Fixed Defects in Plant Applications 2022

Defect# Area Description
00954945 Upgrade Excel Add-In unloaded when two Report Engines were running.
00940860 Work Queue Module

The Work Queue list did not return expected information such as:

  • Complete option
  • Material Description
00945875 Unit Operations The Quality Variables chart did not display the configured upper and lower limit values for QV specifications correctly.
00896800 Activities The Plant Applications Web Client did not display custom forms for Activities.
00903929 Route Management Deleting documents on Draft routes at operation level moved the deleted documents to All Operations. The users had to leave route edit and discard changes or the attachment got saved at all operations level.
00934074 Downtime Not able to access NPT event with future timestamp in Web Client.
933244 Unit Operations Unit Names repeated multiple times for the opened operations.
929348 Unit Operations Not able to get the product for line when creating Route if more than 2K products assigned to Unit.
928068 Workflow Unable to create product using spS95_ScheduleProdCreate.
924090 Analysis The chart did not display tags with special characters (& ; + /).
838891 Process Analyzer Non-Productive Time (NPT) flag did not display any difference in the process analyzer graph.
757912 OEE Dashboard Incorrect OEE calculations
785869 Web Client The Micros services in Tomcat did not start, and displayed an error in the Plant Applications Web Client.
891949 iFrame On resizing the window, iFrame reloaded.
826697 Web Client Universal Client chart did not parse the dates correctly.
00850360, 00854025 Activity Activities showed mouse-over details.
00849996, 00865884 Analysis In Analysis, Save, Restore, and Analysis icons were missing in Chrome 80.x.
846338 Equipment The GANT chart did not display correct DTM duration.
842040 Web Client OEEAggregation table did not display data for a newly configured unit without PE configured.
891771,940598,942240 Database Manager Errors in DatabaseMgr.log when deleting Production Event using spServer_DBMgrUpdEvent in custom SP.
00883600,00906803 Activity Activity screen did not perform an activity without start time.
895272 Unit Operations All Quality Variables in Operations were underlined and had an invalid link.
898111 Unit Operations Text did not get translated correctly in Swedish.
897319 Web Client Process Order Web Client Display Remaining END.
895848 Unit Operations After clocking on to a Work Order, the WORK ORDER ACTUAL START field was not populated.
903929 Route Management Deleting documents on Draft routes at operation level moved the deleted documents to All Operations.
896800 Activity Custom forms for Activities did not work.
945875 Workorder Execution The graph did not scale correctly for given small values.
940860 Work Queue Module

The Work Queue list did not return the following expected information:

  • Complete option
  • Material Description
944839 Unit Operations History tab did not display data.
953035 Unit Operations When a new work order was created, and then clocked onto the work order, the user did not see the Quality Variables under the Quality tab in the Operation Detail page.
986013 Documentation The online Help was updated to address the issue for discontinued Downtime Model 201.
968449 Upgrade Upgrading Plant Applications Client did not update all the required files.
956800 Installation The Proficy Server was not on \u003Cserver name\u003E. An error occurred when SQL Server Service Account ComXclient had the default password changed using the ProfPWManager_UC.exe utility.
969092 Plant Applications Client The Plant Applications Client Schedule View display showed process orders in an order based on Implied Sequence.
963797 Upgrade Historian 8.1 High Availability did not work with Plant Applications 8.2.
956395 Upgrade There were errors when upgrading from Plant Applications 7.0 to 8.2 and installing SIM1.
951640 Plant Applications The Production Overview display did not display summary information correctly.
949979 Plant Applications Administrator Services reloaded without a message for reload.
952999 Schedule Manager There was an issue with sproc spServer_SchMgrCalcStats.
933948 Upgrade After upgrading to PA 8.2 and installing the PASP from the 8.2 media, PASP did not work correctly as the associated sproc calls were failing with an error.
939855 Plant Applications The Quality tab displayed "No Activities" available for some complete operations.
947668 Schedule View Waste events were ignored when accumulating production form variable.
942682 Upgrade Calculations attached to an Operation did not trigger properly.
898882 OEE The Performance Chart displayed downtime with categories Outside Area and Unavailable time.
929591 Calculation Configuration When the user added more than 99 inputs, the system then deleted inputs on a calculation.
922145 License Manager When Plant Applications services restarted, firewall rules for each service got deleted and then re-created but not enabled.
927538 Configuration There was a mismatch in the time units in the Model 49000 configuration.
906089 Plant Applications Incorrect specifications for logical variable.
880668 Plant Applications SDK Incorrect behavior of PAVariableResultEventQuery on Locked event.
475554 Plant Applications Administrator Aspecting/"Merge to SOA" created materials with timestamp, pre-fixed material descriptions, and codes.
178931 Workflow Waste Plus Display Reasons update issue.
748955 Activity User-defined events linked to production events with applied product displayed incorrect specifications.
843599 Plant Applications Client Schedule View Display did not show correct date format in Hebrew.
960123 SQL Server Trigger on event_container_data table caused performance issues.
941465 SQL Server .NET SDK PAProduct.Add did not handle IsSerialized.
941343 SQL Server The Process orders changed their status automatically. There were duplicates in the (Implied_Sequence, Implied_Sequence_Offset) columns.
943920 Event Manager The Event Manager took time to build the shw files.
938781 Upgrade The user could not update the status for Process Order after upgrading to Plant Applications 7.0 SP5 SIM9.
938309 SQL Server SQL blocked dbo.spServer_StbChkEventStub.
910409 Upgrade Excel Add-In performance went down significantly after upgrading Plant Applications 6.3 to Plant Applications 8.1. There was a missing index in the spXLA_BrowseEvents_NoProduct.
928776, 941915, 941956 Plant Applications Administrator Importing Display Variables, u003E procedure, or function spEM_IEImportDisplayVariables had too many arguments specified.
925817 Plant Applications Administrator Exporting Production Execution Paths at the Department level only got the first path information for the PathProducts.
00919802, 00954387 Production Unit Waste model 5014 passed EC_id from another Production Unit in stored procedure.
899823 Alarm Manager The Alarm Manager reprocessed all alarms on a unit incorrectly.
00899910 Plant Applications Administrator The Plant Applications Administrator freezed for a few seconds when reprocessing PEs.
892082 SQL Server There was a performance issue with simple delete from dbo.Production_Setup_Detail table.
893138 SQL Server There were missing triggers on the Event_Configuration_Value table.
874229 Plant Applications Client spServer_SchMgrGetGoodAndBad did not count production correctly when multiple Process Orders were active on production point.
874231 Plant Applications Client The Schedule Manager did not call spServer_SchMgrCalcStats for all active Process Orders.
774500 Web Report OEE by Unit Waste amount was different than the Quality Distribution report.
855091 SQL Server spServer_SchMgrCalcStats counted event dimension and variable values when PE was bound to Process Order (PP_Id).
851091, 867288, 871868 SQL Server dbo.spServer_DBMgrUpdEventComp did not update Child_Parent EventId.
814533 SQL Server The TimeZoneTranslations tables were replicated in the Plant Applications database.
764883 Event Manager There was an issue with Event Manager due to Production plan update after installing SIM.
416779 Plant Application Web Server Administrator The Report menu did not retain Node_Order.
868741 Web Report An issue with the node name varchar length caused Import/Export to fail.
901606 Plant Applications Administrator Services were reloaded after refreshing the server in the Plant Applications Administrator.
928068 SQL Server Not able to create product using spS95_ScheduleProdCreate.
955229 Database Manager Database Manager service restarted.
930885 SDK The Plant Applications SDK method PAAlarmEventQuery had an invalid join on variables while referring variables_base for comments.
897494 Plant Applications SDK Whenever the SQL server was forced to restart, the values in the ProdStatus_Id displayed in byte instead of integer.
983633 Message Bridge Message Bridge did not automatically connect to Kafka after getting disconnected.
927584 Message Bridge MessageBridge log files were not archived.
886968 Database Manager Multiple services restarted and buffered.
766502 SQL Server PUG_Order for Child Variables did not update when Parent Variable was moved.
946711 Message Bridge Plant Applications 8.2 install did not prompt for comxclient password for Message Bridge.
940297 SQL Server SQL Server "AlwaysOn" did not restart services after failover.
923739 iFIX Could not insert Proficy_ALC.Autolog OLE object (ProfALC.ocx) in iFIX.
865996 Upgrade Plant Applications OPC Server did not connect to the SQL Server with instance.
782878 Historian Historian Variables were not able to retrieve data from the correct OSI PI tag attached.
504516 Cimplicity Could not insert Proficy ActiveX object into the application.
00962763 Schedule View Moving Process Orders Forward/Backward in the ScheduleView did not work correctly after adjusting the Start Time for a Process Order.
935369, 956686, 956581 License Manager Issues found in the License Manager after installing Plant Applications 7.0 SP5 SIM9.
907091 Schedule View The Plant Applications Client Schedule View did not sort newly generated Process Orders and moving Process Orders Backward/Forwards also did not work.
907915 Upgrade The Plant Applications Thick Client Schedule View refresh rate increased after upgrading to Plant Applications 7.0 SP5 SIM8.
906002 SQL Server The PAPropertySpecification.Add method failed.
892494 Historian Reader or Summary Manager did not read Historian enumerated set correctly.
881270 SQL Server The Report Server call of spServer_CMNGetLicenseMgrInfo did not update.
868653 License Manager The License Manager got locked when reading license and could not serve any client license request.
00871308, 00919640 Upgrade After upgrading Plant Applications, the Dialog worked but an error message was displayed when the user tried to change the date.
00864592, 00888342 View Utility The View Utility did not support special or extended character sets.
840188 Autolog There were different values in the autolog and the calculation grid for the variable.
846273 Downtime In the Downtime+ display, a user with Admin rights could not edit downtime events beyond the Max Edit window.
822410 Plant Applications Client The Language option in the Plant Applications Client changed randomly from Chinese to English and vice versa.
815865 Downtime Downtime+ did not support MaxEdit.
740746 Plant Applications Administrator The Display Editor did not save, activate, or reload stubber service reliably.
729466 Plant Applications Web Server Administrator An error displayed when viewing Report Template in Plant Applications Web Server Administrator.
870079 Downtime In Downtime Display (Classic), the user could not update the DTM record.
00865707, 00928230 Plant Applications Client The Plant Applications Client did not display the left side Tree View when opening through Citrix Client.
674407 SQL Server Multiple active specifications were present for single var_id against a single prod_id.
00866672, 00873680 Plant Applications Client Zero result on the integer PA Variable of the Increase sampling type was stored as 0.0 (float representation).
855630 SQL Server Electronic signature sign off on time-based display.
908660 Plant Applications Client Enabling Cancelled Tests did not update Client Autolog (UDE) cells correctly when using Result Set 2.
915629 Plant Applications Client Plant Applications DTM events triggered duplicate Workflow schedules.
927007 Downtime Authorized user was not able to change Fault of the Downtime event when creating a new event or on already existing event.
926339 Plant Applications Server Plant Applications Server setup did not start. SQL user password with special character (;) caused issue.
930200 Plant Applications Administrator Could not add User Defined Properties.
00934595, 00940879 Plant Applications Client Cell Navigation feature changed via keyboard.
935771 Plant Applications Client For Multiple Client Displays, the user had to navigate and manually enter data.
855093 Plant Applications Client The Waste Display showed Run Time Error when a child event was double-clicked.
00871058, 00933060 Plant Applications Purge Configuration The Purge Client did not connect to the server.
893996 Upgrade There was an issue in creating Autolog Display after upgrading Plant Applications from 7.0 SIM 3 to SIM 8.
894834 Plant Applications Client In the Schedule View, hyperlinks are overlapped by empty List Box Object.
927002 Plant Applications Client With only one work order available to use, if the user clicked outside of Work Order column, the context of the column disappeared.
943431 Plant Applications Administrator When the user renamed Historians other than the default one, dbo.Event_Configuration_Values table did not display the updated name.
942036 Proficy Password Change Utility The Proficy Password Change Utility did not connect to the License Manager.
948467 Plant Applications Administrator Duplicate S95Id were not allowed in MaterialDefinition table.
00909896 OEE The spCMN_GetOEEStatistics incorrectly counted OEE when compared to spDBR_UnitOEE.
907497 OEE The spCMN_GetUnitStatistics is incorrectly truncated waste when bigger than actual production.
950469 Plant Applications Client The user could not navigate from one cell to the other.
929348 Route If more than 2,000 products were assigned to a unit, it was not possible to get the product for a line when creating a route.
928068 Workflow Could not create product using spS95_ScheduleProdCreate.
868741 Web Reports Web reports issue with Tree Import/Export.
808236 Plant Applications Export Tool Plant Applications Export tool was missing new Activity features.
846273 Downtime In the Downtime+ display, a user with Admin rights could not edit downtime events beyond the Max Edit window.
891771, 940598, 942240 Database Manager Errors in the DatabaseMgr.log converted expression to data type nvarchar while deleting Production Event using spServer_DBMgrUpdEvent in custom SP.
907091 Plant Applications Client The Plant Applications Client Schedule view did not sort newly generated POs; moving POs Backward/Forwards did not work either.
928776, 941915, 941956 Plant Applications Administrator Importing Display Variables \u003E procedure or function spEM_IEImportDisplayVariables had too many arguments specified.
00928340, 00936228 Autolog spEM_IEImportDisplayVariables expected parameter @Execution_Start_Duration, which was not supplied.
938309 SQL Server SQL blocking dbo.spServer_StbChkEventStub.
00934595, 00940879 Plant Applications Client Cell Navigation via the arrow keys was not working in the Plant Applications Client.
00935663 Plant Applications Web Client Access to mesdata-service did not work in standard web client.
937125 Unit Operations Issues in Unit Operations.
964275 Plant Applications .NET SDK Client Error when creating Variable through SDK - incorrect call in the spSDK_AU_Variable.
969092 Plant Applications Client The Plant Applications Client Schedule View display showed process orders in an order based on Implied Sequence.
963797 Historian Historian 8.1 High Availability was not working with Plant Applications 8.2.
00953527 SQL Server spCSS_LoginUser2 used the PPA password in plain text.
00899910 Plant Applications Administrator Plant Applications Administrator would freeze momentarily when reprocessing production events.
897491 Production Unit Model 800 would not trigger production event-based variables to load data when an event (Timestamp or Status) is updated.
00623905, 00812332 Plant Applications Client The Schedule View Move Forward/Backward feature stopped working when a PO at pending status in the middle of sequence was switched to Next/Active state.
CS0181549 Plant Applications Client The login code for plant applications for sql passed the user password as plain text with the PPA or domain password.
00944057 Plant Applications The system displayed too many messages while switching user from a view.
00905126 Plant Applications Administrator When trying to edit the settings of a client display, Plant Applications Administrator crashed with Run-time error '380'
930337 Plant Applications Modification of functions fnBF_GetPSFromEvents and fnBF_wrQuickOEESlices.
907138 Work Queue When new serial numbers were added to BOM, the UNIT did not display the serial number if it had more than 40 characters.
00883600, 00906803 Plant Applications Web Client Activity screen could not perform an activity without start time.
00885290, 00897909 Plant Applications There was inconsistent behavior in the alternate Variable Description in the Classic Plant Applications Client and Web Client.
00816180 Plant Applications Web Client The unit of measure in the Universal Client was not displayed correctly.
00891901 Plant Applications The Czech translation strings did not translate text with proper context.
DE167647/DE162272 OEE

These were the following issues in ELC SPROC:

  • Sysadmin access was not required to run the fn_splitstring function
  • OEE dashboard & report screen was not showing production events properly
  • Process order, product and other related entities were not shown properly for activities (user defined and production types )
  • Activity description was showing ‘event_num’, rather than the lot identifier
00931897 Plant Applications Web Client Allowed users to select Primary or Secondary unit in the Plant Applications Web Client when creating new Downtime event.
00854390 Plant Applications UCC: MaxEdit was not functionally the same as thick client.
00877888 Process Analyzer The Show Specifications option did not display when the specification was added to previous days.
DE152757/DE167652 Operations Hub Multiple identical rows appeared in the Operations Hub activities display for each newly created activity.
985094 Documentation The online Help was updated for installation log file names.
906723 Plant Applications Plant Applications event-based calculations (production event or UDE-based) did not work for events.
429589 SQL Server For Non-Unicode languages, the collation of the sql server did not match the language.
774296 Documentation The online Help was updated for enabling a Production Line for using a Route.
824450 Web Client Manually Splitting of a downtime event in the Universal Client did not auto-calculate result when the first duration was entered.
867005 Documentation The online Help was updated for Production Path Alarms.
00885290, 00897909 Web Client Inconsistent behavior of the alternate Variable Description in the Classic Plant Applications Client and the Universal Client (Web Client).
00939013 Web Client The online Help was updated for Network Port requirements.
00937886, 00950791 Documentation The online Help was updated for SQL Server requirements.
00961961 Documentation The online Help was updated for silentinstaller.yml file.
00963020 Documentation The online Help was updated for the Product Options.
636415 Process Analyzer Issues with duplicate Trend names.
986668 Database spServer_SchMgrCalcStats SIM2 break PO production counting when Production Plant Starts records are missing.
876854 Database Function fnCMN_GetOutsideAreaTimebyUnit counted downtime time as negative number.
814485 Database Duplicate Columns found in Daylight Savings Time Change in Fall.
893996 MES Core Failed to create Autolog display after upgrading Plant Applications from 7.0 SIM 3 to SIM 8.
963084 Plant Applications Client Purge Utility - System.Threading.ThreadExceptionEventArgs from Units and Variables tab.
926264 Plant Applications Client Plant Applications Client displays did not show Downtime and Production Event data.
00933769 Plant Applications Client The Help file was missing in the Purge Client.
985520 Activities Comment for an Auto Complete task had the time in UTC for Activities.
970245 Message Bridge Plant Applications Message Bridge failed to start with conversion error.
850364 Plant Applications Client Operator access user was able to delete reasons outside Max Edit window.
943111 Database New index on Waste_Event_Details for Work_Order_Number.
984141 Database Issue in upgrading from Plant Applications 5 to 8.2 with spSupport_VerifyDB_Key.
935022 Plant Applications Client Alarms generated did not refresh in alarm screen or display pop-up.
816516 Plant Applications Client Generating alarm caused Client to stop responding.
936932 Plant Applications Client Plant Application Client Non-Productive Time display did not respond when the user selected Show/Hide Unit list button.
954859 Activities Activities - Permission required.
00766502 Plant Applications Client PUG_Order for Child Variables did not update when Parent Variable was moved.
00814533 Database When TimeZoneTranslations table was replicated, the site did not know the correct time zone.
00880668 Plant Applications .Net SDK Client Incorrect behavior of PAVariableResultEventQuery on Locked event.
00881270 Database Report Server call of spServer_CMNGetLicenseMgrInfo was not updated.
00885014 Documentation The online Help was updated to address the issue of inconsistent multi-language descriptions.
00891949 Plant Applications Client Resizing the window caused the Plant Applications (Receiving Inspection) to reload the screen.
00897319 Plant Applications Web Client Process Order Web Client Display Remaining END filed calculation was incorrect.
00926339 Plant Applications Server Plant Applications Server setup did not start when the SQL user password with which Plant Applications was installed had ; (semicolon) character.
00934836 Work Order .NET upgrade resulted in work order service for SQL connect loop and then hung.
00905960 Plant Applications Web Client While executing gem, the connection was broken due to keep-alive activity detecting a failure while the operation was in progress.
00908660 Plant Applications Client Enabling Cancelled Tests was not updating Client Autolog (UDE) cells correctly when using Result Set 2.
00922145 Plant Applications Server Service firewall rules were re-created after restarting but were not enabled.
00939701 Plant Applications Web Client Plant Applications Web Client could not connect to sql server non-standard port.
00946711 Plant Applications Server Plant Applications server Install did not prompt for comxclient password for Message Bridge.
00953035 Work Order No Quality Variables were visible after clockon to a new work order.
00956800 Plant Applications Client RDS Client Install: The Proficy Server was not on @servername. Error occured when SQL Server Service Account ComXclient has had the default password changed using the ProfPWManager_UC.exe utility.
00968449 Plant Applications Client Plant Application Client Upgrade did not update all the required files.
00985094 Documentation The online Help was updated for the installation log file name and the path.
00986013 Documentation The online Help was updated for discontinued Downtime Model 201.
00987861 Documentation The online Help was updated to address the connectivity issue of Work Order service to the SQL server.
00178931 Plant Applications Client Waste plus display kept reason level even if it did not exist.
00927590 Plant Applications Web Client The Web Client install failed because Test_History table did not have Test_History_Id column.
00999494 Plant Applications Client

The MessageBridgeService folder and the MEScore did not include correct versions of the PAMsgsSupport.dll file.

00905960 Plant Applications

The uaac-install.bat scanned external gem repositories. This issue is resolved. Now the Plant Application installer validates the following details:

  • UAA connection
  • User
  • Scope creation

The installer fails if any of these validation is not successful.

00905955 Plant Applications

Plant Applications 2022 evaluated results from theuaac\u0002install.bat file. Now, it uses the UAA API. The Plant Application installer also validates the following details:

  • UAA connection
  • User
  • Scope creation

The installer fails if any of these validation is not successful.

00929631 Plant Applications Web Client

An error in deploying PApamymachinesservice stack prevented Web-Client Certificate to be installed properly using util. This issue is resolved.

Updated the instruction for replacing the self-signed certificates.

Running utility.sh -l -ssl reset does not need any stack to be restarted.

00939701 Plant Applications Web Client

Plant Applications Web Client did not connect to the SQL Server when installed with a port number. This issue is resolved. Now, the Plant Applications Web Client connects with the SQL Server Non Standard port.

00997806, 00996835, 1000059, 00997943 Plant Applications Log4j Vulnerabilities resolved.
01002243 Database When the operator skipped more activities, the PA Web Client blocked the DatabaseMgr and created a record in the Pending_ResultSets table with RS_Value XML content having more than 30,000 characters. Parsing such record by the spServer_DBMgrGetPendingResultSets took more than30 seconds. This issue is now resolved.
00528605 Web Reports The Event details report displayed an error message when a specific combination of dates was selected. This issue occurred for the Dutch regional settings.
00938945 Plant Applications Client The Process Order/Time variable summarized data incorrectly
01000691 Plant Applications Web Client Plant Applications Enterprise installer failed if PASSWORDS_OR_CERTS_UPDATED was set to "false".
00998355 Documentation The online Help was updated for the Sampling engine configuration.
00992317 Plant Applications Web Client During Material Lot Import, the system displayed the following: 500 Internal Server Error. This points to logs in the Product Service about Duplicate Event Ids.
00992329 Plant Applications Web Client When a default value for a property was updated in the Property Definition application, the system did not warn the user of the change in the property's default value.
00992335 Plant Applications Web Client When the user tried to rectify a duplicate Serial Number, the system did not allow to make the changes.
00993008 Plant Applications Web Client There was an issue viewing uploaded documents to the Comments form in the Inspection Criteria tab.