Prophix Cloud Release Notes
Fall 2020
December 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.
Support for Microsoft 365
Analyzer and Contributor support Microsoft 365 using monthly or Semi Annual Channels.
Note: Microsoft Office 2019 and Office 2016 perpetual licensed editions are not supported.
What's new
Analyzer
- A brand-new Prophix add-in for Microsoft Excel, Analyzer replaces Prophix for Microsoft 365 Excel and allows advanced users to do the following:
- Change data view structures from within Excel
- Formerly in Prophix for Microsoft 365 Excel it was necessary to make multiple data views from different configurations.
- Analyzer provides an Edit Layout tool identical to Edit Layout in Prophix.
- Now after inserting a data view you can change the member selection, structure, and page members from within the Excel sheet.
- Delete data views from within Excel
- In Prophix for Microsoft 365 Excel if you wanted to delete a data view, you needed to delete its Excel sheet.
- Analyzer allows you to delete a data view while keeping the sheet and all its other content.
- Switch among display formats for page members
- Prophix for Microsoft 365 Excel used the saved member display format and offered no way to change it.
- Analyzer allows you to modify the member display format on every axis of a data view inside an Excel sheet.
- You can change the display format to Names, Keys, or Names & Keys.
- Change data view structures from within Excel
Dashboards
- A tile group can be created for badge and chart tiles that use related data views.
- When the user selects a different page dimension, all tiles in the group reflect the selection.
Notifications
- Workflow notifications and emails now use the user’s chosen language as specified in the Locale option.
Cloud Data Integration
- Sage queries now include the custom function get_accountbalancebydimension that allows retrieval of data in a more timely manner.
- ODBC and ODBC32 connections now provide optional UserID and Password boxes for DSNs that do not store user IDs or passwords (for example, Oracle).
- The Data Integration Service's Log Queue now uses verbose logging to allow for greater debugging capabilities.
Document Explorer
- A new file type has been added: (WI) Web Link. You can use a Web Link file to store a URL, thus acting as a shortcut; clicking the file opens the referenced app.
- The minimum permission needed in order to download external files is now read-only file access.
- This applies to all drawers of Document Explorer where downloading is available, including the Process Files drawer.
Locales
- A new option has been added to Locales: Spanish (Spain).
Templates
- To speed up navigation, in template Report or Data Entry modes the Pages drawer is now expanded by default.
Resolved issues
Note that the current build is always cumulative: it contains all previous patches.
Released | Ticket number | Area | Description |
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December | 113425, 113225, 113124, 113438, 113326, 113212, 113504 | Process Manager | The Task Log for the Import Process was loading indefinitely. |
December | Dashboards | Charts had a problem with title display. | |
December | DPM Schedules | The system setting for automatic posting of data was not working. | |
December | Analyzer | An Excel sheet name that contained non-alpha-numeric characters or alpha-numeric but with less than five characters, caused an attention dialog to appear when pulling data into Excel. | |
December | 113210, 112872, 113124, 113189, 112872, 113219 | Process Manager | The InfoFlex process gave the error: The multi-part identifier "ft.CurrencyKey" could not be bound. |
November | 110427 | Ad Hoc Analysis | The Cell Properties dialog did not display correctly. |
November | 112363 | Dashboard Studio | Page filters were not working with alternate hierarchies. |
November | 109237 | Data Connector | When previewing a SQL view a timeout error occurred. |
November | 108638 | DPM | Problem saving the correct Start Date for an employee. |
November | 104500, 98091 | DPM Schedules | Selecting a date member for editing caused its date to change. |
November | 104322 | Drill Across | Drilling across on a QTD was returning data for only a single period. |
November | 46563 | Drill Across | Drilling across on a YTD in Smart Client did not return the same result as in Web Client. |
November | 101165 | Drill Across | Drilling across to a SQL table the time there was changed in Prophix to local time. |
November | 107203 | InfoFlex | The SQL processing option showed a performance degradation. |
November | 110545 | InfoFlex | The SQL processing option failed with an error. |
November | 107820 | Process Manager | In offline workbooks the column and row locks on template cells were not retained. |
November | 105924 | Template Studio | If a report contained a chart there was a problem exporting the report to PDF. |
November | 106918 | Template Studio | When the Save As option was chosen for a Template Studio Classic file, the new file's Created by property contained the name of the previous user. |
November | 105512 | Template Studio | Error when deleting an Auto Text. |
November | 109191 | Workflow | If a user was assigned Owner and Observer for a Data Entry workflow task, the template automatically opened in Report Mode, rather than Data Entry mode. |
November | 106102 | Workflow | Write Access security failed to update when a named set was updated for a workflow task. |