Dispatch

Dispatch release notes pertain to the OPS client work assignment and work planning features.

Version Type Description ID
19.0.1.0 CORR The issue of the From and To times being changed when the Extra Pay Type was changed (for example, from Pending to Approval) in Daily Activity has been fixed. The times are not changed if they are within the time restriction of the newly selected Extra Pay Type. OPS-17183
19.0.1.0 CORR The issue of the Work Assignment Assistant failing when applying Auto Assign and Activate Day during the same time period has been fixed. (The AutoAssign Service now supports multi thread procedures.) OPS-18618
19.0.1.0 ENH Critical: When calculating timekeeping, OPS now checks the Time Factor for the Extra work subtype that has the Activity Flag selected. OPS-18311
19.0.2.0 CORR Improved the appearance of the grids that display the pay components in the lower section of the Split Work dialog box. OPS-19738
19.0.2.0 CORR When partial trips are resumed, only the selected nodes are now shown. Previously, when users cancelled all trips and resumed them, in the case of partially resumed trips, the whole trips were shown. OPS-19697
19.0.3.0 ENH The Activity Type drop-down lists in various OPS screens are now sorted by Abbreviation numerically. The Abbreviation strings are padded with leading zeros up to 15 characters per schema, and then sorted in ascending order. OPS-19996
19.0.3.0 CORR The issue of the incorrect timestamps on a block on the first day of a new sign-up period associated with a run from the previous sign-up period has been fixed. For example, the Extra Daily Block on a Sunday (first day of a sign-up period) is associated with a Saturday run (on the previous sign-up period). The block is now split based on the From time of the first run of the new sign-up period, with same LineGroupAbbr and BlockName. OPS-20228
19.0.3.0 ENH Improved loading time of employee data in the Work Assignment Assistant screen. OPS-20281
19.0.4.0 CORR Critical: The error that occurred when no employees were found in the Suggest Employee screen in Daily Activity has been fixed. OPS-20591
19.0.4.0 CORR Critical: The issue of the system applying the current system time during sign-on in the Daily Activity screen even though the OPS > Dispatch > Sign-On and Sign-Off > Quick Sign-On Time context property was set to Scheduled Sign-On Time has been fixed. OPS-20592
19.0.4.0 ENH Critical: After users select an option for open work with reoccurring absences, the message that appears now asks whether a reoccurring or a continuous absence should be created between the selected date and times. Previously, the message stated that a reoccurring absence was going to be created during the selected date and times. OPS-20718
19.0.4.0 CORR The issue of the Relationship field in the Open Work dialog box not being available when the Absence Type that requires a Reason was changed to an Absence Type that requires a Relationship has been fixed. OPS-20730
19.0.4.0 CORR The SQL exception errors that occurred when users attempted to activate two consecutive days have been fixed. OPS-20432
19.0.5.0 CORR In the Work Assignment Assistant screen, the issue of profiles not being filtered properly has been fixed. Users are now only able to view profiles of the divisions for which they have been created. OPS-20401
19.0.5.0 CORR The issue of the Volunteer Rotation Hours being calculated only for the selected volunteer type and the other volunteer types not being displayed in the Daily Employee List screen when the list was regenerated has been fixed. OPS-20576
19.0.5.0 CORR The issue of OPS incorrectly updating the back-to-back shifts of an employee with EAM data has been fixed. Previously, OPS updated an employee's first shift with a part of the second shift. OPS-20789
19.0.6.0 CORR Critical: The issue of the From and To Date fields not filtering the employee list properly in the Context dialog box of the Employee Profile screen has been fixed. OPS-21053
19.0.6.0 ENH Blocker: In the Context dialog boxes of the Employee Profile and Performance Action screens, the Date field is now used with the other fields to filter employee details while the From and To date fields at the bottom section of the dialog boxes are used to filter employees based on the selected Supervisory Groups. OPS-21186
19.0.6.0 CORR The issue of work being reassigned to an employee whose absence conflicts with the assignment has been fixed. OPS-20905
19.0.6.0 CORR The issue of the bid work details not showing in the Daily Absence standard report has been fixed. OPS-20946
19.0.7.0 CORR An issue where job class IDs for work activities did not match the assignment's job class ID has been fixed. OPS-20914
19.0.7.0 CORR The issue of the OPS Skills List not being validated for PASS Runs when a day is activated has been fixed. OPS-21247
19.0.7.0 CORR The issue of the Pay Time and Work Time being set for Activity-based Extra Work only when there is a break type that does not count as either of these times has been fixed. OPS-21343
19.0.7.0 CORR The issue of an earlier EmployeeDayOffMirror record being used instead of the closest record when the OPS > Absence > When No Days Off Found property was set to Extend Last Known Days Off has been fixed. OPS-21562
19.0.7.0 CORR Blocker: The issue of OPS failing to send an OPS Trip Change Notification to TransitMaster (TM) when a whole run was cancelled in Daily Activity has been fixed. OPS-21718
19.0.7.0 ENH The message that appears in the Work Assignment Assistant screen when the maximum number of employees has been reached for work has been changed to "The Work Assignment Assistant has reached the maximum number of employees to process for Extraboard." OPS-20382
19.0.7.0 CORR When users re-open the Daily Activity screen after having previously zoomed in to make the image appear 4x bigger, the Assignment Display time intervals are now properly displayed. OPS-21723
19.0.8.0 CORR Blocker: An issue where OPS categorized Late Report absences as ineligible for further work even though the system opened all work assignments when a Late Report absence type was created was fixed. OPS-22291
19.0.8.0 CORR An issue where, when a single run was shown in the Daily Activity screen and it was split and then unsplit, an error message occurred has been fixed. OPS-22143
19.0.8.0 CORR The Employee Activities dialog box now shows the Holiday icon where applicable. OPS-22072
19.0.8.0 CORR There was an issue where the Volunteer Type shown when editing an Employee volunteer record was not restricted to match those available when creating a new Volunteer Type record. Now, only the defined Volunteer Type options are available when editing a record. OPS-22146
19.0.10.1 CORR Critical: An issue in the Daily Activity screen where an error occurred when, in the Suggest Employee dialog box, an employee was skipped, rolled back, and then offered work again, has been fixed. Now, a message occurs if a Method of Contact is not added while offering Work. OPS-22634
19.0.11.0 CORR Critical: An issue where cross-divisional vacation relief employees were unassigned from work during day activation because their employee skills were associated with a different division has been fixed. OPS-23067
19.0.11.0 CORR An issue where republishing work assignments after assigning open work to an extraboard employee led to pk violations has been fixed. OPS-23029
19.0.11.0 CORR An issue where trips could be canceled from OPS Dispatch Log after they had already been canceled in Daily Activity has been fixed. OPS-23343
19.0.11.0 CORR Blocker: An issue where the Daily Activity Parking Description was not showing when RealTimeParking was enabled has been fixed. Now, the property OPS > Interfaces > Import > Vehicles > Vehicle Parking > GarageGroup is checked to determine which garages are part of the import group. Based on GarageID, the parking description and garage abbreviation are updated for each row in the Daily Activity screen. OPS-23248
19.0.13.0 CORR Additional checks were added to prevent users from making changes to event statuses when a division was being activated or had already been activated for the date. OPS-23347
19.0.14.0 CORR Critical: An issue where an error occurred when OPS called Schedule Server for PASS information (discovered when assigning work to an employee in the Daily Activity screen) has been fixed. OPS-23797
19.0.15.0 CORR An issue in the Employee Suggestions dialog box where ROLLBACK was included in the Offer column details even though no rollback was performed has been fixed. OPS-23609
19.0.16.0 ENH A new property was added: OPS > ITS Integration > ITS Events > Event Time Threshold. Specifies the threshold used when calling TransitMaster to get the Pull In and Pull Out Times. Events within the FromTime minus the threshold, and ToTime plus the threshold will be obtained. Default value is 30 minutes. This property lets TransitMaster find and retrieve information outside of work piece From and To times, which allows OPS to populate pull-out and pull-in information as applicable. OPS-24396
19.0.16.0 CORR Critical: Issues in the Work Assignment Assistant screen based on whether the Automatically Assign When Next Button Clicked parameter was selected, have been fixed. Now, if selected, the work is assigned and the assign employee dialog no longer appears. Now, an Assign Detail dropdown list is available (an Assign Type can be selected if multiple options are available). When assigning an employee, if the Previous button is used to return the previous employee, the originally offered work is once again available. OPS-24145
19.0.16.0 CORR An issue where opening all work with split standby work resulted in non-split work disappearing from daily activity has been fixed. OPS-24437
19.0.16.0 CORR Critical: An issue where the From/To Time, Report Time and Elapsed Times were not adjusted and did not align when work piece(s) were assigned within the Report Time of a Standby Reports assignment has been fixed. Additionally, an issue where Work Assignment Assistant disqualified previously valid work piece(s) when an adjustment was made to a Standby Reports work time and the Work Assignment Assistant profile was re-run has been fixed. OPS-24616
19.0.17.0 ENH Critical: Report times for Standby work assigned using the Work Assignment Assistant and the Suggest Employee dialog box are now maintained or recalculated in the same way they would be handled in the Daily Activity screen. OPS-24783
19.0.17.0 CORR An issue where invalid TransitMaster errors appeared when canceling and resuming trips from OPS has been fixed. Duplicate calls to TransitMaster are no longer made. TransitMaster bug fixes for this issue should be implemented in v19.0.19.2. Please confirm fix versions with your Trapeze representative before upgrading.

Related to TM-34123.

OPS-24436
19.0.18.0 CORR Critical: An issue where the Layover Time field was not shown in the Edit Work Times dialog has been fixed. OPS-25004
19.0.18.0 CORR Critical: An issue where work assignment assistant assignments made on the current day for the next day were not transferred to TM has been fixed. Now, modification information is added to records before they are updated and records are transferred to TM as expected. OPS-24901
19.0.18.0 CORR An issue in the Daily Employee List screen where using the Regenerate List option for Extra Board Types resulted in sequence values to restart at 1 instead of starting after the previous board's sequence value has been fixed. OPS-24618
19.0.18.0 CORR An issue where the Work Assignment Assistant did not show the From Location and To Location has been fixed. OPS-25130
19.0.18.0 CORR Critical: An issue where the Work Assignment Assistant was taking longer than expected when running has been fixed. OPS-25205
19.0.18.0 CORR An issue in the Quick Extra Work dialog where an incorrect From Time was generated for work subtypes requiring vehicles has been fixed. Now, Sign-On Time, From Time, To Time, and Sign-Off Time are updated based on property settings and the current time. If the work subtype is changed, all four time fields are updated to the current time. Any previously entered times should be re-entered. OPS-25067
19.0.18.0 CORR An issue in the Runs Display screen where a new labor account record for a run with a previous entry could not always be saved has been fixed. OPS-25346
19.0.18.0 CORR An issue where OPS did not consider run versions or exceptions for labor accounts when costing has been fixed. OPS-25349

19.0.19.0

CORR Security permission key descriptions were updated to better reflect their purpose:
  • OPS > Dispatch > Daily Activity > Employee Messages > Delete. Ability to delete employee messages that have not been acknowledged or printed yet.
  • OPS > Dispatch > Daily Activity > Employee Messages > Edit. Ability to enter new employee messages or change employee messages that have not been acknowledged or printed yet.
OPS-25494

19.0.19.0

CORR Error messages that appeared when opening Work Assignment Assistant have been fixed. Related to OPS-25130. OPS-25507

19.0.20.0

CORR An issue where adding a work subtype when there were no existing work subtype records resulted in an error message indicating there was a missing ActivityTypeID field has been fixed. OPS-23226

19.0.20.0

CORR An issue where the Edit Work Times dialog showed Escort Information when no escort information was available has been fixed. OPS-25836
19.0.21.0 CORR An issue where work times could not be edited was fixed. OPS-26342

19.0.22.0

CORR Fixed a SQL error when setting context in Daily Activity. OPS-26416

19.0.23.0

ENH Restored the ability to (safely) delete a sign-up period. OPS-27707

19.0.23.0

CORR Fixed an issue causing the OPS Weekly Roster screen to incorrectly handle the placement of Sunday runs. OPS-27938
19.0.23.0 CORR Critical: An issue with OPS-EAM integration where, in the Edit Work Times dialog, the expected Activity options were not available because activity codes were duplicated was fixed. OPS-27611
19.0.23.0 CORR Fixed an unintended interaction where starting an absence deletion in the Work Planner, then using the Reassign Work dialog to assign an operator to a piece of work, then cancelling the absence deletion would incorrectly put that operator back on work OPS-27436
19.0.23.0 CORR An issue where an SQL error occurred when adding an allocation to an extra pay record was fixed. OPS-27819

19.0.24.0

CORR Fixed an issue that caused long load times and performance degradation in Daily Activity when Quick Filter was enabled. OPS-28065
19.0.24.0 CORR Fixed a bug that caused a violation when assigning work to an employee with no work time (where sign-on time and sign-off time were equal) that overlapped with standby work. OPS-28562

19.0.24.0

CORR Fixed a bug that prevented adding volunteer types in Daily Employee List and caused an incorrect validation message that employee is off on that day. OPS-28280

19.0.24.0

CORR Fixed the issue of data not updating in the Hours Analysis tab when the Cancelled Service Reason is modified in Daily Activity. OPS-28167

19.0.25.0

CORR An issue where Casual Extra Work assigned in Work Planner was not updated with employee information in Daily Activity and an issue where only the second piece of a split Fixed Route run assigned in Work Planner was updated in Daily Activity were fixed. OPS-28662

19.0.26.0

CORR Critical: An issue in the Daily Activity screen where the Smart Filter only returned one result when filtering by Work Name if multiple extra work records with the same Work Name existed was fixed. OPS-17760

19.0.26.0

CORR An issue in the Extra Work screen where the Default Activity Type field was not automatically populated was fixed. OPS-29587

19.0.26.0

CORR An issue in the Daily Activity screen where creating quick extra work and then selecting Split or Undo Split Work resulted in an Assert error was fixed. OPS-29932

19.0.26.0

CORR An issue in the Edit Work Times dialog in the Daily Activity screen where entered Comments were not retained was fixed. OPS-29805