13.0 Release Notes 1-Feb-2016

Version: 13.0.0 (Build Number: 5308)

New Features

• Compliance Enhancements

  The Shift Plan Approval Process is Fewzion’s process of approval for scheduled tasks on a Weekly and Daily basis by different levels of management. Shift Plan Approval Process assists in the creation of accurate and achievable plans by closing the communication gap between the management that develop the plans and the management whose task it is to implement them. User participation in the approval process is also tracked, promoting accountability and ownership of the plans by the relevant levels of management
  

  Tasks in Fewzion may have to meet special criteria to be compliant. The Task Compliance system provides a configurable method of handling these cases.

• Notification Service

  A generic notification service has been created to provide notifications to users when various events occur in Fewzion. These notifications can be sent as internal messages in Fewzion, email or SMS. The notification service is currently being used for the following.
  
  • Notify Administrators of integration failures.
  • Notify Planners of planning requirements
  • Communicate leave events via email and SMS

Improvements

• Edit Task / Resources

  The ‘Resources' section on the 'Edit Task' screen has been upgraded to accommodate a larger number of Occupation/Equipment Types, and prevent overlapping of text.

• Shift Schedule

  The Shift Schedule screen has been upgraded to show the resources assigned to tasks. A corresponding display option has also been added to show/hide the assigned resources.

• Shift Plan

  The Shift Plan screen has been upgraded to show the resources assigned to tasks. The layout of the Tasks grid has also been improved to allow more space for the Description, Notes and Resources columns.

• Report Improvements

  The following improvements have been made to Fewzion’s reports
  List:
  • The Shift Plan report now includes Checklist Questions
  • The Shift Plan report now includes a Short Interval Control Fields section
  • The Daily KPIs report has been upgraded to display each Process Department grouping on separate pages, and the MTD graphs can be configured to show for each Department as well as the entire Site.

• Recurrence Rescheduling

  Performance improvements have been made to Recurrence rescheduling

• SharePoint Integration

  The following performance improvements have been made to the SharePoint integration
  List:
  • Reduce the number of requests made from the client side when scrolling through SharePoint query results
  • Pre‐authenticate requests to SharePoint to avoid multiple authentication round‐trips with every request
  • Caching of http connections to SharePoint to improve performance and help avoid port exhaustion issues.

Fixes

• Was scheduling tasks for the wrong date when the client's timezone was different to the server's timezone
  Now correctly handles dates/times passed in from the client to avoid any timezone conversion on the server.

• Improved performance for a client specific migration script to prevent a timeout error on deployment.

• Was not sorting occupation and equipment types correctly.
  Now sorts by the 'Display Order' field in ascending order.

• Clients that have recently upgraded to version 12 of fewzion may be getting a "LastChanged is required and must not be null" error when modifying tasks.A migration script has been added to ensure that all LastChanged properties are now set.

• Was not showing assigned task locations on the Planning Board or Task List report for recurring tasks, due to missing location ids.
  Now sets location ids for recurring tasks and locations now appear on both the Planning Board or Task List report.

• Was adding duplicate Possible Answers when creating new Checklist Questions through the Manage Checklist Questions screen.
  Now prevents duplicate Possible Answers records.

• Was, in "Read Only" mode on the Weekly Schedule, 1) not preventing user entry of fields and 2) bringing up the Shift Plan in "Edit" mode.
  Now handles both cases correctly.

• Was failing to import Process Default KPIs when importing initial data for new Fewzion sites.
  Now imports Process Default KPIs.

• Was showing the incorrect shifts in the 'Select Shift' dropdown, when printing the Shift Plan report from the Touch UI Actuals screen.
  Now shows the correct shifts (up to two shifts before and two shifts after the current shift).

• Was duplicating Ids for associated records (e.g. Recurrences, Resources) when duplicating or copying Standard Tasks.
  Now new associated record Ids will be generated by the Server.

• Was allowing all of a recurrence's 'Ends' items to be unselected.
  Now requires one to be selected.

• To have consistency with other Fewzion radio fields, the Standard Task now has an extra radio button for its Due date.

• Was producing an error 'The IEnumerable contains objects with the same key' when modifying a Standard Task that was just duplicated.
  Now allows modification of duplicated Standard Tasks

• Was adding duplicate Recurring Tasks when creating Tasks for Weeks 3, 4 and 5 (if the Tasks already existed)
  Now ensures that duplicate Recurring Tasks will not be added.

• Was failing to open the task selector for the Shift Undermanager's Report when the site has less than 3 shifts per day.
  Now the task selector will handle between 1 and 4 shifts per day.

• Minor bug fix to the Shift Undermanager’s Report task selector, only affecting clients with 4 shifts per day.

• Some stores in Fewzion were not not being sorted correctly by Display Order E.g Processes, KPIs
  Stores that have a Display Order field with now be sorted in ascending order by default.

Patches

• 13.0.1 (Build Number 5321)
  Was displaying MTD graphs under Departments that were not set to track.
  Now only displays MTD graphs that are being tracked.

• 13.0.2 (Build Number 5327)
  Was throwing a null reference exception in some cases when printing the Shift Plan report (due to some problem PDF attachments)
  Now prints the Shift Plan report with attachments after an upgrade to our third‐party PDF library.

• 13.0.4 (Build Number 5333)
  The query and sorting properties used in SharePoint queries has now been made configurable.

• 13.0.5 (Build Number 5335)
  The sorting property configuration used in SharePoint queries has now been made optional.

• 13.0.6 (Build Number 5343) [SUPPORT]
  Was failing to print SharePoint attachments in the Shift Plan report
  Now prints SharePoint attachments.

[SILENT] patches have no (or very little) effect on your installation, and are usually due to internal development.
[SUPPORT] fixes are client specific, and may not apply to your installation.
Please contact us if you seek clarification as to whether or not you are affected by any of these items.