BIM Viewer (UserVoice Idea)

Over the last few releases, we have been developing a proof-of-concept solution for Forge integration. With V.2022.02, we have shaped these concepts into a fully functioning, licensed tool: the BIM Viewer. With the BIM Viewer, you can access and explore your asset inventory stored in Revit models right from a Navigator task.

The BIM Viewer solves the problem of reporting on asset inventory data that is locked in Revit models and may be difficult to explore and report on. Publish your asset data to the Archibus SaaS environment using the Archibus Smart Client Extension for Revit to produce an interactive “digital twin” BIM model of your buildings. Next, use the Archibus BIM Viewer to search for assets by name, type, classification, or standard, and visually pin-point the locations of these assets.

With the BIM Viewer, you gain access to all assets that were established in BIM during the design and construction phase. With complete asset information at your fingertips, you are able to visualize system connections, plan maintenance activities before going to the site, and integrate other asset information, such as maintenance history and BMS-initiated diagnostics, into your procedures. The BIM Viewer also has features for exporting the data to PDF or Excel, so that you can share this information with others.

It is available as a Navigator task in the Assets and Maintenance domains, in both SaaS and non-SaaS deployments.

Note : For V.2022.02, the BIM Viewer is for demonstration purposes and connects only to our Autodesk account. Customer-facing onboarding will be available in V.2022.03.

Note : The BIM Viewer task is available if you purchase the Archibus Digital Twins license . The Archibus Digital Twins license enables the BIM Viewer view; there is no separate "BIM Viewer license."

Space Console (UserVoice Idea)

So that you can easily identify your divisions and departments, the Archibus database includes the descriptive Division Name and Department Name fields which support both uppercase and lowercase characters. For example, a report can include "Business Development" (the Division Name field), rather than "BUS DEVELOPMENT" (the identifying value stored in the Division Code field).

The Space Console now takes advantage of these descriptive fields. From the Show Labels option, you can choose the Division Name and Department Name fields and display these descriptive labels with mixed case on the floor plan when you highlight. Taking advantage of these fields is especially important if you export your floor plan to users who might not be familiar with the Division Code and Department Code identifying values; these users will appreciate the descriptive names displayed by the Division Name and Department Name fields.

Maintenance Console: Improved Filter (UserVoice Idea)

Maintenance managers with thousands of work requests can use the improved filtering features of the Maintenance Console to quickly find the work requests that they need. The Console now offers three filtering tools to meet various filtering needs.

PM Maintenance Checklists (UserVoice Idea)

We have enhanced the checklist feature so that you can directly connect a checklist to a preventive maintenance procedure, omitting the need for an SLA. This change makes checklists available to those users who do not define SLAs for their PM procedures. If you currently do integrate PM procedures and SLAs and have associated checklists with your SLAs, you can continue to work with these checklists as is.

From the Define PM Procedures, Steps, and Resources task, you can add one or more checklists to a PM procedure step.

If you apply multiple checklists to a PM procedure step, the user can execute the checklists in any order or in a sequential order that you define. The ability to execute a checklist in any order is a differentiation from assigning checklists to an SLA.

Reservations and Exchange Integration

Archibus V.2022.02 has these new features for integrating Exchange and Reservations.

Hoteling

To support the many companies that are now implementing a hoteling desk strategy as they return to work after the global pandemic, we continue to make improvements to our Hoteling features.

Streamlined Dashboard

The Workplace Dashboard view has been redesigned and streamlined to combine the Service Catalog and Dashboard into one Dashboard view. The Dashboard displays the services you have access to in card format across the screen. The right panel includes a collapsed Calendar listing your meetings and bookings for the selected day; beneath this is a list of your open requests.

With the streamlined Dashboard, you no longer need the Service Catalog view. Accordingly. accessing Workplace from the Navigator loads the Dashboard view of Workplace rather than the Service Catalog view. Likewise, the URL for the Service Catalog view ( https://domain(:port)/archibus/workplace?action=servicecatalog ) redirects to the Dashboard view. To access the Service Catalog, click "Request" in the Services panel of the Dashboard view.

Dashboard Calendar (UserVoice Idea)

To help you plan your week, Workplace includes a weekly calendar view. In the collapsed calendar in the right pane, click the Expand icon to display a calendar showing your meetings and bookings for the week. From this overview of the week, you can click the "+" button on a particular day to immediately access the screen for booking a workspace for that day.

Help Topic

• Workplace / Workplace Views ​

Workplace: Maintenance Communication and Activity Logs (UserVoice Idea)

A requestor of maintenance work may want to know how their request is progressing: is it being addressed? when will it be completed?. Although work request status changes and communication logs are displayed in the Maintenance Console, it is likely that the requestor does not use the Maintenance Console and therefore cannot access these updates.

To address this issue, we have updated Workplace so that a requestor of maintenance work can now see in Workplace a history of status changes as well as work request comments in which they are tagged. You can choose to view just comments, or view comments along with status changes. In the below images, Technician Tony Parkes has tagged the requestor, AFM, in work request comments; user AFM is viewing these comments in Workplace.

Workplace Mobile App: UX Improvements

Workplace: Accessibility

We are continuing our focus on accessibility in order to provide an accessibility-compliant Workplace interface that you can roll out to all employees with confidence.

In V.2022.02, we have fixed several top-priority Service Catalog issues that were identified by an external accessibility tester. These include:

• keyboard operability​

• compatibility with assistive technologies (screen readers)​

• links for moving

• inputs for meeting space reservations

To use Workplace in accessibility mode, set the AccessibilityMode application parameter.

Note : With Accessibility Mode enabled, the Workplace Service Catalog URL ( https://domain(:port)/archibus/workplace?action=servicecatalog ) shows the Service Catalog view; the URL does not redirect to the new Dashboard view , as it does in non-Accessibility Mode.

SaaS Self-Service Configuration

We are working to make Archibus easier to deploy, configure, and maintain in SaaS environments; we want to ensure that SaaS customer administrators and business partner administrators can handle their required tasks without help.

To enable SaaS sites to self-service SaaS configuration, we have made the following tasks available to the Partner Administrators and Client Administrators roles (the 4 - CLIENT ADMINISTRATOR (ACP) and 4 - PARTNER ADMINISTRATOR (ACP) roles):

• Assign Security Groups to Roles

• Add or Edit User Roles

Sign in as sample user AFM-CLI or AFM-BP to access these tasks.

In both cases, the views enforce some restrictions. For example, they do not permit users assigned to these roles to assign the groups that control access (the SYS-USRMGR group or the % group). Likewise, these users cannot edit the higher-level System roles. This type of access is reserved for the Archibus System Admin role (sample user AFM-SYS), which has full access to all roles and security groups.

Database Update Wizard

Archibus now provides version-to-version database update scripts in SQL format. You can analyze the scripts and, if necessary, edit them to match a customized deployment. The historic scripts per release are found in \projects\users\public\dt\database-update\sqlscripts .

These scripts are generated from upgrading the schema database and will not necessarily be identical to what the Database Update Wizard would do against a production database; for example, they may make updates instead of inserts.

Database Change Event Logs

We have improved the interface of our database audit logging system so that managers can more easily answer questions about changes made to the database and trace back issues with accuracy and confidence.

For each insertion, deletion, or change, the Data Events Log view (ab-data-events-log.axvw) now includes a clickable row that presents a pop-up grid showing the original and new values. The side-by-side original and new values will help administrators more easily review database changes. For example, below, you can see that a Building Name value was changed from MyName to MyNewName.

Checklists (UserVoice Idea)

Maintenance checklists can be an important part of your company's maintenance workflow as they enable field personnel and technicians to consult a list of required steps and record a response for each step. If you integrate maintenance checklists as part of your maintenance workflow, your field technicians can now complete these checklists directly in OnSite; they do not have rely on the Maintenance Console running on a tablet or the older Archibus Maintenance mobile app to access checklists.

For this release, OnSite supports all checklist types except:

• Time-related checklists

• Custom workflow rule checklists

• Looped follow-up questions, comments, and photos (One level of a follow-up is supported.)​

Localized OnSite

As with Archibus and the Archibus mobile apps, OnSite is now available in the following languages.

• Simplified Chinese ​

• Dutch

• French

• German

• Italian

• Spanish

Set your device to one of the above languages, set your region, and you will see OnSite in the language of your device.

If you require other languages, contact us and we can work with you to translate OnSite to your requested language and then deliver it to the app store for download.

Global Publishing Preferences (UserVoice Idea)

In order to ensure floor plan and legend consistency throughout the organization, you can now set drawing publishing preferences globally in Web Central. Corresponding to the existing publishing options in the Preferences form of the Archibus Smart Client Extensions for AutoCAD and Revit, the new application parameters store the global publishing values to be used by the entire organization.

Use these new application parameters to set CAD publishing parameters (such as floor plan opacity) for all floor plans and all users. This change solves the problem of possible inconsistency between floor plan highlights, the Space Console legend, and the legends pushed out to PDF and DOC files, as well as the possibility of each CAD user working under their own unique publishing settings.

The new settings apply to all floor plans, and override settings set by each user in the Archibus Smart Client Extensions for CAD and Revit.

Revit Model Checker (UserVoice Idea)

Based on customer feedback on publishing Revit models, we have developed an Archibus-specific XML check-set file to check Revit models and clean up issues that prevent successful publishing. With this tool, you can leverage the power of the Autodesk Model Checker to resolve or track down issues before you publish models.

Checking the model finds problems with geometry and meta data, such as open polylines or duplicated objects. The file check works with all Revit models, including non-standard models, such as models of a hospital complex or stadium.

Before running the model checker, you can specify the exact properties that you wish to check. The check produces a report, shown below, with details on the issues that will impede publishing your model.

To use the model checker, you must obtain the BIM Interoperability Tool update from Autodesk. From Revit's ribbon, select Model Checker/Setup, and you will find the Archibus Model Checker in the Public Library.

Help Topics

• System Requirements (System Management Help)

• BIRT (Security Issue)