This release introduces powerful new capabilities for organizing your facility, scheduling your team's work, and propagating plants through tissue culture. We've also made key improvements to inventory management and squashed several bugs.

Here's what's in this release:

• ✨ New Features
• 🧬 Tissue Culture Propagation (TCP)
• 💡 Improvements
• 🔧 Bug Fixes

✨ New Features

Hierarchical Locations — Organize Your Facility Your Way

Your facility isn't flat, and now your location management doesn't have to be either. GrowerIQ 3.4.0 introduces hierarchical sublocations, letting you mirror your real-world facility layout directly in the system.

Instead of a flat list of rooms, you can now create nested location structures like:

Facility > Building A > Row 1 > Rack 3 > Shelf 2

This means you can track exactly where every batch, sample, or supply lot sits — down to the shelf level.

📝 How It Works:

1. Navigate to Administration > Locations
2. Click "Create Location" to add a new root-level location
3. Drag and drop any location onto another to nest it as a sublocation
4. Edit the Name, Code, and Type (Room, Row, Rack, Shelf, etc.) directly in the grid
5. Use the "Make Root" button to move a sublocation back to the top level
6. When assigning inventory to a location, the full path is displayed (e.g., "Building A > Row 1 > Rack 3") so you always know exactly where things are

Note: Locations with active inventory cannot be deleted. The system shows an "In Use" indicator for locations that currently hold inventory.

Task Management — Plan, Schedule, and Track Your Team's Work

The new Task Management module gives you a complete production scheduling toolkit. Create tasks, assign them to team members, track time and costs, and monitor progress from a centralized dashboard.

📝 How It Works:

1. Navigate to Task Management from the main menu
2. Create tasks manually, or use the AI Task Planner to describe work in plain English and let AI generate structured tasks for you
3. Assign tasks to one or more team members and set priority (Low, Medium, High) and due dates
4. Track progress through the status workflow: Open → Assigned → In Progress → Pending Approval → Closed
5. Use the Calendar View (month, week, or day) to visualize your team's schedule
6. Team members use the built-in timer to log actual time spent on each task
7. Track supplies consumed and costs incurred (labour, supplies, other) for full cost visibility
8. Supervisors review and approve completed tasks before closing them

Dashboard Insights — The Task Management dashboard provides at-a-glance analytics:

• Task Pipeline Health — open tasks, tasks due this week, overdue count
• Time Utilization — hours logged today, average task duration, active timers
• Team Workload — assignments per user, unassigned tasks
• Cost Analytics — labour and supply costs month-to-date

Note: Tasks can be linked to inventory, locations, equipment, orders, and shipments for full traceability.

AI-Powered Form Builder Enhancement

The AI Form Builder now uses smart dropdowns for inventory names when creating and filling out forms. Instead of free-typing inventory references, the system suggests matching inventory items from your database — reducing errors and speeding up form completion.

🧬 Tissue Culture Propagation (TCP)

💡 Improvements

• Archive Mother Batches: You can now archive mother batches that are no longer in active use, keeping your batch list clean and focused on current production.

• Split Lot Validation: The Split Lot modal now displays a clear error message when you enter an invalid quantity, preventing accidental splits with incorrect values.

• Corrective Action Rename: The "Backdate" function has been renamed to "Corrective Action" across the application, better reflecting the purpose of this feature — documenting corrections to historical records.

🔧 Bug Fixes

We've squashed several bugs to make your experience smoother:

• Color Grading: Fixed an issue where removing a classification from a Color Grade would fail with an error.
• User Hourly Cost: The currency symbol on the Hourly Cost field now correctly matches your organization's configured currency.
• Sample Creation: Resolved multiple issues with the Create Sample workflow to ensure consistent behavior.
• Order Items: Fixed an issue where the "Add Item" button would become disabled after selecting a product with a requested quantity.
• CRM Performance: Resolved a looped query on the CRM page that could cause slow loading times.
• Fertigation Logging: Unapproved Supply Lots are no longer available for selection in the Add Nutrient and Add pH dialogs, preventing accidental use of unapproved materials.
• CAPA Inventory Selection: The Select Inventory dialog in CAPAs now correctly allows you to select archived inventory items.

We Built This With You in Mind

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