4.2.0 Release Notes

FH Inspector now imports all the contact phone numbers available for an occupancy in FIREHOUSE Software, so that inspectors have a complete set of contact information available while performing an inspection.

If you touch the Contact tab, then the Edit button during an inspection, you can now also add a phone number and identify its type in FH Inspector.

[TFS-94867, PSF-6429]

The title of the inspection report has been updated to remove the word "Fire" from it. Inspection reports are now titled "Department Violation Notice."

[TFS-140948]

The inspection report for reinspections has been updated to remove the sentence, "This inspection report was automatically created by the response to a reinspection request from ManageMyInspections.com."

[TFS-117168, PSF-6777]

Better messages explaining why would want to allow FH Inspector to track your location and access the camera and photo library on your iPad now appear when you are prompted for these permissions.

• When you install the FH Inspector, the prompt to track your location that appears over the licensing window now explains, "Providing access to your location will allow occupancies and inspections to appear on a map."
• When you use the iPad's camera to capture the violation image. the prompt to provide access to your camera now explains, "Providing access to your camera will allow you to capture images to attach to your inspections and violations."
• When you add a violation image from the iPad's photo library, the prompt to provide access to the library now explains, "Providing access to your photo library will allow you to attach existing images to inspections and violations."

[FHD-1129]

On your ManageMyInspections (MMI) web site for FH Inspector, on the Department tab, for the Violation Notice Body and Violation Passed Body rows, you can now use the <<Inspection Type>> and <<Inspection Type Description>> variables to include the inspection type and description in the inspection report PDF sent to occupant owners.

[FHD-122]

Violation report PDF files now list the violations in order, based on violation code numbers.

[FHD-108, TFS-149248]

You can now change the name and address that appears on a violation notice PDF, so that you can print and mail the notice to the occupancy owner at a different address, rather than to the occupancy address.

To find this new feature, do the following.

1. Perform the occupancy inspection as normal.

   The inspection results appear, with the View PDF button at the bottom of the screen.

2. Touch View PDF.

   The PDF version of the inspection results appears, and the new Change Address option appears in the upper left corner, next to Done.

   

3. Touch Change Address.

   The Change Address dialog box appears.

   

4. Edit the address information as needed, then touch Done.

   The PDF version of the inspection results reappears, displaying the new address.

   

5. In the upper left corner of the PDF viewer, touch Done.

[FHD-106, TFS-149217, TFS-149279]

You can now add a new phone number while performing an inspection in FH Inspector.

To find this new feature, do the following.

1. Open the inspection as normal.
2. Touch the Contact tab.

3. On the right end of the Main phone field, touch the plus (+) icon.

   

   The Add Number dialog box appears.

   

4. From Type, choose the description of the phone number you are adding.
5. In Phone, type the new phone number for the contact.

6. Touch Done.

   A new row appears for the phone number you added.

   

[FHD-1116]

The log files for FH Inspector now capture additional communication information, particularly for any HTTP responses that are not a normal part of successful communication.

[FHD-298]

FH Inspector now automatically saves the text you enter in the Notes section of an inspection violation. This enhancement prevents you from losing your notes if an iOS timeout occurs before you finish writing a note and manually touching Done.

[FHD-101]

On your ManageMyInspections (MMI) web site for FH Inspector, on the Dashboard tab, under Fire Inspections, when you expand the red plus (+) icon, the table of occupancy inspections that appears now contains an additional column identifying the type of each inspection.

[FHD-121]

On your ManageMyInspections (MMI) web site for FH Inspector, on the Department tab, your MMI device license number now appears in the new Device License Number row near the top of the screen.

[FHD-171]

Dates in FH Inspector used the format MM/DD/YYYY in some places, and DD/MM/YYYY in other places. Dates are now consistently represented as MM/DD/YYYY.

[TFS-60422]

If an inspection contained 10 or more violations with images attached and you synchronized FH Inspector with MMI, then checked the FH Inspector log file, the following error message appeared in the log file.

Submitting Failed - The app ran out of time in the background while submitting."

[TFS-62128]

If you began an inspection and touched Preplans at the top of the screen, then touched Add New and filled out the information for a new preplan, you were allowed to entered a future date in Verified Date, and should not have been.

[TFS-88265]

During an inspection, if you touched Building is Vacant, completed the inspection and synchronized with MMI, then later tried to review the completed inspection, the Review button was disabled.

[TFS-93556]

If you added a new hydrant in FH Inspector, then during the inspection you entered very large numeric values for the fields in the Flow Test section, field length restrictions were not applied as expected. When you then synchronized with FIREHOUSE Software, the following error appeared in the Cloud Synchronization Utility.

Processing aborted due to error code: 39 Numeric overflow. Data was lost. at replacefieldifdifferent line 1802

[TFS-97020]

If you performed an inspection that recorded five or more violations which included pictures and notes, when you touched Done, the message Congratulations! No Violations appeared briefly before the PDF of the violation report appeared.

[TFS-97428, FHLD-5210]

During an occupancy inspection, if you touched No for an inspection item, entered information for the notes, touched the camera icon, selected Choose From Library, and selected an image, the edges of the image bled beyond the edges of the space allowed in the Note dialog box.

[TFS-97429, FHLD-5209]

After completing a hydrant inspection or an occupancy reinspection in FH Inspector and synchronizing with the MMI web site, the totals on the MMI web site did not update as expected.

[TFS-97445, FHLD-5027]

If you began a reinspection in FH Inspector before the date it is scheduled for and synchronized with the MMI web site, then on the MMI web site you clicked the Check In tab, the inspection you were currently performing was not listed as in-progress for that day.

[TFS-97459, FHLD-4662]

During a hydrant inspection, if you enabled all the inspection activities except Flow Test, but then in the Flow Test section you entered values for Discharge Coef and Outlet Diameter and touched Done, an incomplete flow test message appeared. If you touched Yes in the message to discard the data, but then later opened the completed hydrant inspection, the value you had entered in Outlet Diameter had not been cleared.

[TFS-98561]

The inspection report PDF created from an inspection with violations displayed the date variable <<MediumReinspectionDate>> in the report instead of the actual reinspection date.

[TFS-103509]

If you tried to synchronize an inspection with a large number of images attached to violations, the synchronization failed and the following error message appeared in the log file.

Submitting Failed - The app ran out of time in the background while submitting.

[TFS-116180]

If you completed an inspection in FIREHOUSE Software without specifying a value for Shift, or if you edited a completed inspection from FH Inspector in FIREHOUSE Software and deleted the value specified for Shift, then synchronized the same record back to FH Inspector, the following error message appeared in the synchronization log file.

Inspection Rejected: Inspection is missing a shift.

[TFS-117337]

When performing an inspection and working with items near the bottom of the Inspection Questionnaire page, the page automatically scrolled down and you had to repeatedly scroll back up to select responses for the next questions on the page.

[TFS-120319, TFS-144846]

If you used an iPad 4 with FH Inspector and you clicked the Search icon, searched for an occupancy name or hydrant number, then clicked Scheduled, Complete, Email the PDF, Done, or specified a date range, FH Inspector closed unexpectedly.

[TFS-147250, PSF 8899]

If marked an occupancy as vacant during an inspection, then synchronized the completed inspection with FIREHOUSE Software, the start and end times for the inspection are reversed in FIREHOUSE Software.

[TFS-147673, PSF-6768]

During an inspection, on the Inspection Questionnaire page, if you marked an item as a violation, then copied and pasted text into the Enter Note dialog box, the pasted text appeared as bold-faced.

[TFS-147689]

In FH Inspector, if you changed companies and then synchronized with MMI and FIREHOUSE Software, inspections performed by inspectors from the previous company appeared, and on occasion, co-mingled with the current inspector's inspections. In some instances, not all the inspections for the inspector in the new company were pushed to FH Inspector.

[TFS-147799, PSF-9287]

When you generated a violation report PDF file in FH Inspector, unnecessary white space appeared in the file.

[TFS-148694, PSF-5463]

If you were working on an inspection which contained violations, when the summary screen of violations appeared, if you set the Reinspection Needed slider to white (the No setting), a reinspection was created and scheduled anyway.

[TFS-148706, PSF-5084]

While doing an occupancy inspection, if you touched the Contacts tab, added a new contact to the occupancy, identified the contact as the owner/occupant/keyholder of the occupancy, completed the inspection in FH Inspector, synchronized, and then opened the inspection record in FIREHOUSE Software, the Owner/Occupant/Keyholder option was not selected on the Owners & Contacts tab.

[TFS-137734]

During an inspection, if you added a new occupancy contact that contained only the contact's last name and state, completed the inspection in FH Inspector, synchronized, then opened the inspection record in FIREHOUSE Software, on the Owners & Contacts tab, the state appeared, but the contact's last name was missing.

[TFS-97458, FHLD-4701]

If you created a new occupancy and inspection in FIREHOUSE Software but did not specify an inspection type for the inspection, then synchronized with the (MMI) web site, the following error appeared in the API log.

<inspection_type>Firehouse.Xip.Version1.Api.Base.LinkDto</inspection_type>

[TFS-143319]

On your ManageMyInspections (MMI) web site for FH Inspector, on the Dashboard tab, under Fire Inspections, inspections with the current day's date did not appear automatically. If you cleared the date values in Between and and, then clicked Filter, an error message appeared.

[TFS-58731, TFS-30502]

After synchronizing an occupancy inspection with a preplan from FIREHOUSE Software to FH Inspector, when you began the inspection in FH Inspector and touched the Preplans tab, the Verified By field did not contain a value.

[TFS-128445, US-123728]

If you had multiple installations of FH Inspector running, and they were synchronizing concurrently with MMI when you tried to log in to MMI or do a task on the MMI site, the following error appeared.

System.TimeoutException: An asynchronous operation exceeded the page timeout.

[FHD-771]

By default, MMI does not import phone list updates from older versions of FH Inspector if there is a risk of losing data.

However, if there are no phone numbers for a contact on MMI, and if FH Inspector populates the phone list for that contact with the ALT number first in the list, an Ignoring version 3 update message appeared and the phone list updates were not accepted on MMI.

[FHD-941]

When you synchronized FIREHOUSE Software with FH Inspector, only the phone numbers with the type Work or Office propagated to FH Inspector. Phone numbers identified as Home, Mobl, FAX, or any other type did not, and should have.

[FHD-672]

If you are using iOS12 and you installed FH Inspector, EMOJI icons could appear in the license box as your entered your license key. The license key box now limits your entry to only letters and numbers, and disables spell check and EMOJI icons.

[FHD-807]

On occasion, when location information was synchronized between FH Inspector and the ManageMyInspections.com web site, the latitude and longitude values were set to zero (0) instead of to the latitude and longitude values provided in FH.

[FHD-183, TFS-147672]

While typing notes for a violation found during an inspection, the screen did not always refresh and display the notes while they were typed, even though the cursor appeared in the Notes text box. On rare occasions, FH Inspector closed unexpectedly while notes were being entered.

[FHD-103]

On occasion, the department logo defined on the ManageMyInspections web site for FH Inspector did not appear in the inspection report PDF file.

[FHD-80]

If you used the 4.1 version of the FH Inspector synchronization component, when you synchronized FH Inspector with the ManageMyInspections.com web site, the list of phone type codes did not synchronize as expected.

[FHD-971]

If you used FH Inspector to edit a phone number for an occupancy contact, then saved and synchronized FH with FH Inspector, the phone number you edited in FH Inspector did not update in FH.

[FHD-853]

If FH Inspector was used on an iPad in a different time zone from the server running the ManageMyInspections.com (MMI) web site, the Inspection Completed date/time in MMI was different that the date/time recorded in FH Inspector

[FHD-915]

On your ManageMyInspections (MMI) web site for FH Inspector, on the Department tab, when you tried to filter inspections using a date range or move to a different tab, the following error message appeared in the synchronization log file.

Server Error in '/' Application. An asynchronous operation exceeded the page timeout.

[FHD-541]

Errors related to hydrant inspections appeared in the log file, as a result of duplicate hydrants or companies in a department, and the synchronization is unsuccessful.

[FHD-1112]

If you created a new inspection for an existing occupancy in FH, then used the 4.1 version of the FH Inspector synchronization component to synchronize with FH Inspector, the new inspection did not appear in FH Inspector until several synchronizations were performed.

[FHD-585]

If you completed an inspection but did not answer all the questions in the inspection checklist, after you synchronized FH Inspector with FH, the following error messages appeared in the MMI log file.

ApiCall = submit_inspections_exception

[FHD-1115]

On your ManageMyInspections (MMI) web site for FH Inspector, on the Dashboard tab, if you clicked the red plus (+) for Completed, the date that appeared in the Completed Date column was the date FH Inspector was synchronized with FH, not the date the inspection was actually completed. The correct inspection completed date appeared in FH and FH Inspector.

[FHD-102]

On your ManageMyInspections (MMI) web site for FH Inspector, on the Dashboard tab, if you selected This Month as the inspection filter, then under Hydrant Inspections, in the Scheduled column, you clicked the red plus (+) icon next for a unit that appears to have scheduled inspections, the listing area expanded but no scheduled inspections appeared in it.

[FHD-99]