Schedule3W Releases

• Removed Tools>Reports warning of a Favourite report selecting a now deleted employee (added in 4.5.16).
• Edit>Employee Groups option to clear the home location filter has been restored.

• Location x Day screen now supports dragging shifts on the diagonal. Now it's only one step to move Mary’s 9-10 shelving shift to Larry for 2-3!
• Web pages load on average 20% faster due to a 2 times speedup in rendering in an upgraded Ruby-on-Rails component.

• New Resource Booking mode! Provides customized interface for booking rooms, culture passes and equipment. For details, click Help>Index and enter Booking.
• New Month open/rollover now leaves Web View open during most of the processing. The time taken for the last open and the current maximum date are now shown in Help>About Schedule3W.
• Settings selected in the [Staffing] button on Location x Day/Week scheduling screens are now saved across sessions.
• Edit>Staff Type menu is now wider.
• Select Multiple Location/Employee now supports OK after [Clear All] to be consistent with the Web interface.
• Changing Path to Database for Windows 7 and above now asks for admin rights so system \Schedule3W\DataPath registry key is always updated (rather than the user level virtual one).

• Now supports Windows 8.
• New Split Shift option in the right-click on a shift menu.
• Web View now enforces each Location's min & max view date range individually, rather than using the most restrictive range.
• Web Server host name is now automatically stored even if Windows Service is activated without the recommended manual start test.
• Web Server no longer needs a manual restart after a database upgrade that changes the structure of its control tables.

• The Date Range used in Edit>Location>Web Tab may now be larger than that specified in Tools>Web Services>[Options] (i.e. the [Options] setting is now a default rather than a maximum making setup easier!).
• Location by Day screen no longer does a full screen refresh if a just created shift is adjusted.

• Faster new month open/rollover on many larger databases.
• New tips for reporting a problem at: http://Schedule3W.com/tips/problem_reports
• New Web Services 3.0.5 changes:
  • Employees by Time displays for today have a vertical green line at the current time.
  • When "Now" has been selected, Table displays only show the current date.
• The Minimum # working reports now utilize any Override Sort specified for locations.
• Tools>Maintenance>Show tab>[Installs]>Delete now shows a custom reject message when invoked by a user without Database Administration Rights.
• Exceeding 33k different shift sets no longer generates an Error 6 Overflow message.

• New [Staffing] button below Location x Day/Week scheduling screens, when multiple locations selected, shows staffing scheduled (or difference to staffing levels) for the next week.
• Upgrade Ruby 1.8.7 used by Web Services from p258 to p270.
• Employee/Location Scheduling Grid once again immediately shows new shifts added by right-click>Add Shift>[Ok&Exit] when Location by Day for that date is open. Likewise Location by Day, with an active location filter, will automatically include the name and shift of an employee newly scheduled to one of those locations. Workaround until you upgrade: press F5 for refresh.

• Tools>Reports>Favorites now saves any Show Full Location/Employee name setting.
• Who's working: Location x * reports default suppression of identical times has been restored as per pre-V4.4.46 behavior.
• Who's/Where working: * by month reports no longer require the report title to include by month.

• Database view: Employee x Location Hours now automatically widens display columns for larger totals.
• Internal and External Shift notes are now consistently retained when shifts are modified except Change Employee which clears any Internal notes.

• Moving a Working (assignable to SP) shift to a new date or time automatically moves its Service Point shifts if required (or, if no SP move is required, gives a choice on the Recurring Screen).
• New Tools>Reports>[AdvSelect] option to select all shifts created/modified by a specific (or any) scheduler in a specified number of days.
• The Database currently locked status message now includes the starting workstation and time of the maintenance procedure and, for new month open/rollovers, expected completion time.
• The Until option on Change Employee and replace and on Change Location and replace shift has been corrected.
• Edit>Away [Process] screen now includes a red reminder if any days are flagged as Do manually.

• New [Process] button in Edit>Away simplifies entry of vacation, sick, etc. requests down to two clicks.
• The Closed for Maintenance Web status screen now includes the reason and person/workstation initiating.
• Download page now includes a link to instructions on optionally installing a test copy of Schedule3W's Web Modules.

• Web Away Requests display now includes a [View] button to display the user's schedule for that period.
• Edit>Staff [Delete] confirmation screen now shows Last Worked date for historical employees.
• New Away Request status of Updating Schedule has been added.

Summary of the new features of version 4.5:

• (4.4.54) New Web [Away request] and [My away requests] buttons for employee web entry and viewing of away (i.e. vacation) requests. This is the first feature of the new Update Module (free until additional functionality is included).
• (4.4.46) New Bar Color setting for each employee. Set individually or via Global Set. Location by Week, when showing one location, may be configured to use these colors.
• (4.4.46) Where working: x days reports, when only one Working (assignable to SP) type location is included, suppresses that location name for cleaner layout.
• (4.4.42) Web View now includes a later version of Ruby and is distributed as a separate feature in the install package. This provides a faster startup and a better foundation for future development. See download page for the additional step needed when next upgrading the computer hosting Web View.
• (4.4.36) The Conflict Screen now highlights existing shifts with a less frequent recurrence in red and allows you to designate that they also are to be deleted.
• (4.4.31) New Web View features:
  • Web Login now supports picking your name (or Guest).
  • If personally logged in, new quick buttons of [My Graph] and [My Table] are provided.
  • New [Who's Away] button displays who's away for the specified period in that employee’s Away Group
• (4.4.31) Where Working Reports now allow you to specify whether names will be formatted and sorted by First Last, Last, First or Abbreviation.
• (4.4.29) Tools>Reports now supports predefined date selects for fiscal year: last/this and quarter: last/this/next as useful for Favorite Reports.
• (4.4.24) New Web View allows Employees to be selected by Home Location and/or Employee Type. Makes saved URLs even more powerful!
• (4.4.24) New Edit>Staff right-click Global Set menu entry will set selected employees to the current employee's value for Type, Home Location, $/Hr or Away Request Employee Group.
• (4.4.20) New Edit>Away Requests for tracking requests for Vacation, Sick, Conference, etc. through their full life cycle and simplifying entry. See details by Help>Index enter away and click Overview.
• (4.4.19) New Web View features:
  • New Table formats: Employee and Location by Date.
  • New interface for selecting Location(s) and Employee(s) that includes a Filter option.
  • New option to select Name Format (e.g. Last, First).
  • New [Save defaults] button will save in a cookie the current view and name format as the opening/Reset default.
  • Graph formats now support shifts that cross midnight.
  • Start day parameter of saved URLs (e.g. sday=) now supports an explicit date (in addition to days away). Great for e-mailing a link to next term's schedule!
• (4.4.18) Who's/Where working: * x time period reports now support up to 14 time periods as columns.
• (4.4.18) Report Titles and Footers will automatically replace the new Rotation Week code, <rw>, with the applicable bracketed week letter.
• (4.4.11) New Automatic User Authentication eliminates password entry when the current Window's username matches the Edit>Staff Username.
• (4.4.09) New Tools>Reports advanced employee select ([AdvEmpSel] button) will select only the employees working in a location or a location group during the report dates. Use it to show shifts in shared locations (e.g. vacations, meetings, etc.) only for employees actually working in a specific department.
• (4.4.08) Fast Entry and Clone now ask, for This Day Only shifts, whether to delete the conflicting shift and its service points (eliminates a manual delete!).
• (4.4.07) New right-click Clone+Sp option will copy the Working shift and all of its Service Point shifts in one step. Great for giving different people the same Saturday schedule!
• (4.4.06) New Edit>Staff field of Schedule Location(s) restricts this scheduler to just a specific Location Group or Location (e.g. restrict someone to just booking rooms).

• New Web [Away request] and [My away requests] buttons for employee web entry and viewing of away (i.e. vacation) requests. This is the first feature of the new Update Module (free until additional functionality is included).

• The automatic Renewal Reminder message now only appears to Database Administrators for the first week and only once per day.

• Tools>Web Services>[Options] includes a new control for enabling demo mode of the upcoming Web Update module.

• The Recurring Screen, from drawing in a shift, once again correctly enters additional days of the week when This Day Only is selected. The workaround for sites using 4.4.32 through 4.4.48 is to enter multiple this day only shifts via Fast Entry Screen or separately. Version 4.4.50 automatically detects if any shifts were impacted by this fortunately seldom used combination.

• Edit>Away now supports a Delete option for database administrators and the creator of the request.

• New Web View 2.6.5 supports (via Tools>Web Services>[Options]):
  • MySchedule3W login user identification by typing employee abbreviation (rather than picking from drop down menu of names).
  • Addition of new [Away request] button after employee clicks [Who's away]. Clicking it opens a draft away (e.g. vacation) request e-mail. Coming soon is the option to directly record the request in the database.
• Employee Type menus are now alphabetical using any override sort.
• The Edit>Away [Report] results are no longer impacted by any previous report filter.

• New Bar Color setting for each employee. Set individually or via Global Set. Location by Week, when showing one location, may be configured to use these colors.
• Where working: x days reports, when only one Working (assignable to SP) type location is included, suppress that location name for cleaner layout.

• The newly installed empty database has been updated so all locations are selected and Edit>Away does not generate an error.
• When Today is selected on scheduling screens the date button is now green.
• The Include Willing/Want option of Who's working x day reports is now supported regardless of any Location select.
• The Conflict Screen support for filling in shifts between a less frequent shift (e.g. adding every Friday working when there is an existing every third Friday Off) has been restored (broken in .36).