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Revision History for ARCHIBUS V20.2

Included in this topic are known limitations and changes in the following programs and application domains:

• Changes in ARCHIBUS Web Central
• Changes in Smart Client
• Changes in Smart Client Extension of AutoCAD and DWG Editor
• Changes in Smart Client Extension for Revit
• Changes in Real Estate Portfolio Management
• Changes in Capital Project Management
• Changes in Space Planning & Management
• Changes in Asset Management
• Changes in Building Operations
• Changes in Environmental & Risk Management
• Changes in Workplace Services
• Known Limitations of this version of ARCHIBUS

Be sure to also see What's New in 20.2 for a list of platform and business application enhancements.

Changes in Web Central

End-user Features

• Drawing Control. Expanded the number of hatch patterns that the drawing control could display. The Smart Client grid also now allows this larger number of hatch patterns. (3036164, 3036260)
• Chart Control. Drill-downs on charts sorted by enumeration fields now work in localized versions. (3037215)
• ESRI ArcWeb Online Views. No longer show the US Male Population and US Daytime Population data sources, which ESRI has deprecated. (3036950)
• Grid Control. Now shows column titles that contain apostrophes, and pages properly when the sort field value contains apostrophes. (3036926, 3036111)
• Grid Control. Now allows the show totals feature on datasources with custom queries. (3035903)
• Select Value. Now shows index and filter by default when the dialog presents a large number of items. The user no longer has to use an extra click to show the index and filter. (3036575)
• Paginated Reports. When metric units of measure were in use, converted values displayed with too many trailing decimal places. Label datasources in drawings in paginated reports were not obeying the unit of measure settings. These issues are resolved. (3036387, 3036355)
• Paginated Reports. Some reports that contained drawings, when switched to landscape mode, skewed the drawings. This issue is resolved. (3035619)
• Paginated Reports. No longer display the currency symbol when the Multi-Currency features are not enabled. (3035580)
• Document Fields. Some document configurations, such as loading embedded documents on leases on Microsoft SQL Server, were not viewing the documents correctly if the document were not a byte array or blob but an MS SQL SimpleStream. This issue is resolved. (3035627, 3035479)
• Archived Documents. Work Requests archived to the hwr table and service requests archived to the hactivity_log table now are still associated with any documents uploaded and linked to the original request. (3036749)
• Export. No longer displays the currency symbol when the Multi-Currency features are not enabled. (3035581)
• Favorites. Can now save and restore views with apostrophes in their names. (3035557)

Administration Features

• Dashboard Definition Wizard. You can now make a 3x3 large-patterned dashboard. (3037018, 3037006)
• View Definition Wizard. When using Java 6, the wizard was unable to create views on some historical tables, such as the hwr table. This issue is resolved. (3036748)
• Package and Deploy Wizard. Fixed a mismatch between the move and building operations sections of the default values of the application-update.properties file. (3035621)
• Schema Update Wizard. Now has Word DOCX and PDF export actions in the Merge Data Dictionaries tab. This report provides a convenient summary of changes between the old and new database. (3033091)
• Schema Update Wizard. Had a number of duplicate, but benign, SQL statements when outputting change to an SQL script. This issue is resolved. (3034641)
• Schema Update Wizard. Previously showed 100% on the status bar before all foreign keys were recreated. Also, in some cases, the "Foreign keys differ" message appeared after these keys were recreated. These issues are resolved. (3036869)
• Schema Update Wizard. The wizard previously did not update the data dictionary information on some pre-20.1 databases. This issue is fixed. (3036788, 3036769)
• Schema Update Wizard. Previously, oddly-formatted enumeration lists shows as differences between old and new databases. This issue is resolved. (3036702)
• Schema Update Wizard. Previously did not drop foreign key references in all cases on Microsoft SQL Server. This issue is resolved. (3036508)
• Schema Update Wizard. Spuriously listed smallint fields as having a change in size. This condition had no ill-effects (as smallint fields are a fixed width in the database); however, the list of fields with size changes is now accurate. (3035572)
• Schema Update Wizard. In translated deployments, was comparing afm_flds to afm_flds_lang. This issue is resolved. (3035168)
• Paginated Reports. Previously, you could not place enterprise graphics in a virtual folder or a reference to an IIS or other webserver URL (ex: http:swfServer.archibus.com/SWFS/). This issue did not affect the drawing control. This issue is resolved. (3033981)
• Drawing Control. Previously, the drawings appeared small and without highlights in some configurations that used virtual directories for the enterprise graphics folder. This issue is resolved. (3036693)
• Security Properties. The web-inf\config\security.properties configuration file now has a new executeSystemAdminActions value to specify the security group for administrative actions. Users who are a member of this group will be able to see details of exceptions, change the passwords of other users, and invoke administrative services. All users can update their own password if the password policy allows. (3036763)
• Startup. Application did not start in some locales, such as Singapore (English) with unusual combinations of locale properties. This issue is resolved. (3036404)

Add-in Manager Features

• Paginated Reports. The showTotals switch now works for child panels as well as for parent panels. (3036802)
• Calendar Control. On Oracle, if the bShowWeekend parameter were true, previously did not show events. This is resolved. (3036563)
• Datasources. Datasources that displayed totals on calculated SQL fields previously did not convert the result according to the display unit of measure. This issue is resolved. (3036259)
• Data Change Events. Now track delete before and after events for Microsoft SQL Server. (3036083)
• Data Change Events. In the ARCHIBUS Workflow Rules table, the "SecurityTablesDataChangeLogger" is now more accurately titled "DataChangeLogger", as it can log any table. Users with older databases that have enabled this feature should update the name of this workflow rule. (3035625)
• PDF Generation Library. The aspose.pdf.kit is now a newer version that supports more features. (3035931)
• Sybase 11. Documentation changed to note that you should use the jconn3.jar shipped with Web Central rather than Sybase's dbjdbc11.dll if you use some sub-releases of Sybase 11. Otherwise, some ARCHIBUS workflow rules that perform date operations will fail with the error "Operation failed: Parse fields value=[08:00:26] using format=[HH:mm:ss.S]". The issue does not affect Sybase 10 or 12. (3035501)

Changes in Smart Client

End-user Features

• Sign In. Resolved cosmetic layout issues in some translated locales. (3035696)
• Grid. You can now use the grid to enter records in autonumbered tables, such as Ownership Transaction (ot). (3036093, 3035698)
• Grid. Previously, users could not re-edit Simplified Chinese strings if the first record save included a value in the primary key that exceeded the field size. This issue is resolved. (3036462)
• Grid. Now allows paging of views with standards tables in Oracle. (3035498)
• Grid. Records with a default date of CURRENT in the field's data dictionary definition now fill in today's date. (3035429)
• Export. Now creates per-user datasources for the export in case different users have both added a filter before export and then export simultaneously. (3036336)
• Process Navigator. Now displays a descriptive message if users who do not have any processes assigned sign in. (3032455)
• Drawing Management. Now allow drawings that contain periods in the middle of their names. Mousing over Revit drawings that had their model name filled in no longer produces an exception. (3036057, 3035223)
• Drawings tab. Now displays drawings that contain periods in the middle of their names. (3036033)
• Drawings tab. New and Add Drawings commands now default to the Metric and Base Metric Units settings in the Schema Preferences table. (3033578)
• Filter. Previously, you could get an "index out of bounds" error when using the "in between" operator. This issue is resolved. (3035618)
• Replace Column. The SQL injection security now has friendlier error messages. (3033079)

Administration Features

• Certificate Security. The Smart Client now allows double quotes to wrap special characters in the certificate Distinguished Name of the user. (3036604)
• Per-field Security. Previously, when making fields editable, there was a discrepancy between the Substring and Prefix rules in the Smart Client and Web Central. These rules now match. There was no security concern, as the Smart Client rules were previously more restrictive than the Web Central rules. (3036762)
• 2D Analysis. If you changed the database collation order under Oracle, Oracle would use a negative column value and return the wrong result set. The command now guards against this condition. (3035552)
• System Administration. The Edit My Favorites List task on the Process Navigator at System Administration > ARCHIBUS System Administration > ARCHIBUS Administrator - Users and Security now correctly displays the ARCHIBUS Process Tasks table (restricted just to My Favorites tasks for all users) rather than the ARCHIBUS Hotlist table (which is used by Windows Client/Server). (3036094)
• Grid. Now allows deletions of records from hierarchical tables. (3036031)

Changes in Smart Client Extension of AutoCAD and DWG Editor

• Drawing Properties. Now can page through very long lists of buildings and floors in its Select Value dialogs. (3035084)
• Edit Data. Previously, if you used Edit Data, then invoked Select Values against a validating database with a large (e.g. 100,000) number of items, the dialog paused for several seconds before presenting the data. Select Value in the Edit Data dialog now uses the same pagination and background thread that the Smart Client grid does, and loading in this case is now almost instantaneous. (3036704)
• Edit Data, Edit Data Multiple. Now will work within drawings that do not have any Space Hierarchy values provided. This condition occurs, for instance, when working on campus-scale drawings. (3032283)
• Uncatalog. Uncataloging Jacks previously removed the Room Code assigned to the record in the database. This issue is now resolved. (3035712)
• Highlight Vertical Penetrations by Standard. Now restricts properly to just the rooms with a Room Category of "VERT". (3036874)
• Highlight by Owner Commands. Now can include an overall total row in their legends. The 'Include Summary' checkbox is enabled only if either the 'Count Field' or the 'Total Field' checkboxes are checked. (3036018)
• Highlight Commands. Previously worked on simple regions but not those produced by subtract or union operations. This issue is now resolved. Highlights can now also include both solids and hatch patterns. (3036692, 3036689, 3035977)
• Publish Enterprise Graphics. Previously, arcs with a normal of z = -1 and a start angle of an exact multiple of 90 degrees would not publish properly. This issue is now resolved. (3036864)
• Publish Enterprise Graphics. No longer stops when encountering a block with a negative extrusion value. (3035525)
• Publish Enterprise Graphics. Previously, if you renamed the default asset layers (e.g. "RM$") to lowercase (e.g. "rm$"), assets on those layers would not publish. This issue is now resolved. (3036743)
• Publish Enterprise Graphics. Publishing all drawings no longer stops at drawings that do not have Space Hierarchy values provided. (3034819)
• Save and Publish. No longer requires the user to press Escape to return to the command prompt. (3029871)
• nfer.I Infer of assets (e.g. Furniture Standards asset) was not working for polylines with duplicate vertices, as these cause the stock AutoCAD .NET method 'SelectCrossingPolygon' to always fail. The extension now filters out these duplicate vertices. (3036987)
• Infer. Now works in macro format, like Populate, in that you can specify the parent entity and the fields to infer on the command line you use to invoke the command in the Process Navigator tasks. (3033585)
• Insert Asset. Now does not scale blocks when inserting them to metric projects. Insert Asset now has the same correct behavior as Populate. Blocks are inserted at 1:1 scale unless the site overrides the size with the Width and Depth in the asset's standards table. (3035765)
• Insert Asset. Now places new items on the prototype layer rather than on the current layer. (3035641)

Changes in Smart Client Extension for Revit

• Publish Enterprise Graphics. Now can publish on assets with single-part primary keys, such as groups. (3035924)
• Disable Dynamic Updates. This command did not always echo its current status to the menu of commands. This issue is resolved. (3035881)
• Drag-and-drop Moves. Now clear the Room Code for Equipment that is dropped into rooms that have an invalid or missing Room Code. (3033842)

Changes in Real Estate Portfolio Management

Portfolio Management

• Global Portfolio Dashboard. Updates to the Global Portfolio Dashboard KPI metric and charting user interface have been provided. You can access the dashboard from the Real Estate Portfolio Management / Portfolio Management / Portfolio Summary / Global Portfolio Dashboard.
• Global Portfolio Dashboard. In the %Leased/Owned value in the KPI Metrics panel, this dashboard uses a different calculation for leased vs. owned based on values from Real Estate Portfolio management applications data from the Ownership Transactions table. This form now has Clear button. (3035125, 3035398, 3035239)

Lease Administration

• This application now supports communication logs for managing lease portfolios using Web Central. These tie to the communication logs in the Project Management application. You can access these communication log features on the Process Navigator at: Real Estate Portfolio Management / Lease Administration / Lease Portfolio

Cost Administration

• 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. Workflow rule updated to handle leap years. (3032812)

US Federal Property Registry

• Update for FY 2011 requirements. In compliance with EO 13327, the ARCHIBUS US Federal Property Registry application includes updates to support the data model defined by the United States GSA Office of Governmentwide Policy’s “2011 Guidance for Real Property Inventory Reporting” and as such can be used as the core inventory and data transaction management function for managing government real property assets.

Changes in Capital Project Management

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. Issue resolved in this release. (3033899)

Capital Budgeting

• Unallocated Funds by End Dates. This application now provides an ‘Unallocated Funds by End Dates’ report that indicates what funding remains available and when it will expire. You can access this report on the Process Navigator at: Capital Project Management / Capital Budgeting / Allocate / Unallocated Funds by End Dates

Project Management

• S-Curve Analysis of Project Progress. This application now provides S-curve charts to show cumulative costs and labor hours in a project over time. Within one graph, you can compare the S-curve progress against monthly, yearly, or quarterly baseline and actual hours and costs. You can access these features on the Process Navigator at: Capital Project Management / Project Management / Monitor / View S-Curve Analysis of Project Progress.

Commissioning

• Commission Equipment. This application now provides Commissioning Equipment Details with lifecycle analysis available at the click of a button. You can access this single form for all equipment and commissioning related data from the following Process Navigator task: Capital Project Management / Commissioning / Post-Construction / Commission Equipment
• Define Template Projects. This form does not allow you to define Project Documents or Action Documents to be copied to future projects. Procedure now allows replication of assigned documentation. (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. The Setup Process has been added to Process Navigator for the Commissioning application.

Changes in Space Planning & Management

• Employees Moving to the Same Room. The Percentage of Space Calculation is now correct when two or more employees move into the same room. (3035491)
• Group Move Requests, Requested Move Start Date For Group Move Requests, the Request Move Start Date is a required field, and the system will now enforce its entry. This resolves issues that were seen further in the process if the date was left empty. (3035444)
• .Pending Request Highlights Rooms that contain pending move requests are now border-highlighted in Approve Service Requests and Issue Service Requests for move requests. Details of those pending requests can also be shown. This allows managers to see rooms whose occupancy may change due to requests still pending.
• Define Workspace Transactions. The view Define Workspace Transactions allows users to see both active transactions and all transactions, it pre-fills Room Category, Room Type, Division Code, and Department Code to default values for new workspace transactions, and it makes Percentage of Time a read-only field. (3036359)
• Reconcile Workspace Transactions. The Reconcile Workspace Transactions action now inserts the number or workspace transaction records for each room equal to the room’s capacity. In essence, this makes the number of workspace transactions records for each occupiable room equal to the number of seats in that room. (3035630)
• Paginated Reports for Non-transaction Views. Some non-transaction views now correctly launch paginated reports that correspond to the non-transaction data. (3037022)
• Synchronization. A scheduled workflow rule that synchronizes Rooms and Employees data from changes in workspace transactions only runs when workspace transactions is enabled. (3035620)
• Drawing Refresh. In Assign Room Attributes and Occupancy, the floor plan drawing now refreshes after removing employee assignments. (3035292)
• Locate Employee. When workspace transactions is enabled, the Locate Employee view now contains timeline buttons to see employee occupancy on different dates. (3035518)

Changes in Asset Management

• View Equipment Plan. When you choose to display information for an equipment item, the details panel now displays inline the document image for the equipment standard for that piece of equipment if such an image exists. (3031674)

Changes in Building Operations

On Demand Work

• Adjust Inventory. When saving changes in the Adjust Inventory view, the system now runs the Calculate Inventory Usage routine, which updates other inventory values accordingly. (3035430)
• % Responded, Completed On Time. The Work Team Performance report now shows correct values for metrics % Responded On Time and % Completed On Time. (3037078)

Preventive Maintenance

• Reports with VPA. Many reports that contain custom SQL queries now work when a VPA restriction is in place. (3036203)
• Location PM Suppression. PM suppression with Location PMs now work when the Location PMs are assigned to just a building or just a building and floor. (3036879)
• Default PM SLA. PM Work Requests now correctly attach to an SLA if it is defined for request type of SERVICE DESK – MAINTENANCE and problem type of PREVENTIVE MAINT. (3035221)

Changes in Environmental & Risk Management

Compliance

• Regulation Category (regulation.reg_cat) is a new field in the Regulations (regulation) table. The Regulations table also has a field (regulation.reg_category) that previously had the Multi-line Heading "Regulation Category." To distinguish these two fields, the title for regulation.reg_category has been changed to Regulation Super Category. The Regulation Super Category field is an enumerated list that the Compliance Management application does not use.

Changes in Workplace Services

Service Desk

• Archiving Service Requests with Redlines. Service Requests that contain redline documents can now be archived. (3035526)
• Verification by Role. The Service Desk Manager can now assign the verification step to a role that contains multiple employees. Employees can see the verification step without error. (3033754)
• Employees with Apostrophes. Employees whose IDs contain apostrophes can view many Service Desk and On Demand Work forms without error. (3034941)

Reservations

• Overlapping Pre-blocks. A recurring reservation now obeys the pre-block assignments of existing reservations and does not overlap. (3035695)
• Outlook File to Organizer. The .ics file sent to the reservation’s organizer can now be used in MS Outlook. (3035551)
• Failed Email. If an e-mail send fails, the system will not roll back the entire reservation. (3036675)

Known Limitations of this version of ARCHIBUS

The following are known issues with this version of ARCHIBUS.

ARCHIBUS Help Known Limitations

• ARCHIBUS Help and Process Navigator in Smart Client, Smart Client Extension for AutoCAD,Smart Client DWG Editor. 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)

Web Central Known Limitations

• ARCHIBUS Help. Google Chrome Browser v20. If you run Web Central on Google Chrome browser v20, the Help window does not display correctly. Updating to Google Chrome v21 solves the problem. (3036825)
• ARCHIBUS Help. Process Navigator. 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)
• Edit Forms. Safari. . If you start an edit form in ARCHIBUS Web Central, but then use the multi-touch feature to navigate away from that form before you save, you will lose your changes. Also, you will have better results if you have the scroll bar visible all the time and you scroll using the scroll bar instead of smooth-scrolling from the mouse pad. To do so, in the Apple MacBook go to System Preferences/General/Show Scroll Bars and set this option to Always. (3036034)

• Gantt Charts. Apple OS. Gantt charts do not correctly display months in the top calendar when using Apple Safari 11.2 and Apple Firefox 11.2. (3036041)

• Deleting Records.Firefox. .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.

• 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)

• Drawing Redlines. When using the tools to add redlines to published drawings (adding arrows, lines, rectangles, etc), if you do an extra left-click of the mouse the application draws a long line toward the right, bottom corner of the drawing. To remove these lines, use the "Undo Last Redline" button to remove the unwanted line after it appears. (3037124)

• Drawing Redlines. After you use the zoom and pan commands, you may find that the redline buttons no longer display. Clicking on the "Draw" button (the fourth icon) brings back redlining buttons.(3037345)

• 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)

• Paginated Reports. Page Breaks. If a report has two report bands, the "page-break-before" option works on only the first report band. (3031563)
• Tree Drill-Downs. FireFox. Collapsing and expanding a tree control panel causes the tree control to be rebuilt, which undoes the user's selection of tree nodes. (3036779)

• ESRI Maps. Firefox. - With Firefox 7.01, ESRI maps do not display. This is not an issue for Firefox 12 and 13. (3036686).

• System Administration. Default Admin Accounts. The default ADMIN and AIADMIN accounts do not have all administrative processes assigned by default. To assign them, sign in to ARCHIBUS as ADMIN or AIADMIN. Load the http://localhost:8080/archibus/ab-sys-role-procs.axvw view . If you are using ADMIN (application-control-point or activity-style licenses), Select the SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR (ACP) role, then drag and drop the ARCHIBUS System Administration application into the Assigned Processes pane to assign all processes to this role. If you are using AIADMIN (domain-style licenses) Select the 4 - SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR role and perform the same drag-and-drop. (KB 3037368)

• Grid. API. If you have a grid view with an area field, allow selection on that area field, alter the area value, then send the area value to a custom server-side WFR, the unit of measure conversion does not fire for non-US locales. This condition does not affect any of the ARCHIBUS applications or, for that matter, any known use of the ARCHIBUS grid control. (3037185)

• 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)

• My Profile view. If you have a multi-lingual deployment, and if your ARCHIBUS User account locale is "Default", and if your application servers' operating system differs from the default Web Central locale in afm-config.xml; then your language, currency, and country will not match. The solution is to either (a) change your user account from "Default" to a particular locale (e.g. Italy), or (b) change your default Web Central Locale to match your operating system. (KB 3037364)
• 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)
• Schema Change Wizard. The documentation is incomplete on subjects such as 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)

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)

• Web Services Examples To use the examples in the below topics, you must first use data transfer to import the required rules data. (3037340)
  
  • http://www.archibus.com/ai/abizfiles/v20.2_help/system-management-help/Content/web_services/webservices_example5.htm
  • http://www.archibus.com/ai/abizfiles/v20.2_help/system-management-help/Content/web_services/webservices_example6.htm

  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 files \projects\users\public\dt\employees-job.csv and \document-job.csv .
  5. Select "Start Transfer."

Smart Client Known Limitations

• 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)
• Editing Standards Tables. If you edit Furniture 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)
• 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)
• 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. 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. Does not publish AutoCAD Architecture objects to enterprise graphics. Use the "AECTOACAD" command on these drawings. (3029616)
• 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)

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.
• 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 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. 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) Also, if you use this command to change your field mapping, or if you change your field mapping by using the System Administration / ARCHIBUS System Administration / CAD and BIM Manager / ARCHIBUS BIM Parameters view, you must restart Revit before the changes will take effect. (3034490)
• 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.

Reservations Plugin for Microsoft Outlook Known Limitations

• Time Zone. In the Cities table, the time zone field must be set to America/<region> instead of EST in order for the Plugin to calculate the Day Light Saving time. 3036587

GIS Known Limitations

• Thematic Map Legends. The legend colors may not match asset marker colors in map views using the Flash control if the legend is based on a text field instead of a numeric range. (3036406)
• Mouse Wheel Zoom Control (Firefox 13 only). Manipulating the mouse wheel should cause the map to zoom in/out but does not with FF 13 with Flash-based maps. Users can still control zoom using the zoom slider tool or zoom in to windows drawn with Shift-Click-Drag. (3037077)
• Map Mouse Click Event disabled. (Firefox only). In map views with multiple tabs, if a user switches from the map tab to a different tab, then back to the map tab, the map will redraw zoomed-out and the markers will no longer respond to click events. (3035951)

Enhanced Global Feature Set Known Limitations

• Financial Paginated Report. All REPM financial paginated reports--such as Rent Roll, Property Abstract, and Building Abstract--do not consider the user's choice in the VAT dialog regarding Total Cost, VAT Only, or Base Cost. The paginated reports only display Total Cost. (3033701)

Portfolio Management Known Limitations

• 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)

• Buildings. Add/Edit Wizard.When you use the wizard to change a building Ownership Transaction Status from Owned to Disposed, you need to enter the Date Sold field. If you enter an Ownership Transaction Status of Disposed and do not enter the Date Sold field, the Portfolio Management Report - Building Status will not group the Building as SOLD. In the future, the wizard will require you to enter the Date Sold field.(3037300)

US Federal Property Registry Known Limitations

• Portfolio Manager. Add New Property. When adding a new property, you must enter certain non-required fields to save the record. To avoid this problem, the following SQL adds the Not Applicable option to fields in the grp_trans table that are defined as an enumeration list. Before using the US Federal Registry application, System Administrators should run the following SQL: (3037108)

  UPDATE afm_flds SET enum_list = 'Z;Not Applicable;Y;Yes;N;No;' WHERE enum_list = 'Y;Yes;N;No' AND table_name = 'grp_trans';
  UPDATE afm_flds SET enum_list = 'NA;Not Applicable;LX;(LX) Lease Termination;LE;(LE) Lease Expiration;UN;(UN) Unknown' WHERE enum_list = 'LX;(LX) Lease Termination;LE;(LE) Lease Expiration;UN;(UN) Unknown' AND table_name = 'grp_trans';
  COMMIT;

Cost Administration (REPM) Known Limitations

• Cash Flow Report. Firefox 3.x. When running on Firefox 3.6 and using the Cash Flow report to create a cash flow projection for multiple years,the system presents an error message. This is not an issue for Firefox 10 and 11. (3033234)

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.Upgrading to Flash Builder 4 resolves the issue. (3027966)

Commissioning Known Limitations

• Commission Equipment. The Documentation tab contains fields that cannot be opened with the SHOW DOCUMENTATION controls because their AFM Type=Graphics: These fields are: Spec. Sheet Graphic, Wiring Diagram Graphic, Equip. Assembly Graphic, Lubrication Points Graphic. Due to current field data dictionary definition, these fields will not allow SHOW DOCUMENT functionality in Web Central. (3037369)

Space Planning & Management Known Limitations

• Locate Employee. When workspace transactions is enabled, the paginated report that the Locate Employee view generates shows the employee's current locations only. It does not take into account the date selected for the employee's location. (3037291)
• 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)
• Future Transactions.When directly changing a room attribute, like division or department, or an employee department assignment, you must consider any workspace transactions that start in the future and that are already logged for that room or that employee. Changes to current attributes will not affect those future transactions, and thus you must modify those future transactions manually.(3035196)
• Future Transactions. When closing a Move Order within Enterprise Move Management, you must consider any workspace transactions that start in the future and that are already logged for that room or that employee. The Move Order changes affect those future transactions, and thus you must modify those future transactions manually. (3034913)
• 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)
• Issue Service Requests. Personnel & Occupancy / Space Manager / Issue Service Requests task. If you want to issue or cancel many move requests in a row, you must re-load the Issue Service Requests view by clicking on the Issue Service Requests task in the Process Navigator. (3037356)

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)
• Create Move Scenario tab on Internet Explorer. When switching between move scenarios and using Internet Explorer, you may encounter an error when selecting a second scenario in the Create Move Scenarios tab, after using the Plan Move Scenario tab to make re-assignments in the first scenario. To view the second scenario, re-load the move project from the Process Navigator. After re-loading the view, you can switch between move scenarios without error. If you make additional changes to a move scenario and you want to compare scenarios again, re-load the view again. Move scenario planning is available from the "Request a Group Move" and "Edit my Group Moves" tasks under Move Requestor, and from the "Review and Estimate Group Moves" and "Issue Group Moves" tasks under Move Coordinator. (3036426)

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)

Building Operations Known Limitations

• On Demand Work. Assign Work Requests to Work Order. If there are no work requests in queue, then the system will show an error message when users run the Supervisor / Assign Work Requests to Work Order task.(3037416)
• Site VPA. The Define PM Schedules task does not work as expected when using a site VPA restriction. (3034693)
• Number of Open Requests. Building Operations does not fill in the Number of Open Requests value for Work Orders. (3037179)
• Priority Levels. The Priority Level fields in the Define Service Level Agreement form accepts no more than 12 characters, even though the database field length is 150 characters. (3036907)
• Untranslated Steps. The Step field values in views including Approve Service Requests and Accept/Decline Service Requests are not translated. (3036638)

Compliance Known Limitations

• Notification Service. The notification service scheduled workflow rule is duplicated in the default schema, so this rule may check for notifications twice as often as you would expect. There is no other functional drawback to this duplication, as the notification service will not send duplicate messages. It will only check for pending messages twice per day rather than once. To eliminate the duplication, load the " System Administration / ARCHIBUS System Administration / Add-In Manager / Define Workflow Rules" view, select AbCommon Resources, select ScheduleNotificationRule, and set its Active? parameter to No, and restart your application server. Leave the ScheduledNotificationRule (that is, "scheduled" with a "d") as it is.

Environmental Health & Safety Known Limitations

• Notification Service. See above item for Compliance. This also applies to EH&S.

• Incidents Map. In some non-English languages, the incidents map fails to plot incident locations correctly. The map will initially load, but when the user selects an item to show, the application will draw a marker on a grey background. (3037087)

Clean Building Known Limitations

• 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)
• Project Type Code. The application employs a hard-coded string prefix or suffix for activity type (“HAZMAT –”) that is visible to users. This is not meant to be a translatable string, but a code such as appears in other places (e.g., “CB –”). This issue has no functional impact, but may raise questions or concerns for non-English users. (3034385)

Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) Known Limitations

• MSDS Locations List / MSDS Geographic Drill-Down. The tab titles in deeply-nested tabs do not appear localized/translated.(3034845, 3034464)
• 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)

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"

• 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.

Green Building Known Limitations

• 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)
• Carbon Footprint Summary XLS Export. In the Excel export of the Footprint Summary, the calculation year value appears with a grouping separator, but should not. Note that the other numbers in Excel will correctly appear in the Excel program’s configured language, not necessarily the language set in Web Central. (3031029)
• Scoring Dashboard Chart Colors. The two pie charts in the top of the Scoring Dashboard at Scoring - Review / Scoring Dashboard present totals against the same classification. Currently, the color for a given classification may differ from one chart to the other. The colors selected for each group should match from one chart to the other to facilitate comparison. (3036958)

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)
• Canceling Recurring Reservations. When canceling a recurring reservation and some of the reservation dates have passed, even the past instances are canceled. (3036941)