What's New in Archibus V.2023.02?

Customer-Requested Changes in Archibus V.2023.02

Resolving customer issues and responding to user feedback drive each Archibus release. The following V.2023.02 changes originate from UserVoice or Customer Support.

UserVoice

The following enhancements to Archibus V.2023.02 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.

• Workplace mobile app users can upload documents stored on their device. (AD-11880)

• Bulk updating of leases. (AD-12718)

• Vergesense IoT Integration

• Asset Classifications. Group similar equipment standards into asset families

• We have improved THE SSO experience so that the Outlook user does not access the Web Central application. After a single log-in, you access the Archibus Room Finder in Outlook. (AD-12918)

Customer Support

Archibus V.2023.02 resolves the following high-priority issues that were reported to Customer Support:

BIM Viewer

• Nested Families. Now supports locating and highlighting nested families. (AD-11499)

• Zooming. We have improved the zooming features. (AD-12486)

• Asset Selection when Switching Floors. Previously, if you selected in the Asset list equipment on multiple floors and then loaded a new floor plan, the assets on the new floor plan were not highlighted. We have corrected this so that the assets on the newly-loaded floor plan are highlighted. (AD-12487)

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

• SSO. A problem with SSO not being compatible with AWS ALB (Application Load Balancer) with sticky sessions has been resolved. (AD-12579)

• Sign out: Resolved a problem with licenses not being released in SSO environments. (AD-12925)

Smart Client Extensions for Revit

• Extension for Revit. An error when publishing to 2D if the Smart Client Locale is set to French has been resolved. (AD-11893)

Workplace

• Booking Multiple Seats. Floor Capacity Target. The following issue has been resolved: 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).

• SSO. If you closed the browser without fully signing out, you were not able to sign in again until either the Web Central session expired, or a hard refresh was performed in the browser. This has been resolved in most circumstances; the Revision History/Known Limitations lists an exception when using tablets. (AD-12162, AD-12870)

• Logging. The Workplace logging now reports if the landing page (index.html) has been cached. This can be valuable for troubleshooting. Consult the log by using F12 to enable Developer Tools and then click on the Console tab. (AD-13163)

• Employees Tagged in Comments. In order to display comments in which employees have been tagged, Workplace now consults the following fields in Comments: em.name, em.em_id, and the em.name_first and em.name_last combination. This resolves a problem in which some employees, such as sample employee Allison Abernathy, were not seeing comments in which they were tagged. (AD-12491)

• Employee Details popup, When AbEssentialFacility-SelfServiceSearch was set to 0, the Workspace Booking screen was incorrectly showing employee details about the employees who had booked spaces on the floor plan you are viewing. We have corrected this so that Workplace does not show employee details with this setting. (AD-12586)

• VPA. A problem with floor plans not loading under some VPA conditions has been corrected. (AD-13149)

• Workspace Booking. Search for Employee. Previously, if you searched for an employee near whom you wanted to book a space and there was no available space on the employee's floor, you were redirected to another floor with space with no explanation. Now, in this situation, you land on the same floor as the searched employee and there’s a message that there are no available seats on this floor. (AD-12901)

• Localized. The calendar is now fully translated in a custom language. (AD-13028)

• Labor Scheduler: Multiple work requests were incorrectly listed under the same time slot. This has been corrected. (AD-13039)

Space

• Highlight Occupiable Vacant Rooms. Previously, the Paginated Report button produced a report that included floor plans for all floors with vacant occupible rooms. This has been corrected to include only the floor plan displayed in the report. (AD-12220)

• Space & Portfolio Planning Console. We have corrected an issue when exporting data. (AD-9297)

• Space. Console. Export. We upgraded the aspose words library, which fixed issues with PDF and SVG export. (AD-11950, AD-12712)

• Space Console. Legend. We have resolved a problem with legends when the division by which you are highlighting contains a dash character. (AD-12338)

Reservations

• Define Room Arrangements. Groups Allowed to Approve. Previously, THE Groups Allowed to Approve field was limited to only Groups assigned the non-SaaS AbWorkplaceReservations application Approve process. It now includes the AbCloudWorkplaceServices process. (AD-8977)

Maintenance

• Craftsperson Availability. An issue with filtering on Primary Trade Required has been resolved. (AD-11178)

• Maintenance Console. Locale. Dates, such as Date to Perform, are now formatted per user locale. Likewise, days of the week are now translated and display in the user’s locale. (AD-11895, AD-13112)

Hoteling

• Workplace Utilization. We have improved the filter and added a chart to this view. (AD-12512)