New Features and Enhancements
• | The new 'Trips' screen has been added to the platform. It contains an Unassigned Miles tab, which allows any vehicle trips performed without an assigned driver, category or Hours of Service status to be manually amended, and a Classification tab, which allows you to view your drivers' trip classifications, whether business or personal, made via the Verizon Connect® Trips app. |
• | A new version of Mobile Messaging has been added, which allows supervisors to communicate more efficiently with their driver teams. |
• | The Map screen has been updated to include the new Nav Monitor system, which allows users to view all routes and route segments that a driver has requested and taken while using the Navigation mobile app. |
• | The Hours of Service screen has been updated with a newer and more user-friendly interface. |
• | The new User Access Windows screen has been added to the platform. This screen is used for specifying access windows for Verizon Connect® WorkPlan™ mobile users. |
• | Added a new guided introductory tour to the platform. To launch the tour, click the 'Get Started Tour' link under the 'Help' section of the main menu. This feature is only available to suitably configured users. |
• | Added the new My Account feature for self-managing credit card payments, ordering new hardware and adding vehicle subscriptions; and added new associated role rights. |
• | Added the Maintenance Connect system for tracking vehicle trouble codes (DTCs), and for creating, applying and tracking fleet maintenance schedules and logs. |
• | Updated the 'Go To' map search dialog box to provide auto-complete suggestions for addresses, markers and jobs as users type in their search queries. |
• | Updated the Password Policy settings on the 'Settings' dialog box. Administrators can now restrict the number of previously used passwords that can be reused when choosing a password. |
• | The Rights tab on the Roles screen has been updated to include better descriptions of the rights available to subusers, and a brief explanation of the purpose of each right. As part of this update, the Rights tab of the Edit User dialog box has also been updated to reflect the style of the 'Roles' screen, removing the previous checkbox options and expanding the number of rights that can be configured. |
• | Roles on the 'Roles' screen can now be duplicated using a new 'Copy' button. The duplicate role created will contain the same rights are the source role, but no assigned users. |
• | The 'Vehicle Details' dialog box can now be used to specify the type of engine used by a vehicle (for example, internal combustion or electric). |
• | Volume units supported by the platform have been expanded to include Imperial (UK) gallons together with the existing US gallon and liter units. |
• | The 'Units' tab of the 'Settings' dialog box now includes a 'Fuel Efficiency' option that allows vehicle fuel use to be specified in miles per gallon (both US and Imperial), kilometers per liter, or liters per 100 kilometers. |
• | Speeding alerts are now configurable for an entire category of markers rather than on an individual marker-by-marker basis. |
• | Saving a Hierarchy role, or making changes to a large Hierarchy, is now considerably faster than in previous releases due to various database improvements. |
• | Three new asset report types have been added to the platform: 'Fleet Status', 'Jobsite Status' and 'Jobsite Daily Status'. These summarize the current status of a fleet, identify the equipment on site at job locations (markers), and show when assets arrived at a marker and left. Using these reports, users can identify under-utilized assets and see emerging utilization trends. Users can also bill hours to a job site for the specified timeframe. |
• | The 'Details' tab of the 'InSight Alert Scripts' page now includes a timestamp indicating when the script was created and, if it has been edited since that time, the time and date the script was last updated. |
• | The search filter on the 'Unassigned Users' tab of the 'Hierarchy' screen can now be used to filter the 'Full Name' column, in addition to the previous 'Username' column. |
• | The 'Switch Diagnostic' speed alert configuration option has been relocated from the 'Speeding' tab of the 'Settings' dialog box to the new 'InSight Alerts' tab. |
• | Custom reports can now be exported as plain text (.txt format), without strings wrapped in quote marks (as occurs in .csv export files). |
• | New technology provides an enhanced mobile user experience with a faster and more user-friendly fleet map, easy access balloons pop-ups, and other mobile usability improvements. |
• | Two new vehicle attributes have been added to the 'Edit Vehicle' dialog box: 'Class' and 'Body Type'. |
• | The 'Task No.' field on the 'Edit Vehicle' dialog, and the 'Reg No.' and 'Task' fields on the 'Details' tab of the 'Vehicle Details' dialog, have been consolidated to use the text label 'Registration'. |
• | Points with a 'Working' status viewed on the 'History' layer now include both duration and speed values in their information balloons (under the 'Status' value), and in the 'History Details' dialog. |
• | The 'Saved View' and 'Fleet Hierarchy' selection panels on the 'Map' screen are now re-sizeable for better viewing on smaller/larger screens. |
• | A new 'Show Inactive' checkbox has been added to the 'Flat List' tab of the 'Fleets & Teams' screen. Checking this box will display all vehicles that have been configured as inactive in the list, in addition to all active vehicles. |
• | After navigating to an address from the 'Go To' dialog and clicking the 'Copy to clipboard' map balloon link, the map balloon will close to clearly indicate that the action was completed. |
• | A link to the Verizon Connect Training Center has been added to the 'Help' section of the main menu for suitably configured accounts. |
• | Drivers can now be searched for by their employee number in the map filter field. These searches use 'driver.employeenumber:' formatting. |
• | The number of results last configured to show on the 'Find Nearest Vehicle' dialog (using the options cog tab) is now stored in browser memory, and selected automatically. |
• | Disabled user accounts can now be identified and filtered on the 'Subusers' screen by enabling the new 'Disabled' column option. |
• | Added direct access to the Verizon Connect Navigation NaviGo portal. When an account is configured to support this feature, a new 'Navigation Portal' menu option will be listed under the 'Main' menu section. |
• | Four Hierarchy levels (levels 1-4) have been added to the 'Vehicle List' tab of the 'Column Settings' dialog. |
• | 'Penske number', 'Last Point Received', 'Hierarchy Level 4', and 'Employee Number' are now selectable in the list view. |
• | Insight Alerts now include a new 'Ignore unreliable location data' checkbox to prevent bad, unreliable or no GPS points triggering an alert. |
• | 'DTCs', 'Battery voltage' and 'Backup Battery voltage' can now be selected from the 'Custom Fields' tab on the 'Column Settings' dialog. |
• | When editing a marker, only the marker currently being edited will be visible on the map. Other markers will re-appear only once the editing process has been completed. |
• | Reports that include timestamps now include the time zone in which the report was run in their headers. |
• | The new 'DTC Activity Report' is now available from the report tree for customers configured to use Engine Diagnostics reports. |
• | The new 'Hours Of Service Enterprise Violation Report' is now available from the report tree for customers configured to use Hours Of Service reports. |
• | The 'Hours Of Service Available Hours Report' and the 'Hours Of Service Violation Report' have been changed to display the drivers' base markers. |
• | The 'Hours Of Service Violation Report' has had its layout improved and now displays the total violation count as well as a violation time aggregate across the entire report. |
• | The Road Edits system has been improved to include a tab for creating road edits and a tab for managing road edits. In addition to road closures and speed limit changes, you can limit access on additional attributes, such has vehicle dimensions and truck behavior. Speed Limit Edits reports have been deprecated in favor of map visualization of all edits. |
• | Users can now filter markers from the 'Set Base' dialog when setting the base location for a vehicle or driver from the 'Hierarchy' screen (this dialog is displayed after pressing the 'Set Base' button). |
• | GF Co-Location Reports now support markers with a secondary category of showup. Previously, these markers were required to be in a primary category configured as a showup (that is, with a category name containing the text 'Show_Up'). |
• | The obsolete 'Lost Filter' option has been removed from the 'Map' screen filter list. |
• | The setting 'Can Use 100 Mile Exemption' has been added to the Verizon Connect Mobile' tab within the 'Driver' settings and to the 'Mobile Defaults' tab within the 'Settings' dialog. |
• | A new 'Unassigned Miles' tab has been added to the 'Settings' dialog. |
• | Users can now enable push notifications for InSight Alerts and receive notifications about alerts on their mobile devices. |
• | Users can now enable or disable Navigation, as well as change Navigation settings, globally for their account or individually for particular drivers. |
• | A new 'Routing Defaults' tab has been added to the 'Settings' dialog. |
• | The setting 'Trips' has been added to the Verizon Connect Mobile' tab within the 'Driver' settings and to the 'Mobile Defaults' tab within the 'Settings' dialog. It allows users to enable or disable support for the Trips app. |
• | The 'DVIR' tab has been added to the 'Asset Types' screen. It allows you to specify the DVIR form templates to associate with the asset type. The selected forms will then be presented to Verizon Connect® WorkPlan™ users for vehicles that are of the associated asset type. |
• | Users can now specify 'DVIR Walkaround Settings' within the 'Form Builder', which are used to work out the probability of a vehicle walk around during inspection made using Verizon Connect® WorkPlan™. The DVIR Walkaround results can be viewed in the 'Walkaround Completed' column of the 'Driver Forms' table. |
• | The setting 'Walkaround' has been added to the 'Mobile Defaults' tab within the 'Settings' dialog. It allows users to enable or disable support for monitoring DVIR walk around inspections. |
• | The settings 'Can Switch Ruleset' and 'Can Enable Oilfield' have been added to the Verizon Connect Mobile' tab within the 'Driver' settings and to the 'Mobile Defaults' tab within the 'Settings' dialog. |
• | The usability of the 'DVIR' settings tab on the 'Asset Type' page has been improved. |
• | A new built-in report for "HOS Weekly Available Hours" has been added. |
• | When editing or adding an HOS event, you can now specify, as the event location, the depot, the work reporting location, or an address. |
Bug Fixes / Technical Release Notes
• | Vehicles and Markers on the map now list their updated addresses after changes have been made to their latitude/longitude coordinates. |
• | The coverage of German translations throughout the platform user interface has been greatly improved. |
• | The Silverlight map option, formerly available from the 'Map' tab of the 'Settings' dialog, has been deprecated. |
• | Obsolete 'Lost Vehicles' location options previously shown on the 'Vehicles' tab of the 'Settings' dialog have been removed. |
• | When changing active fleet from the 'Home' screen and searching for a non-existent fleet, an alert is now displayed if no match for the search term could be found. |
• | The default value of the 'Trigger when moving faster than' speeding option on the 'Parameters' tab of the 'Setup InSight Alerts' window has been updated to '1' rather than '0.62' MPH. |
• | The text displayed in the 'Change Password' section of the 'User' tab of the 'Settings' dialog has been improved for Spanish customers. |
• | Users without sufficient permissions who attempt to remove a fleet from a vehicle (from the 'Fleet' tab of the 'Edit Vehicle' dialog) will now be shown an alert that the action could not be completed due to insufficient rights. |
• | Alerts and reports will no longer be generated for users who have been deleted or removed. |
• | Favorite menu items will no longer sporadically disappear from the 'Favorites' menu section. |
• | When resetting a forgotten password from the customer login screen customers may, if they want, enter their email address rather than providing their credentials in customer:user format. |
• | Following the creation of any new hierarchy node, the new node will now be displayed immediately in the hierarchy tree. Previously, the node was only displayed after signing out then back in. |
• | A fault that caused a '404 page not found' error to be shown when generating a route report from the 'Routing' dialog has been fixed. |
• | Markers listed on the 'Map Markers' window can now be sorted correctly by name in all accounts. |
• | Imported markers now correctly include any associated notes. |
• | A fault that resulted in empty column names being shown on the 'Manage Reports' screen's column picker has been corrected. |
• | Inactive fleets are no longer displayed on the 'Home' page. |
• | The 'Report Color' option on the 'Properties' tab of the 'Marker Categories' window now correctly specifies the color that will be used in reports for vehicles that stopped at matching category markers. |
• | The 'Map' tab's icon no longer erroneously appears on other tabs. |
• | A fault that intermittently stopped new external keys from being entered on the 'Customer' tab of the 'Settings' dialog has been fixed. |
• | Subuser accounts are no longer able to create accounts with duplicate driver names. If a name has already been used, an alert will be displayed advising that the selected driver name is unavailable. |
• | The mini-map in the lower left-hand corner of the main map has been updated to maintain a constant size relative to the main map and the browser, and to zoom in lockstep with the main map. |
• | Speed limits shown in the Road Editor now correspond with the speed limit shown when searching for the same street in the 'Go To' dialog. |
• | Map information balloons will no longer close unexpectedly while moving the mouse toward them. |
• | Speeding reports no longer list items in random order, but will instead list Vehicle tags in alphabetical and numerical order. |
• | A fault that prevented more than one folder being selected within a Hierarchy node has been corrected. |
• | The height of the header rows of the 'Detailed Trip' report have been increased to prevent text being cut off. |
• | New asset types are no longer created from the 'Asset Types' screen without first clicking the 'Save' button. |
• | After opening the map 'Go To' dialog, the search field is correctly and immediately selected. |
• | 'Fuel Purchase History' reports no longer list a dollar ($) value for fuel purchases in regions that do not use dollars as a unit of currency. |
• | Address searches in Australia will correctly include suburbs in the found address results, if present. |
• | If a history route is unable to be displayed, an error message is now displayed on the 'History' tab of the 'Vehicle Details' dialog. |
• | The routing tool has been updated to accept a maximum of 15 stops when running an optimization, thereby preventing operation timeouts from occurring. |
• | A fault that could prevent Insight Alerts triggering when entering or exiting a polygon marker has been corrected. |
• | When signed out of the platform due to authentication expiration, customers will be directed to the correct log out page based on their customer configuration rather than defaulting to a generic, and possibly inaccurate, log out page. |
• | A problem that resulted in users being randomly signed out due to the loss of their memory cache has been corrected. |
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