Snap Schedule Premium Version History

Current Version: Snap Schedule Premium 2011 Version 4.0.4.0

Previous Versions
Snap Schedule Premium 2011 4.0.3.0   4.0.2.0   4.0.1.0   4.0.0.1
Snap Schedule Premium 2010 3.5.0.4    3.5.0.3    3.5.0.2     3.5.0.1     3.5.0.0     3.0.1.3    3.0.1.2    

Version 4.0.4.0 published on 11/04/2011

Summary of new features and enhancements
  • Added explicit sorting (by location description) to the location drop-down list in the Display Filter. The list was not sorted in previous versions.
  • Added logic to the Select Employee To Fill a Shift wizard to exclude employees who do not meet the minimum rest time between consecutive shift assignments.
  • Added logic to save the Schedule Wizard checkbox states for each user upon exiting the program.
  • Added logic to skip displaying the plug-in verification screen if the plug-in is published and signed by Snap Schedule developer, Business Management Systems.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug in Edit Schedule Plans that may cause a crash when a shift in the schedule plan has a location without any authorized employees.
  • Changed the sort order of shift assignments within a cell on the Daily View to sort by shift assignment start time instead of shift start time. Note: Unless manually adjusted, the shift assignment start time is the same as the shift start time.

Previous Versions

Version 4.0.3.0 published on 07/12/2011

Summary of new features and enhancements
  • None.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug that, while in the Shift view, did not update the employee position description and icon color in the assignment pane when a change is made to an employee position record.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the Notes field in text-based email templates to be truncated to 41 characters. Changed the truncation to 2048 characters on the NORMAL and SHORT templates and 41 characters on the MINI and MICRO templates.
  • Fixed a bug in the Software Development Kit (SDK) that did not read or save EmployeeTasks data when reading or saving an employee record.

Version 4.0.2.0 published on 06/28/2011

Summary of new features and enhancements
  • Updated the Daily Assignment Validation report to allow for displaying multiple validation errors in an employee shift assignment.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug in the overtime limit validation check where a "period overtime limit exceeded" error may be reported as a "daily overtime limit exceeded" error.
  • Fix a bug in the Assignments for Employee form where changing the assignment reason for one shift assignment may affect the assignment reasons for other shift assignments.

Version 4.0.1.0 published on 06/13/2011

Summary of new features and enhancements
  • Added the following new e-mail template placeholders: SCHEDULE_TASKS, SCHEDULE_NOTES, SCHEDULE_NOTES_TASKS to the SHORT, MINI, and MICRO templates. Fixed up e-mail templates to ensure proper alignment and spanning.
  • Modified email template [MICRO_SCHEDULE] to add "Shift Code" column and remove "End Time" column.
  • Added Custom fields tab to Location property page and the option to display custom fields in the Location list.
  • Updated the Shift Assignments by Employee report to also display shift assignment notes
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug that can sometimes cause the computed daily overtime hours for an employee to be off when maximum consecutive work days constraints are specified.
  • Fixed the problem with iCal attachments received on iPhone (iPhone requires LF characters in first two lines).
  • Fixed a bug in Import/Export of Schedule Details View causing all controls to show "None" (only occurred if importing a "blank" import file generated from exporting the standard configuration).

Version 4.0.0.1 published on 05/19/2011

Summary of new features and enhancements
  • This is the initial release of Snap Schedule Premium 2011. Click here to see a list of new features and enhancements in Snap Schedule Premium 2011.
Bug fixes
  • None.

Version 3.5.0.4 published on 1/21/2011

Summary of new features and enhancements
  • Added support in the Software Development Kit (SDK) for accessing AppUser and AppUserRole.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed bug in Employee Selection screen that incorrectly displayed employee's hourly rate even if the current user is not allowed to view it. With the new software fix, the hourly rate is displayed as $0.00 when the user does not have permissions to view the data.

Version 3.5.0.3 published on 1/10/2011

Summary of new features and enhancements
  • None.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug that displayed Deletion Error message box unexpectedly and without cause. Also added logic to ensure that SQL error message boxes would not block other transactions.

Version 3.5.0.2 published on 11/02/2010

Summary of new features and enhancements
  • None.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug that may limit database access by application users with read-only permissions.

Version 3.5.0.1 published on 10/20/2010

Summary of new features and enhancements
  • None.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug in the employee data management code that, under certain conditions, caused duplicate records to be created in employee location, skill, assignment reason, and availability schedule data tables.
  • Fixed a bug that may cause the application to stop if the "Do not show this screen at startup" checkbox on the startup screen is checked.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the splash screen from being hidden during the application login process when the database connection string was passed on the command line.

Version 3.5.0.0 published on 10/06/2010

Summary of new features and enhancements
  • In this software version, the database structure has been upgraded to accommodate new changes and enhancements. When opening a database created by a previous version of Snap Schedule Premium, you will be asked to upgrade the database before it can be used. Backup your database prior to attempting the database upgrade as this process is irreversible. The database upgrade process is done seamlessly and should take only a moment to complete.
  • Added a new access control feature with application user login/logout functionality. Within each scheduling database, roles are created for various job functions. The permissions to perform certain operations within Snap Schedule Premium are assigned to specific roles. Application users (people who will use Snap Schedule Premium and access its information) are assigned particular roles, and through those role associations, acquire the permissions to view, edit, and/or perform particular commands and system functions.
  • Added a command line switch (/databasetools=off) to invoke Snap Schedule Premium to run with database management commands disabled. When installing Snap Schedule Premium, there is a checkbox option to create program shortcuts with the switch to disable database management commands.
  • Added a new capability to the Copy Shift Assignments command to allow for disparate ‘“copy from” and “paste to” time periods. paste to” time periods. 
  • Added a new option to the Monthly Assignment Calendar report and the Employee Monthly Calendar report to hide assignments for days that are outside of the specified date range. When this option is selected, days on the calendar that fall outside the specified date range will be grayed out with no assignments displayed.
  • Added a new option to the Shift Assignments by Employee report to insert a page break to separate each employee’s assignments.
  • Added a new sorting criteria to the Employee Monthly Calendar and Employee Weekly Calendar reports to enable sorting of the displayed shifts by Shift Start Time.
  • Removed the Active column in the To Do List report and changed the default filter criteria to display only to do items whose status is open.
  • Improved start up time by retrieving built-in report templates from embedded resources.
  • Added a new feature to automatically check our website for newer versions of Snap Schedule Premium and open up a web page to enable downloading. This check can also be performed on demand, using the Check for Updates command under the Application menu.
  • Added safeguards and retain configuration settings when upgrading Snap Schedule Premium to a newer version.
Bug fixes
  • Upgraded third-party controls to prevent Snap Schedule from slowing down when the HKCU\Control Panel\International\sThousand registry key is inadvertently set to empty.
  • Added handlers to catch and avoid the “object not found” error on certain computers when invoking WMI calls.
  • Replaced the WinForm control checkbox in the Employee Time Off Details report with a Rich Text box to prevent possible memory leak.
  • Fixed a bug with the report viewer that causes an error when the user selects the Single Page display mode then closes the report.
  • Fixed business information and employee pay discrepancies in the Software Development Kit (SDK). Added advanced queries to the SDK to speed up data access to web-hosted SQL Server databases and database services like Microsoft SQL Azure.

Version 3.0.1.3 published on 06/10/2010

Summary of new features and enhancements
  • None.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug that may cause the Daily View - By Employee planner to incorrectly display an empty schedule when filtering employees by home location.

Version 3.0.1.2 published on 03/26/2010

  • None. This is the initial release of Snap Schedule Premium 2010
Bug fixes
  • None.