AGRIS Customer Documentation

AGRIS 17.3.0 ReadMe

 

AGRIS Product Suite |  ReadMe  |  Version 17.3.0

 

Table of Contents

 

1 General Information

This document provides general product availability information and briefly summarizes the AGRIS Product Suite 17.3.0 software update. Use the information contained in this document to learn about the latest changes available for the AGRIS agribusiness management system (AGRIS).


The current update of AGRIS is available to existing AGRIS customers on versions 9.5.0.x and higher. You can obtain the upgrade files from one of the following locations:

  • AGRIS Installation CD

  • My Account Knowledge Base

1.1 Product Information

Product Name:

AGRIS Agribusiness Management System – AGRIS 17.3.0

Version:

Version 17.3.0 Distribution Build 82, Application Build 91

Date:

TBD

1.2 Documentation

Support and technical installation documentation for the AGRIS 17.3.0 release is located at https://culturatech.atlassian.net/wiki/x/YgBRBg.

1.3 Upgrading From Earlier Versions of AGRIS

Note:  If you are migrating from AGRIS Versions 9.4.6 or earlier, please contact Cultura Technologies, LLC Technical Support. Conversions from V9.4.6 or earlier are not supported in this upgrade.

1.3.1 Pervasive® PSQL™

If you have not updated your Pervasive® PSQL™ Engine to a supported version, a message appears during the AGRIS upgrade process, advising you to update your Pervasive software.
Click HERE to download supported versions of Pervasive® PSQL™.

1.4 Special Considerations for this Release

The information contained in this section is provided as supplemental detail about Microsoft® Windows® and Pervasive® PSQL™ to help guide you in installing or upgrading to the latest version of AGRIS.

1.4.1 Pervasive® PSQL™

Pervasive® PSQL™ v11 and later database engine releases do not allow license "stacking," but rather require user count increases on both the Server and Workgroup database engines.

1.4.2 Payroll – Tax Tables

Attention Payroll users:
Please download the latest tax tables after installing this version for the latest changes. Please contact the Technical Assistance Center if you need assistance with this automated download process.

2 AGRIS 17.3.0 Update Information

The information contained in this section provides insight into the new features and improvements available, as well as issues that Cultura Technologies, LLC corrected in this version of AGRIS.  The modules (i.e., "Component/s") that contain changes are listed next to the Key and Summary of what was added, enhanced, or fixed.

2.1 Enhancements

The list of enhancements below is sorted by Component (i.e., module) then by Key.

Component/s

Key

Summary

Release Notes and benefits

Component/s

Key

Summary

Release Notes and benefits

ACP

AGS-695

Disbursements and Auto-Disbursement: Notes added when printing checks to inform user that the customer/vendor has an AR balance

When using the manual and automatic disbursement processes the user will now see (total dollars) and (number of invoices) that are unpaid in Accounts Receivable. The intent is to raise awareness of the AR balances before an AP check is sent to the vendor in order to:
+ Minimize accounts receivable collection efforts with and reduce cash out flows to counter parties with account receivable balances.
+ Minimize time and effort to investigate the vendor's unpaid invoice balance by displaying the information when processing disbursements.

ActiveReports, ENV

AGS-1000

Ability to supply report filter criteria in command line parameters

Improve flexibility to retrieve and use specific AGRIS information from outside of the system.

AGY

AGS-1743

AgroGuide - Formulation post: Unit of Measure (UOM) for the crop area now checks the AGY UOM table when UOM is not found in AGRIS Inventory System

Improve data integrity when integrating with other agronomy tools like AgSync via the Greenstone AIS (Agronomy Integration Service).

AGY

AGS-1830

AgroGuide - Formulation Post: Verify land attributes exist prior to processing

Reduce effort to troubleshoot integration issues with other precision agronomy tools via the Greenstone Agronomy Integration Service. This change verifes that all land attributes, farm, field, and crop zone codes and names exist in the AGRIS post message. If that information is absent, this change prevents the formulation post and returns a validation error message.

BLK

AGS-1998

BLK-780 Re-work setup information options

 

CFT

AGS-1723

CFT - Add Advanced Reports Cross Reference Management

Reduce time and effort to understand how data is cross-referenced with data in other systems.

CFT

AGS-1749

CHS EDocs - Invoice processing now supports setting zero volume items to either gross or net volume of previously processed product, or setting volume to 1. Setting volume to 1 will set the unit price to the CHS EDocs item's extended price.

Maximize accuracy and efficiency of electronic transactions with CHS.

CFT

AGS-2190

CFT - AGRIS Web Service: Agworld integration available with Agronomy Integration Service (AIS)

Need to improve the efficiency of your agronomists and improve your flexibility to integrate with other agronomy planning and scheduling tools? The CFT AGRIS Web Service combined with Greenstone's Agronomy Integration Service ("AIS") now supports integration with Agworld's retail agronomist applications.

Convert

AGS-1823

Suppress the "Failed to copy DDFs" message when a dataset converts in a report stream

Reduce effort to manage dataset conversions via report streams.

DB Engine

AGS-1356

Support Actian PSQL v12™ SP1 Update 6

Increase flexibility to run the system on the latest Actian PSQL v12 database engine update.

GRN

AGS-691

Multiple Ship to's on a contract - Three display changes added.

When managing ticket splits and/or applying to a related split relationship's contract, the following changes were made to reduce keystrokes to apply to the correct customer:
1) At time of applying tickets to contracts, the Name ID now appears on the search grid.
2) The Single-View option of the contract search now shows the Contract Application Name ID.
3) A search icon is now available on the Name Id filter screen of the Contract Pricing search grid.

GRN

AGS-758

Commodity code setup - Field added "Trading Limit" for reporting purpose

The "Trading limit" field simplifies the steps to show whether or not your positions are within your company's Trading Limit (maximum long or short quantity on the position report). This feature improves the ability to enforce and understand compliance with risk management policies.

GRN

AGS-766

Customer Status / Unpaid Delivery Sheets Report - New standard report shows Storage / Unpaid / Summary by customer including unpaid dollars

This report not only provides quantities but now has the ability to provide Dollars for Tickets on Priced Contracts, Delivery Sheets, and Unpaid Settlements. This minimzes time and effort to provide your customers / counter parties with priced quantity information.

GRN

AGS-1258

Farm/Field: Add Farm and Field display to additional grids and forms

In order to:
+ Reduce time and effort to Produce a Delivery Sheet for multiple tickets by displaying the Farm/Field on the tickets.
+ Minimize effort and time to apply Apply From Storage with visible Farm and Field information.
+ Streamline the Produce a Settlement process with making the Farm/Field and "first ticket number" as available to choose the delivery sheet(s) to settle.

The following Farm / Field Display improvements have been made:

Produce a Delivery Sheet: Added Farm/Field display and button to Include This Ticket form.

Apply From Storage:
+ Added Farm/Field to Delivery sheet Application grid
+ Added Farm/Field to Application Selection form

Tickets - Edit, View, and Reverse (one ticket): Added Farm/Field to Ticket Information Grid, Select This Ticket, Include This Ticket, and Single View forms

Tickets - Apply From Hold: Added Farm/Field display and button to Include This Ticket form

Delivery Sheet Maintenance: Added Farm/Field to Delivery Sheet Information grid and Search Criteria form

Other Areas with same improvement as Delivery Sheet Maintenance:
+ Contracts > Price Delivery Sheets
+ Storage Charges > Choose Delivery Sheet
+ Settlements > Automatic Settlements > Delivery Sheet Number Search
+ Settlements > Produce A Settlement > Enter Commodity and Name Id > Delivery Sheet Number Search
+ Shipments > Print Ticket Form > Delivery Sheet Number Search

GRN

AGS-1921

Settlements: Application Type (formerly "Contract Type") search now includes Client Load-Out and Storage/dp

Improve clarity of filtering during the Settlement process.

INV, SYS

AGS-1891

Sales Orders: Contract apply - Expand list of customers to apply to contract to include the "Invoice Split" default list from Name / Address

Minimize effort and time to understand all people referenced in the invoice split configuration from Name / Address (excluding AgroGuide splits).

ONE

AGS-647

binSight Integration-Ability to see and manage queued ticket records that have not posted yet

 

ONE

AGS-1157

Auto-ID Maintenance - Reduce load time by paginating results

 

ONE

AGS-1336

Advanced Ticket Exports - Ability to export tickets in Agris WebService XML Format

 

ONE

AGS-1724

Pit Commander - Show the variety/class description and average grades in the bin selection grid when interfacing to AGRIS Storage Management

 

ONE

AGS-1735

Message Board - Ability to show Other Discount Description Only

 

ONE

AGS-1745

Advanced Bin Assignment screen - validate in Available Bins / Commodity Filter: Ticket V/C, then Include Clean Bins, then Ticket Commodity, then Any Commodity

 

ONE

AGS-1746

binSight Integration - Advanced Bin Assignment - If a ticket has an assigned bin with a 0% allocation, do not send the allocation to binSight

 

ONE

AGS-1747

Advanced Bin Assignment - adjust weight value of first bin assigned to match Estimated Net Weight value

 

ONE

AGS-1916

Setup-Ability to copy Required Field setup to another workstation

 

ONE

AGS-1917

Advanced Ticket Exports - Add a filter setting for Name Id Type

 

ONE

AGS-2145

PLC Interface - Add Event for Vehicle Off Scale

 

ONE

AGS-2275

Audit Log - Text search returns all matching records that contain the input provided within the log

 

ONE

AGS-2297

3rd Party Interface-Change the source of the Ticket Date and Ticket Time fields to be the earliest of gross and tare times

 

ONE

AGS-2307

Signature Pad Interface-Ability to display multiple pages of confirmation text

 

ONE

AGS-2308

Grading Interface - Add Temperature as an item to the GAC2500 Standard Driver

 

ONE

AGS-2338

Transfer Tickets - Allow the auto-print of auto-generated tickets option on preliminary forms

 

ONE

AGS-2361

Signature Pad Interface - Ability to show/hide the Is This Correct question on the confirmation screen

 

ONE

AGS-2399

RFID - Implement the option to save the Id Number in a remark field when using the Assign Number, Prompt For Ticket option

 

SYS

AGS-1440

Maintenance > File Layouts for Imports > INV > Inventory Activity Import - new field available for UOM on import file

This update enables the Manufacturing, Stock Adjustment and Physical count imports to use any known Unit of Measure (UOM) available and compatible with the item's business rules. Previous releases required the stocking UOM as the only UOM permitted.

This feature increases flexibility to import inventory transactions from other systems where the item stocking UOM may be different.

SYS

AGS-1498

Inventory Transaction Import - Allow Commodity Components if BIN (Storage Management) Integrations is OFF

Improve consistency of the import process with the features of the AGRIS manufacturing process.

SYS

AGS-1839

Import files: Allow the Record Type column to be surrounded by quotations

Simplify and reduce time importing files that contain quotes around data.

SYS

AGS-2101

AGRIS on MSSQL - Increase timeout value in commonsettings.config from 180 (3 minutes) to 600 seconds (10 minutes)

Increase the effectiveness of the Transaction Rollback feature.

 

2.2 Corrected Issues

Please CLICK HERE to see the related Greentsone Community Article showing a spreadsheet of the Enhancements and Corrected Issues.

2.3 Open Issues Under Investigation

Please CLICK HERE to see the related Greentsone Community Article showing the list of Open Issues Under Investigation.


               

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