QBench July 8th, 2024 Product Release Notes

This release focuses on enhancing user experience and operational efficiency across the platform, with improvements to Analytics, Customer Portal functionality, Billing, and Dynamic Worksheets.

Are you a QBench customer with ideas for new features? We’d love to hear them. Use the "Submit Feedback" link in your user dropdown menu to submit your ideas and vote on feature requests. The requests with the most votes get considered first in our roadmap planning.

What’s New:

Features from Customer Requests (You asked, we delivered!)

  • Add Analytics to Calculate On-Time Tests per Team: The Analytics module now has a new graph for tracking on-time test completion. See below for more details.
  • Customer Portal V2 Sources Enhancements: The Customer Portal V2 now includes a Source detail page, a Sources list page, and the ability to search for Sources. See below for more details.
  • Dynamic Worksheets Unsaved Changes Warning: Prevent data loss with an unsaved changes warning. See below for more details.
  • Manage Billing Currency Type: Manage Billing currencies efficiently across multiple modules. See below for more details.
  • Export Dynamic Spreadsheet Data to Excel: Export dynamic worksheet data to Excel easily. See below for more details.
  • General Setting to Uncheck "Send Email" for Order Approved Email: This setting allows more fine-grained management of your email preferences. See below for more details.

Analytics

  • Add Analytics to Calculate On-Time Tests per Team: You can now measure the efficiency of your Teams with new analytics that track the on-time completion of Tests. Benefit: Helps identify areas for improvement and ensure timely test completion.

Customer Portal

  • Customer Portal V2 Sources Enhancements: You can now navigate to a page containing all the Source fields for a Source associated with your customer account in the Customer Portal v2. We also added a Sources landing page to view and search Sources. Benefits: your customers can more easily view, search, and manage Sources.
  • Filter Orders on the Orders Landing Page by Sources: Enhanced filtering options to manage Orders by Source more easily.

Dynamic Spreadsheets

  • Dynamic Worksheets Unsaved Changes Warning: Unsaved changes warnings on the tests landing page help prevent data loss. Benefit: Reduces the risk of losing work by alerting users to unsaved changes.
  • Export Dynamic Spreadsheet Data: Easily export Dynamic Worksheet data to Excel directly from the Tests landing page. Benefit: Simplifies data sharing and analysis by allowing easy export to a widely-used format.

Billing

  • Manage Billing Currency Type: Comprehensive updates to the billing currency settings across multiple modules, including Assays, Panels, Customer Portal, Customers, Invoices, Payments, and Quotations. Benefit: Enhances flexibility and accuracy in Billing and is more intuitive to your customers in non-dollar currencies.

Settings and Email Configuration

  • General Setting to Uncheck "Send Email": A new general setting under allows you to uncheck the "Send Email" option by default on the Order Approved email. Go to Configuration > Application > General to access the setting. Benefit: Provides greater control over email notifications, reducing unnecessary emails.
  • Add Team "ID" Column: A new "ID" column in the teams table in User Settings for easier team management. Benefit: Improves team organization and management by displaying team IDs.

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