3214669 - SAP Business ByDesign 2205 Hotfix Collection 2 Information

Symptom

Following is the list of fixes* delivered with the Hotfix collection 2 performed in 2205 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 June 2022. Please check the planned maintenance downtime window of your tenant from the Service Control Center.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign 2205

Resolution

Cross - Area Topic

UI Client

The fix provided addresses the following issues.

Impact in period-end activities due to change in the UI.
Downloading issues for the mobile app. Notifications are now enabled. (Hotfix ID: 4500015573. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

The SAP Business ByDesign mobile app constantly asked for updates due to the wrong version in library.properties. You can avoid this issue by changing the app version to 2205.1.1 in library.properties. (Hotfix ID: 4500013918)
Changing the position of tiles such as KPI and Report was not possible. This issue is now fixed, and no error message appears after moving the tile. (Hotfix ID: 1000020061)
The layout issue in the General Ledger-> Master Data-> View Companies, has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000016839. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
Expanding textEdit and entering a text was resulting in the input text disappearing. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000019970)
The fix provided includes the following:
- Google Search results now appear at the end of the Help Center.
- In Inbound Logistics- Task Control, the values in the columns Identified Stock ID and Inspection ID, now update correctly when scrolling down the table. (Hotfix ID: 1000018375)

Robotic Process Automation

You can now run the SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation Bots using API calls. (Hotfix IDs: 1000018703, 1000019282. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

SAP Business ByDesign Manager Approvals App

New pop-ups are now provided in standalone Business ByDesign mobile apps which convey that settings are not taken over automatically to the SAP Business ByDesign Mobile app, and the draft time recordings in the SAP Business ByDesign Time Recording app need to be released in time. (Hotfix ID: 4500014979)
For the SAP Business ByDesign Manager Approval app, the internal version number has been increased to enable automatic download when using the app the first time after upgrading to the 2205 release of SAP Business ByDesign (May, 2202). Thus, the app need not be re-installed. (Hotfix ID: 1000018542)

Service Control Center

In the Service Control Center, some texts were not translated. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000018174)

Analytics Tools & Framework

OData services for analytical reports now support the 'accept-header' in addition to the '$format' query option. (Hotfix ID: 4500017290)

Sales Arrangement

For the BO, 'SalesArrangement' the action 'Activate' is now available. (Hotfix ID: 4500014178)

Supplier

Access to node 'Email' of the object 'CommuncationData' has been enabled. Additionally, the following attributes can now be accessed:

DEFAULT_INDICATOR
USAGE_DENIED_INDICATOR
RECIP_FIELD_TC (Hotfix ID: 1000020270)

Customer Relationship Management

Customer Invoicing

The error 'Incoterms missing' was appearing when creating credit memo for customer invoices with a shipping condition. This has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500013536)
For India E-invoicing (customer invoicing side), in the JSON file the customer invoice created from migrated sales order, the Unit Price and Total Price was appearing as blank. With the fix provided, the Unit Price and Total Amount are now populated. (Hotfix ID: 4500014917)
Changes made to the INVOICE_SCHEDULE DO for TO_BE_INVOICED_PERIOD node was causing inconsistencies in FSI/TREX indexes. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500016892. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
New field, 'Tax Regime' has been added to all the Mexico Customer and Customer Invoice. Upon creation of a Mexico Customer Invoice, the new field 'Tax Regime' is visible on the customer invoice and its value is defaulted to what is maintained in the account. This new field is editable until the Customer Invoice is requested for legal approval. (Hotfix ID: 4500017111)

Lead

The issue with opening accepted leads from ad hoc task when the user has access only to Leads under the New Business work center have now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500016751)

Customer Contract

Public Solution Model has been enabled for CustomerContract/InvoiceSchedule/Item/ToBeInvoicedPeriod and association valuation is added for 'InvoiceSchedule.Item.Recurrence'. The Node and association are now visible for data source creation through Cloud Application Studio. (Hotfix ID: 1000018872. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Service Order

The issue with the invoice schedule item status for scheduled project invoice request is now fixed through the change for already impacted invoice schedule items. (Hotfix ID: 4500016282. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
Invoice schedule Item status was not updated to Project invoice requested when the scheduled project invoice request was created and released. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500016872. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
The error which occurs while creating Quote for contract with covered products through A2X service has been fixed. You can now create Quote for contract with covered objects. (Hotfix ID: 1000020340)

SAP Support Request

Attachments with active content are now ignored while sending the incident to SAP. (Hotfix ID: 1000018217. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Financial Management

Bank Statement

For the Bank Statement import format, 'CSV in utf-8', account identification was mapped erroneously to IBAN in case it started with a letter instead of a digit. This led to the system not determining the account and rejecting the file upload. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000020071)

General Ledger

The updated organisation unit name was not visible in the Journal Entry worklist details section which is now corrected via this hotfix. (Hotfix ID: 4500015514)
In Material Cost Estimate, the calculation of Valuation Quantity was incorrect for resources with fixed quantity, in the Production Bill of Operation for a production model. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000017377)

Expense Reporting

New United Kingdom (UK) Advisory fuel rate has been updated for June 2022. (Hotfix ID: 4500014168. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
In PDI Studio, for BO ERM_EXPENSE_ARRANGEMENT node ASSIGNMENT_SET the association ACCOUNTING_CODING_BLOCK Assignment Set Standard Accounting Coding Block Distribution is now visible. (Hotfix ID: 1000016709)

Statutory Reporting

With the fix provided, the Opening balance is now filled for all records determined under the B110 record type in BKMVDATA.txt file of the Unified Report. (Hotfix ID: 1000015959)

Cash and Liquidity Management

The Payment methods, Debit/Credit codes of the bank statement file format ISO20022 have been adjusted for the 'External Transaction Codes', CHRG and INTR as shown below.

External Transaction Code	Description	Debit/Credit G/L Account	Payment Method
CHRG	Charges (Generic)	Decrease	Payment Processing - Of Outgoing Bank Fees
INTR	Interests (Generic)	Decrease	Payment Processing - Of Outgoing Interest
INTR	Interests (Generic)	Increase	Payment Processing - Of Incoming Interest

(Hotfix ID: 4500016912)

Due Item Processing

With the fix provided, the Void Clearing Action in DueClearing BO is PSM enabled. (Hotfix ID: 1000017897)

Travel and Expense Management

New Mileage rates for Denmark (DK) valid from 1 May 2022, have been updated. (Hotfix ID: 1000020290. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Payment Management

Foreign Currency Remeasurement runs for G/L Accounts now support exporting the remeasured balances to an Excel file without any decimal limitations. (Hotfix ID: 4500015883)
With the fix provided, Payment Monitor worklist and Payment Order floorplan have the same bank processing date. (Hotfix ID: 1000020011)
The issue of occurrence of an error message while creating a task from an Incoming Check has now been resolved. You can now create tasks, alerts, notifications, and clarification requests from Incoming Checks without any issues. (Hotfix ID: 1000020210)
Newly released SDK Enhancement Spot PaymentControlUpdateCallback was causing problems during activation in SAP Cloud Application Studio due to mismatch between internal/external data types. The fix provided synchronizes the types and allows activation without errors. Please note that due to this change, all implementations of PaymentControlUpdateCallback enhancement spot must be recreated and redeployed in respective solutions. (Hotfix ID: 1000016435)
With the fix provided, no errors occur after deleting the Bank Statement with the status 'In Preparation' for country Japan created through file upload with payment allocation created manually. Invoice linked via payment allocation is also available for clearing later. (Hotfix ID: 1000019591)
The issue of displaying the wrong dunning strategy at the Account master data level is now resolved. (Hotfix ID: 1000018326)
The fix provided includes informative error handling while creating Bank Payment Advice with Fund and Function ID, in case any of incorrect/missing data. (Hotfix ID: 1000019900)

Payment Processing

With the fix provided, it is now possible to determine the correct form template code when action the 'Issue' is executed for payment method 'Bill of Exchange with Acceptance' or 'Bill of Exchange without Acceptance'. (Hotfix ID: 1000017756. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Tax Management & Declaration

The BE EC Sales List Tax return output XML file was not generated when the Item Declaration Amount field had a huge value with more than 10 characters. The fix provided ensures that the XML file also gets generated for documents with huge amount values. (Hotfix ID: 4500014852)
The valid to date for the 'Special Reduced' tax rate summary layout mapping entries for Great Britain VAT return was 31.03.22 earlier. The valid to date for the tax rate type 4 (Special Reduced) summary layout mappings in the system for Great Britain VAT return have been extended until 31.12.2022. This enables businesses to handle cases of invoices that have been raised on a particular date but received physically much later. The tax reporting for such documents can now happens successfully. (Hotfix ID: 1000017696. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
The Manual Tax Entries Excel template has been enhanced with the column headers along with the translatable texts for all supported languages. (Hotfix ID: 1000019073)

Project Management

Project Processing

The Time Zone field in the BO, Project is now PSM write-enabled. (Hotfix ID: 1000019671)
Sales Order reference in the BO, CustomerProjectExpenseList is now PSM write-enabled. (Hotfix ID: 1000017895)

Customer Project Invoicing Agreement

In the work center view 'Project Invoicing - Sales Orders' of the work center 'Customer Invoicing', Scheduled Project Invoice Requests can be created. The time offsets for fixed price items as well as, time and material items maintained in the business configuration activity, 'Project Invoice Request Creation Settings with Invoice Schedule' were not being considered. This has now been corrected. (Hotfix ID: 4500015524)

Customer Project Invoice Requisition

In the Project Invoice Requests view, 'Cancel and Copy' action was resulting in an application error. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500017202. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Human Capital Management

Time & Labour Management

The fix provided solves the issue of Availability calculation, in case of overridden remaining work entering projects. (Hotfix ID: 1000016769)

Supply Chain Management

Production Order

The Production Order release was not working. This has been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500014817. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
Issue with the Production Order Release action when Order is having more than 100 input materials has been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000019991. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.

Production Task

The issue in confirmation of make task via webservice ManageProductionLotsIn where output product involves serial number or iStock, has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500016881. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Production Model

Resource execution model is now PSM read-enabled, and multiple nodes like material input /output, operations, activity, activity changes states etc have now been released. (Hotfix ID: 1000018993. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Sourcing List

This fix provided eliminates the redundant message 'No Source of Supply found' when performing the Change Source of Supply action. Also, the issue where deletion of production order gives RBAM error for some users has been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000018503. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Outbound Delivery

Technical users can now be assigned as the sender in the print queue of Outbound deliveries posted by technical users via web services. (Hotfix ID: 4500014933)
In the Consignment Issue scenario, the cancellation update of Consignment issue item was not propagated to Outbound Delivery due to process communication error between Sales order and Outbound delivery. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000019332. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Inbound Delivery

Creation Date was unavailable for reporting in Data source 'Inbound Delivery Notification Item for All Orders' (SCMIDNB02). This column has now been added in the Data source. (Hotfix ID: 1000016187)

Transportation Lane

The Extraction object for Transport Lane has been enhanced with Shipping Conditions to keep it in sync with the Migration object for Transport Lane. (Hotfix ID: 4500015425)

Site Logistics

The new field 'Shipping Conditions' introduced on the Sales order was not to available in the web service OutboundDeliveryExecutionOut and could not be transferred to the Third-party Logistics partner. With the fix, provided the field will now be populated. (Hotfix ID: 4500016882)
Performances of source and destination determination while handling large volumes of Identified stocks associated with Product Requirement Specification have now been improved. (Hotfix ID: 4500017330. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Supplier Relationship Management

Purchase Requests & Orders

In invoice scanning, numeric buyer companies are now validated correctly. (Hotfix ID: 4500016811. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Supplier Invoice

In an intercompany project setup, when project task confirmation is created by a non-team member employee from a supplier company, there are some project staffing checks for the employee which are done in addition to the checks performed as per the project settings maintained in the project. The fix provided removes redundant staffing checks so that the project task confirmation for a non-team member is completely governed by the project settings maintained in the project. (Hotfix ID: 4500015126)
For the Italy foreign scenario (supplier address is not in Italy), when the supplier invoice was posted, the Unit Price in the Italy new XML was incorrectly populated. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000015697. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
The new XML file generated on posting of Italian supplier invoice has now been enhanced to show the Credit Memo amount (negative value) and the Unit price correctly in the file. (Hotfix ID: 4500016103)

*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

“ByD2205”, “HFC02” Payment Processing - Of Outgoing Bank , KBA , SRD-CC-UIP , UI Plugins , Problem

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