Silverlining

• Fixed an issue preventing text alerts from being sent.
   

Synovia App

• Fixed an error with reporting the vehicle's last position.
   

New Synovia Site (https://login.synovia.com)

• Fixed a bug on the Vehicle History screen that stopped normal functioning if you mapped the history for selected vehicles and then deselected any of them.
   
• Rolled out support for the Comparative Analysis module.
   
• Added CA reports to Core >> Reports.
   
• Fixed a bug that prevented alerts and zone speed rules from being saved (due to unsupported time span symbols).
   
• Added a visual indicator to show users to which menu group their current screen belongs – a white pipe along the left side of the accordion menu.
   
• Fixed an issue when exporting the Event Alert Daily Details report that caused the Timestamp column to be displayed as all hashes.
   
• Fixed a Firefox UI issue on the Fleet Tracking screen that caused the bottom of the tree to be inaccessible for large, expanded groups.
   
• Fixed small Firefox and Internet Explorer UI issues with the new CA screens, plus the Broadcast Message screen.
   
• Changed the color of zones with Ignore for RGC turned on to red for both the boundary and fill.
   
• On the Hardware screen, fixed the sizing of the address and comments text boxes.
   
• On map screens with clustering turned on, fixed an issue when exporting to a PDF that wasn't showing the diagrams.
   
• Fixed a bug that returned an error when trying to load data for zones.
   
• Fixed a bug that wasn't allowing grid cells on the Event Points screen to be selected.
   
• Fixed issues for customers with multiple customer account selections when they changed customers: being returned to the default customer when a page was refreshed, displaying the wrong zones in the Zone Categories pop-up and then disabling the Zones button, and not switching the Fleet Tracking and Map Nearby data.
   
• Fixed the screen names on the Edit Role screen.
   
• Fixed a bug that had Synovia Corporation set as the default customer when a user logged in for the first time.
   
• Fixed small UI issues on the Hardware, Vehicles, and Work in Progress screens, including not being able to select cells and buttons not changing appearance when selected.
   
• Added a Notes column to the Inventory grid, which is populated by a new Notes field on the Add/Edit Inventory screen.
   
• Hotfix on 6/9: Fixed alerts not being sent out. After the hotfix, many alerts were emailed to catch up.
   

For information about the site, please go to https://synovia.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/22000171553-what-s-new.

To see a video of some of these new features, go to 2017.06 Synovia Updates.

Comparative Analysis

• Fixed a bug that was causing Geobus imports to return a posted speed error.
   
• Fixed an issue with student packets not coming in from the client.
   
• Fixed an issue that was causing imports to fail due to a long boarding card processing time.
   
• For BusPlanner customers, improved the waypoint stop order assignment.
   
• For the Slice-N-Dice report, fixed an issue that was causing the time to be off when substitutions were made with the MDT.
   
• For the Slice-N-Dice report, changed the way separate tiers are displayed: Now there is only one tier per line, based on the timestamp.
   

Time and Attendance

• Added support for a Minimum with Interval setting for rounding for Sartox exports.
   
• Fixed a bug with the Overtime report not showing all days with overtime and not reporting the total time for days.
   
• Fixed a bug on the Employee FTE screen that wasn't recording specified end dates correctly.
   
• Fixed an issue that was showing both inactive and active employees when searching with View Active selected.
   
• Added the ability to right-click an absence on the time card and select to delete the absence, change the job type, or edit the absence (which takes you to that employee's Enter Absences screen).
   
• Changed three guarantee export names as follows:
   
  • Contract Total Hours by Day to Guaranteed Hours by Day
     
  • Total Contract Time by Shift to Guaranteed Hours by Shift
     
  • Total Contract Hour by Week to Loudoun Custom
     
• For the Contract Hours by Week export, added the option to return an additional line for absences.
   
• Fixed a bug that wasn't allowing the job type to be selected when adding an absence.
   
• Fixed an issue when selecting Show Employees with No Time? for the Time Sheet report that included inactive employees in the results, even though Include Inactive Employees wasn't selected.
   
• Fixed a bug that was directing users to a previously chosen employee's schedule when clicking the View Schedule button on the Employees screen instead of the current one.
   
• Fixed a bug that wasn't allowing the creation of lasting absences for the period if the employee type was changed (or the employee type to be changed if the absence was created first).
   
• Fixed an issue for employees whose employee type changed that was displaying the new job types on the Enter Absences screen even if the user was trying to edit absences for dates when the old employee type was applicable.
   
• Fixed a bug on the Assign Punch IDs screen that caused the View Active or All Employees button to not function.
   
• Fixed a bug that wasn't locking down absences when Lock Time? was set to On Approval or On Export for users without the Time Card - Unlock Shifts and Time Card - Edit privileges.
   

To see a video of some of these new features, go to 2017.06 TAA Updates.

Route Builder

• Added the School Arrival reports for Route Builder customers.
   

Here Comes the Bus

• Fixed an issue that was presenting an error upon account creation (even though the account was created).
   
• Fixed a password reset issue in which the randomly assigned password included a bracket character, which wouldn't work.
   
• Updated the terms of service for the Spanish and French languages.
   
• Changed the result when a user clicks the Ask Us/Support button on https://login.herecomesthebus.com: Now, a new tab will open, taking them to a new help form (instead of the current pop-up).
   
• Corrected the sizing of the Issue box in that new form.
   
• Fixed a bug that wasn't displaying the Notification History for some users.
   
• Fixed an issue with parents getting notifications an hour late.
   
• Fixed the formatting of the support email template.
   
• Fixed the following in the support email template: added a message if no students were assigned to the account and fixed typos and capitalization errors.
   
• Fixed an issue that was sending ridership scan notifications hours after the actual scans.