It’s all gone Alphabetti with the latest BID3 2024.2 release!
Amongst a soup of other features, we’ve renamed the first six modules so they run from ABCDEF. Don’t worry, we’ve still got until Z before we run out of letters…
Alongside the alphabetti, this summers’ release is a childlike mix of spaghetti, clouds, ribbons and hide-and-seek, as we integrate some of the beta BID3 Cloud features in the release version. We’ve also come up with a new ribbon design – sadly no rainbows or unicorns - but there’s a load of improvements to hiding functionality. Alongside all these upgrades, we’ve made time for the usual range of fixes and speed ups, and of course removing the few bugs that might have crept in. Who wants bugs in their alphabetti spaghetti? Not us, we've checked!
- Economics module. Renaming the module-formerly-known-as-Profitability to Economics means the first 6 module run alphabetically – both a logical change and also helps with remembering them…
- A is for Auto Build that really is fun
- B is Banding, that I have to run (yes, you do)
- C is for Calendar Constraints, a real mouthful
- D is for Dispatch, the most detailed of all
- E is for Economics, why not take a plunge
- F is for Fuel model, the last of the bunch
- Output ribbon redesign. The old layout was pasta’d its best, so we’ve improved this to make it quicker to find things.
- Hiding functionality. The improved ribbon means we can now help new users by allow them to switch off functionality they’re not using. Don’t worry, it’s just a button click to turn it all back on again.
- Show and hide hidden columns. It’s more hide-and-seek, but a neat little toggle is a cunning addition.
- BID3 Cloud. Previously only available as Beta, the BID3Cloud functionality is now available in the release, giving our users a chance to experience (near-)limitless increases in processing capacity.
- Fuel contracts. Tricky to explain, but they work better. Think of it like an improved tin-opener for your can of spaghetti…
- Upgrade to Xpress 9.3. Even trickier to explain, but it’s definitely better, we’ve checked, especially in MIP (Mixed Integer Programming, in a metaphor too far, possibly a bit like the difference between spaghetti and alphabetti)
