Contract 25.9 Release Notes

This is a preview of the upcoming release. General release is available starting 27-OCT-2025

• Configure placeholder documents in Supporting documents – You can now specify placeholder documents in the Supporting documents configuration by document type and subtype. To support this enhancement and to provide additional flexibility when configuring supporting documents, the Supporting documents set up has been moved to the Contract type configuration set up page (organization Settings > Configurations > Contract type configuration setup). The previous Supporting documents configuration has been removed from the Configurations list. Any settings from previous releases have been migrated to the new configuration. Read more

  The Define Supporting documents requirements section has been added to the Contract type configuration page. The new section consolidates configurations by document type or subtype, so you do not have to set up default locations and requirements for publishing and approval status for each event.

  

  For each contract type, you can click Manage Documents to select the document types and subtypes you want to require.

  

  In the Define supporting documents requirements grid, you can specify default locations, such as a contract, vendor change order, or payment form for each document type or subtype.

  When you create one of the named items, the Supporting documents page automatically shows blank lines for each of the selected document types and subtypes as placeholders. A yellow warning triangle shows as a visual reminder that the document is a default document type.

  

  You can then add and then edit the document or click the link in the hover text to add document information and the file or link.

  

  The Define Supporting documents requirements section also lets you specify whether a document is required for workflow or publishing and if the document approval is required. Document type placeholders that are required for workflow or publishing cannot be removed from the Supporting documents page.

  The Edit supporting document dialog box has been updated so that you can add documents from your computer, the Supporting document list, or from InEight Document.

• Schedule of values Valid from and Valid through dates – The Valid from and Valid through fields have been added to the schedule item details, so you can restrict use of the schedule item based on chosen dates. Read more

  

  When you associate a schedule of values item to a line item, the schedule item's valid from and valid through dates automatically default to the line item's valid from and valid through dates. You can edit the dates as needed, but the schedule of value item dates must be within the associated line item valid from and valid through dates.

  Any claims or payment claims using the schedule item must post within the schedule item's valid from and valid through dates.

  Valid from and Valid through columns have also been added to the Schedule of values register.

  The Valid from and Valid through dates have been added to the import template for all schedule of values imports.

• Schedule of values import calculation history – The import calculation has been added to the Schedule of values import History tab, so you can quickly see the calculations used in previous imports. Read more

  

• Schedule of values date restriction – You can no longer use dates prior to 01 January 2000 in the Schedule of values module.

• New diversity participation tags – Tags for the fields in the Diversity participation section of the contract header have been added to the general tags and collection table tags lists. A collection table has been added for the Category, Percent, and Comments fields.

• Associate unassigned change items to a change order – The Unassigned Change items dialog box that shows when you click the Unassigned changed item total now includes the option to associate unassigned changed orders to a new, existing, or executed vendor change order. Read more

  A new check box and the Associate button have been added to the Unassigned Change items dialog box. To associate a change item, select the check box for the item, and then click Associate.

  

  The Associate change item dialog box opens where you can associate the change item to a new or existing unpublished vendor change order.

  

  If you have the permission Edit executed vendor change order details (Permissions > Contract > Contracts > Edit contracts), you can select Executed to view a list of executed vendor change orders. Using the Executed option can be helpful when a change order was executed without the change items, and you want to come back later to reduce the value of the unassigned change items and assign any items that were missed.

  Also, if you have the Edit executed vendor change orders details permission, you can assign unassigned items or change other information on the Details page of the executed vendor change order. Previously, the Vendor change order type was the only field that could be changed after execution.