Product Updates

Greenhouse Viewer

1. Updated  Location Criteria Views with new ALTNAME and STATUS fields, longer SHORTNAME and LONGNAME fields.
2. Changed footer labels to more generic Record(s).
3. Updated Location Views with longer SHORTNAME and LONGNAME fields.

Location Manager

1. Updated Greenhouse, Phase, Variety, Section, Supervisor and Bay Views with new ALTNAME and STATUS fields.

Density Manager

1. Updated to just include Active Greenhouse, Phase, Variety, Section, Supervisor and Bay values in lookups.
2. Substantial improvements in module loading and refresh times.

Repair Tool

1. Many, many general Interface improvements.  Added icons, changed formatting, etc.
2. Small change to how replication functions work - removing delays between processing rules.
3. Now excludes skipped rules from email to try and shorten it.
4. Fixed problem where longer emails were being clipped.
5. Added Trace Log tab at top.
6. Added Context Menu buttons to Replication tab.

Greenhouse Viewer

1. Updated Standard View's Location columns.
2. Restructured query internally, working on improving query performance.
3. Added Category column to Activity and Activity/Phase views.

Location Manager

1. Finished up with Annotations for Greenhouse, Phase, Variety, Section, Supervisor, Sector and Bay.

Grading Manager

1. Fixed error that was indirectly generated by adding STATUS as a field to the Variety table.

General

1. Fixed issue with saved views not restoring properly vis-a-vis the auto expand/collapse mechanism.
2. Changed automated network tests to run check only based on first three segments of IP address.
3. Updated Greenhouse, Phase, Variety, Section, Supervisor and Bay tables with new ALTNAME and STATUS fields.

Greenhouse Viewer

1. Minor adjustment to column headers in Location/Phase view.

Security Manager

1. Changed initialization section to localize queries first.

General

1. Network Connection Tests log actual msec timing with regular log record.
2. Improvements to how localizations are performed.
3. Code for loading views adjusted to fix Security Manager error when closing.

Greenhouse Viewer

1. Added Hints to Context Buttons.
2. Added Min/100Pl column to Activity/Phase view.
3. Fixed issue where selecting a criteria set didn't select all the elements of that set.
4. Added Activity Cost to Productivity/Standard view's group header.
5. Enabled filtering/sorting of selection column within Criteria views.

Labour Manager

1. Added Context buttons to Raw Punches, Processed Punches views.

Density Manager

1. Updated interface/them to be inline with other current modules.
2. Fixed issue with controls not appearing where they are expected.
3. Added localization (Phase vs. Room).
4. Added Context Menu, button, etc.
5. Added numerous extra checks, preview count, etc. to prevent accidental changes.
6. NOTE Density Manager will take longer to load now.

Location Manager

1. Changed tab order.
2. Overhauled all of the queries and views.
3. Added Sector tab.
4. Paths view is now read-only.
5. Updated search criteria.

General

1. Network Test is now run automatically after login for each IP address once every 10 days.

Greenhouse Viewer

1. Worker tab.  Fixed some fields (like AlphaID) that were blank.

Security Manager

1. Updated Access History tab to have Context Button, re-enabled saved views.

General

1. Fixed issue that was preventing Views from being saved with longer names.
2. Set global option for Views to be more permissive in handling  NULL vs. Blank values in filter criteria.

Greenhouse Viewer

1. Added current period to header when printing views.
2. Standard View:  Adjustments to Activity fields.
3. Standard View:  Adjustments to Location fields.
4. Added buttons that link to Context Menus for all Views.

Labour Manager

1. Minor interface fixes.

Main Menu

1. Adjustments to arrangement at top of Main Menu.

Greenhouse Viewer

1. Updated Bay Criteria and Bay View.
2. Updated Path Criteria and Path View.
3. Updated Category Criteria and Path View.
4. Updated Department Criteria and Path View.
5. Changed default control to Run Query button.
6. Shift-Click Run Query will now run all the queries in the Greenhouse Viewer.
7. Reviewed all context menus to ensure they all work properly.
8. New Activity/Phase View.
9. Added Help icon to each Greenhouse Viewer view to give a brief summary of what the view does.
10. Fixed up Activity/Phase report launch interface.

Configuration Manager

1. Updated menus for the main Parameters tab.

Greenhouse Viewer

1. Updated Section Criteria and View.
2. Updated Supervisor Criteria and View.
3. Updated Section Criteria and View.
4. Updated Sector Criteria and View.

Labour Manager

1. Updated to use Team filter based also on newer Security Manager view.

Repair Tool

1. Section Repair updated to better address unassigned paths

Main Menu

1. Added License information to bottom panel (click to cycle).

General

1. Another License enforcement mechanism added.

Greenhouse Viewer

1. Fixed error with Weekly view.
2. Fixed context menus for Greenhouse, Phase and Variety views.
3. Fixed context menus for Standard, Daily and Weekly views.
4. Added context menus for Period view.
5. Updated Activity criteria to use a view like Team and Shift criteria.
6. Updated Greenhouse column in Greenhouse view to use name instead of number.
7. Updated view buttons for Greenhouse, Phase and Variety views.
8. Updated view buttons for Standard, Daily and Weekly views.
9. Updated view buttons for Worker and Activity views.

Main Menu

1. Blocked loading of module if another module is currently loading

Greenhouse Viewer

1. Fixed Sets Menus for all the search criteria,
2. Fixed the Greenhouse, Phase and Variety views,
3. Updated Reports List to include new Security Manager Report Selection.
4. Updated Classification Criteria view with new columns.
5. Updated Team Criteria view with new columns.
6. Changed Greenhouse Criteria to be a view similar to Teams/Shifts/etc.

Labour Manager

1. Changed Unprocessed calculation to prevent repeated reprocessing of workers that only punch at start of shift.

Repair Tool

1. Adjust amount of logging performed (can be excessive at times).
2. Fixed issue stopping auto-reprocessing from occurring.

Security Manager

1. Implemented Greenhouse/Phase views.
2. Implemented All/None function for Team/Shift/Classification/Division/Greenhouse/Phase views.

Sets Manager

1. Fixed error in Sets Manager related to Workers.
2. Fixed error where Missing Classification could not be selected.
3. Fixed Team Select All function.

General

1. Updated exception handler to completely ignore \"Control '' has no parent window.\" messages.

Greenhouse Viewer

1. Updated Popup Menus for Activity, Team, Shift and Classification Criteria.
2. Fixed various issues with Standard, Daily, Activity and Worker views not working properly.
3. Fixed Popup Menus for Standard, Daily, Activity and Worker views.

Repair Tool

1. Fixed OT Repair issue when selecting period spanning several weeks.
2. Added option to run Repair in same mode as automated Repair.

Notifications Manager

1. Updates to running Repair via Notification Manager to try and troubleshoot where it is getting stuck.

Query Tool

1. Fixed Search & Replace buttons for Scratch Views

General

1. Updated icons in various places.

NOTE: This is an unusually large and far-reaching release primarily due to increasing the number of Allocation Reports.  This change precipitated a great many changes in other modules, which then led to even more changes, a cascading effect that has ended up with the change list as we have here.  Also, due to the length of time taken to complete this release, numerous other requests were implemented at the same time, but not released previously due to the interdependency of other changes.  Looking forward to returning to something more like the previous weekly or bi-weekly update cadence!

Repair Tool

1. Fixed error where Week Repair was performing calculations based on Calendar dates rather than Labour Dates.

Labour Manager

1. Saved views now show all saved views rather than just the user's saved views.
2. Changed Delete Edits function to remove all non-Worker records from Raw Punches rather than just those of the current account - so you can erase edits from other supervisors.
3. Added more fields for Problem checking to the Workers Present view including Total Punchouts, Problems Skipped, Cut-Off date, etc.  Rearranged the ordering in the column chooser.
4. Added Labour Manager 'Features\" for limiting date selections, editing cut-off dates, adding Workers without adding Out Punches by default.
5. Added more Problem types, changed the colour for Problem records to just plain purple.
6. Adjusted some of the processing internally to fix some errors where the final padding Activity wasn't being deleted properly, messing up the total time for the day.
7. Rearranged the utility panel to move the Shift dropdown to be above the in punch and out punch buttons, shifted the other fields around to make the alignment look cleaner.

Repair Tool

1. Added menu option to duplicate replication rules.

Labour Manager

1. The Window date now changes along with the Labour date.
2. Added more problems to the detection list, including excessive hours, no out-punch and processed hours without unprocessed hours.
3. Changed colours for problem records.
4. Added colours for when a worker has a note entered on a particular date.

Worker Manager

1. Changed list of reports to point at newer Security Manager interface to retrieve list.
2. Added new Emergency Contacts report to show Worker name, telephones, emergency contacts, health numbers and SIN numbers with various options to limit some of that information.
3. Fixed problem with launching module in an unattended mode, such as when running reports via the Notification Manager.
4. Set scrollwheel options for all views.
5. Updates to Fingerprint UI, fixed problem with disabled finger #5.

Notifications Manager

1. Added ability to generate the Emergency Contacts report in a Scheduled Event, along with the ability to set the various options normally available when running the report manually.

Labour Manager

1. Adjust start/finish columns to include dates.  Tried to adjust other date/time related columns to work better with the 24-hr situation.  A work in progress to be sure.
2. Updated the \"Window' to get more info from the Shift so that the Shift can better anticipate this kind of thing.  Seems redundant I suppose.  But seemingly necessary as people get assigned to Shifts that seem to have nothing to do with the hours they actually work.  At least at PSF, that is.

Shift Manager

1. Added AutoShift fields.  Window Start/End fields.
2. Updated UI to reference Shift Exception instead of Shift Override for consistency.

Activity Manager

1. Activity Manager.  Changed default location to a lookup field using path label for the lookup values.

1. The fingerprint scan log update mechanisms were updated to support longer MODIFIER values.  This was preventing Workers from punching in, stalling right after confirming their fingerprint scans.  Updated same field in other tables.

Worker Manager

1. Copy, Cut & Paste context menu added to Batch Registration spreadsheet.

Repair Tool

1. Changed text of replication emails from <shortversion> to <versionshort> so it works properly.
2. Work on Data Replication user interface stuff.

Greenhouse Viewer

1. One Week Summary report updated to use STARTDATE properly instead of date/time range functions when doing weekday totals.

Activity Manager

1. Premiums tab.  Don't set the Activity when editing Premiums records so that when looking at all Premiums, it works properly. 
2. Premiums tab.  Adjust settings for lookup columns to cache the lookup values in an effort to improve the speed of navigating records in the view.
3. Activity Attributes tab.  Minor UI tweak to assign labels to different parts of the tab, use panels instead of bezels to break up the fields.

Labour Manager

1. Fix problem with menu initialization that was preventing Notification Manager tasks from launching the Labour Manager in its unattended mode.

Notifications Manager

1. More error checking of scheduled events and bypassing potential query errors related to logging events.
2. Added button to Scheduled Events to set the Last Run date/time to the current date/time so that when adding new events, they won't have to always run right away.
3. Duplicate Event function now updates the daily schedule times properly.
4. Updated the menus to the current app conventions.

KIND OF A BIG RELEASE.  Been working on this non-stop since the last release and it has been weeks it seems.  So lots of things here to dig into.

Main Menu

1. A few different attempts at addressing forms not appearing anywhere visible to the user.  While this was initially a multi-monitor issue, some of the so-called fixes to this started having issues on non-multi-monitor setups (like mine!).  Boo.  Hiss.  Anyway, a few iterations and I think it is working ok.  Will find out in short order as others start to use it.  Not sure what triggered my windows being off-screen though.  Really strange.
2. Adjustments to more or less synchronize all the different databases to use the same menu arrangement for the most part, including and specifically hiding the modules that are not part of the desktop app.  Bit of standardization on module #'s > 1000 for example.
3. Shift-click when opening a module will center it on the main desktop display.  Kind of a backup if all else fails.  Cuz it is really annoying when it does.  A bit tricky though as if the module is already open it needs to be closed first.  Non-obvious I'd have to say.

Login

1. Updated mechanisms for using AUTOADM accounts on EMH500 and YVR500 databases.  Bit of review of how these things are launched, what appears on the login screen, etc.
2. Updated some DB/Title references.

IPM Manager

1. Fixed incorrectly assigned grid links.
2. Finished period menu.  Enabled Help.

Labour Manager

1. Fixed incorrectly assigned grid links.
2. Fixed/Finished Labour Manager \"Change\" menu for altering user-edited raw punches.  Bit of documentation.
3. Labour Manager.  Updated references to MODIFIER and DATAMARK_USERNAME for > 8 characters.

Activity Manager

1. Enabled Help.
2. Updated references to MODIFIER and DATAMARK_USERNAME for > 8 characters.
3. Premiums functions finished.  Documentation to support Premiums function also finished.

Support Ticket Tool

1. Changed View button to show what is currently being viewed.

Team Manager

1. Updated references to MODIFIER and DATAMARK_USERNAME for > 8 characters.

Shift Manager

1. Updated references to MODIFIER and DATAMARK_USERNAME for > 8 characters.

Worker Manager

1. Updated references to MODIFIER and DATAMARK_USERNAME for > 8 characters.
2. Batch Registration spreadsheet completed.  YAY.  Been a LONG TIME coming.  Only a couple of lines of text here, but many thousands and thousands of lines of code and dozens of hours of just testing it.  Argh.
3. Quick Registration now adds a Worker Note when the worker is initially registered, and an additional note when material is added via the Batch Registration process.
4. Bits of documentation.

General

1. Error Notifications.  Reformated how the error messages are displayed.  Maybe a bit nicer.  Not sure.  More work on how messages are sent, whether they are sent at all, etc.  Not sure if it will make much of a difference, but need to try to improve the experience for people who get errors all the time.  Hopefully less with the 8 character MODIFIER thing fixed.
2. Icons.  Added icons to a whole bunch of places to make it look prettier.  Will see if anyone says anything.
3. Help.  Made general functions for the Help & Feedback menus that are going to start popping up all over the place.  New Canvas icon added, other icons, etc.

Probably LOTS MORE that I've forgotten to write down.  But this is a pretty heavy update.

Grading Manager

1. Added AX_INVENTTABLE_VF_PLU_NUM field to show the PLU code without the \"PLU\" prefix attached.

Support Ticket Tool

1. Completed work on this, and added links to it from the Main Menu and the Activity Manager.  Will be adding it to more modules as time goes on.

Team Manager

1. Minor tweaks to Access History.

Shift Manager

1. Minor updates to UI for start of theme change.  Added Super, first, last, name to main view.  Added some elements to the Access History.

Notifications Manager

1. Tweaks to Log tab UI.

Login

1. Login.  Icons.

Worker Manager

1. Icons.
2. Security Manager option for accessing Status Change function.

About

1. New customer logos. 

Activity Manager

1. Premiums.  Finished \"copy\" utility function. Did interface work for other utility functions.

Main Menu

1. Main Menu & Security Manager & Module Manager.  Filters for non-module modules.  For things that we want to be able to tag with Support Tickets.  Lots of them.

General

1. Help & Support button added to a few places.  Came up with new standardized menu.  Means of linking to Support Ticket Tool, Canvas pages, email and telephone links.
2. Parameter #32 augmented with Lookup 10,000 and 10,001 to hold the email and telephone numbers for the Help & Support menus if not default.
3. Canvas.  Initial pages added for Annotation Tool, Support Ticket Tool and Activity Manager.  Long road ahead here.

Labour Manager

1. Replaced internal references to GLM2.LUTS with DATAMARK.LUTS.  Ongoing problem. 
2. Added ability to see the queries that are run when inserting new worker records by holding down the shift key when clicking on the menu option - for those with access to the log viewer that is.
3. Added a bunch of Access History events.

Team Manager

1. Added a bunch of Access History events.

Notifications Manager

1. Added a new type - File Include - for essentially just including a text file in an email.  No clue why this hasn't been there all this time.  The File Import, File Parse and File Send options all do very complex things with the files that are read in, but none of them just include a text file in the body of the message, which is all I was trying to do with this backup notification - the file exists locally, just need to pick it up and embed it nicely in the email.  Sheesh.