3314485 - SAP Business ByDesign 2302 Hotfix Collection 2 Information

Symptom

Following is the list of fixes* delivered with the Hotfix collection 2 performed in 2302 release of SAP Business ByDesign.

The Hotfix collection is planned to be deployed to tenants during the respective planned maintenance window on/after the 18^th of March 2023. Please check the planned maintenance downtime window of your tenant from the Service Control Center.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign 2302

Resolution

Cross - Area Topic

File Input/ Output

Customer access to WebDAV in the file output directory has now been enabled. (Hotfix ID: 1000020934. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Key User Translation Tool

The scope of the Language Adaptation Tool has been enhanced steadily over the past years, including the addition of an error specifically in the context of custom translation of Analytics texts, that impacts the way custom translations are propagated into the UI, sometimes leading to a mix up of texts being shown on the UI. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000023087)
In Resource Management, the indication of months inside availability time sheets was incorrect. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000024292. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Service Control Center

The fix provided includes enhancements in the Service Control Center, for the User Subscription reporting area. (Hotfix ID: 1000024740)

UI Client

The following issues have been fixed.
- The refresh time was displaying 11 hours ago on the KPIs even though data was refreshed correctly, and no AEDT in the settings.
- Link to KBA from the error message was not working. (Hotfix ID: 1000022275)
The issues with viewing the calendar after the 2302 release of SAP Business ByDesign have now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000021324. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
Reports of Business Analytics could not be switched from table to chart. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000022405. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Business Partner

Reporting for Accounts is now enhanced with script-dependant data for names and postal address attributes, with the additional data source, 'BPARTNER_SCRIPT'. (Hotfix ID: 4500018636)
In Mass Data Maintenance for Customer/Account, the addresses with script dependencies can now only be maintained individually. (Hotfix ID: 4500016078)
During Data Extraction of account master data, collaboration data is now extracted correctly, when using multiple channels for output management. (Hotfix ID: 1000020906)

Suppliers

An inconsistency with the web service ManageSupplierIn has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000023273. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
The error appearing when accessing the change history for a supplier has now been resolved. (Hotfix ID: 4500018034)

Machine Learning Cockpit

The fix provided includes changes to prevent locking issues during prediction runs in certain cases. (Hotfix ID: 1000022902)

Customer Relationship Management

Customer Invoicing

The output form of the Austria customer invoices can now be viewed without any issues. (Hotfix ID: 1000024322. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Opportunities Processing

Authorization issues for determined responsible users for Opportunity tasks have now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000021973. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Tax Calculation

This fix has added new Tax Exemption Reason Codes for Germany. (Hotfix ID: 4500019034)
The error appearing while creating an incoming down payment request has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000021426. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Activities

The issue with navigation for specific documents under Activities has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500020221)

Quotations

With this fix, it is now possible to delete new sales quotes again. (Hotfix ID: 1000021845. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Sales Order

You can now create multiple Service Confirmations in the same call. (Hotfix ID: 1000021588)

Financial Management

Costing

In Material Cost Estimate Rollup Run error messages were shown stating that the estimates had failed for certain materials although they were calculated successfully. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500014965)

Due Clearing

The payment proposal generated via payment run was resulting in an application error while opening. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000021535)

Financial Accounting

In Business Configuration, the activity for "Financial and Management Accounting: Foreign Currency Remeasurement Methods for Payables and Receivables" has not been editable for accounting principle "6200 - United Arab Emirates". Due to this, the parameters could not be adjusted to individual needs. With this fix, the underlying Business Configuration setting is now editable and can be customized. (Hotfix ID: 4500018848)
The issues in Product Category selection in Cost Accumulation run have been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500016946)
From PDI, you can now retrieve the preceding document ID, contained in the Accounting Notification from an accounting document. (Hotfix ID: 1000019897)
In the Journal Entry Voucher, if a user with read-only access uses the value help for companies, the values were not shown. This issue has now been resolved. (Hotfix ID: 1000021166)

Payment Management

With the fix provided, the system now does not allow the creation of Posting Advice without the Payer details. (Hotfix ID: 4500016579)
In the Payment Advice Creation UI, a dedicated preview was available to accommodate a legal requirement for Israel allowing a form-based preview of the document. However, a comprehensive preview of the document before release of the document was not available as no data was sent into the form creation process, for the open items cleared by the payment advice. This shortcoming has now been rectified such that the document preview is available, including the complete item list during the document staging process, and when it is finally released. (Hotfix ID: 4500018947)
When suppliers are liable for Chain Liability payments in the Netherlands, in the case of a supplier invoice for which a bank transfer is maintained in the invoice already, the g-account was propagated to both the split items created at the posting of the invoice erroneously. This fix rectifies the issue and propagates the account defined in the bank transfer setting of the invoice correctly to the relevant split item. (Hotfix ID: 4500017234)
The work center view, "Payment Times Reporting" was visible in the system even when neither the country (Australia) nor the Payment Times Reporting question was scoped. This has now been corrected. Also, the Payment Times Report user interface has been adjusted slightly with additional descriptions on fields and with the enabling/disabling elements functionality based on the status of the "Report in Set of Books Currency" indicator. These changes have been done to improve clarity under which condition the reporting data in the specified output file of Australian format is valid. (Hotfix ID: 1000023653)
Foreign Currency Remeasurement method is now visible in the Accounting Principle General Ledger node. (Hotfix ID: 1000023301)
The issue occurring while confirming Japanese Payments from Bank Statements has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000021138)

Tax Management & Declaration

With this fix, the 1099 NEC form has been resized as per the legal specification. (Hotfix ID: 4500016598)
For Switzerland, executing tax payments from the Tax Management work center required additional information to be maintained in the respective tax authority and the tax payment itself. With this fix, a master data reference field is added for "QR IBAN" code to the master data of a Tax Authority - Bank Details. It consumes the QR IBAN code in the dedicated tax payment once it is created for the tax authority. (Hotfix ID: 4500017419)
For France, as part of legal changes in 2023, the tax return file for the 'WHT Return' withholding tax return has been populated with the right values. The nodes 020, 300, and 310, in the file are impacted. The constant 'NN' is removed and replaced with spaces in certain places in the file. The SIREN number is populated from offset position 597 in row 310 in the withholding tax return file. (Hotfix ID: 1000022154)
A new tax event corresponding to the new tax code 321 has been introduced to support a 0% tax rate in point-of-sales transactions for Spain. Documents posted with this new tax code will be reported in 'Tax Return', 'Modelo 347' and 'SII - Outgoing Invoices' tax returns for Spain. (Hotfix ID: 1000023204)
For Germany, the Yearly VAT Return 2022 form is now compliant with the latest legal specifications for the year 2022. (Hotfix ID: 4500017957)
The legal change for Spain requires travel agencies' incoming invoices under VAT schema 05 should inform the tax base amount, tax rate, and tax amount. To fulfill this requirement, new tax codes have been provided. (Hotfix ID: 1000023512. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
The fix provided includes Layout changes to the 1099 NEC form as per the legal specifications. (Hotfix ID: 1000020878)

Public Sector Funds

Due to an issue, editing the Journal Entry Voucher was causing the Fund and Function to get unassigned. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000020339)

Set of Books

The fix includes changes for the validation of Permanent establishment ID while processing the GAC XI messages. (Hotfix ID: 1000024370. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Master Data

This fix makes the transition date for the closed & cancelled invoices available in case the org assignment "Valid from date" is greater than the "Lease start date". (Hotfix ID: 4500015676)

Project Management

Project Processing

When deleting a Project Invoice Request, which is in status "In Preparation" using a custom OData service (with a DELETE request), the system resulted in an application error. With the fix provided, the error no longer occurs, and the deletion of the Project Invoice Request works correctly via the OData service. (Hotfix ID: 1000021998)
Association TaskFundAssignment from business object Project has now been PSM released. (Hotfix ID: 1000023175)
When creating a consumption for a project stock order for different lines with the same material and different ship to parties, the error message "Consumption quantity must not be greater than available quantity of X" was shown. This issue is now corrected. (Hotfix ID: 1000019037)
Some texts in the Dispatching Board UI were not translated. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000021086)
When a customer project invoice request was released, an error message was shown, most probably because at least one of the expenses for the involved projects was in reassignment processing. And it is possible that the delayed reassignment process was interrupted due to locking issues and did not restart. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000022536)
The column filter on the project ID now works as expected when copying the existing project. (Hotfix ID: 1000022853)

Human Capital Management

Employee Time Recording

You can now see the leave balance using the leave request UI for time types having the length of less than 6 characters. (Hotfix ID: 1000021983)

Personnel Administration

During termination of employees in SAP Business By Design, Personnel Administrator can specify if an employee is dismissed instantly using instant dismissal indicator. With this fix, the instant dismissal indicator is now Read-Released and available for partner usage. (Hotfix ID: 1000022613)

Time & Labour Management

The following node attributes of the BO "EmployeeTimeAgreement" are now PSM released.
- Node 'ItemPeriodProvisionsTimeRecordingProvisions', element : 'CompletenessRequiredIndicator' is PSM write-released in the context of Time Recording Method in the Time profile.
- Node 'ItemPeriodProvisionsPlannedWorkingTimeAverageRate', element : 'Rate', is read-released in the context of Average values of planned working time in the Time profile. (Hotfix ID: 4500015015)
Time recording activity "ES0035- Illness with Certificate" for Spain was unavailable for time administrators due to which they were unable to record time on employee's behalf, using the time recording activity. This has now been resolved and the time recording activity is now available for time administrators. (Hotfix ID: 1000020149)
When a time model is unassigned for an employee in the employee's Time file, or a temporary work schedule is removed for an employee, it was not getting reflected in the "Target Capacity" for that employee in the Resource Calendar. With the fix provided, such changes in the employees work schedule get reflected in the Resource Calendar correctly. (Hotfix ID: 1000019758)

Supply Chain Management

Outbound Delivery

The issue in Delivery Note form output history wherein "View Data XML" section country names were showing in English always. The issue has been fixed and the country names now appear in the Template Language. (Hotfix ID: 1000023383)

Outbound Delivery Request

PSM Read access is now enabled in the business object OutboundDeliveryRequest for the fields:
- ShippingCondition
- TransportationLaneID
- TransportLaneDescription (Hotfix ID: 1000023582)

Production Bill of Operations

The issue during the Bill of Operations migration activity has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000023764)

Product Requirement Specification

Due to a large number of Identified Stocks associated with a given PRS, there was a performance issue while processing messages from Inventory to Accounting which could create a product valuation level based on the identified stock. The fix provided includes changes to improve the performance. (Hotfix ID: 1000022498)

Inventory

When creating a change of stock, the error "Serial number does not exist in inventory" was shown even if the serialized product existed in the system. This issue has been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000022527)
The Reconciliation run was ending in an error, where the Inventory in Logistics would be 0 and the Accounting with Logistics tab would have errors. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000023541)

Supplier Relationship Management

Purchase Requests and Orders

The Purchase Orders worklist screen resulted in an application error due to the user's authorization error. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000024102. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Supplier Invoice

The Italy Supplier Invoice XML file was not getting generated on the posting of invoice, for tax code 62. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000023764)
In the Italy Supplier Invoice XML file, the Quantity field now accepts decimal values. (Hotfix ID: 4500016038)

*Disclaimer: Note that this list may not include all of the hotfixes that are a part of this collection (e.g., operational, internal, technical fixes may not be listed)

Keywords

BYD2302; HFC02; Hotfix; SPS02; Hotfix Collection; 2302

, KBA , SRD-CC-UIP , UI Plugins , 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 , SRD-SRM-PRO , Purchase Requests and Orders , Problem

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