In this article you will find:
New Features
βFeature Improvements
βUsability Improvements
βMinor Improvements and Noteworthy Items
βBug Fixes
New Features
Upload and display avatars (photos) for everyone in your workforce. Users and technicians can upload their own, or alternatively they can be added by an Admin
Sites can now be manually associated to regions that do not have a geo-boundary
Feature Improvements
When interacting with assignees on jobs, it is now possible to hover the mouse cursor over their avatars to see the full list of assignees
Editing of sub-tasks is appropriately restricted according to the standing workforce license permissions
Adding an asset flag is appropriately restricted according to the standing workforce license permissions
All asset drawings/geo-features are displayed on the map
Usability Improvements
More filters and fields now auto-focus when first opened
All inspector tab urls can be copied and bookmarked, shared etc.
All inspector tabs and many other links can now be opened in a new browser tab by right clicking on the link and clicking Open in a new tab
Email validation has been relaxed across the whole app, which allows for the creation of workforce users, technicians and contractors with emails that contain modern domain names and special characters
Some great improvements have been made under the hood to improve the overall speed of the app. Loc8 should generally feel snappier and more responsive
Minor Improvements and Noteworthy Items
Date fields now display more consistently throughout entity history
All maintenance schedule events are now displayed in the Schedule Location view
The Supervisor field displayed on the job web view has been removed (this was redundant with the same assignee shown directly below)
A small number of users who were being unexpectedly logged out of the mobile app should no longer be affected
A small number of users who were experiencing random unauthorised and service unavailable errors should no longer be affected
A small number of users who were unable to login via login.loc8.com should no longer be affected
A small number of users who were experiencing Invalid Model errors when editing tasks should no longer be affected
All job search results are now shown irrespective of whether the status column is present
Bug Fixes
Follow-on jobs are no longer auto-assigned to people who were previously unassigned from the initiating job
The task move action is no longer disabled after scrolling the task list in certain browsers
Modifying company settings is no longer restricted by the defined business hours
The inspector job list is no longer restricted or empty in certain browsers
Errors are no longer displayed when certain columns with multiple spaces were displayed in workspace list views
Errors are no longer displayed when updating asset status or commissioned date fields through automation rules
Errors are no longer displayed when exporting certain PDF documents
Errors are no longer displayed when moving assets via the importer