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Spring '20 Release Notes
This Release Notes contain the following information about X-Author Contracts Spring 2020 Release on Salesforce.
For more information on new features, enhancements, and document improvements, refer to What's New in X-Author for Contracts 1.0 Documentation.
- Packages: Lists packages that are required to upgrade to this release of the product
- System Requirements and Supported Platforms: Lists requirements and recommendations for installing this release
- New Features: Provides high-level descriptions of new features introduced in this release, with links to more detailed information
- Enhancements: Provides high-level descriptions of enhancements to existing features
- Data Model Changes: Lists changes to the data model
- Resolved Issues: Lists customer-reported issues that are resolved in this release or known issues resolved from previous releases
- Known Issues: Lists known issues that are applicable in this release
This documentation may contain descriptions of software features that are optional and for which you may not have purchased a license. As a result, your specific software solution and/or implementation may differ from those described in this document. Please contact your CSM or AE for information on your specific features and licensing.
Packages
The following packages and dependent packages are required to upgrade to this release to utilize all the new features of this release. These are the minimum required versions; later versions are also supported. Separate prerequisites for each feature can be found in the respective guides. The packages marked as (New) are new packages in this release.
| Product | Latest Certified Version Version Name | Version Number |
|---|---|
| X-Author Contracts (New) | 11.0.0324 | 11.0.324 |
Conga Contract Management (New) | 11.0.0519 | 11.519 |
Before installing or upgrading Apttus managed packages, you must review the dependency matrix for each managed package. You can refer to the package dependency matrix at Packages Dependency Matrix.
System Requirements and Supported Platforms
Apttus X-Author Contracts is a Microsoft Word Add-In that is accessed via Microsoft Word application on your Windows machine. For the X-Author Contracts Add-In to work, the Apttus Contract Management package must be installed in your Salesforce Org. This is required so that the various dialog boxes available in X-Author Contracts can display the correct fields. Once this is done by your system administrator, you will be able to install the X-Author Contracts Add-In and begin using it.
You cannot use a Mac OS X operating system with X-Author Contracts; however, it can be used with a Mac running a Windows Virtual Machine in a Citrix environment.
Microsoft’s Office 365 Online or Cloud applications do not support plugins; therefore, the Apttus X-Author Contracts can only be used in a Windows desktop environment.
New features and technologies are continuously deployed in new releases by Apttus X-Author Contracts, and they are supported by Apttus where the associated Microsoft OS and/or Microsoft Office versions are also still supported by Microsoft. As Microsoft ends its support for any OS and/or Office version, subsequent new Apttus releases will no longer be developed, tested, or committed to support the application on any Microsoft OS and/or Office version which is no longer supported by Microsoft.
The following table lists the minimum requirements for installing and using X-Author Contracts.
| System Requirement | Minimum Supported Version |
|---|---|
| Windows OS | Windows 10 Windows 8 & 8.1 Windows 7 *X-Author supports both the 32-bit & 64-bit versions of the above Operating Systems. |
| Microsoft Office | Desktop version of Office 365 Microsoft Word 2016 or Office 2016 Microsoft Word 2013 or Office 2013 Microsoft Word 2010 or Office 2010 *Where applicable, X-Author supports 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the above applications. **The above versions assume you are using Professional or Enterprise versions of Office. Home & Student or other limited versions of Office are not supported and may or may not prove to be compatible with X-Author Contracts.
Apttus no longer supports Microsoft Word 2007 with X-Author Contracts.
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| Microsoft .NET | Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 or higher |
| Microsoft VSTO | Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime |
| Microsoft Office PIA | Microsoft Office 2010 Primary Interop Assemblies |
| Salesforce | Unlimited, Enterprise, and Developer Product Editions |
Upgrade Notes
If you are upgrading X-Author for Contracts 1.0 from Winter 2019 (10.0.1125.1903) to any latest version, you need to uninstall X-Author for Contracts 1.0 and install the latest version. For more information on installation, see Installing X-Author Contracts.
New Features
The following feature is new to X-Author Contracts in this release.
Support for Internationalization
X-Author Contracts supports the translation of data to multiple languages. This allows you to use X-Author Contracts in your native language. You must configure locale related settings in Contract Management to view X-Author Contracts in your native language.
Get Started
For details on how to translate X-Author Contracts User Interface, see Translating X-Author Contracts User Interface in CLM for Administrators.
Enhancements
The following enhancements are new to X-Author Contracts in this release.
Support for Asynchronous Checkin
You can asynchronously check in an agreement document without having to wait for the check-in process to complete and continue working with X-Author Contracts. After the check-in is complete, you are notified via email.
Get Started
For more details on asynchronous check-in functionality, see Checking In Agreements.
Regenerate with Redlines
You can regenerate an agreement document with redlines from X-Author Contracts by selecting the same template that you had selected to generate the document.
Get Started
For more details on regenerate with redlines functionality, see Regenerating an Agreement Document.
Update to Importing Offline Agreement Documents
When you upload or import an offline agreement document, you can create a new major version of the document or link the document to an existing major version.
Get Started
For more details on importing offline agreement documents, see Importing Offline Agreement Documents.
Data Model Changes
This release does not have any data model changes for X-Author Contracts.
Resolved Issues
The following table lists the issues resolved in this release.
| Case Number | Apttus Internal ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 00098320 | XA-3836 | When a user tried to login to X-Author Contracts, the user encountered multiple JavaScript errors. |
| CAS-18320-C2Q2B3 | XA-3638 | After a user marked a paragraph as a clause in an imported offline document, the user encountered an error when trying to mark another paragraph as a clause. |
| CAS-19160-C8Q1N9 | XA-3558 | A user was unable to login to X-Author Contracts if the Switch to Salesforce Classic option and IE extended support in Session Settings were disabled. |
Known Issues
The following table provides the cumulative list of known issues up to this release.
| Apttus Internal ID | Issue |
|---|---|
| DOCS-545 | When you use Microsoft Word in a browser, the X-Author for Contract Add-in is not supported. |
| XA-3859 | When you review import result after Intelligent Import, X-Author Contracts incorrectly marks the text around fields. |
| XA-3236 | When you check in an agreement document without changing the value of any smart field, the message prompt does not appear. |
| XA-2856 | IDE highlighting on PDF is done by IDE itself, and X-Author Contracts highlights based on approximation by various algorithm process. As IDE uses OCR to extract field and clauses, such difference exists. |
| XA-2793 | When you delete an Updatable or ReadOnly field and then click Preview Reconcile, you can see the deleted field on the reconciliation page. |
| XA-2743 | When you delete a smart field that occurs multiple times in the document, the smart fields are not correctly re-indexed in the Control Panel. |
| XAO-87 | If you have enabled the Salesforce Files system in your Contract Management Org and you launch X-Author Outlook, connect to your org and click Send for Review, you see an error. |
| XA-2580 | For a template with template versioning enabled, the search result in Playbook shows clauses that do not match the agreement type of the template. |
| XA-2574 | For versioning enabled template the Check-out feature gives different versioning output for the cloned template. When you check out a cloned template by going to Check-out > Currently opened document the template takes the version of the parent template, but if you check out a template using the Check-out search, X-Author Contracts creates the template from version 1.000. |
| XA-2570 | For template versioning enabled orgs when you insert the main and inline clause in a template and check it in after performing Refresh Clause, the Needs Publishing checkbox is not cleared for the header clause record. |
| XA-2568 | For versioning enabled org when you change the clause content and check it in, X-Author does not display a message about the affected dependent clauses or templates. |
| XA-2565 | For versioning enabled migrated template, Refresh document action doesn't update the new nested clause content in a template document. This occurs when you change a nested clause contained in a template document and check in the template document without first publishing the clause. |
| XA-2564 | When you change a clause in a migrated template document with versioning enabled and check in the template, X-Author Contracts does not display any acknowledgment message. |
| XA-2561 | X-Author does not reflect changes in migrated templates, when templates are migrated using X-Author Migration Manager from the source org to the destination org and the destination org already contains those template records. |
| XA-2560 | The template versioning does not increment the template document version value when checking in an existing template after making changes to it. This occurs when a template is migrated from the source org to the destination org which already contains that template record. |
| XA-2559 | When you open a recently migrated template document in X-Author Contracts and click Check Out > Currently opened document, you receive an exception error and are logged out of X-Author Contracts. This occurs when you migrate a template from a template versioning enabled org to a new org, download the attachment from the template record and open it in X-Author Contracts. |
| XA-2509 | When you compare two agreement documents containing date fields - both in text and in table cells - and then accept or reject changes in the document, the date picker in some of the date fields is lost. |
| XA-2307 | When you perform Update from Salesforce action on a generated agreement document that does not have values for the first column of the repeating table, X-Author Contracts shows a blank screen. |
| XA-2260 | After changing the content of a marked clause and viewing it in the control panel by clicking Show Changes, X-Author Contracts removes one character from the clause in the changes screen. |
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