Kofax ReadSoft PROCESS DIRECTORTM 7.4 Service Pack 4

Release Notes

11 July 2018

This file contains important information about ReadSoft PROCESS DIRECTOR 7.4 Service Pack 4.


Contents

New features and improvements

General functionality

Invoice Block/Cancelation

Requisitions

Fixes with this release

Accounts Receivable

Customer Orders

Financial Postings

General functionality

Generic Archiving

Goods Receipts

Master Data Maintenance

Order Confirmations

Payment Approvals

Requisitions

Web Application

Support


New features and improvements

  • General functionality

  • Performance enhancement of selection screen functions

    Skip view check for nodes with populated transaction field

    Enhance "/EBY/REPETITOR" program to allow document deletion

  • Invoice Block/Cancelation

  • Attachment forwarding from Invoice Blocking/Unblocking

  • Requisitions

  • "BAPI_REQUISITION_CREATE" replaced with "BAPI_PR_CREATE" and "BAPI_PR_CHANGE"

    General functionality

    Performance enhancement of selection screen functions

    The performance of the selection screen functions has now been enhanced.

    Skip view check for nodes with populated transaction field

    For all the nodes that have the transaction field populated with a value, the view check is now skipped.

    Enhance "/EBY/REPETITOR" program to allow document deletion

    The "/EBY/REPETITOR" program has been enhanced in that it now allows you to delete documents in bulk. Also, the new "Document batch size" parameter allows you to specify the number of documents that will be processed in one run.

    Invoice Block/Cancelation

    Attachment forwarding from Invoice Blocking/Unblocking

    You can now configure to attach the workflow log created while processing an Invoice Blocking/Unblocking document, to its related Accounts Payable document.

    Requisitions

    "BAPI_REQUISITION_CREATE" replaced with "BAPI_PR_CREATE" and "BAPI_PR_CHANGE"

    "BAPI_REQUISITION_CREATE" has now been replaced with the new "BAPI_PR_CREATE" and "BAPI_PR_CHANGE" MM BAPIs.


    Fixes with this release

  • Accounts Receivable

  • Short dump on copying document in Web Application and adding or removing notes

  • Customer Orders

  • "Insert into database table /EBY/PDBO_TTEXT failed" error

    Material substitution determination using company code

    Sales order header field values lost after posting

    After posting, synchronization of sales order line item data does not work

    One letter texts cleared after posting

  • Financial Postings

  • Incorrect file upload in Web Application for some code pages

    Reversal date with "MMDDYYY" user setting not accepted

  • General functionality

  • Deleting document leaves orphaned entries in version tables

    Line items not editable after changing layout

    Incorrect use of "/COCKPIT/" namespace in "/EBY/PDBO_SARA" package

    Package check incompatibilities

    ReadSoft PROCESS DIRECTOR 7.5 Service Pack 1 incompatible with ReadSoft PROCESS DIRECTOR Accounts Payable 7.3

    Custom configuration criteria overrides default settings

    Performance issue on rejecting documents

    F4 help issue in popups after SAP BASIS upgrade

    Unnecessary authority check during GUI status generation

    Connected workflow data not archived in SARA

    Short dump on updating Worklist counters

  • Generic Archiving

  • Internal error on creating new generic archiving document

  • Goods Receipts

  • Error in quantity determination

    "Material Number" field value not displayed because of SAP conversion exit

  • Master Data Maintenance

  • Withholding tax data read from buffer

    Updating customer master data does not work

    Update of vendor master data

  • Order Confirmations

  • Incomplete historical data in BAdI interface

    Short dump on finalizing an order confirmation document

  • Payment Approvals

  • Incorrect image displayed when there are multiple attachments

    Payment proposals with multiple currencies

    System does not display documents in Worklist

  • Requisitions

  • Issue with partial Line Item Approval

    Error on deleting rejected line item

    Workflow broken after using "Delete workflow" option in "/EBY/WC_DELETE" program

  • Web Application

  • Message about incorrect value in invisible field

    User search help against full name does not work correctly for Internet users

    Multi-accounting check does not work because of EMEIC2449

    Incorrect image displayed when there are multiple attachments

    Accounts Receivable

    Short dump on copying document in Web Application and adding or removing notes

    Resolved an error in which a short dump occurred in the Web Application on copying an existing document, and then adding or removing notes before saving it.

    Customer Orders

    "Insert into database table /EBY/PDBO_TTEXT failed" error

    Resolved an issue in which on posting a customer order document with text, the "Insert into database table /EBY/PDBO_TTEXT failed" error occurred. (RSPDN6230)

    Material substitution determination using company code

    Resolved an error in which if the material substitution was maintained on the company-code level, the determination always failed. (RSPDN6623)

    Sales order header field values lost after posting

    Resolved an error in which the sales order header field values for some standard SAP fields got lost after posting. (RSPDN6519)

    After posting, synchronization of sales order line item data does not work

    Resolved an error in which after posting, the synchronization of the sales order line item data did not work. (RSPDN6532)

    One letter texts cleared after posting

    Resolved an error in which one letter texts on the header or item level were not displayed after posting. (RSPDN6588)

    Financial Postings

    Incorrect file upload in Web Application for some code pages

    Resolved an error in which on using special code pages like Japanese, the file upload function in the Web Application led to incorrectly converted characters (for example, the # sign). (RSPDN6148)

    Reversal date with "MMDDYYY" user setting not accepted

    Resolved an error in which a reversal date, with the "MMDDYYY" user setting, was not accepted. (RSPDN006642)

    General functionality

    Deleting document leaves orphaned entries in version tables

    Resolved an error in which deleting a document created some orphaned entries in the version tables. (RSPDN6629)

    Line items not editable after changing layout

    Resolved an error in which after changing the layout, the line items were not editable. (RSPDN6272)

    Incorrect use of "/COCKPIT/" namespace in "/EBY/PDBO_SARA" package

    Resolved an error in which the "/EBY/PDBO_SARA" package incorrectly used the "/COCKPIT/" namespace. (EMEIC2942)

    Package check incompatibilities

    Resolved package check incompatibilities between the "/COCKPIT/" and "/EBY/" namespaces.

    ReadSoft PROCESS DIRECTOR 7.5 Service Pack 1 incompatible with ReadSoft PROCESS DIRECTOR Accounts Payable 7.3

    Resolved incompatibility issues between ReadSoft PROCESS DIRECTOR 7.5 Service Pack 1 and ReadSoft PROCESS DIRECTOR Accounts Payable 7.3.

    Custom configuration criteria overrides default settings

    Resolved an issue in which custom configuration criteria overrode the default settings.

    Performance issue on rejecting documents

    Resolved performance issues that occurred on rejecting documents.

    F4 help issue in popups after SAP BASIS upgrade

    Resolved an error in which after an SAP BASIS upgrade, the F4 help in some popups did not work. (RSPDN6674)

    Unnecessary authority check during GUI status generation

    Resolved an error in which an unnecessary authority check was performed while generating the GUI status.

    Connected workflow data not archived in SARA

    Resolved an error in the SARA package, in which on archiving documents, the connected workflow data was not archived.

    Short dump on updating Worklist counters

    Resolved an error in which a short dump occurred on updating the Worklist counters. (RSPDN6507)

    Generic Archiving

    Internal error on creating new generic archiving document

    Resolved an error in which on creating a generic archiving document in the Web Application, an internal error occurred after selecting the business object type. (RSPDN6697)

    Goods Receipts

    Error in quantity determination

    Resolved an error that occurred while determining the quantity. (RSPDN6223)

    "Material Number" field value not displayed because of SAP conversion exit

    Resolved an error in which on mapping the "MATNR_EXT" SAP field to the "MATERIAL_EXTERNAL" field in ReadSoft PROCESS DIRECTOR, the SAP conversion exit defined for the "MATNR_EXT" field resulted in the "Material Number" field being empty.

    Master Data Maintenance

    Withholding tax data read from buffer

    Resolved an error in which the withholding tax data was read from the buffer, instead of the database. (RSPDN6722)

    Updating customer master data does not work

    Resolved an error with updating the customer master data. (RSPDN6689)

    Update of vendor master data

    Resolved an error where updating some of the vendor master data did not work. (RSPDN6704)

    Order Confirmations

    Incomplete historical data in BAdI interface

    Resolved an error in which the BAdI interface had incomplete historical data. (RSPDN6694)

    Short dump on finalizing an order confirmation document

    Resolved an error in which on finalizing an order confirmation document, if the line items were not assigned to a purchase order line item, a short dump occurred. (RSPDN6593)

    Payment Approvals

    Incorrect image displayed when there are multiple attachments

    Resolved an error in which when there were multiple attachments and the "Attachments" panel was opened, the first attachment in the list was not displayed by default. (RSPDN006404)

    Payment proposals with multiple currencies

    Resolved an error in which when invoices with currencies different from the local currency were included in the payment proposal and the proposal used the local currency, the total payment amount was not calculated, and the information displayed in the item level regarding the payment amount and currency was incorrect. (RSPDN5691)

    System does not display documents in Worklist

    Resolved an error in which the system seemed to continue processing endlessly, resulting in the list of documents not being displayed in the Worklist.

    Requisitions

    Issue with partial Line Item Approval

    Resolved the errors that occurred when partially approving line items. (RSPDN5571)

    Error on deleting rejected line item

    Resolved an error that occurred on trying to delete one of the line items rejected in a Line Item Approval workflow. (RSPDN6213)

    Workflow broken after using "Delete workflow" option in "/EBY/WC_DELETE" program

    Resolved an error in which on running the "/EBY/WC_DELETE" program and selecting the "Delete workflow" option, the workflow was deleted as expected, but the user could not then run an operation on that document in another session. (RSPDN6221)

    Web Application

    Message about incorrect value in invisible field

    Resolved an error in which on adding an item to the purchase order and populating the values, a message about an incorrect value that was not visible on the screen, was displayed. (RSPDN6255)

    User search help against full name does not work correctly for Internet users

    Resolved an error in which the user search help, against full names, did not work correctly for Internet users. (EMEIC2907)

    Multi-accounting check does not work because of EMEIC2449

    Resolved an issue in which after the implementation of EMEIC2449, the multi-accounting check was no longer executed, even though the "multiaccounting.check" parameter was set to "yes". (EMEIC2838)

    Incorrect image displayed when there are multiple attachments

    Resolved an error in which when there were multiple attachments and the "Attachments" panel was opened, the first attachment in the list was not displayed by default. (RSPDN006404)


    Support

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