What's new in Operations Execution

February 2025

NEW: Archiving Shared Forms for Reporting Companies.

Reporting companies can now archive shared forms that have already been archived by the managing company, as long as no active projects are using them. This helps reduce clutter and ensures only relevant forms remain visible. Archiving the shared form is the same as archiving any other form, you can refer to the article below for more info:

Archive a form

January 2025

NEW: Role-Based Projects. 

Role-Based Projects allow tasks to be assigned directly to users based on their roles, independent of location. This ensures that the right individuals receive and can complete tasks regardless of which locations they are assigned to. They are ideal for team-level tasks such as audits, training, maintenance, and other cross-functional activities that aren't tied to specific locations.

Role-Based projects

December 2024

NEW: Formula Min/Max feature. 

You can now gain greater control over scoring with the new Formula Min/Max feature! Easily set minimum and maximum score limits for formulas in the Scoring tab. This ensures scores stay within defined boundaries, prevents extremes, and adapts seamlessly to your needs.

Formula Min/Max

November 2024

Enhancement: Selected question counter in forms. 

When selecting questions in the form builder – you can now see the amount of questions selected.

Enhancement: Admins/Owners can now resend notifications to non-openers on any announcements they see

Previously, users had the ability to re-send announcements that only they created. This enhancement allows admins/owners to resend announcements that anyone in their company created..

Announcements

 

Enhancement: "Created By" in Projects. 

You can now see who the project creator is.

Enhancement: View When a task has been archived and by who.

We have always communicated that a task was archived, but not when and by whom it was archived. This small step has been implemented to improve task integrity and accountability.

Enhancement: Stopwatch results now display with hundredths of a second throughout the app.

Previously, we displayed hundredths of a second only while the timer was running, rounding up to whole seconds when showing results. Now, the full time is displayed in results, including hundredths of a second.

 

October 2024

NEW: Time Zone selector is available in user settings

Previously, a user's time zone was populated off the original time zone when the user logged in and there was not a way to manage the time zone in the user profile. Users can now change their time zone instead of sharing the same as their company. 

Select timezone

Enhancement: Admin created tasks can no longer be deleted by users with a Manager permission

Deleting tasks that were created by owners/admins is no longer possible for Manager-permission users.

Enhancement: Zenput camera photo editing

Zencam now has an enhanced feature of marking the photo once you have taken it. Once you click on the picture you can choose a color to emphasise and draw over objects. We have also released enhancements to the zoom and flash features. 

Step-by-step instructions are available in this article:

Photos in tasks

Enhancement: Scheduling Projects based on Calendar Events.

Zenput is excited to share a new feature called Calendar Events attributes, which empower admins to make ongoing updates to operating hours and Calendar Events directly in Zenput’s UI, as well as expanding the options for starting and ending tasks by Event/Time in Projects.

Calendar event attributes overview is listed in this article:

Calendar event attributes

August 2024

Enhancement: Calendar Event management for selected customers.

Available calendar events can now be assigned to locations by admins.

How to edit your calendar event times is mentioned in this article:

Edit calendar event attribute times

Enhancement: Announcements.

"Sent by", "Year Sent" have been added to the Announcement info. Owners and Admins can now see all Announcements within their company. Sent Announcements can now be deleted from the user interface.

More info on announcements can be found in this article:

Create Announcements

Enhancement: View PDF in email submission copies.

Trigger emails now have a “View PDF” link in the Submission Detail header. Users can view/download/print the submission.

To find out how to trigger the submission copies to be sent, please check this article:

Trigger Form Submissions

July 2024

Enhancement: Depth of dependent questions increase to 4.

We limited the depth of dependent questions to 2 in the past. We heard that additional depth would be useful, so now the limit is 4:

To find out more info on dependent questions, please check out this article: 

Dependent questions

Enhancement: New sensor alert frequencies.

2 and 4 hours have been added as options for the sensor alert frequencies, allowing more customization.

To check out how to update your sensor frequency, check out this article: 

Set sensor alert frequency

 

Enhancement: Fast task on mobile create a Basic task by default.

Creating a “Fast Task” on Mobile now creates a Basic task, instead of a Photo task. Meaning that photos will no longer be required on all tasks created on mobile, by default.

Enhancement: Ability to see who deleted a task and when.

We have added the ability to see Who deleted a task, and When the task was deleted.

Enhancement: Private forms can be made public.

You can now make private forms public again, reversing a previous irreversible setting.

To learn more about private forms, please check this article: 

How To: Use Private Forms

 

Enhancement: Better visibility of archived forms/projects when creating a report.

It was difficult to identify inactive/archived projects vs active ones in the dropdown when creating a report. You will now see the word (inactive) in front of all archived/inactive projects in the dropdown.

Enhancement: Admins are able to access all forms by default.

In the past, access to forms has been limited to the creator of the form, by default. This created inconvenience when a user is deactivated, and no one can access a form. 
Now, users will still have the ability to lock a form down if they want to, but by default all admins will have access.

June 2024

Enhancement: Hyperlinks available in form preview.

Hyperlinks now work from form preview! All links in preview will open in a new window now, enabling users to test the form before it goes live. 

NEW: Ability to Unarchive projects.
You can now unarchive projects directly from the UI, except for recurring and brand-wide projects.

Here is a step-by-step guide to archive and unarchive your projects: 

How To: Archive a project

 

Enhancement: Better data visibility for the Data grid table
Our Data Grid table component now offers customizable view options, enabling you to view 25 (default), 50, or 100 rows for enhanced data visibility.

Enhancement: Increased calendar event options
We’ve increased the number of options for First Task Starts and the Last Task Due lists in Calendar events. Users can now select 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 24 hours Before as options, and 3 hours After, in addition to the options already present.

Here is how to utilise this for your calendar event driven projects: 

How To: Create a Project using Calendar Events

 

Enhancement: Duplicated question text changes
We no longer append the words “Copy of” to the front of a duplicated question, meaning that users no longer have to manually edit the text of that question to remove the “Copy of.”

Enhancement: New iMonnit webhooks integration for sensors
Readings coming from iMonnit sensors will now be around 10 minutes, instead of 20 mins/30 mins or longer.

May 2024

NEW: Hierarchy search improvements
Users will now have the ability to search for a user, team, or location, then elect to show where that selection is present within their entire hierarchy by clicking “show in hierarchy.”

April 2024

NEW: Thermapen ONE Blue temperature probe added to supported devices

Zenput now supports the Thermapen ONE Blue temperature probe from Thermoworks.

By completing this integration, we can maintain our current temperature probe workflows without disruptions. This also offers a new hardware integration for those looking to review their options and potentially a new probe if they prefer.

More info on our supported devices in this helpful article: 

Zenput Bluetooth & BLE Thermometer Integrations

 

March 2024

Enhancement: Increased clarity between brand wide and company owned options
In Projects, we’ve removed the default selector between brand wide and company owned. This will prompt users to actively choose which of the two they select, preventing projects sent to the wrong locations.

Enhancement: Project preview is now sticky
The project preview is now sticky and follows users down the page, so the most relevant information is always accessible to them as they continue to work on their Project.

February 2024

NEW: Brand-Wide Advanced Filters
Zenput Brand-Wide users can now find relevant form submissions from their reporting companies much more quickly and easily with the addition of four new advanced filters. In addition to existing filters, users will now be able to filter by:

• Location
• Project
• Company
• Date submitted

To check out how to filter brand-wide submissions, please check this article: 

Access brand-wide submission list view

 

Thursday, August 17 2023

Enhancement: Search Bar on Mobile “My Forms” Page

The new search bar will allow users to quickly find any form they need in the “My Forms” section of the Zenput mobile app. Rather than scrolling through all forms leveraged by the company, do a quick search for a keyword or form title at the top of “My Forms.”

Wednesday, August 9 2023

Enhancement: Trigger Ranges on Sensor Charts

This UI improvement helps users look at the chart and quickly understand how their temperature monitoring is performing over time within the temperature range they have set for the trigger. This would help them adjust their trigger ranges as needed to get better, more actionable alerts and reduce alert fatigue.

July 2023

NEW: Custom Question Ordering

With easy drag and drop functionality, stores can re-order questions exactly how they want–customizable in each store. Once saved, that form with its custom question order will become the new version of that form for that store. Users can save time on line checks, closing checklists, and more by reordering the fields based on their own store’s layout.

How to: Reorder questions

Enhancement: "Select All" Option in the Form Builder

Users can now perform bulk actions like setting all the fields in the forms as required when creating a form. Save the time and effort of clicking each field individually by instead doing bulk updates when a form contains 200+ fields.

May 2023

Enhancement: Temperature Reading Method in Submission Excel Reports

Users can now better prevent pencil whipping and lack of probe use by gaining visibility into temperature check source. With this update, users can see in the new form field if the temperature field data was entered manually, with BLE probes, or with Sensors in the form field.

Enhancement: Brand Wide Ad Hoc Form Templates

New Brand-Wide Ad Hoc Form Templates gives Franchisors the ability to share a form template to shared roles in franchisee companies. This will allow Franchisee users to access that form template in the Mobile “My Forms” section to use as needed without it being tied to a project.

April 2023

Enhancement: Standardization of Sensor Nickname

With standardization of sensor naming, Ops leaders can easily compare reports generated for multiple stores. This update also prevents food safety issues and inventory loss due to triggers set by sensor nickname rather than sensor placement, causing that sensor to not be included in the necessary trigger settings.

How to: Edit Sensor Names

March 2023

Enhancement: Search Feature for Attributes

Users can now find specific values in attributes visualization with a search bar. Attributes visualization allows customers and ZP/CT internal teams to see which attributes are associated with particular locations for improved visibility, troubleshooting, and accountability, which is now made more efficient by the search bar feature.

Enhancement: New Back End Design System Filter for Location Attributes

Location Attributes Filter brings a new component from Bento, the Zenput backend design system, into the web application, which is part of the larger effort to bring our users a consistent experience across the platform pages.

Enhancement: New Bento Brand-Wide Projects Page

This upgrade to the Brand-Wide Projects Page is one of many page upgrades to a new style of page on our backend design system. This allows for easier development on the page in the future and fixes several bugs out of the box.