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AASHTOWare Project™ 4.6 Release Preview

August 26, 2021

Enhancements, warranty fixes, dashboards

AASHTOWare Project™ 4.6 is scheduled for release on September 10, 2021. Agencies are encouraged to begin their upgrade planning now to implement the enhancements and warranty fixes in the release as soon as possible. There are a total of 32 enhancements in this release, with an additional 84 TMRs resolved. Additionally, this release expands the dashboard functionality and delivers two additional dashboards. It also delivers the first of three TMRs for Small Business Enterprises (SBEs) on Contracts, with the following two scheduled for release in March 2022 with 4.7 and for release in October 2022 with 4.8.

Below is an outline of the updates in AASHTOWare Project 4.6.

 

Category Enhancement(s)
General Enhancements ●    Order-independent AASHTOWare Project Data Importer (APR-20971)

●    Dashboard Infrastructure Improvements (APR-22782)
Agency Views ●    Add a Sort feature to Accordion, List, and Scrollable Grid controls in Agency Views (APR-16700)

●    Agencies can now control the formatting of reference specification values in an agency view when brought into an entity (APR-16889)
AASHTOWare Project Preconstruction™ ●    Proposal & Bid Letting links have been added for easier navigation (APR-12330)

●    Transition to Construction needs to transfer both the Contract Time Road User Cost and Liquidated Damages Field Values to the contract (APR-20720)
AASHTOWare Project Civil Rights & Labor™ ●    Capture Data to Support Small Business Enterprises (SBEs) on Contracts (APR-13228)

●    Fringe Benefit Rate analysis across Projects (APR-19847)
AASHTOWare Project Construction & Materials™ (Construction functionality) ●    Associate default Agency Views to contracts when activated (APR-15058)

●    Add Letting Date as informational contract time and populate Letting Date on contract during transition (APR-15296)

●    Include an Attachments indicator for the DWR Work Item Postings (APR-15308)

●    Delete draft Payment Estimate when generating a new estimate (APR-17018)

●    Administrative DWRs for postings when no contractor is on site (APR-19240)

●    Ability to designate contract time deducts as either a Liquidated Damage or a Disincentive (APR-20726)

●    Organize estimate exceptions by whether or not estimate withholdings are involved (APR-20993)

●    Add Contract Project Items with a unit price of $0 (APR-21091)

●    Delete items from a transitioned or imported contract prior to contract activation (APR-21092)

●    Create sample dashboard for contract summary (APR-21461)

●    Create sample dashboard for percent contract change from original amount (APR-21462)

●    Remove automatic system choice of insufficient materials adjustment vs item overrun adjustment (APR-21599)

●     Add order fields to Ref Spec Condition and Field rows (APR-22616)
AASHTOWare Project Construction & Materials™ (Materials functionality) ●    Provide the ability to delete a contract material set, contract materials, and contract material acceptance actions (APR-18456)

●    Prevent automatic creation of acceptance records on a DWR (APR-18707)

●    Do not automatically calculate represented quantity on a DWR acceptance record (APR-20992)

●    Designate the number of test instances counting towards MAA on a sample record test row (APR-20995)

●    Add Source and Work location fields to the Material Installed Quantity on a DWR Report Item Posting (APR-20998)

●    Evaluate a Minimum Insufficiency when quantity is installed on a DWR with a material set (APR-20999)

●    Sample Associated to a Contract with a sample date prior to the Contract Time Needs to count towards MAA (APR-21083)

●    Automatically move test to status 40 when last retest test is marked complete (APR-21549)

●    Add an Insufficient Materials Pay Estimate Exception for Rates/Frequencies that do not affect payment (APR-22811)
AASHTOWare Project Data Analytics™ ●    Vendor Group Definition (APR-20743)
Mobile Applications ●    Updates to Mobile Tester Bridge to Support Brands (APR-22123)

 

The list of Maintenance and Warranty TMRs that have been resolved can be viewed on aashtowareproject.org by logging on and going to Support > Releases > Find 4.6 > “Resolves TMRs” tab.

 

By: Lisa Durbin, Engineering Operations Manager, Montana Department of Transportation, and Russ Barron, ‌Director, Portfolio Management Office (PMO)