Silverlining


  • Fixed an issue that was sending erroneous Max Speed alerts due to too few satellites in the vehicles' area, by setting notifications to not be sent for Max Speed events if the number of satellites is lower than 8.


Comparative Analysis - Silverlining


  • For EDULOG customers, fixed memory issues with the client.
  • Fixed a bug that was showing duplicate vehicles in the tree for HCTB Messaging.


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


  • Added logic that will more reliably display a vehicle's current position when event processing gets backed up.
  • Fixed an issue that was sending erroneous Max Speed alerts due to too few satellites in the vehicles' area, by setting notifications to not be sent for Max Speed events if the number of satellites is lower than 8.
  • Fixed a bug with performing an LMU swap that was using the server's time for the ESN's initial Diagnostic Message event instead of the customer's local time, which caused the vehicle's first hour(s) of live data to not be displayed because the UI processed those events as older than what was current (if the server is in an earlier time zone than the customer).
  • Delayed the response of the accordion menu to display 1 second after hovering over it; this was done before, but the new design caused the menu to revert to having an immediate response.
  • Fixed a bug that returned an exception when users opened the Hardware screen.
  • Fixed an issue that was preventing editing scheduled reports.
  • For Firefox users, fixed some global UI issues with the new design, such as check boxes not appearing, vehicle lists in the wrong place, and nonfunctioning buttons.


Comparative Analysis - Synovia Site


  • Added the Here Comes the Bus reports that were available in the legacy site (Silverlining) to the new Synovia site.
  • For customers with Navigation, added an algorithm that will calculate our confidence in the navigation data for the route, to find potentially incorrect routes that need attention before having drivers use Navigation.
  • Also added a Nav Match% column to the PvA Navigation screen and PvA launch screen that displays the percentage of how many CA and Nav waypoints match up.
  • Added the HCTB Messaging function (which enables admin users to send an email message and/or a push notification to a selected group of HCTB parents), which is available in the legacy software, to Synovia. Synovia's version includes a new feature: Users can select a group of parents based on route/itinerary. This will be on a new menu, HCTB, as a Messaging option.
  • Added an HCTB Accounts management interface (accessible through HCTB >> Accounts) so that users can assist parents with their HCTB accounts, including viewing account data, checking notification history, sending parents messages through the UI, updating passwords, and deleting accounts.
  • Added the HCTB reports that were available in legacy Silverlining: Here Comes the Bus Account Detail, Here Comes the Bus Account Student Detail, Here Comes the Bus Account Student Summary, and Here Comes the Bus Account Summary.
  • Added an HCTB >> Settings screen that will enable customers to define aspects of their parents' HCTB accounts, such as the size they can set the notification radius and district-specific messages about how to obtain student ID information, school code, and bus stop data.
  • Added the Students screen, similar to the one in legacy Silverlining, to the System Administration menu; this enables users to view and modify student properties, including boarding card data, and bulk upload students.
  • Fixed an issue with the CA reports that was causing the tiers and routes to not appear in the drop-down menus.


To see a video of some of these new features, go to 2018.06 Comparative Analysis Synovia Updates.


Time and Attendance


  • Added a new setting to the Rounding Policies area of the Calculations tab of Admin >> System Settings, Match Job Type, which gives users the option to choose whether an Employee-level Schedule rounding rule will apply to all job types or just ones matching the schedule.
  • Added a Punch ID Assignment section to the Employees screen so that users can create an employee and assign their punch ID all on the same screen.
  • Added an Hours column to the grids on the View Absences and Enter Absences screens that translates the Duration value (such as Full Day) to the actual hours that equates to (such as 8).
  • On the Portal/MDT Settings screen, added None as an option for an employee type's default TAA Portal job.
  • Improved the process of fixing shift exceptions by not requiring the list of exceptions to reload after each edit, with the following new options: 
    • A right-click menu (from a row in the Search Results grid) with choices to open the time card in a new window/tab or open a pop-up window to change the job type or punch ID. 
    • A new column in the Search Results grid, Modified, with check boxes that will be populated only for the user's current Search session. If the user makes a change to the exception with the right-click menu, the box will be checked for that row. 
  • Changed the Mileage by Shift and Hours Summary by Route ID reports to include rounded values in a Rounded column.
  • Changed the Guaranteed vs. Actual Work (Day) report to count absences and holidays as contract hours and show the time variances correctly.
  • Re-created a former feature that went away when the FTE grid was created – the FTE value being autofilled with the default value for the employee's employee type.
  • Fixed an issue that caused a Carry Over rule to not be applied when the Shift Analyzer was run.
  • Fixed a bug with exporting the Shift Exceptions Search Results grid to Excel or PDF that was incorrectly listing all the employees as having an Invalid Job Type exception.
  • 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 an issue with performing exports that was processing employee ID numbers and department ID numbers as the same type of entity.
  • Fixed an issue that was preventing consortium customers' users from connecting to the TAA Portal.


To see a video of some of these new features, go to 2018.06 TAA Updates.


Route Builder


  • Fixed a bug with copied snapshots that would duplicate the students at each stop.


Here Comes the Bus


  • Added the Here Comes the Bus reports that were available in the legacy site (Silverlining) to the new Synovia site.
  • Added the option for parents to choose a smaller notification radius, 250 feet.
  • Added an API call that emails HCTB support from the app, with these required parameters: the associated email address, the account code, a list of the issues, and the text the parent entered in the Other box.
  • Fixed an issue that was sending repeat notifications.


API


  • Added a new API call, s0135, to allow customers using JPOD2 to retrieve all data read from the engine.
  • For BusPlanner consortium customers, fixed an issue that was causing slow downloads.
  • Fixed a bug with the Get Last Position call (s0116) that was returning data for inactive vehicles, when it should return only active-vehicle data.


Micronet A317 MDT


  • For customers with Navigation, added an algorithm that will calculate our confidence in the navigation data for the route, to find potentially incorrect routes that need attention before having drivers use Navigation.