PROCESS DIRECTOR 7.2 Service Pack 4

Release Notes

3 August 2015

This file contains important information about PROCESS DIRECTOR 7.2 Service Pack 4.


Contents

New features and improvements

General functionality

Customer Orders

Fixes with this release

General functionality

Accounts Receivable

Customer Orders

Financial Postings

Master Data Maintenance

Payment Approvals

Requisitions

Web Application

Workflows

Support


New features and improvements

General functionality

Performance has been improved when starting PROCESS DIRECTOR and when opening the document overview list. (RSPDN2174)

Customer Orders

The description of the partner role is now displayed instead of the key value.


Fixes with this release

General functionality

E-mail contains data from other documents

Large currency amounts truncated in emails

Incorrect display in determination results search help

Short dump when creating Worklist node

Cannot change user ID with User logon BAdI

Custom conversion exit fails

Accounts Receivable

Duplicate check configuration not editable after deleting duplicate check

Customer Orders

Partner determinations return partners marked for deletion

Workflow selection not available

Financial Postings

Duplicate FI posting types when creating new document

Document creation from Accrual Report without FI license

EXTENSION2 missing in posting BAdI

Master Data Maintenance

Mandatory field check returns incorrect error messages

Payment Approvals

Company code not updated after change in F110

Duplicate object error while sending completed Payment Approval document to workflow

Error message while approving or rejecting payment approval document

Requisitions

Document cannot be processed after deactivating item texts

Short text gets overwritten by material master data text

Document is posted although user cancels posting

Overall delivery status not updated correctly

Tax code field missing in Requisitions line item grid

Error message on attempting to display a requisition with a note added by a deleted WUM user

Web Application

Group check box not cleared after group action

Text of read-only notes does not wrap

Scrollbar missing in the Attachments panel

System ID not displayed after entering wrong credentials for logging in

Issues with display of header data

"Workflow status" window has wrong button label and tooltip

Users with complex passwords cannot log in

Cannot close "Create" popup after error message is displayed

Authorization for Continue function does not work

Workflows

Error message on approval with pre-assigned users

Incorrect aliases in the Spanish general text for approval notification

Misleading message for workflow with no pre-assigned users

No search help when forwarding multiple documents

Placeholders not resolved in emails

General functionality

E-mail contains data from other documents

Fixed an error whereby the content of emails included information from previous emails. (RSPDN4175)

Large currency amounts truncated in emails

Fixed an error whereby large currency amounts were being truncated in the emails sent. (RSPDN3262)

Incorrect display in determination results search help

Fixed an error whereby the “Weight” value was displayed in the “Description” column instead of the “Weight” column in the determination results search help. (RSPDN3685)

Short dump when creating Worklist node

Fixed an issue that resulted in a short dump when creating a Worklist node. This occurred if Worklist nodes were created and deleted while logged on in different languages. (RSPDN0943)

Cannot change user ID with User logon BAdI

Fixed an issue whereby it was not possible to change the Web Application user ID with the “User check” method of the “User logon” BAdI. (RSPDN2745)

Custom conversion exit fails

Fixed an issue whereby a custom conversion exit failed because PROCESS DIRECTOR processed only the external string length, instead of the original data element length. (RSPDN3762)

Accounts Receivable

Duplicate check configuration not editable after deleting duplicate check

Fixed an issue whereby if the duplicate check was deleted from the Checks configuration (/EBY/PDBO_CHC), it was no longer possible to edit entries in the Duplicates configuration (/EBY/PDBO_VDFCC). (RSPDN1704)

Customer Orders

Partner determinations return partners marked for deletion

Fixed an error whereby the partner determinations returned partners that had been marked for deletion. (RSPDN3723)

Workflow selection not available

Fixed an error whereby no workflow selection was available when starting a workflow on a Customer Order document in the Web Application. (RSPDN4013)

Financial Postings

Duplicate FI posting types when creating new document

Fixed an error whereby when creating a new document, the posting types in the selection window were duplicated. (RSPDN3988)

Document creation from Accrual Report without FI license

Fixed an issue whereby it was possible to create a PROCESS DIRECTOR document from the Accrual Report without a valid Financial Postings license. (RSPDN3878)

EXTENSION2 missing in posting BAdI

Support for the EXTENSION2 structure has now been added to the /EBY/PDFI_POST and /EBY/PDFIC_POST BAdIs. (RSPDN3889)

Master Data Maintenance

Mandatory field check returns incorrect error messages

Fixed an error whereby the /EBY/CL_PDMDVM_EVT_CHK_MANDFLD check returned incorrect error messages. (RSPDN3504)

Payment Approvals

Company code not updated after change in F110

Fixed an error whereby if the company code was changed in the payment proposal in F110, this change was not reflected in the corresponding PROCESS DIRECTOR document. (RSPDN3467)

Duplicate object error while sending completed Payment Approval document to workflow

Fixed an issue whereby an error message stating that it was a duplicate object was returned when a user tried to send a payment approval that had the "Completed" status to a workflow. (RSPDN3527)

Error message while approving or rejecting payment approval document

Fixed an issue whereby an error message was displayed when a user tried to approve or reject a payment approval document. (RSPDN3617)

Requisitions

Document cannot be processed after deactivating item texts

Fixed an error whereby after deactivating item texts in /EBY/PDBO_VTIDC, the document could no longer be processed. (RSPDN3140)

Short text gets overwritten by material master data text

Fixed an error whereby if the "Short Text" field was filled in before the material number was filled in or changed, the short text was overwritten by the material master data text.

Document is posted although user cancels posting

When users post a document, a popup is displayed that allows them to choose the document type to create in SAP (Purchase Order or Purchase Requisition). If the user closed this popup to cancel posting, the document was posted anyway. This error has now been fixed. (RSPDN3766)

Overall delivery status not updated correctly

Fixed an error whereby the “Overall delivery status” was not updated from “Partially delivered” to “Completely delivered” for a document with more than one line item. The “Overall delivery status” and “Overall invoice status” fields are now updated automatically; it is no longer necessary to run the /EBY/PDPO_UPDATE_PO_STATUS report. (RSPDN3931)

Tax code field missing in Requisitions line item grid

Fixed an error whereby on creating a requisition, the entered line item tax code field was cleared after the document was saved and the user left the document. (RSPDN4045)

Error message on attempting to display a requisition with a note added by a deleted WUM user

Fixed an error that resulted in an error message when a user attempted to display a requisition that had a note added by a WUM user who was later deleted. (RSPDN3519)

Web Application

Group check box not cleared after group action

Fixed an issue whereby the check box to select multiple items was not cleared after an action had been performed on the items.

Text of read-only notes does not wrap

Fixed an issue whereby when notes were displayed read-only, the text did not wrap as it does when entering notes.

Scrollbar missing in the Attachments panel

Fixed an issue whereby the Attachments panel was missing a scrollbar.

System ID not displayed after entering wrong credentials for logging in

Fixed an issue whereby on entering the wrong credentials while logging in, the system ID was no longer displayed.

Issues with display of header data

Fixed some issues with the display of the header data panels that resulted in data being only partly visible, or not visible at all.

"Workflow status" window has wrong button label and tooltip

Fixed an issue whereby the button to close the "Workflow status" window had the wrong label and tooltip. Both have now been changed to "Close". (RSPDN3218)

Users with complex passwords cannot log in

Fixed an issue whereby users with complex passwords could not log in.

Cannot close "Create" popup after error message is displayed

Fixed an issue whereby after an error message was displayed, the "Create" popup could not be closed. (RSPDN3514)

Authorization for Continue function does not work

Fixed an issue whereby authorization restrictions for the Continue function (assigning processors during a workflow) were not applied, with the result that users without authorization were able to change the pre-assigned workflow recipients for the following step. (RSPDN3271)

Workflows

Error message on approval with pre-assigned users

Fixed an issue that resulted in an error message on approving a workflow step if users were pre-assigned to the following step and the processor assignment for the following step was set to “By workflow initiator”. (RSPDN3386)

Incorrect aliases in the Spanish general text for approval notification

Fixed an issue whereby in the Spanish version, the aliases in the general text for approval notification were incorrect. (RSPDN3781)

Misleading message for workflow with no pre-assigned users

Fixed an issue whereby the message “"Recipients have already been assigned to this workflow" was displayed when starting a workflow with background recipient assignment for which no users had been assigned or determined. (RSPDN3289)

No search help when forwarding multiple documents

Fixed an issue whereby no search help was available in the SAP GUI for workflow recipients when forwarding multiple documents.

Placeholders not resolved in emails

Fixed an issue whereby placeholder text (“aliases”) were not resolved to the corresponding values in emails. (RSPDN3600)


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