Detailed Changelog for Continia Expense Management 2024 R1
This article lists all new features and bug fixes for each version of Continia Expense Management 2024 R1.
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Important
Currently, Expense Management supports BC v14 and the three latest versions of Business Central. This will change with the release of Expense Management 2025 R1 (26.00) in April, 2025. Expense Management 2025 R1 (26.00) and all future versions from then on will only support the three latest versions of Business Central.
The next version of Expense Management – Expense Management 2024 R2 (25.00) – will be the last version with support for Business Central April 2019 (BC v14).
Expense Management 2024 R1 Service Pack 3
Release date: January 17, 2025
App version: 24.3.0
Fob version: 24.03
New or changed functionality
| Functional area | Description | ID |
|---|---|---|
| Document Approval | In the Business Central client, when a document is rejected and sent back to the previous approver, the system will prompt the user to provide a comment. | 60596 |
| Document Approval | The following event has been added to Codeunit CEM Approval Management:
| 61006 |
| Expenses | The following event has been added to Report CEM Export Attachments:
| 61796 |
| General Application | Event Publisher has been added to Codeunit CEM Approval Functions (WS):
| 58646 |
| General Application | The following events were updated on Page 6086402 "CEM Client Addin - Settlement":
| 58788 |
| General Application | A new field Posted Document No. has been added to the Posted Expense Report card and list pages. It shows the Document No. of the ledger entries created during Expense Report posting. The field is visible when Post on multiple document numbers is disabled on Expense Management Setup page. | 59765 |
| General Application | Global Dimension fields have been added to the following pages: CEM Per Diem Reimbursement Details, CEM Expense Reimbursement Details, CEM Mileage Reimbursement Details | 59766 |
| Mileages | In the Danish localization, when the 60-day rule is enabled, an error comment is now generated if both the From Home and To Home fields are selected simultaneously. This ensures that only valid mileage data is processed and helps maintain accurate records. | 61287 |
| Mileages | The following event has been added to Table CEM Mileage Rate:
| 61621 |
Bug fixes
| Functional area | Description | ID |
|---|---|---|
| Document Approval | The hyperlink in the Expense Management Approval Status email now leads the user to settlements approval view on the Web Approval Portal page if Expense Report is set to Mandatory in Expense Management Setup. | 61197 |
| Expenses | When creating an invoice for a business vendor, allocations containing personal items will now be included on the invoice. Previously, personal items were excluded from business invoices; however, as these are now classified as company expenses, they will be reflected in the purchase document. | 52886 |
| Expenses | When creating an expense allocation, the default dimensions were inserted on the first line. The functionality has not changed, so the dimensions are copied from the main expense. Default dimensions will be triggered when changing relevant values on the allocation. | 58995 |
| General Application | To prevent potential errors, users are no longer allowed to perform the following actions on an Expense Report if Expense Management Continia Online Synchronization is in progress:
| 58511 |
| General Application | When using the CEM Tax Report, the Settlement No. filter on the request page was not respected. | 58767 |
| General Application | When posting expenses, ,mileage or per diems as separate documents, ledger entries will retain the original Document Date. Previously this date was falling back to the Posting Date. | 58912 |
| General Application | When an expense report was reimbursed, it would have triggered a notification in the Expense App for each sub-document, instead of one notification for the whole document. | 59145 |
| General Application | When downloading an update to an existing Per Diem or Expense, the Posting Date was previously reset, overwriting the original value. | 60597 |
| General Application | Applying a Fixed Filter on the Field Type Source Table with a length exceeding 100 characters would have previously resulted in the following error:
| 61230 |
| General Application | The fields Description and Autofill on field types are no longer reset to default during the daily synchronizations. | 61359 |
| General Application | The Mileage Details page in the Mileage Reimbursement process now displays accurate field captions for "Global Dimension 1 Code" and "Global Dimension 2 Code." | 62071 |
| General Application | When upgrading a company where Digital Sign Attachments is enabled without having a Company Code specified in the Continia Company Setup, the following error would have been shown:
| 62215 |
Expense Management 2024 R1 Service Pack 2
Release date: August 23, 2024
App version: 24.2.0
Fob version: 24.02
New or changed functionality
| Functional area | Description | ID |
|---|---|---|
| Expenses | The fields Payment Type and Expense Type are now enforced to have a value before allocating an expense. | 52911 |
| General Application | A new Event Publisher has been introduced in Codeunit 6086373 "CEM Proxy Response Handling" that allows setting show/hide parameter for the confirmation dialog when deleting Continia User Setup record:
| 55619 |
| General Application | The following events were updated in Codeunit 6086319 "CEM NAV-version Mgt.":
| 57028 |
| General Application | The following events have been added in the codeunit CEM Settlement-Post, to facilitate integration with other payroll systems.
| 57039 |
| General Application | The fields Employee No. and Vendor No. have been added to the following pages for easier sorting and filtering. The fields are hidden by default.
| 57604 |
| General Application | The following events were added in order to allow adding custom fields and functionality in the export to Excel functionality, on the reimbursement pages. Codeunit CEM Export Expense Reimb. (6086565)
| 57813 |
| General Application | The following event was added in order to allow additional posting before the preview stops the process and before the COMMIT. Codeunit CEM Settlement-Post (6086338)
| 57955 |
Bug fixes
| Functional area | Description | ID |
|---|---|---|
| Expenses | When applying payments to purchase documents created by Expense Management, the expense was not marked as reimbursed. As a result, these expenses appeared as unpaid in both the Expense App and the Expense Portal. | 57878 |
| General Application | General enhancements in the credit card field mapping were implemented. | 54232 |
| General Application | The reimbursement dialog displayed an incorrect user count under certain conditions. | 55288 |
| General Application | When approving or rejecting a document on the CEM Approval Entries page, if shared approval is set up, the next document highlighted will be for the same approver. Previously, the selection would always move to the next entry in line, causing issues with shared approvals by jumping to a different approver's entry. | 57912 |
Expense Management 2024 R1 Service Pack 1, hotfix 4
Release date: July 18, 2024
App version: 24.1.4
Only released in Business Central online.
Bug fixes
| Functional area | Description | ID |
|---|---|---|
| Credit Card Transactions | When importing transactions via the Transaction Import Journal, it was possible to create duplicate transactions if another parallel process was handling the same bank transaction inbox entry. | 57687 |
| General Application | When batch posting allocated expenses, with a posting date replacement, the following error would have prevented the posting because the balancing lines currency calculation was not adjusted to the new posting date.
| 57785 |
Expense Management 2024 R1 Service Pack 1, hotfix 2
Release date: June 18, 2024
App version: 24.1.2
Only released in Business Central online.
Bug fixes
| Functional area | Description | ID |
|---|---|---|
| General Application | When running a synchronization process, the following error would sometimes appear and it would have stopped the synchronization. The issue would be logged in the job queues or would be shown as an error to the user. The issue is affecting all the document types.
| 56842 |
Expense Management 2024 R1 Service Pack 1, hotfix 1
Release date: June 11, 2024
App version: 24.1.1
Only released in Business Central online.
Bug fixes
| Functional area | Description | ID |
|---|---|---|
| General Application | In certain situations, the following error was not necessary when processing inbox entries. Removing this error will make the system correct on itself with the next synchronization.
| 56536 |
| General Application | When running the Expense Management Status Report, the following error would have occurred for some specific documents. The issue is that the Expense Report deletion would have not deleted the sub-expenses. The issue was introduced in version 24.
| 56872 |
Expense Management 2024 R1 Service Pack 1
Release date: May 29, 2024
App version: 24.1.0
Fob version: 24.01
New or changed functionality
| Functional area | Description | ID |
|---|---|---|
| Credit Card Transactions | When the Card No. is blank on transactions imported as .csv file through Transaction template tool, users will get an error when trying to Approve and Transfer. | 54141 |
| Document Approval | A new event was added in Codeunit CEM Approvals Mgt.:
| 54466 |
| General Application | Procedure LockToSpecificDocumentNo() has been made externally available on all the relevant card pages. | 54658 |
| General Application | Event Publisher has been added to Codeunit CEM Mileage Inbox-Transfer:
| 55180 |
Bug fixes
| Functional area | Description | ID |
|---|---|---|
| Expenses | When matching expenses with transactions, Credit Card No. was not copied to the expenses. | 54577 |
| Expenses | When using distribution codes based on tax calculations, a fully non-taxable receipt will create a 100% allocation for the selected non-taxable expense type. | 54920 |
| Expenses | When updating the foreign currency on an allocated expense, the Amount (LCY) would have not been recalculated. | 55645 |
| General Application | When adding an expense in status Pending Expense User that had pending updates to be downloaded to an Open Expense Report, the user changes were no longer synchronized to that expense. | 48682 |
| General Application | The Expense Management Status Report was failing when the Corporate Language was ESP. | 54225 |
| General Application | When having multiple attachments, only the first attachment was presented in the Roletailored Client. | 54392 |
| General Application | When posting expenses in foreign currencies where the Amount Rounding Precision allows more decimals than the local currency and Post in Expense Currency was enabled. The following error message was stopping the process.
| 54691 |
| General Application | When upgrading from OnPrem to Cloud, the Default Table Mappings was not automatically calculated for Expense Management. | 54723 |
| General Application | The CEM Pre-Cloud Migration Wizard in the departments, was not searchable. | 54838 |
| General Application | When adding filters on a Field Type, in the No. Of Source Table Filters, the calculated No. of Lookup Values was not updated. The issue was only visually not updated. | 55300 |
| General Application | When previewing an unsupported attachment type, preview message was not downloading the file. | 55309 |
| General Application | When trying to open an approved document from the Approval Request Entries, it was not opening the document page or giving the error below.
| 55676 |
| General Application | When trying to open an approved document from the Approval Request Entries, it was not opening the document page or giving the error below:
| 55676 |
| Mileages | In the Spanish localization, when posting mileage, the Bill-to/Pay-to No. was not specified, resulting in a posting error. | 54427 |
| Mileages | When calculating mileage over a certain Starting Distance, the lower rate was not applied. Instead the next year rate was picked up, if this was specified. | 55306 |
Expense Management 2024 R1
Release date, online: April 2, 2024
Release date, on-premises: April 11, 2024
App version: 24.0.0
Fob version: 24.00
Note
With its 2024 spring release, Expense Management will make a version leap from 12.00 to 24.00, meaning that versions 13.00–23.00 don't exist and never will. This was done in order to align the versioning of Expense Management with that of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
New or changed functionality
| Functional area | Description | ID |
|---|---|---|
| Country and Regional | In the Belgian localization, an option to post an expense report by using multiple document numbers has been introduced. This is to ease the payment processing and is especially helpful for the EB Payment Journal. The functionality can be enabled in Expense Management Setup on the Expense Report tab: Post on multiple document numbers. | 46157 |
| Country and Regional | With the introduction of Enforced Digital Vouchers in BC23.2, attaching documentation as incoming documents, prior to posting purchase document and journals, will in certain localizations become mandatory. When using Expense Management in an environment where Enforced Digital Vouchers are configured to check for attached files prior to posting, Expense Management will transfer the underlying digital vouchers to the posted documents. When posting an Expense, the digital voucher will be enforced, and the expense cannot be posted without providing an attachment, which becomes the digital voucher. When posting Mileage and Per Diem, a tax report extract will be generated. This serves as a digital voucher for these documents. How to enable the feature:
| 50995 |
| Credit Card Transactions | When using Enable Multiple User per Card on payment types, the credit card mapping fields (specified on Expense Management Setup) were shared across multiple payment types, making it difficult to use the functionality when having multiple payment types with different mapping rules. The functionality is now moved on a Payment Type level and it makes it possible to have different fields for different payment types. | 53513 |
| Credit Card Transactions | Transactions posted at import are no longer marked as System-Created Entry in the ledgers. | 53759 |
| Expenses | Expense Management now supports distribution codes, giving the possibility to automatically allocate expenses based on predefined rules on the expense types. The distribution codes can be added on the expense types and automatic allocations will be triggered when the document is sent for approval. In the Australian localization, the distribution codes can also allocate based on the GST percentage, once the AMOUNT INCLIDING TAX field is used. The allocation will also happen if the user changes expense types on the documents. | 50042 |
| Expenses | An EventPublisher "OnBeforeValidateAttachments" has been added in Codeunit 6086321 "CEM Expense-Validate" to allow bypassing our standard Expense Attachments validation. | 51117 |
| Expenses | The field Matched to Bank Transaction has been added on Posted Expense List and Card pages. | 53354 |
| General Application | The following events were updated in Codeunit 6086338 "CEM Settlement-Post":
| 49134 |
| General Application | A new GDPR Retention Period (Years) field has been added to the Expense Management Setup page, to be used with the newly introduced Run GDPR Maintenance action on the Expense Management Setup page. This action deletes all data stored in Expense Management related to the posted documents older than the GDPR retention period (fiscal years) specified. | 49231 |
| General Application | Posting Date has been added to expenses and mileages. | 50039 |
| General Application | Updated By Delegation User was changed to Submitted By Delegated User. | 50295 |
| General Application | Submitted By Delegated User is added to Expense Report. | 50297 |
| General Application | The following procedures on Page 6086402 "CEM Client Addin - Settlement" are now available for external access:
| 50553 |
| General Application | The column User ID has been removed from the Document Log Entries and System Log Entries pages. The change has been made to comply with GDPR legislation in certain countries, such as Germany. To adhere to bookkeeping legislation in other countries, like Denmark, the value remains accessible via Page Inspection (zoom). A user with sufficient permissions is still able to inspect the user ID by using the Page Inspection (zoom). | 52236 |
| General Application | Enabling the option Check for attachment before posting of purchase document in the Expense Management Setup page specifies if the system should display an error message if no incoming document or Expense Management file is associated with the document at the time of posting. The check is imposed both on purchase documents and purchase journals. The option only applies to on-premises environments and Business Central versions 23.1 and earlier. | 52927 |
| General Application | Now the user export will only run if any changes necessitate a new export, reducing unnecessary excessive exports when configured in the Job Queue. If the export is run in a database where the data for export is unchanged since the last export, the following notification will be shown:
| 55687 |
| Per Diem | When users travel to the same destination for more than 3 months, the rate will be set to taxable in Per Diem. This is known as the "3-months rule" in Germany, and it's only available in this localization. The setting can be enabled from the Expense Management setup page under the Per Diem tab. This functionality relies on the Address Code to do the calculations. | 46291 |
| Purchase Contracts | The system analyzes posted expenses and searches for recurring expenses, 3 in a row, to find possible purchase contracts. The users will get a notification on the Expense Card and the Expense List pages if, based on the analysis results, the selected expense is recurring. There are two different notifications:
| 50208 |
Bug fixes
| Functional area | Description | ID |
|---|---|---|
| Credit Card Transactions | The error message appearing when creating Bank Transactions where Bank Country/Region field is not in the Bank Country Mapping table, has been improved. | 41048 |
| Credit Card Transactions | When using the EM Bank Reconciliations with multiple bank accounts, the Balance Last Statement and Statement No. would have been incorrectly calculated. | 53165 |
| Document Approval | Approvers are now able to modify Expense Allocations when Expense is part of an Expense Report in Pending Approval Status. | 54255 |
| General Application | Following Event Publishers have been made public/external:
| 49563 |
| General Application | The RTC Client would have crashed if the first attachment file was not available. The issue was introduced in the version 12.01. | 52792 |
| Country and Regional | In the Australian localization, when using distribution codes and both the AMOUNT INCLUDING TAX and the TAX AMOUNT were configured, the following error would have occurred when the system was trying to do the automatic allocation.
| 53517 |