Explore 25.3 Release Notes

This is a preview of the upcoming release. General release is available starting 21-APR-2025.

• Field type change in InEight Contract/Change APIs – To standardize the data types of date fields, the field type of the CreatedDate field was changed from DateTime to DateTimeOffset in the SelfService_Contract_CCOSummary and SelfService_Contract_PCOSummary APIs.

• Field type change in InEight Compliance and InEight Completions APIs - To improve performance, the field type of the InspectActivityResponseId field was changed from NVARCHAR to BigInt in the SelfService_Compliance_CurrentEventTaskData and SelfService_Completion_CurrentEventTaskData APIs.

• PrimaryKey fields name change in InEight Estimate API – The PrimaryKey (PK) fields in the SelfService_Estimate_ResourceCostsCalculatedValue API have been changed from ResourceCostsCalculatedValuesId and ResourceCostsCalculatedValuesUF to EstimateResourceCostsCalculatedValuesId and EstimateResourceCostsCalculatedValuesUF.

• Field length change in InEight Design API - To improve performance, the PrimaryKey field EngineeringCBSManhourSpreadId string length in the Explore_Design_EngineeringCBSManhourSpread API has been changed to 100.

• InEight Completions APIs – The new SelfService APIs, SelfService_Completions_EventTaskDataDaily and SelfService_Completions_GeneralHeaderDataDaily have been added for Completions.

• InEight Compliance APIs – The new SelfService APIs, SelfService_Compliance_EventTaskDataDaily and SelfService_Compliance_GeneralHeaderDataDaily have been added for Compliance.

• InEight Contract APIs – The following new SelfService APIs have been added for Contract: Read more

  • SelfService_Contract_DocumentType

  • SelfService_Contract_ChangeOrderResponsibleParty

  • SelfService_Contract_ChangeOrderStatus

  • SelfService_Contract_ChangeOrderType

  • SelfService_Contract_DeliverySchedule

  • SelfService_Contract_Detail

  • SelfService_Contract_DetailType

  • SelfService_Contract_DocumentSubType

• InEight Platform API – The new SelfService API SelfService_Core_ProjectFuelType has been added for Platform.

• Paging size change in InEight Estimate APIs – The paging size has been standardized for all Estimate APIs and is now set to 10,000.

• SelfService_Billings_BillingsRateItemUnit – The new fields CreatedById, CreatedDate, ModifiedById, and ModifiedDate have been added to the API.

• SelfService_Completion_OBSData – The new field OrganizationName has been added to the API.

• SelfService_Contract_ContractDocument – The new field TaxVerificationNumber has been added to the API.

• SelfService_Contract_DiversityCategory – The new field Percentage has been added to the API and the string length of the Value fields has been increased from 50 to 500.

• SelfService_Contract_IssueSummary – The new field ChangeIssueSource has been added to the API.

• SelfService_Contract_PackageDocument – The new field TaxVerificationNumber has been added to the API.

• Explore_Control_ControlChangeOrderTimePhasedBudgetDetail – The new field ControlFiscalYearAccountingPeriodId has been added to the API.

• SelfService_Control_CostItem – The new field UnitOfMeasureName has been added to the API.

• SelfService_Control_ControlChangeOrderTimePhasedBudgetDetail – The new field ControlFiscalYearAccountingPeriodId has been added to the API.

• SelfService_Core_ProjectEmployeeBillingClass – The new field IsAvailable has been added to the API.

• SelfService_Core_ProjectEquipmentBillingClass – The new field IsAvailable has been added to the API.

• Explore_Design_EngineeringCBSManhourSpread – The new fields PlannedMhrs and CurrentMhrs have been added to the API.

• SelfService_Design_ClaimingScheme – The new field IsAvailable has been added to the API.

• SelfService_Design_DesignQuantityItemComponent – The new field IsAssociated has been added to the API.

• SelfService_Design_DeliverablePackageSummary – The new field PlannedMhrs has been added to the API.

• SelfService_Design_EngineeringDocumentSummary – The new field PlannedMhrs has been added to the API.

• SelfService_Design_EngineeringWorkPackageSummary – The new field PlannedMhrs has been added to the API.

• SelfService_Design_ScopeItem – The new field IsScopeLocked has been added to the API.

• Project Controls dashboard – Enhancements have been made to the Project Controls dashboard that include tracking of cost at parent levels and the addition of a new Change Details page. Read more

  The tracking of cost at parent levels is now being accounted for in the dashboard. When Allow As-Built is set to Cost for parent cost items and the forecast method is not set to Rollup, the forecasted value will be included in the aggregation. Previously, forecasted values were only aggregated from the terminal cost items.

  The information on the dashboard landing page has been updated accordingly.

  

  The Change Details page has been added to address two key areas:

  • Cost/Qty/Mhrs changes at cost item (WBS) level. This means you are now able to see how much change has been made to the cost items in each of the Cost, Mhrs and Qty categories.

  • Where did the budget move? This is specifically for the Associated Budget Moves only, where a budgeted value (Cost or Mhrs) is transferred between cost items and is shown in a decision tree. For example, you can select a node (From Cost Item) and see the cost items on the receiving end (To Cost Item).

  

  On the Cost and Manhour pages, the Cost Breakdown Structure (budget hierarchy) that is used in visuals to aggregate data, now includes Level 6 and Level 7. Previously, the lowest level was Level 5. Users can now drill down to Level 7, provided the hierarchy extends to that level.

  Account codes have been added to the data model, which allows users to aggregate data at the account code level, as well as use them as a slicer.

  The following calculations have been added:

  • OB Commitment Variance: [Total Commitment] – [Original Budget Total Cost]

  • CB Commitment Variance: [Total Commitment] – [Current Budget Total Cost]

  • CE Commitment Variance: [Total Commitment] – [Current Estimate Total Cost]

  • FC Commitment Variance: [Total Commitment] – [Forecast Total Cost]

  • Recognized Revenue: ([Actual Cost] ÷ [Forecast Total Cost]) x [Current Price]

• Schedule dashboard - The Schedule dashboard has been updated to be consistent with the standard page layout, branding, and navigation found in other dashboards, such as Project Controls and Field Execution. Read more

  

• Deprecated InEight Plan APIs in Release 25.5 - The SelfService_Plan_ComponentConfiguration, SelfService_Plan_ComponentConfigurationValue, and SelfService_Plan_ProjectComponentPartialView APIs no longer report any data due to the consumption of Project Structures/Project Values data in Plan and will be deprecated in Release 25.5. For the new data, refer to the SelfService_Plan_ComponentCustomGroupElement API.