Enhancements

This section gives a high-level summary of the key features that are available in this release.

Note: For more information about the enhancements, see the Deltek Maconomy 2.6 Enhancements Guide.

Time & Expense

Feature	Web	Desktop	Mobile
Restricted List of Employees on Proxy Expense Registrations Deltek Tracking: 1278868 Maconomy now displays only the employees you can create expense sheets by proxy.
Monthly Time Sheets No Longer Supported Deltek Tracking: 1470735 The Monthly Time Reporting functionality is removed in 2.6.

General Application Enhancements

Feature	Web	Desktop	Mobile
New Maconomy Information Center Deltek Tracking: 1599272 The new online Maconomy Information Center serves as a hub for all Maconomy documentation.
New Online Concepts Guide Deltek Tracking: 1599272 The new Online Concepts Guide merges the former Concepts Guide with other end-user documents and brings the material online.
Debranding the Maconomy Web Client Deltek Tracking: 1549295 Beginning with this release, Maconomy will stop using the "iAccess" brand for its web client.
Modernization of the Web Client Deltek Tracking: 1389080 The web client has undergone some changes to improve the look of the interface and give it a more modern feel.
Line Number Column in Tables Deltek Tracking: 1654643 Users can now add the Line No. column to tables in their web client workspaces.
The Web Analyzer Deltek Tracking: 1217512, 1352308, 1462157, 1463988 This release introduces the Analyzer report functionality to the Maconomy web client. Users can now make ad hoc queries to the database and view the query results in table form. To improve usability, some Analyzer reports are now renamed, restructured, and moved to a new folder location in the Java Analyzer.
Controlling iFrame Refresh Deltek Tracking: 1544014 You can now use pane and field updates as triggers to refresh inline frames (or iFrames) embedded in your Maconomy web client workspaces. This ensures that your iFrames always reflect the latest information from the application.
Improved Editing Capability in the Maconomy Web Client Deltek Tracking: 1015368 The Maconomy web client now allows you to open a record and edit the fields directly. You no longer need to select or click the Edit action first.
Export to Excel Deltek Tracking: 1077734 Users can now export data from web client tables to spreadsheets using the new Export to Excel icon.
Improved Placement of Add Line Action Deltek Tracking: 1277171 The Add Line action is now found above the table to make it easier for users to locate.
Additional Chart Options Deltek Tracking: 1275019, 1577145, 1599758 Three additional chart types are now available for use in web client workspaces.
New Customer Payments Workspace in Web Client Deltek Tracking: 1287241 The Customers menu section is renamed to Accounts Receivable. A new Customer Payments workspace is added to the Accounts Receivable menu section of the Web Client to enable you to create and post customer payment journals.
Skills Expiry Date for Employees' Skills Deltek Tracking: 1618936 The Employees Skills table now includes an expiry date for assigned skills.
Restricted Access to Employee Data Deltek Tracking: 1078403 Sensitive employee information is removed from several workspaces, and other security measures to ensure the protection of employee data are added, including new single dialogs to set up authorized access and new user actions.
Enhanced Access Control Deltek Tracking: 1387233 The AbsenceEntryAndEmployee and AbsenceCalendarLineAndEmployee universes are removed.
Enhanced Approval Information in Info Bubbles Deltek Tracking: 1167197 Additional approval information is now available when viewing info bubbles in the web client.
Long Text Single Dialog Workspaces Deltek Tracking: 1564965 Single dialog workspaces for all fields using long text functionality are now available.

Resource Management

Feature	Web	Desktop	Mobile
Calculation of Total Cost or Billing Price on Budgets Imported from People Planner Deltek Tracking: 1487214 The total billing or cost price on budgets is now calculated as the sum of the billing or cost prices from resource allocation lines.

Project Management

Feature	Web	Desktop	Mobile
Block Purchase Order Creation on Jobs Deltek Tracking: 1287230 You can now block the creation of purchase orders on jobs.
Zero Value on Price List Lines Deltek Tracking: 1176123 Prior to this release, the zero value on price list lines was used only to indicate that Maconomy should derive prices from a different source, such as an employee's sales price. You can now indicate that zero as a value should be used to calculate prices.
Transfer Job Quote Layout to Draft Invoice on Account Deltek Tracking: 1238701 A quote layout can now be transferred to a draft invoice for invoices on account.

Touch

Feature	Web	Desktop	Mobile
Support for Android 12L Deltek Tracking: 1597344 Touch now supports the Android 12L mobile operating system.
Enhanced Touch Menu Deltek Tracking: 151650 The Touch sliding menu features a new look and can be viewed in both portrait and landscape display modes.
Touch Online Help Deltek Tracking: 1463516 You can now access the Touch Online Help from the app.
Touch Admin Guide Deltek Tracking: 1530336, 1530340, 1530339 The Touch Admin Guide is introduced as the primary document for technical consultants.
MScript Removal Deltek Tracking: 1065005 The MScript Touch API is no longer supported, and affects Touch installation and customization requirements.
Login Settings Moved to the configuration.ini File Deltek Tracking: 1594337 The login settings used to set up credential authentication methods are moved to the configuration.ini / tenant.ini file.
Support for Windows Server 2022 Deltek Tracking: 1411120 The Touch 4.0 Installer now supports Windows Server 2022.

Finance

Feature	Web	Desktop	Mobile
Company Specific Exchange Rate Deltek Tracking: 519031 Company Specific Exchange Rate (CSER) enables corporations with companies in different countries to specify exchange rates at the company level. It has far-reaching impact, with updates to most workspaces and new fields for currency conversions.
Additional Tax Popup Fields Deltek Tracking: 1194587 Several statutory reports require additional VAT popup fields to provide more information and differentiate VAT groups when reporting to the tax authorities. To support this, new tax popup fields are added to Maconomy.
Prevent Self-Approval for Proxy Approvers Deltek Tracking: 1273308 This feature enhances the functionality that prevents self-approval in the approval hierarchies such that it also restricts self-approval through a proxy approver.
Allow Accrual to Exceed Price on Purchase Order Line Deltek Tracking: 1240782 A new Allow Accrual to Exceed Price on Purchase Order Line system parameter is introduced to enable you to allow or prohibit accrual amounts that exceed the price on the purchase order line.
Renamed Single Dialog Workspaces Deltek Tracking: 1231594 Previously, when users encounter the term Delete, it caused confusion whether the system would delete the entries. To address this issue, several single dialog workspaces are renamed, and the Delete Section is renamed as Remove Section.
New Invoice Received Date Field Deltek Tracking: 1228082 A new Invoice Received Date field is added to the vendor invoice journal in the Vendor Invoices workspace to enable you to specify the date when you received the vendor invoice.
Conversations for Credit Control Deltek Tracking: 1278070 You can now use the Conversations functionality in the Credit Control workspace in the Workspace Client.
New Approver Reference Type in Approval Hierarchies Deltek Tracking: 1549420 This enhancement gives you more flexibility in creating approval hierarchies where the approver cannot be found on the relation being approved or on a directly related relation.

BPM / Statutory

Feature	Web	Desktop	Mobile
Dutch Audit File Deltek Tracking: 1335385 The Dutch Audit File is added to support a statutory report requirement in the Netherlands.
New GL Audit Universe Deltek Tracking: 1423832 A new GL Audit universe is introduced to report on finance entry data combined with VAT settlement entries.
Simplified ETL Upgrade Deltek Tracking: 1221790 We have simplified the ETL upgrade mechanism to improve performance.
Statutory Report Email Notification Deltek Tracking: 1029881 This email notification is used to alert you when a report or any XML-related export runs.
NSAFT Updates Deltek Tracking: 1642131, 1642164, 1398483 Includes new and updated tag mapping and updated setup and limitations.
Removed Deprecated Functionality and Reports Deltek Tracking: 1226080, 1599213 Removed deprecated objects and ETL functionality for ease in upgrading to a main version. Removed unused reports.
Improved Fiscal Period Objects in Finance Universe Deltek Tracking: 1425036 The object titles and descriptions in the fiscal period folder of the Finance universe are updated for clarity, consistency, and efficiency.
Updated Universes Deltek Tracking: 1526073, 1335385 The deprecated database fields are removed from BPM universes to match the Maconomy database schema. AR Aging, AP Aging, and Tax settlement universes are updated.
Elster Update for ERiC 35.3 Deltek Tracking: 1564712 The Elster USTVA report is updated to reflect the changes to the interface and technical standards required by the ERiC 35.3 version update.
Cash Flow Statement Direct Method Report Deltek Tracking: 1113821 The Cash Flow Statement Direct Method report is released and added to the Workspace Client.
Tax Code Country Added to NSAFT Deltek Tracking: 1471497 The Country Tax Code is added to the NSAFT report schema as a mandatory field.
Norwegian VAT Summary Report Deltek Tracking: 1486538 A new summary report is released to allow customers to manually file Norwegian VAT forms until an integration is complete.
Configurable Timeout for Background Tasks in NSAFT Report Deltek Tracking: 1346144 The NSAFT report extension is updated to allow for the configuration of timeout settings on background tasks.
Reauthorization Prompts in UK Tax Submissions Workspace Deltek Tracking: 1546383 Prompts are added to the UK Tax Submissions workspace to notify a user to reauthorize Maconomy by acquiring a new token from the HMRC website.

Performance

Feature	Web	Desktop	Mobile
Access Control View Optimizations Deltek Tracking: 1372495 Performance improvements, invisible to end users, have been made to access control views to provide a better user experience.
Server Optimization / Timestamp Triggers Deltek Tracking: 1460222 We have removed TransactionTimestamp triggers on update and insert actions to improve performance.

People Planner

Feature	Web	Desktop	Mobile
Additional Field Types in MyPlan Deltek Tracking: 1627703 Additional booking information such as allocated hours is now available when you view a booking in MyPlan. Additionally, you can now view the hours, amount, or percentage of a resource when using the Search bar on a booking.
Desupported Task Selector Deltek Tracking: 1506495 The task selector is removed from the Web Components as it is no longer supported in this release.
Redesigned Web Components Deltek Tracking: 1594343, 1389080 This enhancement features a redesigned UI of the Web Components as part of the overall UI facelift in Maconomy.
Under/Overspend Feature Enhancements Deltek Tracking: 1681570, 1681684 A confirmation message now displays when you reallocate under/overspent time or amounts using the Under/Overspend action. Aesthetic changes have also been made to the Under/Overspend column.
Export Project to Excel Deltek Tracking: 1681522 You can now export an entire project based on its start and finish dates to Excel.
Improved License Checking in People Planner Deltek Tracking: 1532648, 705406 This feature introduces a centralized license checker used by the Web Components, MyPlan, and the Windows Application. The previous file-based license checker is also desupported. Note that this version requires a new license from the Global distribution team
Cryptography Key Enhancements Deltek Tracking: 1081090 Improved security for encrypting/decrypting sensitive information is added in this release.
Certifications Deltek Tracking: 1570796, 1570797, 1570798 People Planner 4.3 is certified for the following: Windows 11 MacOS Monterey Windows Server 2022

Security

Feature	Web	Desktop	Mobile
iFrame Sandboxing Deltek Tracking: 1508915 You can now implement enhanced security on inline frames (or iFrames) within the Maconomy web client, using the new permissions property.

System Admin

Feature	Web	Desktop	Mobile
Moving Configuration of Authentication Methods for the Web Client from the Extender to MConfig Deltek Tracking: 1467062 MConfig now supports not only the setup of your preferred authentication method but also that of your allowed methods.
Import Programs Deltek Tracking: 1248393 , 1284522 Converted customized programs to standard programs. Added new standard import program for conversations.
"Kerberos SSO" Login Desupported Deltek Tracking: 1567178 The old Kerberos login configuration, "Kerberos SSO" is desupported and removed.
Removing Desupported and Discontinued Terms Deltek Tracking: 1419337, 1508483, 1311527, 1290384, 1419707, 1601319, 1343443 Removed terms including Kona, Portal, and iAccess (replaced with Web Client).
Browser Setup / SPNEGO Deltek Tracking: 1519114 Maconomy now supports multi-step protocol negotiations.
Database Index Handling Deltek Tracking: 1421602 The database index handling process now includes support for index scripts useful for validating, creating, migrating, and maintaining indices in the Maconomy database.
Added Third Party SSO / MFA Deltek Tracking: 1282027 To support statutory requirements, new 2FA parameters are implemented and an external 2nd factor is verified for a user session where the user logged in.
Export to Excel Row Summary Deltek Tracking: 1521517 In order to enhance usability and also in support statutory requirements, we have added an option to include a count of the number of rows included in the file generated via the Export to Excel action in Maconomy.
Default webaccess.ini Deltek Tracking: 1423370 A default webaccess.ini file is now included with Maconomy installations.
Limit Default Filetypes Deltek Tracking: 1519044 We now limit default filetypes included in server.ini that are allowed to be uploaded into Maconomy.
Increase Allowed Number of Named Users Deltek Tracking: 1523921 Customers are now able to increase their number of allowed named Maconomy users by performing a quick procedure in the Workspace Client.
Certifications Deltek Tracking: 1419337 Business Objects 4.2 SP9 Patch 4 - for BPM Windows Server 2022 - for Maconomy Windows 11 O/S - for Maconomy SQL Server 2019 - for BPM OEL 8 - for BPM MacOS 12 Monterey - for Maconomy iOS 15 - for web client and Touch Android 12L - for Touch Pentaho 9 - for BPM