Alastri is pleased to announce the release of v22.1. This is a major release with major improvements made to RR Rapid Reserver and Spatial Conformetrics. New reporting functionality, similar to excel, has also been introduced, which allows for flexible and detailed reporting.
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In all Alastri applications, the time since last saved is now shown on the right-hand side of the applications title bar. The applications will no longer interrupt the users' workflow with a MessageBox shown at specified intervals. Instead, a duration can be specified, which will be used to alert users if the time since the last save exceeds this threshold. When the duration is exceeded between saves, the toolbar will flash until the user intervenes and either saves the project or rejects the save request. This feature can be disabled by changing the duration to “Off”.
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Pivot reports and Chrono reports can be converted into Spreadsheet reports, or Spreadsheet reports can be created from scratch using special formulas which extract data from the software and place it in the report. These formulas can be found in the Formulas->Alastri Formulas menu.
Click here to learn more about this report.
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This report is a basic version of Excel. It performs worse and lacks many features that Excel has. While the spreadsheet report will improve over time, it will never match the capability of Excel. As users of Excel ourselves, we fully understand all of the shortcomings of the spreadsheet report compared with Excel. |
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The support desk is not available to assist with creating, modifying, or improving spreadsheet reports; however, this service can be provided through the consulting team. |
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It is now possible to apply a filter to a table report in APS and ATS. The filter can be created in the code editor that appears when the “Use Filter” check box is toggled on. Two formula helpers are located down at the bottom of the editor, which assists in retrieving values used in the filter logic.
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It is now possible to quickly expand/contract collapse various record trees through ATS, APS, and RR. This can be achieved by launching the context menu by clicking the button directly above the scroll bar. It is also possible to save an expand state to the Clipboard and then restore it on a different tree.
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It is now possible to constrain mining to a certain RL within the mine, stage or pit. This The main purpose of this constraint is to limit mining by the lowering of the water table over time through dewatering activities. This constraint is configured in the setup, and rows are automatically added to the Calendar so the water level can be input per period.
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When reviewing the Dependency and Trace dialog for a record, the information shown will now update based on the position of the period slider.
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Destination/Steps Logic - Search and Replace
It is now possible to perform a ‘Search and Replace’ operation on the text within the Destination and Steps logic rules. When selected, a dialog will be shown where a ‘Target Column’ can be selected, along with the text replacement inputs.
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Record Subset Report Filters
It is now possible to use Record Subsets as a source or destination filter in reports. These subsets will appear under “SourceRecordSubset.*” as a source filter or “DestinationRecordSubset.*” as a destination filter. Both filter values will appear as “No” or “Yes” to indicate whether the source or destination is contained in the respective subset.
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Production Scheduler
Secondary Periods
It is now possible to define multiple Period Sets, each of which can be reported against separately. One period set must be enabled as the ‘Primary' set, which will define the intervals for calendar based inputs. Secondary Period Sets can be helpful when a granularity different than the calendar is required for reporting. One common usage is when a two-week plan has weekly calendar inputs, but must be reported in shifts. For example:
1. Set up a Period Set with weekly intervals and set this as the Primary set.
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2. Set up a secondary Period Set with shift intervals.
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3. The required Period Set can be chosen for the focused report by selecting it from the drop-down menu after pressing the icon in the top toolbar. The data displayed in the report will be updated based on which set is currently active.
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Agent Parcels
It is now possible to explicitly define which parcels Agents are allowed to perform activities on in the new ‘Agent Parcels’ step. The mutex group assigned to each activity in the ‘Rates and Precedence' step will dictate what parcel groups are shown for each activity. For each Agent, the applicable parcel groupings can be enabled which will then flow through into the calendar where rates can be specified.
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Split Destinations - JiT Destinations
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Configuration Option | Description |
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No Override | Apply no destination override; this is the default optionsetting. |
None | If the record has an imported destination, choosing 'None’ will override the imported destination to have no override. |
Destination(s) | Allows override destination(s) to be selected along with the corresponding ratios. |
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Setting | Description |
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Method | Never - No cascading will be performed. WhenRequired - Cascading will only be performed where required (once there is not enough room in a lane above, it will that lane instead of show in the lane below). Always - Cascading will always be performed (and will wrap around to the top row once the maximum number of lanes has been used). |
Lanes | The maximum number of lanes that can be used for cascading. |
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In circumstances where construction lines lie on top of one another, points can now be added/deleted/repositioned simultaneously by holding down the “Shift” key and performing the relevant action.
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Minimum Volume Threshold
It is now possible to define a minimum volume discard threshold to help remove trivial/remnant solids. Any solid whose volume is less than the defined value will be discarded. The maximum value is capped to 1000.
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Auto Unique - Dig Solid Naming
Three different options now exist when specifying the Auto Unique option for the ‘Dig’ level.
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None | Auto Unique will be disabled. A Default Value must be specified. |
By Increment | The name of the Dig solid must be unique across the Bench/Flitch level. |
By Blast | The name of the Dig solid must be unique within its parent Blast. Digs with the same name can coexist in the same flitch as long as they belong to separate blasts. |
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Reserve Field Value Clamping
Two new columns have now been introduced, which will clamp numbers by block to be >= Minimum and <= Maximum. This functionality can be used to help with data hygiene by ensuring that values are somewhat sensible.
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Spatial Conformetrics
Improved Workflow
Spatial Conformetrics has a new and improved workflow. This new workflow is much faster to configure for large, complex projects (though mildly slower for very simple setups). It also enables far more customisation of reports and has more data export options.
Click here for the updated documentation on how to use the new workflow.
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Surface Morphing Improvement
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Vertical | Material from the Schedule Solid will be depleted vertically and repositioned in the void that exists between the Production Surface and Schedule Solid. This method honours the volume of the void and the volume filling it. Once the void has been filled, any excess material will occupy the footprint of the original solid but at a reduced height. 
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Horizontal | Material from the Schedule Solid will be depleted horizontally and repositioned in the void that exists between the Production Surface and Schedule Solid. Material will fill the void in the opposite direction as the solid is being depleted. This method honours the volume of the void and the volume filling into it. Once the void has been filled, any excess material will be left at its original height but occupy a reduced footprint of the original solid. Note the software does its best to guess the direction; the user has no direct control over direction. 
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Forced | Material from the Schedule Solid will be repositioned in the void that exists between the Production Surface and Schedule Solid. This method does not honour the volume of the void and the volume of material going into it. Once the void has been filled, any excess material will be thrown away.  |
Haul Infinity
Battery Trucks
Haul Infinity now supports trucks that use batteries as a power source instead of diesel (or some other form of hydrocarbon). Additionally, it’s now possible to model regenerative braking and recharging trucks that are connected to a trolley-assist system.
It’s now possible to track battery usage over a haulage cycle, instantaneous power draw (or recharge).
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Further, the time taken to recharge the trucks between hauls (if needed) is now included in the cycle time analysis:
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All these new fields associated with battery trucks are now available in both APS and ATS, which allows for modelling battery truck requirements (and comparing against conventional trucks).
Note that in order to use these functions, the performance information of the battery-powered trucks must be provided by the user. The Alastri truck library does not contain any battery-powered trucks yet (because none currently exist in production quantities).
Isolated Joins
Various improvements to how the Auto Join feature works have been made. These include adding an additional field to the Properties panel for a selected block, which will allow users to diagnose auto join issues related to the segment not being at the same height as the RL.
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