Novade Product Update for March 2021

Notifications for outstanding forms and safety actions

Novade Quality

• Additions:
  • Filters for Forms -> Types/Status 
  • The ability to UnReject a Rejected Form 
  • The ability to archive defects without cases
• Replaced Joint Inspection with more flexible Submit Defects terminology
• Web – Improved UI to make cursor change to a hand when on a clickable element 
• Fixed issues: 
  • The legend for Forms by State was duplicated on Forms -> Types -> Template Type 
  • Adding Restricted Consultant to cc on a defect that caused a JavaScript error 
  • Restricted Consultants not being able to see defects they are cc’ed on 
  • Archived defects were not being included in the Closed Defect count 
  • Count of Assignees display 
  • Archived defects count not being displayed in Excel exports 
  • Scanned documents being compressed onto one page in a PDF export 
  • Photos not being evenly distributed in a PDF export 
  • Defects created from a punch item having NaN appended to the number 
  • A mismatch between the number of Inspection Types shown as Completed on Dashboard and those on Pending Close tab 
  • A JavaScript error when homeowners click on View Defect List 
  • Read-only fields not displaying 
  • Read-only accounts could still create forms 

Novade Safety-HSE

• Web – Improved UI to make cursor change to a hand when on a clickable element 
• Actions – added the ability to send notifications for overdue/outstanding safety actions 
• WPTW additions:
  • The ability to import Daily Signatories via Excel 
  • A check to highlight WPTWs imported without daily signatories
• Observations – Web: added a Name column in the table view 
• Fixed issues: 
  • Users could upload photos from the web using the camera or scan document options
  • Old WPTWs were not getting the updated signatories 
  • The workflow history of archived WPTWs was not included in Excel exports 
  • Some safety forms with sub-forms having illegible PDF exports 
  • Client Admins not being able to delete safety objects that are not Draft or Closed 
  • Chinese language devices not being able to see the link to the duplicated item on PTWs 
  • Photos not being able to be added in states other than Draft 
  • Filters being applied on PTW dashboard randomly 
  • Take Photo function on web 
  • Actions created from a punch item on a form were missing an Assignee 
  • Subcon type users were encountering a SQL logic error when accessing a project 
  • PTWs that were restored from archival were missing subforms 
  • A delay accessing Meetings on the web and the number of forms was not displaying 
  • The “Click to Expand” button was not working on the Web under Observations by Type 
  • The Close button not showing on Observations for users with the rights to Close 
  • Observations being automatically categorized as “1” 
  • Meetings with Observations could not be exported to PDF 
  • Exporting PDF and Summary of Actions 

Novade Reports

• Major enhancement of dashboards:
  • New dashboard for Worked Hours  
  • Ability to visualise daily targets in Activity and Worked Hours tables 
  • Ability to display both daily targets and project targets in Activity line chart dashboard 
• Web – added the ability to hide the summary numbers on Reports page  
• Fixed issues: 
• The application was crashing when there was too much data to fetch on the “Target” dashboard  
• Made the other activities pages accessible in the pagination 

Novade Maintenance

• Added audit logs for Jobs Excel import 
• Fixed issues:  
  • Removed a duplicate Address field in the Request page 
  • The display of data on dashboards immediately upon login 

Novade Activity

• Optimised code to handle a large number of My Actions 
• Fixed issues:  
  • Updating activity templates deleting not started tasks while a user was creating a form at the same time. 
  • Downloading PDF forms from the web 
  • Tasks with only Rejected forms were allowed to be Completed 
  • Viewing the history tab of a task 
  • Duplicated forms crashing the app 
  • Team managers were unable to view the Start Task button 
  • Restoring archived sub-forms 
  • Forms statuses and Tasks not displaying in list views 
  • Exporting forms to Excel 
  • View All Accounts being able to edit Closed forms 
  • (R.Archived) appearing after re-importing tasks 

Novade People

• Added the ability for Power Users to add projects to Companies 
• Improved the export format of Qualifications 
• Added the ability to display custom dashboards on mobile to display Induction forms 
• Fixed issues: 
  • A blank screen showing on iOS devices after adding a company or team 
  • Creating induction accounts via import 
  • People without an account were not included in the Covid-19 Safe Platform Excel export 
  • An account language could not be changed 
  • Syncing users to the Pensees platform 
  • Duplicate users were being created when importing via Excel 
  • Teams’ filters were not working 
  • Thermal Scanner check-in information not showing on mobile 

Project Center

• Fixed issues: 
  • Deleting Observation types 
  • Linking Templates to a Novade Unit not available for modules other than Novade Quality 
  • “Use Cases” could not be disabled 
  • Editable fields were not visible in the workflow 
  • Incident types with incidents associated could be deleted 
  • Viewing whether an account was in beta or not  

Novade Insights

• Reports: 
  • Improvement in Data Architecture should lead to faster query
  • Adding Activity type and subtype dimension for reports
• Overall: improvement in stability 
• Fixed issues with: 
  • Quality forms – dummy data was displayed
  • Table export – the pdf and excel export didn’t follow the original formatting
  • Access – Some users could not connect to Insights
  • Formatting – the duration format was not using space between value and unit (for example “12days8h” is now “12 days 8 h”)
  • Safety forms – rejected forms by user pie chart only returns 100%