FreeQMS New Features and Updates Week of June 22, 2020

CAPA Module is now available! Start processing Corrective Actions and related tasks with FreeQMS’ intuitive CAPA module!

New Features

  • Baseline CAPA implementation, general maintenance and basic fixes, including the following functionalities

    • Files system implemented to CAPA module: Upload, Download, and Delete functionality

    • Test models removed in preparation of live release

    • Bulk import functionality, when adding audits as a CAPA source

    • Functioning Activities section added to CAPA, including Activity subtypes; Investigation Root Cause, Correction, Corrective Action, Preventative Action, and Verification, as well as a few fixes to improve functionality

    • Approval feature for CAPAS including create, approve, and edit functions.

    • Ability to upload files to Activities - FreeQMS will automatically detect if a duplicate file has been uploaded.

    • Linked Records functionality for CAPA

    • Task functionality implemented for CAPA

      • Tasks created/closed on CAPA create (for coordinator)

      • Tasks created/edited/closed on CAPA activity (for assignee)

    • Basic search functionality added for CAPA

    • Beta build updated with CAPA Billing

    • History log re-formatted for CAPA

    • "Date Closed" field added to CAPA

    • CAPA items moved to appear on all Activity types

    • Slight revisions made to the backend of CAPA to improve functionality

    • Added CAPA User Validation

Updates

  • "No suppliers permissions" label in Suppliers module changed to "No Suppliers permissions". "No audits permissions" label in audits module changed to "No Audits permissions"

  • Resolved a problem, that was causing records without titles to prompt an error message, by automatically pulling titles from an associated record

  • Small fixes to Suppliers and Audits pages: Header in Suppliers modules, changed from "Date Added" to "Create Date".

  • Supplier Contact and Location fields are longer, and now support up to 50 characters each.

  • Create button permissions updated for better functionality.

  • Status removed from the Edit Capa form

  • "Update" field in Views, changed to "Edit"

  • CAPA forms simplified for easier use; verification moved to its own table

  • New approval cycles can no longer be created for open activities and tasks.

  • New approval cycles for CAPA will now be set the status as "Pending"

  • Users will now be sent to the home screen and a "Password Changed" message will display after successfully resetting a password.

  • Capa permission update added to the create user view

  • Better validation for "add source", require a title type in or record

  • selection. Renamed title to "Write in Title" to reduce confusion.

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