Release Notes NET 15.2

Note: The release has been withheld due to compatibility issues. Upon individual request, we can evaluate whether and under which conditions the release can be made available to the customer.
 

Summary

With Release 15.2, TKI expands fiber optic network planning capabilities with powerful new features for survey data integration, improved overview displays, and fully integrated project validation. This release focuses on more efficient workflows, better data quality, and a seamless connection between field surveys and planning.

🌞Highlights

  • New Import Plugin for NET Scan Data – The general import now includes a new plugin that allows users to transfer data from the NET Scan data model directly into the Redlining data model. Users can select specific NET Scan projects and survey data via the user interface and import them into existing Redlining projects – a crucial step toward integrating field and planning data.

  • Enhanced CO Overview with Full Duct Hierarchy – The CO overview now displays the full hierarchy of each duct in a single column, separated by clear arrows. Combined with preserved cell background colors in Excel exports, analyzing network structures becomes significantly clearer.

  • Project Validation Directly in NET Engineering – The project validation from NET Design is now fully integrated into NET Engineering and accessible via the ribbon menu. All previous data checks from the context menu are now available in a unified, categorized interface – including cluster filtering for targeted validations.

🚀 Further Improvements

  • Completely redesigned "Set duct insertion" workflow with new feature selection

  • Extended Redlining data model with additional attributes for NET Scan integration

  • Improved error handling and stability in the planning assistant

  • Oracle compatibility for the "FO Cable Costs" report

  • More consistent behavior when adjusting duct and cable types

This release strengthens the bridge between field surveys and network planning and provides improved data quality assurance through integrated project validation.

Supported Software

Release NET 15.2 in Detail

General

  • The access control system for project-based data separation now has the data model code 9117.7.0.

Workflows

  • The “Split FO cable” or “Split TP cable” workflow now works correctly again even if the cable is located in a segment that has already been split.

atesio Integration

  • Four “Aerial” planning settings in NET Design (atesio Strategic 2024) now have the correct Yes/No selection options.

Reports

  • Dynamic line breaks have been added to the “NET Network Overview Service” report to ensure that content is displayed correctly.

  • Fixed an issue for reports where the line breaks for single long words caused the ellipsis to appear too early, leaving unused space.

GIS-Nebenbestimmungen

  • In the BDV report “Documentation house lead-in micro duct,” house numbers are now issued including suffixes (e.g., “a,” “b”).

  • In the BDV report generated from the building form for multiple objects, each building is now assigned to the correct construction project.

  • GIS-NB: When exporting the “Leerrohre” layer, single ducts are once again correctly split at segments if they do not lead to a house connection.

Export to NET Build

  • In NET Build, images and map sections are now displayed correctly in the PDF when exporting invoices.

NET Design

Import

  • “Comsof: Import Material Definition” can now be executed via the general import. The previous access via the context menu has been removed.

  • In the general import in NET Design, special and user-defined attributes no longer produce misleading messages about missing geometry.

GIS-Nebenbestimmungen

  • The GIS-NB export of demand points in NET Design no longer crashes when demand points without residents are present.

  • For GIS-NB 5.1 export in NET Design, the option to export structures and network technology is available again.

NET Engineering

General

  • The duct type name schema now supports “abc”/“ABC” as a number format. The placeholder “{NR:abc}” is replaced, for example, with ascending values such as “a”, “b”, “c”, …

  • Error messages for actions requiring administrative privileges have been clarified.

  • When uploading documents to NET Cloud, a preview link is now stored by default.

  • The CO overview now shows each duct's full hierarchy in a single column. Individual ducts are separated with a clear arrow (→).

  • Excel exports from the CO Overview now preserve the original cell background colors, making it easier to visually distinguish network objects in the exported file.

  • The duct connection editor now allows removing duct terminations via the context menu.

  • When canceling a patch, the service is no longer removed from the associated network path, if available.

  • A bug was fixed that caused a crash when creating authorization polygons from existing geometries.

  • The access permission structure update can now also be executed via the Industry Model Setup.

  • Fixed an issue in the duct connection editor where, after reordering elements, splitting ducts also affected ducts from other duct bundles.

  • A bug was fixed that could cause a Map3D crash when opening the label collision resolution.

Import

  • A new plugin is now available in the general import, allowing users to transfer data from the NET Scan data model directly into the Redlining data model. Users can select specific NET Scan projects and survey data via the user interface and import them into existing Redlining projects.

  • During the general import, objects can now be linked to related data based solely on their geographic position, without having to specify additional matching attributes.

  • A bug was fixed in the general import that could cause the import process to abort with an error report.

Workflows

  • The “Check split Ratio” workflow now includes the new feature selection, which makes it easier to select FO Cable Sections from the map or form.

  • The “Set duct insertion” workflow has been completely redesigned and aligned with the other workflows, for example by integrating the new feature selection.

  • The planning assistant now handles geometry errors during line splitting more robustly. Network generation continues even if individual lines cannot be split, ensuring a more stable planning process.

Planning and House Connection Assistant

  • Error messages for too few values in the naming scheme for connectors or in the name/color scheme of cable types are now correctly displayed in the configured language.

  • In the “Creating house lead-in” workflow, clear error messages are now shown when unrealistically high values are entered for fibers per building, residential units, or commercial units.

  • In the “Creating house lead-in” workflow, the tabs in the planning options for fiber and cable configuration are now opened and closed correctly.

  • In the “Creating house lead-in” workflow, cable types with 0 fibers are now handled correctly and lead to clear messages.

Connection editor

  • Resizing the connection editor window no longer causes the “Create Action” button to be obscured.

  • The icon bar in the connection editor action menu has been removed, and a separator has been added to group editing actions.

  • In the connection editor action “Connect splitter path with connector”, the configuration “in tray” is now shown by default before “with plug”.

Dialogs

  • If a value that exceeds the maximum allowed length is entered in a text field, a clear error message now appears.

  • In the Duct form, the display of direct parent ducts has been restored. Additionally, the display of inner ducts has been renamed to clarify that it only shows the directly contained ducts.

  • In the “FO Splice” form, double-clicking on the tray now opens the corresponding form instead of the view as before.

  • In the “FO Fiber” and “TP Wire” forms, the name and color are now locked if “Fiber name”/“Wire name” or “Fiber color”/“Wire color Code” are set in the “FO Cable Type” or “TP Cable Type” of the corresponding cable.

  • The “Adjust ducts” and “Update cable sections” functions in the “Duct Type” and “FO Cable Type” or “TP Cable Type” forms have been standardized in terms of their behavior and possible error/information messages.

  • A duplicate, unnecessary separator has been removed from the Edit menu of the “FO Patch” and “TP Patch” forms.

Reports

  • Manual line breaks and empty lines are now correctly handled when wrapping and truncating text in report cells. Paragraphs and empty lines are preserved as entered, ensuring that the display in reports reliably reflects the actual text structure. Truncation now consistently occurs based on the visible line height.

  • The “FO Cable Costs” report now works correctly in all supported database environments.

TNIM

  • Added the TNIM fields to the feature classes of the GIS-NB data model.

Redlining

  • When importing from NET Scan, NET Scan types with the same name are automatically merged.

  • In the Redlining data model, additional attributes have been added for RL route, RL cable, RL duct, RL structure, RL splice closure, RL termination, RL fitting, and RL survey. These are now also available in the forms, so that information from NET Scan can be transferred more completely.

  • NET Scan-specific dependencies and attributes have been removed from the Redlining data model.

  • In the general import, NET Scan data can now be imported into the Redlining data model.

  • NET Scan data can now be transferred from the Redlining data model back into the NET Scan data model. All references are automatically updated, and the data is removed from the Redlining data model after transfer.

  • For processing Redlining data imported from NET Scan, a separate window for Redlining data transfer is now available. It can be accessed via the “Redlining Measurement” form.

  • A bug in the Redlining data transfer was fixed that could cause previously imported measurements to be incorrectly included in subsequent transfer runs.

  • The Redlining data transfer window can now only be opened once at a time.

Validation

  • All data checks previously available via the “Industry Model” context menu in NET Engineering can now be accessed directly through the new project validation. The data checks are categorized, separated from other validations and include customer-specific checks, making it easier to find and execute relevant validations. All checks continue to function as before, but are now available in a unified interface for more efficient project workflows.

  • The project validation from NET Design is now directly integrated into NET Engineering and can be accessed via the ribbon menu. This makes the validation functionality available in NET Engineering for all projects. This facilitates quality control and supports more efficient workflows in the planning and documentation of fiber optic networks.

  • The project validation has been enhanced to allow restricting the validation to a specific cluster. This enables more targeted and faster validations in projects with multiple large clusters. The cluster can be selected via a new selection field in the validation window. In NET Design, the cluster selection is not shown by default but can be enabled for testing purposes.

NET Operations

Dialogs

  • In the patch and splice forms for fiber optics and telephony, the “Active” checkbox can no longer be edited directly. This prevents accidental changes to the connection status.