October 2024

Happy October Solver users. This month is another big update across the application. We are bringing you important fixes for integrations and the Data Warehouse, as well as some new additions to the Solver suite that we think you will appreciate. See below for more news and updates.

Solver Copilot:

The first big news is that we are officially announcing Solver Copilot. This is our AI chat tool that brings the information from the product help site, right to the the Solver application interface. For more information on this groundbreaking new addition to Solver, see our Copilot article, here. Try it out today by clicking on the Copilot button at the top right corner of the page.

BC Extension:

Another piece of news that we are happy to share is that we have now officially released the new v3.0 of our D365 Business Central Extension. For more information on how to download this extension and the related release notes, please see this article.

Solver Academy Single Sign-On:

Beginning with this release, our users will now have an updated experience when accessing the Solver Academy courses that are included with their Solver product subscription. Previously, users were able to follow a link, bookmark, or find the Solver Academy through search and log in from that site.

Now, users will be required to access the Academy through the new help experience. This process requires the user to already be logged into the Solver application and no longer demands a separate login to access the academy site.

To access the Solver Academy:

• Log into Solver as you normally would.
• Click the Help button from the top right corner of the page.
  
• From the options, select Solver Academy.

Users who attempt to access the Academy site using the old method will be shown a screen with redirect information. Look out for an email notification later for more information.

Integration Engine Improvements:

This month we are making some improvements behind the scenes to the integration engine that allows for better performance in most situations when running integrations.

Additional Enhancements and Fixes:

Following the recent update to Solver’s platform that was executed in August, we are now able to bring our users some updates at a quicker pace than before. Starting this month, there will be semi-regular weekly releases that are automatically brought to users without any downtime. However, we will continue with our regularly scheduled monthly updates (the schedule for which can be found here) which will typically contain more significant changes to Solver. These weekly releases will only contain minor changes and will not include any major new features. We at Solver will continue working hard to ensure that you have the smoothest and best experience while using our application.

These fixes will be communicated through a new section at the bottom of our monthly release notes and will be discernable from the main release. We will be constantly updating these pages so be sure to check frequently. These fixes will also be called out in the following month’s release notes which can always be found here.

Homepage:

With last month’s update, our users received a completely redesigned home page experience with some great new functionality. See our article on the new homepage for more information.
Updates to the Solver homepage experience include:

• Quick Access to recently viewed work items.
• Quick access to favorites.
• Emphasized notifications as soon as users log in.
• The ability to add a company logo to the Solver homepage.
• A new help experience with links to Solver Academy, Product Help, and Solver Support and Community can now be found by clicking the help icon on the top toolbar.

QuickStart for Personnel Preview:

Users interested in testing an early version of our QuickStart for Personnel can contact Solver Support for more information.

New Features and Enhancements

Planning

• Improve error messaging in Planning tools.
  • Added more detailed error messages that may contain why an Input Template is failing to store and which row or rows are causing the issue.
    
    
    

Data Warehouse

• Updated to Business Central extension v3.0.
• Added several user interface changes to improve the experience with tables in the Data Warehouse.

Administration

• Added minor updates to the user interface across the application.
• Added single sign-on to the Solver Academy.

Bug Fixes

Reporting

• Fixes an issue in Ad Hoc reporting where the cancel button would not stop the processing of an Ad Hoc report if it had been clicked.
• Fixes an issue where Assignments would error out while running a report if the report had not been fully loaded at some point during the configuration of the Assignment.

Planning

• Fixes a user interface issue where Input Templates would have trailing spaces that would make the buttons unable to be pressed.

Data Warehouse

• Fixes an authentication issue some users were experiencing when working with Business Central, and updates error messaging to be clearer.
• Fixes an issue with the Stargate source category where some integrations were causing duplicate data and complicated reporting errors.
• Improves the notifications for the successful upload of a Business Rule.
  
• Fixes an issue with Business Rules where some users were unable to import a rule.
• Fixes an issue with the Create QuickStart button for the HubSpot connector.
• Fixes issues with authenticating an imported integration.
• Fixes issues with the BC extension. These issues were resolved by the update to version 3.0.

Administration

• Fixes some issues that were hindering the storage speed of Planning Storage.
  • Previously, we had left this feature off by default and users were able to contact Solver Support to have it turned on. Solver now plans to make this feature available to all customers over the next few months.
  • All new Solver users will be able to access this feature right away.
• Fixes an issue where the Homepage activity cards were getting cut off by the edge of the screen when scrolling horizontally.
• Fixes an issue with notifications when registering a new customer/provisioning new tenants.
• Fixes errors with the Danish and Norwegian translations in the application.
• Fixes an issue where a user who has had their Planning license revoked would still have existing entries in the Planning tools of the tenant.
• Fixes an issue that may have occurred during the signup process where a user would attempt to sign into Solver using Microsoft Entra ID before they had set up their account. This caused the user to be required to submit a support ticket to rectify the situation when they were no longer able to sign up. Now, users who have not accepted the email invitation to set up their Solver account will see the following error message to ensure that they are able to sign up correctly.
  

Additional Enhancements and Fixes

Below are the updates from the post-October release window:

• Added the Ukrainian language as a language option in Solver.
• Fixes an issue where notifications and system messages were not showing up correctly requiring the need for reloading the page.
• Fixes an issue where new users were able to be created without the username field filled out when signing in with Microsoft Entra ID.
• Fixes an issue where the filtering icon on the Homepage interface did not respond correctly to a cursor.
• Fixes an issue with the color shading on the Homepage background.
• Fixes various user interface bugs.
• Added an on-screen message when a user tries to open an activity card for a feature that is not accessible.