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 |
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ACP | 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: | |
ActiveReports, ENV | 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 | 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 | 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 | BLK-780 Re-work setup information options |
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CFT | CFT - Add Advanced Reports Cross Reference Management | Reduce time and effort to understand how data is cross-referenced with data in other systems. | |
CFT | 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 | 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 | 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 | Support Actian PSQL v12™ SP1 Update 6 | Increase flexibility to run the system on the latest Actian PSQL v12 database engine update. | |
GRN | 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: | |
GRN | 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 | 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 | Farm/Field: Add Farm and Field display to additional grids and forms | In order to: | |
GRN | 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 | 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 | binSight Integration-Ability to see and manage queued ticket records that have not posted yet |
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ONE | Auto-ID Maintenance - Reduce load time by paginating results |
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ONE | Advanced Ticket Exports - Ability to export tickets in Agris WebService XML Format |
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ONE | Pit Commander - Show the variety/class description and average grades in the bin selection grid when interfacing to AGRIS Storage Management |
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ONE | Message Board - Ability to show Other Discount Description Only |
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ONE | Advanced Bin Assignment screen - validate in Available Bins / Commodity Filter: Ticket V/C, then Include Clean Bins, then Ticket Commodity, then Any Commodity |
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ONE | binSight Integration - Advanced Bin Assignment - If a ticket has an assigned bin with a 0% allocation, do not send the allocation to binSight |
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ONE | Advanced Bin Assignment - adjust weight value of first bin assigned to match Estimated Net Weight value |
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ONE | Setup-Ability to copy Required Field setup to another workstation |
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ONE | Advanced Ticket Exports - Add a filter setting for Name Id Type |
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ONE | PLC Interface - Add Event for Vehicle Off Scale |
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ONE | Audit Log - Text search returns all matching records that contain the input provided within the log |
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ONE | 3rd Party Interface-Change the source of the Ticket Date and Ticket Time fields to be the earliest of gross and tare times |
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ONE | Signature Pad Interface-Ability to display multiple pages of confirmation text |
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ONE | Grading Interface - Add Temperature as an item to the GAC2500 Standard Driver |
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ONE | Transfer Tickets - Allow the auto-print of auto-generated tickets option on preliminary forms |
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ONE | Signature Pad Interface - Ability to show/hide the Is This Correct question on the confirmation screen |
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ONE | RFID - Implement the option to save the Id Number in a remark field when using the Assign Number, Prompt For Ticket option |
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SYS | 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. | |
SYS | 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 | Import files: Allow the Record Type column to be surrounded by quotations | Simplify and reduce time importing files that contain quotes around data. | |
SYS | 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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