Adoddle Release 15.5

 

Dear User,

 

We are pleased to inform you that the latest version of the Asite Platform is now available for public use. There are many new features available for you to use, details of which you can find below.

 

Kind regards                                      

The Asite Product Team

 

1      New Functionality

Asite R15.5 – Release Notes includes the following new functionality:

 

1.1    Document Manager

  Support for Configurable Attributes

Projects can now configure their own set of attributes and will not be restricted to the standard attribute set currently available within the Document Manager. The customisation includes ability to set labels, validations (mandatory or not) and also application at individual folder level.

 

Users will be able to search for these attributes using the content search field. Search functions will be extended within Release 15.6.

 

Please click here to refer the Detailed Functional Notes

 

  Upgrade Asite Viewer to BE 6.5J

Users has been upgraded to a newer version (Brava 6.5J).

 

Please click here to refer the Detailed Functional Notes

 

  Batch Printing – New Preference to print to default system printer

To optimise available memory to JRE within client machine, users will be able to directly print to the default system printer. This is available as a user preference and is useful for users printing heavy files in large numbers. Users opting for this batch printing option will need to set the printing preferences prior to initiating the batch printing operation from Asite.

 

  “Extract Files on Download” Option set to OFF

The “Extract Files on Download” option will be set to OFF by default. This will enable users to perform batch download operations without needing to install JRE on their machine.

Please click here for details.

 

 

1.2    Reporting

  Support for .xlsx format

 

Reports can be configured to export to .xlsx format.

 

1.3    AppBuilder

  Enable Save DRAFT during Edit ORI process

Users have ability to save the Form as a DRAFT during the Edit ORI process. This will create a draft (similar to the Auto-Save function).

 

  Support Form HTML within Instant Email Notification

 

Apps can be configured to include the Form content within Instant Email Notification. Please contact your Workspace Administrator or Asite Support for more details.

 

Please Click here to refer the Detailed Functional Notes.

 

  Support creating a Form Response from Email Notification

Apps can be designed such that the responses to Instant Email notifications result in creation of form responses. Please contact your Workspace Administrator or Asite Support for more details.

 

 

1.4    Asite cBIM

  Extend ability to upload profile photos from within cBIM

Users can update their profile photos from within cBIM application.

 

  Publish IFC file directly from Windows Explorer (Windows Only)

Users can now publish IFC files directly from Windows Explorer.

  
Asite cBIM users will get a right-click option within windows explorer to publish the local IFC file directly to a cBIM Model.

 

  Synchronisation of Project Models before viewing it

Users will now need to synchronies the project models before viewing the models in cBIM viewer.

Multiple models can be synchronised simultaneously.

 

  Internationalization Support

Similar to the web-client, the Asite cBIM application has been upgraded to support multiple languages, time-zones as well as UTF-8 characters.

 

  Markup Extensions

Users will be able to select Fonts, Colours, font-size, line size of markups as well as delete the marked up entities within cBIM Application. Markups will continue to be read-only once they are part of a review process.

 

   Workset level Merging and Revision Support

The merging and revisioning of IFC files are now at the Workset level instead of Doc. Ref. level.

 

  Introduction to COBie

COBie is an information exchange specification, for the life-cycle capture and delivery of information needed by facility managers.

 

Users will now be able to generate and export COBie data in Spreadsheet XML format.

For cBIM, mapping from IFC to COBie is done using the Responsibility Matrix acquired from the BuildingSMART alliance January 2013 Challenge.

 

 

 

2 System Changes

 

Asite R15.5 – Release Notes has the following changes to configuration requirements and plug-ins:

 

2.1    Changes to PC Configuration Requirements (Footprint)

 

       None

 

2.2    Changes to Applets / Plug-ins 

 

      IT Configuration Applet -  No Change

 

      Asite Viewer -  Update within Release

 

    Download Applet - No Change

 

    Upload Applet: - Update within Release

 

    Navigator Update within Release

 

    cBIM Update within Release

 

 

Notes:

 

1.    Updating the applets DOES NOT require Administration rights on local machine.

 

2.    Clicking on “Always” option when prompted with a certificate will ensure that similar prompts do not happen for current as well as any other applet signed  by Asite.  If this option has already been activated, these updates will automatically install.

 

3.      Navigator update also does not require administrator rights.

 

4.      Asite cBIM installation / update requires administrator rights "C:\Windows\System32" folder.