Summary of New Features by Release
Schedule3W is continually being enhanced. Between each of the version
numbers below are multiple incremental releases (e.g. 4.4.##) leading to
the next minor or major version increment. Users often see the
results of their suggestions within days or weeks. The
subscription approach enables us to release improvements as soon as they pass
quality assurance (i.e. no need to
hold back improvements until they can be released in a group "worth
buying").
If you are looking for a specific feature, and can't find a reference to
it in our flyer or overview, just e-mail info@schedule3w.com. It might be
in the works or even already released.
Improvements since V4.4
(4.4.25)
Double clicking on a Favorite Report now will automatically
invoke Show. (4.4.25)
Help on Notes now details using a vertical bar to prefix the portion of
external notes to not show on the Web. (4.4.25)
Help on Until Date in Shift Information screen now
details how to use to fill-in deleted shifts, changed frequency, etc. (4.4.24)
New Web View 2.5.4 features:
- Employees now may be selected by Home Location and/or
Employee Type. Makes saved URLs even more powerful!
- Database tables are automatically cached to provide faster response once
Tools>Activate>Minimum Schedule3W Level is done for
4.4.24.
(4.4.24)
New Edit>Staff right-click Global Set menu entry will set
selected employees to the current employee's value for
Type, Home Location, $/Hr
or Away Request Employee Group. (4.4.24)
Help>About screen now displays the last month of your current
subscription. (4.4.23)
Web View 2.5.3 features:
- New Sort employees by option adds support for Home
Location and
Employee Type. [Save defaults] now includes this setting.
- All displays sorted by Location now use any Override Sorts
specified in Edit>Location.
- Print once again only prints the display (i.e. no menus).
(4.4.23)
Edit>Staff now immediately shows the Scheduler Tab for any
employee given a Schedule3W Right other than None. (4.4.21)
Can't change shift messages have been upgraded to a
consistent format. (4.4.21)
The predefined Time Period definition Column Header now
supports 14 periods. (4.4.21)
Edit>Staff error 381, happening at some sites, has been
eliminated. (4.4.20)
New Edit>Away Requests for tracking requests for Vacation,
Sick, Conference, etc. through their full life cycle and simplifying entry.
See details by Help>Index enter
away and click Overview. (4.4.19)
New Web View 2.5.1 features:
- New Table formats: Employee
and Location by Date.
- New interface for selecting Location(s) and Employee(s) that
includes a Filter option.
- New replacement date picker (i.e. Calendar).
- New option to select Name Format (e.g. Last, First).
- New [Save defaults] button will save in a cookie the current view and
name format as the opening/Reset default.
- Graph formats now support shifts that cross midnight
and, to help readability when scrolling, have space between rows,
the vertical lines at 9, 12, 3, etc. are red and the time labels
are repeated at the bottom.
- Start day parameter of saved URLs (e.g. sday=)
now supports an explicit date (in addition to days away).
Great for e-mailing a link to next term's schedule!
- Graph: Employees x Time, which only shows
one day, now leaves calendar end date unchanged and displays a
hint.
- The color of grouped vacation/sick is now the color of the
alphabetically first vacation subtype location (rather than always
yellow).
(4.4.19)
Edit>Staff, when saving a new username matching the e-mail
address, now offers to set all blank usernames for employees with
the same e-mail domain. (4.4.18)
Who's/Where working: * x time period reports now support up to
14 time periods as columns. (4.4.18)
Report Titles and Footers will automatically replace
the new Rotation Week code, <rw>, with the applicable bracketed
week letter. FYI: Rotation Week Letter is activated
in Tools>Options>Staffed Hours tab. (4.4.18)
Summary by reports now have a wider Cost column. (4.4.18)
Internal notes maximum size has been expanded from 100 to 255
characters. (4.4.17)
Row labels of Who's working: Location by Week are now the
full, rather than abbreviated, location name. (4.4.17)
Error 94 no longer occurs on databases that have not yet activated
Internal Notes (i.e. have minimum version of Schedule3W less than
4.2.07). (4.4.16)
Who's/Where Working/Data View reports now include shifts starting at
midnight on the first day and Schedule by reports now include
shifts crossing midnight on the last day. (4.4.16)
Changing Start or End time via Shift Information, when the
first day conflicts, now shows just an OK message. (4.4.15)
The error message displayed, if the connection to file server has
dropped, has been expanded. (4.4.15)
Support for Send E-mail option, when adding This
Day Only shifts, has been restored. (4.4.14)
The Schedule Location(s) field of Edit>Staff has been
moved to a new Scheduler Tab and now supports Location
Groups without an error 0 at login. (4.4.14)
Icons have been standardized between Edit>Staff and scheduling
screens. (4.4.12)
Schedule by reports, when only one employee is
selected, and Employee Analysis no longer generate error 91. (4.4.11)
New Automatic User Authentication eliminates
password entry when the current Window's username matches the Edit>Staff
Username. (4.4.11)
The Edit>Staff algorithm for predicting new employee's e-mail
now considers lower case. (4.4.10)
Maximum supported Frequency expands to every
12th once
Tools>Activate>Minimum Schedule3W Level is done for
4.4.10. (4.4.10)
Tools>Maintenance>Test Tab>[Disk Speed] button now
includes a 3rd test and returns all 3 results on one screen. (4.4.09)
New Tools>Reports advanced employee select ([AdvEmpSel]
button) will select only the employees working in a location or a
location group during the report dates. Use it to show shifts in
shared locations (e.g. vacations, meetings, etc.) only for employees
actually working in a specific department. (4.4.09)
Close/shutdown on large databases is now much faster. (4.4.09)
Where Working by 14/31 days reports support choosing
full employee name as row label and Who's Working by 31
days report supports location abbreviation (once
Tools>Activate>Minimum Schedule3W Level done for
4.4.09). (4.4.09)
Support in Quick Screen Switch for As Is locations has been restored. (4.4.08)
Fast Entry and Clone now ask, for This Day Only
shifts, whether to delete the conflicting shift
and its service points (eliminates a manual delete!). (4.4.08)
Clone+Sp now supports Working shifts without a Service point. (4.4.07)
New right-click Clone+Sp option will copy the
Working shift and all of its Service Point shifts in one step. Great
for giving different people the same Saturday schedule! (4.4.07)
Help>E-mail support now automatically creates a
yourorg_Scheduler.zip file. (4.4.07)
The Do New Month Rollover? screen now appears only to
Database Administrators for the first three weeks (and then,
if not done, to all schedulers with Edit>Staff rights). (4.4.07)
The database access approach used for recurring shifts has been
revised due to an occasional 3167 error reported by one site. (4.4.07)
Emp/Loc screen now processes Control/Shift clicks
as a normal click. (4.4.06)
New Edit>Staff field of Schedule Location(s)
restricts this scheduler to just a specific Location Group or Location.
It also restricts individuals with Own scheduling or
Display rights to specific locations.
Therefore, the Edit>Location field of
Designated Employees may create/update shifts is no longer
needed. (4.4.05)
The Tools>Maintenance Show tab [Installs] screen
now allows [Delete] of past Install records. (4.4.05)
The Employee by Week Pick Location screen now only offers Willing
and Want locations for shifts of at least 3 hours to reduce
clutter (contact us if you need shorter willing/want periods). (4.4.05)
Corrected several recently introduced issues: Change Location
now works on shifts in the first location, new locations now
immediately show in select menu and Location Scheduling Grid
places avail Willing/Want in the correct rows. (4.4.04)
Summary by report functionality has been restored. (4.4.03)
Shift Bar Label and Shift List Screen now flag that a
shift has Internal Notes by prefixing external notes with an asterisk (*). (4.4.03)
The Location by Day screen's No Available Locations
message now includes details of any conflicting shift. (4.4.02)
Switching from Location/Employee by Week to Location by Day
is now 80% faster on larger databases. (4.4.02)
Tools>Activate screen now includes the actual date of last use by
any earlier versions. (4.4.02)
Help>About Schedule3W screen now shows
Minimum Version of Schedule3W that can open this database. (4.4.02)
Corrected New Month Open error (introduced in 4.4.01) re
Staffing Levels for databases scheduling midnight or
later. (4.4.02)
The Location by Day screen's No Available Locations
message now includes a location select is active tip. (4.4.01)
Emp/Loc, when listing Employees, now shows names in the format
specified by the Location by Day/ESG control Display
Options>Name Format. (4.4.01)
When automatically invoked during installation, Schedule3W now
lists any earlier versions of Schedule3W on other PCs
and, if no earlier version has run in two weeks, recommends that a
Tools>Activate>This as Minimum Schedule3W Version be
done.
V4.4 August 2011
(4.3.17)
Web View now supports flagging predefined URLs as Only
Display Output (i.e. no Calendar, select options, etc.) by adding
&oo=1. (4.3.17)
New Edit>Staff Scheduling Right of Scheduler (No
Edit>Staff) is available once Tools>Activate>This as Minimum
Schedule3W Version is done. (4.3.17)
In Tools>Web Services [Option], changing to Auto Start as
Windows Service, now immediately validates whether the Service was
setup. (4.3.17)
Database View: Employee hours proof automatic filtering of
service point hours for two level staff has been restored. (4.3.17)
Staff Levels are no longer impacted by changing
Tools>Options>Staffing hours setting for Earliest/Latest
Time someone can be scheduled in. (4.3.16)
The Location by Day screen refresh, with the default Show Unscheduled
Employees, is now 80% faster on larger databases. (4.3.16)
New Location by Day Sort By option of By Working Location
shows a shared pool of employees grouped by the
building/area at which they working that day. (4.3.16)
Registration now displays a warning if another PC is already using a later
version of Schedule3W on this database. The recommended approach to
lock out earlier versions is still to click Tools>Activate>This as minimum
version. (4.3.16)
Error 5 in Tools>Reports, caused by clicking a Favorite Report
name referencing a definition file not on this PC (e.g. the Favorite
was defined on another PC with a later version of Schedule3W), has
been replaced with a friendly message. (4.3.15)
Location by Day, Employee Scheduling Grid and
Available Staff Screens now also support showing employee name
as First Last or Abbreviation. Change formats by new
right-click menu of Display Options>Name Format. (4.3.15)
New Tools>Activate>Better Performing Notes
upgrades database to new shift notes structure which uses less disk space,
is slightly faster and better handles network server disconnects. (4.3.15)
New overview on using Schedule3W for Room Booking
is in Help>Index; enter term Room. (4.3.15)
Change Location now retains any Internal Shift Notes. (4.3.15)
Switching from a database without a Web license to one with a
license, via Tools>Options, no longer clears the Web license. (4.3.15)
The right-click menu entries in Location by Day for Sort by,
Text Size and Show Unscheduled Staff are now
under the new Display Options entry. (4.3.14)
The number of reports that may be designated as a scheduler's My Favorites
has been tripled and, if exceeded, no longer generates a 3163 error. (4.3.14)
Up/Down arrows may now be used to traverse My Favorites
Reports list. (4.3.14)
The Registration Screen now includes information on the
current database to highlight when a new database has been installed
instead of connecting to an existing one (i.e. to emphasize that
additional PCs for an existing database are automatically registered). (4.3.14)
Tools>Options>Diagnostics Tab [Validate Shifts] is now faster
and includes several additional validations. (4.3.14)
The database access approach used for changing a recurring shift has been
revised due to an occasional 3167 error encountered at some larger
sites. (4.3.13)
Even if [Ok&Exit] was pressed on the Fast Entry or
Clone screen,
a [Cancel] on Conflict Screen returns you to that input screen. (4.3.12)
Location by Day Screen's working and on-desk hours per person
totals are now updated as each change is made. (4.3.12)
Conflict Screen now:
- allows you to delete working shifts when adding vacation/sick shifts.
- allows you to delete up to 4 months of shifts with a matching frequency.
- highlights when multiple shifts conflict with the new shift's time.
(4.3.12)
Fast Entry and Clone screens now directly display the
Conflict Screen even if there is a conflict on the first date. (4.3.12)
Tool>Maintenance>Show Tab>[Installs] display of Install and
last use dates of Schedule3W has been improved. (4.3.12)
Edit>Location now requires a delete confirmation even if there
are no shifts in that location. (4.3.12)
Who's/Where working: * by # days reports no longer generate an
error when the first day includes over midnight shifts from the previous day. (4.3.12)
The correct location's staffing levels are shown even if location is
changed in Tools>Staffing Levels. (4.3.11)
Start-up Wizard error, when returning from
Edit>Location, has been eliminated. (4.3.10)
New
Database view: Employee x Location Hours Report displays for
each employee: total hours, total on-desk hours and total hours per
location. Optional subtotals/summary by Home Location or
Type. (4.3.10)
Tools>Reports [AdvSelect] settings are now retained for the
session (hint: fastest way to clear is to click a favorite report). (4.3.10)
Renewal Reminder now highlights e-mailing
info@schedule3W.com for new license when approved for renewal. (4.3.09)
New Closed days of week control in Tools>Options.
Advancing by day in Location by Day and Employee/Location Scheduling
Grids skips over these closed days and they aren't shown in the
Grids. (4.3.09)
New Employee/Location Scheduling Grid [Option] control of
Just for days of week (i.e. you may now work with a grid of just
Sundays). (4.3.07)
New Time Clock In/Out feature which includes optional Sign
In/Out login, formal approval of shifts and Flag
Unapproved option in Where Working: Employee x week/14
days reports. See Help>Index, term
In/Out and click Overview. (4.3.07)
Changes to specific shifts are now faster as now only that
row of bars is refreshed (rather than the full screen). (4.3.07)
Tools>Reports now has:
- new [Advance] button for changing margins
and, for Who's/Where Working reports, adding blank lines to
the cells.
- new [AdvSelect] button opens new Advanced Selects
Screen to provide further control of the shifts to be included
(e.g. only shifts that end after 6pm).
(4.3.07)
Edit>Staff supports new employee fields of: Start Date,
Employee#, Username and Home Phone. (4.3.07)
Edit>Staff/Location now bold the currently selected item for
improved visibility with Vista/Windows 7 Aero Themes. (4.3.07)
The right-click options of Change Employee/Location and
Replace now track the was employee/location on the newly
generated shift (in addition to the changed shift). (4.3.07)
Tailored tip is now included in the error message generated due to
connection to network drive being lost. (4.3.06)
ICal issue from 4.3.03 has been corrected. (4.3.05)
The stardard error screen format has been tweaked to provide better
access to any tips URL. (4.3.04)
Edit>Location now supports all subtypes being changed to/from
Off/Unavailable. (4.3.04)
Change Web Server action now provides expanded instructions
and automatically clears Start as Windows Service to highlight
that the service must be created on the new system. (4.3.03)
Edit>Location now supports three new Location Subtypes
for unpaid time
(Unavailable, Off and Service Point
(not in total)) giving you the power to setup multiple locations, control bar
color, Change Location and include in reports. For details, in
Edit>Location, click Add Unavailable Locations. (4.3.03)
For improved employee privacy, Web View now optionally shows all Sick
and Vacation type shifts under a single label that you specify in
Tools>Web Services>[Options] (e.g. Out or
Sick/Vac). (4.3.03)
Web View's Graph format now includes an asterisk (*) on shifts
with notes set (click the bar to view the note). (4.3.03)
Web View's Web Server has been updated to eliminate a security flaw
that allowed access to known local files on the server. (4.3.03)
Web View now reflects changes to
Time Period to be shown on screens in
Tools>Options without a Stop/Start Server. (4.3.03)
Location Scheduling Grid now uses lunch rules when
calculating each cell's total hours. (4.3.02)
New E-Mail button on Select>Multiple Employees opens
an empty e-mail addressed to the selected employees.
V4.3 January 2011
Highlights of the many features added:
(4.2.23)
New Web Bar Graph displays: Employees x Time
and Days x Time for an Employee. (4.2.20)
New option in Where/Who's Working: * by Week/14/31 days reports
to Show Cell Totals. Great for proofing or Time Sheet submission! (4.2.19)
New [Installs] button on Tools>Maintenance Show tab
lists the versions Installed after 4.2.18 and when last
used. (4.2.19)
New Tools>Activate>This as Minimum Schedule3W Version
option that allows you to ensure all PCs have been upgraded
and prevents old versions (i.e. MSI) files from being used by mistake
in the future. (4.2.16)
Expanded error message for permission problems during a new
install using a UNC database path and for database upgrades. (4.2.14)
All Message Boxes have been reformatted for
Windows 7 sizing. (4.2.12)
New Database view: Employee Hours Proof report simplifies
reviewing hours scheduled by week and the difference
between Actual and Standard hours. (4.2.12)
The Employee by Week screen now displays that
Employee's total hours working, any difference from
Standard hours and total on-desk hours. (4.2.11)
New Change Employee & Replace Shift right-click option for
Working (assignable to SP) shifts means one less step to
change an employee's shifts to a substitute and schedule the employee
into sick/vacation. (4.2.11)
Installs on Windows7/Vista systems no longer need to do an
extra step (i.e. DSN location automatically handled). (4.2.10)
The Select>Employee/Multiple Employees menus may now be
changed to First Last format and sort. (4.2.10)
New Weekend Lunch Rules capability allows
different formulas for Saturday and/or Sunday (including the option
to bonus extra hours). (4.2.09)
Tool>Web Services [Options] may now be accessed,
without stopping Web View, by users with
Db Administrator rights from any PC and all settings, except
Auto Start and Port#, may be revised.
(4.2.09)
If a Select>Employee is active, now the Available Staff
screen only checks/displays those employees (i.e. faster and
a more tailored display) and Location by Day screen
includes all the employees in the select. (4.2.09)
New overview on Day Level Notes / Announcements
for schedules and Web View is available in Help>Index, term
Global Notes. (4.2.09)
The Available Staff screen, when accessed via right-click E-mail
Replacements or when a shift is drawn below the last person in
Location by Day, now includes a [Select All] button for
simplified mass e-mails and entry of shifts for paid Public Holidays. (4.2.08)
Now easy to delete all shifts for a location for a specific day of
the week for a period (e.g. closed on Mondays over the summer) or
after a specific date (e.g. an unfortunate location closure) using
Advanced>Delete Shifts in Edit>Location. (4.2.07)
New separate Internal Notes field on each shift. These notes
do not show on the Web or on any report. (4.2.07)
Web View, when closed for maintenance, now shows when it was
closed and by what IP#. (4.2.06)
New Just specific day of week reporting option (e.g. Just
Sundays) in Who's/Where: * by # days reports. (4.2.06)
New Show tab in Tools>Maintenance lists all currently
logged in workstations, users and login time (shows at login if all
licenses are in use). (4.2.06)
New Help on this Report option in the right-click menu for
all reports and favorites. (4.2.03)
New Flip All option in Select>Multiple
Employees/Locations Screens to reverse which Employees/Locations
are selected.
V4.2 June 2010
Highlights of the many features added:
(4.1.14)
New Wall Calendar Month report formats: Who's working:
Month by Location and Where working: Month by Employee. (4.1.13)
Employee/Location Scheduling Grids now support displaying a
full month on the screen. Activate via
[Options]. (4.1.13)
New Display Only access! Edit>Staff's
Schedule3W Rights now offers Display only and Display only +
Reports choices. (4.1.12)
All Reports and Favorite Reports now support a footnote.
Great for customizing! (4.1.12)
If you need to enter time earned for Paid Holidays, see new overview
using Help>Index enter Holiday and click Paid time
entry. (4.1.11)
Where working: Employee x Week report now has an option to
Show Actual-Std hrs, rather than Actual hrs,
in the Hours column. (4.1.11)
The colors used in Dates and Times column/row labels are now
explicitly set to eliminate issues due to non standard
Window's color theme choices. (4.1.10)
New Employee Groups feature! As well as selecting specific employees, Groups
may be based on Home Locations and/or Employee Types to
be self maintaining. (4.1.10)
See new overview on setting up Meetings using Schedule3W via
Help>Index and enter Meeting setup. (4.1.09)
Web Server now stays up even if the disk serving the database
is no longer available (and displays a page telling user to try again
later). (4.1.07)
New Quick Screen Switch feature gives one or two
click (and faster) access to all your favorite scheduling screen setups.
(4.1.07)
Switching from Location by Day now opens the new screen at the
start of that work week (or today) rather than starting at the
displayed date. (4.1.07)
A retry option is now shown if an update encounters a locked shift. (4.1.02)
New Fast Date Change drop down menu beside the date button at
top of all scheduling screens gives immediate access to popular
dates. (4.1.01)
Recurring Screen now includes up
to 4 Quick Fill buttons (user defined in
Edit>Recurring Quick Fill). With one click you can
now tick Ongoing, select Every 4th week and even press [OK].
V4.1 January 2010
Highlights of the many features added:
(4.0.16)
The header of scheduling screens now display:
- The week number relative to the current week
- The Rotation week if activated in Tools>Options>Staff
Hours Tab
(4.0.14)
Now easier and faster to enter shifts like work 3 Fridays and on
the 4th week a Saturday or reference desk 2-3pm every Monday
except a meeting the 2nd Monday of every month as:
- New shifts (and increasing Until date) now present
any conflicts in a single Shift Conflict Screen.
- The new Shift Conflict screen supports additional options of
first deleting the conflicting shifts or simply cancelling.
See Help>Index enter Frequency and click Entry of Custom(4.0.12)
Schedule3W now supports a silent command line install for upgrades. (4.0.10)
Monthly Rollover conflicts, if any, now are reported at the end in a spreadsheet.
(4.0.06)
The Where/Who's Working report cells are now able to include more
shifts/notes. (4.0.05)
The Open a new month rollover is now at least 50% faster. (4.0.05)
Standard error message box now includes a Copy to clipboard
button to make it easy to forward an error. (4.0.05)
The Employee/Location Scheduling Grids' Shift List screen now
includes shifts that start at midnight. (4.0.03)
The Location Popup, when adding a new shift by drawing, is now
instanteous regardless of the number of locations. (4.0.02)
Change Location of an assignable location shift to a
location that doesn't allow service points (e.g. vacation) now offers to
delete the service points. (4.0.02)
New E-mail button on Shift Information opens a draft
e-mail to current employee about that shift. (4.0.02)
The Employee by Week screen now may be opened by double
clicking the employee name in Location by Day and
Location Scheduling Grid screens.
V4.0 July 2009
Highlights of the many features added:
(3.8.16)
Where/Who's working reports now display 15%
(on small databases) to 70% (on larger databases) faster. (3.8.14)
Available Staff Screen now displays 50% (on small databases)
to 95% (on larger databases) faster. (3.8.14)
Web View now includes your Location Groups as choices
in the location select list, option to show active now shifts
and new format Shifts by Date (in addition to by Location or Employee). (3.8.12)
Employee and Location Scheduling Grids now display 75%
to 90% faster. (3.8.12) The
iCalendar feature of Web Services now exports
working assignable to service points shifts flagged
as free time so Outlook's schedule
meeting option can be used. New tips page
detailing how to create a Generate iCalendar shortcut and how
to easily import into Outlook. (3.8.11)
Creating and modifying shifts (i.e. time between clicking OK and
screen refresh) is now faster by 25% (on smaller databases) to 50%
(on larger databases)!. (3.8.11)
Your Schedule3W database's structure is now automatically optimized
whenever the database has significantly grown (rather than just monthly). (3.8.10)
New minimum version of Schedule3W that may access your
database control. (3.8.04)
The four Where/Who's working: * x time period reports now support a
12 time period format (in addition to the prior 10 period format). Just
press [Time Period] and define the extra periods! (3.8.04)
Location by day screen now allows you to control whether
unscheduled staff appear. (3.8.01)
New favorite reports makes running a regular report
as easy as: click the favorite and click [Show]! Features include:
- Full configurations are saved (e.g. all options, dynamic date
periods such as next week, employee/location selects, etc)!
- New My Favorites area so all schedulers can track
which favorites they use.
- New Edit>Favorite Report screen to manage favorites
including seeing who created, when and who last changed, renaming
and optionally adding instructions to each favorite (e.g. when to run,
where to save as a PDF, etc.).
(3.8.01)
The Tools>Maintenance screen's Test tab now includes a
Test Internet connection option.
V3.8 January 2009
Highlights of the many features added:
(3.7.20)
One less click on all recurring screens! The Until and
On-going options have been moved up to replace the Recurring
option. (3.7.14)
Available Staff popup screen is now subsorted within
Assignment Group Priority by an availability score (e.g.
people flagged as want to work will list first within that
priority). (3.7.12)
Direct assign employees (i.e. all employees in a one
level database) now, like Schedule then assign employees,
have a separate subtotal of time spent at locations with a subtype
Service Point (on desk). Great for instantly seeing employee's
time in a group of locations. (3.7.11)
Where working- Employee x Time Period and Who's working-
Location x Time Period reports now provide a []Page per day. (3.7.10)
Employee Quick View screen now, in addition to showing
an employee's schedule for a week, also provides for each
location:
hours, shifts and days worked for the week being viewed, for that month
and for the prior month. (3.7.09)
The Available Staff popup, when scheduling a service point in
a two level database, now shows each employee's current working
location. This simplifies picking from people working that area
without having to invoke a filter. (3.7.09)
The Employee/Location Relationship screen's global update
option has expanded tips. (3.7.08)
The Available Staff popup now provides how many hours each
employee has been scheduled to work this week at the service point being
scheduled (in addition to on desk hours this week). This
helps fairly assign a high stress location! (3.7.07)
Employees now may load their schedules into most calendar programs
(including Outlook) using Web View's new
ICalendar feature. The employee displays his/her schedule,
clicks the ICal icon and follows the simple instructions. (3.7.03) Now you can schedule staff
to work and assign them to a service point in one step! On the
Recurring Screen simply tick the new Then Clone for an SP
shift option.
V3.7 June 2008
Highlights of the many features added:
(3.6.23) You may now define Location
Groups. Great time saver! (3.6.18) The end on date for
recurring shifts is now changeable in Shift Information. (3.6.18) The Scheduling Grids,
selection by Home Location and Emp/Loc screen are all
faster! (3.6.18) The right-click on a
shift menu now includes the option to switch to
Location by Day or Week for the shift's location and to
Employee by Week. Great for drilling down! (3.6.18) The
Who's/Where working by week/14 days reports now support an
option to suppress the date in the column header (i.e. only show day of
week). This is used by sites (e.g. universities) that publish a
standard schedule for a term. (3.6.17) Web View now may be
flagged to be automatically started using Window's Services. (3.6.15)
Edit>Staff now supports defining multiple Lunch Rules to
automatically deduct lunch from shift duration (e.g.
automatically deduct 30 minutes from shifts 4 to 6 hours long and
40 minutes from shifts 6 hours or longer). (3.6.10) If you didn't initially setup
Employee/Location relationships (e.g. Jane can't work at
Reference), it is
now much quicker to do so using new global set feature in the
Emp/Loc screen. (3.6.5)
Service Points are now differentiated as on desk or off
desk so reports and displays now show on desk, rather than
at service point totals. (3.6.5) Web View now
includes a link for adding the current web display to your Bookmarks or
saving as a shortcut. (3.6.5) The prior location and prior
employee of any shift are now automatically maintained in explicit
database fields (rather than as was comments in notes). (3.6.5) When changing a shift, notes may
now be directly changed on the Recurring screen for any This
day only shifts. (3.6.5) Tools>Reports
now displays a Printer Options screen (e.g. to switch printers or turn
on color setting).
V3.6 December 2007
Highlights of the many features added:
(3.5.68)
Edit>Location now restricts new, edit and delete options to
users with Schedule3W Rights set to DBAdministrator. (3.5.65)
Summary per employee per location and Summary per location
per employee reports now have a number of days column in addition
to number of hours. (3.5.64)
New Delete over Range of days added, with option to include all
locations. Simplifies adding vacations! (3.5.64)
New Until option for all change shift options. (3.5.62)
Employee/Location Scheduling Grids now use the same
filters active in Location by week/day screens.
(3.5.59) The starting day of your
work week may now be other than Sunday (update in Tools >
Options > Staffed hours). (3.5.56)
New Compact tab in Tools > Maintenance allows
you to compress your database if it has significantly grown since
the automatic "end of month" compact. (3.5.56)
New version 2.0 of the optional Web View released:
- new option for you to control number of days, or to date,
shifts may be
displayed in the future and in the past.
- new automatic detection if port# is already in use by
another program.
- new calendar interface to allow start and end dates to be easily
selected.
- new option to select multiple locations and/or multiple employees.
(3.5.54) Optimization made scheduling
screens and the Who's and Where
Working reports over 50% faster. (3.5.36) Now you can drag and
drop shifts between employees in the Location by Day
screen and between dates/times in Location by Week screen. (3.5.28) In Location Scheduling Grid
define your own Who's available
rows (e.g. whose available 1-5pm) by clicking Option and
the label Avail/Open. (3.5.19) New Employee
Status of Historical
automatically deletes future shifts (but keeps history). (3.5.17)
New Employee Type field. (3.5.10)
New Delete Tab in Tools > Maintenance for
database administrators to delete shifts before a specified
date. (3.5.07) Optionally, show the location's background color in
Where working: Time period reports. (3.5.04) Specific employees
now may be permitted to schedule own availability and even
designated or all locations.
V3.5 May 2006
Multiple concurrent user
licenses User login, with optional
passwords, provides user level session defaults and
modification history More Schedule formats
including Time Periods as rows, option to include
shift notes, more sort options, full name option and choice
of text size and font Designate favorite reports for
easy future access Optional web server supports
alternate port#s and All Locations mode Fast Entry is now even
faster due to the new per location shift start time and duration Employee/Location
Relationship screen also may be accessed from the
Location Screen and supports designating whether each
employee is part of the primary, secondary or tertiary group to
staff this location
V3.4 October 2005
Scheduling across midnight Location by
Day displays total hours at service points & working Delete supports a range
of shifts Six new reporting
date range shortcuts Easier to read
Where/Who's working reports Lots of additional reporting
options
Changes since
can be highlighted in reports Web View option to
access live schedule
V3.3 February
2005
Two new wysiwyg scheduling
screens Location by Day screen
is easier to read Shift Information
screen now allows changing Start or End time Find replacements faster with
new e-mail available employees option New option to select
employees by Home location Expanded Help>Quick tips
V3.2
November 2004
Schedule multiple employees in one operation New Where working report: Employee by Time Period New Who's working report: Location by Week New Schedule Grid By Employee 31 days report New Help>E-mail support menu to mail support, optionally
with database Option to report on assignable locations with service point
time removed Schedule>Employee by Week screen now loads twice as fast
V3.1
September 2004
New Schedule Grid by Time Period report 10 times faster Available Staff Pop-up screen Faster staff entry through automatic cloning Standard shift option in Fast Entry screen New live database view report New total hours column in Schedule Grid by Employee report Easier navigation via New tool bar and day/week buttons 8 times faster refresh of the By Week screen
V3.0
August 2004
two level scheduling (work 9-5, at ref.
desk 10-12 & 2-4) 8 times faster refresh of the By Week
screen fast entry form mode clone existing shift option who's working where at-a-glance report number of people per location by hour report
V2.2
April 2004
easier faster entry of employee availability faster changing staff assigned to a shift integrated record sick and replace sick day pattern review screen one click to answer vacation used question one click to e-mail a shift change more reports with more control
V2.1
May 2003
schedule multiple locations at once alternating shifts (every 3rd Saturday) add action notes to shifts employees' location skill levels more reports with more control new start-up wizard network drive installs
V2.0
January 2003
week at a glance scheduling all popular date formats supported easily e-mail employee schedules more reports with more control actual & projected hours & cost easier, faster staff schedule entry
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