In these release notes, you can find packages, requirements, features, enhancements, resolved issues, and known issues for the Approvals September '22 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.

Important

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

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Package

Latest Certified Version Name

Latest Certified Version Number
Conga Approvals (New)13.1.034413.344

Conga Grid

(Required if you use Conga Approvals Center)

This package is not available on Conga Install Center. 

  • Install in Production from here.
  • Install in Sandbox from here.
2.1012.101

Conga Approvals Center (New)

(Required if you use Conga Approvals Center)

This package is not available on Conga Install Center. 

  • Install in Production from here.
  • Install in Sandbox from here.
12.10.012.10

Conga CPQ Approvals 

(Required if you use Conga CPQ)

12.1.002412.24

Conga Base Library (New)

3.1.2383.238

Conga Contract Lifecycle Management (New)

13.1.683
13.683

Conga Quote Management (New)

(Required if you use Conga CPQ Approvals)

12.0.026112.261

Conga Configuration & Pricing (New)

(Required if you use Conga CPQ Approvals)

14.1.203814.2038

Conga Quote Configuration Integration (New)

(Required if you use Conga CPQ and Conga Quote Management)

14.1.039414.394

Conga CLM Configuration Integration (New)

(Required if you use Conga CLM)

14.1.0176

14.176

Conga Quote Approvals

(Required if you use Conga Quote Management)

6.5.00056.5

Conga Custom Approvals

(Required if you use 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 System Requirements and Supported Platforms Matrix.

New Features

The following features are new to Approvals in this release.

New SOAP APIs for Previewing and Canceling Approvals Asynchronously

The following new SOAP APIs are introduced for previewing and canceling approvals asynchronously.

API NameDescription
previewApprovalsAsyncGenerates required approval requests for the given context object asynchronously in the background.
cancelApprovalsAsyncCancels the entire approval process associated with the context object asynchronously in the background.
cancelApprovalsWithCommentsAsyncCancels the entire approval process associated with the context object asynchronously in the background and lets the user include comments.

For more information on SOAP APIs, see Approvals for SOAP API Developers.

Enhancements

The following enhancements are new to Approvals in this release.

ModStamp to Reflect Correct Date and Time for Multiple Versions of Same File

Previously, while resubmitting an approval request with attachment and uploading another version of the previously uploaded file, the system modstamp (Last Modified Date) displayed the date and time of the previous file with the newly created date and time of the new version. You could not distinguish between the two files for the latest version.

Approvals is enhanced to display the correct date and time while submitting approval requests with attachments. The date and time displayed reflects the actual modstamp values for multiple versions of the same file. 

Suppressing Creation of Tasks

You can now suppress creation of Tasks (activity history) in Approvals. To do this, a new admin property must the added as follows:

NameValue
APTS_SuppressTaskCreationTrue

The default behavior is to create tasks if the value is blank or set to False, but when set to True, task creation is disabled.

For more information, see Suppressing Task Creation.

Data Model Changes

There are no data model changes in this release.

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
N/AAWA-3803

A high volume of tasks are created in the system consuming good enough space in the org. 

Solution: Approvals is enhanced to allow you to suppress task creation. See Suppressing Creation of Tasks.

00807380AWA-3795

Reassigning an approval request to the Queue displays an error.

00806929AWA-3792

Previewing approvals is not generating approval request from the previous approval rule entry even when the Include Previous Column flag is set to TRUE.

N/AAWA-3782Selecting all items on the My Approvals page and rejecting displays an error and cancels next level approvals. 
00803268AWA-3779Approval requests are getting duplicated after submitting approvals in Async mode.
N/AAWA-3769Approval requests are getting assigned to the next level approvers instead of getting cancelled when bulk quote line items are rejected.
00800021AWA-3761

When a non admin user (Approver) searches a user to be added as an adhoc approver, insufficient privileges error is displayed. Although, they can search a queue or a role and also re-assign a user.

N/AAWA-3747

Approval via email is not working for bulk quotes. After level 1 approver approves a request via email, the status of the approval request does not change.

N/AAWA-3746Multiple emails are sent to level 2 approvers, after level 1 approver approves large number of requests.
N/AAWA-3742A heap size error is displayed when rejecting approvals via rejectApprovals API for large number of requests.
N/AAWA-3724A heap size error is displayed when cancelling approvals via cancelApprovals API for large number of requests.
00796260AWA-3700An Approval rule is set with 140 entries and all assignees assigned to each entry. Clicking Manage entries displays an error.
00795158AWA-3694

When an Approver rejects an Agreement approval, all other pending approvals are automatically cancelled. The message specifying the cancellation of approvals does not include the rejecter's name.

00791255

AWA-3693

AWA-3678

Approval System Properties - Process Approve/Reject Asynchronously is not working as required. The system does not approve or reject all the approval requests though Approval with comments and Approval Date message is displayed.

Previewing and submitting unlimited number of child line items and approval requests displays CPU timeout error.

00790573AWA-3676

Approval requests are not created when Approval Rule contains Dimensions with multi-select picklist field.

00791221AWA-3674

Using the packaged API to mark context objects with Approval is required check returns TRUE regardless of whether the Search Filter (Approvals) records are satisfied or not.

00792189AWA-3672

Rejecting approval requests without comments from the Approval Center is successful, even though Rejection Comments Mandatory is set to TRUE.

00788782AWA-3665For adhoc approval process, in the Approval Request record the Date Assigned field not getting populated.
00788354AWA-3663

An Approval request is approved but dependent notify only approval request status displays *** Processing ***. As the approval request condition is not satisfied, Notification Email Template is not working.

00100890AWA-2376
  • The system modstamp (Last Modified Date) on the Submit with Attachments page displays incorrect values for multiple versions of the same file.
  • Also, clicking Upload File while submitting with attachment displayed an error. Although the file is uploaded successfully, when you click Preview and Submit Approvals following by Submit with Attachment, the error is displayed immediately without having to upload the file again.

Solution: Approvals is enhanced to display the correct modstamp values for multiple versions of the same file without error. For more information, see enhancement.

Known Issues

There are no known issues in this release.

DOC ID: IWASEP22RN20220907