Epsilon3 Changelog #57: New Procedure Sidebar, Operations Gantt Chart, Test History, Parts & Inventory Updates, Builds API, Flow Integration

Happy New Year! We’re excited to share some powerful product updates in our first Changelog of 2024! 

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TL;DR:

  • New Procedure Sidebar with Flowchart View

  • New Gantt Chart View for Operations

  • Add Test History to Requirements Page

  • Show Issues on Parts, Items, & POs

  • Show Parts with Low Inventory

  • Manage Parts & Inventory with the Builds API

  • New Integration with Flow

  • And many new product improvements!


NEW! Powerful Sidebar with Flowchart View

Navigate your procedures better than ever with the new sidebar that keeps important information at hand. Enhance situational awareness and visibility with this new flowchart view.

  • Run progress and summary details are visible anywhere in the run.

  • Reference the procedure flow chart, updating in real-time, to guide you through conditional paths.

  • Resize and collapse the sidebar and its details to maintain valuable screen real estate.

 

NEW! Gantt Chart View for Operations

  • Visualize schedules for each of your operations to track and manage activities. See when concluded events happened, schedule pending tasks, and manage activities currently in progress.

    • Toggle directly between the existing operation list view and the new gantt and calendar schedule views.

    • Customize your view with interactive gantt controls.

 

NEW! Add Test History to Requirements Page

Track progress toward test requirements by viewing the most recent test case run in the requirements table and full test case run history for each requirement.

NEW! Show Issues on Parts, Items, and POs

View which parts, items or purchase orders have open issues at a glance so you know what needs attention

NEW! Show Parts with Low Inventory

  • Efficient Inventory Visibility: Provides a quick overview, streamlining management of parts with low inventory.

  • Swift Diagnostics: Identifies replacement parts for informed decisions, minimizing downtime.

 

NEW! Manage Parts and Inventory using the Builds API

Create, retrieve, and update all parts and inventory data using the new Builds API endpoints.

  • Parts API supports creating parts in bulk, specifying BOM information for each part, and updating parts by creating new revisions.

  • Inventory API supports adding items in bulk, updating item location and other metadata, and listing both active and consumed inventory.

 

NEW! Integration with Flow

Flow is a modern requirements-tracking software built to help agile teams design faster. If you're already using Epsilon3 and Flow, here's a video walking you through configuring the integration. If you're not using Flow, ask your Customer Success Manager for more details about this powerful new integration.



Improvements:

  • Show cost of an assembly as the sum of the cost of its components

  • Add the ability to retrieve consumed inventory from the API

  • Add procedure version to URL

  • Include all info from external data items/search with input reference

  • Auto update procedure version number

  • Show custom part fields in inventory

  • Keep builds nav menu open when user goes to any 3rd level page

  • Create standalone issue

  • Setting to control clearing/not clearing approvals if an edit is made

Fixes

  • Fix that inventory CSV upload allows creation of duplicate serial numbers

  • Fix confirmation modal for multiple command sends

  • Fix bug when checking in a checked-out serial number within a procedure

  • Hide IssuesGrid in Printed PO


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