We would draw users attention to the fact that the update of the Aqilla Excel add-in is optional for this release. If you don’t know what to do with it or how to go about it, you can hold off updating the add-in. Please note though that the Excel add-in features described below will only be available in the updated version.
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A new option has been added to maintain Period information. Like other maintenance functions, the user may download period information and create, amend, or delete period data from within Microsoft Excel as opposed to using the normal Configuration menu option. This allows users to benefit from Excels cut and paste and replication capabilities to create large numbers of new accounting periods on the fly.
Two parameters provide a selection of the period information:
A new parameter has been added to the support situations where there are ledgers with multiple base currency codes.
Previously the add-in would have downloaded all currencies irrespective of the Relative Currency Code (i.e. base currency) so you could get a combination of EUR to GBP and EUR to USD. When uploading the currencies, because there was no reference to the Relative Currency Code they were all uploaded using the base currency code of the currently selected ledger. So now you can see what the two currency codes are and select which ones you want to update. It all makes life a lot simpler.
When uploading a document from the Excel add-in it is now possible for it to be added as Rough Posted instead of the existing options to just Add or Add and Post.
Rather than simply adding it and then going into the Document tab or Journals control desk to subsequently post it as ‘Rough’, this can now be done directly from within a Microsoft Excel worksheet.
A new option allows the user to specify which period to use when posting documents to the ledger.
The user will see a list of the current open periods and may select from the list. All documents posted from the add-in during the current add-in session will use the newly selected period until the selection is changed. By default, the period is set to the same period set by the user through the web application.
Note that the period being used is also displayed in the Excel status line.
When performing “Add and Post” or “Add and Rough Post” the user is given a final confirmation of the period being used in order to reduce instances of documents being posted to the wrong period.
We would draw the user’s attention to the Aqilla Help which provides more information about overriding the period on a document basis.
A new option is available to audit changes to the ledger relating to the manual matching (and un-matching) of transactions and to the change of states, for example changing an invoice from Entered to Withhold or Forced. This option is switched off by default but can be turned on using the Entity Settings function under the Configuration tab making the Ledger entity auditable.
The Reference column shows the Account Code. The Journal Number and Journal Line Number are shown in brackets.
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