What's New in BackOffice Associates® Solutions 6.1

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New Features

Collect

SAP Data Services using RFC package type uses Remote Function Calls via Data Services to extract data from an SAP Application instance.

Document Migration targets with Target Design

Use Target Design to document tables, fields and sources used in the migration project. Targets can be imported from a database, System Type, or Excel file. Configure rules for target fields and lookup tables for value mapping and create field groups and metric groups to categorize and prioritize data as it is mapped.

Refer to Target Design Overview for more information.

System Administration

New SQL Server Health dashboards available (Admin > Resources > SQL Server Health) that display the status of:

    • Current database connections
    • Database file sizes
    • Database memory overview

Hover text available for columns. Current supported column types are: list box, combo box, image and button.

The Font Size Panel allows the font size of the DSP® to be scaled between 75% and 200%. The value selected is remembered within the browser and is retained across all DSP® instances that use this feature. Access the Font Size Panel via the "A" icon on the login page or under Site Gear icon > Preferences > Font Config.

DSP Add-Ons

An Administrator user can use DSP Add-Ons to create custom security for delivered WebApps or custom WebApps. By creating Custom WebApp groups, users can easily customize access for pages depending on any organizational need. Refer to DSP Add-Ons for more information.

 

Refer to DSP Add-Ons for more information.

dspTrack™

dspTrack™ is a project tracking tool used to ensure project tasks are completed according to a project schedule and to alert managers when tasks and projects are in danger or being late or are late. The parameters for schedule status calculation can be fine tuned so that managers and resources can most effectively meet project deadlines. Dependency types for tasks ensure that tasks occur in the right order to complete the project efficiently.

 

Refer to dspTrack™ Overview for more information.

 

Mapping Approvals

Ensure that a Developer can review every field mapping between source and target. No mapping is complete until it has been approved.

 

Refer to Approve or Reject Mappings for more information.

 

Full Construct Automation

In cases where no legacy data is available, a user can create a source of Full Construction, which can be used as a single source or as one of multiple sources for a target.

 

Refer to Full Construction for more information.

 

SQL Automation

SQL automation creates basic objects used by the migration process (tables, rules and reports)so that users can focus on addressing complex requirements.  

Refer to SQL Automation for more information.

 

View Summaries and Trends using Dashboards

Dashboards have been added across the DSP to give users insight into summary data for field mapping, data construction, value mapping, task tracking and other factors.

 

View the following topics for more information:

Enhancements

General

Various changes were implemented to improve Accessibility, including:

o    Two high contrast styles have been created for visually impaired users.

o    Fields available when adding custom styles to view the contrast ratios between the style color choices based on which colors display on top of each other from within the Platform.

o    Keyboard controls added to ensure proper flow through the UI using keyboard only.

Exception stack traces are now limited to members of the Debugger WebApp group.

Added ability to explicitly define the language used to translate a message based on a language ID or a user's language (via a plugin).

Collect

Re-factor effort to improve performance and code stability.

Record Count and Duration fields separated into two fields on the Tables page.

Common

Content Scope, profiles and duplicates have been removed.

 

Map

Value Mapping has been updated to streamline the workflow

New Action of Manual Construction

Online Help

The product help has been updated to describe the new features and functionality and contains an Implementation Guide to help users get started with each component.

Resolved Issues

  • In Common, Collect and System Administration, the Test Connection icon was not consistent across pages. With the fix, the Test Connection icon is the same throughout the product.
  • Fixed various issues with IE 8, 9 and 11
  • Fixed various issues with the user interface
  • The Monitor page in Common has been updated to include a CREATED ON field to be used as a filter to track when records were added.
  • In Collect, the Fetch Table process inserted multiple table entries in the System Type table, one for each schema owner in the source system. With the fix, one table entry is added to the System Type Table, no matter how many schema owners exist for the table.
  • Issues were fixed related to importing group tables in Collect.

o    If one table in the group had a rule, the rule was being applied to all tables in the group. Now, rules are applied to the table to which they are assigned.

o    Users require more flexibility over when rules should be applied when group tables are imported. For example, a rule to strip leading zeros from a field may not need to be run while importing. The Publish Rules check box has been added to the Group Import page (Targets > Sources > Import Group Tables). If enabled, rules that are assigned to the tables in the group import will run and will update data in the tables. If disabled, rules assigned to the tables will not run.

o    A user could not preview the SQL for the rule so could not know what rules are being applied to a table. The Vertical View of the Table Rule page (Targets > Sources > Tables > Rules > Vertical View) allows a user to preview the SQL. The user clicks Generate Rule Preview. The SQL display in the Rule Preview field.

 

  • An issue occurred that caused pool and cluster tables to be empty when tables are refreshed. If the Test Connection was successful but the SAP Test Connection failed, the download process continued and the pool and cluster tables were not populated. With the fix, If the SAP Test Connection fails, the process stops. The SAP Test Connection must be successful before the process can complete.

Enhancement Request

A message has been added that displays when a user attempts to save a mapping for a field with an action of Xref or RuleXref rule or attempts to build the rule and a check table has not been assigned to the field. A user must assign a check table (also called a lookup table) to the field in Target Design.

 

 

WARNING: Customizations made to any component of thedelivered BackOffice Solution will be overwritten in the next upgrade. To preserve customizations, make a copy of the customizations prior to applying any upgrade.

A customization is a change to the underlying source code, which differs from configuration – normal setup of the software, such as setting up workflows and defining parameters via the configuration pages.

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