Accruent FAMIS 360 Analytics v24.06 Release Notes
We're delivering this automatic upgrade on June 1, 2024, with more than 30 fixes to client-reported issues, giving you more accurate reports and greater ease-of-use.
Improvements and issues fixed
| Component | Summary | Reference # |
|---|---|---|
| Model Changes | You now see complete Assigned To Employee and Assigned Crew details in your Request Schedules reports, ensuring accurate data capture and reporting. | DP-845 |
| Data Platform | When you include both the Warehouse and Bin fields in inventory reports, each item now correctly displays with its associated warehouse/bin combination, eliminating any redundant or incorrect entries. | DP-852 |
| Data Platform | When you define Crew Rates within the application, they now display correctly in the Crew Member namespace in Analytics, including Regular Rate, Overtime Rate, and Double Overtime Rates for crew members. | DP-853 |
| Reports | You now enjoy quicker timecard report generation, with reports that previously took over 15 minutes to load now ready in less than three minutes, boosting your productivity and efficiency. | DP-854 |
| Data Platform | You can now generate the Time Hours Details report without receiving an error message, even when including the Request ID from the Labor folder. | DP-855 |
| Data Platform | When you add fields from other folders to your reports in the Journal Extract folder, estimates related to work orders now display correctly, ensuring comprehensive financial data visibility. | DP-860 |
| Data Platform | You can now filter out inactive allocation layers using the new Layer Status field so that your reports only include current and relevant data for more accurate analysis. | DP-903 |
| Data Platform | In the Requests with Labor Details report, you now see the Employee Full Name field populated alongside the Crew field, offering a complete view of labor details for work order charges. | DP-904 |
| Data Platform | Purchase Order Detail data now appears in Analytics reports even if no receipt has been recorded against the line, providing you with complete and accurate purchase order information at all times. | DP-908 |
| Reports | The Standard Report Cost By Account string in the Work Order folder now loads quickly and displays the data as expected, ensuring you have access to timely work order cost information. | DP-909 |
| Data Platform |
You can now combine fields such as Request ID and Priority Description in your Analytics reports without encountering No data found messages, even without the need to add fields like Statement of Work, for more flexible and reliable reporting. Following feedback on the initial fix in release 24.1 (referenced in DP-910), we addressed the issue causing record count discrepancies when the Statement of Work field is included in reports from the Requests namespace. You will now observe consistent and reliable record counts, enhancing the integrity of your reporting data. |
DP-910 & DP-1306 |
| Data Platform | The PR Detail Placed PO Number is now included in your reports for purchase orders in any status, including Open, Received, or Closed, providing you with a complete set of data for more thorough reporting. | DP-911 |
| Reports | The Journal Extract amount for inventory items is now accurately calculated in Analytics, even when including data from the Charge Material Item Info folder, ensuring the integrity of your financial reports. | DP-912 |
| Model Changes | You can filter by Region or Assets under the Request Namespace in Analytics, as the counts of results now accurately reflect the selected criteria. | DP-913 |
| Model Changes | The PO Detail data is now fully accessible and displays correctly in reports, following a fix to the modeling issue that previously caused errors and no data messages for specific clients. | DP-916 |
| Data Platform Analytics / Model Changes |
The Created By and Updated By fields for Keys now correctly display the respective employee information, ensuring reports accurately reflect who created and last updated each key. If you previously used the incorrect shortcut that referenced the employee table, you'll need to update the affected field in your reports. The accurate fields, Key Copy Created By and Key Copy Updated By, can be found in the Keys folder of Business View (BV). |
DP-917 |
| Data Platform Analytics / Model Changes | You can now use the Account String and Asset fields together in reporting without encountering errors, ensuring accurate assignment representation with only one person returned per schedule. | DP-918 |
| Data Platform Analytics / Model Changes | The Account String column within the Request Charges namespace now accurately pulls all account strings associated with a request, reflecting the total number on the work order. This ensures precise allocation of time across multiple account strings in your reports. | DP-920 |
| Data Platform Analytics | You can now run reports using NPFA schedule account data alongside asset data without experiencing errors. | DP-921 |
| Reports | The Department Data Extract report now functions correctly when including the Space Occupant Name and Is Primary Location? columns with applied filters. Adjustments to the data model ensure accurate data retrieval and report results, consistent with the applied departmental filters. | DP-926 |
| Data Platform Analytics | The Project Lead subfolder within the Projects namespace now successfully retrieves and displays Project Manager information from FAMIS 360 projects when added to your reports. | DP-927 |
| Data Platform | The Employee Last Login Date now shows the exact time of the last login, rather than defaulting to midnight, allowing you to track precise login activity. | DP-930 |
| Data Platform | Timecard managers can now select employees in Analytics report prompts without requiring the System Admin security right, streamlining the report generation process and aligning with the visibility provided in the user interface. | DP-931 |
| Data Platform | In the Requests namespace, the Total Costs field in reports now accurately incorporates all labor charges associated with a work order, alongside material and other costs. | DP-935 |
| Data Platform | The Actual Completion Time (Hours) field in the Requests namespace now correctly reports values in hours, ensuring that work order time data is precise and aligns with your reporting needs. | DP-936 |
| Data Platform | When generating space reports, the Allocated Group column now correctly displays the specific group allocated to each space, even when the Space Occupant field is included, providing accurate and relevant allocation data. | DP-939 |
| Data Platform | Analytics Property comments are now successfully populating in your Analytics reports, ensuring access to complete property information. | DP-940 |
| Reports | The average labor rate field under the Request object now calculates correctly, regardless of the number of labor lines or the presence of varying labor rates on a single work order, ensuring precise cost assessments. | DP-942 |
| Data Platform | Analytics reports now run smoothly without errors when including both the Allocated Group Parent Department Number and Allocated Group Parent Department Description fields from the Space Allocation Organization query subject, ensuring comprehensive space allocation data is accessible. | DP-943 |
| Data Platform Analytics / Model Changes | Adding the Charge Labor Rate Type field from the Request Charges namespace to reports no longer causes performance issues. Reports now run efficiently and provide accurate data, even when this field is included. | DP-944 |
| Data Platform Analytics | The Estimated Total Cost field from the Requests namespace displays estimated cost amounts. | DP-1063 |
| Data Platform Analytics | Work orders without an account string now display all relevant account billing information in reports, thanks to a data model adjustment that ensures information is not omitted due to join conditions. | DP-1119 |
| Data Platform Analytics | In the Projects namespace, the Request Create Date/Time and Close Date/Time fields now correctly retrieve and display associated dates and times for projects and work orders. | DP-1283 |
| Data Platform Analytics | The Account Billing Type field within the Projects namespace now accurately reflects related data without populating additional, unrelated fields, ensuring precise billing information in your project reports. | DP-1287 |
| Data Platform Analytics | The Charge Cost field within the Projects namespace now properly pulls and displays data in summary visualizations, ensuring accurate cost representation in your modified dashboards, even when applying various filters. | DP-1288 |
| Reports | Reports that combine data from the Purchasing and Requisition namespaces with the associated Request ID now run significantly faster, enabling you to efficiently analyze PREQ costs and PO costs related to work orders without the extended wait times previously experienced. | DP-1300 |