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March 2014
Release Notes
Release Notes March 2014
SPM Software – Assets and Mobile
OVERVIEW OF THE MARCH RELEASE
This Release Notice provides an overview of the improvements made to SPM Assets’ software since
the December 2013 release – the related user guides have also been updated.
Over the past few months we have focused on system performance improvements and fixes which
have been released continuously, including changes to Project Planner, Survey Planner, Mobile and
search functionality. These changes are summarised below.
To activate or enquire about any improvements mentioned in various release notices please contact
Reminder: Release Notices are available within Help under the “spm support area” or in the Client
Area of the SPM Assets website.
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1 SUMMARY OF IMPROVEMENTS AND DEFECTS
1.1 Definitions:
• Improvement – a new or ‘improved’ function that SPM Assets has scoped to improve the way the software operates
• Defects – addressing a known issue or bug
1.2 Changes in this Release
The following changes have been implemented in this release:
Item Type Description Benefit Image
BD-7 Enhancement Executive Dashboard The Executive Dashboard provides
high level graphical information
across the portfolio. It allows
company executives and managers
to view critical metrics in a
dashboard setting.
AS-
913
Improvement Enable additional file types for uploading
• txt
• doc
• xls
• docx
• xlsx
By enabling additional file types more
information can be saved against
properties and components.
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Item Type Description Benefit Image
AS-
866
Improvement 100 Year Lifecycle analysis forecast An additional filter option has been added
so 100 years can be profiled for Lifecycle
analysis.
The default expenditure profile is still
25 years.
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Item Type Description Benefit Image
AS-
853
Improvement Rename ‘Analyse’ to ‘Clear’ within Project
Planning
This function allows for the adopted
budget to be removed and then a new
budget can be entered. The improvement
relates to clarifying the terminology of
the function.
AS-
876
Improvement Select functionality from Survey Planner The filtered selection within Survey
Planner can be used for the next action.
For example if five properties of 1,000
are selected, in Survey Planner, then only
the five properties will display when
component workspace or the properties
report is selected.
AS-
942
Enhancement Component Details Updater Component Details, from either a single
or multiple property selection, can be
viewed, updated or extracted from the
database.
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Item Type Description Benefit Image
AS-
896
Improvement Additional property search options:
cmp: Make
cmp: Model
cmp: ID
The additional search options provide
more fields that can be searched on
which will return properties associated
with the search criteria.
MOB
-17
Improvement Clear component reference search in
Mobile.
A clear button has been added to the
Component Reference Search field for
ease of removing previous search
criteria.
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2 MINIMUM SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
Desktop Application
• Google Chrome v 22
• Safari v 5.1.7
• Firefox v 15
Mobile Application
• iPad Tablets
o iPad 2 running on iOS 5.1.1 and Safari
o iPad 3 running on iOS 6 and Safari
o Email Client: default Mail app
o Email Account: Exchange, Gmail
• Android Tablets
o Samsung Galaxy Tablet running on Android v 4.0.0 and Browser app
o Motorola Xoom Tablet running on Android v 3.2.2 and Browser app
o Email Client: K-9 app or default Email app
o Email Account: Exchange, Gmail