Workbench Release Notes

General Release 4.6.0.5

Scheduled Release - 6 February 2023

Jobs

• Budget Lines:
  Rectified an issue on Job Budget Entry where the FC Revenue value calculation on a line was not triggered when the Markup% is 0 or its column is hidden.

Purchasing

• AP Vouchers:
  Rectified a beta release issue where the AP voucher Total Incl and Total GST values were cleared on selecting a supplier or purchase order.

Integration

• MYOB AccountRight - AR Job Receipts:
  When syncing AR payments back from MYOB AccountRight, populate wbif.JobReceiptsTrf.Amount with the FC value of the payment, not the LC value.

Beta Release 4.6.0.2

Scheduled Release - 30 January 2023

New Features

System Setup - Reporting:

• Ability to flag a report as inactive:
  You can now manage what reports are active and which ones are not within a ReportGroup.
  The benefit of this is that the default Report group that comes with the Workbench database ('All Reports') can still be used, and some reports can be marked as inactive without the need of creating a new custom Report Group. When new standard reports are added to Workbench, these reports will be added to the 'All Reports' report group and all users with this report group can make use of them. On the other hand, if custom report groups are used new standard reports released by Workbench will have to be manually added each time one is released.
  
  
  

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  Note - since a report may be active in one group but inactive in another, this will be treated on an additive basis ie. if a report is active on any group then it is considered active.

Feature Revisions

Jobs

• Contract Claim Schedule and Output Schedule line descriptions:
  The line description field on Contract Claims Schedule and Job Outputs schedules has been increased to 250 characters.

Purchasing

• AP Vouchers - temporary incorrect label:
  In very specific scenarios the Total Incl & Total Tax fields on an AP Voucher were changed to display DecimalValue instead. This has been rectified.

• Mobile Purchase Orders - Workflow approvals:
  A workflow type option has been added on the Mobile Purchase Order screen for those that require it for workflow approvals.
  
  

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Subcontracts

• An error when emailing subcontract reports has been rectified.

Plant

• Plant assignments - Handle blank details on bulk creation of Plant Issues:
  When the Plant Assignment's 'Issued To' and 'Comments' are blank, the plant issues generated by the bulk creation of plant issues were saving these values 'IssuedTo() Comments()'. These fields are now omitted if they are blank on the Plant Assignment.

Month End

• Auto-batching of Plant Issues and Disbursements entered via Timesheets/Daysheets - enhancements:
  An enhancement has been done to the new functionality introduced on our previous [See details here]
  When auto-batching plant issues/disbursements entered from timesheets, these transactions will be grouped into batches by Timesheet Week ending date. This is to help with the timesheets approval process and avoids mixing approved and unapproved plant issues/disbursements on the same batch.
  
  The advantage of this is that once the Timesheet week has been approved (with its plant issues and disbursements) the closed system batches are ready to be exported with approved transactions in them.
  Also, the system batch is now created with a Closed status.

• Processes:

  • Jobs reports that include WIP:
    Job reports have been modified to correctly calculate WIP opening and WIP closing values.

  • Plant Depreciation - enhancements:
    Plant Items with no Depreciation Method specified are excluded from Generate Depreciation process.
    Also, a link to the generated disbursement batch has been added to facilitate navigation and checking for results.
    
    

• Utilities:
  A new utility called wbUtilityChangeGLCodeInterCoAPInvoiceByBatchNo is now available and can be used to change the GL account on the inter-co AP invoice lines. It has the following parameters:

  • Source Batch No (needs to be an unexported inter-co AP batch)

  • GL Code to Change From

  • GL Code to Change To

  This will change the JobTransactions.GLDrAccount on AP Invoices in the batch.
  
  

  
  
  

Administration

• Application Access - Licences to purchase:
  Annual Xtracta plans are now available on the Licence Portal on Licence Matrix.
  
  

  
  
  

• Data Transfers - Data imports:

  • New Work Centres data import:
    This new import allows the import of new Workcentres or existing Work Centres to update their descriptions.

General

• Credit Card module authorities removed:
  Traces of the deprecated Credit Card module have been removed. On a User’s Application Authority tab, the Credit Card authorities are not displayed anymore.

• Using filters to search # within the text:
  Searching for text with a # was causing filters to malfunction. This has been rectified.
  
  

Integrations

Attache

• Integration with financial system Attache now has a new stored procedure to export AR invoices.

Upvise

• Upvise integration has been enhanced to support sub-jobs with dashes on the Job Code.