Our Products & Services
Getting Started
First Time Setup
Getting Started With Jobs
Getting Started with Accounts
Getting Started with Inventory
Getting Started with Ticketing
Setting Sonar up for Billing
Baseline Configuration
How To: Using Sonar's Customer Portal
User Specific Resources
Accounts
Account Groups: Overview & Example Use Cases
Account List View: Overview
Account Management View: Overview
Account Statuses: Overview & Example Use Cases
Account Types: Overview & Example Use Cases
Anchor & Linked Serviceable Addresses: Overview and Best Practices
CPUC Fixed Broadband Deployment by Address
Child Accounts: Best Practices & How Tos
Creating a New Account
Disconnecting an Account
FCC Broadband Data Collection (BDC) Filings: How Sonar Can Help
FCC Data Exports: General Overview and Usage
Future Serviceable Addresses: Overview
Lead Intake Form Processing
Notes & Tasks: Best Practices & Use Cases
Scheduled Events: Overview & Use Cases
Serviceable Addresses: Overview and Usage
Specify Account ID upon Creation
Understanding the Affordable Connectivity Program
Using Sonar's FCC Broadband Label Generation Tool
Billing
ACH Batching: Overview
Accounts in Vacation Mode
Avalara: Overview & Setup
Batch Payments & Deposit Slips: Overview
Billing Calculator
Billing Defaults
Billing Settings
Building Packages
Building a Data Service
Canadian ACH tool
Changing Service Pricing in Sonar: Best Practices
Considerations When Using Avalara with Voice Services
Creating Discounts for Services and Packages
Delinquency Billing Best Practices
Delinquency Exclusions: Overview and Use Cases
Email Invoice Batch: Overview
General Ledger Codes: Overview
General Transactions: Best Practices
How Sonar Prorates Billing
How to Take Bank Account Payments
How to: Adding a Service to an Account
Invoice Templates: Overview
Leveraging PayPal as a Payment Method in Sonar
Manual Transactions
Multi-Month Billing & Multi-Month Services
Print to Mail
Printed Invoice Batches: Overview
Services: Overview
Setting Up Payment Methods and Taking Payments
Setting up Bank Account & Credit Card Processors
Taxes Setup
Usage Based Billing Policies: Overview and Usage
Usage Based Billing Policy Free Periods: Overview and Usage
Using Tax Exemptions - How To
Communication
Call Logs: General Best Practices
Communication Tools: Overview
Email Variables & Conditions
Message Categories: Overview & Use Cases
Phone Number Types: Overview and Use Cases
Saved Messages: Overview
Setting up an Outbound Email Domain
Trigger Explanations
Triggered Messages: Setup
Using Outbound SMS
Using the Mass Message Tool
Companies
How to: Setting Up a Company in Sonar
Managing Multiple Companies in Sonar: Best Practices
Rebranding your Sonar Instance
Financial
Contract Templates
Invoice Attachment Use Cases & PDF Examples
Invoice Messages: Overview & Use Cases
Invoices in Sonar: Examples, Creation & Contents
Integrations
Calix SMx Integration: Overview
CrowdFiber Integration
External Marketing Providers
GPS Tracking Providers: Overview
GoCardless Integration: Overview & Setup
How to Connect Cambium to your Sonar Instance
How to Connect Preseem to your Sonar System
How to: Using Webhooks in Sonar
RemoteWinBox - Integration with Sonar
The Sonar Field Tech App
Tower Coverage Integration: Overview
Vetro FiberMap Integration: Overview
Webhooks in Sonar: Basic PHP Example
iCalendar Integration
Inventory
Inventory List View: Overview
Inventory Model Management: General Overview
Setup of Inventory: Manufacturers, Categories, and Assignees
Tracking and Using Consumable Inventory
Jobs
Applying Task Templates to Jobs
Edit Job Options
Example Jobs & Templates
Geofences: Overview
Job Types: Best Practices
Jobs and Scheduling: Overview
Scheduling How-to: Creating and Booking a Job
Scheduling Week View: Overview
Setting Up Schedules General Overview
Mapping
Misc.
Combining Custom Fields & Task Templates for Information Storage
Custom Fields Overview & Use Cases
Custom Links: Overview
Task Templates Overview & Use Cases
Monitoring
Building Alerting Rotations
Building a Monitoring Template
Poller Troubleshooting
Pollers: General Overview, Deployment Strategy, Build Out & Setup
Networking
Assigning RADIUS Addresses
Assigning an IP Address Using Sonar's IPAM: How to
Automating IP Assignments, Data Rates, and Network Access in Sonar
Building Address Lists
Building RADIUS Groups
Building a Device Mapper
Cable Modem Provisioning
Controlling Customer Speeds with Sonar: General Overview
DHCP Delivery
Data Usage Available Methods
Finding your OIDs
How Sonar Communicates - Egress IPs Explained
IP Assignments & Sonar
IPAM: Basic Setup
IPAM: Overview
LTE Integration
MikroTik as an Inline Device: Integration With Sonar
MikroTik: Controlling Access
MikroTik: Controlling Speeds
MikroTik: Setting Up a Sonar Controlled DHCP Server
Netflow Integration: Overview
Network Dashboard: Overview
Network Sites: Management View Overview
PacketLogic: Integration With Sonar
Pulse, Polling, and PHP
RADIUS: Build-Out & Integration with Sonar
RADIUS: Building Reply Attributes
Setting Up CoA Proxy
Sonar Flow
Sonar IP Addressing
Using Multiple Network Devices in Sonar
Purchase Orders
Release Notes
Reporting
Enhanced Business Intelligence - Tips & Tricks for Advanced Users
How To Enhance Your Reporting With Custom Field Data
Report Licenses
Sonar's Business Intelligence: Overview
Understanding Sonar Reports
Security
Application Firewall: General Overview and Best Practices
Auth0: Overview
Password Policy In Depth
Removing a Terminated Employee In Sonar
Role Creation using GraphiQL
User Role Creation & Best Practices
Users: Overview
Sonar Billing
sonarPay
sonarPay Chargebacks & Disputes: Overview
sonarPay Disbursements: Overview
sonarPay Overview
sonarPay Reversals, Voids, & Refunds: Overview
sonarPay: Token Migration Process
System
A Deeper Dive into the New Sonar API
API Calls Using Third Party Applications: Personal Access Tokens
Browser Compatibility and Minimum Hardware Requirements for Sonar
Consuming the Sonar API
Controlling Your Landing Page: Personal Preferences
Customizing Your Customer Portal
Date/Time Picker: Overview
Dynamic Time Zones in Sonar
Filtering: Simple vs Advanced
Frequently Used Terms
Getting Your Data into Sonar
How To Use GraphiQL to Understand the Sonar API
How Your Data is Backed Up
How to Best Use Global Search
Interacting with Files via the API
Introducing the New Sidebar
Mutations in the Sonar API
Notification Preferences
REST API Wrappers for V1 Compatibility
SMS Notifications
Sonar's Rich Text Editor
System Settings: Overview
The New Sonar API
Troubleshooting the Customer Portal
Upgrading your Ubuntu OS - Customer Portal Upgrades
User Profile: Your Personal User Settings
Ticketing
Advanced Ticketing Features
Canned Replies Examples & Templates
Canned Reply Categories
Exploring Ticket Groups
How to Integrate Inbound Mailboxes with Slack
Inbound Mailboxes Example Build
Ticket Categories Best Practices & Example Build
Ticketing: Overview
Using Parent Tickets
Voice
API Changes for Voice Billing
Best Practices to Remain CPNI Compliant
Billing Voice Services in Sonar
Deploying Voice Services in Sonar
Working With the Sonar Team & Additional Resources
Sonar's Security Practices & Certifications
CyberSecure Canada Certification
Sonar and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Sonar's Security Strategies
Technical Security Overview
Best Practices for Fast Tracking a Support Request
Feedback Portal / Suggest a Feature
Learning with Sonar: Tools and Resources
New Client Training Overview
Sonar Casts Table of Contents
Submitting Bugs vs. Feature Requests
The Sonar Community Forum
The Sonar Status Page
Third Party Customer Support Referrals
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- August 2020 - Archived Release Notes
August 2020 - Archived Release Notes
Updated by Mitchell Paul-Soumis
Update 08/27/2020 16:32
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that was resulting in a '404 Not Found' error when clicking the "Sign Contract" button from the customer portal
Update 08/25/2020 15:56
Improvements
- Updated the Schedule Availability display to visualize the repetitions schedule, and added a tooltip to better explain the repetitions schedule
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where email signatures in ticketing responses is generated by the default company regardless of which company the customer is assigned to
- Fixed an issue where the search/filter when selecting a service for creating a Scheduled Event wasn't working
- Fixed an issue that was causing scheduled jobs within the Dispatcher view map to be numbered out of order
- Fixed an issue where users would sometimes log in to a blank page
Update 08/20/2020 23:51
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where making a query through the API when there were insufficient permissions would obscure all results rather than only results relying on the missing permissions
- Fixed an issue where IPv6 Supernets and Subnets would show an incorrect number of unassigned addresses
- Fixed an issue where Parent accounts weren't bringing in Child account invoices if billing days differed
- Fixed an issue where the FCC Form 477 report wasn't sending/generating
- Fixed an issue where email addresses being used in the Customer Portal were case sensitive
- Fixed an issue where reports were not displaying the "Job Completed Date" field
- Fixed an issue where the assignable entity on a ticket would show at the top and bottom of a ticket creation/update form
Update 08/17/2020 18:04
New Features
- Added the ability to create geofences, which are used to define a geographical area to contain technicians within when setting up schedule availabilities
- Added the ability to see which availabilities are excluded by any geofence(s) in place, while scheduling a job by dragging it on the grid within the Dispatcher view
Improvements
- Added the GraphQL query capability to match on fields that are anything other than null
Update 08/14/2020 19:52
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue within the ticketing interface that was preventing it from failing gracefully when all of the necessary permissions were not enabled for a user - if the user has insufficient permissions, an error will now be displayed indicating so
- Fixed an issue that was preventing the device interface data for inventory items from being available through global search
Update 08/13/2020 19:45
New Features
- Added a Front-end interface to display network topology (Pulse) accessible through the Network Site Management view
Update 08/12/2020 17:41
Improvements
- Updated the Create Credit Card Payment screen to display the Due Now total so that the total due for the account is visible when taking a payment for the customer
- Improved the format and spacing where the Due Now amount is displayed within the Create Cash/Check/Wire Payment screen
Bug Fixes
- Resolved an error which was preventing snapshots
Update 08/12/2020 9:33
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where using the quick filter button would cause an error as a result of skipped filter fields
Update 08/11/2020 17:08
New Features
- Added the ability to export system data through the use of snapshots, found within the Settings menu
Improvements
- Updated the corner notifications that appear when a task template has been created so that only one notification appears now instead of one for each template item
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that was preventing all services and packages from being displayed when creating a scheduled event
- Resolved an issue where entering in Line 1 during serviceable address creation would display autocomplete suggestions for addresses outside of the country that was selected
- Fixed an issue where leaving the Exemption Amount field blank for taxes when creating or editing a service would result in an error being displayed - the Exemption Amount field is now required when a tax is present, and will prevent form submission if left blank
- Resolved an issue that was allowing an account to become it's own child account and also causing the child account to be sent for billing incorrectly
- Fixed an issue that was causing GET requests on services endpoint to fail in some cases
- Fixed an issue where any VISA ELECTRON card being added as a payment method would fail
Update 08/07/2020 15:03
New Features
- Added an endpoint to create a Personal Access Token from a Username and Password for field app users
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where submitting a new payment method through the legacy API endpoint would fail
Update 08/06/2020 18:10
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where changing the trigger on an active triggered email would cause multiple emails to fire if there were past events which would also activate the trigger (i.e. invoices)
Update 08/05/2020 12:13
Improvements
- Updated job scheduling so that disabled users do not appear in the list of available technicians within the Dispatcher View
- Updated the mass email tool so that it now supports the addition of an attachment/file
- Updated how users interact with tasks, so that if a task has been assigned to a specific user, it can only be completed by that specific user or any other user that has the permission to complete tasks assigned to others
- Completed the build out of Pulse on the backend, which will be used to display a network topology map based on the available network monitoring data
- Added a unique error message to address failed logins when the user credentials are correct but the user isn't enabled
- Added additional endpoints to the GraphQL API Wrapper for Legacy RESTful API requests
Bug Fixes
- Resolved an issue that was preventing the ‘job type’ simple search from correctly filtering down to the specific job type within the Dispatcher view
- Resolved an issue that was causing an exception to be thrown on the backend when downloading an invoice as a PDF
- Fixed an issue where credit card expiration year would sometimes show with a comma in forms
- Fixed an issue where some forms would have artificial padding as a result of hidden, empty account group fields
- Fixed an issue where certain forms would loop and be duplicated