2.14 - Release Notes

Release Highlights

  • Continued Forney test machine integration and fine tuning - integration with other C/G/M sample types (i.e. not just Cast Cylinder)
  • Material Specification - Introduction of non-grid specifications and additional fine tuning of initial functionality (copy specifications, copy variants, edit in grid, etc.)
  • Report Designer - Repeat Panel As Column property added to allow for reports with multiple images to be designed much easier (i.e. set report to display 3 images across the width of the page and repeat / wrap until all images are displayed)
  • Report Designer - Report metadata options added to return if the project or project / form combination has open discrepancies (returns a simple Yes / No)
  • Form Designer - Font color options added to Text Area fields with formatting controls
  • DIY Forms - Users can control the order / reorder data grid records
  • DIY Forms - Users can copy formatted text from one Text Area field to another Text Area field within MetaField
  • Images / Photos - Admin and project settings added to control the default image resolution when adding an image to a form
  • Delivery - Added the ability to track when users view or download reports from AgilePort
  • Reports - Three (3) line project and client addresses better handled
  • Reports - G/G/M - Added the technician who tested a specimen (resulting from various lab audit findings and new compliance requirements)
  • Utilities - Delivery data extract added to extract report-based data from MetaField
  • Admin - Security - Can upload multiple users at once via CSV and the new 'Upload Users' button
Table of Contents

Administration

General

  • New Field - Default Image Resolution is now a configurable setting
  • Settings - File Transfer section added 
    • Fields added: 'Use File Transfer (Yes/No)', 'Protocol', 'Directory Address', 'Username', 'Password'
    • Fields are only visible if Use File Transfer is set to Yes

Security

  • New button 'Upload Users' added to the data grid which allows users to be uploaded to MetaField via CSV

Activity

  • Text color can now be changed inside each specific text library
  • 'Legacy InO Forms' group name updated to 'Legacy I&O Forms'
  • 'Legacy I&O Forms' and 'Legacy Activity Log Forms' can no longer be inactivated, deleted, or renamed.

LIMS

  • Capping Method - Use as Default option added to the add and edit screens
    • When the Use as Default option is selected Min Specified Strength and Max Specified Strength fields become available for edit
  • Capping Method - Min Specified Strength and Max Specified Strength fields have been added to the data grid
  • Consolidated Reporting - The pick list when adding the form name field setting is now alphabetized 
  • Material Specifications - Clicking on the edit button in the Sieve grid allows for editing directly in the grid instead of in a separate dialogue box
  • Material Specifications - Double clicking on the specification grid (lowest level) allows for editing the field
  • Material Specifications - Copy Specifications option has been added to the data grid
  • Material Specifications - 'General' added as a new specification type
  • Material Specifications/Field Settings- Rounding value removed from the specifications grid
  • Specimen Sizes - Can now enter default measurements for Cylinders, Beams, Cubes, and Prisms; Note, these fields will only display if all specimens selected are the same type, Ex: All Cylinders

MetaField® DIY Engine - Form Designer

  • Field Settings - When using the Default Text setting, color formatting can be applied to the default text 
  • Field Settings/Material Specifications - Decimal places added as a field setting for numeric fields, which sets how many decimal places will be utilized when performing rounding on that field
  • Field Settings/Material Specifications - Trim trailing zeroes added as a field setting for numeric fields
  • Logarithmic Charts - When editing the definition of a Logarithmic Chart, users can select 'LowerLimit' and 'UpperLimit' as values for the Low Spec Field and High Spec Field settings
  • New Expression - 'EvaluateFields'

MetaField® DIY Engine - Report Designer

  • Text color can be changed on text fields (Labels, Headers) in the report designer
  • New Property - Repeat Panel As Column; will repeat the panel at reduced size (1 Column = 100%, 2 Columns = 50%, etc.) on Panel data elements that have a Data Set and Source selected
  • Properties - Able to change the width values (currently changes don't save) for check box list items
  • Report Metadata - New Report Metadata setting 'ProjectHasOpenDiscrepancies' which returns yes or no depending on if the project has any open discrepancies at the time the report is generated
  • Report Metadata - New Report Metadata setting 'FormHasOpenDiscrepancies' which returns yes or no depending on if the form has any open discrepancies at the time the report is generated
  • Report Metadata - MetaData elements are now surrounded by a panel when they're added to reports

Field

General

  • Text color can now be changed inside text area fields with rich text editing enabled EXCEPTION: Editing text color is currently not available while using the Safari browser
  • The signature capture box has been increased in size, the size increase is larger/more noticeable on mobile devices
  • Improved performance when rotating pictures inside Activity Forms
  • Error message removed "This page doesn't support Chrome for iOS.  Please use Safari to access this page."
  • The order of Data Grid records can be adjusted when entering info on the forms
    • This change is also reflected in the order that the Data Grid is presented on the report 

Activity

  • Formatted text can be copied from one Text Area field to another using the new Copy / Paste buttons in the text formatting toolbar

Dashboard

  • Forms that are in the 'Legacy I&O Forms' and 'Legacy Activity Log Forms' groups are excluded from the Activity queues
  • Forms that are in the 'Legacy I&O Forms' and 'Legacy Activity Log Forms' groups are no longer included in the group filters control or the form filter control

Quality Control

General

  • Text color can now be changed inside text area fields with rich text editing enabled

Activity

  • Formatted text can be copied from one Text Area field to another using the new Copy / Paste buttons in the text formatting toolbar

Concrete / Grout / Mortar

  • Received By, Received Date, and Received Time are now editable on the check in screen

Sampling

  • The: 'Preview Test Summary Report', 'Create Test Summary Draft Report', 'Finalize Test Summary Report' buttons have been removed from the Samples grid

Delivery

  • Can now click on the published log to display the additional information:
    • Date and time of the last time that the report was published and user who last published the report
    • Tracking grid which contains the history of when the report was opened/downloaded and the user who performed the action
  • Filtering - 'None' is now a filtering option under Report Label

Scheduling

  • Pending Field Actions Tab - Technician Office filter has been added
  • Add New Work Order - Filtering by office (as a picklist) has been added to Technician filtering

Project Administration

Specifications

  • New Field - Address Line 3 added to Client and Project Address Overrides 
  • New Field - General - Default Image Resolution is now a configurable setting on the General tab

Project Setup

  • New Field - Address Line 3 has been added to Project info when creating, editing, or viewing project info

LIMS

General

  • Text color can now be changed inside text area fields with rich text editing enabled

Other Material Work Queues

  • Material Specifications - When 'General; specification types are used on a form, the fields populate on the form without container borders

Consolidated Forms

  • Can now add section type fields to Consolidated Forms

Equipment

  • Inactive users can now be selected for the Calibrated By field 

Reports

  • Break Remarks: Tested By now also includes the sample numbers that the technicians tested

Utilities

  • Delivery Data Extract option added to extract data related to reports generated

User Interface / General

  • AgileStamp username is now editable by end users on the edit profile screen, Note: This only chances how the AgileStamp username is displayed in MetaField, it doesn't update the username in the AgileStamp database
  • Copy button has been added to Rich Text fields, that will save formatting when copying from one rich text field (In MetaField) to another rich text field 
  • New fields added to the API for retrieving and posting Employee data:
    • Posting: Password, Signature Name, Title, Phone Number, Alert Email, Office, Department, AgileStamp Username
    • Retrieving:Signature Name, Title, Phone Number, Alert Email, Office, Department, AgileStamp Username

MetaField Patch Log

2.14.1

  • Scheduling - Issue resolved that displayed certain scheduled work orders in a time zone different than the project settings (if the project time zone was different than the global time zone)
  • Form Designer (Tests) - Material Specification fields will retain their same "edit" properties when a Test form is copied to create a new Test form

2.14.2

  • Scheduling - The Location field can now accept inputs longer than 255 characters
  • LIMS - Bug where Mortar Cube remark codes were showing instead of Grout Cubes in the drop down has been fixed

2.14.3

  • Reports -Changes to consolidated report titles are now saved
  • Reports - Reports that contain long project names now wrap unto two lines
  • Reports - Zero-voids lines now show on proctor curves Note: to implement this fix, someone must go into the broken form via edit (no actual changes need to be saved) and save the form
  • Reports - Proctor curves are now showing on a single page Note: to implement this fix, someone must go into the broken form via edit (no actual changes need to be saved) and save the form
  • Reports - The concatenate function is now calculating zero correctly 
  • LIMS - The Spec Field column is now populating correctly
  • DIY Forms - Changes made to the Received Date field are now saved correctly

2.14.4

  • Admin - "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error that was encountered when saving changes to users/roles has been fixed

2.14.5

  • Dashboard - Internal Error that prevented some users from viewing certain queues has been resolved
  • Field/Reports - Optimizations have been made to some of the queries so Field Reports will generate faster
  • C/G/M - Optimizations have been made to some of the queries surrounding concrete, grout, and mortar tests
  • General - Improvements to multiple queries which will lead to faster performance

2.14.6

  • Project Administration - Issue that prevented the copying of Project Specifications has been resolved
  • Administration - Report templates can now be included when extracting LIMS forms in administration without causing an error
  • Quality Control - Issue that occasionally prevented previewing of reports has been resolved
  • LIMS - Test records now load faster
  • LIMS - DETERMINEPEAK expression no longer causes lag when entering lab results

2.14.7

  • Form Designer - Issue resolved where visualization rules wouldn't apply to each file upload field when there were multiple file upload fields on a form

2.14.8

  • Updates made to the database for storage efficiency 

2.14.9

  • Reports - Issue resolved where report links sent from MetaField would render an error screen if there wasn't a concurrent active MetaField session
  • Field/QC - Issue resolved where images uploaded from an iPhone wouldn't display in QC
  • Updates made to the database for storage efficiency

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