upgrades
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FIRE Spark Upgrade Schedule
- FIRE Spark is generally upgraded every month
All Spark upgrades apply to all clients at the same time. Therefore any upgrades listed have been applied to your FIRE Spark system.
Upgrade details
v.2026.0714.1319 - Patch- (15-Jul-2026) -- release-2026.07
- Bid - allow all charges to be editable within Bid (was being restricted based on charge properties)
- Dispatch / Ticket - fix showing correct charge properties when adding Bid items
- Custom Forms - remove “Add existing record” button
- Bid / Dispatch / Ticket - add thousands based commas back based on currency
- Project - fix ability to edit when “Project” permissions are assigned to user
- Restore full-screen mode ; do not limit to smaller screen sizes
- Dispatch / Ticket - fix issue of sometimes not showing Bid Charges; expired charges or null quantity
- Bid / Dispatch / Ticket - update attachment UI causing confusion on mobile devices
- Fuel form - display expired fuel card / resources when necessary
- Fix for location type “API” - change number of characters allowed in middle field
v.2026.0707.1251 (8-Jul-2026) -- release-2026.07
- Bid / Dispatch / Ticket - updates to charges editability based on doc type and price book properties
- Bid / Dispatch / Ticket - fix to Min charge quantity issue
- Bid / Dispatch / Ticket - config option to show Parent charge name on documents and prints
- Bid / Dispatch / Ticket - long term fix for currency support
- Bid / Dispatch / Ticket - fix for degree based lat / long entries
- Bid - improve custom field support and filtering
- Bid - add support for “none” District; requires selection on conversion to Dispatch/Ticket
- Bid / Dispatch / Ticket - add support for expired Operation Types
- Dispatch / Ticket - allow for External and Internal comments to copy on association of Bid
- Dispatch / Ticket - allow for “Close” action
- Ticket - added Drag & Drop attachment
- Inventory - major work on functionality across all inventory related modules
- PO - workflow related fixes included editability changes
- Asset - scheduled maintenance related work across all related modules
- Legacy attachments - add ability to display in POs and Work Orders
- Surcharges implementation v1
- Taxes improvements
- Custom Form - add workflow / approval support
- Custom Form Signature support, including auto-attachment
- Additional backwards and forward compatibility support on Spark-Online Dispatches/Tickets
- Ticket - Personnel and Time tabs- usability improvements incl. for mobile devices
- Ticket - Personnel and Time tabs- add per person as well as general 'payroll' comments
- Ticket - Personnel tab - implemented ability to add people via Crew (mirroring Time tab functionality)
- Crew / Resource - allow for drag and drop of people and assets between cards / add from-to date option
- Crew / Resource - improve filtering (e.g., exclude people already assigned)
- Crew / Resource - allow Dispatch/Ticket users to modify Crew selection only if user is part of the Crew
- Improvements to logging of all Spark (and Smoke) transactions
- Improvements to translations methodology
v.2026.0526.0000 (27-May-2026) -- release-2026.05
- Backwards compatibility support allowing FIRE Spark Bids to be used in FIRE Online/Unplugged
- FIRE legacy to FIRE Spark form migration upon upload via FIRE Unplugged
- Dispatch/Ticket charges - allow for “Min” charge
- Bid charges - ensure zero (0) quantity entries are visible
- Bid - change initial creation screen to include Operation Type, Bid Name and Effective / Expiry dates
- Dispatch / Ticket - limit Bid association to only those with matching Division
- Dispatch / Ticket - restrict Unit and Asset selection to those in matching Country (based on District)
- Ticket - hide charges deleted via “cross-out method” from FIRE Online
- Ticket - add permissions to allow for hiding of all pricing information (i.e., for contractors)
- Save & Refresh added to documents
- Taxes implementation v1
- Price Level support
- Time - ability to associate standalone record to a Ticket from within the Ticket (based on Project)
- Crew support for Ticket Time; ability to add people using people assigned to Crew
- Optional ability to group Ticket Time by person; hiding of details in view
- Ability to associate Custom Forms to a Document from within that document
- Fuel Reconciliation optimizations
- Purchase Order - improvements incl. workflow, permissions and chargeback functionality, Project filter
- Purchase Order - add ability to associate custom fields
- Work Orders - improve display of Time/Task entries, and display of legacy attachments
- Project management improvements; permissions, ability to change within documents, and filters
- Allow for Ticket charges re-ordering on mobile devices
- Custom Form - significant changes relating to association to documents and objects (like charges)
- Custom Form - add Country, Division and District attributes
- Crew / Resource - allow for manual Supervisor and Unit editing on Tickets (was disallowed)
- Crew / Resource - permission change to only allow Group and Crew edits for “Resource Admin”
- Compensation - enhancements to support more scenarios / added “Exclude from Overtime” checkbox
v.2026.0303.0000 (9-Mar-2026) -- release-2026.03
- Significant improvements to Stimulsoft reporting integration incl. Dashboard, filters and permissions
- Update Time approval to fix discrepancies between various approval methods
- Improve PO chargeback information shown in Ticket charges
- Major PO improvements, including Receipt and Invoice functionality and removing expired inventory
- Add Price Level functionality beta
- Dispatch resource updates including Country specific functionality, Crew dropdown fix
- Provide more clear display of Invalid Customers on selection widget
- Updates to Fuel functionality including report and reconciliation, as well as mandatory Unit selection
- Allow for better use of mobile device's camera to capture picture attachments
- Allow custom fields to be used on appropriate Summary page views
- Add limited sorting abilities including to Asset and Inventory; to be expanded in future releases
- Show all entities to which a Custom Form is related within form relationship view
- Improvements related to back end upgrade and handling edge cases
- Fixes for record locking
v.2026.0128.0000 (28-Jan-2026) -- release-2026.01
- Network connectivity check to Smoke (remove error messages w/ local only network connection)
- Project module - add ability to assign Managers
- Time approval - add ability to approve based on Project Manager assignment
- Time - add Export functionality, including Custom Form records
- Time - initial Calendar view functionality added
- Compensation - major improvements related to daily vs. weekly overtime calculations
- Compensation - ability to select which columns/data is shown and exported / improved grouping
- Added Minimum Bonus to case to compensation, including exemption for internal company tickets
- Dispatch Resources - full release not including Country specific
- Fuel Form - full release
- Purchase Order - beta release
- Ticket Chargeback from Time, PO or Work Order entries
- Improved Permissions management, included Report permissions per Group / User
- Significant work on Reports including Dashboard based on in-line filtering
- Fix for Work Order time saving, and print
- Custom Form - ability to add generic PDF attachment to print, including expiry
- Custom Form email - ability to customize email body and subject by user/sender
- Agency form revised layout, and creation of new print including images
- Currency fix for newly created Bids and Tickets
- Fix for specific Custom form filter applying to multiple forms
- Improvements to reset password admin functionality
- Add Location filters to Quote summary page
- Improvements to Unit filtering incl. District and Division effective/expiry logic
- Initial work on Vacation and Shift modules
- Lead up work for AI translation testing
- Initial work on Messaging
2026.0107.0000 Patch (15-Jan-2026) -- release-2025.12
- Fix for currency on newly created Bids and Tickets
v.2025.1202.1520 (2-Dec-2025) -- release-2025.12
- Allow for deletion of Server custom forms (local custom forms could always be deleted)
- Added setting to allow for deletion per custom form - must be turned on to enable deletion
- Dispatch Resources beta release - increased stability and speed; timeline not yet optimized
- Significant Fuel Form improvements incl. better reconciliation and reporting; split across multiple units
- Purchase Order development
- Alpha version of Chargeback functionality of PO (Time, Work Order) entries via Tickets
- Includes changes to Project management pages and menu location
- Allow for deletion of Time records (and user who can edit can delete)
- Creating new person within document auto-associates person (previously required additional step)
- Continued development of Testing resources and scripts
- Personnel in Ticket - Subsistence dropdown limits based on country
- Allow selection of Parent company in Company Admin
- Add template upload of sales data to create Tickets (agency related)
- Display correct approval level post-approval for offline users
- Fix for BHA prints
v.2025.1023.0800 (23-Oct-2025) -- release-2025.10
- Fix for document convert or duplicate not copying charges if specific form(s) preset to print
- Ticket Summary page Approval Filter fix (no longer need to click F5 to clear)
- Significant Fuel form improvements including better reconciliation, reporting and import updates
- Reports (Crystal so not part of Smoke or Spark) - Fuel form, Time
- Change “Save” on documents so it does not exit document upon save
- Dispatch Resource / Crew related improvements (work is ongoing)
- Allow for Country and Division specific Subsistence options on Personnel tab
- OpLog updates - form on Ticket page for capturing time based activities
- Address edge case of Bids related to Dispatches/Tickets showing error when using manual “Sync” button on Bid page
- Fix document web links included in auto-generated emails upon workflow approval
- Fix for offline Work Order related to saving of Inventory / Miscellaneous items by Unplugged users
- PDF print pagination improvements
- Ticket Seq Ids filter on Dispatch page fix
- Dispatch Seq Is filter on Bid page no longer includes Tickets (only Dispatches)
- Remove debugging text at bottom of on document pre-create pages
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