Version 4.5.1   January 24, 2009.

• Maintenance release - minor corrections.
• Added ability to copy web pages to a web site - FTP.

Version 4.4.5   October 29, 2008.

• Maintenance release - minor corrections.
• Improved usability of displays and dialogs.

Version 4.4.4   July 14, 2008.

• Maintenance release - minor corrections.
• Improved delete, copy, move, or save shifts and data display.
• Easier to save and use shift patterns.
• Increased the rotation to 70 days.
• Improved usability of displays and dialogs.

Version 4.4.3   May 28, 2008.

• Maintenance release - minor corrections.
• Updated shut-down of other open copies(multi-user only) when required.
• Both HTML(multi-user) and compiled help are included.
• Improved usability of displays and dialogs.

Version 4.4.2   February 29, 2008.

• Replaced the web page dialog for sending web pages to a user defined folder.
• The weekly schedule report can display the shift name or abbreviations for area and job type.
• The bi-weekly, monthly and rotation schedule reports can now display time as 9:00am or 0900.
• Changed the install folder and importing of data from an earlier installation.
• Code signed all executables.
• Improved installation and looks on Vista.
• Added support for Windows 2008.

Version 4.4.1   November 29, 2007.

• Automatic scheduling based on patterns.
• Update feature added to the 'file' menu.
• General usability improvements in screens and in assigning and reassigning shifts.
• Minor correction to schedule display columns when moving month to month.
• Minor correction to schedule report when showing costs without hours.

Version 4.4.0   August 6, 2007.

• Changed wording for 'Work Groups' to 'Crews'.
• Moved 'backup/restore' to the 'file' menu.
• Correction to schedule reporting over-writing last report line.
• Correction to checking needed shifts when inactive staff still have shifts booked.

Version 4.393   June 17, 2007.

• Added shift abbreviation column on several displays. This will help to quickly identify each shift.
• Correction to check for needed shifts on the daily schedule.
• Correction to first date of each-user report when there is 2 or more shifts.

Version 4.392   May 30, 2007.

• Added authentication user name and password for email servers that require this information.
• Correction to vacation assignment when aborting selection.

Version 4.39   May 30, 2007.

• Backup data via email to off site locations.
• Restore data backed up via email.
• Correction to minimum hours between shifts.
• Correction to skip report preview on each-user schedule reports.

Version 4.38 May 15, 2007.

• Assign vacations, leaves, or unavailable on the schedule displays. Click on an empty cell and select the 'Vacations / Leaves / Unavailable' tab.
• Click on a schedule display date to go change the current date and display the daily schedule.
• Can change unavailable times by clicking on the unavailable blocks and selecting change from popup menu.
• Can delete vacations, leaves, or unavailable times by clicking on these bookings and selecting delete from popup menu.
• Will print vacations or leaves on main schedule report when no other activities are booked.
• Correction to maximum hours per day in rules.
• Correction to adding records to work groups.

Version 4.37 May 4, 2007.

• Individual schedules greatly improved. Can print for selected group. Can email schedules to each employee.
• Correction to adding records to scheduling rules.

Version 4.36 April 4, 2007.

• Maintenance release.

Version 4.35 March 22, 2007.

• Maintenance release.

Version 4.34 March 15, 2007.

• Shift coverage required for any schedule.
• Display missing and remove unneeded shifts.
• Copy web pages to a separate directory.
• New Vista compatible installer.
• Code signing certificate and digital signatures.
• Related job types to staff. Staff can be assigned job types.
• Option to change unavailable color.
• New report - not available dates and times.
• Schedule report - added total hours when time booked is selected.
• Schedule report - option for 24 hour time on all reports.
• Fix - individual staff over-ride on hours needed in shift to allow breaks.
• Fix - removed rubber band time bogus error message.
• New Able Staff Viewer.

Version 4.32 July 3, 2006.

• Improved integration of Able Staff Viewer.

Version 4.31 June 9, 2006.

• Maintenance - Corrected break time error in totals.
• Maintenance - Corrected missing data on schedule reports.
• Feature - Increased daily report from 30 to 36 staff.
• New Application - Able Staff Viewer was released.

Version 4.30 May 11, 2006.

• Maintenance - Several outstanding errors have been corrected.
• Maintenance - Some screens were modified to increase visibility of important data.

Version 4.27 - March 2, 2006.

• Export data to XML format.
• Patterns of shifts and days off that can be assigned to an employee. Easy to gather, edit, and apply patterns of shifts. Includes a pattern report.
• Better looking XP themed screens.
• Corrected error in reports. Missing staff and over-writing of data under some conditions.
• Corrected error on monthly schedules. When current date was very close to the end of the month the forward and backward a month buttons did not always work properly. Sometimes a month was skipped and sometimes the data was not accessible from the monthly schedule display.

Version 4.26 - November 24, 2005.

• Work Groups were added. Groups or teams operates in conjunction with work areas on schedules and schedule reports. An employee can belong to any number of groups.
• Added ability to email calendars to employees.
• Enhanced security and made it easier to implement.
• Overhauled schedule reports to make reports more uniform, compact and complete.

Version 4.25 - July 5, 2005.

• A monthly schedule was added as well as a monthly report.
• Unpaid breaks can now be over-ridden by break length for individual staff.
• Old HTML pages are removed from the directory each time the web reports are generated.
• On weekly report when all areas were selected. The no cost jobs hours were included in the totals.
• The calendar pages would link to the next month when a selected ending date was in the first few days in a month.
• A regression error was corrected in 'bulk' processes. When selecting a staff or any item not on the first page the wrong item was returned.
• The height of the schedule report rows would be as high as needed for any staff regardless of the work area.

Version 4.24 - June 1, 2005.

• PDF Version of manual can be downloaded.
• A version of Able Staff Scheduler help is also on-line.
• The width of the total costs on displays has been repaired.
• Costs could be seen on payroll work report even when not wanted.
• The selecting target records in 'bulk' records has been corrected.

Version 4.22 - 15 May 2005.

• Staff unavailable days and times.
• Effective start and stop dates.
• Day of the week.
• Before a time of day.
• After a time of day.
• Corrections:
• Reports were showing all booked shifts, when an area was selected. Only booked shifts in the area show now.
• Payroll report included the hours for 'special days' in totals.
• Rotation report now has an option to 'default' to the period in the configuration table.

Version 4.21 - 2 May 2005.

• Added question - "Want to copy note with booking?".
• Improved appearance of all list boxes.
• Added totals to days on work and payroll reports.
• Added a bi-weekly schedule.
• Made every second line on the schedule grey for guidance.
• Put daily totals on two lines for total hours booked per hour of the day.
• Added a work group heading tile to reports.
• Corrections...
• Web calendar showed vacation when leave was booked.
• Size of total display on schedule when total on left and 1024 setup.
• Put color back for special days when area selected on schedule.
• Can book more than one shift in a day on the schedule.
• Schedule did not move when minimized window moved.
• Notes not carried to next added booking.

Version 4.20 - 14 March 2005.

• Can shutdown other users in multi-user.
• Collision detection correction on back-to-back shifts.
• Web work schedule pages were corrected for end of period errors.
• Option to include booking notes on staff calendars.
• Major change in job types, areas and shifts.
• Shifts have a job type and an area.
• Shifts have a starting and ending time.
• Job types are not restricted to an area as before.
• A startup wizard was included to erase and add new records.
• Can apply shift type times to all booked shifts.
• Can apply shift length to all booked shifts.
• Daily column totals were restored.
• Minimum row height was made smaller.
• Warning was added to delete preferences.

Version 4.09 - 18 February 2005.

• Added a file manager module.
• Added a select current date to the main menu bar.
• Added a 24 hour clock option on weekly schedule, web reports and calendar.
• Corrected an error in move tasks.

Version 4.08 - 11 February 2005

• Legend changed to show shift type for group selected.
• Option added to not show special days on the legend.
• New guard check box on the schedule display.
• Guards against an accidental task move.
• Can easily be checked on or off.
• Remind user to export on change feature.
• Will display an export button when activated.
• User reminded to save data and create web reports on exit.
• Added a bi-weekly report to the reports menu.
• Added the schedule reports to the reports menu.
• Can select dates and job group.
• Weekly and bi-weekly report starts on the date selected.
• Date will fall into rotation or payroll period.
• Enhanced schedule reports by allowing up to 6 tasks per day.
• New option on the weekly schedule to print bi-weekly report.
• New option to select the rotation period when printing rotation report.
• Adjusted margins on all schedule reports.
• Relinked weekly web reports.

Version 4.07 - 1 February 2005

• Added vacation and time-off support.
• Web pages and calendars updated to show vacations.
• Corrected the line skipping on 2nd page of daily graphical report.
• Job area was made a required field in job types.
• Job type was made required field in shift types.
• Minor add shift error was corrected in staff update.
• Corrected an move error when same task was moved three times.
• Prints 'special' days on graphical reports for groups.
• Will print on A4 sized paper.

Version 4.06 - 18 January 2005

• New weekly graphical report daily and weekly.
• Added color to graphical reports(daily and weekly).
• Added notes to .csv export file.
• Fixed several errors in displays and bulk copy.

Version 4.05 - 28 November 2004

• New report previewer.
• Improved add staff process.
• Fixed several report bugs.
• Better report calendars per staff.

Version 2.30 - 21 April 2004

• Corrected staff cost per hour printing error.
• Corrected staff cost on people report.
• Added 2 new staff reports.
• Incorporated active staff member only feature.

Version 2.29 - 11 February 2004

• Corrected printing past end on the daily report.
• Corrected the daily schedule display when copying several dates.
• Corrected errors in the list browses for staff and hours.
• Added an SQL export script feature.

Version 2.28 - 11 January 2004

• Many paper report improvements.
• More web report improvements.
• Several report and printer bugs are resolved.

Version 2.25 - 17 November 2003

• Many web report improvements.
• Changed html index pages.
• Rubber-band minimum is now 5 minutes.

Version 2.01 - 1 August 2003

• Corrected error on screen resize.  Screens closed prematurely.
• Changed the change icon on browses and forms.
• Corrected error on color change after shift was selected on schedule.

Version 2.00 - 2 July 2003

• New report on holidays and special days.
• New icons and color scheme.
• Ease of use modifications.
• Corrected display edit error on area changes. 
• Changed name from Visible Scheduler.

Visible Scheduler Versions

Version 1.80 - 17 April 03 

• June 7, 2003 build corrected error in erasing sample data.
• User can change the currency symbol.
• Select starting and ending dates for the web pages.
• Display total hours and cost on the left side, after the staff name, but before the schedule.
• Tasks support editable notes with a new report on menu.
• Gridlines length altered when a new area is displayed.  Grid changes its height. 
• Pick combines picking a date and a group area before displaying a schedule.
• 'EDIT' or 'VIEW' display modes for an editing or a faster read only display.
• Cosmetic changes in icons, colors, and text boxes.
• Corrected reports that asked if you want to print costs when there are no costs.
• Corrected 4 other bugs, 3 of which were display related.

Version 1.63 - 7 December 02 

• Added VS help pages to VisibleSchedules.com web site.
• Updated the Holidays table.
• Simplified the program configuration and user configuration screens.
• Corrected prior day move task error when dragging a task into the future.

Version 1.62 - 2 December 02

• Corrected an obscure column total error.
• Added a simpler calendar function.
• Improved support for special days.
• Made access control simpler.

Version 1.61 - 29 November 02

• Corrected copy dates routine errors.

Version 1.60 - 28 November 02 

• Task legend was added to the schedule display.
• Staff details were expanded.
• Access control was expanded.
• Individual user schedule configurations were added.
• Enhanced cursor message display.
• Corrected minor display errors.

Version 1.52 and 1.53 and 1.54 - 11 October 02 

• Changed startup from User Name to Login Code.
• Corrected install procedures for some downloads.
• Corrected several minor errors.

Version 1.50 and 1.51 - 18 September 02 

• Shifts can start one day and end the next.
• Rotation schedule that handles rotations from 1 to 7 weeks.
• Cost per hour for each job type or for each employee.
• Costs and hours can be displayed on the daily, weekly, rotation and pay period schedules.
• New weekly and payroll schedule reports for hours and costs.
• Can schedule and record special days like vacation, training, sick days, etc.
• Edit or delete tasks by clicking on a task bar and using popup menu.
• Stretch the task or move the task on any schedule screen.
• Click on an empty cell to add shifts, tasks or special days.
• Option to deduct break times for shifts after working a number of hours.
• Improved data entry.
• Improved speed of display manipulation.

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