Novade Product Update for November – December, 2018
General
- Safety has a new feature called Meetings. Meetings can be configured easily to record any type of meeting like Tool Box, Safety briefing etc. Speak to your Novade representative for more details.
- iOS 5.8.26 is in the App store
Novade Quality
- Fixes:
- Fixed issue where homeowners were able to lodge defects from the floorplan even after DLP has expired.
- Fixed issue where Consultant type users were able to edit defects even if they had only Lodge and Close rights.
- Fixed issue where it was not possible to reopen Completed defects when not using Cases.
- Added:
- Filter by Consultant company at unit level.
- Ability to duplicate checklists along with main form.
- Ability to edit defect date AND time for admin users.
- Option to choose not to duplicate photos when duplicating a form.
- Ability to translate customized terms into different languages in the project hierarchy.
- The Company name of the user in the History log.
- Improved PDF output shows a caption for subform photos that include the date, time and subform to which it belongs.
- Replaced the term ‘Floorplan’ with ‘Drawing’ to be more generic.
- Web –
- New Dashboard for unit status based on the status of defects in each unit.
- Ability to set default target completion date by Project instead of the entire database.
- Renumbering cases uses a separate counter for homeowner and Inspector cases. Also, renumbering is not allowed if cases are archived.
- Subcontractor login – Closed and Completed defects separated instead of being grouped together.
- Improved By Unit filter for subcontractors only presents units with defects as a selection
- Added log event to history when cases are merged and renumbered.
- removed the option to restore an Orphan defect’s deleted case since it was restoring all the other deleted defects as well..
- Minor update to sequence of legend in Forms Tracking Dashboard and colour in Form By Unit Dashboard.
- Mobile –
- Subforms are no longer listed separately in the mobile, but are always part of the main form
- Surveys tab renamed to Forms to accommodate for other types of forms.
- Countdown to end of DLP is removed from the homeowner app. Only the DLP end date will be displayed.
- Homeowner can see that a case has been archived with a message to contact Customer Service for un-archival.
- Added ability in the defect lodging wizard to delete a photo just taken.
- Added option via long-press to Close multiple defects in a WIP case.
Novade Safety
- Fixes –
- Fixed an issue where restrictions by form roles were not working on the mobile.
- Fixed an issue where subcontractors could not see photos attached to observations.
- Custom fields can be added at the unit level.
- Removed the None option for NCR assignees.
- Added the ability to define the plurals for project hierarchy terms such as Block, Level, Unit.
- PTW – All users in the previous stages of the workflow are notified when a PTW is rejected.
- NCRs
- Can be configured to notify users depending on risk level of NCR. These users are added as cc when the NCR is confirmed.
- Can be assigned to a group/team of users. Display of groups/teams is configurable.
- Individual NCR risk levels can be edited when confirming the NCR.
- Web –
- UI improvement – Enlarged unit column size.
- Mobile –
- PTWs are filtered by Status instead of being viewed together in one list.
- NCRs can be filtered by risk level.
Novade Maintenance
- Fixes –
- If a job’s start date is earlier than the submission date due to issues with a user’s phone, the job is blocked from being submitted.
- Improved UI for selecting an asset when the first two levels of the hierarchy do not exist.
- Web –
- Improved UI for Utility dashboards. All utilities are consolidated under a filter dropdown instead of in separate tabs.
- Improved graphs for Discrete Value dashboard with upper and lower limits defined. Any values outside the limits will be listed in a table.
- Map view – If a site is not present or geocoded, the project geocode is used to locate the project.
- Mobile – Improved UI for Request creation –
- Instead of Select Location the wizard says Select from List.
- The asset displays the location and description as well for easier selection.
- If a user selects “asset not in the list” asset group and asset ID drop-downs are removed from the following screens.
Novade Activity
- Web – Ability to –
- Automatically update the planned start date of a linked task if the planned end date of the prior task is changed.
- View all the forms related to tasks at the Activity level.
- Import Activities via Excel.
- Archive activities.
- Display list of following tasks on the task page.
People
- Fixes
- Fixed an issue where power users were not able to see all users.
- Fixed an issue where search was not working if the search contained Chinese characters.
- Web –
- Ability to filter homeowners by project.
- Added a company field when creating a new employee.
- When transferring a user between projects, added check to see if the user has outstanding timecards first.
- Added alerts when editing a sub-con user and company types.
- Mobile – Ability to view PTWs that a person is participating in on the Person’s profile.
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