IP address the citizen was using at the point of the form's submission will be present in the XML request sent to the back office. This is provided as follows in the XML:

<Header>
  <Advisor>
    <InternalAdvisorId>IEG4
       InternalAdvisorId> <AdvisorName> <pdt:PersonGivenName>Agency
        pdt:PersonGivenName> <pdt:PersonFamilyName>Administrator
         pdt:PersonFamilyName> <pdt:PersonRequestedName>Agency Administrator
          pdt:PersonRequestedName> 
           AdvisorName> <AdvisorLocalAuthorityCode>IEG4
            AdvisorLocalAuthorityCode> <AdvisorType>LA
             AdvisorType> 
              Advisor> <Security> <SourceId>IEG4
               SourceId> <UserId>lambdba
                UserId> <SourceUserId>IEG4User
                 SourceUserId> 
                  Security>  <SubmissionIPAddress>81.152.127.136
                    SubmissionIPAddress> 
                   Header>

Back office suppliers will be or will have made changes to the back office application to support this.

3) Partners reporting changes in childcare costs

There was previously an issue that partners reporting child care costs had different behaviour in terms of the data sent to the back office. This has now been amended to work exactly as it does for claimants.

Release Version Details

The following is the release version info: