Release Notes v6.1.0.1 HF10
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Release Notes v6.1.0.1 HF10

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Improvements

Following improvement is introduced in this v6.1.0.1 HF10 release.

Improvement NameImprovement DescriptionBenefits
Configure Appsettings Key for the notifications sent from Scheduler, Business Rule, and Workflow Designer.


User Persona: App Designer
Enables you to configure attachment based on the Latest or All attachments present in selected attributes, along with the mentioned refresh time.

For more information, refer Attachment.
  • Obtain the required attachment based on the Latest or All.
  • Define the Time to obtain the latest  attachment.


Fixed Issues

The following section provides details of fixed issues in Apex v6.1.0.1 HF10:

Issue IDIssue DescriptionScenarioResolution
159182The validation error message verbiage to be changed from “Review the validation error on the bottom of the control(s).” to “Review the validation error under the missing field(s).”
  1. Log in to the Apex application as an End User.
     
  2. Navigate to Manage Incidents > Click New. The Incident details page is displayed. 
     
  3. Select the required Tenant and click Save.
     
  4. Observe the validation message. 
The validation error message verbiage is changed from “Review the validation error on the bottom of the control(s).” to “Specify the mandatory field(s).”
160642

In the Change Management module, an error occurred message was displayed while saving the Change Record Template.  



Prerequisites: 

  1. Log in to the Apex application as an App Designer.

  2. Navigate to Design Studio > Module. Select the Change module.

  3. Navigate to Form Designer.

  4. Place the "Manage Change Request" form under Maintenance. Next, navigate to the Design Form step and select the Risk tab.

  5. Drag and drop “Single Choice” control. Configure more than 100 as field value in the Title field.

  6. On the Data Source tab, default is set to Manual. Add Yes and No values to the Label field. Click Save.

  7. Save and Publish the form.

Steps:  

  1. Log in to the Apex application as an Analyst.

  2. Navigate to Change > Manage Change Request.

  3. Click New. Select the required Tenant.

  4. Select the Single choice control configured above. Enter all the required details.  

  5. Click Create Template. Enter the Template Name, Tags and other details and Save the template.

  6. On the Header, click Kebab icon and click ImportTemplate

The Change Record Template is saved successfully without any error message.  



160596There was an issue while creating a Change Record (CR) for a particular Change Category.Prerequisites:

  1. Log in to the Apex application as an App Admin.

  2. Navigate to Settings icon > click Design Studio.

  3. Select Change from Module dropdown to view the list of all configured forms.

  4. Select Manage Change form from the list page.

  5. Navigate to Publish step > change the status to Maintenance > click Submit.

  6.  Navigate to Design Form step > add a condition to any Field control in the Validations tab of the control's settings > click Save.

  7. Navigate to Publish step > click Submit.

  8. Navigate to Design Form step > delete the condition added in the Validations tab of the control's settings in step 7 > click Save.

  9. Navigate to Publish step > click Submit.

  10. Navigate to Design Form step.

  11. Update the condition for the Field control (configured in step 7) under Validations tab > click Save.

  12. Navigate to Publish step > change the status to Published > click Submit.

Steps:

  1. Log in to the Apex application as an Analyst.

  2. Navigate to Change > Change Request > click My Change Requests.

  3. Click New.

  4. Fill in all details including Change Category by clicking .

  5. Click Save.
CR is successfully created for the selected Change Category.
161214The error message was not displayed when the Planned Start Time is less than Lead Period. Steps:
  1. Log in to the Apex application.
  2. Navigate to Change > Manage Change RequestsThe Manage Change Requests List page is displayed.
  3. Click New to create a new Change Request.   
  4. In the General tab, under the Timelines section, enter all the details including the Planned Start Time.  
  5. Click Save
Note
The Planned Start Time should be less than the Lead Period (1day).
The error message is displayed when the Planned Start Time is set to less than the Lead Period.
160586The Mailbox was not getting connected as the wrong API Endpoints were set in the API Configuration.  

Prerequisite: 

Configure API for Mailbox.  

Steps: 

  1. Log in to the Apex application as an Application Admin.

  2. Navigate to Design Studio > Application > Mailbox Configuration. The Mailbox Configuration list page is displayed.

  3. Click New.

  4. Enter the required fields in the General and Configuration steps and proceed to the Rules step.

  5. Click Mailbox Diagnosis.  
Mailbox gets connected after the correct API Endpoints are set in API Configuration.
160624Notifications sent from Business Rule was displaying blank on email, for that contained Grid component of Owner or Analyst column and which was not assigned to any Analyst.

Prerequisites:

  1. Configure Business Rule with Notify to Requestor and Workgroup.

  2. Set Condition for Status as New

Steps

  1. Log in to the Apex application.

  2. Navigate to Design Studio > Problem Management > Notification Designer.

  3. Configure General and select Email as Medium.

  4. On the Design step, configure two Grids, one with Analyst and other without Analyst.

  5. Drag and drop the configured Grids on the Notification Template.

  6. Save Template and complete the Notification Designer configuration.

  7. Navigate to Design Studio > Problem Management > Business Rule Designer.

  8. Create two BRDs, one with Condition as analyst Not Null and map it with the Analyst Template.

  9. Other BRD Condition as Analyst Is Null and map it without the Analyst Template.

  10. Create New Problem record without selecting Owner/Analyst.

  11. Verify the Communication History and the Template. 
Notifications sent from BR is displaying with Analyst names and these contain Grid with Owner / Analyst column.
161948In the Problem Management, the Approver could not view the Root Cause Analysis (RCA) Fishbone Diagram on the RCA tab of the Manage Problem Records Details page.

Prerequisite:

Create a Problem Request (PR) and add the RCA details in the RCA tab in the created PR.

Steps:

  1. Log in to the Apex application as an Approver.
  2. Navigate to the Problem > Problem Record > Approve Problem Record
  3. Click PR ID hyperlink of the created PR. 
  4. Click RCA tab and click Show Fishbone Diagram icon.

The Fishbone Diagram for Approver is displayed without any issue.

161581 

An error occurred when the Approver attempted to open the Relationship tab on the Approve Change Request page. 

The following error message was displayed:
'An error occurred while processing your request.' 


Prerequisite

The Relationship tab must be configured in Approve Change Request form under Form Designer

Steps

  1. Log in to the Apex application as Analyst.

  2. Select Service Management application.

  3. Navigate to Change > Change Request > Manage Change Request.
    The Manage Change Requests List page is displayed.

  4. Click New to create a new record or click the required CR ID to open the existing record.

  5. Create a Work Order and click Submit.

  6. Log in to the Apex application as an Approver.

  7. Select the Service Management application.

  8. Navigate to Change > Change Request > Approve Change Requests.
    The Approve Change Requests List page is displayed.

  9. Click the required CR ID to view the details page.(The record for which the Work Order is created).

  10. Click the Link-Relationship tab and verify the result. 
The Relationship tab displays relevant data on the Approve Change Request page without any errors.
161220The side panel was missing intermittently after the HF07 upgrade.

Prerequisite: 

Log in to the application with End User access.  

Steps: 

  1. Navigate to Service Management > Incident > My Incident. The My Incident list page is displayed.

  2. Click the Incident ID to go to My Incident details page.

  3. Click on Home icon.

  4. Click Service Management application and verify the side panel. 
Note:
The issue persisted in all the Service Management modules.  
The side panel is visible in all the Service Management modules.  
162090Error "At least one field should be filled" was displaying when adding a record for a multi-valued group under the Test tab for a Change Record.

Prerequisite:

A multi-valued group should be created under the Test tab for a Change Record.

Steps:

  1. Log in to the Apex application.

  2. Click Service Management.

  3. Navigate to Change > Manage Change Records.

  4. Click ID hyperlink of a Change Record to view the Change ID details page.

  5.  Click Test tab > navigate to the multi- valued group.

  6. Fill in all the field values > click Add.

  7. Verify that the records created for the multi-valued group under Test tab are being saved without showing any error.
Records under the Test tab for a Change Record are getting saved successfully.
161212

Common Master values were not getting disabled. Although marked as inactive, those values continued to appear in the Catalog dropdown list. 



Prerequisites:  

  1. Navigate to Service Management > Platform Studio > Platform Masters > Common Master.

  2. Select the required Master Type. The Common Master values list page is displayed.

  3. Select any Common Master and deactivate the value.

  4. Create a Form with a Dropdown value having the data source as Common Master.  

Steps: 

  1. Navigate to Service Management > Service Request > Manage Service Requests. The Manage Service Requests list page is displayed.

  2. Click New and select the catalog in which the common master value is inactive. 

The inactive Common Master values are now disabled and are not displayed on the form. The functionality is working as expected.  



162108Under Notification Parser, extra fields were automatically added as blank values under Actions > Update Record > Criteria.

Steps: 

  1. Log in to the Apex application as an App Designer. 
  2. Navigate to the 'Notification Parser’ list page. 
  3. On the list page, Click on the New button. 
  4. Enter all the fields and navigate to 'Action' stepper. Select the Update tab. 
  5. Select the 'Define the Personas eligible to Update Criteria '. (Select one or Two persona). 
  6. Save the page. 
  7. Go to list page, select the existing record. 
  8. Navigate to 'Action' stepper. Select the Update tab. 
  9. Verify the ‘Define the Personas eligible to Update Criteria’ panel. 

Criteria field displays values correctly without any blank values in Actions > Update Record under Notification Parser. 

Known Issues

The following section provides details of known issues and workarounds in Apex v6.1.0.1 HF10:

Issue IDIssue Description ScenarioWorkaround
159893 50 % SLA breached notification has not triggered for the Response SLA and Workaround SLA between 5th to 23rd October due to Elapsed Time scheduler Job failure.

Steps

  1. Log in to the Apex application.

  2. Navigate to Manage Incidents and open the existing ticket with 50% SLA breach.

  3. Validate the SLA. 
Note
Notification is not triggered for 50% SLA breached Incidents.
N/A
161386Filters on the List page is not working as expected on the Service Management application.

Steps

  1. Log in to the Apex application as an Analyst.

  2. Navigate to Service Management > any Module > List page.

  3. Filter for fields such as Customer, Serial Number, Manufacturer, and SLA Offering List

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156119Options in the Value field for the Change Category condition are not populating while configuring Workflow for a Change Record.Steps:
  1. Log in to the Apex application.

  2. Click Settings icon > Design Studio.

  3. Select Change from the Module dropdown.

  4. Click Designers > Workflow Designer > click New.

  5. Fill in all the details in the General step.

  6. Select Core Flow from the Type dropdown.

  7. Click Save > Next.

  8. Define the trigger and conditions in Set Trigger & Condition step.

  9. Select Based on Condition under Condition section.

  10. Click + Add Filter Set.

  11. Select Change Category in the Field column.

  12. Select the Operator.

  13. Clickto select an option from the Value dropdown.
N/A
161173Deadline SLA is not working in Problem Management Module.

Steps

  1. Log in to the Apex application.

  2. Configure SLA workflow as follows:

    1. RCA Draft SLA Start: The SLA countdown begins once the status is changed to RCA Draft.

    2. SLA Stop: The SLA stops when the status is changed to RCA Submitted to Customer.

    3. Pending Status: The SLA is paused if the Status is set to Pending
Note
The SLA is configured based on specific statuses and will follow according to the selected.
N/A
161247On creating a new Incident, the customer names do not appear in the Customer field on the General tab.

Steps

  1. Log in to the Apex application as an Analyst. 
  2. Navigate to the Service Management > Incident > Manage Incidents.
        The Manage Incidents – List page is displayed. 
  3. Click New to create a new Incident. 
  4. Enter the required details, and in the General tab, select the Customer Name.
N/A
161162

The Change Record (CR) can be submitted without attaching the mandatory file in the Upload field.

Steps

  1. Log in to the Apex application as an Analyst
  2. Navigate to the Service Management > Change > Manage Change Requests.
    The Manage Change Requests list page is displayed.
  3. Click New to create a new Change Record
  4. Enter the required details and upload a file from the Upload button. 
  5. Click Delete icon to delete uploaded file and click Save

 

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161220In the Analyst Dashboard, the Left Panel does not appear after maximizing the page.

Steps

  1.  Log in to the Apex application as an Analyst
  2.  Navigate to the Service Management > Incident > Manage Incidents.
  3.  Click the Maximize button in the top-right corner of the Manage Incidents – List page
N/A
159014An error message (“Error obtaining a build status”) is displayed while exporting one month of data using the newly created Daily Incident Report.

Steps: 

  1. Log in to the Apex application as an Analyst.
  2.  Navigate to Reports.
  3. Select Module as Incident.
  4. Select the Daily Incident Report. Report is displayed.
  5. Click the Export icon and select Excel.
N/A
159521Fields that are hidden using Validation controls are becoming visible after submitting the Change Request (CR).

Steps:

  1. Log in to the Apex application as an Application Designer. 
  2.  Navigate to the Service Management > Settings icon > Design Studio > select Change module > Form Designer > Manage Change Requests
  3. Drag and Drop the Long Text in the Rich Text Editor.
  4. Click gear icon to view the Long Text dialog box.
  5. Select Validations tab and configure fields as Hidden and Conditions Meet - When category is Version Upgrades.
  6. Click Next and publish the form.
  7. Log in to the Apex application as an End User.
  8. Navigate to Change > My Change Requests.
  9. Select the required Tenant and Category
  10. Verify the fields that are hidden when all other mandatory details are filled and submitted. 
N/A
161210

In the CMDB module, certain company fields are not populating data appropriately while bulk updating CIs. 



Steps: 

  1. Log in to the Apex application as an Analyst.

  2. Navigate to Service Management > CMDB > Infrastructure as a CI.

  3. On the list page, select a few CI IDs.

  4. Click Bulk Update.

  5. On the bulk update page, select the Tenant.

  6. Select Company in the dropdown menu and search the company name.
N/A
161291 

The parent module ticket fails to automatically close or cancel during the conversion process between INC and SR or other modules (and vice versa). It opens in a new tab and requires manual intervention to click the save button. Additionally, in the Link option, the respective modules do not appear in the list until they are manually selected. 

Steps:

  1.  Navigate to Incident > Manage Incidents.

  2. Open a created incident.  

  3.  Navigate to the Links tab.

  4.   Click Create and select Service Request. Create a new Service Request.

  5. Verify the linked service request to the incident. 

N/A
159895When trying to upload a .txt file with the content <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> in the Attachments tab for Incidents, an error message "Invalid file content" is displayed.

Steps: 

  1. Navigate to Incident > Manage Incidents.

  2. Click New to create a new incident.

  3. In the Attachments tab, upload a .txt file that includes the content <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>.

  4. On the Manage Incidents List page, click any Incident ID.

  5. In the Attachments section, upload a .txt file that includes the content <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
N/A
70616The screen keeps loading while approving the CR. 

Steps:

  1. Log in to the Apex application as an Analyst.

  2. Go to Design Studio > Select the application as Service Management and the Module as Change Management.

  3. Navigate to Manage Change Request. The Manage Change Request list page is displayed.

  4. Click New. Create a new CR.

  5. Click on the above created CR ID hyperlink.  

  6. Click Approve. The Workflow Approval pop-up is displayed.

  7. Click Status drop-down and select any status.

  8. Click Submit
N/A
161442The Application Designer is unable to save the configuration after removing Days from the Efforts field. 

Steps:

  1. Log in to the Apex application as an Application Designer.

  2. Navigate to Design Studio > Select the Module as Incident Management.

  3. Navigate to Designers > Form Designer. The Form Designer list page is displayed.

  4. Open the Manage Incident form from Form Designer list page.

  5. Modify the Efforts field on the form.

  6. Update the Effort type to "Hours, Minutes, Seconds".

  7. Click Save and observe the output. 
N/A
160518After clicking More option, the full message is getting displayed in a single line. 

Steps:

  1. Log in to the Apex application as an End User.
     
  2. Navigate to Incident > Manage Incidents. The Manage Incidents list page is displayed.

  3. Click Incident ID hyperlink. The Incident ID details page is displayed.

  4. Navigate to User Communication section under Messages tab.

  5. Click More to view the full message.

  6. Observe the format of the message.
N/A
70853There is a delay in loading the Manage Change Requests list page while selecting the Clear All Filters in the Advance Filter pop-up.  

Steps: 

  1. Log in to the Apex application as an Analyst.

  2. Navigate to Change > Manage Change Requests.

  3. Click Advance Filter icon.

  4. Click Clear all Filters
N/A
161283Business Rule in the Incident Management module is not functioning as expected when applied to a dynamic table.Prerequisites:
  1. Log in to the Apex application.

  2. Click Settings icon > Design Studio.

  3. Select Incident from Module dropdown.

  4. Click Configurations > Matrices (Admin Forms).

  5. Select and configure any matrix and include Category as a Tree control.

Steps:

  1. Log in to the Apex application.

  2. Click Settings icon > Design Studio.

  3. Select Incident from Module dropdown.

  4. Click Designers > Business Rule Designer.

  5. Click New.

  6. Fill in all the details in General step > click Submit.

  7. Fill in all the details in the Trigger step > click Submit.

  8. In the Condition step, click Add Filter Set.

  9. Under the Field column, select Category from the dropdown.

  10. Under Operator column, select Dynamic from the dropdown
N/A
159748The Manage Change Requests list page is taking more time to load after clicking Apply in the Advance Filter pop-up.

Steps:

  1. Log in to the Apex application.

  2. Click Change > Change Request > Manage Change Requests. The Manage Change Requests list page is displayed.

  3. Click Advance Filter icon.

  4. Select the values in Field, Operator, and Value fields.

  5. Click Apply.
N/A
160541 The Reopen Reason value is not visible in the Change History on the User Incident Details page. 

Steps: 

  1. Navigate to Incidents > My Incidents. The Incident List page is displayed. 
  2. Select Resolved Incidents.
  3. Click Incident ID hyperlink. 
  4. On the User Incident Details page, click settings icon and select Reopen Incident
  5. Select Reopen Reason from the drop down and enter Remarks
  6. Click Save
N/A
160544 Apex application is loading slow whenever a ticket is opened.  

Steps:  

  1. Log in to the Apex application.  
  2. Navigate to Incidents > Manage Incidents. The Manage Incident List page is displayed.  
  3. Click on any Incident ID hyperlink.  
    Note

    Tickets refers to Incident, Service Requests, Change Record etc.

N/A 
70589 There was a two-hour delay for the bulk allocation of 10,000 records on the Fixed Asset List page. Prerequisite: 
Asset should be displayed in Instore and New status.  

Steps:  

  1. Log in to the Apex application as an ITAM Analyst.  
  2. Choose the Asset Management Module.  
  3. Navigate to Asset Management > Manage Assets > Fixed. The Fixed Assets List page is displayed.  
  4. Click Bulk Import  icon and select Upload File 
  5. The Import Records pop-up appears.  
  6. Select TenantForm TypePopover, and Unique fields. Download the template in Excel format.  
  7. Upload the Excel file with the 10,000 records. 
  8. Click the Next in the Import Records pop-up. 
  9. Upload the Excel file in Upload Data step and click Submit 
  10. Click the Bulk import  icon and select View History on the List page. 
N/A 
160276Information in the Assigned To section, including Work Group and Analyst, is missing when saved or resolved Service Requests (SRs) are opened.Steps:
  1.  Log in to the Apex application.

  2.  Navigate to Service Request > Manage Service Requests. The Manage Service Request List page is displayed.

  3. Click SR ID hyperlink.

  4. In the Assigned To section of saved and resolved SRs, verify the Work Group and Analyst.
N/A
161212 Common Master values are not being disabled. Despite being marked as inactive, these values continue to appear in the dropdown list of the catalogs.

Steps

  1. Log in to the Apex application as an Administrator.

  2. Click the gear icon to select Platform Studio.

  3. Navigate to Platform Masters > Common Masters.
    The CommonMasters page is displayed.

  4. Check and verify if the values can be disabled. 

N/A
161349  Cancellation remarks are captured as encrypted values in the Change History of Manage Incidents when it's cancelled from the User Incident (My Incident) form.

Steps

  1. Log in to the Apex application as an Analyst.

  2. Select Service Management application.

  3. Navigate to Incident > Manage Incidents.
    The Manage Incidents List page is displayed.

  4. Click the required Incident ID hyperlink to view the details page.

  5. Click the Change History icon to view the details. 
N/A
161412Workgroup name does not display properly on Change Request Details page.

Prerequisite

Additional Workgroup Approver custom field must be configured in Form Designer

Steps

  1. Log in to the Apex application as an Analyst.

  2. Navigate to Service Management > Change > Change Request > Manage Change Requests.
    The Manage Change Requests List page is displayed.

  3. Click the required CR ID hyperlink to view the details page.

  4. Select the required value from Additional Workgroup Approver multiselect drop-down and verify the result displayed. 

N/A
161406The Title of Requests (Description) field in Change Management is getting resized.

Steps: 

  1. Log in to the Apex application as an Analyst.

  2. Navigate to Change > Manage Change Requests. The Manage Change Requests list page is displayed.

  3. Open an existing record.

  4. Verify the Description and Information field.  
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