Novade Product Update | January 2021

Novade Product Update for January 2021

Easy monitoring of on-site workforce ratio

Novade Quality

• Added the ability to customise the X and Y axis labels in the Units by Status Dashboard.
• Added the ability for unit managers to be notified whenever a defect/form in one of the units they manage changes status.
• Added comments to the Inspections’ PDF export.
• Added the ability to have a site level and database level counter for forms.
• Mobile – added a scan QR code button to quickly access units instead of having to go through the steps of selecting a unit.
• Web – added a spatial hierarchy filter, as well as multi-select capability for units’ status filters to the maps view. 
• Fixes: 
  • The Excel export did not include the archived defects count.
  • Signatures were not displaying due to the mismatch of names.
  • Homeowners receiving errors when lodging defects.
  • Mass deleting forms from a project.
  • Sorting defects by lodged date.
  • It was possible to merge cases from different units on mobile.
  • Exporting attached Inspections when exporting linked forms.
  • An HTML issue which caused some dashboard items to display vertically instead of horizontally.
  • Subcon users could not edit photo descriptions. 
  • IPad users could not view calendars correctly.

Novade Safety-HSE

• Added the ability to edit comments. 
• Actions – added manual archival support for Actions. 
• Weekly PTWs – added the ability to assign groups as daily signatories.
• Observations – allowed the display of comments on photos on the Web.
• Fixes: 
  • Signatures were not displaying due to the mismatch of names.
  • Duplication of forms causing the Inspection object to go missing.
  • WPTW users not able to see them in My Tasks.
  • Large PDFs not being exported to email.
  • Subcons were able to see other users’ WPTWs.
  • Subforms not being archived themselves despite being linked to archived main forms.

Novade Reports

• Major enhancement to the display options on the dashboards.
• Additions: 
  • The ability to include timecards of people from other teams when duplicating reports.
  • Detailed Excel export of the Breakdown dashboard.
  • The ability to check-in people not belonging to any team.
  • Creation of a new Activity standard field: Get value from a Quality Form. 
  • A new dashboard for workforce bonuses.
  • An absence code to include in the workforce working hour dashboard.
  • A search bar when adding Equipment to a report.
  • An Asset to have multiple statuses during one shift 
  • A restriction to prevent users from entering some special characters in text fields 
• Fixes:
  • Overtime was not computed properly. 
  • Copying Equipment data from a previous report. 
  • The timecard delete option was not appearing. 
  • Some Activity columns were missing in the Excel export. 
  • New supply use was created instead of being updated. 
  • Include the weather stations of Hong Kong and other locations.
  • The relationship between Activities and resources breakdown was missing.
  • The Excel export sent by mail. 

Novade Maintenance

• Additions:
  • The ability for Client Admins to add additional files to an equipment certificate.
  • Modified the notification time for expiring certificates to 12p.m. instead of midnight.
  • Addresses added in Requests are now copied to the Jobs. 
  • Power Users to delete files attached to assets. 
• Fixes: 
  • Submitting jobs or inspections. 
  • Exporting forms to Excel.
  • Work durations not displaying. 
  • A link in a notification was opening an incorrect page. 
  • Questions were not working in subforms. 

Novade Activity

• Added a check to ensure that Activity templates that have data associated with them are not deleted.
• Modified the behaviour for the green bar that appears next to Task to appear when there is at least one form attached to the form in a completed state. 
• Improved the code to reduce “out of memory” errors on old phones.
• Fixes:  
  • Forms showing that they had been duplicated even when they were not.
  • Users in the workflow were not receiving notifications. 
  • An error when clicking on submit in forms.
  • Subcon users being able to access and act on tasks.
  • An issue with importing tasks 
  • An issue with user rights being overwritten by team assignments.
  • Hidden fields not working in Activity forms. 

Novade People

• Added the ability to track the ratio of Safety Management Officers (SMOs) to workers in zones on a work site.
• Added the ability to check-in/check-out from a location using thermal scanners.
• Added a dashboard to aggregate COVID-19 Safe Restart data.
• Fixed an issue with Excel imports of People not working. 

Project Center

• Added the ability to display a Help Center number in the Homeowner view of the app.
• Added admin logs for Inspections. 
• Matched the auto archival time period settings with the manual archival time period settings.
• Client admins now have access to the Sherlock function to analyse databases and can modify auto archival. 
• Implemented functionality to add a template to all projects easily.
• Fixes:
  • Modifying or adding a type of absence.
  • Automatically retrieving HK public holidays. 
  • The assignment field of workflow not working for groups.

Novade Insights

• Novade Quality: 
  • Ongoing major revamp of all the quality dashboard in order to move out of Beta.  
  • Site performance: order of dashboard improved, (example: defect by site up). 
  • Change colour code of overdue defect and rejection ratio to follow the existing app color code.  
  • Review and improve title formulation across dashboards. 
  • Addition of tooltip information for all dashboards. The user can get information about the dashboard and data from the top right of each panel.  
  • Review title and colour on company performance dashboard.  
  • Remove indicator for case completed but not close on Case Analysis Dashboard. 
  • Minor UI change for better readability in Case Analysis dashboard.  
  • Adding a table for adoption by contractor and by project. 
  • Adoption, add an indicator on which sites are most active.  
  • Defect progress added with information.  
  • Improvement in the drill-down hierarchy.  
• Novade Safety-HSE: 
  • Added rejected PTW indicator and variation in time.  
  • Order of filter in Adoption dashboard change changed for consistency. 
  • Added a bar chart for rectification time by the user and by the company regarding Actions.  
  • Added a counter for ctive safety user in adoption dashboard.  
• Novade Reports – daily adoption changed to monthly adoption in Adoption dashboard.  
• Overall – The pie chart colour changed to be consistent with the Novade color palette.  
• Fixes: 
  • Quality forms – Fixed an issue where some safety forms are included in quality forms when the project set up included both quality and safety module.  
  • On the distribution of defects per case in the Quality/Case analysis dashboard. 
  • The actions count was wrong because of old actions not having a creation date.  
  • Subform was displayed in the form dashboard because of wrong linkage.  
  • Action by type was not consistent after some filtering.  
  • The daily refresh of data did not happen.