Prerequisites
This release of Conquest II adopts the SQL Server Spatial Data component, which is not available in SQL Server 2005. Therefore an upgrade to SQL Server 2008 R2 may be required before the Conquest II Installation.
When upgrading from V2.57b2 or earlier, the “Administrator Installation” option must be ticked to get files for:
•Scripts for upgrading the database
•The Report Patch to be applied, post-installation, to rebuild the Conquest Reports. For more details see Upgrading Reports
For details on installing Conquest II, see the Conquest Installation Guide.
Functional and Performance Enhancements
Conquest II 2.58a1 includes the following functional enhancements:
•Explorer, Editors, Lists, Reports and Dialogs:
•Add Grouped Asset Cost Movement, Asset Depreciation Movement and Asset WDV Reports
•The Conquest II Installer has a label change on the Options page. Becomes “Administrator Installation”
•Action Response is now available on filtering of Requests
•The Code Editor form “Explorer to Fields Divider” is now movable
•The Contractors form “Explorer to Fields Divider” is now movable
•The ability to set a User Program to reference the TypeID from the Asset Type form that has the focus. See the User Programs Tab
•The Asset Explorer, right hand panel, now includes a Status column, which for Actions shows their state, such as “Issued”
•For consistency the labels on the Action, Request and Asset forms for Organisational Unit read “Organisation Unit”
•Field size for Inspector and Organisation is increased to 255 to stop Inspection Import failures
•The Asset Priority field is now selectable in a filter for the Cyclic Actions view
•Documents can now be attached to Contractors
•Use the Attribute Set's order field, for User Fields on the Defect Form
•Insert a Standard Inspection from the Asset Type form
•Query to check if an Asset has a Conquest Foresight Project nominated or related
•Queries to list Asset Inspections no longer fail, when selecting to view the Organisation and Inspection Type fields
•Actions
•Permission to reverse Completion of an Action can now be restricted to Administrators by way of a new System Option “Only Allow Administrators to Reverse Completion of Actions”
•Approval can now be requested for completed Actions
•A new function called 'Reverse Work Order Issue' with the following business rules:
•It is only available to Administrators:
•It is only applicable to Actions where the Issue Date is set but the Action has not been completed
•It clears the Issue Date for the Action and any of its Sub Actions (checking that the Sub Actions have not been completed, in which case the entire procedure fails)
•It deletes any saved Snapshots or PDFs of the Work Order
•Requests
•The Request form now has a Documents Tab
•Assets
•The Asset Attributes now conform to the display order set in the Attribute Set
•Users with Read Only permission on an Asset are now allowed to add an Asset Inspection
•The Journal Entry form can now be used to Change the LastTran date only
•Defects can be created on open Asset Inspections
•Field size for Inspector and Organisation is increased to 255 to stop Inspection Import failures
•UserName is now recorded, when an Asset Transaction is entered
•Replacement Cost fieldname in the list of fields to filter on is now displayed as Replacement Rate
•Defects
•The Defects form has been rewritten to conform to the other Conquest II forms
Bug Fixes
•The Attribute set report now includes all the user fields
•When an Asset changes Asset Type with a different Current Icon the Asset Hierarchy Icon now changes immediately
•When viewing reports, the Close button in the Toolbar will now close the report
•In the Manage Master Action Form the first position sub-Action can now be viewed
•Copy and Paste in the Function Editor now works correctly
•New Transaction Types are now reflected in Post Valuation Transactions
•The new Find Tool no longer finds assets in disabled Facilities and can now be used from a Conquest Request Only installation
•Bulk Import for Logbook Actions works now