3098923 - SAP Business ByDesign 2108 Hotfix Collection 2 Information

Following is the list of fixes* delivered with the Hotfix collection 2 performed in 2108 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 September. Please check the planned maintenance downtime window of your tenant from the Service Control Center.

Cross – Area Topic

UI Client

• The issue with opening the Procurement tile in My Launchpad has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000010775)
• The issues with the functionality of Business Design reports have now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500014124)
• The tiles in My Launchpad were appearing in English even after logging in from another language. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500015850. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• The following issues have been fixed:
  • The unnecessary space between the Incident description and Date, appearing in an incident in the Application and User Management work center.
  • Personalization could not be discarded on the mobile device.
  • It was not possible to organize queries when the default name was empty.
  • It was not possible to confirm the Pick Task.
  • It was not possible to open purchase orders from the View All UI. (Hotfix ID: 4500012217)
• The following issues have been fixed:
  • With respect to Payment Proposals, blank items in the PDF documents and issue with loading when trying to adjust the size to 65%.
  • Errors occurring when trying to scroll down the table list. (Hotfix ID: 4500014162)
  • The Pick Task can now be confirmed without any errors. (Hotfix ID: 4500013445. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Service Control Center

• The error message texts in the Service Control Center have now been restored. (Hotfix ID: 4500010639. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Analytics

• The execution of intersection data caused system errors in case the navigation attributes belonged to the data source 'Gregorian Date'. These have now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500013514)

Output Management

• The inconsistencies in the business object names, value help entries, and Fast Search Indexing related inconsistencies have now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000012601)

Identity & Access Management

• Employee substitution details can now be accessed by creating a custom ODATA Service on the EmployeeSubstitutions business object. (Hotfix ID: 1000013093)

Employee

• In Employee outbound replication from SAP Business ByDesign to SAP Concur, employee names were not transferred correctly when entered in certain code pages like Hebrew or Cyrillic. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500012066)

Country

• In the Business Configuration work center, Regions activity, new region codes for United Kingdom (GB) have now been delivered as per the ISO standard. These are 'obsolete' by default and can be activated if required. (Hotfix ID: 4500014007)

Organizational Management

• The fix provided prevents interruptions in Employee central integration due to duplicate entries. (Hotfix ID: 4500011999)

Robotic Process Automation

• The issue related to the download of SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation desktop agent via the Software Download Center has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000013396. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

 

Customer Relationship Management

Invoice Schedule

• MaterialKey/ Content on Quote is now PSM released. (Hotfix ID: 4500012428)

Service Confirmation

• An application error was occurring during the deletion of inconsistent service confirmations with inconsistent items and without a valid item type. With this fix, it is now possible to delete these documents without any errors. (Hotfix ID: 4500013515)

Analytics

• When a sales order header and sales order item data source were joined to form a Joined data source, duplicate date values were displayed for the requested date. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000013911. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

 

Financial Management

Accounting

• Sales orders were failing after coming to accounting due to memory issues which was further preventing the release of the outbound delivery and Third-party delivery notification. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500015540. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• During scheduling a DATEV export run, on selecting the tax handling option, 'Net Amounts without tax sign', the export still contained some posting lines in gross format for Intra-Community and Reverse Charge scenarios. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 450001143)

General Ledger

• It was not possible to create a new reporting structure for the Direct cashflow method with a custom cashflow key. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500013956)

Inventory

• In the Indian Stock Transfer Order scenario, the determination of Moving Average with multiple batches was resulting in inconsistencies in the inventory valuation. These have now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500015301)
• The Actual cost roll-up run was failing if the product specification-based postings were present. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500012878)

Planning

• Due to an error in the business functionality of Active Budget, the release amount was getting uploaded even if it was greater than the plan amount. This issue has now been fixed. Also, the warning message which was shown related to profit center during excel upload has been fixed. The budget can now be released without any issue. (Hotfix ID: 4500013244. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Payment Processing

• The data source FINPAYU07_Q0001 was not available where the new payment register was scoped. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500015264. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• With the Payment Advice web service delivered in the 2108 release of SAP Business ByDesign, there was an issue causing the Tax totals section of the Product tax code to remain blank. This has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500015211)

Payment Management

• The issues in payment allocation of advices created for companies that had unsupported countries for tax calculation have now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000012848)
• The application error occurring while selecting the post-processing code of sales orders with external payments has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500015760)
• In the new legal report for Australia Payment Times Reporting Scheme, the date field for Document Date which can be selected as a parameter to define the time boxing, was not mapped correctly to the data source. This was causing an incorrect date to be displayed, further resulting in erroneous time box assignments. With this fix, the due items from the cancelled source documents will now be removed from the list. Note: To view this fix, rerun the report accordingly to update the result. (Hotfix ID: 1000010818)
• For Netherlands, the Payment Purpose Code field and Chain Liability Relevant checkbox were missing on the UI after the 2108 release of SAP Business ByDesign. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500014813. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• For Switzerland, the Payment file format CH ISO20022 was incorrect. With this fix, the tags <Strd> and <Ustrd> under <RmtInf> in the payment file have been corrected. (Hotfix ID: 4500008878. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• The Italian SEPA Direct Debit file format has now been updated from 00.00.05 to the newer version, 00.01.00. (Hotfix ID: 4500014473. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Tax Management and Declaration

• The fix provided prevents multiple company tax return arrangements for the same company and period, for a given tax authority. (Hotfix ID: 4500014224)
• Kerala Flood Cess (KFC) tax codes are not applicable from August 1, 2021, for Kerala Intrastate Domestic Customer Invoices. This fix ensures that KFC tax codes do not appear in customer invoices from this date. (Hotfix ID: 4500011728)
• Documents created with tax country/region within EU and tax events related to OSS (476 and 480) should now be selected in SII outgoing tax return and submitted to the tax authority. The procedure to report it is similar to that of a non-taxable sale of services or goods due to localization. Hence, it’s the same as 304 or 305 tax events but using the new regimen '17' and the normal invoice F1, or simplified invoice F2, depending on the content of Business Partner tax data. (Hotfix ID: 4500015750. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• For Israel, the VAT return PCN874 was having an incorrect sign value in its header line for tax-deductible amount. The issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500014354. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• For Yemen, it was not possible to process the documents posted before 2021. Yemen was delivered as a tax basic applicable from 2021. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500003053. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• For Custom tax file generation, when data was passed via SAP Cloud Application Studio enhancement implementation, then SAP standard data was not visible in the file generated. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500015421)

Expense Report

• The Fuel advisory rates for the UK have now been updated from September 1, 2021, as per the legal requirement. (Hotfix ID: 1000013298)

Statutory Reporting

• The Cash flow key is now available for China in screen variant 636 of journal entry type- Manual Entry for Cash. Additionally, following changes have been made:
  • The Cash flow key is made as an optional field and not mandatory anymore in screen variant 624 of journal entry type- Manual Adjusting Entry for Cash.
  • The Cash flow key was being copied to all line items in a Journal Entry bound to Bank Statement. This has now been corrected so that cash flow key is copied only to 'Bank Balance' type of line items. (Hotfix ID: 1000013087)

 

Project Management

Project Processing

• If there were many Project baseline tasks in the system, then TREX data reload was causing an application error. This was further interrupting the Reload job and the TREX data for Project baseline was remaining incomplete. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500013363)

 

Human Resources Management

Management Personnel Administration

• For Japan, the issue arising due to the duplicate holiday for Marine Day has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500011548. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Time and Labour Management

• Time and Labour Management reports were created on top of the data source HCMLTMU01 for some employees who either did not have a Reporting Line Unit (RLU) manager assigned or the RLU was missing for some time during a specific period. This issue was caused due to temporal join for bringing the RLU manager validity data. It has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000013742. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• When time recording was done on sub-tasks which did not have a purchase order or a project header assigned, the defaulting of purchase orders from other sub-tasks (if any exited), was not happening. With this fix, the defaulting will happen from other sub-tasks of the same project which have a purchase order assigned. (Hotfix ID: 1000012745)
• The temporary change of work schedule via Regular Tasks was resulting in an application error when an individual work schedule was assigned. Due to this issue, it was not possible to assign individual work schedules. This issue has now been fixed. Also, from the Time profile, it is now possible to change the work schedule from 'Predefined’ to 'Individual' without getting an application error. (Hotfix ID: 4500015791. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• With respect to SAP Business ByDesign's integration with SuccessFactors Employee Central, when there was some inconsistent employee data received from Employee Central, the complete replication of employees was blocked in SAP Business ByDesign. This fix ensures that the replication of the rest of the employees from Employee Central to SAP Business ByDesign functions correctly without getting blocked. (Hotfix ID: 4500015690. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• It is now possible to complete the Employee hire process provided all the required business data is correct. (Hotfix ID: 4500014753. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• If a non-team member is doing a Project time recording via ESS timesheet in a project, where time recording is set to 'No Approval Required' and Non-Team member setting is also set to 'No Approval Required', the time recording will now get activated directly. (Hotfix ID: 4500013635. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• The Business option Self approval of time recording and Automatic approval of time recording by project / task managers are now dependent on each other and are a part of the same option group in Business Configuration. (Hotfix ID: 4500011859)
• Employees with concurrent employments were not supported in SAP Business ByDesign. When such employees were imported via the Employee Central integration, it was affecting automatic jobs and blocked all the employees from getting replicated into SAP Business ByDesign. With this fix, the employees with concurrent employment will be blocked and other employees will continue to replicate successfully. (Hotfix ID: 1000010749)
• An issue was occurring if a project had an org assignment in team and staffing. Only the direct member of the org was able to do the time recording as a team member and all the hierarchy employees were considered as non-team members. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix: 1000014980. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

 

Supply Chain Management

Goods and Activity Confirmation

• The messages from Inventory to Accounting in the case of consignment orders were failing due to wrong the Account ID maintained at Goods and Activity Confirmation (GAC). GAC always stores the Buyer party UUID from the Outbound Delivery document and has a separate determination for UUID to ID conversion. Previous to this fix, the party ID was being fetched from the party Business Object. Now, this will be fetched from the Business Partner ID. (Hotfix ID: 1000011939)

Goods Tag Generator

• Creation of goods tag was not successful through web service when an Outbound Delivery item was passed as a reference. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500013409)

Material Requirements Planning

• There was an issue in the Materials Requirements Planning automated run wherein for some particular cases, the maintained Safety Lead Time while creating proposals were not being considered. This has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500013325. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Outbound Delivery

• If there were multiple outbound deliveries for a purchase order, when executing the View Intercompany In-Transit Deliveries common task from the Outbound Logistics work center without applying any filters, a few of the outbound deliveries do not appear on the list despite not having any confirmed inbound deliveries. This fix ensures that only relevant outbound deliveries are removed from the list. (Hotfix ID: 4500014394)

Production Model

• Numeric Supply Planning Area ID can now be used for Production Model web service. (Hotfix ID: 4500003677)

Production Segment

• Input Scrap percentages are now visible in the Production Model. (Hotfix ID: 4500012597. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• By-product visibility in the Production Model Hierarchical View has now been corrected. (Hotfix ID: 4500013303. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Supply Planning Requirement

• It was not possible to confirm the Stock Transfer Order's Put Away tasks for any deliveries which were in the 'In Process' state. The over deliveries were resulting in an application error. This fix enables the confirmation of Put Away tasks when over deliveries happen for 'In Process' inbound deliveries. (Hotfix ID: 4500015610. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Site Logistics Task

• In the Outbound Logistics work center, Task Control view, it was not possible to search for a task based on exclusion of the Ship-To Party ID. The Ship-To Party IDs that had to be excluded were getting selected as well. This fix ensures that Ship-To Party IDs can be excluded. (Hotfix ID: 4500014942)

Production Task

• Feasibility Indicators in Bill of Operations and Production Model are now PSM released. (Hotfix ID: 4500003903)

 

Supplier Relationship Management

Supplier Invoice

• The cost distribution changes for the value and percentage, after distribution to invoices, have been corrected with this fix. (Hotfix ID: 4500013606. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• For Italy, whenever the supplier invoice had an error, the document ID was considering the Sequential Document Number instead of the Global Number. This has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500015451)
• For Switzerland, the invoice scanning of supplier invoices was not extracting the account numbers from the invoices properly leading to missing digits. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500013444. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Purchase Requests

• An error message will now be raised during ordering of a purchase order when a communication arrangement (XML) is not maintained in the system for the supplier. (Hotfix ID: 1000013633)

 

*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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