We had a great time exhibiting at Housing 24 in June. The development team were let loose on the exhibition and conference talks to improve their knowledge of the marketplace, but they didn’t slow down on coding.
We have continued improving and enhancing the status KPIs that have been added over the last couple of releases. In case you missed them, we have added expected time limits to statuses so that you can monitor where jobs are getting stuck in your standard work flow. This highlights jobs that have been stuck at a status beyond their KPI limit, and allows you to drill down to see more details. You can set different time limits on each status to best suit your own internal processes. This release we added some captioning, and also the ability to skip weekends in the calculation.
New Features
- Added a client level suppress purchase orders so you can’t raise POs against jobs of these clients
- New cancelled row on operative diary to show the booked appointments that have been cancelled – and whether this was triggered from the back office or by an engineer on the mobile app
- New ability to add photos when adding materials to a job on the mobile app
- Added a caption for the internal status KPIs
- Downloaded attachments in the mobile application can now be zoomed in on
- Added engineer expense recording totally independent from the job
- New report to show operative holidays
- Updated the status KPIs to reflect the working weekends system option
- New message to indicate emails may not send due to size of files attached and a progress bar to track this
- Added a system option to control whether the job sor ordered quantity can be edited for interfaced jobs
Changes For A Single Contractor
- New mobile build for a new customer
- Added the ability to edit client details – specifically to allow for maintenance of the new optional sales invoice payment details that we setup for them last month
- New fire alarm template
- Fixed double time and overtime calculations for weekend working on the timesheet export
- Fixed the system option controlling sending of absence request emails
- Added cost centres to popup supplier invoice entry screen
- Altered a customers PO print out so they can see all the related job addresses, plus the wording of delivery instructions has been changed to “Collection By Operative” where appropriate
- Implemented a new gas servicing survey
Platform Improvements
- Cosmetic improvements to our automated mobile app build scripts to make it easier for non-developers to understand the process
- Added a staging store for automated builds to improve access for the testing process
- Changed the automated mobiles builds to work from a branch that corresponds to the matching back office branch
- PHP8 fixes to audit trail report
Bug Fixes
- Fixes to filters relating to the internal status KPI from the dashboard
- Fixes to make the livesearches work again on the latest build
- Fixes to the warnings when trying to invoice a job with no sales
- Fix to the personalised filters on the operative diary report so that the correct filters are shown
- Fixed captioning of “create purchase order”
