Main Features & Changes

The major new features of this release fall into the following areas:

New Inventory Layout

The Inventory has been completely re-designed to allow searching.

The Product Categories are now displayed as blue bars. Pressing on a blue bar will open the Product Category will display the batches within.

Searching the Inventory

The search field in the Inventory panel allows batches to be found by name.

The Show Reminders tick box, when selected, shows the Reminder batches in the Inventory.

The Show Archived Batches tick box, when selected, shows the empty batches and previously deleted (archived batches)

The Show/Hide advanced tick box, when selected, displays the filter, sort, group functionality:

Date Range allows you to filter batches by creation date. You can enter a start date and finish date and the search will find all batches between the selected dates.

Product Category allows to filter batches from a specific Product Category.

Group By allows to group by Product Category, Supplier, Date Made and by process that created the batches.

Sort By allows the displayed results to be displayed by Name, Style, Date Made and Origin.

Supplier allows you to select specific suppliers as part of the search.

Process Name allows you to select specific Manufacturing processes as part of the search.

Style (where appropriate) allows you to select specific articles/styles as part of the search.

Once you have setup your search criteria, select the Search button to find the batches match your selected criteria.

Product Categories in the Inventory can be opened by clicking on the blue name bar. The contents of the Product Categories is determined by the total number of batches in the category and the currently selected search criteria.

Batches within the Product Category are displayed as pages.

Selecting the page number at the bottom of the category will open the specific pages. You will notice that not all pages are displayed and you can either use the search function to reduce the number of pages or press on the 5 button to display the next few pages.

Dustbin Symbol

Dustbin symbol (empty batches) has now been removed and replaced by the "Show Archived Batches" tick box.

Forgotten Password Functionality

If you forget your password, you can now select the "Forgotten your password? link on the String login page.

This will display the following screen:

Here you will need to enter your String login email address and the security code displayed. Note that the String login email address MUST BE an active email address that you have access to, because you will be sent a link by email to allow you to change your password.

Follow the link sent to your email address and enter a valid new password.

Enter and confirm an appropriate password and then select the Next button. Note that the password chosen must be 8 or more characters long, contain at least one number and at least one capital letter. The password can also not be a dictionary word. Any password entered that does not meet this requirement will be rejected.

Password Expiry

With the release of 2.6 software you will now be expected to change you String password every 90 days. This has been implemented to improve the security of the data stored within the String system and to prevent unauthorized access to String accounts. If you log into you String account after it has expired you will be expected to change your password.

As part of our on-going improvement of the String service, the 2.6 release resolves a number of issues that have been reported in the 2.5.2 live service. The main issues resolved include:

SSTR-147 Inconsitent RFD Information: An alteration to the 'RFD Details' screens for RFD on Product.

SSTR-118 Missing RFDs from paginated views.