AASHTOWare Project™ 4.6 Release

November 18, 2021

AASHTOWare Project™ 4.6 Release 

Enhancement details, upgrade process, and more 

AASHTOWare Project™ 4.6 was released on September 10, 2021, and it is packed with updates, enhancements, and warranty fixes. Agencies are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible in order to take advantage of these improvements.  

An interesting fact… all of the hosted agencies upgraded their development environments within two weeks of release! Typically, hosted agencies are the first to move a new release into production as Infotech does a lot of the heavy lifting. If you would like to claim the title of “First Agency to Upgrade Production” be sure to let your Account Manager know as soon as your upgrade is complete. If you would like to see which agencies are hosted, visit aashtowareproject.org and navigate to Modules and then AASHTOWare Project Hosting Services. Scroll down to see a map of the hosted agencies.   

If you’re wondering how agencies can upgrade so quickly, consider watching the August 31, 2021 AASHTOWare Project Upgrade Process Panel discussion where representatives from Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, and Infotech provide an overview of the upgrade process and review the benefits of upgrading. The recorded webinar is available on aashtowareproject.org under Resources → Videos → Project Videos tab → Recent Webinar Videos. 

If you would like to know more about the new release, we highly recommend you set aside an hour to watch the AASHTOWare Project 4.6 Release Webinar that was hosted on September 23, 2021. This video is in the same location as the Upgrade Process Panel webinar. If you find it useful, please let us know and recommend it to a coworker. 

There are a total of 32 enhancements in this release, with an additional 84 TMRs resolved. As promised, this release expands the dashboard functionality and delivers two additional dashboards – Contract Summary and Change Order. It also delivers the first of three TMRs for Small Business Enterprises (SBEs) on Contracts. The other two SBE TMRs will be delivered in Project 4.7 and 4.8, scheduled for release in March and October, 2022.  

Below is an overview of the enhancements 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 ScrollableGrid controls in Agency Views. (APR-16700)  Agencies should be able to control formatting of reference specification values in an agency view when brought into an entity (APR-16889)
AASHTOWare Project Preconstruction™	Proposal & Bid Letting Links (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 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/Freqs 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)

  

To view the full list of TMRs, go to aashtowareproject.org Support then Releases and search for 4.6, and navigate to the Resolves tab. 

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