August 2022

In release 22.08.100, you'll find an improved Viewer on mobile, more detailed Package transmittals, and more project fields for Field.

This release is for:
  • People wanting accreditation for their Aconex skills
  • Package Admins who need to quickly see distribution lists
  • Mobile users wanting a more powerful Viewer
  • Field Admins needing more project fields
  • Models users wanting more control choices
  • Project Admins wanting more flexible Cost reporting periods
  • Lobby Admins who need to add more admins via the Lobby.

Aconex Accredited

What's new

Get accredited for free

  • From mid-September, you can take the Aconex Accredited assessments for free.
  • The accreditation is self-paced video training targeting the skills and knowledge to get the best from Aconex
  • You can earn any or all of the accreditation levels: associate, professional, and specialist.
  • You'll receive a digital badge for each accreditation you successfully complete.
  • There's no limit on the number of accreditations you or your organization can earn.
  • Start the training courses now for free and take the assessments in mid-September.

Documents

Improvements and fixes

These bugs are gone

  • A bug sometimes occurred preventing you from editing the user list with confidentiality status for documents in bulk. This is fixed and you can now update these lists correctly.
  • We've also fixed the bug a couple of you encountered when superseding a document with autonumbering. This supersedes correctly now and not as a new document.
  • The 50 characters limit is now enforced for the Alternate Doc No document field when using Import Metadata. If you try exceeding the limit, you'll see an error message in the metadata log file.

Packages

What's new

See who gets the package transmittal

  • Now you can see who's on a package distribution list from within the package register.
  • Add the new Distribution List column to your package register. 
  • Click an entry in the Distribution List column to see the full list. 

Improvements and fixes

This bug is gone

  • Thanks for reporting the bug preventing the multi-select project field from being searchable in Packages.
  • We've fixed the bug and you'll now see the search results you expect.

Improved bulk package exports

  • Save time: you can now bulk export the transmittal history in Packages.
  • We tidied the buttons on the Export Packages in Bulk message. The export button is now on the right, matching the single export message.

Mobile

What's new

A more powerful and faster Viewer

  • The updated online Viewer is now available on your mobile device.
  • Documents, drawings, and inspections now have the same markup functions as web. 
  • And Viewer also pins issues to drawings and loads documents faster.

Improvements and fixes

Autonumbering Documents on mobile

  • Mobile now supports autonumbering for Documents.
  • Documents uploaded on your mobile device will now have autonumbering applied, if configured for the chosen document type on your project.

Field

Improvements and fixes

Line items, now with unlimited drawings

  • You can now attach unlimited drawings, direct from the Drawings Register.
  • This extends last month’s release where Inspectors can attach unlimited files direct from the Document Registry.
  • Drawings need to be in batches of five.
  • Files are automatically checked for duplicates.
  • All files are attached as local copies; they can't be superseded and metadata is not included.
  • You can attach files up to 100mb in size.
  • Line item attachments are included in any PDF report exports.
  • Available for both web and mobile.

Adding more project fields

  • Date, number, and Boolean fields can now be used on Issue types.
  • Previously, Project Admins and Inspectors could add single-select, multiple-select, text, and text area project fields.
  • With this release they can add any standard Project fields from Aconex, including dates, currencies, yes/no responses.
  • Available on both web and mobile.

Models

What's new

Limit viewpoints in Model Coordination projects

  • Project owning organizations can now delegate model coordination activities to other organizations.
  • Give access in two steps:
    • First, nominate an organization via the Model Coordination Management setting under Project Settings > Models.
    • Org Admins can then control the Design Issues Administrator secured asset for users who need access. 

Control how Models can be uploaded to a project

  • Project-owning Org Admins can choose to only use the Document Register for uploading Models.
  • Uploading to the Document Register gives more support, including audit trails, Revit file support, and inclusion in workflows.
  • Uncheck the new option in Project Settings > Models, to remove the ability to upload local files.
  • Older local file Model Stacks are still accessible, but new revisions need to be uploaded to the Document Register.

Improvements and fixes

Load more Models

  • We've optimized detailed objects so that you can load more models into the viewer.

Cost

Improvements and fixes

An extra import option

  • We've added import option for manual fields.
  • Now you can update just the internal and manual fields or use the full standard import.
  • Choose the import type on the Import pay items window.

We'll add the numbers

  • Several number fields are now autopopulated when creating a contract change from the contracts lower grid.
  • The fields are:
    • change number
    • change item number
    • pay item number

More details on the Projects grid and report

  • Do you have several projects with different reporting periods?
  • We've made it easier to see the reporting period with start and end dates.
  • You can see the dates on the projects grid in the cost worksheet reports.

Insights

Improvements and fixes

More support for mail forms data

  • You'll find mail form as a new supporting subject area under Mail.
  • Now you can filter on mail forms in reports and via the data model editor.
  • All project field types except Select List (Single) and User (Any) are supported for filtering.

Improving the experience

  • We've changed Connected Cost to just Cost on the report information pop-up window. This makes the name consistently used.
  • Some recently added standard reports only displayed their name and description in English. Now the names on these reports will show in your selected preferred language:
    • Field Punchlists
    • Contract Detail
    • Contract Change Detail
    • Contract Summary
    • Payment Application Detail
    • Change Event Detail.

Lobby

What's new

Manage Lobby Org Admins from in the Lobby

  • Users with Lobby Org Admin status can add or remove the role for any user.
  • Settings are managed for each user from the Lobby's user directory.
  • Lobby Org Admins can't remove their own status.
  • Aconex Org Admins automatically become Lobby Org Admins.

API

Improvements and fixes

Package Mails GET improvements

  • We've added transmitted mail to the Package Mails GET API.
  • This matches the web functionality.
  • Read more about Package APIs

We'll start the release on August 17, but it depends on what instance your project is on. Some updates will be released later in the 30-day release cycle.

All instances.

Release schedule

We take a staggered approach when rolling out features and improvements to each instance. This means that on the release date, you may not see all updates immediately. Features are progressively rolled out over a 30-day period, starting from the indicated release dates below. We can’t guarantee a global rollout of features across instances within the same timeframe. Features that are not available on all instances are listed here. This information is accurate at the time of publishing and is subject to change without notice. 

AU1: August 21 KSA1: August 19
AU2: August 17 MEA: August 19
CA1: August 21 UK1: August 22
CN1: August 18 US1: August 20
EU1: August 20 US2: August 17
HK1: August 17 Oracle Aconex Mobile: Week commencing August 22