Novade Product Update | July 2021

Novade Product Update for July 2021

Enhanced photo feature in form duplicates adds greater safety for users

Novade Quality

• Separated the rights for “Complete Case” and “Complete Defects” to allow customers to have more control on the workflow in defect rectification
• Improved the Forms filters to include “Created By”
• Added the ability to add photos to defects via API. This enables 3^rd party applications such as Drone Inspection software to add photos to defects
• Web – added an additional column “Intervention Date” in the Excel export for defects
• Fixes:
  • Thai vowels not being displayed in PDF exports
  • Defects not being numbered correctly in PDF exports when there are more than 100 defects
  • Excel import headers not being translated to French
  • Sort not working in Case and Unit views
  • Defect serial numbers not being assigned correctly
  • To Rectify defects showing an Employee type user’s My Actions list
  • Subcon type accounts being able to edit some unit information
  • Non-working days being counted when assigning a target completion date for defects
  • Subcon accounts not being able to see My Actions when defect management is disabled
  • The sorting by date on the history log of a case not working correctly
  • PDFs of subforms
  • The PDF export for RFWIs not working
  • The Action Required tab not displaying any items in forms
  • Homeowners not being able to see Archived cases
  • The mandatory photo setting not applying to homeowners

Novade Safety-HSE

• Added an option to prevent the application of multiple PTWs in the same location
• Added the ability for Form creators to be able to reject their own form
• Fixes:
  • Date range filters displaying the day earlier than the day selected
  • Pie chart colours for individual template dashboards displaying incorrectly
  • Sorting units in the Unit Status dashboard

Novade Reports

• Additions:
  • User rights to allow the creation of new supply, equipment count, and headcount types directly from an Activity
  • Mark an Activity as completed
  • Set up different Report default shift hours for specific days
  • Copy and share a Report or Site Diary URL
  • See night hours in a new dashboard
  • Define if a bonus type is summable
  • See null values in ratios dashboards
  • Change the width of a table
• Streamlined the process of deleting timecards
• Fixes:
  • The user was reaching a blank page after following a link sent via email or a notification
  • The API was returning an empty value for weather
  • The API was returning multiple results for a single comment on a Report
  • The Activity page being synced twice causing a blank page to be displayed
  • Bonuses that were not displayed in the right order on mobile
  • The import of Activity daily targets
  • The display of bonuses on the Team Report table
  • The save button for new Activities not working on the web
  • Users not able to see photos link to an Activity
  • The “Meter Readings” section was being displayed even if Equipment had no meter set up

Novade Maintenance

• Web – Improved the UI to add a warning message when changing an asset to a quantifiable item and vice versa
• Fixes:
  • Submitting an inspection after assigning it to a team
  • The name of the creator of an inspection was not being displayed when the inspection was created on mobile
  • Adding comments to assets and inspections
  • Resetting meter readings when they reach the reset value
  • Client Admins not seeing the submit button on Inspection forms
  • Accessing spare parts on some databases

Novade Activity

• Added the ability to add a revision number to a duplicated form
• Web – Improved the behaviour when clicking on a Task status to display a filtered Unit Summary dashboard
• Fixes:
  • Newly imported tasks not showing in the correct position in the list view
  • Archived tasks not being included on the Milestones dashboard
  • Subcons not being able to see WIP tasks
  • Archived tasks not being exported to Excel
  • Filters not carrying over to the next page of filtered tasks
  • Users not being able to create forms on Tasks

Novade Workforce

• Fixes:
  • Exporting timecards to Excel

Novade People 

• Updated the Builder Occupier Daily Report to the latest format as per BCA
• Added the ability to store temperature records for at least 31 days for COVID-19 Safe Restart projects in Singapore
• Optimised the code to improve performance on large databases
• Fixes:
  • Deactivated users continuing to receive email notifications
  • The search function not displaying the correct results and not working properly

Project Center

• Added a check to prevent the use of ‘or ‘ in unit names. Using these characters was causing buggy behaviour
• Improved the sort function for table views with a better UI to reset sorting
• Modified the behaviour to restore deleted items to be accessible from a Recycle Bin instead of the archive tab
• Fixes:
  • Using “ in the label of a field of a form was preventing the creation of a table view for that form template
  • French language databases where “punch” was not being translated correctly

Assets

• Added the ability to set up custom fields for Equipment Types
• Fixes:
  • The import of Equipment Types
  • The selection of Equipment when creating a Meter Reading

Novade Insights

• Improved server performance and transfer of data, all daily updates are now completed by 8 a.m. local time
• Improved dashboard loading time with minor server maintenance
• Improved the presentation of risk labels on Action dashboard (Safety-HSE) using the custom risk level setup by the client
• Added access to predefined information for PTWs and incidents forms on custom dashboard creation
• Fixes:
  • A date quality issue where some long comments in forms were making the item lost
  • An error where some archive data was not included

Novade Connect

• Additions:
  • An API call to create and update units
  • API calls to access, create or modify units types
  • Added an API server for EMEA allowing users in Europe, Middle East, and Africa region to seamlessly access Novade Connect and the API listed on https://s1api.novade.net
• Simplified Pensees onboarding by ignoring spaces and being case insensitive for NRIC/FIN information
• Updated Novade connector capability information on Procore Marketplace
• Added and updated the API documentation introduction
• Fixes:
  • Attain temperature records on Novade where the record was done offline on Pensees thermal scanner
  • Attain thermal records into Novade related to timing error with Intercorp
  • Profiles marked as not synchronised with Pensees while they were in fact synchronised with the system