What's New in Archibus V.2022.02?

Customer-Requested Changes in Archibus V.2022.02

Resolving customer issues and responding to user feedback drive each Archibus release. The following V.2022.02 changes originate from UserVoice or Customer Support.

UserVoice

The following enhancements to Archibus V.2022.02 originate from UserVoice. To submit an idea through UserVoice, go to: https://spaceiq.uservoice.com/forums/925339-archibus. For information on UserVoice, see Provide Feedback about Archibus.

Hoteling and Reservations

• Attach ics files to hoteling notifications for desk bookings.

• Reservations Calendar Console. If you integrate Exchange with Archibus, you can now see links for Zoom and Teams meetings in the Reservations Calendar Console.

• We have improved the messages that the user receives when no desks are available to book. This occurs when all hotelable seats have been booked, or when EnforceFloorCapacityTarget is set to "Yes" and the floor has reached its maximum occupancy target. (AD-8097)

Smart Client Extensions for Revit and AutoCAD

• Revit Model Checker

• Global publishing parameters

• Publish linetypes and line widths from CAD to SVG

Workplace

• Calendar view to provide an overview of the week. From the Calendar, immediately access the screen for booking a room that day.

• For maintenance requests, technician or supervisor can tag requestor in comments and requestor can see the comment in Workplace. Also, requestor can see maintenance request status changes.

• Previously, if a floor had no available seats the Workspace Booking screen did not include the floor in the list of floors for the building. The Workspace Booking screen now includes these floors in the floor list; this enables the user to load the floor plan if desired. A counter next to each floor lists the number of available seats on the floor; for floors at full capacity, no counter is listed.

Maintenance Console

• Improved filter.

• Per-row actions. In V.2022.01, we removed the per-row action buttons for a work request. We have added this feature back by adding to each row an ellipses button that presents the appropriate actions.

• PM checklists. You can directly connect a checklist to a preventive maintenance procedure, omitting the need for an SLA. This change makes checklists available to those users who do not define SLAs for their PM procedures.

Space Console

• Division Name and Department Name descriptive fields in UI.

• Export social distancing circles.

• If you promote a validated field to the Rooms table, the highlight will now use the corresponding highlight color defined for the validated field. Previously, the highlight indicated only whether or not the promoted field had a value.

Other

• BIM Viewer

• OnSite. Support of checklists

• Database Update Wizard. Provide an option to output SQL scripts from DUW.

• Employees table. The honorific field's drop-down menu now includes a gender-neutral option.

Customer Support

Archibus V.2022.02 resolves the following high-priority issues that were reported to Customer Support:

Workplace

• Workspace Booking. When trying to book the same workstation for another day using a recurrence pattern, you will see that Workplace no longer displays booked seats (AD-8478)

• Workspace Booking. Two problems when AllowMultipleBookings is set to No are resolved. You could not create a booking for "Myself" after booking a room for a visitor. Also, multiple bookings (even for the same seat) can no longer be created using the “Recommendation” dialog. (AD-8970, AD-8961)

Mobile Apps

• Maintenance. The problem with not being able to create more than 25 work logs (WRCF records) for a single work request has been resolved. (AD-8706) Also, Instruction text for checklists now appears. (AD-6138)

• Compliance Surveys. Fixed a scrolling issue that was preventing some users to complete their questionnaires. (AD-8688)

• Assessments. Fixed several issues with questionnaires that were causing questions not to be displayed, or to be incorrectly displayed with the wrong assessment item so that the user could not complete the assessment. (AD-8540, AD-9222, AD-9221)

• Asset and Equipment Survey. Cannot see task details after editing. If you select a survey, edit a task, and then navigate back, you will no longer find that the screen is empty. (AD-7272).

Maintenance

• Maintenance Console. Approve Work Request Form. Automatic Lookups no longer return incorrect titles in Approve Work Request form.(AD-6122)

• Maintenance Console. When AbBldgOpsOnDemandWork-WorkRequestsOnly = 1, updating a work request's building no longer clears the work request's work team. (AD-8043)

• Costs of Completed Work Requests View. Totals in Wrong Cells. In the Costs of Completed Work Requests view (ab-ondemand-report-cost-tabs.axvw), the Accounts tab no longer presents totals in the wrong cells. (AD-7334)

• Search and Manage View. Now shows resources for archived Work Requests. (AD-8272)

• Labor Scheduler. We have corrected a problem that under certain conditions, Craftspersons stop having hours shown in calendar after January 31, 2022.(AD-8700)

Reservations and Hoteling

• Reservations Calendar Console. Approval Notifications. If the approval time expires, Archibus now correctly sends out notifications on time under these conditions: a room arrangement require an approval, the Action if Approval Time Expires option is set to Notify, and you specify a user to receive this notification. Previously, notifications were not sent out to this user until after the reservation was supposed to take place. (AD-6720)

• Reservations Calendar Console. Employee Field. Automatic Lookup. If you add the automatic lookup feature to the em.name field, you can now reserve meeting rooms using the Reservations Calendar Console or Workplace. (AD-7767)

• Create Hoteling Amenities. This is now a task for SaaS Reservations module.

Sustainability & Risk

• Risk. Flash Charts. The following Sustainability & Risk reports were using the Flash Chart control. They have been updated to use HTML charts. ab-energy-bill-prorate-column.axvw, ab-energy-bill-prorate-pie.axvw, ab-energy-bill-prorate.axvw, ab-energy-measure-and-verify.axvw, ab-gb-cert-dash.axvw, ab-gb-dash-cert-prj-compare-tabs.axvw, ab-gb-dash-cert-prj-compare.axvw, ab-gb-fp-dash.axvw, and ab-waste-rpt-amounts-by-cat1.axvw. (AD-8928)

• Energy. Define Utility Rates. A problem with the incorrect cost_unit when the user locale is not English has been corrected. (AD-7738)

Assets

• Asset Registration Console. Fixed generating floor plan PDF issues for the Asset Relationship Assignment tab. (AD-8062)

• Equipment Standards. Foundations. If you sign in as a Foundations user (sample user AFM-FDN), you can now define and edit equipment standards using the new task “Define Equipment Standards.” This is available under the “Background Data & Reports” process. (AD-8251)

Space

• Space Console. Export to XLS. When you filter and then export to XLS, the resulting spreadsheet's data is no longer obscured by a message stating a "restriction is in effect." (AD-7872)

Core

• Edit Shortcuts. View no longer fails in non-English languages

• Password Field in SQL Security for User Role. This has been changed to type "password" so that the password text does not display. (AD-8754)

• AutoCAD Publishing. Text is no longer displayed in the wrong place when exporting the floor plan to PDF. (AD-8415 )

• Revit Extension. Map Database Fields Error. Previously, when using the Map Database Fields view in an older database with Smart Client version 26.2 or above, an error occurred when changing the Field Value set in the Parameter Name; mapping would not be possible. This error was fixed by adding the “category_id” and "family" fields to the afm_bim_params table. (AD-8370)

• Japanese Locale. Date value is now displayed correctly in the Asset Lifecycle. Asset Registration Console when the user locale is Japanese. (AD-6946)