Coming soon! - HxGN SDx2 - December 2024 - Release Notes/Bulletin - Hexagon

Check out what's deploying soon to HxGN SDx2! Plus, you might spot a few things that have been deployed since our last monthly update.

• You can now change the standard reject path for parallel steps by setting the SkipWaitingForParallelStep property to True on a voting step. When there are more rejections than accepts, so the percentage acceptance limit cannot be reached, the workflow automatically signs off all remaining parallel steps so the workflow proceeds to the Reject path. This allows you to control the behavior of parallel steps without having to wait for each parallel step to be rejected. (4597685)

• You can now configure an Engineering Numbering System (ENS) for your system objects. (4441954)

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  Each ENS is a unique name and numbering format that you can use to identify each design or project-specific object created in your system, such as documents. To create an ENS for specific objects, you define a naming format as a template known as an ENS Definition.

  Each ENS definition is composed of elements called ENS Items that extract data from properties found on the object type, as well as from related objects. These ENS items are then combined in a specific sequence to create the naming structure of the ENS definition. The ENS is then automatically applied when you create any new objects.

• You can now control the pagination value used in methods configured for the reassignment of user tasks. This new setting allows you to specify a new page size to help improve reassign performance, especially when you have a large number of users and roles in your system. (4483016)

• The Relationship Filter display item type has been enhanced to support single cardinality relationships. This allows you to configure forms with more flexibility and precision. With this improvement, you can create more efficient and user-friendly forms, streamlining your data entry and retrieval processes. (4479461)

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• Data Take-On is now available in HxGN SDx2. You can use Data Take-On to import, validate, and load tags and documents in bulk into the HxGN SDx2 database. (3741362)

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  Using Data Take-On, data files are imported using import definitions, that specify how the data is loaded into the staging database using the existing schema consisting of class definitions, property definitions, and relationship definitions. The imported data is validated against defined validation rules and rule sets that use the schema as their basis, and the load mapping ensures that the data is mapped correctly into the HxGN SDx2 database. Job definitions combine all these components into one set of configuration objects. Using job definitions, you can create jobs that manage the automation of the import, validation, and loading of data into the HxGN SDx2 database.

• You can now enable a search service based on Elastic Search technology; a multi-tenant capable, distributed search engine. The Elastic search indexing ability delivers a performance orientated indexed datastore. When enabled, search queries can quickly search for the relevant data and display the results significantly faster than the standard as-built search functionality. (3234072)

• You can now change your scopes more efficiently especially when you have a large number of of Plants and Projects in your system. Previous versions made it time consuming to change and locate the configurations you want to use as your Query scope. The scope settings page has now been redesigned and improved to display both the create and query configurations in a more intuitive and easily accessible way. (3621382)

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  Other key improvements to the scope settings are:

  • A search capability has been introduced so you can now efficiently search and find plants or projects by their Name or Description.

  • You can filter and sort the list of query configurations to define the exact set of configurations that match your query requirements.

• The Workflow Details report now includes additional reviewers added during workflow execution, providing greater visibility into the review process. This enhancement improves the accuracy and completeness of workflow audits, ensuring full traceability and accountability for all review activities. (4191131)

• The GetWorkAreaDefinitionPerTenant web API in HxGN SDx2 returns an additional parameter in the response to indicate the Work Area Classification (Greenfield or Brownfield) for the list of Work Areas returned. This information can be passed upstream to the calling application. (4517918).

• You can control the display of specific features in HxGN SDx2 by selecting the Integration Data Filter (IDF) you require when you configure your scopes. When you select the IDF option to a set design component, this limits your scope to display only the data assigned to the corresponding domain for a specific design tool, such as 3D. This ensures that only the relevant design component features, such as methods, entry points, reports, and forms are visible to you based on the IDF you set in the scope settings. (4313986)

• You can customize your system by adding new assets, such as icons, fonts, action pins, stamps, and symbols to class definition objects. This allows you to display new class definition objects with their own related assets, such as an icon. The asset type can be easily attached to an object during object creation or during update. (3333998)