Silverlining


  • Fixed an issue with the way vehicles' last positions were being processed.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the Zone Speeding event from being reported.
  • Fixed an issue with the Work Monitor that listed some employees as late when their time cards indicated they were on time.
  • On the map screens, changed the posted speed limit to display the speed units the ALK call returns, so in Canada, kph will be displayed, and in the United States, mph.
  • Fixed a bug that was preventing route alerts from being saved.
  • Fixed an issue with fault code and hardware anomaly alerts in that they would be triggered even if the vehicle in question was assigned to a different group than was specified in the alert settings.
  • Added three new columns to the Not in Yard report: Current Location, Event, and Speed.


Comparative Analysis - Silverlining


  • Fixed a bug when processing certain alert types that caused imports to fail.
  • Fixed a bug on the Vehicles tab of the System Settings >> HCTB Messaging screen that was displaying duplicate vehicles in the list.


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


  • Completely changed the user interface to a cleaner, easier-to-use, and more up-to-date design.
  • Upgraded the reports to Izenda 7, with a much more user-friendly look and feel.
  • Fixed an issue with fault code and hardware anomaly alerts in that they would be triggered even if the vehicle in question was assigned to a different group than was specified in the alert settings.
  • Changed the map screens to display a user-defined speed limit if one is available (defined through ALK).
  • On the map screens, increased the maximum allowable zoom to match what the legacy Silverlining site has.


To see a video of some of these new features, go to 2018.04 Synovia Updates.


Time and Attendance


  • Added new Notifications options to the Calculations tab of Admin >> System Settings: to email an employee when an approved time card is modified and to email new passwords to employees; note that if notifications are enabled, Email Address will be a required employee field.
  • Fixed a bug that made the error "Start date is required" appear twice at the top of the screen when users added or edited an absence but forgot to include a start date (or entered an incorrect start date).
  • Fixed a bug with the Work Monitor that wasn't displaying the correct times for scheduled work.
  • On the Time Card screen, made shift error tooltips more useful; they now provide whether the error pertains to the punch-in or punch-out and a brief description of the error, such as "Rounded punch-in error."
  • Changed time card approval to allow users to approve all departments/employees' time cards for an extended period of time, instead of just a few.
  • Added validation to the Shift Exceptions screen that prevents assigning a shift to an employee who has a punch ID with a start date later than that shift.
  • Fixed a bug that wasn't displaying the list of shifts that couldn't be added via the Shift Analyzer.
  • Fixed a bug that kept Schedule rounding rules from being applied to shifts.
  • Fixed an issue on the Employee Type Hours tab of Admin >> Employee Types that wasn't saving selected job types in the drop-down lists even though the message said that the settings had been updated successfully.
  • Fixed an issue that was changing the Employee Type Hours settings when users removed job types from the Allowed MDT Job Types list on the Employee Settings tab of Portal/MDT >> Portal/MDT Settings.
  • Fixed a bug that still allowed an unassigned job type (from the Employee Types screen) to appear and be included in exports.
  • Fixed an issue when performing an export a second time (after deselecting employees with the Incomplete Shift exception) and expanding the date range that didn't include incomplete shifts from the extended time period.
  • Fixed the alignment of the radio buttons on the Field Mappings tab of Import/Export >> Export Time for the Individual Scans export.
  • Fixed a bug with the Contract Hours by Week export that counted hours incorrectly when both noncontract hours and overtime hours appeared on the same time card for a pay period.
  • Fixed a bug that rearranged the available job types list on MDTs (and in some cases made needed jobs unavailable) when the job types' color codes were changed.
  • Fixed a bug that was preventing some employees from being able to access the TAA Portal.
  • Fixed an issue with running the Overtime report when leaving Include Absences? unchecked.


To see a video of some of these new features, go to 2018.04 TAA Updates.


Route Builder


  • Fixed a bug that wasn't copying the latitude/longitude values when copying a snapshot whole so that the user can make changes to it.
  • Added the ability for the user to copy a snapshot and change the vehicle assignment for an itinerary.


Here Comes the Bus


  • Fixed an issue with the bus appearing on the map.
  • Changed how notifications are handled when a parent has two different contact types set up to prevent them from appearing as duplicates in the web UI – added a Contact Type column.


API


  • Prevented the return of v144 1939 fault codes with SPN (suspect parameter numbers) or FMI (failure mode identifiers) values of 0.
  • Fixed an issue with the ODBII raw output table that was including v144 accumulators.
  • Fixed an issue with the Get Vehicles call (s0003) that wasn't returning data for all of a customer's vehicles.
  • Added a new parameter to the Get Fault Code History call (s0123), @NextID, and made the Date parameter optional.


Engine Diagnostics


  • Stopped including v144 1939 fault code results with SPN or FMI values of 0 in the Fault Code reports.


Micronet A317 MDT


  • Fixed an issue with silent alarms generating alerts in that they weren't reporting if the satellite count was too low – by removing the check for the number of satellites for silent alarms.