Synchroteam 61.6 gives the Android application a new look: the Jobs screen, the Job Pool, the job detail and the customer, site and equipment screens are redesigned, and the synchronisation is more robust when the network is poor or absent. Everything is still where you expect it, and the classic job list stays available if you prefer it.

The update is free and installs through Google Play. You need the application 61.6.0 or later: the version is shown in Menu > Legal information.

After the update, the "Welcome to the new look" window opens once on the Jobs screen. Tap Let's go! to close it. To see it again, tap the sparkle icon at the top of the screen.

Jobs screen

The Jobs screen is now one list under six chips: Late, Paused, Today, Upcoming, Completed and All. Each chip shows its number of jobs, and the chips keep their place when you change them.

• Search works across all the chips at once: type a job number, a customer or an address, and the chips show how many jobs match in each list.
• Sort by date, priority or distance, in ascending or descending order, from the sort icon next to the search field. Nearby sorts by the distance from your position; Nearby a job sorts from the position of a job you name.
• Under a day header, each card shows the time only; the date is in the header.
• A job that is both scheduled today and late stays in Today with a Late tag.
• The Completed list shows the jobs completed in the last seven days. When older completed jobs are on the phone, a button at the end of the list shows them.
• The empty list offers a synchronisation button.

Job Pool

The Job Pool has the same header as the Jobs screen: a search field, then seven sort chips: Priority, Preferred date, Customer, Site, Equipment, Town and Nearby. The selected chip shows its direction with an arrow; tap it again to reverse the order.

• Under a distance sort, each card shows how far the job is from you.
• The card shows the job number, the customer name and the planned date; a long custom job number takes the whole width.
• To take a job, open it and choose Schedule from the menu: pick the dates and times and tap Validate. If the server answers with an error, the application retries twice by itself before showing the message, which now names the error code.
• The list keeps its rows while it reloads after a travel or a synchronisation.

Job detail

The Description tab of a job opens on a status band, then the information in cards.

• The band shows the status, the scheduled date and time, and the planned duration. Tapping the bar at the bottom of the screen starts, pauses, resumes or finishes the job, as before.
• The cards group the technician, the job number, the customer, the address, the contact and the custom fields. The round buttons call, text, email or open the map.
• The Timeline card lists every change of the job on the phone: started, paused, resumed and completed, each with its time, and the duration of each work block.
• The Report tab keeps its sections; the signature frames are white cards with a dashed area, and "Tap to sign" shows only while the job is in progress.
• The Parts and Invoicing tabs have the same card style, without the status band.

Customers, sites and equipment

The customer, site and equipment screens share one layout: the name with its reference beside it, the city and the distance under it, and three tabs: Info, Jobs and Attachments.

• Info: the Contact card with buttons to call, text or email; the Address card with a map button; the lists of sites and of equipment with their counts; the custom fields, which fold with the arrow.
• Jobs: the job in progress under Current, the next planned job under Upcoming, and every other job of the record under Other jobs.
• Attachments: the documents of the record, each opening with its button.
• A site shows its customer at the top; an equipment shows its customer and its site; tapping them opens the record.

Synchronisation and working offline

The synchronisation window shows its progress and can be cancelled at any time, except during the first synchronisation after login, which has to finish.

• Status changes made without network (start, pause, resume, finish) wait on the phone and are sent after the next synchronisation, one after the other, in the order you made them.
• Without network the application says so in a short message and keeps working on the local data.
• If a synchronisation is still finishing when you tap the icon again, a window shows how many seconds to wait, then starts the new one by itself.
• Job Pool actions and job notifications are retried by themselves when the server fails to answer.