Express Maintenance 9.8.3.51 Release Notes

Stay Updated: Latest Enhancements & Fixes Discover the newest features, improvements, and fixes in our latest release. Read on to see what’s new and how these updates enhance your experience.

New Features

On the Employees tab for the ‘Add to Security’ button, you now have the ability to select the access type for the employee.
On the Units (Equipment) tab, under the Overview grid, you have new columns for the Unit Name and Unit Number.
On the Parts tab there is a new menu option for 'Flag All'.
On the Work Order tab under Calculations, removed the text ‘Est.’ from the ‘Calc Total’ checkbox.
Employee Grid View → Add to Security button → Added Access option checkboxes that allow the user to specify exactly what features the employee will have access to.

Bug Fixes

New Features

Down Time Report Filter expanded date range.
Down Time start and end dates automatically calculated when entering only the hours.

Bug Fixes

New Features

Work Order printing and completion now allows selections by user.
When completing Work Order Parts, the part is automatically added to the Unit Parts list.
New option for how to compute the quantity on order.
New option for setting focus to the Work Order Notes control.
New option for hiding login popups related to the SA account.
The Dashboard toolbar now includes a Clear Cookies button.
Hosted customers default email address for sending email is now using a high performance Office 365 address.
Work Order Parts Cost now shows the number of decimal places defined in the configuration.

Parts now allows look ups by Part Number as well as Part Description.
Parts on the Receiving History tab has a new option to hide (default) or show items with zero quantity.
Receiving quantity now allows values after the decimal point.
Printing Work Orders now has an option Split WO Pages to send each WO to the printer as a separate print job. This prevents multiple WOs from printing on the same sheet of paper.
Added new popup warning when signing on using the obsolete 'sa' user account.
Added a new toolbar button to navigate to the MAS Knowledge Base Website.
Add colored backgrounds for the login email on the status bar. Yellow for read only users, green for admins and red for the obsolete ‘sa’ account.

Dashboards: Completely redesigned for ease of use and to provide the data you need.

Redesigned how Work Order record numbers are created to eliminate the possibility of duplicates.
Removed Parts Receiving Filters Part Name and Part Number. These values are not available for filtering.
Request notes after Work Order creation now show the correct text in the grid.
Purchase Order RFQ emails now contain the correct CC email addresses.
Work Order overview grid filters are cleared when switching to the Request or Service tabs to ensure the correct selection of data.
Fixed a carriage return / line feed issue on the body section of Work Order emails.
Fixed several areas to support read only access.
Improved sign on algorithms. The INI file is no longer used.
Prevent exceptions on a calculated field filter on Work Orders for the Site / Location field.
Quantity ordered now defaults to zero when receiving manual orders.
All fields that contain a URL are now 2048 characters long.
Renamed the label ‘Auth’ as ‘Security’.

Technology

The new dashboard features uses Microsoft Edge WebView 2 components. These are preinstalled with the Windows 11 operating system. Some Windows 10 computers do not have WebView 2 installed. To solve this, Express Maintenance installs the “Microsoft Edge WebView 2” from Microsoft. For more details see: