Application Update - November 2021

Application Update - November 2021

The following areas of the Avianis Web Application have been updated:

  • Event Template Date/Time TZ Options (Schedule Board)

  • Schedule Board Section 'Jump To' Resource (Schedule Board)

  • Select Contract on Quote CreateTrip Calculator

  • Default Account Regulatory Set

  • Discrepancy Details In Aircraft Modal (Schedule Board)

  • Streamlined Access To Job Cards From Search Page

  • Trip Calculator

  • Trip/Quote Create Calendar Modal Updates

  • Unified Pricing Integration

  • Optimizer Promote Results

  • Acknowledge MVP Change Management

  • Event Date Movement

  • Various Bug Fixes


Event Template Date/Time TZ Options

This update offers the ability to include Event Templates to display the Start and End Date/Time in local time in addition to the already present UTC time.

In the Schedule Board Filters, under the Template tab, there is now an option of “Start Date/Time (Local)” and “End Date/Time (Local)” available as a field within the drop-down to add to the Personnel Events template. This new option will appear in alphabetical order on the list of options.

When the “Start Date/Time (Local)” and “End Date/Time (Local)” is entered and saved on the template and then an event is saved in the Local or Homebase time zone selection, the value that displays for the date/time is exactly as it is entered/saved on the Event itself and in the date format of the user's preference on the personnel profile, the 24hr clock, and "L".

When the “Start Date/Time (Local)” and “End Date/Time (Local)” is entered and saved on the template and then an event is saved in the Zulu time zone selection, the value that displays is the date/time saved on the Event converted to the Homebase TZ of the viewing user and in the date format of the user's preference on the personnel profile, the 24hr clock, and "L".

Schedule Board Section 'Jump To' Resource

On the Schedule Board, a new 'Jump to' field has been added to each view, i.e. Fleets, Aircraft, Vendor, and Crew. This provides the ability to quickly locate a specific resource without the need to scroll or filter/hide any non-matching information.

The 'Jump To' list is populated based on the resources currently displayed in that timeline section. The list will be ordered in alphanumeric order regardless of how the aircraft has been ordered in the user's Filters. The user can select from the drop-down or type in the resource that needs to be located. Once the resource has been selected the timeline view will “Jump To” that resource and will display it at the top of the selected timeline view.

Additionally, if the “Search For” field has been applied, then the “Jump To” drop-down list will update accordingly to only display the resources that are still displayed from the search results.

Select Contract on Quote Create

A contract selection has been added to the Create Request form allowing the user to select the contract that should be applied to the quote directly from the quote create screen. This field will only display when the form is toggled to Quote Only or Quote & Trip. If the form is toggled to Trip, this field will be hidden as it doesn’t apply.

Once the aircraft has been selected the Contract field will display the default contract for the selected aircraft. Easily select a different contract in the drop-down. The Contract field displays all active contracts from the Aircraft and the Account records. Only the aircraft's default contract is set on the create page.

The contract selection will be disabled, or greyed out in various scenarios:

  1. Account is selected on the quote, account has an aircraft associated and account has a contract for the associated aircraft.

  2. Account is selected on the quote, account has an aircraft associated and that account does not have a contract for the associated aircraft.

Default Account Regulatory

A default regulatory set selection has been added to the account record. This allows for auto-selection when trip records are created for accounts with a default set.

The default regulatory set defaults to empty until a user sets the default. To set a default regulatory set, click on empty. All active regulatory sets are in alphabetical order in the list. These come from Crew Records > Regulatory Sets. To remove the set selection, set N/A.

When a quote is created:

  1. If the account selected on the quote has a default regulatory set selected it will automatically set the default on the quote.

  2. When an account does not have a default regulatory set selected, the company default regulatory set is selected.

    1. If no Regulatory Set is selected in Operations > Settings > Configuration no default auto sets. Null applies.

  3. If the account on the quote is changed after the quote is created and the account it's changed to has a default regulatory set, it updates the regulatory set on the quote.

    1. If no Regulatory Set is selected in Operations>Settings>Configuration no default auto sets when the account is changed. Null applies.

When a trip is created:

  1. If the trip was created by clicking booked on a quote and the quote has a regulatory set applied that regulatory set applies to the trip level (not leg level).

  2. If the account on the trip is changed after the trip is created and the account it is changed to has a default regulatory set, it updates the regulatory set on the trip.

  3. If the account on the trip is changed after the trip is created and the account does not have a default regulatory set, then then the company regulatory set is applied.

    1. If no Regulatory Set is selected in Operations > Settings > Configuration no default auto sets. Null applies.

  4. If multiple accounts are set on a trip, the regulatory set remains to what was set before multiple accounts were applied. If accounts are removed from a trip, resulting in one account on the trip, then the standard logic noted above applies.

  5. In the multiple account assignment modal, when multiple accounts are on the trip, a blue info bar displays below the account names (see below) with the following text "Default account regulatory sets will not be applied when there are multiple accounts on the trip."

Discrepancy Details In Aircraft Modal

Easily access and view details of aircraft discrepancies by clicking on the aircraft container in the Schedule Board and Scheduling > Aircraft. This modal has been updated to offer three tabs, Profile, Contracts, and Discrepancies.

  1. Profile is the default tab. Note: If no tags have been applied to the aircraft, tags will not display.

  2. Contracts includes a list of contracts and includes the Name, Aircraft/Type/Category, Calculation Method, Owner Cost, and active/inactive status.

  3. Discrepancies tab includes all Open discrepancies and includes the Description, Deferral Type, and the date the Deferral is until. If Deferral type is MEL, then Category A, B, C, or D will display. 10 results display per page.

One additional update in this modal is the Go To Aircraft button that shows at the bottom of the modal has been removed and replaced with an icon link (a square with an arrow pointing out) to the right of the aircraft/home base. By clicking the button a new tab opens to the aircraft record. If the roles of the user do not allow access then the button does not respond.

Streamlined Access To Job Cards From Search Page

Improved user experience has been implemented on the Maintenance > Job Card Search page. Clicking the edit button now opens a new tab with the job card details within. Quickly manage the applicable information, x the tab, and return to the original Job Card Search page. This also applies to users that have access to aircraft profiles > maintenance > job cards.

Trip Calculator

A new feature is available from any page with the exception of Scheduling > Aircraft/Crew. The Trip Calculator button allows a user to quickly launch and calculate the essential information when planning a potential quote and/or trip such as flight time, duty time, nautical mile, and what time one must depart to arrive by a specific time and in reverse. A Managed, Vendor, or Fleet aircraft is required.

The user can move the modal around the page by clicking and dragging anywhere on the modal. The modal functions similar to the create quote/trip page with the exception of allowing the user to save the data that is inputted into the calculator, which has been removed from this view.

Trip/Quote Create Calendar Modal Updates

An update has been implemented to allow the user to move the modal when a new Quote/Trip is created from the Schedule Board and Scheduling calendar. When the create Quote/Trip modal is launched from within the Schedule Board or Scheduling calendars the user is able to click on the header area and drag the modal around the page. This will allow the user to see details from the schedule without having to close the popup modal in the event details from the schedule are needed to be referenced.

Unified Pricing Integration

A custom module has been built to support the internal unified pricing engine. Internal accounts will need to have the module enabled for the following functions to work:

  1. An additional calculation method called Unified Pricing Engine is available in the aircraft > contract selection.

  2. When a quote is generated in Avianis and the UFE is set for the contract the price per leg returns from the Unified Pricing Engine API into Avianis.

  3. The Avianis user is unable to modify the leg price when on the UPE calculation method.

  4. If an error returns and the price cannot generate, the user can see this by referring to the red error at the leg level on the quote. It will generate $0.00.

Optimizer Promote Results

Wheels Up has a standalone software solution they built called the Optimizer which looks at an operator's schedule and suggests moving flights from one tail to another to reduce repositioning.

Avianis stood up a data feed for this software in a previous update in order to pull an operator's schedule and the user can run the Optimizer and view the proposed changes but they had to manually make the changes in Avianis.

This update created internal APIs for the Optimizer specifically that allow the user to click a Promote button in the Optimizer and it pushes the tail change to us and logs it in the activity feed (it shows that it was done by the Optimizer).

Acknowledge MVP Change Management

The terminology has been updated in the Operations>Settings tab>Configuration and in Operations>Settings tab>Trip/Leg Status settings for Crew Acknowledgement. To align the terminology for crew acknowledgments throughout the application the following areas have been updated:

  1. In Operations>Settings tab>Configuration there was a setting that allowed the user to enable “Require Crew Briefing”. This has been updated with the new label “Require Crew Acknowledgement”

  2. In Operations>Settings tab>Stages/Leg Status there was previously a setting to enable or disable Crew Briefing. This is now labeled Crew Acknowledge. When enabled an additional field displays that were previously labeled “Crew Briefing Severity”. This is now labeled “Crew Acknowledge Severity”.

Event Date Movement

An update has occurred to the event specific to the start and end date selections. After an event is created and the event contains an increment (example: 1 day, 4 days, 8 days, etc.) if the start date is changed, then the end date updates based on the originally calculated increment. If the end date is edited, there is no change to the start date.

Example

  • Original Event: Start Date = 1/1, End Date = 1/3

  • Updated Event: Start Date changed to 1/5, then End Date changes to 1/7

If/when the End Date is changed, there is no impact on the Start Date, meaning if the user would like to adjust the increment of days they only need to change the End Date and the duration will be updated.

Bug Fixes

FBO Frequency AND Fax Number Missing from Flight Manifest

The frequencies and fax numbers for FBO/Handlers were not displayed on Flight Manifest. This has been resolved.

FRAT Application Incorrect Crew Time
The hours in type on the FRAT included the pilot's ACM/CKA time. This has been updated so the hours in type will not include the ACM or CKA time.

Logbook V2 Not Capturing Flight Log Removal in Activity Feed
When a flight log was removed from a leg the Activity Feed in the trip and in the flight log was not capturing this action. This only occurred in accounts with logbook V2 enabled. The activity feed will now capture this action.

Unable to mark Delay Types as Active
The issue is when accessing Delay Types found in Operations > Classifications > Delay Types and attempting to mark one active the Active selection will not save. This has been resolved.

Unable to remove FBO from an airport in the CRM - KSIY
The FBO Eagles Nest Aviation was removed from AKUKWIK's API, but the KSIY airport was still displaying Eagles Nest Aviation as an active FBO in Avianis. Updated KSIY in Avianis so it no longer shows Eagles Nest Aviation as an available FBO.

Duty Time Log Required Field Messages
When a Duty Time entry was entered from the flight log (web), if a field is required but not entered and it attempted to save, the "alert" messages were not very visible and poorly formatted on the page. The alert has been updated to clearly state Required for each required field.

Qualifications not sorting correctly
When the Last Completed column was sorted within the Qualifications tab in the personnel profile it was not sorting the dates based on the month and was not taking the year into consideration. This has been updated to sort in either alphabetical or chronological order when the columns are clicked.

Chalkboard trip update: Checking the empty flag does not update the trip summary section before committing.
When in the Chalkboard, when marking a leg as empty from the detail itinerary leg form or after committing changes from the chalkboard, passengers and pets are not removed from the manifest on legs that were marked as empty. This has been resolved.

Order of crew names on the schedule
Crew names were not all in alphabetical order on Schedule > Crew when loading names using Pilot Training which contains all crew members in the training program. The names will now list in alphabetical order.

Chalkboard Published to Markets: Updated target price is not persisted
When in the Chalkboard and the Empty > Publish to Marketplaces the Legs Published start and end dates saved from the chalkboard were not being handled correctly on the Detail Itinerary (and subsequent views of the chalkboard) leading to random blank start/end date & times display. This has been resolved to pull in the correct start/end date & times.

Airport Of Entry display issue
Airports shown "AIRPORT OF ENTRY: With PNR" in Airport database are displaying "AIRPORT OF ENTRY: NO" in the pop-up window. The pop-up window will now display "AIRPORT OF ENTRY: WITH PNR".

Fix "Open 24 Hours" Mis-Reference In Application
When entering a new training completion date from the crew schedule it was not saved. This will now save with the new completion date.

Client Portal: Add Pax to Trip->Create New Pax Model doesn't scroll
In the Client Portal on a Trip -> Add Passenger -> CreateNew a green Plus button can be clicked to show additional "create" forms, but if it is clicked several times the content runs off the bottom of the model and the "create" button is not accessible. This has been resolved.

Copied Quote's Profit Analysis Total Incorrect
The Profit Analysis on copied quotes, Total with Discount was updating to the same number for the Cost and Profit. This will now pull in the correct values when the quote is copied.

Enable "Select Related" field only after a user has selected an object.
The "Select Related" field in the files modal did not require an object to be selected causing the results to show "Searching.. spinning wheel to be displayed" without any positive results. This has been updated so the "Select Related" field will not be enabled until the user has made a selection in the "object" field.

In trip search when searching on departure time Scheduled/Actual doesn't work
In the Trip search pages, the filter for Departure Time has an option to toggle the results based on Scheduled or Actual. This was pulling the results back based on Scheduled time regardless of which setting was selected. The results will now pull back based on the selected option.

When Schedule Board user setting is in ZULU, create trip dialog is not automatically switched to ZULU
When the Schedule Board settings are set up to "Display Events in Zulu" and the create modal is launched, the Local/Zulu toggle would not automatically default to Zulu. The create modal will not default based on the user's setting selection for "Display Events in:"

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