Solved known issues and recommendations about upgrades, Q4 2022

AARO’s recommendation on Upgrades – AARO & AARO Lease IFRS 16:

• We at AARO always recommend you as a customer to upgrade to the latest version (Major and CPV), this to ensure that you take advantage of the latest bug fixes, as well as new functionality.
• An upgrade to AARO23 CPV2 is our strong recommendation. In AARO23 we have new functionality that is not available in AARO22 and AARO21.
• Our recommendation is to upgrade to AARO23 if you are currently in AARO21. Please note that with the release of AARO23, we no longer maintain AARO21, meaning we do not fix found issues.

AARO23 and AARO Lease IFRS 16
CPV1

• AARO is integrated with Services.
• Opening rates setup is automated.
• Divest button is reimplemented.
• New account type ’HistoricValue’ for reporting equity changes with a historic rate directly in input form.
• Button ’Revert All’ allows to revert the whole selection of completed items.

Issue:
There is an issue with running AARO Excel add-in in multiple Excel instances causing the access violation error to appear in different places. Excel instances can be run by different applications and exist as a process only.

Release note:
Now it is possible to work with multiple Excel instances.

Ref. No: 10003.

Issue:
There is a size limitation of web reports exported to Excel and when it is reached you get an error and the report cannot be exported. We have found that there is a possibility to improve the export action to allow bigger reports within the same limit still.

Release note:
Export of big Web drilldown and match reports is improved. Please note that we strongly recommend Edge as browser. We do not recommend Chrome since it has proven to have very poor performance especially for big match reports. We are investigating if we can improve also for Chrome.

Ref. No: 12412.

Issue:
We have found that the performance of the match reports in Web Client is not sufficient for very large reports. It is typically a full view of a group’s intercompany transactions which for very large groups can be 10 000 rows or more. The current situation is that rendering or exporting of such reports takes several minutes and the current bug (KI 12412) in the export to Excel limits the size to export further.

Release note:
Menu Validations/Match Report is reintroduced in Admin (Windows) client. It allows to view large match reports faster than in Web client.
The bug KI 12412 is fixed also together with this.

Ref. No: 12637.

Issue:
The performance executing reports with Normal and Compact layouts deteriorated in AARO23 comparing with previous versions. It is specially noted if you run very big reports with many columns and rows. We are looking at possibility to improve.

Release note:
We have made an improvement in performance of executing some specific report situations that previously was not possible to execute.

Ref. No: 12633.

Are you affected?
If you use AARO Lease IFRS 16.

Issue:
A contract revision can be created not linked to any contract showing UNDEF for contract name due to an issue allowing to create revisions in a closed period. It happens when a contract is edited and saved in a closed period within the same year it is created or has a revision. In this case the new contract revision is created not linked to the contract and showing UNDEF for contract name in future periods.

Release note:
Now any changes in contract data are restricted in closed periods. Whenever you see UNDEF contracts created in previous CPVs, please contact AARO Support.

Ref. No: 12295.

Are you affected?
If you use the Publish utility to convert results of formulas to static values.

Issue:
There is a regression in AARO23 regarding how Publish utility converts results of formulas to static values. Values may loose their separators and be changed.

Release note:
Now values with separators are converted correctly using the Publish utility.

Ref. No: 12531.

Issue:
For a split or associated company the indirect minority is calculated incorrectly.

Release note:
For indirect minority calculations (IM) in a company where the Direct Minority Method Split is used you have now the possibility to configure to calculate the IM separately as the non-controlling interest (NCI) minority by selecting ‘Normal’ in the Indirect Minority Method field on the Ownership tab.

Ref. No: 11572.

Issue:
Depreciation always starts from the period start date even when excess value ID start date for depreciation is set to a later date.

Release note:
Depreciation calculation is fixed.

Ref. No: 11454.

Issue:
There is an issue with journals copied incorrectly. When ’None Recurrent’ recurrent type is selected in the Copy Period dialog, recurrent journals only are copied. When ’Only Recurrent’ option is selected then recurrent and non-recurrent journals are copied.

Release note:
Journals are copied according to selected settings.

Ref. No: 1183.

Issue:
The Dispose button used to perform an internal or external disposal of companies has issues reported in KI 9280. It was deactivated in AARO21 CPV3.1 but then appeared active again in later versions and CPVs. We do not recommend to use this button in AARO21 and AARO22 due to multiple issues and will deactivate it in next CPVs. The new button Divest will be introduced in AARO23 that will replace the Dispose button.

Release note:
The Dispose button is deactivated by default in AARO22. In AARO23 a new button Divest is implemented replacing the Dispose button.

Ref. No: 11969.

Issue:
There is an issue in the contract import Excel file when the column ’Restoration cost interest rate’ is empty or has a reference to the ’Interest Rate’ sheet and the ’Interest Rate’ sheet is empty. An error occurs on import in this case.

Release note:
A warning message is added in case the contract import file is incomplete.

Ref. No: 11075.

Issue:
There is an issue with journals copied incorrectly. When ’None Recurrent’ recurrent type is selected in the Copy Period dialog, recurrent journals only are copied. When ’Only Recurrent’ option is selected then recurrent and non-recurrent journals are copied.

Release note:
Journal copying is adjusted to be according to selected parameters.

Ref. No: 11183.

Issue:
Updating (running, changing parameter values, expanding) a drilldown report saved in previous AARO Excel add-in versions (AARO20, AARO21) fails with an error message.

Release note:
Now it works to update a report from a previous version.

Ref. No: 11641.