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Schedule3W Releases

5.4.13 Shift Duration

2023-07-03
  • Web Update 4.9.1 improvements:
    • Restored the automatic maintenance of shift duration when start time is updated.
    • The Navigating away warning has been improved.

5.4.12 New Employee Graph Collapsed Option

2023-06-01
  • Web View 4.9.0 improvements:
    • Employee Graph Layer type of Collapsed has been added. It collapses the Service Points shifts into an employee's Working shifts to significantly increase the number of people that fit on a screen or page.
    • The Vertical scrollbar option may now be saved as a default.
    • The Employee bar Format of Recommended now designates format New, rather than format Classic. If you'd prefer Classic, please tell us why and switch back using Options > Employee bar Format > Classic.
    • Web Forgot my Password reset page now includes a show/hide "eye" icon button to toggle visibility of the password being entered.
  • Web Update 4.9.0 improvements:
    • Wrapping of text and components on Split Shift form has been improved.
    • The Show/New/Edit staff process has been made more self-explanatory by including tips in the Staff table and the Employee detail screens.

5.4.11 New Web Vertical scrollbar

2023-05-02
  • Web Update 4.8.3 improvements:
    • New Vertical scrollbar option has been added. To keep the time column header in view on web bar graph formats, open Options and set Vertical scrollbar to On. Optionally, save as a default.
    • Location sort use of override sort has been restored.
    • Support for using a library's O365 mail server has been improved.
  • Multi DB menu now supports global updating of matching licenses.
  • Web Update 4.8.2 improvements:
    • The [Split] button is now one click closer as it now shows on the initial Shift Information screen.
    • Turning Drag mode on, without saving as a default, is now supported.

5.4.08 Employee Groups may be assigned to multiple Schedulers

2023-02-14
  • Edit>Employee Groups now supports setting Also maintained by to an Employee Group.
  • Tools>Shifts>Shorten day now supports closing at hh:15 and hh:45.
  • Report Database view: Date/Time by Location Hours now supports the Day of Week filter.
  • Web Update 4.8.0 improvements:
    • Now supports the Auto tick 'Open Change Notice email' setting.
    • More screens use inline popups in drag mode.

5.4.06 Auto Open Change email option

2022-10-20
  • Web View 4.7.0 improvements:
    • The List View format now supports more information per page. Shift Notes now generally fit in one line.
  • Web Update 4.7.0 improvements:
    • Schedulers may now change to drag mode by setting it in Web>Options, and optionally saving it as a default.
    • In Drag mode, additions and changes automatically show in the scheduling screen (i.e. without clicking refresh).
  • New Auto tick 'Open Change Notice email' setting for the database in Tools>Options>Settings and Scheduler overrides in Edit>Staff>Scheduler Tab.
  • The previous release introduced an occasional Error 13 Type mismatch message. This as been corrected.

5.4.05 Sort by Working improved in Location x Day

2022-08-20
  • The Location x Day scheduling screen's Sort by Working Location now automatically subsorts by the first last Name Format setting.
  • Web 4.6.3 Nginx is upgraded on applicable Https sites.

5.4.04 New "Hours worked between" report option

2022-07-27
  • New Hours worked between option in DB View: Employee x Location Hours report. Now easy to compare how many hours staff worked after 6pm.
  • Web View 4.6.2 now has a friendly error if user enters an email address, instead of a username, on login screen.

5.4.03 Add/Update shifts in Web Table View

2022-07-06
  • Web View/Update 4.6.1 improvements:
    • The password field on the login form now includes a hide/show password "eye" icon button.
    • Web Update for Schedulers now also supports adding and updating shifts in Table View.
  • The "Later Schedule3W version is using this database" install warning may now be set to ignore the version on designated PCs. See Tools>Maintenance>Show Tab>[Installs] button.

5.4.02 Drag and Drop Web Scheduling Trial

2022-06-17
  • Edit>Date Range now highlights when a maximum date in the future is less than today.
  • Draft emails generated by Shift Information no longer include an extra until changed.
  • Multiple Username fields in Edit>Staff may be left unset as a quick way to prevent Web View access.
  • Web View/Update 4.6.0 improvements:
    • Drag&Drop in the Web Interface now available for trial. Contact support for info.
    • Employee by Time displays using the new barcode format now support Sort employees by and Skill flagging Options.

5.4.01 New Locations by Time Screen

2022-03-25
  • New drag and drop scheduling screen: Schedule > Locations by Time. It shows locations down the side and time across the top for the specified day.

5.3.49 Expand Detail in Logging

2021-10-27
  • Detail recorded by Tools>Options>Diagnostics>Log mode has been expanded.
  • Bar Scheduling is now supported on very large monitors.
  • Web View 4.5.5 improvement:
    • [iCal] button now supports displays using concept date ranges (e.g. Next month) to specify number of days to post to O365, Google Calendar, etc.

5.3.45 Hide Out Employees: Second Out choice

2021-09-06
  • The Hide 'Out' Employees option (in the right-click Display menu of Location by Day) now supports designating whether your Out locations include Vacation and Sick subtypes.

5.3.44 Select>Location menus auto focus

2021-09-02
  • Web View 4.5.3 improvements:
    • The Output Only URL parameter (e.g. oo=1) now automatically suppresses scheduler specific elements (e.g. [+]).
    • An employee name or a location abbreviation, containing double-quotes, now displays correctly in the Employees x Time with classic bar format.
  • Select>Location screens now open with focus on the currently selected location or location group.
  • The [v] popular dates menu now includes the start of 3, 4 and 5 weeks in the future.

5.3.43 Employee Graph displays support new bar format

2021-09-02
  • Foundation work for an upcoming new scheduling screen, Locations x Time, has been installed.
  • Web View 4.5.0 improvement:
    • The Employee Graph displays now support the bar style used by the Location Graph displays (e.g. rounded ends for ongoing shifts and Duty shifts are in the display rather than as a footnote). This format generates better displays for Duty type locations (e.g. Manager on Duty, Notary, etc.). Activate by setting Employee bar format: in the Web's Options menu.
  • "Shift Delete, all from" for an employee is now much faster on large databases.
  • Web View 4.4.13 improvement:
    • Dates of the previous and next month, that fall in the first/last week of the pick date calendar, now show in medium grey and may be picked.

5.3.37 Employee/Location Web Select Keyboard Support

2021-01-05
  • Web View 4.4.12 improvements:
    • The Employee and Location Select menus for displays now allow the selection to be made via the keyboard (up-arrow, down-arrow, and enter).
    • Auto authentication by IP# is now supported on sites using Nginx with the Schedule3W Web Server.
  • Web View 4.4.11 improvements:
    • The Advanced search option has been renamed Advanced select and moved to Employee select line
    • Schedule3W now handles Proxies that remove the XMLHttpRequest header.

5.3.34 One less click for Web Move/Delete

2020-11-27
  • Web View 4.4.10 improvements:
    • The Away Request on screen tips/instructions have been improved.
    • Nginx is now supported by sites using LDAP authentication.
  • Web Update for Schedulers 4.4.10 improvements:
    • The Shift Information screen for Schedulers now includes [Move] and [Delete] buttons (saves a click for these operations).

5.3.32 New Dates by Concept Menu

2020-10-26
  • Web View 4.4.08 improvements:
    • Dates by Concept (e.g. Next Week, Next Pay Period, etc.) may now be selected in the user interface by clicking the new [C] button.
    • A new Day of week filter is now supported as an Advanced URL feature. For example, append &dow=fr,sa to the URL to only show Friday and Saturday shifts.
    • The instructions and messages for the "Forgot your password?" process have been improved.
    • Newer Datepicker component has been implemented.
  • Schedule3W's support for a Scheduler's Document folder being moved to OneDrive has been improved (especially for DSN files).

5.3.31 Use Dates by Concept for saved URLs

2020-10-08
  • New Dates by Concept allow URLs to display date ranges such as Next Week, Last Pay Period, etc. without having to update starting date. These URLs can be saved to your Intranet, home screens, bookmarks, etc. See [Help] in Web View for details.
  • The reminder message that the Abbreviation/Username of an employee (and the Abbreviation of a resource) must be unique has been expanded to include information on the existing duplicate.

5.3.30 New Location Group Starting with Another

2020-09-04
  • Edit>Location Group, when New is pressed, now asks whether to start the new group with the values of the one currently selected.
  • Web Update for Schedulers 4.4.06 improvement: The Shift Information screen now includes a [Clone] button for schedulers.

5.3.29 Default Location Select

2020-08-24
  • A Default Location select of All is now consistently preserved across sessions even if additional locations are added to the database.
  • Schedule3W is now handles a recent Microsoft patch that caused a few PCs to report an Error 68 when Schedule3W started.

5.3.28 New Clone Shifts for a day

2020-08-01
  • New CloneDay tab in Tools>Maintenance supports replacing all the shifts on one day with those of another.
  • Edit>Location now includes the "Only if working in" attribute in the Location Table and in Location Export.
  • The current Location and Employee filter values now display in the bottom margin of Location by Day/Week screens when more than one location is being viewed.
  • Web Update for Schedulers 4.4.04 improvement: [+Shift] on the Add confirmation screen has been replaced with [Clone]. [Clone] opens a populated Add screen allowing easy revision of one or more components for a similar shift.