OPUS Release Notes - December 2024

This version of OPUS was released on Tuesday, 03 December 2024. This update contains a lot of improvements, so let's start it right away with the major changes:

Major Features

• New Jobs Grid: The Jobs Grid has been rewritten and now offers a major update to the user interface along with significant performance enhancements.

• Operator "Known As": Introduction of a "Known As" feature in both web and mobile platforms to reference operators.
• Site References: Included in the site name to better identify sites.
• Display Last Job Answers: Now supported in operator-created jobs.
• Workflow Action: A workflow action has been added to allow a repeating subsection source checklist to clone answers into a non-repeating checklist, separating each repeat of a subsection into an individual job.

Other Enhancements

• Added a 'Reference' column to the Section table for use in the API.
• Locked down companies using AD Auth in OPUS to prevent users from resetting passwords if AD Auth is utilized by the company.
• Improved workflows to function with repeating sub-sections, enabling the creation of individual destination jobs with non-repeating sections.
• Notification of Workflow Job Failures: Implemented a notification system to alert company administrators when a workflow job creation fails during job sign-off.
• Added additional system reference fields to the library.
• Extended the API to match on checklist reference.
• Changed the "Active Directory" Integration product to "Identity Provider."
• Added "Assign Site Classification" to the sites grid under actions.
• Mobile
  • Mobile UI messaging has been improved for a new look and feel.
  • The "Pull Jobs" function has been enhanced to make it easier to assign an unassigned job to "Myself" within the app.
  • Interruptions that previously caused text to be lost in comments have been fixed to retain the text.
  • Multi-line comments have been added to photos.
  • The DisplayJSON object has been improved to display scroll bars when necessary.

Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

• Database Optimization for Child Answers
• Improved management of archived images.
• On the Job Details and Checklist Details pages, if a job doesn't have an associated site, the hyperlink currently reading "No Site Allocated" is corrected to prevent redirection to a non-existent site.
• Fixed: The system was experiencing an issue with the Checklist Detail Exception Report regarding child questions.
• Fixed: Asynchronous error during IoT checklist synchronization.
• Fixed: During the import of item transactions, ensure the accurate assignment of subsections to the corresponding answer subsections.
• Improve scoring calculations by removing redundant processing of child answers.
• Optimized Reports: Asynchronous service data extract reports optimized.
• Mobile users can currently only filter on operator-creatable checklists; they are now able to filter on all checklists that exist on the mobile device.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to our support team at support@opus4business.com or 087 135 9800.

Thank you for your continued trust in OPUS.