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What's new in BioTrack 1.2

This page summarises what changed between BioTrack 1.1 and 1.2. This documentation describes BioTrack 1.2.0-rc.6. Read it if you run BioTrack 1.1 today, or if you want to know what is different from what you remember.

New

Section titled “New”
  • The BioTrack portal at app.biotrack.alcra.co. Sign in with a passkey, see the attendance your PCs send (with each day’s result as the desktop worked it out), check whether each PC is collecting, manage who has access, and pay for cloud reporting. See The BioTrack portal.
  • Licences and PC linking. Each PC is linked to your BioTrack account with a code that an administrator approves in the portal, and uses one lifelong licence. This replaces typing a cloud address and an activation code. See Link this PC.
  • Cloud subscriptions and Paynow. Sending a PC’s attendance to the portal is a per-PC subscription, paid by the quarter in the portal with Paynow. If it lapses, the PC keeps collecting, reporting pauses, and the PC’s data in the portal is deleted 30 days later unless renewed. See Licences and billing.
  • Automatic updates. BioTrack checks about every 6 hours, downloads and verifies new versions, and installs them between 02:00 and 04:00. Administrators choose the stable or beta channel. See Updates and uninstall.
  • Weekly rota. Plan Monday-to-Sunday rotas with roles and staffing requirements, generate and publish weeks, and measure attendance against them, including split and double shifts and overnight shifts. Published weeks also appear in the portal. See Weekly rota.

Changed behaviour

Section titled “Changed behaviour”
  • A correction is the day’s record. Once an administrator corrects a day, later scans and the end-of-day processing no longer change it. Previously a scan arriving afterwards could replace a correction. See Correcting a day.
  • Face scans with photos are read correctly. Terminals that attach a photo to a face scan are now saved as attendance. Earlier builds could set such a scan aside instead.
  • A restore keeps the database it replaced. After restoring a portable backup, the previous database is kept as attendance.pre-restore.db until the next restore, so restoring the wrong backup can be undone. See Backup and recovery.
  • Older local housekeeping records are tidied up. The collector now deletes processed terminal callbacks after 90 days and cloud records the cloud has confirmed after 180 days. Scans and attendance are never deleted this way. See Data locations.
  • New addresses. The cloud now lives at sync.biotrack.co.zw and this documentation at biotrack.co.zw. The old biotrack.alcra.co addresses still work. See Network and firewall.
Link this PC Link each PC to your BioTrack account.