Hi All
As we are roughly 6 months away from the first 2023.x release I wanted to give you an update on the expected changes for the B1 Usability Package next year so you have time to prepare.
Please note that with all future plans, this is subject to change.
Planned Changes
- Remove support for Office 2013
- As Microsoft Office 2013 will reach end-of-life support from Microsoft in April 2023, we too are removing support. The minimum requires Office version will be Office 2016 / Office 365.
- Module B1 Mailchimp will go into legacy mode
- As this Module has lost its appeal over the years with our customers we have decided to put it into legacy mode. This means that we, for now, keep supporting it but will stop all new development for them and take it off the price lists. We do this to focus on what matters most to most people.
- Lucene Search will go into legacy mode, removing the option to activate it in new systems
- Only a meager percentage of our customers have used this feature so we are preparing it to go into legacy mode by hiding the feature for new installations.
- Online Services (aka Exchange Rates without a Service Component) Feature will go into legacy mode, removing the option to activate it in new systems
- Due to very low usage, this feature will only remain for existing installations. The option will not be available for new installations.
- Clarification (Normal exchange rates via B1 Client and B1UP server component will not be removed)
- Due to very low usage, this feature will only remain for existing installations. The option will not be available for new installations.
- HANA Long-lived connections on by default
- Read more about the feature here: https://support.boyum-it.com/hc/en-us/articles/5118946225949
Beyond that there are no plans to bump the required SAP version (will remain SBO10 FP2102 or higher)
Comments
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Hi Rasmus - Lucene search is an amazing feature and can't believe it's going into legacy mode. The difference when we first enabled it was night and day over B1 Search.
When you have a customer on the phone and you want to search for their name or an invoice number, the responsiveness is critical and it shaved seconds off each search's time.
I can't help thinking that all your customers would be using it (or want it enabling) if perhaps you did a comparison video of some search results with and without it showing how much performance (time wise) is saved on each search and how flexible the search is with simple operators.
Kind regards,
Ellis
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