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Infor CRM – What’s New in the current and past releases

Infor CRM SLX releases contain the following cumulative updates:

Version 10.0

    • Single KPI
      Displays a single value. For example, a count, or sum value. See Working with a Single KPI widget.
      Stacked KPI
      Displays two related values, one above and one below. For example, a count of records and the sum value for those same records. See Working with a Stacked KPI widget.
    • New or updated Widget settings See Widget Settings.
      • Widget widths can now be as small as 1, allowing more widgets to fit in a row. However, some widgets may require larger widths. By default, widget width and height options are set to the smallest recommended size for optimal viewing based on the widget type.
      • The Show Border option to display or hide widget borders.
      • For adding or modifying data sources there is a new query builder mode to simplify the creation of advanced SData Entity Where Clauses. See Using the Data Source SData entity where clause Query Builder.
      • A new Color option is introduced to assign colors to data sources for Bar, Bubble, Column, Gauge, Line widgets.This option is also available for KPI widgets, if the Show Circle option is selected.
      • You can now click a segment of a chart widget to view the detailed data for the segment.
  • You can modify opportunity associations on closed quotes or sales orders.
  • Customer Journeys have been renamed to “Journeys”. You can specify a default journey for new opportunities on the Tools > Options > Opportunities tab.
  • If OCM Email Marketing integration is configured and enabled, you can create email campaign tasks in Infor CRM SLX and use Infor Omni-Channel Campaign Management (OCM) Email Content Editor to create an email template. Next you can define and launch the email campaign task in the OCM Email Content Master. Once launched you can view metrics at the task level or target level. See Email marketing integration campaign tasks.
  • A new option is introduced for Contour Contact Distance Search to return all contacts, not just the primary contact.
  • When a lead is converted to a contact and account the lead information is now preserved on the Lead Conversion tab of the Account, Contact, and Opportunity detail views.
  • Importing records has a new option to update Infor CRM SLX data with imported data.
  • Importing records has a new option to set a default account manager.
  • When updating multiple records, fields that allow null values can now be set to null.

Back Office Integration

These are the enhancements related to Back Office:

  • Simplified edit product discount interface to enable higher precision of discount calculations for small amounts.
    • On the opportunity Edit Product dialog box, Integrated Pricing tab these fields are updated:
      • Adjustment Unit Price is renamed to Adjusted Price
      • Total Amount is renamed to Extended Price
      • Extended Discount Amount is renamed to Extended Discount
    • On the quote and sales order Edit Product dialog box, Integrated Pricing tab these fields are updated:
      • Unit Adjustment is renamed to Adjusted Price
      • Percent field is renamed to Discount and uses positive values to indicate the percentage by which the price is reduced. This ensures consistency for handling discount data across the system.
      • Adjusted Unit Price is renamed to Extended Discount
      • Extended Pretax Amount is renamed to Extended Price
  • Converting opportunities or quotes to sales orders includes pricing discount details provided by the host ERP system.

Administrative changes

These are the modifications or updates to the system settings, procedures, or configurations:

  • Configure Generative AI integration. See Configuring the Generative AI integration. The Generative AI integration includes AI Assistant, AI Summary, and AI Newsfeed features.
  • Configure the OCM Email Marketing integration. See Configuring the OCM Email Marketing integration. This allows users to create email campaign tasks in Infor CRM SLX, using the Infor Omni-Channel Campaign Management (OCM) Email Content Editor. Next you can define and launch the email campaign in the OCM Email Content Master.
    Note: This integration is not supported in Oracle environments.
  • CRM Workflow enhancements
    • The Change Orientation icon on the Workflow Designer tab can change the workflow to display horizontally or vertically.
    • Ability to define a name for a Stop Workflow step.
    • Trigger conditions can now include parent properties.
    • Update Entity steps now support updates to a parent property.
  • Journey Stages now have the option to specify properties to be updated with a specified value, when the stage is completed. For example, update the Opportunity Stage or Close Probability when the stage is completed.
  • Job Manager has a new Terminate Job Service option to terminate the Job Service if you are unable to stop and restart the Job Service. Once terminated, you can restart the Job Service.
  • In Database Manager, the SQL Job Definitions tab allows the administrator to view and manage SQL job definitions that are to be performed by the Job Server.
  • New secured actions for:
    • Dashboard and Widget panel layouts includes:
      • Creating and managing personal layouts (Dashboard/AddLayout)
      • Sharing personal layouts (Dashboard/ShareLayout)
      • Deleting all layouts (Dashboard/DeleteLayout)
    • Viewing the AI Assistant (Toolbar/AIAssistant)
    • Changing the owner when the current owner is set to Everyone (Administration/Security/EveryoneOwnerAssignment)
    • Reassigning ownership to any other team or user regardless of the access to the other team/user (Administration/Security/OwnerAssignmentNoAccess )
    • Importing products (Entities/Product/Import)
    • Entities/Opportunity/OverridePricing are added to Standard User, Order and Quote Processor roles.
  • Actions previously only available to the Administrator are now secured actions that can be added to user roles:
    • Administration/ExecuteSQL
    • Administration/ManageDatabase
    • Administration/ManageCalculatedFields
    • Administration/ManageDeployments
    • Administration/ManagePlugins
    • Administration/GroupManager/ManageGlobalJoins
    • Toolbar/Tools/SystemSummaryReport
  • New custom settings is introduced to hide:
    • Sales Processes (HideSalesProcess)
    • Contact Processes (HideContactProcesses)
    • The Welcome page (HideWelcomePage)
    • List views Filters (DisplayListViewFilterCounts)
  • dtSearch for SpeedSearch has been updated to 7.2501.8837.1 version and has the following indexing limitations:
    • 2GB limit on document size (ZIP, CSV file types have no limit).
    • 1 TB text limit on individual Index size.
    • 2 billion limit for documents in a single Index.
  • New Back Office Extension custom settings include:
    • Sync max percentage of threads to consume in decimal format: The portion (as a decimal) of the 10 worker threads that are used for inbound BOD processing. The default value is 0.8.
    • Sync max thread load governor in KBytes: The maximum BOD content size (in kilobytes) that each inbound worker thread can process. The default value is 40960 (40 MB in KB).
    • Sync reload low water factor in decimal format: Defines when the inbound processor adds more prioritized BODs to the in-process queue. This sets the maximum fraction (as a decimal) of the ‘Inbox Message Fetch Size’ that can remain in the queue before reloading with the next batch of prioritized BODs. The default value is 0.2.
    • Sync delay between worker threads in seconds: Defines the delay time (in seconds) between the start of each inbound processing thread. The default value is 5 seconds.
  • M3 integrations now support CRM SLX price overrides for sales order products before they are promoted to the M3 host system. To use price overrides in M3 integrations set the ‘Price Overrides enabled’ custom setting to True. See M3 with OAuth 2.0 authentication price service information.
  • The discount amount for a sales order item is calculated as the difference between the pricelist price (DocPrice) and the discounted calculated price (DocCalculatedPrice). The Infor CRM DocCalculatedPrice content corresponds to the discounted unit price before the tax (UnitPretaxAmount) is published by the host ERP system in both Sales Order BOD and price service content.
  • Back Office performance is improved to reduce memory usage and optimize processing in IONInboxJob and IONInboundProcessorJob threads.

Version 9.4

  • Mail Merge and Run Report steps are available for the CRM workflows. See What are CRM Workflows?
  • Contour is accessible for leads and opportunities. You can view leads and opportunities on a Contour map or perform a proximity search to identify leads and opportunities.
  • You can now hide Dashboard tabs.
  • The Activity window Notes field remains resized.

Back Office

These are the enhancements related to Back Office:

  • Product ERP Details Notes: In an integrated environment, the Quote and Sales Order Edit Product ERP Details Notes are now visible on the view. You can click the Notes icon to view extended notes in a separate window.
  • Improved Pricing Documentation: There is now enhanced documentation for handling price overrides and adjustments in integrated quotes or sales orders. These changes are only applicable if permitted by the administrator. See Integrated Pricing Tab for Sales Order or Quote Products (Back Office Extension)

Administrative changes

These are the modifications or updates to the system settings, procedures, or configurations:

CRM Workflows
The CRM Workflow functionality is used to define and run workflows within the CRM application. These are the related enhancements:

  • The Mail Merge and Run Report are new step actions. Run Report includes an option to send the report by email. See Defining the Mail Merge workflow step or Defining the Run Report workflow step
  • The Recipients tab is redesigned to simplify the selection of user and owner fields. This also includes an option to send emails or approvals to a user’s manager.
  • The Refresh button has been added to the CRM Workflow Definition Properties tab.
  • Ability to set the Workflow attribute for entities in Entity Manager.
Manage Deployments
You can now manage deployments from the Developer Tools menu through the Manage Deployments menu item (Deployment Manager). See Using the Deployment Manager
Lead Capture
Provides the ability to capture lead information from web page (referred to as the Lead Capture form) and save that information in Infor CRM SLX by a handler that can be added as a post action on a link or button. See What is Lead Capture?
Currency Control Decimal Digits
This is a new option on the Office Profile Currency tab to determine the number of decimal places to display in currency controls, tab grid columns, and list view currency columns that are not formatted. Formatted currency columns use the specified format. See Managing Currency
Back Office
These are the enhancements related to Back Office:

New Secured Actions
  • Administration/LeadCaptureConfiguration/View: Provides access to view the Lead Capture Configuration view. This is added for the Administrator role.
  • Administration/LeadCaptureConfiguration/Edit: Provides access to edit the Lead Capture Configuration view. This is added for the Administrator role.
  • Contour/Map/Lead: Allows searching for and viewing leads on a map. This is added for the Contour role.
  • Contour/Map/Opportunity: Allows searching for and viewing opportunities on a map. This is added for the Contour role.
  • Import/History/View: Allows access to the Import History view. This is added for the Standard user role.
Custom Setting
  • New settings:
    • MfaWinAuthNextUrlSkipList: A comma-delimited list of pages that causes the WinAuthLoad.aspx page to ignore the next_url and redirect to Default.aspx.
    • MfaFormsAuthReturnUrlSkipList: A comma-delimited list of pages that causes the Login.aspx page to ignore the ReturnUrl and redirect to Default.aspx.
    • SyncWorkerJobLimit: Specifies the allowed number of concurrent worker jobs for calendar and contact sync.
  • The category for WriteInProducts has been changed from Back Office Extension to Saleslogix, as this applies generally to Infor CRM SLX and is not limited to Back Office (ERP) integrated environments. This option is no longer listed on the Integration – Back Office Extension Options tab.
  • The OutboundRetryCountBOE setting is removed to prevent the creation of duplicate records in Infor CRM SLX and the host ERP system.

Version 9.3

  • User theme mode and color settings are now stored in the database so that they are available on different browsers and after clearing the browser cache.
  • Notes are no longer required to be associated with a record.
  • There are new options for cascading changes to related records when:
    • Updating accounts from the list view Common Task, Update option.
    • Updating the main phone number, address, or account manager on the Account detail view.
    • Updating the work phone number or address on the Contact detail view.
  • Customer Journeys
    • Now available for tickets, sales orders, and quotes.
    • Now may include a note step.
    • Account detail view Customer Journey 360 tab displays a graphical representation of all customer journeys for the account and any customer journeys for contacts, opportunities, sales orders, quotes, or tickets associated with the account. See Using the Customer Journey 360 tab
    • Dashboard Customer Journey Kanban widgets for tickets, sales orders, and quotes. See Working with a Dashboard Customer Journey Kanban widget
  • Multi-Factor Authentication provides an extra security layer by requiring users to provide a unique and time-sensitive code before being signed in to the Infor CRM Web Client.
  • You can start a CRM Workflow manually for a selected contact, account, lead, opportunity, sales order, quote, ticket invoice, return or user from the list or detail view Task Pane option. See Starting a CRM workflow
  • For administrators
    • Database Manager allows the administrator to manage the database and perform related tasks in a single location. There are separate tabs for Tables, Views, Functions, Triggers, Global Joins and Audit. Each tab displays the records in a list view and detail pane tabs to manage the information for a specific item. The Task Pane includes tab-specific tasks for each tab. See Using Database Manager
    • Execute Query allows the administrator to test or execute SQL statements. See Execute query
    • Plugin Manager list view displays Web plugins and allows the administrator to delete and manage plugin releases. See Using Plugin Manager list view
    • SpeedSearch Manager allows the administrator and users with permission to manage SpeedSearch indexes and schedules and set SpeedSearch settings. See Using SpeedSearch Manager
    • CRM Workflow
      • Triggers can now be based on a date, a schedule, or manual trigger.
      • New trigger condition operator, On Change.
      • New date field operators for date triggers: Past due x days, Past due x hours, Within x days and Within x hours.

      See CRM workflows for more information.

    • Configure email Send to CRM attachment options and domain exclusions from the Office Profile Email Setup tab. See Office Profile Email Setup tab
    • Customer Journeys
      • New note step action.
      • Supported for tickets, sales orders, and quotes.
      • Supported for users:
        • You can create a customer journey with notes and check list (None) step actions.
      • Enable and configure Multi-Factor Authentication. See Implementing Multi-Factor Authentication
      • Manage Urgency codes used to prioritize tickets. See Managing urgency codes
      • Manage the Customer Portal Web Access User. See Using Office Profile Service/Support tab
      • The System Summary Report displays information about your Infor CRM SLX system. See Viewing the System Summary Report
      • New Secured Actions
        • Administration/SpeedSearchManager/AddIndex – grants permission to add a SpeedSearch index.
        • Administration/SpeedSearchManager/AddSchedule – grants permission to add a SpeedSearch schedule.
        • Administration/SpeedSearchManager/DeleteIndex – grants permission to delete a SpeedSearch Index.
        • Administration/SpeedSearchManager/DeleteSchedule – grants permission to delete a SpeedSearch Schedule.
        • Administration/SpeedSearchManager/EditIndex – grants permission to edit a SpeedSearch index.
        • Administration/SpeedSearchManager/EditSchedule – grants permission to edit a SpeedSearch schedule.
        • Administration/SpeedSearchManager/ManageSettings – grants permission to manage SpeedSearch Settings.
        • Administration/SpeedSearchManager/RunSchedule – grants permission to run a SpeedSearch Schedule.
        • Administration/SpeedSearchManager/View – grants permission to view SpeedSearch Manager.

Version 9.2

  • Allows for additional administrative tasks to be done in the web client and does not require RDP access to the server.

  • Perform ERP price and availability lookups for Opportunities and Quotes for Accounts that have not yet been promoted to ERP.

  • Completely new Speed Search user interface
  • Customer journey maps serve as valuable tools for businesses to understand, manage, and optimize the customer experience. By focusing on the customer’s perspective throughout their interactions

  • Support for Crystal Reports 13
  • Job Server improvements
  • Ability to install Bundles from the web client
  • Ability to start CRM workflow from SDATA
  • View the number of logged-in users
  • Support ticket auto-assignment
  • New Secured Actions
  • Administration of licenses from the web client
  • Password self-service improvements
  • Activity realignment from the common tasks panel
  • Mail Merge for Word improvements

Version 9.1

  • Lead Source Dropdown
    • Lead Source throughout the product was changed from a lookup to a dropdown.
  • Reason Lost
    • Closed Date and Reason Lost have been added to the Account.  Dialog is displayed when the status of the Account is changed to “Closed”.
  • Line Number Re-ordering
    • Re-order lines in Opportunity, Quote, and Sales Order.
  • Job Manager
    • Start and stop the Job Server from within the Web Admin.
  • History Main View
    • Access History as a main view.
  • Product Bundles
    • Create a bundle of products
  • Calculated Field Aggregate Support
    • Create computed columns that contain aggregate data like a count of all open tickets for an Account.
  • Developer Menu
    • Allows for developer tasks to be completed in the Web Client where previously only available in the Application Architect
  • Workflow Designer
    • Completing workflow capability for more detailed, complex workflow processes
  • Customer Journey tab
    • Overall, customer journey maps serve as valuable tools for businesses to understand, manage, and optimize the customer experience
  • Search Improvements
    • Simpler interface
    • Context-sensitive
    • Type ahead
    • Result Grouping and paging
    • Improved Security

Version 9.0

  • Updated user interface
    • Ability to select a theme color from the Theme menu
    • Ability to specify light, dark, or high-contrast mode
    • Information is emphasized
      • Editable information is bold
      • Read-only information is in black text
      • Labels are now a lighter gray
    • Field borders appear in insert mode, dialog boxes, and in detail views when a field is selected (in focus).
    • An asterisk appears next to all required fields on insert views.
    • A new contact card on the Contact Detail view that highlights the most important contact information including the ability to upload a photo of the contact and a company image which can also be added from the Account Detail view.
    • The ability to add an account image from the Account detail view will also automatically appear on any associated contact’s detail views.
  • Ability to view and manage KPIs on the Accounts, Opportunities, Quotes, Sales Orders, Invoices, Contracts, Returns, and Ticket list views.
  • New Dashboard widgets
    • Bubble Chart – A bubble chart uses bubbles or circles to show the relationship between categories
    • Group List
  • New Log menu to quickly log a phone call, meeting, or to-do, as a history item or create a note.
    Note: Access to this menu must be granted by the administrator.
  • Lookups based on phone numbers or emails now search across all phone numbers or email fields, not just a single, selected field.
    Note: To search for all phone numbers in a list or detail view lookup, there must be at least one phone number column in the default lookup layout group specified for that main view and the column Format Type must be set to Phone.
    • The default lookup layout group option is set in the Tools, Options, on the Group tab, Default Lookup Layout option, which is specified for each main view. For more information about setting this option see Setting up Group Options.
    • Group column format types are specified in the Query Builder Layout tab. For more information about specifying a group column layout see Assigning a Query Layout.
  • For administrators
    • The ability to add company image from the Office Profile view appears automatically in the upper left corner above the Navigation bar.
    • When updating multiple accounts to change the owner, account manager, regional manager, or divisional manager that changes cascade and update the same value for all related contacts, opportunities, quotes, sales orders, returns, and tickets.
    • Territory realignment to reassign ownership of accounts based on the account owner, the account manager, or a custom group.
      Note: A territory realignment also updates the owner of the following related items: Contacts, Opportunities, Sales Orders, Quotes, Tickets, and Returns.
    • New Toolbar or Log secured action for viewing the Log menu.
    • Back Office Custom Settings:
      • CRMPriceOverrideReasonCode -The Reason Code to be added to a Discount Charge item created for a price adjustment to quote or sales order product that occurred in Infor CRM SLX. The default value is NULL as it is implementation specific.
      • ERPPriceOverrideReasonCode – The Reason Code to be added to a Discount Charge item created for a price adjustment to quote or sales order product that occurred in the ERP. The default value is NULL as it is implementation specific.
      • PriceAdjEnabled – If set to True, users can make adjustments to unit price of sales order and quote products in by adjusting the unit price and discounts will be calculated based on the unit price and percentage. Default is set to NULL which is interpreted as False.
      • ERPPriceOverrideEnabled – If set to True, users can edit the unit price of sales order and quote products in Infor CRM SLX. Default is set to NULL which is interpreted as False.

Version 8.5.0.1

  • New Mail Merge feature is supported in all supported browsers. For more information, see Mail Merge.
    • Mail Merge is available from the Web Client Compose menu and task pane of supported list and detail views.
    • Ability to perform a mail merge with contacts, leads, and contacts associated with sales orders, quotes, contracts, returns, and tickets in addition to accounts and opportunities.
    • The Infor CRM Mail Merge for Microsoft Word add-in makes Mail Merge available in Microsoft Word.
    • Ability to fulfill literature requests in all supported browsers.
    • Ability to complete mail merge steps in a sales process in all supported browsers.
  • When scheduling or editing an activity, you can view limited details of an associated record by hovering over a record in the Associations section. For more information, see Scheduling an Activity.
  • For Administrators
    • For implementations that are integrated with Back Office, there is a new Is Value Override option in the Field Mapping Detail view and when adding, copying, customizing, or editing a field mapping. If this option is selected, when a BOD is processed and the field mapping property is not included as an attribute in the XML, the value in the Infor CRM SLX database will be set to NULL. If this option is cleared, when the BOD is processed and the field mapping property is not included as an attribute in the XML, no updates will be made to that property in Infor CRM SLX.
    • The upgrade-safe BOD Packs have been enhanced to include CSI price service support for CSI-10-based implementations.

Version 8.5

  • The new Dashboards feature provides all new configurable widgets including new funnel, gauge, and donut charts, and the ability to add multiple data sources for some chart types. See Working with DashboardsDashboard Widgets and Working with Dashboard data sources
  • CRM Workflow
    • New review and approval process includes:
      • Individual or group approval processes
      • Configurable approval criteria
      • Escalation support
    • An updated template editor with the following enhancements:
      • Token selection has transitioned to the standard @ mention user interface
      • Expanded constant tokens include: $Link_ApprovalForm, $Link_DetailForm, $EntityType, and $ApprovalStatus
    • Department, team, Infor CRM SLX User, and email related properties are now supported as valid notification address selections
    • The Step condition editor now includes support for related data content and the new expanded constant tokens
  • For administrators
    • The ability to expose entities for Dashboards from the Entity Manager. See Exposing an Entity for Dashboards
    • In the Application Architect, customizations are now being stored separately from core files, entities, and entity properties. This includes changes made in the Web Client Entity Manager, Form Manager and Group Manager. For more information see the Application Architect help topic “Working with Customizations”.
    • Optional optimized Back Office Extension inbound handler
      • Processes pending BODs in a prioritized Last-in-First-out (LIFO) sequence once

        the IOBOX database has been updated with the new

        SqlServer_CreateInboxLifoIndexes.sql script

Version 8.4.0.4

  • Ability to associate multiple records with an activity, including: contacts, accounts, opportunities, tickets, and leads and now sales orders, quotes, campaigns, returns, and defects.
  • Ability to associate multiple records with a note, including: contacts, accounts, opportunities, tickets, and leads and now sales orders, quotes, campaigns, returns, and defects.
  • Activities list view now supports groups and standard list view features.
  • CRM Workflows provide configurable automated email notifications based on updated CRM content.
  • New out-of-the-box Query Builder parameters.
  • Updated icons.
  • Swagger API Docs to support REST API self-documenting API.

Version 8.4.0.3

Forecasting and Quotas

  • New Quota and Forecast views allow management of sales goals and tools to measure performance towards those goals.
    • Quotas – enables sales managers and organizations to create and manage sales quotas and users to view sales quota information.
    • Forecasts – enables users to create and view forecasts.
    • Forecast Pipeline – displays pipeline information segmented by criteria such as manager, country, or product.
    • New Opportunity Forecast Dashboard – enables users to see opportunity pipeline analytics in the form of charting and list widgets.
  • Users with the appropriate access may:
    • View, add, and manage quotas
    • View, add, and manage forecasts.
  • New Opportunity groups – Forecasted to Close in 30 Days or less, Forecasted to Close in 30 to 60 days, Forecasted 61 Days or more

Refreshed user interface

Administration

  • The Exchange Rates job and automatic download of exchange rates has been deprecated.
  • The User import automatically maps the user fields, so you no longer need to select a template or map fields.
  • Back Office Extension Improvements:
    • (CSD or SX.e integrations only) Back Office Extension enhancements for two-way Sales Order support with Cloud Suite Distribution (CSD)
      • Ability to prevent the promotion of Infor CRM SLX Quotes and updated Sales Orders
      • New Custom Settings
        • Read Only Quote On Promotion – Set to True to prevent the modification of quotes for host systems like CSD, which do not support the promotion of updated CRM Quote content.
        • Block Quote For Non-Promoted Records – Set to True to prevent the promotion of new quotes for host systems like CSD, which do not support the promotion of CRM quote content.
        • Block Quote For Promoted Records – Set to True to prevent the promotion of updated quote content for host systems like CSD, which do not support the promotion of updated CRM quote content.
        • Read Only Sales Order On Promotion – Set to True prevents the modification of promoted sales order content for host systems like CSD, which do not support the promotion of updated CRM Sales Order content.
        • Block Sales Order For Promoted Records – Set to True prevents the promotion of modified sales order content for host systems like CSD, which do not support the promotion of updated Infor CRM SLX Sales Orders.
      • Ability to override the unit price
        • New Secured Actions
          • Entities/SalesOrder/OverridePricing – Allows the Infor CRM SLX user to override the adjusted Sales Order unit price when editing a product. This secured action is automatically included in the Standard User and Order and Quote Processor
          • Entities/Quote/OverridePricing – Allow the Infor CRM SLX user to override the adjusted Quote unit price when editing a product. This secured action is automatically included in the Standard User and Order and Quote Processor
      • Ability to override the shipping charge
        • New Custom Settings
          • Display snapshot shipping summary- Set to True to display Shipping information in the Sales Order snapshot. The default value is False.
          • Include ERP Freight Rates- Set to False to disable the CSD Freight Rate Shopping functionality for Infor CRM SLX based Sales Orders. The default value is True.
          • Freight Reason Code- Implementation-specific distributed charge freight reason code corresponding to the CSD-based CRM Freight Addon reason code.
        • New Secured Actions
          • Entities/SalesOrder/EditShippingCharge– Allows the Infor CRM SLX user to override the shipping charge. This secured action is automatically included in the Standard User and Order and Quote Processor
          • Entities/Quote/EditShippingCharge– Allows the Infor CRM SLX user to override the estimated shipping charge. This secured action is automatically included in the Standard User and Order and Quote Processor
        • List view performance-related custom settings.
          • GroupListBufferRows

            The number of rows to keep ready on each side of the viewport area so that the user can perform local scrolling without seeing the grid being built.

            Increasing this number can improve perceived performance when the data is being retrieved over a slow network.

          • GroupListFarOffRemoval

            Defines the minimum distance (in pixels) from the visible viewport area rows must be in order to be removed.

            Setting to Infinity causes rows to never be removed.

          • GroupListMaximumRowsPerPage

            The maximum number of rows to request at one time.

          • GroupListMinimumRowsPerPage

            The minimum number of rows to request at one time.

          • GroupListPagingDelay

            Indicates the delay (in milliseconds) imposed upon paging method, to wait before paging in more data on scroll events.

            This can be increased to reduce client-side overhead or the number of requests sent to a server.

          • GroupListPagingMethod

            Method (from dgrid/util/misc) to use to either throttle or debounce requests.

            Default is debounce, which will cause the grid to wait until the user pauses scrolling before firing any requests.

            Can be set to throttleDelayed instead to progressively request as the user scrolls, which generally incurs more overhead but might appear more responsive.

          • GroupSummaryBufferRows

            The number of rows to keep ready on each side of the viewport area so that the user can perform local scrolling without seeing the grid being built.

            Increasing this number can improve perceived performance when the data is being retrieved over a slow network.

          • GroupSummaryFarOffRemoval

            Indicates the delay (in milliseconds) imposed upon pagingMethod, to wait before paging in more data on scroll events.

            This can be increased to reduce client-side overhead or the number of requests sent to a server.

          • GroupSummaryPagingDelay

            Method (from dgrid/util/misc) to use to either throttle or debounce requests.

            Default is debounce, which will cause the grid to wait until the user pauses scrolling before firing any requests;

            Can be set to throttleDelayed instead to progressively request as the user scrolls, which generally incurs more overhead but might appear more responsive.

          • GroupSummaryPagingMethod

            Method (from dgrid/util/misc) to use to either throttle or debounce requests.

            Default is debounce, which will cause the grid to wait until the user pauses scrolling before firing any requests.

            Can be set to throttleDelayed instead to progressively request as the user scrolls, which generally incurs more overhead but might appear more responsive.

  • Financial Settings tab on the Office Profile to set options for Fiscal Year and Forecast and Quota periods.
  • Quotas and Forecasting Secured Actions and New Roles
    • Quotas & Forecasting role allows users to view quotas and view and manage forecasts. Includes the following secured actions:
      • Entities/Forecast/Add – Allows the Infor CRM SLX user to add forecast records
      • Entities/Forecast/Delete – Allows the Infor CRM SLX user to delete forecast records
      • Entities/Forecast/Edit – Allows the Infor CRM SLX user to edit forecast records
      • Entities/Forecast/View – Allows the Infor CRM SLX user to access forecast views and records
      • Entities/Quota/View – Allows the Infor CRM SLX user to access quota views and records
    • Quota Management role- allows users to create and manage quotas. Includes the following secured actions:
      • Entities/Quota/Add – Allows the Infor CRM SLX user to add quota records
      • Entities/Quota/Delete – Allows the Infor CRM SLX user to delete quota records
      • Entities/Quota/Edit – Allows the Infor CRM SLX user to edit quota records

Version 8.4.0.2

Back Office Extension Improvements:

  • The Primary Contact indicator is no longer displayed on the Contact details page if the administrator has enabled Integrated Primary Contact Indicator in the Back Office Extension tab. The new primary contact flag can be viewed in the Contact, Account Associations tab or in the Account, Contact Associations tab. Changes to the primary contact must be made in the Account, Contacts Associations tab grid.
  • The New Sync for Exchange integration custom setting Complete Exchange Appointments is disabled by default, but when enabled synchronizes all completed appointment between Infor CRM SLX and Exchange.
  • The updated Sync for Exchange integration custom setting Notify Members of Completion is disabled by default. When enabled, activity members are notified when an activity is completed.
    Note: In order for a true value to work in Notify Members of Completion, the value of Complete Exchange Appointments must be true. If Complete Exchange Appointments is false, then Notify Members of Completion is ignored as all notifications are cancelled.
  • When the new custom setting Contact Account Management Enabled is enabled, the inbound processor cascades the changes to the account’s account manager and the related contacts.
  • When the new Custom Setting Publish All Addresses is enabled, the outbound processor can publish multiple addresses. To publish only the primary address this custom setting must be cleared.

Version 8.4.0.1

  • Help About field:

    This field displays the versions of Infor CRM SLX, SNC, Core, and Model bundles installed. If a bundle is not installed, the version number is not displayed.

  • Two Way Quotes and Sales Orders:

    When Infor CRM SLX is integrated with a supported ERP system, Infor CRM SLX Web Client users who are creating a Sales Order can view the Order location, defined by the term which matches the location used by the ERP: Warehouse, Site, or Office. Product selections are based on ERP: Warehouse, Site, Office or Logical ID.

  • Promotion Failure Notifications:

    If an Infor CRM SLX update is rejected by the integrated ERP, the user is now notified about this failed update.

    • A mingle task can be generated for the user who last worked on the record.
    • An email can be sent and the task escalated if it is not assigned or completed.
    • Auto cancellation of outstanding task is possible if an attempt is made to sync data.
    • These actions do not impact the record itself.
  • ION Workflow Enhancements:

    The following features support creating new ION Workflows:

    • New standard workflows are available as a part of the upgrade.
    • Additional data types (e.g: picklists, Unicode Text, standard IDs) are now supported.
    • You (administrators) can copy and then edit an existing workflow, to create a new workflow.
    • An unique workflow name is automatically assigned to the copied workflows.

Version 8.4

  • The Dated Exchange Rates functionality allows you to use the past exchange rates. This allows the customers to create multiple periods and maintain different exchange rate for each period.
  • The Opportunity Pricing Web services functionality allows you to automatically retrieve the prices of the product from the integrated ERP. This allows you to easily view:
    • The price of the product.
    • The quantity (units) of the products available in the Warehouse.
    • The updated product price, if product price is modified in the ERP.
    • Improved performance during price request.
  • The Multiregional Address Formatting functionality allows you to view the addresses in the country specific address format. You can also edit address format based on the business requirements.
  • The LinkedIn Sales Navigator provides an integration between Infor CRM SLX and LinkedIn. The integration enables sales representatives to find and build relationships with the prospects as well as the customers, which helps the organizations to extend the network and accelerate the sales process.
  • The integration of Infor CRM SLX with Marketo, allows users to leverage valuable marketing and activity-related data for leads and contacts. This data provides better business solutions and assists Infor CRM SLX users to close opportunities and determine level of engagement of the leads. This functionality helps Infor CRM SLX users to:
    • Improve operational efficiency.
    • Provides Two-way synchronization between leads and contacts inInfor CRM SLX and Marketo.
    • Provides One-way synchronization between accounts, opportunities and Users in Infor CRM SLX and Marketo.

Back Office Extension Improvements

  • The Account Invoice Aging tab provides summarized past due invoice aging content. All host ERP invoices with past due payment due dates and an ERP status of “Open” or “PartialPaid” are included in the summary values presented on the Account Invoice Aging tab.
    Note: Content is dependent upon the Infor CRM SLX instance being integrated to a back office host ERP system publishing invoice content.
  • The Notes field is added to the ERP Details tab on the Account Detail view. This field displays the notes published by the integrated host ERP, in the descending date sequence.
    Note: You cannot modify this value.
  • When Master Data Consolidation is enabled, the consolidation of ERP Persons, used by the Infor CRM SLX optional ownership logic, in addition to the consolidation of Accounts, Ship Tos, Bill Tos, Pay Froms, Contacts and Products is supported.
    Note: Execution of the Master Data Consolidation conversion option is required if the implementation contains pre-existing ERP data content.

Version 8.3.0.09

No new features added in this release.

Version 8.3.0.08

  • Separate options are now available for setting the language and the regional formats. The new Regional Formats option determines date, time, number, and currency formats.
  • Account Hierarchy:
    • This option can be used to view the hierarchy view of the parent account and all the children and the grandchildren of an account, from the Account Detail view.
    • You can now access the quick view of frequently used entities (contacts, opportunities, sales orders and activities).
  • The Mail details to your administrator error message link now opens an email message that can be sent to an email address defined by the administrator.
  • You can now select a language on the Details tab of the Contact Detail view, that changes the list items in the Prefix, Suffix, and Title pick lists for a particular contact.

    These pick lists must be configured by the administrator in order to support multiple languages.

  • For Back Office implementations:
    • Master Data Consolidation is an optional feature that consolidates duplicate accounts, resulting from host systems like ERP-M3, ERP-LX and ERP-Visual, with the same CustomerID into a single Infor CRM SLX account record.
      Note: The publishing of quotes and sales orders from Infor CRM SLX to the host ERP system is not supported with Master Data Consolidation enabled.
  • Infor CRM SLX with Infor Ming.le:
    • Infor Ming.le Funnel Chart widget.
    • Infor Ming.le Top Prospects widget is a list of my prospective accounts.
    • Infor Ming.le Infor CRM SLX Opportunities widget of associated quotes for each opportunity.
    • Infor Ming.le Infor CRM SLX Contracts widget which provides a detailed view of the contract and associated contacts.
    • Infor Ming.le Infor CRM SLX Activities widget lists a user’s daily activities and allows them to complete those activities within the widget.
  • The administrators and the users with appropriate role access can:
    • Create multi-regional pick lists with different list items for each language. The contents of a multi-regional pick list depends upon the user’s language setting.
    • Set a default language for multi-regional pick lists.
    • Set the Desired Language on the Name Prefix and Name Suffix so that users can select a language on the Contact Detail view Details tab that changes the list items in the Prefix and Suffix, pick lists.
    • Use the new Office Profile Error Notifications tab to enable the Error message email link feature and specify one or more email addresses that automatically populates the email To: field.
    • If the Error message email link feature is enabled, users who encounter an error message can send an email to the specified address that contains a link which displays Event Viewer information.

      The Event Viewer information is only available to administrators or users granted access to the ErrorLookupService/View secured action.

    • Use the new secured action for Account Hierarchy – Entities/Account/Hierarchy.
  • For Back Office implementations:
    • Normalize Base Currency provides an option to store data published by an ERP in terms of the Infor CRM SLX base currency. This allows customers who opt for this service, to work in Infor CRM SLX using the Infor CRM SLX base currency even though the integrated ERP system uses a different base currency.
    • Using the Workflow Definition Detail Viewenables Infor CRM SLX users to initiate a workflow defined in ION from within Infor CRM SLX. The trigger can be defined as conditional or manual in Infor CRM SLX and the trigger can be extended to other entities.
    • Discrete Address provides the option to use a discrete type of address if it is passed from an integrated back office ERP system.
  • New and updated help topics

Version 8.3.0.07

  • The new AnyBOD upgrade functionality has been implemented. As a result, ION BOD Mappings and ION field mappings options are removed from the Integration section on the navigation bar.
  • A new language code field is added for inbound BOD processing.
  • Clone functionality has been restricted only to back offices. When a back office is cloned, all its associated BOD mappings and field mappings are reflected in the Cloned back office.
  • BOD Mappings or Field Mappings can be edited using the new Customize link.
  • Once edited, the BOD Mappings or Field Mappings can also be viewed on the new Custom BOD Mappings and Custom Field Mappings tabs respectively. The customize link is replaced with the new Edit link, when updated for the first time.
  • The new Copy link provided with Price Mappings and Field Mappings can be used to create a duplicate record. You can make changes in the duplicate record.
  • Use the new + icon to create new BOD field Mapping records.
  • The entity specific pricing feature can be used for Opportunities, Sales orders and Quote entities.
  • New and updated help topics

Version 8.3.0.06

  • The ability to look for potential matching records when adding a new account.
  • When moving a contact there is a new option to assign all items to the same contact.
  • Showing groups has been replaced by group Favorites. Favorites allow you to determine which groups you want to display as tabs on list and detail views. Your administrator determines the maximum number of groups that can be displayed. All standard groups will be marked as Favorites by default.
    Note: Newly created groups are automatically marked as favorites. Favorites display as tabs in alphabetical order up to the limit allowed. You can use the Groups list to manage your Favorites.
  • Export to File and Export to Excel have been combined and renamed Export in Common Tasks and from the right-click menu.
  • Changes to Export to improve performance, including a limit to the number of records to be exported and the ability to turn off exporting pivot tables to Microsoft Excel. These options are set by your administrator.
    Note: This limit does not apply to any other features that support the selection of multiple records, only export.
  • Sales Intelligence includes the ability to view the likelihood that a contact or account will make a purchase and provides a Recommendations tab that recommends products the contact or account is likely to purchase in the next 30 days.
  • CPQ configurator now supports the promotion of SalesOrders when products are integrated with the ERP-LN.
  • Updates for administrators and those with appropriate role access:
  • New and updated help topics

Version 8.3.0.05

  • Completed meetings now display contact and account information on the Calendar.
  • Updates for administrators and those with appropriate role access:
    • Ability to promote users between Infor CRM SLX and Infor Ming.le.
    • Ability to promote roles between Infor CRM SLX and Infor Ming.le.
  • New and updated help topics

Version 8.3.0.04

Version 8.3.0.03

Version 8.3.0.02

  • Ticket lookups based on user criteria are no longer limited to 100 results.
  • Ability to refresh pricing for sales orders and quotes when using a price service
  • Updates for administrators and those with appropriate role access:
  • Infor CRM SLX can now be set as the system of record in a back office integration.
  • The Promote tasklet found on the Opportunity, Sales Order and Quotes detail view tasklets can now process both Sync and Process BODs.

Version 8.3.0.01

Version 8.3

Version 8.2.0.01

Version 8.2

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