View Recent Enhancements to SMS Pro

Date Module Affected Enhancements
6/27/2025 Data Analysis Export >> Custom Report Viewer

New Report: Users in Roles Allows you to vewi Users and what roles they possess by division. Grid filters can be used to specifiy a specific role or user.

6/13/2025 Policy Manager - Policy Link

When managing existing policies you can now copy a direct link to that policy.

6/6/2025 Issue Manager - CADORS

Multiple CADORS numbers in the title are now supported. We'll pull all associated CADORS reports into your "Custom report view" section on Details tab with a single button click. This will work as long as you stick with "CADORS [cadorsid] [whatever] CADORS [cadorsid]" template.

6/6/2025 Policy Manager - Message Board Integration

New option in Policy Manager Configuration Settings allowing you to send revisions to a policy to all SMS Users for acknowledgement and display to auditors that the policy updates have been viewed by all users.

5/30/2025 Issue Manager

Multiple tabs were never supported in SMS Pro, and can cause bugs in Issue Manager when working on multiple issues at the same time. We'll show a warning to users when multiple Issue Manager tabs are detected.

5/30/2025 Custom Settings - User Roles Setup

Added ability to limit External Auditor Access to a single division when reviewing your SMS Pro portal. As of this date Auditing, Meeting Manager, and Hazard Risk Register have fully implemented this feature.

5/23/2025 Issue Manager - CADORS

CADORS is now intergrated into the Issue Manager. If you have "CADORS [cadorsid]" in your title, you'd be able to import CADORS information into your "Custom report view" section on Details tab with a single button click. You can always come back later and check for updates from CADORS. No configuration required, this functionailty is available to all customers.

5/16/2025 CADORS Viewer

New Module, most suited for Canadian Operators. Allows viewing of CADORS reports in SMS Pro and one-click import into SMS Pro as proactive issue. Once in the Issue Manager, you can sync data with latest version from CADORS with one-click. Contact tech support if you'd like the module in your portal.

5/16/2025 Message Board - User Read Messages Report

Added ability to export message response report by user to PDF.

5/16/2025 Issue Manager - Not Valid Issue

Issues marked as not valid will now automatically be closed upon submission. This can be reverted with a setting in Issue Manager settings pop-up / Assess tab of settings.

5/2/2025 Meeting Manager

You can now paste the meeting link in the "Location" field and it will be added to your calendar event. End date updates when "start date" is selected.

4/25/2025 Message Board

When deleting a message that has been published within the last week, a "Recall" notification email will go out to all intended recipients.

4/25/2025 MOC / Issue Manager

When converting issue to MOC (from Issue Manager), issue will be duplicated (title, description, hazard classifications). Original issue will not be modified, MOC comment will be added and link to the MOC will be shown on Manage tab. This workflow is NOT recommended, we recommend creating MOCs from the MOC module. There are no changes to the MOC workflows originated from the MOC module.

4/18/2025 Auditing - Schedule Audits

Limiting recurring audit scheduling to 5 years out.

4/11/2025 Customize Settings > Aircraft / Vehicles

"Registartion number" will not be shown for Aircraft, use Tail Number.

4/11/2025 Training Qualifications - Manage TQ Items

Added option for SMSAdmin and SMSTqManager users to update all users possessing training when a training item is updated.

4/11/2025 Training Qualifications - Reports

Added "Quick Select Filter" option "Users with Locked Lessons". Related to LMS when user has exceeded maximum number of quiz attempts and locked themselves out of a quiz.

4/4/2025 Data Analysis and Export / Risk Analysis Charts

Fixed report count in classification tree (showing report count vs classification count)

4/4/2025 Data Analysis and Export / Executive Dashboard

For Portals with Exposure Dimension in Risk Matrix
Added ability to ignore Exposure dimension to look at risk only (Probability / Severity)

4/4/2025 Executive Dashboard

Added date parameters to Risk Matrix related Charts, allowing to focus on a specific time period
(Unclosed Issues by Risk, Issues by Risk)

4/4/2025 Issue Reporting

Added tooltip to let users know who will receive their reports if confidential is selected.

03/28/2025 All Modules

Added ability to export Need Help? pop-up text content to PDF.

03/21/2025 Emergency Drills

UI Enhancements: Added a button to create a new Drill, added label to clarify whether you're looking at a new drill form or existing drill.

03/14/2025 PHAT

Setting "Next Review Date" 1 year out when accepting/rejecting hazards at Subcategory level. User can override by selecting NextReviewDate manually before saving

03/07/2025 Issue Manager

Deleting "Assessment justification" when "Enable division change" button is clicked, added note in UI.

02/21/2025 Training Qualifications

Renamed Feature: Schedule Items has been renamed Assign Items.
Managers will still be able to schedule items here in the normal manner. SMSAdmin and TqManager users will find an additional tab allowing them to directly assign training to users as either Awarded or Required but Unearned training.

02/14/2025 Issue Manager

New Warning: Will show warning on Classify > Associated Hazards tab if HC (L1) or SC (L2) nodes are used. We recommend using H (L3) nodes are those identify the specific hazard and take full advantage of PHAT and Hazard Tracking.

02/07/2025 Auditing

Functionality Relocation:   Auditing Dashboard's "Portal Forms" functionality has been moved to the green drop-down menu under "Manage Forms" option. This was done to improve performance of the auditing dashboard.

01/31/2025 Secure Workflow

New Setting: Added option to exempt confidential issues from Secure Workflow. Off by default. Turn on if your company has managers in SMSSecureWorkflowAdmins role that are not supposed to view Confidential Reports. Located in Setup > Customize Settings > Company Info.

Allowing "General Safety" reports to be routed through Secure workflow (only Safety/Security/Quality reports submitted from Report Issue module will be included. Also, Public reports from portals using the Wizard UI).

01/17/2025 Issue Reporting New Setting: Added option to hide reporter's perceived severity when submitting an issue.
01/17/2025 Data Analysis & Export Risk Initial / Latest columns: Changed text displayed to be Probability / Severity score for those portals not using numeric risk scores.
01/10/2025 Issue Reporting New Setting: Check "Notify me when comments are added to the issue" by default.
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