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Yesplan 29, Apr 2023

The update is due in the next few weeks:

  • You’ll be given notice of the date and time in Yesplan a week before the update.
  • Afterwards, you’ll receive another notification in Yesplan telling you that the update went well.

Tip

At the bottom of this page, you’ll find the release notes for the additional updates in Yesplan 29.x.

Deprecated Functionality§

To improve the operation of Yesplan, it’s sometimes necessary to remove or change parts. If this potentially disrupts processes, we first place such functionality under “Deprecated Functionality”:

Changed permanently 👋§

In Yesplan 28 we announced that we would delete or modify certain aspects of Yesplan. The following functionality has been definitively modified in Yesplan 29:

  • The keywords “anycomment”, “anycontactinfo” and “anylabel” have been removed from Yesplan.
  • The “Draft” mode has been removed from the event calendar.
  • Labels will be alphabetically sorted everywhere in Yesplan from now on.
  • Permissions for shifts and breaks in Teamplanner will be set by the “Book” permissions on the human resource from now on.

Change Manually§

The following functionality is still available by default in Yesplan 29, but we recommend switching as soon as possible:

  • In the API, the URLs of links in attachment fields are encoded.
  • The REST API packages custom data fields for remote data of type “Number” as text. The REST API can also send these values as numbers, but then you must first check your existing integrations and adjust them if necessary. See Types of Remote Data for more information.

Tip

See Deprecated and Removed Functionality for more information.

Date Format§

It’s now possible to set the date format of your Yesplan installation in the system preferences:

  • “Day Month Year”: E.g. ‘27-02-2023’, ‘27 Feb 2023’ or ‘Mo 27 Feb 2023’.
  • “Month Day Year”: E.g. ‘02/27/2023’, ‘Feb 27, 2023’ or ‘Mo Feb 27, 2023’.
  • “Year Month Day”: E.g. ‘2023-02-27’, ‘27 Feb 2023’ or ‘Mo 27 Feb 2023’.

Attention

The date format selected in the system preferences doesn’t have any impact on the date format in the situations below:

  • The query language and the queries via the API always expect the format dd-mm-yyyy.
  • In the log files that can be downloaded via “System Settings” > “Audit” > “Updates”, dates in the “Date” column will be written in yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm format from now on, i.e. ‘2023-02-27 13:01’.

General§

  • If you edit a custom data field for an element through the Excel Add-in, this will be displayed as an update in the “History” tab of that element’s inspector.
  • A message will appear from now on in the “Resources” and “Team” tabs if an event or event group doesn’t contain any resource bookings yet. This makes it easier to paste copied resource bookings: click right on the message and select “Paste”. Read more about copying resource bookings.

System Settings§

  • The screen for the settings of permissions for individual users now displays only the applied permissions template for that user.
    • The user groups will no longer appear.
    • You can no longer add or delete permission templates on this screen.
    • For the sake of clarity: this applies only to the screen that you reach by clicking “Show Permission Settings” for a user in “System Settings” > “Users” > “Users”.
  • We now use a new way of managing permissions and capabilities in permission templates and permission settings for individual users:
    • These screens now contain the buttons “Change Capabilities…” and “Change Permissions…” to edit the relevant capabilities and permissions, respectively.
    • If you click these buttons, a new window will appear where you can edit capabilities and permissions separately.
    • You only save your changes when you click “Apply” in this window.
    • If you add columns for event statuses, they will appear in the order of the statuses. Previously, they appeared in the order in which they were added to the template.
  • In “System Settings” > “Contacts” > “Preferences” you will now see both the name and the ISO language code for each available language in the “Default Language for New Contacts” drop-down menu.
  • Deleting a location in “System Settings” > “Resources” > “Locations” will now be displayed as an update in the navigation menu under “Updates” and in the log files that can be downloaded in “System Settings” > “Audit” > “Updates”.

Integrations§

  • The nightly update of active events for ticketing integrations has changed:
    • For active events in the past, Yesplan will now automatically retrieve only event data up to one year ago. Old events can still be manually synchronized without any problems.
    • Regarding active events, nothing will change in the future: Yesplan will keep retrieving the data of all active events in the future automatically.
  • You can now export a custom data field on the event for the purchase order number in Mercurius Export.

Bugfixes§

  • If you open the “Resources”, “Team” or “Location” tabs of the event inspector on the level of a group, then events will expand automatically again if they contain bookings that aren’t common to all events in the group. The same will happen in the “Schedules” tab with respect to schedule items. We unintentionally changed this behavior in Yesplan 28, so we revert to the correct behavior in Yesplan 29.
  • If you copied resource bookings within an event group, it was hard to see where these bookings could be pasted in the “Resources” or “Team” tab if the event or group didn’t contain any resource bookings yet. From now on, you will see instructions, and you can right-click on them to paste the resource bookings that you copied.
  • In the contact inspector, an error occurred in the drop-down menu for “Country” if a country had already been selected and you selected the empty option in the menu.
  • External access was activated for the update logs in “System Settings” > “Audit” > “Updates”.
  • If you deleted a contact, only the update about the deletion remained in the “History” tab, and if you undid the deletion, the update about the deletion was the only one that didn’t appear.
  • In the event calendar, you were able to open an event inspector for an unavailability.
  • When you changed the start time and end time of an unavailability in the event calendar, the ensuing update description was unclear.
  • An error occurred if you entered an incorrect date (e.g. ‘31 February 2023’) when publishing rosters, or if an incorrect date was sent to the API.
  • If you changed the capability in a permission template to create events, the change was only applied when users with this template logged out and logged in again.
  • Some date pickers didn’t follow the setting “Earliest possible year in date pickers is” of Yesplan’s system preferences.
  • The actions “Expand All” and “Collapse All” didn’t work correctly in the inspector tabs “Schedules”, “Location”, “Team”, “Resources” and “Task” if you changed the focus from the group level to an event, and then back to the group level.
  • If you opened the drop-down menu for saved queries in a finder, and you pointed the cursor at one of them, all options in the menu became highlighted instead of just the one you were pointing at. Moreover, the options weren’t always sorted alphabetically.
  • Dataviews didn’t display the role of a contact booking if the booked contact was wiped permanently.
  • When downloading a translation file for a report template, a “Busy” spinner appeared in the bottom right corner of Yesplan, even when the download had already finished.
  • An error occurred when showing the results of a dataview if the name of a column contained quotes or a backslash.
  • In Teamplanner, the counter “Total Overtime Week” showed an incorrect value if you used the date picker to navigate to a specific date.
  • If you imported contacts, and your CSV file contained a column for a custom data field of type “Publication trigger” for a webhook, then the results of the import stated that the update was aborted, while it was actually executed.
  • When you clicked a checkbox in the “Event” column of a user’s permissions settings, then the checkboxes for this permission also changed in any column for a specific event status. To be clear, this bug only occurred in the screen that you reach by clicking “Show Permission Settings” for a user in “System Settings” > “Users” > “Users”.
  • If you changed the date of an event in Yesplan, then an update was sent to the ticketing system twice for integrations that used the Generic Ticketing Module.
  • If the value of a custom data field of type “Date input” referred to tomorrow, then it displayed “Tomorrow” in the Yesplan App instead of showing the date.
  • In dataviews, the icon of a parameter for the time didn’t appear correctly.
  • In Teamplanner, an error occurred if you copied and pasted a booking, unavailability, shift or break on a day with Daylight Savings Time.
  • The drop-down menu for “Publish” on the settings page of a webhook integration also allowed you to select publication triggers for other integrations.

Minor Releases§

Yesplan 29.15§

  • ✨ Improvement: You can now decide whether the API ignores the “Allowed to view” capability for inspector tabs when checking permissions for custom data fields. Learn more.
  • 🐞 Bugfix: In Cevi Export, an internal error occurred if your export contained resource bookings with prices that you don’t have the “View” permission for.

Yesplan 29.14§

  • 🐞 Bugfix: If no custom data field was selected for “Invoice Date” in the integration’s settings, then an internal error occurred in Cevi Export and Mercurius Export when you grouped by customer.

Yesplan 29.13§

  • 🐞 Bugfix: In the Generic Ticketing API, no update was sent to the ticketing system if the inherited value of a mapped custom data field changed because its event was moved to a different event group.
  • 🐞 Bugfix: After maintenance of Yesplan servers, users weren’t able to search for contacts in the Themis integration.

Yesplan 29.12§

  • 🐞 Bugfix: If you chose a locale (e.g. ‘en-US’) for a report template in the field “Report language”, then Yesplan sometimes erroneously displayed a locale for the same language, but with a different country (e.g. ‘en-GB’).

Yesplan 29.11§

  • ✨ Improvement: In Cevi Export, the calculation of the field “TotaalBedragFacturen” in the exported XML is now aligned with the way that total amounts are calculated in Cevi.

Yesplan 29.9–29.10§

  • 🐞 Bugfix (29.6 regression): In ticketing integrations, the status of a publication trigger changed whenever a linked field was sent to the ticketing system, leading to many unnecessary emails if an update rule was set for the publication trigger.
  • 🐞 Bugfix: Users were unable to sign in to the Excel Add-in if they connected using Citrix.

Yesplan 29.8§

  • ✨ Improvement: In the query language, searching an event by name now goes faster in case the first words in the name are short or shared by many events.
  • ✨ Improvement: The nightly synchronization in the Ticketmatic 3 integration will now retrieve data for active events of up to one year ago, instead of 28 days previously.
  • 🐞 Bugfix: The nightly synchronization of remote data in the Ticketmatic 3 integration could fail if there was a large number of events in the future.
  • 🐞 Bugfix: An internal error occured if you scheduled a roster publication for later without changing the date in the field “Publish on”.
  • 🐞 Bugfix: In Cevi Export, the calculation of the field “TotaalBedragFacturen” wasn’t based on the rounded amounts of the fields “totaalBedragFactuur”. This yielded an error when importing the XML file into Cevi.
  • 🐞 Bugfix: In Cevi Export, every minor release of Yesplan reset the IDs for invoices and exports, while these IDs had to be unique and increment on each export.
  • 🐞 Bugfix (29.4 regression): If you sorted report templates by date, the order of the list wasn’t always correct.
  • 🐞 Bugfix: In “Reports” > “Read-Only Calendar”, the column for the dates didn’t align correctly with events if you scrolled vertically.
  • 🐞 Bugfix: It was possible that a dataview didn’t update when you scrolled.

Yesplan 29.7§

  • ✨ Improvement: The Excel Add-in extended support for number formats that display negative numbers in red.
  • 🐞 Bugfix (29.6 regression): An internal error occurred if you opened the tab “Attachments” of the task inspector.

Yesplan 29.4–29.6§

  • ✨ Improvement: In integrations that use the Generic Ticketing Module, the publication trigger will now display an error message when the mapping for a custom data field of type “Drop-down Menu” is not set correctly.
  • 🐞 Bugfix (28.0 regression): It was no longer possible to select a date via the date picker if it was earlier than the value for “Earliest possible year in date pickers is” in “System Settings” > “System Preferences”.
  • 🐞 Bugfix: In Teamplanner, the “Week Contract Time” counter for a human resource didn’t update correctly when the end of the contract and the end of the week didn’t coincide and you removed a date decoration from the field “Not Supposed to Work on” in the human resource’s contract.
  • 🐞 Bugfix: In Cevi Export, the exported XML file contained an error, resulting in an incorrect house number after importing the file into Cevi.
  • 🐞 Bugfix: In Teamplanner, it was still possible to paste bookings on a human resource that you didn’t have the “Book” permission for in the following situation:
    • You copied both an event booking and another booking from a human resource that you had the “Book” permission for and a human resource that you didn’t have the “Book” permission for.
    • Next, you could paste all the bookings regardless of the permissions if you used the action “Paste on” on the human resource that you had the “Book” permission for.
  • 🔧 This release includes stability improvements.

Yesplan 29.3§

  • 🐞 Bugfix: An error occurred when you only filled out the time on a custom data field of type “Date and Time Input”.

Yesplan 29.2§

  • ✨ Improvement: The Generic Ticketing API now accepts null for the “starttime” and “endtime” attributes in GET requests.
  • ✨ Improvement: The ‘+’ icon in front of actions such as “Add a User” and “Add a Field” wasn’t aligned correctly.
  • 🐞 Bugfix: In Teamplanner, it was possible to paste a booking on a human resource you didn’t have the “Book” permission for. This occurred when you also pasted a booking on a human resource you did have the “Book” permission for in the same action.
  • 🔧 This release includes stability improvements.

Yesplan 29.1§

  • ❇️ New: In Cevi Export and Mercurius Export:
    • You can now export all events in the table of results, by using the “Export All…” button.
    • You can now choose to group the export by customer, or by event or event group.
  • ✨ Improvement: Selected slots in “Find Availability” now receive a yellow background, which makes it easier to distinguish them from slots that weren’t selected.
  • ✨ Improvement: The drop-down menus for custom data keywords in integration settings can no longer grow too wide, reducing the need for a horizontal scroll bar to appear.
  • 🐞 Bugfix: If you created custom data fields/blocks/groups that had the same name, then this could lead to internal errors because their keywords weren’t unique.
  • 🐞 Bugfix: If you exported data via “Search” in the navigation menu, then columns for system fields could contain values of custom data fields if those custom data fields had a keyword that referred to a system field, such as ‘resource_name’.
  • 🐞 Bugfix: In Teamplanner counters, the month October contained an extra working day because of the leap hour for Daylight Savings Time.
  • 🐞 Bugfix: If you selected a date via the date picker for the setting “Reset Holiday Counter” in a human resource’s contract, then the date didn’t appear in the field until you also entered a time in the field next to it.
  • 🐞 Bugfix: In “System Settings” > “Teamplanner” > “Contracts”, four-digit values for the fields “Average Hours per Month”, “Average Hours per Year” and “Holidays (in Hours)” (e.g. ‘2000’) were converted to two-digit durations (e.g. ‘20:00’), unless you added the minutes explicitly (e.g. ‘2000:00’). From now on, these four-digit values are no longer converted automatically for these fields.