Everbridge CEM: January 2024 Release Notes

Users can now apply time filters to contacts' Last Known Locations in VCC, allowing them to observe contacts with Last Known Locations that were active in the past or will still be active in the future. When a specific contact is selected, their Last Known Locations are visible from a dedicated tab on the Contact Details page, further refining the display based on time.

This feature is free for all Travel Protector customers and won't affect preexisting settings.

Release Date: January 16 (EU/US)

Using the built-in direct integration with Everbridge Flight-Safe, users will now be able to browse and view details for over 1800 airlines, manage their own airline custom banned list, and set their own Airline risk ratings.

Airline Risk Intelligence is available at no additional cost for all Travel Protector customers and won't affect preexisting settings.

Release Date: January 23 (EU), January 24 (US)

Customers can now be alerted whenever one of their users books a flight on a High-Risk Airline. Configure triggers for High-Risk Airlines Booking Alerts by setting thresholds for up to 200 triggers, each based on 5 safety regulation parameters and tailored for various traveler profiles, including groups or rules.

This feature is free for all Travel Protector customers and won't affect any preexisting settings.

Release Date: January 23 (EU), January 24 (US)

Through roles and permissions, customers now have the flexibility to grant or limit the abilities of the Incident Administrator or Data Manager roles in creating, editing, and deleting Travel Itineraries, while still retaining access to all other Travel Protector features.

This enhancement is free for all Travel Protector customers and won't affect preexisting settings.

Release Date: January 23 (EU), January 24 (US)

The VCC Operator Console can now be launched and displayed as an optimized VCC channel, Mirror, allowing users to respond to threats faster with real-time GSOC collaboration.

The following actions are performable from this channel:

• Upload View
• Download View
• "Follow Me" stream display to the Channel

This enhancement is available to CEM customers with the VCC Channels add-on and won't affect preexisting settings.

Release Date: Now Available

VCC Operators can now upload or drag and drop ESRI shape files into the Operator Console, adding more sophisticated contextual visualizations for a faster response. 

This feature is free for both CEM Standard and Advanced customers won't affect preexisting settings.

Release Date: Now Available

Users can now save Tactical Resolution layers alongside other Contextual layers, Custom Context layers, Alerts, Risk Events, Assets, and Contacts. 

This will enable users to swiftly access frequently-used Console configurations for accelerated analysis.

This enhancement is available to all CEM Standard and Advanced customers and won't affect any preexisting settings. 

Release Date: Now Available

The following new Alert-affected asset variables have been added to differentiate between Contacts and Assets for both Manual and Automated Incidents launched from CEM:

• Nearest Asset​
• Nearest Asset List​
• Nearest Contact​
• Nearest Contact List

The new variables are available to all CEM customers at no additional cost and won't affect preexisting settings. 

Release Date: Now Available

Users can now increase location awareness by pinpointing their contacts of interest in VCC with the Last Known Location Source filter under Assets > Contacts. The filterable sources include:

• Everbridge Mobile App
• Badging Sources

This enhancement is free for all CEM customers and won't affect preexisting settings. 

Release Date: January 16 (EU/US)

User ​Management

The following APIs have been improved to restrict the retrieval of Contact records to a maximum of 20,000 for expired Notifications when the Verbose parameter is set to True:

• GET/incidentNotifications/{organizationId}/{incidentId}/notification​
• GET/notifications/{organizationId}/{notificationId}​

Note: The above APIs will return the details of ALL Contacts targeted for the respective Notification when the Verbose parameter is set to True for active Notifications.​

Use the following API to get results of ALL Contacts for expired Notifications: ​

• GET /notificationReports/{organizationId}/{notificationId}​

The upload file name was modified to include the name of the Contact Integration.​

Travel Protector

Pre-Trip Advisory

Unexpected traveler information is appended in addition to normal pre-trip advisory content.

• 497021

Contacts

CSV Download

Phone 1 and Phone 2 are displayed in reverse order.

• 438465

Member Portal

Incidents Tab

Closed Incidents continue to display under the Incidents tab of the Member Portal.

• 490002

Member Portal

Incident Subscriptions

Members are unable to manage their Incident Subscriptions through a mobile browser.​

• 496887

Assets

Contact Uploads

Unable to link contacts to buildings with special characters via the contact upload.

• 495945

Scheduling

Schedule Export

Entries are missing when exporting a calendar​.

• 484075

Scheduling

Holidays

Some Spanish holidays have the wrong dates on calendars​.

• 492355

Mass Notifications

Follow-up Notifications

Unable to Edit/View Contacts when sending a follow up to a Notification in Organizations that utilize Resident Connection Contacts.

• 492575

Everbridge Open

Email Ingestion

When there is no override data available (or is empty or blank), the default contacts in the template are not used.

• 492639