IFS IDEAS Release Notes

Summary of Changes

IDEAS 6.24.0.0 has the following new Features:

System Security

• Invoice Approval Auditing – Invoices approved in the Transaction Approval screen in Accounts Payable can now be added to the auditing options. Who approves or unapproves an invoice and when that occurred can now be tracked and reported on.

• Purging of the Journal Corrections and Chartmaster Audit Trails in GL has been moved to the System Security module to allow for separation of duties around running the audit reports and purging the reports

Accounts Receivable Trade

• Customer Listing Report – The customer status (active or inactive) has been added to this report. The ability to filter the report by status has also been added. 

Currency Conversion

• Auto Exchange Rate Administration – For our Colombian customers, the Central Bank of Colombia has been added to the list of available banks that will allow automatic downloads of daily exchange rates. Note that the Central Bank of Colombia only supports USD and Colombian Peso currency pairs.

iApprove

• Approval Notifications – Rejection notifications and reminders as well as final approval notifications have been added to iApprove. Rejection notifications are sent to the user that routed the document initially.  A supervisor can be defined to send notifications when a document has been fully approved in iApprove so further processing can be completed.  A different email subject can now be defined for each notification type (Approvals, Rejections, Reminders and Final Approvals.  Lastly, a table of documents is now included with each notification displaying the documents that need action.

Key Maintenance

Accounts Payable

• Corrected the calculation of the tax basis when multiple VAT tax codes are selected on an invoice.

• Disabled the ability to edit the extended amount of an invoice line when Invoice Requires Receipt is enabled.

Currency Conversion

• Corrected an issue where certain FQA’s were not being considered when the Gain/Loss calculation was revaluing the source currency.

 General Ledger

• Corrected a display issue in the Journal Corrections Log screen where the period drop down list was displaying duplicate periods.

• Removed the ability to enter an invalid period in the Journal Entry/Corrections screen and also in the Spreadsheet Link Journal Entry Import screen.

Global

• Resolved an issue where data could not be exported to Excel in various modules.

iApprove

• Allow for rerouting of Purchase Document amendments.

• Corrected a display issue related to the amount of a Purchase Document in the document listing screen when an amendment to delete a line from the PO was done.

• Modified the Document Search to adhere to document restriction settings defined in the user setup.

• Corrected the display of the Approval Administration Document search list box.

System Security

• Corrected the Matrix Report to show all available Roles.

• Resolved an error message when reactivating a user with Group Roles enabled.

• Modified the Invoice Approval Audit Report to display the actual approval status (Approved, Unapproved) instead 1 or 0.

Spreadsheet Link

• Enforced Ledger control when displaying the available journals in the Journal drop down list.

New Certifications

IDEAS 6.24.0.0 has been certified to work on Windows Server 2022 and SQL Server 2022.

See the 6.24.0.0 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.

Client

Server

Software

Server Machine

Client Machine

Web Server