Schedule3W

Schedule3W Releases

5.2.15 Web Help Quick Links

2019-03-17
  • Web 4.2.13 improvements:
    • [Help] now starts with Quick Links to each section.
    • [+Shift] now defaults to the date of any single date display being viewed.
    • The confirmation screen of more update modes now supports invoking additional updates to that shift.
    • Support for Remember my name, when username or abbreviation format is used, has been restored.
  • Saving or invoking a favorite report with hardwired custom dates now shows a hint to use a concept date (e.g. This week).

5.2.14 Web View of Working Hours for Schedulers

2019-02-28
  • Web 4.2.12 improvements:
    • Displays of the schedule for one employee, done by schedulers, now automatically show total working hours over that period.
    • Changes made to ongoing shifts no longer default to This Day Only to ensure user makes an explicit choice.
    • New images are provided for saving predefined displays on your mobile device home screen.
    • [Help] now documents that urls can be saved with a specific end date (e.g. len=30-Apr) in addition to # of days. Great for predefined rest of term displays.
    • The [Tools]>Location Information now places min and max dates in separate columns.

5.2.13 Web Choose Screen Improved for Cell Phones

2019-01-31
  • Web 4.2.11 improvements:
    • The Choose screen buttons and menus have been tweaked to improve the layout on smart phones and tablets.
    • The [Set Defaults] button has been moved into the Options area beside the [Show Defaults] button.
  • Switching to a Test/Train database via Tools>Options no longer needs to update the user's registry.

5.2.12 Web View Emp/Loc row labels are live links

2019-01-27
  • Web 4.2.10 improvements:
    • New shortcut to display the Workweek for an employee or a location: simply click the employee name (i.e. row label) in Employees by Time or location name in Location by Time bar graph display.
    • The confirmation screen for adds and updates now has a [Close&Refresh] button to cause the below display to be immediately refreshed to reflect the change(s).
  • Location x Day screen's area below the last employee is now labelled as Pick Employees as a reminder of its use for scheduling meetings, entering public holiday time, etc.
  • Who's working by time period reports now sub-sort employees in a time period (i.e. cell) by their name within the existing shift start-time sort.
  • Employee x Week report no longer occasionally shows one employee out of sequence when name format isn't Last, First.

5.2.10 New Every 2nd & 3rd Month Frequencies

2019-01-17
  • Two new recurring frequencies are supported (nth weekday of month for every 2nd and 3rd month) once 5.2.10 is Tools>Activated (e.g. 1st Monday of every 2nd month).
  • Reports generated on Train/Test databases now automatically include Train/Test in the report title.
  • Split Shift, when not deleting part of the shift, now supports Until/Ongoing.
  • Web 4.2.9 improvements:
    • The confirmation screen for changes to an employee's working hours now displays total hours (that week or that pay period) and how that varies from the employee's standard hours.
    • Options: now includes a control to suppress the default filter of only including service point shifts for Schedule the Assign employees if the employee is working in one of the selected working locations.

5.2.09 New Day Profile Fields in Available Staff

2018-12-10
  • The Available Staff popup screen, for Service Point locations, now includes for each employee the following for the day being scheduled: Duration Working, On Desk and Unassigned hours.
  • Edit>Employee Group now includes an [Info] button that displays the member details of the currently highlighted Employee Group.
  • In Tools>Reports, Database View: Location Information has replaced the Location Information report.
  • Login and Password change screens in desktop and Web modules now warn if Caps Lock is on.
  • Web 4.2.8 now allows schedulers to view the full range of dates.

5.2.08 Office 365 Web Email Now Supported

2018-11-02
  • Office 365 Web is now supported for email. Available in Tools>Options>Settings (once 5.2.08 has been activated as the minimum version) and immediately in the Web 4.2.7 Options menu.
  • AutoSched 2.1.16 now auto aligns the first shift of a period to fill to end on the hour and supports locations with a default shift duration of one hour being splitable if longer.
  • Select>Employee Group now includes an [Info] button that displays the member details of the currently highlighted Employee Group.

5.2.07 Auto Login by IP# to Web View Guest

2018-10-18
  • Web 4.2.6 improvements:
    • Authentication by IP# now supports auto login to the Guest account.
    • The new Wall Calendar displays: Weeks for Locations and Weeks for Employees are now faster (25% in Chrome and 10% in IE11).
    • The [Help] sections relating to Away Requests have been clarified.

5.2.06 Schedule Solo Database Access

2018-10-14
  • New Tools>Maintenance>Solo option to schedule solo access to the database to perform maintenance tasks and automatically remind/logout other users. Available once 5.2.06+ is activated as the "Minimum Schedule3W version for your database".
  • New [Copy for GPO] button in Tools>Maintenance>Show>[Installs] provides the list of system names for setting up a Group Policy to automatically upgrade those PCs to a new Schedule3W version. See download page for details.
  • Web 4.2.5 improvements:
    • [Who's away] and any subsequent [Request away] are once again buttons rather than Display menu entries.
    • The Employee x Time bar graph display now supports sorting Employees by their Working Location sub sorted by PIC rank.
    • To allow date range to be entered first, the end date menu always shows. It has a grey background if the currently selected display is for only one day.
    • Clicking My away requests in the display menu now immediately displays the user’s away requests ending today or later with a [Show all] button to include past ones.

5.2.05 Web View Faster, New Wall Calendar Format

2018-09-13
  • Web 4.2.4 adds:
    • Two new Wall Calendar displays: Weeks for Locations and Weeks for Employees.
    • The Employee x Time bar graph display now supports sorting Employees by their Working Location.
    • Displays are typically 20% faster.
  • SMS (aka Text Message) module has improved error reporting.

5.2.03 Easier Multiple Database Access

2018-08-22
  • Two improvements for sites that host multiple Schedule3W databases:
    • The database switching menu (i.e. DBMenu.txt) now defaults to the last database opened.
    • The Login User Menu now defaults across multiple databases when a consistent abbreviation was used.
  • Tools>Shifts>Shorten Day now supports the current plus next 4 months (rather than just next 90 days).
  • Edit>Location right click Advanced>Change location for shift now supports doing so Only if working in a specified location.
  • Database View: Shifts report now supports the [AdvSel] button's Only if working in filter condition and that filter now runs twice as fast.
  • Edit>Staff>[Schedule] button now always opens Employee x Week at the start of this calendar week.

5.2.01 Double Click now Creates a Shift

2018-08-02
  • Now, in addition to drawing a new shift, you can double click to create one. Start time automatically uses the nearest half hour and duration is the default specified in Edit>Location.

5.2.00 Web Update Supports Recurring Shifts

2018-07-27
  • Web 4.1.2 adds:
    • Ongoing and Until recurring sets may now be added and modified.
    • Now employees can be restricted to only viewing their own schedule or those of an employee group in Edit>Staff.
  • The Staffing Level blue/red bar no longer shows when an employee select is active or in Location x Day
  • Edit>Away>[Process] now opens with the most common choice ("Hours Scheduled") preticked.
  • Tools>Maintenance>Test>[Disk Speed] now includes 3 additional tests.
  • The minimum number of locations in a Location Group is now 1 (rather than 2).
  • To help sites with multiple databases, you may now enter new licenses without logging in by using ChangeLic as the password.

5.1.32 New Web Employee x Time Start time Sort

2018-05-09
  • Web 4.1.1 now supports sorting Employees in the Employee x Time bar graph display by Start time.

5.1.31 New Web Location Focused Screens

2018-04-25
  • Web 4.1 adds two new location focused bar graph displays:
    • Locations x Time.
    • Days x Time for a Location.
  • Edit>Staff and Employee x Week's Select>Employee now, by default, show only the employees in any active Employee Select.

5.1.30 Select Employees by a Location's Assignment Group

2018-04-05
  • Select Multiple Employees, when invoked from [Emp/Loc], now allows employees to be selected by their current Assignment Group value. This simplifies a setup step for AutoSched.
  • Employee/Location Scheduling Grids, if opened from Location x Week, now always return to it with its original selected Locations.

5.1.28 Staffing Levels Backspace/Delete Support

2018-04-03
  • Staffing Level entry now supports both backspace and delete keys.

5.1.27 HTTPS Intermediate Certificates

2018-03-25
  • The HTTPS configuration option now supports Intermediate certificates.

5.1.26 New option to update License Contact info

2018-03-12
  • Help>About Schedule3W now has a [Licensee..] button for updating the License Contact name, email and/or phone.
  • Location x Week, when showing only one location, once again suppresses Location name from the bars.

5.1.25 ESG/LSG Highlight New Weeks

2018-03-04
  • Employee/Location Scheduling Grids, when showing more than a week, now shade the column header of the starting day of your work week as light blue.
  • Sites with a Citrix/RDS server plus additional systems will no longer encounter an occasional false Currently Logged In error.
  • When a large organization has multiple web servers on one system, the Port# now shows on the login screen if that database doesn't have a login label set.

5.1.24 Hosted Schedule3W Idle Session Close Maximum

2018-02-23
  • Hosted Schedule3W desktop now uses 8 hours as the maximum setting for idle Schedule3W automatic close.
  • Any start-up Database Selection Menu (DBMenu.txt) screen now shows in task bar.