August 2021

The housekeeping icons on the Today page have been updated to match those in the new Housekeeping mobile app which will be annnounced this month. (more on this soon.)

blue bin - needs servicing

yellow triangle - currently being serviced

green tick - cleaned

red circle - failed inspection

These icons will change as the housekeepers mark the status on their mobiles, or if you change the housekeeping status on the PC the mobile apps will update with the new status. 

Released 2 August 2021

It's important your Aurelian app is up to date on your PCs, laptops and tablets so you are using the latest features.  This is usually checked each day around 2-3am, or after a laptop is started.  

To help with this, whenever you login to Aurelian it will check you have the latest update, and if not will ask if you want it done now.  if you click Update now, it will then start the update process.  Please note on some PCs you may see a yellow Windows message asking if Callista Aurelian can make changes to your device.  Click Yes to allow this and the update will take place, or No to do this later.

Released 20 August.

You can now see what your current update is and if this is the latest update by clicking on the link at the top right of Aurelian where your login name is.

If the component is up to date it will be in green, if its not it will be in red with your current version and latest update listed.

The updates are named in YYMMDD format.

Released 20 August.

The guest history has been enhanced to include cancelled reservations and future reservations.  This will provide a clearer picture of a guests booking habits as well as being able to quickly open any cancelled reservations.

Suggested by:  The Cambridge Mews, Cambridge.

Released 31 August

The update on 20 August implemented a pop-up advising updates when logging in to Aurelian.

This would pop-up every time after a login, so this has been modified to only pop-up when an update is available that hasn't been installed on the device.

Released 24 August.

The last update provided a feature to edit the room rates in the Guest Details.  However it was found that sometimes this could lead to the tax exclusive value for the room rate being set to zero.  The tax inclusive value is correct.  Switching the group reservation to tax exclusive will display if this is a problem.

This release provides a fix for this - simply open the Group Details and Save again.

Reported by Quantum Lodge, Hamilton NZ.

Released 20 August.

We fixed the filtering of guests by company if you typed a guest name, but the issue remained if you clicked the search guests button and poped-up a list of guests.

• Guests are now filtered by company in the pop-up guest list if a company has already been selected in a reservation.

Thanks to thosed who reported this..  Released 2 August.

In case you missed the list of quick fixes in the last days of July, here they are again:

After a major internal update to the Reservation window to implement a standardised method of entering new data in the July 27 release, a number of issues were reported and fixed.  These are:

• Agents couldn't be selected in a reservation.  Fixed 29 July.
• Guest details and comments weren't being updated in the Guest table after they were updated in a reservation.  Fixed 29 July.
• The Room Rate in a reservation wouldn't change when the Guest Type was changed.  This was a display issue only as the accommodation transaction would change to the correct rate.  Fixed 29 July.
• When a company is selected in a reservation the list of guests is automatically filtered by that company.  This was missing in the 27 July update and reinstated in 29 July update.
• The rates for additional guests weren't being added on to new reservations as the number of adults and children were increased.  This was resolved and released 30 July.

Channel managers don't natively support virtual rooms so unlike regular rooms where channel managers automatically adjust availability when on-line bookings are received, Aurelian must supply availability of virtual rooms specifically to them.

We implemented an enhancement to ensure channel managers are immediately advised of virtual room availability by performing an automatic availability upload to the channel manager as soon as an on-line booking is received that impacts a virtual room.

Implemented in the cloud, 8 August for both STAAH and SiteMinder.

Previously in group invoices transactions with zero charges were filtered based on the charge (EXCL) value.  

Because of the group issue above, this is now changed to filter by the INCL value.  This will ensure that any group documents will contain the correct transactions even if the group details haven't been updated to correct this.

Released 20 August.

To determine why some properties cannot login after a Windows update, additional logging has been implemented.  This is recorded in the LocalServer.log and LocalDynamoEngine.log.

Released 24 August.

This update improves passwords by removing any trailing blanks or control characters in stored passwords.

This change has shown to cause some users issues logging in until their password is replaced, but this is a one-time change.

Released 24 August.

Updated 31 August to automatically encrypt any clear text passwords avoiding the need to enter a new password. 

It was found the full resync that should occur after a device had been turned off for more than 7 days would be skipped if the internet was not available at the time the service started. This was a particular issue for WiFi connections that were slow to connect.

Now the service will wait for an internet connection before starting the full resync.

Released 31 August.

A full auto upload to the channel manager is only required as a backstop process as all changes are immediately uploaded to the channel manager.  To avoid over-uploading, the frequency now has a minimum setting of 30 minutes.

Released 31 August.