Prophix Cloud Release Notes
Summer 2020
August 2020
Release notes describe the enhancements and bug fixes contained in new releases and maintenance releases.
Tip: To find the release note that contains a specific issue, search on the Prophix Support Desk ticket number.
Internet Explorer 11 no longer supported
On March 11, 2019, Prophix announced it would remove support for Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) effective December 31, 2019.
If you are currently using IE 11, we recommend switching to Edge or another modern browser such as Google Chrome. Microsoft Edge is the best choice if a Microsoft browser must be used at your organization.
After the End of Support date, functionality in Prophix may not work in IE11, and no minor bugs or cosmetic issues will be fixed for IE11.
Why has Prophix removed support for IE11?
Microsoft released the Edge browser as a replacement for IE11 in 2015 as part of it's Windows 10 operating system. As a result, IE11 no longer receives major updates, and lacks many technical features to support modern web applications. IE11 is considered a legacy browser, with much slower JavaScript and rendering performance than modern browsers like Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.
Prophix strives to deliver products that meet our customers’ needs. The increasing gap between IE11 and all other browsers has meant that we must expend considerable effort to avoid and fix defects that only appear in IE11. It limits our technology choices and ability to deliver the reliability and functionality our customers expect.
What's new
Contributor
Contributor allows you to do the following:
- Open your Data Entry and Approval Only Workflow Tasks in Excel and submit/approve/reject tasks just as you would in Prophix
- Add workflow comments
- Use Excel to contribute to the budgeting process in Prophix
- Use your existing Excel workbooks with Prophix and even integrate Workflow Tasks directly into your workbooks
- Open Prophix templates in Excel
- Save your data to Prophix
- Saving and Refreshing your data view immediately updates account calculations
- Edit and save Prophix Row Notes
For administrators the impact of Contributor is minimal. You don't need to learn any new features and no migration effort is involved because Contributor uses the Prophix functionality existing in the Web Client: the same workflow tasks, template files, template formatting, and data permissions.
Dashboards
- Admins can now add page member selection to chart and badge tiles:
Your users can select the page member combinations for the tile (previously they simply got the result of the first page member combination they had permission to see):
- For Dashboard Studio users, this means having to create fewer charts/badges tailored to the specific security permissions of different users.
- Page member selection is available for both primary hierarchies and alternate hierarchies that are not based on custom member properties.
- In favorites tiles, admins can now set the files to sort in order of last accessed.
- Most chart tiles where the chart has an X-Y axis now include a linear trendline for the series.
- In chart tiles where the chart type is bullet or gauge, the Reset option no longer appears (this is to avoid implying that "drilling" is available in these charts).
Data Integration Agents
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An agent is now available for Sage Intacct, allowing queries to be set up in the Source Extract process.
Data Integration Service
- The DIS documentation now includes the prerequisites for integrating Sage Intacct.
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You now set up the resources for source extracts in one convenient location.
Note:Previously only agents and connections were mapped to one another; you only added queries when setting up a Source Extract process. In the new scheme, agents, connections, and queries are all mapped from the start.
The upgrade process will automatically migrate your existing resources to the new scheme; to do so, it will examine your existing Source Extract processes and automatically remap them. However, any queries that do not belong to a Source Extract process cannot be mapped and will be dropped. If you want to save any such query scripts, you should do so before upgrading.
Document Explorer
Journals Manager
- In Data History, if a change was made through a journal entry, the history details now include a link to the journal entry details.
- You can now restore journal entries that have the status of Deleted.
- You can attach a file to a journal entry.
Notifications Hub
- Workflow tasks are now also sent through the Notifications Hub.
- Announcements are now also sent through the Notifications Hub.
- Notifications to Contributor users or to Offline Data Entry users are sent as email instead of going to the Notifications Hub
Templates
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Most charts that have an X-Y axis can now include a trendline showing the linear or logarithmic trend of a series; you can add a trendline for each series. See the chart's Data drawer:
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In Report and Data Entry modes, the Pages drawer now displays the names of the dimensions (you no longer need to hover on the dimension drop-down to learn the name).
Prophix for Microsoft 365
- Microsoft has rebranded Office 365 to Microsoft 365. Hence, the Prophix add-ins for the Microsoft suite are now called Prophix for Microsoft 365.
Resolved issues
Note that the current build is always cumulative: it contains all previous patches.
Released | Ticket number | Area | Description |
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September | 109677, 109672 | Ad Hoc Analysis, Template Studio | Typing a value into a cell formatted as percentage (%) required double-clicking. |
September | 109607, 109817 | Model Manager | Error on opening a dimension or saving a model. |
August | 105055 | DP Schedules | The Anniversary Increase Parameter was grayed out when a condition was present in the anniversary increase calculation. |
August | 104225 | Ad Hoc Analysis | Using the Russian alphabet Custom Member Properties were not displayed correctly. |
August | 106005 | Dashboard Studio | Null values in the data view caused chart lines to break. |
August | 104465 | Data Integration | The SQL native client failed run a stored procedure if its name contained a dash (-). |
August | 104622 | Document Explorer | The settings for hiding a folder were not working correctly. |
August | 102926 | DP Schedules | When a standard user tried to delete a row through a workflow an Error occurred. |
August | 104385 | DPM | After running a template from Ad Hoc Analysis using the Analyze option, it was not possible to drill through to Detailed Planning. |
August | 105696 | DPM | Editing calculations belonging to groups caused an error. |
August | 103005 | Journal Manager | Though the Credit and Debit values balanced, the journal entry would not post. |
August | 106210 | Journal Manager | Running the Posting Audit Report caused an error. |
August | 104030 | Model Manager | Deleting a cube failed to remove it from the MM_PublishStatus table. |
August | 104401 | Model Manager | Calculated Versions rendered no results when the Time Perspective QTD was included in a cube whose Time dimension lacked a Quarters level. |
August | 105249 | Model Manager | A named set's MDX formula in the database referenced an incorrect dimension name. |
August | 104743 | Model Manager | Using a named set that referenced an alternate hierarchy member caused an error. |
August | 104856 | Model Manager | The Get Data method was not saving the ampersand character (&) properly and this caused a publishing error. |
August | 105507 | Model Manager | Account calculation changes were applied to dimensions in multiple connections. |
August | 103909 | Process Manager | When setting up an Import Dimension process, the Classification dimension was not available for selection. |
August | 106319, 106553, 106223 | Process Manager | Scheduled processes using Source Extract suddenly stopped working. |
August | 104624 | Security Manager | The Security Audit Report failed to export. |
August | 97721 | Template Studio | In Report Mode, in some cases the Pages drawer failed to expand fully to show all the dimensions. |
August | 105354, 105503 | Template Studio | The Pages drawer failed to expand fully to show all the dimensions. |
August | 103639 | Template Studio | A converted Template Studio Classic file was downloaded to Excel and the Measure dimension was visible. |
August | 104158 | Template Studio | Using multiple dynamic members in a template caused the members to shift position. |
August | 103871 | Workflow Manager | Submitting a workflow task logged the error: "A task may only be disposed if it is in a completion state ...". |