Asite 20.9 | Asite Help Center

Dear User,

At Asite we recognise the importance of your feedback and work continually to improve the tool and bring you new features.

Asite continues to get better and faster, so you can focus on what you do best!

Asite CDE: Improved Control of Private Distribution Groups

Improved Control of Data Visibility

Quick and easy access to all existing records for newly added users, eliminating unwanted notifications
Fully audited and simplified interface to view visibility of records
Project configuration that enables object-level visibility of privately distributed content.
Important: To enable this feature, contact your Asite Consultant or our Helpdesk at support@asite.com
Click here to learn more.

Extended CDE Distribution:

Asite's CDE distribution function has been enhanced to track record sharing at object-level, i.e. distribution group, role, organization and user.
Visual Workflow system tasks have been extended to support automatic sharing at object level via workflows.
Click here to learn more.

Asite CDE: Improved Interface & User Experience

Enhanced Column Filters: The enhanced listing interface in the Web application now has column-level filters, similar to that of Excel, allowing users to set filters to retrieve required data These sophisticated filters are automatically generated based on selections and stored for future use. Supported in all Files and Apps listing areas Click here to learn more.
	Publish Revisions Faster: Users can now publish revisions on existing Doc Refs, using the right-click function or from the online viewer interface, improving usability and eliminating the need to navigate project folders. This feature also supports multiple files in a project folder. Click here to learn more.

Asite CDE: Visual Workflow & AppBuilder Upgrade

Calculation Wizard:

Design Add, Subtract, Multiply or Divide field values and display them on your app.
Supports individual field calculation or values within a table or repeating rows.
Click here to learn more.

Publish your Apps as PDF:

The Visual Workflow Management solution now enables the automated publication of Apps as PDFs, along with the contents of any associated or attached files.
Apps are easily stored by publishing them to a project folder via the Visual Workflow system task.
Click here to learn more.

Digital Signatures:

Along with publishing Apps and App Instances as PDFs, users can now also embed digital signatures
Deliver digitally signed PDFs to project folders
Click here to learn more.

Field Management Upgrade

Create Any App on Calibrated Plans:

Enhance collaboration by populating the calibrated drawing plan view with pins for multiple Apps and Site Apps
Separate pins distinguishing Defect and other Site Apps
Easily track all outstanding site tasks, such as Defects, Snags, Punchlists, Checklists, Inspections, and manage Inspections online or offline
Supports HTML5 AppBuilder designed Apps
Enables customization of design layouts using HTML5 AppBuilder tool
Easy configuration of workflows for simplified single-step workflow processes to suit business needs
Supports offline working
Click here to learn more.

Asite CDE: Digital Engineering (cBIM) Upgrade

Improved Navigation:

Improved Orbit and Walk navigation
Click here to learn more.

Measurements:

Introducing measurement tools, point to point, and angle measurement
Includes calibration for the unit of measure and precision to represent
Click here to learn more.

3D File Compare:

Compare two IFC model revisions to list newly added, modified or deleted objects
Individual color coding for each status
Option to isolate to more clearly display differences
Click here to learn more.

Markup Extensions:

Introducing cloud, line, and arrow with customizable elements, including color, font and line thickness
Click here to learn more.

Supply Chain Management (SCM) Upgrade

Invitation via Public Links: Open PreQual invitation links allow users to invite external subcontractors for prequalification using public links.

Onboarding of Subcontractors: Buyers can onboard subcontractors quickly and efficiently as well as initiate the prequalification process with automatic invitation issuance.

Custom PreQual Templates: Supports custom prequalification configuration and multiple prequalification templates.

Asite Platform - Infrastructure Upgrade

Asite has announced the launch of its new data center in the UAE to best serve its growing global customer base in February 2020.

The new data center ensures that project information for UAE projects will remain in the UAE and improve the performance of data management processes for projects in the region, including the fastest possible response times when completing day-to-day project tasks. It also showcases a world-class disaster recovery service which will deliver failover in the event of a man-made or natural catastrophe, ensuring user's data can be recovered effortlessly.

The data center maintains stringent compliance standards with the following certifications:

ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 22301, ISO 20000, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, PCI DSS and ISAE3402/SSAE16 Type 2.

These certifications reflect the quality of operations and excellence of the Asite service.

Asite operates a global platform of cloud services, delivering for businesses worldwide who use the platform to help them build better. Asite's platform has been used on some of the most high-profile engineering projects in the world, including the construction of Terminal 5 at London's Heathrow airport, the Aviva Stadium in Ireland and Dubai International Airport.

See the full Blog post here.

Asite 20.9 - Key Features and Enhancements

Microsoft Office Word integration: Asite CDE now supports bi-directional integration of custom meta-data values for MS Word DOCX format files. This is extended via Asite Visual Workflow and is supported for Upload and Edit Attribute functions.

Extended API to create placeholders:The Asite REST-based API has been extended to support the creation of new placeholders

Activity lock function enhanced: The update file privacy option in the status change interface now respects activity lock and is disabled for editing

Visual Workflow interface improvements: The Visual workflow interface has been further improved to help visually distinguish between user and system tasks.

Project Filters: Set favorite projects as default Filter: The Project Filters function now allows users to set favorite projects as default providing an improved performance and visibility of project information. To select all projects, a new “All Projects” option has been introduced. Click here to learn more.

Design layout updates: Administrators can now configure and overwrite the design layouts to all their users within their organization or supply chain.

Control your commenting process via system tasks: The Visual workflow tool is enhanced with system task that enables control the comment interface. The document publisher can be removed from the comment notification list and the interface controlled to mark the comment as private / public. Click here to learn more.

Federated BIM Model access: The 3D BIM federated model functionality is now available to all Asite CDE subscription users.

Publishing X-Refs: The approach to uploading x-refs is limited to the AutoCAD plugins. DWG files with x-refs published via Adoddle Navigator will be uploaded as single files only. The Upload interface has also been improved and now supports upload from any device. Click here to learn more.

Asite Product & Service Notification

Support for Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) will be retired in the next release: At Asite, our number one priority is putting our users in a position to succeed so, in accordance with this change, we are recommending that clients move to a supported browser such as Microsoft Edge (Chromium), Google Chrome, Firefox, or Safari.

After the next release, you will still be able to access the Asite platform using IE11. However, Asite will not provide support for any issues you may encounter using this browser.

Why is Asite retiring IE11?

We’re retiring support for this browser version as we continue to upgrade our infrastructure and framework for functionality and security. Common browser-based code frameworks used by web developers have dropped support for IE, meaning the cost of maintaining compatibility is ever-increasing. With this change, we want to ensure you and your users can access your data through supported, updated, and more secure browsers.

What action do I need to take?

To avoid functionality issues, we encourage you and your users to move to a supported browser such as Microsoft Edge (Chromium), Google Chrome, Firefox, or Safari.

How can I get more information?

For more information, contact our Helpdesk via email at support@asite.com

Asite 20.9 - System Changes

Changes to Asite Configuration Requirements & Plug-ins

Changes to PC Configuration Requirements (Footprint) - No

Changes to Applets / Plug-ins

IT Configuration Applet - No
Java Viewer (Classic Version) - No
Active-X Viewer (File Comparison) - No
Adoddle Navigator - Yes

Note:

JRE Version - Adoddle platform to support JRE1.8 and above

Support for TLS 1.1 discontinued. We currently support TLS 1.2.

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