Novade Product Update for January 2021
Easy monitoring of on-site workforce ratio
Users of the COVID-19 Safe Restart package will now be able to easily monitor the ratio of safety officers to workers on-site through an added functionality in the
People Module
. This enhancement enables users to effectively drive HSE performance by enforcing high safety compliance and safeguarding the safety culture in the field.
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.
