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Oracle Primavera Unifier 18.8.6.0 Released

IMPORTANT UPDATE - Oracle Primavera Unifier 18.8.6.0 has been released, this is a patch release and has to following fixes.

Version 18.8.6.0

  • 29324240 VERTICAL SCROLL BAR DOES NOT ALLOW FOR MOVES DURING BULK UPDATES
  • 29306683 FP: AGREEMENT RECORD NOT PROGRESSING DUE TO VALIDATION RULE
  • 29295037 INTEGRATION TAB NOT SHOWING IN THE RIGHT POSITION
  • 29285723 PRINT OPTIONS ARE NOT DISPLAYED IN THE ACTIONS MENU WITHIN A BP LOG
  • 29282115 USERS/GROUPS DROP DOWN LIST FILTER DOES NOT WORK PROPERLY IN IE WITH NEW UI
  • 29269089 THE REFERENCE RECORDS DIAGRAM WILL NOT SHOW UP WHEN USER'S LANGUAGE PREFERENCE IS CHINESE
  • 29267277 ISSUE WITH TRIGGER ELEMENT
  • 29259927 DISPLAY ISSUE IN USER MODE NAVIGATOR IN FRENCH LANGUAGE
  • 29172682 USER ACCOUNT DETAILS REPORT ERROR
  • 29171129 MISSING FILES UNDER DOCUMENT MANAGER
  • 29134058 BULK EDIT WINDOW NOT RENDERING PROPERLY
  • 29133910 UNABLE TO UNLINK A COPIED UPPER FORM FROM AN UPPER FROM TEMPLATE ON A DIFFERENT BP
  • 29047982 '$' SYMBOLS NOT DISPLAYING IN BP LOG VIEW OR ON LINE ITEMS TAB WHEN NEW UI IS ENABLED
  • 29040251 AUDIT LOG - USER NAME ERROR
  • 29031069 BLANK PAGE WHEN USING BP LINE ITEM PICKER
  • 28925987 PUBLISHED META DATA STILL RETURNING VALUE INSTEAD OF LABEL
  • 28887344 CLOSE WINDOW BUTTON NOT WORK WHEN ACCESSING WITH BUSINESS PROCESS RECORD URL
 

18.1

Enhanced Single Record Business Process Log.

18.1

Configure the runtime list of default business process log views per business process.

18.1

WBS label is changed to CBS across Unifier.

18.1

uMail is renamed to Mailbox in all locations.

18.1

The Notifications log is redesigned similar to the Tasks log.

18.1

All login screens of the Unifier application have been modified with a standard look and feel.

18.1

View replies from external users in the Project Mailbox.

18.1

Choose to display project/shell name or number in the navigation tabs.

18.1

Customize the Total row of the grid in Payment Applications and Summary Payment Applications to accurately reflect its values at runtime.

18.1

Synchronizations are available in Unifier Gateway node to import P6 activities into Unifier Shell.

18.1

Unifier Analytics now supports cost code attributes, tab ID, and pickers.

18.1

The display of monthly actuals in Portfolio Manager has been extended to derived curves, multiple forecast curves, linked/unlinked projects, and yearly plans.

18.1

Configure Portfolio Manager to send notifications to users and groups when a scenario is shared or approved.

18.1

Keep the current session active in Unifier.

18.1

Document Management (DM) enhancements: Availability of advanced search functionality. - Ability to add frequently visited documents and folders to Favorites - Ability to use templates to update DM changes in shells of the same type. - The interface of the Documents template of a shell template has been modified for better usability. - Ability to sort columns in the log regardless of the number of pages. - Ability to switch between grid and tile view of the log layout. - Ability to use the enhanced methods to create, view and manage shortcuts in the Document Manager.

18.1

SPA Enhancement: Overpayment in Summary Payment Applications SOV
Starting Unifier release 18.2, you can now overpay on line items of the Summary Payment Applications business process.

18.2

SPA Enhancement: Update Existing Previous Payment Calculations
You can override the existing hardcoded calculation on the Previous Amount (uuu_spa_prev_amt) field by selecting a custom data element -- for example, Amount This Period on the standard detail form of the Summary Payment Applications business process.

18.2

SPA Enhancement: Summary Row Totals
The Summary Row Totals enhancement applies to a Payment Applications business process with reference to a Contracts business process of Summary Payment Applications SOV type.

18.2

Web Services Integration: getSOV for Summary Payment Applications
You can now run the Webservice getSOV call to get SOV details of a contract of Summary Payment Applications SOV type.

18.2

Business Process: Redesign for Simple and Line Item – Phase 2
In the Attachments tab, Browse (My Computer in earlier versions), and Document Manager (Unifier Folders in earlier versions) are now available as Attach dropdown options.

18.2

Business Process: Linked Mails Tab
When maximized, the Linked Mails tab of a BP form is divided into left and right sections. The left section displays the grid, and the right displays the functions, content and attachments of the selected mail.

18.2

Business Process: Enhanced log UI in Query Based Tabs
Query based tabs in BP forms have a new look with some additional functionality.

18.2

Business Process: Calendar Enabled Objects
Calendar-enabled simple and line item business processes now support the new form UI.

18.2

Business Process: Master Vendor Business Process
The enhanced form UI has also been extended to the Master Vendors BP.

18.2

Business Process: Line Item Consolidation – Phase 2
The bottom line item section in line item business processes have been further enhanced.

18.2

Business Process Form: Picker and Manual Entry fields
In picker fields, click X to clear out the selected values.

18.2

Business Process: Picker UI Changes
Picker styles have been modified.

18.2

Business Process: Task Assignee Filter Enhancements
In workflow business processes, match the assignee filter results against AND, as well as OR, conditions.

18.2

Business Process: Filter Cc Assignees in a Workflow
Define filter conditions on Cc assignees in a workflow step regardless whether they are pre-assigned or user-select.

18.2

Document Manager: Enhanced Move Functionality
Move a file or folder in the Document Manager using the enhanced Move functionality. Use Move from the gear menu to move a single folder or file; use Move from the Actions menu to move multiple items. In previous versions, the move would be aborted if a file or folder with the same name existed in the destination folder, and the user is prompted to keep both files or revise with this enhancement.

18.2

System Jobs Enhancements: Company administrators can access system jobs data and modify the time zone to trigger jobs.

18.2

Unifier Mobile Application for iOS
Support for user-based locale and region formatting. The app is fully supported in the following twelve languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, and Spanish. - Users can now choose to work in the timezone of their device or the Unifier server when working from different locations. - Copy BP records and line items with or without attachments. - Support for split screen display on iPads. - Easily search the Documents hierarchy for files and folders. - When routing workflow records, expand and select users from the task assignee group as the next step assignees. - Support for conditional filtering of step assignees as per the workflow design.

18.2

Unifier Mobile Application for Android
Support for user-based locale and region formatting. The app is fully supported in the following twelve languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, and Spanish. - Users can now choose to work in the timezone of their device or the Unifier server when working from different locations. - Access, view, and save all Company and Project-level documents from the Documents tile on the Home screen. - Easily search the Documents hierarchy for files and folders. - When routing workflow records, expand and select users from the task assignee group as the next step assignees. - Support for conditional filtering of step assignees as per the workflow design. - Support for Text type BPs. - View the geo-location of projects and business process records.

18.2

Create custom financial periods to provide more flexibility in budget forecast and analysis.

18.3

Create folder, document, and log attribute forms for different projects to capture different metadata.

18.3

Create multiple log views in Administration mode for use in Document Manager.

18.3

Use the Preview gear menu option to preview files in different formats in the Attachments tab of redesigned business process forms.

18.3

At runtime, use the new Add to Group record property to group line items in categories.

18.3

New system-defined Portal landing page minimizes customization using HTML.

18.3

Unifier now supports the asynchronous upload of folders and files into Document Manager, allowing you to perform other operations in the application while the upload continues in the background.

18.3

Create workflow BP templates and records from templates using updated user interface and interactions.

18.3

Company administrators can see a combined license count and usage for company and partner users (labeled as standard users in terms of license) on the License Manager landing page.

18.3

The Summary Totals behavior now supports data elements uuu_spa_amt_tp (Amount this Period) and uuu_spa_qty_tp (Quantity this Period) when "Total the Cost Breakdown values to the line item" option is selected in uDesigner.

18.3

Right-side tabs in a BP form are enhanced: Attachments tab - Comments tab - Linked Records tab - Linked Mail tab

18.3

Portfolio Manager scenarios now display derived curves and monthly actuals from project cash flow.

18.3

View the new business process form design when creating records in the Document Manager.

18.3

Business process log and form UI enhancements are extended to support the Project/Shell Creation business process type.

18.3

Preferences available in the username list on the top navigation bar has been modernized.

18.3

Managing Personally Identifiable Information
Features have been added to Primavera Unifier that enable you to manage personally identifiable information (PII), including creating consent notices, auditing consent status, and controlling access to Unifier.

18.4

Rename a document in Document Manager (or Unpublished Documents), if the Name field (uuu_dm_node_name) in the document attribute form design has been changed from Read-Only to Editable (Required).

18.4

Restore a file in Document Manager to an older version along with comments and references associated with it.

18.4

In the Tasks and Business Process logs, drag and drop log views in the Manage Views dialog to quickly reorder them, instead of using the Move Up/Move Down gear menu options.

18.4

Dock the floating Search dialog to the right or the bottom of the log page using the toggle Dock Right/Dock Bottom icon.

18.4

View a graphical representation of the relationships of the base record with reference and linked records in the Referenced Records tab of a business process record.

18.4

CSV and Webservices now support the grouping of line items.

18.4

Cost business processes of sub-type, Line Item with CBS codes, and classification, Generic, and Transfer display the enhanced form interface.

18.4

View the enhanced interface in CBS Picker, Transaction Currency Picker, Work Package Picker, BPO Picker, and BPO Line Item Picker in cost business processes.

18.4

Use the toggle Collapse / Expand All Groups icon to collapse or expand line item groups in a business process form’s detail tab.

18.4

The support for financial periods is extended to Cash Flow by CBS, Summary CBS, and Commitment detail levels.

18.4

Introducing Earned Value Analysis module using schedule data, activities, and rates imported from P6 via Gateway to calculate earned value and related measures for a project – planned value, actual cost, variances, performance indices, and at completion values.

18.5

On the License Manager landing page, view an Earned Value Management block with gauge charts indicating license terms, current usage, and overage.

18.5

Create and run user-defined reports using permission-based data sources.

18.5

The referencing BP data-picker on the destination record displays a hyperlink pointing to the source record when a business process record is auto-created by way of a BP Creator, in the source record.

18.5

Project Mailbox has been converted to a parent node with Inbox as a child node. Additional email addresses you provide are available as folders below the default Inbox.

18.5

Schedule publishing of Unifier data to OBIEE is now every 4, 6, 8, or 12 hours.

18.5

Access to Consent Notice child nodes – User Consent and Bidder Consent – is now controlled by permissions. Modify and View permissions are available for each node in Access Control and other permission-related modules and templates.

18.5

Set permissions to control who can see company-wide business process data in Primavera Analytics. In Unifier, additional User Mode Access permissions are added to Company Workspace/Non-navigational Nodes/Analytics: View All Records; View All Company Records; and View All Shell Records.

18.5

In the Document Manager node, the redesigned Unpublished Documents folder displays similar layout and behavior as the Documents folder. You can expand or collapse all folders in Document Manager or all sub-folders at the same time.

18.5

Update attributes for already-published documents when the corresponding matching fields are updated in the related business process record. Updates occur when a record moves through the workflow, or when Submit is clicked in a non-workflow business process record based on design.

18.5

The Manage Views dialog in the Documents log has been enhanced like Tasks and business process logs. Drag and drop views to quickly reorder them, or move them to the Visible Views, Hidden Views, or Views Marked for Deletion section.

18.5

View the enhanced interface in Fund Detail, SOV Picker, Commit Picker, and Commit Line Item Picker in cost business processes.

18.5

Business process form redesign has been extended to the following additional cost business process types: Line Items with Fund Code: Generic, Transfer - Line Items with both CBS and Fund Codes: Generic, Transfer - Line Items with CBS Code:  Base Commit (SOV type - General Spends), Change Commit (SOV type - General Spends), General Spends

18.5

In the Reference Records tab of a business process record, you can specify the number of referenced records to be displayed per node.

18.5

Company Workspace landing page has been enhanced by including hyperlinks for company information and enabling access to the company-level business process, tasks, and notification logs.

18.6

Unifier informs users about the use of session cookies in the application. The notification is displayed in a banner on the top of the Unifier page.

18.6

Upload (or drag-and-drop) a profile picture in the General tab of the User Preferences dialog to personalize the top navigation bar and user profile dialog.

18.6

You can add or modify partner users by using a CSV file. You can Export Structure to download the template as CSV. You can import the modified structure template, similar to importing company users.

18.6

Auto-fill Percentage Complete in Summary Payment Applications.

18.6

The Condition list in the Add Query Condition dialog provides the options of Exists or Does not exist to enable you to configure the query conditions for string attributes of a data picker.

18.6

User restrictions for viewing, or editing, cost sheet columns have been reduced.

18.6

The cost sheet rules to include the pending positive values (in the limit expression and the pending negative values in the data expression calculations of the Rules engine have been reduced.

18.6

Earned Value Management Enhancements
Master Rate Sheet: During synchronization, the Master Rate Sheet now captures Resource type (Material, Labor, Non-Labor, etc.) from P6.
Activity Sheet: On the Actions Menu of the Activity Sheet, use Assign CBS to assign a cost code to multiple activities (and their assignments).
Activity Picker: Use the Activity Picker in BP forms to select activities from multiple P6 projects in the Activity Sheet.
Performance Percentage Completion Sheet: Update data dates and corresponding percent complete values in the Performance Percentage Complete Sheet.

18.6

Several company-level cost business processes display the redesigned user interface.

18.6

Report on user type (uuu_user_type) via User-Defined Reports (UDR) and System Reports.

18.6

Generic Cost Attributes Picker, Commitment Summary Line Item Picker, Account Code Picker, and Seasonal Dates Picker are now equipped with the modernized user interface, consistent with other pickers.

18.6

Tasks, Drafts, Notifications, and all Mailbox logs have been provided with the enhanced Manage Views dialog.

18.6

The Attachments tab in a redesigned business process form has been further enhanced when previewing or reviewing an attachment.

18.6

Unifier 18.4 iOS Mobile App
-Consent notices and cookies notification to improve data privacy.
-Honoring of User Type when accessed via app.
-Usability improvements to support scanning bar codes in low light conditions and easier configuration of BP tiles.

18.4

Integration user type has been introduced to execute REST integration services for modules.

18.7

Review documents in the Documents log in the same way as in business process logs.

18.7

Unifier includes the uploaded profile picture before the user name in the User Picker and in the Users section of the User and Group Picker.

18.7

Type Ahead feature has been introduced in pickers.

18.7

The Unifier user interface (the top navigation) has been rearranged.

18.7

The View User Profile dialog, accessed from a user picker with multiple users, has been enhanced.

18.7

Earned Value Management
-Define rates in resource currency.
-Differentiate between custom data imported by way of CSV file and data integrated from P6 in the Performance Percentage Completion sheet.
-Earned Value Analysis data structure tables are now available in the ER Views node in the Company Workspace Admin mode.

18.7

Redesign of business process forms has been extended to:
-Document type Without Folder Structure business process
-Request for Bid (RFB) type business process

18.7

When adding comments in the record or line items in tabs, Unifier displays an alert for the unsaved changes.

18.7

In the business process log, the Edit Permissions and Transfer Ownership dialogs have been enhanced.

18.7

In the Document Manager Log, tabs have been refined.

18.7

The Manage Views dialog, in all Unifier, has been revamped to improve user interaction.

18.7

In a business process record, you can link mail records from different folders of Project Mailbox.

18.7

When you run a user-defined report (UDR) using Document Manager Data Sources, the data retrieved is based on your permissions.

18.7

When configured, both summary and costed lines of a Summary Payment Applications record are auto-populated from corresponding fields of the source Base Commits.

18.7

Cloud administrators can inform Unifier end-users about scheduled maintenance and outages for Unifier servers hosted in the cloud.

18.7

Starting with Unifier 18.8, Oracle Web Services Manager (OWSM) is no longer supported.

18.8

The shell landing page (My Dashboard) has a new look with improved usability. The Summary tab displays three standard tiles – Tasks, Notifications, and Mail with items requiring your attention, and three standard blocks – Image, Details, and Links.

18.8

Configuration Installation Files will be replaced with Configuration Packages, and the released Base Configuration Packages will be available on My Oracle Support:
- Project Controls
- Facilities and Asset Management
- Combined Package (Project Controls and Facilities and Asset Management)
Note: This setup does not apply to existing customers.

18.8

Business process forms of the following types have redesigned UI.
- Document with Folder Structure
- Lease log
- Preventive Maintenance

18.8

Change User Defined Report (UDR) owner: The owners and users who have full access permission can now change the UDR owner’s and user’s name.

18.8

Document Manager enhancements
- Folder and Document Properties
- Document Logs (Standard View)
- Folder and Document Attributes

18.8

Earned Value enhancements
- Earned Value Analysis log has new toolbar options
- Activity Sheet

18.8

Space Manager has a modernized user interface.

18.8

Exchange Rates with effective dates in the past are now available.

18.8

Schedule Manager: Disable automatic re-scheduling within Unifier Schedule and integrate Activities (with their dependencies) with the same schedule that exists in P6 and MPP. Also, you can manually schedule activities in Unifier Schedule Sheet.

18.8

Oracle Primavera Unifier 18.6 Released

Oracle Primavera Unifier 18.6 has been released, bringing an abundance of new and exciting features. Below is a list of the major changes and improvements that come with this new update.

Version 18.6

  • The Attachments tab in a redesigned business process form has been further enhanced when previewing or reviewing an attachment.
  • Tasks, Drafts, Notifications, and all Mailbox logs have been provided with the enhanced Manage Views dialog.
  • Generic Cost Attributes Picker, Commitment Summary Line Item Picker, Account Code Picker, and Seasonal Dates Picker are now equipped with the modernized user interface, consistent with other pickers.
  • Report on user type (uuu_user_type) via User-Defined Reports (UDR) and System Reports.
  • Several company-level cost business processes display the redesigned user interface.
  • Earned Value Management Enhancements
    - Master Rate Sheet: During synchronization, the Master Rate Sheet now captures Resource type (Material, Labor, Non-Labor, etc.) from P6.
    - Activity Sheet: On the Actions Menu of the Activity Sheet, use Assign CBS to assign a cost code to multiple activities (and their assignments).
    - Activity Picker: Use the Activity Picker in BP forms to select activities from multiple P6 projects in the Activity Sheet.
    - Performance Percentage Completion Sheet: Update data dates and corresponding percent complete values in the Performance Percentage Complete Sheet.
  • The cost sheet rules to include the pending positive values (in the limit expression and the pending negative values in the data expression calculations of the Rules engine have been reduced.
  • User restrictions for viewing, or editing, cost sheet columns have been reduced.
  • The Condition list in the Add Query Condition dialog provides the options of Exists or Does not exist to enable you to configure the query conditions for string attributes of a data picker.
  • Auto-fill Percentage Complete in Summary Payment Applications.
  • You can add or modify partner users by using a CSV file. You can Export Structure to download the template as CSV. You can import the modified structure template, similar to importing company users.
  • Upload (or drag-and-drop) a profile picture in the General tab of the User Preferences dialog to personalize the top navigation bar and user profile dialog.
  • Unifier informs users about the use of session cookies in the application. The notification is displayed in a banner on the top of the Unifier page.
  • Company Workspace landing page has been enhanced by including hyperlinks for company information and enabling access to the company-level business process, tasks, and notification logs.

Unifier Mobile Browser (/m) has been deprecated.

18.1

Unifier’s Home Landing Page has been revamped with interactive tiles and charts, and statistical information about tasks.

18.1

Business Process enhancements: Creation of new records: Upper Form - Creation of new records: Line Items - Ability to toggle between old and new business process form views. This enhancement applies to the Development and Testing environments, only.

18.1

Enhanced Single Record Business Process Log.

18.1

Configure the runtime list of default business process log views per business process.

18.1

WBS label is changed to CBS across Unifier.

18.1

uMail is renamed to Mailbox in all locations.

18.1

The Notifications log is redesigned similar to the Tasks log.

18.1

All login screens of the Unifier application have been modified with a standard look and feel.

18.1

View replies from external users in the Project Mailbox.

18.1

Choose to display project/shell name or number in the navigation tabs.

18.1

Customize the Total row of the grid in Payment Applications and Summary Payment Applications to accurately reflect its values at runtime.

18.1

Synchronizations are available in Unifier Gateway node to import P6 activities into Unifier Shell.

18.1

Unifier Analytics now supports cost code attributes, tab ID, and pickers.

18.1

The display of monthly actuals in Portfolio Manager has been extended to derived curves, multiple forecast curves, linked/unlinked projects, and yearly plans.

18.1

Configure Portfolio Manager to send notifications to users and groups when a scenario is shared or approved.

18.1

Keep the current session active in Unifier.

18.1

Document Management (DM) enhancements: Availability of advanced search functionality. - Ability to add frequently visited documents and folders to Favorites - Ability to use templates to update DM changes in shells of the same type. - The interface of the Documents template of a shell template has been modified for better usability. - Ability to sort columns in the log regardless of the number of pages. - Ability to switch between grid and tile view of the log layout. - Ability to use the enhanced methods to create, view and manage shortcuts in the Document Manager.

18.1

SPA Enhancement: Overpayment in Summary Payment Applications SOV
Starting Unifier release 18.2, you can now overpay on line items of the Summary Payment Applications business process.

18.2

SPA Enhancement: Update Existing Previous Payment Calculations
You can override the existing hardcoded calculation on the Previous Amount (uuu_spa_prev_amt) field by selecting a custom data element -- for example, Amount This Period on the standard detail form of the Summary Payment Applications business process.

18.2

SPA Enhancement: Summary Row Totals
The Summary Row Totals enhancement applies to a Payment Applications business process with reference to a Contracts business process of Summary Payment Applications SOV type.

18.2

Web Services Integration: getSOV for Summary Payment Applications
You can now run the Webservice getSOV call to get SOV details of a contract of Summary Payment Applications SOV type.

18.2

Business Process: Redesign for Simple and Line Item – Phase 2
In the Attachments tab, Browse (My Computer in earlier versions), and Document Manager (Unifier Folders in earlier versions) are now available as Attach dropdown options.

18.2

Business Process: Linked Mails Tab
When maximized, the Linked Mails tab of a BP form is divided into left and right sections. The left section displays the grid, and the right displays the functions, content and attachments of the selected mail.

18.2

Business Process: Enhanced log UI in Query Based Tabs
Query based tabs in BP forms have a new look with some additional functionality.

18.2

Business Process: Calendar Enabled Objects
Calendar-enabled simple and line item business processes now support the new form UI.

18.2

Business Process: Master Vendor Business Process
The enhanced form UI has also been extended to the Master Vendors BP.

18.2

Business Process: Line Item Consolidation – Phase 2
The bottom line item section in line item business processes have been further enhanced.

18.2

Business Process Form: Picker and Manual Entry fields
In picker fields, click X to clear out the selected values.

18.2

Business Process: Picker UI Changes
Picker styles have been modified.

18.2

Business Process: Task Assignee Filter Enhancements
In workflow business processes, match the assignee filter results against AND, as well as OR, conditions.

18.2

Business Process: Filter Cc Assignees in a Workflow
Define filter conditions on Cc assignees in a workflow step regardless whether they are pre-assigned or user-select.

18.2

Document Manager: Enhanced Move Functionality
Move a file or folder in the Document Manager using the enhanced Move functionality. Use Move from the gear menu to move a single folder or file; use Move from the Actions menu to move multiple items. In previous versions, the move would be aborted if a file or folder with the same name existed in the destination folder, and the user is prompted to keep both files or revise with this enhancement.

18.2

System Jobs Enhancements: Company administrators can access system jobs data and modify the time zone to trigger jobs.

18.2

Unifier Mobile Application for iOS
Support for user-based locale and region formatting. The app is fully supported in the following twelve languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, and Spanish. - Users can now choose to work in the timezone of their device or the Unifier server when working from different locations. - Copy BP records and line items with or without attachments. - Support for split screen display on iPads. - Easily search the Documents hierarchy for files and folders. - When routing workflow records, expand and select users from the task assignee group as the next step assignees. - Support for conditional filtering of step assignees as per the workflow design.

18.2

Unifier Mobile Application for Android
Support for user-based locale and region formatting. The app is fully supported in the following twelve languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, and Spanish. - Users can now choose to work in the timezone of their device or the Unifier server when working from different locations. - Access, view, and save all Company and Project-level documents from the Documents tile on the Home screen. - Easily search the Documents hierarchy for files and folders. - When routing workflow records, expand and select users from the task assignee group as the next step assignees. - Support for conditional filtering of step assignees as per the workflow design. - Support for Text type BPs. - View the geo-location of projects and business process records.

18.2

Create custom financial periods to provide more flexibility in budget forecast and analysis.

18.3

Create folder, document, and log attribute forms for different projects to capture different metadata.

18.3

Create multiple log views in Administration mode for use in Document Manager.

18.3

Use the Preview gear menu option to preview files in different formats in the Attachments tab of redesigned business process forms.

18.3

At runtime, use the new Add to Group record property to group line items in categories.

18.3

New system-defined Portal landing page minimizes customization using HTML.

18.3

Unifier now supports the asynchronous upload of folders and files into Document Manager, allowing you to perform other operations in the application while the upload continues in the background.

18.3

Create workflow BP templates and records from templates using updated user interface and interactions.

18.3

Company administrators can see a combined license count and usage for company and partner users (labeled as standard users in terms of license) on the License Manager landing page.

18.3

The Summary Totals behavior now supports data elements uuu_spa_amt_tp (Amount this Period) and uuu_spa_qty_tp (Quantity this Period) when "Total the Cost Breakdown values to the line item" option is selected in uDesigner.

18.3

Right-side tabs in a BP form are enhanced: Attachments tab - Comments tab - Linked Records tab - Linked Mail tab

18.3

Portfolio Manager scenarios now display derived curves and monthly actuals from project cash flow.

18.3

View the new business process form design when creating records in the Document Manager.

18.3

Business process log and form UI enhancements are extended to support the Project/Shell Creation business process type.

18.3

Preferences available in the username list on the top navigation bar has been modernized.

18.3

Managing Personally Identifiable Information
Features have been added to Primavera Unifier that enable you to manage personally identifiable information (PII), including creating consent notices, auditing consent status, and controlling access to Unifier.

18.4

Rename a document in Document Manager (or Unpublished Documents), if the Name field (uuu_dm_node_name) in the document attribute form design has been changed from Read-Only to Editable (Required).

18.4

Restore a file in Document Manager to an older version along with comments and references associated with it.

18.4

In the Tasks and Business Process logs, drag and drop log views in the Manage Views dialog to quickly reorder them, instead of using the Move Up/Move Down gear menu options.

18.4

Dock the floating Search dialog to the right or the bottom of the log page using the toggle Dock Right/Dock Bottom icon.

18.4

View a graphical representation of the relationships of the base record with reference and linked records in the Referenced Records tab of a business process record.

18.4

CSV and Webservices now support the grouping of line items.

18.4

Cost business processes of sub-type, Line Item with CBS codes, and classification, Generic, and Transfer display the enhanced form interface.

18.4

View the enhanced interface in CBS Picker, Transaction Currency Picker, Work Package Picker, BPO Picker, and BPO Line Item Picker in cost business processes.

18.4

Use the toggle Collapse / Expand All Groups icon to collapse or expand line item groups in a business process form’s detail tab.

18.4

The support for financial periods is extended to Cash Flow by CBS, Summary CBS, and Commitment detail levels.

18.4

Introducing Earned Value Analysis module using schedule data, activities, and rates imported from P6 via Gateway to calculate earned value and related measures for a project – planned value, actual cost, variances, performance indices, and at completion values.

18.5

On the License Manager landing page, view an Earned Value Management block with gauge charts indicating license terms, current usage, and overage.

18.5

Create and run user-defined reports using permission-based data sources.

18.5

The referencing BP data-picker on the destination record displays a hyperlink pointing to the source record when a business process record is auto-created by way of a BP Creator, in the source record.

18.5

Project Mailbox has been converted to a parent node with Inbox as a child node. Additional email addresses you provide are available as folders below the default Inbox.

18.5

Schedule publishing of Unifier data to OBIEE is now every 4, 6, 8, or 12 hours.

18.5

Access to Consent Notice child nodes – User Consent and Bidder Consent – is now controlled by permissions. Modify and View permissions are available for each node in Access Control and other permission-related modules and templates.

18.5

Set permissions to control who can see company-wide business process data in Primavera Analytics. In Unifier, additional User Mode Access permissions are added to Company Workspace/Non-navigational Nodes/Analytics: View All Records; View All Company Records; and View All Shell Records.

18.5

In the Document Manager node, the redesigned Unpublished Documents folder displays similar layout and behavior as the Documents folder. You can expand or collapse all folders in Document Manager or all sub-folders at the same time.

18.5

Update attributes for already-published documents when the corresponding matching fields are updated in the related business process record. Updates occur when a record moves through the workflow, or when Submit is clicked in a non-workflow business process record based on design.

18.5

The Manage Views dialog in the Documents log has been enhanced like Tasks and business process logs. Drag and drop views to quickly reorder them, or move them to the Visible Views, Hidden Views, or Views Marked for Deletion section.

18.5

View the enhanced interface in Fund Detail, SOV Picker, Commit Picker, and Commit Line Item Picker in cost business processes.

18.5

Business process form redesign has been extended to the following additional cost business process types: Line Items with Fund Code: Generic, Transfer - Line Items with both CBS and Fund Codes: Generic, Transfer - Line Items with CBS Code:  Base Commit (SOV type - General Spends), Change Commit (SOV type - General Spends), General Spends

18.5

In the Reference Records tab of a business process record, you can specify the number of referenced records to be displayed per node.

18.5

Company Workspace landing page has been enhanced by including hyperlinks for company information and enabling access to the company-level business process, tasks, and notification logs.

18.6

Unifier informs users about the use of session cookies in the application. The notification is displayed in a banner on the top of the Unifier page.

18.6

Upload (or drag-and-drop) a profile picture in the General tab of the User Preferences dialog to personalize the top navigation bar and user profile dialog.

18.6

You can add or modify partner users by using a CSV file. You can Export Structure to download the template as CSV. You can import the modified structure template, similar to importing company users.

18.6

Auto-fill Percentage Complete in Summary Payment Applications.

18.6

The Condition list in the Add Query Condition dialog provides the options of Exists or Does not exist to enable you to configure the query conditions for string attributes of a data picker.

18.6

User restrictions for viewing, or editing, cost sheet columns have been reduced.

18.6

The cost sheet rules to include the pending positive values (in the limit expression and the pending negative values in the data expression calculations of the Rules engine have been reduced.

18.6

Earned Value Management Enhancements
Master Rate Sheet: During synchronization, the Master Rate Sheet now captures Resource type (Material, Labor, Non-Labor, etc.) from P6.
Activity Sheet: On the Actions Menu of the Activity Sheet, use Assign CBS to assign a cost code to multiple activities (and their assignments).
Activity Picker: Use the Activity Picker in BP forms to select activities from multiple P6 projects in the Activity Sheet.
Performance Percentage Completion Sheet: Update data dates and corresponding percent complete values in the Performance Percentage Complete Sheet.

18.6

Several company-level cost business processes display the redesigned user interface.

18.6

Report on user type (uuu_user_type) via User-Defined Reports (UDR) and System Reports.

18.6

Generic Cost Attributes Picker, Commitment Summary Line Item Picker, Account Code Picker, and Seasonal Dates Picker are now equipped with the modernized user interface, consistent with other pickers.

18.6

Tasks, Drafts, Notifications, and all Mailbox logs have been provided with the enhanced Manage Views dialog.

18.6

The Attachments tab in a redesigned business process form has been further enhanced when previewing or reviewing an attachment.

18.6

Unifier 18.4 iOS Mobile App
-Consent notices and cookies notification to improve data privacy.
-Honoring of User Type when accessed via app.
-Usability improvements to support scanning bar codes in low light conditions and easier configuration of BP tiles.

18.4

Integration user type has been introduced to execute REST integration services for modules.

18.7

Review documents in the Documents log in the same way as in business process logs.

18.7

Unifier includes the uploaded profile picture before the user name in the User Picker and in the Users section of the User and Group Picker.

18.7

Type Ahead feature has been introduced in pickers.

18.7

The Unifier user interface (the top navigation) has been rearranged.

18.7

The View User Profile dialog, accessed from a user picker with multiple users, has been enhanced.

18.7

Earned Value Management
-Define rates in resource currency.
-Differentiate between custom data imported by way of CSV file and data integrated from P6 in the Performance Percentage Completion sheet.
-Earned Value Analysis data structure tables are now available in the ER Views node in the Company Workspace Admin mode.

18.7

Redesign of business process forms has been extended to:
-Document type Without Folder Structure business process
-Request for Bid (RFB) type business process

18.7

When adding comments in the record or line items in tabs, Unifier displays an alert for the unsaved changes.

18.7

In the business process log, the Edit Permissions and Transfer Ownership dialogs have been enhanced.

18.7

In the Document Manager Log, tabs have been refined.

18.7

The Manage Views dialog, in all Unifier, has been revamped to improve user interaction.

18.7

In a business process record, you can link mail records from different folders of Project Mailbox.

18.7

When you run a user-defined report (UDR) using Document Manager Data Sources, the data retrieved is based on your permissions.

18.7

When configured, both summary and costed lines of a Summary Payment Applications record are auto-populated from corresponding fields of the source Base Commits.

18.7

Cloud administrators can inform Unifier end-users about scheduled maintenance and outages for Unifier servers hosted in the cloud.

18.7

Starting with Unifier 18.8, Oracle Web Services Manager (OWSM) is no longer supported.

18.8

The shell landing page (My Dashboard) has a new look with improved usability. The Summary tab displays three standard tiles – Tasks, Notifications, and Mail with items requiring your attention, and three standard blocks – Image, Details, and Links.

18.8

Configuration Installation Files will be replaced with Configuration Packages, and the released Base Configuration Packages will be available on My Oracle Support:
- Project Controls
- Facilities and Asset Management
- Combined Package (Project Controls and Facilities and Asset Management)
Note: This setup does not apply to existing customers.

18.8

Business process forms of the following types have redesigned UI.
- Document with Folder Structure
- Lease log
- Preventive Maintenance

18.8

Change User Defined Report (UDR) owner: The owners and users who have full access permission can now change the UDR owner’s and user’s name.

18.8

Document Manager enhancements
- Folder and Document Properties
- Document Logs (Standard View)
- Folder and Document Attributes

18.8

Earned Value enhancements
- Earned Value Analysis log has new toolbar options
- Activity Sheet

18.8

Space Manager has a modernized user interface.

18.8

Exchange Rates with effective dates in the past are now available.

18.8

Schedule Manager: Disable automatic re-scheduling within Unifier Schedule and integrate Activities (with their dependencies) with the same schedule that exists in P6 and MPP. Also, you can manually schedule activities in Unifier Schedule Sheet.

18.8

Oracle Primavera Unifier 18.8.0.3 Released

IMPORTANT UPDATE - Oracle Primavera Unifier 18.8.0.3 has been released, this is a patch release and has to following fixes.

Version 18.8.0.3

  • 28503787 RFB: LINKED MAIL NO VALUE IN 'TO' COLUMN AFTER SENDING MESSAGE
  • 28503840 RFB: ADD LINKED MAIL ALERT THERE MUST BE AT LEAST ONE ENTRY IN TO, CC, OR BCC FI
  • 28503847 RFB: GENERIC SYSTEM ALERT TRYING TO SEND LINKED MAIL
  • 28498904 ACTION ITEM DUE DATE IS MISSING IN ANDROID

Unifier Mobile Browser (/m) has been deprecated.

18.1

Unifier’s Home Landing Page has been revamped with interactive tiles and charts, and statistical information about tasks.

18.1

Business Process enhancements: Creation of new records: Upper Form - Creation of new records: Line Items - Ability to toggle between old and new business process form views. This enhancement applies to the Development and Testing environments, only.

18.1

Enhanced Single Record Business Process Log.

18.1

Configure the runtime list of default business process log views per business process.

18.1

WBS label is changed to CBS across Unifier.

18.1

uMail is renamed to Mailbox in all locations.

18.1

The Notifications log is redesigned similar to the Tasks log.

18.1

All login screens of the Unifier application have been modified with a standard look and feel.

18.1

View replies from external users in the Project Mailbox.

18.1

Choose to display project/shell name or number in the navigation tabs.

18.1

Customize the Total row of the grid in Payment Applications and Summary Payment Applications to accurately reflect its values at runtime.

18.1

Synchronizations are available in Unifier Gateway node to import P6 activities into Unifier Shell.

18.1

Unifier Analytics now supports cost code attributes, tab ID, and pickers.

18.1

The display of monthly actuals in Portfolio Manager has been extended to derived curves, multiple forecast curves, linked/unlinked projects, and yearly plans.

18.1

Configure Portfolio Manager to send notifications to users and groups when a scenario is shared or approved.

18.1

Keep the current session active in Unifier.

18.1

Document Management (DM) enhancements: Availability of advanced search functionality. - Ability to add frequently visited documents and folders to Favorites - Ability to use templates to update DM changes in shells of the same type. - The interface of the Documents template of a shell template has been modified for better usability. - Ability to sort columns in the log regardless of the number of pages. - Ability to switch between grid and tile view of the log layout. - Ability to use the enhanced methods to create, view and manage shortcuts in the Document Manager.

18.1

SPA Enhancement: Overpayment in Summary Payment Applications SOV
Starting Unifier release 18.2, you can now overpay on line items of the Summary Payment Applications business process.

18.2

SPA Enhancement: Update Existing Previous Payment Calculations
You can override the existing hardcoded calculation on the Previous Amount (uuu_spa_prev_amt) field by selecting a custom data element -- for example, Amount This Period on the standard detail form of the Summary Payment Applications business process.

18.2

SPA Enhancement: Summary Row Totals
The Summary Row Totals enhancement applies to a Payment Applications business process with reference to a Contracts business process of Summary Payment Applications SOV type.

18.2

Web Services Integration: getSOV for Summary Payment Applications
You can now run the Webservice getSOV call to get SOV details of a contract of Summary Payment Applications SOV type.

18.2

Business Process: Redesign for Simple and Line Item – Phase 2
In the Attachments tab, Browse (My Computer in earlier versions), and Document Manager (Unifier Folders in earlier versions) are now available as Attach dropdown options.

18.2

Business Process: Linked Mails Tab
When maximized, the Linked Mails tab of a BP form is divided into left and right sections. The left section displays the grid, and the right displays the functions, content and attachments of the selected mail.

18.2

Business Process: Enhanced log UI in Query Based Tabs
Query based tabs in BP forms have a new look with some additional functionality.

18.2

Business Process: Calendar Enabled Objects
Calendar-enabled simple and line item business processes now support the new form UI.

18.2

Business Process: Master Vendor Business Process
The enhanced form UI has also been extended to the Master Vendors BP.

18.2

Business Process: Line Item Consolidation – Phase 2
The bottom line item section in line item business processes have been further enhanced.

18.2

Business Process Form: Picker and Manual Entry fields
In picker fields, click X to clear out the selected values.

18.2

Business Process: Picker UI Changes
Picker styles have been modified.

18.2

Business Process: Task Assignee Filter Enhancements
In workflow business processes, match the assignee filter results against AND, as well as OR, conditions.

18.2

Business Process: Filter Cc Assignees in a Workflow
Define filter conditions on Cc assignees in a workflow step regardless whether they are pre-assigned or user-select.

18.2

Document Manager: Enhanced Move Functionality
Move a file or folder in the Document Manager using the enhanced Move functionality. Use Move from the gear menu to move a single folder or file; use Move from the Actions menu to move multiple items. In previous versions, the move would be aborted if a file or folder with the same name existed in the destination folder, and the user is prompted to keep both files or revise with this enhancement.

18.2

System Jobs Enhancements: Company administrators can access system jobs data and modify the time zone to trigger jobs.

18.2

Unifier Mobile Application for iOS
Support for user-based locale and region formatting. The app is fully supported in the following twelve languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, and Spanish. - Users can now choose to work in the timezone of their device or the Unifier server when working from different locations. - Copy BP records and line items with or without attachments. - Support for split screen display on iPads. - Easily search the Documents hierarchy for files and folders. - When routing workflow records, expand and select users from the task assignee group as the next step assignees. - Support for conditional filtering of step assignees as per the workflow design.

18.2

Unifier Mobile Application for Android
Support for user-based locale and region formatting. The app is fully supported in the following twelve languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, and Spanish. - Users can now choose to work in the timezone of their device or the Unifier server when working from different locations. - Access, view, and save all Company and Project-level documents from the Documents tile on the Home screen. - Easily search the Documents hierarchy for files and folders. - When routing workflow records, expand and select users from the task assignee group as the next step assignees. - Support for conditional filtering of step assignees as per the workflow design. - Support for Text type BPs. - View the geo-location of projects and business process records.

18.2

Create custom financial periods to provide more flexibility in budget forecast and analysis.

18.3

Create folder, document, and log attribute forms for different projects to capture different metadata.

18.3

Create multiple log views in Administration mode for use in Document Manager.

18.3

Use the Preview gear menu option to preview files in different formats in the Attachments tab of redesigned business process forms.

18.3

At runtime, use the new Add to Group record property to group line items in categories.

18.3

New system-defined Portal landing page minimizes customization using HTML.

18.3

Unifier now supports the asynchronous upload of folders and files into Document Manager, allowing you to perform other operations in the application while the upload continues in the background.

18.3

Create workflow BP templates and records from templates using updated user interface and interactions.

18.3

Company administrators can see a combined license count and usage for company and partner users (labeled as standard users in terms of license) on the License Manager landing page.

18.3

The Summary Totals behavior now supports data elements uuu_spa_amt_tp (Amount this Period) and uuu_spa_qty_tp (Quantity this Period) when "Total the Cost Breakdown values to the line item" option is selected in uDesigner.

18.3

Right-side tabs in a BP form are enhanced: Attachments tab - Comments tab - Linked Records tab - Linked Mail tab

18.3

Portfolio Manager scenarios now display derived curves and monthly actuals from project cash flow.

18.3

View the new business process form design when creating records in the Document Manager.

18.3

Business process log and form UI enhancements are extended to support the Project/Shell Creation business process type.

18.3

Preferences available in the username list on the top navigation bar has been modernized.

18.3

Managing Personally Identifiable Information
Features have been added to Primavera Unifier that enable you to manage personally identifiable information (PII), including creating consent notices, auditing consent status, and controlling access to Unifier.

18.4

Rename a document in Document Manager (or Unpublished Documents), if the Name field (uuu_dm_node_name) in the document attribute form design has been changed from Read-Only to Editable (Required).

18.4

Restore a file in Document Manager to an older version along with comments and references associated with it.

18.4

In the Tasks and Business Process logs, drag and drop log views in the Manage Views dialog to quickly reorder them, instead of using the Move Up/Move Down gear menu options.

18.4

Dock the floating Search dialog to the right or the bottom of the log page using the toggle Dock Right/Dock Bottom icon.

18.4

View a graphical representation of the relationships of the base record with reference and linked records in the Referenced Records tab of a business process record.

18.4

CSV and Webservices now support the grouping of line items.

18.4

Cost business processes of sub-type, Line Item with CBS codes, and classification, Generic, and Transfer display the enhanced form interface.

18.4

View the enhanced interface in CBS Picker, Transaction Currency Picker, Work Package Picker, BPO Picker, and BPO Line Item Picker in cost business processes.

18.4

Use the toggle Collapse / Expand All Groups icon to collapse or expand line item groups in a business process form’s detail tab.

18.4

The support for financial periods is extended to Cash Flow by CBS, Summary CBS, and Commitment detail levels.

18.4

Introducing Earned Value Analysis module using schedule data, activities, and rates imported from P6 via Gateway to calculate earned value and related measures for a project – planned value, actual cost, variances, performance indices, and at completion values.

18.5

On the License Manager landing page, view an Earned Value Management block with gauge charts indicating license terms, current usage, and overage.

18.5

Create and run user-defined reports using permission-based data sources.

18.5

The referencing BP data-picker on the destination record displays a hyperlink pointing to the source record when a business process record is auto-created by way of a BP Creator, in the source record.

18.5

Project Mailbox has been converted to a parent node with Inbox as a child node. Additional email addresses you provide are available as folders below the default Inbox.

18.5

Schedule publishing of Unifier data to OBIEE is now every 4, 6, 8, or 12 hours.

18.5

Access to Consent Notice child nodes – User Consent and Bidder Consent – is now controlled by permissions. Modify and View permissions are available for each node in Access Control and other permission-related modules and templates.

18.5

Set permissions to control who can see company-wide business process data in Primavera Analytics. In Unifier, additional User Mode Access permissions are added to Company Workspace/Non-navigational Nodes/Analytics: View All Records; View All Company Records; and View All Shell Records.

18.5

In the Document Manager node, the redesigned Unpublished Documents folder displays similar layout and behavior as the Documents folder. You can expand or collapse all folders in Document Manager or all sub-folders at the same time.

18.5

Update attributes for already-published documents when the corresponding matching fields are updated in the related business process record. Updates occur when a record moves through the workflow, or when Submit is clicked in a non-workflow business process record based on design.

18.5

The Manage Views dialog in the Documents log has been enhanced like Tasks and business process logs. Drag and drop views to quickly reorder them, or move them to the Visible Views, Hidden Views, or Views Marked for Deletion section.

18.5

View the enhanced interface in Fund Detail, SOV Picker, Commit Picker, and Commit Line Item Picker in cost business processes.

18.5

Business process form redesign has been extended to the following additional cost business process types: Line Items with Fund Code: Generic, Transfer - Line Items with both CBS and Fund Codes: Generic, Transfer - Line Items with CBS Code:  Base Commit (SOV type - General Spends), Change Commit (SOV type - General Spends), General Spends

18.5

In the Reference Records tab of a business process record, you can specify the number of referenced records to be displayed per node.

18.5

Company Workspace landing page has been enhanced by including hyperlinks for company information and enabling access to the company-level business process, tasks, and notification logs.

18.6

Unifier informs users about the use of session cookies in the application. The notification is displayed in a banner on the top of the Unifier page.

18.6

Upload (or drag-and-drop) a profile picture in the General tab of the User Preferences dialog to personalize the top navigation bar and user profile dialog.

18.6

You can add or modify partner users by using a CSV file. You can Export Structure to download the template as CSV. You can import the modified structure template, similar to importing company users.

18.6

Auto-fill Percentage Complete in Summary Payment Applications.

18.6

The Condition list in the Add Query Condition dialog provides the options of Exists or Does not exist to enable you to configure the query conditions for string attributes of a data picker.

18.6

User restrictions for viewing, or editing, cost sheet columns have been reduced.

18.6

The cost sheet rules to include the pending positive values (in the limit expression and the pending negative values in the data expression calculations of the Rules engine have been reduced.

18.6

Earned Value Management Enhancements
Master Rate Sheet: During synchronization, the Master Rate Sheet now captures Resource type (Material, Labor, Non-Labor, etc.) from P6.
Activity Sheet: On the Actions Menu of the Activity Sheet, use Assign CBS to assign a cost code to multiple activities (and their assignments).
Activity Picker: Use the Activity Picker in BP forms to select activities from multiple P6 projects in the Activity Sheet.
Performance Percentage Completion Sheet: Update data dates and corresponding percent complete values in the Performance Percentage Complete Sheet.

18.6

Several company-level cost business processes display the redesigned user interface.

18.6

Report on user type (uuu_user_type) via User-Defined Reports (UDR) and System Reports.

18.6

Generic Cost Attributes Picker, Commitment Summary Line Item Picker, Account Code Picker, and Seasonal Dates Picker are now equipped with the modernized user interface, consistent with other pickers.

18.6

Tasks, Drafts, Notifications, and all Mailbox logs have been provided with the enhanced Manage Views dialog.

18.6

The Attachments tab in a redesigned business process form has been further enhanced when previewing or reviewing an attachment.

18.6

Unifier 18.4 iOS Mobile App
-Consent notices and cookies notification to improve data privacy.
-Honoring of User Type when accessed via app.
-Usability improvements to support scanning bar codes in low light conditions and easier configuration of BP tiles.

18.4

Integration user type has been introduced to execute REST integration services for modules.

18.7

Review documents in the Documents log in the same way as in business process logs.

18.7

Unifier includes the uploaded profile picture before the user name in the User Picker and in the Users section of the User and Group Picker.

18.7

Type Ahead feature has been introduced in pickers.

18.7

The Unifier user interface (the top navigation) has been rearranged.

18.7

The View User Profile dialog, accessed from a user picker with multiple users, has been enhanced.

18.7

Earned Value Management
-Define rates in resource currency.
-Differentiate between custom data imported by way of CSV file and data integrated from P6 in the Performance Percentage Completion sheet.
-Earned Value Analysis data structure tables are now available in the ER Views node in the Company Workspace Admin mode.

18.7

Redesign of business process forms has been extended to:
-Document type Without Folder Structure business process
-Request for Bid (RFB) type business process

18.7

When adding comments in the record or line items in tabs, Unifier displays an alert for the unsaved changes.

18.7

In the business process log, the Edit Permissions and Transfer Ownership dialogs have been enhanced.

18.7

In the Document Manager Log, tabs have been refined.

18.7

The Manage Views dialog, in all Unifier, has been revamped to improve user interaction.

18.7

In a business process record, you can link mail records from different folders of Project Mailbox.

18.7

When you run a user-defined report (UDR) using Document Manager Data Sources, the data retrieved is based on your permissions.

18.7

When configured, both summary and costed lines of a Summary Payment Applications record are auto-populated from corresponding fields of the source Base Commits.

18.7

Cloud administrators can inform Unifier end-users about scheduled maintenance and outages for Unifier servers hosted in the cloud.

18.7

Starting with Unifier 18.8, Oracle Web Services Manager (OWSM) is no longer supported.

18.8

The shell landing page (My Dashboard) has a new look with improved usability. The Summary tab displays three standard tiles – Tasks, Notifications, and Mail with items requiring your attention, and three standard blocks – Image, Details, and Links.

18.8

Configuration Installation Files will be replaced with Configuration Packages, and the released Base Configuration Packages will be available on My Oracle Support:
- Project Controls
- Facilities and Asset Management
- Combined Package (Project Controls and Facilities and Asset Management)
Note: This setup does not apply to existing customers.

18.8

Business process forms of the following types have redesigned UI.
- Document with Folder Structure
- Lease log
- Preventive Maintenance

18.8

Change User Defined Report (UDR) owner: The owners and users who have full access permission can now change the UDR owner’s and user’s name.

18.8

Document Manager enhancements
- Folder and Document Properties
- Document Logs (Standard View)
- Folder and Document Attributes

18.8

Earned Value enhancements
- Earned Value Analysis log has new toolbar options
- Activity Sheet

18.8

Space Manager has a modernized user interface.

18.8

Exchange Rates with effective dates in the past are now available.

18.8

Schedule Manager: Disable automatic re-scheduling within Unifier Schedule and integrate Activities (with their dependencies) with the same schedule that exists in P6 and MPP. Also, you can manually schedule activities in Unifier Schedule Sheet.

18.8

Oracle Primavera Unifier 18.8.0.4 Released

IMPORTANT UPDATE - Oracle Primavera Unifier 18.8.0.4 has been released, this is a patch release and has to following fixes.

Version 18.8.0.4

  • Internal BUG

Unifier Mobile Browser (/m) has been deprecated.

18.1

Unifier’s Home Landing Page has been revamped with interactive tiles and charts, and statistical information about tasks.

18.1

Business Process enhancements: Creation of new records: Upper Form - Creation of new records: Line Items - Ability to toggle between old and new business process form views. This enhancement applies to the Development and Testing environments, only.

18.1

Enhanced Single Record Business Process Log.

18.1

Configure the runtime list of default business process log views per business process.

18.1

WBS label is changed to CBS across Unifier.

18.1

uMail is renamed to Mailbox in all locations.

18.1

The Notifications log is redesigned similar to the Tasks log.

18.1

All login screens of the Unifier application have been modified with a standard look and feel.

18.1

View replies from external users in the Project Mailbox.

18.1

Choose to display project/shell name or number in the navigation tabs.

18.1

Customize the Total row of the grid in Payment Applications and Summary Payment Applications to accurately reflect its values at runtime.

18.1

Synchronizations are available in Unifier Gateway node to import P6 activities into Unifier Shell.

18.1

Unifier Analytics now supports cost code attributes, tab ID, and pickers.

18.1

The display of monthly actuals in Portfolio Manager has been extended to derived curves, multiple forecast curves, linked/unlinked projects, and yearly plans.

18.1

Configure Portfolio Manager to send notifications to users and groups when a scenario is shared or approved.

18.1

Keep the current session active in Unifier.

18.1

Document Management (DM) enhancements: Availability of advanced search functionality. - Ability to add frequently visited documents and folders to Favorites - Ability to use templates to update DM changes in shells of the same type. - The interface of the Documents template of a shell template has been modified for better usability. - Ability to sort columns in the log regardless of the number of pages. - Ability to switch between grid and tile view of the log layout. - Ability to use the enhanced methods to create, view and manage shortcuts in the Document Manager.

18.1

SPA Enhancement: Overpayment in Summary Payment Applications SOV
Starting Unifier release 18.2, you can now overpay on line items of the Summary Payment Applications business process.

18.2

SPA Enhancement: Update Existing Previous Payment Calculations
You can override the existing hardcoded calculation on the Previous Amount (uuu_spa_prev_amt) field by selecting a custom data element -- for example, Amount This Period on the standard detail form of the Summary Payment Applications business process.

18.2

SPA Enhancement: Summary Row Totals
The Summary Row Totals enhancement applies to a Payment Applications business process with reference to a Contracts business process of Summary Payment Applications SOV type.

18.2

Web Services Integration: getSOV for Summary Payment Applications
You can now run the Webservice getSOV call to get SOV details of a contract of Summary Payment Applications SOV type.

18.2

Business Process: Redesign for Simple and Line Item – Phase 2
In the Attachments tab, Browse (My Computer in earlier versions), and Document Manager (Unifier Folders in earlier versions) are now available as Attach dropdown options.

18.2

Business Process: Linked Mails Tab
When maximized, the Linked Mails tab of a BP form is divided into left and right sections. The left section displays the grid, and the right displays the functions, content and attachments of the selected mail.

18.2

Business Process: Enhanced log UI in Query Based Tabs
Query based tabs in BP forms have a new look with some additional functionality.

18.2

Business Process: Calendar Enabled Objects
Calendar-enabled simple and line item business processes now support the new form UI.

18.2

Business Process: Master Vendor Business Process
The enhanced form UI has also been extended to the Master Vendors BP.

18.2

Business Process: Line Item Consolidation – Phase 2
The bottom line item section in line item business processes have been further enhanced.

18.2

Business Process Form: Picker and Manual Entry fields
In picker fields, click X to clear out the selected values.

18.2

Business Process: Picker UI Changes
Picker styles have been modified.

18.2

Business Process: Task Assignee Filter Enhancements
In workflow business processes, match the assignee filter results against AND, as well as OR, conditions.

18.2

Business Process: Filter Cc Assignees in a Workflow
Define filter conditions on Cc assignees in a workflow step regardless whether they are pre-assigned or user-select.

18.2

Document Manager: Enhanced Move Functionality
Move a file or folder in the Document Manager using the enhanced Move functionality. Use Move from the gear menu to move a single folder or file; use Move from the Actions menu to move multiple items. In previous versions, the move would be aborted if a file or folder with the same name existed in the destination folder, and the user is prompted to keep both files or revise with this enhancement.

18.2

System Jobs Enhancements: Company administrators can access system jobs data and modify the time zone to trigger jobs.

18.2

Unifier Mobile Application for iOS
Support for user-based locale and region formatting. The app is fully supported in the following twelve languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, and Spanish. - Users can now choose to work in the timezone of their device or the Unifier server when working from different locations. - Copy BP records and line items with or without attachments. - Support for split screen display on iPads. - Easily search the Documents hierarchy for files and folders. - When routing workflow records, expand and select users from the task assignee group as the next step assignees. - Support for conditional filtering of step assignees as per the workflow design.

18.2

Unifier Mobile Application for Android
Support for user-based locale and region formatting. The app is fully supported in the following twelve languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, and Spanish. - Users can now choose to work in the timezone of their device or the Unifier server when working from different locations. - Access, view, and save all Company and Project-level documents from the Documents tile on the Home screen. - Easily search the Documents hierarchy for files and folders. - When routing workflow records, expand and select users from the task assignee group as the next step assignees. - Support for conditional filtering of step assignees as per the workflow design. - Support for Text type BPs. - View the geo-location of projects and business process records.

18.2

Create custom financial periods to provide more flexibility in budget forecast and analysis.

18.3

Create folder, document, and log attribute forms for different projects to capture different metadata.

18.3

Create multiple log views in Administration mode for use in Document Manager.

18.3

Use the Preview gear menu option to preview files in different formats in the Attachments tab of redesigned business process forms.

18.3

At runtime, use the new Add to Group record property to group line items in categories.

18.3

New system-defined Portal landing page minimizes customization using HTML.

18.3

Unifier now supports the asynchronous upload of folders and files into Document Manager, allowing you to perform other operations in the application while the upload continues in the background.

18.3

Create workflow BP templates and records from templates using updated user interface and interactions.

18.3

Company administrators can see a combined license count and usage for company and partner users (labeled as standard users in terms of license) on the License Manager landing page.

18.3

The Summary Totals behavior now supports data elements uuu_spa_amt_tp (Amount this Period) and uuu_spa_qty_tp (Quantity this Period) when "Total the Cost Breakdown values to the line item" option is selected in uDesigner.

18.3

Right-side tabs in a BP form are enhanced: Attachments tab - Comments tab - Linked Records tab - Linked Mail tab

18.3

Portfolio Manager scenarios now display derived curves and monthly actuals from project cash flow.

18.3

View the new business process form design when creating records in the Document Manager.

18.3

Business process log and form UI enhancements are extended to support the Project/Shell Creation business process type.

18.3

Preferences available in the username list on the top navigation bar has been modernized.

18.3

Managing Personally Identifiable Information
Features have been added to Primavera Unifier that enable you to manage personally identifiable information (PII), including creating consent notices, auditing consent status, and controlling access to Unifier.

18.4

Rename a document in Document Manager (or Unpublished Documents), if the Name field (uuu_dm_node_name) in the document attribute form design has been changed from Read-Only to Editable (Required).

18.4

Restore a file in Document Manager to an older version along with comments and references associated with it.

18.4

In the Tasks and Business Process logs, drag and drop log views in the Manage Views dialog to quickly reorder them, instead of using the Move Up/Move Down gear menu options.

18.4

Dock the floating Search dialog to the right or the bottom of the log page using the toggle Dock Right/Dock Bottom icon.

18.4

View a graphical representation of the relationships of the base record with reference and linked records in the Referenced Records tab of a business process record.

18.4

CSV and Webservices now support the grouping of line items.

18.4

Cost business processes of sub-type, Line Item with CBS codes, and classification, Generic, and Transfer display the enhanced form interface.

18.4

View the enhanced interface in CBS Picker, Transaction Currency Picker, Work Package Picker, BPO Picker, and BPO Line Item Picker in cost business processes.

18.4

Use the toggle Collapse / Expand All Groups icon to collapse or expand line item groups in a business process form’s detail tab.

18.4

The support for financial periods is extended to Cash Flow by CBS, Summary CBS, and Commitment detail levels.

18.4

Introducing Earned Value Analysis module using schedule data, activities, and rates imported from P6 via Gateway to calculate earned value and related measures for a project – planned value, actual cost, variances, performance indices, and at completion values.

18.5

On the License Manager landing page, view an Earned Value Management block with gauge charts indicating license terms, current usage, and overage.

18.5

Create and run user-defined reports using permission-based data sources.

18.5

The referencing BP data-picker on the destination record displays a hyperlink pointing to the source record when a business process record is auto-created by way of a BP Creator, in the source record.

18.5

Project Mailbox has been converted to a parent node with Inbox as a child node. Additional email addresses you provide are available as folders below the default Inbox.

18.5

Schedule publishing of Unifier data to OBIEE is now every 4, 6, 8, or 12 hours.

18.5

Access to Consent Notice child nodes – User Consent and Bidder Consent – is now controlled by permissions. Modify and View permissions are available for each node in Access Control and other permission-related modules and templates.

18.5

Set permissions to control who can see company-wide business process data in Primavera Analytics. In Unifier, additional User Mode Access permissions are added to Company Workspace/Non-navigational Nodes/Analytics: View All Records; View All Company Records; and View All Shell Records.

18.5

In the Document Manager node, the redesigned Unpublished Documents folder displays similar layout and behavior as the Documents folder. You can expand or collapse all folders in Document Manager or all sub-folders at the same time.

18.5

Update attributes for already-published documents when the corresponding matching fields are updated in the related business process record. Updates occur when a record moves through the workflow, or when Submit is clicked in a non-workflow business process record based on design.

18.5

The Manage Views dialog in the Documents log has been enhanced like Tasks and business process logs. Drag and drop views to quickly reorder them, or move them to the Visible Views, Hidden Views, or Views Marked for Deletion section.

18.5

View the enhanced interface in Fund Detail, SOV Picker, Commit Picker, and Commit Line Item Picker in cost business processes.

18.5

Business process form redesign has been extended to the following additional cost business process types: Line Items with Fund Code: Generic, Transfer - Line Items with both CBS and Fund Codes: Generic, Transfer - Line Items with CBS Code:  Base Commit (SOV type - General Spends), Change Commit (SOV type - General Spends), General Spends

18.5

In the Reference Records tab of a business process record, you can specify the number of referenced records to be displayed per node.

18.5

Company Workspace landing page has been enhanced by including hyperlinks for company information and enabling access to the company-level business process, tasks, and notification logs.

18.6

Unifier informs users about the use of session cookies in the application. The notification is displayed in a banner on the top of the Unifier page.

18.6

Upload (or drag-and-drop) a profile picture in the General tab of the User Preferences dialog to personalize the top navigation bar and user profile dialog.

18.6

You can add or modify partner users by using a CSV file. You can Export Structure to download the template as CSV. You can import the modified structure template, similar to importing company users.

18.6

Auto-fill Percentage Complete in Summary Payment Applications.

18.6

The Condition list in the Add Query Condition dialog provides the options of Exists or Does not exist to enable you to configure the query conditions for string attributes of a data picker.

18.6

User restrictions for viewing, or editing, cost sheet columns have been reduced.

18.6

The cost sheet rules to include the pending positive values (in the limit expression and the pending negative values in the data expression calculations of the Rules engine have been reduced.

18.6

Earned Value Management Enhancements
Master Rate Sheet: During synchronization, the Master Rate Sheet now captures Resource type (Material, Labor, Non-Labor, etc.) from P6.
Activity Sheet: On the Actions Menu of the Activity Sheet, use Assign CBS to assign a cost code to multiple activities (and their assignments).
Activity Picker: Use the Activity Picker in BP forms to select activities from multiple P6 projects in the Activity Sheet.
Performance Percentage Completion Sheet: Update data dates and corresponding percent complete values in the Performance Percentage Complete Sheet.

18.6

Several company-level cost business processes display the redesigned user interface.

18.6

Report on user type (uuu_user_type) via User-Defined Reports (UDR) and System Reports.

18.6

Generic Cost Attributes Picker, Commitment Summary Line Item Picker, Account Code Picker, and Seasonal Dates Picker are now equipped with the modernized user interface, consistent with other pickers.

18.6

Tasks, Drafts, Notifications, and all Mailbox logs have been provided with the enhanced Manage Views dialog.

18.6

The Attachments tab in a redesigned business process form has been further enhanced when previewing or reviewing an attachment.

18.6

Unifier 18.4 iOS Mobile App
-Consent notices and cookies notification to improve data privacy.
-Honoring of User Type when accessed via app.
-Usability improvements to support scanning bar codes in low light conditions and easier configuration of BP tiles.

18.4

Integration user type has been introduced to execute REST integration services for modules.

18.7

Review documents in the Documents log in the same way as in business process logs.

18.7

Unifier includes the uploaded profile picture before the user name in the User Picker and in the Users section of the User and Group Picker.

18.7

Type Ahead feature has been introduced in pickers.

18.7

The Unifier user interface (the top navigation) has been rearranged.

18.7

The View User Profile dialog, accessed from a user picker with multiple users, has been enhanced.

18.7

Earned Value Management
-Define rates in resource currency.
-Differentiate between custom data imported by way of CSV file and data integrated from P6 in the Performance Percentage Completion sheet.
-Earned Value Analysis data structure tables are now available in the ER Views node in the Company Workspace Admin mode.

18.7

Redesign of business process forms has been extended to:
-Document type Without Folder Structure business process
-Request for Bid (RFB) type business process

18.7

When adding comments in the record or line items in tabs, Unifier displays an alert for the unsaved changes.

18.7

In the business process log, the Edit Permissions and Transfer Ownership dialogs have been enhanced.

18.7

In the Document Manager Log, tabs have been refined.

18.7

The Manage Views dialog, in all Unifier, has been revamped to improve user interaction.

18.7

In a business process record, you can link mail records from different folders of Project Mailbox.

18.7

When you run a user-defined report (UDR) using Document Manager Data Sources, the data retrieved is based on your permissions.

18.7

When configured, both summary and costed lines of a Summary Payment Applications record are auto-populated from corresponding fields of the source Base Commits.

18.7

Cloud administrators can inform Unifier end-users about scheduled maintenance and outages for Unifier servers hosted in the cloud.

18.7

Starting with Unifier 18.8, Oracle Web Services Manager (OWSM) is no longer supported.

18.8

The shell landing page (My Dashboard) has a new look with improved usability. The Summary tab displays three standard tiles – Tasks, Notifications, and Mail with items requiring your attention, and three standard blocks – Image, Details, and Links.

18.8

Configuration Installation Files will be replaced with Configuration Packages, and the released Base Configuration Packages will be available on My Oracle Support:
- Project Controls
- Facilities and Asset Management
- Combined Package (Project Controls and Facilities and Asset Management)
Note: This setup does not apply to existing customers.

18.8

Business process forms of the following types have redesigned UI.
- Document with Folder Structure
- Lease log
- Preventive Maintenance

18.8

Change User Defined Report (UDR) owner: The owners and users who have full access permission can now change the UDR owner’s and user’s name.

18.8

Document Manager enhancements
- Folder and Document Properties
- Document Logs (Standard View)
- Folder and Document Attributes

18.8

Earned Value enhancements
- Earned Value Analysis log has new toolbar options
- Activity Sheet

18.8

Space Manager has a modernized user interface.

18.8

Exchange Rates with effective dates in the past are now available.

18.8

Schedule Manager: Disable automatic re-scheduling within Unifier Schedule and integrate Activities (with their dependencies) with the same schedule that exists in P6 and MPP. Also, you can manually schedule activities in Unifier Schedule Sheet.

18.8

Oracle Primavera Unifier 18.8.1.0 Released

IMPORTANT UPDATE - Oracle Primavera Unifier 18.8.1.0 has been released, this is a patch release and has to following fixes.

Version 18.8.1.0

  • 28545535 AUTO SEQUENCE DE DOES NOT INCREMENT AS EXPECTED IN NON-WF BP

  • 28530082 THE FOLDERS AND FILES UNDER CHINESE CHARACTERS FOLDER ARE NOT ACCESSIBLE

  • 28518249 SYSTEM ERROR WHEN TRYING TO TERMINATE BP

  • 28508241 BLANK PAGE IS DISPLAYED WHEN PRINT PROJECT CONTROLS DASHBOARD

  • 28505356 TEMPLATE CAN NOT BE EXPOTED AFTER CONFIGURING ACTION ITEMS TO CHINESE IN INTERNA

  • 28500158 CUSTOM BI REPORT NAME WITH & DOES NOT SHOW UP FOR DEPLOYMENT

  • 28482336 NEW USER INTERFACE - USERS ARE ABLE TO MODIFY LINE ITEMS WHEN COPYING RECORDS

  • 28480510 DATA PICKER FILTER ISSUE

  • 28474662 PORTFOLIO MANAGER EXPORTS TO EXCEL PROJECT NUMBER COLUMN IS A FORMULA

  • 28438964 AFTER V18.7, PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE WORK ORDERS WITH INCORRECT COMPONENTS.

  • 28423993 BPS NEW USER INTERFACE DISABLED.

  • 28420594 SEARCH IS NOT WORKING WITH PULL DOWN DE FOR VALUE HAVING COMMA

  • 28417201 DATA ELEMENT IS UNAVAILABLE AS A FILTER CONDITION

  • 28410276 HYPERLINK PICKER SAVED IN ONE STEP, DELETED IN THE NEXT STEP.

  • 28404209 AUTO-POPULATE VALUE IS NOT AUTOMATICALLY DELETED IN STANDARD VIEW AFTER RESET.

  • 28396227 PROJECT INFORMATION RECORDS ARE NOW ALL BLANK AFTER THE UNPLANNED OUTAGE

  • 28381758 PROJECT/SHELL MAILBOX ITEM NOT SHOWING IN LINKED MAIL

  • 28365707 BP RECORD ATTACHMENT FROM BP CREATOR

  • 28359507 PROXY USER - TIME IS NOT UPDATING CORRECTLY

  • 28343963 CSV SCHEDULE SHEET IMPORT/EXPORT ISSUES

  • 28328322 REVERSE AUTO POPULATE (RAP) IS NOT WORKING AS EXPECTED

  • 28314917 CUSTOMER REPORTING PERFORMANCE ISSUES AFTER 18.6 UPGRADE FROM 17.11

  • 28261407 PRINT ICON REMAINS HIGHLIGHTED EVEN AFTER CLICKING ELSEWHERE

  • 27926681 RECORD INFORMATION PDF FILE FOR ONE BP IS BLANK/EMPTY

  • 27823654 ATTACHMENT ISSUE DATE IS POPULATING INCORRECTLY

  • 27622098 PERFORMANCE ISSUE

  • 27577334 SLUGGISH PERFORMANCE IN UNIFIER AFTER UPGRADING TO 18.1.0.0 IN STAGE

  • 23592944 INCORRECT ISSUE DATE ON UPLOADED DOCUMENTS WITH BPS AND DOCUMENT MANAGER

Unifier Mobile Browser (/m) has been deprecated.

18.1

Unifier’s Home Landing Page has been revamped with interactive tiles and charts, and statistical information about tasks.

18.1

Business Process enhancements: Creation of new records: Upper Form - Creation of new records: Line Items - Ability to toggle between old and new business process form views. This enhancement applies to the Development and Testing environments, only.

18.1

Enhanced Single Record Business Process Log.

18.1

Configure the runtime list of default business process log views per business process.

18.1

WBS label is changed to CBS across Unifier.

18.1

uMail is renamed to Mailbox in all locations.

18.1

The Notifications log is redesigned similar to the Tasks log.

18.1

All login screens of the Unifier application have been modified with a standard look and feel.

18.1

View replies from external users in the Project Mailbox.

18.1

Choose to display project/shell name or number in the navigation tabs.

18.1

Customize the Total row of the grid in Payment Applications and Summary Payment Applications to accurately reflect its values at runtime.

18.1

Synchronizations are available in Unifier Gateway node to import P6 activities into Unifier Shell.

18.1

Unifier Analytics now supports cost code attributes, tab ID, and pickers.

18.1

The display of monthly actuals in Portfolio Manager has been extended to derived curves, multiple forecast curves, linked/unlinked projects, and yearly plans.

18.1

Configure Portfolio Manager to send notifications to users and groups when a scenario is shared or approved.

18.1

Keep the current session active in Unifier.

18.1

Document Management (DM) enhancements: Availability of advanced search functionality. - Ability to add frequently visited documents and folders to Favorites - Ability to use templates to update DM changes in shells of the same type. - The interface of the Documents template of a shell template has been modified for better usability. - Ability to sort columns in the log regardless of the number of pages. - Ability to switch between grid and tile view of the log layout. - Ability to use the enhanced methods to create, view and manage shortcuts in the Document Manager.

18.1

SPA Enhancement: Overpayment in Summary Payment Applications SOV
Starting Unifier release 18.2, you can now overpay on line items of the Summary Payment Applications business process.

18.2

SPA Enhancement: Update Existing Previous Payment Calculations
You can override the existing hardcoded calculation on the Previous Amount (uuu_spa_prev_amt) field by selecting a custom data element -- for example, Amount This Period on the standard detail form of the Summary Payment Applications business process.

18.2

SPA Enhancement: Summary Row Totals
The Summary Row Totals enhancement applies to a Payment Applications business process with reference to a Contracts business process of Summary Payment Applications SOV type.

18.2

Web Services Integration: getSOV for Summary Payment Applications
You can now run the Webservice getSOV call to get SOV details of a contract of Summary Payment Applications SOV type.

18.2

Business Process: Redesign for Simple and Line Item – Phase 2
In the Attachments tab, Browse (My Computer in earlier versions), and Document Manager (Unifier Folders in earlier versions) are now available as Attach dropdown options.

18.2

Business Process: Linked Mails Tab
When maximized, the Linked Mails tab of a BP form is divided into left and right sections. The left section displays the grid, and the right displays the functions, content and attachments of the selected mail.

18.2

Business Process: Enhanced log UI in Query Based Tabs
Query based tabs in BP forms have a new look with some additional functionality.

18.2

Business Process: Calendar Enabled Objects
Calendar-enabled simple and line item business processes now support the new form UI.

18.2

Business Process: Master Vendor Business Process
The enhanced form UI has also been extended to the Master Vendors BP.

18.2

Business Process: Line Item Consolidation – Phase 2
The bottom line item section in line item business processes have been further enhanced.

18.2

Business Process Form: Picker and Manual Entry fields
In picker fields, click X to clear out the selected values.

18.2

Business Process: Picker UI Changes
Picker styles have been modified.

18.2

Business Process: Task Assignee Filter Enhancements
In workflow business processes, match the assignee filter results against AND, as well as OR, conditions.

18.2

Business Process: Filter Cc Assignees in a Workflow
Define filter conditions on Cc assignees in a workflow step regardless whether they are pre-assigned or user-select.

18.2

Document Manager: Enhanced Move Functionality
Move a file or folder in the Document Manager using the enhanced Move functionality. Use Move from the gear menu to move a single folder or file; use Move from the Actions menu to move multiple items. In previous versions, the move would be aborted if a file or folder with the same name existed in the destination folder, and the user is prompted to keep both files or revise with this enhancement.

18.2

System Jobs Enhancements: Company administrators can access system jobs data and modify the time zone to trigger jobs.

18.2

Unifier Mobile Application for iOS
Support for user-based locale and region formatting. The app is fully supported in the following twelve languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, and Spanish. - Users can now choose to work in the timezone of their device or the Unifier server when working from different locations. - Copy BP records and line items with or without attachments. - Support for split screen display on iPads. - Easily search the Documents hierarchy for files and folders. - When routing workflow records, expand and select users from the task assignee group as the next step assignees. - Support for conditional filtering of step assignees as per the workflow design.

18.2

Unifier Mobile Application for Android
Support for user-based locale and region formatting. The app is fully supported in the following twelve languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, and Spanish. - Users can now choose to work in the timezone of their device or the Unifier server when working from different locations. - Access, view, and save all Company and Project-level documents from the Documents tile on the Home screen. - Easily search the Documents hierarchy for files and folders. - When routing workflow records, expand and select users from the task assignee group as the next step assignees. - Support for conditional filtering of step assignees as per the workflow design. - Support for Text type BPs. - View the geo-location of projects and business process records.

18.2

Create custom financial periods to provide more flexibility in budget forecast and analysis.

18.3

Create folder, document, and log attribute forms for different projects to capture different metadata.

18.3

Create multiple log views in Administration mode for use in Document Manager.

18.3

Use the Preview gear menu option to preview files in different formats in the Attachments tab of redesigned business process forms.

18.3

At runtime, use the new Add to Group record property to group line items in categories.

18.3

New system-defined Portal landing page minimizes customization using HTML.

18.3

Unifier now supports the asynchronous upload of folders and files into Document Manager, allowing you to perform other operations in the application while the upload continues in the background.

18.3

Create workflow BP templates and records from templates using updated user interface and interactions.

18.3

Company administrators can see a combined license count and usage for company and partner users (labeled as standard users in terms of license) on the License Manager landing page.

18.3

The Summary Totals behavior now supports data elements uuu_spa_amt_tp (Amount this Period) and uuu_spa_qty_tp (Quantity this Period) when "Total the Cost Breakdown values to the line item" option is selected in uDesigner.

18.3

Right-side tabs in a BP form are enhanced: Attachments tab - Comments tab - Linked Records tab - Linked Mail tab

18.3

Portfolio Manager scenarios now display derived curves and monthly actuals from project cash flow.

18.3

View the new business process form design when creating records in the Document Manager.

18.3

Business process log and form UI enhancements are extended to support the Project/Shell Creation business process type.

18.3

Preferences available in the username list on the top navigation bar has been modernized.

18.3

Managing Personally Identifiable Information
Features have been added to Primavera Unifier that enable you to manage personally identifiable information (PII), including creating consent notices, auditing consent status, and controlling access to Unifier.

18.4

Rename a document in Document Manager (or Unpublished Documents), if the Name field (uuu_dm_node_name) in the document attribute form design has been changed from Read-Only to Editable (Required).

18.4

Restore a file in Document Manager to an older version along with comments and references associated with it.

18.4

In the Tasks and Business Process logs, drag and drop log views in the Manage Views dialog to quickly reorder them, instead of using the Move Up/Move Down gear menu options.

18.4

Dock the floating Search dialog to the right or the bottom of the log page using the toggle Dock Right/Dock Bottom icon.

18.4

View a graphical representation of the relationships of the base record with reference and linked records in the Referenced Records tab of a business process record.

18.4

CSV and Webservices now support the grouping of line items.

18.4

Cost business processes of sub-type, Line Item with CBS codes, and classification, Generic, and Transfer display the enhanced form interface.

18.4

View the enhanced interface in CBS Picker, Transaction Currency Picker, Work Package Picker, BPO Picker, and BPO Line Item Picker in cost business processes.

18.4

Use the toggle Collapse / Expand All Groups icon to collapse or expand line item groups in a business process form’s detail tab.

18.4

The support for financial periods is extended to Cash Flow by CBS, Summary CBS, and Commitment detail levels.

18.4

Introducing Earned Value Analysis module using schedule data, activities, and rates imported from P6 via Gateway to calculate earned value and related measures for a project – planned value, actual cost, variances, performance indices, and at completion values.

18.5

On the License Manager landing page, view an Earned Value Management block with gauge charts indicating license terms, current usage, and overage.

18.5

Create and run user-defined reports using permission-based data sources.

18.5

The referencing BP data-picker on the destination record displays a hyperlink pointing to the source record when a business process record is auto-created by way of a BP Creator, in the source record.

18.5

Project Mailbox has been converted to a parent node with Inbox as a child node. Additional email addresses you provide are available as folders below the default Inbox.

18.5

Schedule publishing of Unifier data to OBIEE is now every 4, 6, 8, or 12 hours.

18.5

Access to Consent Notice child nodes – User Consent and Bidder Consent – is now controlled by permissions. Modify and View permissions are available for each node in Access Control and other permission-related modules and templates.

18.5

Set permissions to control who can see company-wide business process data in Primavera Analytics. In Unifier, additional User Mode Access permissions are added to Company Workspace/Non-navigational Nodes/Analytics: View All Records; View All Company Records; and View All Shell Records.

18.5

In the Document Manager node, the redesigned Unpublished Documents folder displays similar layout and behavior as the Documents folder. You can expand or collapse all folders in Document Manager or all sub-folders at the same time.

18.5

Update attributes for already-published documents when the corresponding matching fields are updated in the related business process record. Updates occur when a record moves through the workflow, or when Submit is clicked in a non-workflow business process record based on design.

18.5

The Manage Views dialog in the Documents log has been enhanced like Tasks and business process logs. Drag and drop views to quickly reorder them, or move them to the Visible Views, Hidden Views, or Views Marked for Deletion section.

18.5

View the enhanced interface in Fund Detail, SOV Picker, Commit Picker, and Commit Line Item Picker in cost business processes.

18.5

Business process form redesign has been extended to the following additional cost business process types: Line Items with Fund Code: Generic, Transfer - Line Items with both CBS and Fund Codes: Generic, Transfer - Line Items with CBS Code:  Base Commit (SOV type - General Spends), Change Commit (SOV type - General Spends), General Spends

18.5

In the Reference Records tab of a business process record, you can specify the number of referenced records to be displayed per node.

18.5

Company Workspace landing page has been enhanced by including hyperlinks for company information and enabling access to the company-level business process, tasks, and notification logs.

18.6

Unifier informs users about the use of session cookies in the application. The notification is displayed in a banner on the top of the Unifier page.

18.6

Upload (or drag-and-drop) a profile picture in the General tab of the User Preferences dialog to personalize the top navigation bar and user profile dialog.

18.6

You can add or modify partner users by using a CSV file. You can Export Structure to download the template as CSV. You can import the modified structure template, similar to importing company users.

18.6

Auto-fill Percentage Complete in Summary Payment Applications.

18.6

The Condition list in the Add Query Condition dialog provides the options of Exists or Does not exist to enable you to configure the query conditions for string attributes of a data picker.

18.6

User restrictions for viewing, or editing, cost sheet columns have been reduced.

18.6

The cost sheet rules to include the pending positive values (in the limit expression and the pending negative values in the data expression calculations of the Rules engine have been reduced.

18.6

Earned Value Management Enhancements
Master Rate Sheet: During synchronization, the Master Rate Sheet now captures Resource type (Material, Labor, Non-Labor, etc.) from P6.
Activity Sheet: On the Actions Menu of the Activity Sheet, use Assign CBS to assign a cost code to multiple activities (and their assignments).
Activity Picker: Use the Activity Picker in BP forms to select activities from multiple P6 projects in the Activity Sheet.
Performance Percentage Completion Sheet: Update data dates and corresponding percent complete values in the Performance Percentage Complete Sheet.

18.6

Several company-level cost business processes display the redesigned user interface.

18.6

Report on user type (uuu_user_type) via User-Defined Reports (UDR) and System Reports.

18.6

Generic Cost Attributes Picker, Commitment Summary Line Item Picker, Account Code Picker, and Seasonal Dates Picker are now equipped with the modernized user interface, consistent with other pickers.

18.6

Tasks, Drafts, Notifications, and all Mailbox logs have been provided with the enhanced Manage Views dialog.

18.6

The Attachments tab in a redesigned business process form has been further enhanced when previewing or reviewing an attachment.

18.6

Unifier 18.4 iOS Mobile App
-Consent notices and cookies notification to improve data privacy.
-Honoring of User Type when accessed via app.
-Usability improvements to support scanning bar codes in low light conditions and easier configuration of BP tiles.

18.4

Integration user type has been introduced to execute REST integration services for modules.

18.7

Review documents in the Documents log in the same way as in business process logs.

18.7

Unifier includes the uploaded profile picture before the user name in the User Picker and in the Users section of the User and Group Picker.

18.7

Type Ahead feature has been introduced in pickers.

18.7

The Unifier user interface (the top navigation) has been rearranged.

18.7

The View User Profile dialog, accessed from a user picker with multiple users, has been enhanced.

18.7

Earned Value Management
-Define rates in resource currency.
-Differentiate between custom data imported by way of CSV file and data integrated from P6 in the Performance Percentage Completion sheet.
-Earned Value Analysis data structure tables are now available in the ER Views node in the Company Workspace Admin mode.

18.7

Redesign of business process forms has been extended to:
-Document type Without Folder Structure business process
-Request for Bid (RFB) type business process

18.7

When adding comments in the record or line items in tabs, Unifier displays an alert for the unsaved changes.

18.7

In the business process log, the Edit Permissions and Transfer Ownership dialogs have been enhanced.

18.7

In the Document Manager Log, tabs have been refined.

18.7

The Manage Views dialog, in all Unifier, has been revamped to improve user interaction.

18.7

In a business process record, you can link mail records from different folders of Project Mailbox.

18.7

When you run a user-defined report (UDR) using Document Manager Data Sources, the data retrieved is based on your permissions.

18.7

When configured, both summary and costed lines of a Summary Payment Applications record are auto-populated from corresponding fields of the source Base Commits.

18.7

Cloud administrators can inform Unifier end-users about scheduled maintenance and outages for Unifier servers hosted in the cloud.

18.7

Starting with Unifier 18.8, Oracle Web Services Manager (OWSM) is no longer supported.

18.8

The shell landing page (My Dashboard) has a new look with improved usability. The Summary tab displays three standard tiles – Tasks, Notifications, and Mail with items requiring your attention, and three standard blocks – Image, Details, and Links.

18.8

Configuration Installation Files will be replaced with Configuration Packages, and the released Base Configuration Packages will be available on My Oracle Support:
- Project Controls
- Facilities and Asset Management
- Combined Package (Project Controls and Facilities and Asset Management)
Note: This setup does not apply to existing customers.

18.8

Business process forms of the following types have redesigned UI.
- Document with Folder Structure
- Lease log
- Preventive Maintenance

18.8

Change User Defined Report (UDR) owner: The owners and users who have full access permission can now change the UDR owner’s and user’s name.

18.8

Document Manager enhancements
- Folder and Document Properties
- Document Logs (Standard View)
- Folder and Document Attributes

18.8

Earned Value enhancements
- Earned Value Analysis log has new toolbar options
- Activity Sheet

18.8

Space Manager has a modernized user interface.

18.8

Exchange Rates with effective dates in the past are now available.

18.8

Schedule Manager: Disable automatic re-scheduling within Unifier Schedule and integrate Activities (with their dependencies) with the same schedule that exists in P6 and MPP. Also, you can manually schedule activities in Unifier Schedule Sheet.

18.8

Oracle Primavera Unifier 18.8.2.0 Released

IMPORTANT UPDATE - Oracle Primavera Unifier 18.8.2.0 has been released, this is a patch release and has to following fixes.

Version 18.8.2.0

  • 28618301 STANDARD UNIFIER ERROR EXPORTING CASH FLOW SUMMARY

  • 28617000 OLD UMAIL FROM PREVIOUS BIDS ON ALL PROJECT SHELLS, EXPOSING CONFIDENTIAL INFO.

  • 28592266 LANDING PAGE HTML HAS INCORRECT DIV WHEN USING ALIGN CENTER

  • 28578700 LINE ITEM SORT NOT HONORED IN NEW UI

  • 28577510 BID RECORDS CANNOT BE OPEN

  • 28577242 DUPLICATE VALUE MESSAGE ADDING CONSTRUCTOR TO DATA DEFINITION

  • 28572914 LINE ITEMS CANNOT BE ADDED BECAUSE THE SOV OF THE SELECTED CONTRACT IS LOCKED B

  • 28571963 NEW UI ALLOWING RECORD TO BE SENT WITH BLANK REQUIRED FIELDS

  • 28570580 AFTER 18.8.0.2, BULK EDIT ERROR, ONE OR MORE RECORDS IN INITIATION STEP.

  • 28567384 SHELL DETAIL FORM DATE ADD FORMULA NOT WORKING AS EXPECTED

  • 28554618 LICENSE THRESHOLD REACHED RECEIVED VIA EMAIL HOWEVER IT HAS NOT BEEN REACHED

  • 28547976 UNABLE TO SELECT TO AND FROM DATE IN COMMITMENT TYPE CASHFLOW CURVE

  • 28546747 FILENAME WITH JAPANESE NAME IS SHOWN AS GARBLED CHARACTERS IN REVISION WINDOW.

  • 28523767 USER PICKER DISPLAYS 0.00 INSTEAD OF THE USER NAME

  • 28481940 LINE ITEMS NOT BEING AUTO-POPULATED FROM BP UPPER FORM AS EXPECTED.

  • 28434316 DATA PICKER CONSTANT VALUE WINDOW NO POPULATING

  • 28428067 RECEIVE BP NAME ALERT WHEN TRYING TO ROUTE RECORDS.

  • 28149136 AMOUNT DIFERENCES BETWEEN SCHEDULE SHEET AND THE CASH FLOW CURVE

  • 27870641 PERFORMANCE ISSUES WITH IE11 IN 18.X UNIFIER VERSIONS

Unifier Mobile Browser (/m) has been deprecated.

18.1

Unifier’s Home Landing Page has been revamped with interactive tiles and charts, and statistical information about tasks.

18.1

Business Process enhancements: Creation of new records: Upper Form - Creation of new records: Line Items - Ability to toggle between old and new business process form views. This enhancement applies to the Development and Testing environments, only.

18.1

Enhanced Single Record Business Process Log.

18.1

Configure the runtime list of default business process log views per business process.

18.1

WBS label is changed to CBS across Unifier.

18.1

uMail is renamed to Mailbox in all locations.

18.1

The Notifications log is redesigned similar to the Tasks log.

18.1

All login screens of the Unifier application have been modified with a standard look and feel.

18.1

View replies from external users in the Project Mailbox.

18.1

Choose to display project/shell name or number in the navigation tabs.

18.1

Customize the Total row of the grid in Payment Applications and Summary Payment Applications to accurately reflect its values at runtime.

18.1

Synchronizations are available in Unifier Gateway node to import P6 activities into Unifier Shell.

18.1

Unifier Analytics now supports cost code attributes, tab ID, and pickers.

18.1

The display of monthly actuals in Portfolio Manager has been extended to derived curves, multiple forecast curves, linked/unlinked projects, and yearly plans.

18.1

Configure Portfolio Manager to send notifications to users and groups when a scenario is shared or approved.

18.1

Keep the current session active in Unifier.

18.1

Document Management (DM) enhancements: Availability of advanced search functionality. - Ability to add frequently visited documents and folders to Favorites - Ability to use templates to update DM changes in shells of the same type. - The interface of the Documents template of a shell template has been modified for better usability. - Ability to sort columns in the log regardless of the number of pages. - Ability to switch between grid and tile view of the log layout. - Ability to use the enhanced methods to create, view and manage shortcuts in the Document Manager.

18.1

SPA Enhancement: Overpayment in Summary Payment Applications SOV
Starting Unifier release 18.2, you can now overpay on line items of the Summary Payment Applications business process.

18.2

SPA Enhancement: Update Existing Previous Payment Calculations
You can override the existing hardcoded calculation on the Previous Amount (uuu_spa_prev_amt) field by selecting a custom data element -- for example, Amount This Period on the standard detail form of the Summary Payment Applications business process.

18.2

SPA Enhancement: Summary Row Totals
The Summary Row Totals enhancement applies to a Payment Applications business process with reference to a Contracts business process of Summary Payment Applications SOV type.

18.2

Web Services Integration: getSOV for Summary Payment Applications
You can now run the Webservice getSOV call to get SOV details of a contract of Summary Payment Applications SOV type.

18.2

Business Process: Redesign for Simple and Line Item – Phase 2
In the Attachments tab, Browse (My Computer in earlier versions), and Document Manager (Unifier Folders in earlier versions) are now available as Attach dropdown options.

18.2

Business Process: Linked Mails Tab
When maximized, the Linked Mails tab of a BP form is divided into left and right sections. The left section displays the grid, and the right displays the functions, content and attachments of the selected mail.

18.2

Business Process: Enhanced log UI in Query Based Tabs
Query based tabs in BP forms have a new look with some additional functionality.

18.2

Business Process: Calendar Enabled Objects
Calendar-enabled simple and line item business processes now support the new form UI.

18.2

Business Process: Master Vendor Business Process
The enhanced form UI has also been extended to the Master Vendors BP.

18.2

Business Process: Line Item Consolidation – Phase 2
The bottom line item section in line item business processes have been further enhanced.

18.2

Business Process Form: Picker and Manual Entry fields
In picker fields, click X to clear out the selected values.

18.2

Business Process: Picker UI Changes
Picker styles have been modified.

18.2

Business Process: Task Assignee Filter Enhancements
In workflow business processes, match the assignee filter results against AND, as well as OR, conditions.

18.2

Business Process: Filter Cc Assignees in a Workflow
Define filter conditions on Cc assignees in a workflow step regardless whether they are pre-assigned or user-select.

18.2

Document Manager: Enhanced Move Functionality
Move a file or folder in the Document Manager using the enhanced Move functionality. Use Move from the gear menu to move a single folder or file; use Move from the Actions menu to move multiple items. In previous versions, the move would be aborted if a file or folder with the same name existed in the destination folder, and the user is prompted to keep both files or revise with this enhancement.

18.2

System Jobs Enhancements: Company administrators can access system jobs data and modify the time zone to trigger jobs.

18.2

Unifier Mobile Application for iOS
Support for user-based locale and region formatting. The app is fully supported in the following twelve languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, and Spanish. - Users can now choose to work in the timezone of their device or the Unifier server when working from different locations. - Copy BP records and line items with or without attachments. - Support for split screen display on iPads. - Easily search the Documents hierarchy for files and folders. - When routing workflow records, expand and select users from the task assignee group as the next step assignees. - Support for conditional filtering of step assignees as per the workflow design.

18.2

Unifier Mobile Application for Android
Support for user-based locale and region formatting. The app is fully supported in the following twelve languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, and Spanish. - Users can now choose to work in the timezone of their device or the Unifier server when working from different locations. - Access, view, and save all Company and Project-level documents from the Documents tile on the Home screen. - Easily search the Documents hierarchy for files and folders. - When routing workflow records, expand and select users from the task assignee group as the next step assignees. - Support for conditional filtering of step assignees as per the workflow design. - Support for Text type BPs. - View the geo-location of projects and business process records.

18.2

Create custom financial periods to provide more flexibility in budget forecast and analysis.

18.3

Create folder, document, and log attribute forms for different projects to capture different metadata.

18.3

Create multiple log views in Administration mode for use in Document Manager.

18.3

Use the Preview gear menu option to preview files in different formats in the Attachments tab of redesigned business process forms.

18.3

At runtime, use the new Add to Group record property to group line items in categories.

18.3

New system-defined Portal landing page minimizes customization using HTML.

18.3

Unifier now supports the asynchronous upload of folders and files into Document Manager, allowing you to perform other operations in the application while the upload continues in the background.

18.3

Create workflow BP templates and records from templates using updated user interface and interactions.

18.3

Company administrators can see a combined license count and usage for company and partner users (labeled as standard users in terms of license) on the License Manager landing page.

18.3

The Summary Totals behavior now supports data elements uuu_spa_amt_tp (Amount this Period) and uuu_spa_qty_tp (Quantity this Period) when "Total the Cost Breakdown values to the line item" option is selected in uDesigner.

18.3

Right-side tabs in a BP form are enhanced: Attachments tab - Comments tab - Linked Records tab - Linked Mail tab

18.3

Portfolio Manager scenarios now display derived curves and monthly actuals from project cash flow.

18.3

View the new business process form design when creating records in the Document Manager.

18.3

Business process log and form UI enhancements are extended to support the Project/Shell Creation business process type.

18.3

Preferences available in the username list on the top navigation bar has been modernized.

18.3

Managing Personally Identifiable Information
Features have been added to Primavera Unifier that enable you to manage personally identifiable information (PII), including creating consent notices, auditing consent status, and controlling access to Unifier.

18.4

Rename a document in Document Manager (or Unpublished Documents), if the Name field (uuu_dm_node_name) in the document attribute form design has been changed from Read-Only to Editable (Required).

18.4

Restore a file in Document Manager to an older version along with comments and references associated with it.

18.4

In the Tasks and Business Process logs, drag and drop log views in the Manage Views dialog to quickly reorder them, instead of using the Move Up/Move Down gear menu options.

18.4

Dock the floating Search dialog to the right or the bottom of the log page using the toggle Dock Right/Dock Bottom icon.

18.4

View a graphical representation of the relationships of the base record with reference and linked records in the Referenced Records tab of a business process record.

18.4

CSV and Webservices now support the grouping of line items.

18.4

Cost business processes of sub-type, Line Item with CBS codes, and classification, Generic, and Transfer display the enhanced form interface.

18.4

View the enhanced interface in CBS Picker, Transaction Currency Picker, Work Package Picker, BPO Picker, and BPO Line Item Picker in cost business processes.

18.4

Use the toggle Collapse / Expand All Groups icon to collapse or expand line item groups in a business process form’s detail tab.

18.4

The support for financial periods is extended to Cash Flow by CBS, Summary CBS, and Commitment detail levels.

18.4

Introducing Earned Value Analysis module using schedule data, activities, and rates imported from P6 via Gateway to calculate earned value and related measures for a project – planned value, actual cost, variances, performance indices, and at completion values.

18.5

On the License Manager landing page, view an Earned Value Management block with gauge charts indicating license terms, current usage, and overage.

18.5

Create and run user-defined reports using permission-based data sources.

18.5

The referencing BP data-picker on the destination record displays a hyperlink pointing to the source record when a business process record is auto-created by way of a BP Creator, in the source record.

18.5

Project Mailbox has been converted to a parent node with Inbox as a child node. Additional email addresses you provide are available as folders below the default Inbox.

18.5

Schedule publishing of Unifier data to OBIEE is now every 4, 6, 8, or 12 hours.

18.5

Access to Consent Notice child nodes – User Consent and Bidder Consent – is now controlled by permissions. Modify and View permissions are available for each node in Access Control and other permission-related modules and templates.

18.5

Set permissions to control who can see company-wide business process data in Primavera Analytics. In Unifier, additional User Mode Access permissions are added to Company Workspace/Non-navigational Nodes/Analytics: View All Records; View All Company Records; and View All Shell Records.

18.5

In the Document Manager node, the redesigned Unpublished Documents folder displays similar layout and behavior as the Documents folder. You can expand or collapse all folders in Document Manager or all sub-folders at the same time.

18.5

Update attributes for already-published documents when the corresponding matching fields are updated in the related business process record. Updates occur when a record moves through the workflow, or when Submit is clicked in a non-workflow business process record based on design.

18.5

The Manage Views dialog in the Documents log has been enhanced like Tasks and business process logs. Drag and drop views to quickly reorder them, or move them to the Visible Views, Hidden Views, or Views Marked for Deletion section.

18.5

View the enhanced interface in Fund Detail, SOV Picker, Commit Picker, and Commit Line Item Picker in cost business processes.

18.5

Business process form redesign has been extended to the following additional cost business process types: Line Items with Fund Code: Generic, Transfer - Line Items with both CBS and Fund Codes: Generic, Transfer - Line Items with CBS Code:  Base Commit (SOV type - General Spends), Change Commit (SOV type - General Spends), General Spends

18.5

In the Reference Records tab of a business process record, you can specify the number of referenced records to be displayed per node.

18.5

Company Workspace landing page has been enhanced by including hyperlinks for company information and enabling access to the company-level business process, tasks, and notification logs.

18.6

Unifier informs users about the use of session cookies in the application. The notification is displayed in a banner on the top of the Unifier page.

18.6

Upload (or drag-and-drop) a profile picture in the General tab of the User Preferences dialog to personalize the top navigation bar and user profile dialog.

18.6

You can add or modify partner users by using a CSV file. You can Export Structure to download the template as CSV. You can import the modified structure template, similar to importing company users.

18.6

Auto-fill Percentage Complete in Summary Payment Applications.

18.6

The Condition list in the Add Query Condition dialog provides the options of Exists or Does not exist to enable you to configure the query conditions for string attributes of a data picker.

18.6

User restrictions for viewing, or editing, cost sheet columns have been reduced.

18.6

The cost sheet rules to include the pending positive values (in the limit expression and the pending negative values in the data expression calculations of the Rules engine have been reduced.

18.6

Earned Value Management Enhancements
Master Rate Sheet: During synchronization, the Master Rate Sheet now captures Resource type (Material, Labor, Non-Labor, etc.) from P6.
Activity Sheet: On the Actions Menu of the Activity Sheet, use Assign CBS to assign a cost code to multiple activities (and their assignments).
Activity Picker: Use the Activity Picker in BP forms to select activities from multiple P6 projects in the Activity Sheet.
Performance Percentage Completion Sheet: Update data dates and corresponding percent complete values in the Performance Percentage Complete Sheet.

18.6

Several company-level cost business processes display the redesigned user interface.

18.6

Report on user type (uuu_user_type) via User-Defined Reports (UDR) and System Reports.

18.6

Generic Cost Attributes Picker, Commitment Summary Line Item Picker, Account Code Picker, and Seasonal Dates Picker are now equipped with the modernized user interface, consistent with other pickers.

18.6

Tasks, Drafts, Notifications, and all Mailbox logs have been provided with the enhanced Manage Views dialog.

18.6

The Attachments tab in a redesigned business process form has been further enhanced when previewing or reviewing an attachment.

18.6

Unifier 18.4 iOS Mobile App
-Consent notices and cookies notification to improve data privacy.
-Honoring of User Type when accessed via app.
-Usability improvements to support scanning bar codes in low light conditions and easier configuration of BP tiles.

18.4

Integration user type has been introduced to execute REST integration services for modules.

18.7

Review documents in the Documents log in the same way as in business process logs.

18.7

Unifier includes the uploaded profile picture before the user name in the User Picker and in the Users section of the User and Group Picker.

18.7

Type Ahead feature has been introduced in pickers.

18.7

The Unifier user interface (the top navigation) has been rearranged.

18.7

The View User Profile dialog, accessed from a user picker with multiple users, has been enhanced.

18.7

Earned Value Management
-Define rates in resource currency.
-Differentiate between custom data imported by way of CSV file and data integrated from P6 in the Performance Percentage Completion sheet.
-Earned Value Analysis data structure tables are now available in the ER Views node in the Company Workspace Admin mode.

18.7

Redesign of business process forms has been extended to:
-Document type Without Folder Structure business process
-Request for Bid (RFB) type business process

18.7

When adding comments in the record or line items in tabs, Unifier displays an alert for the unsaved changes.

18.7

In the business process log, the Edit Permissions and Transfer Ownership dialogs have been enhanced.

18.7

In the Document Manager Log, tabs have been refined.

18.7

The Manage Views dialog, in all Unifier, has been revamped to improve user interaction.

18.7

In a business process record, you can link mail records from different folders of Project Mailbox.

18.7

When you run a user-defined report (UDR) using Document Manager Data Sources, the data retrieved is based on your permissions.

18.7

When configured, both summary and costed lines of a Summary Payment Applications record are auto-populated from corresponding fields of the source Base Commits.

18.7

Cloud administrators can inform Unifier end-users about scheduled maintenance and outages for Unifier servers hosted in the cloud.

18.7

Starting with Unifier 18.8, Oracle Web Services Manager (OWSM) is no longer supported.

18.8

The shell landing page (My Dashboard) has a new look with improved usability. The Summary tab displays three standard tiles – Tasks, Notifications, and Mail with items requiring your attention, and three standard blocks – Image, Details, and Links.

18.8

Configuration Installation Files will be replaced with Configuration Packages, and the released Base Configuration Packages will be available on My Oracle Support:
- Project Controls
- Facilities and Asset Management
- Combined Package (Project Controls and Facilities and Asset Management)
Note: This setup does not apply to existing customers.

18.8

Business process forms of the following types have redesigned UI.
- Document with Folder Structure
- Lease log
- Preventive Maintenance

18.8

Change User Defined Report (UDR) owner: The owners and users who have full access permission can now change the UDR owner’s and user’s name.

18.8

Document Manager enhancements
- Folder and Document Properties
- Document Logs (Standard View)
- Folder and Document Attributes

18.8

Earned Value enhancements
- Earned Value Analysis log has new toolbar options
- Activity Sheet

18.8

Space Manager has a modernized user interface.

18.8

Exchange Rates with effective dates in the past are now available.

18.8

Schedule Manager: Disable automatic re-scheduling within Unifier Schedule and integrate Activities (with their dependencies) with the same schedule that exists in P6 and MPP. Also, you can manually schedule activities in Unifier Schedule Sheet.

18.8

Oracle Primavera Unifier 18.8.3.0 Released

IMPORTANT UPDATE - Oracle Primavera Unifier 18.8.3.0 has been released, this is a patch release and has to following fixes.

Version 18.8.3.0

  • 28809645 COMPONENT LIST ERROR CHECK MESSAGE PROVIDES NO GUIDANCE ON WHAT ISSUE IS
  • 28804911 GATEWAY API URL UNABLE TO BE SAVED SINCE IT'S TOO LONG
  • 28803399 UNABLE TO ADD DECIMAL AMOUNT TO LINE ITEM IN PAY APP
  • 28768137 GROUP NAME COLUMN VALUES NOT SHOWN IN REPORT WHEN PARTNER USERS USE IT
  • 28765287 WHEN REVISING LINE ITEM DOCUMENT, TITLE, REVISION AND ISSUE DATE NOT UPDATED
  • 28751666 LOGIN USER IN STANDARD VIEW DOES NOT SHOW THE VALUE.
  • 28741989 BP DETAIL FORM DOESN'T AUTOPOPULATE AS EXPECTED WITH NEW UI ENABLED
  • 28728003 LOCATION ID NOT SHOWING UP EXCEPT WITH BULK EDIT
  • 28709267 EARNED VALUE AND SCHEDULE SHEET NOT DISPLAYING IN GRAPH
  • 28686647 LOCKED OUT TASK
  • 28685834 WHEN DELETING ATTACHMENT USING EMAIL WITH NEW UI, GENERIC SYSTEM ERROR OCCURS
  • 28681248 INT_LIST_USERS REQUIRES NULL SOURCE DESIGN
  • 28676006 EARN VALUE ANALYSIS DATA IS NOT MATCHING IN BACKEND TABLE AND FRONT END DISPLAY.
  • 28674805 AFTER 18.8.0.2, UNABLE TO CHANGE NAME OF A SITE WHEN THE NEW UI
  • 28672662 CUSTOM REPORTS DEFAULT VALUE IN PARAMETER TAB, DUPLICATES IN SUBSEQUENT QUERY
  • 28655090 NEW UI SITE FILTER NOT DISPLAYING CORRECT VALUES
  • 28650125 TEXT IN FUND ASSIGNMENT OVERLAPPING/LAST ROW CUT OF
  • 28641002 PUBLISHED DE UUU_SPA_PER_COMP REMOVED AND CANNOT BE ADDED BACK TO FORMS
  • 28640436 SPELLING INSTANTIATES 'CHECKING TEXT' POP-UP BUT DOES NOT PROCESS.
  • 28633921 HIDDEN PARAMETER IN BI REPORT IS PARTIALLY VISIBLE WHEN OPENED IN UNIFIER
  • 28599487 POST UPGRADE V18 - UNABLE TO CREATE AGREEMENT RECORDS IN NEW UI
  • 28570157 CONSOLIDATED LINE ITEMS ARE NOT BEING RELEASED FROM A DRAFT RECORD
  • 28564251 FILES IN DM DO NOT CONTAIN CORRECT FILE PATH IN PROPERTIES WINDOW
  • 28480838 BP LINE ITEMS FILTER IS NOT FUNCTIONING PROPERLY
  • 28447550 DDS NOT WORKING AS EXPECTED PER CONFIGURATION.
  • 28283100 JAPANESE IS GARBLED WHEN REVIEW A TEXT FILE ATTACHED TO A RECORD
  • 28000838 ACCESS DENIED HTTP 403 ERROR DOWNLOADING CUSTOM PRINT TEMPLATE
  • 27988949 ODD RESULTS - LINE ITEM UPDATES TO 'DATA PICKER' TYPE FIELDS.
  • 27856426 FOLDER SORT BY NAME DOES NOT WORK IN DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT UNDER STANDARD VIEW

Unifier Mobile Browser (/m) has been deprecated.

18.1

Unifier’s Home Landing Page has been revamped with interactive tiles and charts, and statistical information about tasks.

18.1

Business Process enhancements: Creation of new records: Upper Form - Creation of new records: Line Items - Ability to toggle between old and new business process form views. This enhancement applies to the Development and Testing environments, only.

18.1

Enhanced Single Record Business Process Log.

18.1

Configure the runtime list of default business process log views per business process.

18.1

WBS label is changed to CBS across Unifier.

18.1

uMail is renamed to Mailbox in all locations.

18.1

The Notifications log is redesigned similar to the Tasks log.

18.1

All login screens of the Unifier application have been modified with a standard look and feel.

18.1

View replies from external users in the Project Mailbox.

18.1

Choose to display project/shell name or number in the navigation tabs.

18.1

Customize the Total row of the grid in Payment Applications and Summary Payment Applications to accurately reflect its values at runtime.

18.1

Synchronizations are available in Unifier Gateway node to import P6 activities into Unifier Shell.

18.1

Unifier Analytics now supports cost code attributes, tab ID, and pickers.

18.1

The display of monthly actuals in Portfolio Manager has been extended to derived curves, multiple forecast curves, linked/unlinked projects, and yearly plans.

18.1

Configure Portfolio Manager to send notifications to users and groups when a scenario is shared or approved.

18.1

Keep the current session active in Unifier.

18.1

Document Management (DM) enhancements: Availability of advanced search functionality. - Ability to add frequently visited documents and folders to Favorites - Ability to use templates to update DM changes in shells of the same type. - The interface of the Documents template of a shell template has been modified for better usability. - Ability to sort columns in the log regardless of the number of pages. - Ability to switch between grid and tile view of the log layout. - Ability to use the enhanced methods to create, view and manage shortcuts in the Document Manager.

18.1

SPA Enhancement: Overpayment in Summary Payment Applications SOV
Starting Unifier release 18.2, you can now overpay on line items of the Summary Payment Applications business process.

18.2

SPA Enhancement: Update Existing Previous Payment Calculations
You can override the existing hardcoded calculation on the Previous Amount (uuu_spa_prev_amt) field by selecting a custom data element -- for example, Amount This Period on the standard detail form of the Summary Payment Applications business process.

18.2

SPA Enhancement: Summary Row Totals
The Summary Row Totals enhancement applies to a Payment Applications business process with reference to a Contracts business process of Summary Payment Applications SOV type.

18.2

Web Services Integration: getSOV for Summary Payment Applications
You can now run the Webservice getSOV call to get SOV details of a contract of Summary Payment Applications SOV type.

18.2

Business Process: Redesign for Simple and Line Item – Phase 2
In the Attachments tab, Browse (My Computer in earlier versions), and Document Manager (Unifier Folders in earlier versions) are now available as Attach dropdown options.

18.2

Business Process: Linked Mails Tab
When maximized, the Linked Mails tab of a BP form is divided into left and right sections. The left section displays the grid, and the right displays the functions, content and attachments of the selected mail.

18.2

Business Process: Enhanced log UI in Query Based Tabs
Query based tabs in BP forms have a new look with some additional functionality.

18.2

Business Process: Calendar Enabled Objects
Calendar-enabled simple and line item business processes now support the new form UI.

18.2

Business Process: Master Vendor Business Process
The enhanced form UI has also been extended to the Master Vendors BP.

18.2

Business Process: Line Item Consolidation – Phase 2
The bottom line item section in line item business processes have been further enhanced.

18.2

Business Process Form: Picker and Manual Entry fields
In picker fields, click X to clear out the selected values.

18.2

Business Process: Picker UI Changes
Picker styles have been modified.

18.2

Business Process: Task Assignee Filter Enhancements
In workflow business processes, match the assignee filter results against AND, as well as OR, conditions.

18.2

Business Process: Filter Cc Assignees in a Workflow
Define filter conditions on Cc assignees in a workflow step regardless whether they are pre-assigned or user-select.

18.2

Document Manager: Enhanced Move Functionality
Move a file or folder in the Document Manager using the enhanced Move functionality. Use Move from the gear menu to move a single folder or file; use Move from the Actions menu to move multiple items. In previous versions, the move would be aborted if a file or folder with the same name existed in the destination folder, and the user is prompted to keep both files or revise with this enhancement.

18.2

System Jobs Enhancements: Company administrators can access system jobs data and modify the time zone to trigger jobs.

18.2

Unifier Mobile Application for iOS
Support for user-based locale and region formatting. The app is fully supported in the following twelve languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, and Spanish. - Users can now choose to work in the timezone of their device or the Unifier server when working from different locations. - Copy BP records and line items with or without attachments. - Support for split screen display on iPads. - Easily search the Documents hierarchy for files and folders. - When routing workflow records, expand and select users from the task assignee group as the next step assignees. - Support for conditional filtering of step assignees as per the workflow design.

18.2

Unifier Mobile Application for Android
Support for user-based locale and region formatting. The app is fully supported in the following twelve languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, and Spanish. - Users can now choose to work in the timezone of their device or the Unifier server when working from different locations. - Access, view, and save all Company and Project-level documents from the Documents tile on the Home screen. - Easily search the Documents hierarchy for files and folders. - When routing workflow records, expand and select users from the task assignee group as the next step assignees. - Support for conditional filtering of step assignees as per the workflow design. - Support for Text type BPs. - View the geo-location of projects and business process records.

18.2

Create custom financial periods to provide more flexibility in budget forecast and analysis.

18.3

Create folder, document, and log attribute forms for different projects to capture different metadata.

18.3

Create multiple log views in Administration mode for use in Document Manager.

18.3

Use the Preview gear menu option to preview files in different formats in the Attachments tab of redesigned business process forms.

18.3

At runtime, use the new Add to Group record property to group line items in categories.

18.3

New system-defined Portal landing page minimizes customization using HTML.

18.3

Unifier now supports the asynchronous upload of folders and files into Document Manager, allowing you to perform other operations in the application while the upload continues in the background.

18.3

Create workflow BP templates and records from templates using updated user interface and interactions.

18.3

Company administrators can see a combined license count and usage for company and partner users (labeled as standard users in terms of license) on the License Manager landing page.

18.3

The Summary Totals behavior now supports data elements uuu_spa_amt_tp (Amount this Period) and uuu_spa_qty_tp (Quantity this Period) when "Total the Cost Breakdown values to the line item" option is selected in uDesigner.

18.3

Right-side tabs in a BP form are enhanced: Attachments tab - Comments tab - Linked Records tab - Linked Mail tab

18.3

Portfolio Manager scenarios now display derived curves and monthly actuals from project cash flow.

18.3

View the new business process form design when creating records in the Document Manager.

18.3

Business process log and form UI enhancements are extended to support the Project/Shell Creation business process type.

18.3

Preferences available in the username list on the top navigation bar has been modernized.

18.3

Managing Personally Identifiable Information
Features have been added to Primavera Unifier that enable you to manage personally identifiable information (PII), including creating consent notices, auditing consent status, and controlling access to Unifier.

18.4

Rename a document in Document Manager (or Unpublished Documents), if the Name field (uuu_dm_node_name) in the document attribute form design has been changed from Read-Only to Editable (Required).

18.4

Restore a file in Document Manager to an older version along with comments and references associated with it.

18.4

In the Tasks and Business Process logs, drag and drop log views in the Manage Views dialog to quickly reorder them, instead of using the Move Up/Move Down gear menu options.

18.4

Dock the floating Search dialog to the right or the bottom of the log page using the toggle Dock Right/Dock Bottom icon.

18.4

View a graphical representation of the relationships of the base record with reference and linked records in the Referenced Records tab of a business process record.

18.4

CSV and Webservices now support the grouping of line items.

18.4

Cost business processes of sub-type, Line Item with CBS codes, and classification, Generic, and Transfer display the enhanced form interface.

18.4

View the enhanced interface in CBS Picker, Transaction Currency Picker, Work Package Picker, BPO Picker, and BPO Line Item Picker in cost business processes.

18.4

Use the toggle Collapse / Expand All Groups icon to collapse or expand line item groups in a business process form’s detail tab.

18.4

The support for financial periods is extended to Cash Flow by CBS, Summary CBS, and Commitment detail levels.

18.4

Introducing Earned Value Analysis module using schedule data, activities, and rates imported from P6 via Gateway to calculate earned value and related measures for a project – planned value, actual cost, variances, performance indices, and at completion values.

18.5

On the License Manager landing page, view an Earned Value Management block with gauge charts indicating license terms, current usage, and overage.

18.5

Create and run user-defined reports using permission-based data sources.

18.5

The referencing BP data-picker on the destination record displays a hyperlink pointing to the source record when a business process record is auto-created by way of a BP Creator, in the source record.

18.5

Project Mailbox has been converted to a parent node with Inbox as a child node. Additional email addresses you provide are available as folders below the default Inbox.

18.5

Schedule publishing of Unifier data to OBIEE is now every 4, 6, 8, or 12 hours.

18.5

Access to Consent Notice child nodes – User Consent and Bidder Consent – is now controlled by permissions. Modify and View permissions are available for each node in Access Control and other permission-related modules and templates.

18.5

Set permissions to control who can see company-wide business process data in Primavera Analytics. In Unifier, additional User Mode Access permissions are added to Company Workspace/Non-navigational Nodes/Analytics: View All Records; View All Company Records; and View All Shell Records.

18.5

In the Document Manager node, the redesigned Unpublished Documents folder displays similar layout and behavior as the Documents folder. You can expand or collapse all folders in Document Manager or all sub-folders at the same time.

18.5

Update attributes for already-published documents when the corresponding matching fields are updated in the related business process record. Updates occur when a record moves through the workflow, or when Submit is clicked in a non-workflow business process record based on design.

18.5

The Manage Views dialog in the Documents log has been enhanced like Tasks and business process logs. Drag and drop views to quickly reorder them, or move them to the Visible Views, Hidden Views, or Views Marked for Deletion section.

18.5

View the enhanced interface in Fund Detail, SOV Picker, Commit Picker, and Commit Line Item Picker in cost business processes.

18.5

Business process form redesign has been extended to the following additional cost business process types: Line Items with Fund Code: Generic, Transfer - Line Items with both CBS and Fund Codes: Generic, Transfer - Line Items with CBS Code:  Base Commit (SOV type - General Spends), Change Commit (SOV type - General Spends), General Spends

18.5

In the Reference Records tab of a business process record, you can specify the number of referenced records to be displayed per node.

18.5

Company Workspace landing page has been enhanced by including hyperlinks for company information and enabling access to the company-level business process, tasks, and notification logs.

18.6

Unifier informs users about the use of session cookies in the application. The notification is displayed in a banner on the top of the Unifier page.

18.6

Upload (or drag-and-drop) a profile picture in the General tab of the User Preferences dialog to personalize the top navigation bar and user profile dialog.

18.6

You can add or modify partner users by using a CSV file. You can Export Structure to download the template as CSV. You can import the modified structure template, similar to importing company users.

18.6

Auto-fill Percentage Complete in Summary Payment Applications.

18.6

The Condition list in the Add Query Condition dialog provides the options of Exists or Does not exist to enable you to configure the query conditions for string attributes of a data picker.

18.6

User restrictions for viewing, or editing, cost sheet columns have been reduced.

18.6

The cost sheet rules to include the pending positive values (in the limit expression and the pending negative values in the data expression calculations of the Rules engine have been reduced.

18.6

Earned Value Management Enhancements
Master Rate Sheet: During synchronization, the Master Rate Sheet now captures Resource type (Material, Labor, Non-Labor, etc.) from P6.
Activity Sheet: On the Actions Menu of the Activity Sheet, use Assign CBS to assign a cost code to multiple activities (and their assignments).
Activity Picker: Use the Activity Picker in BP forms to select activities from multiple P6 projects in the Activity Sheet.
Performance Percentage Completion Sheet: Update data dates and corresponding percent complete values in the Performance Percentage Complete Sheet.

18.6

Several company-level cost business processes display the redesigned user interface.

18.6

Report on user type (uuu_user_type) via User-Defined Reports (UDR) and System Reports.

18.6

Generic Cost Attributes Picker, Commitment Summary Line Item Picker, Account Code Picker, and Seasonal Dates Picker are now equipped with the modernized user interface, consistent with other pickers.

18.6

Tasks, Drafts, Notifications, and all Mailbox logs have been provided with the enhanced Manage Views dialog.

18.6

The Attachments tab in a redesigned business process form has been further enhanced when previewing or reviewing an attachment.

18.6

Unifier 18.4 iOS Mobile App
-Consent notices and cookies notification to improve data privacy.
-Honoring of User Type when accessed via app.
-Usability improvements to support scanning bar codes in low light conditions and easier configuration of BP tiles.

18.4

Integration user type has been introduced to execute REST integration services for modules.

18.7

Review documents in the Documents log in the same way as in business process logs.

18.7

Unifier includes the uploaded profile picture before the user name in the User Picker and in the Users section of the User and Group Picker.

18.7

Type Ahead feature has been introduced in pickers.

18.7

The Unifier user interface (the top navigation) has been rearranged.

18.7

The View User Profile dialog, accessed from a user picker with multiple users, has been enhanced.

18.7

Earned Value Management
-Define rates in resource currency.
-Differentiate between custom data imported by way of CSV file and data integrated from P6 in the Performance Percentage Completion sheet.
-Earned Value Analysis data structure tables are now available in the ER Views node in the Company Workspace Admin mode.

18.7

Redesign of business process forms has been extended to:
-Document type Without Folder Structure business process
-Request for Bid (RFB) type business process

18.7

When adding comments in the record or line items in tabs, Unifier displays an alert for the unsaved changes.

18.7

In the business process log, the Edit Permissions and Transfer Ownership dialogs have been enhanced.

18.7

In the Document Manager Log, tabs have been refined.

18.7

The Manage Views dialog, in all Unifier, has been revamped to improve user interaction.

18.7

In a business process record, you can link mail records from different folders of Project Mailbox.

18.7

When you run a user-defined report (UDR) using Document Manager Data Sources, the data retrieved is based on your permissions.

18.7

When configured, both summary and costed lines of a Summary Payment Applications record are auto-populated from corresponding fields of the source Base Commits.

18.7

Cloud administrators can inform Unifier end-users about scheduled maintenance and outages for Unifier servers hosted in the cloud.

18.7

Starting with Unifier 18.8, Oracle Web Services Manager (OWSM) is no longer supported.

18.8

The shell landing page (My Dashboard) has a new look with improved usability. The Summary tab displays three standard tiles – Tasks, Notifications, and Mail with items requiring your attention, and three standard blocks – Image, Details, and Links.

18.8

Configuration Installation Files will be replaced with Configuration Packages, and the released Base Configuration Packages will be available on My Oracle Support:
- Project Controls
- Facilities and Asset Management
- Combined Package (Project Controls and Facilities and Asset Management)
Note: This setup does not apply to existing customers.

18.8

Business process forms of the following types have redesigned UI.
- Document with Folder Structure
- Lease log
- Preventive Maintenance

18.8

Change User Defined Report (UDR) owner: The owners and users who have full access permission can now change the UDR owner’s and user’s name.

18.8

Document Manager enhancements
- Folder and Document Properties
- Document Logs (Standard View)
- Folder and Document Attributes

18.8

Earned Value enhancements
- Earned Value Analysis log has new toolbar options
- Activity Sheet

18.8

Space Manager has a modernized user interface.

18.8

Exchange Rates with effective dates in the past are now available.

18.8

Schedule Manager: Disable automatic re-scheduling within Unifier Schedule and integrate Activities (with their dependencies) with the same schedule that exists in P6 and MPP. Also, you can manually schedule activities in Unifier Schedule Sheet.

18.8

Oracle Primavera Unifier 18.8.4.0 Released

IMPORTANT UPDATE - Oracle Primavera Unifier 18.8.4.0 has been released, this is a patch release and has to following fixes.

Version 18.8.4.0

  • 28938522 CASH FLOW CURRENT COST NOT UPDATED FROM P6 INSTEAD NEW LINE ADDED
  • 28898541 FROM DATE AND TO DATE ARE BLANK IN CASH FLOW
  • 28861888 DUPLICATE CONFIGURABLE MODULE SHEETS IN NEW SHELL CREATED FROM TEMPLATE
  • 28856678 DDS BEHAVIOR SET VALUES CANNOT BE REMOVED
  • 28852162 INTERNATIONALIZATION DOES NOT WORK IN PRINT PREVIEW
  • 28806273 UNABLE TO SEE DOCUMENT MANAGER FOLDER STRUCTURE AND CREATE BUTTON SUB-ITEMS IN STANDARD VIEW
  • 28788575 CONTENT SEARCH IN DOCUMENT MANAGER
  • 28787679 SHELL DASHBOARD SHOWS PROJECT ID IN COST FIELDS IN STANDARD VIEW
  • 28763133 TEMPLATE DROPDOWN NOT RETAINING SELECTION WHEN CLICKING OUT OF FIELD.
  • 28756031 COMPONENT LIST DOESN'T DISPLAY THE NUMBER UDR'S THAT EXIST IN THE SHELL
  • 28664177 ISSUE WITH REVIEW FUNCTIONNALITY ON BP FORM
  • 28496048 LINE ITEM CONSOLIDATION
  • 28354327 CUSTOM REPORTS AND DATA VIEWS RETURNING ERRONEOUS DATES
  • 28349834 ERROR WITH DYNAMIC DATASET AFTER SENDING IN CLASSIC VIEW

Unifier Mobile Browser (/m) has been deprecated.

18.1

Unifier’s Home Landing Page has been revamped with interactive tiles and charts, and statistical information about tasks.

18.1

Business Process enhancements: Creation of new records: Upper Form - Creation of new records: Line Items - Ability to toggle between old and new business process form views. This enhancement applies to the Development and Testing environments, only.

18.1

Enhanced Single Record Business Process Log.

18.1

Configure the runtime list of default business process log views per business process.

18.1

WBS label is changed to CBS across Unifier.

18.1

uMail is renamed to Mailbox in all locations.

18.1

The Notifications log is redesigned similar to the Tasks log.

18.1

All login screens of the Unifier application have been modified with a standard look and feel.

18.1

View replies from external users in the Project Mailbox.

18.1

Choose to display project/shell name or number in the navigation tabs.

18.1

Customize the Total row of the grid in Payment Applications and Summary Payment Applications to accurately reflect its values at runtime.

18.1

Synchronizations are available in Unifier Gateway node to import P6 activities into Unifier Shell.

18.1

Unifier Analytics now supports cost code attributes, tab ID, and pickers.

18.1

The display of monthly actuals in Portfolio Manager has been extended to derived curves, multiple forecast curves, linked/unlinked projects, and yearly plans.

18.1

Configure Portfolio Manager to send notifications to users and groups when a scenario is shared or approved.

18.1

Keep the current session active in Unifier.

18.1

Document Management (DM) enhancements: Availability of advanced search functionality. - Ability to add frequently visited documents and folders to Favorites - Ability to use templates to update DM changes in shells of the same type. - The interface of the Documents template of a shell template has been modified for better usability. - Ability to sort columns in the log regardless of the number of pages. - Ability to switch between grid and tile view of the log layout. - Ability to use the enhanced methods to create, view and manage shortcuts in the Document Manager.

18.1

SPA Enhancement: Overpayment in Summary Payment Applications SOV
Starting Unifier release 18.2, you can now overpay on line items of the Summary Payment Applications business process.

18.2

SPA Enhancement: Update Existing Previous Payment Calculations
You can override the existing hardcoded calculation on the Previous Amount (uuu_spa_prev_amt) field by selecting a custom data element -- for example, Amount This Period on the standard detail form of the Summary Payment Applications business process.

18.2

SPA Enhancement: Summary Row Totals
The Summary Row Totals enhancement applies to a Payment Applications business process with reference to a Contracts business process of Summary Payment Applications SOV type.

18.2

Web Services Integration: getSOV for Summary Payment Applications
You can now run the Webservice getSOV call to get SOV details of a contract of Summary Payment Applications SOV type.

18.2

Business Process: Redesign for Simple and Line Item – Phase 2
In the Attachments tab, Browse (My Computer in earlier versions), and Document Manager (Unifier Folders in earlier versions) are now available as Attach dropdown options.

18.2

Business Process: Linked Mails Tab
When maximized, the Linked Mails tab of a BP form is divided into left and right sections. The left section displays the grid, and the right displays the functions, content and attachments of the selected mail.

18.2

Business Process: Enhanced log UI in Query Based Tabs
Query based tabs in BP forms have a new look with some additional functionality.

18.2

Business Process: Calendar Enabled Objects
Calendar-enabled simple and line item business processes now support the new form UI.

18.2

Business Process: Master Vendor Business Process
The enhanced form UI has also been extended to the Master Vendors BP.

18.2

Business Process: Line Item Consolidation – Phase 2
The bottom line item section in line item business processes have been further enhanced.

18.2

Business Process Form: Picker and Manual Entry fields
In picker fields, click X to clear out the selected values.

18.2

Business Process: Picker UI Changes
Picker styles have been modified.

18.2

Business Process: Task Assignee Filter Enhancements
In workflow business processes, match the assignee filter results against AND, as well as OR, conditions.

18.2

Business Process: Filter Cc Assignees in a Workflow
Define filter conditions on Cc assignees in a workflow step regardless whether they are pre-assigned or user-select.

18.2

Document Manager: Enhanced Move Functionality
Move a file or folder in the Document Manager using the enhanced Move functionality. Use Move from the gear menu to move a single folder or file; use Move from the Actions menu to move multiple items. In previous versions, the move would be aborted if a file or folder with the same name existed in the destination folder, and the user is prompted to keep both files or revise with this enhancement.

18.2

System Jobs Enhancements: Company administrators can access system jobs data and modify the time zone to trigger jobs.

18.2

Unifier Mobile Application for iOS
Support for user-based locale and region formatting. The app is fully supported in the following twelve languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, and Spanish. - Users can now choose to work in the timezone of their device or the Unifier server when working from different locations. - Copy BP records and line items with or without attachments. - Support for split screen display on iPads. - Easily search the Documents hierarchy for files and folders. - When routing workflow records, expand and select users from the task assignee group as the next step assignees. - Support for conditional filtering of step assignees as per the workflow design.

18.2

Unifier Mobile Application for Android
Support for user-based locale and region formatting. The app is fully supported in the following twelve languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, and Spanish. - Users can now choose to work in the timezone of their device or the Unifier server when working from different locations. - Access, view, and save all Company and Project-level documents from the Documents tile on the Home screen. - Easily search the Documents hierarchy for files and folders. - When routing workflow records, expand and select users from the task assignee group as the next step assignees. - Support for conditional filtering of step assignees as per the workflow design. - Support for Text type BPs. - View the geo-location of projects and business process records.

18.2

Create custom financial periods to provide more flexibility in budget forecast and analysis.

18.3

Create folder, document, and log attribute forms for different projects to capture different metadata.

18.3

Create multiple log views in Administration mode for use in Document Manager.

18.3

Use the Preview gear menu option to preview files in different formats in the Attachments tab of redesigned business process forms.

18.3

At runtime, use the new Add to Group record property to group line items in categories.

18.3

New system-defined Portal landing page minimizes customization using HTML.

18.3

Unifier now supports the asynchronous upload of folders and files into Document Manager, allowing you to perform other operations in the application while the upload continues in the background.

18.3

Create workflow BP templates and records from templates using updated user interface and interactions.

18.3

Company administrators can see a combined license count and usage for company and partner users (labeled as standard users in terms of license) on the License Manager landing page.

18.3

The Summary Totals behavior now supports data elements uuu_spa_amt_tp (Amount this Period) and uuu_spa_qty_tp (Quantity this Period) when "Total the Cost Breakdown values to the line item" option is selected in uDesigner.

18.3

Right-side tabs in a BP form are enhanced: Attachments tab - Comments tab - Linked Records tab - Linked Mail tab

18.3

Portfolio Manager scenarios now display derived curves and monthly actuals from project cash flow.

18.3

View the new business process form design when creating records in the Document Manager.

18.3

Business process log and form UI enhancements are extended to support the Project/Shell Creation business process type.

18.3

Preferences available in the username list on the top navigation bar has been modernized.

18.3

Managing Personally Identifiable Information
Features have been added to Primavera Unifier that enable you to manage personally identifiable information (PII), including creating consent notices, auditing consent status, and controlling access to Unifier.

18.4

Rename a document in Document Manager (or Unpublished Documents), if the Name field (uuu_dm_node_name) in the document attribute form design has been changed from Read-Only to Editable (Required).

18.4

Restore a file in Document Manager to an older version along with comments and references associated with it.

18.4

In the Tasks and Business Process logs, drag and drop log views in the Manage Views dialog to quickly reorder them, instead of using the Move Up/Move Down gear menu options.

18.4

Dock the floating Search dialog to the right or the bottom of the log page using the toggle Dock Right/Dock Bottom icon.

18.4

View a graphical representation of the relationships of the base record with reference and linked records in the Referenced Records tab of a business process record.

18.4

CSV and Webservices now support the grouping of line items.

18.4

Cost business processes of sub-type, Line Item with CBS codes, and classification, Generic, and Transfer display the enhanced form interface.

18.4

View the enhanced interface in CBS Picker, Transaction Currency Picker, Work Package Picker, BPO Picker, and BPO Line Item Picker in cost business processes.

18.4

Use the toggle Collapse / Expand All Groups icon to collapse or expand line item groups in a business process form’s detail tab.

18.4

The support for financial periods is extended to Cash Flow by CBS, Summary CBS, and Commitment detail levels.

18.4

Introducing Earned Value Analysis module using schedule data, activities, and rates imported from P6 via Gateway to calculate earned value and related measures for a project – planned value, actual cost, variances, performance indices, and at completion values.

18.5

On the License Manager landing page, view an Earned Value Management block with gauge charts indicating license terms, current usage, and overage.

18.5

Create and run user-defined reports using permission-based data sources.

18.5

The referencing BP data-picker on the destination record displays a hyperlink pointing to the source record when a business process record is auto-created by way of a BP Creator, in the source record.

18.5

Project Mailbox has been converted to a parent node with Inbox as a child node. Additional email addresses you provide are available as folders below the default Inbox.

18.5

Schedule publishing of Unifier data to OBIEE is now every 4, 6, 8, or 12 hours.

18.5

Access to Consent Notice child nodes – User Consent and Bidder Consent – is now controlled by permissions. Modify and View permissions are available for each node in Access Control and other permission-related modules and templates.

18.5

Set permissions to control who can see company-wide business process data in Primavera Analytics. In Unifier, additional User Mode Access permissions are added to Company Workspace/Non-navigational Nodes/Analytics: View All Records; View All Company Records; and View All Shell Records.

18.5

In the Document Manager node, the redesigned Unpublished Documents folder displays similar layout and behavior as the Documents folder. You can expand or collapse all folders in Document Manager or all sub-folders at the same time.

18.5

Update attributes for already-published documents when the corresponding matching fields are updated in the related business process record. Updates occur when a record moves through the workflow, or when Submit is clicked in a non-workflow business process record based on design.

18.5

The Manage Views dialog in the Documents log has been enhanced like Tasks and business process logs. Drag and drop views to quickly reorder them, or move them to the Visible Views, Hidden Views, or Views Marked for Deletion section.

18.5

View the enhanced interface in Fund Detail, SOV Picker, Commit Picker, and Commit Line Item Picker in cost business processes.

18.5

Business process form redesign has been extended to the following additional cost business process types: Line Items with Fund Code: Generic, Transfer - Line Items with both CBS and Fund Codes: Generic, Transfer - Line Items with CBS Code:  Base Commit (SOV type - General Spends), Change Commit (SOV type - General Spends), General Spends

18.5

In the Reference Records tab of a business process record, you can specify the number of referenced records to be displayed per node.

18.5

Company Workspace landing page has been enhanced by including hyperlinks for company information and enabling access to the company-level business process, tasks, and notification logs.

18.6

Unifier informs users about the use of session cookies in the application. The notification is displayed in a banner on the top of the Unifier page.

18.6

Upload (or drag-and-drop) a profile picture in the General tab of the User Preferences dialog to personalize the top navigation bar and user profile dialog.

18.6

You can add or modify partner users by using a CSV file. You can Export Structure to download the template as CSV. You can import the modified structure template, similar to importing company users.

18.6

Auto-fill Percentage Complete in Summary Payment Applications.

18.6

The Condition list in the Add Query Condition dialog provides the options of Exists or Does not exist to enable you to configure the query conditions for string attributes of a data picker.

18.6

User restrictions for viewing, or editing, cost sheet columns have been reduced.

18.6

The cost sheet rules to include the pending positive values (in the limit expression and the pending negative values in the data expression calculations of the Rules engine have been reduced.

18.6

Earned Value Management Enhancements
Master Rate Sheet: During synchronization, the Master Rate Sheet now captures Resource type (Material, Labor, Non-Labor, etc.) from P6.
Activity Sheet: On the Actions Menu of the Activity Sheet, use Assign CBS to assign a cost code to multiple activities (and their assignments).
Activity Picker: Use the Activity Picker in BP forms to select activities from multiple P6 projects in the Activity Sheet.
Performance Percentage Completion Sheet: Update data dates and corresponding percent complete values in the Performance Percentage Complete Sheet.

18.6

Several company-level cost business processes display the redesigned user interface.

18.6

Report on user type (uuu_user_type) via User-Defined Reports (UDR) and System Reports.

18.6

Generic Cost Attributes Picker, Commitment Summary Line Item Picker, Account Code Picker, and Seasonal Dates Picker are now equipped with the modernized user interface, consistent with other pickers.

18.6

Tasks, Drafts, Notifications, and all Mailbox logs have been provided with the enhanced Manage Views dialog.

18.6

The Attachments tab in a redesigned business process form has been further enhanced when previewing or reviewing an attachment.

18.6

Unifier 18.4 iOS Mobile App
-Consent notices and cookies notification to improve data privacy.
-Honoring of User Type when accessed via app.
-Usability improvements to support scanning bar codes in low light conditions and easier configuration of BP tiles.

18.4

Integration user type has been introduced to execute REST integration services for modules.

18.7

Review documents in the Documents log in the same way as in business process logs.

18.7

Unifier includes the uploaded profile picture before the user name in the User Picker and in the Users section of the User and Group Picker.

18.7

Type Ahead feature has been introduced in pickers.

18.7

The Unifier user interface (the top navigation) has been rearranged.

18.7

The View User Profile dialog, accessed from a user picker with multiple users, has been enhanced.

18.7

Earned Value Management
-Define rates in resource currency.
-Differentiate between custom data imported by way of CSV file and data integrated from P6 in the Performance Percentage Completion sheet.
-Earned Value Analysis data structure tables are now available in the ER Views node in the Company Workspace Admin mode.

18.7

Redesign of business process forms has been extended to:
-Document type Without Folder Structure business process
-Request for Bid (RFB) type business process

18.7

When adding comments in the record or line items in tabs, Unifier displays an alert for the unsaved changes.

18.7

In the business process log, the Edit Permissions and Transfer Ownership dialogs have been enhanced.

18.7

In the Document Manager Log, tabs have been refined.

18.7

The Manage Views dialog, in all Unifier, has been revamped to improve user interaction.

18.7

In a business process record, you can link mail records from different folders of Project Mailbox.

18.7

When you run a user-defined report (UDR) using Document Manager Data Sources, the data retrieved is based on your permissions.

18.7

When configured, both summary and costed lines of a Summary Payment Applications record are auto-populated from corresponding fields of the source Base Commits.

18.7

Cloud administrators can inform Unifier end-users about scheduled maintenance and outages for Unifier servers hosted in the cloud.

18.7

Starting with Unifier 18.8, Oracle Web Services Manager (OWSM) is no longer supported.

18.8

The shell landing page (My Dashboard) has a new look with improved usability. The Summary tab displays three standard tiles – Tasks, Notifications, and Mail with items requiring your attention, and three standard blocks – Image, Details, and Links.

18.8

Configuration Installation Files will be replaced with Configuration Packages, and the released Base Configuration Packages will be available on My Oracle Support:
- Project Controls
- Facilities and Asset Management
- Combined Package (Project Controls and Facilities and Asset Management)
Note: This setup does not apply to existing customers.

18.8

Business process forms of the following types have redesigned UI.
- Document with Folder Structure
- Lease log
- Preventive Maintenance

18.8

Change User Defined Report (UDR) owner: The owners and users who have full access permission can now change the UDR owner’s and user’s name.

18.8

Document Manager enhancements
- Folder and Document Properties
- Document Logs (Standard View)
- Folder and Document Attributes

18.8

Earned Value enhancements
- Earned Value Analysis log has new toolbar options
- Activity Sheet

18.8

Space Manager has a modernized user interface.

18.8

Exchange Rates with effective dates in the past are now available.

18.8

Schedule Manager: Disable automatic re-scheduling within Unifier Schedule and integrate Activities (with their dependencies) with the same schedule that exists in P6 and MPP. Also, you can manually schedule activities in Unifier Schedule Sheet.

18.8

Oracle Primavera Unifier 18.8.5.0 Released

IMPORTANT UPDATE - Oracle Primavera Unifier 18.8.5.0 has been released, this is a patch release and has to following fixes.

Version 18.8.5.0

  • 29150685 DATA PICKER CANNOT BE LOADED IN NEW UI
  • 29135505 NO SCROLL BAR IN BULK ACTION WINDOW WHEN MORE THAN 20 RECORDS SELECTED
  • 29131545 USERS ABLE TO MODIFY LINE ITMS IN NEW UI WHICH IS DISABLED IN OLD UI
  • 29035997 ERROR PROMPTED WHEN RENAMING FOLDER NAME IN STAGE ENVIRONMENT
  • 29030046 EXCEPTION: INVALID PROPERTY NAME 'UUU_CREATION_DATE' WHEN USING PROJECT CREATION BP
  • 29028507 DYNAMIC DATA SETS ARE NOT WORKING PROPERLY IN STAGING FOR ORDER TRANSMITTAL BUSINESS PROCESS
  • 29023003 REFERENCE RECORDS, LINKED RECORDS TRANSFER FOCUS VERY SLOW IN STAGE
  • 29021426 NEW USER INTERFACE ISSUE
  • 29014649 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR DISPLAYED WHEN TRYING TO OPEN BP RECORD
  • 29007247 FULL LIST OF AVAILABLE WORKFLOW CAN NOT BE DISPLAYED ENTIRELY IN STANDARD VIEW
  • 29003918 NOT ABLE TO ATTACH DOCUMENT TO LINE ITEM FOR DOCUMENT TYPE BP RECORD IN NEW UI
  • 29001694 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR OCCURS WHEN SELECT LINE ITEMS TAB
  • 28980052 GENERIC SYSTEM ERROR WHEN MODIFYING DDS BEHAVIOR SET
  • 28979962 USER ABLE TO EDIT DOC PROPERTIES IN DOC MGR WHEN IN STD VIEW, NOT CLASSIC
  • 28956819 DATE ONLY PICKER ON SHELL TEMPLATE POPULATED WITH RANDOM VALUE IN STANDARD VIEW
  • 28927612 SHELL HOME PAGE FAILS TO LOAD WITH JAVA.LANG.NULLPOINTEREXCEPTION.
  • 28918313 EARNED VALUE AND SCHEDULE SHEET VALUES EXPECTED TO MATCH.
  • 28905379 UNIFIER CANNOT BE LAUNCHED FROM MULTIPLE CLOUD LANDING PAGES
  • 28904514 TIME ENTRY IN GRID MODE DOES NOT AUTOPOPULATE SOME FIELDS
  • 28894903 AUDIT LOG ONLY SHOWS FIRST 100 ROWS IN NEW USER INTERFACE
  • 28891706 THE LAST UPDATE DATE VALUE IS NOT CORRECT ON BIDDER FORM
  • 28886887 PROJECT MAILBOX SUB-NODE DOES NOT OPEN THE CORRECT EMAIL
  • 28844987 COST RULE CAUSING FUNDING INTEGRATION TO FAIL
  • 28805634 ATTACHMENTS VIA EMAIL APPROVAL NOT ATTACHED TO BP RECORD
  • 28803164 ERROR MESSAGE RECEIVED WHEN ATTEMPTING INTEGRATION

Unifier Mobile Browser (/m) has been deprecated.

18.1

Unifier’s Home Landing Page has been revamped with interactive tiles and charts, and statistical information about tasks.

18.1

Business Process enhancements: Creation of new records: Upper Form - Creation of new records: Line Items - Ability to toggle between old and new business process form views. This enhancement applies to the Development and Testing environments, only.

18.1

Enhanced Single Record Business Process Log.

18.1

Configure the runtime list of default business process log views per business process.

18.1

WBS label is changed to CBS across Unifier.

18.1

uMail is renamed to Mailbox in all locations.

18.1

The Notifications log is redesigned similar to the Tasks log.

18.1

All login screens of the Unifier application have been modified with a standard look and feel.

18.1

View replies from external users in the Project Mailbox.

18.1

Choose to display project/shell name or number in the navigation tabs.

18.1

Customize the Total row of the grid in Payment Applications and Summary Payment Applications to accurately reflect its values at runtime.

18.1

Synchronizations are available in Unifier Gateway node to import P6 activities into Unifier Shell.

18.1

Unifier Analytics now supports cost code attributes, tab ID, and pickers.

18.1

The display of monthly actuals in Portfolio Manager has been extended to derived curves, multiple forecast curves, linked/unlinked projects, and yearly plans.

18.1

Configure Portfolio Manager to send notifications to users and groups when a scenario is shared or approved.

18.1

Keep the current session active in Unifier.

18.1

Document Management (DM) enhancements: Availability of advanced search functionality. - Ability to add frequently visited documents and folders to Favorites - Ability to use templates to update DM changes in shells of the same type. - The interface of the Documents template of a shell template has been modified for better usability. - Ability to sort columns in the log regardless of the number of pages. - Ability to switch between grid and tile view of the log layout. - Ability to use the enhanced methods to create, view and manage shortcuts in the Document Manager.

18.1

SPA Enhancement: Overpayment in Summary Payment Applications SOV
Starting Unifier release 18.2, you can now overpay on line items of the Summary Payment Applications business process.

18.2

SPA Enhancement: Update Existing Previous Payment Calculations
You can override the existing hardcoded calculation on the Previous Amount (uuu_spa_prev_amt) field by selecting a custom data element -- for example, Amount This Period on the standard detail form of the Summary Payment Applications business process.

18.2

SPA Enhancement: Summary Row Totals
The Summary Row Totals enhancement applies to a Payment Applications business process with reference to a Contracts business process of Summary Payment Applications SOV type.

18.2

Web Services Integration: getSOV for Summary Payment Applications
You can now run the Webservice getSOV call to get SOV details of a contract of Summary Payment Applications SOV type.

18.2

Business Process: Redesign for Simple and Line Item – Phase 2
In the Attachments tab, Browse (My Computer in earlier versions), and Document Manager (Unifier Folders in earlier versions) are now available as Attach dropdown options.

18.2

Business Process: Linked Mails Tab
When maximized, the Linked Mails tab of a BP form is divided into left and right sections. The left section displays the grid, and the right displays the functions, content and attachments of the selected mail.

18.2

Business Process: Enhanced log UI in Query Based Tabs
Query based tabs in BP forms have a new look with some additional functionality.

18.2

Business Process: Calendar Enabled Objects
Calendar-enabled simple and line item business processes now support the new form UI.

18.2

Business Process: Master Vendor Business Process
The enhanced form UI has also been extended to the Master Vendors BP.

18.2

Business Process: Line Item Consolidation – Phase 2
The bottom line item section in line item business processes have been further enhanced.

18.2

Business Process Form: Picker and Manual Entry fields
In picker fields, click X to clear out the selected values.

18.2

Business Process: Picker UI Changes
Picker styles have been modified.

18.2

Business Process: Task Assignee Filter Enhancements
In workflow business processes, match the assignee filter results against AND, as well as OR, conditions.

18.2

Business Process: Filter Cc Assignees in a Workflow
Define filter conditions on Cc assignees in a workflow step regardless whether they are pre-assigned or user-select.

18.2

Document Manager: Enhanced Move Functionality
Move a file or folder in the Document Manager using the enhanced Move functionality. Use Move from the gear menu to move a single folder or file; use Move from the Actions menu to move multiple items. In previous versions, the move would be aborted if a file or folder with the same name existed in the destination folder, and the user is prompted to keep both files or revise with this enhancement.

18.2

System Jobs Enhancements: Company administrators can access system jobs data and modify the time zone to trigger jobs.

18.2

Unifier Mobile Application for iOS
Support for user-based locale and region formatting. The app is fully supported in the following twelve languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, and Spanish. - Users can now choose to work in the timezone of their device or the Unifier server when working from different locations. - Copy BP records and line items with or without attachments. - Support for split screen display on iPads. - Easily search the Documents hierarchy for files and folders. - When routing workflow records, expand and select users from the task assignee group as the next step assignees. - Support for conditional filtering of step assignees as per the workflow design.

18.2

Unifier Mobile Application for Android
Support for user-based locale and region formatting. The app is fully supported in the following twelve languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, and Spanish. - Users can now choose to work in the timezone of their device or the Unifier server when working from different locations. - Access, view, and save all Company and Project-level documents from the Documents tile on the Home screen. - Easily search the Documents hierarchy for files and folders. - When routing workflow records, expand and select users from the task assignee group as the next step assignees. - Support for conditional filtering of step assignees as per the workflow design. - Support for Text type BPs. - View the geo-location of projects and business process records.

18.2

Create custom financial periods to provide more flexibility in budget forecast and analysis.

18.3

Create folder, document, and log attribute forms for different projects to capture different metadata.

18.3

Create multiple log views in Administration mode for use in Document Manager.

18.3

Use the Preview gear menu option to preview files in different formats in the Attachments tab of redesigned business process forms.

18.3

At runtime, use the new Add to Group record property to group line items in categories.

18.3

New system-defined Portal landing page minimizes customization using HTML.

18.3

Unifier now supports the asynchronous upload of folders and files into Document Manager, allowing you to perform other operations in the application while the upload continues in the background.

18.3

Create workflow BP templates and records from templates using updated user interface and interactions.

18.3

Company administrators can see a combined license count and usage for company and partner users (labeled as standard users in terms of license) on the License Manager landing page.

18.3

The Summary Totals behavior now supports data elements uuu_spa_amt_tp (Amount this Period) and uuu_spa_qty_tp (Quantity this Period) when "Total the Cost Breakdown values to the line item" option is selected in uDesigner.

18.3

Right-side tabs in a BP form are enhanced: Attachments tab - Comments tab - Linked Records tab - Linked Mail tab

18.3

Portfolio Manager scenarios now display derived curves and monthly actuals from project cash flow.

18.3

View the new business process form design when creating records in the Document Manager.

18.3

Business process log and form UI enhancements are extended to support the Project/Shell Creation business process type.

18.3

Preferences available in the username list on the top navigation bar has been modernized.

18.3

Managing Personally Identifiable Information
Features have been added to Primavera Unifier that enable you to manage personally identifiable information (PII), including creating consent notices, auditing consent status, and controlling access to Unifier.

18.4

Rename a document in Document Manager (or Unpublished Documents), if the Name field (uuu_dm_node_name) in the document attribute form design has been changed from Read-Only to Editable (Required).

18.4

Restore a file in Document Manager to an older version along with comments and references associated with it.

18.4

In the Tasks and Business Process logs, drag and drop log views in the Manage Views dialog to quickly reorder them, instead of using the Move Up/Move Down gear menu options.

18.4

Dock the floating Search dialog to the right or the bottom of the log page using the toggle Dock Right/Dock Bottom icon.

18.4

View a graphical representation of the relationships of the base record with reference and linked records in the Referenced Records tab of a business process record.

18.4

CSV and Webservices now support the grouping of line items.

18.4

Cost business processes of sub-type, Line Item with CBS codes, and classification, Generic, and Transfer display the enhanced form interface.

18.4

View the enhanced interface in CBS Picker, Transaction Currency Picker, Work Package Picker, BPO Picker, and BPO Line Item Picker in cost business processes.

18.4

Use the toggle Collapse / Expand All Groups icon to collapse or expand line item groups in a business process form’s detail tab.

18.4

The support for financial periods is extended to Cash Flow by CBS, Summary CBS, and Commitment detail levels.

18.4

Introducing Earned Value Analysis module using schedule data, activities, and rates imported from P6 via Gateway to calculate earned value and related measures for a project – planned value, actual cost, variances, performance indices, and at completion values.

18.5

On the License Manager landing page, view an Earned Value Management block with gauge charts indicating license terms, current usage, and overage.

18.5

Create and run user-defined reports using permission-based data sources.

18.5

The referencing BP data-picker on the destination record displays a hyperlink pointing to the source record when a business process record is auto-created by way of a BP Creator, in the source record.

18.5

Project Mailbox has been converted to a parent node with Inbox as a child node. Additional email addresses you provide are available as folders below the default Inbox.

18.5

Schedule publishing of Unifier data to OBIEE is now every 4, 6, 8, or 12 hours.

18.5

Access to Consent Notice child nodes – User Consent and Bidder Consent – is now controlled by permissions. Modify and View permissions are available for each node in Access Control and other permission-related modules and templates.

18.5

Set permissions to control who can see company-wide business process data in Primavera Analytics. In Unifier, additional User Mode Access permissions are added to Company Workspace/Non-navigational Nodes/Analytics: View All Records; View All Company Records; and View All Shell Records.

18.5

In the Document Manager node, the redesigned Unpublished Documents folder displays similar layout and behavior as the Documents folder. You can expand or collapse all folders in Document Manager or all sub-folders at the same time.

18.5

Update attributes for already-published documents when the corresponding matching fields are updated in the related business process record. Updates occur when a record moves through the workflow, or when Submit is clicked in a non-workflow business process record based on design.

18.5

The Manage Views dialog in the Documents log has been enhanced like Tasks and business process logs. Drag and drop views to quickly reorder them, or move them to the Visible Views, Hidden Views, or Views Marked for Deletion section.

18.5

View the enhanced interface in Fund Detail, SOV Picker, Commit Picker, and Commit Line Item Picker in cost business processes.

18.5

Business process form redesign has been extended to the following additional cost business process types: Line Items with Fund Code: Generic, Transfer - Line Items with both CBS and Fund Codes: Generic, Transfer - Line Items with CBS Code:  Base Commit (SOV type - General Spends), Change Commit (SOV type - General Spends), General Spends

18.5

In the Reference Records tab of a business process record, you can specify the number of referenced records to be displayed per node.

18.5

Company Workspace landing page has been enhanced by including hyperlinks for company information and enabling access to the company-level business process, tasks, and notification logs.

18.6

Unifier informs users about the use of session cookies in the application. The notification is displayed in a banner on the top of the Unifier page.

18.6

Upload (or drag-and-drop) a profile picture in the General tab of the User Preferences dialog to personalize the top navigation bar and user profile dialog.

18.6

You can add or modify partner users by using a CSV file. You can Export Structure to download the template as CSV. You can import the modified structure template, similar to importing company users.

18.6

Auto-fill Percentage Complete in Summary Payment Applications.

18.6

The Condition list in the Add Query Condition dialog provides the options of Exists or Does not exist to enable you to configure the query conditions for string attributes of a data picker.

18.6

User restrictions for viewing, or editing, cost sheet columns have been reduced.

18.6

The cost sheet rules to include the pending positive values (in the limit expression and the pending negative values in the data expression calculations of the Rules engine have been reduced.

18.6

Earned Value Management Enhancements
Master Rate Sheet: During synchronization, the Master Rate Sheet now captures Resource type (Material, Labor, Non-Labor, etc.) from P6.
Activity Sheet: On the Actions Menu of the Activity Sheet, use Assign CBS to assign a cost code to multiple activities (and their assignments).
Activity Picker: Use the Activity Picker in BP forms to select activities from multiple P6 projects in the Activity Sheet.
Performance Percentage Completion Sheet: Update data dates and corresponding percent complete values in the Performance Percentage Complete Sheet.

18.6

Several company-level cost business processes display the redesigned user interface.

18.6

Report on user type (uuu_user_type) via User-Defined Reports (UDR) and System Reports.

18.6

Generic Cost Attributes Picker, Commitment Summary Line Item Picker, Account Code Picker, and Seasonal Dates Picker are now equipped with the modernized user interface, consistent with other pickers.

18.6

Tasks, Drafts, Notifications, and all Mailbox logs have been provided with the enhanced Manage Views dialog.

18.6

The Attachments tab in a redesigned business process form has been further enhanced when previewing or reviewing an attachment.

18.6

Unifier 18.4 iOS Mobile App
-Consent notices and cookies notification to improve data privacy.
-Honoring of User Type when accessed via app.
-Usability improvements to support scanning bar codes in low light conditions and easier configuration of BP tiles.

18.4

Integration user type has been introduced to execute REST integration services for modules.

18.7

Review documents in the Documents log in the same way as in business process logs.

18.7

Unifier includes the uploaded profile picture before the user name in the User Picker and in the Users section of the User and Group Picker.

18.7

Type Ahead feature has been introduced in pickers.

18.7

The Unifier user interface (the top navigation) has been rearranged.

18.7

The View User Profile dialog, accessed from a user picker with multiple users, has been enhanced.

18.7

Earned Value Management
-Define rates in resource currency.
-Differentiate between custom data imported by way of CSV file and data integrated from P6 in the Performance Percentage Completion sheet.
-Earned Value Analysis data structure tables are now available in the ER Views node in the Company Workspace Admin mode.

18.7

Redesign of business process forms has been extended to:
-Document type Without Folder Structure business process
-Request for Bid (RFB) type business process

18.7

When adding comments in the record or line items in tabs, Unifier displays an alert for the unsaved changes.

18.7

In the business process log, the Edit Permissions and Transfer Ownership dialogs have been enhanced.

18.7

In the Document Manager Log, tabs have been refined.

18.7

The Manage Views dialog, in all Unifier, has been revamped to improve user interaction.

18.7

In a business process record, you can link mail records from different folders of Project Mailbox.

18.7

When you run a user-defined report (UDR) using Document Manager Data Sources, the data retrieved is based on your permissions.

18.7

When configured, both summary and costed lines of a Summary Payment Applications record are auto-populated from corresponding fields of the source Base Commits.

18.7

Cloud administrators can inform Unifier end-users about scheduled maintenance and outages for Unifier servers hosted in the cloud.

18.7

Starting with Unifier 18.8, Oracle Web Services Manager (OWSM) is no longer supported.

18.8

The shell landing page (My Dashboard) has a new look with improved usability. The Summary tab displays three standard tiles – Tasks, Notifications, and Mail with items requiring your attention, and three standard blocks – Image, Details, and Links.

18.8

Configuration Installation Files will be replaced with Configuration Packages, and the released Base Configuration Packages will be available on My Oracle Support:
- Project Controls
- Facilities and Asset Management
- Combined Package (Project Controls and Facilities and Asset Management)
Note: This setup does not apply to existing customers.

18.8

Business process forms of the following types have redesigned UI.
- Document with Folder Structure
- Lease log
- Preventive Maintenance

18.8

Change User Defined Report (UDR) owner: The owners and users who have full access permission can now change the UDR owner’s and user’s name.

18.8

Document Manager enhancements
- Folder and Document Properties
- Document Logs (Standard View)
- Folder and Document Attributes

18.8

Earned Value enhancements
- Earned Value Analysis log has new toolbar options
- Activity Sheet

18.8

Space Manager has a modernized user interface.

18.8

Exchange Rates with effective dates in the past are now available.

18.8

Schedule Manager: Disable automatic re-scheduling within Unifier Schedule and integrate Activities (with their dependencies) with the same schedule that exists in P6 and MPP. Also, you can manually schedule activities in Unifier Schedule Sheet.

18.8

Primavera Unifier 16.1 Released

Primavera Unifier 16.1 is now available for download in the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud.

Major enhancements in Primavera Unifier 16.1 include:

  • Mobile Application

  • Primavera Unifier Gateway Provider Enhancements

  • Project Controls Base Configuration

  • PM Book Templates

  • Primavera Analytics

  • Custom Report Enhancements

  • AutoVue 3D Support

  • Usability Enhancements

  • Technical Enhancements

Stay tuned for our assessment of the new release. To read more about the new features view Oracle's PDF on the "New Features in Primavera Unifier 16.1"

What's New With Primavera Unifier 15.2

There have been quite a few changes and enhancements introduced in the new release of Unifier 15.2. Many of the new features have been highlighted below. The full Oracle document can be viewed here. To learn more about Unifier please take a look at the resources on our Unifier product page.

Primavera Unifier 15.1 Released

What’s New in Primavera Unifier 15.1

The new products released by Oracle, including Primavera Unifier, are now following a different naming convention, linking the version with the year of the release. Moving forward, it will be easier to identify which versions integrate with one another, which is important, especially since one of the major new features of Unifier 15.1 is its enhanced integration capabilities with Primavera P6 15.1. Those who manage their projects in P6 and their cost in Unifier can now track their cost and schedules more accurately.