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  • On the Add New Location geofence-addition screen, changed the prompt in the Address field to the more specific "Type Street, City, State, Zip Code" (previously, this was just "Type Address").
  • For consortium customers, fixed an issue that was preventing vehicles from being transferred back to their original operator after they had been transferred to another operator.


Time and Attendance (Legacy Version)


  • Fixed an issue with the Approval History tab of the Export Time screen that was displaying an error when the user clicked Approve Time History.


Here Comes the Bus


  • In Synovia, added a new option to the HCTB Visibility tab of the HCTB Settings screen, Auto End Activity When Another Starts. When this is on, if a driver is running an activity and then starts another activity (on the same vehicle), the original activity will be ended in the software and the new activity started.
  • In Synovia, added a new Parent Import Results screen (available via the HCTB menu) for school districts that assign HCTB accounts to parents rather than allow them to create their own. This has settings for scheduling the import of parent data, including time of day and recurrence pattern, plus a grid listing when past imports occurred, their status, and how many parents/students were added or deleted.
  • For exports to PDF or Excel of scheduled Activity Mileage reports, added a Total row at the bottom to display the sum of the mileage added up for all the Mileage columns.
  • Fixed an issue that was preventing some parents from receiving bus substitution notifications.


Mobile Data Terminals (version 2021.03)


  • Entirely rebuilt the back-end process for sending messages from the Synovia software to the MDTs. This will fix the issue of a message getting stuck in a loop of being re-sent over and over again (and sometimes taking over ten minutes to finally be received by the MDT), which blocked other MDT data (such as syncs) as it waited for the message to complete. Now messages sent from dispatch will appear on the MDTs soon after they are sent.
  • Added scroll bars for reviewing longer messages in the message pop-up, Inbox, and Outbox.
  • Fixed a bug when filling out inspections that took the driver back to the top of the form after they opened a subitem of a main item (and then selected Back). Now they will return to the page they were on prior to drilling down into the subitems.
  • Fixed a bug that was displaying "Placeholder" on buttons on several MDT screens, including Home, Hours, and Inspections.
  • Fixed an issue that was displaying the error "Cannot connect to server" each time a driver received a message from dispatch (even though the message was actually received).
  • In Synovia, fixed a bug with the Compose Message screen that wasn't returning the user to the Mail screen after they clicked Send. (Instead, they remained on the Compose Message screen with the mail text still in the Message box and the chosen recipients still selected, which made it look like the message hadn't been sent to the MDTs.)