Current CrewBrain innovations

Internationalization

CrewBrain is now used in 16 countries and more and more of our clients also operate across borders. As this brings some challenges in planning, we have now extended the system with some useful features in this regard.

Time zones

Until now, there was only one default time zone for the entire comapany. In the future, each user will be able to select their own time zone under My Account > Settings, and a different time zone can also be stored for each job. In this way, jobs abroad and in foreign time zones can be planned much better.

Multiple currencies

Do you work with freelancers from other countries who write their invoices in dollars or another currency? In the future, you can use the multi-currency package in CrewBrain to store this information for the freelancers and CrewBrain will then show their accounts in this currency. Within a job or project, the costs are also automatically converted into the company currency using the current exchange rate, so you always have an overview of the costs.

Time recording

As usual, we have also made some optimizations in the area of time recording.

Reports

In the future, there will be a special dashboard widget that displays violations of the maximum working time or the rest period between two assignments. In this way, the employees in question can be specifically addressed, the reasons investigated and planning adjusted for the future.

13-week average

In the future, the average working time of the last 13 weeks can optionally be used to calculate vacation and sick leave hours. This will be calculated automatically by the system and then credited to the employee. Please note that a new statement period should be created when switching to this calculation.

Synchronization with rental management systems

When synchronizing with various rental management systems such as Eventworx, Epirent and MouseClick, we have adjusted the logic so that shifts in working hours are now automatically detected if they are within a maximum of four hours. Personnel are automatically shifted to the newly created shifts in these cases.

Base data

The further internationalization of CrewBrain is also evident in the base data. There are new fields, but also a useful function to increase the recognition value of service provider employees.

State & Address supplement

For addresses, there will also be fields for the respective federal state and for an optional address suffix in the future. This will make it easier to record and store international addresses in particular.

Color and short names for subcontractors

Subcontractors can each be assigned a color and a short name in the base data. This shortens the display in the jobs, especially if the respective name of an employee is still mentioned. In addition, the color coding ensures a quick visual assignment of the individual employees to the respective subcontractor companies.

Jobs & Calendar

Also in the calendar and in the jobs there are again a few small useful optimizations. Thus, in addition to the personnel requirements, the vehicle requirements are now also included. In addition, when copying jobs once to a specific date, only several individual dates can be selected.

Additional data

For the additional data we have made an extensive extension in this update.

Height for text fields

An individual height can now be specified for text fields in order to adapt them to the expected content.

Default value

For each additional data field a default value can be defined, which is set by default for the field for new records.

Signature field

Also a signature field is now available as an additional data type.

Rooms

There is a separate data type for selecting rooms.

"Other" for dropdowns

For dropdowns, an optional "Other" entry can be added. If this is selected, the user can store his own individual value.

Filtering in the request dialog

In the query dialog, it is possible to filter for specific additional data types. In this way, employees can also be selected quickly and easily according to individual data.

CrewBrain-App

The development of our app also continues steadily. In the last few days and weeks, there have been some important optimizations here as well.

Time clock

In the past, the time clock in the app sometimes had quite long loading times. We optimized this with a complete overhaul of the time clock in the latest version.

Azure Login

Logging in via Microsoft Azure is now also possible in the app. However, a new endpoint must be added in the respective Azure account for this. Information on this can be found in our Wiki.

Notification-Center

Further optimizations

In addition to these major changes, we have also made many minor optimizations and bug fixes. The app is usually released more frequently than our major versions, so it is always recommended to have the latest version of the app installed.

Trade fairs 2023

More than half of the year is already behind us, yet we still have the majority of this year's trade shows ahead of us. We look forward to welcoming you personally at our booth at one of the following trade shows.

Meistertage
Baden-Baden, Germany

On September 27th and 28th we will be present with a small booth at the Baden-Baden Master Days of the Event Academy and are already looking forward to an interesting exchange in the industry.

LEaTcon
Hamburg, Germany

LEaTcon will be held at the Hamburg Exhibition Center from October 17 to 19. As at Prolight + Sound in April, we will also be focusing on presenting our new Festures for risk assessment.

Deutscher Tourismustag
Bielefeld, Germany

On November 23rd the German Tourism Day will take place in Bielefeld. We will be there as exhibitor to present CrewBrain as an ideal solution for the planning of Guided Tours and other tourism areas.

LDI
Las Vegas, United States

The highlight will follow at the beginning of December with the LDI show in Las Vegas. From December 3rd to 5th we will be in Las Vegas with our team to make CrewBrain even better known on the American market in the future.