What's new in 11​.1

What's new in AVEVA™ Operational Safety Management 11.1.

New features in OSM Administration

Product rename

The name of Control of Work Administration has been updated to Operational Safety Management Administration.

64-bit

OSM Administration is now a 64-bit application.

Application Settings in OSM Administration

In this version, there is a new Application settings item in the System management window where a system administrator can change application settings.

In previous versions, changing any application settings was done by using the CoW Database Configuration tool. Changing a setting required that all users must be logged out and the database needed to be in maintenance mode. The old application settings (in DB) have been converted to new Application settings inside OSM Administration. See Application Settings.

Binding fields in Supplementary Forms to database fields

You can add bindings in the HTML of a Supplementary form that binds form fields to database fields, so that these fields are auto-populated.

See Adding Bindings to Database Fields and Field bindings for supplementary forms.

Copy attachments from types to main entities

It is now possible to add attachments to some types and those attachments will be copied to a new item of this type in the Web application.

The new Copy to main entity checkbox is on the Attachments window for these types:

• Include attachment from work permit type

• Include attachment on isolation list

• Include Attachment on Risk Assessment Type

• Include attachment on supplementary form

  

Daylight Savings Time for Sites

There is a new DST (Daylight saving time) option on the Site settings window to automatically implement DST for a Site when applicable— so that you don't have to adjust the time setting manually. If you enable the DST option, you must specify a time zone region area and location for the Site. Based on these settings, the system will apply the time change to accommodate daylight savings time when it is needed.

Enable and disable OSM Modules

It is now possible to enable and disable individual modules in Operational Safety Management. When one or more modules has been disabled, they will no longer be visible in OSM Web application and the tiles on the Home page of Operational Safety Management will dynamically rearrange.

For more information, see Modules in OSM.

Mapping signatures and time to PDF work permit form

There is a new ability to map signatures and signature date to fields in a Work Permit form (PDF).

See Map Form Field to Signature or Signature Date.

Multiple active Risk Assessment matrices per site

It is now possible to have multiple active Risk Assessment matrices for a Site. Previously, only one Risk Assessment matrix could be active for a Site. We have also added support for printing out matrices and attachments.

Manage Users of a User Group

We have added some new options that enable you to manage the user members of user groups.

You can inactivate all the users belonging to a user group at one time. When you perform this action, all users are removed from the user group and each individual user becomes inactive.

• Inactivate members of an access group

• Delete members of an access group

• Show members of an access group

Manage Users of Organization Units

We have added some new options that enable you to manage the user members of organization units.

• Show members of company unit

• Activate users of company unit

• Inactivate users of company unit

Deprecated features in OSM Administration

Functionality is marked as deprecated when a feature is still supported in the current release, but might be removed in a future release. We advise that you phase these features out of your projects and begin to use alternative features.

• Internet Explorer - AVEVA is announcing the limited support for Internet Explorer 11 with Operational Safety Management 11.1 and deprecation of support. In the next version of Operational Safety Management, Internet Explorer will no longer be a supported browser.

• User Groups - The User Groups category on the System Administration menu has been deprecated. This will be replaced in the future by a new user management system.

Discontinued features in OSM Administration

Discontinued features have been removed from the product.

• Cow Database Configuration Tool - The CoW Database Configuration tool has been discontinued and is no longer supported. This tool is no longer needed since all settings are obsolete or have been moved to OSM Administration.

• Certain User settings in OSM Administration will no longer be stored in the database. This includes the possibility to have a personal layout of windows in OSM Admin. If user changes the site or language, these settings will no longer be saved or stored. The Save Personal Settings tab on the Properties dialog box for User has been removed.

• OSM Administration is supported only in English - Other languages are discontinued and no longer supported.

• Emailing password to users - Functionality regarding sending password to users has been removed. In previous versions, when a new user was created or a password was changed, an email was sent to the user with the password. This is no longer supported.

• Windows 7 is no longer a supported operating system for OSM Administration.