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Release notes - 6th March 2025
Updated over 3 weeks ago

New features

Activities have been improved with the following new features

  • Activity lists can be sorted by either the activity reference value, or status

  • Activities now support a default result value, which is highlighted and selectable at the point of completion

  • Activities now support completion requirements: The ability to specify whether an activity requires a comment and/or a photo at the point of completion

  • The result type of True / False has been renamed to Yes / No

  • Activities can now be moved to another job either by

    • The Move action on an activity

    • The follow on job function, that supports splitting jobs by activity trade

  • Sub activities can now be imported into the activity library

  • Job assignment supports filtering suitable assignees by their trade, according to the trade associated to an activity

  • The job files area now displays activity attachments

Job statuses now support requirements on change

  • The ability to specify whether job status changes require a comment and/or a photo at the point of change

  • If you're interested in trialing this feature, please reach out to customer support

Visits now support statuses

  • Allowing for users to specify that a visit is

    • In progress

    • Completed

    • Cancelled

  • If you're interested in trialing this feature, please reach out to customer support

Status change history (such as changing a job status) now includes additional context

  • What type of device the change occurred on, broken down into

    • Browser

    • Mobile

    • API

    • Importer

    • Automation

  • Where the change occurred, as GPS coordinates, however only when

    • The change occurred on a mobile device

    • The user has allowed Loc8 mobile to capture their coordinates

    • The user is using our new application Loc8 - Field service (2025)

Improvements

  • General browser app performance improvements

  • Webhook retry improvements

  • Quote duplication performance improvements

  • General activity UI and UX improvements

Bug fixes

  • Some dialog boxes and callouts have been repositioned to avoid overlapping content

  • Several bugs have been resolved that occurred during the creation of a job, specifically regarding activity selections

  • An error has been resolved that prevented the conversion of a quote to a job

  • The ability to automatically re-assign follow on jobs has been reintroduced

  • An issue has been resolved that prevented correct visibility of job assignees when rescheduling visits

  • An error that occurred when scheduling a visit has been resolved

  • Activity completion correctly propagates to asset maintenance history records

  • The order of sub activities is now correctly persisted

  • An issue has been resolved that prevented the correct job activity count from displaying

  • A regression has been resolved, which removed the job "available in-field" option on statuses

  • An error that occurred when opening a site inspector has been resolved

  • An error has been resolved that occasionally occurred when populating text custom fields

  • An issue has been resolved that caused the expected life field on an asset to not update automatically

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