The Roundup featuring releases November 2023 through to February 2024

Welcome to the first Roundup for 2024. We'll take a look back at some of the biggest improvements to Aconex from the last few months. In this issue, we revisit releases November 2023 through to February 2024, and highlight some features you may have missed.

Packages

Package hierarchies are here

  • Group related packages together to match your Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), and break deliverables down into smaller packages of work.
  • As the project evolves, move packages into required parent and child relationships.
  • As before, each package contains its own set of documents, mail, and attachments. The existing limit of 1000 documents per package applies to each package in a hierarchy.

Documents

Start workflows from uploads

  • Now you can place documents into review right after you've uploaded them
  • Find the option to Start a workflow from the upload success pop-up.
  • This applies to uploading or updating a document and creating or updating a placeholder.
  • Up to 200 documents/placeholders can be added to a workflow. 

Mail

Preview distribution groups

We heard your feedback. When previewing distribution rules, you can now see the users who are part of a mailing group.

  • Previously if a group was added to mail as part of a distribution rule, you could only preview the group name and not its members.
  • Now, recipients who are part of a group are shown with a green distribution group icon.

Insights

Track project usage

  • Project-owning Org Admins have a new report to track activity across owned projects.
  • View monthly and cumulative usage of mail, documents, workflows, and supplier documents for the past 12 months.
  • You'll find the Project Activity Report under organization reports.
  • Click the report, select up to 20 projects your organization owns, and choose the time period.
  • You can only see and select projects where your organization is the Aconex project-owning organization.
  • Org Admins can grant the Download Project Activity Report permission so other users can run this report too.

Noteworthy mentions

  • Save some time with upload profiles and set default Project Fields for uploaded documents.
  • Export viewer markups to Excel for easier comment management.
  • Models gives you flexibility over your zone breakdowns in clash detection.

Catch up on all the details

  • November 2023

    In the 23.11.100 release, you can create package hierarchies, track project activity, bulk copy projects, and do more in Models, Cost, and the Online Viewer.

  • December 2023

    In the 23.12.100 release, start workflows faster, preview distribution groups, get more details during site inspections, and more. 

  • February 2024

    In the 24.02.100 release use project fields in upload profiles, export viewer comments to Excel, plus improvements for Cost, Models and Insights.