Admin Portal - Mobile Field Updates Releases

See Mobile Field Updates for more information.

Version 62

Type	Issue	Summary
New Features	FFX-1414	We changed Mobile Field Updates on Task Labor so the User Resource Field to default to the current signed-in User.
Enhancements	FFX-1336	We have increased the paging size to more than 1000 for increased customer record volumes. See FX Mobile Field Updates for the documentation on this admin tool feature.

Type

Issue

Summary

New Features

FFX-1414

We changed Mobile Field Updates on Task Labor so the User Resource Field to default to the current signed-in User.

Enhancements

FFX-1336

We have increased the paging size to more than 1000 for increased customer record volumes.

See FX Mobile Field Updates for the documentation on this admin tool feature.

Type Issue Summary

Enhancement

652

Support PDF Metadata

PDF files support adding metadata to the file
Report designers can now generate the file metadata as part of the report design with a new supported XML tag
Supported tags are Document Title (used for the Title property and the file name), Author, Subject, and Keywords
Use Handlebars expressions to dynamically add content for the metadata
Use the Optional Metadata section of the Report Template wizard to add content

For example, customizing the Document Title results in the following:

Reports Tab in FieldFX Mobile

Note List in FieldFX Back Office

File Properties Details Tab

On Windows, right clicking the PDF file and selecting the Properties option, then the Details tab, shows:

682

We fixed an issue to improve security where FXComponents checks custom permissions for app access.

640

Support Updating Geolocation Fields

Administrators can now select a geolocation field for the object when defining an action for a Field Update.
Select a geolocation field from the object for the Field on a field update criteria.
Selecting a field that has geolocation as its data type sets the Value option in the Field Update window to true, and this cannot be changed.
When the defined mobile field update’s Criteria evaluates to true, the selected geolocation field updates with the user’s device’s geolocation.

The device must have geolocation available from the device’s hardware or an active internet connection.

187

Support Additional Objects

The Mobile Field Updates tool now supports additional objects available in FieldFX Mobile. Additional supported objects are:

These objects can now be selected when creating a mobile field update rule.

Bug Fix

188

We added a welcome message to the landing page with instructions to select an object to make it clearer what the user is expected to do.