Prophix Cloud Release Notes

Spring 2020

May 2020

Release notes describe the enhancements and bug fixes contained in new releases and maintenance releases.

 Tip:  To find the release note that contains a specific issue, search on the Prophix Support Desk ticket number.

Internet Explorer 11 no longer supported

On March 11, 2019, Prophix announced it would remove support for Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) effective December 31, 2019.

If you are currently using IE 11, we recommend switching to Edge or another modern browser such as Google Chrome. Microsoft Edge is the best choice if a Microsoft browser must be used at your organization.

After the End of Support date, functionality in Prophix may not work in IE11, and no minor bugs or cosmetic issues will be fixed for IE11.

Why has Prophix removed support for IE11?

Microsoft released the Edge browser as a replacement for IE11 in 2015 as part of it's Windows 10 operating system. As a result, IE11 no longer receives major updates, and lacks many technical features to support modern web applications. IE11 is considered a legacy browser, with much slower JavaScript and rendering performance than modern browsers like Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.

Prophix strives to deliver products that meet our customers’ needs. The increasing gap between IE11 and all other browsers has meant that we must expend considerable effort to avoid and fix defects that only appear in IE11. It limits our technology choices and ability to deliver the reliability and functionality our customers expect.

What's new

Contribution Insights

  • For any value in a report you can now see a summary that explains the driving factors behind the number. The Contribution Insights feature is similar to Chart Insights and further extends the artificial intelligence capabilities in Prophix.

Dashboards

  • When you drill down in a chart, you can now refresh the chart data from within the drill-down view.
  • In Charts the labels for category, series, and inside the legend have always appeared as Names. Charts now use the member display mode (Names, Keys, Keys & Names, Year, and so on) defined in the source data view.
  • In Document Explorer, you can now select a dashboard (Db) file and open it in Dashboard Studio (Design Mode) or run it in a tab (View Mode).

Data Integration

  • The ODBCAgent now provides an option (CloudDSN) to export data from the Staging database to an on-premise file, so that you can move Prophix data into your ERP.
  • You can now opt to import data from older 32-bit sources through the new ODBC32 Agent.
  • You can now use SQLAgent to connect through SSL to SQL Servers
  • The Source Extract process can now export results to a flat file on the client side.
  • The Source Extract process now logs integration statistics for time and duration.

Detailed Planning Manager

Document Explorer

  • The new Recent Files drawer shows your latest work files, for quick, easy access.
  • You can now select a dashboard (Db) file and open it in Dashboard Studio (Design Mode) or run it in a tab (View Mode).
  • You can email a report binder to yourself.

Journals Manager

Notifications

  • In Process Manager, certain processes (Publish, Report Binder, and Detailed Planning Post) now send notifications, falling back on email if the recipient is offline.

Templates

  • The doughnut chart type is now available (look under Other).

Resolved issues

Note that the current build is always cumulative: it contains all previous patches.

Released Ticket number Area Description
May 103275, 103257 Dashboard In charts data labels appeared as 'NaN'.
May 65381 Dashboard Studio In a Combo Custom chart, double-clicking in the chart failed to drill-down to the leaf members.
May 100175 Data Integration A SSIS error occurred in the Native SQL Data process.
May 102475 Document Explorer When using the Microsoft Edge browser, adding a folder caused the entire browser to refresh.
May 97594 DPM Could not link a version to any scenario in the DPM model.
May 98091 DPM After inputting a date to a DPO's date attribute, saving the DPO or selecting a different DPO caused the date value to decrement by one day.
May 102015 DPM In Global Vectors, pasting to a selected range using CTRL+V failed.
May 93179 DPM In a Lookup calculation, pasting to a selected range across Time using CTRL+V failed.
May 102055 DPM Cyrillic characters were not displayed correctly.
May 99962 DPM Schedules Pasting data into a multi-line field resulted in the data being pasted into multiple lines in the schedule.
May 99534 DPM Schedules Schedule saving was slow.
May 101122 DPM Schedules Pressing the space bar to clear a cell in an Input calculation caused an error.
May 103516 Infoflex Switching away from an Infoflex process caused the error: Unable to perform the action. Please correct the fields outlined in red.
May 103005 Journal Manager Using specific values for Credit or Debit introduced a trailing decimal.
May 100819 Line Item Schedule It was possible to enter line item details to a protected cell.
May 98725 Model Manager An alternate hierarchy named set appeared in the default hierarchy.
May 102140 Model Manager Message appeared stating cube was locked when it should have returned to unlocked status.
May 103546 Model Manager Update failed for a dimension with a Cyrillic name.
May 103163 Process Manager A stored procedure crashed the Prophix Process Service and caused a LockFailSetting error.
May 97939 Process Manager In a Data Import process, in the Source tab the file headers differed from those in the Target Mapping tab.
May 103516 Process Manager Save failed for a process group.
May 102210 System Hub In System Locks, German time sorting was displayed incorrectly.
May 98785 Template Studio In reporting mode, when exporting to Excel and using the Remove pages with no data option, the resulting table of contents did not match the sheets.
May 96427 Template Studio A report with hidden columns was saved as Excel format; in Excel, the sheet was copied and in the copy the hidden columns were revealed.
May 95252, 104050, 104891 Template Studio A report was saved as Excel format; in Excel, the sheet was copied and in the copy some formatting was lost.
May 100138 Template Studio Data labels behaved differently between template charts and dashboard charts.
May 100151 Workflow Manager In the comment history for a workflow all the comments were given the correct time stamp except for the general comments.