Here's what's new in ATS Project Tracker

ATS is committed to continually improving Project Tracker by resolving bugs and often implementing new features with each release.You’ll find our latest release notes below.

May 5th, 2020

What’s New

New region filter on tracked project widget on dashboard to allow users to filter projects by regions set for their office

Regions are migrated for DMA. Region migrations with BETA clients are being panned.

New region filter on project list widget to allow user to filter projects by regions set for their office 

What’s Improved

Print improvement to remove price in quote print for blank values in quotes

Required date and expiry date are retained when a quote is duplicated or a new revision is created

Improved shop drawing formatting to support quote section names with 5+ words

Display error message displayed when the internet connection is lost during the quotation build process

What’s Fixed

Resolved new line, spacing and blank issues with products notes, section notes, terms & conditions, and comments

Resolved a bug with clearing sections on quote

Resolved an issue where scrolling positions are retained between different pages of the quote tool

Resolved an issue with project not being linked to quotes when creating a quote from a newly created project

Resolved an issue with saving quote template structure

Resolved an issue with section amount not being updated after deselected a customer and copying products to other sections

Resolved an issue with printing customer names on shop drawings

UI standardization on task edit/create drawer

Removed download list from widgets that do not support the feature

 Cross Reference Tool

Resolved an issue with reset button on cross-reference tool

April 21st, 2020

What’s Improved

• Optimized user flow between quotation and project tracking modules
• Improved user experience while editing product, section, terms and conditions notes 
• Quote duplication, revision and requotes will include architect and engineer contact information from the original quote
• Printing of price columns set in quote template will have two decimals places, dollar sign, and comma. 
•  Improved layout to ensure that cross-reference button and product dropdown will no longer overlap 
• Allow user to create new products with region pricing 
• User login email can be changed in the user profile
• Replaced filter fields with the drop-down list for cities, provinces and country
• Various UI/UX improvements on various pages
• Cross Reference Tool
• Improved product displaying algorithm to display only relevant product recommendations to the user based on white label sites

What’s Fixed

• Resolved an issue with products in package not triggering the quote template calculations 
• Resolved an issue with vendor quote number not being displayed on the quote detail pages for wholesalers 
• Resolved an issue with default region pricing not populated for products without region pricing while an existing region is selected 
• Resolved an issue with quote note font size 
• Resolved an issue with displaying sections on the quote print configuration page
• Resolved an issue where previously created quote information are carried over to a new quote
• Resolved an issue to prevent users to view outdated dashboards (quote)
• Resolved an issue related to clearing product price fields on product management tool
• Resolved an issue where an empty spec is created when a project is created on the quote page
• Resolved an user interface issue while discarding project information while editing
• Resolved an issue on project creation from the quotes
• Resolved an issue with project bid date due to timezone 
• Resolved an issue regarding user unable to remove building class and types in quotes
• Removed extra information on project key contact on quote creation and edit pages
• Resolved an issue where products are not added to the quote when a customer is added without linked brands
• Resolved minor issue with production selection on print configuration page
• Resolved an issue with duplicating quotes that will unlink contacts 
• Resolved an issue with region pricing switching on quote for products without default prices

March 31st, 2020

What’s New

• NEW – Feature:Export / Download list of tracked projects and tasks (500 projects limit) 
• NEW – Feature:Engineer / Architects are added to quotes and quote print

What’s Improved

• Training section added to the side menu of the application 
• Include both Label and Item # as the first column of quote print 
• Previous product & section selections on the print configuration page will be saved for the next download 
• Country, province/state, city and address are displayed in the customer search to streamline selection of customers with many branches/offices
• Tidied up the settings tab for each user on project tracker
• New method to edit project key contact from the Contact section on project detail page to make it easier for users to modify contacts 
• Error messages were added to print configuration page to notify the user when >5 quote columns are selected
• Improved quote download limit to at least 200 products
• User experience improvement made to the print configuration and quote detail page
• Minor improvement made on user interface in the settings page 
• Minor UI improvement on project list filters regarding opportunity label/status, office/firm detail page and other various pages

What’s Fixed

• Resolved a bug related to editing product pricing
• Resolved an issue with address field in Contacts
• Resolved minor layout issue with large quote number in quote download
• Resolved issue with quote list filters on quote list widget on the dashboard
• Resolved an issue with duplicate/identical products while quote print
• Resolved an issue with pricing updates to new and replacement of products when a customer has been selected 
• Resolved an issue with products in package not triggering the quote template calculations 
• Resolved an issue with vendor quote number not being displayed on the quote detail pages for wholesalers 
• Resolved an issue with default region pricing not populated for products without region pricing while an existing region is selected 
• Resolved an issue with quote note font size 
• Resolved an issue with displaying sections on the quote print configuration page
• Resolved an issue where previously created quote information are carried over to a new quote
• Resolved an issue to prevent users to view outdated dashboards (quote)
• Resolved an issue related to clearing product price fields on product management tool

March 17th, 2020

What’s New

• NEW – Feature: Default print configuration per template for quote download
• NEW – Feature: User profile page to allow user to change user profile and passwords
• NEW – Feature: Team management page to allow user to create, edit and delete office details and users
• NEW – Feature: Cross Reference Tool

What’s Improved

• 15+ UI improvements to clean up the overall application with respect to firm/office detail, project tracker side menu, project list, project detail, project create, contact pages

What’s Fixed

• Resolved a bug related to editing product pricing
• Resolved an issue with address field in Contacts
• Resolved minor layout issue with large quote number in quote download
• Resolved issue with quote list filters on quote list widget on the dashboard
• Resolved an issue with duplicate/identical products while quote print

March 3rd, 2020

What’s New

• NEW – Feature: Allow user to view, edit and delete region pricing when regions pricing are set on specific products 

What’s Improved

• Major improvement made to the look and feel of the quote PDF which includes and not limited to firm, customer address, shipping address and column adjustments 
• Outside rep email address is included in quote print
• Quote creator information is included in quote print
• Improved quote print of section notes & product notes
• Office admin role was added to allow user to update office details such as user & office logos
• Standardized country, province, and city office creation drawer with contact drawer
• Updated validation message on area field during project creation/edit

What’s Fixed

• Resolved an issue with the creation of quote revision and requote
• Resolved an issue with incorrect quote revision numbers when a requote is deleted
• Resolved an issue with deleted quotes showing on the revision list
• Resolved an issue with bid date filter on tracked project list widget
• Updated the package detail drawer with user that last updated the package
• Resolved an issue with quote list search by date
• Resolved an issue with task visibility to office users
• Resolved an issue with displaying quote products when a customer is selected
• Resolved an issue with requote a quote after deleting an existing requote
• Resolved an issue related to timezone and displaying standardized dates
• Resolved various issues related to quote edit and user detail pages
• Resolved various issue with dashboard task filters

February 18th, 2020

What’s New 

• NEW – Feature: Quote print will now be created in PDF format instead of docx
• NEW – Feature: Split quote print format will be created in PDF format instead of docx

What’s Improved

• Subtasks within task will be ordered
• Allow user to add and edit city, province, country and postal code to contacts 
• Office number field was added as part of contact creation
• Address will be displayed in the order of address, city, province/state, postal code and country on each quote header
• Quote columns will be displayed for each new page to improve quote readability 
• Duplicate view quote action was removed on the quote list as clicking on the quote name will result in the same action
• Office logo and firm logo (if office logo is missing) will be used for quote print

January 30th, 2020

What’s New

• NEW – Feature:Added self-serve customer discount feature to allow users to modify contact discounts, multipliers, and margin within the contact interface
• NEW – Feature: New customer number field was added to contacts in order to connect to client’s ERP/external systemsNew quote print format option was added to allow users to print each section as an individual quote 

What’s Improved

• Improved quote download speed by ~30 seconds or ~100% on average based on quotes containing 180 products with 6 sections
   
• Quote creator & inside sales reps names are added to the quote detail page
• Editing locked quotes will now display a warning message to the user 
• Quote print logos are added to various firms
• File upload size will use mb and kb instead of MiB

What’s Fixed

• Login image banner was updated to be generic
• Resolved an issue where latest created quote was not shown first on the quote list
• Print error message was updated to improve user experience
• Updated quote list columns to include project and customer name by default
• Resolved a bug where unlinking a quote and project will result in only the project being unlinked

January 15th, 2020

What’s New

• NEW- Feature: All products will be displayed when a customer without any brands is selected (rep agency)

What’s Improved

• Global search on the dashboard has been removed to avoid confusion to users
• Hide download list on the dashboard widget until the feature is ready for release
• Products without specification sheets will have a label of “to be included" on the section title page in order to remind the user to attach the specification sheets manually on Shop Drawing download
• State/Province, Zip/Postal Code vocabulary have been updated for registration and project creation pages to accommodate both US/CAN users 
• Disabled auto fill on project creation and registration pages on chrome, this was preventing users from entering in address fields
• Changed login page username to email/username to accommodate for previous and new users
• Shipping address will be displayed on the quote download according to selected option of customer address, project address, user input address or no shipping address on the quote
• Incorporated a message on the login page to prompt the user to use recommended browsers if the user is on incompatible browsers or browsers versions
• Hovering over file name on project detail page will display full file name
• Included additional information to contact during contact search in project creation to assist user with contact selection

What’s Fixed

• Resolved an issue where clicking projects from specific quotes will result in a blank page
• Resolved an issue with quote templates where sell/cost override fields will be cleared after clicking on a customer for wholesalers
• Resolved template formula value in percentage rounding issue
• Resolved an issue where a large amount of products in a section will push the “consist of" message on the shop drawing download to the next page, it will now flow continuously into the second page
• Resolved an issue where removal of required fields such as expiry and bid dates on quote resulted in an error
• Resolved an issue where the bid/tender date is not displayed correctly on project detail page
• Product management menu is included on project tracker and quotation modules
• Resolved an issue where duplicating a quote template will duplicate the default selection

December 10, 2019

 What’s new?

• NEW – Feature : We integrated a “Shop Drawing" feature
  • Allow users to upload specification sheets to products within a quote in order to generate and download shop drawing submittals
  • A history feature was included to allow users to view previously downloaded shop drawings
• NEW – Feature : We integrated a feature “Pricing by region on quote products"
  • Incorporate region based pricing on products to allow flexibility in pricing during the quote building process

What’s improved?

• We added an error message to user creation within team management if users attempts to use an existing email from another user.
• We included a delete confirmation on the project detail page to prevent users.

What’s fixed?

• We fixed a bug where deleting a product on a quote only deleted the product description.
• We resolved an issue which prevented users from adding pricing to existing products with no pricing.
• We fixed a bug where going back to step 1 and 2 from step 3 of the project creation step caused users to lose changed data.

November 27, 2019

What’s new?

• NEW – Customer Support : We integrated a Live chat feature for customer support.

What’s improved?

• Users are now allowed to view and search through a list of products and packages.
• Users are now allowed to make edits to existing products and packages in terms of product number, manufacturer, category, and price.
• We’ve improved the quote templates which will allows user to set complex formula to incorporate different pricing structures.
• We’ve improved the quote formula that will be applied automatically after the product selection to allow quick entry of the product.
• When a customer is selected without any manufacturer and categories then all products of the quote will be shown.
• We’ve included a collaborators list on the project detail page to show users tracking the same project in the same firm to enhance collaboration.
• We’ve added the tab “Note” to the front of products notes in quote print to make product notes more visible.
• The total of the sections is automatically calculated in the quotes when the quantity is set to 1 in the quote template.

What’s fixed?

• We resolved a bug where creating a project with empty address will result in error.
• We resolved an issue where selected customer is not selected during quote edit
• We resolved a bug on “has quote” filter on the project list where deleted quotes were included in the results.
• We resolved an issue on expiry date text shown on quote edit page.

November 13, 2019

What’s improved?

• Users are allowed to filter projects on the project list by building type, bid date, project phase and others.
• Users are now allowed to use arrow key to view product list after product search during quote building.
• Users are now allowed to set visibility of  contacts on the project detail page is based on office (if the contact belongs to one of users within an office).
• Users are now allowed to include internal quote number to the quote search parameter on the quote list
• We’ve improved the quote formula that will be applied automatically after the product selection to allow quick entry of the product.
• We’ve added the contact filter by name (single letter).

What’s fixed?

• We resolved a bug on product deletion after product input during quote building.
• We resolved a bug where deleting product will delete the product description during quote building.
• We resolved a bug on package/product order when is is replaced by a new package input.
• We resolved  an issue to allow users to create a new quote using the create a new quote widget on the dashboard.

October 22, 2019

What’s new?

• NEW – Integration : Users are now allowed to integrate Project Tracker with Hubspot.
• NEW – Feature : Users are now allowed to filter tasks on their dashboard through a task widget (filters include status, requester, assignee, due date).
• NEW – Feature: Users are now allowed to filter quotes on the quote list (filters include required date, created date, quote status, creator, customer, outside sales rep, manufacturer, product category and product number).

What’s improved?

• Users are now allowed to remove extra space between note and note section on quote print.

What’s fixed?

• We resolved a bug on users not able to remove first letter after product input on quotation tool.
• We resolved various UI/UX issues during product, quote and requote creation, project task view and project phase list.

September 30, 2019

What’s new?

• NEW – Feature : The delete confirmation has been added to the removal of the contact to prevent the user from accidentally deleting his contacts.

What’s improved?

• We’ve improved the contact search feature to allow user to search for contacts by email, organization name and first/last name.
• We’ve improved the search for key contacts when editing or creating a project. The complete list of contacts will then be searched (instead of 500 previously).
• We’ve improved the loading page of the list of projects / details and various style improvements.

What’s fixed?

• We resolved a bug with clearing filters from the tracked project dashboard from our last release.
• We resolved a bug in which the label is removed after adding a package to the quote.

August 22, 2019

What’s new?

• NEW – Feature : Users are now allowed to self serve modules to create a new product and packages.
• NEW – Feature : Users are now allowed to search by Quote number & name on the quote list page.
• NEW – Feature : Users are now allowed to search by project name on the project list page.

What’s improved?

• We’ve improved the quote print formats and layout (rounding & dollar sign).
• We’ve improved the search Searching and using packages in a quote
• We’ve improved the loading page of the list of projects / details and various style improvements.

What’s fixed?

• We resolved a bug with clearing filters from the tracked project dashboard from our last release.
• We resolved a bug in which the label is removed after adding a package to the quote.

August 12, 2019

What’s new?

• NEW – Feature : Users are now allowed to search for contacts by organization.
• NEW – Feature : The product description is now displayed when searching for products in the quote module.
• NEW – Feature : Users are now allowed to give permission on the quote list (only quotes from the same office are visible to the user).
• NEW – Feature : Office users can be selected from outside sales rep search bar on quote detail page.
• NEW – Feature : The quotes numbers are displayed in the quote list page.
• NEW – Feature : Users are now allowed to view the product description which is automatically shown after selecting a product in the quotation page.

What’s improved?

• We’ve improved the speed on the quote build (3-4x).
• We’ve improved the Quote Download Configuration page which provides options for selecting columns and/or products to print.
• We’ve improved the loading screen for project & quote list and error pages.
• We’ve improved the reduction of technical debts by refactoring of firm, office, user and contact.
• We’ve improved the access to the project phases, opportunity labels and status to office level instead of user.

What’s fixed?

• We resolved the formatting issues with terms/conditions and quote notes.
• We’ve resolved various visual and styling issues.