3046969 - SAP Business ByDesign 2102 Hotfix Collection 3 Information

Following is the list of fixes* delivered with the Hotfix collection 3 performed in 2102 release of SAP Business ByDesign.

The Hotfix collection is planned to be deployed to tenants during the respective planned maintenance window on/after the 17^th of April. Please check the planned maintenance downtime window of your tenant from the Service Control Center.

SAP Business ByDesign 2102 HFC 3

Cross – Area Topic

UI Client

• The issue occurring while changing to the Serbo-Croatian language has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000011994)
• In the SAP Business ByDesign mobile app, a message to upgrade the version was shown each time the app was opened. This issue was caused due to the wrong version number of the app, which has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000013075. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• When there were multiple KPIs on the launchpad with Refresh buttons, clicking one Refresh button immediately after the other was causing the second refresh to fail functionally, although the KPI seemed to have loaded. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000009099)
• When reviewing a Stock overview report and adding the line items table, it was possible to add a consignment and sales order ID field to the report. Due to an issue, these options were not appearing on the report in Personalization or Key user adaptation mode. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000011867)

Transformation Repository

• Due to an issue, XML files generated using XSLT Repository (eInvoicing, Tax, Payments) were not being validated correctly. In some cases, the validation was rejecting properly formatted files. This validation has now been temporarily disabled and a new one will be delivered in the upcoming release. (Hotfix ID: 1000008826. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• Common Master Data Transformation Repository had an issue with authority check during deletion of obsoleted transformations, causing application errors. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000010638. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Identity and Access Management

• When a custom joined data source based on data source CCARUSRLOG was created, and the number of users in the system exceeded 8000, the custom report execution was resulting in an exception. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000011412. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Analytics

• The issue with reporting values in specific formats of Date and Time has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000010679)

Service Control Center

• With the fix provided, the Self-service user type in the Simple license model has been enhanced to approve shopping carts. (Hotfix ID: 1000009174)

Service Control Center

• The fix provided ensures that the web service 'Find Accounts' now returns the status information of contact persons, including those that are 'blocked' for further usage from the Information and Lifecycle Management work center. (Hotfix ID: 1000010306)

 

Customer Relationship Management

Customer Invoicing

• Project OIF screen shows titles 'Pane Header for Tab Strip' and 'Pane Header for Tab'. This has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000013311. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• The fix is provided for determination of the Tax Reporting Unit (Business Residence) in Customer Return Invoice Requests of South Korea.
  The fix also ensures that intrastate invoices in Assam (India) have the suffix 'EX', which has the basis for reimbursement under the state notified scheme. (Hotfix ID: 1000012431) 

Sales Orders

• While using the Partner libraries for Parties Determined in CRM documents, as part of Extension Business Object (XBO) exit calls, saving Standard documents was resulting in application errors. This issue has been resolved. (Hotfix ID: 1000013041)
• When a consignment issue item was added for an account with a numeric ID and price calculation is triggered for the same using Update Pricing, the error 'Costs not determined: Field Consignee ID of QueryItemSubject has invalid format' was thrown on cost valuation of consignment issue item. This has now been is resolved. (Hotfix ID: 4500010555)

Opportunity

• The fix provided ensures that if all mandatory activities are completed in an Opportunity then its Sales phase can be changed without any error. (Hotfix ID: 1000011727)

Registered Product

• When a registered product is added to a Service confirmation for a non-serialized product and released, then navigating to the registered product was resulting in an application error. This issue has been resolved. (Hotfix ID:1000002929. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)           

                                                                     

Financial Management

General Ledger

• The fix provided is relevant only for SAP Business ByDesign Public Sector edition. Point-of-sale transactions have now been enabled to accept funds and functions as inputs to relevant integration scenarios. The corresponding Journal entries also contain the funds and functions passed through the scenarios. (Hotfix ID: 1000011397)

Cost and Revenue

• At the Revenue accounting contract level, if it was determined that Contract Liabilities were to be posted, an issue was causing Contract Assets to be posted or vice-versa. This was occurring when a revenue recognition run was performed for multiple documents. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000013541)
• The fix provided ensures that the Final accrual indicator is set on relevant multi-customer projects correctly, thereby improving the performance of Revenue recognition runs. (Hotfix ID: 1000013151)

Payment Management

• For Switzerland, in the case of a Supplier invoice with payment reference type QR-bill, or payment reference number generated, or no additional information filled, the payment file contained a superfluous tag- AddtlRmtInf. With the fix provided, the tag has been removed from the payment file. (Hotfix ID: 1000010636)
• For Japan, the issue with the Payment amount being wrongly set to 0, when one payment clears several Supplier invoices in the Outgoing file of an International Bank Transfer has now been resolved. (Hotfix ID: 1000013481)
• The fix provided ensures that the Payment file generated for externally initiated tax Payments has the payment amounts on the Payment Explanation node. (Hotfix ID: 1000011747)

Payment Processing

• With the ISO20022 file upload for Bank statements, the transaction details in the file including fields like Payment information, Account service references, End-to-end ID, and so on, were not getting reflected on the corresponding memo line of the Bank Statement item. The fix provided ensures that the fields are mapped to memo lines. (Hotfix ID: 1000009409)
• For UK, the fix provided ensures that MT940 GB bank statement format now correctly considers the SWIFT code as the identification value for the relevant bank account. (Hotfix ID:1000012742. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Tax Management and Declaration

• In the IT CU PDF output form, for withholding tax code 27 tax special regime, the base amount was incorrectly appearing in the 'Base amount' field instead of the 'Other amounts not subject to withholding' field. This has now been corrected. (Hotfix ID: 1000006098)
• For Sale transactions to customers in Palestine, the external reference document ID was being reported in the PCN874 tax form rather than the internal document reference ID generated by the SAP Business ByDesign. This issue has now been fixed.  (Hotfix ID: 1000012233)
• In Italy, Law Art. 124 C.2 DL 34 introduced a special Reduced rate of 5% to buy and sell protective products. With the fix provided, a new tax event 592 'Domestic Sale Art. 124 C.2 DL 34' and a new tax code 592 'Domestic Sale Art. 124 C.2 DL 34' have been created for this purpose. On the purchase side, tax code 77 can be reused. Documents created with this new tax code are to be reported in the 'Summary Register', 'Output VAT Domestic Register', and 'Quarterly VAT Return' tax returns for Italy.  (Hotfix ID: 1000013471. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• With the fix provided, the following tax number types have been added for the respective countries:
  • Oman (OM) - VAT Registration Number
  • Oman (OM) - Tax Card Number
  • Niger (NE) - VAT Registration Number
  • Niger (NE) - Tax Identification Number
  • Malawi (MW) - Taxpayer Identification Number
  • Malawi (MW) - VAT Registration Number
  • Uganda (UG) - Tax Identification Number
  • Zambia (ZM) - VAT Registration Number
  • Nigeria (NG) - VAT Registration Number
   (Hotfix ID: 1000012002. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• The GB VAT Return could not be executed for a quarterly period. The execution was prevented due to mapping entries that were introduced for the tax event 340 with Valid From date being the start date of the quarterly period. With this fix, the adjustment has been made in the Valid From date of the mapping entries for the tax event 340 to enable successful execution of a GB VAT Return tax return run for a quarterly period. (Hotfix ID: 1000010739)
• Amounts in the German VAT forms for form boxes 21 and 45 were displayed with a negative (-) sign. This issue has now been fixed.  (Hotfix ID: 1000012194)

Statutory Reporting

• The issue preventing the creation of a new report based on the data source GLOGLAU06 has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000012395)

Accounting

• When creating a Sales order with an account starting with a digit, the creation of Goods and Activity Confirmation was failing with an error. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000013630)

 

Project Management

Project

• In the SAP Business ByDesign Public Sector edition, when projects are created via the activity Migration of Projects, and the option Migrate Projects using Migration Tool is used,  the system does not correctly process the numerical Fund IDs and Grant IDs defined in the migration template. Due to this issue, such projects could not be used as cost assignments in documents like Supplier invoices, and the error message 'Fund not allowed for project task' was shown. Also, the currency of the migrated Financing sources was empty and could not be set by the user. The fix provided ensures that numerical Fund IDs and Grant IDs are processed correctly by the system during migration, and the currency of the migrated Financing sources is derived correctly based on the project's company.  (Hotfix ID: 1000012525)
• When a project 'In Planning' status was deleted, all baselines belonging to this project get deleted by the system. In some cases, if a baseline had just been created in another screen, it may not get deleted by the system. This issue could prevent the creation of a new project with the same ID as the deleted one. This has been addressed in the fix provided. The system now deletes all baselines belonging to the deleted project.  (Hotfix ID: 1000013670)

 

Human Resources Management

Time and Labor Management

• Employee replication via Employee Central Query takes employees and managers from Employee Central and processes them simultaneously. Also, if a manager was already pending for processing, the system allowed duplicate requests of managers to remain. With the fix provided, managers are processed first, followed by employees, and the system checks if a request already exists for a manager for processing. If yes, then duplication of requests for that manager is prevented. Also, if there is any change in the data for that manager, the request is still allowed to remain. (Hotfix ID: 1000011107)

 

Supply Chain Management

Physical Inventory

• In the Execution work center, when a folder was selected and a task was to be assigned to another user, the value help of advanced filter to select the user was resulting in an application error. The issue causing this error has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000011837)

Goods and Activity Confirmation

• Consignment issue allocation, the issues occurring when the ordering UoM and the inventory UoM were different have now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000009673)

Inbound Delivery

• In the case of Third-Party Order Fulfillment (TPOP), if the sales order contained external reference and the TPOP Inbound Delivery Notification (IDN) was created through web service, the external reference was not getting copied to the IDN. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000010905. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Outbound Delivery

• With the fix provided the SiteLogisticsLot association on the Outbound Delivery has been deprecated, as this association was causing application errors in SAP Cloud Application Studio and was also not being implemented. (Hotfix ID: 1000011835)

Request Outbound Delivery Execution Run

• The fix provided ensures that Outbound Delivery Requests Runs do not release Stock transfer proposals when they have been set to exclude them. (Hotfix ID: 1000007819. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Production Planning Order

• The issue regarding the rejection of the Obsolete variant of BOM and BOO in the Production model of SAP Business ByDesign has been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000012534. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Resource Data Management

• Resource Floor Plan is now enabled for extension field using SAP Cloud Application Studio. (Hotfix ID: 1000012383)

Production Task

• The error occurring during the mass confirmation of production tasks, using action 'Confirmed as planned' has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000001801)

Production Lot

• The issue with the extension fields on business object ‘Production Lot’ and node 'Operation Activity' has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000000322)

 

Supplier Relationship Management

Purchase Requests and Orders

• With this fix, anchors have been added to certain actions, so that the key users can prevent users from accidentally pressing the Finish button. (Hotfix ID: 1000012085)

Request for Quote

• The fix provided ensures that Supplier Quote Notes can be created using SDK. (Hotfix ID: 1000011256)

Supplier Invoice

• With the fix provided, creating Supplier invoices for Free Text items is possible, and searching the product ID based on the product description would not end abruptly. (Hotfix ID: 1000012821)
• The fix provided resolves inconsistencies in Exceptions without any predecessor Supplier invoice.  (Hotfix ID: 1000006244. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

 

KBA 2938382 - SAP Business ByDesign Hotfix Collection Information

, KBA , SRD-CC-UIP , UI Plugins , SRD-SRM-PRO , Purchase Requests and Orders , SRD-CRM-ORD , Orders & Contracts , SRD-FIN-GL , General Ledger , SRD-HR-MSS , People Management , SRD-PRO-PMN , Project Management , SRD-SCM-ANA , Analytics Content , Problem

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