This articles details the various improvements included with the OFS V11 Upgrade 4 (v11u4)
Summary
Our team is consistently hard at work adding various improvements to the OFS software. All new changes are detailed below, and listed under the part of the platform affected by the change.
Fusion Manager
Improved Alert Group scrolling
When scrolling very large lists of Alert Groups, the scrolling behaviour could on occasion be erratic. Scrolling behaviour was built some assumptions about Alert Group data which have been updated to match real-life conditions, removing the erratic scroll behaviour in all identified cases.
Alert Preview Error
An issue was identified in Fusion Manager where previewing an Alert Form could result in a flashing error message, preventing users from properly using the form preview tool. This has been fixed.
Analytics
Per Minute Speed Columns
Analytics has always had columns for a variety of speeds in analytics such as Run Speed, Open Speed, Shift Speed and Production Speed, however these have always been displayed speed in per hour.
We are now happy to provide 4 new additional columns which will enable users to see all speed metrics (Run, Open, Shift and Production) in a per minute speed!
These are available like any other speed column in analytics and can be found under the following titles:
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Run Speed (Units/Min)
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Open Speed (Units/Min)
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Shift Speed (Units/Min)
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Production Speed (Units/Min)
Parameterised Span Reports in OFS Events Chart
In v11.8, it is now possible to provide a parameter to the OFS Events Chart as it is loaded (either as a standalone page or via the OFS Console iframe elements.
This allows for new displays to be created, focussing factory visibility on specific assets, or activity centres.
Additional Time Windows Now Available on the Events Chart
This update adds two additional time windows to the Events Chart to allow users to see a more granular events chart and view events up close.
The two new times windows that have been added and can be selected are:
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5 Minutes
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15 Minutes
These are also available as a selection using the new 'timeWindow' browser parameter to have these time windows pre selected when loading an events chart.
Updated description for Units Rated on Shift Progress
It was identified that the description regarding the time class used in the description of Unit Rated on the shift progress report in Analytics was a bit ambiguous. This has been updated to provide greater clarity.
Zoom Level for Live Dashboards in Share URLs
This update introduces a fix to save the scaling parameters (zoom levels) for live dashboards in OFS Analytics Share URLs, improving how these settings are stored and retrieved. Previously, zoom levels were saved in specific local storage properties, but the new method standardises these parameter names to create a more consistent and streamlined approach.
Spanish common words added to the cloud tag filter
This update adds to the tag cloud filter for Spanish "common words". This improves the quality of data in the Tag Cloud report.
Updated description for 'Changed After Dismissal' column
The ‘Changed After Dismissal’ column in Flow Manager was missing a column description which has now been added.
Alert Form PDF View UI Update
This update removes visibility of the download and print buttons while viewing a form in "PDF view".
OFS-Flow
Conditional Formatting for PDF Exports
The conditional formatting applied to forms in Analytics was previously not applied when a form was exported to pdf. This is because the logic responsible for applying custom formatting in Analytics is specific to Analytics. The code responsible for creating pdf’s has been updated to include any custom styling that had been applied to a form in Analytics.
Disallow Newly Created Alerts to be referenced by Workflow Alerts
This update addresses a bug identified by customers where attaching a secondary alert to a workflow when the secondary alert has not been saved yet (and assigned a configUID) creates a bad reference in the OFS database, which in turn causes further Fusion edits to alert config to fail.
Console
Ability to Selectively Disable Job-Start Backdating
When starting a job in OFS from an unallocated state, typically the software will backdate time and replace the unallocated time with Job Setup time. This update adds a toggle to give customers the ability to disable this behaviour if desired.
API Fixes
ReasonCategory column fix in the /export/events API
The /export/events API contained duplicate columns which have been removed.