New features
Workspace view colours have been introduced
Each major workspace now includes colours alongside the system views to make it easier to find what you're looking for, with colours predominantly based on the statuses in each workspace
These colours are now also displayed in the Job calendar to improve usability
The Job calendar has been improved
The Weekly and Work week modes now display time on the horizontal axis, with the vertical axis being used to group appointments by Assignee. This layout mirrors that of the Daily view and provides a more consistent experience when moving between Daily, Weekly and Monthly modes
With the improved layout in the Weekly and Work week modes, appointments that fall outside of business hours are now always visible as well, helping to avoid missed appointments
The colours of appointments in the calendar are now always based on job statuses rather than assignment, which was made possible by ensuring assignment is always visible in the Daily and Weekly modes.
Integrations and addons are easier to find and manage
The addons launcher in the main menu now includes integrations
Addons and integrations can now both be searched, sorted by category and viewed by plan
Addons can now be managed from the addons launcher rather than requiring a visit to the settings area
Feature improvements and changes
The maintenance schedule settings area has received some usability improvements and bug fixes
When creating a schedule, 0 is now correctly accepted for the Create jobs and Jobs are due offset fields
When creating and viewing existing schedule location frequencies, offset periods are now easier to read
When applying a schedule to locations in bulk, an error will now be displayed to indicate whether any locations were not added due to unavailability, conflicting active schedules etc
When applying a schedule to locations in bulk, parent locations are always chosen first to ensure the broadest application of the schedule to the asset hierarchy
When adding a schedule to locations, customer and location names are now easier to read
When applying the 'Starts' filter to list of schedule locations, only active locations with a start date are listed in the results
When modifying a schedule location future event, the date callout now correctly dismisses on first click
An error that appeared when deleting a schedule location frequency has been resolved
The automation settings area has received some usability improvements and bug fixes
The When part of a rule is now editable. As always, changing the When in the rule subsequently requires the rest of the rule including conditions and actions to be reconfigured
A notification is now displayed if a rule cannot be enabled due to incomplete rule configuration
Editing and modifying rules is now easier with improved click areas
The behaviour of the interface under various condition combinations have been improved
Automation history is now easier to read
Problems rule triggers are now only available in the problem rule context
SMS rule actions are now only available if the SMS addon is enabled
Email sending has received one further improvement
For customers subscribed to our Enterprise plan: Where a custom sending email address has been configured, outbound emails will now be sent in such a way that replies will return to both the custom sending email address as well as the unique Loc8 email address. This improvement bridges the legacy sending behaviour with the new behaviour introduced on the 22nd of December
Other minor improvements include
The workspace context menu is now easier to open and close
The contact lookup field when using the Share and export function no longer appears after hitting enter, improving keyboard utilisation
When using both the Region management and Problem management addons, problems are now associated to regions via the problem asset or site location, and subsequently filtered when selecting a region
The primary company details displayed on HTML web views are now more consistent with those on PDF exports, including the company phone number
The legacy Adobe Flash settings areas how now been removed, which included Maintenance schedules and Automation
For customers subscribed to our Enterprise plan: The ability to restrict the visibility of the Job inspector task tab has been introduced (requires Loc8 support assistance)
Bug fixes
The primary email address in company settings can now be modified as expected
When an invoice PDF is generated, the physical address displayed for the invoiced customer is now always the customer's primary address instead of the site address at which the initiated job was performed. This bug fix ensures that PDF invoices are now consistent with the presentation of invoices in the Loc8 web app, live HTML web views and invoices synced to 3rd party financial systems
As invoice PDFs now correctly include the customer primary address (see previous bug fix), all invoices now correctly display an address for the invoiced customer. Some invoices previously showed an empty address when initiating jobs were performed at unsaved site-based locations
An incorrect invoice rounding issue has been resolved, which was previously causing invoice total values in the main workspace to appear as if they were one decimal place less than the actual value
An issue causing site creator information to appear as empty has been resolved
An issue where opening and closing the workspace context menu would not refresh the layout has been resolved
An issue has been resolved that incorrectly caused the error "Unable to Access Specified Work Order" to display when creating jobs for users that had correct regional access
An issue that prevented the update of customer reference values has been resolved
An issue that prevented some jobs from being exported in the advanced exports area has been resolved
An issue that prevented automation rules from adding asset warnings for new assets has been resolved
An issue that prevented automation rules from correctly sending emails to the initial email sender (replies) has been resolved
The asset importer now correctly handles the Expected life ends date
The asset importer now correctly handles typical date fields
The asset importer now supports both the Purchase order and Purchase cost columns / fields
For customers subscribed to our Enterprise plan: An issue that was causing overdue payment banners to display without any detail has been resolved
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