Release 19.11.100

You can be faster and more productive with the new Oracle Aconex Mobile app

We’re excited to announce that the new Oracle Aconex Mobile application is now available for Android and iOS.

Features include: 

• A refreshed and more intuitive look and feel. 
• Access drawings straight from the document register.
• Use your drawings to navigate, capture and resolve issues.
• All of the Field mobile functionality you’d expect.
• PDF form inspections

Reporting preliminary payment applications

We've the added ability to report on preliminary payment applications when you create the Payment Application Items report.

How it works:

1. Create a Payment Application Items Report and add the Status column in the display options.
2. Go to the Data section and select Include Preliminary.
3. Verify the Contract Type, then save it to view the new report.

Note: Preliminary Payment Applications are only visible to the organization that created them.

Pay items - now with unique settings

You can now individually set pay items to draw down from Estimate to Complete (ETC). You can give each pay item a unique setting or match it to the parent setting. Before this release ETC Draw Down was set at the parent level and all items inherited that setting.

However, if you have existing data, the parent settings will populate to all items. You can modify these settings manually after you've added the ETC Draw Down column to the Pay Items sub-grid. Also, if you import items using the existing template, these will also use the parent settings.

Using non-unique Control Account Names

Control Account Name fields within the same tree no longer have to be unique. Which means that if you have two separate Control Accounts, with different codes under the same WBS, these can use the same information in the name fields.

Work faster with Cost changes in Mail

We’ve added options to the Mail Action menu to allow you to create new, or link to existing Change Events and Contract Changes. This avoids having to scroll down to the mail section - particularly useful if it’s a long mail - but you still have this option for when it suits.

Fixes and improvements

• The issue stopping you from updating  Percent Complete and Percent Completed Method via an Activity import has been fixed.
• The Executive Summary Report that required you to add Schedule AND Tag selections before it runs, now works as expected.
• The post date shown on Accrual Reversals now uses your local date instead of the server date.
• Payment Application validation now works correctly when using very small negative numbers.

Viewing Navisworks clash metadata in Models Explore

From this release you'll be able to see clash metadata in the Issues screen that has been retrieved from an issue created in Navisworks. The metadata makes it easier to search for and in issues by:

• Clash Level
• Grid Intersection
• Found
• Distance
• Clash Point
• Clash Test Name. 

API updates

Note that the Mail API PDF has been updated with the latest changes.

• Response Required field - The time frame setting for this can be configured via Aconex, see Setting up default response times for your mail. As part of API change, we have provided the default response required date used by mail types that are configured to use Response Required.
• Save Mail to Draft - the existing APIs have been modified to support the Save to Draft functionality.

Fixes and improvements

• Mail search results now display users who were selected from a user-select field in a mail, plus you can now also export the search results to Excel.
• We've fixed a bug that caused issues for some IE11 users when entering Korean and Chinese text into a mail.

In Release 19.10 we made some changes to the Project Participant page, designed to make the project admin role easier. The changes included an improved process for inviting specific users, automated email notifications to invited users and the ability to remove users from projects without needing to contact the Aconex Service Desk. Following the release of these features we’ve become aware of some issues relating to the automated email notifications and the ability to invite users in bulk.

Based on feedback, we’ve decided to temporarily roll back all recent changes on the Project Participant page, to the previous version, while we work on further enhancing the features. We will reintroduce the changes once we have the full suite of features to release, and update Release Notes to give advance notice.