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Version 24 Release Notes

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Michael Nealy

24.6 RELEASE

Here are the official IMPLAN production release notes for version 24.6 released on October 30, 2024. 

SITEWIDE

  • Implemented a new rule for naming in the IMPLAN application. The following characters cannot be used for naming: #, and ^. This applies to anything that users can define the name of; Projects, Regions, Industries, Spending Patterns, Events, etc.

REGIONS

  • Added the ability for users to export General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) in a single file format.
  • Improved the Customize Industry Details menu to include an option for using percentages of Output, ability to apply national per worker ratios, and added the Industry subtotals for Total Value Added and Intermediate Inputs.

IMPACTS

  • Implemented a warning message for whenever a Project has duplicate Event Names. Each Event must now have a unique name in order to run the Project.  
  • Added detail to the error message for overlapping Regions in an Multi-Regional Input-Output (MRIO) Project. The message will now identify which Regions are overlapping in the Project.

ENVIRONMENTAL

  • Added new Industry Environmental Damages tables in Region Details and Project Results:
    • Damages from Greenhouse Gases in carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalents as global warming potential over 20, 100, and 1000 years.
    • Damages from Land Use as crop equivalents and species years.

GUIDES 

  • Added the ability for users to export detailed reports for the Mixed Use Development Guide.

AGGREGATION SCHEMES

  • Added the ability to automatically update Custom Aggregation Schemes for use with IMPLAN Data Years that were released after the Custom Aggregation Scheme was built.  
  • Fixed a bug that was causing Industry tables in Region Details to not be sorted in numerical order when utilizing Custom Aggregation Schemes.  

DATA LIBRARY

  • Improved the Data Library Welcome Page to include an introductory video and high level information to help users get started. 

24.5 RELEASE

Here are the official IMPLAN production release notes for version 24.5 released on August 28, 2024. 

SITEWIDE

  • Implemented a new rule for naming in the IMPLAN application. The following characters cannot be used for naming: & | ; % * ? ! = ' " 
    • This applies to anything that users can define the name of; Projects, Regions, Industries, Spending Patterns, Events, etc.

REGIONS

IMPACTS

  • Removed the Household Institutional Spending Pattern Event Type. Instead, Household Institutional Spending Patterns can be found as specification options when using Institutional Spending Pattern Events.

GUIDE LIBRARY

  • Expanded the Guide Library to include two new interactive Guides:
    • Mixed Use Development
    • Enterprise Impacts
  • Added the ability for users to export detailed reports for the following Guides:
    • Tourism Impacts
    • University Impacts
  • Implemented a new Guides Carousel on the IMPLAN Dashboard for quicker access to available Guides.

AGGREGATION SCHEMES

  • Fixed a bug that was causing Industries to not be in numerical order from the Event Specification dropdown when using Custom Aggregation Schemes. 

SPENDING PATTERNS & MARGINS

  • Fixed a bug on Custom Spending Pattern and Industry Impact Analysis (Custom) Event Types which was resulting in no Indirect or Induced Effects from an analysis.
  • Fixed a bug that was causing the dropdown menu in Spending Patterns to display incorrect Commodities when using non-default Aggregation Schemes. 
  • Fixed a bug that was causing Commodity Margins to not sum to 100% in non-default Aggregation Schemes.

ENVIRONMENTAL

  • Environmental Region Details and Results Dashboards have been refactored to add totals. This update also removed the default Industry filter from the Environmental Details Dashboards in Region Details and the Results.

DATA LIBRARY

  • Fixed a bug that was causing incorrect NAICS descriptions to be displayed when using the 2022 CEW Data Year in Data Library.

24.4 RELEASE

Here are the official IMPLAN production release notes for version 24.4 released on July 10th, 2024.

REGIONS

  • Fixed a bug that was doubling the Race and Ethnicity data for the 2021 118th Congressional District Regions.

IMPACTS

  • Further optimized MRIO analysis performance leading to reduced Project run times.
  • Optimized MRIO analysis to incorporate trade when the Local Purchase Percentage (LPP) is less than 100% for Commodities purchases in Industry Impact Analysis (IIA) and Spending Pattern Events.
  • Fixed a bug that was incorrectly displaying Direct Leakage values in the Results for Industry Spending Pattern Events and Industry Impact Analysis (IIA) Events.
  • Fixed a bug that was causing the Reset Filters to display data not used in the project as filter options, such as the names of Aggregation Schemes and Event Tags.

GUIDE LIBRARY

  • Expanded the Guide Library to include two new interactive Guides:
    • Studyless Tourism
    • University Impacts

SPENDING PATTERNS

  • Fixed a bug that was changing the Commodity code when a Commodity was added to a Spending Pattern for a project using an Industry Aggregation Scheme.

PROJECTS

  • Added the ability for users to transfer Projects that use a user-defined Industry Aggregation Scheme.

DATA LIBRARY

  • Fixed a bug that was causing zeros and nulls to display in Data Library Dashboards in the 2022 Data Year. 
  • Fixed a bug that was preventing users from sorting the data in the Industry Compare and Environmental Dashboards numerically by code. 
  • Fixed a bug that was causing different values to be displayed in the Demographics Dashboard in the 2022 Data Year compared to the values in the 2022 Archive Data Year. 

24.3 RELEASE

Here are the official IMPLAN production release notes for version 24.3 released on June 5th, 2024. 

REGIONS

IMPACTS

  • Optimized MRIO analysis performance leading to reduced Project run times. 
  • Added a new Event Type to IMPLAN Cloud that allows users to select previously-built Custom Industry Spending Patterns as specification options when utilizing the Industry Impact Analysis (Custom) Event.

GUIDE LIBRARY

  • Expanded the Guide Library to include three new interactive Wizards:
    • Impacts of Green Energy
    • Existing Firm/Industry Contribution 
    • Tourism Impacts
  • Added the ability for users to utilize the national averages for Industries that do not exist in the Region when building Construction and Operations or Green Energy Wizards.

SPENDING PATTERNS

  • Fixed a bug that was causing Spending Patterns to not be reset after changing the Spending Pattern Region. This affects the Household Spending Patterns in the U.S. Industry set and all Spending Patterns in the International Industry sets.

PROJECTS

ENVIRONMENTAL

  • Added a new Environmental Industry Details file to the Download tab of the Results page in an Project. This file will detail the estimated Environmental Output, Environment Unit, and Units per dollar of Output for all:
    • Industries
    • Impacts (Direct, Indirect, or Induced) 
    • Environmental Categories
    • Environmental Names
    • Regions
    • Events
    • Groups
  • Added a forced Industry Filter in the Region Environmental Details Table to avoid incorrect summing across Industries.

DATA LIBRARY

24.2 RELEASE

Here are the official IMPLAN production release notes for version 24.2 released on April 3rd, 2024. 

SITEWIDE

  • Implemented account data deletion. This automated process deletes all project data for a given account 30 days from the date that the account’s last (or only) subscription has lapsed. If you need to save your account details outside of IMPLAN prior to account data deletion, be sure to export all pertinent IMPLAN Project Configuration files. This will allow users to Import the Projects Configurations back into their account upon renewing their IMPLAN subscription.  

REGIONS

  • Added the ability to Import Combined Regions of U.S. zip codes, counties, or states using an excel template upload from the Selected Regions panel.
  • Removed the Covid Quarterly Data as selectable Data Years.

IMPACTS

  • Fixed a bug when using Commodity Output Events with non-marginable Commodities that allowed users to leave the Local Purchase Percentage (LPP) blank. Now, if this field is left blank the percentage will default back to 100%.
  • Added a new Household Institutional Spending Pattern (Advanced) Event Type. This Event Type will allow users to manually specify the Spending Pattern of the modeled Institutional Household Spending. 
  • Fixed a bug that resulted in zero Indirect Effects for Industry Impact Analysis (Detailed) Events within a User-Defined Aggregation Schemes for International Regions.
  • Added the ability for users to create single-Region Groups in Event Templates. This also gives users the ability to assign Events to Groups within the same Event Template. 
    • Any existing Groups in the IMPLAN Project can have Events assigned to them in the Template. 
    • Additionally, any existing Events can be assigned to created or existing Groups within the Template. 
    • This functionality has been added for the U.S., Canada, and International Event Templates. 

GUIDE LIBRARY

  • Added a new Construction and Operations Wizard to IMPLAN Cloud that will dynamically walk users through important considerations for setting up a construction and operations Project in IMPLAN. 
    • This Construction and Operations Wizard can be accessed from the IMPLAN Dashboard under Get Started > Guides. 

SPENDING PATTERNS

  • Added Household Spending Pattern to the Custom Spending Patterns Advanced Tool. The Custom Household Spending Pattern is selectable when using the Custom Spending Pattern Event Type on the Impacts page. 

PROJECTS

  • Added the ability for users to Export and Import IMPLAN Project Configuration files from the Projects page.
    • Exporting an IMPLAN Project Configuration file allows users to easily save all of their Project specific details in a file outside of the IMPLAN Cloud application. 
    • This downloaded Project Configuration file can be imported back into an IMPLAN account at any time.

ENVIRONMENTAL

  • Fixed a bug that was causing Environmental values to display incorrectly when summed across multiple Regions.

DATA LIBRARY

  • Changed the default Occupation Data Year to 2022 throughout Data Library.
  • Removed the Covid Quarterly Data as selectable Data Years from Data Library.

RESULTS

  • Added the ability for users to aggregate of Results of Projects utilizing the Default IMPLAN 546 Unaggregated Scheme.
    • Added a Filter on the Results page that allows users to change the displayed Results from the 546 U.S. Unaggregated Industry Scheme to a 2-Digit or 3-Digit NAICS Industry Scheme.

24.1 RELEASE

Here are the official IMPLAN production release notes for version 24.1 released on January 18th, 2024. 

SITEWIDE

  • Updated the design of the IMPLAN log-in screen to be visually consistent with other areas of the IMPLAN application and Material UI Design system being used throughout the product.

REGIONS

  • Added the ability for users to utilize Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) in all aggregation schemes, both default and user-defined. MSAs will be searchable from the Regions Map View and selectable in the Regions List View. 
  • Users can now view the child Regions (counties and/or zip codes) for MSAs and Congressional Districts (CDs) in the Regions List View.
  • Implemented the ability to combine MSA and CD Regions. 
  • Added the Enhanced Demographic Data to the Region Details for all MSAs in the 2020 and 2021 Data Years. 

IMPACTS

  • Improved the user interface for Regional Purchase Coefficient (RPC) customization by adding the ability to see beyond two decimal places for Local Use of Local Supply (LULS), Regional Supply Coefficient, and Regional Purchase Coefficient. This update also added a “Set LULS to Maximum LULS Value” option. 
  • Created a new pop-up window to appear after a user presses the “Run” button, which shows the progress of an analysis.
  • Added Industry Spending Pattern, Institutional Spending Pattern, and Industry Impact Analysis (Detailed) as selectable Event Types in all aggregation schemes.

SPENDING PATTERNS

  • Fixed a bug that was causing users to receive zero Results whenever utilizing a Custom Spending Pattern Event. 
  • Removed the Spending Pattern Year requirement in the International Event Template for Industry Spending Pattern Events and Institutional Spending Pattern Events. 
  • Added a step to the run process that will build out Spending Patterns for Industry Spending Pattern, Institutional Spending Pattern, and Industry Impact Analysis (Detailed) Events in non-default aggregation schemes. 
  • Added the ability to create Custom Spending Patterns for user-defined aggregation schemes. 
  • Created a pop up notification whenever a user edits the sum of Commodity percentages to be greater than 100% in an Industry or Institutional Spending Pattern.
  • Fixed a bug that was causing an error whenever a user uploaded an Event Template that included Institutional Spending Events with non-integer Event Values. 

PROJECTS

  • Enabled Project Sharing for all IMPLAN users. 
  • Added four new In-App Guides for users who have elected to opt in. If you would like to opt-in to see the In-App Guides, please contact support@implan.com.
    • Impact of Tourism Events 
    • Impact of Green Energy
    • Contribution of an Existing Industry
    • Contribution of an Existing Firm

 

Written January 19, 2024

Updated October 31, 2024

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