Tech Update: New Features in Facilities Manager 3.14

With the release of Facilities Manager 3.14 on April 12th, we are pleased to announce the following enhancements:

Mono and Colour Life Counts Added to Alert Information

The mono life count and colour life count can now be optionally added to emailed Alert notifications.

These fields are included in the Web Post and Email attachment notification options as well. Further details for the XML schema are available in the online help within Facilities Manager.

Improved Customer and Site Management*

Users can search based on Distributor and Dealer with filters to narrow down the Customer and Site.

There is now an option to search for and restore Customers/Sites that have been removed within the last 30 days.

*Please note that ‘manage’ access to Dealer or Customer is required for these features to be available to the user. Please consult the online help in Facilities Manager for additional details.

Regional/Language Neutral CSV Files

A CSV file is a text file that stores data in a table-like structure where each field is specifically separated by a comma – hence the name (C)omma (S)eparated (V)alues. When dealing with currencies that use a comma in place of a decimal point, this can lead to additional fields being created when opening CSV files in Excel or other third-party applications because of the commas in the currency fields.

Facilities Manager 3.14 has a new option that removes commas from currency values to eliminate these errors. The “Use Region/Language neutral format for currency values” will cause the CSV export to use a decimal point instead of a comma regardless of the currency type set in Facilities Manager.