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Time Date	System Updates
Update 1158 25 April 2025	POSTCODE / ADDRESS LOOKUP A new postcode / address lookup feature in HOPS it now available to all railways for a trial period until the end of June 2025. This is available when adding or editing a user's address (themselves or a manager entering details of another user), emergency contacts, and for public customers making online ticket sales, shares sales, membership sales, and shop sales. This aims to: * speed up the entry of user data * reduce the effort required by customers complete their checkout for purchases * reduce the propensity for errors / missing address components Addresses can still be added 'manually' for occasions where the required address isn't in the Royal Mail list. There is a cost to HOPS in providing this service, so the lookup feature will be an optional add-on for railways for which a small fee will be charged (£5 per month). The railways with which we have developed this feature believe that the time, staff effort, and wasted postage, saved will deliver an overall saving to their railways. The system is currently switched on for all railways for a trial period (without charge) until the end of June. Railways may OPT IN at any time to subscribe to the service to continue after then if they wish. (If no action is taken, the feature will disappear at the end of the trial, and no fee charged). Please do this by raising a support ticket in the Helpdesk, or emailing in. We hope this new feature is useful - Thank you to everyone who has worked with us to develop it.
Update 1156 21 April 2025	We will soon be trialling a new postcode / address lookup feature in HOPS. This would be available when adding or editing a user's address (themselves or a manager entering details of another user), emergency contacts, and for public customers making online ticket sales, shares sales, membership sales, and shop sales. This aims to: * speed up the entry of user data * reduce the effort required by customers complete their checkout for purchases * reduce the propensity for errors / missing address components Addresses can still be added 'manually' for occasions where the required address isn't in the Royal Mail list. There is a cost to HOPS in providing this service, so the lookup feature will be an optional add-on for railways for which a small fee will be charged (~£5 per month). The railways with which we have developed this feature believe that the time, staff effort, and wasted postage, saved will deliver an overall saving to their railways. The system will initially be switched on for all railways, for a trial period (without charge). At the end of the trial railways may OPT IN to subscribe to the service if they wish. (If no action is taken, the feature will disappear at the end of the trial, and no fee charged). We will advise when the trial period starts and the mechanism for opting to continue using the lookup system after the trial. We hope this new feature is useful - Thank you to everyone who has worked with us to develop it.
Update 1155 9 April 2025	There is a new link on the Roster Construction page that links to a preview of the New HOPS Roster Construction page. HOPS Admins (and those keen enough to read these updates) are welcome to try it out. The original Roster Construct page is still in place so if you find any issues with the new one [which is likely] please let us know and then do whatever it is on the old page. When the reports die down we'll move the new page in to the place of the old.
Update 1154 6 April 2025	As usual for our weekend project at the moment, work is taking place on Rosters which should have no visual or functional change to users, but if you spot anything please let us know. Thank you
Update 1153 4 April 2025	As part of our work to support multi-company operations in Retail Systems (eg a "Trust" and a "Limited"), Cost Centres are now attributed to a 'company'. The company short name is now shown in brackets after the cost centre wherever the cost centre is shown in the system, eg "123. Loco consumables; 456. Coal (LNER)" There is no change to functionality at present.
Update 1150 3 April 2025	Retail Sales Updates: Emails sent in connection with Retail Sales orders now have more comprehensive reporting of status of delivery and, where available, when it was opened and links clicked. Note it is not always possible to report this, so the absense of a report does not guarantee that the email wasn't opened or clicked. Membership Updates: Interlocking between 'date of birth' and 'membership types' is now available, to enforce minimum and maximum age of members purchasing specific membership types. A new attribute is available on each membership type to control how far in advance a member can renew their membership. Default is no constraint, which was what it was previously so no action = no change. Custom checkout questions can now be asked on a per-membership-type basis. POS Updates: Shelf-edge labels / product barcode labels can now be printed from POS.
Update 1151 3 April 2025	Work has taken place to improve the performance of the server-side PDF creator. Please let us know if you spot any issues. Thank you.
Update 1152 3 April 2025	Further work has taken place on Rosters today, which should have no visual or functional change to users, but if you spot anything please let us know. We are aware of the issue where sometimes a newly-added turn gets put in a separate horizontal line to all the rest of the turns on that day, and we are fixing it as it arises. Please continue to report instance of it so that we can find all the routes through the system where it can occur! Thank you
Update 1115 28 December 2024	ENGINEERING POSSESSIONS Further work has taken place to improve the saving of dates and times on engineering possession parts, but it isn't finished yet. A new 'Duplicate' facility has been provided (link at the top of the item page), recognising that many items are duplicates of previous ones. A new concept of 'Draft' and 'Published' has been introduced. Users with permission 163 (view possessions) can only see published items. Users with permission 165 (add/edit possessions) can see draft possessions. If a published possession is edited, an 'Explanation of Change' field has been provided. A new concept of 'Cancelled' has been added. A possession that has been published can be 'cancelled', whereupon it continues to show to all users but with the heading 'Cancelled'. A draft possession cannot be 'cancelled', but it can now be deleted. A published possession can't be deleted.
Update 115 24 January 2012	Some new options have been added to where to go after editing a date in the operations calendar. In addition to 'Edit Tomorrrow', there is now also 'Edit next Sat', 'Edit next Sun', and 'Edit next Sat/Sun'. This should make it slightly easier to input a whole year's timetable for railways that only operate at weekends without having to keep going back to the calendar and click the next weekend each time. (Apologies that this would probably have been more useful a month ago, before everyone put their 2012 calendars in!)