ConSol Release Notes

Visual Changes:

The update will bring forward an exciting new visual makeover to ConSol without impacting navigation within ConSol. Users can expect to experience the following changes:

• A new default font used throughout ConSol
• Updated Quick Links for Before you Dig Australia and ConSol Mobile,  and new Quick Link for Look Up and Live on the ConSol Home screen.
• New screen layouts and colours to improve clarity and readability for users
• Changes to the layout of the Attributes tab on the Update Contract screen (for users with the Commercial Contract Manager role)
• Improved controls on many data entry screens (ie better date pickers, improved search popups, explicit field IDs for RPA usage).
• Find Project View and Find Contract searches default to retrieving Active records.
• Existing milestone functionality has been disabled pending a rework to extend milestones to include order dependencies.
• My Details screen:
  • Roles and workgroups are now displayed on a separate tab
  • The Change Password button is now available at the bottom of the user details tab
• ConSol API documentation has been updated.

Single Sign-on:

• For companies using enterprise identity providers (e.g. Azure AD), ConSol can now be configured to allow Single-Sign-On, to both simplify the user experience and take advantage of more stringent security controls.
• Each company will have a specific icon on the login page to identify that access for their users may be subject to company Federation rules.
• Federation can be enforced (default) for all users within the company.  Users requiring additional logins linked to the same verification email address will have these logins treated as un-federated and will follow the existing security access rules.
• Any companies wishing to utilise the new Single Sign-on functionality should contact our Support team for information on how to proceed.  Depending on the Identity store being used, implementation and configuration costs may be incurred.

User Management (for users with Sys Admin and HR Admin roles): 

User Management within ConSol has been reworked. Admin users may experience the following changes:

• The User Hierarchy screen and its link to user access have been removed
• Edit User screen relabelled to Manage User
• The User Profile screen has been removed; profiling is now accessible from a tab on the Manage User screen
• Search fields have been removed from the Find User screen and embedded in the column headers of the User list
• New Icons for User Type (ie user or person) and User Roles (ie customer or supplier) in the Find User list
• Changes to Manage User screen:
  • History is now accessed from a button at the bottom of the screen
  • Copy User functionality can now be accessed from a button at the bottom of the screen
  • Reset Password can now be accessed from a button at the bottom of the screen
  • Roles and Workgroup allocations are now managed on a new tab, and profiling is simplified
• Roles and workgroups are displayed on a separate tab within the My Details screen

MyWork changes

New changes have been implemented to make the overall experience of using MyWork more efficient and user-friendly. 

The Control Panel on the left-hand side of the screen is fully contracted by default (Click on the blue icon to open the panel). 

• The Control Panel contains:
  • Views Management
  • To-dos
  • Settings
  • Access to Help. 

• Introduced ‘word searches’ in multi-select filter fields
• You can now use two attribute selections in filtering options
• An option to manage visible columns in the result set is now available
• Help now accesses Help Centre user guides 
• Positioning of the columns within the result set can be adjusted using ‘drag and drop’
• Improved ability to sort columns within the MyWork result set