7​.3 upgrade notes

Specified location for Adjustment and Survey in web service calls

When using GetData and SubmitData web service calls, the location specified for adjustment and surveys will now be the Adjustment material movement item, instead of the Ad-hoc material movement item. You need to redirect any existing calls to the new location.

Uninstall 32-bit Production Analyst

We recommend uninstalling the existing desktop client of AVEVA Production Management before upgrading.

We have moved to supporting 64-bit architecture in the latest version of Production Analyst. The means when upgrading to the latest version of AVEVA Production Management desktop client, the previous 32-bit version will not be automatically uninstalled.

The old 32-bit version will remain in your Start menu under a Schneider Electric folder, while the new 64-bit version will appear under a new AVEVA folder.

You need to uninstall the old 32-bit version manually using Add/remove programs in Windows.

The previous Start menu item will no longer launch PA after upgrading. No action is required for browser PA.

Durable property for ESB

Any existing commands or events for ESB will have the new Durable property after upgrade. By default, this property will be set to True.

If the queue specified in your configuration item is not durable, you will have to change this property value to False; otherwise, you may encounter an error due to durability mismatch and your configuration item will not start until this is fixed.

Removal of system audit history

When upgrading to AVEVA Production Management 7.3, the upgrade removes unnecessary audit history for system-generated fields. Depending on how much audit data exists, this could minimally or substantially increase the upgrade time.

Changes to Reporting

Going forward, there is no built-in configuration for reports inside AVEVA Production Management. All reporting must be done as an integration to a third-party software. You can still integrate with SQL Server Reporting and other reporting software by using document links.

Before upgrading, you will need to convert any existing report items to the new method of using document links.

The URL will be the reporting server path + the report relative path and the module will be the module as per the report.

We recommend adding an application folder at the site level and putting document links for reports under the folder; however, you can add them anywhere under the Enterprise folder.

New properties for RecordChangedEvent for code item

We have added two new properties for the RecordChanged event for code items: CurrentData and PreviousData. These new properties replace the Record property, which has been deprecated and will produce a validation warning.

You need to update your code items to use CurrentData and PreviousData instead of Record.

For more information, refer to Understand record changed EventArgs properties in the Administrator (Studio) online help.

Calendar web page

There is no longer a login page from the AVEVA Production Management homepage to the calendar web page. You need to use a document link to access the calendar.

For more information, refer to Access the Calendar web page in the Administrator (Studio) online help.