Schedule3W

Schedule3W Releases

4.8.19 Send Group Msg auto [On Screen]

2016-03-09
  • Tools>Group Send Msg now offers to automatically open the On Screen pick screen for fast e-mailing people working at a specific date/time.
  • New Web View 3.6.12 provides expanded logging.

4.8.18 Away Requests: New Update DB + E-Mail mode

2016-02-26
  • New Web View 3.6.11 provides:
    • Away Requests, once 4.8.18+ has been activated as minimum program version, support new Tools>Web Services>[Options] setting to allow user to e-mail the away request in addition to posting it to the pending list in the database.
    • [E-mail] button now utilizes the GMail and Message Box setting in Tools>Options>Settings and Edit>Staff>Scheduler Tabs plus supports a new Email invokes browser/computer level setting in the [Options] area of the web display screen.
    • The Web's maximum date to show shifts per location (for employees without scheduling rights) now immediately reflects changes entered in Tools>Web Services>Options (or Edit>Data Range).
  • Edit>Staff now allows you to record that an employee's Cell phone# may be used for SMS/Text messages.
  • You may now set your database to prompt whether a compact/optimization should be done when your database has grown a lot (rather than it just being automatically done). Contact Support for details.

4.8.17 Away Requests for Service Points

2016-02-12
  • The Edit>Away Request>[Process] button will now add requests for Service Points for a specific date/time.
  • New month open/rollover now keeps the web closed for the whole process.
  • Select>Multiple Employees now highlights whether the buttons reset or filter the currently selected employees.

4.8.15 E-Mail to Just Those Scheduled Working

2016-01-29
  • Select>Multiple employees>[On Screen] button now allows you to easily select only people working now or at a specific time. Sample use: sending an e-mail about a fire alarm test to just those who will be working at noon tomorrow.
  • New Web View 3.6.8 provides:
    • Away Requests Screen now offers the locations in the separate Location Group for requests (rather than the location group used by [Who's Away] button).
    • [Who's Away] button now shows Guest users the same locations as logged in users (a group you control, rather than a fixed location list).

4.8.14 Additional Install/Upgrade Hint Screens

2015-12-22
  • Additional Hint screens have been added to highlight when a new install/upgrade is likely not pointed at your production database (i.e. the database with your license) to simplify switching to the correct database.

4.8.13 Part day Holidays

2015-12-15
  • New Partial Holiday option in Tools>Holidays. It removes only the shifts and ends of shifts after a specified time (rather than deleting all shifts). Great for those that close early on New Year's Eve.
  • Database View: Employee x Location, when exported to a CSV, now includes the report's date range as the last column to assist power users combining multiple runs.
  • Edit>Away Requests, once 4.8.13+ has been activated as the minimum version, now includes an additional status of 1st level ok'd to support tracking two level approvals.

4.8.12 GMail now supported by [E-Mail] button

2015-12-02
  • GMail is now supported by the [E-Mail] buttons if selected for the database in Tools > Options > Settings or for the scheduler in Edit > Staff > Scheduler Tab. Available once 4.8.12 is activated as the "Minimum Schedule3W version for your database".
  • New month open/rollover now automatically asks permission to raise "Minimum Schedule3W version for your database" (i.e. do a Tools > Activate) if lowest version of Schedule3W run in the last 90 days is higher than the current minimum. This activates new features that require a minimum.

4.8.11 Change Log History by Scheduler

2015-11-18
  • New features of Change History:
    • New Changes by me shows all changes made on specified date by the current scheduler.
    • New Until column in History Display shows the period to which the change applies.
    • Employee/Location Scheduling Grids now provide right-click access to History of the Employee or Location for the cell's date.
    • A Change Log entry is now generated for Change Location when This day only.
    • The right-click menu entry is now History rather than Previously Scheduled.
  • Tools>Maintenance>Show tab > [Users] button display now opens sorted by last login and includes Historical users for 3 months after their last use.

4.8.10 Needless Registrations Reduced

2015-11-03
  • If Schedule3W was installed pointing at an old database (instead of the production) there is a new message simplifying invoking Browse (rather than displaying the registration screen).

4.8.08 Restricting Schedulers to a Date Range

2015-10-23
  • The option to restrict a scheduler to scheduling within a specific Date Range now automatically applies a maximum Until to ongoing modifications. Great for restricting someone to just entering today's last minute changes.
  • Edit>Date Range allows 6 days in future to be specified as the maximum (once 4.8.08 activated as version minimum).
  • New Database View: Employee Information report has been added for exporting phone/e-mail for a designated group of employees.
  • Tools>Maintenance>Show tab has a new [Users] button that shows the last login date/time and system for each user.
  • Tools>Reports screen has been tweaked to handle font size set to 125%.
  • Recurring Screen, when its Until calendar date is less than a second occurrence, now offers to create the shift as This Day Only.

4.8.06 Login Screen Label

2015-10-06
  • Tools>Options>Settings tab now supports a Login Screen Label field. Main use is for sites with multiple databases to show the database name on the login screen.
  • Edit>Staff>[Analysis] button>[E-Mail] button has been changed to bring up a tips screen on using the report’s export option. This was done because automatically sent email no longer works for many people (e.g. those using web mail) and, for those that it does, there are two inconvenient Deny/Allow message screens. Contact us if you miss the old approach.
  • Changes made in Edit>Staff>Scheduler Tab for another scheduler, while that Scheduler is logged in, are now saved and will apply to the next login.

4.8.04 Edit>Away Part Day Warning

2015-09-15
  • Edit>Away>[Process] for Part Day requests now warns if the employee isn't working for that full time.
  • To prepare for a future feature, Tools>Holidays now has an Edit/View submenu and Edit checks no one else is using Schedule3W.

4.8.03 Edit>Away Part Day Weekend Requests

2015-09-04
  • Edit>Away>Part Day requests for a Saturday/Sunday now use the requested location (rather than unavailable).

4.8.02 Edit>Away Refinements

2015-08-30
  • Edit>Away has been improved as follows:
    • The Days Scheduled Working mode has been changed to Hours Scheduled Working to handle people who work non-standard durations.
    • The email generated by the [EMail] button now includes the current status and its format has been improved for part day requests.
    • Processing a part day request, for a time period in which the employee is not working, no longer generates an error 5.
    • The Edit>Staff>Scheduler Tab now allows this scheduler to be excluded from the Employee Group that shows when this scheduler clicks Edit>Away Requests. Saves setting up a custom Employee Group.
  • The message generated to show who else is using Schedule3W, by the few operations that require exclusive access to the database, now includes the current user name as well as the workstation name.
  • To help IT supporting multiple databases it is now faster to switch between databases: entering as the password changedb opens a Browse screen (i.e. saves the login step) and Schedule3W now automatically reopens at the login screen of the selected database.

4.8.01 Staffing Button's new location filter

2015-08-05
  • The Staffing Button of Location by Day/Week now supports showing only locations matching your choice of Working, Service Point (on desk) and/or Duty subtypes.

4.7.40 PIC Rank in Location by Day and Reports

2015-07-31
  • The employee PIC Rank may now be used as a Sort By in the Location by Day screen and in the Where Working: Employee x * reports.
  • Edit>Location now has a More Info button to provide a one click equivalent of right-click > Location Information (great way to see a count of past/future shifts).
  • Edit>Away>[Options] screen can now be opened by schedulers on a display only basis.
  • The For Upgrade Planning Screen now allows deletes of past Installs (saves invoking Tools > Maintenance > Show Tab > [Installs] as a later step).
  • The Login screen now displays the database organization name as a help for IT supporting multiple databases.
  • Location by Day screen is now immediately resorted when Display Options > Sort By > Name Format is changed.
  • Several small issues in the Employee by Week screen with using Quick Screen Switch (QSS) buttons have been eliminated.
  • Tools>Maintenance>Compact has been restored as per before 4.7.17.

4.7.39 Expanded Messages

2015-07-15
  • The Pick Location screen now automatically includes the name of the current employee in the screen header.
  • The Recurring Screen now highlights to a greater extent when one is adding/editing a public holiday shift.
  • The Service Points Over message from Delete or Shortening start/end now include details of the first service point and a tip re the [Future] button.
  • Edit>Location now allows a new service point location to be created with an Only if working in location set (previously this could only be set after the service point was created).

4.7.37 Report Improvements

2015-06-18
  • Where working: Employee by * days reports now sort employees using the selected name format.
  • Database View: Employee x Location and Employee Hours Proof summary reports now automatically include any shifts for historical employees.

4.7.35 New Multiple Webs On One System Option

2015-06-09
  • New for organizations with multiple Schedule3W databases: optional feature to host multiple Schedule3 Web Servers on a single system.

4.7.32 Message Box Instead of E-mail Option

2015-04-30
  • New option to open a message box instead of an e-mail for sites with PCs that don't support the mailto: standard invocation (e.g. only have Web mail). Use the new Tools>Options>Setting Tab to activate this option so users can easily copy message text into their Web mail.
  • New Web View overview/training PowerPoint. Contact support for a copy.
  • Employee by Week now repeats the employee name at the bottom of the screen.
  • Bar Scheduling Screens open about 20% faster.

4.7.27 Employee/Resource Groups and Equipment/Room Booking

2015-03-18
  • Select>Employee/Resource Group's automatic filtering, when scheduling resources (e.g. equipment, rooms, etc.), has been improved.
  • The option to delete employees, disabled in 4.7.19, has been restored.