Product Updates, Sept 2020 - CSG Software

Novade

Novade’s Cyber Security Certification
Novade has attained its IMDA accreditation and Cyber Essentials Plus certification. More details on the certifications can be found here.

Multi-language support has been added for Defect master lists and Locations in Novade Quality. We are also pleased to announce that Client Admins can request and download Novade Desktop database files directly. There is also an additional security feature where users need to have password protection or access controls set on their device before they are allowed to login to Novade.

Renaming of Novade Safety
With effect from 2nd July 2020, the Novade Safety module will be renamed Novade Safety-HSE; all functionalities remain the same. The name change is to more closely align to the fact that the module can be used to manage all aspects of site safety including health and environment issues.

Novade Safety-HSE
•  Modified text to make it clearer when certificates have expired.
•  Added a check to minimise the creation of drafts and to encourage users to finish previously started drafts. If a user has a draft version of a template, they will be prompted to pick from a list of existing drafts to work on instead of creating a new one by default.
•  Added the ability to see the location of photos attached to various Safety objects on a map; only if the photo has GPS data recorded via the Novade app.
•  Incidents – added two new dashboards: Types by Hazard and Man Days Lost.

Novade Quality
• In the Novade Quality module, homeowners are now able to see rejected defects and the reason for rejection.
•  Added various features to make the Quality module compliant with HDB requirements in Singapore.
•  Expanded the ability to add managers for units on projects in the construction phase
•  Added the ability for standard users to merge cases and move defects.
•  Change in terminology for users designated as Managers of Units – they are now referred to as Unit Managers instead of just Managers.
•  Added the ability to set a form template sequence by project.
•  When confirming a case or defect, the dialog box now displays options ‘Yes/No’ instead of ‘Cancel/OK’.
•  Improved UI to skip the template selection step when there is only one template available.
•  Improved Notification preferences for defect assignments.
•  In the Defect wizard, drawings will not be displayed unless it is mandatory to pin defects
•  Added the ability to display photos on a map if they have GPS information.
•  Improved PDF export for Defects without Cases, not to show irrelevant information like case number fields.

Novade Workforce
•  Harmonised some terminology that was inconsistent on the web.
•  Added the ability to add bonuses on timecards to be used in Reports.

Novade Activity
•  Added the ability to duplicate forms to save time creating a new one after a form is rejected.
Web:
•  Modified the Units Milestone Summary dashboard to exclude units with no activities when a block filter is applied.
•  Added an archived tab to consolidate all archived activities in one place and to clean up the display of open activities.

Autodesk

Switch to a 3-year Subscription & Save More!
Beginning September 1, customers will now be able to simply switch their existing annual subscription to a 3-year subscription. Customers no longer need to buy a new multi-year subscription at a 5% higher price compared to renewing, and do not have to spend time assigning the named users all over again.

Benefits of multi-year subscriptions:
•  Save More Money — Get 10% savings off of the special renewal pricing
•  Improves Efficiency — Less time needed for software administration associated with switching to a multi-year subscription
•  Enables continued access to software —Eliminates user downtime associated with reassigning users

Subscriptions with multi-user access (network licenses) will retire on August 7, 2021, and cannot be renewed
•  Customers who have an active multi-user subscription licenses are eligible to enjoy the multi-user 2:1 trade-in offer, this means 1 multi-user subscription license is eligible to trade in to 2 single-user subscription licenses.
• Customers who choose to renew multi-user subscriptions instead of trading in will lose their eligibility for the multi-user 2:1 trade-in offer.

BIM 360 Updates

Navisworks Issue Integration
Model Coordination
Navisworks and BIM 360 Model Coordination have joined forces, bringing together coordination and issue tracking workflows.

Multiple Daily Logs
Field Management
Often one daily log is not enough to capture the work done onsite. Now field users can submit several daily logs for the same day.

RFI Risk Factor Card
Construction IQ
The new RFI Risk Factor card leverages Construction IQ to analyze and identify high-risk RFI’s and classify root cause.

Issue to RFI
Project Management
Releasing Soon! BIM 360 Build users will be able to create an RFI directly from an Issue, reducing duplicate data entry and creating a bi-directional link between the two records.

Navisworks Issue Integration
Model Coordination
Navisworks and BIM 360 Model Coordination have joined forces, bringing together coordination and issue tracking workflows.

Procore

Admin: (Coming Soon!) App Management Metrics
Previously, Procore Administrators and Project Users were able to view basic API request metrics for installed applications. With the release of the new App Management Metrics feature, this capability is expanded to include detailed information on user and project-specific usage of installed applications. This feature provides Procore Administrators with valuable insight into how their users are leveraging and interacting with third-party applications. Here are some of the useful capabilities of the new App Management Metrics feature.

Procore Administrators can:
•  Identify and track users in their organization that have installed third-party applications from the Procore App Marketplace.
•  View the projects in which an application has been configured and used.
•  View which users have accessed an application by date.
•  View a filtered list of metrics for specific users/projects.
•  View in graphical form the number of API requests made by a given application across all projects in a company.

Project Users can:
•  View which users have accessed an application in their project by date.
•  View in graphical form the number of API requests made by a given application in their project.

Project Level Language Selection
Procore has released a new setting that allows users with the appropriate permissions to select the language they want an individual Procore project to be displayed in. Previously, in order to change a project’s language, users needed to request the change from their Procore point of contact. Now a project’s language can be selected by users with the appropriate permissions to create new projects or to update existing projects. View the details here.

Procore Analytics: Q3 2020 Releases
The following sections outline the updates included in the Q3 release for Procore Analytics.
•  All Reports
•  Owner Report – New!
•  Daily Logs Report
•  Project Management Report
•  Financials Budget Report
•  Quality and Safety Report
•  Database Changes with Procore Data Extract

All Reports
•  Upgraded to support the Power BI August 2020 update.

SketchUp

SketchUp will go 100% subscription after 4th November 2020 & the classic perpetual license will be discontinued! Any existing classic perpetual license is still allowed to renew the M & S support plan until 4th November 2020.

What’s New in SketchUp 2020.2?
In SketchUp Pro 2020.2, we are introducing some improvements based on longstanding user feedback. Some changes are straightforward enough—Weld!—while others are new concepts to explore in SketchUp and LayOut.