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OFS v11 Release Summary

This article consolidates the OFS v11 release series (v11.0 through v11u4) into a single summary. v11 is no longer a current upgrade target — new customers and upgrades target the latest OFS release.

At a glance

OFS v11 was a multi-update release series that focused on the features customers had been asking for most: a friendlier homepage, smarter scheduling, deeper asset visibility, more flexible Flow forms, and a much broader API surface. Across four updates (v11.0, v11u2, v11u3, v11u4) we added new capability, simplified everyday workflows, and worked through a long list of smaller refinements under the hood.

Highlights across the series:

  • OFS Menu — a new homepage tying Analytics, Fusion-Manager, Flow and your Consoles together
  • Shift Scheduling in Fusion-Manager with 1-to-52-week patterns
  • Asset Monitoring with state-based asset models
  • Packaging Dashboard for two-job make-then-pack workflows
  • Calculations in OFS Flow forms, with API-side validation for pre-populated data
  • Picture Fields in OFS-Flow and a built-in SMS Service
  • A wave of new API capabilities for state events, schedules, exports, timestamped data, and pre-filled forms

New Features

OFS Menu (v11.0). A new homepage that connects users to the places they use most: Analytics, Fusion-Manager (for administrators), the Flow App, a directory of your OFS-enabled lines (with Console links tailored to your subscription), and Saved Links for daily reports and bookmarks. Each OFS tool now has a backlink home so navigation stays consistent. Tested in modern Chrome, Safari, Edge and Firefox; Internet Explorer / IE Mode users are redirected to a legacy experience.

Shift Scheduling (v11.0). Administrators can now define shift schedules in Fusion-Manager and assign them to lines. Patterns repeat on a 1-to-52-week cycle, support 1-minute precision, and cover both simple cases (e.g. 3 shifts × 5 days) and complex ones (e.g. 4 days on, 4 days off). Schedules are timezone-agnostic so multi-site businesses can run the same local-time pattern across regions. Operators still start data recording and end shifts at the line.

Asset Monitoring (v11.0). Richer integration with site and factory assets, including state-based asset models (Run / Stop / Starved / Held / Down) and the ability to infer one asset's state from related signals — for example, deriving a packaging machine's state from infeed and outfeed counters. These capabilities are scoped per deployment; talk to your OFS representative if you'd like to apply them to your site.

Packaging Dashboard (v11.0). A new opt-in dashboard for customers who run a "make one job, pack another" workflow — common in bread, ceramics, and frozen production. Operators at the pack end can see Order Quantity, Units Produced and Total Packed, and optionally commit the manual finalisation directly from the dashboard. Requires manual finalisation and counters configured around the same point.

Operations State Machine API (v11.0). External systems can fire events into OFS via /server/events/fire/{eventName}, list known events, and check which events are valid given the current state. Gated by a new osmeventapi permission set to avoid accidental activation during testing.

Schedule Integration via API (v11.0). POST OFS-formatted XML schedule data to /schedule/xml/overwrite instead of relying on file-based ingestion.

API Exports segmented by product and crew (v11.0). Partition reason and productivity data by both axes for deeper external analysis in tools like Excel or PowerBI. Manually enabled per client due to expected performance impact.

Timestamped data endpoints (v11.0). Data-ingesting APIs can now accept a timestamp on each datapoint, laying groundwork for offline buffering and replay when devices drop connectivity.

Pre-filled Flow Forms via API (v11.4). /alertraise/ accepts an optional application/x-www-form-urlencoded body to seed a new Flow form with initial field values — simplifying integration with external systems like checkweighers. Released as beta; confirm before building integrations.

View & Export PDFs (v11.0). PDF export workflows in Analytics and Flow Forms now offer separate View and Download actions. View is full-screen with print/download disabled and nothing saved to the device; Download immediately saves a timestamped, meaningfully-named file. This split also works around a Google Chrome caching quirk that previously yielded empty PDFs on save.

User Roles simplification (v11.0). When creating a Fusion-Manager user, administrators see a much shorter, clearer list — Administrator, Analytics User with Editor, or Analytics User. Internal/legacy roles are no longer surfaced by default. Contact OFS if you need a role outside this set.

Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) column (v11.0). New Analytics column — Unplanned Downtime ÷ Unplanned Downtime Events — available in summary reports and the Line / Product Bubble charts.

Day of Week Start (v11.0). New Analytics option to set the user's preferred day of the week for calendar shortcuts. Stored per device.

Seconds Duration Format (v11.3). New duration format in Analytics that reports time data as decimal seconds.

Calculations in Flow Forms (v11u2). A new Calculation Field type lets a Flow form compute values from other fields, constants and product metadata — useful for average checks, derived measurements and richer validation. Enabled per environment via Enable Flow Calculations Field in Fusion-Manager's Advanced Settings. Calculation field values are computed once a user interacts with the raised form.

API-populated Flow forms validated at runtime (v11u2). Forms populated via API (e.g. straight from factory measurement equipment) now run validation before any user interaction. Quick analysis of automatically-recorded data, without waiting for someone to open the form.

Counter edits — finer control (v11u2). OFS can now be configured to allow or reject edits on a counter-by-counter basis. Disabled counters appear greyed in the UI and API edits are rejected. Calculated counters (where the value is derived from other inputs, e.g. cases scaled to kilograms) are now read-only across the board.

Flow — Combined Column Reporting (v11u2). In Analytics → Flow Manager, alerts that share the same Form Field Label can be consolidated into a single selectable column, regardless of field type. Useful when the same data point (e.g. "Vinegar pH") is captured across multiple forms.

Enhanced translation support (v11u2). Broader translation coverage across the platform.

OFS Events Chart — span-callout close button (v11u2). Minor UX addition to dismiss span callouts directly.

Analytics Help Menu (v11u2). A dedicated help menu now available in Analytics.

Run-slow span group in CSV reason imports (v11u2). Reason CSV imports now support the run-slow span group.

Flow Forms — Calculation rounding functions (v11u3). Round results to a chosen precision inside the formula.

Console — extended translation support (v11u3). Broader Console translation coverage.

Multiline App — custom scrollbar (v11u3). A purpose-built scrollbar for the Multiline App.

Picture Fields in OFS-Flow (v11u4). Capture pictures from the manufacturing environment directly into OFS-Flow forms. Personalisation may be required — talk to your OFS contact about getting started.

SMS Service (v11u4). Send SMS messages natively from OFS Alerts and Services.

Uplifts

OPC-DA DCOM compatibility (v11.0). Updated to comply with Microsoft's permanent RPC Integrity-level changes (finalised 14 March 2023). Affected OPC-DA customers had already been upgraded as part of the staged 2021–2023 rollout.

Websocket qualify frames (v11.0). Per-thread broadcasting option added to prevent qualify ("I'm still here") messages from crossing connection boundaries. No customer data at risk; this is a stability improvement.

iOS Safari — websocket fallback (v11.0). iOS clients now fall back to long polling instead of websockets to avoid the double credential prompt caused by iOS Webkit's non-standard handling of HTTP Basic auth.

Fusion-Manager version number (v11.0). Now visible in the top-left corner so you can confirm which version is deployed.

Terms of Use simplified (v11.0). Terms of Use have been simplified and now point to a web URL.

Analytics export limit raised (v11.4). Limit increased to 64 MB so large reports no longer hit the previous cap.

Flow Manager column defaults (v11.4). Flow Manager no longer opens with every column selected by default.

Reason & ReasonCategory export enhancement (v11u2). The enabled flag is now surfaced to API consumers in all line-level Reason and Reason Category list operations. No change to Data Export Service APIs.

Legacy browser compatibility restored (v11u2). v11.0 introduced changes that broke Analytics on devices restricted to older browsers (Internet Explorer, older Chrome). v11u2 restores access for those customers; we still recommend modern browsers where possible.

Data resummarised on metadata edits (v11u2). Retrospective changes to job metadata now trigger recalculation of pre-computed values for completed jobs, not just running ones.

Password hashes no longer sent to Fusion-Manager (v11u2). Salted, hashed passwords were previously transmitted to the user admin UI — unnecessarily. They're now kept server-side. No data was exposed to unauthorised parties and passwords were never sent in plaintext; this is a proactive credential-handling improvement.

Multiline App scrolling on iPads (v11u2). When the number of lines exceeded the window width, lines outside the viewport were unreachable. Scrolling now allows any number of lines to be listed and accessed.

Packaging Dashboard permissions for Console users (v11u2). Console users can now access the Packaging Dashboard.

Data query rate optimisations (v11u2). Query optimisations improve performance on lines that use multiple counters.

Error messaging in Flow Manager (v11u2). Updated to remove legacy language and improve user experience.

OFS Menu — Go console links respect language (v11u3). Navigating to a Go line from the home menu now auto-translates the Console for users with a configured language (e.g. French).

Analytics Tag Cloud — Spanish common-words filter (v11u3). Common parts of speech in Spanish (prepositions, conjunctions, etc.) are now filtered out, improving the value of Tag Cloud data.

Span Change Logs — split logs and higher character limit (v11u3). Metadata transaction logs are now split into separate change and snapshot logs. The character limit has been increased so longer span changes are no longer truncated.

Span Editor — styling fixes (v11u3). Long metadata names now wrap (no horizontal scrollbar); the vertical scrollbar has been restyled for better visibility.

Console Gauge adaptability (v11u4). Adapts more cleanly across screen sizes.

OFS-Flow validation in PDF exports (v11u4). Conditional formatting and field validation rules now carry through to PDF exports.

Dynamic Events Chart parameters (v11u4). Parameterise the Events Chart at load time (standalone or via the Console iframe) — e.g. focus the view on specific assets or activity centres.

Events Chart — new 5-minute and 15-minute time windows (v11u4). Selectable in the UI or pre-loaded via a timeWindow URL parameter.

Alert Group display in Fusion-Manager (v11u4). Smoother scrolling and improved layout for long Alert Group lists.

Shift Progress — Units Rated description (v11u4). Description clarified to remove ambiguity about which time class is used.

Per-minute speed columns in Analytics (v11u4). Run Speed, Open Speed, Shift Speed and Production Speed now available in Units/Min alongside the existing per-hour columns.

Zoom level for live dashboards (v11u4). Persisted in share URLs via standardised parameter names, replacing the older local-storage approach.

Disallow newly-created alerts from being referenced by Workflow Alerts (v11u4). Until they've been saved (and assigned a configUID), preventing bad references that previously broke further Fusion edits.

Selectively disable job-start backdating (v11u4). Optional toggle to stop OFS from replacing unallocated time with Job Setup time when a job starts.

Spanish common-words filter improved (v11u4). Broader coverage on the Tag Cloud filter.

'Changed After Dismissal' column description (v11u4). Description added in Flow Manager.

Alert Form PDF view — cleaner toolbar (v11u4). Download and print buttons hidden while viewing a form in PDF view.

Bug Fixes

PDF export — Google Chrome bug (v11.0). Repeated PDF saves in Chrome yielded empty files due to how Chrome caches PDF content from HTTP POST APIs. Resolved via the new View / Download split.

Analytics — middle-click on Home (v11u2). Middle-clicking the Home button now opens the home menu in a new tab (previously showed the click animation but took no action).

Analytics — OEE Overview Options button alignment (v11u2). Button realigned with the rest of the toolbar in Dark Theme.

Analytics — 'Run Slow Percent' help text (v11u2). Corrected to run slow time / open time (previously incorrectly defined as run slow time / shift time).

Analytics — carousel buttons in Dark Mode (v11u2). Now visible on live reports (previously hidden by the styling).

Analytics — Live Overview auto-refresh (v11u2). Restored after a breaking change in v11.0 had disabled it.

Flow Manager — validation colour on widened columns (v11u2). Extending a coloured column now correctly recalculates the validation colour width across the full row.

Flow Manager — reason report PDF export buttons (v11u2). Aggregate and drill-down reports now have separate export buttons; selecting a drill-down no longer overrides the Aggregate export.

Flow Manager — Audit Log / View disabled styling in Dark Mode (v11u2). Greyed-out state for the Audit Log and View buttons now applies correctly when no form is selected.

Flow Form checkboxes (v11u2). No longer validated before the user interacts with the form; spacing updated to match other form styling; default values now consistent.

Workflow new-state colour (v11u2). Random colour generator now always produces valid HEX codes (previously could generate invalid codes that left the indicator showing the previous colour).

Shift Schedule operator & crew loading (v11u2). All operators and crews now load (pagination disabled on the operator/crew data sources).

Home button loading spinner — control-click (v11u2). A timeout has been added so the spinner resets when control-clicking opens the home menu in a new tab.

Analytics CSV & PDF export — quote handling (v11u3). Single (') and double (") quotes intentionally included in SKU names (e.g. for inches) are no longer stripped.

Analytics alert form pre-validation (v11u3). Earlier logic incorrectly assumed all alerts were forms; non-forms no longer break under pre-validation.

Flow Manager — IE11 styling fix (v11u3). Adjustment made to handle a bug in legacy IE11 browsers.

Fusion Manager — bulk operator import (v11u3). Importing Console Operators via CSV no longer returns an internal server error.

Enhanced cookie security (v11u4). Cookie-handling hardened.

OFS Menu — redirection modal bug (v11u4). Fixed.

OFS Go! — line selection bug (v11u4). Fixed.

LP interface — encoding issue (v11u4). Resolved.

Live Overview — AVAp displays correctly (v11u4). No longer shows NaN.

Console downtime warning — style break (v11u4). Fixed.

Auto-filled fields — validation in Flow Manager and Flow App (v11u4). Now correctly validated in both interfaces.

Database connection stability (v11u4). Stability improvement for database connections.

ReasonCategory duplicate columns in /export/events API (v11u4). Duplicate columns removed.

Alert Preview flashing error message (v11u4). Fixed so the form preview tool works reliably.

Accessing v11 today

OFS v11 is a legacy release and is no longer an active upgrade target. Customers running an earlier version should plan an upgrade to a current OFS release — your OFS contact or support@ofsystems.com can scope this with you. If you're already running v11 and need a fix or feature from a later v11 update, please reach out so we can advise on the right path forward.

Looking back, and forward

OFS v11 laid groundwork that continues to shape the platform — the menu, scheduling, asset model, API surface and Flow capability all evolved from this series. If you'd like to talk about what came after v11 (v12 and beyond) or share what you'd like to see next, get in touch with your OFS contacts or support@ofsystems.com. We always want to hear from you.