October 2021 Release Notes
10-29-2021
Operations VIP Only
Fixed an issue which could result in a workspace error when loading large incremental TC invoices.
Bug EN-39535
10-29-2021
Onboard
The Onboard Voyages and Port Call lists now filter out voyages the current user does not have access to if "Restrict Vessel Access" is enabled for the associated Veslink user. This does not apply to FOB voyages.
Story EN-39000
10-29-2021
Financials
Previously, an error was encountered on posting TC Commission invoice with multiple hire lines and a secondary broker. This issue has been fixed.
Bug EN-37599
10-29-2021
Financials
Invoice Details Default Rules setup in Financials (available with CFGEnableInvoiceDefaultRules configuration flag) has been extended to include Port, Voyage, Voyage Itinerary and Voyage Cargo Handling joins so that users can set defaulting rules using those joins for the financials' invoice detail lines linked to a specific voyage and/or port.
Story EN-37299
k8s-10-28-2021
Trade Hub
Vessel fleets no longer appear in the Vessel Types dropdown within Trade Hub Action Cargoes.
Bug EN-39373
10-28-2021
Distances & Maps
New port added: Lekki (Nigeria)
Story EN-39453
10-27-2021-r2
Tasks & Alerts
Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented saving tasks & alerts rules.
Bug EN-39602
10-27-2021-r2
Analytics
Previously, we stopped implicitly exposing fields in the "doc" type output for Time Charter Hire table that are not available in the Report Designer.
We have exposed these fields explicitly now in the Report Designer.
Clients must use the Report Designer to explicitly pick any fields in their report that they want to be in the report "doc" output.
Clients must ensure that no external dependencies are created on their side on any fields in the "doc" output that are not available in the Report Designer.
Bug EN-39585
10-27-2021-r2
Analytics
The Deballast column is now displayed correctly for certain VFML-based bunker reports.
Bug EN-39298
10-27-2021
Trading
Period selection for the linked trades in the Time Charter contract did not always show correct values. This has been fixed.
Bug EN-39329
10-27-2021
Financials
New configuration flag has been added CFGViewLegacyAttachmentsinTDE.
Description: When enabled, financial invoice attachments created with a legacy key will be displayed in the TDE as Read-Only and Legacy alongside attachments that are linked using a new key. The user will be able to see the link and open the attachments, but they will not be able to remove or edit these attachments. All new attachments added to the TDE will use the new key.
Data Type: Boolean.
Default Value: N.
Story EN-38468
10-27-2021
Financials
Posting relet freight invoice would result in SQL error message sometimes. This has been fixed.
Bug EN-37841
10-27-2021
Financials
Overlapping hire periods with separate codes specified in the Time Charter contract did not properly set those codes in TC payment invoices. This has been fixed.
Bug EN-37557
k8s-10-26-2021
Trade Hub VIP Only
In Trade Hub vessel details panel, field selection and ordering are now able to be saved to the view for overview, profile, and estimate tabs.
Story EN-39515
k8s-10-26-2021
Trade Hub VIP Only
Fix an issue preventing Vessel Owner and Flag fields from populating on the Vessel Details panel in Trade Hub.
Bug EN-39362
k8s-10-26-2021
Trade Hub
Fixed an issue that the historical vessel positions are being displayed incorrectly on the map in market insight page.
Bug EN-38587
k8s-10-26-2021
Trade Hub VIP Only
Added Previous Voyage, Current Voyage, and Next Voyage to the overview tab in Trade Hub. These fields are populated when a vessel is under contract and has voyages on it. The values of the field link to the voyage in VIP.
Story EN-38521
10-26-2021
Financials
New config flag is introduced
CFGTransNoGenerationLockTimeout
When non-zero, IMOS will block competing processes from generating transaction number for invoices or payments for specified time (in milliseconds). If the initial transaction is not completed in the set time, then a timeout will occur and the competing process will fail to generate a new transaction number.
Bug EN-39153
10-26-2021
Veslink Voyage Reporting VIP Only
Column settings were being wiped after switching between voyages with PDF/Forms open.
Column settings keep their state as defined by the user when switching between voyages while PDF or Forms are open.
Bug EN-39032
10-26-2021
Analytics
Non Chemical Operation Invoice fields are now available for display in the Report Designer.
Bug EN-38363
10-26-2021
Financials
Add new configuration flag CFGNominationDateOnFixtureAndVoyage.
When enabled a new Nomination Date value will be added to the Voyage Fixture and the Voyage Manager objects. This nomination date is to be populated manually when the vessel is nominated to a cargo and this date can be separate from the Fixture Date, the Voyage Commencement Date, or CP Date on the cargo. When the value is populated on the Fixture, it will carry down to the Voyage Manager on scheduling. If the nomination is updated on the Voyage it will update the Fixture.
A new Module Right was added, which enables access to editing the nomination date on Voyage Fixture and Voyage Manager:
Operations->Actions->Edit Nomination Date
Story EN-36241
10-22-2021
Veslink Voyage Reporting
Resolved an issue where form copying on receipt did not associate with the correct voyage under specific circumstances
Bug EN-39424
10-22-2021
Ops API
Previously, the Focus UpdateVoyage message would error out when provided a voyage number not greater than all already-used voyage numbers for a vessel. Now, the interface supports inserting new voyages in this scenario.
Bug EN-38552
10-22-2021
Chartering
Non-confirmed cargoes linked to a VC In are no longer schedulable through the linked VC In's form when the CFGValidateContractStatusToSchedule flag is enabled.
Bug EN-26487
10-21-2021
Distances & Maps
Proper UN Code values added for 16 ports
Story EN-39504
10-21-2021
Chartering VIP Only
In Voyage Estimator, renamed the "Tasks and Alerts" panel to "Notifications" in support of new types of realtime notifications.
Story EN-39342
10-21-2021
Veslink Voyage Reporting VIP Only
Charterer activity field wasn't displaying the correct information from API form submission.
Charterer field now displays the correct value passed from the API
Bug EN-39290
10-20-2021
P&L & Accruals
The planned bunker lifting assigned to an Arrival or a Commencing report will be excluded from p&l by period.
Bug EN-39398
10-20-2021
Data Center Settings VIP Only
Added 'Terms & Conditions' and 'Privacy Policy' links to the user profile panel.
Story EN-39205
10-20-2021
Chartering
N/A
Story EN-39158
10-20-2021
Analytics
New parameter "Period Range Gmt" and field "Portion %" have been added to Voyage Pnl Summary data table, so that users can report on a pro-rated voyage pnl for a specific date range.
Story EN-39017
10-20-2021
Veslink Voyage Reporting
Users can now embed table elements into a paragraph field in form designer.
Bug EN-38563
10-20-2021
Distances & Maps
All ports with UN Code values that were set to the Country Code for a port were removed. Use the Country Code column in the Ports List for country code values
Story EN-38158
k8s-10-19-2021
Trade Hub
Fixed the Misc Expenses field in Action Cargoes Results - Market Insights tab to always display the correct precision.
Bug EN-36888
10-19-2021
Chartering
The Time Charter performance consumption type is now present in the Report Designer's Time Charter Sea Consumptions table.
Story EN-38554
10-19-2021
Agent Portal
Port call info checkbox now correctly checks/unchecks
Also includes 4 unit tests.
Bug EN-38449
10-19-2021
Trading
Trades for the worldscale routes now have correct p&l and face value.
Bug EN-37937
10-19-2021
Analytics
New fields "Remittance Company No" and "Remittance Seq" have been added to the Operations Invoice table in Report Designer.
Both are 1-1 links to a corresponding bank record.
In addition, auto-generated Freight and TC commissions did not properly inherit Remittance Bank settings from their parent invoice. This has been fixed.
Bug EN-37619
10-18-2021
Security & User Mgmt VIP Only
Added links to Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy from the veslink login page.
Story EN-39204
10-18-2021
Analytics
Previously, the Min Duration Less Days/Min Duration More Days fields in Report Designer were always set to 0. This issue is now fixed
Bug EN-38876
10-18-2021
Financials
Invoice XML field "COADate" was not always populated with correct values in freight invoices for cargoes with "Allocate Freight to Discharge Voyage" setting. This has been fixed.
Bug EN-37618
10-18-2021
Chartering
Previously, Cargo Default Broker rules with conditions on the nominated vessel of a cargo were not evaluated correctly. This has been fixed.
Bug EN-35193
10-15-2021
Veslink Voyage Reporting VIP Only
Fix a bug relating to numeric formatting in some forms.
Bug EN-39406
10-15-2021
Berth Scheduling VIP Only
Added ability to add a Berth Activity and reorder Berth Activities in the workflow
Story EN-39364
10-15-2021
Berth Scheduling
Berth Scheduling users will have increased flexibility to add berth activities and to change the order of the activities. Custom pairings can be configured in Data Center > Berth Activities.
Story EN-39359
10-15-2021
Distances & Maps
Route added between ports Vasteras and Koping
Bug EN-39101
10-15-2021
Distances & Maps
Coordinates updated for port FPSO John Agyekum Kufuor
Story EN-38919
10-15-2021
Financials
New tag "reversalReason" has been added to the invoice notification XML, which shows the Reversal Reason entered by user when reversing a posted invoice.
Story EN-38135
10-15-2021
Financials
After the fix, for newly created TC invoice, voyage p&l off hire description will always show proper hire rate. For the already existing TC invoice created before the fix, the problem would not be solved automatically.
Bug EN-37546
10-15-2021
Scheduling
The optimizer will now account for the default weather factor.
Story EN-37465
10-15-2021
Financials
Sometimes Load/Discharge Port related fields in the invoice XML for Demurrage invoices did not display the right values. This has been fixed.
Bug EN-37246
10-14-2021
Chartering VIP Only
Fixed an issue that caused errors when loading or re-loading certain lists, such as Estimate Worksheets and Voyage Invoices.
Bug EN-39365
10-14-2021
Financials
After the fix, the invoice print out shows proper description. For the commission invoices created before this fix, since the description has been stored in DB, it would not change automatically. User has to redo the invoice (reverse, delete and re-create) manually to get the desired description.
Bug EN-39121
10-13-2021
Scheduling
N/A
Story EN-39366
10-13-2021
Financials
An issue in creating Journal entries from Transactions resulted in an incorrect Base Equivalent value. This issue has been resolved.
Bug EN-39352
10-13-2021
Onboard
Resolved an issue where approving forms within Onboard did not work as intended for some users in test environments or set to login via SSO.
Bug EN-39281
10-13-2021
Veslink Voyage Reporting
Fixed issue with using browser print functionality
Story EN-39143
10-13-2021
Veslink Voyage Reporting
Resolved an issue where the bunkers received column appeared when it should not have for Arrival Reports created in Form Designer when the "Record Received Bunkers on Noon and Departure Reports" form group setting is enabled. This fix requires re-saving the form in Form Designer to take effect.
Bug EN-37925
10-12-2021
Chartering
Fixed a bug that prevented selecting users in TC and Cargo forms.
Bug EN-39345
10-12-2021
Operations
Added support for TCI and Spot In equipment voyages in the vessel schedule in VIP
Bug EN-38491
10-12-2021
Chartering
An issue was fixed where updating the delivery date for a Custom basis Time Charter contract would not automatically update the hire dates.
Bug EN-38122
10-12-2021
Analytics
Previously, the HIADJ from TCO billing were being listed as uncategorized items. After the fix, they are listed properly under TCO Hire section.
Bug EN-36457
10-12-2021
Demurrage & Claims
When Laytime Calculations are copied, berths are copied correctly.
Bug EN-32896
10-8-2021
Distances & Maps
Time zone for Coari (Brazil) corrected to -4
Bug EN-39242
10-8-2021
Veslink Voyage Reporting
Calculations are now visible when the form has been approved
Bug EN-39219
10-8-2021
Distances & Maps
New port added: Colachel (India)
Story EN-38979
10-8-2021
Scheduling
A default program will now automatically be generated when the scheduling workspace loads if there are no programs.
Bug EN-38809
10-8-2021
Distances & Maps
New port added: Malaysia EOPL
Story EN-38802
10-8-2021
Distances & Maps
New port added: Ljusne (Sweden)
Story EN-38776
10-8-2021
Financials
User would not be able to reject or post provisional mirrored invoice. This bug has been fixed.
Bug EN-38501
10-8-2021
Chartering
Selection of users in forms (e.g. Ops Coordinator selection) is now consistently sorted alphabetically across the system.
Bug EN-38467
10-8-2021
Financials
Tags "contractRate" and "contractRateType" have been added to the financial invoice's notification XML (under the "invoiceDetails" section).
These tags will show values for the invoiced TC hire and CVE detail lines from the original Time Charter contract.
Story EN-38181
10-8-2021
Financials
Previously, creating/saving a VREV or VEXP invoice in the TDE form with certain tax groups caused a duplication of the tax line in the Invoice Report. This issue has been resolved.
Bug EN-37953
10-7-2021
Onboard
When “Share on Receipt” is selected, an email should be sent to the reciepents when a form is submitted
Bug EN-38664
10-7-2021
Operations
Invoiced Amount Base and Outstanding Amount Base columns have been added to the pnl-based Invoices list in Voyage Manager.
The list is enabled by the CFGUseVoyagePnlBasedInvoicesList configuration flag.
Bug EN-37135
10-7-2021
Chartering
Pre-purchased bunkers entered in the bunker breakdown will now be deducted using the pre-purchase price instead of the CP delivery price when invoicing.
Bug EN-36989
10-7-2021
Financials
When CFGAllowDiffPDAandFDACurrencies config flag is set to Y, Veslink should allow FDA in different currency than given PDA. If config flag is set to N, then an error is raised in the form to warn the user.
Bug EN-36868
10-7-2021
Data Center Settings
Tool tips containing field contents are now displayed for rowset fields unless already defined via field help or custom tool tip.
Story EN-33114
10-6-2021
Distances & Maps
Seasonal load line zone regions have been refined.
Story EN-39207
10-6-2021
Distances & Maps
Corrected duplicate UN Codes across ports
Story EN-39084
10-6-2021
Fleet Map
When using Fleet Map, vessels will now cluster up to max zoom level.
Hovering over a cluster with up to 3 vessels displays a hover info window with all of the vessels in the cluster
Bug EN-38785
10-6-2021
Security & User Mgmt VIP Only
Read/Write Users could be created in excess of the license restrictions without triggering an error. This issue has been fixed.
Bug EN-38775
10-6-2021
Messaging Service
A new isDestinationMirror element was added to Update Voyage Message XML Schema which is true if it's destination mirror voyage.
Story EN-36629
k8s-10-5-2021
Trade Hub
An issue related to the Region filter in the Laycan Targeted Workflow has been fixed.
Bug EN-37982
10-5-2021
Trade Hub
Added new configuration flag CFGManuallyLockVesselValuations. When enabled users will be able to manually lock their saved vessel valuations to prevent further editing. Will require a new security permission to perform the locking. A secondary permission is also available to provide a subset of admins with the ability to unlock a Valuation ID. When saving the Vessel Valuation now, we will also store the results in the database in addition to the input parameters. This will require a schema update to latest.
Story EN-39220
10-5-2021
Distances & Maps
Voyages with a Tow vessel will now have rivers and inland waterways enabled.
Bug EN-38151
10-5-2021
Financials
Commission Payment form would sometimes time out in VIP when there is a large number of existing invoices for a broker selected. This has been fixed.
Bug EN-36905
10-4-2021
Financials
Rebill Claim type invoices were not opening in a Claim form. This regression is now fixed.
Bug EN-39203
10-4-2021
Chartering
In Cargo COA/VC In COA, fixed an issue where users could not assign a TC Route when using Manual Exposure.
Bug EN-39144
10-4-2021
Financials
Time Charter payment program would display fields incorrectly in the invoices grid. This has been fixed.
Bug EN-39090
10-4-2021
System Performance
The STS Vessels program is now more performant when the number of Vessels is large.
Bug EN-38572
10-4-2021
Operations
In the past, choosing a specific number for creating a voyage could trigger an error while renumbering numerically subsequent voyages, if they had estimated demurrages associated with them.
This problem has been fixed.
Bug EN-38257
10-4-2021
Analytics
"Force Calc" parameter has been added to Voyage P&L Summary data table in Report Designer.
Users can utilize it when they need to calculate Voyage P&L numbers from scratch - and not from using "current" stored P&L snapshot.
Story EN-35980
10-1-2021
Operations
Fixed an issue where operations invoice validations tied to config flag CFGAccessTDEFormFromOpsInvoice could be incorrectly applied when creating a new operations invoice.
Bug EN-39184
10-1-2021
Financials VIP Only
Time Charter Commission Payment in VIP would time out when there is a large number of existing invoices for a given broker. This has been fixed.
Bug EN-39148
10-1-2021
Financials
Used exchange rate wasn't adjusted with what was selected. This has been fixed.
Bug EN-39033
10-1-2021
Demurrage & Claims
Previously, there was an issue where including waiting ports for reversible laytime calculations would sometimes default the demurrage/despatch rates to 0. This issue is now fixed.
Bug EN-38831
10-1-2021
Operations
Fixed an issue where validation in the Activity Reports form would incorrectly identify arrival reports with estimated bunker stems as having an inconsistent bunker consumption breakdown specified.
Bug EN-38500
10-1-2021
Distances & Maps
VIP and Veslink Distances maps now have a new dropdown to enable avoiding winter load line zones.
Story EN-38357
10-1-2021
Financials
Voyage Other Rev/Exp form would sometimes reset Daily Rate-related values incorrectly. This has been fixed.
Bug EN-36977