Welcome to our February 2026 Demo Day. This session highlighted practical improvements across Rover’s web platform, Net Client, and Portal—along with an exciting preview of what may be one of the biggest web advancements yet: Command Runner.
This month’s updates focused on usability, flexibility, and faster modernization. From scheduling improvements and POS offline mode to self-service portal password resets and dynamic web rendering of existing Rover forms, these enhancements are designed to help teams work more efficiently while building on the systems they already rely on.
Here’s what’s new:
Production Module: Smarter Scheduling Board Tools
The production scheduling board received two helpful usability enhancements designed to make day-to-day planning faster and more accurate.
Work Order Search and Highlighting
Users can now search for a specific work order directly from the scheduling board. Enter a work order number, click search, and Rover will immediately zoom to that order, visually highlighting it while fading out the surrounding items for easier focus.
This is a simple change, but a valuable one for planners and production teams working in crowded scheduling views.
Non-Working Days and Holiday Warnings
The scheduling board now recognizes non-working days and holidays defined in MC Control.
When a user tries to move or schedule work onto one of those days, Rover will display a warning so they can decide whether to cancel the move or proceed intentionally. The warning also extends to situations where moving one item pushes other jobs into non-working days.
This adds a layer of visibility that helps teams avoid scheduling conflicts without taking away flexibility when exceptions are needed.
Point of Sale: Built-In Offline Mode
Rover POS now supports offline mode directly inside the application.
Previously, users had to force offline behavior through browser developer tools or device network settings. Now, the app includes an offline toggle right in the online/offline indicator menu.
This improvement was driven by a real customer use case: warehouse devices operating in environments with unreliable connectivity. In those situations, users found that forcing offline mode allowed them to work more smoothly with cached customer and part data, instead of dealing with inconsistent online behavior.
It is a small quality-of-life improvement with a big impact for mobile and warehouse teams.
Part Categories: Multi-Level Category Trees in Web and Rover
Rover now supports multi-level part category trees in both Rover and Rover Web.
Previously, category handling was much flatter and more limited. With these changes, users can now drill into nested category structures directly in the interface, making it easier to browse and filter parts in a way that better reflects real product hierarchies.
On the backend, this is supported through the new CatE structure, while legacy CAT Control remains in place for compatibility. Existing customizations are not broken, and legacy data still populates in the same location—it is simply no longer editable there.
This gives customers a more flexible path forward while still respecting the structure they already have in place.
Net Client Email Integration: Outlook and Thunderbird Fixes
Another important update addressed long-standing friction with email client integration.
Microsoft’s newer version of Outlook deprecated the interface Rover had been using, which caused issues for some customers. The team has now replaced that approach with a standard EML file workflow, allowing Windows to handle the default email client.
The result:
- Support for Outlook Classic
- Support for New Outlook
- Support for 32-bit and 64-bit Thunderbird
This means report-to-email workflows should now behave much more reliably across modern desktop email environments.
A couple of important callouts from the session:
- This email update requires an ACE upgrade
- The part category changes require an M3 upgrade
Net Client Roadmap: 2.5 Released, 2.6 in Progress
The team also shared a quick status update on the Net Client.
Version 2.5.0 was released recently and includes the improvements discussed in prior Demo Days, including Z-indexing changes, copy/paste enhancements, and other general refinements.
A small bug was identified in 2.5.0, and the team already has an internal pre-release addressing it. That same pre-release also includes work on command window hanging and desync issues. While at least one edge case is still being investigated, the expectation shared in the session was that 2.6.0 would follow soon with additional fixes and stability improvements.
Portal: Self-Service Password Reset for Customers
Rover Portal is getting a feature many customers will appreciate: self-service password reset for portal users.
This can be enabled on a per-login basis, allowing organizations to decide whether or not they want the feature exposed. When enabled, portal users can click a reset password link on the login page, receive a reset email, and set a new password themselves.
A few important notes:
- This only works for Rover Portal users, not base Rover accounts
- The host system must have mail control configured so it can send the reset emails
- The feature reduces the need for staff to manually reset passwords on behalf of users
For customers using Portal with their own customers, this is a meaningful usability improvement that reduces support overhead and improves the user experience.
Command Runner: A Major Step Toward Web Parity
The biggest reveal of the February Demo Day was Command Runner.
At a high level, Command Runner dynamically renders existing Rover forms in the web by pulling their definitions from the host system through APIs.
That is a big deal.
Rather than rebuilding forms one by one for the web, Rover can now use the form definitions that already exist in the desktop environment and generate a close equivalent in the browser. During the demo, the team showed this working with both simpler and more complex forms, including real lookups and real data loading into the web interface.
Why Command Runner Is a Big Deal
Command Runner changes the conversation around web modernization.
Instead of manually recreating every interface, Rover can increasingly leverage the work that already exists in the system. That creates a much faster path to extending more desktop workflows into the web.
It also has important implications for custom systems. Because many Rover environments already contain custom form definitions, this approach could make it much easier to bring those screens into the web as long as the right backend APIs and validation layers are in place.
Still in Progress—But Moving Fast
The team was clear that Command Runner is not yet in production. It is beyond proof of concept, but there is still work underway around:
- UI polish and layout translation
- API coverage for form interactions
- Validation layer consistency
- Determining which commands should be exposed initially
Even so, the tone of the discussion made one thing clear: this is viewed internally as a game changer.
It opens the door to much faster expansion of Rover’s web capabilities and a more practical path to parity between desktop and web workflows.
Why It Matters
This month’s Demo Day was full of improvements that reduce friction in real ways:
- Faster work order navigation on the scheduling board
- Better handling of holidays and non-working days
- A built-in offline option for POS in low-connectivity environments
- More flexible multi-level part categories
- Better compatibility with modern email clients
- Easier password resets for portal users
- Continued Net Client stability work
- A major new foundation for bringing Rover forms into the web
Taken together, these updates show Rover continuing to evolve in a very practical direction: improving usability today while laying the groundwork for much faster modernization tomorrow.
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