Hotfix 4.2.17.22

Released 12-Apr-2018

• Purchasing - Add 2 control parameters (Default PR Required Delivery Date , and Default PO Required Date). These will be Yes by default. If Yes then Default the header Required Date to tomorrow.

Base Release 4.2.17.18

Addendum

11-Apr-2018

It has come to our attention a new Control Parameter Report Server Full Trust introduced in the latest web release v4.2.17 is causing report rendering issues for on-premise web installations that use Report Server Local Mode.

This new Control Parameter is turned on by default to improve report rendering performance, which has worked well for our hosted sites. However it looks like many on-premise installations are not compatible with the .NET Framework Full Trust mode. The symptom is running any web report will return a blank page.

For the time being please manually change the parameter value to “No” after the upgrade.

Base Release

Released 03-Apr-2018

IMPORTANT

Δ #1 Invoice Details - The following functionality has been deprecated and is replaced by newer feature set. If the deprecated features are being used then the configuration should be made in the corresponding feature - Footer Code & Text, Invoice Type - Footer Text, and Report Text - HTML Editor tables. Read more below...

New Features

Service Desk

The Service Desk logs have been enhanced to better support planned and reactive scheduling. This enhancement includes:

• Log Details fields - A tweak to the fields, moving the Allocated To picker after the Priority to allow initial input of the Scheduled date and time, and Expected Hours.

• Log Details, Allocated To picker - The picker has been enhanced to display the earliest Available Date and time based on the Scheduled date-time and Expected Hours (rounded to whole hours, and in single continuous period). The bars now displays the activity on the Available Date and the following day. For the default Scheduled date-time (Now), the picker is equivalent to the previous behaviour. This combination hence supports:
  • Reactive scheduling - Schedule date-time as now, and specified Expected hours; results in first available period.
  • Planned scheduling - Schedule date-time as desired, and specified Expected hours; results in first available period on desired date or thereafter.

• Resourcing tab - This new tab displays the people and plant resources scheduled with this log, naturally displaying the primary Allocated To as the initial record. Additional people or plant may be scheduled to this log; but note this is for the schedulers only and do not translate into job costs. The resourcing entries are also visible from the schedulers and may be edited from there, but the initial creation must be from the Log.

Feature Revisions

Timesheets

• Approval 1 & Approval 2 -
  • New buttons [Prev] and [Next] are now available on the timesheet screen when you drill down on Approval 1 and Approval 2. These allow navigating between list items without returning to the respective list.

  • The list content is now controlled by the control parameter "Approval Delegation Enabled". If this is 'Yes' it only includes unapproved timesheets where the logged in user is a Secondary approver AND if the Primary Approver for the timesheet group is flagged as 'Out of Office'. If this parameter is 'No' then the list: show all timesheets where logged in person is Primary, Secondary or Admin.

Purchasing

• Purchase Requisition Details - The dates have been enhanced to support the two new dates - Follow Up Date and Expected Date, both at header and line level. The header dates define the defaults for new lines, but the line dates are editable. The Required Date is mandatory on Submit to the workflow. These dates are also implemented on the PO and carry through on PO creation.

• Purchase Order Details - The support for the three dates - Required Date, Follow Up Date and Expected Date, has been extended to line level. The header dates define the defaults for new lines, but the line dates are editable. The Required Date is mandatory on Approval. These dates carry through from the PR on PO creation.

Contracts

• Budget Detail - The year period was being updated to the next open period on save. This is rectified to be the year period based on the budget date irrespective of the period status.

Jobs

• Job Templates - New job templates had an invalid value set if the control parameter 'Use Employee Agreements' was 'No' and this prevented their use; this is rectified.

Billing

• Δ #1  Job Invoice Details & Job Credits - The following functionality has been deprecated and is replaced by newer feature set to simplify configuration and provide better print quality. If the deprecated features are being used then the configuration should be made in the corresponding feature:

 A. Invoice Type - Footer Text is deprecated; Report Text is the replacement feature. This allows wording templates to be defined and inserted as desired.
 B. Footer Code and Text is deprecated; Report Text is the replacement feature. This allows wording templates to be defined and inserted as desired.
 C. Report Text HTML Editor has the Table button removed as it cannot provide the required print quality. Tables is not supported at this moment.
 D. Customization sub reports have been added to simplify report customization, for example a standard header sub-report for easier customization, refer report section below.

Subcontracts

• Work Order Details - The WO lines totals were inadvertently displaying a value rounded to thousands, and this has been rectified. This was a display issue only and no data integrity was not affected.

Reporting

• Configuration - A new control parameter 'Report Server Full Trust' has been added to switch for an improved report render approach. This will default to 'Yes' to enable the new process by default.

Reporting

Report Revisions

• All batch report, and half other reports now support the new trouble-shooting setting 'Display SSRS Report Parameters' that enables / hides the section displaying the parameter values passed to the SSRS report. This is aimed at assisting consultant troubleshoot reporting issues.

• Document style reports now use sub-reports for the logo portion of the report, in addition they have blank template sub-reports for footers to facilitate custom requirements. These reports now only support HTML for footer text with the images options removed to improve overall print quality. This enhancement affects the following standard reports:
  
  • wbARCreditFooterSubreport
  • wbARCreditHeaderSubreport
  • wbARInvoiceFooterSubreport
  • wbARInvoiceHeaderSubreport
  • wbContractClaimFooterSubreport
  • wbContractClaimHeaderSubreport
  • wbPurchaseOrderFooterSubreport
  • wbPurchaseOrderHeaderSubreport
  • wbSubcontractClaimFooterSubreport
  • wbSubcontractClaimHeaderSubreport
  • wbWorkOrderFooterSubreport
  • wbWorkOrderHeaderSubreport

• wbARInvoice006 - Added Job Order Number to report.

Report Reformat

• wbARCredit001
• wbARCredit002
• wbARInvoice002
• wbARInvoice003
• wbARInvoice004
• wbARInvoice005
• wbARInvoice006
• wbARInvoice007
• wbARInvoiceApproval001
• wbBudgetApproval001
• wbContract002
• wbContract003
• wbContractClaim001
• wbContractClaim003
• wbContractClaim004
• wbContractClaim005
• wbDocketCostSchedule001
• wbJobTransaction002
• wbLogMaintenance001
• wbPurchaseOrder001
• wbPurchaseOrder002
• wbPurchaseOrder003
• wbPurchaseOrder004
• wbSubcontractClaim003
• wbSubcontractorReports001
• wbTime001
• wbTime002
• wbTime003
• wbTimesheetException001
• wbWorkOrder001

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