2024 News Archive

October 24, 2024

After a brief pause in updates and changes to the system due to Fiscal Year End reporting, which kept us all busy, we are glad to announce the updates that have been put into production as part of the October release train.

Report Updates

• DBE Contract Selection Team by Proposal Report – Fixed an "Attempted to Divide by Zero" error on the report.
• Various Construction Reports - The Change Order Report, Daily Diary Report, Daily Work Report, and Payment Estimate Summary By Project Report were showing the wrong contract numbers in the report footers.
• Change Order Summary Report – The report has been corrected to show approved change orders.
• Items by Contractor Report – The report was updated to correct an issue when the report parameter of “Do Not Include Items by Prime Contractor” was selected.
• Material Usage by Material Report – The report has been modified to allow the report to be run against a single, a group of, or the entire materials for the contract. Also, the material source field was added to the report.
• Item Posting by Item – An excel version of the report was created.
• Item Posting by Contractor – An excel version of the report was created.
• Change Order Report – The Project/Category Summary section was updated to remove duplicate data and ensure proper calculations. Also, item balancing that resulted in a zero-quantity change have been removed to reduce the size of the report.

System Configurations and Guidance Updates

• FieldManager Contractor Data Extract Process - The export process has been updated that should resolve several import errors experienced by contractors.
• DWR Posting Item Selection Screen – Column widths were modified to better use screen space to help users see the full item description along with any supplemental item description.
• Change Order Review Role Updates – Various roles were updated to allow those roles to record the review decision as part of the change order review tracking process.

April 15, 2024

AASHTOWare Project 5.00 is here!

On April 15th MDOT upgraded to the 5.00 version of AASHTOWare Project software. By upgrading from version 4.8 to 5.00, MDOT is now able to take advantage of the more than 180 fixes and enhancements that were resolved or added across the system. Many of the fixes were behind the scenes and won’t be directly apparent to you as a user. However, there were a few that we would like to point out that will show up in the new version. We have compiled the list below with some matching updates to this manual.

• The drop-down options on the funding field in the change order area have been simplified and should only now show the correct funding for the new item based on the project category chosen when adding new items to the contract.
  • Adding New Items to a Contract with a Change Order
  • Adding Unattached Items
  • Modifying Contract Items (Modified Originals)

• The policy that creators of DWRs cannot approve their own DWR has now fully been implemented in the system and the office tech role is being changed back to allow them to see their own DWRs under the Office Technician roles.
  • Approving a Daily Work Report

• Some estimate errors that occur while the estimate is being created will now be shown to the user in a pop-up message like other errors and warnings.

• The blue bar that contains the save button and corresponding action menu will now travel with you as you scroll long pages. This should make navigation and saving on pages with long lists easier.

• A new tab in the subcontract entry area has been added. This tab contains a scrollable grid similar to an excel spreadsheet and should make subcontract entry easier.
  • Adding Subcontracts