Previous Releases

Summary of Changes

This release of IDEAS offers two new features and the cleanup of maintenance items for the Account Reconciliation module as well as several Sev 2 cases in various modules.

IFS IDEAS 6.8.0.0 includes enhancements in the following areas:

Journal by Vendor/Customer   

This feature supports clients that are required to interface IDEAS with SAP.  The feature has two functions.

Single transaction per batch: With the Journal by Vendor/Customer option enabled, transactions that are journalized to the GL from AP and ART are inserted into a separate batch per transaction.  These transactions include the following: 
 

• AP

1. Invoices

   • Disbursements

   • Advances

   • Advance Applications

   • Voids

   • Advance Application Removals

• ART

1. Invoices

2. Receipts

3. Voids

Journal by Vendor/Customer: The Entity Maintenance and journalization processes in AP and ART have been modified to allow more than a single journal definition to be used per Entity/Currency combination.  The new flag allows the system to be used as before (Off) or by Vendor/Customer Group or Type.  When Group or Type is enabled, the Journals tab of the Entity Maintenance screen will display a new column that allows the inclusion of Group or Type to the current Entity/Currency definition. 

 For each Group or Type, specify the Invoice and Disbursement/Receipt journal to use.  A group/type designation of NONE is available to define the journals to use if a vendor/customer is not a member of any group or type.  The journalization process will determine the group or type that the vendor or customer is a member of and create their transactions in the journal designated for the group or type.

Extended Journal Validation

A new GL Misc Code (JournalValidation) has been added.  When this code is enabled, a new stored procedure will be called after the IDEAS standard validation process.  This stored procedure is installed as a blank procedure in the database.  Customers can add their own validation based on their own business rules.  The results of this validation are then added to the IDEAS validation results and reported to the user in standard validation reports or screens.  The processes impacted by this feature are:

• Journal Entry / Corrections

• Journal Validation

• Journal Posting

• AutoPosting

• Auto Posting

• Spreadsheet Link Import of journals

IFS IDEAS 6.8.0.0 includes software maintenance in the following areas:

Account Reconciliation Maintenance Elimination

Refer to the Risk Assessment document for the listing of individual cases resolved.  Of special note is that the Account Ownership Assignment (AOA) report has been optimized.  

Sev – 2 Resolved Items

Compatibility Matrix

Minimum System Requirements

Software

Release Contents

Refer to the following link for the information on the added features and the resolved bug fixes: 

IFS IDEAS - Risk Assessments.xlsx