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| Previous News and Updates! | 5-25-2010 CleanOpsStaff-ProLocal Update to ISSA 540 Cleaning Times | ISSA and Hunter Consulting and Training agreed to include the ISSA 540 Times in CleanOpsStaff-ProLocal. Users who have purchased the ProLocal upgrade will automatically get access to the ISSA 540 times upon getting the latest release of CleanOpsStaff. This new development brings the two most used industry accepted workload resources together in one easy user interface. Click here to get the latest release. |  | 
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Time to Clean Calculation Issue Resolved 4-30-2010 We recently discovered that a minor formula error was cause an incorrect value to be displayed in the Macro Staffing and Inventory worksheet for Standard Space Categories Research Lab without Hazardous Waste and Office with Hard Floor. While the totals were displayed corrected the Work Mode button display the incorrect value for Routine and Project. This issue has been resolved in Release Date 4-30-2010 of the Main Program. Get the latest Release to resolve the issue on your system. |
CleanOpsStaff-Pro Upgrades Prices Reduced to $200.00 Each! Upgrade Packages Prices Reduced And Get One Free Upgrade! Single Additional PDA Reduced from $125.00 to $75.00! |
2-8-2010: New release Resolves Issue With Creating Audit Package for Local Categoties 16 Through 40 Under ProLocal!!! The audit sheets for local categories 16 through 40 was displaying #N/A instead of the weighting factor for the categories. Main Program Release 2/8/2010 resolves this issue. Download the latest release. No need to un-install or re-install. |
 | CleanOpsStaff-ProMobilePlus Now Released!!! (Create Space Inventory and Audit and Inspection file on the fly with you PDA!!!) | Hunter Consulting and Training Announces Release of CleanOpsStaff-ProMobilePlus. This upgrade replaces the old ProMobile and adds great capabilities while in the field. No longer do you need to be at your PC or Laptop to create space inventory files and audit/inspection files. You can now create these files on the fly in the field directly on your PDA. You can then upload the files to your PC or Laptop saving countless hours of labor to maintain your space inventory and to run you audit and inspection program. Now you can conduct the Audit and Collect inventory data using your Smartphone or PDA without first creating a file on your PC or Laptop. Read the help information in the ProMobilePlus Help to learn more about the 'Plus' features. Click the Purchase ProMobilePlus-PC/PDA link here or in left panel to purchase this upgrade. |
CleanOpsStaff-ProLocal Released!!!!!!! (Increase Local Categories from 15 to 40. Adds Tasks from ISSA 447 Times) | Hunter Consulting and Training Announces Release of CleanOpsStaff-ProLocal. This Add-in upgrade will allow you to define 40 local space categories instead of just 15 and it will allow you to select cleaning activities/tasks and times from the ISSA 447 Times list within the same dropdown lists as the APPA activities times. Click the Purchase ProLocal link here or in left panel to purchase this upgrade. Use your "Get Latest Production Release" button to download the latest production release containing this upgrade. Skip Step-1, Do Step-2, Skip Step-3. Click OK when asked if you are ready to quit the Program Manager to manually run setup. Use Control Panel to uninstall CleanOpsStaff before you run Setup. Lastly, run Setup. Upon confirmation from Hunter Consulting and Training of you upgrade purchase, use the "CleanOpsStaff-Pro Upgrade" button to activate your upgrade. |
April 27, 2009: Alert - Hunter Consulting and Training announces rollout of CleanOpsStaff-ProScheduler. Automatically create weekly schedule while properly balancing daily workload using the CleanOpsStaff Least/Most Loaded Day concept. Schedule project work based on least loaded day to maintain balanced daily workload. See the ProScheduler help document. Click Purchase ProScheduler to be one of the first users at the introductory price. |
April 27, 2009: Alert -- Weighted Average Calculation for Audit Package effective with the 4-27-2009 Main Program Release, the Space Weighted Average Cleaning Level (for LEED) in the Audit Assessment Worksheet now take into account the CSF of each space and the CSF of each cleaning category when weighting the inspection scores. This method provide a better representation of the cleaning level being acheived by preventing spaces of difference sizes from having the same weight in the cleaning level calculation. |
April 27, 2009: Alert -- Audit Package Listing the Classroom Appearance Items for all Categories after Loading an Audit File. After loading an Audit file, the Make Audit Package feature would incorrectly assign the classroom appearance items to all categories in the Audit Instrument worksheet. This was due to the fact that the load operation would overwrite an important function. 4-27-2009 Main Program Release resolves this issue. Use the Get Latest Production button to download and extract the new files. |
April 27, 2009: Alert -- Pro-Mobile Status/Info Issue Resolution, Earlier releases of the ProMobile-PDA would randomly clear out the CSF field and would also mis-calculate the CSF of un-inspected space. 4-27-2009 Main Program Release resolves these two issues. You must get latest Production Release and re-install ProMobile onto you PDA from within the Program Manager. |
March 24, 2009: Alert -- The Standard Space Category number 13, "Office with Hard Floors" listed vacumning as the last routnine cleaning activity. This activity should have been "Sweep, dust-mop floors". This has been resolved in the current Production Version. |
Feb 2009: Alert -- The Local Category number 11 was found to have an error in computing the FTE. This has been resolved in the Beta Release. If you are using the Production Release, please do not use Local Category 11. This has been resolved in the current Production Version. |
December 18, 2008: Resolved Sorting Issue with Audit Package: In releases prior to December 18, certain combination of room numbers and name containing special characters such as failed to sort correctly when making an Audit Package. This sorting issue caused a mis-assignment of space category name to some of the spaces in the “Audit Assessment Population Report” worksheet and the “Audit Instrument”. Release 12/18/2008 resolves this issue. Note: In the Building Name/Number, Floor Name/Number and Space Name/Number columns in the Macro Staffing and Inventory Worksheet, do not use characters "/", "-", "*", or names such as “187/234”, “124-456”, “100e3”, “202E24” because Excel treats these formats a formula. You can use the underscore such as “187_234”, “124_456”, “100e_24”, or 202E_24.
December 16, 2008: Enhanced JustDoNext Import Wizard to allow for Importing a Range of Records From Anywhere in the Conversion Worksheet: In releases prior to December 19, when sending records from the Conversion Worksheet to the Macro Staffing and Inventory Worksheet, you had to start with the first row in the Conversion Worksheet. With this release, you can choose a range of row beginning with any row you wish. December 12, 2008: Corrected coding issue with Customizing Standard Category Project Activities: In releases prior to December 12, customization made to the Project Activities in the the Standard Categories Matrices were not being read back into memory when opening the Inventory Data File containing the customized Standard Categories Matrices. The default values for the project activities would be read in instead for the Project Activities. The Routine Activities were being handled correctly. This issue resulted in an incorrect calculation for the Level C2 for Project activities after the data file was read back into memory. Release 12/12/2008 corrects this issue. December 12, 2008: Properly Center Main Menu Screen for Other Screen Resolutions: CleanOpsStaff was originally designed to work best at 1024 x 768 and 1280 x 768 screen resolution. The main menu did not center properly for other resolutions. Release 12/12/2008 properly centers the main menu for other screen resolutions. December 12, 2008: Corrected Issue with JustDoNext Wizard which prevented Partial Import from Conversion Worksheet to Macro Staffing and Inventory Worksheet: In releases prior to December 12, selective and partial importing of columns and row from the Conversion Worksheet to the Macro Staffing and Inventory Worksheet did not function properly. Columns would be imported to the Macro Staffing and Inventory Worksheet even when their checkbox was not checked. Additionally, users were forced to import all rows of data instead of a selected number of rows. Release 12/12/2008 corrects these issues December 8, 2008: CleanOpsStaff QTicket Modified For Tab-Format Display: Two butttons "Switch View" and "New Excel Spreadsheet") have been added to QTicket to make it easy to copy and paste Tab-Seperated data into an external spreadseet. A horiznital bar and a Vertical Bar have been added to the upper left corner of the QTicket texbox to allw you to adjust the width and height of QTicket. These will be the last enhancements for several months. Users are asked to provide feedback on what furture features you would like to see. November 24, 2008: CleanOpsStaff Startup and Audit Package Save issue resolved: The Novemeber 23 Release of the Main Program had corrupt configuration figuration file that prevented a proper CleanOpsStaff startup and prevented the ability to save an Audit Package. This release corrects these two issues and you must get this release to prevent these issues from impacting your installation. November 22, 2008: CleanOpsStaff Routines Optimized for More Speed/Resolved Issues With justDoNext Data Inport Wizard and QEntry Feature: Download the latest release of CleanOpsStaff for faster operations. Hunter Consulting and Training re-coded all CleanOpsStaff routines to speed up execution. This release also resolves several issue with the justDoNext Data Import Wizard and the QEntry tool. If you have already downloaded and installed CleanOpsStaff, use the "Get Latest Release" button in the Program Manager to download and extract the latest release. If you are download CleanOpsStaff for the first time, use the normal download links on this page. You should never delete the two CleanOpsStaff folders ('C:\CleanOpsStaff Program Files' and 'C:\CleanOpsStaff Data') when downloading and extracting the latest release. If you accidently delete the two folders, you will need to use your Product Code and Activation Key to reactivate CleanOpsStaff. October 2008 - "Beta Release” has Data File Synchronization Capability: You now have as many people as you wish work on different sub-sets of the CleanOpsStaff data file and then use the justDoNext Data Import Wizard to update records in the data file in memory base on records in the file being imported. This is a helpful feature for allowing different people to collect inventory data on differrent laptops and then bring that data together in a single CleanOpsStaff Master file. Feel free to download the Beta Release now if you wish by clicking Beta Site. After several weeks, the Beta release will become the Production Release. October 2008 - "Get Latest Release "and "Get Latest Beta" Buttons Added: Hunter Consulting and Training adds "Get Latest Release" and "Get Latest Beta" buttons to the Program Manager to make it easier for you to download and install the latest Production Release or latest Beta Release! You must download the latest release the "old fashion way" following the instructions on this web site to get a release with both button added. From then on you will simply click one of the buttons to download and install the latest Production Release or the latest Beta Release. October 2008 - CleanOpsStaff Beta Site: Hunter Consulting and Training announces rollout of CleanOpsStaff Beta Site. Now that CleanOpsStaff has been on the market for 3 months with 37 Colleges and Univeristies in the US and Canada having purchased the program, Hunter Consulting and Training has made many enhancements and resolved issues brought forward by its users. One of the value to our software distribution approach is it allows us to respond to user requested enhancements or issue resolution and upload a new releases immediately. However, in order to stabilize the production release of CleanOpsStaff and to provide longer testing of enhancements, we have set up a Beta Site for users who want to take advantage of enhancements immediately. Beta releases may be uploaded as often as weekly or as often as a signficant enhancement or issue is resolve. We will try to limit production releases to no more than one per month usless there is a critical signicant issue requiring resolution. Beta releases will become the Production Release when Hunter Consulting and Training is satisified that enhancements and issue resolutions have proven out. October 2008: Hunter Consulting and Training announces rollout of CleanOpsStaff-justDoNext Data Import Wizard . Import your inventory data from existing files and save time and money involved in manually typing in data. Click Purchase Upgrades to purchase CleanOpsStaff-justDoNext Data Import Wizard. September 2008: Hunter Consulting and Training announces rollout of CleanOpsStaff-Pro. Increase your record capacity up to 20,000 records and gain access to future special function Add-Ins. Click Purchase Upgrades to purchase CleanOpsStaff-Pro upgrades. August 2008: Hunter Consulting and Training announces rollout of TechCallBack Tech Support. Purchase Six or 12 months of technical support for a modest fee. Click Purchase Tech Support to purchase Tech Support with TechCallBack. August 2008: Hunter Consulting and Training announces rollout of Inventory Data Conversion and Import Service. Hunter Consulting and Training will convert your existing electronic inventory data files (Excel, Access, Text) into a CleanOpsStaff Inventory Data file and save you the labor and cost of manually entering your inventory data. Click Purchase Data Conversion to purchase Data conversion and import service. June 2008: APPA and Hunter Consulting and Training signed an agreement to allow APPA to bundle CleanOpsStaff with the APPA Custodial Staffing Guidelines for Educational Facilities Second Edition. The package includes the guidelines book and a product code for CleanOpsStaff and is available in the APPA bookstore (Click here to buy now). Follow the Instructions below to download the Demo version. Your Product Code from APPA willl allow you to request an Activation Key to convert the Demo version into a full feature version to activate all CleanOpsStaff features. Click on APPA bookstore (Click here to buy now) to order the package. Price is $440.00 ($350.00 for members) with volumn discount as follows: Price is $440.00 ($350.00 for members) | 
Buy Now | 1-9 = No discount 10-19 = 15% discount 20-29 = 20% discount 30-49 = 25% discount 50 or more = 35% discount |
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