WorksManager Release Notes Q1 - Q4 2022

New & Improved

This WorksManager release includes these new features and enhancements:

Features

Project short name - prefix for designs to legacy machines

Traditionally, legacy machine control devices (CB4x0 running GCS900) do not have the concept of projects inside the Machine Control Data folder (unlike Earthworks/Siteworks/Groundworks). Hence, designs of all projects exist together inside the parent folder. In an attempt to bring the project context, when we introduced WorksManager for GCS, we prefixed the project name before the design name. While this was valuable, it resulted in longer design names in the control box, with the operator struggling to find the right design/version (as the entire design name was not visible).  We needed a way to give project context to GCS designs, while keeping the design name length manageable.

Introducing project short name - You can now assign a short name to the project. This feature has <project name> as the default value, and gives you the flexibility to edit it. As an example, if the project name is ‘Trimble Construction Project Phase I’, the short name can be ‘TCP1’. 

This short name goes as a prefix to any design published to legacy machine control devices. For example, if the design name in WorksManager is ‘Finish Grade’, the design name in the legacy control box would read as ‘TCP1-Finish Grade.V01’.

For full details, please refer to the blog article on this topic.

View and download field control points

You can now view & download ‘Field Control Points’ measured in the field with any data collector from WorksManager. You can view the field control points by selecting ‘Field Control Points’ from the drop down list on the ‘Field Data’ page (Project Devices -> Select data collector device -> Field Data - View -> Field Control Points). You can download the field control points to your desktop by selecting the file and clicking the ‘Download’ button. 

Manage machine data for Earthworks and GCS machines

You can now manage ‘Machine Data’ for GCS/Earthworks machines easily from the office. You can access the Machine Data from the Account Device page (My Accounts > Select account > Account Devices > select GCS/Earthworks machine > click View Machine Data folder icon). 

You can then download, delete or upload files as needed.

For full details, please refer to the blog article here

Add receiver model devices

You can now add, edit, and/or delete a receiver model device (SPS855, SPS985, SPS852, SPS851, SPS850, SPS986, SPS585, R750) to an account, and configure it as a base in the field to send corrections via IBSS. You can add the device via the regular 'Add Account Device' workflow (My Accounts > select account > Devices > Add) - browse for the RECEIVERS section or search by typing SPS.

View and download infield designs for Earthworks

You can now view and download ‘In Field Designs’ for Earthworks to manage your machines from the office. You can view them from the Field Data page (My Projects > Select project > Project Devices > select Earthworks machine > click View Field Data > select 'In Field Designs' from the Type drop down). You can download the files as needed.

Add custom devices

You can now add a Custom Device Model (like TCU, GeoXR, MPS865, NetR9 etc.) from the Add Account Device page, so that you can add a device of that model into WorksManager to receive corrections in the field. You can create a custom model by clicking the 'Add Custom Model' link on the Add New Account Device page. 

You can then define the model by adding name and description.


Finally, add a custom device by selecting the Custom Model in the Device Model drop-down list. 


Auto archive all older design versions

Today in WorksManager, you can archive/unarchive designs and design versions manually anytime. In addition, the system auto-archives when there are more than 3 design versions, retaining the last three versions and archiving the rest. However, there have been requests to be able to auto-archive all older versions and retain just the latest version.

Introducing ‘Auto-archive all older design versions’ option in project settings - You can now apply ‘auto-archive all older design versions’ settings in WorksManager by selecting the Project > Settings page. For existing projects, this remains unchecked by default, and you can go to the settings page and turn it on when you want. 

When checked, WorksManager will auto-archive all older design versions whenever you publish a new one and retain only the latest design version. 

For full details, please refer to the blog article here.

Import work orders directly from TBC

Today, when a work order is being worked upon in the field, you can access it by logging to WorksManager, and navigating to the field data view. You can then download the work order, and import it to TBC to verify/ validate the results. This is time consuming.

Introducing direct import of data collector work orders in TBC. With this feature, you can now login to TBC, access a WorksManager cloud project, select any data collector, and import any work order from TBC itself. 

Performance improvements

Page load time

The load time across pages in WorksManager had been very slow, taking on an average of 8-15 sec. We know this is frustrating for you all. Hence, in order to improve the page load time across the entire product, we performed an optimization exercise, and after this exercise, the pages now load within a couple of seconds.

TBC - TCC design push time

Today, when a user publishes a design from TBC, or adds a design from WorksManager, it takes a considerable amount of time before it becomes available in TCC for the field devices to sync and access the design. This has been frustrating for you all. We performed a series of optimization exercises to improve this time, and after this exercise, ~85% of designs get pushed to TCC < 5 m, and ~99% of designs get pushed < 15 m.