2018-11 Need for Speed
Review the sections and individual entries below for more information on enhancements and fixed issues included with this release:
General
In previous releases, wholesale users were not able to delete files that had been uploaded in TBS. This issue has been resolved, and these files can now be deleted.
Integrated Products
An Invoice Grouping Location column is now available in all product grids. It contains a link that, when clicked, opens a new browser tab showing the location page for the corresponding product.
LOCATION: Products / Product Inventory / Customer Products, Products without a Customer, and Template Products options
This column also appears on any individual customer's Products tab.
The behavior of the Charges & Plans area, on the right side of a product's details screen, has been improved.
LOCATION: Products / Product Inventory / Customer Products, Products without a Customer, and Template Products options / individual product details
This area displays a list of charges and plans on the product, including a list of packages (if any exist for the selected product). This packages list used to show all packages that had been added to a product, even if the charges and plans in that package had been disconnected. Now, a package only appears in the Charges & Plans area if all of the following criteria are met:
- There are charges or plans which were added to the package on the product.
- The active date is set (and is in the past).
- The disconnect date, if it is set, has not been passed.
The ability to add overrides for partner charges on instances of general charges has been added.
LOCATION: Products / Charges & Plans / Inventory / General Charges tab
When these charges are enabled (as described below), the Activation Partner Charge and Interval Partner Charge options appear in the Charges section.
The first field contains a read-only field value which is automatically pulled from the inventory (Value from Inventory column). You can use the second field to override this displayed value, if desired (Override column).
IMPORTANT: These new options only appear if the Enable Partner Charge Fields check box is selected (checked) in the Setup / System Info options.
An Available End Date option has been added to free plans, allowances, and message type groups.
LOCATION: Setup / Products / Free Plans / Free Plans, Allowances, or Message Type Groups option
This option is also available for packages, along with a second new option: Available Start Date.
LOCATION: Setup / Products / Charges / Packages / individual package details
The following requirements should be noted when using these dates:
- To be added to a charge or rate plan, a free plan must be available (today's date must not be later than the Available End Date, if one has been defined).
- To be added to a free plan, a message type group or an allowance must be available (today's date must not be later than the Available End Date, if one has been defined).
- To be added to a product, a package must be available (today's date must not be later than the Available End Date, if one has been defined, or before the Available Start Date, if one has been defined).
Partner charges have been added to all rate plans. These partner charges appear adjacent to their corresponding standard charge.
LOCATION: Setup / Products / Rates / rate plan / individual rate plan details
In the following example, several partner charges for a local rate plan are highlighted.
IMPORTANT: These new options only appear if the Enable Partner Charge Fields check box is selected (checked) in the Setup / System Info options.
In addition, data verification has been added for these partner charges. If partner charges are enabled, the application verifies that all partner charge fields are set (not blank) prior to billing. If partner charges are not enabled, all partner charge fields must be blank.
For the CSI tax engine, the Tax Safe Harbor Overrides table now has an edit option and a new Service Code column.
LOCATION: Setup / System / Tax Overrides
Clicking the new edit option for a specific row allows you to edit that row's contents.
You can now specify a ServiceCode using the corresponding drop-down list. The options available from this list are dependent on the option selected in the ProductCode column.
NOTE: With this release, the ProductCode field has been changed from a combo box to a drop-down list.
REST API
The following two new endpoints have been created which facilitate the addition of packages or details to products using Forrest:
- AddDetailToProduct
- AddPackageToProduct.
Request templates for these endpoints can be retrieved using the AddDetailToProductTemplate and AddPackageToProductTemplate endpoints. These endpoints rely on IDs rather than keys. If multiple charge/rate plans share the same DetailID, but they have distinct Criteria, or if multiple packages with the same name have distinct Criteria, the endpoint will determine which of the charge/rate plans or packages are compatible with the specified product (assuming exactly one exists which is compatible).
Release Database Changes
These are the differences that will be made to your existing database when upgrading to version 52.00.
NOTE: Also see BillHistoryV2 changes below.
The following fields have been dropped:
- BillingDefinitionPrinters.InvoiceType
- Criteria.RBOCDDGIKey
- CriteriaView.RBOCDDGIKey
- CriteriaView.RBOC
- Donuts.DoughnutsKey
- Donuts.Description
- Donuts.HasSprinkles
- Donuts.Cost
- Doughnuts.DoughnutsKey
- Doughnuts.Description
- Doughnuts.HasSprinkles
- Doughnuts.Cost
- Doughnuts.DegreesKelvin
-
T4CompanyMaster.RequireApprovalForCreditDebitTransactions
The following fields have been altered:
- None
The following tables and views have been added:
- None
The following fields have been added:
- Criteria.LocalRbocDDGIKey
- Criteria.LdRbocDDGIKey
- CriteriaView.LdRbocDDGIKey
- CriteriaView.LocalRbocDDGIKey
- CriteriaView.LdRBOC
- CriteriaView.LocalRBOC
- CustomerInformation.AgentNameList
- Details.OverrideActivationPartnerCharge
- Details.OverrideIntervalPartnerCharge
- DetailsLkDetailsView.OverrideActivationPartnerCharge
- DetailsLkDetailsView.ActivationPartnerCharge
- DetailsLkDetailsView.ExpressedActivationPartnerCharge
- DetailsLkDetailsView.OverrideIntervalPartnerCharge
- DetailsLkDetailsView.IntervalPartnerCharge
- DetailsLkDetailsView.ExpressedIntervalPartnerCharge
- DetailsLkDetailsView.PackageName
- Free_Bundles.AvailableEndDate
- Free_Plans.AvailableEndDate
- Free_Products_Plans.AvailableEndDate
- LkDetailsView.ActivationPartnerCharge
- LkDetailsView.IntervalPartnerCharge
- Packages.AvailableStartDate
- Packages.AvailableEndDate
- ProductsAux_Voice.rtLDPlansOverridesKey
- rtDIDPlans.PartnerCharge
- rtDIDPlans.CNAMSurchargePartnerCharge
- rtEFaxPlans.PartnerChargePerFaxReceive
- rtEFaxPlans.PartnerChargePerFaxSend
- rtEFaxPlans.PartnerChargePerSheetReceive
- rtEFaxPlans.PartnerChargePerSheetSend
- rtExcept.PartnerCharge
- rtINAT.PartnerCharge
- rtIntraRates.IntrastatePartnerCharge
- rtIntraRates.IntralataPartnerCharge
- rtLDPlans.AKInterstatePartnerCharge
- rtLDPlans.CanadaInterstatePartnerCharge
- rtLDPlans.DirectoryAssistancePartnerCharge
- rtLDPlans.HIInterStatePartnerCharge
- rtLDPlans.InterstatePartnerCharge
- rtLDPlans.MexicoPartnerCharge
- rtLDPlans.NetworkToNetworkInterstatePartnerCharge
- rtLDPlans.OutboundTollFreePartnerCharge
- rtLDPlans.PRInterstatePartnerCharge
- rtLDPlans.VIInterstatePartnerCharge
- rtLDPlans.OperatorSurchargePartnerCharge
- rtLDPlans.PayphoneSurchargePartnerCharge
- rtLDPlans.ShortDurationSurchargePartnerCharge
- rtLDPlans.TollFreeDatabaseSurchargePartnerCharge
- rtLocPlans.3_WAY_CALL_PartnerCharge
- rtLocPlans.BSY_REDIAL_PartnerCharge
- rtLocPlans.CALLRETURN_PartnerCharge
- rtLocPlans.CALLTRACE_PartnerCharge
- rtLocPlans.COLLECT_PartnerCharge
- rtLocPlans.CollectPerMinutePartnerCharge
- rtLocPlans.DACC_PartnerCharge
- rtLocPlans.DANATIONAL_PartnerCharge
- rtLocPlans.DAREGULAR_PartnerCharge
- rtLocPlans.EAS_PartnerCharge
- rtLocPlans.ELC_PartnerCharge
- rtLocPlans.LocalLDTollPartnerCharge
- rtLocPlans.LocalMinIncrPartnerCharge
- rtLocPlans.LocalPerCallPartnerCharge
- rtLocPlans.LocalPerMinutePartnerCharge
- rtLocPlans.OperatorAssistPerMinutePartnerCharge
- rtLocPlans.OPERATORRATE_PartnerCharge
- rtLocPlans.VERI_ITRPT_PartnerCharge
- rtLocPlans.VERIFY_BSY_PartnerCharge
- rtStandard.OutboundTollFreePartnerCharge
- rtStandard.PayphoneSurchargePartnerCharge
- rtStandard.OperatorSurchargePartnerCharge
- rtStandardDetails.PerRecordPartnerCharge
- rtStandardDetails.PerDurationPartnerCharge
- rtStandardDetailsView.PerRecordPartnerCharge
- rtStandardDetailsView.PerDurationPartnerCharge
- T4CompanyMaster.CreditDebitReversalBehavior
- T4CompanyMaster.EnablePartnerChargeFields
- TaxSafeHarborOverrides_CSI.ServiceCode
The following fields have been dropped:
- None
The following fields have been altered:
- None
The following tables and views have been added:
- None
The following fields have been added:
- None