In these release notes, you can find packages, requirements, features, enhancements, resolved issues, and known issues for the Approvals February '23 release. For documentation updates, see What's New in Approvals Documentation.

This documentation may describe optional features for which you have not purchased a license, therefore your solution or implementation may differ from what is described here. Contact your Customer Success Manager (CSM) or Account Executive (AE) to discuss your specific features and licensing.

Packages

The following packages and dependencies are required to upgrade to this release and use its new features. These are the minimum required versions; later versions are also supported. Prerequisites for each feature can be found in its documentation. Packages marked (New) are new for this release.

Note

You must have Community Portal login credentials to be able to download these packages.

You can register your org for Conga Push Upgrade, an automated tool that upgrades packages available in your production or sandbox Salesforce org to the latest versions. In addition, it also ensures all the Conga published managed packages are on the latest versions for your registered orgs. For more information, see Registering for Conga Push Upgrade.

Package

Required for

Latest Certified Version 

Name

Number
Conga Approvals (New)
13.2.36513.365

Conga Grid

This package is not available in the Conga Install Center. 

  • Install in Production from here.
  • Install in Sandbox from here.

Conga Approvals Center

2.1012.101

Conga Approvals Center

This package is not available in the Conga Install Center. 

  • Install in Production from here.
  • Install in Sandbox from here.

Conga Approvals Center

13.313.3

Conga CPQ Approvals 

Conga CPQ

13.2.2513.25

Conga Base Library (New)


4.0.2434.243

Conga Contract Lifecycle Management (New)


14.0.696
14.696

Conga Quote Management (New)

Conga CPQ Approvals

13.0.026313.263

Conga Configuration & Pricing (New)

Conga CPQ Approvals

15.0.206215.2062

Conga Quote Configuration Integration (New)

Conga CPQ and Quote Management

15.0.039615.396

Conga CLM Configuration Integration (New)

Conga CLM

15.0.0178

15.178

Conga Quote Approvals 

Conga Quote Management

6.5.00056.5

Conga Custom Approvals

Conga objects or other Salesforce standard/custom objects

1.01.0
For more information on installing Approvals managed packages, refer to Installing Conga Approvals Packages. For more information on upgrading Approvals managed packages, refer to Upgrading Approvals.

System Requirements and Supported Platforms

For information pertaining to the requirements and recommendations, you must consider before you proceed with the installation of the Conga product suite delivered on the Salesforce platform, see the System Requirements and Supported Platforms Matrix.

New Features

Asynchronous Comment Submission

Customers can include comments when submitting an object for approval.

Enhancements

Approval Rule Assignee Value Resized

Deprecated the ApprovalRuleAssignee__c field and replaced it with AssigneeValue2__c, functionally increasing the Assignee Value field from 255 to 2048 characters.

Customizable Async Approval Email Templates Added 

Added customizable async approval error email template.

Data Model Changes

ObjectFieldDescriptionSystem/UserNew/Changed
ApprovalRuleAssignee__c 




AssigneeValue__c255-character limit field deprecated. UserChanged

AssigneeValue2__cNew 2048-character-limit field introduced. UserChanged

Fixed Issues

The following table lists the issues fixed in this release. If any actions are required, they will be listed in this table.


Case NumberConga Internal IDDescription
00826761AWA-3936

Approval request records created with an ad-hoc process are not displayed under the approvals related list on an agreement record.

N/AAWA-3915

Customers can include comments when submitting an object for approval.

00818702AWA-3902

Approving a quote or proposal via email results in a System.LimitException: Regex too complicated error and user cannot approve quote.

00819430AWA-3883

On taking ownership of a queue, the user must load the My Approvals tab twice before seeing the correct approval process.

00814854AWA-3870

In the Approval Rule Assignee object, customer is hitting the Assignee Value field’s maximum character limit.

Increased the Assignee Value field for the ApprovalRuleAssignee__c object from 255 to 2048 characters.

00819177AWA-3869

If Recall Comments Enabled on the approval process is set to TRUE, the system cannot recall that the user has clicked the Recall Approvals button on the OOTB page (CartApprovals).

00815778AWA-3867

“Approve / Reject” and “Add Comment” hyperlinks work inconsistently for Apttus_Proposal__Proposal__c and Apttus__APTS_Agreement__c objects.

00815343AWA-3840

Customer receives Too Many Queueables error when APTS_QueueableSubmitChunkSize = 100 with Autocomplete Step set.

00814835AWA-3839

rejectRequestsBulk API only marks first approval request as rejected, leaving remainder marked as assigned.

00814037AWA-3838

On a greater-than-30% discount, the system does not create approval requests as configured. When the async submit job fails with an Apttus_Approval: Too many DML statements: 151 error, the async action info object record still shows "Processing" and no email is sent to the submitter.

00811786AWA-3830

When submitting an agreement record with an attachment for approval, selecting the attachment with a version number returns an Attempt to de-reference a null object error.

00811577AWA-3826

The approval request creation DML logic must be optimized.

00814835AWA-3839

rejectRequestsBulk API only marks the first approval request as rejected leaving remainder marked as assigned.

00811577AWA-3826The approval request creation DML logic must be optimized.
00809416AWA-3824 

Under certain conditions, the system does not approve all consolidated approval requests affirmed by email approval.

00806828AWA-3823

Having upgraded to Sep 21, a customer (using approvals on a Proposal object and OOB approval actions on an Approvalrequest object) clicking Approve/Reject or AddComment receives the error:
SObject row was retrieved via SOQL without querying the requested field: Apttus_Approval__Approval_Request__c.Apttus_Approval__Approval_Process__c

N/AAWA-3821

Having upgraded to Sep 21, a customer (using approvals on a Proposal object and OOB approval actions on an Approvalrequest object) clicking Approve/Reject or AddComment receives the error:
SObject row was retrieved via SOQL without querying the requested field: Apttus_Approval__Approval_Request__c.Apttus_Approval__Approval_Process__c

N/AAWA-3819

When updating a quote to “Draft” status and submitting it for approval while the approval request status is in “On Hold”, Approvals responds with a null email body error: SendEmail failed. First exception on row 0; first error: REQUIRED_FIELD_MISSING, Email body is required.

N/AAWA-3818

When the user sets the Assignee Escalation to Type field in the Auto Escalation setup to “User” the system throws an SObject row was retrieved via SOQL without querying the requested field: User.Profile error.

N/AAWA-3817When the user applies a 50% discount to a line item, Approval displays an incorrect number of steps for a two-dimension approval rule
N/AAWA-3816

Clicking the product configuration tab produces the error:

message.Apttus_Approval:Too many query rows: 50001

Error is in expression '{!ctxObjType}' in component <cnga:filtercardcomponent> in component cnga:filtercardcomponent

00809220AWA-3815

When the customer adds a custom validation error to an agreement term exception page, the error message is displayed twice.

N/AAWA-3814

Adding the user and saving an ad hoc process produces an Attempt to de-reference a null object error.

00800836AWA-3805

When trying to create a backup approver, user receives a Backup user has an active backup approver in the system error if the effective and expiration dates do not overlap.

00803636AWA-3804

Attachments to an approval request are duplicated when the approval request is reassigned.

00806929AWA-3792Preview Approvals does not generate an approval request from the previous approval rule entry, even though the Include Previous checkbox has been selected.

Known Issues

There are no known issues in this release.


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