What's new on Bike Rental Manager

• fix rolled out  8th June 

Again we must apologise the fast pace of change has caught us out again and created another issue with the current release. As it doesn't stop the operation from working, we've decided to push forward and not rollback. A fix will be rolled out on Tuesday. (This way you can still benefit from the improvements we rolled out this week)

Explanation

We put in improvements to the show planner and add / swap via browse windows and disturbed something.

The planner window has always shown a month on either side of the current reservation. (Just a facet of the way the planner window works)

However, in this latest release - it now searches for reservation activity throughout the entire month - and not just the dates of the reservation you are viewing.

This means a couple of things:

• it shows more activity - which can be confusing.
• it shows more 'red rows' which in theory are not available for your period.

Solution

The red is just an indicator and will be overly pessimistic if you happen to have activity for the same bikes before or after your reservation.

So if you think you can book it (based on activity shown for your dates) - then go ahead with your add / swap.

The system will (as it always has done) stop you with an error if you really can't do it due to availability.

But wait - you said you were going to improve the quality of the software - not make it worse!

We are - we are currently more than doubling the size of our engineering team.

Change can sometimes cause disruption and take a few weeks / months to settle down.

Comparison

new version - more red (simply because we searched for an entire month)

old version - how it should and will work - less activity - less red

Many apologies again for any inconvenience. We are working hard on scaling the team and quality control right now.

the BRM Team.