Enhancements

Existing customers upgrading to 3.3

As part of the upgrade process, users’ existing Workspaces will be removed.
Post-upgrade, users should provision a new Workspace via Connect as documented in the Accessing Your AVEVA Unified Engineering Desktop section of the AVEVA™ Unified Engineering on Connect Desktop User Guide.

Data on users’ workspaces is not preserved, for example files such as:

• User files: Stored on C: and D: drives.

• AVEVA application user-settings: Stored on D:\Users\<username>\Appdata\Local\Aveva\

• User profile settings, e.g. for Keyboard/Language are not preserved.

Therefore, users should carefully consider and if deemed necessary, arrange in advance of the upgrade to copy (backup) any required files from their workspaces.
Backed-up files can then be restored to newly provisioned workspaces post-upgrade.

Note: It is not mandatory to copy/restore AVEVA application user-settings for AVEVA Products to function, users may choose to start afresh with their new workspace redefining AVEVA application user-settings.

If users wish to backup files, the table below suggests options available to users.

Cloud File Transfer

Effective version 3.3.0.0 of Unified Engineering on CONNECT, it no longer requires customers to supply a service access token to the cloud DevOps team to enable cloud file transfer service. This token is now programmatically created on your behalf. This process is automated for both new customers and those upgrading from an existing version.

Retrieving Data from Data Sources Using SQL Server (Aveva Instrumentation & Electrical and AVEVA P&ID)

The new DATA API in AVEVA Integration Service supports data retrieval from SQL Server-based data sources using Windows Authentication only. Authentication using Project or SQL is not supported by this Data API.

As a result, the Compare Update feature in AVEVA Engineering 15.7.3, AVEVA E3D Design 4.1, and later versions will require to get the Authentication done using Windows for SQL-based products.

Microsoft Visio access for AVEVA Diagrams user

Effective version 3.3.0.0 of Unified Engineering on CONNECT, the provision of Microsoft Visio in Workspaces is directly controlled via the Standard Drafting Diagrams Connect role.

Post-upgrade, those who require Microsoft Visio should be members of a Connect group associated with the Standard Drafting Diagrams Connect role. For example, the default group AVEVA UE 2D Drafter (Diagrams).

Changes to Microsoft Office on workspace

Microsoft Office Professional 32-bit has changed from Office 2016 to Excel (only) 2021.

Microsoft Visio Standard 32-bit has changed from 2016 to 2021.