Revision History for Archibus V.2023.01

Included in this topic are fixes and changes to programs, modules, and applications, as well as known limitations.

You will also want to review these topics:

Topic	Description
What's New in Archibus V.2023.01	Summary of major enhancements and new features in Archibus applications, mobile apps, platforms, and customization. Typically, items listed in the What's New are not repeated in this topic's "Changes in this Release" section.
Database Schema Revision History	List of database changes for V.2023.01.
Usage Notes	Documents issues you should be aware of, but are not known limitations. If you encounter an unexpected behavior that is not listed below as a known limitation, check the Usage Notes.

Note:. While the documentation provided with V.2023.01 gives an overview of the V.2023.01 functionality, Archibus continues to add documentation on feature details and usage notes. Should you want the most recent available information, please check the version of the help that is available online at the links below. If you are at a secure site with policy restrictions governing Internet access, and you wish to receive an updated version of the latest help, please contact Customer Support.

User Help: https://help.archibus.com/user_en/archibus.htm

System Management Help: https://help.archibus.com/system/sysman.htm

Changes in Archibus V.2023.01

• Online Help

• Web Central
• Workplace
• OnSite mobile app
• Smart Client, Smart Client Extensions for CAD and Revit
• Database
• System
• Assets
• Real Property
• Space
• Maintenance
• Workplace Services

Known Limitations of this Version of:

• Archibus Help
• Archibus SaaS
• Workplace
• OnSite mobile app
• Web Central
• Smart Client
• Smart Client Extension for AutoCAD
• Smart Client Extension for Revit
• Outlook Plugin
• System administration
• Database
• Mobile framework
• Mobile apps
• Workplace Services
• Space
• Maintenance
• Assets
• Leases
• Real Property
• Sustainability & Risk
• Connectors
• Archibus Extensions for BUILDERTM SMS

Changes in Online Help

• Adobe PDF LiveCycle Forms topics. This change was made in V2022.04 online help, but is repeated here for your reference. We no longer support creating new views that integrate with Adobe PDF LiveCycle, and references to this integration feature have been removed from the System Management Help. If you require the LiveCycle integration topics, you can access them in Archibus V2022.03 online help at https://help.archibus.com/system_v2022.03/sysman.htm#wc_views/Adv_Views_Techniques/pdf_forms/PDF_forms_introduction.htm. Note that existing views that use this functionality, such as Sustainability & Risk / Health & Safety / Management Reports / Incidents Log, still work and their documentation has not changed. We will assess integration with Adobe Experience Manager Forms (the Adobe offering that replaces Adobe PDF LiveCycle) based on customer feedback in our UserVoice forum. (DOC-2730)

• Workplace. Group Moves. In a previous Archibus release, we removed the ability for a department manager to request group moves from Workplace; we have now updated the documentation to reflect this change.(AD-10816)

• Compatibility Matrix. Previously, this was available on Allbound. You can now find it in the System Management Help at https://help.archibus.com/system/sysman.htm#matrix1/WebCentral.htm and https://help.archibus.com/system/sysman.htm#matrix1/ClientServer.htm

Changes in Web Central

• BIM Viewer

  • Non-English Versions of Revit. The BIM Viewer is no longer limited to working with models saved on English version of Revit. (AD-11279)

  • Performance. Upgraded to Autodesk Platform Services Viewer v7.81.0. This provides faster rendering of models. (AD-12463)

  • UX Improvements. The "Work for Assets" tab has been renamed to "Work Requests." The Equipment Details pane now displays as a pop-up; previously, the Equipment Details overlapped the system explorer console. (AD-11547, AD-10953)

  • Equipment Diagnostics. When viewing diagnostics for an equipment item, you can now see diagnostics for 30, 60, 90 days or a custom period you define. (AD-11084)

  • Assets Tab. New Query. When the Assets tab is active, there is a new query available: Approaching End of Life. (AD-11604)

  • Equipment Systems. You can now highlight rooms served by equipment.(AD-10950)

  • Equipment Systems. After tracing a system, if you choose to load a floor the application will restrict the system highlightis to the selected floor.

  • Room Labels. Room labels now hide empty values.

  • Levels. A problem with the model not showing levels under some circumstances has been corrected. (AD-11999)

  • Publishing. We implemented new logic in the BIM Viewer that, for publishing, extracts the system data from the model at runtime .The previous process relied on publishing the system data from the model at the time of publishing from Revit, which was causing some data to not be displayed.. (AD-12079)

• Signing Back in After a Time-Out. If your session expires and you sign back in, when you click anything on the Navigator, you no longer receive an error message. The workaround to refresh the browser page is not required. (AD-10570, AD-10602)

• Images. Firefox. When images have a larger vertical size than horizontal size (a portrait image), they no longer appear distorted on Firefox. This was not an issue for other Web browsers. (AD-7140)

• Metrics. Previously, if there were no records for calculating a metric value (for example: no completed work requests for problem type ELECTRICAL), then no records would be created. Now, if there are no records for calculating a metric value (for example: no completed work requests for problem type ELECTRICAL), then records are created but with metric value = zero. (ex. problem_type = ELECTRICAL, metric_value = 0); This change removes the disconnect between the metric value for the "All" granularity which can be <> 0 and drill-downs by other granularities. (AD-2022, AD-12244)

• Print QR Labels. Previously, if Load Balancer or Reverse Proxy was in place, then the getBaseURL() function returned an HTTP URL in HTTPS environments . This resulted in problems with the "Print QR Labels" feature. This has been corrected. (AD-2520)

Changes in OnSite Mobile App

• Connect for Archibus Maintenance. We are no longer offering this deployment option, which was a connection tool for linking OnSite with a non-SaaS environment. The documentation for this deployment option has been removed. (ON-1999)

• Android. Editing Comments. If you use Settings/Display to set enlarged text and enlarged fonts, the edit icon (three dots) for comments now correctly displays. (ON-1528)

• VPA. Reference Documents. There is no longer inconsistent behavior between OnSite and the Maintenance Console concerning reference documents and VPA. Previously, when there were reference documents that matched the VPA setting, OnSite listed the documents, whereas the Maintenance Console hides the References tab and does not list the documents. (ON-1491)

• Bottom Navigation Bar. The footer now includes a bottom navigation bar so that you can easily return to the home hub. (ON-1596)

Changes in Workplace

• Room Name. In order to comply with accessibility standards, conference rooms in Workplace no longer display their room names. This change was made several releases ago, but had not been documented. (DOC-2982)

• Employee Move Request. When you create an employee move request from Workplace and then view the request in Web Central (View Service Request task), you will no longer find that there is incorrect or missing data. (AD-10440)

• Building Name. You can now control whether or not the Building Name appears in Workplace by setting the AbSpaceHotelling.ShowBuildingonWorkspaceCard and the AbWorkplaceReservations.ShowBulldingonMeetingCard application parameters. (AD-10614)

• Accessibility. We have made several minor UI changes to support WAGS accessibility. (AD-11690).

• Notifications. All service request notifications now include a link to Workplace Request Details page. Previously, the links went to the View Service Requests view in Web Central (ab-helpdesk-request-view-tabs.axvw). (AD-11023)

Workplace Mobile App

• Searching. Dismiss Keyboard. If you search and then dismiss the keyboard, the screen area that the keyboard occupied no longer remains blank. (AD-8227, AD-8006)

• Blank Areas. We have resolved problems of extra blank areas appearing in various screens of the Workplace mobile app. (AD-8258).

• Header and Footer. On iPhone 12, the header of the application is no longer cut; you can now access buttons located at the top of the screen, such as "My Account" or "Cancel" buttons. (AD-7459)

• Icon and Title. On iPhones and iPads, the main page listing all your apps no longer has the wrong icon and title for the Workplace app. (AD-8653)

• Meeting Reservation. You can now change Start Time or Duration from the selected value to none; you are no longer limited to changing only to other available Start Times or Durations. (AD-9554)

• Android. Landscape Mode. You can now work with Workplace in landscape mode on android mobiles without encountering UI issues. (AD-9574)

• Android Tablets. Cancel Button. On the list of reservations you made, the button to cancel an entire series now displays for booked meetings. (AD-11633)

• Android. Signing In. When using a URL that previously connected, you will no longer have trouble connecting on an Android. (AD-11743)

• Android. Comment Field. On the Service Request detail page (type Maintenance), when you tapped inside the comment text box, the keyboard would hide the comment field so that you could not see what you were typing. This has been corrected and the page scrolls automatically so the keyboard displays below the comment box. (AD-10535)

Workplace Desk Bookings (hotelable rooms)

• Canceling. On the Workspace Booking details page, the Cancel button is now hidden for those users whose security group does not permit cancellation. (AD-11734)

• Visitor Booking Canceled in Error. If a visitor booked a room for a date, you made a recurring booking for the same date, you made a second recurring booking for these dates, you canceled the duplicate booking when prompted, the visitor booking would also be deleted. This has been corrected. (AD-11890)

• Calendar. The count at the top of the calendar column now correctly indicates the number of team members with booking on that particular day; previously, it also included bookings made for other employees who are not team members. (AD-11665)

• Rooms without Room Categories. The following has been resolved: the Create and Review Bookings view may show fewer rooms available for a building than a user might expect IF rooms have been flagged as bookable but do not have a Room Category associated with them. Since hotelable rooms should be in occupiable space, and since Room Categories are required to indicate occupiable space, those users who are defining hotelable rooms will want to check that all rooms defined as hotelable include a Room Category value. In a future release the Define Hotelable Rooms view might be updated to enforce that requirement. (AD-4915)

• Accessibility. Colors. We have updated the colors on the Calendar. (AD-11518)

Workplace Meeting Room Reservations

• Setup and Cleanup Periods. Previously, if you set the Pre-Block and Post-Block booking times as part of a meeting room arrangement, Workplace did not reflect these times. (AD-11158)

• Floors with No Available Meeting Rooms. On the Meeting Space Booking screen, previously the floor selector did not include floors that did not have rooms available for reserving. We received feedback that this was confusing; now, these floors are available from the floor selector. This change enables users to view the floor plans, even though they will not be able to reserve rooms on these floors. (AD-11800)

Changes in Smart Client, Smart Client Extensions for AutoCAD and Revit

Smart Client Extension for Revit

The following problems were fixed:

• Catalog: On high DPI monitors, the catalog form did not display properly. (AD-11610)

• Publish 2D: JSON (asset files) not created if multiple levels were cataloged in the same session. (AD-5917)

• Publish 2D: Room labels not created in the same location as in the Revit model. (AD-10752)

• Publish 2D: Some published rooms did not have the correct shape. (AD-11261)

• Publish 2D: Occasionally some rooms were not published. (AD-11264)

• Publish 2D: Published circular areas were not always selectable in the Web Central Space Plan Viewer. (AD-12170)

The following improvements were made:

• Clear/Remove Data: Is now more efficient. (AD-10760)

• Publish 3D (Forge): Now creates SVF2 files for improved performance in the BIM Viewer. (AD-12015)

Smart Client

• Drawing Management: Corrected a problem with status icons not always displayed correctly. (AD-11195)

• Locale. If you changed the locale you would experience errors when loading the Navigator's Drawings tab. This has been corrected. (AD-11785)

General Smart Client, Extension for AutoCAD, and Extension for Revit

• Multiple security issues were addressed.

Changes in Database

See the following topic in System Management Help: Database Schema Revision History..

Changes in System (AD-12468)

Licensing

• Added for new Healthcare and Wayfinding modules.

User Interface

• Branding changes.

• Correct distortion of images in Firefox.

• External URLs in home page tasks open correctly.

• Fix Capture Image function on SVG drawings.

• Make user selections more apparent in Slate color schemes.

• Select fields dialog for trees no longer hides buttons.

• Address redirection when user is logged out on a homepage change.

Email

• Exchange Online compatibility

• Consolidated APIs for sending emails

Login

• Make autoLogin.properties defaults consistent with database defaults.

• Address error in log when admin resets user password.

• Corrected URL in password reset emails.

• Unscrambled message dialog on password resets.

Security

• Hardening against newline injection, path manipulation, SQL injection and XXE attacks.

Localization

• Support for alternate database collations in MSSQL, e.g. Japanese.

• Minor improvements to localization.

Libraries

• Added avro, joda and confluent kafka serializer classes.

• Updated javax.servlet-api to 3.1.

Data Sources

• Fixes to handling of usePreparedStatements=”true” in most cases.

• Improved caching of data sources loaded from referenced views.

• Improved communication of restrictions to paginated reports.

• When a database query fails, and rollback fails, log the rollback failure and use the original error for messaging.

Workflow Rules

• Improved performance for large workflow rule parameters.

• Improved handling of null values in workflow rule parameters.

Changes in Assets

• Manage Equipment and Standards View: Fixed issue with equipment without site not being displayed. (AD-7802)

Changes in Space

• Move Console. Automatic Look-up. Automatic look-ups no longer cause issues in the Move Console. (AD-11796)

• Space Console. Floor Plans. PDF Export. A problem with floor plans not being centered when exported has been resolved. Also, a problem with the drawing not correctly displaying if zoomed has been resolved. (AD-9817, AD-10753)

• Space Console. Highlighting by Promoted Field. Previously, if you promoted a field (such as the Recovery Status field in the Define Locations view), highlighted by this field in the Space Console, and then opened the Legend panel; you would receive an error. This has been resolved. (AD-11598)

• Space Console. Teams. Previously, you might have encountered errors when using the “Show Teams” option. Also, the Team legend contained duplicate records in the PDF export. These have been corrected. (AD-12027, AD-11729)

• Space Console. Bulk Update. Under some circumstances, bulk assigning room attributes would update only the first room. This has been corrected. (AD-11051)

• Space Console. Validated Room Type Field. Previously, you could enter in the Room Type field a value that did not exist in the validating Room Types table. This has been resolved. (AD-11948)

• Space Console. SQL Injection issues. Several SQL Injection issues were addressed in the Space Console to fix vulnerabilities toward Fed RAMP goals. This is particularly important for Enterprise customers.

  • AD-11966:Modify the unit test variables inside spread sheet files of selenium test.

  • AD-11868: Fix SQL Injection issues in Space Console - process verbatim sql parameters for Define Teams view.

  • AD-11867: Fix SQL Injection issues in Space Console - convert verbatim type sql parameter ‘restrictToFloor’ to normal restriction.

  • AD-10971: Fix SQL Injection issues in Space Console - process verbatim sql parameters for Categories/Organization/Room Standard sub tabs.

  • AD-10969: Fix SQL Injection issues in Space Console - process verbatim sql parameters for View Selected Rooms/Employees/Teams pop-up

  • AD-10966: Fix SQL Injection issues in Space Console - process verbatim sql parameters for Team sub tab and Define Teams view.

  • AD-10932: Fix SQL Injection issues in Space Console - Replace Common parameters with sql restrictions.

Changes in Real Property

• Deleting Leases. Lease Administrators, assigned to security group RPLM-LEASE-DELETE, can now delete leases from the Lease Portfolio Console's Select Lease tab. (AD-7648)

• Deleting Suites. In the Lease Portfolio Console, Lease Administrators can now delete available suites that have not yet been assigned directly from the" Available Suites - Not Yet Assigned" tab. Previously, this action presented an error message. (AD-11367)

Changes in Maintenance

• Maintenance Console. Grouping. You can now group requests by Priority. (AD-7781).

• Maintenance Console. Japanese. Under a Japanese environment, the Maintenance Console's Comments are no longer shifted to the right; they now properly align. (AD-10497)

• Maintenance Console. Equipment Documents. Only the Add, Update, and Delete actions for working with documents are now controlled by the user role. Previously, additional actions such as Show and Download were incorrectly controlled by user role. (AD-8299)

• Maintenance Console. Exports. XLS and DOC Exports were not working with Quick Filters. This has been fixed. (AD-11619)

• Maintenance Console. Locate button. A problem with Work Request Location form not loading when you press the Locate button has been resolved. (AD-12393)

• Email. A problem with duplicate emails being sent for status change has been resolved. (AD-6615)

• Search and Manage Work Requests. Archived work requests now include resources; previously, the view was not showing them. (AD-8272, AD-12172)

• PM. Work Order Generation. When the routine to generate PM work requests generates a work request that has an ID that is a multiple of 1000, (such as 2000, 3000, 10,000, and so on), the work request generation routine would fail. This has been corrected. (AD-12151)

Changes in Workplace Services

Hoteling

• Workplace Utilization Report. Chart. The Workplace Utilization report (ab-rr-ht-rpt-booking.axvw) now includes a double-column chart that displays both the selected floor Reservations count and the Bookings count as two separate (colored differently) columns for each date in the date range filter. (AD-7382)

Reservations

• Authentication. In response to Microsoft disabling Basic Authentication for Exchange Online as of October 1, 2022, we have implemented Oauth2 authentication for sending emails through Exchange Online.(AD-10171)

• Exchange Listener. Emails for Canceled Reservations. The following issue has been resolved: When a user cancels a recurring reservation with room conflicts from Exchange, the Exchange listener encounters a NullPointerException when processing an occurrence without room. This causes the processing to abort, the database transaction rolls back, and processing of the same cancellation restarts every half hour. As a result, the user can get cancellation confirmation emails every half hour until someone cancels the reservations via Web Central. (AD-11711)

• Exchange. Mailbox Auto-discover. Auto-discover failure was cached for up to 24 hours, causing all calendar updates from Web Central to Exchange on that mailbox to fail for 24 hours, until the entry indicating the failure (which was temporary) was removed from the cache.. This has been resolved. (AD-12392)

• Exchange. SMTP was sending email even though Exchange Online was enabled, resulting in error messages. This has been resolved. (AD-11922)

• Reservations Calendar Console. Images. Images inserted in the Layout Document field (using the Define Room Configurations view) were not shown in Reservations Calendar Console view. This has been corrected. (AD-12417)

• Reservations Calendar Console. A problem with rooms not being highlighted on the floor plan if the bl/fl/rm id contains a space (such as room 101 - T) has been resolved. (AD-11654)

• Expired Reservations. Notifications. Users no longer receive notification email for expired, non-approved reservations. (AD-9930)

• Outlook Plugin. Recurring Reservations. An error when selecting a weekend day as End Date has been resolved. (AD-3592)

Archibus Help known limitations

• Non-English help from the Navigator. If you use the right-click Help command on a Navigator process, you will receive an error message that the topic cannot be found. This is because the localized version of Archibus Help does not contain topics at this level of detail. In a future release, the right-click Help command will load the appropriate topic from the English version of Archibus Help. (AD-2786)

Archibus SaaS known limitations

• Home Page Publishing. SaaS Partner Administrator. If you sign in as a SaaS Partner Administrator (such as sample user AFM-BP), run the System / SaaS Partner Administrator / Manage Home Pages and Processes task, modify a home page, and publish your changes; you receive an error message. As a workaround: use System / Add-In Manager / Publish Home Pages by Role to publish home pages after modifying them. (APP-6426)

• Navigator for AFM-MOD Sample User. If you sign in to the HQ sample project as AFM-MOD, you will notice that the Navigator groups modules into domains (including the Archibus SaaS domain) so that the Navigator presents four levels. Having some modules grouped under the Archibus SaaS domain may be confusing if you are demonstrating or learning the product. This change is a result of the Healthcare module being added to the Navigator and the Navigator now exceeding 13 modules. This can be resolved by removing a module that you do not need. (AD-12985)

OnSite mobile app known limitations

• Android. Accessing Documents. If you attempt to open a DOCX file linked to a work request on an Android phone, you receive an error message. This is a result of the phone not having an app to open DOCX files. You can install an app for this purpose. (ON-1495)

• Notifications. Chinese. Push notifications are not yet supported for Chinese. (ON-1058)

• Notifications. Oracle. With an Oracle deployment, you cannot receive notification from OnSite; if you check the Web Central Notifications Log view, you will not see any messages sent from OnSite. (ON-1237)

• New Requests. Cannot See. After you create a new request, you may not see it in the Request List because it is added to the end of the request list. You can use the pull-to-refresh feature to re-sort the requests according to the “order by” option.(ON-487)

• Work Request List. Updating. When you create a new request, it is added to the bottom of the list because the sort order of work requests is not updating to reflect a new request. Pulling to refresh solves this issue.(ON-723)

Workplace known limitations

• Request Types with Questions. Displaying User Responses. If you make a request in Workplace for a Request Type that has questions and also has a Problem Type, the user's responses to the questions do not display in the Workplace Services / Service Desk / Client / View Service Requests task; the responses are correctly recorded as XML in the activity_log.act_quest field.  Requests for Request Types that do not have a value for Problem Type do successfully display the user response. (AD-12927)

• Service Catalog. Accessibility Mode. If Accessibility Mode is enabled, the ..archibus/schema/ab-products/essential/workplace/index.html?action=servicecatalog URL displays the pre-V2022.02 Service Catalog view and does not display the Dashboard, as is the behavior for V2022.02 and beyond without Accessibility Mode. (AD-8901)

• Maintenance Requests. Comments. If a work request has a very large file attached, you cannot save a comment that you enter. This happens only for work requests with large file attachments. (AD-11360)

• iPad Pro. People & Places. UI. The email address in the right panel is not properly displayed. (AD-9466)

• Safari. iPhone 12 (latest iOS 16.2). SSO environments only. If you start Workplace in a Safari browser and without signing out, you close the web browser window fully and then reopen the web browser window and attempt to navigate to the Workplace Interface again, you will not be able to start Workplace. To work around the issue, clear the browser cache and reopen the browser. Or, open the browser, close the Workplace tab which is stuck, open a new tab and enter a Web Central or Workplace URL. (AD-12878)

Desk Bookings (Hotelable Rooms)

• Booking Multiple Seats. Floor Capacity Target. When the application is set up such that AbSpaceHotelling-AllowMultipleBookings is set to Yes and AbSpaceHotelling-EnforceFloorCapacityTarget is set to Yes, when users encounter a room with more than 1 seat available, they have the option to book multiple seats in their own name. However, users can book up to the total number of available seats in this room, even if it exceeds the Floor Capacity Target set for this floor. They will be able to proceed with the booking and exceed the Floor Capacity Target. The next person who tries to book on the floor, however, will be prevented from making any further bookings. (AD-7498).

• Team Restriction. When the “team” restriction is defined, and the space selected for booking is assigned to a specific team, the occupants selection list should be restricted to that team. Instead, the occupant list is not restricted to the team. (AD-11906)

Meeting Room Reservations

• Self-booking. QR Codes. When the self-booking a meeting room is not permitted (SelfServiceBookMeetingSpace = 0, KioskBookMeetingSpace = 0) you will find that after scanning the QR code label, the Book button is displayed. It should be hidden based on the parameter settings. (AD-9683)

• Multiple Room Configurations. In Workplace, we assume that only one configuration and one room arrangement has been defined for a room. If you create multiple room configurations with the Reservations application, the configurations will appear in Workplace, but there is no distinguishing information about the configurations and the user will not know which space they are reserving. There will also appear to be a discrepancy between the available room count and the number of rooms shown on the floor plan. (AD-835, APP-5194, APP-5845)
• Recurrence Pattern. Workspace reservations do not show recurrence patterns in the details view. You can only delete a single occurrence at a time. AD-835)
• Time Slots. Meeting space requests do not honor the value of the parameter in AbWorkplaceReservations-MinutesTimeUnit. You can only select time intervals in 30-minute blocks. (AD-7010)

Workplace Mobile App

• Create Request. Next Button. Android Tablet Browser. If you run the Workplace mobile app on an Android tablet, you will find that if the selected request type presents a questionnaire for you to answer as part of entering the request, Workplace will not display a Next button and you cannot continue with the request. (AD-12848)

• QR Codes. The Home button is not available after scanning a QR code, and from QR Code page, it is difficult to navigate to the log-in screen. (AD-9659, AD-9681)

• Signing in. Android. Mobile Client version. You cannot log in if you are not using Mobile Client 4.0. As a workaround, upgrade to Mobile Client 4.0. (AD-6801)

• Floor Selection. Accessibility Mode. The floor selector buttons are replaced with drop-down lists. In both modes, Workplace should use floor selector buttons. (AD-9844)

• Select Occupants for Workspace Booking. If you try to book six or more staff for working space, the UI cannot correctly display you selected employees. (AD-8599)

Web Central known limitations

• BIM Viewer.

  • Localized. In localized versions of Archibus, you will find that the tooltips on the Autodesk Forge toolbar are not localized. (AD-12210)

  • Unresponsive Highlights. The highlights in the BIM Viewer become unresponsive after six minutes of working with the same building or six minutes of inactivity. This is because the datasource becomes unresponsive. You must reload the view and then set the highlights again. (AD-12120)

  • Blank Worksheets. For some Revit 2022 models, the new feature “Sheets & Views” may display the worksheets as blank. This is an issue with the Autodesk Platform Services API that we could not fix on our side and we are waiting for Autodesk to fix. (AD-10801)

  • Equipment Labels. After you load a floor from the Levels drop-down and turn on the Equipment labels, the BIM Viewer displays the labels for all the equipment in the building instead of just the labels for the equipment on the floor being visualized. (AD-12488)

• Export to XLS. Restriction. If a restriction is in effect and you use the view's Export to XLS command, when you open the Excel file you will find that the restriction message blocks the exported records and you will not be able to see all the fields. Manually adjust the format of the Excel file to see all the content. (DOC- 2749, AD-11606)

• Select Values. Floors. For view 2.0 views that have a filter that includes the Floor Code field, the view may not show all available floors. The root cause is that the core UI grid control determines the number of pages based on the number of index records. For the Floor selector, the index uses the Building Code, i.e. there are 111 buildings with floors. Thus, the grid shows only two pages of floor records (one page = 100 records). (AD-3706)

• Menu options hidden. When a view title is too long, the top menu actions (User Menu, User Help, Add to Favorites) and client logo are not visible. (AD-4820)

• Navigator. Non-English Locale. If you launch Web Central from the Smart Client and are using a non-English locale, the Web Central Navigator will not display your applications and tasks. (AD-3866)
• Polish characters in V.25.x and later user interface. With the V.25.1 user interface refresh, special characters in UI titles translated to Polish do not appear like the other characters. For customers who have this issue, we recommend modifying all CSS files in the \schema\ab-core\views\navigator folder to replace this line: font-family: "Open Sans";
  with this line: font-family: "Open Sans", Arial; (AD-2292)
  
• Questionnaires. Non-English. Questionnaires, such as those in Condition Assessment and Sustainability Assessment, do not allow assessors to edit out-of-the-box, sample questions that have been localized from English (US) to other languages. The workaround is for Archibus Administrators to use Archibus Smart Client to edit the text of these sample questions. This issue affects only sample data questionnaires that have been localized from English. (AD-1547)

• Extended Questionnaires. Document/Photo. The Web Central questionnaire form (for both Compliance and Maintenance) does not currently support respondent-initiated submission of more than one document/photo attachment per question, whether or not the questionnaire designer specifies a value greater than 1 for Maximum Number Responses. The mobile app does support this feature. You cannot delete the uploaded document after Save the question-answer; there is no action when clicking the X button. A questionnaire designer should take this into account when designing forms. (APP-2426, AD-4431)

  • If the intended respondents will be using Web Central to submit documents and flexibility in number of document responses is desired, then the designer can work around the limitation by defining a parent question containing a follow-up question of type document and allow multiple instances of the parent question.

  • For example, parent question could be multiple choice "attach a document?" Yes/No. If Yes, then the application shows the document question as a follow-up. Set up the "Attach a document" question to allow multiple answers, such that the respondent can add another, answer "Yes" and so on.

• Home Page Editor. Maps. When creating home pages, you add only one map bucket to each home page. (WC-2790)
• Home Pages. Localized. For some international users, home pages may display English titles for columns in the Metric Trends panel. If this issue occurs, the user can switch to a different home page and go back, or sign out and sign in again. (WC-2373)

• Grid. Highlight ACAD Pattern (Swatch) fields. If working with a view in which you define highlight patterns (such as Space / Space Inventory / Background Data / Define Division and Department Highlight Patterns, ab-sp-create-dp-hatch.axvw), and you set a gradient highlight, create a swatch bitmap, and refresh the view, the Highlight ACAD Pattern (Swatch) field will not correctly show the swatch bitmap for the gradient highlight. Instead, the fields show the same color for all gradient highlight definitions. (WC-2748)
• Grid 3.0. Grid Control 3.0, which is used in views such as PM Planner (ab-pm-planner.axvw) and Service Console (ab-request-console.axvw), presents an error if you try to sort by a field that is not from the main table. (AD-8474)
• Schema Change Wizard. Oracle. When using Schema Change Wizard on an Oracle database, you may face the error ORA-01031: insufficient privileges when choosing to re-create any of the Archibus security tables: afm_users; afm_groups. Resolution: Choose "Alter existing table structures (preserves additional fields)" option when trying to update afm_users/afm_groups tables. (3045736)

Smart Client known limitations

• Navigator. With a non-SaaS license, logging in to the Smart Client as AFM incorrectly produces a Navigator that includes an Archibus SaaS process. (AD-3794)

• SAML. Connecting to SAML requires user to make server selection on subsequent sign-ins. (AD-1996)

• Certificate Authentication. Web Central tasks. Cannot data transfer or launch Web Central if Certificate Authentication is in effect. (SMAR-626)

• Editing standards tables. If you edit Furniture Standards or Equipment Standards with the default database, the titles for the Length and Width fields will show incorrectly as "ft" or "M". If you log in with a different locale (e.g. view an Imperial project as a Metric user) the program will convert the values. The condition also occurs in Furniture or Equipment Standards views loaded in Web Central. To avoid this condition in both environments, load the Archibus Fields table (afm_flds), find the Length and Width fields, and change their Numeric Format from "Length" to "Default". (3037311)

• Deleting a record with a date/time field as part of its primary key. You are unable to delete records from tables that have a date/time field as part of the primary key, such as the ehs_medical_mon_results table. There are no such errors when deleting records from the same table in Web Central views. (WC-2169)

• Deleting. hwr and hwo tables. It is not possible to delete records from Smart Client grid views that present these tables. As a work-around, delete the records from Web Central. (SMAR-596)

• Deleting. Bulk Editing. Currently there is no way of bulk deleting data from Smart Client. If you select all records and then hit Delete, only those records currently displayed on screen are deleted; all of the other records that are selected but not on screen remain. As a work-around, in View Definition Wizard, create a single panel interactive report for the table in question, choose only the primary key field(s) unless you need to add a restriction. In the preview pane, enable advanced editing, and add multipleSelectionEnabled=”true” in the panel, then insert a panel action with a command type deleteSeletedRows. Save Changes and preview the view and you can check all and delete right from the preview, without needing to save/publish it. (SMAR-17)
• Ribbon. The Smart Client ribbon is very small on high resolution monitors. (SMAR-503)
• Grid. Refresh when filtering. After you set and clear a filter, the grid does not correctly update record counts and refresh. As a workaround, run the Clear action on the menu ribbon. (SMAR-609)

• Replace Column. When there are more than two tables in the standard role attached to the Smart Client grid view, the command presents errors. (SMAR-528)

• Modified views cannot be saved as default view. Log in as a user that has the Security group SYS-VIEW-ALTER (such as AFMX), open a view, change the view, save, and make it the default view. Reload, and the default view will not reflect your changes. (SMAR-329)
• Explorer pane. Recent Views list. When you create new views and save them in the Explorer's list of recent views, you can save up to 8 views. When you save the ninth view, the system removes the newest view from the list. It should remove the oldest view from the list. (SMAR-907)

• Data Transfer. Dates deleted from the output file are not cleared in the database after transferring in the file with the changes made. (SMAR-671)

Smart Client Extension for AutoCAD known limitations

• Installer. The installer does not enable Smart Client Extensions for Revit and AutoCAD. This was found to occur on AutoCAD 2023 and Revit 2022. The workaround is to enable the Smart Client Extensions for AutoCAD or Revit by loading the Smart Client, accessing the Preferences command, and setting the CAD Application and AutoCAD Profile options. (AD-10759)

• Insert Asset. The Insert Asset logic doesn’t take into account the AssetTypeDetail.ParameterUnits value when inserting the asset. Therefore, in a drawing with Imperial/Architectural units, running the Insert Asset command on the RM layer inserts the asset in inches rather than feet. (AD-7470)

• Query Table. The Query Table command does not include fields that contribute to the primary key; for example, it does not show the Building Code and Floor Code values for rooms. (SMAR- 798)
• Highlighting commands
  • Unclosed polylines. If some areas don't highlight with solid highlights, they might be open not closed polylines. If so, close them. The AutoCAD solids don't fill unclosed-closed polylines. AutoCAD hatch patterns do, however. Notice that if you have multiple areas of one type (e.g. Office standard), having one unclosed polyline may cause others to also not have a solid fill (since Archibus hatches many of them in one go for efficiency's sake). (3030818)
  • Hatch patterns. The Archibus-defined patterns (from the .pat file) are not being loaded into AutoCAD at the time of highlighting. Only the out-of-the-box AutoCAD patterns work as expected because the highlighting logic defaults to a SOLID hatch pattern if it can't find the pattern definition. (SMAR-902)
• Large floor plans. When dealing with very large floor plans (3,500 rooms on a single floor), commands like Catalog Layer and Highlight by Department do not give progress feedback, but function correctly.
• Asset Text Height. The Smart Client Extension ignores the atxt_ht_in and atxt_ht_cm in favor of the atxt_ht value, which is in inches. For metric drawings the SCE converts this to cm. (SMAR-189)
• Edit Data. Suite areas. If you use Edit Data on suite areas, and if you use Select Values to select an existing suite, the area in the form shows temporarily as 0. If you press OK, the correct area is recorded and appears correctly on subsequent invocations of the command. (3035340, 3034959)
• Trial layers. Asset text. Asset text is left-justified instead of center-justified. (SMAR-492)
• Explorer window. Anchoring. When you open a drawing from within the Smart Client drawings list, the Explorer window should be positioned according to the settings made in the previous session; instead, it opens in the floating position and you must reset it.(SMAR-702)
• Drawing Publishing 
  • AutoCAD Leader objects. EMF does not support arrows or text with the leaders. SVG supports only solid arrows. (3044919)
  • Secondary circulation areas as regions. As documented in https://www.archibus.net/ai/abizfiles/v23_help/archibus_help/user_en/archibus.htm#../Subsystems/webc/Content/web_user/space/concepts/open_plan.htm, you can draw accurate polylines for secondary circulation using AutoCAD REGIONS. Publishing these drawings may result in rooms being set incorrectly in front of or behind other rooms. In order for rooms within a secondary circulation region to be shown and highlighted in front of the secondary circulation space in a published drawing, they must be numbered higher than the secondary circulation space. (3051186)
  • XREF The XREF Layer does not publish when the TURNOFFALL* value is specified in the additional layers field. As a workaround, turn off layers individually and do not use the TURNOFFALL* feature to control XREF Layers.(SMAR-1001)
  • AFM_NET_LISP "Publish" command. Ignores the viewWindow attribute when the publishType is EMF and the generated file is published to extents. (SMAR-737).
  • SVG. Background Color. If you set the Set the ColorMapping field to BLACK for AbPubBackground in the sample HQ database and publish, the black background does not appear to take effect. This is because there are multiple active rules in the database, and later results overwrite the earlier ones. To resolve this either (a) set the Active flag to No for all of the SVG files except for one; or, (b) specify a unique Rule Suffix (e.g. -bl, -reg, -eq) for each rule, except for the one that has a Color Mapping value so that different rules will produce different output files. (SMAR-417)
  • SVG. Hatches. Complex hatches, meaning that there are multiple polylines that are used as the boundaries for the hatch, do not publish to SVG; whereas hatches that do successfully publish are contained in a single polyline. You can separate the hatches using HATCHEDIT, and the publishing will work as expected. (SMAR-513)
  • Refreshing. Firefox. If your workstation uses Firefox and you load a drawing's enterprise graphics in Web Central or in the Smart Client, then republish that drawing's enterprise graphics, the change may not appear when you reload the view with the enterprise graphics. For performance reasons, some versions of Firefox do not immediately refresh the enterprise graphics files from their local cache even when the file has a later time stamp, as checking the time stamp involves an extra query to the server for each file. To view your changes, clear your cache or restart your browser. If you wish to see changes immediately without clearing your cache, you can change your browser cache settings to control the problem.
    
    1. In Firefox's menu, select Tools > Options.
    
    2. Select the Advanced tab, and then the Network tab.
    
    3. In the Offline Storage section, enter 0 for the MB of space used for the cache.(3024655)

Smart Client Extension for Revit known limitations

• Installer. The installer does not enable Smart Client Extensions for Revit and AutoCAD. This was found to occur on AutoCAD 2023 and Revit 2022. The workaround is to enable the Smart Client Extensions for AutoCAD or Revit by loading the Smart Client, accessing the Preferences command, and setting the CAD Application and AutoCAD Profile options. (AD-10759)

• Uncatalog. With Revit 2022 running on Windows 11, you cannot select Asset Type on the Uncatalog form. (AD-10027)

• File names with special characters. When you publish a Revit file whose file name contains spaces and characters such as #+°$(), you may receive an error message when viewing the SVG file in Web Central. (WC-3132)

• Names of models and levels. Currently, the Smart Client Extension for Revit does not support model names or level names containing the '-' character.(AD-9418)

• Opening a model. Error message. Due to the way that Updater classes are implemented, Revit presents a message that you are missing a third-party updater. You can ignore this message. (SMAR-974).
• Number.
  • If you Number a room and then use the Smart Client to show the Room field "Perimeter ft”, the perimeter shows as 0. If you Data Edit or Data Edit Multiple, the number is corrected. (SMAR-285)
  • If the database does not contain enough information for the Number command to execute, it fails to number instead of providing feedback to the user about what database information is needed to successfully run the command. (SMAR-526)
• Deleting rooms. Revit does not notify Archibus when Revit deletes rooms. Currently, Archibus cannot uncatalog rooms on that event. Use the Synchronization / Uncatalog Records without Assets command to clear the Drawing Name and Id fields on these rooms in one step.
• Web Query. If the last primary key value for an asset is a single digit (e.g. if you query for room "1"), then the pop up dialog results are not restricted to that one record. This doesn't occur for two- and three-digit IDs (e.g. room "10" or "100"). (3035367, 3035366, 3034950, 3034414)

• Publish Enterprise Graphics. Colors. Since Revit floor plans do not have color, colors for Enterprise Graphics generated from Revit can cause confusion, especially since the user does not have control over this. In a future release, Archibus will address this issue. (SMAR-988)

• Edit Data 
  • Rooms. Some objects in linked models are not correctly picking up room codes of the rooms they are inside of. (SMAR-785)
  • Group Areas. For new groups, the Group Code will show as "1" until the record is actually saved. Thereafter, the proper autonumbered ID will show. (3034828)
  • Suite Areas. If you use Edit Data on suite areas, and if you use Select Values to select an existing suite, the area in the form shows temporarily as 0. If you press OK, the correct area is recorded and appears correctly on subsequent invocations of the command. (3035340, 3034959)
  • Long parameter values. If you have a parameter value (e.g. Name) mapped to an Archibus field (e.g. Option 1), and that parameter has an existing value longer than the field width in Archibus, then you will not be able to create a record using Edit Data. You can shorten the parameter value using the Revit Parameters dialog. Alternately, if you use the Archibus Catalog command, the command will find all of these conditions and allow you to rectify them individually or in groups. (3034793)

• Map Database Fields. This form is empty if there are no assets in the model of the specified asset type. (3034357)
• Copy / Paste. If you copy and paste furniture and equipment, you also copy and paste their Revit properties. Use the Archibus synchronization commands to find and resolve any duplicates. (3030989)

Outlook Plugin known limitations

• Registry Entry to Keep Enabled. To ensure the Plugin cannot be disabled by users and will not be disabled automatically by Outlook, you must replace the following DWORD registry value (which is added by the standard installer)

  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\x.0\Outlook\Resiliency\AddinList] "ArchibusOutlookPlugin"=dword:1

  with a string value.

  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\x.0\Outlook\Resiliency\AddinList]
  
  "ArchibusOutlookPlugin"="1"

  This replacement can be implemented by customizing the Outlook Plugin MSI installer with a customization tool such as Master Packager. (AD-10391)

System Administration known limitations

• BMS Integration. The Technologies / Innovative Solutions / Integrations - BMS / Configure BMS Analysis (ab-iot-bms-configure-analysis.axvw) view has an "add new" option which is not functioning. (AD-7901)

• Security. LDAP. The result of using a distinguished name with a comma results in this error in archibus.log: "LDAP: error code 49 - Invalid Credentials". The solution is to change the bind user's "CN=" value to a name that does not contain a comma. (3037258)
• Security. SSO. In SSO mode, when the user name is incorrect, the user is redirected to the timeout page instead of the SSO error page. (WC-2027)

• Solution Templates. IofT. The Technologies / Innovative Solutions /Integrations - IoT / IoT Space Utilization solution template is not Oracle-compatible. (AD-8296)

• Solution Templates. Calendar Control. The Reservations Calendar example records multiple days for one-day events. (WC-3237)

• ConnectListener. When ConnectListener runs, it does not move the previous afm_conn_log entries to afm_conn_logh. (AD-7003)

• Schema Change Wizard. The archibus.log fails to show correctly field and table name in the global dataset. This is only a logging issue. There is no functional error. (3033565)

• Grid. API. Grid panels can display custom values calculated in Java Script code. An example can be seen in the following view. This example displays the custom Location field that is composed from Building, Floor, Room, and Location database fields. The example also includes a menu that allows the user to produce reports with the grid data. Due to Web Central technical implementation limitation, custom values formatted in Java Script code cannot be displayed in these reports. (3041685)
  • Path: Technologies / User Interface Add-Ins / Assemblies with Multiple Panels / Find-Manage with Categories
  • File: ab-products\solutions\assemblies\work-wizard\ab-ex-work-wizard.js
  • Function: updateLocations()
    
    
• Grid. API. When designing views with a grid panel, you cannot set specific grid column width in pixels. The grid automatically sets column widths according to the available space and the data displayed in each column. (3045398)
• Grid. API. The Clear Filter icon is not visible if the last grid column is hidden. To avoid the issue, add an empty last column. The condition does not affect any of the Archibus applications. (3040363)

Database known limitations

• Database Update Wizard. runDuw.sql script. The Database Update Wizard generates an SQL script called runDuw.sql. When writing this file, it does not replace macros with SQL. (AD-10595)

Mobile Framework known limitations

• Fail to log in again when reloading mobile client. iOS. If you log in, close mobile client, and then attempt to log in again, you will find that you cannot log in. The failure stems from being already logged into the OIDC connector and trying to reestablish a session. IOS has not been fully upgraded for service workers due to extra restrictions service workers have in IOS Safari. Therefore IOS still requires the connection checks. A workaround is to wait until the OIDC session is invalid/logged out, as well as not selecting "remember me" (for example in Okta) while on IOS. Not closing the app while there is a valid session will avoid this issue entirely. This is not an issue for Android. (AD-6517)

• Surveys. Measurement questions. Android. With the survey (questionnaire) features in both Maintenance and Compliance Surveys mobile apps, users can enter non-numeric values for Measurement questions. These values do not correctly upload when the mobile apps are synced. A future version will add validation so that users can input only numbers as the answer of Measurement type questions. (AD-4600)

Mobile App known limitations

• Compliance Surveys. Questionnaires. If a questionnaire requires a service request and the service request is created and then deleted, the questionnaire will still indicate the service request step is complete. (AD-9047)

• Maintenance. Resources. If you add resources, such as parts, tools, and costs, you will not see the new resource records in both Resource Details form. Thus, you might think the resource records were not added. After syncing, you will see that the resource record were successfully added. (AD-5908)

• Maintenance.uniqueidentifier Error. Due to Archibus resetting an application parameter for use with OnSite, users of the Maintenance mobile app will encounter the "uniqueidentifier property to be defined" error after completing a checklist or refreshing the screen. To resolve this, run System / Archibus Administrator - Application Configuration / Configure Application Parameters and reset the AbCommonResources.MobileSyncDataChangesOnlyTables application parameter to: bl;eq;rm;rmpct;dv;dp;fl;em;pt_store_loc_pt. (AD-11666, AD-11679)

• Maintenance. Checklists. Android 11. If you try to create a request from a work request's checklist, you receive a blank screen. This occurs only on Android 11. (AD-5863)
• Maintenance. Stopping Work. Supervisors cannot stop a work request that has a pending checklist. (AD-4883)
• Maintenance. Reopening a Checklist when Verifying It. If a supervisor reopens a checklist during the verify process, the work request correctly moves back to the Issued status. If this work request's checklist is still pending and the supervisor or craftsperson now selects multiple work requests to complete (including this one), you will find that you can complete this work request despite the fact that it has an open checklist. The issue does not occur when working from the My Work form because the form does not support multi-select action. (AD-4882)
• Maintenance. Confirmation. SLAs can contain Confirmation steps on the "Issued" and "Completed" statuses. Users who are assigned to these steps can perform the confirmation (Approve/Reject/Cancel) in the Maintenance Console, but this feature is not supported in the mobile Maintenance app. Confirmation steps work only on the "Requested" and "Assigned to Work Order" statuses on mobile. (AD-7267)
• Maintenance. Sync Issues.
  • When a user performs a Sync action on the mobile Maintenance app, any craftspersons hours data (such as Actual Hours or Overtime Hours) can be overwritten if those hours were entered in Web Central. (3045897)
  • When a requestor reports multiple maintenance requests of the same type from different locations and then syncs to upload all the requests at once, the mobile app does not consistently upload all the requests. To avoid this problem, sync after entering each request. (3048805).

  • Part quantities are synced on the mobile Maintenance app only when you sync the background data. This affects mobile users who perform any of the following actions on the mobile maintenance application:
    
    o Estimate parts on a work request
    
    o Add purchased parts to inventory
    
    o Complete a work request that includes parts
    
    After you perform any of these actions and sync, the system will update the part quantities correctly in the database and they will appear correctly in Web Central; however, the mobile application will not show these new quantities. Also, any changes made by other mobile users or Web Central users to the part quantities will not be synced. The workaround is to go the Sync settings on the mobile application and click the button that says “Reset Background Data Sync Flag”. When you return to the Maintenance application, the background data will automatically sync, and the part quantities will be updated on the device. (3053237)
    
    

• Maintenance. Seeing Rejected Requests. Approvers can reject requests back to the requestor or step completer. However, mobile users cannot see or resubmit those rejected requests from the mobile application. This must be done from the Building Operations Console.(3048370)
• Maintenance. Photos. You can request maintenance from the Workplace Services Portal app and the Maintenance app, and you can update maintenance requests from the Maintenance app. However, the two apps store maintenance photos in different tables (wr and activity_log), which can cause problems when editing or deleting a photo. When you request maintenance using the Workplace Services Portal app and add a photo, and then access the corresponding work request using the Maintenance app, the photo will be shown. However, if later the photo is deleted by the Maintenance team from the work request (wr) record, the photo will not be deleted from the activity_log record, and vice versa. There are several alternative scenarios for adding, changing, or deleting photos which may cause this kind of issue. This issue will be fixed in a future release. (3047423)
• Workplace Portal. Chinese. If you enter a space after a Building Code value, you will encounter an error with Rooms / Locate Employee. (AD-5913)

Workplace Services known limitations

Service Desk known limitations

• Manage Request Types. Non-English Locale. When using the Service Desk / Service Desk Manager / Manage Request Types view (ab-create-activitytype-tabs.axvw) to edit request types that have been translated into other locales, the request type does not appear correctly in Service Desk Manager edit form. (AD-2813)

Reservations known limitations

• Archibus Extension for Exchange Integration. Reservation with No Subject. If you create a reservation with no subject, the message stays in the user's calendar and the reservation cannot be found in Archibus; the reservation errors out in the log because the subject is empty. (AD-13528)

• Reservations Calendar Console. Attendees in Room. Does not correctly set the “Attendees in Room” field value when creating meetings; there is no way for a user to manually edit this value. (AD-4856)
• Reservations Calendar Console. Double-byte Characters and Comments Field. The Calendar Console presents an error message when you attempt to confirm a reservation whose comment includes double-byte characters and is larger than 4000 characters. As a workaround, enter smaller comments when a comment includes double-byte characters. (AD-436)
• Reservations Calendar Console. Recurring Reservations for Monthly Meetings. The timeline does not always correctly display recurring patterns for monthly meetings. For example, if you created a reservation for the first Monday of the month, the Reservations Calendar Console might show all Mondays in the month. Although the timeline might not display these reservations correctly, the Console does correctly save these meeting dates and the summary text reflects the proper date. (APP-6651)(AD-1028)
• Reservations Calendar Console. Room Configurations. For situations in which multiple reservations exist at the same time in the same room, but for different room configurations, the calendar displays only one reservation. (APP-6561)
• Reservations Calendar Console. Continuous Meetings. The system does not prompt you resolve continuous meetings that have conflicts; when it encounters this situation, the system generates a workflow rule error. (APP-6535)
• Reservations Calendar Console. Conference Calls.
  • If you create a conference call and you select several buildings in order to select rooms in several buildings; and if many of the rooms in one building are reservable, all of the rooms for this building are shown, and reservable rooms from other buildings are not displayed. This can make hard to select rooms from different buildings. The TimelineMaxRoomsPerBuilding application parameter does not control this.(APP-6214)
  • You cannot edit the date and time of a conference call reservation. (APP-6613)
• Reservations Calendar Console. Changing Room Selection.Time not Recorded. If you select a room, select a time, add some resources, and select another room; you will find that the designated time does not persist to the second room. (APP-6800)
• Reservations Calendar Console. Application Parameters. The TimelineStartTime and TimelineEndTime parameters work only with one-hour increments. If you enter times such as 9:30 and 17:30 in the parameters, the Calendar Console does not consider them. (APP-6698)
• Create Resource Reservation. Reservation Timeline. Microsoft Surface. You cannot drag with touch input a reservation on the timeline. Timeline drag-and-drop supports only mouse events. (APP-3312)
• Outlook Plugin. My Reservations. When the Outlook Plugin displays the My Reservations, the popup is opened without the option to edit any of the reservations showed, so users cannot add resources. The Add Reservation button is also disabled. (AD-4846)
• Google Calendar Integration. When you have configured the application for "no integration" with Exchange, the .ics files that are generated to be imported into Outlook, Google Calendar, or any other calendar app, sometimes do not correctly update the Google Calendar application. Specifically, there can be a problem with the file content related to the meeting identifiers created by the application. These meeting identifiers are not always unique. If you create a new calendar, instead of importing an existing one, the creation of meetings seems to work correctly for single and recurring reservations, but updates and cancellations don’t always work as expected.

Space known limitations

• View and Print Floor Plan. If Room Category and Room Type have the same value, only one value is displayed in the drawing. (AD-10178)

• Space Console. Export What You See. If you select multiple floor plans to display, only the first displayed floor plan is exported. All visible floor plans should export. (AD-12658)

• Space Console. Bulk editing rooms. If you select from the floor plan more than 10 rooms and attempt to bulk-edit them, the form may not display all the fields and buttons making it difficult or impossible to edit the selected rooms. When editing rooms in bulk, edit fewer than 10 rooms at one time. (AD-2711)

• Space Console. Generate Ad Hoc PDF. Large Drawings. For large drawings, such as one with an SVG size of 5590K, the report may not generate. In these cases, increase the memory, such as increasing the Tomcat memory to 2048 M. (AD-2048)
• Space Console. Employees tab. Selecting Employees. If you have a list of employees that runs over multiple pages, when you select employees and then move to "Next" or "Previous" page, the selection will be cleared. As a workaround, you can first use the "Place Employee in Waiting Room" or "Unassign" action for the selected employees on the current page, and then move to a different page to select additional employees. (AD-2741)
• Space Console. Team Space. Organization Name field. When assigning associations to teams, you will see that the Associations tab includes the Organization Name field. This is validated by the Organizational Units (org) table. To create the values for the Organizational Units table so that they are available when completing the Organization Name field, you must use the Smart Client. Create a new view that holds the org table and use this view to define your organizational units. (3052882)
• Space Console. Plan Types. Using Plan Types on the Space Console affords the user the ability to personalize highlights, text labels, and printed legends to the deployment's needs, in addition to the pre-existing highlights and label options that exist on the Space Console's drop-down menus. The Add-In Manager defines Plan Type highlights and labels by creating or modifying view files and datasources that are logged in the active_plantypes table. However, to make changes or add legend datasources, in addition to defining those datasources in the view file that active_plantypes references, the Add-In manager must:
  1. Make an associated change in the same view file for a highlight datasource, and name it as the legend is named. For example, if the Add-In Manager makes a legend datasource named "ds_ab-sp-hl-rm-by-dp-name_rmLegend", they must also make an associated highlight datasource named "ds_ab-sp-hl-rm-by-dp-name_rmHighlight".
  2. In the PDF export AXVW file ab-sp-console-export-drawing-pdf.axvw, the Add-in Manager must also create a legend-type panel and refer to the new legend datasource. Following the same example, the panel's id must be named panel_ds_ab-sp-hl-rm-by-dp-name_rmLegend, and the datasource must equal ds_ab-sp-hl-rm-by-dp-name_rmLegend. The fields that the datasource defines and that should be visible in the legend must be defined in that panel. (3050005)
• Space Requests. Moves. If you change the From Location in a space request, use Space / Moves / Move Coordinator / Complete Group Moves to close the move, and check the rmpct record, you will see that the value for primary_em is still 0. It should change to 1 since user has changed the From Location from satellite location to primary location. The conditions for this situation are: workspace transactions are enabled, the SLA for Group Move calls for the service provider as Move Management and no approvers, and the application parameters are: InferRoomDepartments=0 and AssignUnallocatedSpace=ProrateFloor. (3043629)
• Moves. Action Questionnaires. If you add new Action Types (using the Space / Moves / Background Data / Define Action Types task), you cannot add questionnaires to these new action types using the Space / Moves / Background Data / Define Action Questionnaires task. (3028382)

Maintenance known limitations

• Non-English Locales. Tagging in Comments. When you tag someone in a comment using OnSite or Web Central, the system generates an email; under a non-English locale, the strings in both email title and email body are not translated. Non-translated text includes: the string 'tagged you in work request' in both email title and email body, as well as all the strings for work request parameters in email body. (AD-9394)

• Time Zones. You will encounter the wrong time zone in work orders (11:57 AM instead of 1:57 PM) if you select the “Etc/GMT+1” value as the time zone using the Define Geographical Locations view. Instead, select a city-specific time zone such as "Europe/Paris timezone(UTC+1)". The “Etc/GMT+1” value will be removed in the future as it is not necessary. (AD-8802)

• Maintenance Console. Sorting. The first time that you sort the Maintenance Console's grid by a field it correctly sorts; if you sort by the same fields multiple times, the sort does not work and the arrow in the header row does not update correctly. (AD-7932)

• Craftsperson Sample Data. In the sample HQ project, there are many records in Craftspersons (cf) table that do not have email account; also many have duplicated email accounts like no-response@archibustgd.com. The key convention for the workflow is: cf.email=em.email=afm_users.email. These values must be unique. To fix this issue, just remove those records from the cf table for which emails are either empty or have duplicated value. Below are some situations where duplicated values can cause problems

  • Launch SLA console, dispatch to supervisor, click Select Value, you will see all employees instead of all cf.is_supervisor=1
  • Continue to add a estimation step, select employee to do estimation, you will see all employees instead of all cf.is_estimator=1
  • Launch the Maintenance Console, click any work request, click the Forward button, select supervisor, you will see all employees instead of all meeting the restriction: cf.is_supervisor=1.(AD-6744)
• Craftspersons. Notifications.For SLAs that are configured so craftspersons are to be notified when work is issued (notify craftsperson check-box), the craftsperson is not receiving notification when the work is issued. (AD-4960)

Assets known limitations

• Asset Lifecycle Console. Classification Filter. When you filter for a classification, in the Select Value list associated with the Classification filter, the Classifications tree expands automatically up to the second level. The returned classification results may be at lower levels, so you may need to manually expand the tree to see everything. Ideally, the Asset Lifecycle Console would automatically expand to the appropriate level; however, it expands only to the second level due to potential performance issues on larger inventories of assets. ( AD-10324 )

• Asset Disposal Console. Changing Building Status from Asset Disposal Console Causes Inconsistencies in REPM. The Asset Disposal Console updates the asset records for Buildings and Properties as well as inserts OT records to match when the asset is disposed of. REPM reports on Owned, Pipeline, and Disposed OT statuses for buildings, but ignores buildings with other ownership transaction statuses, or gives unexpected results in reports. The REPM Building Add/Edit Wizard does not have a way to modify the status of the bl record. Setting the transaction Status to Owner does not change the status of the building to Owned. Coordinate OT records with asset status in both REPM and Disposal Console. (APP-852)

• Define Classifications. Deleting Top Levels. In the Define Classification view (ab-ca-def-class.axvw, which is available from the Business Process Owner process of Asset Management, Condition Assessment, and Environmental Sustainability Assessment), you cannot delete a top level. Instead, you must delete the top level by using Smart Client and deleting the record from the csi table. If you are not going to use a top-level classification hierarchy, it is advisable to delete all the child records (under the top level) before deleting the top level. (AD-6682)

• Classifications. Localization. Numeric ID (Automatic Lookup). The Classifications (csi) and Classification Standards (csi_std) tables are not translatable. Therefore, in order to use the Automatic Lookups (Numeric IDs) feature for asset classifications, enable Automatic Lookups for them without afm_scmpref.preferences. Otherwise, Archibus will look for the translatable fields in the two tables, resulting in application errors. Also, the Asset Classification Description field (csi.description) and the field Classification Standard Description (csi_std.description) are not translatable. If enabling the Automatic Lookup for these fields, do not use the attribute displayType="translate" because the fields are not translatable.(APP-4286) (AD-6683).

Enterprise Assets known limitations

• Project Proposal Console. Baseline cost of a Billion Monetary Units or Greater. If you enter a baseline cost for an individual required asset that is a billion monetary units or greater, you get an error that the value entered exceeds the maximum storage unit for the field. This is because the value for the baseline cost in the sb_items table is defined as numeric (9,1). However, the value you entered displays correctly in the grid and in the statistical summary because the value in the eq_req_items table is defined as numeric (16,2). This error occurs only in the rare case that the cost of an individual asset is a billion monetary units or greater. (3052851)

• Project Proposal Console. Selected Period Fields not Displaying. The default selection is to display Baseline and Period 1. If you add other period fields but then want to return to the default setting and find that the Console is not displaying your selection, clear your browser cache. (APP-1601)
• Manage Reference Documents. This task enables you to associate a document with a Building Use, Property Type, and Furniture Standard. However, there is currently no way to view documents added for these items. It also enables you to associate a document with projects of different types. Currently, you are able to view documents for only projects that have the Scenario type. You are, however, able to view documents added for work request Problem Types, PM procedures, and action items that are associated with a Proposed project. (3050281)

Asset Portal known limitations

• View Equipment Plan. If you have a lot of asset symbols on the floor plan, they may not display the Equipment Code as asset text and may not be correctly filled with color. (3028852)

Real Property known limitations

Forecasting known limitations

• Portfolio Forecasting Wizard. Calculations. If the user units are different from the project units, when you calculate the area on the floor for an allocation event by multiplying headcount by average area per employee, the result can be off by a factor of 10.76. (3052105)

Strategic Financial Analysis known limitations

• Financial Analysis Console. VPA. The console does not load if the user has a VPA that is not compatible with the console restriction. Please see Adding VPA to the Financial Analysis Console  for details on creating a VPA for this console. (3053673)

Sustainability & Risk known limitations

Compliance known limitations

• Extended Questionnaires. Service Requests from Mobile. Although the ability to create service requests from questionnaires was added to the Compliance Surveys mobile app, it has not yet been implemented in the Web Central Compliance application. Therefore, if a mobile questionnaire respondent provides details for a follow-up Service Request actions for any question in a questionnaire, then the respondent should take care to fully submit the questionnaire via the mobile app; they should not edit or submit via the Web Central questionnaire edit form because the Web Central edit form might not preserve the request details or set the status of the request as expected via the mobile app. (APP-4250)

• Extended Questionnaires. Assigned to Events. View my Events Calendar. The "View My Events Calendar" task for Compliance Program Coordinators does not provide a link from events details to answer or review any questionnaires that might be attached to assigned events. The workaround is for Program Coordinators to use one of the other "My... Events" tasks to access assigned questionnaires. (APP-1667)
• Extended Questionnaires. Question Tree. Nodes without Child Records. In the Define Compliance Questionnaire view, when you examine a question that has multiple choice answers, you will see that the Question Tree does not indicate that a node has no child content. When a node has no children, it still displays the triangle-shaped icon for expanding and collapsing, giving the impression that there are child records. After you click the node, the triangle disappears until refresh. (WC-2386)

• Contracts and Compliance Programs with Cost Records. Deleting. You must first delete all assigned cost records associated with a contract or program or requirement or term before you can delete the coordinating record. (APP-2276)

Hazard Abatement known limitations

• Homogeneous Areas not Highlighted. The application does not currently highlight all rooms identified as containing portions of homogeneous areas when there are no assessments directly associated with those rooms. (APP-5240)

Waste known limitations

• Hazardous Waste Accumulation Report. The application stores and displays the hazardous waste accumulation volume limit application parameter value in units of US Gallons. Users must take care to convert any other volume limit parameter into gallons if they adjust the application parameter controlling this. In any case, the application does automatically and correctly convert the accumulated waste quantity to compare against this standard, no matter what units the waste had been recorded in. (APP-5470)
• Waste Container Labels. The application generates formatted label documents for selected waste records. The web pop-up dialogue that shows the results of the document creation has a bug limiting the display of outputted documents to 4 records. However, the application does still produce label documents for all the selected records as distinct files, named according to the waste record id number and saved to the .../WebCentral/schema/per-site/pdf-forms/[username] folder. (APP-5241)

Energy known limitations

• Prorating bills. Duplicate Bills. If you happen to enter duplicate bills for the same building and vendor with overlapping dates of service, and then attempt to auto-generate prorated bills, the application may encounter a duplicate primary key error when trying to generate one or more of the bill records. This is because the resulting time periods will be the same, and the proration action will fail. (APP-5242, AD-924)
• Configure Bill Processing. Excluded Bill Types. Archived Bills. The Configure Bill Processing view allows users to choose to exclude certain bill types from the application's rules requiring bills to be archived in contiguous, ordered, monthly series. However, if an unusual situation occurs wherein a vendor account's utility bill type should change after some bills have already been archived, then the application will ignore a request to exclude the new bill type for new incoming bills for that vendor account. A work-around is to exclude both the old and new utility bill types from the monthly bill test. (APP-1855)
• Process BAS Data View. The Web Central core does not yet support grid indexes on dates fields or on calculated fields. For example, if you create an index on a date field having the value 2014-01-01, the value first shows as ‘2 – All.’ If you click the ‘2’ option, the value changes to ‘20’; click the ‘20’ and it's transformed to ‘201’; click the ‘201’ and it’s transformed to ‘2014’; click again, and it’s transformed to ‘2014….’ This issue appears in the right “Clean num” panel in Energy Management's Process BAS Data view. (WC-3108)
• View Prorated and Aggregated Bills. In rare cases, when the sum of aggregated bills exceeds a value 1000000 in the chosen display units, the application will present an alert message stating that the value of the calculated field exceeds the field's maximum. In this view, the user may safely dismiss this message and proceed to view the bill record. (APP-5270)

Green Building known limitations

• Fuel Density. Tree Panel. The Green Building / Background Data - Carbon footprint / Fuel Density task has a tree panel that manages two different levels of information. The tree panel does not display the second level. As a workaround, you can enter data so that both levels are shown, and then remove the data. (AD-1618)

Capital Projects known limitations

Projects known limitations

• Projects. Importing from Microsoft Project. From the Projects / Execute / Procure task / Import tab you can import an *.xml file from Microsoft Project. Depending on your version of Microsoft Project, you may need to choose to “Open as a new project." Otherwise, you may encounter errors with the predecessors values if you decide to append the data or merge the data. (3011985)

• Project Template. VPA. With VPA active, if you use the Projects / Set Up / Define Template Projects task to create a new project and enter a Project Type and Title, you will find that the process fails and a template project is not created. As a work-around, add NULL to the Site VPA list; this allows a Project record to be generated. (AD-8105)

Connectors known limitations

• Reserved Words. Archibus does not support field names with reserved words. For example, adding the field "alter" to the table bl, causes the Archibus application server to fail to start when attempting to restart it. Therefore, the INBOUND use case of importing data into an Archibus table that has a field named with a reserved word is not supported. The OUTBOUND use case of exporting data to a remote system like BUILDER SMS that has a database field that uses a reserved word (ex. order) is supported. (APP-3975)(APP-4769)

• EDI Example. The example file provided for the EDI connector in the HQ project demonstrates Web Central’s ability to process EDI data formats, but only addresses the bill table. Since the example lacks a bill_lines connector definition and a bill connector association, it is not possible to fully load a complete utility bill using the EDI connector example. In the future, we plan to make a new example that is more realistic available for download. (3047882)

• Backslash Character. In some environments entering \\ in connector field parameters or connector parameters may result in the \\ being saved as \. As a workaround, for a field enter \\\\ for \\ every time you save the field. For connector parameters, avoid use of \\; or, use \\\\ and fix configuration in post process. (3045250, 3047842)

• Saving. Saving a connector does not display the standard “Record Successfully Saved” banner.(3045250)

Extensions for BUILDERTM SMS known limitation

• Asset Attributes. Numeric Values. Separators. When entering numerical values for an asset attribute (ex. Quantity) do not enter a numeric separator such as a comma. If a comma is entered in the asset attribute value as a numeric separator, the connector framework will not know how to process the comma and the data transfer to BUILDER SMS will fail. (APP-5603)

• Outbound Connector. Condition Assessment Items. The master outbound connector SMS_ARCHIBUS_BUILDER_Inspect exports all condition assessment items for a given section with date assessed in the past 90 days or within the number of days from current date set in the application parameter AbCapitalPlanningCA-BUILDER_InspectionDate_NewerThan and not only the most recent condition assessment record for the that section and for that time interval. (APP- 4090)

• Inbound Connectors. Number of Buildings. Sites do not record number of buildings transferred in from BUILDERTM SMS for the specific site. (APP-2401)
• Inbound Connectors. Sections. Sections measured in pieces with quantity higher than 1 will not be split into multiple pieces of equipment when imported into Archibus. When transferring sections from BUILDERTM SMS measured in pieces and that have a quantity larger than one, Archibus does not create multiple pieces of equipment. It creates only one piece of equipment with the corresponding value for the quantity attribute. (APP-2138)

• Outbound Connectors. Organizations and Sites. For new organizations and new sites transferred from Archibus to BUILDERTM SMS, the OUTBOUND connectors do not set values to these BUILDERTM SMS fields:
  
  Organization.UpdateCosts
  
  Organization.UpdateCurves
  
  Organization.ORG_ACF
  
  Organization.ORG_SEISMICZONE
  
  Organization.ORG_CI
  
  Organization.ORG_FI
  
  Organization.ORG_PI
  
  Organization.ORG_FCI
  
  
  
  BUILDERTM SMS displays new organizations as new sites transferred from Archibus to BUILDERTM SMS, even without setting values to the above fields. BUILDERTM SMS users can enter the values for these fields using the BUILDERTM SMS interface. Running the OUTBOUND master connector a second time will not affect the values entered by BUILDERTM SMS users for these fields. (APP-3215)