The latest release of T-JACS contains a few new features to streamline time tracking, expand invoice capabilities, and to work with RFP Jobs.

Time sheets now allow adding a new job scope at the same time.

Invoices have the ability now to apply administrative charges, such as a credit card fee. In addition, several more subtotals are now shown on the invoice so that you can confirm the totals in each step.

A new option allows generating RFP job numbers per employee. When an employee creates an RFP job, the next job number can be taken from their own job number counter, instead of a single, global number.

This interim release of 5.02A and 5.02B contains mostly bug fixes with a few new features. Employee management has been improved with the ability to manage inactive employees that are assigned to jobs. As well, there are new permissions that help resolve some outstanding issues as described below. The ability to export customers and vendors as .CSV files has also been added.

A few big new features arrived in this release, including a new field on time sheets to capture notes about any items acquired or expenses incurred. Jobs can now have a Void / Canceled status, to indicate that the job is closed but not invoiced. It can be maintained for history, or reused on a new job. Billed, Closed RFP, and Void jobs are now listed in a sub tab under the Closed tab on the job board.

We have a few notable new features, such as viewing and searching customer and vendor contacts. You can also build Job Scope Styles directly from the list of Job Scope Templates. Lastly, you can view the total calculated cost of a vendor purchase order from the materials and expense lists.
We’ve fixed a number of bugs in this release. Some are recent regression issues from refactoring, and a couple have been hiding for a while. These are listed below. We’ve continued to make progress on the vending functionality, but as yet, is not ready for release.

Job scopes and tasks have received a fair bit of attention in this release, with a number of forms and lists getting an internal refresh. These are some of the oldest bits of code in the system, so they were overdue…

Job scopes and tasks have received a fair bit of attention in this release, with a number of forms and lists getting an internal refresh. These are some of the oldest bits of code in the system, so they were overdue…

The major feature to note is the ability to choose from stock when you add materials in the MSR through the Add tab. In the process, several related bugs were identified and squished…

A few bugs were identified in the last release that are fixed in this release. As well, we've continued to address changes required for the framework update.  As with the last release, you should anticipate to encounter a new bug here and there.  Please report those as soon as possible.  The next release will continue to focus on refactoring.  If urgent issues arise, the release date will be shortened.  Otherwise, expect the next release in 2-3 weeks.

In this release, we've addressed some changes required for the framework update. The changes are fairly extensive and have extended the estimated effort on this release. The changes meant that most of the system was touched, so testing takes longer. The more extensive testing uncovered some older issues that we've addressed. This should mean that we've improved stability in many places, but if we've missed a few tests, you should anticipate to encounter a new bug here and there. Please report those as soon as possible. Most of those changes would not be visible, but they should help a little with performance and future code maintenance. There are still many places to refactor. In the interest of getting some important changes out, we've delayed those changes until the next release.

Along with the new HR Admin role, we've added notes to the employee record. There is a setting for sensitive content to restrict anyone but HR from viewing notes. Currently, all notes are restricted regardless of the setting.

This release is relatively small and earlier than anticipated due to some necessary fixes. We've fixed some issues with timesheets not reporting in the correct PO/Invoice. These were only a problem on jobs using scopes. We also fixed an issue that prevented changing the scope on a timesheet from the timesheet listing page, and only if you were not on the first page.

This week we've added a few new features and fixes including an new HR Admin role to support the added Employee attachments and associated confidentiality required with that. We've added some configuration ability to the timesheet clock, allowing minute intervals besides just 15 minutes. Closed customer invoices were previously restricted from changing the invoice number and date.

Job Scopes received more attention during this release.  Several new capabilities were added to scopes and tasks as outlined in the New Features section below.  In relation to the refactoring tasks in previous releases, other fixes and enhancements were identified and addressed.  Some issues were discovered that were quite old, so this release contains considerable improvements and adds to the overall application stability.

A good portion of the development effort for this release was on scopes and tasks. A few urgent items surfaced, as well as some side-tracking that resulted from issues identified while working on scopes and tasks…