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Revision History for ARCHIBUS V20.1

Included in this topic are known limitations and changes in the following versions.

• Changes in ARCHIBUS Web Central
• Changes in Web Central API
• Changes in Smart Client
• Changes in Smart Client Extension of AutoCAD and DWG Editor
• Changes in Smart Client Extension for Revit
• Known Limitations of this version of ARCHIBUS

Changes in Web Central

The following changes have been made since the last release:

• Demonstration Accounts. You can now log into demonstration accounts using the following credentials: AFMDEMO1, AFMDEMO2, ... AFMDEMO5 activity-style users just as you can AIDEMO1, AIDEMO2, ... AIDEMO5 domain-style users. The sample data project (HQ) now includes Executive Report process navigators assigned to AFMDEMO5 and AIDEMO5.
• Calendar Control.Begins on Mondays for European locales. (3031672)
• Dashboard Definition Wizard. Displays only licensed domains. (3031746)
• Define Workflow Rules dialog. No longer truncates very long class and method names. (3033434)
• View Definition Wizard. Allows you to choose which XLS, DOCX, and DATA export and transfer buttons appear in the view. Previously, all appeared by default. (3031802)
• View Definition Wizard. Correctly groups by date in 2-D summary charts. Now correctly implements the "last month/next month" restriction. Fixed an error in adding standards to thematic highlight reports. (3031802, 3033915, 3032601)
• View Definition Wizard. Supports column reports (<panel type="columnReport">). (3016418, 3032935)
• Grid Views - Miniconsole. In non-English locales did not properly filter in the miniconsole for on data dictionary columns of data (e.g. table Titles) that were auto-translated by the core. This is resolved. (3020478)

• Chart Views. When using enumerated fields in chart views in non-English locales, you no longer get both English and localized columns. (3030970)

• Cross-Tab Views. Automatically add a sort order if one was not specified in the view (and avoid a column-misalignment issue in these views). (3030933)

• Data Transfer. When importing data from a table, if a non-required validated field of that table references a table with no records in it, the import now will continue. Now always uses commas in CSV format for all locales, so that CSV files can be migrated between servers running with different operating-system locale settings easily. (If you need localized output, use the Export command -- which is intended for human-readable output -- rather than the Data Transfer command.) Now provides better feedback in the log as to which record failed to pass validation if an error stops a transfer in action. Handles corner conditions in document import. Now preserves leading whitespace in transfer in (which behavior is often useful for importing Process Navigator tasks). (3030861, 3034480, 3033390, 3033911, 3034017)

• Export. In some cases, did not show column headers for standards tables and did not show per-view custom field titles. These issues are fixed. (3032951, 3033318)

• Paginated Reports. Support a <report outputFileType="doc"/> output type for Word 2003 documents. The earlier Word format produces larger files on disk, but uses less memory, which can be a consideration if you are generating large Word document files with drawings on low-memory servers. (3033516)

• Paginated Reports - Barcodes. Show asterisks before and after the barcode for barcode field values. (3033819)

• Paginated Reports -VPA. Support the applyVpaRestrictions="false" tag. (3031191).

• Paginated Reports - Printing Restriction. Improved localization of reports that embed dynamic restrictions as heading at their beginning now allows virtual field values. (3031027, 3033135, 3034236)
• Paginated Reports - Loading Large Results. Resolved intermittent problem in loading large (e.g. 50MB) reports at the end of a report job. Reports could still be accessed from the My Jobs tab. (3033508)
• Paginated Reports - Omitting Header and Footer. Supported by means of the <showHeader="false" showFooter="false"/> tags, which can be used together or separately. Please see the example in : ab-products/solutions/parts/pagereports/ab-ex-dwg-noheaderandfooter-rpt.axvw
• Document Management. Allows .png graphics file uploads in the default configuration. (3034016)
• View Loading - Pre-load Feature. New workflow rule can pre-load all views on the Process Navigator. Doing so precompiles all views and speeds the first-time loading of views. See System Administration / ARCHIBUS System Administration / ARCHIBUS Administrator - Application Configuration / Preload All Views (3020227)
• Workflow Rule Invocation Performance. Performance improved for all workflow rule calls for View 2.0 views. (3030761)

• URLs and Main Toolbar. Views loaded from the URL (as from a notification email e.g. "http://localhost:8080/archibus/navigator-details.axvw?viewName=ab-chart-pie.axvw") any restriction parameter to the view's first "main" panel. This lets you use restrictions with views that load the main toolbar. (3031270)

• Security - User Groups. Sign in will now give an instructive message if there are no user groups assigned to the user or to their role. (3034030)

• Security - LDAP. Previously, if you used LDAP authentication, and you signed in with lower case names under Oracle, you could not access your My Favorites selections. This issue is resolved. (3035382)

• Licensing. Previously prevented some views from loading if you assigned them to multiple applications, one of which was not licensed. This problem is resolved with licenses being released when views loaded from the URL. (3031069, 3031689, 3032709)

Changes in Web Central API

• Localization Kit. Can now edit strings that contain curly braces. (3032683)
• Select Values Dalog. Custom Select Values with no sort order now defaults to the primary key. (3032695)
• Export to XLS. Allows exports with datasources with fields that contain "id" tags. (3030898)
• Export Panel. This function now supports a landscape option (e.g. <command type="exportPanel" outputType="docx" orientation="landscape" panelId="abGbRptCertScoreOverviewByLevelChart"/>) (3030743)
• Column Report Panels. Allow output to "doc" format. Please see /schema/ab-products/solutions/parts/grid/ab-ex-report-column-panel.axvw.
• Grid Views. Truncate memo fields at 50 characters by default. Now1 you can also override the max cell content width using the maxCellContentWidth in the AXVW grid panel, e.g. <panel type="grid" maxCellContentWidth="75">. See the example in schema/ab-products/solutions/parts/grid/ab-ex-report-grid-hidden-columns.axvw. (3017721)
• Scheduled Rules. On Startup rules now each run in separate transactions so that any errors that may occur in one individual rule are isolated from other rules. Now can run on different schedules in different projects loaded simultaneously. (3030859, 3030827)
• Scheduled Rules. Can now be set not to run on startup. For instance, the following schedule runs at 8, but not on startup . See also FAQ 1538. (3014906)
  <xml_schedule_properties>
<schedule startTime="now" endTime="" runOnStartup="false">
<cron expression="0 0 8 * * ?"/>
</schedule>
</xml_schedule_properties>
  

• ArcGIS Online Control - Marker Size. Now can show thematic resizing of map location markers in screen display units. See ab-arcgis-flash-radius-simple-map.axvw. (3032206, 3032890, 3032432)
• ArcGIS Online Control - Initial Zoom Size. New autoZoomLevelLimit control allows view designer to control size of initial display. (3032320)
• Chart Controls - Legend Refresh. Now have a refresh method for the legend. See ab-gb-rpt-fp-chart-compare.axvw for an example. (3030863)
• Drawing Control - Right-click Menu. Is now supported. Please see the example in ..\ARCHIBUS\schema\ab-products\solutions\drawing\ ab-ex-rightclickmenu.axvw/.js (3032307)
• Virtual-private ARCHIBUS. Added an option for views to programmatically not include VPA on Select Values dialog for dialogs, such as move orders, which need to select data (e.g. buildings) outside of the usual partitions. (e.g. <command type="selectValue" ... applyVpaRestrictions="false">). Allowed VPA restrictions to have a trailing space in their ARCHIBUS User records. Allow views to apply VPA restrictions to totals as well as base report data. (3032138, 3033404, 3033671)
• Questionnaires. Allow questions with an answer format type of Date and to designate some questions as required. (3031705, 3032540)
• Progress Bar. Is now a core control. (3024980)
• Grid Panels. Give the views control over the display of memo fields. (3030459)
• Document Management. Gives views the option to have an upload button directly invoke the Windows File browser dialog. Now supports event listeners for onCheckInDocument and onDeleteDocument actions so that application views can perform specific actions on these events. For an eaxample, see: schema\ab-products\solutions\parts\form\ab-ex-form-panel-doc-fields-3-ways.axvw. (3024726, 3024857)
• Select Values. Supports the sortFieldNames parameter from the JavaScript API. Please see ab-ex-form-panel-select-value-configured.axvw. (3029973)
• DataSource Macros. Now support the ${activityParameters} macro. (3032124)
• MS SQL Driver. Supports a later MS SQL Server driver. This driver avoids errors that showed up when copying ARCHIBUS documents and using the drill-down from the Gantt chart. Please see System Management Help for driver details. (3030580, 3029838)

Changes in Smart Client

• Sign In. Now allows URL's to either have or not have the final slash. (3033183)
• Views tab. Now will load the view specified in the ARCHIBUS Tables Default View, if this view name is present and if the Web Central server is V.20.1 or later. This feature makes it easier to load the most common field list and sort order for a particular table. If you use Save to save a new view, and if you name the view ending in " -gd-dflt.axvw " the program will save that view as the default view. (3033630)
• Grid. Now displays multi-line memo fields in a single line preview until edited. This is particularly useful when viewing the ARCHIBUS Fields tables multi-line headings. (3032218)
• Filter Row. Is no longer case-sensitive. (3033619)
• Fields command. Now is available even if there are no records in the current table. (3032230)
• Select Values. The pick lists take care of a number of issues in scrolling selection lists, particularly on large databases with non-standard collation orders. In previous releases, you often had to use the filter row to access your chosen data from large lists. The enhancements are enabled in the Drawing tab's list of drawings, the View tab's list of tables, data entry grid, the Drawing Properties' list of Buildings, and the Data Edit, and Data Edit Multiple pick lists. (3033376, 3033401, 3031179, 3033375, 3033453)
• "In Drawing" Command. Now highlights all AutoCAD elements that satisfy the current restriction if there are no rows currently selected. This makes it possible to highlight assets associated with data that spans multiple grid pages (and for that reason cannot be selected). (3033420)
• "In Drawing" and "To Drawing" Commands. Intermittently had to be reinvoked to take effect, particularly for restricted-rights users. This issue is resolved. (3028448, 3028448, 3031366).
• Drawing List. Add Drawing Command. Now includes a browse button. Previously, users had to type the drawing name or open the drawing in AutoCAD (at which point the Add Drawing dialog comes up automatically if necessary). (3033532)

This update contains the following changes previously made in the V.19.3 r01.75 English maintenance release.

Changes in Smart Client Extension for AutoCAD and DWG Editor

• Properties command. Now shows large numbers of Buildings and Floors. (3031179)

This update contains all changes previously made in the V.19.3 r01.75 English maintenance release.

• Catalog. Now leaves areas values in the database record, although Catalog still clears the Drawing Name, Entity Handle or Id, and Layer Name. Previous revisions zeroed out area values. (3033457)

• Asset Text. Resolved a number of glitches with asset text including consistency in reset to automatic behavior and maintaining asset text position and asset text justification through recatalogs if these had been altered from the default. (3033188, 3033303)

• Asset Text. Set Position. This command now allows you to place a whole series of asset text items in one invocation. (3033459)

• Edit Data and Edit Data Multiple. Now allow you to blank out validated fields. Previously, you had to use the "In Grid" command to clear (rather than change) validated vales. (3031968)

• Furniture-Standards Style Inventory. Copying and deleting Furniture Standards assets now creates and removes the associated record. (3033491, 3032216)

• Enterprise Graphics Publishing. Now ignores items outside the drawing extents or floor boundary extents, depending on the publishing option. Otherwise objects in AutoCAD drawings that are present but that do not display cause a mismatch between the architectural background and the highlights. Previously, site had to clean up drawings to remove these spurious entities. Now handles more unusual arc, block and xref layer conditions. (3031271, 3032582, 3031271, 3035023)

  Enterprise Graphics Publishing. If you add layer wildcard specification (e.g. "*A-DOOR*,*A-WALL*") in an external reference (xref) to the list of layers to publish in a drawing publishing rule (e.g. AbPubBackground), the layers would previously appear in the onscreen file for enterprise graphics (the .swf file) but not in the file for paginated reports (the .emf) file unless you turned on the xref layers manually prior to publishing. This discrepancy is resolved. (3028743)

• Reactors. Now obey the Database-driven vs. Model -driven flag in ARCHIBUS Asset Types table. (3033482)

• AutoLISP API. The AfmViewSetSqlRest method now supports the "NOT LIKE" operator. (3032192)

• AutoLISP API. Occupancy Query. Occupancy queries that use a join now function on Oracle.

• Extension for AutoCAD. Profiles. Even if activated in the ARCHIBUS Preferences CAD Application setting, the Smart Client Extension now only loads into AutoCAD profiles that contain the name "ARCHIBUS" or "Smart Client". In this way, users can more easily maintain profiles that do and do not load the Extension for AutoCAD. (3028315, 3028315, 3032126)
• Extension for AutoCAD. Asset Text. Can now be controlled using the ARCHIBUS Asset Types Text Height setting. Previously users had to use the Asset Text Height command to set the height rather than using the defaults. (3031870, 3033579, 3033188)

• Extension for AutoCAD. AutoLISP. The Smart Client extensions now runs existing Windows Client/Server AutoLISP highlight queries with only minimal changes. The changes are necessary to ensure that all data queries obey ARCHIBUS server-side security that guards against attacks such as SQL-injection attacks. c:\Program Files (x86)\archibus\20.1\SmartClient\acad\afm_samples.lsp and afm_highlight.lsp. Resolved an issue with highlight commands not clearing fields from previous invocations. (3032209, 3032981)

Changes in Smart Client Extension for Revit

The Smart Client Extension for Revit has been largely re-implemented. The improvements are too numerous to detail individually. For information, see the topics in CAD and BIM User's Guide/Smart Client Extension for Revit.

Known Limitations of this version of ARCHIBUS 

The following are known issues with this version of ARCHIBUS.

• Smart Client. Smart Client Extension for AutoCAD. Smart Client DWG Editor. ARCHIBUS Help and Process Navigator. When you use the right-click button to call the help system from a process or role on the Process Navigator, the topic for this role correctly displays. However, if you now use the Show Contents button so that you can navigate through the complete help system, you may experience errors when you return to the Process Navigator to select another task. To avoid this problem, do not use the Show Contents button on a help topic accessed from the Process Navigator. Instead, if you need access to the complete help system, choose the Help button from the ribbon toolbar in Smart Client and the ARCHIBUS Help button in the Smart Client Extension for AutoCAD. Note that this behavior is not an issue when using the Process Navigator in Web Central. (3027865)
• Drawings. Launching from Windows Client/Server. If you are launching drawings from the Windows Client/Server Drawing List to start them in AutoCAD, you must first launch both applications as an Administrator. Sites that have restricted user rights for users may wish instead to run the Smart Client Extensions for AutoCAD, which can be invoked by restricted rights users. (3031572)

Web Central Known Limitations

• Process Navigator. ARCHIBUS Help. When you use the right-click button to call the help system from a process or role entry on the Process Navigator, the topic for this role correctly displays. However, if you now use the Show Contents button so that you can navigate through the complete help system, you will see that the Contents pane shows only a portion of the ARCHIBUS Help system: it shows only the Web Central core topics and application topics. Likewise, if you use the index or search features from this pane, you will not be accessing the complete help system. This behavior occurs in all ARCHIBUS programs that present the Process Navigator. To access the complete help system, choose the ARCHIBUS Help button in the upper right corner of Web Central, the Help button from the ribbon toolbar in Smart Client, and the ARCHIBUS Help button in the Smart Client Extension for AutoCAD. (3027599)
• Sybase 11. Sybase's time format changes from version-to-version. If you use Sybase 9, you can use the default time format that ships with ARCHIBUS. As noted in the web-inf\config\context\compatibility\afm-config.xml, you must change the engine @Sybase/sql/format @time attribute to "HH:mm:ss.S" for Sybase 10. For Sybase 11, this value must be ”HH:mm:ss”. For Sybase 12, the value is the same as Sybase 10. For Sybase 11 and 12, also be certain to use the latest Sybase server and a matching jdbc driver for that server. To update the driver, remove the existing jodbc.jar and jconn5.jar from WEB-INF\lib, copy the new driver .jar files (e.g. sajdbc.jar) to that folder, copy any driver.dll files (e.g. dbjdbc11.dll) to the Windows path for java.exe (e.g. to JRE\bin), then edit the engine @Sybase/jdbc @driver value to the new classname (e.g. sybase.jdbc.sqlanywhere.IDriver). (3035501)
• Flash Drawing Control. The program does not always clear the "No Drawing" message box after displaying it for views with no drawing attached. This issue does not affect functionality.
• Project Update Wizard. Session Timeout issue. The Project Update Wizard will end its job if your user session times out. This is a problem with very large databases and data transfers. The workaround is to increase your session timeout for your application server. (3033742)
• Project Update Wizard. Progress Grid. Loses its pagination if you resort it. (3033908)
• Project Update Wizard.. SQL scripts contain some benign duplicate entries. (3034641)
• Schema Change Wizard. The documentation needs to address how to avoid duplicate primary key errors when reducing a primary key, how to add an auto-numbered default to an Oracle table that already has data, and other advanced issues. (3032644, 3033565)

• Schema Change Wizard. You must import the afm_flds_lang.csv file into the afm_flds_lang table before running the Schema Change Wizard within a user session running a non-English-language locale. Alternately, use a user session with an English-language locale. (3035168)

• Document Fields. If you have added documents to a record, such as a building and then rename the building, you must re-upload the document. This issue doesn't affect the bulk of documents (e.g. those attached to Action Items, Work Requests, Service Requests, etc.) as the primary keys of their records remain the same over the lifetime of the record. (3029742)
• Apostrophes. Several On Demand and Service Desk Views, such as View Maintenance Service Request, use SQL restrictions with the ${user.employee.id} binding. As a result these views have problems with users names containing an apostrophe (e.g. "O'Afm"). (3034941)
• License Assignments. If you assign some application processes to a user by role, and other application processes on a per-user basis, that single user will sign out two copies of the application license. Use one method of assigning processes. (3034710)
• Redlining. After using the Redlines by Location view, you must sign out and sign in again before you can use the redlining feature from the Create Service Request view. (3035111)
• Data Transfer to Excel. When exporting decimal data to Excel, when Web Central user is in one locale and Excel is set to a different locale (i.e. when the decimal separator in one is a comma and in the other is a decimal point), review the rounding of the decimal data in the Excel file to verify that it is appropriate for your use. (3035375)
• Paginated Report Page Breaks. If a report has two report bands, the "page-break-before" option works on only the first report band. (3031563)
• Firefox. Deleting Records.. Firefox 4 has a security feature that prevents malicious sites from creating the same dialog box over and over again. If you use a view's Delete button to delete 12 records in a row, the system cannot re-present the view's dialog box and presents an error message. (3034849)
  To change this behavior:
  1. Start Firefox, and type about:config in the url bar. Firefox will show the preferences screen. Please take care not to make changes at random.
  2. Right click in the preferences area, and choose New > Integer from the popup menu.
  3. In the dialog box that now appears, enter dom.successive_dialog_time_limit, followed by the value 0 (zero). Press OK.

• Dashboards. Long first-load time. On some application servers, such as Web Logic 8 and 10, we have observed that some large dashboards (e.g. the Move Scenario dashboard) take a long time to load (6 seconds). ARCHIBUS compiles view files to .jsp on first use so that the second load and all subsequent loads of the view are very fast. However, for some long dashboards on some application servers, the .jsp compilation takes multiple tries and produces several error in the archibus.log file. However, the process completes reliably and there is no error or service interruption to the user. The one observable effect of this issue is that large dashboards can take longer to load. (3032821)

• Drawing and Chart Controls. Internet Explorer 9. If you are using Internet Explorer 9 and the content of your drawing and chart controls appear in the upper-left corner of the screen, download an update for Adobe Flash Player 10 (version 10.3.181.16 or later). This version of Flash resolves an issue with Flash and systems with an Intel HD adapter.
• Adobe Flash Player. Some versions of the Flash player (e.g. 10.0.32.18) will give an error, "'FABridge.abDrawing' is null or not an object". Upgrading to a later point release or version of the Flash Player resolves the issue. (3034761)

Smart Client Known Limitations

• Drawing List. Document Management for Drawings. The Drawing List is sluggish for large (thousands) of record drawing lists. Most large teams prefer to use virtual-private ARCHIBUS to divide the drawing list by area of responsibility.

• Drawing List. Open Drawing. If you open a drawing and launch AutoCAD, then you close AutoCAD, then you launch another drawing very quickly, you will get a communication exception. This occurs because the previous instance of AutoCAD is still shutting down while the next instance is trying to load. If you wait a few seconds and then re-try the Open Drawing action it will succeed. (3035065)
• Smart Client. WebSphere. You cannot use the Smart Client with WebSphere, as WebSphere currently uses an incompatible version of the CXF Web Services framework. This is why this application server is not included on the compatibility matrix.(3026443)
• Replace Column command. If a non-system management user uses complex SQL (e.g. subquery SELECTs), the system performs an SQL injection check for security reasons. This check works as designed. However, the error message that appears when the query is rejected is not helpful. (3033079)
• Stop command. This command gives a benign error if Microsoft SQL Express is installed and not running on the workstation. (3035387)

Smart Client Extension for AutoCAD Known Limitations

• 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 do work.
• Reset to Automatic. This asset text command does not work on asset text produced by the Windows Client/Server Overlay command. If it gives an error, use the Catalog command on the asset in the Smart Client Extension for AutoCAD, then use the Reset to Automatic per normal.
• New Drawing Command. You cannot attach drawings that contain an apostrophe (') in their name. (3032133)
• Insert Asset Command. This command returns an error if you invoke it from the asset layer (e.g. FN$) rather than the prototype layer (e.g. FN). Use the Layer command or the ARCHIBUS Process Navigator entry (e.g. Set Furniture Standards task) to set to the prototype layer before invoking the command. Also notice that the asset text for any standard value is not on the prototype layer; the Catalog, Data Edit and other asset command work correctly in any case. (3035166, 3030824, 3034002, 3034284)
• Edit Data Command. Does not work on drawings until you set default Space Hierarchy values. This means that if you are editing campus plans, for instance, you need to set these defaults, even though you do not use them. (3032283)
• 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)
• Publish Enterprise Graphics. The "Publish All" option does not work on drawings that have no default Space Hierarchy fields. Enter these defaults for any drawings that do not have them. You can do so all at once by using the Smart Client System Administration / ARCHIBUS System Administration / Add-in Manager / Edit Drawing List view. Alternately, just use the Views tab to load the default view for the ARCHIBUS Drawings table. (3034819)
• Publish Enterprise Graphics. Does not publish AutoCAD Architecture objects to enterprise graphics. Use the "AECTOACAD" command on these drawings. (3029616)
• Save and Publish Command. If you can't select after using this command, press <Esc>. If your "Open" command at the command prompt doesn't pop up a file dialog after using this command, set the AutoCAD FILEDIA system variable to 1. (3029871)
• Highlighting Commands. 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 un-closed polylines. AutoCAD hatch patterns do, however. Notice that if you have multiple areas of one type (e.g. Office standard), having one un-closed 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)
• AutoLISP API. The (AfmViewSetSqlRest <filter>) method does not support complex conditions joined by "OR" or "AND". (3033154)

Smart Client DWG Editor Known Limitations

• Startup. After installation, you must start the DWG Editor from the Windows Start button the first time for the ARCHIBUS Extensions to enable. After that, you can launch the DWG Editor from the Smart Client Drawing List if you set your CAD Preference to be the DWG Editor. (3031423)

  AutoCAD Architecture drawings. The DWG Editor does not open drawings that need extensions to render their proxy objects, as these extensions are not present in the AutoCAD OEM version on which the DWG Editor is based. Use the "AECTOACAD" command on these drawings to use them in the DWG Editor. (3032171)

• Start or Stop Reactors Command. This command on the Utilities ribbon menu defaults to false by default, while the Extension for AutoCAD defaults to true. (3028172)

Smart Client Extension for Revit Known Limitations

• 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.

• Drag-and-Drop Room Reassignment. Does not clear the Room Code in the case in which you drop a equipment or furniture item in a room or area that does not have a valid Room Code. As a workaround, use Edit Data to clear the Room Code. (3033842)

• Web Query Command. Is intended to work on rooms, furniture, and equipment; but does not provide additional information for other asset types, such as gross, group or suite areas. For these elements, use the Edit Data dialog to display all relevant properties. Also, 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 retricted to that one record. This doesn't occur for two- and three-digit ID's (e.g. room "10" or "100"). (3035367, 3035366, 3034950, 3034414)

• Publish Enterprise Graphics. While the Extension does filter for visibility, in some cases, invisible lines -- such as walls that are visible but hidden by a floor element -- show in any case. The very first entity in a Revit model or AutoCAD drawing is not published to the SWF file. This condition is typically only noticeable in very small test drawings. (3035308, 3034839)

• Edit Data and 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)

• Edit Data and 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)

• Edit Data and 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)
• Map Database Fields. This form is empty if there are no assets in the model of the specified asset type. (3034357)
• Copy / Paste Issue. 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)

• Remote Assessment Program. Pocket PC Handheld Devices. You cannot install the assessment program on a removable storage card (such as a compact flash or smart media card). Please refer to the "Using Handheld Devices with Condition Assessment and Environmental Sustainability Assessment" topic for system requirements for the assessment programs.
• Remote Assessment Program. Pocket PC Handheld Devices.Under certain circumstances, the assessment program may generate a "headerNode object required" message. This sometimes occurs if you attempt to close the program immediately after importing an XML file. If this occurs, click OK on the error message box, re-import the XML file, and then click OK to close the application.

Space Planning & Management Known Limitations

• Enabling Workspace Transactions on the blank schema database (e.g. schema.db) gives an error. Adding two afm_roles values resolves this. (3035472) To do so:
  1. Start the Smart Client, load any grid view.
  2. Invoke Data Transfer, from the View group of the ribbon menu.
  3. Select Transfer In and the Local File option.
  4. Browse to the file \projects\users\public\dt\afm_roles_executive_manager.csv.
  5. Select "Start Transfer."
  

• Move Requests. If an Employee record is updated directly with a change of location, and if that employee is part of pending request, then the workspace transaction logic will not automatically remove the employee’s inclusion in the pending request. You must search for any future workspace transaction records involving the employee and then remove them. (3033936)

• Performance when highlighting occupancy. In the Space Planning Console, if you use a large floor plan (~500 rooms), and choose Occupancy on the Highlights drop-down menu, the occupancy highlights take several seconds to appear. A delay is also encountered if you navigate forward or backward in time using the timeline buttons. (3035226)

• Move Management integration. When a move order closes and workspace transactions are enabled, the move close process logs a transaction for the move. However, this process does not yet check or account for any pending transactions in the future that may conflict with the move. (3035196)

• Room counts in Departments by Floor view. In Space Planning & Management / Space Inventory & Performance / Room Inventory - Reports / Departments by Floor, the room count is the workspace transaction count, not a distinct room count. (3035397)

• Localization issues. There are some unlocalized warning messages in the Create Group Move Request process, a button cut off in Define Division and Department Highlight Patterns, and unlocalized tool tips in Workspace Transaction Exceptions. (3035241, 3035325, 3035328)

• Workspace Transactions text. Some reports in the Space Chargeback application contain panels whose title reads “Room Percentages of…” instead of “Workspace Transactions of…”. In the details pop-ups in the Allocation, Trends, and Benchmark report, the pop-up titles read “… - Rmpct Details” instead of “… - Workspace Transaction Details”. (3034096)

• Showing pending requests. Where pending requests are highlighted, the queries only take into account requests that are generated from within Space Planning & Management. They do not take into account move requests that may be initiated directly from Move Management. (3035215)

• Warnings for synchronization issues. A scheduled workflow rule checks differences between the Rooms and Employees tables, and the Workspace Transactions table. If differences are found, it activates an application parameter that some reports check to warn the user to run Reconcile Workspace Transactions. However, this workflow rule does not yet check manual changes to the Workspace Transactions table. (3035352)

• Chargeback calculation. If workspace transaction records contain an end date before the start date, they will be incorrectly accounted for in the chargeback calculation. (3033209)

• Chargeback paginated reports. The paginated reports included with Financial Statement by Division and Detailed Chargeback analysis are missing Group information, if any Group areas are assigned in the space inventory. In addition, the paginated report for Detailed Chargeback Analysis has formatting issues due to the number of columns. (3034361, 3030862)

• Department assignment in Move Request. If a department manager requests to release space, and that request is followed by a move request, and vacated space is defined to be assigned to the room’s primary department, the vacant room assignment from the move request will be the room’s current department assignment instead of the prorated value defined by the release request. (3034976)

• Refresh drawing. The floor plan drawing’s asset text does not refresh after editing room information in the Assign Room Attributes and Occupancy view. (3035078)

• Reconcile Workspace Transactions. If employees in the Employees table are assigned rooms whose categories are either NULL or non-available, and the user runs the Reconcile Workspace Transactions action, the Workspace Transaction records will correctly reflect the employees in those rooms. However, extra Workspace Transaction records that contain no employee will be created for those rooms. (3035449)

• Employee assignments on Move Request. On a Move Request, you cannot assign the same employee more than once. (3035283)

• Employees moving into the same room. If the same Move Request contains more than one employee moving into the same vacant room, in the resulting Workspace Transaction records both employees will be shown to have Percentage of Space values of 100%. This over-allocates the room; each employee should instead have 50% of the space. This occurs only when the Move Request is initiated from the Move Management application. To identify any over-allocated condition, you should run “Room that are either over- or under-allocated” from the Workspace Transactions Exceptions report. (3035491)

• Group Move Requests, Requested Move Start Date. For Group Move Requests, the Requested Move Start Date appears to be a required field (denoted by the asterisk). However, the user may leave this field empty and continue without an error message. If the user leaves this field empty, however, the floor plan on the Issue Service Requests task appears without text labels, and any assignments modified on the Issue Service Requests task may result in empty Start Date fields in associated Workspace Transaction records. Please make sure to fill in the Requested Move Start Date on the Group Move Request form. (3035444)

Building Operations Known Limitations

• 52 Week PM Work Schedule. The Primary Trade filter field in the 52 Week PM Work Schedule, Trade Weekly or Trade Monthly tabs, does not correctly filter the results. (3021456)

• Site VPA. The Work Request Aging report, the Overdue PM Work Requests report, and the Work Requests for the Same Equipment or Location report do not run properly when using a site VPA restriction. In addition, the Define PM Schedules task does not work as expected when using a site VPA restriction. (3035049, 3034693)

Green Building Known Limitations

• Green Building. Carbon Footprint. Total Footprint by Year task. If you select the Stacked Bar Graph chart type, on both tabs you see legend labels that don't apply to the data in the chart. (3030773)
• Define Footprint Scenario: If you rename a scenario that is referenced by building footprints, the footprints will not automatically reflect the name change and will still contain the old scenario name. You may manually change the scenario name of individual footprints to the new scenario name. (3035148)
• Green Building. Carbon Footprinting. Deleted Buildings. According to best practices for Real Estate & Portfolio Management, you should not delete Building records; you should tag them as Disposed or Leased Inactive. However, if you do delete a Building record, the Green Building application will not delete the carbon footprint info entered for that building. The data remains in the database. (3030622)
• Green Building. Environmental Scoring. Oracle. When adding a document to a rating project, you will encounter an error if the rating project's ID is in lowercase, or is in a mixture of lowercase and uppercase. As a workaround, Oracle users can rename existing rating projects in the sample HQ database to use all uppercase; Oracle users should create new rating projects using all uppercase.(3030971, 3031004)

Environmental Healthy & Safety Known Limitations

• Define Footprint Scenario: If you rename a scenario that is referenced by building footprints, the footprints will not automatically reflect the name change and will still contain the old scenario name. You may manually change the scenario name of individual footprints to the new scenario name. (KB# 3035148)

• Recurrence Patterns Definition. The EH&S application uses common code to define recurrence patters for EH&S related elements (Training, PPE Delivery and Medical Monitoring). With the existing common code, users who select a yearly or monthly pattern must also specify the exact date in which the event will occur (for example on January the 15th for yearly recurrence). Thus, even if the user later enters a desired training date or monitoring date when assigning to an employee the defined pattern, the application ignores the new, employee-specific date and uses the generic one defined (15th January) instead. The common code should not force the user to enter a specific date. Once corrected, the application will use the common date if included with the original definition, but allow users to define a specific start date in a later step. (3034635)

• Long Document Names. Some EH&S tables have document fields defined to have a size of 64 characters. However, because their primary key values can exceed this 64 length, when this happens, some views will not allow users to upload a document related to the table. In the next product release, the document field sizes will be changed so that they will always allow users to upload documents. For now, a workaround for tables that may be storing docs with long names is to edit afm_flds and change the contents of “Field Attribute” for the doc field and set: autoNameFile="false". (3035243)

Waste Management Known Limitations

• Demo data for several Waste Management reports: Several reports operate as designed, including conditional display of data based on the current date and time. Accordingly, users may need to add or modify sample data before demonstrating all the features of this product. Users may run the AdvanceSampleDataDates Basic Rule to update the dates throughout the demonstration database. To do this, perform the following steps:

  1. Navigate to Path: Technologies / Business Logic Add-Ins / Workflow / Basic Rule Wizard URL: http://localhost:8080/archibus/ab-basic-rule-wizard.axvw

  2. Choose "Select an existing rule to modify?"

  3. Then select "BasicRules_AdvanceSampleDataDates"

  4. Then select ">> Next"

  5. Then select ">> Test"

• Waste Amount in Date Range Report. Only when “Group By” is set to “Waste Type,” the application reports a workflow rule error if a user clicks on one of the column chart graphics. (3035358)
• Hazardous Waste Accumulation Report. The application stores and displays the hazardous waste accumulation volume limit 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.

Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) Known Limitations

• MSDS Geographic Drill-Down, Selected MSDS Locations tab. If locations have no room code,"Total Mass" and "Total Volume" will always appear as "0.0000" and “Number of MSDSs” will show a count of “0.” Users can still click on any of these records to see accurate details for individual MSDS locations, products, and quantities in the MSDSs details grid panel below. (3035368)
• MSDS Product Inventory. The number of days on site in the grid panel correctly reflects the data in the filter console, but the grid showing the list of Products shows all records, not restricted by date.(3035356)
• MSDS Locations List / MSDS Geographic Drill-Down. The tab titles in deeply-nested tabs do not appear localized/translated.(3034845)

• MSDS Locations Highlight. Export to PDF. If you export to PDF, you may find that the column names overlap. To avoid this, you can export to .XLS or .DOC. If export to .DOC, you can manually adjust font size in the resulting file if desired. (3035307)

• MSDS Chemical Inventory and MSDS Product Inventory. The Approximate Total Container Volume and Approximate Total Quantity columns do not reflect the units of measure chosen for the individual records. Nevertheless, users may click on any of the summary rows and see precise values and units of measure for individual records (3035545)

• Print MSDSs. The MSDS document records as included in the sample HQ database are locked by user AI. To remove these locks (a one-time action on the database), perform the following steps: (3035546)
  1. Start the Smart Client, load any grid view.
  2. Invoke Data Transfer, from the View group of the ribbon menu.
  3. Select Transfer In and the Local File option.
  4. Browse to the file \projects\users\public\dt\afm_docs_unlock_msds_hq_20_1.csv.
  5. Select "Start Transfer."
  
  Alternately, the following SQL statement will accomplish the same results:
  update afm_docs set locked = 0 where table_name = 'msds_data';
commit;
  

Cost Administration Known Limitations

• Cash Flow Report. If you are restricting by a date range, and the date range starts with a leap month and year, and you are grouping by month, then you will get an error. Change your restriction and retry the report. (3032812)

Clean Building Known Limitations

• Schema Database. If you use the schema database to create a new project database, you must define the HAZMAT Project Type and activity type before you can create projects or assessment items. Otherwise, when you create new projects using Environmental Project Manager / Define Projects, you will see the error “A value for one of the fields, [Project Type] is not correct. The value must exist in the validating table, the [Project Types] table” is displayed. And without projects, you cannot create assessment items.

  To define these validating codes, follow these steps:

1. Start the Smart Client, load any grid view.
2. Invoke Data Transfer, from the View group of the ribbon menu.
3. Select Transfer In and the Local File option.
4. Browse to the file \projects\users\public\dt\abriskcleanbuilding-projecttype.csv file, where <workgrpsvr> is your Web Central server name. Select "Start Transfer."

5. When this import finishes, select the "Start Over" link and repeat the process for abriskcleanbuilding-activitytype.csv. (3035420).

• Manage Hazard Assessment Items. After selecting a project, click on a value in the Samples column of a record in the Hazard Assessment Items panel to display the Hazard Samples bottom panel. If you click the Add New button in the Hazard Samples bottom panel, then when you click “Save,” the application will save the record and add it to the Hazard Samples panel, but the message "Record was successfully saved" does not appear and the application clears the edit form as would be expected for a “Save and Add New” action but not for the “Save” action. Also, the Material Sample Lab Results and Add/Edit Lab Result panels are not displayed. To view those panels, click the Cancel button to close the pop-up window, and click the Edit button on the newly created Hazard Sample record in the Hazard Samples panel. These issues are not present when working with Samples by clicking the Samples button in the Hazard Assessment Items panel to work in the Add/Edit Assessment tab. (3035344)
• Hazard Assessment Items Summary, Hazard Assessment Scoreboard, Hazard Assessments by Location Drill-down. In the Assessment Details popup (Click View button for an assessment in the Assessments tab), an error message (“The form or grid record for the document field must include the primary key field [activity_log.activity_log_id]”) appears when a user clicks “Show Document” for any Document Management field. ( 3035380)
• Hazard Areas and Assessment Items. When a user selects the Rooms option in the “Items to Highlight on Drawing” panel and selects a Hazard or Sample belonging to a room in the Hazards or Samples tabs, the corresponding room highlight does not appear in blue as it is supposed to. The workaround for now is to check another hazard or sample for the same room and uncheck it. (3035346)
• Hazard Areas and Assessment Items. Floors with assessments, but which do not contain any rooms (like HQRF), do not show up in the navigation tree. (3033470)

Commissioning Known Limitations

• Define Template Projects. This form does not allow you to define Project Documents or Action Documents to be copied to future projects. Add the documents to your project after you create it. (3035222)
• Setup Process. Some sites will prefer to have a setup process within Commissioning. This process lets them setup commissioning template projects without needing to leave the application. To add the setup process use these steps:
  1. Start the Smart Client, load any grid view
  2. Invoke Data Transfer, from the View group of the ribbon menu. Select Transfer In and the Local File option
  3. Browse to the \projects\users\public\dt\abprojcommissioning-setup-01-afm_processes.csv file. Select "Start Transfer."
  4. When this import finishes, select the "Start Over" link and repeat the process for abprojcommissioning-setup-02-afm_ptasks.csv and abprojcommissioning-setup-03-afm_roleprocs.csv.
  The Setup Process will appear to all users assigned to the " 4 - PROCESS OWNER", " 4 - PROCESS OWNER (ACP)", or "ACTIVITY LICENSEE" roles.
  

Enhanced Global Feature Set Known Limitations

• Rent Roll. Paginated Report. Does not respect any multi-currency or VAT restriction that is entered in the console. (3033701)
• Global Portfolio Dashboard. In the %Leased/Owned value in the KPI Metrics panel, this dashboard uses a slighly different calculation for leased vs. owned. This value comes from data in the buildings table. Other forms in Real Estate Portfolio management applications take the data from the Ownership Transactions table. The values will be different for sites that do not synchronize the two tables. Addtionally, this form should have a Clear button. (3035125, 3035398, 3035239)
• Condition Assessment Code Compliance View. The Capital Project Manager/Condition Assessment/Operational reports (Drawings)/Code Compliance view, in locales other than English, shows totals that are wrong due to a comma/period decimal separator issue. (3033899)

Capital Project Management Known Limitations

• Gantt Chart. Some Eastern European time zone settings in the Windows client will cause the Gantt Chart to erroneously to show dates with three-digit years. The issue is with a third-party library and we have notified the vendor. The issue is only a display issue on those workstations – the data in the database and any data entered through the Gantt chart is still correct. (3027966)

Move Management Known Limitations

• Plan Move Scenario on WebSphere. On the Process Navigator, choose Move Management / Enterprise Move Management / Move Scenario Planner / Develop Move Scenarios. Create a new scenario or choose a scenario to edit. When you move to the Plan Move Scenario tab, the program presents an error message. Subsequently, you can access this tab without a problem. (3027142)
• Action Questionnaires. If you add new Action Types (using the Move Management / Enterprise Move Management / Business Process Owner / Define Action Types task), you then cannot add questionnaires to these action types (using the Move Management / Enterprise Move Management / Business Process Owner / Define Action Questionnaires task). (3028382)
• Plan Move Scenario. WebSphere. On the Process Navigator, choose Move Management / Enterprise Move Management / Move Scenario Planner / Develop Move Scenarios. Create a new scenario or choose a scenario to edit. When you move to the Plan Move Scenario tab, the program presents an error message. Subsequently, you can access this tab without a problem. (3027142)

• Action Items. MSSQL and Oracle. Views that display Action Items by Move Order may not correctly filter the data to be displayed on MSSQL and Oracle. Adding a missing afm_flds.ref_table value resolves this. (3035395)To do so:
  1. Start the Smart Client, load any grid view.
  2. Invoke Data Transfer, from the View group of the ribbon menu.
  3. Select Transfer In and the Local File option.
  4. Browse to the file \projects\users\public\dt\afm_flds_activity_log_mo_id_ref_table.csv
  5. Select "Start Transfer."
  

• Building/Structure/Land. Selected items in the “Manage by Location” views will not display on the map in Firefox v2. Upgrading to Firefox v3 resolves the issue.
• Land DashboardDrill-down functionality is not available for the Land Area by State view when accessed from the Land Dashboard. You can drill down when you access the view from the Process Navigator. (3020311).
• Suite Areas. The Add/Edit Wizard adds a suite for each building, as at least one suite is required for that building to show up in the portfolio. You may wish to change the Suite Area of that default suite to suit your preferences. You can change it to reflect the area of the building as a whole or enter the rest of your suite areas on each floor. (3031745)

• Define Geographical Locations does not include geo_region data for existing country data in the schema database (e.g. Schema.db). (3035422)To add the geo_region data:
  1. Start the Smart Client, load any grid view.
  2. Invoke Data Transfer, from the View group of the ribbon menu.
  3. Select Transfer In and the Local File option.
  4. Browse to the file \projects\users\public\dt\geo_region.csv. Select "Start Transfer."
  5. When this import finishes, select the "Start Over" link and repeat the process for the file \projects\users\public\dt\ctry.csv
  

Reservations Known Limitations

• Confirm. The confirm reservations view (for both rooms and resources) contains an unnecessary email field (Requestor Email). This field does not affect functionality. (3015233
• Archived Reservations. Archived reservations are currently all set to "Closed". If you want to review statistics on canceled or rejected reservations, do so before archiving them. (3030979)

Service Desk Known Limitations

• Archiving Service Requests with Redlines. There are problems with service requests that contain a redline document and that are archived. In Oracle, the service request and the associated records (move orders and work requests) are copied to the historical tables but are not removed from the active tables; the user receives an error message in this situation. In Sybase, the user does not receive an error message. However, the value in the Action Item field in afm_redlines is removed. This situation occurs because afm_redlines contains a foreign key to the activity_log table. To resolve this issue, remove the foreign key by running the following sql: (3035526)
  alter table "AFM_REDLINES" drop constraint "AFM_REDLINES_ACTIVITY_LOG_ID"

Asset Management 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)