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"This software has absolutely made us more efficient...mainly because we don't need to spend a lot of time "managing" the timekeeping system like we did with our manual processes. We can now focus on "real" work - helping our business’s grow - and let the software do its job. "

- Ed Soto,
Bayer MaterialScience Aktiengesellschaft

 

 

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minusPlanning & Timesheet V3 Service Pack 5

The information in this article applies to:

- DOVICO Planning & Timesheet versions 3.0 through 3.3
IMPORTANT: This service pack is designed specifically for the DOVICO Planning & Timesheet versions
noted above and should not be installed on any other version.

Verify your existing version by clicking on the About button on DOVICO Planning & Timesheet's toolbar.

Applying Service Pack 5:

  1. Download Service Pack from the following location.
    http://www.timetrackingsoftware.com/software/DovicoSoftwareSP5.exe
    download
  2. Backup all databases.
  3. Make sure no one is using any DOVICO Planning & Timesheet component.
  4. Stop the DOVICO Job Scheduler service (Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services).
  5. Run the downloaded service pack file on the server where DOVICO Planning & Timesheet is located. The install will automatically detect and upgrade your existing installation.
  6. Restart the DOVICO Job Scheduler service (if the Server was not rebooted during the upgrade).
  7. When logging back into the software, you will be prompted to upgrade the database.
  8. After the upgrade, verify that the version number is 3.5 (displayed at the bottom of the Login screen or using the About button from within the application).
NEW
Hosted Service API For all Hosted customers: The DOVICO Hosted API allows customers and third party developers to expand and build on the DOVICO Hosted platform. Learn more >
Alert Center For managers and administrators, a red icon is placed at the far right side of the toolbar whenever he or she has time or expenses to approve. This new ‘Alert Center’ also notifies administrative users when they have rejected time or expenses.
Time Entry grid Expand or collapse a project's task assignments in the time entry grid by clicking the +/- graphic at the beginning of the Client-Project name.

Navigate within the time entry grid using the Up/Down arrow keys on your keyboard. Use Tab and Shift+Tab to move side to side.
Billing View The sort order of invoices in the Billing view has been changed. Now the Billing view shows the most recently added Invoice at the top of the list.
Database Options Locked Users settings are now located in Database Options, and will be reset to default values after the upgrade (users locked out for 30 minutes after 5 invalid logins within a 30 minute span).
Better Messaging Stronger warning messages before deleting projects, tasks and employees.
Calendar pop-up control Improved calendar pop-up controls to navigate from month to month.
Currencies Currency exchange rates are displayed to 5 decimal places (an increase from 4 decimal places). This change only takes effect the next time you retrieve exchange rates from OANDA. Note that for the vast majority of exchange rates, OANDA supplies only 4 decimal places.
Corrections
Time Zone Corrected a time entry grid issue reported by users in the GMT -3 timezone where Daylight Savings is observed (Central and Eastern Brazil)
Archive The Archive function has been removed while we correct an issue reported by a client. The Archive function will return in a future Service Pack (Spring 2012).
Resource Utilization Corrected a problem where large project structures could cause the Resource Utilization view to crash
Features and Corrections from Service Pack 1, 2 and 3 are included in Service Pack 5. There is no Service Pack 4.

 

Service pack 3
Corrections
Next Item function Recent changes in Chrome and Safari browser have broken the Previous/Next item functions located at the bottom of certain forms (e.g. Employee properties). When using the Previous/Next function to move from one record to another, values in certain drop-down lists would be carried over from one record to another.
Multi-Currency When a currency is removed from the list of enabled currencies, the software checks to ensure that the currency to remove is not used anywhere in the software. The currency for the Fixed Amount column in Expenses was not being checked.

 

Service pack 2
Corrections
Multi-Currency Overlapping exchange rate periods could occur when creating multiple new Historical exchange rate periods and then editing the period dates (very rare).
Time and Expense Approvals With Currencies enabled, the Time & Expense Approval view was not properly converting the calculated totals in some circumstances.
Time Calendar Overtime hours were not displayed in red in the Time Calendar view.
Approval Workflows When editing approval workflow templates, the user was not prompted to update existing workflows.
Billing With Currencies enabled, the Billing view would not always display a project's costs in the project's defined currency.
Project Planning Project Planning was not properly removing deleted assignments when the project was originally created in the old Project Workspace. This same bug could also cause global tasks to be deleted.
Hosted Login Improvements
Login from any DOVICO website Hosted Clients only: The login page has been modified so that a user can now log in to his or her database from any of DOVICO's websites.

 

Service pack 1
Corrections
Upgrade from older version Resolved an upgrade issue for clients that have a database with case sensitive collation.
Project Planning Resolved leveling issue.
Project Planning Corrected validation error with when a future date is set in a project's Budget Exchange Rate field.
Reporting Project Fixed Cost (with Budget) report showing incorrect values for cost information (all values are doubled) when Currencies is enabled.
Client Time and Costs by Project report showed the same value for Client Cost and Company Cost totals/
Resolved problem where column headers are not displayed when exporting reports as an Excel file.With Multi-Currency disabled, fixed-cost expenses would not appear is certain expense reports.
Task Properties Resolved missing “More” button in the Task Properties view.
Reporting Corrected possible rounding issues found in reports showing Estimated Hours.
Approval Workspace Corrected problem with Actual Hours column displaying Estimated Hours values.
Regional Settings Certain regional settings, such as Canada (French), would cause a string formatting error when using the Actuals Wizard.
New features
Web browsers Added browser support for Safari 5 and Chrome 11

*When using the software on a MAC operating system, there are some functional limitations. The Offline Time Entry function, the QuickBooks Link, the Import/Export tool and the Microsoft Project Link will not work.
Attach Receipts Enforced client-side file size validation though via HTML 5, Flash, and Silverlight. The end user will require support for one of these technologies in order to use the Attach Receipt functionality.

 

 


minusTimesheet V11 Service Pack 5

The information in this article applies to:

- DOVICO Timesheet versions 11.0 through 11.3

IMPORTANT: This service pack is designed specifically for the DOVICO Timesheet versions noted above
and should not be installed on any other version.

Verify your existing version by clicking on the About button on DOVICO Timesheet's toolbar.


Applying Service Pack 5:

  1. Download Service Pack from the following location.
    http://www.timetrackingsoftware.com/software/DovicoSoftwareSP5.exe
    download
  2. Backup all databases.
  3. Make sure no one is using any DOVICO Timesheet component.
  4. Stop the DOVICO Job Scheduler service (Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services).
  5. Run the downloaded service pack file on the server where DOVICO Timesheet is located. The install will automatically detect and upgrade your existing installation.
  6. Restart the DOVICO Job Scheduler service (if the Server was not rebooted during the upgrade).
  7. When logging back into the software, you will be prompted to upgrade the database.
  8. After the upgrade, verify that the version number is 11.5 (displayed at the bottom of the Login screen or using the About button from within the application).
NEW
Hosted Service API For all Hosted customers: The DOVICO Hosted API allows customers and third party developers to expand and build on the DOVICO Hosted platform. Learn more >
Alert Center For managers and administrators, a red icon is placed at the far right side of the toolbar whenever he or she has time or expenses to approve. This new ‘Alert Center’ also notifies administrative users when they have rejected time or expenses.
Time Entry grid Expand or collapse a project's task assignments in the time entry grid by clicking the +/- graphic at the beginning of the Client-Project name. Navigate within the time entry grid using the Up/Down arrow keys on your keyboard. Use Tab and Shift+Tab to move side to side.
Billing View The sort order of invoices in the Billing view has been changed. Now the Billing view shows the most recently added Invoice at the top of the list.
Database Options Locked Users settings are now located in Database Options, and will be reset to default values after the upgrade (users locked out for 30 minutes after 5 invalid logins within a 30 minute span).
Better Messaging Stronger warning messages before deleting projects, tasks and employees.
Calendar pop-up control Improved calendar pop-up controls to navigate from month to month.
Currencies Currency exchange rates are displayed to 5 decimal places (an increase from 4 decimal places). This change only takes effect the next time you retrieve exchange rates from OANDA. Note that for the vast majority of exchange rates, OANDA supplies only 4 decimal places.
Corrections
Time Zone Corrected a time entry grid issue reported by users in the GMT -3 timezone where Daylight Savings is observed (Central and Eastern Brazil)
Archive The Archive function has been removed while we correct an issue reported by a client. The Archive function will return in a future Service Pack (Spring 2012).
Features and Corrections from Service Pack 1, 2 and 3 are included in Service Pack 5. There is no Service Pack 4.

 

Service pack 3
Corrections
Next Item function Recent changes in Chrome and Safari browser have broken the Previous/Next item functions located at the bottom of certain forms (e.g. Employee properties). When using the Previous/Next function to move from one record to another, values in certain drop-down lists would be carried over from one record to another.
Multi-Currency When a currency is removed from the list of enabled currencies, the software checks to ensure that the currency to remove is not used anywhere in the software. The currency for the Fixed Amount column in Expenses was not being checked.
Features and Corrections from Service Pack 1 and 2 are included in Service Pack 3

 

Service pack 2
Corrections
Multi-Currency Overlapping exchange rate periods could occur when creating multiple new Historical exchange rate periods and then editing the period dates (very rare).
Time and Expense Approvals With Currencies enabled, the Time & Expense Approval view was not properly converting the calculated totals in some circumstances.
Time Calendar Overtime hours were not displayed in red in the Time Calendar view.
Approval Workflows When editing approval workflow templates, the user was not prompted to update existing workflows.
Billing With Currencies enabled, the Billing view would not always display a project's costs in the project's defined currency.
Hosted Login Improvements
Login from any DOVICO website Hosted Clients only: The login page has been modified so that a user can now log in to his or her database from any of DOVICO's websites.

 

Service pack 1
Corrections
Upgrade from older version Resolved an upgrade issue for clients that have a database with case sensitive collation.
Reporting Project Fixed Cost (with Budget) report showing incorrect values for costs (all values are doubled) when Currencies is enabled.
Client Time and Costs by Project report showed the same value for Client Cost and Company Cost totals.
Resolved problem where column headers are not displayed when exporting reports as an Excel file.
With Multi-Currency disabled, fixed-cost expenses would not appear is certain expense reports.
Task Properties Resolved missing “More” button in the Task Properties view.
Reporting Corrected possible rounding issues found in reports showing Estimated Hours.
Approval Workspace Corrected problem with Actual Hours column displaying Estimated Hours values.
Regional Settings Certain regional settings, such as Canada (French), would cause a string formatting error when using the Actuals Wizard.
New features
Web browsers Added browser support for Safari 5 and Chrome 11

*When using the software on a MAC operating system, there are some functional limitations. The Offline Time Entry function, the QuickBooks Link, the Import/Export tool and the Microsoft Project Link will not work.
Attach Receipts Enforced client-side file size validation though via HTML 5, Flash, and Silverlight. The end user will require support for one of these technologies in order to use the Attach Receipt functionality.
Improvements
Employee Properties The Working Days field (MTWTF) is no longer displayed in the Employee properties window.

 


minusTimesheet V10 Service Pack 2

The information in this article applies to:
DOVICO Timesheet versions 10.0 through 10.1

IMPORTANT:This service pack is designed specifically for the DOVICO Timesheet versions noted above and should not be installed on any other version of DOVICO Timesheet or any version of Track-IT Suite.

Verify your existing version by clicking on the About button on DOVICO Timesheet's toolbar.

Applying Service Pack 2 for DOVICO Timesheet version 10.x:

  1. Download Service Pack 2 from the following location.
    http://www.timetrackingsoftware.com/software/DovicoTimesheetV10SP2.exe
  2. Backup all databases.
  3. Make sure no one is using any DOVICO Timesheet component.
  4. Stop the DOVICO Job Scheduler service (Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services).
  5. Run the downloaded file on the server where DOVICO Timesheet is located. The install will automatically detect and upgrade your existing installation.
  6. After the upgrade, verify that the version number is 10.2 (displayed at the bottom of the Login screen or using the About button from within the application).
  7. Restart the DOVICO Job Scheduler service (if the Server was not rebooted during the upgrade).
  8. Congratulations!!! You have successfully applied Service Pack 2.
Fixes
Reporting Corrected performance and data issues related to Billable/Non-Billable Time with Budget reports. 
Reporting Corrected formatting problem in the Employee Expenses with Company costs report.
Miscellaneous Corrected timing error in Project Workspace resulting in “Object does not support this method” error.
Archive Fixed archive function when attempting  to archive two clients that had projects with the same name.
Miscellaneous Corrected issue with "Replace Last Value Only" option when updating Employee rates.
Login Updated URL on login page for 64bit OS.
Microsoft Project Link Corrected upgrade problem moving from version 9 to 10.
Job Scheduler Corrected a rounding error in the Employee Incomplete Timesheet e-mail notification

Features and Corrections from Service Pack 1 are included in Service Pack 2

New Features
Time Lockout Added an employee buffer duration for time entry users
Time Lockout Added ‘time waiting to be approved’ to the existing View Details report.
Login security Added user lockout after 5 failed login attempts. (does not apply to hosted clients)
Hosted Login page Added ‘Forgot password’ feature.
Improvements
SQL Express password Removed the default SQL password when installing SQL Express.
QuickBooks and Import/Export security Improved data security when connecting to database.
Offline Timesheet Improved data security when connecting to database.
Microsoft Project Server Improved password security when connecting to database.
Active Directory Improved password security when connecting to database.
Database Options Improved security for SMTP password
List of corrections
Expenses Added scroll bar to left pane in Approved Expenses view.
Expenses Corrected issue in Approved Expenses view when reimbursing an expense sheet.
Expenses Fixed issue when changes are made to an expense sheet name.
Expenses Corrected possible conflict in Expense Category data across databases.
Expenses Fixed glitch with expense sheet name length when upgrading unsubmitted sheets from previous versions.
Time Lockout Corrected validation when attempting to submit time in a locked out period.
Time Entry Corrected problem with time entry grid assignments being improperly disabled after deleting a project.
Approvals Fixed issue with Approval Workspace view occasionally not loading properly.
QuickBooks and Import/Export Corrected issue for Active Directory users when launching the QuickBooks Link or the Import/Export tool.
Archive Fixed problem with Archive function resetting the Software Access field for time entry users.
Archive Corrected occasional memory errors when archiving a very large database.
Upgrade Corrected upgrade code for conditions when limited access was applied to employees/teams in previous versions.
Miscellaneous Fixed calendar icon issue in multiple views.
Miscellaneous Corrected Internet Explorer 6 lock up issue.
Miscellaneous Improved structure of some SQL statements
Miscellaneous Modifications to prevent false ‘thread aborted’ event appearing in event log for BrowseResourceRequest method.
Miscellaneous Corrected problem with calendar in time entry view not always displaying the correct ‘first day of the week’.
Miscellaneous Fixed problem in the Bulk Time Move view where the Destination Task list was not always properly updated.

 


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