Silverlining

• Changed how peripheral data is processed, which will improve performance time and system stability.
• Fixed an issue with RGC failures and time-outs.
• Fixed an issue with push notifications for alerts.
• Added map functionality for Fleet Tracking, Map Nearby, vehicle history, zones, and so on to prepare for the move later this month from Telogis to ALK, a more robust map provider.
• Updated how posted speeds from ALK are used to accept more types, which will provide a higher percentage of streets with posted speed values.
• Exported customer edits to posted speed limits from Telogis to ALK, for map functionality move later this month.

Comparative Analysis - Silverlining

• Added a new Refresh Student Properties setting, which when set to Y will update student properties.
• For EveryInfo customers, enabled students without actual stops in the routing system to be imported.
• For Transfinder customers, added a new ProcessStudentSchedule setting, which will enable them to turn on or off student exception processing.
• For Transfinder customers, added a check that prevents an import failure when the new student exception logic returns an empty response.
• For EveryInfo EDULOG SQL customers, improved the ability to collect student properties.
• Fixed a bug in which imports were taking student properties from the wrong source.
• For BusBoss customers, fixed a bug that returned the error "Sequence contains no elements in array" when itinerary processing started.
• Fixed an issue with processing deadhead waypoints.
• Added the ability to process students from imports even if no address coordinates are provided by the routing system. (Previously, those students would just be missing from the imports.)
• Added map functionality on the monitor screens and PvA to prepare for the move later this month from Telogis to ALK.
• Added methods to enable imports of latitude/longitude values for ALK.

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

• Added the ability to use SSO (Single Sign-On) with Synovia, compliant with the SAML 2.0 specification.
• Decreased the font size across the entire site so that the data will fit better on the grid screens in particular.
• Fixed the placement of validation messages under fields that require data entry and other layout issues as a result of the font size being decreased.
• Improved the overall design of the website to make it more user-friendly, including the headers' appearance, icon placement and look, and border space around the customer name.
• Made the Help & Training link into a drop-down list with these options: User Guide, which leads to the Synovia Knowledge Base (our help documentation); Training Videos, which leads to a list of videos about using the Synovia site, the MDT, and Here Comes the Bus; Webinar Schedule, which leads to a list of our upcoming webinars; and Feedback Forum, a new feature that takes users to https://synovia.uservoice.com, a forum that enables users to give feedback about the Synovia site and vote for new features.
• Added a Post an Idea widget to the site banner that enables users to post feedback to the new feedback forum, but from within the Synovia site.
• Implemented SSO for the feedback forum, so that when users click the Feedback Forum link, they are automatically logged in to https://synovia.uservoice.com.
• Removed the startup message for Internet Explorer users that suggested they switch browsers for optimal site function (due to improved performance of the browser after library update).
• Dramatically improved the screen load time.
• Added zone categories to the Edit New User and Edit User screens to improve the process of adding a new user (so that the zone categories can be assigned to the user on the same screen that the user is added). Before, a customer's Synovia administrator had to go to each zone category's Assign Users screen to provide access for the new user. If users are added in bulk, by default now they will all be assigned to all the zone categories.
• Fixed an issue with scheduled reports that would send incorrect data if the option Send Email As CSV was selected.
• Changed the date format on the Inventory screen for the Last Event Timestamp column to match the format for the rest of the site (mm/dd/yy).
• Fixed a bug that left the Employees column empty on the Vehicle History screen even though the employee information appeared for the route in TAA.
• Fixed an issue that prevented users from being returned when a search that included spaces was performed.
• Fixed a bug for Firefox users that prevented part of the Edit Broadcast Message screen's Message field from being selected.
• Fixed a bug in which Map Snapshot/Vehicle History kept watching the vehicles live, instead of presenting a static vehicle history.
• Fixed a bug on the Fleet Tracking and Vehicle History screens in which the grid didn't focus on a vehicle/driver that was selected on the map and grid rows would be obscured by the Windows taskbar.
• Fixed a bug on the Vehicle History screen in which the map covered the options.
• Added validation that makes certain that the user fills in the Projection and WMS Version fields when creating a WMS layer using a URL.
• Added preview images for the reports to the Core >> Reports list.
• Removed Save As from reports, as this is not supported by the Izenda designer and was causing the error "Report is not found."
• Changed the Vehicle filter for the Engine Diagnostics reports to be a tree of the groups rather than a list of vehicle numbers.
• Added columns to the Hardware screen: Navigation, Peripheral VBS, Peripheral CoPilot, and Peripheral Map Version if the MDT license is enabled and Last Engine Report if Engine Diagnostics is enabled.
• Added a buzzer noise, red toggle for the bell, and shaking animation for the bell when a high-priority alert is received.
• For customers with a lower resolution set, made the Edit WMS Layer screen scrollable (otherwise, they couldn't see the fields at the bottom of the screen).
• Updated the message that appears when exporting to PDF or Excel on any screen. It now reads, "Your request is currently being processed. You will be notified when it is completed."
• Fixed a bug in which the Work in Progress list still displayed the rows of discarded unfinished tasks.
• Fixed a bug that was causing the busy indicator to function incorrectly.
• Fixed an issue with the full-screen map not working.
• Fixed an issue that prevented yard zones from being displayed.
• Fixed a bug that returned an error when trying to add a WMS layer via a shapefile.
• Fixed a bug for reports that should launch the Vehicle History screen when clicking a vehicle number that opened the default Synovia screen instead.
• Fixed an issue in the Find Location dialog box that displayed incorrect labels for all the buttons.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the options from appearing on the Map Nearby screen.
• Fixed a bug on the Hardware screen that displayed columns from disabled licenses (after they were previously enabled).
• Fixed a bug with saving the layout of the Hardware screen that displayed duplicate columns if licenses were disabled and then enabled.
• Fixed an issue with creating a new user in which the user would be added to the Users list but an error would also occur, and the user would be inactive.
• Fixed global user interface errors (such as the paging options being off-center) that occurred after a library update.
• Reverted disabled buttons (which had been changed to gray) back to their original colors.
• Fixed a bug on the Edit User screen that wasn't displaying the user's roles even after the edits were saved.
• Fixed an issue that was producing a blank screen when trying to complete a task from the Work in Progress screen instead of opening the unfinished task.
• On the Roles screen, for the list of report privileges, changed the "Slice and Dice" report to "Substitutions."
• Fixed a bug that wasn't displaying the correct screen name on the browser's tab.
• Fixed a bug that wasn't displaying the correct labels on some buttons (such as Delete).
• Fixed an issue that was preventing newly created alerts from being saved and added to the Alert Admin screen.
• Fixed an issue that was producing a blank screen when clicking Assign ESN on the ESN History tab of the Edit Vehicle screen.
• Added a startup message for Safari users: "We have detected you are using the Safari browser. Unfortunately, Safari is not supported at this time. Please use Firefox or Chrome instead. We apologize for the inconvenience."
• Fixed a bug that produced an error when a user tried to use an email address with more than one period (such as johnsmith@customer.domain.com) when trying to reset their password.
• Added a Reset Layout button to the Hardware screen so that users who have saved their layouts can revert to the original layout. Also, when new columns are added to the Hardware screen, those users wouldn't have been able to see them without the reset option.
• Fixed a bug in which the table grid lines weren't appearing for reports in Internet Explorer 11.
• Fixed a bug when clicking a date in the Usage Summary by Customer (Usage) report that opens the Report Usage by User report without the preselected date.
• Fixed a bug that was producing an error when launching the Time Summary reports.
• Fixed a bug that saved the wrong start and end times after creating a new zone speed rule.
• Changed the Mileage Summary by Primary Group per Day report's Primary Group filter to match other reports' filters.
• Fixed an issue when creating a new location that didn't finish the zone drawing despite clicking the Finish button.
• Fixed an issue of an extra filter appearing when going from the Mileage Summary by Primary Group per Day report by a primary group link to the Mileage Summary by Vehicle per Day report. (The Primary Group filter is not needed at that point, but it was appearing.)
• Fixed an issue with the context menu items on the Fleet Tracking and Vehicle History screens not going to the correct target screens.
• Fixed an issue on the login screen for Internet Explorer users that displayed the password/account number validation prompts before the user typed anything.
• Changed the TAA icon on the accordion menu to a stopwatch instead of a school bus.
• Fixed issues with scrolling on the Hardware screen: expanding a row and scrolling placed the expanded content over the column headers, and expanding and clicking the CalAmp Details tab completely prevented scrolling down.
• Fixed a bug on the Hardware screen with the Replace Unit pop-up that incorrectly sized the drop-down boxes.
• Fixed global user interface issues when using the site at a screen resolution of 1024 x 768, such as buttons being located in the wrong place, fields at the bottom not appearing because they're too low and the screen wasn't scrollable, and not enough space in the fields for text.
• Fixed a bug on the Edit Location screen's Geofence tab for Firefox users that hid the Add, View Fullscreen, and Zones buttons.
• Fixed a bug on the Edit Location screen's Geofence tab with the View Fullscreen button, which pulled up an empty screen.
• Fixed an issue with the Edit screen of all reports in which icons didn't appear on several of the tabs.
• Fixed a bug that was preventing new locations with newly drawn zones from being saved.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the Edit button from appearing when a user opened a saved report.
• Fixed an issue on the Vehicles screen for Internet Explorer, Edge, and Firefox users that displayed the wrong color for retired vehicles, which should be gray.
• Fixed the icon for exiting full-screen mode, which wasn't centered in its square.
• Decreased the load time for zone selector data.
• Removed the Fleet Tracking grid's height limit, so users can now drag it to be taller, if needed.
• Fixed a bug that trimmed off the last digit of a vehicle's VIN.

To see a video of some of these new features, go to 2017.09 Synovia Updates.

Comparative Analysis - Synovia Site

• Fixed an issue that was causing the original bus to appear in the Route Monitor even if all the tiers were assigned to a different bus.
• Fixed an issue in which part of the Turn by Turn path wasn't displayed on the map for PvA.
• Fixed a bug on the PvA screen that wouldn't allow a Turn by Turn path to be turned off after it was initially selected.
• Fixed a bug when launching the PvA screen from one of the PvA reports (by clicking a vehicle number) that opened the current day's PvA data instead of the date inputted in the report.
• Fixed a bug that produced an empty screen when the View PvA by Stop button was clicked on the Search Itineraries screen.
• Fixed an issue in which the CA reports were being displayed even if the customer didn't have CA.
• Fixed global user interface issues with Internet Explorer 11 (such as fields overlapping their labels).
• Fixed a bug that wasn't displaying itineraries in the Mapping screen's Itinerary Mapping grid due to active/unassigned mapping issues.
• Fixed a bug that was displaying duplicates for unassigned itineraries in the Mapping screen's Itinerary Mapping grid.
• Fixed an issue that was preventing new route sets from being created. (When a user tried to save a new route set, an error saying that the date range overlapped an existing route set appeared, even if that wasn't the case.)
• Fixed a bug with PvA reports' child reports not inheriting the filters from the parent reports and/or displaying extra filters.
• Fixed a bug of child reports displaying extra filters for the Arrival Summary reports and of being displayed on a new tab when the default action should be the current tab.
• Fixed some user interface issues with the PvA and Arrival Summary reports, such as not enough space in the grid for data and names being wrapped to a second line midword.
• Fixed some user interface issues on the Mapping screen, including dialog boxes not appearing in the center of the screen.
• Fixed a typo and the message when leaving the Edit New Route Set screen by clicking Back to now say, "Are you sure you want to return to the Route Set list?"
• Fixed an issue on the Route Monitor screen in which after a substitution was made, both the original vehicle and the substituted vehicle showed all the tiers for the route in the details grid. Now, the details will be filtered to show only the tiers each vehicle is driving for that vehicle.
• Fixed a bug on the Mapping screen in which an itinerary would never be displayed if the previous mapping had an end date in the past.

Time and Attendance

• Fixed an issue that was returning unhandled exceptions.
• Fixed a bug that misprocessed an extra shift as starting in 2017 and ending in 2014.
• Fixed a bug that wasn't including the guaranteed extra hours when using the Contract Hours by Week export.
• Fixed a bug with the USPS export that wasn't pulling all the employees.
• On the My Reports tab of Reports, added a drop-down list so that users can filter by report or export type.
• Under Import/Export >> Export Time, added an Approve History tab, on which users can see approval history and unapproved shifts.
• Added a Help button to the main menu (which will only appear if your module settings have it turned on), which leads to the TAA help documentation.
• Updated page titles, such as changing "Synovia Mobile Intelligence Technology" to "Synovia Time and Attendance."
• Made the error message for entering a value that is too long into a field on the Pay Rates screen more informative; it now reads, "Data entered is invalid," rather than the actual exception returned.
• For the Contract Hours by Week export, added the display of absence codes on the Absence Types screen.
• Fixed a bug that was preventing the Audit Trail report from returning data.
• Fixed a bug that was duplicating employees.

To see a video of some of these new features, go to 2017.09 TAA Updates.

Here Comes the Bus

• Fixed a timeout issue when trying to return the Student ID property.
• Changed the way we process student scans, which will prevent incorrect notifications from being sent out.
• Fixed a bug that occurred in rare situations: The wrong account would receive scan notifications.

Micronet A317 MDT

• Improved the processing of messages sent between the MDT and dispatch.