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Approvals February '23 Release Notes
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.
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Package | Required for | Latest Certified Version | |
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Name | Number | ||
Conga Approvals (New) | 13.2.365 | 13.365 | |
Conga Approvals Center | 2.101 | 2.101 | |
Conga Approvals Center | 13.3 | 13.3 | |
Conga CPQ Approvals | Conga CPQ | 13.2.25 | 13.25 |
Conga Base Library (New) | 4.0.243 | 4.243 | |
Conga Contract Lifecycle Management (New) | 14.0.696 | 14.696 | |
Conga Quote Management (New) | Conga CPQ Approvals | 13.0.0263 | 13.263 |
Conga Configuration & Pricing (New) | Conga CPQ Approvals | 15.0.2062 | 15.2062 |
Conga Quote Configuration Integration (New) | Conga CPQ and Quote Management | 15.0.0396 | 15.396 |
Conga CLM Configuration Integration (New) | Conga CLM | 15.0.0178 | 15.178 |
Conga Quote Approvals | Conga Quote Management | 6.5.0005 | 6.5 |
Conga Custom Approvals | Conga objects or other Salesforce standard/custom objects | 1.0 | 1.0 |
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
Object | Field | Description | System/User | New/Changed |
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ApprovalRuleAssignee__c | ||||
AssigneeValue__c | 255-character limit field deprecated. | User | Changed | |
AssigneeValue2__c | New 2048-character-limit field introduced. | User | Changed |
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 Number | Conga Internal ID | Description |
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00826761 | AWA-3936 | Approval request records created with an ad-hoc process are not displayed under the approvals related list on an agreement record. |
N/A | AWA-3915 | Customers can include comments when submitting an object for approval. |
00818702 | AWA-3902 | Approving a quote or proposal via email results in a |
00819430 | AWA-3883 | On taking ownership of a queue, the user must load the My Approvals tab twice before seeing the correct approval process. |
00814854 | AWA-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. |
00819177 | AWA-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). |
00815778 | AWA-3867 | “Approve / Reject” and “Add Comment” hyperlinks work inconsistently for Apttus_Proposal__Proposal__c and Apttus__APTS_Agreement__c objects. |
00815343 | AWA-3840 | Customer receives |
00814835 | AWA-3839 | rejectRequestsBulk API only marks first approval request as rejected, leaving remainder marked as assigned. |
00814037 | AWA-3838 | On a greater-than-30% discount, the system does not create approval requests as configured. When the async submit job fails with an |
00811786 | AWA-3830 | When submitting an agreement record with an attachment for approval, selecting the attachment with a version number returns an |
00811577 | AWA-3826 | The approval request creation DML logic must be optimized. |
00814835 | AWA-3839 | rejectRequestsBulk API only marks the first approval request as rejected leaving remainder marked as assigned. |
00811577 | AWA-3826 | The approval request creation DML logic must be optimized. |
00809416 | AWA-3824 | Under certain conditions, the system does not approve all consolidated approval requests affirmed by email approval. |
00806828 | AWA-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: |
N/A | AWA-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: |
N/A | AWA-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: |
N/A | AWA-3818 | When the user sets the Assignee Escalation to Type field in the Auto Escalation setup to “User” the system throws an |
N/A | AWA-3817 | When the user applies a 50% discount to a line item, Approval displays an incorrect number of steps for a two-dimension approval rule |
N/A | AWA-3816 | Clicking the product configuration tab produces the error:
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00809220 | AWA-3815 | When the customer adds a custom validation error to an agreement term exception page, the error message is displayed twice. |
N/A | AWA-3814 | Adding the user and saving an ad hoc process produces an |
00800836 | AWA-3805 | When trying to create a backup approver, user receives a |
00803636 | AWA-3804 | Attachments to an approval request are duplicated when the approval request is reassigned. |
00806929 | AWA-3792 | Preview 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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