Please click on an update below to view the changes presented in that iteration of FACT:
Grid output on all Standard Tabs
Report Sets for template-driven reporting in Excel
RADAR Reports (stored as-of sub-ledger reports)
Mouse zooming of all FACTGrids
Faster Benchmark reporting
Automatic 64/32 bit operation
Improved error messages throughout
Work Order Reporting
Budget Builder enhancements for multiple ratetables
New "Email Me" functionality
New Scheduled Reports functionality
10/8/2015 - Update for monthly average calculations.
9/28/2015 - Update to new FACT server.
7/13/2015 - Security update for closed Budget Builder datasets.
3/27/2015 - Bug fix for explosions by new FA attributes.
3/27/2015 - Update for enhanced Budget Builder functionality.
5/27/2015 - Update for JDE 9.1
Functionality to support the Job Cost and Forecast report.
Functionality to support inventory reporting.
Update to FACTFINDER to support indexing of data GL account balance
based on Cat Codes
Update FACT to support the following:
- FACT Drilldown functionality enhancement
- JPS reporting drilldown to GL detail where applicable
- F/A reporting drilldown to GL detail where applicable
- Sub ledger reporting drilldown to GL detail where applicable
- Job Cost Report
- Reporting rollup for LOD 4-7 where amounts are 0
- Inventory Reporting
- Monthly spread
- Long Inventory Reporting
- Build Control
- Footer Suppression Control
- Foreign Currency Reporting
- Period -Reporting prior periods results at foreign exchange rates applicable at the time
- Native - Reporting of native exchange rate
- Improved help in tooltips
- Charting
- Elements highlighted by clicking the data grid
- FACT Grids
- Alternative method for sorting
- F/A Reports
- Show correct year if changed
- FACT Administrative Items
- Timeout functionality enhancements
- Fix for Excel output for report with Super headers
- Additional indexing on specific Cat Codes for performance
- Detect drilldown on last year or budget data in monthly spread or benchmark & set data type accordingly.
- JPS reporting drilldown to GL detail where applicable
- F/A reporting drilldown to GL detail where applicable
- Sub ledger reporting drilldown to GL detail where applicable
- Reporting rollup for LOD 4-7 where amounts are 0
- Monthly spread
- Long Inventory Reporting
- Build Control
- Period -Reporting prior periods results at foreign exchange rates applicable at the time
- Native - Reporting of native exchange rate
- Elements highlighted by clicking the data grid
- Alternative method for sorting
- Show correct year if changed
- Timeout functionality enhancements
- Fix for Excel output for report with Super headers
- Additional indexing on specific Cat Codes for performance
- Detect drilldown on last year or budget data in monthly spread or benchmark & set data type accordingly.
Update FACT to correct the Excel Export on a drill down.
Add functionality to hold the active month for a build and default it into
the setup view.
Update FACT to correct the drilldown reporting on a benchmark report
drilldown.
Add numeric MCU column in the Export BU Catcodes to Excel report.
Enhanced warning before FACT exists due to inactivity.
Removed limit of maximum 5000 selections for a given selection field,
now limited by memory.
Fixed a bug drilling down on reports produced with report-by MCU.
Fixed a bug reporting on an OBJ / SUB value where the SUB was “E”
followed by a large integer.
Enhanced speed of report production for sub ledger reports with a
large number of columns.
Functionality to add reporting by millions as well as reporting rounded
to dollars, thousands and millions.
Total Line Drilldown Changes:
- The default drilldown is now a “pure” drilldown (without extraneous total lines, etc.)
- Checking the “Drill on each Detail Line” option drills down the way that it used to: showing the detail lines that lead to the total, each in drilldown detail.
- Added a new “Detail for Total Line” button to replace the previous “Only Underlying” checkbox. When clicked, this button shows the report lines that make up the total line that you clicked without any further drill-down, even if they were hidden by the report author.
The matching algorithm to find the F/A data when running combined
GL/FA reports has been updated improved (primarily for prior year selections),
and the FA build is now shown in the report selections where appropriate.
If “Business Unit” is selected as the only sort on a Job report, the report
runs with no grouping and subtotals at all.
In the report viewer, Ctrl-Mouse Wheel will zoom in and out.
A new user report history function showing users their reporting
activity over 4 different time periods was added.
Report-by and selection exclusions on the print form are now
highlighted to increase the visibility of these settings, which have a large impact on report output.
Fixed problem with embedded CR in account range specification
Updates to F/A ad Jobs reports to widen header line text
Update to F/A to show count of assets in total lines.
Fix issues with Multiple Selection form highlighting.
Update to the benchmark report to fix a report that contained
explosions.
Added logic that sizes report windows, so that it looks at the report
width and your current zoom factor and produces an appropriately sized view.
New standard reports including a format with descriptions on
the LHS and the functionality to substitute forecast data LT BA, B1, B2 and B3.
Updates to include user defined memorized reports on the main
screen
Update to be able to go back to or forward to report run
earlier in a session.
Update to allow the use of a report month in a formula.
Update to fix a report using custom columns with a column
break to apply the formula to the correct column.
Update to the way the system functions to select and entire
row with mouse in multi-selection columns.
Update to allow LTD reporting on F/A reports.
Renaming a Custom Column report will update all saved reports,
and the list of suggested custom column reports for a given layout.
Renaming a layout will update the list of suggested custom
column reports.
Fixes for the 3 subledger reports (Job Summary Report / Job
Summary by Cost Code/Detail Job Report) with issues following the fiscal year change.
Fixes for column filtering in grids with hidden columns
(where exclusions went to the wrong column, etc.)
Improve ability to filter to blank values in grids.
Performance enhancements, particularly with reports involving
F/A data, for job reports and for some custom reports.
Update to the latest version of Report Writer.
Update to support current month default for inventory.
Update to correct the inventory export to Excel on the Full
Continuity report.
Update to functionality to drill down on math lines.
Update to allow for drill down on AAID_Parent_number.
Update to allow for drill down on FA3_Cat_13.
Job Reporting – Update to accommodate specifications with
Subsidiary Accounts
Fix ratio calculation
Add ability to adjust the zoom factor to fit the report
on the screen horizontally
Improved handling of "super headers" in grids as they scroll
off-screen
F/A Reporting – Addition functionality to sort by code,
code and description and description
F/A Reporting – Addition of a grouping function
F/A Reporting – Drill down support for grouping function
F/A Reporting – Change GL drill down screen to expose the
unit number
F/A Reporting – Update to accommodate specifications with
Subsidiary Accounts
Benchmarking report export to Excel correction
Update to accommodate windows 8.1 screen display for reports
Update to accommodate drill down in prior month columns in
F/A reports
Update to correct benchmark reporting
Update the Column Spec Table to include a report number,
revision and category to improve the ability to sort, categorize and find reports.
Add total column for each year for data presented.
Add the ability to report data on the budget screen for B1,
B2 and B3 forecasts as well as prior year and BA Budget.
Update to enable the copy of a single cell to a single cell
Update to correct the actual amounts for the “Update Actual
and Budget Data” menu item.
Update to show budget buckets with no activity in the drop
down list.
Update to set the default utilization for rate groups to
“Low Utilization” rather than blank.
Update with functionality to allow contents of all Budget
Builder grids to be exported to Excel.
Update with functionality to allow entry of user comments in
all Budget Builder screens at Budget Bucket (or Management) level.
Update to provide for the revenue by risk report to be run
for each year of the forecast.
Charting Functionality
Enhancement to custom columns to include prior year
reporting to provide for example 5 year historical reporting
Addition of another period value in the monthly spread and
benchmark reporting called “Cash Flow YTD”. Note this
selection reports period change for Balance Sheet and
Income Statementaccounts. It excludes the beginning
balance from Balance Sheet accounts.
Development of the ClickOnce functionality to enable
local install and automated software updating. This
will provide an option to Citrix for main office installations.
Report improvements to reduce the tables that are being
created, read and transferred to improve performance for
local installs.
Added the ability to print build information to report footers.
The conversion of date values to date formats in the
BU Listing Report (Export BU catcodes to Excel).
Analysis worksheet export to Excel for layouts.
Functionality enhancements to the GL detail inquiry to the
document query and to filtering.
Functionality enhancements to the export to Excel to use less
memory and support larger exports.
Functionality to report the Detail Job Cost Report as
per specification.
Functionality to support forecasting of additional ledger
types including B1, B2, B3 etc..
Add find functionality to the Data Grid.
Performance improvements to improve report running times on
reports that report Object/Sub details.
Enhanced functionality for subledger reports.
Functionality to write PDF report to a users directory by
report by selection. Added the print and the PDF icon to the subledger reports.
Functionality to drill down to transactions in the GL on a
drilled down report.
Update to functionality to handle blank subsidiary accounts.
Update to fix the drill down to support column reordering.
Update to improve the way that exports to Excel are named.
Fix the per unit calculation so that amounts are not
reported when calculation ratio is set at N.
Rolling 12 month calculation for YTD; Ability to control a
line to report Training Twelve Months (e.g. Segmented Balance Sheet).
When we crossed the yearend date FACT made2011 the current
year and 2010 the prior year. We need to control this so that FACT reports on the prior fiscal year until the GL is closed.
Add Unit of Measure functionality.
Add Currency conversion functionality.
Add simple Joint Venture functionality.
Enable system functionality to identify a unit and amount in
an additional ledger type. i.e. JA, JU, HA, HU, XL, B1, B2 & B3.
Add functionality to control the BuildYear when requesting builds.
Add functionality to be able to include the Beginning/Original
Budget Balance (BORG) field from the account balance file (F0902).
Change the way a drill down on a account that explodes by
object or object/sub works so that it can drill down on an account that does not have a subsidiary without reporting the total in that object account.
Fix functionality to select a value from the "report by" drop
down menu with either a numeric keypad or the regular keyboard numbers.
Correct the treatment of the sign on the per unit calculation
in the custom column format so that it operates consistently with the standard reports when the sign is reversed.
Correct the variable titles reporting the report-by data from
the report selection when exporting to the PDF format.
Correct the selection button the viewer to place it on the
screen.
Correct functionality to enable exporting to separate
tabs in Excel from a Custom Column format.
Add security functionality to be able to control user access
by an administrator.
Add Chart of Accounts report.
Add a Cat Code audit report to report added BU’s and BU
field changes.
Contains a rollup of all previous updates, including: