Xenial Kitchen Management
2023-05-04 | 3.8.19 Xenial Kitchen Management
The information provided below includes the user experience, process workflow, and infrastructure improvements and updates for this production version of Xenial Kitchen Management (XKM) API and UI.
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This release is not dependent on another release.
Improvements
XKM-6385 | Split Orders | The original Vehicle Info and Expo Number values are now persisted on split orders as expected when the original order is split and served. |
XKM-6606 | Bump Upstream Screens | Resolved an issue with items from bumped orders appearing unexpectedly on an upstream screen when the bumped orders were combined at the POS. This issue occurred in environments where the Display Combined Orders Method setting was set to Labeled in the Kitchen Settings editor in Data Management. |
XKM-6627 | Product Names | Lengthy product names that do not fit on one line now wrap to the next line on the kitchen display cell. |
XKM-7231, XKM-7272 | Sorting Rules | When the Queue Time sort option is configured for a kitchen screen, the orders are now sorted on the display as expected. For more information about defining custom sorting rules, see Sorting Rules. |
2023-05-22 | 3.8.17-4 Xenial Kitchen Management
The information provided below includes the user experience, process workflow, and infrastructure improvements and updates for this production version of Xenial Kitchen Management (XKM) API and UI.
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Improvements
XKM-7324 | Order Ready Screen | When all the items in an order are bumped from all upstream monitors either manually or automatically, the order now moves on the Order Ready screen from the In Progress column to the Ready column as expected. To eliminate any visible delay, make sure the time is synchronized on the kitchen stations. |
XKM-7326, XKM-7334 | Bump Upstream - Bump Events | Resolved an issue where the 'bumpedFromAll' event was sent with a 'bumped: false' value if an item was converted to a combo meal before it was bumped from an upstream display. This issue occurred when the configured bump behavior for the display is Matching Items Only. |
XKM-7333, XKM-7345 | Kitchen Ticket Numbers | Resolved an issue where the sequence numbers for orders on the subsequent pages of a display changed when a new order arrived or when an order was bumped from the first page. |
XKM-7339 | Bump Upstream - Hold Timer | With this update, the Hold Timer does not start its timer for an order until all order items have been bumped from all upstream displays. |
XKM-7343 | Kitchen Schemes | When the Kitchen Scheme is changed at a station, the Kitchen Scheme is automatically updated from the default scheme to the changed scheme when the kitchen station is restarted. |
2023-05-12 | 3.8.17-3 Xenial Kitchen Management
The information provided below includes the user experience, process workflow, and infrastructure improvements and updates for this production version of Xenial Kitchen Management (XKM) API and UI.
Supplemental Information
This release is not dependent on another release.
Improvements
XKM-7231, XKM-7272 | Sorting Rules | When the Queue Time sort option is configured for a kitchen screen, the orders are now sorted on the display as expected. For more information about defining custom sorting rules, see Sorting Rules. |
XKM-7253 | Ingredients Filter | Resolved an issue to ensure ingredients filters based on product tags are respected for the Ingredient Summary Pane. Ingredient filters are defined from the Ingredient Filters page of the Kitchen Screen Settings editor. |
XKM-7323, XKM-7325 | Upgrade for IRIS System | Resolved an issue that prevented upgrading XKM 3.6 to 3.8 on a system that included IRIS - POS orders in the database. |
2023-04-07 | 3.8.16 Xenial Kitchen Management
The information provided below includes the user experience, process workflow, and infrastructure improvements and updates for this production version of Xenial Kitchen Management (XKM) API and UI.
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New Features
XKM-650, XKM-6646 | Bump Bar 10+ Command | Added support for the 10+ command to enable the kitchen staff to use the bump bar to select and bump / recall / park / unpark orders that have double-digit cell numbers. The following identifies the related Data Management setting. Kitchen Screen Settings The following setting is located on the Popup Menu section of the General page of the Kitchen Screen Settings editor:
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XKM-5567 | Label Printing | Added support for label printing to enable the kitchen staff to print sticky labels when order items are bumped from the kitchen display. The following identifies the related Data Management settings. Peripherals The following setting is located on the General page of the Peripherals editor when configuring a printer:
Kitchen Screen Settings The following settings are located on the Bumping Options section of the Bump page of the Kitchen Screen Settings editor:
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XKM-6469 | Combine / Separate Item Quantities | Configure the kitchen display to either list identical items separately OR combined regardless of how the items are received from the POS. The following identifies the related Data Management setting. Kitchen Screen Settings The following setting is located in the Cell Body section of the Cells page of the Kitchen Screen Settings editor:
The changed quantity of existing claimed / completed items are displayed as separate items to better enable the kitchen staff to quickly determine which items to prepare. |
XKM-6479 | Table / Item Source Ingredient Filters | Added ability to filter orders and order item ingredients on a kitchen display by the associated Table Tags and/or Item Source. Kitchen Screen Settings The following settings are located on the Filters page of the Kitchen Screen Settings editor:
The following settings are located on the Ingredients Filters page of the Kitchen Screen Settings editor:
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Improvements
XKM-5116 | Destination Filter | A Destination Filter option has been added to the kitchen screen popup menu to allow the user to enable / disable the defined order destination filter for a kitchen display. |
XKM-5289 | Claim Item | Update the Claim Item function to ensure item modifiers remain in a claimed state after a Split Order operation. |
XKM-5851 | Split / Combined Orders | When an order is Split / Combined, the order total cell now displays the "Total: Multiple Orders" informational text instead of the order total, regardless if any of the related Split / Combined orders are already served. This informational text is displayed when the following settings are set to Fixed:
The settings are configured in the Display section of the General Kitchen Settings editor in Data Management. |
XKM-5935 | Order Pickup Time | Update the application to display the appropriate AM / PM indicator when the defined Pickup Time for an order is during the hour of noon. |
XKM-5985 | Kitchen Display Panes | Updated the design of the Forecast and Summary panes to be consistent with the Ingredients pane. |
XKM-6259 | Combined Orders | The "Combined from" informational text is now displayed in the order footer of combined orders as expected. |
XKM-6418 | Item Modifier Options | The following Data Management setting has been updated to enable the user to filter item modifiers by routing category. Kitchen Screen Settings The following setting is located on the Cells page of the Kitchen Screen Settings editor:
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XKM-6568 | Kitchen Schemes | Updated the kitchen scheme change process to ensure any orders that were bumped while the previous scheme was active are not redisplayed. |
XKM-6574 | Prep Instructions | The ability to long-press an order item to open the Prep Instructions popup is now supported in Windows. |
XKM-6575 | Order Watermarks | Improved the coordination of the watermark that is assigned to an order with its respective arrival time when orders with different destinations are displayed on the same screen. |
XKM-6612 | Refresh Config | When the Refresh Config function is executed, any unmapped kitchen stations will now display the "Closed" indicator. |
XKM-6625 | Kitchen Sessions | Updated kitchen session time calculations to ensure item modifiers are displayed as expected after the order is updated at the POS. |
XKM-6766 | Split Screens | Updated the Park function to ensure it is consistently toggled on / off in split screen configurations. |
XKM-6997 | "Bumped from All" Event | A bumpedFromAll event is generated when an order is bumped from all active screens. To ensure bumpedFromAll events are appropriately generated, only active screens are tracked. |
XKM-7008 | Ingredient Summary Pane | Resolved an issue where filtered item ingredients were not cleared from the Ingredient Summary Pane as expected after an order was Voided. |
XKM-7013 | Quickbuilds | Resolved an issue where a Quickbuild that was deleted from an order item at the POS continued to display with the item on the kitchen display. |
XKM-7094 | Application Performance | Updated bump by order state operations for optimized performance. |
XKM-7096, XKM-7107 | Application Performance | Updated manual bump operations for optimized performance. |
XKM-7109 | Item-Level Comments | To improve usability, item-level comments now conform to the nesting levels of the respective order items. |
2023-05-22 | 3.7.36-14 Xenial Kitchen Management
The information provided below includes the user experience, process workflow, and infrastructure improvements and updates for this production version of Xenial Kitchen Management (XKM) API and UI.
Supplemental Information
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Improvements
XKM-6756 | Order Ready Display | When combo meal items are sent from a Delivery terminal, the order is now displayed in the "In Progress" column of the Order Ready Display as expected. |
XKM-7276 | Item-Level Comments | To improve usability, item-level comments now conform to the nesting levels of the respective order items. |
XKM-7304 | Order Ready Screen | When an order is moved on the Order Ready screen from the In Progress column to the Ready column as the result of the order being bumped in the kitchen, the order timer for the order now starts as expected. |
XKM-7320 | Order Ready Screen | When all the items in an order are bumped from all upstream monitors either manually or automatically, the order now moves on the Order Ready screen from the In Progress column to the Ready column as expected. To eliminate any visible delay, make sure the time is synchronized on the kitchen stations. |
Older Releases
2023-03-14 | 3.7.36-9 Xenial Kitchen Management
The information provided below includes the user experience, process workflow, and infrastructure improvements and updates for this production version of Xenial Kitchen Management (XKM) API and UI.
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Improvements
XKM-6990 | Ingredient Summary Pane | Addressed an issue where filtered item ingredients were not cleared from the Ingredient Summary Pane as expected after an order is bumped. This issue occurred when the sum of all ingredients from all screens are displayed on the Ingredient Summary Pane, with an additional kitchen screen filter (e.g. Destination) defined. |
XKM-7129 | Kitchen Ticket Numbering | When scrolling multiple pages of orders on a display, the kitchen tickets are now numbered as expected. An issue was addressed where the kitchen ticket numbering restarted at 1 on each subsequent page. |
2023-03-08 | 3.7.36-8 Xenial Kitchen Management
The information provided below includes the user experience, process workflow, and infrastructure improvements and updates for this production version of Xenial Kitchen Management (XKM) API and UI.
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Improvements
XKM-6986 | Split Orders | Addressed an issue where item modifiers were removed from newly added order items after the user split an order, and then either served or voided the original order. |
XKM-7089 | Application Performance | Updated file system read method and file encoding to improve security and system stability. |
2023-02-28 | 3.7.36-7 Xenial Kitchen Management
The information provided below includes the user experience, process workflow, and infrastructure improvements and updates for this production version of Xenial Kitchen Management (XKM) API and UI.
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Improvements
XKM-6575, XKM-6885 | Split Screen | The kitchen ticket watermark numbering is now displayed as expected in row view on both screens in a split screen configuration. |
XKM-6692, XKM-6712 | Ingredient Summary Pane | Addressed an issue where some filtered item ingredients were not cleared from the Ingredient Summary Pane as expected. |
XKM-6930 | Kitchen Events | Addressed an issue where bumpedFromAll and kitchenbumptime events were not updated for all orders. |
2023-01-18 | 3.7.36-6 Xenial Kitchen Management
The information provided below includes the user experience, process workflow, and infrastructure improvements and updates for this production version of Xenial Kitchen Management (XKM) API and UI.
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Improvements
XKM-6602 | Show Item Count in Cell Footer | When the Show Item Count setting is enabled for a kitchen screen, the order item total is displayed in the cell footer with the label Total Items. When the Show Item Count setting is set to Countable Items, the Total Items count only accounts for items with a defined "Item Count" value. This feature is updated to ensure the Total Items value properly reflects order items with Fractional Quantities. |
XKM-6629 | Child Item / Modifier Quantities | With this update, child item / modifier quantities (and any additional subsequent updates) are properly reflected on the kitchen if the child item / modifier quantities are reduced at the POS after the order is sent to the kitchen. |
XKM-6752 | Change Kitchen Scheme | Updated the kitchen scheme change process to ensure any orders that were bumped while the previous scheme was active are not redisplayed. |
XKM-6780 | Claim Item | Update the Claim Item function to ensure item modifiers remain in a claimed state after a Split Order operation. |
XKM-6877 | Order Pickup Time | Update the application to display the appropriate AM / PM indicator when the defined Pickup Time for an order is during the hour of noon. |
XKM-6884 | Bump Upstream Screens | Updated the Bump Upstream Screens feature to ensure orders are removed from displays as expected when orders are either bumped manually or autobumped. This update addresses a condition that was introduced with changes that were implemented with XKM-6752 described above. |
2022-12-12 | 3.7.36-5 Xenial Kitchen Management
The information provided below includes the user experience, process workflow, and infrastructure improvements and updates for this production version of Xenial Kitchen Management (XKM) API and UI.
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This release is not dependent on another release.
New Features
XKM-5567, XKM-6734 | Label Printing | Added support for label printing to enable the kitchen staff to print sticky labels when order items are bumped from the kitchen display. The following identifies the related Data Management settings. Peripherals The following setting is located on the General page of the Peripherals editor when configuring a printer:
Kitchen Screen Settings The following settings are located on the Bumping Options section of the Bump page of the Kitchen Screen Settings editor:
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XKM-6700 | Combine / Separate Item Quantities | Configure the kitchen display to either list identical items separately OR combined regardless of how the items are received from the POS. Kitchen Screen Settings The following setting is located in the Cell Body section of the Cells page of the Kitchen Screen Settings editor:
The changed quantity of existing claimed / completed items are displayed as separate items to better enable the kitchen staff to quickly determine which items to prepare. |
Improvements
XKM-6728 | Application Language Translation | Updated the system dictionary with additional XKM strings for language translation. |
2022-12-13 | 3.7.36-4 Xenial Kitchen Management
The information provided below includes the user experience, process workflow, and infrastructure improvements and updates for this production version of Xenial Kitchen Management (XKM) API and UI.
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New Features
XKM-5148, XKM-6634 | Application Language Translation | Added ability to translate all text on the kitchen display to the language selected by the user. To open the language selection modal:
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Improvements
XKM-6662 | Kitchen Sessions | Updated the Kitchen Session feature to ensure item modifiers are displayed consistently as new sessions are added and updates are made at the POS. |
XKM-6688 | Split / Combine Open Orders | The application now suppresses the display of bundle components from previously bumped orders when the orders are Split or Combined from the POS - Open Orders screen. |
XKM-6703 | Recall Orders | Optimized the recall order function to improve performance speed during high volume periods. |
XKM-6769 | Split Screens | Updated the Park function to ensure it is consistently toggled on / off in split screen configurations. |
2022-11-10 | 3.7.36-1 Xenial Kitchen Management
The information provided below includes the user experience, process workflow, and infrastructure improvements and updates for this production version of Xenial Kitchen Management (XKM) API and UI.
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New Features
XKM-4636 | XKM Station Status | Added a Station Info option to the kitchen display popup menu to enable the user to view station status details for support purposes. Select Station Info to view the following information about the kitchen station:
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XKM-5433 | Audio Alerts | Use the Kitchen Screen Settings editor in Data Management to assign an audio file to the Order/Item is Modified event. The assigned audio file alerts the staff when:
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XKM-5642 | Advanced Item Filters | Configure advanced order item and ingredient filters for kitchen screens using the Kitchen Screen Settings editor in Data Management. |
Improvements
XKM-4975 | Combine / Separate Item Quantities | Configure the kitchen display to either list identical items separately OR combined regardless of how the items are received from the POS. The following identifies the related Data Management setting. Kitchen Screen Settings The following setting is located in the Cell Body section of the Cells page of the Kitchen Screen Settings editor:
The changed quantity of existing claimed / completed items are displayed as separate items to better enable the kitchen staff to quickly determine which items to prepare. |
XKM-5124 | Android Battery Status | Updated the battery status indicator on Android device displays to accurately reflect the status of the device's battery. |
XKM-5426 | Employee Tips | From Kitchen Screen Settings in Data Management, toggle Show Tips to Yes to display the customer tip amount in the cell footer. |
XKM-5506 | Prep Instructions | 'TypeError' is no longer generated with Prep Instructions popup after the user modifies the related order items. |
XKM-5535 | Data Reset / Recovery | Implemented a Cloud Restore function to:
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XKM-5604 | Claim Item | Updated the Claim Item function to ensure deleted order items cannot be claimed by kitchen staff. |
XKM-5678 | Combined Orders | When orders are combined at the POS, the respective kitchen tickets are combined into a single ticket on the kitchen display. |
XKM-5679 | Font Display Size | When the font size is changed on a display, the content on the other displays no longer flashes. |
XKM-5868 | Ingredient Filters | If no ingredient filters are defined, the sum of all ingredients from all screens are displayed on the Ingredient Summary Pane. |
XKM-5919 | Auto Bump | The Auto Bump timer is no longer affected when the Order State of an order is updated. Please note, the Auto Bump timer is adjusted accordingly when adjustments are made to the order items at the POS. |
XKM-5933 | Health Services | From the Health Services section of the Company Preferences editor in Data Management, define XKM application log levels.
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XKM-5936 | Future Orders | When a future order is received in the kitchen prior to its defined Pickup Time, the order now properly follows the defined bumping rules based on its Arrival Time. |
XKM-5940 | Split Screens | Average service time is now calculated correctly for orders on a split screen configuration. |
XKM-6002 | Upstream Bump of Order Items | Resolved an "update_feed_error" that prevented orders from being bumped from the primary display in an upstream environment. |
XKM-6029 | Kitchen Schemes | When the user changes the kitchen scheme, any screens that are not included in the scheme now display "CLOSED". |
XKM-6030 | Online Orders | When online orders transition to active orders, the Order Start Time and the order status (i.e. Paid, Saved) are now updated accordingly. Prior to this update, the status of online orders was identified as In Progress on the kitchen display. |
XKM-6031 | Online Orders | When the user selects Check In at the POS to check in an online order, the order is displayed on all applicable kitchen stations. Prior to this update, the order was only displayed on the primary station. |
XKM-6032 | Visual Indicators | Updated the ticket tear indicator implementation to improve the performance speed of the application. |
XKM-6039 | Audio Alerts | Kitchen screens that were not updated after the implementation of the Cloud-Managed Audio Files feature no longer generate a sound map error when orders are updated at the POS and then resent to the kitchen. |
XKM-6053 | Park Car | "Closed" orders are no longer filtered from the Park/Unpark Order view enabling the user to park/unpark orders with a "Closed" status. "Closed" orders are automatically uparked when the order_fulfillment_status for the order is "Fulfilled". |
XKM-6056 | Recall Last | The Recall Last command is now successfully executed from a bumpbar when mapped to a bumpbar button. |
XKM-6072 | Autobump | Autobump timer is now synchronized for all valid order states. |
XKM-6086 | Kitchen Hold Time | The Kitchen Hold Time (kitchenholdtime) for an order is now communicated to the POS. This value is used on POS Speed of Service reports. |
XKM-6120 | Split Orders | Prep Instructions are now properly displayed for products/modifiers that were moved to a new order at the POS as the result of a Split Order operation. |
XKM-6138 | Order Segments | When order items are moved from one order segment to another at the POS, the order segments are added/updated on the kitchen display with their respective items and label. |
XKM-6158 | Recall Screen | Improved performance of Recall screen when the order list is very long. |
XKM-6159 | Claim Item | Updated the Claim All function to ensure all items included in the order are claimed across all applicable kitchen stations. |
XKM-6186 | Popup Functions Menu | The following functions are available from the popup functions menu when a station is closed:
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XKM-6241 | Cell Numbers | Resolved an issue where a cell number was duplicated on the preceding page when an order was bumped from the subsequent page. |
XKM-6260 | Split Orders | Corrected the display of split orders when the order is split at the POS after the order is bumped from the kitchen display. |
XKM-6262 | Terminal Filter | The POS terminal number associated with the original order request is now persisted when a terminal filter is defined for a kitchen display. This prevents the order from displaying on different displays when the order is updated on multiple POS terminals. |
XKM-6309 | Ingredients Pane | Use the Kitchen Screen Settings editor in Data Management to select the item ingredients to include on the Ingredients Summary Pane for a particular display. The following dropdown is located on the Ingredients Filter page of the Kitchen Screen Settings editor:
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XKM-6352 | Autobump Reporting | Autobump event information is now communicated to the POS/Cloud for Speed of Service reporting when the order is autobumped based on order state. |
XKM-6376 | Bin Chart | Updated Bin Chart to respond to time zone changes. |
XKM-6444 | Ingredients Filter | Resolved an issue to ensure ingredients filters based on product tags behave as expected. |
XKM-6503 | Destination Filter | The Clear Filters option now remains available to the user if the number of selected order destinations in the screen filter is reduced to one (1). |
XKM-6508 | Kitchen Scheme Change | Updated the kitchen scheme / station change process to ensure any orders that are displayed on the screen are retained after the scheme / station change. |
XKM-6515 | Bump Upstream Screens | Updated the Bump Upstream Screens feature to ensure orders cannot be bumped from displays if there are any unfulfilled items on an upstream screen. |
XKM-6569 | Ticket Header Colors | Updated XKM to ensure the order destination configuration settings defined in Data Management are respected. |
XKM-6576 | Canceled Orders | Addressed an issue where orders canceled at the POS remained in a Pending state in XKM in a One Behind Kitchen configuration. |
XKM-6612, XKM-6637 | Configuration Refresh | Any unmapped kitchen stations are now closed after a XKM configuration data refresh. |
XKM-6616, XKM-6654 | Converted Combo Items | Updated XKM to ensure the expected parent item and its modifiers are routed to the configured displays when the parent item is converted to a combo meal at the POS. |
2022-08-20 | 3.6.16-8 Xenial Kitchen Management
The information provided below includes the user experience, process workflow, and infrastructure improvements and updates for this production version of Xenial Kitchen Management (XKM) API and UI.
Supplemental Information
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Improvements
XKM-6420 | Claim Products | Improvements to the Claim Products feature. |
2022-05-13 | 3.6.16-4 Xenial Kitchen Management
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New Features
XKM-4440, XKM-5902, XKM-5904, XKM-5917 | Production Forecast Pane | XKM now consumes forecast data from above-store systems from new POST and GET/xkm-forecast endpoints in the Pipeline API. The forecast data is shared between all active kitchen stations.
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Improvements
XKM-6024 | Bump Bar | Updated bump bar button mapping and restored the ability to bump orders using the numeric bump bar buttons on both full screen and split screen configurations. |
XKM-6073 | Online Orders | When online orders transition to active orders, the Order Start Time and the order status (i.e. Paid, Saved) are now updated accordingly. Prior to this update, the status of online orders was identified as In Progress on the kitchen display. |
XKM-6074 | Online Orders | When the user selects Check In at the POS to check in an online order, the order is displayed on all applicable kitchen stations. Prior to this update, the order was only displayed on the primary station. |
XKM-6094 | Application Performance | As part of the initiative to improve the performance of XKM, the Relay mechanism has been refactored. The Relay mechanism communicates Bump, Claim, and Screen Open events between kitchen stations. |
XKM-6114 | Print on Bump | XKM is updated to accommodate the recent changes in pos-printing package v1.0.441. Prior to this update, the changes in pos-printing caused the Print on Bump feature to not print a chit when an order was bumped. |
XKM-6115 | Audio Alerts | Kitchen screens that were not updated after the implementation of the Cloud-Managed Audio Files feature in 3.6.11 generated a sound map error when orders were updated at the POS and then resent to the kitchen. This has been resolved. |
XKM-6128 | Application Performance | As part of the initiative to improve the performance of XKM, the Relay mechanism has been refactored. The Relay mechanism communicates Bump, Claim, and Screen Open events between kitchen stations. |
2022-04-01 | 3.6.15 Xenial Kitchen Management
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Improvements
XKM-6000 | Application Performance | Updated the order attribute data-millisecondtime to optimize CPU and GPU usage and improve application performance. |
XKM-6019 | Header Templates | The xks-display-template that is used for kitchen ticket header templates is now flagged as optional for new XKM installations and upgrades. |
2022-03-25 | 3.6.13 Xenial Kitchen Management
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New Features
XKM-4687 | Cloud-Managed Audio Files | Use the Audio Files editor in Data Management to upload "cloud managed" audio files to use with XKM. Use the Kitchen Screen Settings editor to assign the audio files to specific events (e.g. New Order, Bump) for each kitchen screen. |
Improvements
XKM-5393 | Recalled Orders | When items are added to a bumped order at the POS, the 'time' value for these items is set to NULL when the order is recalled. The NULL values for these items skewed reporting statistics, such as Speed of Service. With this update, items that are added to a bumped order are not included in the recall order event that is sent to the POS. |
XKM-5781 | Ingredients Summary Pane | Opening the Ingredients Summary Pane no longer causes existing kitchen tickets to shift their position in the column and overlay ticket tear indicators. |
2022-03-18 | 3.6.11 Xenial Kitchen Management
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New Features
XKM-5359 | Queue Time Sorting for Mobile Orders | Added support for the “queue_time” timestamp value that is included as a new attribute in the order API. Mobile orders are sorted in the queue on the kitchen display based on their respective "queue_time" timestamp value. |
Improvements
XKM-5857 | Combined Orders | In an XKM environment where the Display Combined Orders Method is Fixed, orders that are combined at the POS after they are sent to XKM now retain all their respective order items when one of the combined orders is bumped from the display. |
XKM-5934 | Application Performance | Improved WebSocket connection reliability in response to occurrences where XKM required a refresh/restart after the POS reported XKM was not online. |
XKM-5953 | Cloud-Managed Audio Files | Audio alerts for XKM events now reference the cloud_sound_map for cloud-managed audio file references. |
2022-03-11 | 3.6.10 Xenial Kitchen Management
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New Features
XKM-242 | Kitchen Ticket Header Template | Use the Header & Footer Templates editor in Data Management to create kitchen ticket header templates. Select and configure the content to display in the kitchen ticket headers. Use the Kitchen Screen Settings editor to assign a kitchen ticket header template to each kitchen screen. |
XKM-4687 | Cloud-Managed Audio Files | Use the Audio Files editor in Data Management to upload "cloud managed" audio files to use with XKM. Use the Kitchen Screen Settings editor to assign the audio files to specific events (e.g. New Order, Bump) for each kitchen screen. |
XKM-5409 | Upstream Bump of Order Items | Use the Kitchen Screen Settings editor in Data Management to select the desired bump behavior for a Bump Upstream Screen. The bump behavior options include:
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Improvements
XKM-5103 | Kitchen Schemes | XKM now successfully consumes Kitchen Scheme name changes in Data Management. |
XKM-5658 | Autobump Orders | The Autobump function is now tracked for each kitchen display separately. When an order is autobumped from a display, the autobump message is no longer relayed to the other displays. This ensures the Autobump header is not added to a manually bumped kitchen ticket on the Recall screen. |
XKM-5784 | Audio Alerts | When configured for a display in Data Management, the Less Orders audio alert now plays as expected when an order is removed from the display by any method other than a manual bump (i.e. autobump by order state, upstream bumping). |
XKM-5802 | Page Navigation | When the number of pages of active orders on a display is reduced to one (1), the page navigation controls in the screen footer are now deactivated/grayed out. |
XKM-5807 | Kitchen Ticket Numbering | Updated kitchen ticket numbering in Row view when there is more than one page of active orders. On each page, kitchen ticket numbering now starts from 1 (one). When an order overflows into multiple tickets, the same number is displayed on each ticket included in the order. |
XKM-5850 | Claim Item | The kitchen ticket numbering for existing kitchen tickets is no longer affected if the user navigates to a different page of orders and claims an item from an order on that page. |
XKM-5870 | Autobump Orders | When orders are autobumped, the autobump preheader no longer affects the width of the divider between order columns in Column view. |
XKM-5871 | Autobump Orders | Updated how the Autobump timer responds to order state changes of Order Sessions to ensure each individual Order Session is autobumped at the appropriate time. |
2022-02-28 | 3.6 Xenial Kitchen Management
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New Features
XKM-4725 | Ingredient Summary Pane | Filter ingredients for a display based on the Ingredient Tags configuration in Data Management - Kitchen Screen Settings. This ensures the kitchen staff only sees ingredients that are appropriate for their respective station. |
XKM-5469 | Bump Bar | Station-level bump bar mapping is now supported. Select a specific bump bar for a station in Data Management - Kitchen Stations. This ensures the bump bar is available for use at the station regardless of the current status of the screen. |
Improvements
XKM-5446 | Split Order | When an order is split at the POS and order items are moved to another ticket and then moved back to the original ticket, any modifiers follow their respective parent item. |
XKM-5644 | Order Segments | Adding order segments (e.g. Seats) to an order no longer affects the alignment of the kitchen tickets on the display. |
XKM-5665 | Installation | Improved validation checks for XKM subscriptions. |
XKM-5673 | Bump Bar | Pressing Tab on a keyboard no longer affects any subsequent bump bar button selections. |
XKM-5938 | Offline Mode | XKM loads in offline mode and all related functionality works as expected. |
2022-01-31 | 3.6 Xenial Kitchen Management
The information provided below includes the user experience, process workflow, and infrastructure improvements and updates for this production version of Xenial Kitchen Management (XKM) API and UI.
Supplemental Information
This release is not dependent on another release.
New Features
XKM-4890 | Kitchen Screen Settings | The default font size used on the kitchen displays is now setup with the Kitchen Screen Settings editor in Data Management. |
XKM-5473 | Kitchen Screen Settings | The availability of the Change Station and Refresh Configuration functions is now setup with the Kitchen Screen Settings editor in Data Management. |
Improvements
XKM-5307 | Order Segments | Order Segments are now retained in situations where the parent item is not routed to the XKM display with its child items. |
XKM-5667 | Claim Items | When order items are claimed/completed, the order sequence number does not change and the overflow/tear indicator no longer flashes. |
XKM-5805 | Split Orders | When an order is split, a unique ID is assigned to the split orders to ensure the original order and its related split orders are bumped properly. |
XKM-5841 | Split Orders | When the initial ticket of a split order is served, the remaining split orders are now consolidated appropriately on the kitchen display. |
2022-01-30 | 3.5 Xenial Kitchen Management
The information provided below includes the user experience, process workflow, and infrastructure improvements and updates for this production version of Xenial Kitchen Management (XKM) UI.
Supplemental Information
This release is not dependent on another release.
New Features
XKM-4724 | Park Car | Designate the state of the order as "Parked". This is useful for the Drive-Thru destination when a customer in the drive-thru lane is asked to park their car and wait for their order. |
XKM-4728 | Countable Items | Optionally display the "countable" items that are included in the bag/tray for the customer. This enables the staff to quickly determine whether the bag/tray contains the correct number of items. |
XKM-4813 | Ticket Header | From the popup functions menu, adjust the font size of the kitchen ticket headers. |
XKM-4993 | Kitchen Schemes | The default kitchen scheme is no longer required to include "default" in its description. |
XKM-5118 | Bump Bar | Added Page Down command to return to the previous page of orders. |
XKM-5119 | Bump Bar | Added Go to the First Page command to return to the first page of orders. |
XKM-5120 | Bump Bar | Added Bump Recalled Orders command to bump all recalled orders from the display. |
XKM-5228 | Security | Personal customer information is encrypted to ensure sites are compliant with the California Consumer Privacy Act and GDPR. |
XKM-5300 | Security | Employee and customer information in the database is encrypted to comply with privacy requirements. |
XKM-5308 | Item Indicators | Optionally display added/modified item Indicators to enable the kitchen staff to view updates made at the POS in real time. |
XKM-5383 | Integration | Added bumpedFromAll event to communicate to bump event consumers when an order is bumped from all kitchen displays. |
Improvements
XKM-4690 | Deleted Items | When an order with deleted items is bumped from a masterbump station, the deleted items are now removed from all upstream bump stations and the order state is properly transitioned. |
XKM-4862 | Alerts and Indicators | "Tear" effect is reinstated. When the order items for a single order span multiple tickets, the tickets are displayed with a jagged edge or tear. |
XKM-4866 | Kitchen Tickets | The Show Watermark setting is now respected. When enabled, the kitchen ticket watermark is displayed in row view. |
XKM-5042 | Kitchen Tickets | The spacing between child/modifier items and their parent items is now uniform regardless if the ticket includes a divider line. |
XKM-5091 | Kitchen Tickets | The font size for order items is now consistent in both Row and Column view across all supported resolutions. |
XKM-5207 | Ticket Headers | In both row and column view, the cell number in the ticket header is now displayed in the defined text color. |
XKM-5222 | Popup Menus | An issue was resolved where all the items on the popup menus were displayed with a check mark, which indicates the item is currently selected/active. |
XKM-5252 | Refresh Config | The Data Management setting Auto Recall Bumped Items is now updated properly during the Refresh Config operation. |
XKM-5370 | Alerts | Alerts are now sent successfully. Alerts only appear on the screen where they are sent. |
XKM-5414 | Ingredients Summary Pane | Updated to pane to not include ingredients from recalled orders. |
XKM-5419 | Offline Mode | With a LAN connection, XKM now launches with or without internet connectivity. |
XKM-5434 | Alerts | A condition was removed that prevented the audio alert from playing when a new order arrived in the kitchen. |
XKM-5482 | Page Navigation | When using the Page command in column or row view, orders from the previous page are not displayed on the current page. |
XKM-5502 | Prep Instruction | The Prep Instruction popup now remains open for a sufficient amount of time when the user long presses an order item. |
XKM-5504 | Split Order | Long-pressing a product to view its preparation notes is now supported with split orders. |
XKM-5513 | Sorting Rules | Orders are now sorted by their respective Created Time when this sorting rule is configured in Data Management. |
XKM-5569 | Hold Timer | With the Show Hold Timer setting enabled, the order timer on the kitchen ticket is no longer obscured by check marks when the order is bumped. |
XKM-5648 | Alerts and Indicators | "Tear" effect now displays order items correctly in both column and row view. |
2021-09-28 | 3.4 Xenial Kitchen Management
The information provided below includes the user experience, process workflow, and infrastructure improvements and updates for this production version of Xenial Kitchen Management (XKM) API and UI.
Supplemental Information
This release is not dependent on another release.
New Features
XKM-3647, XKM-4976 | Configuration | Remotely refresh the XKM configuration from the Xenial Portal without having to refresh each kitchen display configuration individually. |
XKM-4112 | Item Modifier Priority | Configure the kitchen display to prioritize the preparation of item modifiers. New Data Management setting for Modifiers: Display Priority |
XKM-4181 | Autobump | This update introduces improved handling of new order content with the autobump feature. New items added to an order or order session that has been autobumped are now displayed to ensure the kitchen staff is notified. |
XKM-4349 | Configuration | When a kitchen display is unavailable at a station, the following message is displayed: "Screen Unavailable. Please check to make sure screen is available for your location." This message may appear if the screen name is undefined or the screen is not mapped to the site. |
XKM-4400 | Autobump | With this update, the autobump feature is applicable to all orders/order sessions, including pending (in progress) orders. When the configured autobump time has elapsed, the orders are automatically bumped from the display. |
XKM-4592 | Order Source Filters | Order source filters help the kitchen staff to determine which orders to prepare for specific order sources.
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XKM-4705 | Recalled Orders | Updated quantities of existing items on a recalled order are displayed as separate added items to help the kitchen staff determine the items to prepare. |
XKM-4708 | Order Segments | Order segments can now be labeled with the respective customer name. A segment name has been added to the XKM API for grouping order segments by customer name. |
XKM-4743 | Kitchen Schemes | Kitchen stations that are not part of a kitchen scheme are labeled "Closed". The popup function menu remains available in the footer of closed stations. |
XKM-4770 | Item Quantities | When configured, 1 (one) is not displayed next to order items with a quantity of one. New Data Management setting for Kitchen Screens: Show Quantity Value of 1 for Item |
XKM-4783 | Elapsed Hold Timer | The Elapsed Hold Timer indicates how much time a prepared order has been awaiting customer arrival. This helps the kitchen staff control the freshness and readiness of the order.
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XKM-4824 | Kitchen Screen Validation | Previously, XKM validated the configuration for all kitchen screens including screens that are not mapped to the current site. This required users to map all screens to all stations and sites - along with other required data. With this update, XKM validates only those kitchen screens that are mapped to the current site. |
XKM-4889 | Upstream Bump by Order Source | Automatically bump orders on upstream displays when bumping from a kitchen screen by order source. This ensures that the orders originating from outside of the store are bumped correctly. New Data Management setting for Kitchen Screens: Bump Upstream Screens by Order Source |
XKM-4970 | Free Form Page Swipe | Swipe pages on the display in lieu of using the page controls. The swipe function is supported in both row and column view. |
Improvements
XKM-4684 | Network | XKM now changes its IP address after switching to other network. |
XKM-4845 | Configuration | When Show Deleted Items is enabled, only previously received items that were subsequently deleted are displayed. |
XKM-4853 | Filters | Terminal ID filters are now applied without generating an error. |
XKM-4854 | Autobump | When the Autobump timer was disabled, orders that remained on the display for an extended period of time could not be manually bumped. This issue is resolved. |
XKM-4858 | Configuration | When Show Deleted Items was enabled, orders with deleted items could not be bumped from upstream screens. This issue is resolved. |
XKM-4946 | Split Order | When an order is split at the POS, and the Display Split Orders Method is Fixed, all order items now remain in the same order cell. When the first item order is bumped, only the first item is bumped from the display. |
XKM-4950 | Android MINIX Support | The application is no longer moved to the background after particular actions are performed. The application always remains in the forefront of the screen. |
XKM-4972 | Autobump | Previously, orders in a pending state (in progress/open) were not autobumped on account the order timer wasn't started. Kitchen has been updated to support the autobumping of all orders/order sessions regardless of their respective order state. |
XKM-5014 | Android MINIX Support | When a duplicate station is detected, the user could download configuration to a station that was not being used, however XKM was loaded as the previously configured station. This issue is resolved. |
XKM-5020 | Android MINIX Support | When Enter was pressed on the bump bar, focus moved to the background of the display and the user could not bump orders. This issue is resolved. |
XKM-5054 | Kitchen Tickets | Item names are no longer appearing on top of other items when the item name wraps to the next line. |
XKM-5059 | Filters | With Terminal ID filtering enabled, orders disappeared and sometimes reappeared on Digital GATOR screens. This issue is resolved. |
XKM-5078 | Ticket Header | In both Column and Row view, the Recall label is correctly displayed in the superheader of Recalled orders. |
XKM-5085 | Configuration | When configured, the order total is now correctly displayed in the footer of orders in both Column and Row view. |
XKM-5088 | Configuration | When configured, the Customer Name is now correctly displayed in the header of orders in both Column and Row view. |
XKM-5114 | Claim Item | An issue was resolved where order items were removed from the order after items were Claimed. |
XKM-5115 | Claim Item | An issue was resolved where order items were displayed at a different station after they were Claimed at another station. |
XKM-5125 | Connectivity | The POS and XKM now connect and communicate without issue on devices that have been updated to iOS 14.6. |
XKM-5126 | Claim Item | Claimed Items are no longer losing their claimed status. |
XKM-5131 | Split Order | An issue was resolved where deleted items were duplicated when the order was split. |
XKM-5145 | Ingredients Summary Pane | An issue was resolved where the Ingredients Summary Pane was not being populated with data. |
XKM-5160 | Autobump | The user is now able to clear any orders from a display that may be hung or stuck in the wrong status. |
XKM-5164 | Order Timer | An issue was resolved where the Order Timer was not activated when the Order State of an order was updated to Saved or Paid. |
XKM-5169 | Filters | Order-level comments are now displayed properly regardless of any defined kitchen display filters. |
XKM-5183 | Order Sessions | When order sessions are active, any updates/added items are displayed in a new cell. |
XKM-5184 | Kitchen Schemes | An issue was resolved where a "station misconfigured" message was displayed in the header of closed kitchen stations when switching kitchen schemes. An additional issue was resolved where active kitchen stations could not be reopened after switching back to a kitchen scheme. |
XKM-5195 | Ingredients Summary Pane | Ingredient quantities are now updated as orders are bumped from the kitchen display. |
XKM-5196 | Claim Item | The kitchen ticket footer is now properly updated after a Claim Item operation is performed.
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XKM-5201 | Order Sessions | The kitchen timer now starts at 0:00 on new Order Sessions and is displayed at the end of the kitchen order queue. |
XKM-5208 | Configuration | When Display Split Orders Method is set to Fixed, the entire order (all parts of an order split at the POS) is now bumped and moved to the Recall screen on a bump order operation. |
XKM-5215 | Fractional Modifiers | An issue was resolved where fractional modifier quantities were rounded up to whole numbers on the display. |
XKM-5219 | Ticket Footer | If the last number of the order total was 0, the zero was truncated in the kitchen ticket footer. |
XKM-5225 | Split Order | An issue was resolved where the application was stuck on the Recall screen after the user bumped a split order. |
XKM-5230 | Bump Times | An issue was resolved where kitchen bump times were not recorded in the database. |
XKM-5234 | Kitchen Hold | An issue was resolved where the Kitchen Hold timer started prematurely on a station when the configuration was refreshed on a different station. |
XKM-5246 | Performance | Kitchen UI is no longer experiencing issues of unresponsiveness on iOS devices. |
XKM-5274 | Claim Item | Any claimed items on an order remain claimed when the order is spit. |
XKM-5276 | Ingredients Summary Pane | To better accommodate a large number of item ingredients, configure the ingredient pane to display the item ingredient and its respective quantity on the same row. Data Management settings for Kitchen Screens:
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XKM-5318 | Order Sessions | When the first order session is either manually bumped or autobumped, only those items are removed from the display and any upstream stations. An issue was resolved where the entire order was bumped. |
XKM-5327 | Combined Orders | An issue was resolved where completed order items were displayed as new items after their respective orders were combined at the POS. |
XKM-5345 | Kitchen Schemes | An issue was resolved where in-progress orders reappeared on the display when the kitchen scheme was changed. |
XKM-5360 | Order Destination | An issue was resolved where bumped orders reappeared on the display when the order destination was changed at the POS. |
XKM-5372 | Split Order | The approach for showing new items added to split orders has been updated. With this update, all new items, including size variations, are shown in the initial order from which split orders have obtained split items. |
XKM-5374 | Configuration | An issue was resolved where after a configuration data refresh, orders were no longer received from the POS on the Assembly and Expo screens. |
XKM-5375 | Upstream Displays | Upstream bumping by Order Source now correctly bumps all items from the Upstream Displays. |
XKM-5394 | Split Order | An issue was resolved where converting order item sizes on a split order duplicated the drinks on the order. |
XKM-5411 | Item States | When the item state of the child and its parent were different, the child could not be matched with its parent, which led to items not appearing on the kitchen display. This has been resolved. |
XKM-5412 | Split Order | An issue was resolved where converting order item sizes on a split order removed modifiers from the order. |
2021-05-26 | 3.3 Xenial Kitchen Management
The information provided below includes the user experience, process workflow, and infrastructure improvements and updates for this production version of Xenial Kitchen Management (XKM) API and UI.
Supplemental Information
This release is not dependent on another release.
New Features
XKM-4260 | Android MINIX Support | XKM now runs on Android MINIX boxes thereby reducing the cost of installing the solution. The use of bump bars is supported with the Android MINIX boxes. |
XKM-4627, XKM-4959 | System Strings Translation | XKM now supports the translation of its system strings to a site's respective language. |
XKM-4856 | Date/Time Format | XKM displays and prints the date/time in the format defined for the selected locale in the Data Management - Site Preferences editor. |
Improvements
XKM-4148 | Installation | XKM can now be installed from within the Shell even without a version of Xenial Ordering setup in Data Management. |
XKM-4241, XKM-4973 | Order Ready Screen | An issue was resolved where "Ready" orders were not timing out after the configured timeout value had expired. |
XKM-4420, XKM-4971 | Electron Browser | XKM now operates properly on an Electron browser when Production Mode is not active. |
XKM-4490 | Order Ready Screen | An issue has been resolved with the vertical orientation of the Order Ready Screen. |
XKM-4584 | Order Ready Screen | An issue has been resolved where orders were not appearing on the Order Ready Screen as expected. |
XKM-4585, XKM-4968 | Order Ready Screen | An issue has been resolved where the status of orders was not updated to "Ready" as expected. |
XKM-4590 | Offline Mode Functions | The following issues related to the Functions menu have been resolved:
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XKM-4645 | Autobump | Eligible orders were not automatically bumped if Autobump was set to sixty-five (65) minutes or greater. |
XKM-4646 | Customer Details | Order number was duplicated in the ticket header when Customer Details were populated. |
XKM-4647 | Maintenance Notification | The maintenance notification is now displayed at the appropriate time. |
XKM-4723 | Refresh Config | The Refresh Config date/time was not updated properly after the application was closed and relaunched. |
XKM-4760 | Order Sessions | Child items were not displayed when Order Sessions were enabled. |
XKM-4778 | Combo Meal Upsize Issue | Orders were removed when combo meals were upsized multiple times on the same order. |
XKM-4822 | Bump Bar | The application did not respond to the Bump Bar after the user selected the Enter button. |
XKM-4828 | Bump Bar | The application became unresponsive when the user long pressed the Switch Page button on the bump bar. |
XKM-4829 | Bump Bar | Orders that displayed the watermark numbering from the previous page could not be selected with the bump bar. |
XKM-4830 | Split Screen | When the user switched to split screen, the bottom half of the screen was not displayed. |
XKM-4831 | Order Ready Screen | The customer name was not cleared from the "Ready" section after the defined time interval had elapsed. |
XKM-4839, XKM-4934 | Offline Mode | If the primary kitchen station was offline, the message 'Kitchen Video Disconnected' was displayed while any POS terminal was used. |
XKM-4852, XKM-4929 | Refresh Config | After upgrading the application and refreshing configuration, the message "This Menu is Unavailable" was displayed. |
XKM-4859, XKM-4925 | Refresh Config | FC Expo Screen was sporadically prompting the user to "Refresh Config". |
XKM-4909 | Refresh Config | Language translation was not updated with Refresh Config. |
XKM-4912 | Electron Browser | The application did not fully load on an Electron browser when upgrading to 3.3.2. |
XKM-4913 | Duplicate Station | After downloading the same station to two different devices, the message "Duplicate Station" did not appear. |
XKM-4923 | Blank Screen | A site reported the DT Expo Screen was blank. After a restart, data appeared. |
XKM-4936 | Order Ready Screen | Notifications screen was not displayed properly on the Order Ready screen. |
XKM-4938 | Order Destinations | The designated order destination colors were not displayed on the kitchen screens. |
XKM-4939 | Claim Item | If an existing station was replaced with another device, item claims from other stations were not represented on the replacement station. |
XKM-4942 | Bundle Components | The quantity for deleted bundled child items was incorrect when the parent item quantity was changed. |
XKM-4943 | Order Bump | Blank cells remained on the screen after an order that spanned multiple cells was bumped. |
XKM-4951 | Kitchen Schemes | XKM did not launch if the "Use on First Run" kitchen scheme was set to a custom name. |
XKM-4957 | Ingredients Summary Pane | An issue was resolved where the Ingredients Summary Pane was not displaying information. |
XKM-4958 | Timer Overlap | An issue was resolved where the timer numbers on the kitchen display overlapped when the Column Count was set to 5. |
XKM-4969 | Wi-Fi | After Wi-Fi was turned off and a different general kitchen station was recognized by the POS, updates were not applied on the original general XKM station when Wi-Fi was turned back on. |
XKM-4989 | Refresh Configs | Refresh Configs was not updating the XKM version. |
XKM-5011 | Claim Item | Claim Item feature was not syncing properly between stations after a 3.2 upgrade. |
XKM-5013 | Electron Browser | When run on an Electron browser, XKM was not sending log files to the cloud. |
2021-02-23| 3.2 Xenial Kitchen Management
The information provided below includes the user experience, process workflow, and infrastructure improvements and updates for this production version of Xenial Kitchen Management (XKM) API and UI.
Supplemental Information
This release is not dependent on another release.
New Features
XKM-4266 | Auto Recall Orders | Items from manually bumped orders can optionally recall automatically to the display when new items are added to the bumped order. This ensures the kitchen staff is aware that new items have been added to a previously bumped order. |
XKM-4459 | Order/Item Comments | The appearance of item-level and order-level comments is uniform for all order states. |
XKM-4544 | Installation |
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Improvements
XKM-4475 | Refresh Configuration | The appropriate screen is displayed if the user changes a station name in Data Management and refreshes the configuration. |
XKM-4509 | Claim Items | "Order Complete" is no longer displayed in the footer of Open orders after all items are claimed. "Ordering In Progress" is displayed for Open orders regardless of the item claiming. |
XKM-4541 | Network Connectivity | Fixed an issue where XKM would not fully function when internet connectivity was lost. |
XKM-4565 | Vehicle Information | To ensure vehicle descriptions and comments are not truncated, the vehicle information container in the kitchen ticket header is now scrollable. |
XKM-4660 | Bumpbar Menu Navigation | The user can now navigate and select options from the Font Size and Kitchen Scheme menus using a bump bar. |
XKM-4673 | Order Destination Filter | Order destination filtering is no longer limited by a case sensitive naming convention. |
XKM-4701 | Order Status | Order Items submitted to XKM API are now correctly associated to previously received order items when integrators use numeric values for the serial numbers of those items and send the same order more than once. |
XKM-4734 | IP Address Change Handling | The application has been modified to gracefully handle changes to the IP address while the application is running so that there is no disruption in service. |
2021-01-12 | 3.1 Xenial Kitchen Management
The information provided below includes the user experience, process workflow, and infrastructure improvements and updates for this production version of Xenial Kitchen Management API and UI.
Supplemental Information
This release is not dependent on another release.
New Features
XKM-4040 | Order Sorting | Sort orders based on the capture timestamp of various system events. |
XKM-4192 | Claim Items | Option for kitchen staff member to "Claim" all items on an order. |
XKM-4218 | Kitchen Tickets | Added ability to configure the font size of kitchen tickets. To turn on this feature: Enable the Font Display Size toggle located in the Menu List section of the Kitchen Screen Settings editor in Data Management. |
XKM-4277 | Item-Level Comments | Updated font of item-level comments to improve usability. |
XKM-4514 | Cancelled Orders | Updated indicator for "Cancelled" orders to improve usability. |
Improvements
XKM-4331 | Item Quantity | Corrected instances where the deleted parent item quantity did not match its respective child item quantity. |
XKM-4430 | Order Segments | Order Segment Grouping is now suppressed on orders with a single Order Segment. |
XKM-4589 | Claim Items | "Claimed" items always indicated on the kitchen ticket. |
XKM-4626 | Installation | Installation of duplicate kitchen stations is now disallowed. The user is presented with a notification stating "This kitchen station is already in use. Please select a different station." |
XKM-4638, XKM-4653 | Installation | Upgrade to XKM 3.1 without subscription issues. |
2020-07-16 | 2.8 Xenial Kitchen Management
The information provided below includes the user experience, process workflow, and infrastructure improvements and updates for this production version of Xenial Kitchen Management API and UI.
Supplemental Information
This release is not dependent on another release.
New Features
XKM-4125 | Dynamic Order Filtering | Filtering orders by order destination enables the kitchen staff to switch between viewing Drive-Thru or Dine In orders on a particular station. |
XKM-4135 | Quantifiable Modifiers | When the Quantifiable toggle is set to ON for a modifier in a product build and a quantity is specified for that modifier at the Ordering application, a numeric value is displayed to the left of the modifier on the kitchen ticket to indicate its respective quantity. |
XKM-4143 | Tablet/iPad Battery Status | The battery status for the tablet/iPad device is now displayed in the header of the screen. |
XKM-4160 | Open Order Color Scheme | Open orders are displayed with the standard color scheme, but order items are displayed in black font to make the item information more easily readable. |
XKM-4259 | Network | Orders were stuck on the screen due to network connectivity issues. |
XKM-4259 | Item Name Wrapping | To accommodate long product and modifier names, up to two lines of text are provided as needed on the kitchen ticket. |
XKM-4261 | Font Size for Window Minix Boxes | The font size used to display order content on Window Minix boxes is now increased. The font size was increased to make the item information more easily readable. |
XKM-4368 | Architecture | XKM is integrated with SQLite. |
XKM-4385 | Claim Items | A Claim All button is implemented to allow the user to claim all of the items in order to optimize the time it takes to prep and deliver an order in the system. |
Improvements
XKM-4249 | Recall Orders | When the Recall Orders screen was opened, and other stations were using the same screen, the Recall Orders screen was opened on the other stations as well. |
XKM-4288 | Performance | XKM iOS reengineering to improve overall performance. |
XKM-4292 | Split Screen | Screens were displayed in reverse on a split screen setting. |
XKM-4312 | Claim Items | Order item claims were lost / removed when transitioning order states. |
XKM-4314 | Claim Items | There were issues claiming order items after the system was upgraded from 2.2.136-44 to 2.7.28. |
XKM-4321 | Kitchen Display | POS orders were not displayed. |
XKM-4333 | Performance | POS Datasync is used for syncing the orders between XKM instances. |
XKM-4354 | Kitchen Display | Fractional modifier quantity greater than one in two different lines. |
XKM-4355 | Performance | UI performance optimisation |
XKM-4357 | Performance | DB querying improvements
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XKM-4364 | Kitchen Display | The orders on kitchen are not filling up the cell space completely. |
XKM-4380 | Claim Items | Order items weren't claimed after the order status changed. |
XKM-4382 | Order Status | Several orders have a Pending status on the kitchen stations. Orders should be in Saved status. |
XKM-4383 | Configuration | Orders were not cleared from the database in accordance with the Data Management setting Order Retention Timer. |