3248808 - SAP Business ByDesign 2208 Hotfix Collection 2 Information

Symptom

Following is the list of fixes* delivered with the Hotfix collection 2 performed in 2208 release of SAP Business ByDesign.

The Hotfix collection is planned to be deployed to tenants during the respective planned maintenance window on/after the 17th of September 2022. Please check the planned maintenance downtime window of your tenant from the Service Control Center.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign 2208

Resolution

Cross - Area Topic

UI Client

The fix provided includes the following.
- Changes in the Oberon5 mobile coding of release 2208 to support the new app version, to ensure the embedded apps Time Recording and Manager Approvals function correctly.
- Changes in the Supplier Invoicing work center-> Invoice Scanning view to ensure consistency in the 'Assign Field' pop-up's date format for scanned invoices. (Hotfix ID: 1000017498)
After the 2208 release of SAP Business ByDesign, the complete supplier invoice could not be printed as before. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000017838. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
Purchase order and Sales order screens could not be used properly with the browser 360 since the 2208 release of SAP Business ByDesign. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500019091. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
In the Authorize.Net Transactions work center, Credit Card Details view, when entering the credit card number to create a new credit card, the 'eye' symbol was not shown due to an issue. This issue has been fixed and the 'eye' symbol is now shown. (Hotfix ID: 4500017905. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
Printing Preview dialog style in Horizon theme has now been optimized. (Hotfix ID: 4500017106. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
The following issues are now fixed.
- Checking Expense reports in the SAP Business ByDesign mobile app did not show more than 15 line of expenses.
- Value helps and pop-ups in Expense reporting app scenario of the SAP Business ByDesign mobile app did not have any frame around them. (Hotfix ID: 4500017435)
The horizontal scroll bars at the bottom of the Analytics report tables have now been. (Hotfix ID: 4500019220. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
Customized Launchpad background colors are now available for the Horizon theme. (Hotfix ID: 4500019210. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
The Web Assistant is now enabled as a default setting. (Hotfix ID: 4500016493)
The download ID for Collaboration Window in the Download Center has been updated, so that its latest version can be downloaded. (Hotfix ID: 4500017563. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
The KBA ID in the error message was missing the link. This has now been added. (Hotfix ID: 4500014349. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.
The password input on the Edge version above 105 could not be shown. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000020910)

Analytics Tools & Framework

When using SAP Business ByDesign in certain languages such as German, the Excel add-in did not recognize the date format correctly. This issue has now been fixed. Note that an update of the Excel add-in is not necessary to view the correction. (Hotfix ID: 4500017448)
For monthly broadcasts scheduled on the 1st of a month, emails were not sent and a date in the past was displayed as the next execution date. This issue with scheduled broadcasting has been fixed. All broadcasts with next execution dates in the past are executed again which might lead to one long running broadcast run. The next execution dates are then updated correctly. All further broadcast runs now work as expected. (Hotfix ID: 1000017852)

Business Configuration

The fix provided includes technical enhancements to ensure stability of remote change project handling. (Hotfix ID: 4500017347)
The fix provided includes technical enhancements for stability improvement of the change project merge process. (Hotfix ID: 4500016974)

Output Management

After the migration of Output Management from Controlled Output Request to Document Output Request, the sequence in print queue for Outgoing Check had an issue. This has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000016748)

Organizational Center

The fix provided includes deriving the Cost Center Status based on the Validity Period (Start Date and End Date) of the Cost Center. (Hotfix ID: 4500016888)

SAP Manager Approvals App

The error pop-up appearing on small devices such as the iPhone XS has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000017458)

Migration Workbench

The '500' runtime error for the SAP Business ByDesign migration application after the 2208 release has now been corrected. (Hotfix ID: 4500016942. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.

Business Partner

The web service 'Manage Supplier' now offers the possibility to maintain the supplier’s name in multiple scripts, provided this is configured in the system. (Hotfix ID: 1000019194)

Countries

For country Bosnia and Herzegovina, regions have been added according to ISO 3166.2. You can activate the regions according to the description in the KBA 2727372. (Hotfix ID: 1000019863)

Customer Relationship Management

Customer Invoice Request

The issue with cancellation of customer invoices which started to occur post the 2208 release of SAP Business ByDesign has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000018574. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Price List

The functionality of supporting up to 9 levels in the Account Hierarchy Base Price list that was made available with the 2208 release of SAP Business ByDesign was not working when accounts were assigned at each level of the hierarchy. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500016049. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
You can now create scale line for price lists using the Price List webservice. (Hotfix ID: 4500016653)

Customer Quote

The performance issues occurring while using the Sales Quotes worklist search option along with the 'Group By' function, have now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000016084)

Financial Management

Payment Management

The fix provided ensures that there is no inconsistency of payment order without a payment allocation. (Hotfix ID: 1000019095)
After the 2208 release of SAP Business ByDesign, the printing of the template of the SEPA Direct Debit Mandate had some missing printed fields. With this fix, this has been resolved. (Hotfix ID: 1000020410. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
The fix provided solves the Payment Allocation - Payer/Payee field sync issue, which was resulting in an application error in the Payment Allocation UI. (Hotfix ID: 4500013079)
In the Outgoing Bank Transfers payment file, the Charges bank account /Bank account for fee details were not getting updated correctly in the payment file. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500016852)
With this fix, you can now navigate to the Payment Allocation Item node from the Root in cloud application studio, for the Payment Allocation Business Object. (Hotfix ID: 4500013379)
The MASAV Domestic Payment Medium format for Israel did not consider the Account Holder Name field maintained at the Business Partner level. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000019812)
The mapping issue in uploading Bank payment advice camt-054 files has been fixed. Due to the issue, the wrong date was picked from the file, causing the automatic allocation to fail in certain scenarios. (Hotfix ID: 4500019360. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Payment Processing

While creating and posting Outgoing Checks, the Preview was not working while staying on the same page after clicking the Post button. Only after closing the page and reopening it, the preview was seen. With this fix, the issue has been resolved and the preview can now be seen in both pages- while posting, and after closing and re-opening. (Hotfix ID: 4500016538. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.
Issues with the Preview for Check deposit have now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500017069. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Payables

While trying to post the unposted business document for the current open period from General Ledger-> Source Documents view, the system was taking the original posting date from the document and showing an error of inconsistency. This has been fixed and the system now takes the date entered on the UI for posting. (Hotfix ID: 4500016034)

Financial Accounting

Staffing List of Free Cost Object has been PSM released with read access, so that it can be used in cloud application studio. (Hotfix ID: 1000020211)
Recurring JEVs did not apply the exchange rate provided on screen and always applied that maintained in the system. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000019913)

Bank Statement

In the incoming Bank Statement MT940 variant for South Africa (ZA), the bank account starting with an alphabet was mapped to the IBAN identifier instead of the account number. The mapping has now been corrected. (Hotfix ID: 1000019972)
When using the MT940 SG bank statement file format to upload bank statements to SAP, the amount sign of a transaction was being read incorrectly if the bank statement contained the optional 'type of currency' char- 'DD' before the amount. This issue has been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000020401)

Analytics

Recurring Journal Entry Voucher (RJEV) with empty set of books (SOB) could not be reported by RJEV report after the 2208 release of SAP Business ByDesign. With this fix, RJEV with empty SOB is displayed along with the ones having SOB entered in selection of the report. (Hotfix ID: 1000020281. This fix has already been delivered as a patch)

Expense Report

Journal entry was not made correctly during a Concur post document run where multiple expense reports with cash advance were picked. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000019944)
The advisory fuel rates for UK are updated from September 2022. This is a legal change which affects the reimbursement rates of the expense reports created by the end users. Through the fix provided, the fuel rates have been updated in the system. (Hotfix ID: 1000019622)

Cost & Revenue

The issue regarding the financial plan with balance sheet accounts has been fixed and all types of balance sheet accounts from the balance sheet excel template can now be uploaded. (Hotfix ID: 1000017678)

Coding Block

The wrong determination of account assignment type when a user enters a cost object has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500017594)

General Ledger

The Work-in-Process (WIP) clearing runs in Inventory Valuation have now been optimized- the memory consumption and time taken for the runs have improved. (Hotfix ID: 4500016717. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Outgoing Cheque

While printing outgoing check, output device was not getting selected from the Cheque Lot. Instead, it was selecting the device from the Output Channel Determination Rules. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000016867. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Tax Management & Declaration

For VAT return for German companies, the aggregation run was creating infinite VAT returns. This issue has been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500019440)
Documents posted and/or canceled within the same financial year were not getting reported in the Italy Summary Register tax return. With the fix provided, the documents that are posted/canceled within the same financial year can now be reported in the Italy Summary Register tax return. (Hotfix ID: 1000018054)
The Invoice Tax Details and Payment Tax Aggregation nodes for Mexico Electronic Payment Document Business Object are now PSM read-released. (Hotfix ID: 4500018069)

Statutory Reporting

After the 2208 release of SAP Business ByDesign, an issue was found in the account statement where the custom fiscal year variant was in use. This issue has now been fixed and customer account statement runs will now be in completed (finished) state rather than in process state. (Hotfix ID: 4500016689. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
Service order items with the process type 'Third-Party' were reported under 'Purchase Amount' and 'Purchase Quantity' incorrectly. This issue has now been fixed and the items are now reported under 'Third-Party Purchase Amount' and 'Third-Party Purchase Quantity' in the Warehouse Book report. This is applicable, where the goods receipts are done in the same period. (Hotfix ID: 4500016676)

Project Management

Project Processing

Project Task Reassignments of expenses are done using the Delayed Business Object Processing framework. If errors occur during the processing, the system adds these error messages to an application log object which are visible in the Time and Expenses view of the Project Management work center. The issue was that, adding of the error messages to the application log was resulting in an application error which did not provide the required information to determine the cause. With the fix provided, the application error information has been improved so that the analysis of similar issues in the future is made easier. (Hotfix ID: 4500018934)
Ship-From Location from Project Business Object is now PSM released. (Hotfix ID: 4500016756. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Customer Project Invoice Requisition

In the Invoice Requests view of the Customer Invoicing work center, there were many not invoiced expenses. A project invoice request was created, and the number of matching expenses was reduced per the defined expense restriction period. However, if project invoice request was being released, an exception was shown that the quota for locked objects had exceeded. The reason for this is that an attempt was being done to lock all not invoiced expenses belonging to the project. This was unnecessary and it was enough to lock only those expenses matching the expense restriction period of the project invoice request to be released. With this fix, the number of locked expenses is now reduced (provided the expense restriction period was maintained in the project invoice request). (Hotfix ID: 1000018743)

Customer Project Invoice Agreement

In the Sales Orders worklist, all actions such as editing a sales order by opening and saving it in combination with changing the invoicing status directly in the list or creating a scheduled project invoice request could lead to an issue wherein no scheduled project invoice request can be created anymore. The fix provided prevents such an issue. (Hotfix ID: 4500018861. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Human Capital Management

Employee Time Valuation

For Vacation time account, the system now permits booking of the vacation even if the remaining balance is less than the minimum maintained in the Business Configuration for Check Limit = 'Fixed Limit'. (Hotfix ID: 4500016268. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Master Data Replication

During the process of fetching/querying employees from SuccessFactors Employee Central into SAP Business ByDesign via the automatic query run, if there were any employees fetched with inconsistent data, an issue was causing the whole process to get cancelled. As a result, no employees were persisted into SAP Business ByDesign. This fix solves the problem by leaving out inconsistent employees and continuing to work with rest of them. This also ensures job logs are written which help to keep an account of the employees being left out by the system, with relevant reasons. (Hotfix ID: 4500018943. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Payroll Processing

When a service agent was converted into a temporary internal employee, two nodes were created in the EmployeeWorkCalendar - AvailabilityPeriod, whereas only a single node should be created with the service agent dates being delimited. The presence of two nodes in EmployeeWorkCalendar - AvailabilityPeriod furthur did not allow the modification of the termination date due to overlapping with work agreement - validity. The fix provided prevents such a data corruption when a service agent is converted into a temporary internal employee. (Hotfix ID: 4500017206)

Supply Chain Management

Customer Requirement

The Ship-from Location was replaced when performing 'Availability Check' on orders with items having a shipping condition. This was happening because the shipping condition information was not maintained in the system. This issue has been fixed and the 'sourced-from' (fulfilment) information does not get updated automatically on a customer demand. Also, the 'Confirmation Update run' now works without any issues. (Hotfix ID: 1000017147)
If the Ship-from location was manually provided in a Sales Order and the document was released, performing an availability check on the Customer Demand line item should not change the Ship-from location. Due to an issue, the location was changing if the sales order item had a shipping condition associated with it. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500018154. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.

Production Order

When auto-printing has to be done for a document, duplicate entries were appearing in the Print Queue for the production order. This issue has been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000018053. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
Production Order/ Task Preview forms were not working if custom templates were maintained for any specific country. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500018852. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Production Task

Output Channel Selection Rules were not working for Production Task Forms. This has been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500019450. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
In Production Task, while uploading the serial numbers into an input product, the system was showing an application error due to duplicate entries. This issue has been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500012009. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Production Lot

The actions, Start and Finish of Production Lot-> Operation-> Operation Activity node are now PSM released. (Hotfix ID: 4500019051)

Storage Control

In the Supply Chain Design Master Data-> Storage Control Profiles view, validations were added for the Inventory Allocation Type Code field and the Inventory Allocation Scope Code field. This resulted in an error if the above fields were not filled. With this fix, these fields have been made optional, and can be left blank if required. (Hotfix ID: 4500018764. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Site Logistics Task

The Generate button for serialized products was visible on the PGR screen for the Customer Return scenario. This button has now been disabled to prevent errors of serial numbers not being present in the inventory. (Hotfix ID: 4500017483)

Site Logistics Processing

Changing the anchor IML for SDD via the application BADI exit was resulting in an application error. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500018851. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Outbound Delivery

In a third-party logistics scenario, when Outbound Delivery is created via a SOAP web service, the incoterms and incoterm location were not shown in the corresponding fields. This issue has been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500016536)

Released Execution Production Model

The BO Released Execution Production Model, Node - Production Segment Material Input Change State is now PSM released. (Hotfix ID: 4500013887. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Material Inspection

Whenever a custom template was added, the system was not selecting the template for Quality Control - Inspection results. This fix ensures that the system is now able to select the correct template. (Hotfix ID: 4500014409. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Supplier Relationship Management

Supplier Invoice

Posting of Italy supplier invoices was resulting in a '500' server error. The error was due to a new XML file naming issue that was generated on posting of supplier invoices and occurred when the document ID length was equal to 4 characters. With this fix, you can now post the supplier invoices successfully. (Hotfix ID: 4500019272. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.
For Netherlands, ERS invoices can now be posted with ERS prefix for foreign suppliers even if the foreign supplier country is not scoped for ERS sequential numbering. However, ERS sequential numbering must be scoped for the buying company. (Hotfix ID: 4500017682)
The file name generation for the XML file generated for Italy supplier invoice has been modified- the last five digits of the XML file name are now determined with respect to the document number. (Hotfix ID: 4500017402. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
The field 'Trade Name' was visible at the wrong location- under the General tab of the Supplier OIF. This has now been corrected. (Hotfix ID: 4500014652. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
With this correction, when a Swiss company is used for the supplier invoice scanning, the QR Bill payment reference type is now automatically selected as the default type and the corresponding attributes are populated correctly on the UI. Previously, the same UI required the proper payment reference type to be selected manually from the drop-down list. (Hotfix ID: 4500018920)

Employee Self-Service

In the Self-Service Overview view, Shopping carts could not be created as the following error message was shown- 'Only one supplier permitted.' This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 4500016926. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Purchase Request

Messages triggered from Inbound delivery to create reference document in Supplier invoicing were failing when the last changed date-time in the XI message had seconds component as 59.XX seconds. The fix provided, now prevents Inbound delivery's XI messages from failing. (Hotfix ID: 4500019530. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

*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).

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