Detailed Changelog for Continia Expense Management 2023 R1
This article lists all new features and bug fixes for each version of Continia Expense Management 2023 R1.
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Expense Management 2023 R1, Service Pack 2
Released: August 28, 2023
App version: 11.2.0
FOB version: 11.02
New or changed functionality
| Functional area | Description | ID |
|---|---|---|
| General Application | Fields "Matching tolerance Amount (%)" and "Matching tolerance Date (Days)" will be used in the future in our Expense Management Mobile App, when matching Expense with an existing receipt. | 45650 |
| Purchase Contracts | When the user changes Continia User Id on an expense, which has a relation to a purchase contract, the following comment will be added for the expense:
| 45018 |
Bug fixes
| Functional area | Description | ID |
|---|---|---|
| Credit Card Transactions | We have addressed an issue where parallel processes downloading transactions could potentially result in duplicated entries in the bank transaction inbox. | 47472 |
| Credit Card Transactions | When transactions would automatically match to an expense belonging to an expense report in status Open, the following error would have appeared. The issue was introduced in Service Pack 1.
| 48528 |
| Expenses | In Canadian localization, when a user created expense allocations marked as non-taxable, the system incorrectly allocated them as taxable amounts for sales tax purposes. | 43601 |
| Expenses | Dimensions on the expense are no longer checked if allocations are present. | 46065 |
| Expenses | In the Canadian localization, when renaming the predefined sales tax expense types, the automatic allocation of expenses would have not been working any longer. | 48352 |
| General Application | The Expense Mobile App is now able to map countries and currencies also based on the ISO codes. | 45497 |
| General Application | "Paid/Reimbursed" filters on the status report were not working. | 47481 |
| General Application | Previously, when transitioning from File Storage or Azure to Database, encountering an error during the deletion of old files would result in a complete rollback of the process, leading to the loss of already deleted files. We have now implemented a change to handle each document individually, allowing for the possibility of repeating the process in case of errors and enabling recovery of the deleted files. | 47561 |
| General Application | Reduced the length setting of the Configured Field "Attendees" to 50 (from 100) to be in line with the maximum length for "Attendees" field value across EM tables. | 47610 |
| General Application | Resolved the issue that was using the default email scenario instead of the actual scenario that was set-up. | 47699 |
| General Application | The codeunit 6086569 "CEM Update Field Dependencies" in the Job Queue now correctly calculates the lookup values. | 47730 |
| General Application | On an expense without attachments, when pressing the controls for attachments in the addin, multiple unrelated attachments would have been shown. | 47923 |
| General Application | When posting Per Diem in foreign currencies, the exchange rate was calculated based on the current travel day and not based on the posting date. | 48113 |
| General Application | When a user without permissions on Expense Management objects would post a purchase invoice, the following error would have prevented the user from posting:
| 48344 |
| General Application | Empty filters in the Field Types are once again allowed, mainly to support filters on empty value options. | 48399 |
| General Application | We have prevented the following error when importing a setup file that was exported from older versions of Business Central:
| 48828 |
| Mileages | Negative mileage is once again supported. | 48882 |
| Per Diem | "Allowance given by default" was setting allowances to true even when the allowances were disabled. When downloading the documents, they would have added allowance amounts as if the allowance was enabled. Nevertheless, at posting time the correct amount was posted. When downloading the per diems, the allowance amount will not be added anymore when the allowance is disabled. The issue is addressed in Continia Online, as well and it will be released independently. | 48400 |
| Purchase Contracts | Multiple expenses, related to the same purchase contract and within the same purchase contract's invoicing period can no longer be auto approved. | 47351 |
Expense Management 2023 R1, Hotfix 1
Released: July 7, 2023
App version: 11.0.1
FOB version: 11.01.01
Bug fixes
| Functional area | Description | ID |
|---|---|---|
| Expenses | When a bank transaction matched an expense, it was sent to the expense user instead of the approver. | 48360 |
| Expenses | When using the "Post in expense currency," if the expense user's balancing account is an Employee account type, a posting error would occur for foreign currency expenses: "The value of the Currency Code field must be empty. General journal lines in foreign currency are not supported for employee account type" | 48359 |
Expense Management 2023 R1, Service Pack 1
Released: June 2, 2023
App version: 11.1.0
FOB version: 11.01
New or changed functionality
| Functional area | Description | ID |
|---|---|---|
| General Application | Added new CEM Image Quality (6086520) page that enables users to customize image size and quality settings. This feature allows users to override the default values for Picture Size and Picture Quality. | 45546 |
| General Application | Support for multiple levels of parent-child field relations, similar to Job and Tasks. | 47388 |
| Purchase Contracts | Added new actions to the Expenses and Posted Expenses pages: Open Purchase Contract and Create Purchase Contract. Additionally, introduced new fields to the Expenses and Posted Expenses pages: Purchase Contract, Purchase Contract No., Purchase Contract Line No., and Purchase Contract Line Amount. | 46412 |
Bug fixes
| Functional area | Description | ID |
|---|---|---|
| General Application | Error when opening the Expense Management Assisted Setup. | 46463 |
| General Application | Deletion of Expense Report Inbox allowed, regardless of status. | 46484 |
| General Application | UNABLE-DEPR error displayed for a completed document that was later attached to an expense report. | 43696 |
| General Application | When processing notification outbox entries, multiple updates of the same documents in Continia Online were sent. | 46514 |
| General Application | When a transaction would automatically match an existing expense, Continia Online was not informed. This was allowing changes to the expense. | 46568 |
| General Application | Expense status report now displays taxable mileage amount. | 46658 |
| General Application | Preview PDF files by clicking on the message instead of opening in the Business Central 14 WebClient. | 46905 |
| General Application | The expense report was not refreshing the images when scrolling through expenses. | 47068 |
| General Application | Deactivated notifications for overdue approval entries. | 47086 |
| General Application | Error when importing a setup file exported from older versions of Business Central. | 47322 |
| Expenses | Added Matched to Bank Transaction action to posted expenses. | 46902 |
| Expenses | On the expense card, the Amount without VAT displays the total amount when Reverse VAT is applied. | 46594 |
| Mileages | Error when posting mileage. | 46996 |
| Mileages | Added the Mileage Taxable Account on the expense report mileage sub-page. | 47325 |
Expense Management 2023 R1, hotfix 2
Released: May 16, 2023
App version: 11.0.2
Only released in Business Central online.
Bug fixes
| Functional area | Description | ID |
|---|---|---|
| Per Diem | When posting per diem with custom expense posting setup, it would have failed with the following error: The field VAT Prod. Posting Group of table Gen. Journal Line contains a value (DOMESTIC) that cannot be found in the related table (VAT Product Posting Group). | 47197 |
Expense Management 2023 R1, hotfix 1
Released: May 11, 2023
App version: 11.0.1
Only released in Business Central online.
Bug fixes
| Functional area | Description | ID |
|---|---|---|
| General Application | The expense report did not refresh images while scrolling through expenses. | 47068 |
Expense Management 2023 R1
Released for online: April 3, 2023
Released for on-premises: April 14, 2023
App version: 11.0.0
FOB version: 11.00
New or changed functionality
| Functional area | Description | Id |
|---|---|---|
| Expenses | We have improved the usability of payment types, including making them available for user groups, and made it easier to define and assign them to users. As a consequence, the "Refund User" flag on the Payment Type gets replaced by the "Posting Method", which can be "Post on the Expense User Account" ("Refund User" = True) and "Post on Business Account" ("Refund User" = False). The upgrade takes care of the conversion. | 43075 |
| Expenses | We have prevented the possibility of specifying a balancing or intermediate account if that account has VAT associated with it. | 43651 |
| Expenses | We have prevented the possibility of (wrongfully) assigning the same Balancing Account and Intermediate Account No. to a Payment Type. | 43652 |
| General Application | We have extended most of the description fields from 50 to 100 characters throughout the application for consistency with Business Central. | 13903 |
| General Application | We are now creating number series and source codes when the Assisted Setup has been importing Expense Management Setup data. This is no longer done when creating demo data. This change also ensures Expense Management Setup only contains valid codes for source codes and number series, compared with previous versions where a mismatch was sometimes found. | 16000 |
| General Application | We have added the possibility to add a Taxable Account when using taxable rates in Mileage and Per Diem. | 43506 |
| General Application | Expense Management is now updating the Notification text in Payment Management so that the users are informed on which documents are being paid. The functionality can be enabled in Payment Management by ticking "Enable Payment Management Event" in Notification Setup. The functionality is only available for the latest versions, starting with Business Central 2020. With this functionality, a new extension app will be installed: Continia Core Connectivity. | 43508 |
| General Application | We have introduced support for the Portuguese localization. That includes translations, document signing and Purchase Invoice creation for the business Vendors. | 44382 |
| General Application | To comply with the Universal Code initiative, the following has been changed. A new Document Storage Type named File Service has been added. The File Service storage type is used to access locally stored files (PDFs, images, etc.) through a new Continia File Service. For further information, please see the following article on Continia Docs: https://docs.continia.com/en-us/continia-expense-management/new-and-planned/platform-and-technology/avoid-business-central-universal-code-initiative-fees | 44665 |
| General Application | The Continia Notifications module has been introduced, enabling you to receive notifications about operational statuses and important releases directly inside Business Central. Note that if you have a closed on-premises environment and upgrade to the latest version of Expense Management, it's important that you allow outgoing traffic to the Continia Notifications addresses specified under Firewall requirements. Otherwise, you'll be unable to receive any notifications from Continia. | 45468 |
| Mileages | Expense Management will help calculate VAT refunds on mileages when receipts for fuel are provided. The functionality is enabled on the mileage rates, when "Fuel Rate" is specified. The VAT Amount will be posted into a different G/L Account. | 32318 |
| Mileages | We have expanded the 60 day rule with different levels of consequence when a user exceeds it. | 39389 |
Bug fixes
| Functional area | Description | Id |
|---|---|---|
| Document Approval | Description 2 was not copied to the approval entries. | 42848 |
| General Application | It was possible to change the data type on a field type with field dependencies. | 42106 |
| General Application | It was possible to delete a field type used in posting descriptions or shortcut fields. | 42135 |
| Mileages | In case of very long addresses, it would be impossible to open the Approval Entries page.
| 43026 |