Unit4 Financials by Coda 2024Q3 was made available on 10th September 2024.

The new release contains all the previous Unit4 Financials by Coda functionality, new features, security updates, and customer-identified fixes to extend the best-in-class software solution. Unit4 has addressed many customer-reported issues and hence always encourages customers to upgrade to the latest release.

 

Highlights of the 2024Q3 release include:

Administration:

Data Source Definition

The XA JNDI Path is now optional on the Data Source Definition master.

Billing:

Billing Browse

It is now possible to post documents to the Intray from Billing Browse. To achieve this the Finance document location should be set to ‘Intray only’.

Finance:

Browse Balances API

Browse Balances API has been changed when summarising multiple account codes to return results which are consistent with Browse Balances in the product.

Table Link Transfer Client

The Table Link Transfer Client has new parameters which enable the user to select the data to transfer by document number and code. The document code can be wildcarded.

Browse Balances

The Finance server memory requirements for large browse balance reports have been significantly reduced.

Structured Output:

UBL 2.1 Invoice Transformation and UBL 2.1 Credit Note Transformation

The following vocabulary has been added to the Invoice and Credit Note Transformations:

  • Additional Document Reference Document Description (BT-123)
  • Attachment Document Description
  • Tax Category Name
  • Invoice Line Item Classified Tax Category Name

The following warnings are no longer reported when validating the XML against the PEPPOL BIS Billing 3.0:

  • [UBL-CR-114]-A UBL invoice should not include the AdditionalDocumentReference DocumentType
  • [UBL-DT-25]-CharacterSetCode attribute should not be present
  • [UBL-DT-26]-EncodingCode attribute should not be present

Electronic Invoicing:

Invoice Maintenance

A new Invoice Maintenance screen has been added to display any errors for invoices that have failed to post. You have the option to resubmit the failed submission(s) and to view the failed XML (for future use).

Technical:

Security Updates

The version of the Unit4 Message Hub Bridge has been updated to fix vulnerabilities.

Deprecated features:
The .NET router has been deprecated. The final release has not been determined.

32-bit XL is deprecated. We recommend the use of 64-bit XL.

The Integration Toolkit Command Centre module (ITK) has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release. The final release has not been determined.

General Fixes/Updates:

  • Generic Browse now adheres to the console browse limit setting when the limit is set higher than the 5000 chunk fixed value.
  • The webservices API documentation index page has been reinstated.
  • The next run time is now calculated correctly for weekly scheduled task that are set to run for multiple days in the week.
  • It is now possible to view the source transactions from within Browse Assets when the Presenter master for the source data contains flexi-fields.
  • Browse Statements now limits the data returned to companies the user has access to.
  • Shared Masters Audit now reports differences in address tags on element masters.
  • It is now possible to Print and Transmit Reminders with over 5000 rows.
  • Element table link with a blank or wildcarded link code now correctly loads flexi-field data.
  • It is now possible to update more than 1000 rows when using Multiple Edit in Browse Transactions.
  • When editing an invoice within Invoice Maintenance, the drop down for Authorising user now shows in alphabetical order.
  • The “Unit4 Financials Logical Server” LSV process is now shut down when the “Unit4 Financials” application is disabled, undeployed or replaced. This prevents a problem when deploying new versions of Unit4 Financials.

 

Further details on the new features, security updates and reported issues can be found in the release documentation.

The release documentation for this release (and previous releases) can be found in the documentation area on the community.

The software can be downloaded from the “Software” tab on Community4U.

 

Reminder: On the 14th of March 2023, Unit4 deprecated the 32-bit add-in for XL for Finance and Procurement. The 32 bit add-in for XL will no longer form part of the 2025Q1 Release.

The currently planned release date for Unit4 Financials by Coda 2025Q1 is March 2025. We advise customers to upgrade to 64-bit XL before this date.

The Unit4 Financials by Coda support team will be able to advise if you have any questions.

 

Release dates for Cloud users

Unit4 Cloud customers are notified by Unit4 Cloud support when their pre-production and production systems will be updated. This information can also be found within the Cloud Services – Release Schedules area.

View the 2024 Release Schedule here

The Release Notes detailing the fixes and features within this release can be found in the Documentation area on Unit4’s Community 4U.

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