3 Noteworthy Resolved Issues

This following table highlights specific key fixes that are included in this release. In some cases, only a percentage of the overall fixed defects are listed.

Affected Component Defect Number Description

General: Error Logging

32308757

Formatting of session restart link

When a system exception occurs, the stack trace log has a Please click here to restart your session link. This was usually shown in blue text on a blue background, so to improve clarity, the text color has been changed to white.

General: GNB

31644220, 32488553

GNB Synchronization Issues

A change has been made to rectify Global Network Bus data synchronization issues, to ensure common failures are retried automatically.

This issue only relates to portals that operate with a Global Network Bus (GNB) application.

General: IDCS or OCI IAM Users

32423080

Deletion of IDCS Profiles

A change has been made to prevent the automatic deletion of IDCS profiles when deleting User records in Brand Compliance.

This is a result of technical issues, and a concern it may allow IDCS profiles in a Production environment to be deleted from a Stage environment, if the IDCS connection details were not updated following a restore from production.

General: IDCS or OCI IAM Users

32954820

IDCS Synchronization in System Parameters Change History

A fix has been made to rectify an issue with the hourly IDCS synchronization job adding an entry to the Change History log in the System Parameters configuration record.

Although the System Parameters record does show when the last IDCS synchronization took place, writing the event to the Change History log has now been suppressed, as the log is intended to record when changes are made to the editable system parameters.

General: News

30203744

Archived News records opening a blank new window

When the Users Preference setting Open all documents in new browser windows is enabled, Archived News records opened by using the Archived News link on the Home Page, do not display any information in the new window. Archived News records opened in this way should ignore the setting, and open as a new tab on the Application TAB bar.

An update now ensures that when opening Archived News records from the Archived News Link, they open as a new tab on the Application TAB bar (thereby ignoring the Open all documents in new browser windows setting).

Note: When Archived News records are opened in this way, it is not possible to edit the record. Opening an Archived News record by using the Manage News link on the home page, will allow the records to be edited.

Product: Pack Copy

32525922, 32614081, 32672727

Pack Copy reports displaying User Login ID instead of User Name

The pack copy reports were outputting the Product Technologist Login ID rather than Name under the Non-Copy Information for the Product Technologist and Other Contacts fields.

The Pack Copy Reports have been updated to utilize the required Name element from the SPEC API data source.

Product: Pack Copy

33087576

Incorrect mapping in header of a multi product/site Pack Copy file

A fix has been made to rectify an issue with the header of a Pack Copy file being incorrect. The issue occurred when the specification was for a multi product and multi site specification. It was due to the product coverage details being taken from the Product Record when it should have been taken from the Product Specification.

Product: Specifications

28961175, 31498573

Intolerances not being validated when the ingredient not in the default Language

When the Set Pack Copy Language is set to True, the pack copy language can be different from the base language. When a specification was configured to use a different pack copy language than the base (default) language, validation was not identifying the ingredients for intolerance validation.

A fix has been implemented, so irrespective of the pack copy language, the validation will now generate the relevant validation errors for intolerances.

Product: Specifications

30764648

Validation of Assurance Standard in Specifications

A fix has been made to Product Specifications, when validating the selected Assurance Standard, to check that the selected Assurance Standard is active within the glossary.

Product: Specifications

31574362

Additional Product Information validation in CNF Specification

A fix has been made to the validation of the Additional Product Information section, of the Constructed Non Food specification, to correct the error message which appeared for empty mandatory comments.

Product: Specifications

31711051

Error when progressing status of a Specification

A fix has been made to rectify a Record is out of date type error that occurred when progressing the status of a Product Specification. This occurred when the Cascade Product Number from Produce Specification to Product Record system parameter was set.

Product: Specifications

31872539

Cutter Guide validation in Produce Specifications

A fix has been made to the validation for the presence of Cutter Guide Attachments in the Other Labelling Copy section for Produce specifications.

When validating a Produce specification to progress to Draft - Pack Copy Sent status, Cutter Guide Attachments now results in an error rather than a warning, if not populated.

Product: Specifications

31973751 32266471, 32488903

When editing a Specification, an error is generated when the Nutrition section is opened

An error occurred on a draft Specification, in edit mode, when opening the Nutrition Section. The error was caused when a new version of the nutrition panel was created after the GDA or NVR/RDA Categories on the specification had been deactivated.

A fix has been implemented so when opening the Nutrition section against the Specification, the new version of the Nutrition Panel is applied successfully with no errors.

Product: Specifications

32374821, 32375047

Help text in Advanced Packaging section

A fix has been made to rectify an issue with help text not appearing for the Recycling table column headings in the Advanced Packaging specification section.

Product: Specifications

32614039, 32949706

Mould Type missing from Packaging table

A fix has been made to ensure the Mould Type field is present in the Packaging Attributes table of the Product Specification’s Advanced Packaging section.

Product: Specifications

32616127

CNF specification edits not saving, intermittently

Changes to the Details table on the Component Section of CNF specifications were intermittently not being saved. No errors or validation issues indicated a problem when this occurred.

An update has been implemented to resolve the issue so changes to the Component section on CNF Specifications are successfully saved.

Product: Specifications

32826302

Error when opening specification linked to a product created by Product REST API

When the Product REST API was used to create a Product that included a Product Record Other User (Other Contacts), the specifications linked to the product would cause an error when attempting to open the record.

A modification has been made to the Product REST API to ensure that the Product Record Other User records are created appropriately and the modification of an existing Product Record Other User record, is limited to modifying the associated <user> element only.

Product: Specifications

33087964

Combined Specification Nutrients Glossary

A fix has been made to the Combined Specification Nutrients glossary to rectify an issue with the column headings overlapping.

Product: Specifications

33087981

Unable to revert a Specification to previous state

A fix has been made to rectify an issue with not being able to revert a Not Progressed product specification to a previous state. The issue occurred if a section name had not been previously populated; although validated as a mandatory field, the specification is not editable at that status. The validation is now suppressed when using the option to revert the Not Progressed specification back to its previous status.

Product: Specifications and Produce Product Records

32896973

Duplication of Secondary Sites and Supplier Contacts

A fix has been made to rectify an issue in the Produce Product Record whereby duplicate sites would appear in the Secondary Sites table of the Additional Supplier Information page. The duplicates would appear when there was a minimum of two secondary sites before adding further sites.

A similar issue has also been corrected for the Supplier Contacts table in the Product Specification’s Main Details section.

Product: Specifications Admin

31618039

Order of columns in Nutrition Panel

A fix has been made to the Nutrition Panel maintenance in the Admin area, where the declaration columns in the Available Columns section, were not listed in the correct order when in read mode.

Product: Specifications Admin

31618055

Removing columns from Nutrition Panel

A fix has been made to the Nutrition Panel maintenance in the Admin area to allow multiple columns to be removed from the Available Columns table with a single action.

Product: System Text

32372838

CE marking requires updating to allow for UKCA marking

It was not possible to update the current CE marking for European compliance to the UKCA marking for UK compliance of goods required as part of changes required under Brexit.

The application has been updated to allow the marking text to be editable under system text in the Admin area. See Post Release Tasks for how to implement.

Project: Activities

32216326

Translate action in Activities

A fix has been made to remove the Translate option from the Actions menu of the Project Activity record, as that action is only relevant for glossary records in the Admin area.

Project: Admin

32446399

Error when opening Batch Jobs

A fix has been made to rectify an error that occurred when navigating to Batch Jobs in the Admin area after having deactivated and deleted a Brief Template, an Activity Template, or an Activity Type.

Project: Brief Extract

30246164, 31993419, 32565862

Brief extract fails when criteria includes a date filter

To reduce the brief extract file size to within the maximum data size allowed, the advanced search criteria can be utilized to reduce the number of records, in the list view, which the brief extract will be based on.

Previously when a user included a date filter in the advanced search criteria to reduce the list view, the extract failed.

A fix has been made to rectify this error associated with date fields, allowing the record list view to be reduced as required without error.

Project: Brief Extract

32332243

Brief Extract times out

When attempting to run a Brief, the application times out. The issue is caused by the process attempting to retrieve all the Briefs for all projects/activities.

An update has been made so only the Briefs for the projects/activities listed in the list view will be retrieved.

Note: The advanced search facility should still be utilized to limit the number of projects/activities in the list view before selection of the Brief Extract feature.

Project: Project Creation

30582050, 32131110

Error when creating Project

A fix has been made to rectify an error that occurred when creating a new Project. The error occurred when adding a project to another project, using the Project Hierarchy or Project Hierarchy All views.

Projects: System Text

32503217

Schedule Projects system text

A new system text item is provided for the Project Type field label in the Schedule Projects wizard. See Post Release Tasks for further details.

Reports: Allergen

32070830

Soft Coded Columns for Dietary & Allergen Data Sources not available

The soft coded columns feature for Dietary & Allergen Data Sources were no longer available as the feature had been deactivated.

An update has now been completed to activate the soft-coded columns features for Dietary & Allergen Data Sources, so they are now available.

Reports: Allergen

32517607

The Allergen data source query does not include the Source field

The query for Allergens did not include the Source field as an optional column from the Allergens section of specifications.

An update to the query now allows for the Source field to be included in a report data source for new/updated report templates to utilize.

Two new system text entries are available for managing the column header text and the query column name. See Post Release Tasks for further details.

Reports: Allergen

NA

The Allergen queries include columns not relevant to their area of the D&A section

When creating a data source record using the either the Allergen - Contains or Allergen - Suitable For query, some of the columns available for selection were not relevant, as they are not available within the UI.

The queries have been updated to remove the redundant columns. The columns are:

  • Formal Control Programme

  • Risk of Cross Contamination

  • Present in the Same Plant

  • Present in the Same Line

Reports: Allergen

NA

The Declared column in the Dietary & Allergens Section query is never Populated

The Declared column in the Dietary & Allergen Section was never populated as it was mapped to an unused field.

The query has been updated to map the Declared column to the correct field and now provides the correct data for reports.

Reports: Allergen

NA

The labels for the Dietary & Allergens Section query columns are Incorrect

When selecting report filters in Report Schedules for a report based on the Dietary & Allergens Section query, the labels (system text) for Is declared and Declaration were switched.

An update to the system text has been completed to correctly label the Is declared and Declaration columns for the Dietary & Allergens Section query.

Reports: Audit

NA

Audit Query Lead Business Category data from incorrect records

The Audit Query only provided the Business Category Path and Desc values from the Site record, but they were not available from the Audit record for default reporting as required by the scope. The Business Category Path and Desc Level 1-5 values were only provided from the Audit record.

These values were required as an optional field from the Site record.

An update to the query now provides the following to meet original scope requirements:

  • The Business Category Path and Desc values from the Audit record to provide the required default values for relevant reports.

  • The Business Category Path and Desc Level 1-5 values from the Site record.

Although the Business Category Path and Desc Level 1-5 values from the Audit record are not part of scope, they have been retained within the query.

Reports: Business Categories

32456471

Unable to replicate the Business Category information in BI reports

The Business Category fields in the data source queries, for BI reporting, did not hold the expected values to allow replication of information provided by existing JasperSoft reports.

The application queries have been updated to set the Business Category fields in the data sources with the expected values to allow replication of existing JasperSoft reports.

Reports: Ingredients

31674641

Declared Quantity missing from Ingredients reporting data source

A fix has been made to the Ingredients reporting data source to include the Declared Quantity field from the specification’s Other Labelling Copy section.

Reports: Nutrition

32130338

Soft Coded Columns for Nutrient Data Sources not available

The soft coded columns feature for Nutrient Data Sources were not implemented.

An update has now been completed to activate the soft-coded columns features for Nutrient Data Sources, so they are now available.

Reports: Nutrition

NA

The Reporting Data Source columns for the Nutrition Section query showed duplicate columns

The Selected Columns picker against Reporting Data Sources showed duplicate columns for the Nutrition Section query. The duplicated columns included the Per serving value and Per 100 value fields.

The duplicate fields were actually as prepared fields but rendered as a duplicate due to the system text setup for the page. All fields are now presented, without duplication, in the Selected Columns selection window due to an update to the system text setup for the Reporting Data Sources page.

Reports: Nutrition

NA

The Nutrition Section query generates unexpected reporting data

A report based on the Nutrition Section query would generate more rows of data than expected. The query was including records not expected in the output.

The underlying SQL joins for the query have been updated to ensure the Nutrition Section query filters out unnecessary data and provides only the required data.

Reports: Packaging

32437411

Advanced Packaging Components query does not include Biodegradable checkbox

The query for Advanced Packaging Components did not include the Biodegradable checkbox from the Advanced Packaging section.

An update to the query now allows for the Biodegradable checkbox field to be included in a report data source for new/updated report templates to utilize.

A new system text entry is available for managing the report column header text. See Post Release Tasks for further details.

Reports: Projects

32816696

Project Activities reports not completing

A performance improvement has been made, to rectify issues with the running of certain Project Activity reports.

Reports: Scorecards

NA

The Scorecard query does not include all required Business Category data

The existing Scorecard query retrieved the Business Category from the Scorecard record as this is the only business category field and only the Lead Business Category from the Site associated with the Scorecard.

The Other Business Category data from the Site record associated with the Scorecard record is now retrieved for the Scorecard query to enable it to fulfill the reporting requirements.

Reports: Specifications

NA

The data sources based on specifications records include those with a status of Deleted

Most core report data sources contain a default filter to exclude deleted records based on a Deleted flag. Product Specification records also have a Deleted status which was not included in the default filter and therefore those records would be included in the record results.

The default filter, for the relevant core reports, has been updated to check for the Deleted flag and the Spec Status, so it will exclude the specification if either condition is set.

Reports: Specifications

NA

The Produce Secondary Site query Business Category is not mapped to the Produce Product record

The Produce Secondary Site query was retrieving Business Category data from the secondary sites (rather than Produce Product per the scope requirement).

An update has been implemented so the query will retrieve the default Business Category information from the Produce Product record. The report template has also been updated to output this information per the scope requirements. In addition, the Primary Site and Product Record Business Category fields are labelled appropriately.

Reports: Surveillance

NA

The Surveillance Classifications query does not include all the required Data

The Surveillance Classifications query was missing required Product record data available in the portal.

The Surveillance Classifications query has been updated to capture the necessary Product record data required for use by reports.

Supplier: Alerts

32832030

Extracting Alert Response data

A fix has been made to rectify issues with the extract of Alert Response data when the data contained commas, new lines, or double quotation marks. The issue resulted in columns becoming out of synch.

The extract now returns the text value for the CSV column enclosed in double quotation marks, if required, the rules being:

  • If the value contains a comma, newline, or double quotation mark, the text is enclosed in double quotation marks.

  • Any double quotation mark characters in the value are escaped with another double quotation mark.

  • If the value does not contain a comma, newline, or double quotation mark, the value is returned unchanged.

New lines and carriage returns are replaced with a space.

Supplier: Audits

31573316

Mandatory fields when completing an Audit

When saving a non conformance/issue for an Audit, if the Completed Date is populated, the following fields are now mandatory:

  • Due Date

  • Assigned To

  • Required Action

  • Completed By

Supplier: Audits

32998822

Error when progressing an Audit

A fix has been made to rectify an error that occurred when progressing the status of an Audit.

The issue occurred when referencing the record’s status. The fix has also been applied to the creation of Audits, Scorecards, Suppliers, and Projects.

Supplier: Audits & Visits

31999733

Changed On column in list views

A fix has been made to make the Changed On column available for adding to Audits & Visits list views. The column shows the dates that the Audit/Visit status changed.

The dates on which the Audit or Visit is created and updated are available for selection within the Audit/Visit Details group.

Supplier: Scorecards

29303067

Error when validating a Scorecard

A fix has been made to rectify an error that occurred when validating a Scorecard.

Supplier: Sites

31940776

Reason system text

A fix has been made to change the system text key of the Reason column in the Sites list view.

The column was sharing the system text with the Reason field on the Visit record. It now has a separate system text item. See Post Release Tasks for further details.

Supplier: Sites

32326152, 33045056

Unable to edit Use Supplier Address field

A fix has been made to allow retailer users with the Retailer Supplier & Site Administrator authority profile to edit the Use Supplier Address field on the Site record. Previously, it was only editable by supplier users.

Supplier: Suppliers

31206061, 31577784, 32381330, 32457970, 32873272

Re-send Registration Notification

The Re-send Registration Notification option has been removed from the Actions menu in the Suppliers list view.