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Novade Product Update | February 2022

Easily track and monitor Permits to Work (PTWs) on site with new updates

Pinned Permits to Work (PTWs) on site plans will show you more information in a single glance.

Novade Safety-HSE

users can now track submitted and valid PTWs in a certain area and make informed decisions and manage conflict efficiently. In

Novade Maintenance

, new fields have been added for inspections. Users can effortlessly sort inspections by priorities, classifications, as well as specify durations for each job.

Novade Quality

  • Web – Added a Reinspect button to Failed Inspections
  • Added a Final Inspection Date in Inspection phase to restrict the lodging of defects after that date
  • Renamed the Duplicate button in Inspections to Resubmit
  • Added a new field in Defects called “Additional Information” for Homeowners
  • Added multiple filters to custom dashboards
  • Modified the behaviour of Proposed Date and Scheduled Date in Request for Inspections to be blank instead of the current date
  • Web – Removed the Duplicate button from the top bar which is redundant in view of the Resubmit button
  • Fixed issues:
    • The defect assignee selection list showing companies where users do not have the right to complete defects
    • Additional columns Predicted Completion Date and Predicted Completion Days were showing in tabs other than WIP
    • The screen freezing when editing a form
    • The history tab showing an error message instead of the new defect status
    • The column Nb. Of Days WIP not displaying in the Defects table view
    • Exporting to PDF from Dashboard Designer

Novade Safety-HSE

  • Safety is now linked to the new Assets module
  • Changed the UI of Scan QR code for Units to match that on Quality
  • Added the ability to Export Excel of the PTW – To Do list
  • Mobile – Added the ability to add Assets to a PTW by scanning QR code
  • Fixed issues:
    • Users seeing editable states they are not assigned to
    • The certificate not displaying for Assets linked to a PTW

Novade Reports

  • Web:
    • Added the ability to export the list of cycles of a specific unit/all the units of the project in an excel file
    • Added the ability to export all the activities of a project in the same tab of an excel file (before that it was only possible to export them in different tabs, one per activity template)
    • Added the ability to display all the bonus types in the workforce table of a report, even the ones for which no bonus has been added yet
  • Fixed issues:
    • API issue about some requests returning timeout errors
    • Diaries that could not be exported because weather data was missing
    • Some activities not displayed in some diaries
    • Syncing errors after deleting a diary template section
    • Some values not displayed with the correct number of decimal places in the activities summary dashboard

Novade Maintenance

  • Added a new field “Inspection Priority” for Inspections and Recurring Events
  • Added a new field “Expected Duration” for Inspections, Recurring Events and Jobs to be able to assign resources more efficiently
  • Added a new field “Inspection Classifications” in Inspections and Recurring Events to assist in assigning people with the right skillset
  • Fixed issues:
    • User not being able to add Assets after creating an Inspection
    • Filters not working when adding assets to a Job
    • Submitting Jobs when the job is assigned to a group

Novade People

  • Fixed an issue with apostrophes not being allowed in Company Names

Project Center

  • Added an option at the form template level to ensure that users need to synchronize forms before submitting and to prevent offline users from editing forms created from those templates
  • Added the ability to filter projects by custom fields
  • Added a new field type “Scan QR code” to enable the filling of form fields easier
  • Added the ability to use Project custom fields in Dashboard Designer
  • Project Center is now linked to the Assets module
  • Fixed issues:
    • Formulas breaking when the position of a constituent field is changed
    • Unable to fill in users in two fields in a form workflow configuration
    • Projects linked to a company being deleted when one project data is deleted
    • Web users were able to bypass the check to enforce a selfie instead of signature if not webcam is detected
    • Adding users to a workflow

Assets

  • Expiring Certification notifications are sent via email
  • Fixed issues:
    • Speed in accessing meters when there are a lot of meters
    • Meter filters not working
    • Dates on logs
    • Navigating between certificates

Novade Connect

  • Added the ability to retrieve persons from both department and sub-department from Pensees thermal scanner cloud
  • Fixed issues:
    • Duplicate records when clicked on “Sync People” button on Thermal Scanner Group
    • Pensees server timed out, and re-run all failed jobs
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