Omnitracs One 6.7 Host Release Notes for User Acceptance Testing (UAT V1)

Active Alert

Privacy Notice 

Renamed 'Privacy Policy' link to 'Privacy Notice'.

Active Alert's privacy policy has been updated and will now link to the new privacy notice page. 

Notify Recipient when Subscription is Deleted

Active Alert will notify delivery recipients if their subscription to a location is deleted by users. 

Web App: Order History (Display ETA & Map)

• Timestamp details for different order statuses are added in 'Order History' for easy access of information. 
• Added tabs to the 'Order Details' panel to access map, delivery, pick-up, and transit orders information. 

Delivery recipients can use 'Remove Service Locations' to delete a Service Location to discontinue receiving alerts if no longer needed. 

 

Compliance (Host and Mobile)

Filter Inactive Drivers out of Hours of Service Reports

Hours of Service (HOS) Driver Payroll Report

Inactive drivers can now be excluded from the following reports:

• Hours of Service Report
• Driver Payroll Report
• Available Hours Report

 

Compliance - Hours of Service (Host and Mobile)

Co-Driver Status (Mobile)

A HOS/ELD Co-Driver who is currently in Off-Duty status in the passenger seat, will remain in Off-Duty status even when they exceed the allowed regulatory time in Off-Duty while in a moving vehicle.

Hours of Service/ELD Enhancements

Vehicle License Plate Country List (Micronesia)

The Federated States of Micronesia was removed from the Vehicle License Plate Country List in XRS Host. 

eRODS Option to Select One or More Vehicles

During a back-office audit, the user now has the ability select one or more vehicles for an eRODS transfer. When “HOS eRODS Extract” is selected from Reporting > Compliance, the user now has the option to select either Driver(s) or Vehicle(s).  

When “Driver(s)” is selected, the behavior of this UI is unchanged.  

When “Vehicle(s)” is selected, the user can select one or more vehicles.  

An eRODS is generated for every driver that logged into the selected vehicle(s) during the requested date range and sent to FMCSA. Each Driver’s eRODS file is for the same date range as selected in the original request. 

UVA Tool Enhancement

When using the Unassigned Vehicle Activity (UVA) tool, a user has the option to export all fields, or only the displayed fields, in the UVA Tool when using the Unassigned option.

Gap in Miles Threshold 

An XRS Host user can now set a Gap In Miles Threshold value to avoid false positives.  

Split Sleeper Enhancements

Driver Notification - Split Sleeper Will Pair setting change.

A Driver using Hours of Service/ELD will be notified that their Split Sleeper Will Pair setting changed the next time they login to be aware of optimistic vs pessimistic clock values.

Message:

Your Split Sleeper Will Pair setting has changed, you are now showing [optimistic or pessimistic] Clocks.

Uncertified Driver Logs Report

New Report: Uncertified Driver Logs Details

A new report is available that allows management to view log certification status for a group of Drivers.

The report is available in Reports > HOS > Uncertified Driver Logs > Uncertified Driver Logs Details.

Report Features:

• Select one or more Organizations or Regions.
• Select one or more Resource Groups.
• Select one or more Driver(s).
• Select a date range of 7, 8, or 14 days.
• Report can be scheduled to run.

Report Details:

• Organization(s)/Region(s), ReSource Group(s), or Driver(s).
• Date Range Selected.
• Driver Name.
• Driver ID.
• Date Range Identifier.

 

Dispatch

To comply with the local laws & regulations of France & Portugal, we have disabled Speeding related alerts and UI elements, for fleets using Dispatching and operating entirely within or driving through France and Portugal.

 

Driver Vehicle Inspection Report (DVIR) (Host and Mobile)

Rebranding

The DVIR Feature, Inspection Summary and Inspection Report were rebranded to meet Solera standards. 

Inspect Feature Renamed

The Inspect feature has been renamed to DVIR. 

New Command Inspect Option in User Permissions 

We added an Inspect option to user permissions in Command.
All companies who are licensed to use DVIR 3.0 will be able to enable the user to access DVIR reports. This option is available in Access control.

During a Driver Vehicle Inspection Report, the driver may identify a Major Defect.

When this occurs, the current workflow will lock the workflow with a Post Trip Critical Defect, but currently does not lock the driver out of the workflow with a pre-trip.  

We have added an option in the Tasks Page box that says, “Prevent Driver from continuing through workflow when they are hooked to equipment that has an active Major Defect identified.” When enabled, we present the driver with a customized prompt. This applies to a new defect, or one reported previously that has not been resolved. This feature will not allow the driver to proceed through the workflow when the equipment they are connected to has a Major Defect. 

 This means that: 

• The driver cannot activate any new tasks or stops when they have identified a major defect. 
• The driver can identify that the equipment was repaired. 
• When the driver hooks to equipment that a previous driver identified a major defect on that is still active that we display the prompt and do not allow them to continue through workflow. 
• Once the equipment has been repaired the driver can continue through the workflow. 
• If that driver hooks to a new piece of equipment that does not have any major defect, then we allow them to continue through their workflow. 

Customizable “Not Safe to Operate” Prompt for DVIR Task Types

Added a configuration option for DVIR Task types to allow a customer to enable a custom message for the major defect notification.

• The user can create a configurable message to a driver when they identify a major defect.
• If a configurable message is now created, a default message is displayed.

Default Message:

The equipment you are connected to has been identified as having major defect and is unsafe to operate, you will not be able to continue to update your trip workflow until the equipment has been repaired, or you connect to equipment that has not been identified as having Major defect(s).

• The driver will be prompted when a major defect is identified, and the inspection is saved.
• The driver is required to acknowledge the prompt.

 

Fuel - IFTA Data

IFTA Data for Six Years + the Current Year

When using the Trip or Fuel Details report, the data includes six years plus the current year when an audit is requested.

 

Insight and Reporting

Report Enhancements

The Equipment Position History report allows the user to select an individual vehicle and a time range greater than 24 hours to return the position data.

The new Distance by Jurisdiction report allows the user to run the report with multiple regions simultaneously.

Scheduled Reports now display the correct value in the Created In Region column, when possible, instead of displaying UNKNOWN.

The Equipment Position History CSV report for Reporting and Scheduling modules, allows the user to select an individual vehicle and a time range greater than 24 hours to return the position data.

 

Omnitracs Navigation 2.0 Host

Omnitracs One Mobile Device entities now integrate with Trimble Portal.

Add, update, and delete actions are now synchronized from the OT1 portal into the Trimble Portal.
The integration must be enabled from the Roadnet Admin portal, and it must remain enabled to ensure that the data between the OT1 portal and the Trimble portal is synced.

The integration is set per Customer and is configured to match the Trimble Company Account ID.
For example:

The integration is only available for customers with the Navigation module purchased and a license number for Omnitracs Navigation 2.0 (CoPilot) greater than zero.
The entity sync is started once in the account, the admin:

• Go into the Admin Site, modify the customer.
• Assign an Account ID that matches the customer account in Trimble Systems

** Note that setting an account ID but NOT checking Equipment/Mobile Device checkboxes will not trigger an entity sync, so if you want to add the account id ahead of time but not enable the customer, do not check Equipment/Mobile Device.

• Enable Trimble Integration by checking at least one checkbox (“Mobile Devices” or “Equipment and Equipment Type”, notice that each checkbox will integrate the specific type of entity).
• This then sends all Mobile Devices, Equipment and Equipment Types messages to a TIBCO topic, which is then consumed by our Windows Service.

The Roadnet Admin system can retrieve the license count to improve the management of the account but is not a must to retrieve the data.

 

RNA and Trimble Matching Fields

The relationship of the fields is as described below:

RNA – Mobile Device entity	Trimble – Asset entity
Device ID	Username/Device ID (Format: deviceid/prod)
Description	First Name
Enable CoPilot Navigation	License Assignments

 

Import Method

The import method functionality available at the OT1 portal is supported and allows you to quickly add new Mobile Devices or update them.

The integration does not support special characters @#$%^&`[]\\{}| in the Mobile Device ID field, this means that when an ID contains a special character it will not be added into the Trimble portal.

 

Omnitracs Navigation 2.0 Mobile Installation Improvements (Host and Mobile)

Before upgrading, please look at these important considerations:

The dispatcher app (Drive or RN Mobile) and Omnitracs Navigation 2.0 (CoPilot) apps must be upgraded to the latest 6.7 version together.

To use the Omnitracs Navigation 2.0 (CoPilot) app, the Mobile Device ID must have a license assigned in both Omnitracs One and Trimble Fleet Portal, note that after this release is recommended to handle the license from Omnitracs One portal only.

The driver must open the dispatcher app (Drive or RN Mobile) and trigger the navigation to a stop to enable the Omnitracs Navigation 2.0 (CoPilot) license.

The APK can be grabbed from OT1/RNA, the application is displayed under Administration > Application downloads, now the product is displayed for Customer with more than zero(0) licenses for Omnitracs Navigation 2.0 (CoPilot) and the Navigation module purchased.
 

• Omnitracs Navigation 2.0 (CoPilot) customers will see the navigation app displayed in the Omnitracs Installer.
• The application is displayed under the name: Omnitracs Navigation 2.0 (CoPilot).

• The logic was changed to stop displaying the OTNav 1.0 version by default.
• Now when the Customer doesn’t have licenses for OTNav 1.0, the application is NOT listed in the RNA portal under Administration > Application downloads, this also ensures that the Omnitracs Installer only set the navigation app that is licensed for the account.

 

Enable Global nav (NavGE) by Verizon Connect for a Mobile Device

A new checkbox has been added below Enable Omnitracs Navigation in Mobile devices for customers who have purchased the Navigation module and have one or more NavGE licenses, now have an option to enable Global nav (NavGE) by Verizon Connect.

All checkboxes show if you purchased navigation, regardless of the number of licenses. This applies to Omnitracs One and Roadnet Anywhere customers.

When you do not have licenses assigned, an error is displayed:

Verizon Connect Global Nav NavGE in Mobile
Before upgrading, please look at these important considerations:

• Use the Verizon NavGE v6.24.9 application to integrate with 6.7 Roadnet Mobile or Drive.
• To use the Verizon NavGE app, the Mobile Device ID must have a license assigned.
• The driver must open the dispatcher app (Drive or RN Mobile) and navigate to a stop to enable the Verizon NavGE license.

Integrate NavGE into the Omnitracs Drive App

When using the application integrated with the Drive application:
The driver can enable the license by tapping on the Enter Navigation button of the Drive main menu. The driver no longer needs to have a Trip loaded.
Note that the configuration in the back office portal must be done ahead of trying to enable the license on the mobile device.

The OT Drive App now specifies the hazmat type as None for launching NavGE when a hazmat category is not assigned for the stop.

   

Integrate NavGE into Roadnet Mobile

With the 6.7 version of Roadnet Mobile we start supporting the integration of NavGE.

• Custom code for service locations support is now passed to NavGE. The information is in the logs on RN mobile.

Equipment and Hazmat information is now passed to NavGE. The information can be seen in the RN mobile logs.

The RN Mobile App now specifies the hazmat type as None for launching NavGE when a hazmat category is not assigned for the stop.

   

   

 

OTNav 1.0 Map Release and Minor Improvements (Host and Mobile)

• A new map set for 2022 Q3 is available, which includes updates and improvements to the accuracy of the map data.
• When using the Map Edits functionality from RNA/OT1 portal, now the new map schema 12.1.16 can be used with the prior map schema version 12.1.15 on the mobile device.
• In the host, there was an issue that blocked the ability to delete Mobile Device IDs with special characters from RNA/OT1 portal, now those can be deleted.
• Enhancement to the logging of the integration between Device Manager and RNA/OT1 portal to improve the troubleshooting.
• OTNav 1.0 now has a foreground service to make the application always awake. You will see a new notification on top of the app that will always be there if the app is running, this allows you to do HTTP requests even when the device is locked or sleeping.

   

• Enhancements to the navappsync/navlocationssync logging to trace down the sync when using split-view or when the data is already up to date.
• Now OTNav 1.0 has a timeout for navappsync/navlocationssync requests of 5 mins. The value is configurable in CP with these keys:
  • [NavAppSyncInfo]
    • NavSyncRequestTimeoutInSecs = 300
  • [NavAppSyncLocations]
    • NavLocRequestTimeoutInSecs = 300
• RNA/OT1 portal accepts decimal for the Speeding Threshold, which was provoking an unexpected behavior on the mobile devices, now the system processes the decimals by rounding those to an integer for example:
  • 5.0 - 5.5 is redounded to 5
  • 5.6 - 5.9 is redounded to 6
• Now OTNav 1.0 can detect the AMGC hotspot as a Terrestrial connection when using any supported OS including Android 12.
• Improvement to the Text to Speech functionality, now when arriving at a Point Of Interest the application does not spell the zip code.
• In OTNav 1.0 it is recommended to enable "UseHistoricTraffic" in Path Settings to avoid the use of restricted roads.

 

Performance

New Black Box Report

A user can now generate a Black Box Report using the following criteria:

• Company
• Organization
• Start Date and End Date
• Driver
• Event type
• Vehicle ID
• TGT #
• Serial Number from XRS Master: Reports > Performance > Critical Events > Black Box Report

 

Platform

Roadnet Anywhere Localization- Existing Cultures

The following three cultures is available to Route Navigator:

• Portuguese (Brazil)
• French Canadian
• Spanish (Latin America)

Telephone Numbers have been globalized in Route Navigator.

Entity Audit Log

           Added audit options to the ServiceLocation entity.

The new options are:

• List updates by entity type
• Display the changes that occurred in an update.
• Identify who performed the action.
• Allow for searching within the results.
• Entities to be included are:
  • Service Locations
  • Worker
  • Equipment Type
  • Equipment
  • Depots

ComplianceCountry will be displayed at audit log of Equipment.

Costs and HelperCosts modified changes will be displayed at audit log of Workers.

International Expansion to Europe - Detected External Issues

Import Template in Other Languages

Latitude > Maintenance > Service Locations > Import Active Alert Subscriptions

When importing Active Alert Subscriptions, it is now possible to use a template in another language.

You can now edit the SMS settings on the Region General Settings page. In Omnitracs Web go to Administration > Region > Add / Edit > General.
SMS Settings are at the bottom of the General page.

When a user enters the recipient's phone number, the number will be validated against the countries specifications.

Misc.

The Description from Service Location is now added as a shown/hidden column to the Service Details table template.

 

Routing

Planner Routing Enhancements

Implemented the purge of soft deleted strategic routing sessions along with their content (territories, routes, recurring orders).
Also added logic to purge archived and expired planning sessions (archived before the data retention period).

• You can now select one or multiple stops, in order to adjust the Service Time for these stops.
• We implemented the Service Time Override tab within Service Location.
• Added Service Time Type drop down in Service Location details.
• Service Time Type entities can be edited in the Maintenance module (grid + editor).

• Service Time Type Detail editor.
• Grid/list to populate with multiple STT Details.
• Validation matching RN (Order Class and days).
• Service Time Type drop-down to Service Location editor.

The Orders Grid now has a new column called Add Product Type.

Data Enhancements

• UI and validation Improvements to Data Purge.
• Modified Data Notification Purge Processor to only run during off hours and to purge just notifications.
• Implemented the soft deletion of routes.
• Enhanced performance of the routing process when deleting 'Unassigned Order' groups.

Route Navigator Performance Enhancements

Route Template data retrieval has been re-worked so that stops will not have to be retrieved prior to plotting the route template and route templates for all sets are now retrieved in batches so the number of retrieved templates will no longer be limited to 2000.

Locking Manifests is no longer required as the limit has been removed.

 

Planning

The column Product Type is now visible at the Orders Grid similar to the Unassigned grid.

The thin client (Route Navigator) has been upgraded to improve performance in multiple ways including moving it to a 64-bit architecture.

The Strategic Planning performance has been enhanced when deleting recurring orders. 

 

Web Services and Integrations

Assign Days

A user of the REST call should be able to use the “Assigned Days” and “Create Territories” API calls for Strategic Planner without specifying the entity key.
They can use the same identifier of the Pass Template instead.

 Milesahead Data API

An additional property, copilotPathSettings has been added to the Data API /asset-search/attributes API call.

RNA Adapters Milesahead Integration

Modify DeviceIntegrator MobileDeviceInfo to return Mobile Device nav status and assigned region cellular download capabilities.

Response now returns two more properties:

- isCoPilotAppEnabled

- isCoPilotTerrestrialMapDownloadEnabled

XRS - Driver Web Service. The Display Scorecard in Driver Portal setting can now be reviewed and modified using web service calls.
A new optional field EnableDriverDashboard is available for GET, POST, and PUT requests, and it accepts values of Yes or No. The default is Yes.

OT1 REST API 

Now includes an identifier and entity key in returned error messages to identify which items have encountered the error.