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The following new features have been added to Signature:

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Service Management

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Task Codes and Task Lists can now be marked inactive at the setup level while maintaining historical entity record integrity. Task codes are inactivated at the setup level in the Task Code Setup window (Setup >Service Management > Lookup Setup > Tasks > Task Codes). Task lists are inactivated in the Task List Setup window (Setup > Service Management > Lookup Setup > Tasks> Task Lists).

  • Inactive task codes and task lists are filtered out from displaying in any lookup.
  • Inactive task lists cannot be copied.
  • When a task code is marked inactive and already exists in a task list, the inactive task code is indicated with a red indicator Image Removed.
  • When using hierarchy task lists, if a parent task is inactive, child tasks of that parent task are also inactive on the task list only. (Hierarchy child tasks are not automatically inactivated at the setup level.)
  • Existing contracts, quotes, and calls, that have task codes or task lists will not be affected by a task code or task list being marked inactive.
  • When renewing a contract (single, master, or mass), you can print a new Inactive Task or Task List report before renewing. If the contract has tasks that include inactive tasks and/or task lists, this report is automatically generated as well so that users can fix the data (reactivate the task code/task list or remove the inactive task codes or lists from the contract).
  • When creating a new contract using equipment at the location, if the equipment type has a task list associated and you choose to automatically add task codes based on equipment type, only the active task codes will be added to the contract. 
  • In Equipment Management:
    • Existing scheduled maintenance that has task codes or task lists will not be affected by a task code or task list being marked inactive.
    • When creating a service call from the On Rental Entry and/or the Rental Agreement Line Entry windows, only active task codes in the Equipment Model task list are added to the service call. (This task list is assigned to the equipment model in the Equipment Model Maintenance window.)
    • When processing scheduled maintenance to create a service call, only active task codes assigned in the Scheduled Maintenance Type Setup window are added to the service call.

Reports

  • The existing Maintenance Task Codes report has been updated to include an Inactive column to indicate inactive task codes. See Maintenance Task Codes Report.
  • A new Task Code Task Lists report displays the task code and the task lists that the task code is associated with. Columns include the task code, task description, task list ID, task list description, inactive, use hierarchy, and protected list. See Task Code Task Lists Report.
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  • A new Inactive Task Code or Task List Warnings report that can be manually printed from the Contract Quote, Maintenance Contract, Contract Mass Renewal, and Master Contract windows. The report will automatically generate when an inactive task code and/or task list exists on a contract that is generated from the contract quote and/or a contract is renewed. This report displays the inactive tasks and/or inactive task lists that are associated with the quote or contract. The information included in the report is the customer number, customer name, address code, location name, contract/quote number, equipment ID, equipment type, task list ID, task code, and the task code description. 
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We've added a new refrigerant equipment type of Refrigeration Equipment Type 6 for mid-size appliances (5 to 50 pounds), which is an EPA tracking requirement that does not require leak rate analysis.

Note
  • This new type is automatically inserted if there isn't a manually added Type 6.
  • Leak Rate Analysis Report: Refrigeration Equipment Type 6 is not included in the Leak Rate Analysis Report. This report targets only equipment that require leak rate analysis.
  • For MobileTech users: For Refrigeration Equipment Type 6 to be available in MobileTech, after upgrading Signature, you will need to refresh lookups in MobileTech Admin (MobileTech Admin > Tools > Refresh Lookups) and have technicians sync their devices.

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You now have the option to default Leave Contract Open to always be marked, however, the checkbox is not locked so that users can unmark the checkbox for a specific contract. When you save the Maintenance Options window, you will be asked if you want to roll this option down to open contracts. Select Yes to roll down or select No to mark this for new contracts going forward. If you change this option (unmark the checkbox) and save the Maintenance Options window, the message will display again to roll down the change to all open contracts.

Job Cost

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We've added the capability to add attachments to a job appointment by selecting the paperclip icon to the right of the Appointment field. The attachment remains at the job appointment level. 

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The .NET Close Jobs window has the following functional changes. See Closing a Job, Additional Job Close Setup, and Signature Action Lists for JC.

  1. The process timeout has been increased to 120 seconds when redisplaying or filtering jobs available to close.
  2. Marking/unmarking jobs in the Available to Close grid will insert/delete from the k2aAddInJobCloseSchedule table immediately.
    • If the Save Schedule option is NOT ON, the marked jobs will stay in that table until you run close, unmark the jobs, or close the window.
    • If the Save Schedule option is ON, the marked jobs will stay in that table until you run close or unmark the jobs. The jobs lines are automatically saved since they are in the table already.
    • A user could have multiple jobs marked for different schedule/posting dates in table k2aAddInJobCloseCloseSchedule.
  3. All jobs that display in the window are no longer temporarily made inactive. This provides an enhanced performance boost for users who also are using MobileTech.
  4. Selecting the Redisplay button will reload the list, keep the marked jobs, and those marked will appear first in the list. A user can mark jobs they find and then filter differently to find others. Each time the user clicks Redisplay the list will rebuild and show all marked at the top along with other unmarked available jobs that fit the filters on the window. A user will not lose the jobs that they have marked if they filter differently. To discard wrongly marked jobs they have to unmark them or use Unmark All.
  5. If using the Save Schedule setup option, the Existing Schedule button now functions the same as Redisplay. See Additional Job Close Setup.
  6. The Existing Schedule button only displays when the Save Schedule option is on.
  7. Updates to the Available or Not Available Reports:
    • Filter fields have been added as parameters to the report.
    • When printing, the filters selected in the Close Job window are displayed at the top of the report window.
    • The Available to Close report will show marked jobs regardless if they fit the filter criteria passed from the window.
  8. Updates when opening the .NET Close Job window from the Job List (see Signature Action Lists for JC and Additional Job Close Setup):
    • If Saved Schedule option OFF - When a user marks a job in the Job List and then opens the Close Job window. The window will load with that job marked and other jobs available to close. If the user did not pick a job and clicked to open the Close Job window, the window will open with nothing displayed, which is the current functionality. Select Redisplay to populate the window.
    • If Saved Schedule option ON - When a user marks a job in the Job List window, the job will be added to the table, and display as marked in the Close Jobs window. The marked jobs will remain marked. The user will not receive a dialog to delete the already saved schedule. If the user doesn’t pick any additional jobs, the window opens with what the user saved before or just all available jobs (even if not marked).
  9. Removed the Save Schedule button from the Close Jobs window since records are stored differently and directly to the k2aAddInJobCloseSchedule table when a job is marked.
  10. Column sorting has been added to the Jobs Available to Close section. Select the column header to sort ascending, and select again to sort descending.

TimeTrack

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Users now have the option to import a comma-delimited text file. See Using the TimeTrack Import Feature

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If you create the comma-delimited file with Excel (.csv) and you do not enter the batch ID and week-ending date, Excel does not add commas for those columns and you will have to add them in manually. In addition, if you have cost codes that precede with a 0 and start the cost code in Excel with an apostrophe, it will save with the preceding zero. If you open the .csv file back up in Excel it strips out the preceding zero so you will have to be careful about reopening a .csv import file if using Excel. 

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