Silverlining

• Added Project Fi as a mobile carrier option.
   
• Fixed an issue that was causing broadcast messages to error out if an expiration date was set.
   
• Fixed the map icons when watching a vehicle live to use the event icons rather than the vehicle type icons when the Event Icons radio button is selected (at the top of the Fleets tab).
   
• Added Lamp Status and Source Address columns to the Fault Code Detail by Vehicle report, which specify the lamp that was on (such as the red stop lamp, which indicates a severe problem requiring the vehicle to be stopped) and the system that reported the fault (such as the engine or transmission), respectively.
   

Comparative Analysis – Silverlining

• Implemented improved logic for waypoint and coordinate cache processing.
   
• Fixed an issue that prevented waypoints from being processed for school stops.
   

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

• Fixed a bug that caused Zone Exit alerts to not be generated.
   
• Added the ability to search by zone for reports.
   
• Fixed an issue that stopped saved reports with In Time Period set from functioning.
   
• Added an option to select all the states in the State Mileage reports.
   
• Fixed the State Mileage reports' State filter, which wasn't including all the available regions from the database.
   
• Fixed the bug of scheduled reports not working after one iteration.
   
• Fixed an issue with bulk loading inventory not creating a mobile record, which caused problems with retrieving data if the ESN is later removed from the vehicle.
   
• Added the ability to select a group of vehicles when mapping vehicle history. However, to ensure optimal performance, if a user selects more than 10 vehicles, only the history for one day can be run.
   
• Updated the CA reports to match more of the legacy site's features, such as both the date and time appearing in the Created Date column of the Bus Substitution report.
   
• Fixed an issue with reports with the Vehicles filter that wasn't selecting the vehicles in a group when their group was selected.
   
• Changed the Note column when viewing details of an alert to wrap the text if it is too long to be read otherwise.
   
• Fixed an issue for Firefox users that wouldn't allow them to select check boxes in the Find Location window or Edit Role screen.
   
• Fixed a bug that caused the alerts notification number to not match the number of current alerts in the Alerts list.
   
• Added #Groups and #Roles columns to the System Administration >> Users screen, which display the number of groups and roles the user is assigned to.
   
• Fixed an issue with the Fault Code reports.
   
• Fixed the connection between the accordion submenu item "Time and Attendance" and the actual TAA software; the login was failing before.
   
• Changed Watch Live to be the default action when a user selects a vehicle or group on the Fleet Tracking screen.
   
• Increased the opacity of the legend on map screens.
   
• Corrected the GPS Update icon in the map legend.
   
• Fixed an issue on the Preferences >> Events screen that cleared column filters when editing an event.
   
• Fixed UI issues on the Quick search screen: added tooltips and filters for all columns.
   
• Changed the Search button to be inactive if no search criteria is entered (so no empty searches can be made).
   
• On the System Administration >> Users screen, fixed the time displayed in the Last Login column so that it's using the customer's time zone instead of UTC.
   
• Fixed Internet Explorer 11 UI issues on the PvA, Route Planning System, Edit Route Set, and Search Result screens.
   
• Fixed a bug that prevented broadcast messages from being created (even though Synovia reported to the user that they had been).
   
• Added the page controls to the bottom of the Edit Broadcast Message screen's History tab.
   
• Updated the #Read column of the Broadcast Message screen to show only the count of active users.
   
• Fixed the expiration of broadcast messages to be shown in the customer's local time instead of UTC.
   
• Added a banner for Internet Explorer users: "We detect that you are using Internet Explorer. For optimal performance, we recommend using Chrome or Firefox."
   
• On screens with Edit buttons, changed the buttons to be usable for users with view-only rights; they can't make changes, but they can view the properties on the screens.
   
• Updated multiple screens so that users with view-only rights can't create, delete, or modify anything.
   
• Fixed the Replace Unit button on the Hardware screen, which became invisible after first clicking it.
   
• Made the data on all the tabs from Search results read-only.
   
• Fixed an issue that was preventing broadcast messages from being deleted when on the Preferences >> Broadcast Message screen.
   
• Added Project Fi as a mobile carrier option.
   
• Added a Group Snapshot report, which shows the locations of vehicles at the specified times of the day and can be scheduled.
   
• Added a new Event Count report, Event Count Pivot, that will display multiple types of events (and their counts) for the same time period.
   

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 2017.07 Synovia Updates.

Comparative Analysis – New Synovia Site

• Added the ability to include parentheses when using the Format Synovia feature on the Import Mapping screen for the Remove All and Replace actions.
   
• Added Itinerary Mapping and Entity Mapping tabs to the Mapping screen and fixed issues with their implementation.
   
• Added itinerary and route details to Search results and fixed the link from the results to the Route Monitor.
   
• Changed the Time column on the PvA screen to display a time span.
   
• Fixed a bug on the Substitutions screen in which the grid data wasn't updated after a vehicle substitution was entered.
   
• Fixed an issue when editing route sets that was still counting deleted route sets as taking up the specified date range.
   
• Fixed the Download File button in the Bulk Load dialog box of the Mapping screen.
   
• Fixed the School Arrival (Route Time) reports so that they weren't preselecting certain vehicles, dates, or schools.
   
• Fixed a bug that was causing the Yard Daily Details report to fail when scheduled.
   
• Fixed the Arrival Summary by Tier report to keep the tier selection that was made when selecting Show Historical Route Sets.
   

Time and Attendance

• Fixed an issue that was causing two (or more) incomplete shifts to appear on a time card.
   
• Fixed a bug when creating a new Absence Request rule and checking All Departments that didn't select any departments and displayed tags around "All Departments."
   
• Fixed a bug that wasn't allowing new Absence Request rules to be saved.
   
• Fixed a bug in Internet Explorer and Firefox on the Admin >> Employee Fields screen that wasn't allowing new records to be added on the Address tab.
   
• Fixed a bug that was showing Punch Out records made from the TAA Portal as manual entries.
   
• Created a new report, Guaranteed Vs. Actual Work (Day), to show the difference between FTE hours and guaranteed hours. To feed this report, also added a new section to the Calendar tab of Admin >> System Settings – Default Values for Guaranteed Vs. Actual Work, in which users can add the time variance to be reported.
   
• Fixed a bug that wasn't assigning the employee IDs as the punch IDs during the import despite Punch ID Is the Same As Employee ID? being selected on the Map Fields tab of the Import Employees screen.
   
• Fixed an issue that was preventing shift edits from the Time Card screen from being saved.
   
• Fixed a bug that was changing the trim settings for employee IDs.
   
• Added a new Approve report that lists which employees haven't approved their time cards for the specified date range.
   
• Fixed a bug of vehicle numbers missing from some time cards.
   
• Added the name of the employee an absence was added for to the Audit Trail report. (Previously, the report only showed which employee added the absence, not for whom.)
   
• Fixed an issue that was including duplicates of created absences in the Audit Trail report.
   
• Fixed a bug that was producing an error when trying to export time.
   
• Changed a sort on a column on the Shift Exceptions grid to be remembered; for example, if you sort by last name and navigate away from the Shift Exceptions screen (such as to correct a shift on a time card), when you come back in the same session, the grid will still be sorted by last name.
   
• Fixed the search function on the View Schedules screen, which would find the employee that was searched for but then revert to the first employee in the drop-down list.
   
• Added validation when editing shifts that prompts users for minute and second values to be entered as well as hours if saving without them.
   
• Moved the error messages so that they will appear lower on TAA screens with multiple sections. (Before, users with lower-resolution devices wouldn't see the error messages, as they were displayed at the top of the TAA screen, higher than they could see.)
   

To see a video of some of these new features, go to 2017.07 TAA Updates.

API

• Added the ability to retrieve lamp status and source address information from call s0123 Fault Code History by Fleet, which will tell the user the lamp that was on (such as the red stop lamp, which indicates a severe problem requiring the vehicle to be stopped) and the system that reported the fault (such as the engine or transmission).
   

Engine Diagnostics

• Fixed a bug that was preventing v144 engine diagnostics fuel economy processing from working correctly.
   

Micronet A317 MDT

• Added the ability for drivers to certify time on the MDT's TAA - Hours screen.
   
• Added the time from the current shift to the Hours Summary and Hours Detail screens.
   
• Added an announcement of the next turn-by-turn direction when exiting the stop radius – for example, if the next stop is a short distance away with no turns, an announcement to "continue straight" to next stop.
   
• Changed school stops to always be treated as a school stop, even if they aren't the last stop in a tier.
   
• Changed the route prompt (which asks drivers if they want to drive the route associated with their MDT after login) to be an option the customer can turn on or off.
   
• Reduced Navigation's CPU usage.
   
• Changed the roll-by stop (which automatically bypasses a stop if the driver rolls through it) to be an option the customer can turn on or off.
   
• Fixed the navigation type to use the Silverlining setting (for example, for cars or trucks), which was broken in a previous release.
   
• Fixed Navigation to use the height and weight restrictions entered in Silverlining (for example, to redirect a vehicle so that it doesn't travel under a bridge that it is too tall for).