Schedule3W

Schedule3W Releases

5.1.23 Location x Week's auto Select>Location now optional

2018-02-16
  • Select Location screen now gives the user control of whether it auto opens when switching to the Location x Week screen and provides a link to Select>Multiple Locations.
  • Web 4.0.27 upgrades:
    • Logins to a Hosted Web site now show when that database was last sync'd with the master database.
    • IE 11 no longer generates incorrect missing location message.
    • Recently broken Reset Password link has been corrected.

5.1.22 New Web View Advanced UI

2018-01-29
  • Web 4.0.25 upgrades:
    • Advanced mode has a new interface for selecting multiple Employee/Locations.
    • Moves and Adds now enforce any date range to which the Scheduler is restricted.
    • The Shift Information screen's shift frequency now supports Monthly on 5th dayofweek and Monthly on last dayofweek.
  • Employee Analysis screen (available from Edit>Staff and Edit>Away Requests) is faster.

5.1.21 More Control on DB Admin Rights

2018-01-16
  • Database Administer Rights have been improved:
    • Only employees with Schedule3W Rights set to DB Admin may add or delete a DB Admin.
    • Specific Schedulers can be given the ability to activate DB Admin rights for the rest of their session.
    • Clicking [Delete] for a DB Admin shows a confirmation screen with the first line of employee notes.
  • Tools>Maintenance>Show>[Logged IN] has a cleaner display of logged in users for sites with a Citrix/RDS server and other systems.

5.1.19 Shift Notes Select option

2018-01-02
  • Switching from Location by Day, while displaying a day in the current work week, to a by Week or Grid display now opens starting at the beginning of your work week (as always done for future dates).
  • Tools>Reports>[AdvSelect] now allows reports to be generated containing only shifts containing specified text in their external notes field.
  • Log files are now generated to your Schedule3W\Logs folder in your Documents folder (rather than to %temp%). Likewise .CSV files and [PDF] button files are now generated to your Schedule3W\Reports folder.
  • The Edit>Staff right-click menu is now available regardless of how Edit>Staff was invoked.
  • Web 4.0.23 new features:
    • Schedulers are always allowed to view up to two years in the past through the maximum open date.
    • Restored support for two Ciphers: DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA and DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA, to maintain compatibility with Firefox (tested with 52.5.2 ESR and 57.0.2).
  • AutoSched 2.1.15 now supports employees being set to try to keep on-desk shifts separate in the Edit>Staff>AutoSched Tab.

5.1.18 Separate Location x Week Location Select

2017-12-08
  • The Location Select for Location by Week is now independent of the Location Select for Location by Day and Employee/Location Scheduling Grids. That simplifies switching between viewing one location for a week and all your locations in Location by Day, ESG or LSG.
  • The [Info] button, when a Location Group is selected, now also shows for each member location: abbreviation and SubType plus, if AutoSched active, Scheduling Priority. The Edit Location Group screen now includes an [Info] button.
  • The [Group] button on the Select Multiple Locations and Employees screens now allows multiple groups to be picked at one time.
  • New Database View Hours worked: time by location report shows summary of time worked by hour of day in selected locations by selected people.
  • Web 4.0.22 simplifies entering Away requests using the menu (added in 5.1.06).

5.1.17 Partial Holiday now Short Workday

2017-11-06
  • New Tools>Shifts>Shorten Day to delete the portion of shifts after a specified time on a specific day (e.g. New Year's Eve) to reflect that close early days are now kept as workdays rather than holidays. We recommend that any existing part holidays be changed back to a working day.
  • Staffing Levels may now be invoked directly from Edit>Location.
  • Web 4.0.20 new features:
    • Advanced mode is now automatically forced if needed by already saved URLs or by a user's default display.
    • Location names containing apostrophes (aka single quotes) are now supported.
    • Support for picking a date on a cell phone held vertically has been restored.
    • Shifts in sick/vacation locations now show separately for schedulers even when sick/vacation are normally grouped under a common label in Web View.
  • AutoSched 2.1.13 new features:
    • Edit>Staff now supports new controls per employee for:
      • Minimum time/day to keep open so you can designate that ideally specific people should have blocks of time not auto scheduled.
      • Prefer on-desk hours/day max to spread total on-desk hours around.
    • New [Status] button that displays stats on the run in progress. Suggestion: request a large number of iterations, periodically press [Status] and, when the results stop improving, press [Stop].

5.1.16 AutoSched Splitable Shifts

2017-10-05
  • AutoSched now supports locations being set as Splitable in Edit>Location>AutoSched Tab (i.e. if no one is available for a standard 2 hour shift, it automatically tries to fill two 1 hour shifts).
  • Schedule3W desktop now opens about 20% faster.
  • Expanded considerations reminder now shows for Partially Closed Holidays.

5.1.15 New Empty Shifts List

2017-09-27
  • New Tools>Shifts>Show Empty generates a listing of all periods in which a location's schedule is below its Staffing Level (for the designated locations/time period).

5.1.13 Web View Simplified Employee & Location lookup

2017-09-25
  • New AutoSched features:
    • The Edit>Location menu for Keep multiple separate now supports a Must setting.
    • The Delete auto scheduled Lunches mode now allows you to designate that only lunches of people working in a specific location should be deleted.
    • New Location AutoSched Priority of 10, 11 & 12 added to allow people to be auto scheduled into locations like Research Time, when possible, without impacting scoring.
    • The Zip file created by Help>Email Support now includes copies of the last AutoSched parameter and results files.
    • The Tools>AutoSched menu for Return best schedule of now supports 10000, 15000 and 20000 choices.
  • Web 4.0.18 now defaults to simplified text box lookup of employees and locations (and/or their groups). Just type a few characters and matching entries show (e.g. B Sm matches Bill Smith and Barb Smart). Tick Advanced mode for the previous multi-tick interface. The version # of the web module is now included in the login welcome message and in the [Help] screen.

5.1.10 [Staffing] Button PDF and more

2017-08-29
  • The [Staffing] button now supports a [PDF] option so the report can stay open while adjustments are made to the schedule. It also allows the desired location group to be specified (rather than always using the scheduling screen's location select).
  • Employee QuickView menu name now reads Employee x Week QuickView. QuickView is a great way to view an employee's week in a popup while staying in the current scheduling screen.
  • Web Module now deactivates Web Update for users without a Personal Password and shows the version # in the login welcome and at the start of the Help page.

5.1.09 AutoSched supports Location Groups

2017-08-23
  • AutoSched now supports designating locations to schedule using a Location Group and remembers each user's last picked group across sessions.

5.1.08 AutoSched new [Stop] and [Unfilled]

2017-08-17
  • AutoSched Generating Screen has a new [Stop] button for early termination and now exports a list of unfilled shifts.
  • Delete Shift now supports deleting all of an employee's shifts for a specific day of week.

5.1.07 Staffing Levels in 60 and 30 min periods

2017-08-01
  • Staffing Level Week Templates will now automatically show in hour, half hour or 15 min periods based on when number of staff change.
  • The Web Server HTTPS option no longer permits TLSv1.0, TLSv1.1 and SHA1 connections as their security is so weak. Therefore HTTPS requires a minimum of Windows Server 2008r2.

5.1.06 AutoSched supports 'Max on-desk hours'

2017-07-25
  • AutoSched now supports new employee controls of Maximum hours of on-desk time per day and per week.
  • Web View has following improvements:
    • A simple drop-down menu replaces multiple radio and macro buttons for a cleaner/clearer interface.
    • Now button has been expanded to a time menu to supported filtered displays by any hour of the day.
    • New Working Employee Skills table display.
  • Tools>Staffing Levels now shows the Week Template times in am/pm, rather than 24hr, format.

5.1.03 Additional Monthly Frequencies Supported

2017-06-02
  • Recurring Screen now supports new monthly frequencies of:
    • Monthly on 5th 'dow' (i.e. day of week)'.
    • Last 'dow' in month (e.g. last Tue of month).
    • nth 'dow' after 1st 'base dow' (e.g. 3rd Tue > 1st Sat of month). Tools>Options>Settings controls for which days, if any, after 1st is offered (Sat is on by default).

5.1.02 New AutoSched optional module

2017-05-30
  • New AutoSched module for automatically scheduling (aka filling) designated service points from working employees. Contact support@schedule3W.com for details on trying this new module.
  • [Emp/Loc] Assignment Group now defaults to label of Manual (rather than Undefined).

5.0.08 Web Update faster for Additional Shifts

2017-05-06
  • Web Update now supports a [+Shift] button on the Add Confirmation screen so additional shifts can be added by simply changing the applicable field of the last shift.

5.0.07 Web Update support Move and Split

2017-04-28
  • Web Update now supports Shift Move and Shift Split (with optional Delete/Replace Period ... great for partial day vacations).
  • Web View now shows the Duty Shifts at bottom of the Bar Graph displays as live links to expanded shift displays (which in turn provide [Update] access).

5.0.06 Send Depersonalized Database

2017-04-19
  • Web Update now provides a search box approach for picking an employee (faster and easier to use than the prior drop down menu).
  • Help>E-mail Support now offers to create a depersonalized zip of the database for sending to Schedule3W (i.e. only employee abbreviation is retained in employee table).

5.0.05 Web Update [+Shift] Available Button

2017-04-08
  • Database View: Shifts now supports generating Primepoint Payroll import format.
  • Web Update [+Shift] screen now includes an [Available] button in Location First mode and changing screen's start time now automatically changes end time to maintain the duration.
  • Edit>Staff>[New] now offers to clone the existing employee's [Emp/Loc] Assignment Groups in addition to Ratings.

5.0.04 Web Update Demo Group Members

2017-03-28
  • Web Update demo mode now flags the names of demo group members in Employee by displays to simplify access.