Polaris Workforce3.1.18

Polaris Workforce is the mobile device component of the Polaris Workforce software suite offered by Commonwealth Technology Group. This software is designed to receive tickets for utility locating and other industries and is customizable around what your company needs. Whether it be work orders, facility mapping, a built-in time keeper, or utility locating, Polaris is built to handle it all.

Version History -Change: Updated flutter and respective libraries to their latest supported versions 3.1.18 Sep 2 Change: If organization requires location to be embedded in taken pictures, ensure the user has location services on.
Change: Increase timeout of getting the user's location when taking pictures. 3.1.15 Aug 5 Addition: VIVAX wand support for select customers
Addition: Ticket Search page now supports pagination and viewing more than 20 tickets
Change: Additional logging around picture uploading 3.1.14 Jul 27 Bugfix: Issue where classic ticket view refused to render for certain tickets 3.1.9 Jun 18 Addition: Setting to specify cutoff time for a business day
Bugfix: Migrate legacy stored key/value pairs to a new store
Bugfix: Issue with ticket color coding, for tickets due soon close to midnight. 3.1.8 Jun 9 What's new in this release:
- Ticket search: tickets, both open and closed, can now be searched.

Bug fixes

- The truck-position update timer was not being scheduled correctly when
the tablet ticket view was the parent widget.
- Reloading the webview no longer leaves the truck-position timer stuck
- On iOS, secure storage failures are now reported back to Polaris for
diagnosis, and a more reliable keychain-accessibility setting is used,
reducing rare cases where saved credentials appeared to vanish. 3.1.6 May 7 Additions

- Improved handling of location permissions to ensure GPS works reliably in the field
- Added safeguards around starting location services so issues no longer cause crashes

Changes

- Login form is now centered, with the version info and clear data button anchored at the bottom; landscape mode now displays correctly
- Worked around an iOS timing issue that could cause stored data (settings, login info) to not save correctly 3.1.5 Apr 28 Additions

- Picture carousel for viewing photos attached to tickets
- The app now checks that you have enough storage space before taking photos
- Improved support for older devices
- More robust error handling on the location/position stream

Changes

- Tickets are now sorted by priority (previously by ticket order)
- Webview errors are now shown on the history page

Bugfixes

- Fixed an issue where users on the tablet view could not switch to the map view
- Removed a common non-fatal error that appeared on the webview page
- Fixed a crash caused by evaluating JavaScript after the page was no longer mounted 3.1.4 Apr 21 Addition: Setting to send photos to a user's gallery when they take a picture.
Addition: Zoom in/out gesture when taking photos.
Change: Search dialog box is now darkmode aware
Change: Unified search filter from three individual textboxes, to one.
Change: Aesthetic changes to the settings and respond page.
Bugfix: Race condition on log out that could lead to a crash
Bugfix: Issue where if "All Routes" was selected, the ticket list would show no tickets.
Bugfix: Users are no longer allowed to send empty excavator fields (if present)
Optimization: Users who navigate to the page they're on, no longer results in a page redraw 3.1.3 Apr 16 Add: Ability to reorder tickets.
Add: Ability to send memo
Change: Removed black box on photos
Change: Baked orientation into the image
Fix: Issue where rerouted tickets still appeared on a locator's ticket list, despite the route not matching the locator's routes.
Fix: When getting location on ticket screen, show circular loader correctly.
Fix: Issue with holidays algorithm causing tickets to have the wrong color
Optimize: Reduced database lock contention.
Optimize: Picture taking encoding. 3.1.0 Apr 13 Addition: Setting to toggle app bar coloring, based on the amount of tickets that are due soon
Change: Reverted ticket color algorithm 3.0.59 Jan 8 Addition: Support for communicating with the Polaris Mapper
Change: The algorithm to compute ticket colors has been modified slightly to account for holiday's better 3.0.58 Jan 6 Addition: In the event the user has accidentally denied camera permissions, the application will now take the user to the app's setting page.
Addition: Delete data button in settings page. Will warn the user that this will clear out their queued items.
Change: The address of a navigation point will be displayed on google and apple maps.
Change: The clear data button is now more selective on what items are cleared.
Bugfix: Internal crash when streaming photos to the servers has been resolved.
Bugfix: Map overrides are now properly shown. 3.0.56 09/10/2025 Addition: Support for sending a memo to an excavator or keeping it in house
Change: There is now a dedicated subcode field per response 3.0.54 09/08/2025 Addition: Further support for light mode addition 3.0.52 08/15/2025 Addition: Dark mode toggle in settings
Addition: Ability to select both due soon and nearby tickets (with a setting toggle)
Addition: Support for a new picture api.
Addition: Support for informing the user about a possible update
Change: Taking photos should now be faster if the user's organization requires location data to be embedded into the photograph.
Change: Main drawer is now stylized 3.0.51 08/14/2025 Bugfix: Issue with the classic ticket viewer appearing as a blank screen has been fixed for iOS. 3.0.49 07/24/2025 Addition: Classic Ticket view will now highlight VA811's EWL information
Addition: If no responses are available for a ticket, the respond will say as much.
Addition: The from gallery button will now acknowledge limited permissions, instead of canceling the selection process entirely.

Change: Subcode field is limited to 15 characters
Change: Response dropdown will now be padded at the both bottom and the top.
Change: Every photograph taken with the app will now have a small watermark.

Bugfix: Issue with holidays not being accounted for with the due soon filter. 3.0.48 07/22/2025 Pictures in queue will now consistently get uploaded. 3.0.46 06/25/2025 Bugfix: Issue where auto login will sometimes halt if the user had their password changed. 3.0.45 06/12/2025 Addition: A toggle-able debug logging mode in the settings page.
Bugfix: Visual metadata on a photo now respects photo rotation. 3.0.44 06/11/2025 Polaris Workforce now compresses all photos and allows multiple pathways for pictures to be uploaded. This release also fixes a few hard crashes. 3.0.43 06/09/2025 Addition: Support for a setting that allows modification of due soon time threshold.Change: Ticket viewer will now remember if you've switched to the classic view for that session.Change: Endpoint pool now has hardcoded values in the event the server is non-responsive and cannot provide connection strings. 3.0.39 05/22/2025 A settings page that allows you to toggle between two nearby sorting algorithms. In addition to that, there are several bug fixes related to database locking. 3.0.38 05/20/2025 Several bug fixes have been made, including one to the history window not rendering correctly for some users 3.0.35 05/15/2025