Release notes (pre-SP27)
Release notes before SP27
Webflow 1.5 SP26-1
Release date 17/02/2020
| Fix/Enhancement | Title/Solution Affected | Description And Detail |
| Enhancement | Dataflow : Assets | Enable the Template manager for assets |
| FIX | Core : Analyser | Show Dataflow attachments in analyser |
| FIX | Dataflow | Show approver comments in formindex attachment in posted objects |
Webflow 1.5 SP26 Combined
Release date 17/02/2020
| Fix/Enhancement | Title/Solution Affected | Description And Detail |
| Enhancement | Dataflow | Enable map format for spreadsheets |
| FIX | Core : Session closer | Correct javascript issue preventing session closure in some versions of Internet Explorer |
| FIX | Dataflow | Show current update sheet to display-only teams. Do not generate before/after files. |
Webflow 1.5 SP25 Combined
Release date 06/01/2020
| Fix/Enhancement | Title/Solution Affected | Description And Detail |
| FIX | Dataflow: Manual Payments | Bank update : take into account duplicate banks and IBAN with no bank key. Get bank country config from T005 |
| FIX | Core : Session closer | Correct javascript issue preventing session closure in some versions of Internet Explorer |
| FIX | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | Enable rounding of upload values to the currencies decimal places. |
Webflow 1.5 SP24-4 Combined
Release date 08/10/2019
| Fix/Enhancement | Title/Solution Affected | Description And Detail |
| Enhancement | DataFlow | 1) new functionality to allow direct screen-based data entry along side existing excel based data entry 2) additional workflow approval scenarios available |
| Enhancement | Vendor (/PROMENTA/WSPU_VENV5) | Additional functionality for S4Hana integration with business partner |
| FIX | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | FB08 – show posting date of the reversed document in emails rather than the original document posting date |
| FIX | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | Additional log messages when reserving workflow |
| FIX | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | Prevent data loss if user closes browser after file upload. Save data immediately. |
| FIX | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | COMMS workflow – exclude all comms related workflow history in calculating the actual workflow approval history |
| FIX | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | Field BSEG-ZUONR should not be converted to upper case |
| FIX | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | Excel extract (Zoption format) – search sheet for a ZOption sheet instead of assuming first sheet is ZOption sheet. |
| FIX | Zoption /GLSU posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP004) | Unlock request after approval/reject. No longer rely on user closing browser. |
| FIX | Vendor Request V1 (/PROMENTA/WSPU_VENDR_RTD)- Legacy support only | 1) Validate tax numbers using SAP validations 2) Validate email addresses |
| FIX | Workflow emails (CORE) | Email only substitutes that are within date validity |
| FIX | Input fields (CORE) | Enable HTML encoding of input fields to ensure special characters do not cause issues processing screens |
| FIX | Browser Sesion Termination (CORE) | Browser sometimes does not issue logoff command. Fix with async. javascript post to SAP for logoff signal. |
| FIX | Launchpad Cache (/PROMENTA/WSFI_LNCH1_CACHE) | Select status texts based on current language |
| FIX | Excel extract (CORE) | Correct handling of very small negative numbers (less that -1x 10-16 ) |
Webflow 1.5 SP24-3 Combined
Release date 21/08/2019
| Fix/Enhancement | Title/Solution Affected | Description And Detail |
| Enhancement | Analyser – Log viewer | Log viewer now has simple download button to enable customers to download and send the log to Promenta in a standard format. |
| Enhancement | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | Enable clear character (/) in specific fields so that customer can blank default values in FB01. See Documentation for more info |
| FIX | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | Default Webform description was blank if no plugin implemented. |
| FIX | MM Request | BOM update – wait for BOM to be created before creating next BOM otherwise locking error occurs |
| Retirement | List of reports retired and no longer supported | The following reports retired as they can be replaced by the Ageing/Process report: /PROMENTA/WSFI_CCENTER_REP /PROMENTA/WSFI_JP4_REP /PROMENTA/WSFI_JP_REP1 /PROMENTA/WSFI_JP_REP2 /PROMENTA/WSFI_JP_REP5 /PROMENTA/WSFI_KB11N_REP /PROMENTA/WSFI_NET_REP /PROMENTA/WSFI_WBS_REP |
| Retirement | List of request processes are retired and no longer supported. All are replaced with new versions. | Journal Request V1 (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP001) Journal Request V2 (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP002) Journal Request V3 (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP003) Vendor Request V1 (/PROMENTA/WSPU_VENDR_RTD) |
Webflow 1.5 SP24-2 Combined
Release date 25/07/2019
| Fix/Enhancement | Title/Solution Affected | Description And Detail |
| Enhancement | Decision Tree | Enable decision trees to check T000 and switch off transports if client is set to “no transports” |
| FIX | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | Special Periods (periods 13-16) not showing on reports as 13-16. |
| Enhancement | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | 999-Split configuration : Enable a default account to be set up for all company codes rather than setting up per company code. See Journal documentation for more info |
Webflow 1.5 SP24-1 Combined
Release date 18/07/2019
| Fix/Enhancement | Title/Solution Affected | Description And Detail |
| FIX | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | Direct approval going to status Submitted even if a posting error. Now remains In-Progress. |
| FIX | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | FB08 save the reversal period as well as the original document period for use in email and analyser |
| FIX | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | Master data checks – should use the posting date instead of system current date. |
| FIX | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | FB08 workflow approval amount – correct handling of currencies that do not have 2 decimal places (eg JPY, CLP) |
| FIX | Journals (ZOption JP004 & Promenta JP005) | Separation-of-duties plugin : Allow resubmit after rejection |
| FIX | Vendor Legacy (/PROMENTA/WSPU_VENDR_RTD) | Enable custom Auths check plugin |
| Enhancement | Decision Tree | 1) Enable copy/past of nodes between trees via the clipboard [See restrictions in Tree documentation] 2) Enable deleting of node and all children in one operation |
Webflow 1.5 SP24 Combined
Release date 01/07/2019
| Fix/Enhancement | Title/Solution Affected | Description And Detail |
| Enhancement | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | Parallel approval now possible (with restrictions) |
| Enhancement | Zoption /GLSU posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP004) | Parallel approval now possible (with restrictions) |
| Enhancement | Analyser | Show Parallel approval |
Webflow 1.5 SP23 Combined
Release date 07/06/2019
| Fix/Enhancement | Title/Solution Affected | Description And Detail |
| Enhancement | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | Automatic removal of leading spaces in journal texts (eg header text) |
| Enhancement | Calendar close maintenance | New transaction /PROMENTA/WSFI_0004 to enable users to adjust calendar close dates in production. |
| Enhancement | ArchiveLink functions | Reassign user exit so that it can be used to set archivelink archive id, doc class and doc extension. |
| Enhancement | Workflow – parallel approval (9450009 & 94500017) | Standard workflow now supports parallel approval using child workflows |
| Enhancement | Webflow base (/PROMENTA/WEBFORMS_BASE) | Additional plugin-points : before-session-store and after-session-store |
| FIX | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | Deactivate “Ask for help” (workflow) button in background simulation. |
| FIX | Vendor Update (/PROMENTA/WSPU_VENV5) | Correct update of field TAX5 (STCD5) |
| FIX | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | Change the background update process so that if user closes the browser during the update (or simulation) the process will continue. This is a significant structural change and customer is advised to perform some regression testing on larger journals. In addition – the callback (Hub) RFC destination is no longer required |
| FIX | Material request (/PROMENTA/WSMM_BASE2) | Minor UI corrections |
Webflow 1.5 SP22-1 Combined
Release date 21/05/2019
| Fix/Enhancement | Title/Solution Affected | Description And Detail |
| Enhancement | Dataflow : Manual Payment | Dataflow – RVND simulation |
| Enhancement | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | Include plugin for custom fields into standard solution. Customer no longer needs to activate the plugin. The ZZ fields must be crated via OXK1 |
| Enhancement | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | Additional information sections for document reversals (FB08) so that user is clear which transaction code and posting date will be used |
| Enhancement | Mass Data (/PROMENTA/MASS) | Additional validation and workflow plugins |
| Enhancement | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | Additional master data checks : cost centre and profit centre checked for posting block |
| FIX | Core : Excel service | Fix issue with some corrupt xlsm files having missing elements. |
| FIX | Inbox (/PROMENTA/DASHBOARD2) | Change dates were showing last update date not last status change date. This gave misleading results |
| FIX | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | Incorrect navigation when opening from Analyser when request is in sttus “In Query” |
| FIX | Decision tree | Performance improvement when exporting tree to XML/CSV |
| FIX | Process report (/PROMENTA/WS_AGE_REP) | Add “in query” status to pending approver check |
Webflow 1.5 SP22 Combined
Release date 23/03/2019
| Fix/Enhancement | Title/Solution Affected | Description And Detail |
| Enhancement | DataFlow | Additional d Excel formatting |
| Enhancement | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | Inclusion of transaction FBB1 |
| Enhancement | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | Additional logging |
| Enhancement | Zoption /GLSU posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP004) | In Post-before-approval scenario – enable automatic reversal of posted docs in the case of rejection |
| Enhancement | Zoption /GLSU posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP004) | Enable posting of several independent documents. Workflow routing needs additional confinguration. |
| Enhancement | Master table /PROMENTA/TM999 | Customers can now override values in TM999 via a decision tree so that they no longer need to maintain all values after every patch. Note : Some customers with more complex installs may still need to maintain some values |
| Fix | Decision tree | XML/CVS export – Various fixes to increase performance with large trees (10k nodes and above) |
| FIX | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | Additional error sceanrio catching for FBD1 |
| Fix | Inbox (/PROMENTA/DASHBOARD2) | Enable column sorting to include custom columns |
| FIX | Zoption /GLSU posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP004) | Documents not saving in GOS when multiple journals (ie 999+ or cross-company) |
Webflow 1.5 SP14-3
Release date 01/12/2018
Note : As per Promenta release strategy SP14 is a full product release. Any version prior to SP14 can be upgraded without intermediate transports.
Core changes
| Title | Description And Detail | |
| Enhancement | Flowbot – additional XLSX processing | Additional graphical reporting and Excel formatting |
| Fix | Decision tree – performance | Various fixes to increase performance with large trees (10k nodes and above) |
Solutions
| Fix/Enhancement | Title | Description And Detail |
| Enhancement | Zoption Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP004) | Auto-reversal of posted documents when rejection occurs (only for post-before-approval scenario) |
| Enhancement | Zoption Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP004) | Posting support for multi-journals in same request. Note that workflow rules would need adjustment |
| Fix | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | User exits can cause incorrect reporting of posting status. |
| Fix | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | Lower case values can cause issues with validation. Now all values auto-converted to upper case except texts |
| Fix | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | Attachments not being uploaded to posted journal on direct approval (ie where no approval needed) |
| Note 1561889 |
Webflow 1.5 SP14-1 and SP14-2
Release date 01/10/2018 [Releases combined due to crossover of functionality]
Note : As per Promenta release strategy SP14 is a full product release. Any version prior to SP14 can be upgraded without intermediate transports.
Core changes
| Fix/Enhancement | Title | Description And Detail |
| Enhancement | FlowBOT – release 1 | New FlowBOT Robotic Automation tool released for production use. |
| Enhancement | Excel processor | Excel processor can now write excel files (with styling and formatting) direct from SAP in background. These are full excel files not text/csv files. |
| Fix | Listboxes not showing data from check tables in all cases | Fix applied to method DROPDATA_FROM_KEY_TEXT_TABLE |
Solutions
| Fix/Enhancement | Title | Description And Detail |
| Enhancement | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | Direct support for special transactions : FBB1 and FB41 |
| Enhancement | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | Support for reversals FB08 – as long as the document was originally posted via Promenta. Workflow process normally follows the same path as the original document |
| Enhancement | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | Manual entry screens available for limited scenarios. |
| Fix | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | Various minor missing translations |
Webflow 1.5 SP14
Release date 01/07/2018
Note : As per Promenta release strategy SP14 is a full product release. Any version prior to SP14 can be upgraded without intermediate transports.
Core changes
| Fix/Enhancement | Title | Description And Detail |
| Enhancement | new “Simple Install” process | new process for Simple Install released. See Install Guide for more information |
| Enhancement | new Excel processor for ABAP | New excel processor for ABAP which means that a Java server is no longer required for excel conversion. Java/Portal version still supported but no longer enhanced. |
| Enhancement | Translation for notifications | Translation for notifications via decision tree. |
| Enhancement | Log – call stack | Log automatically includes call stack |
Solutions
| Fix/Enhancement | Title | Description And Detail |
| FIX | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | Number formatting for tax Base |
| FIX | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | Buffer for validation checks (so same GL account is not checked more than once) |
| Enhancement | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | Additional logging messages |
| Enhancement | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | Audited comments captured and stored in webflow attachment |
| Enhancement | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | New display format for created document list |
| Enhancement | Vendor V5 | Extended and classic WHT supported |
Webflow 1.5 SP13-6
Release date 01/06/2018
Core changes
| Fix/Enhancement | Title | Description And Detail |
| Enhancement | Translation functions | Additional translation functions incorporated into core |
| Enhancement | Logging functions | Additional logging functions added and included in Analyser |
| FIX | HANA DB – table sort | Correct table sorting on some tables as Hana DB not returning rows in default order |
| FIX | Parallel workflow restart | Fix issue with parallel workflow for restart of a request when a new workflow is started. Enables subsequent workflows to be created for the same Formindex |
| FIX | Inbox translations (/PROMENTA/DASHBOARD2) | Additional translations for Inbox |
| Enhancement | Install checker | Install checker BETA version included. Not for general use |
Solutions
| Fix/Enhancement | Title | Description And Detail |
| FIX | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) – Diagnostics | Enable diagnostics for the update |
| Enhancement | Responsibility tool (/PROMENTA/WF_RESP_05) Delete | New transaction code /PROMENTA/WF_RESP_05 to enable clearing of data and download of backup data |
| Enhancement | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) – 999 lineitems | Enhance existing “999” lineitem functionality to enable generic use. Customers must maintain additional config settings |
| FIX | Ageing report (/PROMENTA/WS_AGE_REP) fix filter | Ageing report – filter on custom (user exit) fields not workfing correctly. Now filter occurs after user exit evaluation. |
| Enhancement | Vendor solution V5 updates | Various updates to vendor solution (V5) |
Webflow 1.5 SP13-5
Release date 01/05/2018
Core changes
| Fix/Enhancement | Title | Description And Detail |
| Enhancement | Internationalization re-engineer | Core changes to enable internationalization via decision trees rather than config tables. This gives more flexibility to the customer. |
| Enhancement | Inbox (/PROMENTA/DASHBOARD2) sort | Default sort for my-requests to sort on formindex. |
| Enhancement | Enable compression | Performance – enable compression of HTML pages. This can be deactivated through parameter in /PROMENTA/TM999 WEBFORMS/BSP_COMPRESSION |
| FIX | Re-enable “in process” popup | “In Process” popup was deactivated in a previous patch. Now reactivated |
| FIX | tableview performance | Tableview2 changes to increase performance |
| FIX | Decision Tree table – buffer attributes | Decision tree table TM030R – change buffer attribute to increase performance |
Solutions
| Fix/Enhancement | Title | Description And Detail |
| FIX | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) – Diagnostics | Enable diagnostics for the update |
| FIX | Vendor update | Enable vendor update to skip fields for update |
| Enhancement | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) – COPA check | New optional check to ensure required COPA characteristics are included in the request. See Solution documents for more info. |
| Enhancement | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) – GL simulation | New optional GL simulation. This enables document splitting to be simulated. See Solution documents for more info |
Webflow 1.5 SP13-4
Release date 19/03/2018
Core changes
| Fix/Enhancement | Title | Description And Detail |
| Enhancement | Logging | New logging framework added – will be integrated into existing solutions gradually |
| Fix | Analyser – performance | Long runtime if selected webflow did not have a workflow due to incorrect read on SAP workflow table. |
| Enhancement | Decision tree – change dates | Last change date and user added to tree |
Solutions
| Fix/Enhancement | Title | Description And Detail |
| Fix | Vendor update core function – react to screens | Vendor update function now reacts to screen configuration |
| Enhancement | Update Diagnostics (/PROMENTA/WSFI_BDCER) | Enable update diagnostics to be switched on/off. See solution docs for more info |
Webflow 1.5 SP13-3
Release date 02/03/2018
Core changes
| Fix/Enhancement | Title | Description And Detail |
| Enhancement | Decision Tree | Export/Import now supports node texts Screen sizes increased |
| Fix | Analyser | Fix issue with deletion of parallel workflow processes |
| Fix | Renderer (BSP) | Fix image path for popup search helps when using anonymous access |
| Enhancement | TCode launcher | Enable tcode /PROMENTA/WEBFORM_TCODE to be used a test tcode to launch test urls |
Solutions
| Fix/Enhanceement | Title | Description And Detail |
| Enhancement | Ageing report – Alternative index | Ageing report now supports alternative indexes (eg Vendor , FI document numbers) and allows the selection of requested based on these alternative indexes. |
| Enhancement | Ageing report – Forward/Adopt | Ageing report now shows adopt/forward actions |
| Fix | Zoption /GLSU posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP004) | Move file-history to customised “duplicate check” function. Allow customers to have custom duplicate checks |
Webflow 1.5 SP13-2
Release date 07/02/2018
Core changes
| Fix/Enhancement | Title | Description And Detail |
| Enhancement | Transaction code Launcher (/PROMENTA/WF_TCODE) | Provides ability to launch webflows from a custom transaction code. |
| Fix | Decision tree | Slight reformat of screens to avoid trimming of long tree ids |
Solutions
| Fix/Enhanceement | Title | Description And Detail |
| Enhancement | Zoption /GLSU posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP004) | Make duplicate change as a user exit so customer specific logic can be implemented. Move ZOption filehistroy check to custom logic so it can be active/inactive |
Webflow 1.5 SP13-1
Release date 19/01/2018
Core changes
| Fix/Enhanceement | Title | Description And Detail |
| Enhancement | New session handling | Enable new session handling using the SAP in-built session handling. This will be applied gradually to existing solutions. |
| Enhancement | Email engine | Enable configurable bcc or cc in emails. Enable the From user to be WF-BATCH in all cases in /PROMENTA/TM999 |
| Enhancement | Inbox (/PROMENTA/DASHBOARD2) | Forwarding can now send email notification to receiver Enable user exit to apply customer-specific controls to forward and substitute Show users which approval items are in their inbox due to substitution Show if a workflow is in error by changing icon to red traffic light |
| Enhancement | Renderer | Enable buttons in tablecontrols Change row selection in tablecontrol to be a checkbox Read name and email from SAP portal |
| Enhancement | Netweaver iview for WAS_PORTAL | Provide name/email from Portal to Webflow |
| Fix | Renderer – Delete attachments | Add confirmation popup before deleting attachments |
Solutions
| Fix/Enhanceement | Title | Description And Detail |
| Fix | project/WBS request | Minor defects relating to project creation |
| Enhancement | Zoption /GLSU posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP004) | Include ZOPtion file history check |
| Enhancement | Journal posting (/PROMENTA/WSFI_JP005) | introduce user exit for custom document checks |
| Fix | Vendor update function | Check for “no batch input” messages and report as errors |
| Enhancement | Responsibility tool – additional audit | Additional audit stored for mass changes |
Baseline Version : Webflow 1.5 SP13
Release date 29/09/2017
Core changes
| Fix/Enhancement | Title | Description And Detail |
| Enhancement | Decision Tree | Ability to export and import all tree nodes
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| Enhancement | Renderer | Enable cache control of mimes through version setting in /PROMENTA/TM999 |
| Enhancement | Audited text | Enable audit of textboxes (framework only) |
| Fix | Javascript error | Error on opening popups |
Solution Changes (RTD)
| Fix/Enhanceement | Title | Description And Detail |
| Enhencement | Age Report (transaction /PROMENTA/WS_AGE_REP) | New report enabling custom reporting along with standard ageing calculations |
| Enhancement | BDC error report update | Enable additional features in program /PROMENTA/WSFI_JP5_ERR_BDC |