Release notes

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About the release notes

Syntellis is pleased to announce the 2021.3 release of Axiom Financial Planning. Each product release provides new features, enhancements, and configuration options to meet your needs. Many of these features and enhancements are a direct result of your feedback and suggestions.

The purpose of these release notes is to provide you with the following:

  • High-level descriptions of new features
  • Information to know before upgrading
  • Steps for preparing for and scheduling your upgrade
  • List of fixed issues

TIP: Periodically, the release notes are updated when new information is available, including patch release fixes. To view the latest release notes, we encourage you to view them in the Axiom Financial Planning online help. On the help home page, simply click the Release Notes link at the top of the page.

New features in Axiom Financial Planning

See What's New.

What to know before upgrading

IMPORTANT: You must apply the Axiom 2021.3 upgrade before applying any 2021.3 Axiom product upgrades. Axiom upgrades are backwards compatible so you can upgrade different products at different times, but you must upgrade to the Axiom 2021.3 before the first product upgrade. Refer to the Axiom 2021.3 Release Notes and Axiom Healthcare Suite 2021.3 Release Notes for considerations before upgrading.

When upgrading to the 2021.3 version of Axiom Financial Planning, keep in mind the following:

  • Along with upgrading to Axiom 2021.3, you will also need to upgrade to Axiom Comparative Analytics 2021.3.
  • This product upgrade contains updated templates, calculation methods, updated drivers, and remediated defects.
  • Syntellis delivered reports may be replaced. Any report that you saved under a different name or created new will remain untouched. Replaced reports are available in Document History, if needed.
  • Any Syntellis delivered report that was moved to a new location will automatically move back to its original location.
  • Syntellis product templates and calculation method libraries will be replaced.
  • Product task panes will be replaced.
  • Process definitions will not be replaced.
  • Driver files will be replaced.
  • Security roles and sub-systems will be reset to their configured settings. All user security exceptions you may have made will remain intact.
  • Specific items configured as part of your company or organization's implementation such as imports, exports, driver files, and process management files, will remain as is. Any required modifications to these areas are covered in the release notes, if required.

Preparing and scheduling upgrades

Summary of the upgrade process:

  1. Review product release notes – Review this document to familiarize yourself with the new features and functionality.
  2. Schedule an installation date – Submit a request to your organization's Axiom system administrator to contact support by creating a support ticket to schedule an installation date and time with at least three days of advance notice. The request should include the following information:
    • Desired Axiom platform version.
    • Desired Axiom for Healthcare product and version.
    • Indicate whether to first refresh the Axiom test sandbox with a copy of the production instance of Axiom and apply update(s) to it. If so, provide the soonest that Syntellis can do this.
    • Propose an approximate two-hour downtime window when Syntellis can apply update(s) to the production instance of Axiom during regular business hours, Monday through Friday 7 AM to 7 PM Central (except holidays recognized by Syntellis).
  3. Complete manual configuration updates – After installing the upgrade, review any manual setup steps needed to enable features for this version.

Getting help and training

Syntellis provides world-class resources at your fingertips directly within the Axiom system. Axiom Help provides topics, knowledge base articles, documents, webinar/training announcements, and videos to guide you through managing your system. To access these resources, do any of the following:

  • Windows and Excel Clients – From the Main or Admin ribbon tab, click Online Help, and then select the product. Axiom Help opens in a new browser window.

    NOTE: The online help will only open for products you are licensed to use.

  • Context Help – Form/web-enabled features and products include contextual help directly within the user interface. This information provides a quick summary and/or instructions specifically related to the screen you are using. You can access this information by clicking the question mark in the upper right corner of the screen. To access the full Axiom Help system, click Open Help at the top of the contextual help dialog.

Syntellis Central

Syntellis Central provides centralized self-service content and resources for the Axiom Financial Planning platform and suite of products. Using Syntellis Central, you can:

  • Search help across all Axiom products
  • Access tips, tricks, and best practices in our knowledge base
  • Find training and certification content including on-demand, video, webinars, labs, and instructor-led courses
  • Submit a support issue, find suggested content, and manage any outstanding issues directly with us
  • Review open Software Service project status and details

Issues fixed in 2021.3

The following table lists the resolutions for issues addressed in 2021.3, released on February 21, 2022:

Issue Description
Transfer to FP error when applying RF filters [101628]

Summary: In the Transfer to Financial Planning utility, a defective filter is causing an Axiom Query 1 refresh error when a user applies an FPType filter in the RF section of the Filters panel.

Resolution: Corrected by repairing the filter code to function as expected.
(2021.3) Transfer to FP - Error applying some MR filters when MR selected for Year 3 [122076]

Summary: In the Transfer to Financial Planning utility, if a user has Management Reporting selected for Year 3 (the most recent year) on the “Select which years and products to include” page, they receive an error when they apply one or more of the following filters: FPType, Entity, Budget Group, DEPT.

Resolution: Corrected by removing the extra “AND” from the filter code so the error does not occur.
(2021.3) Update DIM - CODE utility multiplying conversion factors [101957]

Summary: During integration, the wrong value is being used as the conversion factor. An Axiom Query is combining all data for a code instead of simply returning the first value as expected, so for codes with multiple payors, the AQ is multiplying the values and then saving them to the ACCT_FPCode table.

Resolution: Corrected by updating the code to remove errors, and by cleaning up any “bad” data that may have been inadvertently saved.
Phys revenue Missing from Transfer to Financial Planning Utility [102567]

Summary: In the Transfer to Financial Planning utility, when revenue is mapped to R_IPRev or R_OPRev, the Payor is greater than 20, and the Node type is physician, OP revenue is missing.

Resolution: Corrected by adjusting revenue and deductions codes in the PhysCode column so that payors 21 through 40 match payors 1 to 19.
Wrong payor values from Transfer to Financial Planning Utility from RF2.0 [102568]

Summary: In the Transfer to Financial Planning utility, the following issues occur when integrating data from Rolling Forecasting - Monthly:

  • Issue 1: Other Revenue is missing.

    • Payor 1 is being assigned to FSDetail R_OtherRev instead of Payor 0.

    • Where FSDetail = D_Discounts, Deductions is missing because Payor is set to zero but should be greater than 0.

    • Bad Debt and Charity map to Payor 1 but should be mapped to Payor 0.

  • Issue 2: When importing from Axiom Rolling Forecasting without using (or only partially using) the Deductions Calculator, there are revenue and deductions in Rolling Forecasting with payor = 0. The import does not use payor values from the ACCT_FPCODE table, so all payors are set to 1 or 0. Transform step 47 is supposed to apply Payor 1 if the payor values are missing but ignores the code mapping payors. Code that is supposed to be mapped to Payor 7 is mapped to Payor 1.

Resolution: Corrected by making the following changes:

  • For Issue 1: Removed R_OtherRev, D_BadDebt, D_Charity, and then added D_Discounts to the transformation step that updates the payor column for payors set to 0 for RF but that need to be set to > 0 for FP.

  • For issue 2: In the transformation process:

    • Added a step to insert the payor from ACCT_FPCODE.

    • Adjusted the RF Mapping Payor step to only update payors 1000 to 1099.
(2021.3 patch) SuiteVariables file group aliases missing in new installations [131240]

Summary: For new installations of Axiom Financial Planning, errors are occurring in multiple areas because the SuiteVariables table is not being populated with default Financial Planning records.

Resolution: Corrected by changing the logic in the default data to check whether Financial Planning is installed.