Welcome to November Solver users. With the end of the year approaching, we have brought you several bug fixes as a nice early holiday gift. We are also bringing you a few frequently asked-for features and are here to remind you of the important changes that we have made over the past few months. Please click the links below to see more information about these changes.
This Month’s Changes Include:
Business Central Extension Official Release
While the extension update was available before, we have now completed an update that allows for an even better experience with our Business Central extension. Previously, this was uploaded to the BC extension marketplace as the Solver CPM extension. Now, we have developed a new version called the Solver xFP&A For Dynamics 365 Business Central extension that best suits our customer’s needs for their BC data. The updates going into this new version can be found in our BC extension release notes here.
Previous Changes Include:
Solver Copilot
Last month we released our newest enhancement to the Solver experience in our Solver Copilot Help Chatbot. This is a revolutionary change in our support/product help process that allows users to get the answers to their process and product questions quickly. Please take some time to explore this new feature and leave us some feedback on the responses you receive within the Copilot interface. Read our Copilot article for more information.
Homepage Overhaul
A few months ago we pushed out our biggest change to the Solver welcome experience in a long time with our brand new Homepage experience. This was a massive change in the way that you use Solver including several brand new features. Read our home article for more information about this change.
Solver Academy Single Sign-On
Beginning with the October 2024 release, our users 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 Solver and no longer demands a separate login to access the academy site. For more information about this change, read our October 2024 release notes.
New Mid-Month Releases
Recently, we have begun putting out irregular weekly releases that address bugs that we feel to be important to fix at a quicker cadence than our regular monthly release of fixes and enhancements. Read more about these new types of small releases in our October 2024 release notes. This month will have some more of these releases so come back and check this page periodically throughout the next month to see what has been addressed between this release and the December 2024 release.
Coming Soon:
2025 Release Schedule
This article contains the tentative release schedule for our major releases in 2025.
New Features and Enhancements
Data Warehouse
- Added the ability for users to export their data from Data Explorer.
- To use this feature:
- Navigate to the Data Explorer and select a module.
- Drag and drop columns and set up filters based on your needs.
- Select the Export button from the toolbar in the top left of the Data Explorer to begin downloading the file.
- This is currently only available as a .xlxs file.
- Open the file and view your data as a spreadsheet.
- To use this feature:
- Added support for location-based formatting to Data Explorer including separators for thousands and decimals based on specific regions selected in language settings.
Bug Fixes
Planning
- Fixes an issue where users were unable to save a created Workflow while using the Date parameter.
- Fixes an issue where users were unable to close a modal in Assignments when clicking cancel once. Some users needed several clicks to close it.
- Fixes an issue with text formatting in Planning error messages.
Reporting
- Fixes an issue in the portal where disabling the setting to keep formulas in the ran report was not going into effect when running a report.
- Improved the performance of Ad-Hoc Reporting.
Data Warehouse
- Increased the character limit when naming the Stargate category when mapping within the QuickStart wizard.
- Fixes an issue where some of the images in the connector marketplace were too large for the connector tile.
- Fixes an issue where notifications for jobs were not being sent due to a trailing semi-colon being left on the end of the email list. Ex: User1@solverglobal.com; User2@solverglobal.com;
- Fixes an issue where an errand spinning loading icon was appearing in the manual integration process when working with the CSV connector.
- Fixes an issue with the CSV connector where some chosen options would not save when the integration is finished being set up.
Administration
- Fixes an issue where the date/time formatting settings were not being followed when users were adding filters to the Data Explorer look-up screens if users had chosen Australian English as their language.
- Fixes an issue where Administration settings were being displayed incorrectly.
- Fixes an issue where the alignment of column headers in Assignments was mismatched if the user had their language set to German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, or Russian.
Additional Enhancements and Fixes
Below are the updates from the post-November release window:
- Fixes an issue where some users were unable to input keywords to search through filters in Ad Hoc Reporting.
- Added expanded support for Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish terms in Ad Hoc Reporting.
- Updated Portuguese translations across Solver.
- Fixes an issue where activity cards on the home page related to failed input flows were appearing blank.
- Fixes several user interface issues on the home page
- Added the ability for users to view some values within the report editor in the application such as sum, count, and average for selected cells.
