{"id":214,"date":"2013-05-14T17:20:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T15:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synchroteam.com\/blog\/?p=214"},"modified":"2023-05-01T17:04:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T15:04:19","slug":"synchroteam-2-0-update-will-be-available-on-friday-the-17th-at-9pm-gmt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synchroteam.com\/blog\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"Synchroteam update available on May 14th 9pm GMT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>List of new functionalities<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Barcode integration (Mobile App)<\/li>\n<li>Job description optional<\/li>\n<li>Linking job type and priority<\/li>\n<li>Job Creation in the Back-Office (Technician profile)<\/li>\n<li>Blocking Customer\/Site\/Equipment creation<\/li>\n<li>Job Creator ID<\/li>\n<li>Job report: new numerical and conditional field<\/li>\n<li>User Address<\/li>\n<li>Meeting time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Functionalities in detail<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Barcode integration (Mobile App)<\/span><br \/>\nA new Barcode icon is available in Photo section on the Mobile App. Technicians will be able to scan Barcodes using the camera. Both the barcode photo and barcode value will be captured and associated with the Job and displayed on the Back-office. They will also be available for Export using a Custom Export Template.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Job description optional<\/span><br \/>\nA switch will be added (on\/off) to cancel mandatory description for Job creation (same function on Mobile)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Linking job type and priority<\/span><br \/>\nDefault Job priority will be determined by Job type. It means we will add the possibility to define a default priority for a Job type in the detail view.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Job Creation in the Back-Office (Technician profile)<\/span><br \/>\nA technician will be able to create a Job on the Web Back-office interface (same workflow as on a mobile device). A field worker can create a job for himself, or in \u201cto be scheduled\u201d status.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Blocking Customer\/Site\/Equipment creation<\/span><br \/>\nA configuration option will be added to turn on\/off customer\/site\/equipment creation on mobile and Back-Office.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Job Creator ID<\/span><br \/>\nWe will record the job creator ID in our Database. The name of the person the created the job will be displayed in the job detail (Mobile and Back-office)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Job report: new numerical and conditional field<\/span><br \/>\nThe numeric item type will be added to job report templates. If used as a Conditional item, you use comparision operators (equal to, greater than, less than, etc.).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">User Address<\/span><br \/>\nWe will add a geocoded address for each user. In the Map tab this address will be considered as the starting\/ending location. We will add a \u201cDistance\u201d column in the \u201cTechnician Activity\u201d report.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Meeting time<\/span><br \/>\nWhen creating a job, the user (technician or manager) should be able to specify a meeting time. We will add this information in the \u201cjob creation\u201d view and in the \u201cjob detail\u201d view. When scheduling a job the starting time will necessarily be the meeting time. This rule should be managed in the planning view and in the schedule \u201cpop-up\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>List of new functionalities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Field service job management software update - Synchroteam Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Discover new functionalities available on Synchroteam&#039;s field service software- barcode integration, job descriptions and reporting, job creation ID and more.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synchroteam.com\/blog\/?p=214\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Field service job management software update - 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