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Release Notes Prelude (6.2)
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The following section provides key highlights, improvements introduced, and known issues in Apex Prelude (6.2) release.
Merged Releases
Till Apex 6.1.0.1 HF07 changes, have been merged in Prelude (6.2) Release.
New Features
Platform Studio
Let's take a quick look at our Platform Studio user persona.
The following section provides a sneak-peek of the functionalities added for Platform Studio.
Design Studio
Let's take a quick look at our Design Studio user personas.
The following section provides a sneak-peek of the functionalities added for Design Studio.
Applications
The following section provides key highlights and Application-wise description of new features introduced in Apex Release.
Service Management
Let's take a quick look at our Service Management user personas.
The following section provides a sneak-peek of the functionalities added for Service Management.
Asset Management
Let's take a quick look at our Asset Management user personas.
The following section provides a sneak-peek of the functionalities added for Asset Management.
Apex Mobile
Let's take a quick look at our Apex Mobile user persona.
The following section provides a sneak-peek of the functionalities added for Apex Mobile.
Improvements
The following are new enhancements added in Prelude (6.2):
Platform
Element | Improvement Name | Description |
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Department | View Department based on sort order User Person: App Admin / End User / Analyst | On the consumer page, all the Departments or Tenants are displayed in the defined sort order. For more information, refer to Department. |
Product Telemetry | Consent form for Product telemetry User Persona: App Admin | Consent form is introduced for Product Analysis and Telemetry for end users. For more information on product telemetry, refer to Product Telemetry. |
Designer | Out of the Box Forms User Persona: Application Administrator | Make use of OOB (out of the box) forms at this level for quicker deployment and implementation. For more information, refer to Form Designer. |
GDPR | GDPR Enable instances from Prelude (6.2) onwards | Starting from Prelude 6.2 release onwards, all instances will be GDPR enabled. For more information on enabling and disabling GDPR, please contact SymphonyAI Implementation and Support team. |
Design Studio
Element | Improvement Name | Description | |||
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Workflow Designer | In the Approval component of Dynamic Type, Tree View control is included for Category. In the Set Trigger & Conditions, you can select Popover and Sub Form Fields as conditions. User Persona: End User / Analyst |
For more information on these controls and fields, refer to Controls and Set Fields. | |||
Notification Designer - Module | Configure Content Placeholder on Email notification template on the Notification Designer User Persona: Application Designer | Attach content on template as PDF, embed as Image or Render as HTML. For more information, refer to Content Placeholder. | |||
Notification Designer - Module | Configure Sub Widget in Table selection. User Persona: Application Designer | Display Sub Form fields in Grid format on the Notification Template based on the Table configured with Sub Form. For more information, refer to Sub Form Element Notification Designer. | |||
SMTP | Send Email using Graph API User Persona: Application Administrator | Configure Graph API on SMTP which enables sending email using Graph API. For more information, refer to SMTP Graph API. | |||
Bulletins | Configure Simple and Advance Filters on Bulletins page. User Persona: Application Designer |
For more information, refer to Manage Bulletins. | |||
Service Portal Designer | Configure Advance Filters on Service Portal page. User Persona: End User/Application Designer | Allows filtering of list page columns with Advanced Filters that support grouping and ungrouping based on conditional operators. For more information, refer to Common Filters. | |||
Service Portal Designer | Mobile responsive view for the Service Portal. User Persona: Application Designer | Enables the Service Portal to automatically adjust to various devices and screen sizes. For more information, refer to Publish Service Portal. | |||
Service Portal Designer | Improved readability in Graphical widgets. User Persona: Application Designer | Enables Bar, Line, and Pie graphs by organizing data into daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly groupings. For more information, refer to Graphical Widgets. | |||
Business Rule Designer | Introduced conditions and Parameters section under call API stop to update the records matching the conditions specified. User Persona: App Designer / Analyst | Provision for setting conditions and parameters allowing greater flexibility in creating API related actions. For more information on these controls and fields, refer to Popover Fields in Conditions to trigger Actions. | |||
Business Rule Designer | Introduce Custom Email ID in Recipients to send email to any email ID. User Persona: App Designer / Analyst | Introducing a custom email ID in the recipients field allows you to personalize your communication and enhance your email management. For more information on these controls and fields, refer to Notify Recipients . | |||
Business Rule Designer | Introduce Business Rule Error History in Transaction Forms. User Persona: App Designer / Analyst / End User | View the list of Business rules triggered and satisfied in transaction forms. Also, view a log of the business rules triggered with details & error history. For more information on these controls and fields, refer to Business Rule History. | |||
Business Rule Designer | Introducing Popover Form Fields in Conditions to trigger actions. User Persona: App Designer / Analyst | Introducing Popover Form Fields in Conditions, designed to enhance user experience by triggering specific actions upon reopening records such as Incident Management (IM), Service Requests (SR), and Change Requests (CR). | |||
Notification Designer - Module | Add Default Notification Language for User Persona: Application Designer | Configure notification template in default language and reuse to other languages. This is applicable across all the Mediums. | |||
Notification Designer - Application | Add Default Notification Language for Application User Persona: Application Designer | Configure notification template in default language to send Bulletin notification according to configured default language. This is applicable for all the Mediums. | |||
Holiday Calendar | Dropdown with virtual scroll lazy load implementation in Holiday Calendar User Persona: Application Designer | The Location selection field in the Holiday Calendar has a dropdown with virtual lazy load implementation. For more information, refer to Holiday Calendar. | |||
Form Designer | Bulk Update User Persona: Application Designer | Update large volume of records quickly and consistently. For more information, refer to Design List. | |||
Form Designer | Summary View in List Page User Persona: Application Designer | Configure Summary view for list page of a form with rows, columns, cell values and functions. It allows you provide a concise overview of the key information. For more information, refer to Design List. | |||
Form Designer | Contextual Drop Downs User Persona: Application Designer | For reference form controls, the Data Source tab now includes two additional dropdowns (Layer and Module) under the Table option. This setup displays only the tables specific to the selected Application and Module in the Table dropdown, rather than all tables. For more information, refer to Data Source. | |||
Form Designer | Enhanced Form control level validations User Persona: Application Designer | For Admin Forms two more validations (Unique and Mandatory) are introduced for form controls while designing an Admin form. For more information, refer to Validations. | |||
Form Designer | Designer Execution Sequence User Persona: Application Designer | Configure the sequence execution order for the Business Rule Designer, Workflow Designer and SLA while form publishing. For more information, refer to Publish. | |||
Form Designer | Persona Role Type User Persona: Application Designer | The form will be accessible only to the users who are assigned roles from the selected role type from the Persona drop-down. For more information, refer to Define Form Characteristics. | |||
Form Designer | Contextual Embedded List View User Persona: Application Designer | All the Popover Forms configured with Read Only Mode contain now has List Parameter. For more information, refer to Popover Forms. |
Service Management App
Element | Improvement Name | Description |
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OOTB Dashboards | Data Inspector and Export Excel for Dashboards to examine the dashboard data. User Persona: Admin and Analyst | The Data Inspector feature allows to delve into and analyze the underlying data. Export excel allows users to export the data inspector to excel format. For more information refer to Incident Aging Summary Dashboard. |
Service Request Management | Filter by date on the End User, Approval and Analyst portal. User Persona: End User / Admin / Analyst | The date filter on the list page allows end users, admins, and analysts to easily refine and view records or data based on a specific date range. For more information, refer to Date filters. |
Incident Management | Asset Selection in New Incidents User Persona: End User / Admin / Analyst | The Log Incident screen now supports the selection of Assets. For example, the allocated assets per requestor. For more information, refer to New Incident. |
Work Order | Link Work Orders to other Modules User Persona: Analyst | Parent Child relationship is established by linking Work Orders to other Modules. De-linking of Work Orders is enabled as well. For more information, refer to Link Work Order. |
Work Order | Manage Work Orders User Persona: Analyst | Manage Work Orders using Filters, Search and Export options from WO. For more information, refer to Manage Work Orders |
Service Request Management | Include catalog attributes in Service Request notification emails User Persona: Admin | Incorporate catalog attributes into the notification emails for Service Requests, presented in a tabular format. For more information, refer to New Service Request. |
Service Request Management | Allocated asset and Configuration Item (CI) selection while logging an SR User Persona: End user | SR requestor can select Allocated Assets and CIs while logging an SR. For more information, refer to New Service Request. |
Asset Management App
Element | Improvement Name | Description |
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Fixed Asset | Link Records User Persona: ITAM Analyst | Create an Incident, Service Request etc from asset records and vice versa through cross application linking capability. For more information, refer to Add New Asset. |
Fixed and Non-Fixed Asset | Bulk Approval User Persona: Approver | Approve multiple assets in bulk on the inventory list page. For more information, refer to the following pages: Manage AC - Allocate & Deallocate Approvals Manage AC - Deactivate & Reactivate Approvals |
Fixed Asset | Usage Type Validation User Persona: ITAM Analyst | Usage type validation for Primary and Secondary assets can be viewed while allocating the assets. For more information, refer to Fixed Asset - In Store. |
Fixed Asset | Asset Action History User Persona: ITAM Analyst | This tab will display the asset lifecycle actions like allocations, deallocations, etc and other actions that were performed on the specific asset. For more information, refer to Fixed Asset - Allocated. |
Fixed Asset | Barcode Template and Printing User Persona: ITAM Analyst | Configure a barcode template and print it based on the requirement. For more information, refer to the following pages: Barcode Template Configuration: Barcode Template Overview Print Barcode: Fixed Asset - Common Actions |
Non-Fixed Asset | Allocate Non-Fixed Assets User Persona: ITAM Analyst | Analysts can allocate non-fixed assets from the inventory. For more information, refer to the following pages: |
Non-Fixed Asset | Related Records User Persona: ITAM Analyst | Viewing the previous allocations against an asset record is now configurable. For more information, refer to Manage Inventory - AC. |
Non-Fixed Asset (Accessories) | Asset Reconciliation User Persona: ITAM Analyst | Asset Reconciliation can be performed for accessories. For more information, refer to Allocate & Deallocate AC - Overview. |
Fixed Asset | Terms and Conditions User Persona: End User | End user can view the Terms and Conditions and fill a feedback on the allocation experience while accepting assets. For more information, refer to My Assets - Overview. |
Others | Analyst Portal and End User Dashboard User Persona: ITAM Analyst / End User | Asset data across different asset types will now be configured and displayed in different tabs. For more information, refer to Dashboard - Analyst Portal and Asset Dashboard. |
Mobile App
Element | Improvement Name | Description |
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Apex Mobile | Pre-login, Service Management, and Survey screens for the end user. User Persona: End User | In the Apex Mobile, screens for Pre-login, Service Management, and Surveys accessible to the end user. For more information, refer to Apex Mobile. |
Known Issues
The following section provides details of known issues in this release:
Issue ID | Issue Description | Scenario | Workaround |
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46575 | Multiple selection is configured for all matrix pages for these fields. | Steps:
| N/A |
68981 | Domain and Sub Domain field values are getting deselected. | Steps:
| N/A |
69102 | Deallocation Date is getting not displayed as mandatory field while deallocating an Accessories/Consumables Assets. | Prerequisites:
Steps:
| N/A |
69119 | The Change History icon is not getting loaded after many refreshes. Note: The same issue is observed for Urgency, Priority, and SR SLA pages as and well. | Steps:
| N/A |
69125 | The User Card details are not getting displayed after updating the Incident | Steps:
| N/A |
69178 | Unable to navigate to Incident tab. | Steps:
| N/A |
69197 | When navigated to the details page of Analyst, End User and Approver forms, the values are not loaded and displayed. If navigated back to the list page and then again navigated to details page, then values are displayed. | Prerequisite: User should be on the consumer end. Steps:
| N/A |
70794 | User Authentication: AD import job getting failed due to GDPR error which is configured recuring type. | Steps:
| N/A |
70803 | When logging as an analyst, it takes more time to login. | Steps:
| N/A |
70838 | When control type = Multi Choice, only then the Username is displayed. Email ID is not displayed. | Prerequisite: Multi Choice control with Data Source = Table, Table = Users, Label Column = Username should be configured. Steps:
| N/A |
70909 | Time to load the Asset Management application is more. | Steps:
| N/A |
71031 | AD Import: on-premise users are not getting imported. | Prerequisite: AD Import On prem job should be configured in recurring frequency and run at should be configured as proxy server. Steps:
| N/A |
71022 | Default records per page Total count in list page is not correct. | Steps:
| N/A |
70994 | When a new read only popover form with List control is configured, upon clicking on the record ‘ID’ the record details are not displayed correctly. In the URL instead of ID, undefined is displayed. | Prerequisite: Configure a new Read Only Popover form with List control. Steps:
| N/A |
69099 | While selecting the Change History button, the values are not getting translated into Arabic language. | Steps:
| N/A |
65173 | The newly added form control (s) in the Platform’s User Form, is not available in the Sub form’s Publish To Filter set on the Form Designer. | Prerequisites:
Steps:
| N/A |
71023 | Tenant is empty in the Asset list page, even though the field is configured as Mandatory in the tenant. | Steps:
| N/A |
71026 | ID Column coming in capital letters for end users in each form for HRMS and Service management. | Steps:
| N/A |
71038 | In the ‘Filter’ overlay panel when ‘Status’ field is selected, two value fields are displayed. | Prerequisite App Designer should be on the ‘Workflow Designer’ list page. Steps:
| N/A |
67825 | The values entered in the Password and Re-enter Password fields are not encrypted on the Monitoring Account page. | Steps:
| N/A |
69313 | Common Master Type and Values are displaying to domains which are not mapped under the Publish step. | Prerequisites: 1. Common Master Type and Common Master Value should be created and published. 2. Form should be created with dropdown field with Common Master as source. 3. Above Form should be created for domain other than one which is mapped in Common Master. Steps: 2. Navigate to the created form. 2. Click New. 3. Select required tenant. 4. Click on dropdown value configured. | N/A |
71125 | The "Join Date" in the User Form displays date-time field, instead of date field. | Steps:
| N/A |
Fixed Issues
The following section provides details of Fixed issues in this release:
Issue ID | Issue Description | Scenario | Resolution |
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161967 | Standard template was not getting created even after successful creation and closure of the Change Record. | Steps:
| Standard template is created even after successful creation and closure of the Change Record. |
Note
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