December 2022 Release Notes

12-29-2022

Chartering VIP & IMOS

Added webhook support for updating laytime termsFactor via update estimate mutation when the CFGEnableEditableLaytimeFactor flag is enabled.

Story EN-45416

12-27-2022

Analytics 

Operations Invoice table in the Report Designer now has a 1-many join to the Operations Invoice Approvals table so that users can report on invoice approvals based on the VIP database audit trail.

Story EN-45670

12-27-2022

Voyage P&L VIP & IMOS

Previously, offhires can appear as 'Uncovered' in a voyage's P&L itemization when it's within their time frame. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-45526

12-27-2022

Invoicing & Payments 

A new configuration flag has been introduced which allows the IC Account for each internal company to be used by default on payments and receipts against that company.

New Configuration Flag: CFGUseSpecificICAccountOnPaymentsAndReceipts
Description:When enabled, intercompany payments and receipts will by default to be sent to the account of the company defined in the Intercompany Info section of the payment/receipt, based on the IC Account defined in that company’s W address book record. If there is no IC Account defined there, the IC Account from Account Periods will be used, similar to the behavior of when this flag is disabled.
Default: N

Story EN-45200

12-27-2022

Voyage P&L VIP & IMOS

Previously, some of the profit & loss reports for voyages were not showing demurrage values correctly. This has been fixed

Bug EN-45110

12-27-2022

Operations VIP Only

Enabling the Bunkers on Consumption setting in Time Charter Out contracts no longer clears redelivery prices in mirrored Time Charter In contracts.

Bug EN-45077

12-27-2022

Demurrage & Claims VIP Only

Previously, with CFGAutoCreateEstVoyDemurrage enabled, automatically created Estimated Demurrage records could incorrectly be assigned a demurrage rate of 0 on Voyages with no demurrage days specified. This has been improved; on such voyages that include exactly one Cargo, the rate assigned to the auto-created Estimated Demurrage record will be the load demurrage rate of the single Cargo on the Voyage.

Story EN-44918

12-27-2022

Journals VIP & IMOS

For some configurations using mirroring and profit sharing, when accruals were run with the settings, CFGUseFastIDForBill and CFGSeparateAndMirrorProfitShareAccrual enabled, an error occurred when posting Monthly Closing Profit Share Accrual. This issue has been resolved.

Bug EN-40544

12-22-2022-r2

Veslink Voyage Reporting VIP & IMOS

Reverted change to auto-populate upcoming ports in Onboard forms due to reported issues

Bug EN-45720

12-22-2022

Agent Portal 

Resolved an issue which prevented loading Departure Reports in Agent Portal

Bug EN-45707

12-22-2022

Operations VIP Only

The grid sizes and whitespace in the Vessel Vetting Tab have been reduced.

Story EN-45611

12-22-2022

Voyage P&L 

Previously, Ballast Bonuses in a voyage's P&L could sometimes not appear under actual column when viewing by period. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-45208

12-22-2022

Data Center Settings VIP Only

Improved error message that user sees when attempting to update a config flag that requires a schema upgrade,

Story EN-43948

12-21-2022

Platform API 

Removed v1/search endpoints from Veslink API

Story EN-45615

12-21-2022

Invoicing & Payments 

Previously, fully approved operations invoices were allowed to be approved again. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-45560

12-21-2022

System Performance VIP Only

Added config flag CFGEnableDecisionTableCache, defaulting to N. When enabled, decision tables will be kept in a short-lived cache to reduce the number of database reads relating to evaluation of Tasks & Alerts. Additionally, made various fixes to reduce number of database queries executed when evaluating Advanced Pricing rules and Cargo Tasks & Alerts.

Bug EN-45522

12-20-2022

Stylesheets 

Custom stylesheets reports will no longer show a blank screen when run

Bug EN-45688

12-20-2022

Analytics VIP & IMOS

Bug in which reports run with a relative date filter (ex 'after 15 days ago') are not applied is fixed.

Bug EN-45667

12-19-2022

Scheduling 

fixed week number bug in vessel schedule

Bug EN-45801

12-19-2022

Trade Hub 

Adjusted license controls of tradehub module.

Story EN-45383

12-19-2022

Demurrage & Claims VIP & IMOS

Adding tooltips to laytime cargo handling grid

Bug EN-45278

12-19-2022

Scheduling 

fixed week number bug in vessel schedule

Bug EN-39902

focus-gateway-svc-1.0.59824, focus-svc-1.0.59824, vvr-focus-translator-svc-1.0.59824

Veslink Voyage Reporting 

N/A

Story EN-45172

12-16-2022-r2

Invoicing & Payments 

Previously, company-based business rules did not always take precedence over generic (non-company) ones when posting an invoice and setting Account on the invoice details lines. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-45623

12-16-2022-r2

Security & User Mgmt 

Added Fuel Zone permission checks

Bug EN-45394

12-16-2022-r2

Chartering VIP & IMOS

Added support for editable laytime term factors in estimates custom itinerary grid.

Story EN-45291

12-16-2022

Analytics VIP & IMOS

Errors displayed when running reports with 'after today' type filters fixed.

Bug EN-45590

12-16-2022

Analytics VIP Only

In the "Outstanding Hire-Payment Adjustments" report, if company-based security is enabled, contracts under companies for which a given user does not have read access will no longer be included in the report.

Bug EN-45532

12-16-2022

Voyage P&L 

Previously, a bunker swap split into multiple voyages could have appeared in a irrelevant voyage. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-45498

12-16-2022

Trading VIP & IMOS

Updated CFGCommodityMarketCurr flag. Added 'Curr' field to the Market Data form associated with the selected Commodity Symbol.

Story EN-45099

12-16-2022

Voyage P&L 

Previously, individual user account for different locale other than (English - USA) was showing an incorrect surcharge rate. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-44518

12-16-2022

Onboard VIP & IMOS

Onboard will now hide FOB voyages for users that have 'Restrict Vessel Access' configured.

Story EN-44509

12-16-2022

Chartering 

A new flag has been added for the Voyage Estimate(CFGDisplayDemRateInEstimate). When enabled, the Load Dem rate field will be displayed in the Cargo Grid in the Voyage Estimator. This field will display the value of the Load Dem rate in the CP Terms Details form on the estimate. Updating this field in the Cargo Grid will update the value in the CP Terms Details and will trigger the loading despatch and discharging dem/des rates to update based on the values of CFGDefaultDespatchPercent and CFGDefaultDischargeDemDesPercent.

Story EN-44508

12-16-2022

Voyage P&L 

Previously, exchange rate difference P&L item from the port expense could have been displayed even with the CFGExclXdiffFromPortExp flag on. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-44467

12-16-2022

Chartering 

When "CFGEnableCiiCalc" is enabled and the schema is at 391 or greater, the Carbon View on the Estimator will calculate estimated CII Grades for the voyage.

Story EN-44389

12-15-2022

Onboard VIP & IMOS

Forms that contain an "Upcoming Ports" field (such as the standard "At Sea" noon report) will now have this field be pre-populated when the form is being submitted through the Onboard workspace. If the form group setting "Enter Multiple Upcoming Ports" is enabled, then all upcoming ports in the itinerary will be pre-populated, otherwise only the next port will be pre-populated.

Story EN-45480

12-15-2022

Voyage P&L 

Previously, a voyage's P&L could display additional Equipment Contract itemizations for another voyage in the same contract. This has been fixed

Bug EN-45247

12-15-2022

Journals 

Previously, generating both summary report and transaction records with a large amount of posted invoices could have produced an error. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-44465

12-15-2022

Invoicing & Payments VIP & IMOS

Previously, Voyage Expenses Rebill Management form re-saved all invoices in it on the form save - whether they have been modified by the user or not. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-41596

12-15-2022

Invoicing & Payments 

The issue where creating Time Charter Commission invoices could display Outstanding amount rows when there was nothing to be invoiced has been fixed. This was only happening under specific circumstances when Time Charter period and incremental invoices were created consecutively without paying commissions for them in between.

Bug EN-41594

12-14-2022

Journals 

Previously, when monthly accrual is run before the voyage commencement, voyage's ROB was being incorrectly accrued. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-45288

12-14-2022

Invoicing & Payments VIP Only

Improved field help tooltip for demurrage commission applicability on Cargo Contracts.

Bug EN-43054

12-14-2022

Voyage P&L 

Previously, when business rules had both Intercompany and vendor-specific mappings for Internal counterparties, VIP did not apply account mapping logic consistently between the voyage P&L and creating/posting invoice transactions. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-42760

12-14-2022

Trading 

The logic behind the Trading Profile flag, "Keep TCTO In Exposure When One Contract is Index-Linked“, has been updated to handle Time Charter exposure on TCTO voyages. When the flag is enabled and there is a commenced TCTO voyage, then Exposure Days and Exposure Tons will reflect the remaining number of days in the voyage.

Story EN-42506

distances-svc-1.0.59324, 12-14-2022

Distances 

Updated UN code for port Zouk Port from LBAAB to LBZUK

Story EN-45521

distances-svc-1.0.59324, 12-14-2022

Distances 

Improved routing between Mongla and Galle

Story EN-45490

distances-svc-1.0.59324, 12-14-2022

Distances 

New port added: Hithadhoo Port (Maldives)

Story EN-45431

distances-svc-1.0.59324, 12-14-2022

Distances 

Fixed issue with trying to route from some points in the middle of Pacific Ocean to Sabine Pass

Bug EN-45353

fleetmap-api-1.0.59294

Fleet Map 

N/A

Bug EN-44803

12-13-2022

Data Center Settings VIP & IMOS

Classification Society is now imported via SIRE api when importing a vessel.

Story EN-45273

12-13-2022

Chartering VIP Only

In the Cargo Contract interface (autotu), fixed validation pertaining to FOB cargoes which could allow a fixed/scheduled cargo contract to be converted to an FOB cargo, fixed an issue which would allow changing the system-assigned FOB voyage number, and fixed an issue which could abandon data in the database when converting an FOB cargo to a non-FOB cargo. Additionally, by default, the interface will now enforce auto-assignment of FOB Voyage numbers when creating an FOB cargo (as is the case in the VIP UI). The ability to manually assign an FOB voyage number for new FOB cargoes via the interface can be re-enabled using config flag CFGAutotuAllowManualFobVoyageNo.

Bug EN-44689

12-13-2022

Invoicing & Payments 

Counterparty Type column has been added to Invoices list in Voyage Manager - as well as global Create Voyage Invoices and Transaction Summary lists.

Story EN-43890

12-13-2022

Demurrage & Claims 

Estimated demurrage will now automatically switch between demurrage and despatch rates when applicable. The Auto-update from itinerary checkbox will now synchronize the demurrage and despatch rates from the Cargo contract with the rate in estimated demurrage.

Story EN-40530

12-12-2022

Analytics 

This change fixes a bug in reports where reports run with user-defined Date/Time filters would not display a download link. With this fix, Date/Time filters are processing as expected and download links are displayed.

Bug EN-45473

12-12-2022

Invoicing & Payments 

Added new configuration flag:
Name: "CFGActSameApproverAsWarning"
Data Type: Boolean.
Default Value: N
Possible Values: Y, N
Description: "When enabled, if a user tries to approve an invoice more than once, a warning will appear in the log but the approval will not be blocked. When disabled, the approval will be blocked."

Bug EN-45382

12-12-2022

Trading VIP & IMOS

Previously, entering a new entry in Bunker Basis Symbol form with all fields filled in could produce an erroneous error. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-45335

12-12-2022

Onboard VIP & IMOS

Onboard Replication may now be configured to override incremental options to perform a bulk replication instead. This may configured under the veslink configuration in the VIP Data Center.

Bug EN-45195

12-9-2022

Data Center Settings VIP Only

Vessel Import in Data Center form SIRE source is now retrieving vessel data from HVPQ6 questionnaires.

Story EN-45271

12-9-2022

Trading VIP & IMOS

Added config flag CFGCommodityMarketCurr. When enabled, currency will be added to the commodity symbol table to allow for capturing market commodity prices in non-base currency.

Story EN-45098

12-9-2022

Operations 

Adds sister vessel data to the Vessel Vetting tab's Inspection table

Story EN-43119

12-8-2022

Invoicing & Payments 

New configuration flag has been added CFGActLowMemoryModeForPreviouslyInvoicedDetailsOnPosting.
Description: When enabled, VIP will use a low memory mode (caching) when posting an invoice with a large number of previously invoiced details for invoices like TC payments and such.
Hidden: True.
Data Type: Boolean.
Default Value: N
Possible Values: Y, N

Bug EN-45350

12-8-2022

Veslink Voyage Reporting VIP Only

Changed the "End of Sea Passage (PS)" validation on the Statement of Facts form to now show a warning instead of an error when the supplied activity date is prior to the last ports departure date.

Bug EN-45102

12-8-2022

Demurrage & Claims 

When a demurrage/desptch is included in a freight invoice as added item and it also is in an incremental laytime invoice, our calculation does not handle that properly. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-44218

12-7-2022

Analytics 

Previously, some Report Designer reports using the join from the Operations Invoice table to Laytime table were slow to load. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-45399

12-7-2022

Operations VIP Only

A new table has been introduced in the vessel vetting tab that includes various information pertaining to vetting status. CFGEnableVettingWorkflow must be enabled to use this feature.

Story EN-43116

12-5-2022

Journals VIP & IMOS

Previously, when Voyage Period Journals were run on the same voyage multiple times without reversing the journal, unnecessary lines for posted items were included in the journal. This issue has been resolved.

Bug EN-44635

12-5-2022

Analytics VIP Only

Previously, in Report Designer the Run Filters behaved differently for date time values than what happened in Design mode. This has been corrected. The dates entered will not be converted to another timezone and are implied to be the same timezone as the values being filtered.

Bug EN-44501

distances-svc-1.0.57776, 12-5-2022

Distances 

New port added: FPSO Bravo (Brazil)

Story EN-45346

distances-svc-1.0.57776, 12-5-2022

Distances 

New Port added: Karanja (India)

Story EN-45141

12-2-2022

Operations VIP Only

It is now possible to cancel the data loading of the Voyage Manager invoice list while in card view.

Story EN-45358

12-2-2022

Trading 

Previously user would be able to create multiple markets with the same name. This issue has been addressed.

Story EN-45311

12-2-2022

Data Center Settings VIP Only

Previously, vessels that did not have an Ownership flag of OV = Owned Vessel, VC = Voyage Charter, TC = Time Charter, or NS = Not Specified would not populate in Access Rights under the vessel dropdown. This update removes this limitation and will show all vessels regardless of their ownership flag under Access Rights. As a result, the number of vessels under Access Rights is expected to have increased.

Bug EN-44972

12-1-2022

Journals 

Previously, Time Charter Period Error Correction Journals could produce an invalid depreciation for a lease. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-44934

12-1-2022

Invoicing & Payments 

Previously, Vessel Name displayed in the TDE and interfaced as notification XML when posting TC payment or commission did not reflect legacy vessel name for the TC contract if the vessel name had been changed. This has been fixed.

Story EN-43292

12-1-2022

Operations VIP Only

Added Vessel Code as a selectable column in the Voyages List.

Story EN-40032

k8snextrelease, vvr-focus-translator-svc-1.0.60270

Veslink Voyage Reporting 

N/A

Story EN-45570

Next Release, distances-svc-1.0.61059

Distances 

Updated port Bayu Undan to have a Country of Timor-Leste instead of Australia

Story EN-45689