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Upgrading to ActiveControl 8.40

Basis Technologies do not backport Enhancements to earlier versions of ActiveControl, due to the effort and technical complexity involved. Please refer to this online Knowledge Article for details of the key considerations and steps involved in performing an upgrade…

Enhanced Transport of Copies (TOC) configuration

Enhanced Transport of Copies » Enhanced Transport of Copies (TOC) configuration

Around 10-15% of Basis Technologies customers use Development ‘Transport of Copies’ (TOCs) as part of their ActiveControl workflow. As such, when Development is completed, the original transport is left unreleased in Development whilst a Transport of…

Bug Fixes since AC8.30

Bug Fixes (8.40) » Bug Fixes since AC8.30

Various bug fixes to previous releases are included in this latest ActiveControl 8.40 release. A list of these fixes can be found in these 8.30 Cumulative Patch release notes This list essentially details all of the fixes added since ActiveControl 8.30 – and by…

Introduction

ActiveControl 8.40 was released in January 2021. Previous releases of ActiveControl, Transport Expresso and Transport Express are detailed in separate Release Notes: ActiveControl 8.3 (released June 2020) ActiveControl 8.2 (released November…

Prevent a TOC of a TOC

Enhanced Transport of Copies » Prevent a TOC of a TOC

In addition to the standardised Transport of Copies configuration within ActiveControl 8.40 – an additional configuration option as been added to our out-of-the-box TOC offering. On the back of customer feedback over the last couple years, it is now possible to…

Node-Red Integration Framework

ActiveControl has long offered an Integration Framework to enable integrations with tools such as ServiceNow, JIRA and HPSM. Over the years, this Integration Framework has been expanded as new and existing customers have requested integrations with new products, or…

Webhook (POST)

Other Integration Enhancements » Webhook (POST)

Increasingly, Basis Technologies customers are wanting to send information from ActiveControl to other 3rd Party products such as Automated Testing tools. Back in 2020 as part of the Jenkins integration, an enhancement was delivered to sent a GET request to a webhook.…

Enhanced Web UI

Basis Technologies continue to enhance the Web UI to introduce functionality that was previously only available via the Windows GUI. On the back of feedback from existing customers that prefer to minimise the deployment of the Windows GUI to their user community,…

Exclude Inactive Projects

Enhanced Web UI » Exclude Inactive Projects

Some ActiveControl customers – particularly those larger enterprise SAP customers – or indeed smaller customers that have been using ActiveControl for a number of years – often have a lot of ActiveControl Projects that build up over time, most of…

SmartShift APIs

Other Integration Enhancements » SmartShift APIs

ActiveControl 8.30 introduced a new integration between ActiveControl and smartShift, a 3rd Party product developed by smartShift Technologies On the back of feedback from the initial pilot Customer using this integration, some enhancements have been done to the…

User Exit Hook (0093) – Saving Attachments

Other Enhancements (8.40) » User Exit Hook (0093) – Saving Attachments

ActiveControl 8.40 introduces a new User Exit Hook at the point of saving attachments within ActiveControl. User Exit 0993 was added on the back of a customer requirement to be able to control and limit the size of attachments uploaded into ActiveControl (eg nothing…

New ‘Cumulative Patching’ support process

Bug Fixes (8.40) » New ‘Cumulative Patching’ support process

Since January 2020, Basis Technologies support team have introduced a new Cumulative Patching process for delivering patch fixes to customers. This means that when a new bug is fixed for a customer after the release of ActiveControl 8.40 – an interim patch…

Auto-assign Approvers based on SAP Roles

Enhanced Rules Engine » Auto-assign Approvers based on SAP Roles

Since ActiveControl 8.0, the Rules Engine has facilitated much more flexibility and granularity around Approvals within ActiveControl. One aspect of this improved flexibility is the use of User Roles (configured on the User Roles tab of the Windows GUI configuration…

NOT condition

Enhanced Rules Engine » NOT condition

As part of the Rules Engine introduced as part of ActiveControl 8.0, it is possible to setup complex step logic which drive the behaviour of Approvals and/or Skipping within ActiveControl. “AND” and “OR” step types were already possible in…

Parallel Imports

During 2020, one of Basis Technologies enterprise SAP customers that is already embarking on their S/4 transformation highlighted issues relating to the long deployment times of certain S/4HANA objects such as CDS View extensions. Transports containing such objects…

Enhanced Transport of Copies

In recent years, a growing number of new ActiveControl customers want to continue using Transport of Copies functionality that they used previously as part of their process. Historically, this has required Basis Technologies to deliver customer-specific User Exit…

Mark as Manually Applied in the Web UI

Enhanced Web UI » Mark as Manually Applied in the Web UI

‘Mark as Manually Applied’ is used as part of the Merge process, to reflect that a transport ready for Merging has been manually rekeyed in the Target development track, and therefore does not need to be Merged automatically via ActiveControl. This can be…

TOC transport naming

Enhanced Transport of Copies » TOC transport naming

Prior to ActiveControl 8.40, Transport of Copies created via ActiveControl were automatically given a transport description that matched the Business Task subject. Some customers reported this as confusing, especially when a Business Task contained multiple…

Caching of WebUI Metrics

Enhanced Web UI » Caching of WebUI Metrics

During 2020, a couple of higher transport volume ActiveControl customers reported performance issues whilst clicking on the WebUI Metrics such as “Awaiting my Approval” or “Awaiting my testing”. To address this performance constraint, caching…

Path Filtering in the WebUI

Enhanced Web UI » Path Filtering in the WebUI

ActiveControl 8.40 introduces path filtering in the WebUI, to allows users to tailor what they see onscreen. Path filtering is possible on both the main Dashboard screen of the WebUI, and also the Overview and Project screens. Figure: Filtering in the Dashboard…

SAP Certification

ActiveControl is a SAP certified solution: Certified for deployment on SAP NetWeaver 7.50 via the SAP integration scenario ABAP Add-On Deployment for SAP NetWeaver (SAP report 12648) Certified for deployment on SAP S/4HANA 1809 via the SAP integration scenario ABAP…

Open Windows GUI with no location selection

Other Enhancements (8.40) » Open Windows GUI with no location selection

Some of our customers that have higher transport volumes reported the Windows GUI was taking a long time to load up – sometimes as much as 30-40 seconds. Part of the reason for this was the loading up of the Transports in the Path/Target location during the…

Standard User Exit (0610) – Transport Type

Other Enhancements (8.40) » Standard User Exit (0610) – Transport Type

It has always been possible within ActiveControl to pre-populate the Transport Form [Type] and [Group] fields, based on the last values selected by the user when previously populating a Transport Form. Some customers did not like to prepopulate these fields, as they…