Schedule3W Releases

• Web View 2.5.3 features:

• New Sort employees by option adds support for Home Location and Employee Type. [Save defaults] now includes this setting.

• All displays sorted by Location now use any Override Sorts specified in Edit>Location.

• Print once again only prints the display (i.e. no menus).

• Edit>Staff now immediately shows the Scheduler Tab for any employee given a Schedule3W Right other than None.

• Can't change shift messages have been upgraded to a consistent format.
• The predefined Time Period definition Column Header now supports 14 periods.
• Edit>Staff error 381, happening at some sites, has been eliminated.

• New Edit>Away Requests for tracking requests for Vacation, Sick, Conference, etc. and simplifying entry. See details by Help>Index enter away and click Overview.

New Web View 2.5.1 features:

• New Table formats: Employee and Location by Date
• New interface for selecting Location(s) and Employee(s) that includes a Filter option.
• New replacement date picker (i.e. Calendar).
• 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 and, to help readability when scrolling, have space between rows, the vertical lines at 9, 12, 3, etc. are red and the time labels are repeated at the bottom.
• 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!
• Graph: Employees x Time, which only shows one day, now leaves calendar end date unchanged and displays a hint.
• The color of grouped vacation/sick is now the color of the alphabetically first vacation subtype location (rather than always yellow).

Edit>Staff, when saving a new username matching the e-mail address, now offers to set all blank usernames for employees with the same e-mail domain.

• Who's/Where working: * x time period reports now support up to 14 time periods as columns.
• Report Titles and Footers will automatically replace the new Rotation Week code, , with the applicable bracketed week letter. FYI: Rotation Week Letter is activated in Tools>Options>Staffed Hours tab.
• Summary by reports now have a wider Cost column.
• Internal notes maximum size has been expanded from 100 to 255 characters.

• Row labels of Who's Working: Location by Week are now the full, rather than abbreviated, location name.
• Error 94 no longer occurs on databases that have not yet activated Internal Notes (i.e have minimum version of Schedule3W less than 4.2.07).

• Who's/Where Working/Data View reports now include shifts starting at midnight on the first day and Schedule by reports now include shifts crossing midnight on the last day.

• Changing Start or End time via Shift Information, when the first day conflicts, now shows just an OK message.

• The error message displayed, if the connection to file server has dropped, has been expanded
• Support for Send Email option, when adding This Day Only shifts, has been restored.

• The Schedule Location(s) field of Edit>Staff has been moved to a new Scheduler Tab and now supports Location Groups without an error 0 at login.
• Icons have been standardized between Edit>Staff and scheduling screens.

• Schedule by reports, when only one employee is selected, and Employee Analysis no longer generate error 91.

• New Automatic User Authentication eliminates password entry when the current Window's username matches the Edit>Staff Username.
• The Edit>Staff algorithm for predicting new employee's e-mail now considers lower case.

• Maximum supported Frequency expands to every 12th once Tools>Activate>Minimum Schedule3W Level is done for 4.4.10.

• 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.
• Close/shutdown on large databases is now much faster.
• Where Working by 14/31 days reports support choosing full employee name as row label and Who's Working by 31 days report supports location abbreviation (once Tools>Activate>Minimum Schedule3W Level done for 4.4.09).
• Support in Quick Screen Switch for As Is locations has been restored.

• 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!).
• Clone+Sp now supports Working shifts without a Service point.

• 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!
• Help>E-mail support now automatically creates a yourorg_Scheduler.ZIP file.
• The Do New Month Rollover? screen now appears only to Database Administrators for the first three weeks (and then, if not done, to all schedulers with Edit>Staff rights).
• The database access approach used for recurring shifts has been revised due to an occasional 3167 error reported by one site.
• Emp/Loc screen now processes Control/Shift clicks as a normal click.

• New Edit>Staff field of _Schedule Location(s)_restricts this scheduler to just a specific Location Group or Location.It also restricts individuals with Own scheduling or Display rights to specific locations. Therefore, the Edit>Location field of Designated Employees may create/update shifts is no longer needed.

• The Tools>Maintenance Show tab [Installs] screen now allows [Delete] of past Install records.
• The Employee by Week Pick Location screen now only offers Willing and Want locations for shifts of at least 3 hours to reduce clutter (contact us if you need shorter willing/want periods).
• Corrected several recently introduced issues: Change Location now works on shifts in the first location, new locations now immediately show in select menu and Location Scheduling Grid places avail Willing/Want in the correct rows.

• Summary by report functionality has been restored.

• Shift Bar Label and Shift List Screen now flag that a shift has Internal Notes by prefixing external notes with an asterisk (*).
• The Location by Day screen's No Available Locations message now includes details of any conflicting shift.

• Switching from Location/Employee by Week to Location by Day is now 80% faster on larger databases.
• Tools>Activate screen now includes the actual date of last use by any earlier versions.
• Help>About Schedule3W screen now shows Minimum Version of Schedule3W that can open this database.
• Corrected New Month Open error (introduced in 4.4.01) re Staffing Levels for databases scheduling midnight or later.
• The Location by Day screen's No Available Locations message now includes a location select is active tip.

• Emp/Loc, when listing Employees, now shows names in the format specified by the Location by Day/ESG control Display Options>Name Format.
• When automatically invoked during installation, Schedule3W now lists any earlier versions of Schedule3W on other PCs and, if no earlier version has run in two weeks, recommends that a Tools>Activate>This as Minimum Schedule3W Version be done.