Release Notes: MxAPS
The following release notes contain updates made to MxAPS. Listed below are the versions and their new features, improvements, and fixes. Please refer to the following information pertaining to your version of MxAPS. Upgrade to the current version of the application to access new features, improvements, and fixes.
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MxAPS Version 4.10
Release Date: January 2026
Compatible With:
- Business Central 13.3, 14.3 and newer
- Insight Works Graphical Scheduler 1.7 and newer
- Insight Works Common 2.15 and newer
Licensing Requirements:
Full User, Essential
Improvements
| Improvement | Description |
| Performance improvements | Improved performance when calculating large and complex datasets. |
| Scheduling information improvements | Added additional scheduling information in completion messages. |
| Scalability | Scalability improvements. |
| Business Central compatibility | Business Central 28 compatibility changes with order tracking. |
Updates
| Update | Description |
| Troubleshooting updated | Added usability to help generate downloadable request files. |
| Progress dialog | Updated information in progress dialog. |
| Data size updated | Updated data size. |
| Scheduling speed | Updated scheduling speed. |
| Deleting schedule results updated | Added the ability to bulk delete schedule results and enabled users to delete inactive schedules that had previously been applied. Included in release 4.10.9547.1 |
| Prod. Order routing constraints updated | Resolved issue with validation preventing users from creating Prod. Order routing constraints for items that exceeded 10 characters Included in release 4.10.9547.1 |
| Reduced waiting time for fast schedules | Updated schedule generation completion polling time to be smaller for anticipated fast responses. Included in release 4.10.9547.1 |
| Usability updated | Updated usability of some lookups to help with data entry. Included in release 4.10.9547.1 |
| Resolved collation sort issue | Update the sorting logic to work more effectively in more regions with different sorting collations, such as Estonia. Included in release 4.10.9551.1 |
| Resolved ending date-time issue | Resolved an issue when the ending date-time did not change in the production order after committing the schedule results. Included in release 4.10.9578.4 |
| Updated default timeout | Default timeout updated from 5 minutes to 10 minutes. Included in release 4.10.9578.4 |
| Finishing production orders | Finishing production orders no longer updates references in schedule results. Included in release 4.10.9578.4 |
| Better error handling | Updated and improved stability when receiving an unexpected response from the scheduling engine. Included in release 4.10.9595.1 |
| Remaining qty zero | Automatically excluding any Production Order Lines that have a remaining quantity of zero from scheduling consideration. If there are operations or quantity required to still schedule, update the required qty above finished qty amount. Included in release 4.10.9595.1 |
| Updated Calendar | Updated and improved handling of shop calendar exceptions throughout the scheduling window. Included in release 4.10.9595.1 |
| Deleting Schedules | Removed a constraint that prevented deleting schedules after a schedule was applied. Now works with “Delete Unused Results Older Than 7 Days” and “Delete All Unused Results” functions. Included in release 4.10.9595.1 |
| Progress dialog | Updated to improve progress dialog while waiting for schedules to calculate. Included in release 4.10.9603.1 |
| Non-discrete component demand | Improved scheduling accuracy when fractional component quantities are used and inventory is near threshold. Included in release 4.10.9629.1 |
| Customizations | Updated the Scheduling Engine URL management through license registrations.
Included in release 4.10.9655.1 |
| Secondary Constraint tables | Updated the MxAPS Secondary Constraint tables with the ability to go from the standard 2 decimal places to 5 decimal places.
Included in release 4.10.9655.1 |
| Change Log table permissions | Permissions for the Change Log table are no longer required for generating a schedule.
Included in release 4.10.9655.1 |
| Faster requests | Reduced the time taken to generate scheduling requests.
Included in release 4.10.9728.3 |
| Empty Work Centers | Updated stability of handling schedules for Work Centers that do not contain any Machine Centers.
Included in release 4.10.9728.3 |
| Handling of cancellations | Updated handling of more request cancellation scenarios.
Included in release 4.10.9728.3 |
| Change Status | Added Change Status action to the MX orders list; requires Business Central 17 or newer.
Included in release 4.10.9728.3 |
MxAPS Version 4.9
Release Date: January 2025
Compatible With:
- Business Central 13.3, 14.3 and newer
- Insight Works Graphical Scheduler 1.7 and newer
- Insight Works Common 2.15 and newer
Licensing Requirements:
Full User, Essential
Improvements
| Improvement | Description |
| Improved Production Order Components | Added a new setting to the MxAPS Setup and Commit Schedule pages to control how Production Order Components and their Reservation Entries are modified when a schedule is committed, with counts of modified records shown on the post-commit summary. |
| Schedule identification improvement | Schedule identification working with inactive or excluded routing operations result in a Scheduled identification allowing commit of the results to update corresponding Production Orders.
Included in release 4.9.9291.1 |
| Past due purchase orders included improvement | Past due Purchase Orders are included as available resource replenishment alongside accurate resource allocation when using Lot Transfer functionality.
Included in release 4.9.9291.1 |
| Improved various quantity handling | Improved quantity handling for resources, resource replenishment, and resource requirement.
Included in release 4.9.9371.1 |
Updates
| Update | Description |
| Interface consistency update | Updated and improved consistency of lists and editable pages. |
| Added integration event | Added the integration event OnAfterCreateBuffers to assist with customizations. |
| Updated abbreviations for consistency | Updated abbreviations in captions and tooltips for consistency. |
MxAPS Version 4.8
Release Date: January 2024
Compatible With:
- Business Central 13.3, 14.3 and newer
- Insight Works Common 2.12 and newer
Licensing Requirements:
Full User, Essential
Improvements
| Improvement | Description |
| Make-To-Order Manufacturing Policy Reservation Support | Base MxAPS ignores reservation entries and uses its inventory simulation. Limited support for interdependencies between inventory and Prod. Order Lines and Prod. Order Lines to Prod. Order Lines has been added in the case those reservations are the result of a Make-To-Order Manufacturing Policy. |
| Changes to subcontracting | Subcontracted operations only have their scheduled duration shortened when they are linked to a purchase line. When there is no linked purchase line, the scheduling behavior treats a subcontracted operation like any other operation and schedules the full setup and run time. |
| Assisted Setup | Added MxAPS Setup Wizard to the Assisted Setup page. |
| Machine Center quantity handling | Improved quantity handling for Machine Center resource requirements.
Included in release 4.8.8823.1 |
| Missing configuration data handling | Improved handling of missing configuration data.
Included in release 4.8.8823.1 |
| Show details handling | Improved handling of Show details on Substitution Code lookups in product setup.
Included in release 4.8.8823.1 |
| Field captions | Improved field captions.
Included in release 4.8.8823.1 |
| Matching descriptions | When committing a result to a production order routing line and the update changes the work/machine center, the description on the production order routing line now updates to match the work/machine center.
Included in release 4.8.8823.1 |
| Additional public methods | Many internal methods are marked as public to assist with customizations and changes in Business Central behavior.
Included in release 4.8.8825.2 |
| Performance improvements | Schedule request generation time improvements. Included in release 4.8.8851.1 |
| Setup elimination option | Users can force operations to schedule on a Machine Center where setup elimination can occur if one is available and if setup elimination has been configured. Previously, the default scheduling behavior for an operation was to choose the Machine Center that resulted in the earliest finish time. Included in release 4.8.8851.1 |
| Just-In-Time unit of measure improvement | Improved handling of Just-In-Time unit of measure in some circumstances. Included in release 4.8.8902.1 |
| Improved calculation response | Improved calculation response to allow optional information records. Included in release 4.8.8902.1 |
Updates
| Update | Description |
| Performance enhancements | Improved performance of Production Order Status changes with large numbers of Schedule Results with large numbers of lines. |
| Machine Center Absences now considered | MxAPS considers Absences for Machine Centers and prevents Production Orders from scheduling on them during these dates and times. |
| Parallel operations sorting issue resolved | Performance enhancement for sorting (by sequence number) of parallel operations.
Included in release 4.8.8923.1 |
| Localized weekdays | Updated so a localization PTE that changes the translation for weekdays no longer impacts scheduling.
Included in release 4.8.9057.1 |
| Assigning order priority | Assigning a priority value to a production order now applies to all of its Prod. Order Routing Lines.
Included in release 4.8.9098.2 |
| Operation schedule error prevented | Prevented an error on the Operation Schedules page caused by attempting to retrieve a missing Prod. Order Line. Included in release 4.8.9098.2 |
MxAPS Version 4.7
Release Date: June 2023
Compatible With:
- Business Central 13.3 and newer
- Insight Works Common 2.10 and newer
Licensing Requirements:
Full User, Essential
New Features
| New feature | Description |
| Added Prod. Order Routing Line and Routing Line (operation) level secondary constraints | Secondary constraints can be defined in the user interface at the Prod. Order Routing Line and Routing Line (operation) level. |
| Added gap control groups | Added the ability to control maximum allowable gaps with a production segment (RUN, SETUP, etc.) and delays between production segments (RUN, SETUP, etc.) in the form of gap control groups. |
| Added user-definable resource groups, resource kits, and alternate IDs | User can define their values for resource groups, resource kits, and alternative IDs rather than being limited to the default numbering convention. |
| Added Business Central 13.3 compatibility | MxAPS now works with Business Central 13.3 (web GUI only). |
| Secondary constraint maintenance enhancements | Added the ability to directly maintain secondary constraints from Routing Lines, Routing Version Lines, and Prod. Order Routing Lines. |
| Additional events | Multiple new events have been added to facilitate easier development of per-tenant extensions (PTEs). |
Improvements and Fixes
| Improvement or fix | Description |
| Business Central 22 event compatibility changes | Implemented event changes to ensure Business Central 22 compatibility. |
MxAPS Version 4.6
Release Date: January 2023
Compatible With:
- Business Central 14.3 and newer
Licensing Requirements:
Full User, Essential
New Features
| New Feature | Description |
| Committing schedule results | Users can now optionally update the work center or machine center, in addition to the starting and ending date times, on the production order routing line based on the schedule results. |
| Setup reduction | Setup reduction or elimination can now be defined based on shared attributes of items such as a specific raw material or color. Item combination matrixes can also be defined. |
| Scheduling progress dialog | The progress dialog when generating a schedule now indicates what percentage of records have been processed in the current export table and how many tables remain to process. |
Improvements and Fixes
| Improvement or Fix | Description |
| Data filtering | Enhanced automatic filtering of various Business Central records with data issues when generating a schedule. |
| User messaging | More detailed message dialogs when data issues are detected. |
MxAPS Version 4.5
Release Date: September 2022
Compatible With:
- Business Central 16.0 and newer
Licensing Requirements:
Full User, Essential
Improvements
| Improvement | Description |
| Define Multi-Line Filter Sets | Multi-line filter sets can now be defined for selecting production orders to schedule. |
| Specify Schedule Result | Users can now specify the schedule result that manual moves should be read from. |
| Drag and Drop Operations | Operations can now be moved via drag and drop on the Graphical Scheduler. The MXOPSCH code requires its update mode set to allow writes in the Graphical Scheduler View for all users that are allowed to make manual moves. |
| User Interface | User interface enhancements. |
| Alternate Groups Data Protection | Data protection of alternate groups that are still associated to routing lines or production order routing lines. |
| Alternate Groups | Alternate groups when they appear on a routing line or prod. order routing line. |
| Production Order Status | Changes to production order status update existing schedule results. |
| Routing No. and Routing Reference No. | Routing No. and Routing Reference No. are available in certain output tables for easier integration. |
| Schedule Results Tracking | Schedule results now track when the result was last committed to Business Central. |
| Transfer Lot Splitting with Output | Enhancements to transfer lot splitting with output. |
MxAPS Version 4.4
Release Date: June 2022
Compatible With:
- Business Central 16.0 and newer
Licensing Requirements:
Full User, Essential
Improvements
| Improvement | Description |
| Setup and Guided Experience | Setup and guided experience improvements. |
| Alternate Group | Alternate group related improvements. |
| Registration Integration | Improved registration integration. |
| Caption | Caption improvements. |
| Delete Options | Additional delete options from the schedule list. |
| Performance | Performance improvements. |
| Global Item Fence Setting | Global Item Fence Setting improvement. |
| Blank Items Handling | Improved handling of blank items. |
| Large Order Sets Handling | Improved handling of large order sets. |
MxAPS Version 4.3
Release Date: April 2022
Compatible With:
- Business Central 16.0 and newer
Licensing Requirements:
Full User, Essential
New Features
| New Feature | Description |
| Transfer Times | Define move or transfer times between operations based on the equipment the operations were scheduled on. |
| Shop Calendar Exceptions | When you are using a Business Central item to represent a secondary constraint (such as labor) and set it up to use a shop calendar to define time based on availability, the shop calendar exceptions allow you to define different availability patterns for a date than the standard shop calendar working days. |
Improvements and Fixes
| Improvement or Fix | Description |
| Record sorting | Modified internal record sorting to address cases where certain fields can contain characters that alter the expected sort behavior. |