We’re excited to share the latest updates and enhancements to SafetyChain! Below, you’ll find the release notes covering new features and improvements made available between January 7, 2025 and February 4, 2025.

This summary is designed to help you stay informed and get the most out of your SafetyChain experience. As always, we’re committed to continuously improving our platform and providing you with tools to streamline your operations.

Noteworthy Highlights

• A Better Way to Stay Informed: SafetyChain’s New Product Deployment & Release Notes Schedule - We’re enhancing how we roll out updates to provide a smoother experience with more frequent improvements, better in-product guidance, and clearer release notes. Bug fixes and features will now be deployed weekly with no downtime, and our new release notes format will offer a retrospective summary of updates every month.

Features Released

Mobile: "SafetyChain App"

Latest Version: v1.21

• What's New?

  • BlueTherm Device Integration for Android: Now supports BlueTooth Low Energy (BLE) devices, bringing the SafetyChain App in line with M2. iOS support coming soon!

  • Smarter Form Completion: Missed a field? The app will guide you directly to it for quick, easy completion.

  • Improved Navigation on Android: The ‘Next’ button now collapses the keyboard on the last form field for smoother navigation.

  • Faster Task Loading: Enhanced performance for quicker access and responsiveness in the Tasks tab.

• More Information: For additional insights, and to view the related bugs resolved, please read the Spotlight post titled, "Announcing SafetyChain App Version 1.21".

Resources

Resource Attribute Filtering

• You can now filter Resources based on their attributes directly from the Resources by Attributes screen.

• What’s New?

  • After selecting a Resource Type, open the filter panel to:

    • Choose a Resource Attribute.

    • Select the corresponding Resource Attribute Value.

  • Save your filter settings to easily reuse them in the Resources by Attributes grid.

• Why It Matters: This enhancement allows for precise, efficient filtering, helping you focus on the specific data needed for your workflows or reporting. These updates are designed to simplify your data management, help you quickly locate the exact data you need, and improve your experience.

• More Information: View our interactive guide, "Resource Attribute Filtering" and Knowledge Base article, "Resource Attributes Grid" for additional details.

Supplier Compliance

We’ve introduced two exciting enhancements to the Supplier Compliance module to improve efficiency and provide greater control over your data.

Supplier Requirement Data Dependent on Filtering

• We’ve made updates to the Supplier Compliance > Suppliers page to improve performance and help you find the data you need more quickly.

• What’s New?

  • When navigating to the Suppliers page, data will no longer load automatically.

  • Instead, you can:

    • Choose to ‘View All’ to display all supplier data.

    • Immediately apply any of your saved filters.

    • Use the filter panel to customize and select the filters you need.

• Why It Matters: These changes reduce unnecessary data loading, improve page performance, and allow for more precise filtering, saving you time and streamlining your workflow.

• More Information: View our interactive guide, "Supplier Compliance in LINK" and Knowledge Base article, "Supplier Compliance: Suppliers Tab".

Multi-Attribute Filtering for Supplier Attributes

• You asked, and we delivered! We’ve enhanced filtering in Supplier Compliance to help you refine your data views more effectively.

• What’s New?

  • When applying a Supplier Attribute filter, you can now select multiple attributes simultaneously. For example:

  • Filter by Country of Origin and Approval Status at the same time.

• Why It Matters: This improvement, combined with saved filter capabilities, provides greater flexibility in creating custom views and Improved accuracy for reporting or approving requirements. By applying multiple filters, you can drill down into the exact data you need, streamlining your compliance workflows and ensuring no detail is missed.

• More Information: View our Knowledge Base article, "Supplier Compliance: Suppliers Tab".

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