The following is a list of enhancements that are included with this release of EAM:
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Module |
Product Enhancements |
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Administration |
Several new options were added to the Documents record view; supporting the ability for a user to lock a document to prevent the associated document file from being updated by other users (i.e. only the user who has locked a document may either upload a document file, or may unlock the document). In addition to the Lock Document and Unlock Document buttons; the system administrator may configure the Break Document Lock button (delivered as hidden) to provide the ability for a document lock to be removed by a user other than the user who holds the lock. |
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Administration |
A new tab was added to the Documents screen to display the historical record of uploaded document files. The tab displays a list of files uploaded for the document record prior to the current document file; as attributes of the document record as they were at the time the file was uploaded. The tab supports viewing of previous document files; as well as the ability to revert to a previous document file, which replaces the current file with a prior file version. |
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Administration |
For Mobile (Transit) users, The Token End Point Mobile field will be used in association with QR Code generation. By using this field (and not the ROPC Token End Point field), segregation between the Authorization Code grant flow and ROPC grant flow can be maintained. |
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Administration |
The DFSCID install parameter will store the ClientID for the HXGN-DFS Partner to support usage of web services by the Dataflow Studio utility. EAM will harvest this value to enforce security of these web services. |
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Administration |
A new system user, DFSINTERNALUSER, has been created to support the implementation of the Dataflow Studio utility to EAM for integration purposes. |
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Administration |
If the Logout URL field on the SSO Configuration screen is blank, the sso logout (LGNEAM=EXTERN) will redirect the user to the logout URL configured in the config.yml file. If the Logout URL field is filled in with a valid value, the sso logout (LGNEAM=EXTERN) will redirect the user to the URL specified in the Logout URL field. |
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Administration |
The ability to use custom fields for searching (i.e. in either the dataspy, and/or quick filter) was added to this tab. |
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Administration |
EAM Mobile Offline - License is not required for EAM Mobile Offline if the user has the Digital Work app field populated at the user setup with 'Advanced Mobile', as this is a separate license that includes EAM Mobile Offline. |
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Administration |
MS Project Interface - A Security Token header will be added to the communication of data to EAM to further secure the information being exchanged. This removes the requirement for the user to be designated as a connector in EAM. |
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Administration |
View Log Files - Added the ability to sort the list by clicking the column header. |
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Administration |
Reports - All Hexagon delivered reports are Basic reports and will not consume a Report Consumer seat. Additionally, any user not marked as a Consumer will be able to run any Hexagon EAM delivered report. Custom created reports will require and consume a Consumer Report license seat. |
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Administration |
The system was updated to provide support for Hexagon Cloud environments configured with Amazon S3 storage to have thumbnail images automatically generated for several common file types, when a documents of these types are uploaded and no user-defined thumbnail has been specified. Unless a user-specified thumbnail is provided by the user when a file is uploaded, thumbnails will now be automatically generated when Amazon S3 storage is used for the following file types: *.jpg, *.png, *.pdf, *.ppt, and *.pptx.
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Administration |
A sidebar was added to the system to support the ability for a user to view a list of documents related to the selected header record, as well as the total count of all documents directly associated to the selected header record. The list displays thumbnails of each document, and provides the user the ability to either view or download the document file without leaving the screen. |
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Administration |
Base - Stylesheet additions (theme-hex and theme-hex-dark) have been added to support Hexagon color themes throughout EAM. |
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Administration |
All documentation, including the HxGN EAM Help resources, will be made available on the Hexagon PPM documentation site (https://docs.hexagonppm.com) starting with the HxGN EAM 12.0 release. The URL to which all Help entry points in the system are directed has now been updated to reflect this change. |
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Administration |
With the introduction of the SSO Configuration screen in EAM, customers can integrate their IDP with Ping Federate. Additionally, external customer contractors may need to access EAM without usage of SSO.To prevent environment or usage issues, the authenticationmode parameter can be passed in the URL of the login screen. Usage of an authenticationmode parameter value of internal will ensure the user can login to EAM as is the standard system behavior when the install parameter LGNEAM is set to STD. If authenticationmode is specified in the URL, it will override the setting of the install parameter LGNEAM. Note, upon logout, the user will be navigated to the login screen with the parameter authenticationmode=internal set in the URL. |
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Administration |
Added a Type field to the Menu Structure and Permissions screen allowing users to easily differentiate the screens/tabs/permissions associated with Digital Work, Mobile Offline, and Base elements. |
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Administration |
All .NET applications including the HxGN EAM Import Utility, HxGN EAM Upload Utility and the HxGN EAM Add-In for ArcGIS Pro were updated to support API Key authentication. |
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Administration |
API Key Management | Integration Configuration - This tab will assist administrators
in creating and managing API Keys for users against various integration partners in
an organized fashion. Organizing EAM API Key users against different applications
assists in creating and/or revoking API keys for an EAM user for one integration,
while continuing to support a different API key for that user for another. |
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Approval Workflow |
Workflow Approval | All Supported Screens - Workflow Approval screen is where users
can review a workflow event that has been assigned to them to ultimately approve or
reject the request. A workflow event is created when an active Approval Workflow Setup
record exists and a source record's activation status and activation conditions are
met. When multiple approvers are designated to a workflow event, this screen will
show all of eligible approvers and their current status.
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Approval Workflow |
Approval Workflow Setup - Approval Workflows systematically routes a record in HxGN
EAM to a specific user, or group of users, for review. An administrator can configure
the criteria for when a source record should undergo an approval workflow and for
whom should be responsible for reviewing and approving (or rejecting) the request.
Once an Approval Workflow Setup record is made active, HxGN EAM will begin monitoring
records specified against the entity to automatically create and systematically route
the workflow events to the appropriate individual(s) for review. This feature is only available for HxGN EAM Smart Cloud and On Premise deployments.
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Checklists |
Task Plans | Checklist - Changed how the system handles translations for newly created
checklist items. New items will only get one translation record for the default language
of the system (the DEFLANG install parameter), instead of creating one translation
record for each installed language. If translations are required, these can now be
added manually on an as-needed basis. |
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Customer Contracts |
Customer Contracts - Contract items associated with the contract will now be flagged to use a fixed exchange rate and have the exchange rate set if you select to use fixed exchange rates on the Record View of the contract. And vice versa if you select to not use fixed exchange rates, both field on the contract items will be cleared. |
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Data Lake |
The DLVWCR job (for Datalake) will check if partner tables can be truncated. This verification will be done when all records in a partner table have been processed (i.e., column lastupdatedat of table datalake_table equals the maximum value of column dl_lastsaved of the partner table). |
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Dynamic Checklist |
Task Plans | Dynamic Checklist Conditions - Added a new tab where you can define a
condition that must be met before one or more dynamic checklist items will be displayed.
With this new feature, you can ask for the pressure in a tank, but only if the pressure
gauge indicates it is in the red. In other words, do not show the pressure question
if the gauge is in the green or the answer has not been provided yet. |
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Dynamic Checklist |
Equipment (A/P/S/L) | Checklists - Added a new check box called Conditional. This
checkbox is related to the new Dynamic Checklist functionality. If unselected, the
checklist item was either not conditional or the item was conditional and the condition
for it to be displayed was met. Otherwise, if selected, the checklist item was conditional
and the condition for displaying it was not met. Note that these checklist items may
still show an entered result. This is because the user may have answered the triggering
checklist item such that the condition was met. The system then showed this dynamic
checklist item (Conditional is set to unselected), and the user entered a result.
Then the user changed the result on the triggering checklist item so that the condition
was not met anymore. The dynamic checklist item will then be hidden again (Conditional
is set to selected), but the system will not clear any entered results on this item.
The pre-delivered Dataspy is adjusted to only select the items where Conditional is
unselected. |
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Dynamic Checklist |
Work Orders | Checklist - Added the new Dynamic Checklist functionality. The system
will only show the checklist items that are not conditional and will show all conditional
items for which the condition was met. Once a checklist item is answered and you click
save, it may trigger other items to show now if a condition was attached to the answered
item and the answer met the condition. For example, ask for the pressure in a tank,
but only if the pressure gauge indicates it is in the red. If you answered Yes, the
gauge is in the red, and you click save, then the checklist item about the pressure
will show. This checklist item may disappear again if you change your answer about
the gauge in the red to no. Note that when a checklist item is removed from the list
because the condition is not met, the system will not clear the answer on this removed
line, it will only hide it. |
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Dynamic Checklist |
Task Plans | Dynamic Checklist - Added a new tab where you can define which checklist
items should be displayed when a condition associated with another checklist item
is met. With this new feature, you can ask for the pressure in a tank, but only if
the pressure gauge indicates it is in the red. In other words, do not bother showing
and asking the pressure question if the gauge is in the green. |
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Equipment |
Sensor - The intention of this screen is to be able to enter and track IoT devices (sensors) from the Equipment perspective. This would allow the user to monitor environments or specific assets based on the sensor associated with an area of assets or directly to an asset. This is not fully functional in this release, but as a start to allow for further IoT usage within EAM. |
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GIS |
HxGN EAM 12.1 will support ESRI's ArcGIS Enterprise v11.1. See the HxGN EAM Product Family Software Requirements for more details. |
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GIS |
The scheduled task for the 'autosync' process that is generated by the HxGN EAM Add-In for ArcGIS Pro was updated such that all GIS map layers that are configured for synchronization are handled in one, single autosync task. This is a change from the previous behavior, in which autosync tasks were generated separately for each layer individually. |
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GIS |
The scheduled task for the 'autosync' process that is generated by the HxGN EAM Add-In for ArcGIS Pro was updated such that scheduled synchronization of secured ArcGIS Online hosted feature layers is supported. |
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GIS |
Support was added to the GIS Map Search screen, the GIS WO Dispatch screen and all map-based popups, lookups and dropdowns in the system to support display and interacting with ArcGIS Online hosted content; such as ArcGIS Online hosted feature layers. Users will now be able to specify a portal Item ID for an ArcGIS Online hosted feature layer as a valid value for the GISSERV install parameter, as an alternative to an ArcGIS Server-hosted map service URL. |
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GIS |
The HxGN EAM Add-In for ArcGIS Pro was updated to support the ability for a user to both export and import a list of previously-defined field mappings between GIS and EAM equipment attributes. This enhancement allows users of the HxGN EAM Add-In for ArcGIS Pro to more quickly and easily configure mapped fields, especially for scenarios when the similar fieldnames are used repeatedly in multiple GIS layers. |
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GIS |
The scheduled task for the 'autosync' process that is generated by the HxGN EAM Add-In for ArcGIS Pro was updated such that synchronization of map layers that have a layer name specified differently than the corresponding table in the geodatabase are now supported (i.e. layer is named as "GrateInlet" on a map within an ArcGIS Pro project; but the supporting table for the layer exists as "GISDB1.DBO.GrateInlet" in the geodatabase). |
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GIS |
Ahead of Esri's retirement of ArcGIS API for JavaScript 3.x in July 2024; all map-based screens and popups in the system have been updated to support the newer ArcGIS Maps SDK for Javascript 4.x. No changes or differences in setup/configuration of map-based screens will be required from HxGN EAM users to support this change, in comparison to past releases. |
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Overview 360 |
Equipment Overview 360 - Added a new widget called Custom URL. This widget lets you
select any URL that is configured as a custom tab of Type HTML on any of the EAM screens.
See the Custom Tabs tab on the Screens screen. |
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Permit to Work |
Work Orders | Plan Tools - When a tool is added on this tab and a safety record is
found in the Safety Matrix for this tool and for the equipment of the work order,
the system will add this safety record to the Safety tab of the work order. Nothing
will happen when the planned tool is removed. |
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Permit to Work |
Permit to Work | Safety | Remove Duplicates - Added a new button that will remove
duplicate combinations of the same hazard, precaution, and timing. The system will
preserve the combination with the most recent hazard and precaution revisions and
with the most recent date updated or created. The system will also preserve unique
comments and documents from deleted duplicates and save them on the preserved safety
record. |
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Permit to Work |
Permit to Work | Tools - Added a new Tools tab where required tools can be selected
and added to the permit to work. Any hazards and precautions associated with this
tool in the Safety Matrix may also be added to the permit to work if the Equipment,
Category, or Class from the Safety Matrix matches the permit to work header data.
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Permit to Work |
Permit to Work | Safety Scope - Added a new Safety Scope tab where typical work order
content can be selected and added to the permit to work. This content can be a PM
Schedule, a Standard WO, a Task Plan, or a Job Plan. You can select multiple of each
and in any combination, as required. By selecting this content, you indirectly select
related safety records and tool records. And by adding tools, any tool related safety
records are also added to the permit to work. Without an actual work order this will
allow you to quickly specify what kind of work is needed and what the hazards and
related precautions are. Or alternatively, if there is a work order out there already,
you can use the Import from Work Order button on this tab. Once you select the work
order and click submit on the popup, the system will load the Safety Scope tab, the
Safety tab, and the Tools tab on the permit to work with data from the imported work
order. |
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Permit to Work |
Safety Matrix - Added a Tool field in the Activity Details section. With this enhancement, tools can now also be associated with hazards and precautions. |
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Permit to Work |
Permit to Work | Copy/Replace PTW - Added a Safety Scope and a Tools checkbox to the popup. If selected, the new safety scope and tool records associated with the permit to work will be included in the copy and replace process. |
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Voice of the Customer |
Screen Designer for Digital Work - A new Save Layout button has been added to this screen to replace the save toolbar button. The Copy from Group field has been moved to the top of the screen for easy usability |
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Voice of the Customer |
Screen Designer for Digital Work - Changes have been made to this screen, so that the user can now save the layout to multiple user groups at the same time, using the Available Group(s) & Save to Group(s) list boxes. |
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Voice of the Customer |
Work Orders - Added the ability to update the Standard WO field of a work order that was created as a follow-up from a checklist. The originating checklist line references the follow-up work order and the follow-up activity that was created for this checklist line. This follow-up activity reference is what disallowed the update in the previous versions. This constraint has been removed and once the new Standard WO is selected and saved, the system will remove the follow-up activity reference from the originating checklist line, only leaving the reference to the follow-up work order. |
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Voice of the Customer |
Login - When a user resets their password via the Password Reset option, the system, the system will also unlock the user if the user is locked. |
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Voice of the Customer |
Alert Management - Added a History Retention (Months) field, which controls the number of months alert history records are kept. A job called Alert Management History Cleanup, will delete the history records older than the setting of History Retention (Months). This job can be started on the Job Setup screen. Alerts where this field is blank are not affected. |
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Voice of the Customer |
Work Orders | Checklist | Reviewed By - As part of the checklist review process and depending on the setting on the Nonconformities Setup screen, the system may create nonconformities based on the entered checklist results. An integral part of this process is the creation of the observation. When the observations are created, the system will now also copy the documents associated with the source checklist item to the nonconformity observation. A picture is worth a thousand words! |
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Voice of the Customer |
Work Orders | Checklist - Added a new dropdown called Follow-up Group. With a Follow-up
Group entered, all checklist items that require mechanical follow-up are grouped together
in one work order and are separated from those that require electrical follow-up,
for example, if you click the Create Follow-up WO button. |
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Voice of the Customer |
Task Plans | Checklist - Added a new dropdown called Follow-up Group. With a Follow-up
Group, all checklist items that require mechanical follow-up are grouped together
in one work order and are separated from those that require electrical follow-up,
for example. |
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Voice of the Customer |
Work Orders | Checklist - Added a new checkbox called Defer Follow-up. If selected
and you click the Create Follow-up WO button, the follow-up of the checklist item
will become deferred maintenance instead of a follow-up work order. This checkbox
is only relevant if the organization options are set to create follow-up work orders.
If the options are set to create deferred maintenance records, i.e., the Create Deferred
Maintenance button is the only option displayed on the screen, then the value of this
checkbox is ignored, and the system will always create deferred maintenance records
only. |
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Voice of the Customer |
Task Plans | Checklist - Added a new checkbox called Defer Follow-up. If selected,
the follow-up of the checklist item will become deferred maintenance instead of a
follow-up work order. On this tab, it is the default setting for the checklist item.
But you can still overwrite this on the actual checklist on the Work Orders screen
or on the Operator Checklist and the Review Operator Checklist screen. |
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Voice of the Customer |
Work Orders | Document Lists - Added documents collected on checklists to the grid.
There are three different source types for these records. |
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Voice of the Customer |
User Defined Screens - Added the Date Created, Created By, Date Updated, and the Updated
By fields to the detail and the grid of the generated user defined screen. |
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Voice of the Customer |
PM Schedules - Added a new Copy PM Schedule button to the screen. Depending on the
selection that you make on the Copy PM Schedule popup, the data from the respective
tabs will be copied to the new PM Schedule. With the following notes: |
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Voice of the Customer |
Permit to Work | Comments and Documents - Added an organization option (PTWUPDCD) that controls at which status comments and documents can still be added, updated, and deleted. (1) If set to BOTH, comments and documents can be inserted, updated, or deleted until the permit to work is canceled or closed. (2) If set to COM, only comments can be inserted, updated, or deleted. (3) If set to DOC, only documents can be inserted, updated, or deleted. (4) If set to NO, the default, both can only be inserted, updated, or deleted if the permit to work is unfinished. |
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Voice of the Customer |
Hazards and Precautions - Extended the length of the hazard and precaution description to 255 characters. This extended length is used on the Hazards screen, the Precautions screen, and throughout the system on all Safety tabs. |
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Voice of the Customer |
E-mail Templates - Support for HTML editing can be enabled for the Body field when creating new e-mail templates. This is done through the Install Parameter HTMLMAIL being enabled. When enabled ('ON') this parameter will give the user access to the HTML toolbar. When disabled ('OFF') this will prevent access to the HTML toolbar. |
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Voice of the Customer |
Print Requisition (SZREQF) - Ability to print images is included in the parameter for this report now. |
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Voice of the Customer |
An update was made to single sign-on (SSO) behavior for base EAM, such that when the BRSOFATH install parameter is set to 'YES' and a user logs out of the system, the existing token is immediately made invalid. With this change, the user will need to authenticate again upon next login. A similar change was made related to the install parameter that controls SSO behavior in Digital Work. When DXSOFATH is set to 'YES' and a user logs out of Digital Work, the existing token is made invalid and the user will need to authenticate upon next login. |
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Voice of the Customer |
PM Schedules | Equipment - Added a new Deactivate All Equipment button to the tab. This button will deactivate all equipment records where the Date Deactivated is still blank. Records, where the Date Deactivated is already entered, will not be updated. For all records that will be deactivated, the system will: (1) Set the Date Deactivated equal to the system date, (2) delete the associated awaiting release or bypassed PM work order, and (3) clear the Set Id (linear equipment only). PM work orders that are already released or completed will not be affected by this process. |