AGIIS Enhancements is where updates and improvements to the AGIIS database are posted. If you have any suggestions or issues with the current version of AGIIS, you are encouraged to submit an Enhancement Request Form, which is located on this page.
Any time a request is sent to Member Services for review, the submitter receives an email notifying them that the request is under review. Once Member Services approves or declines the request, the user receives email notification with the status, accepted or declined.
Member Services has heard from users over the years that it is counterproductive to have to re-enter everything in these instances. For this reason, we have added a "Declined Request List" option under the "Administration" tab.
Users will be able to select what kind of request (adds, updates, reactivations, duplicates) and select a date range.
The resulting list will show declined requests in their organization, for the categories checked.
Users will be able to click on a particular request, and then make the change mentioned in the decline email, and resubmit.
Please note that users who do not have the permission to submit requests will not be able to click on a request in the list, even though they can see the declined request list.
A user recently had issues logging into AGIIS due to an incorrect password. After multiple failed logins and a call into Member Services, it was discovered that the user copied and pasted the password into the password field. However, when copying the password, a space was inadvertently included. Today the password is masked and the user could not identify the mistake. As a result of this experience, it was suggested that we make the password visible upon entry. Therefore, once the password field has been filled, a user will be able to click the "eyeball" icon to the right to confirm what was entered.
AGIIS was enhanced to include Representational State Transfer (REST) API to support entity updates. A web service can now be performed to return those entities that have been added, updated, or deleted from your GLN or EBID subset.
Swagger documentation has been added to the Links menu in AGIIS underneath the Tech Tools sub-menu, by clicking on the Rest Web Services link. Swagger is a set of rules or specifications for a format describing REST APIs. The format is both machine-readable and human-readable, therefore can be used to share documentation among product managers, testers and developers, but can also be used by various tools to automate API-related processes.
The following Swagger resource guide will help users who want to test basic REST functionality.
Swagger Resource Guide [PDF]
For more detailed testing and implementation, users can also use Postman. Download Postman HERE. Below is a helpful resource guide to help users implement this testing resource.
Postman Resource Guide [PDF]
If you have any questions about the REST Web Services enhancement, or would like to obtain user credentials, please contact Member Services.
On Saturday, 28 March, AGIIS was updated with the following enhancement:
A subscriber requested to add the ASCII file format as an option to receive GLN directory Updates. Prior to this enhancement, they received an EBID subset extract in ASCII format and has an established process to consume and update their internal system. Previous system limitations within AGIIS prevented this from being a possibility, as the GLN Update Extract profile only provides a CSV and XML file format options. The subscriber would have had to build a new internal process to consume a CSV or XML file.
The ASCII file format was intentionally left out of the original GLN Update Extract profile design as at the time, there was a big push to move everyone to using XML. To help accommodate the subscriber’s existing process to consume the ASCII file format, we have provided this file format as an available dropdown option within the GLN Update Extract profile (Appendix A).
On Saturday, 31 January, AGIIS was updated with the following enhancement.
The North American Purchaser Directory/Harvest Partners Identification Number (NAPD/HPID) is a legacy 16-digit unique identifier that was primarily used for farm businesses and growers. While the identifier is no longer being assigned to entities in the AGIIS Directory, it was still being displayed for historical purposes.
An AGIIS user proposed an enhancement to remove this legacy identifier from AGIIS as it is no longer being utilized by most subscribers. The removal of this identifier from view will clean up the look of the entity pages and will eliminate confusion, especially with new users, as to why the identifier is being displayed.
Below is what the Entity Search and Entity View pages now look like, without the NAPD.
An AGIIS user requested there be capability in AGIIS to store subscriber-specific comments on the entity view page. The comments would be used to provide history or supporting documentation about the entity. When adding comments to the Add or Update request, these comments can now be stored and viewable by users of the subscriber that added the comments.
To view comments, go to the Entity View page, scroll to the bottom, and select the button titled Subscriber User Comments:
Users will then be able to see a list of comments entered for that entity. Please note that only comments entered by users of the subscriber that added the comments will be able to be viewed.
The Member Services team (Directory Administrators) fields questions from users that have a scheduled product extract in AGIIS. Previously, the team did not have visibility into the user product extract profile to assist with questions or inquiries. With this enhancement, the Directory Administrators are now able to view the product extract profile for each user.
Additionally, some users have in the past requested that they no longer receive an email each time their product extract completes. We have added functionality that allows the user to turn these email notifications on or off.
This enhancement provides subscriber primary and secondary contacts the ability to pull these metrics in real time, using the AGIIS web interface. The following metrics are now available:
Subscriber Level Reports, number of:
User Level Reports, number of:
To get to this menu, a primary or secondary contact will need to click on the Administration tab, then the Subscriber/User Metrics option. This will take you to the below screen.
From here, select a user from the drop-down list, as well as any parameters that need to be viewed, and click Go:
Once selections are made, the results will appear as follows:
On Saturday, 18 October, AGIIS was enhanced to help streamline the process used by the Directory Administrators for marking a potential duplicate candidate as "Duplicate Exempt."
Previously, when the Directory Administrator (DA) received a request, the Request Update page would display a list of entities that were identified by the system as potential duplicates. When the DA determined that the entity was not a duplicate of the entities displayed in the potential duplicates list, they would mark the entity as, Duplicate Exempt. Doing this ensured that the entity will not be inactivated during the annual de-duplication maintenance.
To ensure that the entities displayed in the potential duplicates list are also not considered for a de-duplication inactivation, they too must be marked as duplicate exempt. Today, the DA must click into each of these displayed records, mark it as duplicate exempt, submit and confirm the update. This can be a time-consuming process when multiple records are involved.
The DA requested that there be a text field on the Request Update page that allows the entry of one or multiple GLNs that will be marked as Duplicate Exempt. This will not speeds up processing times but also helps to reduce the number of records that are incorrectly inactivated during the annual de-duplication maintenance.
On Saturday, 23 August, AGIIS was enhanced to automatically email new users a link to establish their password.
When a subscriber administrator creates a new user account, they will fill out the below required sections, and click "Submit".
Once the subscriber administrator clicks the "Submit" button, the below email will be sent to the user, who can then click on the "Establish Password Link" to set up their password. Once logged in the first time, they will be prompted to set up security questions.
Should 24 hours pass before the user sets up their password and they click the "Establish Password Link" in the email, they will receive the following message:
To resend the password email, the subscriber administrator will need to go to the "Administration" tab, click "My Users, then click "Go" to see the list of users. On the right will be a column titled "Incomplete User Profile". The subscriber administrator will simply click on the user's name in that column, and they will receive the following message:
On Saturday, 5 July, the Entity View page was enhanced with a "Prop Code History" button.
Clicking this button gives users the ability to see proprietary code changes on an entity and includes the prop code value, date, and the user ID that performed the prop code update.
On Saturday, 21 June, AGIIS was enhanced to auto-populate the corresponding Unit of Measure (UOM).
When adding a product’s package size in AGIIS, it is a system requirement to assign a UOM. AGIIS supports two UOM standards, ANSI X12 and UN REC 20. Each of these standards in AGIIS contain a drop-down list of over 700 Units of Measure assigned with a two or three-digit code. For example, if the unit of measure for a product is in gallons, the X12 standard is GA while the UN REC 20 unit of measure is GLL.
Considering the UOM drop-down lists are extensive, it was cumbersome for the user to locate the UOM and assign it for both standards. To make this process more efficient, the system now auto-populates the corresponding UOM. For example, if under the X12 standard the UOM is selected as LB, the UN REC 20 standard will auto-populate with LBR.
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[PDF] 2025
[PDF] 2024
[PDF] 2023
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