3068070 - SAP Business ByDesign 2105 Hotfix Collection 2 Information

Following is the list of fixes* delivered with the Hotfix collection 2 performed in 2105 release of SAP Business ByDesign.

The Hotfix collection is planned to be deployed to tenants during the respective planned maintenance window on/after the 19^th of June. Please check the planned maintenance downtime window of your tenant from the Service Control Center.

Cross – Area Topic

UI Client

• The following issues have now been fixed.
  • In Stock Overview with more than one Site ID, it was not possible to provide the data.
  • An application error was causing the change of contact information to fail.  (Hotfix ID: 4500010619)
• Download of the SAP Business ByDesign Microsoft Teams add-in was not possible. There was an error message that the Marketplace could not be accessed from the SAP Business ByDesign system. This has been fixed and it is now possible to download the add-in. (Hotfix ID: 4500011979. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• Due to an issue in the Purchasing Contract Approval process the error message for missing the mandatory field, Total Target Value was not showing up. It was possible to release the contract although the mandatory field value was zero. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500007127)
• The following issues have been fixed.
  • Expense reports were not visible on the mobile application.
  • In iPhones, the options such as 'Customers' and 'All Customers' were not visible on the application.
  • In iPhone 12, specific issues were found with the application.
  • In iPhones with the latest OS, reports could not be accessed. (Hotfix ID: 4500011018. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• Due to an issue in the General Ledger Accounts view, it was. not possible to select a set of books. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500011873. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• Mashups could not be added in the Outbound Deliveries screen in Adaptation mode since the SAP Business ByDesign 2105 release. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500011905. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• The following issues have been fixed.
  • It was not possible to stop Personalization mode after using it to change the background design.
  • When exporting to Excel with the login language as Traditional Chinese, the data was found missing.
  • Application errors were found in the Supply Planning work center-> Resource Load view-> Load Graph sub-view.
  • Records in custom BO were missing in the mobile application. (Hotfix ID: 1000009039)
• The issue with the search box where in only thirty results were shown for any search, has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500012472)
• The error messages for empty mandatory fields were disappearing quickly. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500012613. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• The following issues have been fixed:
  • In the Edit Time sheet screen, week number 14 was not visible.
  • In PDI, it was possible to change the text field in Read-Only mode. (Hotfix ID: 4500012422)
• The following issues have been fixed:
  • When the Help Center Menu Icon on the shell header was clicked, the SAP Support Expert Chat and Schedule an Expert was visible to all users while it must only be visible to the key users.
  • When the Learning Center option in Web Assistant was clicked, the wrong link was opening. (Hotfix ID: 4500011698. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Service Control Center

• In the Service Control Center, the work center views of the Insights work center were assigned to the user type Core user instead of Advanced user. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500011212)
• In the Service Control Center, the issue with the View All button in the User Subscription worklist has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500011609)

Analytics

• In some user defined data models if the check for blocked business partners was requested, application errors occurred. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500010018)
• The characteristics, Shaam File Production Date and Shaam Group, which were a part of the localization for Israel, have been added to the report, Supplier Details with Withholding Tax Details. (Hotfix ID: 4500012961)

Output Management

• Through the fix provided, the Edit Output settings pop-up screen has been enhanced so that the e-mail subject/body is updated correctly, upon changing the form template. (Hotfix ID: 4500013353)
• The blank XML form issue and errors with certain line items in the Output History UI, have now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500013141. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.) 
• Through the fix provided, the Event Notification UI has been enhanced such that list of Business Objects and Business Object Nodes have been streamlined and can now be selected using a value help instead of a drop-down. (Hotfix ID: 4500012177) 

Supplier

• When a supplier was created with the status In Preparation and the role flags were adapted manually in the maintenance UI, it was still possible to activate the supplier without an error being raised that the supplier was in approval. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500010734)
• The Approval Process view was sometimes not available in the Application and User Management work center although the Supplier Approval Process was active. This issue has been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500012025)

Data Extraction

• The fix provided ensures that Data Extraction for Customers is performed correctly. (Hotfix ID: 4500013310)

Business Partner

• It is now possible to execute a duplicate check from extension coding for the BO Business Partner and to navigate to the check results. (Hotfix ID: 4500013010)

Account

• When using the migration for customer or supplier data in the mode, 'Enhance already existing data', it is now possible to add additional bank entries. (Hotfix ID: 1000010377)

Key User Translation

• With the SAP Business ByDesign 2105 release, the Language Adaptation Tool (LAT) was enhanced to include dedicated generic menu items across all work centers like New E-mail and New Phone Call. As they were included into the text repository for translation, the items could be translated. In text pools with multiple target languages, there was an issue such that, in some contexts where the text buffers containing the translations of the dedicated menu items were incorrectly refreshed, the texts were lost from the buffers. However, they were not lost from the text pools. The fix provided ensures that the translation buffers are filled from the LAT correctly when the text pools are updated/saved, and the text load is refreshed. (Hotfix ID: 4500010426)

 

Customer Relationship Management

Customer Invoicing

• Due to an issue, when a customer invoice request document was created through a webservice, the field Distribution Channel was always being set to the value '01' by default, and the value provided in the webservice payload was not being considered. This fix now ensures that the webservice payload value is considered, and defaulting is done only when no value is provided in the payload. (Hotfix ID: 4500012571)
• The fix provided ensures that warnings are raised in case the invoice schedule dates overlap. (Hotfix ID: 4500013481. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• Due to an issue, when an over-the-counter sale document was created through a webservice, the field Distribution Channel was always being set to the value '01' by default, and the value provided in the webservice payload was not being considered. This fix now ensures that the webservice payload value is considered, and defaulting is done only when no value is provided in the payload. (Hotfix ID: 4500010598)
• An issue was causing customer invoices created from backend or external sources to go to the Approval status instead of Released, whereas only manual customer invoices must go to the Approval status. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500007967. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• Product Requirement Specification is now PSM read and write released for customer invoice. (Hotfix ID: 1000014630)
• The inconsistencies occurring when multiple customer invoices were created using the Advanced option in the Customer Invoice Request screen, has now been resolved. (Hotfix ID: 4500013861)       
• For India customer invoices, the fix provided resolves issues in the invoice release without legal approval scenario. (Hotfix ID: 4500012055. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• For India, customer invoices could not be released when Document Approval is scoped but Legal Approval is not scoped. (Hotfix ID: 4500011742. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• Customer invoice request documents of the year 2020 involving Mongolia, could not be released. The fix provided enables the release of all the existing documents before 2021. (Hotfix ID: 4500004256. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)      
• The hotfix provided includes the following.
  • For South Korea Electronic Tax Invoices, the issue with the test runs has been fixed and the standalone test runs now generate test E-Tax invoice documents correctly.
  • For India customer Invoices, the form XML now has the seller TAN (Tax Deduction and Collection Account Number) displayed under Customer Invoice-> Taxation Terms-> SellerTaxIdentificationNumber tag. (Hotfix ID: 4500007169)
• For India, customer invoices could not be released when Legal Approval was not scoped. Through the fix provided, it is now possible to release customer invoices without Legal Approval scoping for India. (Hotfix ID: 4500009592. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)                                                                         

Sales Orders

• Due to an issue, for a sales order created an outbound delivery was not being created, which further prevented the customer invoice posting. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500010339. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Sales Quotes

• It was not possible to create a quote with an alternate item type. The item type sent in the request was ignored and the item was created with the default item type maintained in the product master data. With this fix, you can now create a quote with an item type sent in the request. (Hotfix ID: 4500010459. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Customer Contract

• For data extraction of contracts, inactive list prices were extracted which lead to unwanted rows and mismatch of data with respect to the columns. The generated excel could not be used for migration as it was inconsistent. Through this fix, the correct contracts data can be extracted and used to generate the migration excel. (Hotfix ID: 4500011667)

Service Confirmation

• When a product ID was added to Service Confirmation for a contract that contains the same product twice, the error 'Multiple contract items determined for confirmation item; select one' was displayed. However, once the contract item was reference was selected manually, the error did not appear anymore. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500011665. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.) 
• When a contract reference was assigned manually in Service Confirmation, the invoice status of the service confirmation item was not set correctly. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500012762. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)               

 

Financial Management

Statutory Reporting

• The submission of the Israel Unified Report to the tax authority portal was resulting in errors  related to missing Customer/Supplier names. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500013411) (Hotfix ID: 4500013411)
• In General Ledger-Periodic Tasks-Unified Reporting for Israel, some transactions like Manual Posting - Journal Entry Voucher, were missing in the sections B100 and B110 of the BKMVDATA file, due to filtering based on the document type. With this fix, the filtering based on the document type has been removed for the sections B100 and B110. Additionally, 'Balance Carry Forward' type of journal entries have been excluded for balance calculation in these sections. (Hotfix ID: 4500010787)

Item Processing

• The fix provided ensures that the correct status is shown in the Approval task under Managing My Area -> Approvals, in the case of Underpayment/Overpayment. (Hotfix ID: 4500012994)

Cost and Revenue

• When IFRS15 was scoped, a revenue recognition run on a project-based sales order item, with accrual method Reverse Deferrals and Accruals was resulting in a rounding-difference error. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500012105)
• When IFRSR15 was scoped, an application error was occurring in a revenue recognition run on a project-based sales order item with the Completed Contract accrual method. This error has been resolved. (Hotfix ID: 4500003672)

General Ledger

• The custom report for Data extraction run was failing due to a mismatch issue for the attribute Exchange Rate. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500012893. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Payment Management

• The application error occurring during the reversal of bank statement has now been fixed. It was caused due to the clearing of an invoice with multiple bank statement items. (Hotfix ID: 1000010428. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• With the fix provided, you can now add the Payment Reference field for confirmed Bank Debit Advice instances as well.  (Hotfix ID: 4500013590)
• The fix provided ensures that, in Payables- Balance confirmation, the value of FullPaymentDueDaysValue is restricted to a maximum value of 999 in the Form Preview.  (Hotfix ID: 4500013640)
• The fix provided ensures that the data from extension field(s) data flows from payment order to the outgoing check when the process extension scenario is enabled. (Hotfix ID: 4500012473)
• The issue with the French Outgoing SEPA Payment formats has now been fixed. The system was creating SEPA Credit Transfers files instead of the SEPA Direct debits. The Bank charge codes for the French AFB Foreign Format have also been corrected. (Hotfix ID: 4500011712. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• For Japan, you can now add the suppliers' bank account number of up to 10 digits, using the account type 'Other Account (Only for Japan)'.(Hotfix ID: 4500012614)

Payment Processing

• In the bank statement format MT940 variant for China, the transactions were not always assigned to the correct statement in case the uploaded file contained several statements. (Hotfix ID: 4500011619)
• The issue causing the missing payment number used as a reference in the Italian Bill of Exchange deposit file, has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500013350)

Tax Management and Declaration

• As per the legal change for TCS in India, the threshold amount needs to be calculated based on the PAN and not the account number. This is ensured through the fix provided. (Hotfix ID: 4500010254)
• For Spain, while reporting the incoming invoices through SII (Immediate Supply of Information on VAT) return, there were issues occurring with the Business Partner name when sending it to the tax authority. These issues have now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500013381. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• For Italy, a new legal change was published by the tax authority on January 15, 2021. This fix includes the new Withholding tax codes provided for a particular category of supplier in the Special tax regime. It also includes changes in the existing Withholding tax code 27. (Hotfix ID: 4500012643)
• The fix provided ensures that, for Spain, CIF (Certificado de Identificacion Fiscal) is accepted as the mandatory tax number and VAT is optional. (Hotfix ID: 4500013041. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• The fix provided ensures that, for Spain, the down payments clearing during invoice creation is submitted to the tax authority along with the invoices. Previously only down payments and invoices were reported, and down payments clearing was not considered. (Hotfix ID: 4500012178)
• The fix provided includes tax codes and tax events for the respective EU countries to support the one stop shop (OSS) legal change. (Hotfix ID: 4500012723)
• The functionality 'External Tax Event Determination for Company' was enhanced with the SAP Business ByDesign 2105 release to guide tax calculation in a company-specific way and facilitate determination based on the standard tax decision tree. The inconsistencies arising when this configuration was being used for companies with numerical company IDs, have now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500012101)
• The following issues in the Italy Spesometro Incoming and Outgoing tax returns XML files have been fixed.
  • Natura codes mapping- certain Natura codes now have a blank value.
  • <Denominazione> field in the XML file had been truncated. There were 2 such fields in the file - one that appears under the <CessionarioCommittenteDTR> tag and the other that appears under the <CedentePrestatoreDTR> tag. The full names now appear in these tags.
  • The <TipoDocumento> field in the file had wrong values for certain documents, which has now been corrected. (Hotfix ID: 4500013260)
  • For Spain, when submitting the tax payment to the tax authority for the deferred tax invoice, the error occurring for the SII- incoming VAT on cash' return type, has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000014112)
  • With the fix provided, you can separately report the amounts of the EU sales and purchases for both goods and services. (Hotfix ID: 1000013124)

Travel and Expense Management

• The fix provided ensures that the column Trip Type is now visible in Expense Reporting - Sweden, under Edit Expense Types -> Maximum Amounts. (Hotfix ID: 1000013144)

Expense Report

• The fix provided ensures that the UK Advisory Fuel rates applicable from June 1, 2021, are maintained for VAT and Non-VAT in the expense reports. (Hotfix ID: 4500010618)

Financial Accounting

• The issue with the webservice ManageMaterialValuationDataIn occurring while migrating the consignment valuation and updating the material unit costs at the consignee level, has now been fixed. The issue had been causing the false positive error 'Consignee not found'. (Hotfix ID: 1000014212)
• While migrating inventories to the system, the Initial balance setting of Goods and Activity Confirmations was failing. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500009999. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• On navigating to the Cost & Revenue work center -> Distribution Rules -> Edit any rule -> New Task, no results were appearing when the 'To' field was used as the selection criteria in the value help. Due to this, tasks could not be sent for Cost Assessment. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500000199)

Accounting and Lease Management

• During Lease posting runs, error messages were appearing if one company had a different set of books with a different currency. With the fix provided, these errors have been resolved. (Hotfix ID: 1000013842)

 

Project Management

Project Processing

• When a sales order item with a reference to a project task had a zero-list price, inconsistencies were caused in the Project expense list and errors occurred in the process communication (from project to accounting). This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500010634)

 

Human Resources Management

Time and Labour Management

• Due to some inconsistencies in old employee time records, correct retention rules were not assigned previously. Through this fix, the inconsistencies have been removed in these time records so that the right retention rules can be assigned, thereby enabling such time records to get the correct retention end date as per configuration. (Hotfix ID: 4500013750)
• It was not possible to record time exceeding the purchase order planned hours. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500012774)
• The application error occurring while editing, saving, or releasing an ESS time sheet has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500012143. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• Planned Work Assignments report was not showing any data due to a language code filter in the underlying data source which has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500004839. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

 

Supply Chain Management

Analytics

• The Confirmation Journal data source has a field Conf.Item ID which is a combination of the fields Confirmation ID (35 characters) and Confirmation Item ID (10 characters). The length is 45 when the fields are combined and separated by a dash(-). If a confirmation ID greater than 7 chars was entered, the combined character was truncated after the 10th character. Through the fix provided, a new field called Conf.Item ID (Extended) of length 46 characters has been added to overcome this issue. (Hotfix ID: 4500013371)

Site logistics Confirmation

• The fix provided includes a tab strip anchor in the UI, for Issue / Receipt to cost center, available under the Internal Logistics work center for PDI enhancements. (Hotfix ID: 4500010425)
• In the case of a customer return in consignment stock, the account and custodian information was not coming up in the Post Goods Receipt screen. This issue has been now fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500011456)
• When doing an adjustment confirmation of Inbound Delivery for a return scenario with serial numbers, an error was occurring in the consignment process. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000014610. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Site Logistics Planning

• The fix provided includes old serial number profile handling for the consignment fill-up scenario during outbound delivery. (Hotfix ID: 4500012494)

Inventory

• The issue with the veto check introduced for Customer consignment Business Configuration scoping, has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500012931. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Inventory Processing

• The issue with determining the Ship-From location during consignment allocation in sales orders has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500012133)

Inbound Delivery Processing

• The issues related to Customer return notification and Parts return notification- Create and Update by web service, have now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000011859. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Property Management

• IndividualProduct.ServiceProcessInformation.ProductPropertyValuation association has been PSM write-released. (Hotfix ID: 4500013550)

Production Task

• 'Enabled-Property' for Preview button in the BO, 'Production Task' has now been PSM-enabled. (Hotfix ID: 4500013301)

Production Model and Production Bill of Operations

• Key production master data fields have now been PSM-enabled. (Hotfix ID: 4500011224)

Production Order

• The issue with logistics area allocation against a product when using the Propose Logistics Area button has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500011894)

Production Planning Order

• The issue causing the creation of Production tasks without the Latest Start Date, has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500011834. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Production Design

• Extension fields were not being displayed in the Product Design form. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500000556)

 

Supplier Relationship Management

Purchase Requests and Orders

• You can now extend the fields in the New Manual Purchase Request quick activity for both Header and Item. (Hotfix ID: 4500013623)

Supplier Invoice

• For Mexico, supplier invoices could not be posted along with the 36-character official invoice ID. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500011742. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• The scoping question for Supplier Invoicing Machine Learning Feedback has now been updated with the documentation details for using the functionality. (Hotfix ID: 4500013192)

 

*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).

KBA 2938382 - SAP Business ByDesign Hotfix Collection Information

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