Paper Plane 11.0
This document summarizes major improvements and fixes introduced in the Pricefx Unity release version.
Version | Unity Paper Plane 11.0.0 |
Release Date | June 25, 2023 |
Release Type | Public |
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Technical Requirements
Supported Platforms
Pricefx Unity interface is supported on the following hardware/platform combinations:
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Minimum Software and Hardware Requirements
Hardware and Network | A modern computer with at least 8 GB RAM (more memory is necessary for multiple browser tabs opened simultaneously). |
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Web Browser | Only the latest version of each of the above listed browsers is supported. We strongly recommend using the 64-bit browser version. |
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Compatible Pricefx Backend Version
The minimum required Pricefx version for this release is Paper Plane 11.0.0.
Other Supported Components
Highcharts and Highmaps used in charts/dashboards: version 10.2.1
Upgrade Troubleshooting
If you experience any functionality issues after upgrading to Paper Plane 11.0, see the troubleshooting section that provides solutions to reported problems:
Note: When upgrading to version 11.0 from version 9.3 or lower, the migration script executes the resaveFormulas
command by default. This command does not change the logic or the Last Update Name but it sets the Last Update Date to the time of the execution.
The Main Features Since the Last Public Release
Since the last major public release, Bee’s Knees 10.0, the following major new features have been introduced:
Actionable Insights – Proactive business opportunity and risk detection with relevant contextual actions to follow up on the specific situation.
Visual Configuration – Improved and generally released Pricing Strategy Designer and introducing Workflow Designer, to enable you to configure visually and without coding.
Enhanced Optimization Use Cases – Multiple use-cases easily deployable using Pricefx Accelerators to realize value and start leveraging the benefits of optimal prices faster.
Front-End API – New Front-end API to embed Pricefx into any 3rd party application through iFrame and use visual mapping of fields for basic integration scenarios.
Integration with SAP S/4HANA – Pricefx productized integration with SAP S/4HANA through SAP BTP Integration Suite is available and enabling common use-cases.
For more detailed information about Paper Plane 11.0 new features, see pricefx.com/paperplane.
New Paper Plane Features
Analytics
Description | ID |
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To avoid the ‘Duplicate Fields’ error when running a Data Load in situations when the data source contains fields named ‘AttributeN’ (because the related Data Feed names the fields ‘AttributeN’ as well), the following change has been introduced:
| PFUN-11924 |
Charts: Improved code formatting in Formula Builder for better readability. | PFUN-19823 |
Multiple data series can be defined in Data Analyzer Data Tables. | PFUN-20151 |
The order of filters in charts and Data Table has changed to show required inputs first. The new order is: Group By, Measure, Aggregation Filter, Products Filter, Customers Filter, Dimension Filter, Generic Filter. | PFUN-20174 |
Price Setting
Description | ID |
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You can display product image in the Label column for products added to a Price List or Live Price Grid. The new feature flag | PFUN-16690 |
Mass actions applicable to all the records or a set of filtered records are available in Calculation Grids (edit, calculate, delete and workflow actions). | PFUN-19386 |
Optimization
Description | ID |
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Improved PMML evaluation by sharing | PFUN-15055 |
Errors generated by calculation logic evaluation are displayed in the relevant places on the Model Object tabs, not as pop-up notifications. | PFUN-15171 |
Added support for wider range of SQL and support of | PFUN-18269 |
A Model Object support context linking, i.e., can pre-fill its inputs based on the passed context. | PFUN-18625 |
The Model Classes page has been moved from the Optimization module menu to Administration > Configuration > Optimization. | PFUN-18740 |
A new Groovy API has been introduced to fetch, add, update, remove a schedule for a Model Object. The Calculation Schedules are identified by their name and thus Calculation Schedule names are unique within the context of the given model. Use | PFUN-18839 |
Possibility to schedule a calculation of an approved model using the new action type task. | PFUN-19853 |
The Optimization Engine page is now visible in the module menu only if the | PFUN-20041 |
Agreements & Promotions
Description | ID |
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The module menu option Agreement & Promotion Types has been moved above the Condition Types option so that the option order of the A&P menu is consistent with other modules’ menus. | PFUN-20286 |
Master Data
Description | ID |
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The Product/Customer Detail view can be opened by clicking the Product/Customer ID in the Product/Customer table. The Product/Customer Detail button below the table is no longer available. | PFUN-15266 |
CRM Integration
Description | ID |
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Visual mapping of CRM payload fields to Pricefx documents' header or line items for easy integration. It is possible configure this mapping together with an interceptor for advanced integration requirements. The supported documents are Quotes, Rebate Agreements, Agreements/Promotions and Compensation Plans. | PFUN-16543 |
New Configuration > CRM Integration > Overview page displays all the relevant information (e.g., CRM config, relay state, active interceptor) related to a specific CRM setting in one place. | PFUN-16861 |
There is a separate section dedicated to CRM integrations in Administration > Configuration where you can find information about CRM integration settings and configure visual mapping and interceptors. | PFUN-19317 |
It is possible to manipulate Unity using the | PFUN-19558 |
External apps can be embedded in a custom tab of a Quote, Agreement/Promotion, Rebate Agreement and Compensation Plan. | PFUN-20022 |
Possible fields available for parsing into external app query string parameters limited to Id, Label, uniqueName and External Reference. | PFUN-20373 |
Custom Forms
Description | ID |
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Links from emails informing user about a new message lead directly to the relevant conversation not just to the Messages tab. | PFUN-15451 |
Possibility to delete a Custom Form using Groovy API: | PFUN-20085 |
Administration
Description | ID |
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Custom Forms: If your Custom Form has few inputs but many outputs including charts and result matrixes, you can adjust the layout to give more space to the outputs and display their content directly, without the need to click the Show link. Use the | PFUN-16360 |
Users are no longer able to change the CloudConvert API token on the Configuration > External Systems > CloudCovert page. | PFUN-19931 |
Configuration
Description | ID |
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Possibility to recalculate a Custom Form from other places in the application using the Groovy API helper class | PFUN-15886 |
SAML SSO: Deactivated users are not able to log in to Pricefx even if auto-provisioning is enabled. For users soft-deleted from Pricefx, the user account is recreated with all previously assigned user roles and groups if auto-provisioning is enabled. | PFUN-18120 |
Two new Groovy API methods | PFUN-18455 |
Possibility to hide the Dashboard preferences menu and use the provided properties map instead of loading any saved preferences when embedding a Dashboard e.g. to a tab or header. New | PFUN-18975 |
Context linking: The | PFUN-19328 |
Possibility to add advanced filters via Groovy into the input area as inline. This is particularly useful in wizard-like screens like in Actionable Insights, CFOs, Model Classes or Deal Plans where user doesn't have to open any pop-up dialog. The condition is shown as inline. Use the | PFUN-19443 |
The column max. Sales Compensation Users is available in the Partition Admin table allowing you to set the maximum number of Sales Compensation users in the UI. | PFUN-19617 |
The size of the Partitions.customSchemaInfo DB column has been increased to 512 characters. | PFUN-19997 |
Advanced configuration option | PFUN-20531 |
General
Description | ID |
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On the Items tab of Quotes, Agreements/Promotions, Rebates and Compensation Plans, a count of line items with alerts is displayed after a calculation is run. You can click the alert icon to display only items with the corresponding alert level. | PFUN-16991 |
Quotes and Agreements/Promotions that are included in the mass update cannot be edited or any workflow action performed on them while the update job is running. | PFUN-18472 |
There is now only one view preference for the whole Home page that includes the layout and all portlet customizations. Possibility to save preferences for individual portlets has been removed. | PFUN-18800 |
There can now be more than one Actions tab in Documents (Quotes, Rebate Agreements, Custom Forms, etc.). Actions created on a specific tab will be always displayed only on that tab. Older Actions (created before upgrading to 11.0) will be displayed on all tabs unless you specifically say that on a certain tab you want to display only new Actions created on that tab and nothing else. You can make this setting by adding | PFUN-18856 |
New buttons (delivered by Actionable Insights Accelerator) are available in Charts and Dashboards allowing you to create Actions or Actionable Insights Watchers.
| PFUN-18882 |
Quotes, Agreements/Promotions, Rebates, Compensation Plans: The Details tab with document information (author, status, etc.) is available also on the Header tab. | PFUN-19024 |
The new object Module Category (type code MCA) has been introduced to enable you to configure under which module menu a Model Object or a Custom Form will be listed. In the UI, there is a new page Module Category in Administration > System Configuration. | PFUN-19168 |
When you create a new Quote, Rebate Agreement, Agreement/Promotion or Compensation Plan and try to leave the page without making any edits, you are prompted if you want to discard or save the document. | PFUN-19177 |
The 'Assign to' drop-down list on the Messages tab supports searching. | PFUN-19283 |
Quotes, Agreements/Promotions, Rebates, Compensation Plans: A counter of warnings, alerts and exceptions is displayed on the header with the possibility to click the counter to display related messages. | PFUN-19449 |
Messages informing users about finished calculation of Quote, Agreement/Promotion, Rebate Agreement and Compensation Plan (successful, with alerts or errors) are available in the Internationalization section where they can be changed or translated. | PFUN-19529 |
When editing Quote, Rebate Agreement, Agreement & Promotion, Compensation, Plan, Custom Form or Action Types, there is a validator that will not allow you to save the JSON definition if it contains unsupported tabs. | PFUN-19990 |
In the configuration of scheduled executions of Calculation Flows or calculations of Rebates, Agreements/Promotions and Compensation Plans, you can now use month and year as values for Period / Time Unit. | PFUN-20237 |
Bug Fixes
Description | ID |
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Live Price Grids: The number of items in the list is shown incorrectly when deleting 2 items on the detail page. | PFUN-9114 |
Deletion of skus from LPG fails during dynamic filter-based setup during calculation. | PFUN-13868 |
When adding a new Model Object or Model Class and there is a validation error on some field, the error message doesn’t indicate which field it is. | PFUN-14643 |
Advanced Table: Decimal instead of percentage is displayed in modal when value is restricted by list. | PFUN-14795 |
Overridable field cannot be edited in a submitted quote in the table and simple table views. | PFUN-15873 |
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Job & Task Tracking: Searching by ID column ends in error in Postgres. | PFUN-17562 |
Quotes, Rebate Agreements, Agreements/Promotions, Sales Compensations: Validation error is displayed for required fields even though their value is inherited from header/folder. | PFUN-17620 |
Distributed dirty pass executions in fatSlaves mode for PL does not seem to take into account the system-defined max number of passes. | PFUN-17917 |
Sales Compensations scheduled calculation task: Missing required field name in notification and asterisk in the input label. | PFUN-18260 |
Rebate Agreements: The same date is displayed for the Payout date and the End date on the Detail & Settings panel. | PFUN-18276 |
Quoting: UI keeps deleted item as selected. | PFUN-18346 |
Sales Compensations export: Sellers selected in the document are missing in the exported file. | PFUN-18347 |
Model Class: Error when trying to query ID column from Model DMTable. | PFUN-18358 |
PA/MO/DMM: Improve index management on and after DMTables data loading. | PFUN-18488 |
Wrong routing from Notifications to Custom Form Messages - correct Custom Form but a wrong tab is displayed. | PFUN-18523 |
Dashboard multiselect input leads to timeout when each dropdown selection leads to one query to DB. | PFUN-18569 |
Interceptors cannot stop running action using pre-method like: quotesDetailNewCheck, contractsDetailNewCheck, rebateAgreementsDetailNewCheck and compensationsDetailNewCheck. | PFUN-18824 |
Documents tab: Created By and Last Updated By columns quick filters are not rendered as searchable drop-downs. | PFUN-18879 |
Running Data Load ADD_TABLE_PARTITIONS fails - table partitions are not found in the DB. | PFUN-19151 |
Frontend error when editing User Group (view or edit) in Agreements & Promotions. | PFUN-19186 |
Model Class: When changing an input, if we don’t click outside of the cell, then the input is not considered when clicking on Continue. | PFUN-19246 |
Default View Preferences dropdown list in Price Setting Types is empty. | PFUN-19295 |
Calculation Flows page is not reloaded when you click the Reload button several times. | PFUN-19339 |
Quotes: Import of items from clipboard hangs if I try to import a folder. | PFUN-19457 |
Some PA Data Load jobs don't preserve VARCHAR(4000) data type of LOB attributes in the target table. | PFUN-19462 |
Model Objects: User should not be able to recalculate a step if the model is readonly. | PFUN-19873 |
Model Objects: Unsaved changes pop-up appears when moving too fast between steps that do not completely load. | PFUN-19897 |
backEndCall successMessage/FailMessage does not display the notification message in version 10. | PFUN-19946 |
Agreements & Promotions: Header inputs are not inherited by line items. | PFUN-19958 |
When adding a chart with aggregation filter to a dashboard, the filter value is not displayed on the chart settings panel on the Dashboards page. | PFUN-19966 |
Charts, Dashboards: Not all empty required fields are highlighted after clicking the Apply button. | PFUN-19999 |
It is not possible to edit table preferences in a Result Matrix in Unity. | PFUN-20004 |
Rebate Records, Compensation Records: Info that the record has been saved or submitted is displayed in an alert or other message instead of being displayed in a separate message. | PFUN-20008 |
Quotes, Rebate Agreements, Agreements/Promotions, Compensation Plans: ‘New version exists…’ error after withdrawing and editing a document with inputs on folder level. | PFUN-20018 |
Quotes, Rebate Agreements, Agreements/Promotions, Compensation Plans: After clicking Recalculate Changes in case of errors or alerts on line items, the message color is correct but the text says “Calculated successfully”. | PFUN-20020 |
Core Backend API stream and find can return wrong results when getting labels of columns from CP tables(filtered by lookuptable.uniqueName). | PFUN-20051 |
PX/CX/SX tables sometimes show no records because no request is sent to the server as if the ‘Load content of PX/CX/SX automatically’ option was set to false. | PFUN-20062 |
Rebate Agreements: Line items supposed to be deleted by a calculation logic remain displayed in the Items table if they are manually selected before the logic is run. | PFUN-20066 |
Custom Form Types User Group entitlement: User with Administer CFO user role cannot see a Custom Form Type with the following entitlement setting: User Group (Edit) is empty and User Group (Can Use) is restricted by a group where the user is not a member. | PFUN-20072 |
Custom Form Types, Quote Types User Group entitlement: Duplicate button is not displayed for a regular user with Administer CFO user role who is a member of User Group (Can Use). | PFUN-20073 |
When adding a new line item to Quote, Rebate Agreement, Agreement/Promotion, Compensation Plan the notification should only confirm adding the item and not display errors or alerts generated by the item. | PFUN-20161 |
Yugabyte - Pricefx does not reconnect in the case when the whole Yugabyte cluster restarts. | PFUN-20181 |
Analytics: Group By in Data Table does not render grouped values correctly. | PFUN-20235 |
Custom Forms: Object deletion results in DB lock error. | PFUN-20257 |
Missing records in incremental Datamart refresh. | PFUN-20269 |
Analytics Charts: It is possible to see private Rollups created by other users but they should be visible only to their creators. | PFUN-20335 |
Existing Calculation Flows are displaying "Invalid Date" in the Next Run Date field and are not getting triggered. | PFUN-20344 |
Live Price Grids: fetch/PGI returns PGI from soft deleted LPG. | PFUN-20367 |
Quoting, Rebates, Agreements & Promotions, Sales Compensations: Workflow set for the Default header type is not triggered. | PFUN-20545 |
Quote, Agreement & Promotion, Rebate Agreement, Compensation Types: User belonging to User Group (Can use) can't copy header type. | PFUN-20603 |
Analytics: Incorrect Datamart incLoadDate applied in Datamart Refresh Data Load. | PFUN-20623 |
Dashboard and Context-linking: Creating quote from DB does not prefill CustomerID. | PFUN-20635 |
Null Pointer Exception in ResultMatrix.normalizeDateTimes(). | PFUN-20644 |
LPG: Resetting column type in Reset Column Name and Type is not working. | PFUN-20651 |
MPL list: Error appears after using Group by in any column. | PFUN-20677 |
LPG configuration: Product filtering when a preference is saved in the product table does not work correctly. | PFUN-20705 |
Hot Fixes
The following hot fixes have been released for the 11.0 version:
11.0.1 PR
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URL parameters passed from CPQ to dashboard stopped working properly. | PFUN-20821 |
Product Extensions - Unable to change column type. | PFUN-20825 |
If database contains soft-deleted records for a user, this user is not able to SSO login. | PFUN-20827 |
11.0.2 PR
Description | ID |
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VisualMapping calls fetch/AP. | PFUN-20837 |
11.0.3 PR
Description | ID |
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In a matrix PL/LPG in the Product Detail view, the same product ID is selected multiple times. | PFUN-20790 |
In same cases, the configurator is marked for rerun after its first evaluation. | PFUN-20818 |
In Module Category / Model Object, redirection from the /model-objects/ route to MCA route incorrectly requires Optimization roles. | PFUN-20824 |
11.0.4 PR
Description | ID |
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bdmanager.fetchfromuploadslot may try to read uncommitted data from the BinaryData table. | PFUN-20637 |
UI - Pricing Parameters - cannot create record with boolean key set to False. | PFUN-20830 |
Model Objects: model.lookupTablesContext().addLookupTable() silently fails to add incorrect columns. | PFUN-20959 |
Input matrix on configurator not resizing on larger screens. | PFUN-21106 |
Loki logs: Error message “TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'replaceAll')” displayed on the log UI. | PFUN-21127 |
Job processing by heartbeat orders incorrectly. | PFUN-21307 |
11.0.5 PR
Description | ID |
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Low level back end exception when user opens a Rebate Agreement that has an item with an output that the user is not supposed to see. | PFUN-21096 |
Not possible to login as root or pricefx-support user from PlatformManager. | PFUN-21365 |
Business Group and User Role are not populating for users in Pricefx when syncing user from Salesforce. | PFUN-21426 |
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