Previous Releases

Summary of Changes

IFS IDEAS 6.20.0.0 has the following features and fixes:

Enhancements

Contract Control

A new optional feature has been added to purchase documents associated with contracts.  With this feature enabled, the unit price that is entered to the contract for the lines for which an associated purchase document is being entered cannot be edited by the user.  This ensures compliance with contracted prices in purchasing.

Restrict Purchase Document Types

A new feature to restrict the available purchase document types has been added by user.  For those customers who are licensed for Enhanced Security, a new tab for Purchase Document Types has been added.  The system administrator can grant or deny access to purchase document Types base on the user ID. The restrictions apply to the Purchase Document Entry screen, the Purchase Document Copy screen, and the Create PD from RQ screen. For example, a user can be granted the ability to create a Purchase Order but restricted from creating or editing a Contract.

Enhanced Search in List Boxes

List boxes that have existing search functionality have been enhanced.  Currently, searches are applied only to the beginning of the text of the items in the list.  This enhancement adds the ability to just begin typing the string you want to find in the list.  The list is filtered with every letter entered to the search field by finding the search string anywhere in the list text, not just the beginning of the text.  As an example, if the text to find is “abcdef” then search strings of “ab,” “cd,” or “ef” would all locate the text “abcdef.”

Issues Resolved

Accounts Payable

• Auto Invoice – Eliminated a duplicate primary key error when importing intercompany invoices.

• Auto Checks/Bank Codes – Removed the ability to enter a check number that was not numeric eliminating errors and data corruption when a non-numeric character was entered as the next check number – example check number 123-4.  The dash “-“ is no longer allowed in these screens.  Non-numeric characters are still allowed in the Manual Check screen.

Currency Conversion

• Gain/Loss Calculation – Optimized this process to run faster and prevent the system from hanging.

General Ledger

• Batch Entry – The JE_REQUIRE_VENDOR flag was not being enforced in the Journal Entry/Corrections screen.  This is now enforced there as well as in LINK.

• Journal Definitions – When the user is copying all journals from company A to company B to correct definitions, a question is asked to determine if the user wants to overwrite existing journals of the same name.

• Journal Corrections Log – If a change is made to a line in Journal Corrections, previously only the new value was entered to the Journal Corrections Log.  Now the original value is recorded as well for a more complete audit.

iApprove

• Invoice Approval – Comments and Descriptions from the Invoice, Purchase Document, or Purchase Requisition records are now displayed in the document detail screen along with comments and descriptions entered by the iApprove users.

iIDEAS Administration

• Approval Status Report – The Approval Status report was modified to format the reports in landscape layout to fully display the fields.  Additionally, the "by invoice" version of the report was modified to display the action date in datetime format. 

LINK Spreadsheet

•  Journal Entry Import – Corrected errors when importing journals that contained User Defined 2 fields.

Purchase Requisition

• RQ Entry – Eliminated an error when amending an approved RQ that has one or more line items transferred to a PO and have the status “closed.”

Purchase Documents & Purchase Requisitions

• PD & RQ Entry – The PD Entry, PD Stock Line Items, and RQ Line Items screens were modified to allow duplicate non-controllable stock numbers.
  
  

See the 6.20.0.0 Risk Assessment for the full list of maintenance items included in this release.

Compatibility Matrix

Product Certification

Interoperability Certification

Minimum System Requirements

Hardware

This section identifies the recommended hardware requirements for each machine.

Desktop

Server

Software

Server Machine

Client Machine

Web Server