Release notes

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About the release notes

Syntellis is pleased to announce the 2023.1 release of Axiom Strategic Financial Planning for Higher Education. 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 Strategic Financial Planning for Higher Education online help. On the help home page, click the Release Notes link at the top of the page.

New features in Axiom Strategic Financial Planning for Higher Education

See What's New.

What to know before upgrading

You must apply the Axiom 2022.4 upgrade before applying any 2023.1 Axiom productupgrades. Axiom upgrades are backward compatible so you can upgrade different products at different times, but you must upgrade to the Axiom 2022.4 before the first product upgrade. Refer to the Axiom 2022.4 Release Notes for considerations before upgrading.

When upgrading to the 2023.1 version of Axiom Strategic Financial Planning for Higher Education, note the following:

  • You can replace Syntellis reports. Any report that you created or saved under a different name remains unchanged. Revised reports are available in Document History.
  • Any Syntellis report that was moved to a new location is automatically moved back to its original location.
  • Syntellis product templates and calculation method libraries are replaced.
  • Product task panes are replaced.
  • Process definitions are not replaced.
  • Driver files are replaced.
  • Security roles and subsystems are reset to their configured settings. Your user security exceptions remain intact.
  • Specific items that are configured as part of your company or organization’s implementation such as imports, exports, driver files, and process management files, remain unchanged. Any required modifications to these areas are covered in the release notes.

  • Shared tables might have any of the following changes:

    • Columns reordered

    • New columns added

    • Old columns removed (rare)

      If you copy and paste into or from Axiom tables, please review the column order of those tables after upgrading to assess the impact to your internal processes.

Preparing and scheduling upgrades

Summary of the upgrade process:

  1. Review product release notes – Review this document to become familiar 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:
    • Axiom platform version.
    • Axiom Higher Education product and version.
    • Whether to first refresh and apply updates to the Axiom test sandbox with a copy of the production instance of Axiom. If so, provide the earliest date that Syntellis can do this.
    • Propose an approximate two-hour downtime window when Syntellis can apply updates 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 to enable features for this version.

Getting help and training

Syntellis provides world-class resources 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 opens only for products you are licensed to use.

  • Contextual help – Form/web-enabled features and products include contextual help directly within the user interface. This information provides a quick summary and instructions specifically related to the page you are using. You can access this information by clicking the question mark in the upper right corner of the page. 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 Strategic Financial Planning for Higher Education 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 Support.

  • Review open Software Service project status and details.

Issues fixed in 2023.1

The following Axiom Strategic Financial Planning for Higher Education defects were addressed in the 2023.1 release.

Issue Description

159301

Issue: Debt instrument Current Portion versus Borrowings. An error existed in the logic that evaluated the Current Portion of a debt instrument versus the user’s Borrowings entry.

Resolution: This logic now correctly evaluates the project to date values of Current Portion versus Borrowings entries instead of incorrectly evaluating these values within an individual year.
146987

Issue: Counter is not updated in Command Center. The counter that displayed the number of configured accounts did not correctly update data after a new account was created.

Resolution: The counter is now updated correctly after a new account is created.
156773

Summary: Statistic description could not be updated. The logic that evaluated the statistic description always presented an error if users changed the description.

Resolution: The logic was revised to allow users to update the Statistic description.

Manual setup instructions

There are no manual setup or configuration steps required for this release.