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Release Notes: March 2024
SafetyChain is excited to announce the details for the March 2024 monthly release!
Highlights include:
(OEE) New Built-in Pareto Analysis: Based on your feedback, we've added a new ‘Downtime Pareto’ view on the Live Monitoring screen. This allows you to quickly analyze all Downtime Events by line during shift huddles, daily meetings, or other management meetings.
(LINK) Daylight Saving Time Setting Adjustment: We have configured settings in LINK to automatically update the times displayed in Charts when Daylight Saving occurs, eliminating the need for users to update charts to account for these time changes. Read below to see which product areas are impacted by this change!
Dynamic Flow allows you to create seamless workflows for your operators based on basic logic. You can harness that logic for complex workflows when you take the time to map out these processes. Now, there are more opportunities for you to work through solutions with Dynamic Flow with two small, but impactful changes:
(LINK) “Any Field” Trigger Selection is Now Available for Dynamic Flow: Users can now create a workflow to generate a target task if ANY field is compliant or non-compliant and it does NOT need to have “Fails Check” on.
(LINK) More Complex Dynamic Flow Logic is Available: You can now select multiple fields as the action trigger for field compliance and non-compliance flows; the selected fields will act in an “AND” statement.
We are working on reducing the amount of clicks and times you have to navigate away from your work to get something done. This month we were able to add functionality to the Tasks tab in Task Scheduler:
(LINK) Task Editing Available in Task Scheduler Module: You can now complete discrete edits on an individual task from the task reporting views or from the Task Scheduler module.
To view more information on these releases and more, including related images & demo videos, please continue reading in the release notes below!
March Version Numbers
LINK 2.40
iOS, Android 6.44 - There are no mobile releases this month.
Windows Apps 6.45
For customers using MDM to update the apps following this release, please use the below link.
A reminder from your Product and Support team: Ensuring your devices have the most recent SafetyChain App version is highly advised. If you are using an old version of the SafetyChain app for your mobile submissions, you are at risk for unexpected behavior and will not be able to take advantage of all new mobile features.
Top 5 Highlights
(OEE) New Built-in Pareto Analysis: Quickly analyze all Downtime Events by line during shift huddles, daily meetings, or other management meetings through the new ‘Downtime Pareto’ view on the Live Monitoring screen.
(LINK) Daylight Saving Time Setting Adjustment: We have configured settings in LINK to automatically update the times displayed in Charts when Daylight Saving occurs, eliminating the need for users to update charts to account for these time changes.
To benefit from these new settings, all charts that were built using Report Builder prior to January 29, 2024, will need to be recreated one time to apply the enhancement.
All charts built after January 29, 2024 DO NOT need to be updated.
The enhancement applies to the following product areas:
All Charts (Field, Form, and SPC Charts)
Record Side View
Records Card View
Records Grid View Export
Records Spreadsheet View
Records Spreadsheet View Export
Report Builder --> All Data Report
Report Builder --> Records Report
Report Builder --> Fields Report
Export Utility Reports (All)
Export Utility Reports Exports (All)
Side Record Charts --> View Details Chart
Side Record Charts --> View Details Chart Export
(LINK) “Any Field” Trigger Selection is Now Available for Dynamic Flow: Previously, the “Any Field” selection did not work for Field Compliance and non-Compliance workflows. Instead, users were required to select either a specific field or utilize the Form compliance/non-compliance triggers. Now, users can create a workflow to generate a target task if ANY field is compliant or non-compliant and it does NOT need to have “Fails Check” on.
Big opportunity for impact: You can set a single field to have compliance to drive the workflow without having to make it pass or fail the whole form.
(LINK) More Complex Dynamic Flow Logic is Available: You can now select multiple fields as the action trigger for field compliance and non-compliance flows. The fields selected will act in an “AND” statement.
Example: Select “Weight Avg” and “Temperature Avg” fields for a field non-compliance flow. The Target task will only be triggered if BOTH fields fail.
This may allow you to complete logic flows that were not possible before without an expression code.
To view a demo video on the two above Dynamic Flow items, please click the 'Watch Video' button below.
(LINK) Task Editing Available in Task Scheduler Module: You can now complete discrete edits on an individual task from the task reporting views or from the Task Scheduler module. Previously, you would need to navigate away from Task Scheduler to complete these actions but now, no matter what screen you are in to manage tasks, you can edit the due date, reassign workgroups, skip and recall tasks.
Here’s What Else Went Live This Month
(API) Search for Disabled & Enabled Resources: Added the ability to query for disabled and/or enabled resources on the POST /clientapis/v2.0/GetResourceAttributes endpoint, allowing users to easily search for all resources.
(LINK) Comments are Optional when Releasing a Form: The Release Form pop up was requiring a comment when users released forms from the Forms Management Module in LINK. This has been updated to have the expected behavior - the field is optional.
(LINK) Single Method to Close Slide Out Panels: Currently, when you open a User, Resource, Form, etc., a slide out panel will open to allow you to view and edit more details about the selected item. If you click out of the panel, it automatically closes for you. We’ve found this behavior has caused many users to accidentally leave a screen when they didn’t mean to. Based on helpful customer feedback, we have updated the slide out panels in the management modules to close only if you click on the “X” in the upper right hand corner.
Note: The Filter panel will still close if you click out of it; we are evaluating this change and will solicit more user feedback.
(LINK) Visibility on Users with ‘ALL’ Location Association in Slide Out Panel: Users can be individually selected or deselected in the Locations module from each location. Now, in the slide out panel, you’ll also see users that have access to the location due to the “ALL” association. This will help improve troubleshooting and managing access to the locations.
Users with “ALL” cannot be deselected from the location; this would be done on the user profile to manage the location associations for that user.
(LINK) Count of Users with 'ALL' Location Association in Locations Module: The Locations module will continue to display a unique count for each location’s directly associated Users. Now, there will also be a total count at the top of the grid to display how many users have “ALL” associated to them. This will give insights into the total number of users that have access to each location, without inflating each location with the same additional user count.
(LINK) Comments Visible in Forms History: The History tab in the Form Detail slide out panel will now include the Comments for past versions, which were previously missing from the view.
(LINK) Role-based Permissions for Downtime Tracking: Customers using Downtime Tracking are now be able to control user access through Secure Profile rights.
(OEE) 'Available Time' Displayed in Report Builder: To make it easier to validate calculations, “Available Time” is now displayed as a column in OEE Report Builder, representing the duration that a line is available to run. This calculation is based off of the following scenarios:
For Planned: Available Time = Planned Start Time - Planned End Time
For Actual: Available Time = Last Incount Time - Actual Start Time
We Fixed Some Bugs
(Web) When importing resources using the Form Transfer Utility (FTU), the default value setup for resources would not transfer when importing select one or Multi-Select type fields. Now, the default value will be used when importing a resource without a value.
(Web) Previously, when editing a scheduled task, there was no validation to check if a task would generate based on the start / end dates with the scheduled day(s) of the week. Now, a message will be provided to prevent saving schedules where tasks would not generate.
(LINK) The pop-up message, “Profile name already exists. Please add the new profile name“ will display when a user tries to add a new Secure Profile whose name is the same as one previously added.
(LINK) With the ‘Include Images’ checkbox, users can include or exclude the attachments. The attachments name will also now support special characters (&, <, >, #, ", ‘).
(LINK) An issue was resolved where ‘Cases’ titles were not successfully supporting special characters. This is now working as expected.
(LINK) Users were seeing the “Interval” task schedule option even if it wasn’t enabled for the tenant. This option will now only be displayed if that scheduling option is available for the tenant. If you no longer see this option and would like to utilize, please reach out to your CSM.
Various other bug fixes and improvements
Finally, Some Logistical Updates from the SafetyChain Team
Release Dates: we intend to release this into the Live environment on 03/31/2024 for Web & LINK, and will also publish the mobile apps on this date.
Feature/Bug Fix Availability: The label in parentheses that appears in front of each feature or bug indicates if that update is part of the API, OEE, Web, LINK and/or app release(s).
Downtime: SafetyChain’s monthly release cycle requires one window of downtime, which takes place during the Web release and effects both the Web and LINK applications. During the 90 minutes of downtime, users may continue to operate in Offline Mode via the Mobile Apps (learn more about this here). Downtime does not occur during the LINK release.
Downtime Start/End Times:
Supplier Compliance Module Available in TRAIN
The following will be available in TRAIN after the March Release; stay tuned for more details.
(LINK) New Supplier Compliance Module: Enjoy a faster, simpler process to create and manage your requirements with a LINK-based module! This includes exciting new features such as:
Supplier Compliance Migration Tools: We have created new tools to enable a seamless transition to the new Supplier Compliance Management Module! These tools will allow us to move your existing requirements, tasks, and history so all aspects of your data are readily available. Each customer will be contacted by the SafetyChain team to review your data prior to migration; keep an eye out for more details on this process in an upcoming Spotlight post!
Supplier Requirement Expiration Dates: For requirements that need to be collected on a recurring basis, automatically create and send tasks to suppliers by setting an expiration date when approving a supplier’s document or form.
Supplier Requirement Permissions: Utilize additional permissions to control access to your supplier requirements! These new requirements provide controls for who has full access to change requirement data, who can add or remove resources from a requirement, and who should see the data in a read-only mode.
Supplier Portal Customer Notice: The Customer Notice is now visible in the new Supplier Portal! Customers can continue to configure their own unique message, which can be viewed by all Suppliers once they are logged in.
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