We have released SAP Note 3363313 – LOD-PER-OP Rel. 3.0 SP24: Visual Modeler Screens Enhancements and Fixes (1) during the latter part of 2023, and with this we are excited to have introduced several Visual Modeler enhancements and fixes.

I would be happy to discuss with you the improvements and enhancements aimed at providing you with a better visualization and an improved user experience across the following applications:

Environment Screen

• When dragging an environment from one place to another, a folder icon was displayed instead of an environment icon beside the environment. This issue has been fixed, and the system now displays an environment icon when you move an environment, and a folder icon when you move a node.

• The behavior of the Go To buttons (Modeling and Process) by being disabled whenever you successfully copy and save an environment has been addressed, and now these buttons are available for use after a successful copy.

• Previously, whenever you made changes to an environment and then chose the Refresh browser button, there were no warning messages appearing on your screen, thereby increasing the risk of losing any changes made to the configuration of the environment. Now, a pop-up warning message appears whenever you choose the Refresh button.

Modeling Environment Screen

• When adding rows on the Conversion Types and File Formats tab, the bottom-most entry was usually the last entry, and upon saving, it stayed that way. Now, the system organizes the entries in an ascending order, which is also helpful when searching for a specific entry.

• Previously, when you deleted rules in a Join function and then copied that Join function, the rules that were deleted appeared outside of the Join function, or even outside of the calculation unit. This behavior has been rectified and the rules are now placed where they should be.

• A new “autofill” functionality for the General Entities node was introduced, so that default values are now generated when adding new rows.

• Copying an Allocation function sometimes produced different configurations in the Value Adjustment section. Now, when you copy an Allocation function, the configurations are preserved as with those from the source Allocation function.

• When maintaining a Model Table using the Date picker, the Date picker may have closed unexpectedly. This issue is now addressed, so that the Date picker functionality would work as intended.

• Previously, warning messages appeared whenever technical fields were used in the formula editor, because the technical fields were not allowed to be declared on the signature section of a function. Now, this behavior has been enhanced so that the technical fields can be declared in the signature of a processing function, thereby addressing the appearance of the warning messages.

• Previously, when you chose an environment, the environment was highlighted, but not selected (marked with a checkmark on the left side). Because of this, the Modeling and Process buttons were disabled. This behavior has been enhanced, so that when you choose an environment, now it gets selected, and the Modeling and Process buttons are enabled, allowing you to edit and maintain the selected environment.

• After running a function, the Erase Data button is expected to be enabled as data is going to be generated after the run. However, this was not the case in the past, and you needed to refresh the environment to enable the Erase Data button. This issue has been addressed, and now the Erase Data button is enabled by default.

Process Management

• Previously, when you created a process instance with empty dates or with future dates, it was not visible as the date in focus was the current date. This issue has been addressed so that the process instance is now visible where the date has been dropped/created.

Visualize Screen / Report Management Screen

• The “SAP Standard” font is now used as the default setting in the header of the Report Management Screen.

• The story filter was enhanced so that now it functions correctly on the Report Management Screen.

There you have it, the new enhancements and fixes included in SAP Note 3363313. If you haven’t had the chance to read the blog post about the SP23 Visual Modeler SAP Note release, please use the link below:

https://blogs.sap.com/2023/09/13/whats-new-in-sap-profitability-and-performance-management-3.0-sp23/

Thank you for taking the time to read this blog post. We will keep you informed when a new Visual Modeler SAP Note becomes available.

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