• Tools > Maintenance > Test > DB Structure now no longer issues an error if it encounters shifts with dates that were cleared during a DB repair.
• When adding an entry in Edit > Location Groups or Edit > Employee Groups, the operation is prevented with Can't add, length exceeded error only when the limit has truly been reached.

• Web Update 4.11.1 improvements:
  • A recently introduced issue that broke Add shift for users that can schedule their own locations has been fixed.

• Web Update 4.11.0 improvements:
  • A recently introduced issue in Clone shift dialog that prevented choosing a different Location level has been corrected.

• Web View/Update 4.10.10 improvements:
  • When scheduling times past midnight are permitted, Days x Time graphs with new bar format now label the date rows correctly.
  • Several improvements were made to facilitate scheduling times past midnight.
• Edit/Location now ensures the subtype of the Location used to show unavailable in Away Requests is always Unavailable.

• Web View/Update 4.10.9 improvements:
  • Web server crash recovery has been improved making automatic restart after a crash more likely to succeed.

• Web Update 4.10.8 improvements:
  • Scheduler Options > My Locations and My Employees are now easier to use and understand.
    • Where possible, when adding or changing a shift, they'll now be able to see and temporarily change either of these filters in a menu adjacent to the location or employee menu in the current dialog for the shift. Also a message accompanying the menu will alert them if their current choice would filter out all locations or employees.

• Web Update 4.10.7 improvements:
  • Tools > View/Edit staff now has a vertical scrollbar which improves visibility of buttons and messages beneath the display.

• Web Update 4.10.6 improvements:
  • When updating a shift's dates, the calendar widget now displays entirely within the dialog so that all text and controls for selecting a date are visible.

• Web View 4.10.5 improvements:
  • Any shutdown requests not originating from the local system are now ignored.

• Web Update 4.10.4 improvements:
  • In Show/Edit Staff, the start date field may now be edited.

• Web View 4.10.3 improvements:
  • Displays for last pay period, this pay period, and next pay period now start on the 1st day of work week instead of the day-of-week of the Date in 1st week of any pay period which isn't necessarily the correct day.

• Web Update 4.10.2 improvements:
  • Schedulers now have the Drag feature turned on by default.

• The Login Screen now shows a reminder if the user does not have a password.

• Web View 4.10.1 improvements:
  • An alternating row stripes option has been added to improve readability of graphs and tables.
  • Support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) has been discontinued.
• Web Update 4.10.1 improvements:
  • For schedulers, the shift details view now displays a Shift [History] button that opens the shift's change history.
• In the Shift Information > [History] dialog, changes to the Until column are now highlighted.

• Web Update 4.10.0 improvements:
  • A scheduler adding or updating a shift can opt to send an SMS confirmation to a user with SMS enabled instead of an email confirmation. The option is selected by default if they are set up to receive email confirmations by default.
• Web View 4.10.0 improvements:
  • The NGINX web server now directly serves up any static content such as images, style files, and Javascript files.
  • Encrypted SSL certificate key files are now supported.
  • Web search engine indexing is now disallowed for all URLs.

• Web Update 4.9.9 improvements:
  • Authorized users may now change Schedule3W Rights via Tools > Show/edit staff.
  • Twilio SMS service credentials have been updated, reenabling SMS confirmations which stopped working when the old credentials expired.
  • Autorecovery from a crashed TCP Server process has been improved.
• Web View 4.9.9 improvements:
  • When Collapsed graph bars are enabled, Service Point shift bars are now always shown, resolving an issue which in some circumstances caused them to be hidden.

• Web View/Update 4.9.8 improvements:
  • In order to ensure that secure web stays up-to-date with current security standards, the web server now always runs behind the NGINX web server proxy.
  • Several improvements were made for Graph displays with_New_ format shift bars:
    • Some improvements were made to how bars scheduled past midnight are displayed and updated.
    • Dragging bars outside the configured hours to display provided that scheduling those hours is permitted. The time axis will be expanded to accommodate them.
  • When changing the employee of a shift, when an email confirmation is sent, it no longer Cc's the previous employee. This fixes an issue that prevented those emails from being sent at all and makes the web implementation match Schedule3W desktop which has no option to Cc the previous employee.

• Web View 4.9.7 improvements:
  • An issue introduced several releases ago that prevented links from external web pages to saved web displays from working has been corrected.

• Web View 4.9.6 improvements:
  • Two summary displays, based on the desktop equivalents of the same names, have been added:
    • Summary per Location
    • Summary per Employee by Location
  • Support for the Edit>Staff setting for Web View Employee Group of Self Only has been restored.

• Web View 4.9.3 improvements:
  • Printing Table formatted Screens now has improved automatic sizing without using scaling in the browser's Print dialog.
  • Support has been improved for small screen devices.

• Web View 4.9.2 improvements:
  • Employees/Locations by Date tables now keep their date column header/footer in view.
  • iCal instructions now include specifics for O365 Webmail.
• Web Update 4.9.2 improvements:
  • Newly created schedulers, who enter their first shift via WU4S, no longer receive "You are not authorized to schedule shifts" popup error on web Add.

• Web Update 4.9.1 improvements:
  • Restored the automatic maintenance of shift duration when start time is updated.
  • The Navigating away warning has been improved.

• Web View 4.9.0 improvements:
  • Employee Graph Layer type of Collapsed has been added. It collapses the Service Points shifts into an employee's Working shifts to significantly increase the number of people that fit on a screen or page.
  • The Vertical scrollbar option may now be saved as a default.
  • The Employee bar Format of Recommended now designates format New, rather than format Classic. If you'd prefer Classic, please tell us why and switch back using Options > Employee bar Format > Classic.
  • Web Forgot my Password reset page now includes a show/hide "eye" icon button to toggle visibility of the password being entered.
• Web Update 4.9.0 improvements:
  • Wrapping of text and components on Split Shift form has been improved.
  • The Show/New/Edit staff process has been made more self-explanatory by including tips in the Staff table and the Employee detail screens.

• Web Update 4.8.3 improvements:
  • New Vertical scrollbar option has been added. To keep the time column header in view on web bar graph formats, open Options and set Vertical scrollbar to On. Optionally, save as a default.
  • Location sort use of override sort has been restored.
  • Support for using a library's O365 mail server has been improved.
• Multi DB menu now supports global updating of matching licenses.
• Web Update 4.8.2 improvements:
  • The [Split] button is now one click closer as it now shows on the initial Shift Information screen.
  • Turning Drag mode on, without saving as a default, is now supported.

• Edit>Employee Groups now supports setting Also maintained by to an Employee Group.
• Tools>Shifts>Shorten day now supports closing at hh:15 and hh:45.
• Report Database view: Date/Time by Location Hours now supports the Day of Week filter.
• Web Update 4.8.0 improvements:
  • Now supports the Auto tick 'Open Change Notice email' setting.
  • More screens use inline popups in drag mode.

• Web View 4.7.0 improvements:
  • The List View format now supports more information per page. Shift Notes now generally fit in one line.
• Web Update 4.7.0 improvements:
  • Schedulers may now change to drag mode by setting it in Web>Options, and optionally saving it as a default.
  • In Drag mode, additions and changes automatically show in the scheduling screen (i.e. without clicking refresh).
• New Auto tick 'Open Change Notice email' setting for the database in Tools>Options>Settings and Scheduler overrides in Edit>Staff>Scheduler Tab.
• The previous release introduced an occasional Error 13 Type mismatch message. This as been corrected.

• The Location x Day scheduling screen's Sort by Working Location now automatically subsorts by the first last Name Format setting.
• Web 4.6.3 Nginx is upgraded on applicable Https sites.

• New Hours worked between option in DB View: Employee x Location Hours report. Now easy to compare how many hours staff worked after 6pm.
• Web View 4.6.2 now has a friendly error if user enters an email address, instead of a username, on login screen.

• Web View/Update 4.6.1 improvements:
  • The password field on the login form now includes a hide/show password "eye" icon button.
  • Web Update for Schedulers now also supports adding and updating shifts in Table View.
• The "Later Schedule3W version is using this database" install warning may now be set to ignore the version on designated PCs. See Tools>Maintenance>Show Tab>[Installs] button.

• Edit>Date Range now highlights when a maximum date in the future is less than today.
• Draft emails generated by Shift Information no longer include an extra until changed.
• Multiple Username fields in Edit>Staff may be left unset as a quick way to prevent Web View access.
• Web View/Update 4.6.0 improvements:
  • Drag&Drop in the Web Interface now available for trial. Contact support for info.
  • Employee by Time displays using the new barcode format now support Sort employees by and Skill flagging Options.

• New drag and drop scheduling screen: Schedule > Locations by Time. It shows locations down the side and time across the top for the specified day.

• Detail recorded by Tools>Options>Diagnostics>Log mode has been expanded.
• Bar Scheduling is now supported on very large monitors.
• Web View 4.5.5 improvement:
  • [iCal] button now supports displays using concept date ranges (e.g. Next month) to specify number of days to post to O365, Google Calendar, etc.

• The Hide 'Out' Employees option (in the right-click Display menu of Location by Day) now supports designating whether your Out locations include Vacation and Sick subtypes.

• Web View 4.5.3 improvements:
  • The Output Only URL parameter (e.g. oo=1) now automatically suppresses scheduler specific elements (e.g. [+]).
  • An employee name or a location abbreviation, containing double-quotes, now displays correctly in the Employees x Time with classic bar format.
• Select>Location screens now open with focus on the currently selected location or location group.
• The [v] popular dates menu now includes the start of 3, 4 and 5 weeks in the future.

• Foundation work for an upcoming new scheduling screen, Locations x Time, has been installed.
• Web View 4.5.0 improvement:
  • The Employee Graph displays now support the bar style used by the Location Graph displays (e.g. rounded ends for ongoing shifts and Duty shifts are in the display rather than as a footnote). This format generates better displays for Duty type locations (e.g. Manager on Duty, Notary, etc.). Activate by setting Employee bar format: in the Web's Options menu.
• "Shift Delete, all from" for an employee is now much faster on large databases.
• Web View 4.4.13 improvement:
  • Dates of the previous and next month, that fall in the first/last week of the pick date calendar, now show in medium grey and may be picked.

• Web View 4.4.12 improvements:
  • The Employee and Location Select menus for displays now allow the selection to be made via the keyboard (up-arrow, down-arrow, and enter).
  • Auto authentication by IP# is now supported on sites using Nginx with the Schedule3W Web Server.
• Web View 4.4.11 improvements:
  • The Advanced search option has been renamed Advanced select and moved to Employee select line
  • Schedule3W now handles Proxies that remove the XMLHttpRequest header.

• Web View 4.4.10 improvements:
  • The Away Request on screen tips/instructions have been improved.
  • Nginx is now supported by sites using LDAP authentication.
• Web Update for Schedulers 4.4.10 improvements:
  • The Shift Information screen for Schedulers now includes [Move] and [Delete] buttons (saves a click for these operations).

• Web View 4.4.08 improvements:
  • Dates by Concept (e.g. Next Week, Next Pay Period, etc.) may now be selected in the user interface by clicking the new [C] button.
  • A new Day of week filter is now supported as an Advanced URL feature. For example, append &dow=fr,sa to the URL to only show Friday and Saturday shifts.
  • The instructions and messages for the "Forgot your password?" process have been improved.
  • Newer Datepicker component has been implemented.
• Schedule3W's support for a Scheduler's Document folder being moved to OneDrive has been improved (especially for DSN files).

• New Dates by Concept allow URLs to display date ranges such as Next Week, Last Pay Period, etc. without having to update starting date. These URLs can be saved to your Intranet, home screens, bookmarks, etc. See [Help] in Web View for details.
• The reminder message that the Abbreviation/Username of an employee (and the Abbreviation of a resource) must be unique has been expanded to include information on the existing duplicate.

• Edit>Location Group, when New is pressed, now asks whether to start the new group with the values of the one currently selected.
• Web Update for Schedulers 4.4.06 improvement: The Shift Information screen now includes a [Clone] button for schedulers.

• A Default Location select of All is now consistently preserved across sessions even if additional locations are added to the database.
• Schedule3W is now handles a recent Microsoft patch that caused a few PCs to report an Error 68 when Schedule3W started.

• New CloneDay tab in Tools>Maintenance supports replacing all the shifts on one day with those of another.
• Edit>Location now includes the "Only if working in" attribute in the Location Table and in Location Export.
• The current Location and Employee filter values now display in the bottom margin of Location by Day/Week screens when more than one location is being viewed.
• Web Update for Schedulers 4.4.04 improvement: [+Shift] on the Add confirmation screen has been replaced with [Clone]. [Clone] opens a populated Add screen allowing easy revision of one or more components for a similar shift.

• Web Update for Schedulers 4.4.03 improvements:
  • If set to other than All, "My Employees" and "My Locations" values are now choices in the Tools accordion for viewing/editing Employees & Locations.
  • On shift displays, the [Update] button has been renamed to [Edit] for consistency with the desktop module.

• A Location Group may now be defined as including other Location Groups.
• A Location's Default Duration may now be set to 8:15hr (once 5.3.24, or above, has been activated as the minimum version).
• Web Update for Schedulers 4.4.02 improvements:
  • New Scheduler Options accordion on the main page. Its "My Employees" and "My Locations" menus allow a scheduler to specify their default employee group and/or location group filters for Web Update.
  • New menu beside the [Available] Employee button now allows you to limit employees checked to those in a specific Employee Group.

• Web 4.4.01 improvements:
  • A webified Edit>Staff is now in the Tools menu of Web Update for Schedulers. Reminder: Set a Scheduler's Rights to "Scheduler (no Edit>Staff)" to block access to Edit>Staff.
  • The Choose screen is more readable and consistent due to tweaks to its CSS styling.

• Edit>Employee Group now supports designating a Scheduler (with or without Edit>Staff rights) as being the maintainer of an Employee Group (in addition to the DB Admins). The who and when of the last change to each Employee Group record is now tracked. These fields display in the rightmost columns of the table.
• The various Select Multiple Employee screens and the [Emp/Loc] screen now display noticeably faster for databases with 100+ employees.
• Location Abbreviations may now be 8 characters (once 5.3.21 has been activated as the minimum version).
• Tools>Shifts>Show Empty now allows user to designate that the empty periods should be reported split into empty shifts.

• Two more features to assist mass shift changes:
  • The Right-click>Delete Shifts of an employee now supports starting a date range in the past.
  • Tools>Maintenance>Delete Tab now supports deleting all shifts for a date range.
• Saving a CSV file now includes the option to copy the file to your clipboard to simplify pasting into a different folder or email.
• Tools>Options>Database tab>Train/Test>[Create] is faster and uses less disk space.
• The [Info] button screens shown by Edit>Employee Group and Select Employee Group are now larger.

• The Edit>Location>Advanced>Delete Shifts for location option now supports specifying a date range starting in the past.
  • If you have other mass change of shifts needs, please email support@schedule3w.com.

• Web View 4.3.06 improvements:
  • Tools>Defaults now shows both the current defaults for the user plus a New column showing the settings that would be revised by clicking [Save new].
  • The automatic recovery of interrupted network connections to the database has been improved.
  • Each night a zip of the database and staffing levels is saved to a new Backup folder and retained for 7 days.

• Shift Information now, like Web Update, supports changing the date of a shift (or working shift plus its service points) within the year. Previously this could only be done by drag/drop within the viewed 7 days.
• History now allows DB Admins to display change history for any scheduler. Schedulers still see by me.
• Tools>Shifts>Empty now immediately displays a table of empty shifts (i.e. periods not meeting specified Staffing Levels). A CSV may still be saved/opened.
• The right-click Assign Location menu option has been removed because its functionality is provided by [] Then clone for an SP shift when adding working shifts or by right-click Clone for existing working shifts.
• New Retry option when saving a CSV from Tools>Reports Format Tab>[Advanced]>”Just CSV” option and from the [Save]option of any Database View report. This handles leaving the prior copy open in a spreadsheet.
• Edit>Location now allows Locations to be marked as Historic so past shifts are retained but new shifts can't be scheduled.
• New Include Historical Staff option in Tools>Reports>select [Multiple Employees]>[Options] so that shift reports of just specific Historical Status employees may be generated without changing the employee back to Active.
• Web View 4.3.05 improvements:
  • Shift Information now shows for schedulers the shift creation date and by whom plus, if a change has been made, its when, by whom and prior employee/location.
  • Forgot your password screen's text has been improved.
  • New control in Options to flag shifts that have been changed Today or since Yesterday with a ^. Please email any other duration that would be useful.

• Web View 4.3.04 improvements:
  • Have the latest library or a department's schedule always available on a computer monitor, tablet or even a browser enabled TV. The new stale=## parameter automatically greys out the schedule after the specified # of minutes. People just press [Enter] or click/tap the new [Refresh] button and the display immediately refreshes.
  • New Revise link at the top of all displays. Click to scroll down to the format menus.

• Edit>Staff now automatically tracks the who and when of the last change to each employee record. These fields display in the rightmost columns of the table. Likewise Edit>Resources does this for each resource.

• Making a location's shifts viewable for a new period is now even easier because updating the maximum view date for a location's shifts is now more accessible:
  • Users with Scheduler (No Edit>Staff) rights may now use Edit>Date Ranges.
  • Web Update now supports Schedulers revising the maximum date via a new [Update] button in the Tools>Locations display.
• Tools>Web Services>[Options] now has a tick option for suppressing Guest Access (i.e. to force use of personal passwords).
• Web View: Forgot your Password changes:
  • Its instructions and button label have been clarified.
  • The email with the change password link may now be configured to use your O365/Exchange server (rather than the default SendGrid service).
• Tools>Reports now supports concept date periods of a day 3 days through 6 days hence plus 2 months and 3 months hence. These reduce the need for entering Custom Date Ranges.
• Web View's [Help] now includes a tips section on using mobile devices including how to setup one click access to Schedule3W.

• Multiple Database Systems can now do each stage of upgrading all databases with one command. This Multi Database processing also supports doing Help>About on all databases in one step. This provides the framework for adding additional functionality that processes all databases using one command (e.g. a data extract).
• Tools>Reports now supports concept date periods of a week 2 weeks through 5 weeks hence plus This and Last Calendar Year. These reduce the need for entering Custom Date Ranges.
• Database view: Employee x Location Hours may now be resorted by clicking its column headers.
• The Convert Database or an Employee to Two Level Scheduling module has been enhanced. For information on the benefits of 2 level scheduling or for a test conversion, contact Schedule3W Support.
• New how-to tip on easily reviewing who is close to exceeding a maximum hours allowed in the year. Email support for a copy.
• Web View 4.3.00 improvements:
  • Tools>Location, when invoked by a Scheduler, now includes a reminder that the min/max view dates are only applied to those without scheduling rights.
  • New [Me] button displays your schedule for today. In [Options] you may tailor the display format, # of days and whether the [Me] display is automatically shown on login. [Me] leaves your current filters unchanged.

• When the Website Password is set to NoGlobalPwd,Web login no longer accepts that password and no longer mentions Guest access. Before implementing, encourage staff to setup a personal password via the Forgot your password link and start logging in personally.

• Edit>Staff now warns if a scheduler is added who is not in the Employee Group, if any, controlling access to Web Update for Schedulers.
• Web Update's Add form has been further tweaked for small screens.
• Web View, when you're in a different time zone, now consistently displays shifts using the library's time zone.

• Edit>Staff>[Password] now includes a Show new Password in plain text option.
• Web View 4.2.21 improvements:
  • The layout of Location Graph Displays on small screens has been improved.
  • Location Graph Displays, on iOS devices (e.g. iPhone), now have a [Scroll?] link to a vertical scrolling tip.

• The advance and backup buttons in Web View have been expanded. There is now always a "by Week" choice and, depending on context, either a "by Day" or "by Screen" choice.
• When a scheduler first opens an upgraded Schedule3W, they receive a notice with a link to the change summary.
• Automatic New Month Open/Rollover no longer occasionally leaves Web View locked for maintenance.

• Web Update's Add shift now supports scheduling multiple employees at one time via new [x] Multiple checkbox when This day only is selected.
• Tools>Maintenance>Show>[Installs] supports specifying an override email method for specific computers.

• New Month Open/Rollover is now automatically done for sites using Schedule3W's Web View.
• [+Shift] on the Web Add Shift Confirmation screen now allows all fields to be modified.
• Tools>Shifts>Empty is now available even if AutoSched is not used.

• Using just one level scheduling? The new Convert to Two Level tool allows single level databases to be inexpensively converted to 2 levels. For information on the benefits of 2 level scheduling, contact Schedule3W Support.
• Tools>Maintenance>Delete tab now shows the date of the earliest shift.
• Database View: Location Information report now has the option to include counts of past and future shifts.

• Edit>Staff>Scheduler tab now supports setting specific schedulers as only scheduling in the Web interface.
• Schedule3W now reopens in Location by Week if it was open when the user last closed Schedule3W. In addition, any Location by Week location select is preserved across sessions.
• Web 4.2.15 improves support for the [+] (add shift) button in Location graph displays.

• Web Update for Schedulers 4.2.14 improvements:
  • The Employee x Time and Days x Time for an Employee displays now automatically include a [+] after the Employee name. This allowed the Show [+] option to be removed. The [+] opens the Add shift screen for that employee and date.
  • The Location x Time and Days x Time for a Location displays now also show schedulers this [+] button.
  • Shift notes may now be updated.
• Web View 4.2.14 improvements:
  • The Shift Display screen now includes calendar buttons beside the employee and location names. Clicking displays that work week for the employee or location.
  • Printed displays now automatically suppress menus and buttons.

• 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).

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 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.

• Staffing Level entry now supports both backspace and delete keys.

• The HTTPS configuration option now supports Intermediate certificates.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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).

• 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].

• 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.

• 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).

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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).

• 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).

• 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.

• 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).

• 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).

• 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.

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

• Improved Visual cues make it clearer that one is working in the current week or in the future (e.g. Location by Day screen is now light green for today, bolder week#, etc.).
• The [+Shift] screen in Web Update for Schedulers now offers a choice between an Employee or a Location focus.

• Improvements made to Sign In/Out module:
  • The In/Out menu, when viewing the Approve screen, now has an Exit Approve Screen choice which switches to Location x Day for today.
  • Missed sign outs are automatically recorded for the end of that day.
  • The Approve screen has improved support for Selected>Locations.
  • The Approve screen is faster and uses a fixed row height regardless of whether one location is selected or duties were shown.
• Edit>Away Requests>[Process] button now better supports away requests for Service Point locations and for single level databases. An occasional issue with part day vacations shortening any duty location shift has been corrected.
• Web Update for Schedulers module now includes:
  • Tick option to have a change notice email automatically open (just like the desktop client does).
  • An Available Employee button in the Change Employee screen.
  • Some small look/feel changes.

• Web Update now supports changing shift Start/End Times.

• Two new Web Update modules for adding/changing shifts in a Web browser. Cell phones and tablets supported! Contact us for details, pricing and how to trial. More webification of desktop scheduling functionality coming soon (prioritized based on user feedback).
  • Web Update for Schedulers allows Schedulers to Add, Delete and Change Employee/Location of a shift.
  • Web Update for Employees allows designated employees to update their own shifts in designated locations within a specified date range. For instance some employees could be given permission to schedule their own Meeting shifts and part-timers Unavailable to work periods.

• Edit>Away Request>[Process] now supports entering a note to be added to all the created shifts.
• New [Copy PDF] button in Tools>Reports reduces the steps to Paste a copy of a report/schedule elsewhere (e.g. when moving from a cloud server)

• Edit>Away Request>[Email] now automatically includes, in the email that opens, any Away Request external note.
• Web View now gives a friendly message if you click a shift that was deleted after the display was generated.

• New Tools>Reports>Format Tab>[Advanced] button option to generate Just CSV output for Who's and Where working reports in less steps and without Crystal's 255 character limit per cell.
• The Recurring Screen of Change Employee now provides separate controls for whether to EMail/Text the prior and/or new employee.

• New Month Open/Rollover now automatically removes the Install record of any Schedule3W not used for 12 months (use Tools > Maintenance > Show Tab > [Installs] to view or cleanup sooner).

• Fast Entry screen now preserves any tailored shift times when a Location is selected.

• New Web View 3.8.13 now supports Login by entering Username (activate in Tools>Web>[Options]) and a Forgot my password link for set/resetting the employee's personal password.
• Who’s working: Month by Location report now provides option to intermix locations in a single calendar. Good for smaller libraries showing who's working by date.
• Tools>Report>[PDF] button now uses the report title as the filename (and default for any Save As).

• Report Database View: Shifts now includes additional Employee fields of Type, Home Location and Employee# to help those doing analysis in a spreadsheet or providing backup for payroll. Also the Type of Location field now shows more detail and the several ID fields now use the more compact abbreviation form.
• New Web View 3.8.11 only enables special rights in My Schedule3W mode if the Scheduler has a personal password.

• New Web View 3.8.9 supports the new Less Employees control of Edit>Employee Group.

• The Multiple Webs on One Server option has some message text upgraded.

• New Less Employees control enables defining an Employee Group as those in specified Home Locations (optionally with specified Employee Types) less a specific list of employees.

• New Hosted Web View option supports having just your Web hosted on a Schedule3W (or other) cloud server outside your network.This provides employees external web access for sites whose firewall policy prevents access to the internal web server.
• The last showing shift of an on-going set (e.g. 13 months in future) now supports This day only changes.

• Location by Day right-click Display>Sort by>Working * formats, when an employee select is active, now only shows employees, with a home location not in the location filter, if they are working in one of selected Working (assignable to Service Points locations (i.e. substitutes only show if working that day in your department).
• New Web View 3.8.3 features:
  • Web View's iCal Help page has been updated to better highlight the number of days to be auto sync'd and the URL to copy.
  • The Login page now ignores any leading/trailing blanks.

• The Staffing Level bar (at the bottom of Location by Week/Day screens when only one location is selected) now reflects the difference between actual and desired when first opened and after Select>Location (in addition to after Select>Multiple Locations).
• Edit>Location> right-click Advanced>Delete Shifts for a Working assignable to service points location now correctly deletes associated Service Point shifts.

• New [PDF] button in Tools>Reports and Edit>Staff>Analysis generates a PDF with one click and saves even more steps for sites using a web based e-mail package. It also simplifies keeping a report open while making updates.
• Edit>Away>[Process] now also automatically enters the requested location (e.g. Vacation) in place of Service Point shifts of staff with Scheduling Approach of Assign Directly.
• Web View now automatically resizes Table displays when a mobile device is changed between portrait and landscape mode.

• New Web View 3.8.0 features:
  • The URL for displays may now be directly saved to desktop or favorites (i.e. no more link below the display in current browsers)
  • Ruby is now at version 2.2.4
• Dates down the side of the by week screens are now larger and their right-click menu now repeats that date.
• Help>E-mail Support menu now opens a how-to screen rather than a draft e-mail.

• New SMS/Text Msg option is now available. Inexpensive! Try the interface by turning on in Tools>Options>Settings Tab. Contact support for more information and pricing.
• Web View is now small screen aware and formats display and menus to provide an improved cell phone experience.
• In Edit>Staff the Schedule3W Rights choice of Own Avail + All Locs has been relabeled Own for locs in Sch tab to clarify that the Location Group specified on this employee's Scheduler Tab controls the locations this employee may self schedule. Also the Own Avail + designated locations choice is no longer offered as Own for locs in Sch tab is a superior approach.

• Tools>Reports>Custom Date now automatically updates End date if less than current Start Date value.
• Tools>Send Group msg>E-mails now only shows employees in any active employee select.
• The screen of Message Box e-mail mode now only stays on top of Schedule3W, rather than all, screens.
• The "Use Employee Bar color setting when only one location in filter" setting of Location by Week is now preserved across sessions.
• Edit>Staff, when adding a new employee with Scheduler Rights, no longer generates Error 381 when E-mail Invokes isn't set.
• Clicks on the bottom border of Employee Scheduling Grid are now ignored (rather than being processed for the last employee).

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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).

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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).

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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).

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 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.

• Overview of how easy it is to upgrade Schedule3W using a command line approach has been updated (see link on download page). In summary, a site with multiple installs can just download the MSI to a networked folder and then, on each PC, click Windows Icon, paste the following (with s:\s3wdata replaced with the path to the MSI's network folder) into the Search programs and files box and press [enter]:
  • msiexec /i "s:\s3wdata\Schedule3W_Setup_4726.msi" /qb /l*v "%temp%\s3wlog.log" AGREE="yes"
• Corrected a recently introduced Location by Day Sort by issue when Employee Group is changed.

• Dragging a shift, with lots of prior occurrences, is now faster.

• Employee Scheduling Grid and Location by Day Screen now automatically display the applicable label when sorted by Home location or by Type.

• Saved Web URLs may now specify a custom screen/tab title using the new title= parameter.
• Employee by Week now has a faster refresh.

• Location by Day is now faster at switching to different day.

• The authentication using LDAP option now allows schedulers to log into Schedule3W desktop using their domain/network password. Contact Support for details.

• Web 3.5.12 has improved the readability of the Bar Graph formats by supporting the foreground (i.e. text) color specified for a location, increasing default font size and using a lighter blue for the background of row and column labels.
• Multi-concurrent user systems now correctly show who is logged in. If you have Schedule3W installed on a Citrix or MS Terminal Server system, designate that computer as Multi-concurrent user in Tools>Maintenance>Show Tab>Installs Button.

• New Shift Change Log automatically tracks shift deletes and changes to shift employee, location and time. For details on the Change Log and how to view, click Help>Index and enter Change Log.
• The Shift tool tip now shows the full external note (rather than just the first 20 characters).
• Web 3.5.9 provides a more robust automatic recovery from being disconnected from the server hosting the Schedule3W data files.
• Tools>Maintenance>Test tab>[Db Structure] button now automatically reports if the database is missing any indexes that are important for performance.

• Version 4.3.15, from August 2011, is now the oldest version of Schedule3W allowed to open the database. To check if your site is using earlier versions: click Tools>Maintenance>Show Tab>Installs Button.

• New extra cost option available to delete a week and shift back the schedule. This allows organizations with a 2 or 4 week rotation to vary who works holiday weekends. Contact support for more information.
• Web View's Help screen now automatically includes expanded technical information when invoked by users with Scheduling rights.
• Testing/Training databases now check just users accessing that copy to determine if operations that require exclusive database access (e.g. Tools>Activate) can proceed.

• New Web View 3.5.7 features:
  • New reset icons beside the Employee and Location select menus so either may be restored to your default with one click.
  • Newly added to the Tools area at bottom of screen is a [Show defaults] button that displays your current defaults and provides a clear option.
  • Part day Away Requests now work for databases that schedule later than 11pm.
  • Important: If upgrading Schedule3W on the Web Server from before version 4.7.11, do the extra one-time step detailed on the download page.
• Report Database View: Shifts now includes two additional columns for recurring shifts (i.e. Sets): frequency and until date.

• New Web View 3.5.3 features:
  • New inexpensive LDAP/HTTPS option allows staff to log into Schedule3W Web using their domain/network username and password. Contact Support for details.
  • New Tools area at bottom of screen. First tool added is a Location Information table that shows the min/max date range and any notes for each location.
  • Help has been tweaked.
  • Spacing and wrapping in drop down menus has been improved.
• Bookings may now be changed to a different resource (e.g. change the room) by either right-click>Change Resource or by dragging. Likewise now shifts for any type of location may be changed from one Assign Directly employee to another.
• Time Period reports now support Advanced Shift Selects (i.e. [AdvSelect] button).
• Help now includes the tip that Time Period reports will automatically exclude shifts completely outside the defined time periods. This simplifies printing/e-mailing Evening Schedules.

• Schedulers restricted to just specific locations now may be given rights to Edit>Staff and related modules (previously they automatically were processed as Scheduler (No Edit>Staff)).

• Two recently introduced issues, Web View showing some html and Away Request's [Process] button leaving some service points, have been corrected.

• Web Server upgrade instructions now include an extra step for sites upgrading from before 4.7.11.

• Tools>Web Services screen now has a new External button for optionally entering the URL that must be used outside the LAN. This is needed by sites with Schedule3W installed outside the LAN.
• Web View Employee and Location menu entries for groups now have self-documenting labels (e.g. Emp Group, Home Loc) rather than just a plus (+) sign.

• Operations that process both the Working shift and covering Service Points are now approximately 10% faster.
• Edit>Location>Advanced>Change Location now supports doing the change just for shifts of selected employees.
• Live Internet Calendar transactions now include the first line of any notes in the Summary field so it shows in user's personal calendar (e.g. Outlook) without opening the appointment.
• Infrequent race condition between New month rollover/open and Web View, that locked the database for some sites, has been eliminated.

• Location Notes now display in Shift Information as a tool tip of any Location*: label.
• Moving a working shift, with some service points, to a new start time is now 50% faster.
• Location x Day, when a Sort by is set to Home location, now sorts by Home location even when a location select is active (rather than by Working location).

• New Auto Logout if Schedule3W has been idle for the period specified in Edit>Staff>Scheduler Tab (default is 3 hours).
• The number of logins denied due to all concurrent user licenses being in use (this month and last) are now displayed in Tools>Maintenance>Show Tab>[Logged in] button. The counts are partial until all installs of Schedule3W have been at least 4.7.07 for two months.
• Historical Employees now show the yyyy/mm of their last shift in Edit>Staff. Click the Status column header to sort Employees by this date.

• New Change Employee for a date range option in Edit>Staff reduces work when someone leaves or changes position.
• Web displays are 20 to 30% faster due to new Database Access Library.
• The restriction that Changes on past dates may only be This day only has been removed.

• Edit>Location now supports entering Notes on each location.
• New Location Info screen added that displays information about a location including date range shown on Web, the new notes field, etc. It is accessible from Edit>Location, Shift Information and Pick Location screens. From Edit>Location it also shows count of current and of past shifts.
• Pick Location's new [Info] button will list the members of any selected Location Group.
• Database View: Employee x Location report now will include any selected locations with Off or Unavailable subtype. Great for tracking in-lieu time.
• Location Groups, when sharing a menu with locations, are now flagged with (Loc Grp) rather than the less obvious plus sign (+). Likewise Employee Groups now use (Emp Grp).
• New overview for Setup New Branch/Department for Scheduling added to Help. Access by Help>Index type Location and scroll down to New Branch/Department.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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).

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

• 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).

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 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].

• 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).

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Pick Location menus are now faster on large databases.

• 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.

• New Future button in Shift Information screen lists this employee's future shifts overlapping that shift's time on that day of the week.
• The Employee by Week and Location Pick screens now display faster on multi-user databases.
• Away Request [Process] button now supports requests longer than a month.
• Available Staff screen's Previous and Next columns now ignore Off and Unavailable shifts.

• When a working shift is shortened enough that an employee would no longer be in working for one or more service points, you are now asked whether the Service Point shifts should be automatically deleted.
• The Split Shift option is now supported in Employee/Location Grids with automatic refreshes of Shift List and Grid.

• The size of Internal and External notes in Edit>Away Requests has been increased from 100 to 255 characters.

• Tools>Options Logging option now includes expanded information.

• Additional 4.6.* ADO issues have been found and corrected (e.g. Edit>Staff Delete and Tools>Holiday message).

• Further disk i/o optimization provides a 10-20% speed improvement to many operations.
• A database compact is now offered daily to the first scheduler logging into an active database (rather than twice a week).

• Disk i/o has been optimized on scheduling screens providing faster refreshes (e.g. Location by Day screen displays 60% faster on smaller databases and 80% on larger).
• Some ADO issues, introduced with 4.6.01, (e.g. the Sort By option of ESG and Location by Day) have been corrected.

• Edit>Location now allows additional Resource Booking Unavailable for Booking locations to be created (e.g. one to flag when a museum is free).
• The Tools>Options>Diagnostic Tab now includes an option to have record IDs show in the Shift information screen and its Logging option now includes additional detail.

• New Quick Screen Switch option for Grids to automatically restore selects when Grid is closed.
• Faster Deletes on busy systems.
• New Tools>Admin>Maintenance>Test Tab option of [DB Structure] which displays all indexed fields and confirms each table has a primary index.

• All database accesses now use ADO as a step towards future support for other databases.
• Employee/Location Scheduling Grids now have an improved wrapping algorithm when viewing more than two weeks on the screen plus their Shift List Display now has a wider Notes column.
• Logged in Workstation Display no longer occasionally shows a prior username for a shared workstation.

• Web View now includes forward and back a period arrow buttons.

• New Database view: Skills/Employee report lists the employees designated with each skill (e.g. Spanish) and the reverse.
• New Web View Option allows the names of employees with a specific skill to be flagged with a symbol.
• Web View's Demo mode restriction of just today has been replaced with only showing the real names of 10 employees to allow full functionality to be evaluated.
• Database view reports now allow you to select from one of three name formats.
• The right to use Tools>Holiday Definition may now be given to specific schedulers in Edit>Staff>Scheduler Tab.
• Integrated Timers have been expanded and improved in Tools>Options>Diagnostics Tab and Tools>Maintenance>Test Tab>[Disk].
• Database View: Employee Hours Proof no longer generates an error when the date range is a multiple of 7 + 1 day.

• Location x Day screen's right-click Display Options now includes Hide scheduled Out Staff so you can hide people whose schedule you are unlikely to change.
• Historical employees now only show on past days in the Location x Day screen and Employee Scheduling Grid if they have shifts.
• Who's/Where working Time Period reports now use an improved algorithm to wrap start and/or end time to the next line in a cell and better handle shifts that end midnight or later.

• New Advanced Shift Select of AND Service Points must be over a selected Working allows reporting on shared locations(e.g. meeting) for specific branches.
• For entering breaks in Fast Entry, Edit>Location's Default duration menu now includes 15 min.

• New Skills feature that allows site defined skills (e.g. CPR certified, Speaks Spanish) to be assigned to employees. Skills may be used to filter employees and to generate coverage reports. See details via Help>Index on Skills.
• New features in Select>Multiple Employee screen activated through a new [Options] button:
  • See count of active employees per value in Pick screens (e.g. # of employees of each Type).
  • Have multiple Pick screens filter down, rather than reset, the currently selected list of employees (e.g. to select Adult Department Pages).
  • Also show employee abbreviation.

• Web View minimum and maximum dates are now relative to today, instead of the last reconfigure, as a reconfigure is no longer done per display.

• New Edit>Staff>Scheduler Tab option to restrict a scheduler to working within a specific date range (e.g. for restricting student workers to just updating their availability for the remainder of the term or preventing a scheduler from updating past dates).
• Tools>Holidays is now display-only for schedulers without Database Administration Rights.
• Edit>Data Range and Edit>Employee Type are now display-only for schedulers with Scheduler (No Edit>Staff) Rights.
• Eliminated an ObjectBroker Error -2147467259 that occasionally happened during new month open/rollover since 4.5.16 change to keep Web open during most of the rollover.

• Location x Day screen's support for scheduling Unavailable and Off type locations has been restored (as per 4.5.15).

• Web Server speed is no longer impacted by incorrect DNS configurations and its Access.log is now generated in the standard Common Log Format for compatibility with log analyzers.

• Summary/Schedule by reports once again support runs without a location select.

• Location x Day Sort by setting of Home Location, Name (not working sorted last) now uses Home Location instead of Shift Location.

• Removed Tools>Reports warning of a Favourite report selecting a now deleted employee (added in 4.5.16).
• Edit>Employee Groups option to clear the home location filter has been restored.

• Location x Day screen now supports dragging shifts on the diagonal. Now it's only one step to move Mary’s 9-10 shelving shift to Larry for 2-3!
• Web pages load on average 20% faster due to a 2 times speedup in rendering in an upgraded Ruby-on-Rails component.

• New Resource Booking mode! Provides customized interface for booking rooms, culture passes and equipment. For details, click Help>Index and enter Booking.
• New Month open/rollover now leaves Web View open during most of the processing. The time taken for the last open and the current maximum date are now shown in Help>About Schedule3W.
• Settings selected in the [Staffing] button on Location x Day/Week scheduling screens are now saved across sessions.
• Edit>Staff Type menu is now wider.
• Select Multiple Location/Employee now supports OK after [Clear All] to be consistent with the Web interface.
• Changing Path to Database for Windows 7 and above now asks for admin rights so system \Schedule3W\DataPath registry key is always updated (rather than the user level virtual one).

• Now supports Windows 8.
• New Split Shift option in the right-click on a shift menu.
• Web View now enforces each Location's min & max view date range individually, rather than using the most restrictive range.
• Web Server host name is now automatically stored even if Windows Service is activated without the recommended manual start test.
• Web Server no longer needs a manual restart after a database upgrade that changes the structure of its control tables.

• The Date Range used in Edit>Location>Web Tab may now be larger than that specified in Tools>Web Services>[Options] (i.e. the [Options] setting is now a default rather than a maximum making setup easier!).
• Location by Day screen no longer does a full screen refresh if a just created shift is adjusted.

• Faster new month open/rollover on many larger databases.
• New tips for reporting a problem at: http://Schedule3W.com/tips/problem_reports
• New Web Services 3.0.5 changes:
  • Employees by Time displays for today have a vertical green line at the current time.
  • When "Now" has been selected, Table displays only show the current date.
• The Minimum # working reports now utilize any Override Sort specified for locations.
• Tools>Maintenance>Show tab>[Installs]>Delete now shows a custom reject message when invoked by a user without Database Administration Rights.
• Exceeding 33k different shift sets no longer generates an Error 6 Overflow message.

• New [Staffing] button below Location x Day/Week scheduling screens, when multiple locations selected, shows staffing scheduled (or difference to staffing levels) for the next week.
• Upgrade Ruby 1.8.7 used by Web Services from p258 to p270.
• Employee/Location Scheduling Grid once again immediately shows new shifts added by right-click>Add Shift>[Ok&Exit] when Location by Day for that date is open. Likewise Location by Day, with an active location filter, will automatically include the name and shift of an employee newly scheduled to one of those locations. Workaround until you upgrade: press F5 for refresh.

• Tools>Reports>Favorites now saves any Show Full Location/Employee name setting.
• Who's working: Location x * reports default suppression of identical times has been restored as per pre-V4.4.46 behavior.
• Who's/Where working: * by month reports no longer require the report title to include by month.

• Database view: Employee x Location Hours now automatically widens display columns for larger totals.
• Internal and External Shift notes are now consistently retained when shifts are modified except Change Employee which clears any Internal notes.

• Moving a Working (assignable to SP) shift to a new date or time automatically moves its Service Point shifts if required (or, if no SP move is required, gives a choice on the Recurring Screen).
• New Tools>Reports>[AdvSelect] option to select all shifts created/modified by a specific (or any) scheduler in a specified number of days.
• The Database currently locked status message now includes the starting workstation and time of the maintenance procedure and, for new month open/rollovers, expected completion time.
• The Until option on Change Employee and replace and on Change Location and replace shift has been corrected.
• Edit>Away [Process] screen now includes a red reminder if any days are flagged as Do manually.

• New [Process] button in Edit>Away simplifies entry of vacation, sick, etc. requests down to two clicks.
• The Closed for Maintenance Web status screen now includes the reason and person/workstation initiating.
• Download page now includes a link to instructions on optionally installing a test copy of Schedule3W's Web Modules.

• Web Away Requests display now includes a [View] button to display the user's schedule for that period.
• Edit>Staff [Delete] confirmation screen now shows Last Worked date for historical employees.
• New Away Request status of Updating Schedule has been added.

Summary of the new features of version 4.5:

• (4.4.54) New Web [Away request] and [My away requests] buttons for employee web entry and viewing of away (i.e. vacation) requests. This is the first feature of the new Update Module (free until additional functionality is included).
• (4.4.46) New Bar Color setting for each employee. Set individually or via Global Set. Location by Week, when showing one location, may be configured to use these colors.
• (4.4.46) Where working: x days reports, when only one Working (assignable to SP) type location is included, suppresses that location name for cleaner layout.
• (4.4.42) Web View now includes a later version of Ruby and is distributed as a separate feature in the install package. This provides a faster startup and a better foundation for future development. See download page for the additional step needed when next upgrading the computer hosting Web View.
• (4.4.36) The Conflict Screen now highlights existing shifts with a less frequent recurrence in red and allows you to designate that they also are to be deleted.
• (4.4.31) New Web View features:
  • Web Login now supports picking your name (or Guest).
  • If personally logged in, new quick buttons of [My Graph] and [My Table] are provided.
  • New [Who's Away] button displays who's away for the specified period in that employee’s Away Group
• (4.4.31) Where Working Reports now allow you to specify whether names will be formatted and sorted by First Last, Last, First or Abbreviation.
• (4.4.29) Tools>Reports now supports predefined date selects for fiscal year: last/this and quarter: last/this/next as useful for Favorite Reports.
• (4.4.24) New Web View allows Employees to be selected by Home Location and/or Employee Type. Makes saved URLs even more powerful!
• (4.4.24) New Edit>Staff right-click Global Set menu entry will set selected employees to the current employee's value for Type, Home Location, $/Hr or Away Request Employee Group.
• (4.4.20) New Edit>Away Requests for tracking requests for Vacation, Sick, Conference, etc. through their full life cycle and simplifying entry. See details by Help>Index enter away and click Overview.
• (4.4.19) New Web View features:
  • New Table formats: Employee and Location by Date.
  • New interface for selecting Location(s) and Employee(s) that includes a Filter option.
  • 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.
  • 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!
• (4.4.18) Who's/Where working: * x time period reports now support up to 14 time periods as columns.
• (4.4.18) Report Titles and Footers will automatically replace the new Rotation Week code, <rw>, with the applicable bracketed week letter.
• (4.4.11) New Automatic User Authentication eliminates password entry when the current Window's username matches the Edit>Staff Username.
• (4.4.09) 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.
• (4.4.08) 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!).
• (4.4.07) 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!
• (4.4.06) New Edit>Staff field of Schedule Location(s) restricts this scheduler to just a specific Location Group or Location (e.g. restrict someone to just booking rooms).

• New Web [Away request] and [My away requests] buttons for employee web entry and viewing of away (i.e. vacation) requests. This is the first feature of the new Update Module (free until additional functionality is included).

• The automatic Renewal Reminder message now only appears to Database Administrators for the first week and only once per day.

• Tools>Web Services>[Options] includes a new control for enabling demo mode of the upcoming Web Update module.

• The Recurring Screen, from drawing in a shift, once again correctly enters additional days of the week when This Day Only is selected. The workaround for sites using 4.4.32 through 4.4.48 is to enter multiple this day only shifts via Fast Entry Screen or separately. Version 4.4.50 automatically detects if any shifts were impacted by this fortunately seldom used combination.

• Edit>Away now supports a Delete option for database administrators and the creator of the request.

• New Web View 2.6.5 supports (via Tools>Web Services>[Options]):
  • MySchedule3W login user identification by typing employee abbreviation (rather than picking from drop down menu of names).
  • Addition of new [Away request] button after employee clicks [Who's away]. Clicking it opens a draft away (e.g. vacation) request e-mail. Coming soon is the option to directly record the request in the database.
• Employee Type menus are now alphabetical using any override sort.
• The Edit>Away [Report] results are no longer impacted by any previous report filter.

• New Bar Color setting for each employee. Set individually or via Global Set. Location by Week, when showing one location, may be configured to use these colors.
• Where working: x days reports, when only one Working (assignable to SP) type location is included, suppress that location name for cleaner layout.

• The newly installed empty database has been updated so all locations are selected and Edit>Away does not generate an error.
• When Today is selected on scheduling screens the date button is now green.
• The Include Willing/Want option of Who's working x day reports is now supported regardless of any Location select.
• The Conflict Screen support for filling in shifts between a less frequent shift (e.g. adding every Friday working when there is an existing every third Friday Off) has been restored (broken in .36).

• New Web View 2.6.4 now:
  • includes a later version of Ruby and is distributed as a separate feature in the install package. This provides a faster startup and a better foundation for future development. See download page for the additional step needed when next upgrading computer hosting Web View.
  • automatically requests Run as administrator permission when adding or removing Windows Service invocation and requires use of Manage Services for starting or stopping.
• New Sort by options in Location by Day of: Working Location, Type (not working sorted last) and (not working intermixed).
• If Home Location isn't set on any employee, a reminder to set displays at start-up.
• Location by Day screen once again automatically shows all of the new shifts when multiple are created at one time (e.g. for meetings, public holiday paid time, etc.).

• New Shifts now show in Location by Day up to 90% faster as the screen refresh has been eliminated.

• Calendar Day of week column headers now show in all Windows 7 color themes.
• Changing End Time, on This day only shifts, via Shift Information has been restored.

• The Web Server's Production.Log is now stored in %Temp% folder and 5 levels back are automatically retained.
• If concurrent access error 3167 Record is deleted is encountered, the user is now given a Retry option.
• Collapsing of Sick/Vacation on the web is now also supported in Table: Employee by Date.

• The Conflict Screen now highlights existing shifts with a less frequent recurrence in red and allows you to designate that they also are to be deleted. This simplifies using Fast Entry for Vacation entry (especially when preloaded by Edit>Away).

• New Web View 2.6.1 now supports Location level override restricted date range and maximum notes size.

• Edit>Location now maintains and displays for each location: employee and date of last modification.
• Edit>Away, from Employee by Week screen, now opens for all of the current scheduler's employees (rather than just this employee).

• Fast Entry and Clone now asks, for additional days of the week (in This Day Only mode), whether to delete the conflicting shift and its service points (eliminates a manual delete!).
• New Edit>Location Web Tab to optionally specify, per location, a maximum length to display for notes and/or date range for which shifts will display (see new Edit>Date Range). A soon to be released Web View will support these new parameters.
• Edit>Away tweaked to include notes in its report and have [Ok] enabled when Fast Entry clicked.

• New Web View 2.6.0 features:

• Web Login now supports picking your name (or Guest). Any personal password setup in Edit>Staff is used, otherwise any password specified in Tools>Web Services [Options] is used.

• New [Who's Away] button displays who's away for the specified period.

• If personally logged in, new quick buttons of [My Graph] and [My Table] are provided and the [Who's Away] button will show just the employees in the applicable Employee Group (specified in Edit>Staff).

• Where Working Reports now allow you to specify whether names will be formatted and sorted by First Last, Last, First or Abbreviation once Tools>Activate>Minimum Schedule3W Level is done for 4.4.31.

• Tools>Reports now supports predefined date selects for fiscal year: last/this and quarter: last/this/next as useful for Favorite Reports.

• Edit>Away Requests now allows you to control the locations that may be requested and the locations viewed when approving requests once Tools>Activate>Minimum Schedule3W Level is done for 4.4.28.
• Tools>Reports screen has been split into separate Select and Format Tabs to provide room for future features.
• The Web View Graph: Days x Time for an Employee warning that a single employee must be ticked has been restored.

• Log-in screen now opens slightly faster on larger databases.
• Expanded diagnostic information is displayed if your database can't be opened due to a network configuration change.

• New Web View 2.5.5 supports selecting Employees by Employee Group.

• Double clicking on a Favorite Report now will automatically invoke Show.
• Help on Notes now details using a vertical bar to prefix the portion of external notes to not show on the Web.
• Help on Until Date in Shift Information screen now details how to use to fill-in deleted shifts, changed frequency, etc.

• New Web View 2.5.4 features:

• Employees now may be selected by Home Location and/or Employee Type. Makes saved URLs even more powerful!

• Database tables are automatically cached to provide faster response once Tools>Activate>Minimum Schedule3W Level is done for 4.4.24.

• New Edit>Staff right-click Global Set menu entry will set selected employees to the current employee's value for Type, Home Location, $/Hr or Away Request Employee Group.

• Help>About screen now displays the last month of your current subscription.

• 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, <rw>, 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.