Release Notes - 2022.1

Welcome!

In this section, you will find the Release Notes for version 2022.1 of GPM SCADA. If you have questions or feedback, please contact your GPM representative.

New

Filters for the Alert Grid Support Searching by Element Name

You can now use Element names as filters to search for specific alarms. Previously, you could only search alarms using keywords by alarm name. This development makes it easier and faster to find specific alarms, particularly in situations where there are numerous active alarms simultaneously.
Tip: This is especially useful for wind technology, since a single element may have a substantial amount of alert triggers.

New Permissions Module

The new Permissions module allows you to manage access to specific entities (parameters, datasources, descriptions and alarms) by applying tags to them. This provides a greater level of control in the way you can apply permissions across your configurations.

For more information, see the Permissions Module section in the GPM Plus or GPM SCADA User Guide.

For more information, see the Permissions Module section in the GPM Plus User Guide.

For more information, see the Permissions Module section in the GPM SCADA User Guide.

Figure 1. Permissions module
Permissions module.

Advanced "On Hold" Periods for Alarms

You can now set alarms to "On hold" for default time periods, custom periods, or permanently. Previously, it was mandatory to manually define a set period of time when placing a hold on an alarm.

When you select to put the alarm on hold permanently, the hold remains in place until the alarm is either deactivated automatically, or until you change the status again manually.

The updated options for "On Hold" are:

  • 1 day

  • 1 week

  • 1 Month

  • Permanent

  • Custom period

Figure 2. Hold period options for alarms
Hold period options for alarms

Users still must specify the reason for setting an alarm on hold.

Note: The following notes are meant for internal audiences only.

Vectorial Layout Has Shared Library for Images

You can now create a unique, shared library for images to use across several layers. This allows you to upload images from the library once, then reuse them across several layers. Previously, if you wanted to use the same images across several layers in the same SCADA system, it was necessary to duplicate image folders. Now, you do not need to re-upload images several times, thus making the process faster and easier.

Images are defined by UID and element typology for easy search, and the repository does not support duplicated labels. This prevents accidentally overwriting an image.

Improved

Navigation and NOC Modules Display "On Hold" Status of Alerts

The Navigation module and the Network Operating Center (NOC) module now display the color-code for alerts that are on hold. Previously, the user interfaces (UI) of these modules displayed the colors for other statuses. Now, you can more accurately assess alert statuses at a glance from the UI.
Figure 3. Alert status display
Navigation and NOC modules displaying the status of alerts using color-codes.

Improved Selection Options for Tickets

The Tickets template now has multi-select options available in drop-down menus. This allows you to select multiple options of the same type (for example, several operators assigned to a single ticket). This provides more flexibility in managing and processing your tickets.
Important: This applies to all the ticket management systems in GPM Plus and GPM Horizon.
Note: The following release notes are for internal audiences only.

PEAK Integration: Display Findings from PEAK in GPM Plus

The Alerts module in GPM Plus now displays findings from the PEAK's Watchdog feature. Users who have plants onboarded to PEAK can now see findings and unified findings as alarms in the Alerts Grid.

Available findings include:

  • AC/DC datasheet

  • AC/DC trend

  • Data Availability

  • Data Quality

  • Degradation rate

  • Device loss

  • Performance ratio deviation

  • Soiling grate

  • Dynamic shadow rate

  • Pyranometer misorientation

  • Temperature reliability

To avoid misconfigurations, a new alarm profile is generated in the Alarm Profile Configuration when deploying GPM Plus 2022.1; this profile is used for these alarms, but is hidden from the user interface. A new type of alert is also used to identify the findings and unified findings, allowing users to filter the table in order to identify them by their origin.

It is also possible to exploit these findings from PEAK in the GPM Template Report.
Note: To do this, GPM operators must activate a plugin in "configuration.xml" (on the server side) to enable the service that allows findings and unified findings to flow between PEAK and GPM.

This is part of an ongoing initiative to integrate functionalities from PEAK into GPM Plus. For more information about the PEAK methodologies, see the PEAK user guide.

Fixed

Delete Series of Tickets in Tickets Module and NOC

The Tickets module and the Network Operating Center (NOC) now correctly delete series of tickets and templates. Previously, a bug could cause the Tickets module and the NOC to stop working when trying to delete tickets and templates from the tool and the database.

Reports Generation

We fixed two bugs that could affect the generation of reports in some cases.

Reports Generation in PDF

We updated the Gembox library to the latest version. This fixed the issues that could occur with configured charts in XLSX, and the PDF generation now works correctly.

Monthly Production Report Generation and Template Export in GPM SCADA
GPM SCADA correctly generates the Monthly Production Report, and exports the report template to XLS. Previously, an error could cause the report to appear in the processing queue and then disappear without creating the XLS file.
Note: When working with the GPM Template Report, it is not possible to create an XLS file if the template includes a link to another template. This is not an error in the system, but the result of a security measure. When this happens, the system will notify you and prompt you to remove the link before generating the XLS file.
Note: The following notes are meant for internal audiences only.

Budgets Card Correctly Deletes Parameters and Links Variables

The Budgets card now correctly deletes parameters that had previously had dependencies with exceptions. You can also link manual variables to metrics. Previously, an error could prevent users from deleting certain parameters or from linking variables to metrics.
Note: This bug affected users from British Solar Renewables.

Fixes to Vectorial Layout Plugins

We have fixed several bugs that affected the Vectorial Layout:

  • Commands support execution from the Vectorial Layout view.

  • Commands control can be correctly configured in "Editing" view.

  • Items have the correct color and appear correctly when edition view is loaded. Previously, some items did not appear in the color defined for them in the Tool menu.

  • Lines have the correct color defined for them in the Tool menu.

API Endpoints

We fixed issues with two API endpoints:

  • /api/DataList/DataList: requests for data are no longer answered with unexpected errors. an issue caused the API to answer requests for data with unexpected errors. We have also improved the behavior of the error message.

  • /api/Account/Token: improved endpoint to retrieve token. Previously, an error could cause this endpoint to return an empty token.
    Note: This issue affected users from Atlas and Orsted.