ComSci 2021 R2.0 - Release Notes

Enhancements

Inventory

  • [ITFM-40767] Users are now able to pin the right hand filter pane. Click to pin the filter pane. This eliminates the need to repeatedly open the filter pane when moving to new screens. ZD 655844

  • [ITFM-40775] Status has been added to the Billing Inventory group in the Analytics Inventory Manager wizard. The data aligns with the Status field on the Billing Inventory page. ZD 688953

  • [ITFM-40957 & ITFM-41502 - ITFM-41532] The filtering functionality has been greatly improved to allow users to search on many different criteria. User can apply list based or text-based searches and the search results are now saved. ZD 655672

  • [ITFM-40960] The Split Account Code and Name field has been added to the Inventory Manager page to allow users to display one column for code and one column for name. The default is to display code and name in one column. This is for Billing Inventory only. ZD 655638

  • [ITFM-40961] Two fields, Auto Remove Leading Spaces and Auto Remove Trailing Spaces have been added to the Inventory Manager default setup to automatically remove any white spaces before or after a value. ZD 655718

  • [ITFM-41248] Users are now able to report on Subcomponent Percentages in both Billing Inventory data sources. ZD 703683

Cost Modeling

  • [ITFM-35021] Users who have read/write access to the Service Cost Modeling module are now able to upload and delete attachments from a node. ZD 271990 & 275836

  • [ITFM-38453] Users who are permissioned to make Service Cost Model changes can now assign an Allocation Category value at the relationship level (between Cost Center and Cost Pool and between two cost pools). Allocation Category values are first established by the user as a Service Cost Modeling configuration option. Once the values are defined to the system, the user can select a relationship in the front-end and then click on the desired Allocation Category value. Saving the relationship will also save the selected Allocation Category value.

Query Builder

  • [ITFM-41537] Users are now able to save reports when custom fields have been created and are not used in the report.

SDI

  • [ITFM-31545] When users define a catalog, they are now able to map fields between the Source File and the Lookup Table using a delimiter. Part of a text string can now be used as criteria for the match.

Administration

  • [ITFM-40959] The Lines per page setting has been increased. Administrators can now set the system-wide default for the number of items per page between 5 and 1000 lines. Note that increasing the number can negatively impact performance. Users can manually change the number of items per page. ZD 634936

Resolved Issues

  • [ITFM-38965] The Allocation category name now correctly displays in Visual Modeling. ZD 762052

  • [ITFM-40867] Users are now able to successfully validate Subcomponent and Adjustment sub-grids when they have more than one page of records.

  • [ITFM-40873] On the PBX Format, Record Types, and Library Prefixes pages, users are now able to correctly delete, undelete, and populate records.

  • [ITFM-40879] Users are now able to successfully log in after ComSci times out. ZD 694215

  • [ITFM-40951] The header now displays correctly when a chart is sent in an email and the currency formatting is enabled.

  • [ITFM-41055] In Bill of Services, users can now successfully export to a csv, Excel, and pdf format.

  • [ITFM-41061] Sub-totals now correctly display for reports with custom fields.

  • [ITFM-41112] The performance when running reports that contain data from the Inventory Manager has been improved.

  • [ITFM-41217] On a pivot report the measures now display correctly at the end of the report. ZD 702508

  • [ITFM-41229] During a Bill of Services load, ComSci now runs the employee assignment and creation process a second time, right before the inventory data is inserted (after the IA data has been loaded) to prevent missing employee data when a user modifies the Inventory data during the load.

  • [ITFM-41263] Users are now able to successfully modify references to BoS forecast versions within custom fields in UA reports. ZD 705044

  • [ITFM-41299] Values now display correctly in the Last Name and First Name fields when associating a user after deleting the existing association. ZD 706313

  • [ITFM-41324] Users can now successfully run reports that use a formula custom field and have a replace, substring, or concatenate custom field in the Used but not reported on section in the report builder.