OperationsCommander Release Notes
Our release schedule is continuous.
Release Notes are our chance to tell you about all the significant fixes and improvements we have added to the system.
Often, non-critical hotfixes are rolled into the upcoming maintenance release.
January 2025
Improvements
- Added a toggle on the Create Validations page to clear or retain plate submissions automatically
- Updated validator to support a higher number of validation creations and allow better processing of requests over 200 validations
- Added a setting to toggle removal of discount when an appeal is made
- Updated user side receipt page to more clearly indicate items included in receipt and removed “owing” form total wording
Bug Fixes
- Corrected bug with the importer to now use plate and province together to identify a unique vehicle
- Corrected bug in Appeals where an appeal could not be processed if the user paid for their violation before an admin could process it
- Fixed bug where assigning lockers on the admin side and having multiple user profiles open caused the system to revert to the previous user profile and assign a locker to them
- Fixed issue related to email footers not having correct language during account creation/registration
- Fixed issue related to emailing users from the admin side and the email footer and header language templates not matching the user’s preferred language
- Corrected a bug where admin-side user notes were not being recorded in the client’s local time zone
- Corrected a visual error, on-screen only, when an admin was pro-rating a parking permit
- Corrected an issue where a vehicle is removed from a user’s profile caused the associated permit to become archived
November 2024
New Features ✨
- Event QR Parking for Guest Users
Improvements
- An Appeal Notification Email to Admins is now optional
- Wishlist Fulfilled: The user types in the User Vehicle Report are now sorted alphabetically
- Improvements made to Waiting List Lot Category
- Enable Guest Payment settings have been improved
- Permit receipt improved to show permit valid dates
- User account creation without email on admin portal
- New permission to allow price alteration on unpaid permits
Bug Fixes
- QR code checkout, when using a guest vehicle, not showing the plate field.
- Fixed a bug related to Locker Search, “All Areas”
- Corrected Admin-created vehicle bug in User History
- Corrected QR booked daily permits display issue
October 2024
New Features ✨
- Fixed LPR can now issue parking violations to certain known users in a closed system.
- More time slots were added for hourly temp permits; now available up to 24 hours.
Improvements
- Enhanced waitlist page for better viewing with large datasets.
- Improved user search page for easier filtering of enabled/disabled users.
- Lot Groups and Lot Zones no longer show archived lots.
- Updated permit push API and column widths for the permits awaiting payment report.
- Added default settings on the User Search Page.
Bug Fixes
- The adjust button now only appears for paid permits; shows “Unpaid” if the payment is pending.
- Fixed blank “EMP/STU/ACC #” in Daily Payments – Itemized Excel export.
July 2024
Improvements
- Wishlist fulfilled – Parking Validation Report totals will now change depending on your search parameters
- Wishlist fulfilled – Editable and translatable tooltip added to username field on the registration page
- Wishlist fulfilled – A new EV (Electric Vehicles) field has been added to user vehicles pages and can be searched on the vehicle search page
- Wishlist fulfilled – A new User Vehicle report has been created to display and export to Excel/CSV
- Wishlist fulfilled – An email can now be sent to an Admin when an appeal is submitted
- Improvements have been made to include an itemized Daily Sales Report and a Payment Reconciliation Report
- Enforcement App: added violation notice header as a configurable item
- Enforcement App: linking user basic details to plates for contact
- Enforcement App: in-App alarms are pushed to the server when encountered
- Updated the repeat offender’s report to allow a search by user
- Improved the dashboard widget graph formatting
- Wishlist Fulfilled – Emails sent to users are now viewable by Admins in the user’s email history
- Wishlist Fulfilled – There is now the option to have a warning letter sent to those who have received a violation marked as a warning
Bug Fixes?
- The bug with the adjustable Fine Amount checkbox has been corrected
- Corrected an issue with Hang Tag Images and Printing
June 2024
New Features ✨
- We now offer Multi-Factor Authentication using one-time passwords sent via email!
- We are excited to announce that we have now integrated with Mistall!
Improvements
- There are new permissions to enable/disable the viewing of violations-related widgets for the admin.
- Wishlist fulfilled – License plates on a user profile can now be sorted alphabetically.
- Additional language support was added for Google Play and Apple App Store badges on the Get App page. Current supported languages are: English, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.
May 2024
New Features ✨
- We are excited to announce that we have now integrated with ParkMobile!
April 2024
New Features ✨
- Clients are now able to import their own Locations, Permits, Violations, Users, and Vehicles files using the new data import tool
Improvements
- UserApp – Users are now able to remove vehicles from their profile if allowed by their parking provider.
- UserApp – Taxes have been updated to display individual tax amounts instead of a combined total.
March 2024
New Features ✨
- Vehicle Alerts Reporting is now available!
- You can now set up a SAML login on the Mobile App!
Improvements
- Wishlist fulfilled – Taxes have been reconfigured for more precise individual and group rounding.
- Improvements have been made to lots and lot groups on the Real-time parking map.
- The Printable Violation Notice Report was updated to include more reporting information and options.
Bug Fixes
- Spoiled violations were included in the counts displayed on the handheld.
January 2024
New Features ✨
- Vehicle year can now be toggled to mandatory for users and set to off for Admin users.
- Images can now be added to the lots on the Permits page.
Improvements
- Wishlist fulfilled – implemented a 6-digit minimum/20-digit maximum field length for the Student Number
Bug Fixes
- Public comments entered on a violation were not showing on user views
- Some dates did not appear where they should when viewing violations on the user side and appeal information on the admin side.
December 2023
Improvements ✨
- Wishlist fulfilled – effortlessly sort invoices by billing and due dates by clicking on the report heading
- Wishlist fulfilled – we have increased the number of search results on the Daily Payments Report to 3000 records
- Wishlist fulfilled – Disabled admin users are now hidden from the list on the ‘Edit Admin Users’ page. We have also added a “View Disabled” button.
- Wishlist fulfilled – We added a setting that will prevent users from selecting payroll deduction as their payment type if they have a temp permit in their cart
- Improvements have been made to the Dashboard menu to clarify wording around default layouts and to remove the fade-in effect.
Bug Fixes
- 2B1-I346- search-repeat-offenders report not returning unprocessed violations
- 2B1-I352- errors when merging users
- 2B1-I360- cannot manage vehicle makes menu
November 2023
New Features ✨
- We are thrilled to announce that we have now integrated with SchoolPay Hosted Payments
Bug Fixes
- Corrected issue in temp permits where leaving the daily cost blank
September 2023
New Features ✨
- Clients can now download and print the QR codes or copy a link in temp permits.
- We are thrilled to announce a new feature for our MTO clients. You can digitally sign and timestamp your Form 11: Certificate of Parking Infraction on-site and then print it later.
- We have created a messaging tool that facilitates communication between OPS-COM and our client administrators and between our clients and their users.
Improvements
- We are committed to enhancing the admin dashboard with ongoing improvements – check out your dashboard to see what’s new in this release.
- Payroll Deduction report to show refunds and adjustments.
Bug Fixes
- Tax rounding has been improved on temp permits.
- Temp Parking “hours required” error has been corrected.
August 2023
New Features ✨
- Users can now extend their temporary parking using the mobile app.
Improvements
- Updated filtering has been added to the user history page.
- Sending bulk emails page has been made more intuitive.
Bug Fixes
- Column sorting on Vehicle Lookup Export (MTO) has been corrected.
July 2023
New Features ✨
- Phase 2 of our customizable Dashboard layouts has been released.
Improvements
- Mobile App user side proration.
- SAML login on the Mobile App.
- Frictionless Temp Parking – added min. parking times; 15/30 min. intervals.
- Added an option to allow users to delete vehicles from their profiles.
Bug Fixes
- Column sorting on Vehicle Lookup Export (MTO) has been corrected.
Past releases can be found here:
https://ops-com.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OCPUBLIC/pages/758279/Release+Notes
