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Schedule3W Releases

4.7.04 Clone of Employee/Location Rating Screen

2014-08-13
  • The Edit>Staff Clone existing Employee/Location ratings confirmation screen now uses a scrolling area that handles any number of entries.
  • Database View: employee x * reports now show day of week of date range in header.
  • The display of the number of Employee/Resources in the database in various displays has been standardized.

4.7.02 Immediate Access to Changing Notes

2014-08-01
  • In a change operation, the Notes area on the Recurring screen is now immediately live (i.e. you no longer have to tick This day only or All first).
  • Schedule3W now enforces the database has at least version 4.3.15 activated as a minimum Schedule3W version. See Download page for details.
  • New Reviewing Coverage / Shifts Filled overview has been added. Access by Help>Index and enter unfilled.
  • Emp/Loc option to set multiple employees or locations in one operation now supports using the same selection for the next employee/location.

4.7.01 Web View Automatic Working In Filter

2014-07-25
  • New Web View 3.3.4 features:
    • Special feature for Two Level Databases with multiple Working locations (e.g. branches):
      • When a Location filter is applied, Schedule3W will now automatically only include service points for people working in one of the selected Working locations and only includes Sick, Vacation and Away type shifts for people with a home location in the Location filter.
        • This excludes shifts of selected locations (e.g. lunch) of people that sometimes work in your branch but on that day are working at another branch.
    • Help screen's format is now preserved during a copy/paste.
    • If your employee PCs have a different IP range than your public PCs, you can now simplify employee access to Guest mode with automatic authentication by IP# range (eliminates the password). There is a small charge for this feature.
  • Tools>Reports>Database View: Employee by Location hours now supports reporting on This or Last Employee Year (i.e. the specific Start Date set in Edit>Staff). This simplifies monitoring any annual maximum hour limit (e.g. retired state employees returning to work).
  • Change Location once again retains external notes on This Day Only shifts as was done before 4.6.22.

4.6.38 New Only if working in Location Setting

2014-06-24
  • New Location attribute of Only if working in allows specific Service Points to be set as only being staffed by people working in designated location(s) (e.g. only people working in North Branch may be scheduled into its Circ Desk).
  • Tools>Maintenance>Show Tab>[Installs] table now has sortable columns and its Last Used column is now also updated by the last start of the Web Server.
  • Web View support for Home Location labels in Employee Formats has been restored.
  • Clicking a second shift in Web View (i.e. to see details) now automatically brings the popup to the front.

4.6.36 New Totals in MySchedule3W Web

2014-06-11
  • New Web View 3.3.0 updates to My Schedule3W mode:
    • Now shows the total of working hours below all displays of that employee's schedule.
    • Adds a new My totals button to show total hours and # of shifts per working location.
    • XP's IE 7 and IE 8 display of Employee/Location filters, broken for staff with Scheduler rights, has been restored.
  • Windows Service setup has improved support for sites that need to use a separate username to gain admin rights.

4.6.37 Menu Support for Switching Databases

2016-08-12
  • Users that can't grant registry update permission may now create a DBMenu.txt file to allow switching between the production, test and/or training databases (or as a friendly way to switch between multiple production databases).

4.6.35 Automatic 'Show Duties'

2014-06-03
  • Location by Day now automatically activates Show Duties when only a duty is selected.

4.6.34 Live Internet Calendar Feed

2014-05-30
  • New Internet Calendar support of Web View 3.2.6 automatically maintains an employee's work calendar in their calendar software (e.g. Outlook). Refresh rate and maximum days parameters are set in Tools>Web Services>[Options]. Employees click [Help] in Web View for how to activate. As usual only the Web Server needs to upgraded to provide this new web feature.
  • Location by Day, when sorted by Working location with a location filter but no employee filter, now includes all employees working in any of the selected Working (assignable to SP) type locations (rather than just those with a home location in one of the selected locations).

4.6.33 Automatic Person-in-Charge Calculation

2014-05-15
  • Automatic Person-in-Charge calculation is now provided for organizations whose PIC is always the employee with the highest PIC Rank. For details of implementing and setting up shortcuts on desktops to provide direct browser access to Who's PIC now (and optionally Facilities) see Help>Index and enter PIC.
  • As it takes only seconds, Compacting the database due to database size increase now is automatically done rather than asking the user.

4.6.31 Internet Calendar Feed Update Interval

2014-05-09
  • Web View's Internet Calendar feed is now set for auto updating every 6 hours.

4.6.30 iCal Upgrade

2014-05-07
  • New Web View 3.2.3 iCal improvements:
    • Now compatible with being used as an Internet Calendar feed. Improved interface and support for passworded sites will be added in an upcoming release.
    • Duty shifts are now flagged as Free, rather than busy time.
    • iCal export is no longer limited to 31 days when clicked from a Table view. It now has an overall maximum of 90 days (contact Schedule3W if you'd like this to be a parameter)
  • Total Working hours and difference with Standard hours now also show at the top of the Recurring Screen for a Change Employee.
  • Edit>Staff now supports an optional Person-in-Charge Rank field for an upcoming Web display of the Who's PIC now.
  • Edit>Staff, after an employee's Lunch rule has been changed, now recalculates lunch duration on all or just future shifts for that employee.

4.6.29 Away Requests remove Willing/Want

2014-04-22
  • Entering Vacation and Sick via Away Requests now automatically removes any willing/want shifts over that period.
  • Total Working hours in the week and difference with Standard hours now also show at the top of the Recurring Screen when a shift's start or end time is changed.
  • An Employee Group defined using both Home Locations and Types will no longer occasionally include extra employees.

4.6.28 Employee by Week Standard Hours Variance

2014-04-13
  • Employee by Week Screen's Variance with Standard hours now uses same format as newly used on the Recurring Screen.

4.6.27 Immediate Work Week Total

2014-04-11
  • Total Working hours in the week and difference with Standard hours now automatically show at the top of the Recurring Screen when a shift is added.
  • You may now designate that you have two week pay periods in Tools>Options. This enables automatic last, this and next pay period date ranges in Tools>Reports and optionally you may designate that the Recurring and Available Staff screens show a two, rather than one, week working to standard hours comparison.

4.6.26 New Test/Train Database Copy

2014-03-26
  • New Testing/Training Database option in Tools>Options>Database Tab makes it easy to create a temporary copy of your database for training staff or testing a new scheduling approach.
  • Now easier to enter a vacation/away period: select the new Enter Away Requests in the right-click menu on Employee name (or blank area in Employee by Week screen), click [New], specify the location and start/end time and click [Process].

4.6.25 Bar Graph Scrolling Region Control

2014-02-27
  • Bar Graph Scrolling Region is now controlled by Tool>Options>Staffed Hours Tab settings (rather than always being 24 hours).
  • Database View: Employee by Location Hours report now automatically suppresses the On-Desk column if no on-desk shifts are included (e.g. when reporting hours for payroll and benefits).

4.6.24 New Partial Day Away Requests

2014-02-21
  • Away Requests now support partial days in both desktop and Web.
  • Split now supports deleting and optionally replacing the time before the split point. Also, when deleting a segment of a working shift, Split now supports the option to shorten, rather than just delete, partially overlapping Service Point shifts.
  • Employee# may now be suffixed to employee name in Database View Hours & Locations and Where working by # of days reports.
  • New Web View 3.2.1 updates:
    • When shifts are filtered because they fall outside of the min/max dates of a location, the user is now notified.
    • The ical button is no longer displayed for Output Only displays.

4.6.22 Split's New Delete & Replace; Web 3.2

2014-01-29
  • Split Shift now allows a following segment to be Deleted and optionally Replaced (simplifies recording part day vacations).
  • Locations may now be removed from the Web by assigning them a Date Range with future days set to None.
  • New Web View 3.2.0 additions:
    • [Save Defaults] now saves the current Employee and Location select (so [Reset] restores them).
    • Now (i.e. who's working now) option now automatically drops the out of office shifts (e.g. vacation, sick, off and unavailable).
    • Logged in Schedulers now see all dates for all locations. Schedulers have a new Run as a default user in Options so that the scheduler may see the same view as a user without Scheduler rights.
    • Away/Vacation Request Web entry may now be activated for just a specific Employee Group in Web Services>[Options].
  • Help instructions for setting up meetings have been simplified.

4.6.21 Three Level Scheduling with Duty Locations

2014-01-22

  • A new location type of Duty provides three level scheduling. Now employees may be scheduled into Supervisor in Charge for part of day during the same time they are scheduled into service desk(s). All of Schedule3W’s service point shift features also apply to Duty shifts. For example:

    • A person can only be scheduled into a Duty location if working.
    • A Change Employee on the working shift will also change any Duty shifts.
    • You can setup multiple Duty locations (e.g. Supervisor, Circ Desk Backup, etc.).
    • Schedules and displays show Duty location shifts just like Service Point ones.

    Available once Minimum Program Level set to at least 4.6.21 via Tools>Activate.

4.6.19 Faster Pick Menus

2013-12-14
  • Pick Location menus are now faster on large databases.

4.6.18 Where Working Reports 'Name Format'

2013-12-05
  • Where Working reports now show the Name Format control at any Minimum Program Level.
  • Send E-Mail in Change Location once again correctly addresses the 2nd e-mail for sites with a one user license.