Monday, October 31, 2016

The Value of Coming Together

The 2016 NovoRoiSystem’s User Group Meeting was another great success drawing 47 attendees from 29 companies. Customers left with lots of things to think about, and so did those of us on the Manage 2000 development team.

By the time I got back into the office I had a list of 17 new ideas to consider for future Manage 2000 development.  One of them came directly out of customer questions about the new mapping capabilities in release 8.1; “Hey what about truck scheduling maps?”  

The timing couldn’t have been better. So the GA release will include a new Manage 2000 web mapping function for the TSCH module: TruckRoute


This new web function displays maps of truck scheduling routes as defined in ROUTE.MASTER.MAINT. Each route stop is marked with a numbered pushpin. 



Clicking on a marker brings up an information window with the Route Nbr, customer or facility name, phone, and address. 


Each stop except the last displays a link for Directions to next stop. Clicking on the Directions to next stop link will provide driving turn by turn directions and draw the route on the map.

Thank you NovoRoiSystems for creating the event that draws us all together and allows our ideas to mix and germinate and blossom into creative new software and solutions.

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

NUGM 2016

It has been a great conference here in Minneapolis this week;
 informative sessions

great meals, 


, and ghost stories (or not) around the fire pit in the brisk autumn air.



It really has felt like the best one yet, with warm smiles and hand shakes and embraces reminding each other of the journey we have been on together through the decades.

For Joanne and Anne the examples I used in the sessions are waiting for you in the Archiver Packages section on the right.