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2026
Lifecycle 8.3.9
12/02/2026
New Feature: Order Approval - when all approvers have approved an order, the creator can be emailed to notify them that the approval process has been completed.
New Feature: Recycling - when creating a Collection Request, the timed collection now asks if the user needs a Morning, Afternoon or Evening collection.
Bug fix: Welcome Page - correctly show the welcome banner for accounts which are set to a catalogue view for the home page.
Other: remove paste icons from HMTL edit control as these no longer function due to browser security updates.
01
2026
Lifecycle 8.3.8
19/01/2026
New Feature: Recycling - when creating a Collection Request, users can be stopped from booking a collection on certain dates. In addition, a message can be displayed explaining why those dates are unavailable.
New Feature: Recycling - a user can be limited to raising a Collection Request for selected Customer Business Units.
New Feature: Reports - some additional help can be displayed on each report.
New Feature: Reports - usage stats are available for admins.
New Feature: Orders - show Build Data from Configuration (where available).
Bug fix: Prevent users from editing a Bonded Rollup code.
11
2025
Lifecycle 8.3.7
20/11/2025
New Feature: Order - when exporting to the PDF Quotation, the user can choose to export the bundle header or the bundle items.
New Feature: Catalogue - stock level notifications may now be set per item in a catalogue.
New Feature: Checkout - the format of the Purchase Order Number can be checked based on a Regular Expression
New Feature: Checkout - the format of any custom field can be checked based on a Regular Expression
New Feature: Rollout - when importing users into a deployment, users will be warned if any of the items in the bundle have low stock.
New Feature: Supplier - log any changes to AutoVet settings.
Bug fix: Ensure password resets honour the account's minimum password length.
Bug fix: prevent admin users from editing system generated Bonded Rollup items.
08
2025
Lifecycle 8.3.6
19/08/2025
New Feature: Supplier - new Autovet Report added.
New Feature: Admin - it is now possible to import and export Sales Set Cost items.
New Feature: Recycling - all certificates for CRs collected in a certain month can be downloaded in one ZIP file.
New Feature: Recycling - link from the Financials page to the CR (if the bill is CR-based).
New Feature: Recycling - restrict collection days based on courier availability in the selected collection postcode area.
New Feature: Admin - a list of Rollup codes can be exported.
New Feature: Admin - all users for an account may be switched to the new menus.
New Feature: Orders - an order type may be hidden from the customer and only used by SCC staff.
New Feature: Rollout - the user import may specify optional items from the bundle.
Bug fix: Order Imports - the order type will be correctly imported.
Other: Update FontAwesome to v7.0
06
2025
Lifecycle 8.3.5
23/06/2025
New Feature: Reports - reports have been updated to .xlsx format.
New Feature: Recycling - daily email notifications of CR status changes can now be sent to a nominated address.
New Feature: Recycling - a user can now be given access to only the Hazardous Waste summary.
New Feature: Recycling - a user can now be reminded by email about their collection request if configured on their account.
New Feature: Web Services - the orderStatus webservice will now return build data for each sales order (if available)
Bug fix: Widgets - ensure the total number of items link on the top right of catalogue widget points to the correct catalogue.
Bug fix: Orders - when checking out a basket containing a discontinued item, the on order stock of an items will now be taken into account when deciding if the item can be purchased.
Bug fix: Orders - limit the EORI number to 25 characters.
Bug fix: Catalogue Notifications - allow notifications for the Customer Owned catalogue.
Bug fix: Catalogue - show the on order stock if the account is set to use virtual stock but the virtual stock is the same as free stock.
Other: Additional French translations.
04
2025
Lifecycle 8.3.4
17/04/2025
New Feature: Recycling - when importing CRs, blank phone numbers will be replaced with 'N/A'
New Feature: Rollout - user export will now present times in 24 hour format.
New Feature: Bonded Projects has been renamed to Customer Projects and may now include non-Bill & Hold items.
New Feature: User setup - an administrator can now clear the MFA credentials for a user.
New Feature: Orders - the serial number list on an order will now show the description of the item.
New Feature: Web services - the OrderStatus web service now returns the description, category, external category and manufacturer of each item (where available).
New Feature: Web services - the recycling end points for requestStatus, unitStatus and listRequests will now return a URL where any destruction or sanitisation certificates for a unit can be printed or downloaded.
New Feature: Web services - the recycling list (listRequests) now returns the Units for each request (if present)
New Feature: Catalogue - if a user has access to purchase a Rollup code, they will automatically be able to buy any of the components of the rollup code even if they don't have access to the component.
New Feature: Order - any order processing emails listed in the order history can now be viewed by clicking on the envelope icon.
New Feature: Rollout - certain emails can now be viewed from the user's order history.
New Feature: Rollout - when moving or deleting users from a deployment, a filter by first letter of the user's surname has been added to assist with deployments with a large number of users.
New Feature: Other - the user alert menu will now notify users of system releases.
New Feature: Catalogue - a customer catalogue can now be fixed as a monthly or quarterly Price List which will hold the items and pricing for the specified period. This Price List may be viewed on screen or downloaded to Excel.
New Feature: Catalogue - for accounts with punchout or Web Services enabled, it is now possible to set the External Category for all items in a catalogue (including any bundle or rollup components)
New Feature: users will be notified of new releases on their first login after the release.
Bug fix: Web Service - carry out additional checks to ensure that correct data has been passed to the createOrder web service (currency, order account, etc).
Bug fix: Web Service - calls to the requestStatus end point for Collection Requests will no longer error.
Bug fix: Orders - hide the link to the PDF invoice for zero-value orders as no PDF file is produced.
Bug fix: Orders - if the checkout page is set to allow the delivery contact's details to be manually entered, make sure the setting to default to the current user enters the details correctly.
Bug fix: Rollout - ensure that notifications can be sent when all users in the deployment are at status 'Welcome Sent'.
Bug fix: Orders - if an image build is selected on an order, ensure the image build code appears in the WHS text.
Bug fix: Orders - any custom PO name will be correctly shown on the checkout page.
Other: Recycling - Import CRs will now show on the user's action menu (if enabled for the user)
03
2025
Lifecycle 8.3.3
03/03/2025
New Feature: Bonded Projects - allow more than one Rollup Code to be created based on a customer's original PO.
New Feature: Include 9-coded items in the Customer Owned catalogue.
New Feature: Recycling API - it is now possible to specify the preferred courier for a collection.
New Feature: Recycling API - a new end point, listCollectionCouriers, will return a list of couriers.
New Feature: Recycling API - when creating a Collection Request, clear any requested collection dates which are in the past.
New Feature: Recycling API - a new end point, unitStatus, will list the current status of an asset.
New Feature: Recycling - give additional information about Asset Tracked collections to help the user make a choice if it is required.
New Feature: Bonded Rollup - items with 0 free stock but which have on order stock can now be added to baskets.
New Feature: Order API - reject any order requests which contain no items.
New Feature: large imports may now be done in the background.
Bug fix: ensure that an item in a basket can have a maximum quantity of 9,999.
Bug fix: Recycling API - ensure database connections are closed properly after performing actions.
Bug fix: ensure users are prompted about including a symbol in their new password when doing a password reset.
Bug fix: ensure Bonded Rollup codes are included in the Customer Owned catalogue.
Bug fix: Rollout - additional error handling on custom user export to Excel.
Bug fix: ensure that password reset emails have the correct lifecycle.scc.com address.
Other: Recycling - importing items into a Collection Request is now faster.
Other: minor changes to better support cXML Level 2 Punchout.
Other: send mail from lifecycle-no-reply@scc.com unless a user's email is specified
01
2025
Lifecycle 8.3.2
10/01/2025
New Feature: The current activity widget and view now show orders Out for Delivery and Recently Delivered.
New Feature: Punchout - reduce the number of clicks needed to return items back to the customer's system (checkout page).
New Feature: Catalogue - the export will now include the UNSPSC code for each item.
New Feature: Catalogue notifications - it is possible to trigger an email when stock falls below a selected level.
New Feature: Catalogue - automatically create a catalogue of recently purchased items for a user.
New Feature: Basket - allows users to add items they have recently purchased.
New Feature: Bundles - when creating a bundle, it is now possible to see the stock position of each component.
New Feature: Catalogue - bundles may now contain Rollup items and Rollup items may contain bundles (when adding items to either there will now be a check to ensure that recursive bundles/rollup items are not created)
New Feature: Recycling - for accounts with Charity disposal, the dashboard will now show the relevent statistics.
New Feature: Recycling - admin may now specify which couriers are allowed for collections and the customer can then choose the courier when creating a collection request.
New Feature: Welcome page - category tiles from a specified catalogue can be displayed on the home page (either above or below the home page widgets)
New Feature: allow an account to hide menu items from the top menu bar (new menu layout only)
New Feature: accounts can mandate that new passwords must contain a symbol.
New Feature: it is now possible to copy Rollup codes between accounts.
Bug fix: Checkout - Ensure the payment method and date are correctly displayed on the checkout page if they have been set previously for the order.
Bug fix: Catalogue - the subcategories shown on the main catalogue page will now be correctly shown in the user's language and not in English.
Bug fix: Webservices - ensure that addresses supplied to ws/refurb/CreateCR.ashx are trimmed to 255 characters per line.
Bug fix: the Cancel button on the Edit Widgets page now works as expected.
Other: some additional French translations
Other: WebServices - prevent orders being created when an alert which blocks login is active (eg when the site is undergoing maintenance).
Other: WebServices - prevent Collection Requests being created when an alert which blocks login is active (eg when the site is undergoing maintenance).
Other: Supplier - due to changes on CS/3, hide the Engineering order type when processing orders.
10
2024
Lifecycle 8.3.1
28/10/2024
New Feature: Punchout - a checkout/cancel option has been added to the top of the page for users using the new menus.
New Feature: Account list - it is now possible to switch accounts on the recent account page.
New Feature: User admin - when copying a user it is now possible to specify the new user's name and email address.
New Feature: Rollout - allow administrators to set a default Framework for a deployment (where Frameworks are in use on the account).
New Feature: Rollout - administrators can now set the user language on import.
New Feature: Webservice - the requestStatus method for Recycling now returns more information for the units on the CR.
New Feature: Webservice - a new listRequests method has been added for Recycling to return CRs within a date range.
New Feature: Catalogue - you can now choose to share your favourites list with other users.
New Feature: Recycling - show the Financials page to SCC users even if it is hidden for an account.
New Feature: Recycling - add Asset Tracked to the CR import file.
New Feature: Support - slight changes to the Raise Incident form to make Affected User mandatory to improve the quality of logged incidents.
Bug fix: Ensure that the stock icon in the catalogue takes inventory stock into account (green for available, orange for constraint).
Other: ensure all postcode lookups via Loqate are via https.
09
2024
Lifecycle 8.3
19/09/2024
New Feature: Rollout - a new page showing upcoming notifications has been added.
New Feature: Rollout - it is now possible to request an account specific custom update function for users eg users can be completed by an import of user IDs.
New Feature: Recycling - when importing CRs it is now possible to add more than 1 item type.
New Feature: Recycling - when importing CRs the import file allows you to specify if SCC will collect the CR.
New Feature: Orders - it is now possible to prompt the user if they want to arrange a collection of old equipment (via a Recycling Collection Request) when they are placing a new order (this is based on the items on the order and the order type)
New Feature: Dashboard - allow Recently viewed items to be hidden for the account or the user.
Other: various changes to improve WCAG 2.2 compliance.
08
2024
Lifecycle 8.2.9
08/08/2024
New Feature: Orders - order emails will now use the customer description for items when the user is set to view them.
New Feature: Orders - an account can have custom emails setup for various stages of the ordering process (eg to send out instructions for new starters).
New Feature: Rollout - administrators can now check when scheduled notifications will be sent for a user.
New Feature: Rollout - WHS text can now be previewed on the deployment setup page.
New Feature: Login - the user can now reveal their password on the login page to help them access Lifecycle.
New Feature: Home page - a button has been added to the user's home page to make it clearer that the home page can be changed.
New Feature: Catalogue - the main catalogue view will now show the top 3 sub-categories for each category tile to aid quick navigation.
New Feature: Catalogue - the catalogue filters now have a 'More...' entry to make it clearer that not all options are displayed on screen and that more options are available.
New Feature: Catalogue - the product comparisons screen has been updated to include an option to view only the differences between products. The available stock and MPNs are also now shown.
New Feature: Catalogue - the product details page can now show larger images (where available) by clicking on an expand icon.
New Feature: Catalogue - the product details page now includes a table of contents on the right side to ease access to different areas of the page.
New Feature: Orders - the basket will show a list of recently viewed items at the bottom of the page.
New Feature: Orders - items can now be added to Favourites from the basket.
New Feature: Recycling - show any incidents which have been created for a collection request.
Bug fix: Rollout - if a user is rescheduled to the same slot, the email notifications will no longer be reset.
04
2024
Lifecycle 8.2.8
15/04/2024
New Feature: Pricing - pricing can now be fixed to the end of the calendar quarter in addition to the end of the current calendar month.
New Feature: Catalogue - a standard catalogue has been added which will automatically contain all customer owned stock (Bonded, 5-coded, 7-coded, 8-coded)
New Feature: Product Restrictions can now be searched.
New Feature: Orders - exports or email of PDF quotations are now logged.
New Feature: Orders - PDF quotations will now show Framework specific terms and conditions.
New Feature: Product Admin - it is now possible to batch update catalogues, bundles, customer product information and images for replacement product codes.
New Feature: Account creation - when creating a new account it is now possible to set a pricing account and to set default service options and user roles for the new account.
New Feature: Supplier - related orders can now be linked to an order with a comment to describe the reason for the link.
New Feature: Supplier - order import will now give better feedback if the import file contains invalid products.
New Feature: Supplier - when accepting bonded orders, the stock figure shown has been changed to a live lookup of the stock on the bonded sales order.
New Feature: Single Sign-on - add an account setting to toggle if MFA is required for users logging in via SSO.
New Feature: Single Sign-on - prevent SSO users changing their password.
New Feature: Single Sign-on - added an option to the login page to login via SSO (where SSO has been configured).
New Feature: Recycling - the CSR Report can optionally show the number of units redeployed within the organisation - this needs to be configured by SCC.
Bug fix: Bundles - on bundle creation only allow suppliers which are setup on the current account.
Bug fix: Catalogue - correctly show the stock figure for Services with a real stock value.
Bug fix: Catalogue - on the product details page only show warranty codes which the user is allowed to view.
Bug fix: Supplier - ensure special characters (eg &) are handled properly in order import.
Bug fix: Orders - ensure special characters (eg &) are handled properly in order import.
Other: Services - remove references to OpenUpTime and Assyst as these services are no longer in use.
01
2024
Lifecycle 8.2.7
25/01/2024
New Feature: Catalogue - there is a new account setting to hide the catalogue in the product breadcrumb.
New Feature: Catalogue - the related items for a catalogue item are now sorted by the user's catalogue sorting preference.
New Feature: External Categories - it is now possible to import and export product-based mappings.
New Feature: Catalogue admin - a product's extended customer description can now be imported along with the customer description.
New Feature: Catalogue admin - all customer descriptions can be exported.
New Feature: Catalogue admin - added a search to customer descriptions and customer fields.
New Feature: Catalogue - users with the ability to add customer descriptions and images may now edit the item from the product details page.
New Feature: Catalogue admin - customer specific product images may now be ranked.
New Feature: Catalogue - administrators may now receive email notification when items in specified catalogues are added or removed.
New Feature: Recycling - it is now possible to filter the request list to only CRs raised by the current user.
New Feature: Recycling - an account can have standard collection times added and the user can select these from a dropdown when creating a CR.
New Feature: Recycling - a default value for Asset Tracked Collection can now be set per account (no default is also an option).
New Feature: Baskets may now be exported as a PDF quotation.
New Feature: Navigation - an administrator can pin certain menu items to the start of the main navigation.
New Feature: Webservices - new webservices added to return: a list of order types; and the service lines associated with a baasket of items.
Bug fix: Catalogue Admin - currently catalogues with only user level access are incorrectly shown as inactive - this has been fixed.
Bug fix: Catalogue Admin - it is no longer possible to delete the last access entry. This is to prevent the catalogue being removed from the account.
Bug fix: account list - pinning accounts to the account list now works correctly.
Bug fix: Recycling - when creating a new Collection Request, the email validation has been updated to include longer top-level domains (eg .global, .christmas, etc)
Bug fix: Catalogue - customer descriptions and images will now be correctly shown on the comparison page.
Bug fix: Welcome Page - clicking 'Add to basket' for items in widgets on the welcome page will now function correctly
11
2023
Lifecycle 8.2.6
06/11/2023
New Feature: Webservices - the OrderStatus webservice now allows searching by PO Number.
New Feature: Webservices - a new OpenOrders webservice has been created to show any orders which have not yet been despatched.
New Feature: Webservices - a new RecentDespatch webservice has been created to show any orders which have been recently despatched.
New Feature: Punchout - it is now possible to send customer fields as extrinsic fields in the Punchout Order Message.
New Feature: Punchout - it is now possible to specify a number of days for product leadtime and to return this in the Punchout Order Message.
New Feature: Punchout - the Classification domain in the Punchout Order Message can now be changed.
New Feature: Checkout - the Framework field may be made non-mandatory (or hidden) until later in the approval process.
New Feature: Orders - make the part number filter visible by default.
New Feature: Catalogue - the alert which confirms that an item has been added to the basket can now be hidden by a user.
New Feature: Login - a user may now choose where they will go after login (overriding the account setting).
New Feature: Orders - for orders for a subsidary with a different invoicing currency, the item prices will now be displayed in the user's selected currency and the invoicing currency.
New Feature: Catalogue - due stock can now show a range of days/weeks (eg 10 in 4-6 weeks).
Bug fix: Checkout - ensure that a mandatory Customer Reference is correctly marked as mandatory.
Bug fix: Orders - ensure that links to courier sites for POD are not treated by the browser as a popup window.
Bug fix: Baskets - archived baskets will now display correctly.
Bug fix: Recycling - for accounts with multiple subsidiaries, the correct account will now be set on a new CR.
Other: update to BootBox v6.0 (for modal dialogs).
Other: update to Leaflet 1.9.4 (for maps).
Other: upgrade map tiles to OSM due to licencing issues with Stamen.
Other: slight reorganisation of reports into sub-categories.
09
2023
Lifecycle 8.2.5
04/09/2023
New Feature: Dashboard - the Support summary will now load in the background as it can be slow to load for accounts with lots of ServiceNow incidents.
New Feature: Recycling - added a Despatched Date filter to the Unit view.
New Feature: Supplier - the address validation page has now been split into Vetting groups.
New Feature: Orders - service options can now be set to ignore particular items when calculating costs (eg if some items attract free delivery).
New Feature: Orders - the order import option now provides more options and allows orders to be submitted directly from the import.
New Feature: Reports - access to individual reports can now be removed from users/roles.
Bug fix: Dashboard - hide the Order Approval widget if the user does not have access to approve.
Bug fix: Recycling - preserve the text search when moving between pages in the results set.
Bug fix: Recycling - when creating a CR, correctly hide the Collection Logistics fields if 'SCC to Collect' is set to No.
Bug fix: Services - prevent users clicking the 'Raise Incident' button more than once.
07
2023
Lifecycle 8.2.4
27/07/2023
New Feature: Reports - allow reports to be run for disabled accounts.
New Feature: Reports - URLs in report results will now be shown as a link.
New Feature: Recycling - update the Recently Published Bills email to show the account number.
New Feature: Recycling - the CSR report can now be restricted to a customer brief.
New Feature: Supplier - it is now possible to flag orders as having a Customer Build.
New Feature: Web service - Order Status now returns a list of status updates and comments.
New Feature: TNT consignments - Lifecycle will now try to get the name of the person who signed for the delivery and also link to the POD document provided by TNT.
New Feature: Catalogue - due stock can now show "more due in x days" rather than specifying a date.
Bug fix: correctly respect the pricing setting when exporting a product to PDF.
Bug fix: Reports - fix the display problem shown when creating a new report.
Bug fix: Catalogue - Bundles containing a lead item which is 5- or 7-coded should now get the correct image.
Bug fix: Orders - when copying an order where the order type does not require end-user details, the end-user details will no longer be copied from the original order's delivery details.
Bug fix: Recycling - when viewing Units, the Project Reference filter will now show Refs from all sub-accounts.
Other: SCC branch access now gives Admin access.
Other: changes to accommodate changes to card processing by Barclaycard.
04
2023
Lifecycle 8.2.3
27/04/2023
New Feature: Recycling - The CSR report can now be produced for a custom date range.
New Feature: Recycling - added a new setting to restrict a user or group to viewing only the CSR Report.
New Feature: Recycling - CR import now includes PO number and Customer Reference.
New Feature: Recycling - the text search for Collection Requests will now include the collection address.
New Feature: Recycling - added a status filter to the Financials page.
New Feature: Recycling - the CSR Forecast is now available to non-SCC users.
New Feature: Recycling - when editing a draft CR which has been imported, the imported address will be shown and will now be editable.
New Feature: Order API - added a setting to allow orders to be accepted with discontinued items.
New Feature: SAP OCI Punchout - it is now possible to specify SAP Contract and Contract Item values per catalogue.
New Feature: Rollout - when creating a new notification, the user will be prompted whether it should be enabled for existing deployments.
New Feature: Rollout - it is now possible to test notification emails.
New Feature: Catalogue - certain users may now create global catalogues which are available to all accounts.
New Feature: Catalogue - product merchandisers can now specify the ranking for upsell products.
New Feature: Orders - for accounts with multiple frameworks, one framework can be made the default.
Bug fix: Transactions - Ensure that invoices can be correctly downloaded after a search.
Bug fix: Rollout - Supress the order receipt and acceptance emails for users scheduled via the Rollout tool.
Bug fix: Rollout - ensure that any custom email from address name is correctly applied to all emails.
Bug fix: Catalogue - the selected quantity will be correctly added to the basket when viewing the catalogue in list view.
Bug fix: Recycling - display the correct list of Business Units when importing CRs.
Bug fix: Recycling - ensure the collection date in the import file is read correctly when importing.
01
2023
Lifecycle 8.2.2
30/01/2023
New Feature: Catalogue - a list view of products is now available.
New Feature: Catalogue - automatically remove Quotation bundles which are more than 3 months old.
New Feature: Admin - show the CS/3 branch name against the CS/3 account.
New Feature: Admin - accounts can now be removed from the user's favourites list.
New Feature: Recycling - subsidiary accounts can now be marked as read-only. This allows historical CR data to be shown but prevents customers raising new CRs for that subsidiary.
New Feature: Recycling - Unit exports now include whether the unit is saleable.
New Feature: Recycling - it is now possible to produce CSR forecast based on the number of units expected to be processed (SCC users only).
New Feature: Checkout - individual Frameworks may now be hidden for an account and additional help text can be provided for each Framework.
New Feature: Account creation - new account requests from MySCC will be reviewed if the organisation already exists in Lifecycle (based on the MySCC URN).
Bug fix: Catalogue - correctly show possible manufacturers in the search suggestions list.
Other: Order Processing - all accounts set to 'Pass all orders to ERP' converted to 'Auto-vet orders' as this is a more reliable way to process orders.
Other: Recycling - minor changes to the CR import spreadsheet.
11
2022
Lifecycle 8.2.1
10/11/2022
New Feature: Recycling - if an account is set to allow importing of CRs, the import page will now allow a blank template to be downloaded.
New Feature: Recycling - when creating a Collection Request the user will be shown a warning from the Environment Agency when adding Mixed WEEE or Mixed EEE. They will also have to acknowledge this warning when saving the CR.
New Feature: Catalogue - where the sales team are managing stock for customers, they can now add due dates with comments which will be visible to end users.
New Feature: Rollout - allow completion of users with no items to be automated (useful for collection only requests).
New Feature: Supplier - hide pending orders for disabled accounts.
New Feature: Admin - show the CS/3 account status on the account admin page.
New Feature: Admin - show the MySCC URN on the account admin page.
New Feature: Admin - show the CS/3 account status on the account creation page.
New Feature: Supplier - show the CS/3 account status when accepting an order.
New Feature: Switch account - it is now possible to switch account using the MySCC URN or the punchout ID.
Bug fix: Recycling - allow email addresses containing quotation marks (') to be used when creating a collection request.
Bug fix: Orders - ensure approval rejection emails contain the rejection comments entered by the approver.
Other: Queries - all accounts are now set to use Task Manager for queries.
09
2022
Lifecycle 8.2
15/09/2022
New Feature: Orders - any mandatory keyword fields which only have one option, will now automatically be selected when the user edits the order or checks out.
New Feature: Orders - customer fields will now be rechecked when the invoice account is changed when editing the order or checking out
New Feature: Supplier - when using Match To Quote, all existing items will be removed from the order to ensure that line numbers passed to CS/3 match the quotation (they are currently only hidden and DI comments are added to the order).
Bug fix: Orders - when adding fields to the WHS text, the field ranking will now be used to determine the order of the fields in the WHS text.
Other: Address Validation - upgrade Loqate to use a new API key.
09
2022
Lifecycle 8.1.9
05/09/2022
New Feature: ServiceNow Catalogue - show the names of the order guides which an item is currently in.
New Feature: Rollout - add a new setting to the deployment which will prevent a normal user from changing their items.
New Feature: Rollout - show the selected location when the user is confirming their booking.
New Feature: Supplier - when importing orders, it is now possible to specify which delivery addresses are personal.
New Feature: Supplier - the Pending Stock page can now be exported to an Excel file.
New Feature: Recycling - the CSR report can now show all data for the contract as well as data for specific date ranges.
New Feature: Punchout - show an alert in Account Setup if a punchout account has no active punchout users.
New Feature: API - added a new account setting to allow orders with discontinued items to be accepted.
New Feature: Transactions - record when users download PDF copies of invoices and despatch notes (PRJ0021292).
New Feature: Transactions - send a daily email to nominated users notifying them of new invoices for all of the accounts they have access to. Users who receive the email will be able to view a consolidated view of all invoices for all the accounts they have access to (PRJ0021292).
New Feature: Orders - order import will now give more information for failed orders.
Bug fix: Supplier - correctly display any Sales Set Cost.
Bug fix: Recycling - when creating a Collection Request, the total number of items shown will now correctly reflect the quantity on each line.
Bug fix: Rollout - ensure the email display name is used for the initial customer email.
Bug fix: Admin - the account switching menu will now be correctly restored after impersonating a user.
Bug fix: Catalogue Admin - ensure that Bonded items are correctly identified and not shown as 'Discontinued' when modifying a catalogue.
Other: Recycling - hide the Monitors category when creating or importing a Collection Request.
Other: Checkout - when editing a user, the text on the save button will make it clearer that an existing user is being edited.
Other: Admin - added additional logging around user creation/import.
05
2022
Lifecycle 8.1.8
19/05/2022
New Feature: Ariba punchout - it is now possible to log the user into Lifecycle against a different user ID based on the SupplierPartID received in the punchout request.
New Feature: Recycling - added an account setting to allow CRs to be imported.
New Feature: Users - when impersonating a user for support purposes, it is now possible to stop the impersonation and return to your own login.
New Feature: Rollout - reminders are usually sent at 7.45 am each day but a new page has been added to allow pending reminders to be sent before the next scheduled run.
New Feature: Bonded - when bonded stock is created each morning, any accounts which have bonded stock and have a trading relationship with SCC UK but not with SCC UK Bonded will be updated to add the SCC UK Bonded relationship.
New Feature: Security - added support for Multi-factor authentication using a standard authentication app (eg Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator, Authy, etc).
Bug fix: Rollout - Ensure that any calendar notifications cope properly with multiple lines in the event description.
Bug fix: Rollout - allow completions to be edited for jobs with no selected timeslot.
Bug fix: Users - ensure that password reset emails sent from the internal server use the external URL for the reset link.
Bug fix: Recycling - ensure that the CSR report can be emailed correctly.
Other: Credit cards - the infrastructure for processing credit cards for SCC France has been changed to an updated Société Générale payment processor.
Other: Password reset notifications can no longer be sent for users marked as 'Multiple Users' as these users cannot reset their passwords.
Other: Rollout - add a notice that post-install reminders are only sent to Completed users.
03
2022
Lifecycle 8.1.7
17/03/2022
New Feature: Rollout - when unscheduling a group of users, the email notifying those users can be supressed.
New Feature: Rollout - calendar notifications will now be marked PRIVATE.
New Feature: Rollout - when automatically creating a CR for a completed user, it is now possible to include the contents of a field in the CR comment field.
New Feature: Rollout - the installation date can be removed from the WHS text for a deployment.
New Feature: AutoVet stock swap can now swap single lines for bundles.
New Feature: Supplier - it is now possible to export the sales orders which were created from an import.
New Feature: Supplier - send an email to an nominated address when an order containing a specific product code is received [DMND0009116].
New Feature: Orders - HTML formatted emails will now honour the account setting for branding and will also display the customer logo if an image is present on the account.
New Feature: Orders - order emails can now have the pricing display set for delivery users (ie where the user doesn't have a login).
New Feature: Orders - added a new view showing orders which are pending Commissioning.
New Feature: Catalogue - when searching in the catalogue, a warning will be displayed if not sorting by Suitability as the most suitable items may not appear at the top of the list.
New Feature: Bundles - when creating a bundle it is now possible to specify the WHS text which AutoVet will append to orders containing that bundle.
New Feature: Recycling - when viewing the list of Collection Requests, show an icon against the CR if it contains any attachments.
New Feature: Web Services - the security token and account number may now be sent in the header rather than in the URL if preferred.
New Feature: Web services - the orderStatus end point will now return the despatched date as well as a delivery date.
New Feature: Web services - the orderStatus end point will now return the name of the courier (if available).
Bug fix: when creating a new basket, ensure that the lead account is selected as the invoice account.
Other: despatch confirmation emails will now be delayed until the consignment number is received from the courier so that the email can contain a link to the courier's tracking page (generally around 10pm for TNT). For orders without a consignment number, the emails will be sent at midnight.
Other: when notifying users of their login details, the email will no longer contain a temporary password but the user will be emailed a time limited link to the password reset page where they will be able to specify their own password. This is to enhance security.
12
2021
Lifecycle 8.1.6
10/12/2021
New Feature: Rollout - the customer PO can now be set for orders created from a deployment.
New Feature: Rollout - it is now possible to specify the items which will appear on an auto-created CR.
New Feature: Rollout - deployments may now be given a type: Delivery only; Collection only; Delivery & Collection; Delivery & Delayed Collection. For Delivery & Delayed Collection, a user will be created in a linked deployment to allow the user to choose a collection slot after their delivery has been completed.
New Feature: Rollout - allow all No Show data to be downloaded.
New Feature: Rollout - allow Warehouse to be notified of Bonded call-offs which need to be picked and shipped.
New Feature: Orders - a new field type of Masked Text is now available. This is similar to the Password type but the Masked text field can be passed to CS/3 whereas the Password field is only visible in Lifecycle.
New Feature: Orders - support for an updated Barclaycard credit/debit card payment process.
New Feature: Supplier - allow Operations to import orders into the Supplier tab for AutoVet to process [DMND0009115].
Bug fix: Orders - adding a bundle by typing the code in the basket quick add function will now work more reliably.
Other: Recycling - small change to the Collection Request vetting email.
11
2021
Lifecycle 8.1.5
03/11/2021
New Feature: Each account can now have a nominated email address which will receive emails showing orders which have been handed over in Config.
New Feature: Rollout - a user job can now be moved between users [DMND0008734].
New Feature: Rollout - the user details for a job can now be updated [DMND0008734].
New Feature: Rollout - notification emails can now be overridden at deployment level [DMND0008751].
New Feature: Rollout - searching for a user will now also search any fields which have been populated on Engineer Completion.
New Feature: Rollout - notification calendar settings can now be overridden at deployment level [DMND0008751].
New Feature: Rollout - when setting the WHS text options in a deployment, a warning will be given if any of the account settings will override the choices made for the deployment.
New Feature: Rollout - it is now possible to return a user to draft status if they are not scheduled (if they are scheduled, the need to be Unscheduled which will also return the user to draft status).
New Feature: Rollout - when viewing a user record, it is now possible to delete the user from the deployment.
New Feature: Rollout - it is now possible to send mass email/text message to users regardless of their status. These messages can also be scheduled for delivery on a future date.
New Feature: AutoVet can now swap items based on stock availability.
Bug fix: correctly display any product restrictions when printing or exporting a basket.
Bug fix: fix validation delay when saving a new personal address [INC3081660].
Bug fix: Rollout - ensure that Cancelled activities are not locked for Project Co-ordinators.
Bug fix: Rollout - update user delivery addresses if the deployment setting is changed to no longer prompt users for their delivery address.
Other: due to changes in SCC's outgoing email servers, it is no longer possible to send outgoing emails with a non-SCC email address. If an email would previously have had a non-SCC from address, it will now be sent from an SCC email address with the reply-to set to the non-SCC address.
09
2021
Lifecycle 8.1.4
13/09/2021
New Feature: Rollout - allow an account to specify if the calendar invitation will create an event which is Free or Busy (default is Busy) [DMND0008243].
New Feature: Rollout - allow an account to specify a different alarm period for the calendar event (default is 15 minutes before event) [DMND0008243].
New Feature: Rollout - for users specifing a delivery address when scheduling themselves, ensure the 'Personal Address' checkbox is on by default.
New Feature: Rollout - added a new option to a deployment to open a user in a new window.
New Feature: Rollout - added a new merge code {111} to insert the order's proof of delivery URL (if available).
New Feature: Rollout - added a new view of user No Shows and a count per user of the number of no shows.
New Feature: Rollout - allow the delivery date in the WHS text to be a set number of days before the scheduled date.
New Feature: Orders - for users setup to see the RRP discount, show the discount on each line in the basket [PRJ0020922].
Bug fix: Account setup - when creating a text field the default value will now no longer be validated as an email address.
Bug fix: Rollout - if a user has scheduled themselves and then cancelled, ensure the booking is correctly cancelled.
Bug fix: Rollout - ensure that Outlook 365 can correctly process calendar cancellations.
Bug fix: Rollout - when copying a deployment all settings will now be copied.
Bug fix: Rollout - update the address dropdown correctly when adding a new address for a deployment.
Bug fix: Recycling - supress the final blank page when exporting certificates.
Bug fix: Catalogue - allow users to purchase a bundle which contains a bonded item and an active stock item which has no stock.
Bug fix: Orders - for French orders ensure that active orders with the same reference number as an archived order can be viewed correctly.
Bug fix: Rollout - importing date data into text fields will now preserve the format used in the import file.
Other: Recycling - small change to the destruction and erasure certificates.
07
2021
Lifecycle 8.1.3
12/07/2021
New Feature: Rollout - when scheduling users allow the notification email to be suppressed [DMND0007865].
New Feature: Rollout - when importing users allow the notification email to be suppressed [DMND0007865].
New Feature: Rollout - allow users to enter their delivery address when scheduling themselves [DMND0007999].
New Feature: Recycling - when importing CRs, allow encrypted files to be imported [DMND0007864].
New Feature: Recycling - allow the user to select which tabs in the spreadsheet they want to import [DMND0007864].
New Feature: Recycling - capture the Customer PO Number when creating a CR [DMND0007954].
New Feature: Recycling - accounts are now able to hide Bills for certain Project References [DMND0007995].
New Feature: Addresses - importing addresses will no longer fail if True/False is used instead of 1/0 on certain import columns.
New Feature: Addresses - slight change to the layout shown when creating addresses to aid creation of addresses [DMND0008094].
New Feature: if a user whose data has been redacted logs in to Lifecycle again, they will be prompted to provide their name and email address [DMND0008095].
Bug fix: The All Outstanding Orders widget will now link to the correct order view (currently it is incorrectly linking to the My Outstanding view).
Bug fix: Checkout - for users with access, it is now possible to edit the Delivery Contact's address.
Bug fix: Admin - ensure that a new service option saves correctly.
05
2021
Lifecycle 8.1.2
20/05/2021
New Feature: Admin - to cope with large numbers of users, set the script page timeout to 4 minutes when issuing new passwords.
New Feature: Orders - a new field type has been added which will show information on the order.
New Feature: Orders - display a warning if a duplicate Customer Reference is used on an order [DMND0007760].
New Feature: Rollout - when editing the user acceptance sheet, it is now possible to download a blank sheet.
New Feature: Rollout - show the total free future capacity when viewing a deployment's schedule.
New Feature: Recycling - allow the collection confirmation email to be sent from a different address.
New Feature: Recycling - account option to make the customer reference mandatory on a collection request [DMND0007761].
New Feature: Recycling - make the customer reference on the collection request a drop down list of acceptable values [DMND0007761].
New Feature: Recycling - allow CRs to be imported [DMND0007864].
New Feature: Single Sign-on - allow a single sign-on account to have two-factor authentication turned on.
Bug fix: Order Web Service - handle errors when the createOrder web service is presented with invalid JSON.
Bug fix: Rollout - prevent unauthorised users from creating Collection Requests when they are scheduling themselves.
Bug fix: Rollout - ensure that fields setup for Rollout only appear on order emails for Rollout orders.
Bug fix: Supplier - stop the first order being occasionally hidden.
Bug fix: Checkout - ensure the Customer Reference field is not marked as mandatory when it is optional.
Bug fix: Admin - ensure service options are deleted correctly.
Bug fix: Account creation from MySCC - correctly set the customer short name to be the first 10 characters of the customer name.
Bug fix: Catalogue - when viewing a bundle which contains lines which have 0 free stock but do have on order stock, correctly show the on order quantity.
Other: Recycling - rename the 'Project Request' field as 'Business Area/Project Request'.
Other: Recycling - add a new logo to the Certificates and change the signature.
Other: replace Flash-based image cropping tools (Piczard) with jQuery tools (jCrop).
Other: amend the address import to include Personal Address [DMND0007854].
02
2021
Lifecycle 8.1.1
25/02/2021
New Feature: Supplier - AutoVet will now validate addresses where possible [DMND0006764].
New Feature: Supplier - address validation can now be sorted by oldest first or newest first.
New Feature: Users - new option to select users who have not been notified before.
New Feature: Support - when creating an incident, new caller and affected user details may now be entered.
New Feature: ServiceNow integration - it is now possible to mark Lifecycle items as requiring approval in ServiceNow.
New Feature: Recycling - try to prevent a user clicking the Save & Submit button twice on a CR.
Bug fix: Orders - add 'Invoiced' to the order status filter.
Bug fix: Supplier - when accepting an IMAC order, the full address from Field Service will now be shown.
Bug fix: Orders - better error handling when creating an order via the web service.
Bug fix: Rollout - improved performance of User Export for large data sets.
Bug fix: Recycling - show the actual requested collection date for a CR rather than the customer's original suggested date.
Bug fix: Recycling - for submitted CRs, always show the current collection address from Radius rather than the address which was entered in Lifecycle when the CR was created.
Bux fix: Recycling - prevent duplicates appearing in the Product dropdown.
Bug fix: Services - remeditation for XSS vulnerability when exporting/emailing an incident.
Bug fix: Catalogue - remeditation for XSS vulnerability when exporting/emailing product details.
Bug fix: Orders - remeditation for XSS vulnerability when exporting/emailing order details.
Bug fix: Admin - correctly save changes to product based external category mappings.
Bug fix: remove unused cookies.
Other: Calendar - now aware of Platinum Jubilee Bank holidays in June 2022.
Other: additional French translations.
11
2020
Lifecycle 8.1
09/11/2020
New Feature: Rollout - allow deployments to be given a department to allow separation of deployments within one account.
New Feature: Rollout - added a new merge field to allow the items (plus serial and badge numbers) to be included in notifications.
New Feature: Rollout - updated the list of merge codes which can be used for notifications.
New Feature: Rollout - additional settings have been added to a deployment to control how orders are transferred to CS/3 (suspend, hold, plain label, warehouse manager review).
New Feature: Rollout - additional options for the location which is included in the calendar invitation.
New Feature: Rollout - allow the Unscheduled Users, Unresponsive Users & Slot Utilisation pages to be filtered by deployment [DMND0006633].
New Feature: Rollout - allow automation of sending invitations, completion based on TNT delivery and submission of orders to CS/3 for selected deployments [DMND0006424].
New Feature: Rollout - Collection Requests can be automatically created for all completed users on a deployment [DMND0006679].
New Feature: Rollout - show a view of all deliveries (where we have the data from the courier) [DMND0006646].
New Feature: Address - when editing an address, the company will be hidden if the address is marked as a personal address.
New Feature: Supplier - add a view of the stock on pending orders.
New Feature: Recycling - prompt users when saving a new Collection Request which has no items.
New Feature: Recycling - allow the CSR report to be printed for a selected month as well as the CY and FY.
New Feature: Recycling - allow Disposal Certificates to be printed for CRs which have been despatched bt not invoiced.
New Feature: Orders - for order types with multiple delivery service options, allow the lowest or highest value service to be the only one shown.
New Feature: Orders - allow services options to be selected based on the order's delivery address or address type (personal or office) [DMND0005900].
New Feature: Orders - will now show delivery date where it has been possible to get an automated update from the courier [DMND0006389].
New Feature: User - add logging for changes to user details.
New Feature: Order Schedule - additional settings have been added to a schedule area to control how orders are transferred to CS/3 (suspend, hold, plain label, warehouse manager review).
New Feature: Order Schedule - added a new setting on a schedule area to control when the order will be submitted to the supplier (on checkout or from order scheduling).
New Feature: Admin - phone number is now no longer mandatory when creating or importing a user.
New Feature: Admin - user import now includes mobile number instead of fax number.
New Feature: Admin - contacts may now be imported [DMND0006636].
Bug fix: Account - ensure that the two-factor authentication can be turned off for an account.
Bug fix: Supplier - prevent an error when trying to update a manually processed XOF order.
Bug fix: Bundles - prevent an optional item in a bundle from having a minimum quantity of 0.
Bug fix: Rollout - allow SMS to be used for all notification types.
Bug fix: Checkout - ensure that all valid cost centres are displayed in the drop down list.
Bug fix: Checkout - orders which will be IMAC Vetted will now be correctly routed on checkout.
Bug fix: Orders - ensure the order status filter works correctly.
Bug fix: Orders - when viewing previous approval runs, ensure that the Approvals tab remains selected.
Bug fix: Supplier - when vetting addresses, postcodes will now be correctly checked.
Other: update the Leaflet mapping plugin to v1.6.0.
03
2020
Lifecycle 8.0.5
19/03/2020
New Feature: The Order Creators report will now show orders created by users from other accounts.
New Feature: Order Schedule - allow attachments to be added on Completion.
New Feature: Rollout - User Export can now be limited to 1 deployment.
New Feature: Supplier - orders from MySCC will now be shown in a separate tab.
New Feature: quotations from MySCC which contain empty part numbers can now be submitted as orders.
New Feature: Recycling - most pages can now be filtered by the Project Reference.
New Feature: Budget Spend - a comment can now be added.
New Feature: provide support for Parcelforce consignment tracking.
New Feature: allow downloading of Credit Notes.
New Feature: new view of duplicate addresses.
New Feature: new view of duplicate users.
New Feature: Checkout - when adding a new address, users will be prompted to consider similar addresses.
New Feature: Checkout - when adding a new contact, users will be prompted to consider existing contacts with the same email address.
New Feature: Catalogue - customer specific catalogues may be given an icon which will display as a badge on the catalogue's products.
Bug fix: Rollout - ensure the survey details will be exported correctly if there is missing data.
Bug fix: Orders - the confirmation page will show the correct total if VAT is hidden.
Bug fix: Orders - when editing an order which is in approval, the user will be returned to the approval page rather than the checkout page.
Bug fix: Orders - show all empty mandatory fields when approving an order.
Bug fix: Orders - if the account is set to hide VAT, ensure the total value does not include the VAT.
Bug fix: Supplier - printing multiple orders will now work correctly.
Bug fix: Leasing - ensure a term of 0 months cannot be entered.
10
2019
Lifecycle 8.0.4
24/10/2019
New Feature: Product Admin now allows products to be copied.
New Feature: when updating a customer's logo or branding the change will be shown immediately (previously it was only shown on next login)
New Feature: Rollout - the customer reference is now included on the user export.
New Feature: Rollout - the user's first part number is shown on the user list view.
New Feature: Rollout - the user views can now be filtered to show or hide Complete/Cancelled.
New Feature: Rollout - rescheduling a user will cause reminders to be sent again.
New Feature: Rollout - a user id can now be changed.
New Feature: Rollout - a No Show user can now have the original email resent.
New Feature: when creating a new user, they will be given access to all subsidiary accounts by default.
New Feature: a user id can now be changed in Admin > Security > Users.
New Feature: Orders - there is a new account option to turn on the required date on the checkout page.
New Feature: Admin - the Account options page will now show any custom names for Cost Centre, Department and Customer Reference in the Export options section.
Bug fix: Survey - the email text now accepts HTML text.
Bug fix: Order processing - if the items on the order are changed, the order fields will now be updated to reflect the new order items.
Bug fix: Orders - the payment method field will be hidden when approving orders if there is only one possible method of payment for the account.
Bug fix: Rollout - set the email display name correctly (if set on the account).
Bug fix: Bundles - ensure changes to customer fields are saved correctly.
Bug fix: Supplier - the order PDF will now be formatted correctly.
Bug fix: Supplier - the print button will now work as expected.
Bug fix: stop creation of duplicate user entries.
Bug fix: correctly hide the delivery contact drop-down if the account is set to hide it.
Bug fix: date pickers will now display correctly in languages other than English.
Bug fix: clicking on the date picker icon will now show the date picker.
Bug fix: Rollout - set the invoice account to the previous saved value even if the user doesn't have access to the supplier.
Bug fix: dialog boxes will be easier to use on smaller screens.
Bug fix: the PDF export of an order will show the components of any bundles on the order.
Bug fix: when editing the order, users with permissions will be able to edit the contact.
Bug fix: importing items into a catlaogue will now work as expected.
Other: additional French translations
Other: support for Computacenter NL stopping using Lifecycle on 05/11/2019.
06
2019
Lifecycle 8.0.3
28/06/2019
New Feature: Rollout - new setting on a deployment to determine which address will be used on confirmation emails.
New Feature: Rollout - new setting on a deployment to determine if Config needs to be notified of new orders.
New Feature: Licensing - it is now possible to search for agreements when adding a new agreement.
New Feature: Orders - add a new setting to force SCC users to go through order approval on selected accounts.
New Feature: users for nominated accounts can be forced to use two-factor authentication when logging in. They will be sent a one-time code via SMS message or email.
Bug fix: fixed a problem with the wording of the email sent when the order is submitted for approval.
Bug fix: Recycling - fix problem exporting units with no tracker id.
Bug fix: correctly hide the delivery contact dropdown on the checkout page if delivery contact is not enabled on the account.
Bug fix: correctly show the Special Setup Warning in the admin section if it has been enabled.
Other: Calendar - when adding UK holidays Lifecycle will now recognise 08/05/2020 as the May Day bank holiday.
02
2019
Lifecycle 8.0.2
07/02/2019
New Feature: Rollout - show the customer reference on the user lists.
New Feature: new maintenance page for account specific product restrictions & messages.
New Feature: added image tools to the welcome page setup (crop and image optimisation).
New Feature: catalogue quick search now shows product thumbnail images and items can be added to baskets.
New Feature: a 'Save for later' button has been added to the checkout page.
New Feature: it is now possible to show/hide a service option based on the catalogues the order's items are in.
New Feature: a subsidiary account can be moved to a new account hierarchy.
New Feature: the approvals widget cache will be cleared when a user approves or rejects an order.
Bug fix: close the pop-up window after a new contact has been created from an order or basket.
Bug fix: show account contact's email address when viewing the list of contacts from the order.
Bug fix: Rollout - fix problem when searching using mixed-case.
Bug fix: show the correct budget spend.
Bug fix: when adding a bundle to a basket, the basket dropdown will now update correctly.
Bug fix: when viewing a basket containing a bundle, clicking on the bundle line will now correctly show a popup containing the items in that bundle.
Bug fix: allow the user to change the quantity added to the basket when viewing the product details page.
Bug fix: fix the error when exporting bundles to PDF.
Bug fix: fix the error when running the User Logins report.
Other: Recycling - Changes to the text of the Certificate of Secure Sanitisation.
Other: Recycling - Add the quantity to the Destruction certificates.
Other: Recycling - Changes to the CSR report.
Other: cache postal address lookups.
11
2018
Lifecycle 8.0.1
14/11/2018
New Feature: Rollout - when editing a deployment, remember user search settings for the length of the user's session.
New Feature: Rollout - add Pending User, Access by User and Partial Complete to the Rollout Status widget.
New Feature: Rollout - clicking on a calendar date header will switch to a view of a single day.
New Feature: Rollout - add a search option to the Change Location dialog box.
New Feature: Order Schedule - the user's signature can be captured on completion if the engineer is using a mobile phone.
New Feature: Search helpers now apply to a single user language.
New Feature: Supplier - when accepting an order, each tab with errors will now show a warning icon when the order is first opened.
New Feature: bundles can now have an optional group where the options are all pre-ticked.
New Feature: when emailing an order, the subject will default to the order's reference.
Bug fix: Ensure that the default Customer Reference is saved correctly.
Bug fix: Rollout - don't change the status when updating a completed user.
Bug fix: ensure that task attachments can be viewed.
Bug fix: when exporting a basket ensure that the pricing setting is used correctly.
Bug fix: when emailing a basket in Excel format, the file will now be visible in the email.
Other: Supplier - Enable Bonded orders to be created when processing an order.
Other: Updated email address for SCC France Support (France-support-lifecycle@fr.scc.com).
Other: changes to support branding change from Misco Solutions to Computacenter.
11
2018
Lifecycle 7.7.2
14/11/2018
New Feature: bundles can now have an optional group where the options are all pre-ticked.
Bug fix: Ensure that the default Customer Reference is saved correctly.
Bug fix: ensure that task attachments can be viewed.
Other: Updated email address for SCC France Support (France-support-lifecycle@fr.scc.com).
Other: changes to support branding change from Misco Solutions to Computacenter.
07
2018
Lifecycle 8.0
19/07/2018
This is the initial release of Lifecycle v8 which is a visual refresh for Lifecycle
07
2018
Lifecycle 7.7.1
12/07/2018
New Feature: Recycling - include comments in the Unit export.
New Feature: Rollout - it is now possible to define a label template and print labels for upcoming jobs.
Bug fix: ensure that bundles with # in the part number can be copied.
Bug fix: fix problem logging in with L&G custom welcome page.
Bug fix: ensure the delivery email address appears on the simple checkout page.
Bug fix: ensure that the history log for a user can always be viewed.
Bug fix: correctly display the promotional catalogue page in the user's own language.
Bug fix: Rollout - allow cancelled and No Show users to be rescheduled.
Other: Additional French translations.
03
2018
Lifecycle 7.7
12/03/2018
New Feature: Configuration - users can view the status of asset tags used in Configuration.
New Feature: Rollout - added a control to toggle availabilty of all customer fields in the deployment setup.
New Feature: Rollout - deployments with no users can now be deleted by Rollout Administrators.
New Feature: Rollout - deployments can be marked as archived. Users/Assets for archived deployments will not show in reports.
New Feature: Rollout - addition of some new widget types.
New Feature: Recycling - minor changes to the recycling certificates.
New Feature: Recycling - authorised users may send the quarterly waste letters.
New Feature: Leasing - the sales exec and region can be added to the agreement and they will be used for any CS/3 orders generated for that agreement.
New Feature: Admin - allow copying of a list of catalogues to multiple accounts.
New Feature: Orders - a default Customer Reference can now be stored for an account.
New Feature: Orders - field help is now available for the Purchase Order No and the Customer Reference on the order form.
New Feature: Catalogue - it is now possible to sort by 'Price (high - low)' as well as 'Price (low - high)'.
Bug fix: hide the Configuration SLA widget for non-English speakers.
Bug fix: password reset emails will now show the Misco icon for NL users.
Bug fix: Rollout - make sure the slot count and calendar default start date ignores slots which are for the same location but specific to other deployments.
Bug fix: Approval steps - ensure that currency rate fluctuations do not affect the non-GBP value of the skip step setting.
01
2018
Lifecycle 7.6.9
11/01/2018
New Feature: Recycling - allow certificates to be downloaded for Despatched CRs (was invoiced).
New Feature: Recycling - show the Customer Business Unit on the Financials page.
New Feature: Rollout - created a new 'Cancelled' status.
New Feature: Rollout - multiple users can now be set to Partial Complete from the rollout deployment.
New Feature: Rollout - survey emails can now be in HTML format.
New Feature: Rollout - the deployment location is now shown at the top of the deployment setup page.
New Feature: Orders - show the Build Sheets from COPS to authorised users.
New Feature: Orders - it is now possible to hide the stock figure when exporting a basket or order.
New Feature: Orders - for accounts which are AutoVetted, notify the order creator about failed orders if the order was created by an SCC user.
New Feature: Configuration - show SCC users the current SLA on the home page.
New Feature: New widget type to show promotions view of catalogue [PJ004010].
Bug fix: ensure that the AutoVet settings are saved correctly.
Bug fix: Rollout - show the number of partial completes on the page which lists the deployments.
Bug fix: Rollout - when exporting users/assets from a deployment, only export the details for the selected deployment.
Bug fix: Checkout - the simple checkout page will now correctly show any default PO number.
Bug fix: Orders - hide the stock alert when printing or emailing a basket or order.
Other: Update the Google Analytics tracker ID for NL.
11
2017
Lifecycle 7.6.8
16/11/2017
New Feature: Rollout - add the customer reference to the user list.
New Feature: Supplier - only show AutoVetted orders awaiting address validation in the address validation view.
New Feature: Recycling - allow Bills to be hidden for an account.
Bug fix: sort the attachments by title in the welcome page widget.
Bug fix: ensure that the status of validated addresses is saved correctly.
Other: change the outgoing mail server to smptrelay.sch.com
Other: AutoVet - rule change to allow MySCC quotations to be auto-vetted.
Other: AutoVet - rule change to change priority of user email and phone number mappings (now: original > previously used for contact > default for account).
10
2017
Lifecycle 7.6.7
13/10/2017
New Feature: Support for National Trust's ServiceNow instance.
New Feature: MPSA Licences - support for accounts with multiple Purchasing Accounts
New Feature: Configuration updates (build started, shift handovers, estimated completion) will now appear in an order's history
New Feature: Account specific help text can now be added to system catalogues
New Feature: Rollout - it is now possible to set the invoice account for all sales orders raised from a deployment.
New Feature: Rollout - slight reorganisation of the deployment page to put Schedule and Users at the top of the page.
New Feature: Recycling - the make and model have been added to Unit exports.
New Feature: Recycling - the SCC part number has been added to Unit exports.
New Feature: Incidents - updates may be added to calls which are on Hold.
New Feature: Order Schedule - add the PO Number to the user export.
Bug fix: ensure that the field and item field ranking is unique for French order transfer.
Bug fix: make sure that widgets are copied when copying the welcome page between accounts.
Bug fix: Recycling - ensure the Asset Tracked setting on a request is correctly saved.
Bug fix: ensure that punchout users are directed to the correct page if they cancel checkout.
09
2017
Lifecycle 7.6.6
07/09/2017
New Feature: Accounts which send items to ServiceNow for a service catalogue, can now specify a custom URL for the upload web service (for when the customer has their own version of ServiceNow).
New Feature: Items which have previously been sent to ServiceNow can now be marked as inactive in SN.
New Feature: Rollout - autolocking can now create sales orders if needed.
New Feature: Rollout - the unscheduled users view now shows the date the invitation and chase emails were last sent.
New Feature: Order Schedule - the order creation date is now included in the user export.
New Feature: Order Schedule - provide Partial Complete as a completion option.
New Feature: add the CS/3 Sales Order number to the text of the OUT call for IMAC orders.
New Feature: Order Schedule - the budget code and ordered date have been added to the user export.
Bug fix: Rollout - make sure the asset export copes with users who have not been despatched yet.
Bug fix: ensure address geocoding works correctly when in non-English languages.
Bug fix: Supplier - match to quote now correctly recognises the Customer Build flag.
07
2017
Lifecycle 7.6.5
20/07/2017
New Feature: link to a breakdown of spend from the home page budget spend widget.
New Feature: allow a comment to be added to budget spend updates.
New Feature: show MAC addresses on the order status page (for those accounts where the MAC address is captured in Config).
New Feature: Recycling - show additional fields for French collection requests.
New Feature: Order Schedule - allow engineers to add attachments when completing a job.
New Feature: Rollout - confirmation emails may now be in HTML format (though still subject to certain constraints of the Outlook HTML rendering engine).
Bug fix: the Active status filter in the catalogue will now show active and bonded items.
06
2017
Lifecycle 7.6.4
15/06/2017
New Feature: Order Schedule - allow engineers to auto-complete jobs when uploading customer acceptance forms.
New Feature: Recycling - show the customer reference on the Financials page.
Bug fix: correctly show PDF invoices for the Netherlands.
05
2017
Lifecycle 7.6.3
25/05/2017
New Feature: additional fields added to Contracts & Items (for SCC France but available to all countries).
New Feature: additional fields added to Queries (for SCC France but available to all countries).
New Feature: when viewing the details of a bundle with optional items, show the total price including and excluding VAT if the user's account is set to view prices with VAT.
New Feature: minor visual update to catalogue in response to customer feedback.
New Feature: add a setting to allow images to be hidden on the 'Catalogue List by Category' widget.
04
2017
Lifecycle 7.6.2
27/04/2017
New Feature: Recycling - add the Customer Business Unit to all exports.
New Feature: Punchout - add additional logging of received and sent cXML messages.
New Feature: Punchout - allow the Unit of Measure to be set for cXML customers (Ariba or Ariba-like).
New Feature: Recycling - hide some fields for SCC France as they do not use them (secondary contact and item breakdown).
New Feature: Rollout - allow the {1} placeholder for the login link to be used in an HTML anchor in HTML emails.
Bug fix: when viewing the list of users, return to page 1 when the user searches or changes the view.
Bug fix: Punchout mappings - when searching the list of mappings, ensure that the part number is included in the search.
Bug fix: Orders - only show the despatch note PDF icon if the order contains products.
Bug fix: Services - return better error messages if multiple ServiceNow items match the value entered into the Item or Service Affected textbox.
Other: updated logo for Misco Systems (NL)
03
2017
Lifecycle 7.6.1
02/03/2017
New Feature: Orders which are raised exernally will now have their delivery email and phone number set automatically. This will be based on the values previously used for the same account and delivery contact.
New Feature: home screen widgets may be restricted by user role.
Bug fix: Use the C&I item ID when logging an incident for a C&I customer.
Bug fix: allow tasks to be created correctly when processing an order in Supplier.
Bug fix: ensure that user accounts which are set to be used by multiple people always get a new basket on login.
Bug fix: Rollout - ensure that resubmitted failed orders only contain the current set of items.
Bug fix: ensure that product filters appear correctly when searching.
01
2017
Lifecycle 7.6
19/01/2017
New Feature: Rollout - add the number of attachments to the user export.
New Feature: Rollout - allow the sign-off sheets to be selected by deployment in addition to location, date and engineer.
Bug fix: Recycling - correctly save the CR for a subsidiary account.
Bug fix: Rollout - fix issue with displaying jobs scheduled over more than one date.
Bug fix: Rollout - resolves an issue with blank pages appearing on the customer sign-off sheets.
01
2017
Lifecycle 7.5.9
12/01/2017
New Feature: Rollout - print user completion sheets and upload completed sheets back into Lifecycle.
New Feature: Rollout - log when cancellation emails are sent to users.
New Feature: pass a 'customer build' flag through from MySCC to CS/3 for UK orders.
New Feature: Messages - a user can now add attachments to account messages (mostly used by SCC NL).
New Feature: Messages - users will be prompted for an email address when creating a message (this will be defaulted to the user's current email address if the user is not set to be for multiple users).
New Feature: Recycling - show the Environment Agency's quarterly summaries.
New Feature: support for template fields for MySCC for SCC France.
New Feature: new page to allow administrators to amend budget code spend (selected accounts).
New Feature: Recycling - stop all users from creating new project references.
Bug fix: Sort the query type correctly in the query type filter drop-down.
Bug fix: Recycling - resolve the error when searching for a CR.
Bug fix: Services - hide the call update button for OUT calls which were not raised in Lifecycle as it is not possible to send the updates for these calls.
Bug fix: show items grouped into bundles when viewing archived orders.
Bug fix: ensure that non-logged in Dutch users are not directed back to a page showing the SCC logo.
Other: upgrade Spread Studio (spreadsheet component) to version 10.
Other: additional French translations for task creation.
11
2016
Lifecycle 7.5.8
10/11/2016
New Feature: Supplier - give enhanced feedback of errors when processing an order.
New Feature: catalogues can now be imported.
Bug fix: Supplier - deal better with timeout errors when accepting an order.
Other: Catalogue - the related catalogues list will now stay on the screen when the page is scrolled.
11
2016
Lifecycle 7.5.7
03/11/2016
New Feature: Rollout - display all sales orders for a rollout user.
New Feature: Rollout - export all sales order details for a rollout user.
New Feature: Rollout - allow merge fields to be used on survey notification emails.
New Feature: Rollout - add a new merge field for the bundle description.
New Feature: Rollout - cancellation emails now use the word 'appointment' rather than 'upgrade'.
New Feature: Incident Logging - unused SLAs may be hidden.
New Feature: allow bonded bundle components to be replaced by stock items and vice versa.
Bug fix: show the correct branding on the punchout checkout page.
Bug fix: Recycling - fix the error when trying to download certificates from the Units page.
Bug fix: Recycling - ensure that Excel displays numeric serial numbers as text and not numbers.
Bug fix: Catalogue - when searching, ensure that the Search By Catalogue area shows a product image for each catalogue.
10
2016
Lifecycle 7.5.6
06/10/2016
New Feature: Add a Recaptcha to the user registration page to stop automated requests.
New Feature: the lifecycle.scc.com/nl landing page will always be displayed in the Dutch language regardless of the user's browser setting.
New Feature: allow query types to be re-ordered.
New Feature: support the VALIDATE function for SAP-OCI punchout.
New Feature: add a Content Security Policy header in report mode to highlight potential security weaknesses.
New Feature: add a Strict-Transport-Security Header to ensure https is always used.
Bug fix: Security enhancement to several pages to stop possible cross site scripting.
Bug fix: ensure the product upload to ServiceNow copes correctly with images hosted externally.
Bug fix: stop the default delivery line disappearing in a basket when the basket is saved.
09
2016
Lifecycle 7.5.5
22/09/2016
New Feature: display system template fields on CS/3 sales orders
New Feature: Licensing - display a warning message for corporate customers whose Microsoft Select Plus agreement has expired or is about to expire.
New Feature: Recycling - search Collection Requests by serial number or asset ref.
New Feature: Rollout - allow the deployment specific email text to use field merge codes.
New Feature: it is now possible to show a related catalogue in a catalogue sidebar.
New Feature: add a type filter to user messages.
Bug fix: allow approval steps to be skipped for high EUR values.
Bug fix: in certain circumstances, custom cost centre names will not be displayed when creating an order - this has been fixed.
09
2016
Lifecycle 7.5.4
08/09/2016
New Feature: Rollout - show the number of attachments for each user in the deployment's user list.
New Feature: Rollout - installed assets report is now available.
New Feature: Rollout - export changes to engineer allocations.
New Feature: Rollout - when a user changes location, try to reschedule for the same time slot if possible.
New Feature: Rollout - email the administrator if a user rejects a calendar invitation.
New Feature: Contracts & Items is now available for SCC France customers.
New Feature: Recycling - the bill email button is now restricted to users in the appropriate user role.
New Feature: Recycling - a user may now delete a draft Collection Request [TI-8382].
Bug fix: do not show excluded items on order confirmation emails.
Bug fix: when creating a survey, ensure that questions are correctly saved.
Other: changes for WCAG compliance for improved accessibility (catalogue, orders)
Other: additional French & Dutch translations.
08
2016
Lifecycle 7.5.3
18/08/2016
New Feature: the pricing expiry date will now show when orders or baskets are exported to Excel format.
New Feature: Recycling - allow SCC administrator to send chase emails for unread bills [TI-8369].
New Feature: Recycling - send out automated billing emails.
New Feature: Rollout - allow selected users to have a read-only view of the deployment and to be able to export user attachments.
New Feature: Recycling - show related units [TI-8371].
Bug fix: stop 2nd search dropdown disappearing when page is refreshed.
Bug fix: ensure the bundles view shows the deleted or discontinued bundles lists correctly.
Bug fix: Recycling - the status filter in the units view will now work correctly for all statuses [TI-8372].
Bug fix: fix for the IE problem with selecting an address on the checkout page.
Other: Recycling - change to certificate content.
Other: Recycling - layout and wording change to CSR report.
Other: Recycling - remove Hazardous Waste confirmation and additional items question from Collection Request form [TI-8374].
07
2016
Lifecycle 7.5.2
13/07/2016
New Feature: allow a default phone number to be set for incidents.
Bug fix: resolution of various IE 9 & IE 10 problems.
Bug fix: Recycling - fix an issue where the address is not displayed in a collection request if it contains an apostrophe.
Other: Performance improvement to reduce the time for registration of clicks on the search button.
07
2016
Lifecycle 7.5.1
01/07/2016
New Feature: Recycling - track which users view bills.
New Feature: Recycling - email users to notify them of new bills.
New Feature: Rollout - the user's name may now be included on emails.
New Feature: Rollout - all attachments for a user can be exported to a ZIP file.
New Feature: Rollout - custom user data export format may now be defined per customer.
New Feature: Enhanced HTML emails for order status updates and approval.
New Feature: Support - the support widget now supports incidents, changes & requests from ServiceNow.
New Feature: it is now possible to show on catalogue extracts if the items are managed or unmanaged [EN-994].
New Feature: allow users to add comments to orders waiting for processing in the Supplier tab [EN-993].
Bug fix: Recycling - show all public facing attachments for Briefs.
06
2016
Lifecycle 7.5
09/06/2016
New Feature: authorised users may now edit user details when creating an order.
New Feature: short incident logging may now prompt the user for a location and/or an SLA.
New Feature: Recycling - the Units view now shows unit comments.
New Feature: Recycling - the unit export now includes the part number.
New Feature: Recycling - the dashboard now includes some charts.
New Feature: address exports will now be for the set of addresses shown on screen.
Bug fix: Rollout - move deployment specific slots if the deployment's location changes.
Bug fix: don't change the email from address to eco.help@scc.com if the original from address is an scc.com address.
Bug fix: make sure that the user is presented with the card details page when credit card is the only available payment option [TASK0429170].
Other: further changes to the Legal & General login page.
05
2016
Lifecycle 7.4.9
12/05/2016
New Feature: Catalogue - when top results only shows a small number of products, give an option to compare these top results.
New Feature: log changes to bundles.
New Feature: Rollout - hide users with suppressed notifications when scheduling multiple users.
Bug fix: approval emails will now be sent correctly from the simple checkout page.
Bug fix: Recycling - process the full list of recycling accounts for the CSR report.
Bug fix: ServiceNow incident logging - validation of the item will now work correctly.
04
2016
Lifecycle 7.4.8
21/04/2016
New Feature: French credit card orders will now be automatically approved in Finance.
New Feature: the category list on the Catalogue Items style home page will now show fly out menus for the 2nd category level.
New Feature: the welcome banner on the home page can now be set for multiple accounts based on the account's brand and the user's language.
New Feature: custom login page for Legal & General (SCC UK customer).
New Feature: custom user import for Balfour Beatty.
New Feature: Rollout - add a new view of users waiting for post-completion checks and a tick box on each user to allow admin to mark the post-completion checks as complete.
New Feature: Rollout - engineer completion fields will also be shown on Partial Completes.
New Feature: Rollout - setting to enable the display of serial numbes to engineers.
New Feature: Rollout - an new option has been provided to allow engineers to capture details for multiple items on completion.
New Feature: Customer specific help may be added to the order page and to the order edit page.
New Feature: A list of manually added related products may be exported from the Admin > Product Admin page.
Bug fix: Allow addresses for Ireland to be imported without postcodes.
Bug fix: synonyms which reference a single product will now work correctly.
Other: minor changes to accommodate Single Sign On for Balfour Beatty.
04
2016
Lifecycle 7.4.7
07/04/2016
New Feature: add a field for the telephone number to the customer registration page for Volkswagen (SCC France customer).
New Feature: Single Sign-on support for Balfour Beatty (SCC UK customer).
New Feature: Recycling - allow searching of units by tracker ID.
New Feature: allow the IMAC Vetting stage to be skipped for selected accounts.
New Feature: AutoVet can now be set to merge multiple delivery codes and then submit the orders to CS/3.
New Feature: AutoVet will now append the customer reference to the delivery contact name for Direct Delivery orders to ensure that the customer reference appears on third party despatch notes.
New Feature: the search statistics report will now show if the customer is using the merchandised product list.
Bug fix: When accepting orders, the 'Use Requested Address' button will now function correctly.
Bug fix: service options will be correctly displayed in the basket if that option is enabled.
Bug fix: Recycling - when exporting Asset data, ensure that the cell types are set to Text in Excel.
Bug fix: paging in the user list will now work correctly when searching.
Bug fix: Rollout - a problem exporting unscheduled users has now been fixed.
Bug fix: stop duplication of order types when editing an order.
Bug fix: when editing a catalogue iten, the 'Copy details from another item' button will now correctly copy the alternative categorisation.
03
2016
Lifecycle 7.4.6
04/03/2016
New Feature: Rollout - allow authorised users to create Collection Requests from the rollout setup page.
New Feature: Rollout - allow selected notifications to be suppressed for a deployment.
New Feature: Recycling - show the courier and reference on the Collection Request.
Bug fix: Incidents - will cope better with duplicate names when assigning a ServiceNow company name to the account.
Other: Performance enhancements when editing a bundle.
02
2016
Lifecycle 7.4.5
22/02/2016
New Feature: the related items for a product are now grouped by their alternative category.
New Feature: Rollout - allow selected users to view locked slots.
New Feature: Recycling - amend dashboard layout.
New Feature: Recycling - show CR Scope in the Awaiting Collection view.
New Feature: Recycling - new filters for the Units view (status, product type, asset recorded date).
New Feature: Recycling - provide a link from the Units view to the unit's CR.
New Feature: when notifying users of their login details, it is now possible to filter by user role.
New Feature: a new leasing module is available for selected customers.
New Feature: Rollout - user exports now include user comments.
New Feature: Rollout - allow an engineer to be replaced on multiple jobs.
New Feature: Rollout - view of user surveys with the ability to resend the survey email for those surveys which have not been completed.
Bug fix: changes to a user's Favourites catalogue will now appear immediately.
Other: password reset emails will now use lifecycle.scc.com/bienvenue as the URL for French customers.
02
2016
Lifecycle 7.4.4
01/02/2016
New Feature: Rollout - allow Rollout engineers to add a comment to a request.
New Feature: Rollout - post-install survey emails may now be delayed by a number of days.
New Feature: Rollout - post-install emails may now be scheduled.
New Feature: merchandised accounts may now have specific product categories hidden from the initial catalogue page.
New Feature: order lists will now show a credit card icon for those orders purchased by card.
New Feature: Recycling - the CSR report may now show data for Calendar Year or Financial Year.
Bug fix: when viewing ServiceNow incidents, the pager will function correctly [DFCT0011885].
Bug fix: when approving orders, only show the missing fields section if there are actually fields missing.
Bug fix: Recycling - the Processing Briefs status drop down now functions correctly.
Other: better timezone support for Rollout, Order Schedule and Room Booking.
Other: additional French & Dutch translations.
01
2016
Lifecycle 7.4.3
07/01/2016
New Feature: IMAC orders - validate email addresses on order acceptance.
New Feature: Recycling - users may request On Hold units be removed from hold and dealt with.
New Feature: additional AutoVetting options are available (XML orders, additional field options)
New Feature: new password reset mechanism which allows users to enter their new password online.
New Feature: show additional courier information on despatched orders.
New Feature: additional login page for Gendarmarie for SCC France.
New Feature: accounts may be restricted to only viewing Managed products (UK only).
New Feature: bundles may be automatically hidden when component items are no longer in the catalogue.
New Feature: the user's list of accounts is now paged.
Bug fix: Rollout - ensure that user emails sent from lifecycle.sch.com always reference lifecycle.scc.com
Bug fix: ensure that users are shown all questions when raising a query.
Bug fix: Rollout - ensure that the user survey works correctly.
Other: query handling changes to accommodate SCC France.
12
2015
Lifecycle 7.4.2
11/12/2015
New Feature: a widget showing quotations for the current user is now available [EN-973].
New Feature: Recycling - improved layouts for dashboard data.
New Feature: Recycling - make the primary contact email address mandatory [TI-8087].
New Feature: Recycling - refurbished stock codes in Lifecycle (7 codes) will now pick up the category and image from Radius where possible.
New Feature: Recycling - Contracts page renamed to 'Processing Briefs' and addition of a filter to switch between Live/Superseded/Retired briefs.
New Feature: Recycling - layout and calculation changes for CSR report
New Feature: New options for AutoVetting (supply default field values for Nexus orders for United Utilities)
New Feature: add support for DEEE (a French environmental tax).
Bug fix: Rollout - the widget showing Failed rollouts will now correctly link to No Show and Rollback rollouts.
Bug fix: Recycling - for Collection Requests created outside Lifecycle, show the collection date when viewing in Lifecycle.
Bug fix: ensure that the user is prompted to accept the T&Cs when paying by credit card.
Bug fix: ensure the user is prompted to complete the PO number on checkout.
Other: Recycling - update all accounts to have a Recycling location of "NDC"
11
2015
Lifecycle 7.4.1
25/11/2015
New Feature: Rollout - users exports may now be restricted to specific date ranges.
New Feature: Rollout - show unallocated orders in the stock report.
New Feature: Rollout - stock report can now be exported.
New Feature: Recycling - for refurbished units, show the SCC Part number in the unit view.
Bug fix: fall back to jQuery 1.11.3 for Internet Explorer 8 and earlier.
Bug fix: Recycling - when viewing Collection Requests the additional collection questions will show the correct stored values.
Other: additional French & Dutch translations.
Other: upgrade the Spread component to version 9.
11
2015
Lifecycle 7.4
19/11/2015
New Feature: Rollout - include the check-in date and comments for user exports.
New Feature: search aliases may now be imported.
New Feature: administrators may now import related items.
New Feature: a new field type of password has ben added for orders and rollout. The field contents are obscured on screen and are encrypted when stored.
New Feature: Rollout - when a user is unscheduled, change the unique ID in scheduling emails so that Lotus Notes will correctly process any future scheduling emails.
New Feature: Rollout - additional on screen prompts to remind the user to click the 'Schedule' button.
New Feature: VC Room Booking - emails to room owners will now be sent as High priority.
New Feature: VC Room Booking - invitations can be copied or blind-copied to an address which is specified in the VC Room Booking Settings.
New Feature: VC Room Booking - the invitation will now include the helpdesk number (if provided).
Bug fix: ensure that authorised users can edit addresses in all cases.
Bug fix: Rollout - the export file will now cope correctly with blank field values.
Bug fix: Rollout - new users will not reuse the order reference of any deleted users.
Bug fix: ensure that the predictive catalogue search only shows merchandised items if the account is set to only view items from the merchandised list.
Other: upgrade jQuery to v2.1.4 and jQueryUI to v 1.11.4
Other: layout changes to the recycling dashboard.
Other: additional French translations
11
2015
Lifecycle 7.3.9
02/11/2015
New Feature: add a warning for French users that additional DEEE charges may apply
Bug fix: the user registration page will now work correctly.
Bug fix: emails sent from rollout will now be formatted correctly.
Bug fix: order type sequence will now be correctly saved.
Bug fix: when viewing ServiceNow incidents, the times of updates will now be shown correctly in the user's time zone.
Other: additional French and Dutch translations
10
2015
Lifecycle 7.3.8
27/10/2015
Other: additional query optimisations to help address performance issues.
Other: minor layout changes to the user registration page.
10
2015
Lifecycle 7.3.7
12/10/2015
New Feature: Rollout - when importing users into a rollout deployment, the date and time many now be specified in the import file.
Bug fix: resolve the error experienced when processing credit cards.
Bug fix: only show the end user contact details on the order form when needed [INC0367236].
Other: Recycling - 'Bills' has been renamed as 'Financials'.
10
2015
Lifecycle 7.3.6
02/10/2015
New Feature: new welcome page type which shows the first 12 items from a selected catalogue along with a list of product categories.
New Feature: show active search synonyms in the catalogue's predictive search dropdown.
New Feature: Order Scheduling - allow administrators to unschedule a user.
New Feature: Order Scheduling - allow administrators to change the order's address.
New Feature: show the manufacturer name and item description when editing the related items for a product.
Bug fix: ensure that item level keyword fields are correctly displayed when accepting orders.
Bug fix: for approval steps which skip based on order value, make the currency conversion more accurate so that non GBP thresholds are displayed correctly.
Bug fix: hide allowance widgets if the user is set to hide pricing.
Bug fix: when creating a user, the address drop down search filter will now work correctly.
Other: Flag orders despatched to Jersey and Guernsey as Export orders.
Other: Upgrade of CKedit (an HTML editor) to version 4.5.3 to provide better support for Internet Explorer.
09
2015
Lifecycle 7.3.5
18/09/2015
New Feature: Recycling - show which products in the item breakdown are hazardous
New Feature: Recycling - include the possible item categories as a key in the import template.
New Feature: users (or roles) may be set to hide items which have no stock (this presets the user's stock filter on login).
New Feature: Rollout - deployment specific text may be included on emails.
Bug fix: Recycling - remember the state of the hazardous checkbox when the Collection Request is saved.
Bug fix: Recycling - show the hazardous checkbox after importing items (if appropriate).
Bug fix: when filtering the catalogue by available stock, the inventory stock figure will be taken into account.
Other: minor changes to slot colour coding for Rollout and Order Schedule.
08
2015
Lifecycle 7.3.4
21/08/2015
New Feature: Rollout - add a new view of revisits.
New Feature: Rollout - show a rollback count for each user.
New Feature: Rollout - show previous engineer comments for revisits.
New Feature: Rollout - show item serial numbers against the rollout user.
New Feature: Rollout - allow non Admins to see a map of users which are nearby to the current user.
New Feature: allow contract items to be searched from the main search bar [INC0259925].
New Feature: Recycling - a unit search is now available (search by serial/asset number).
New Feature: Recycling - show published bills.
New Feature: ensure that MySCC orders cannot be automatically pushed through to CS/3 if they do not have a delivery address.
New Feature: Order Schedule - include the schedule area in the user export file.
ug fix: Rollout - ask user to confirm deletion of any attachments.
Bug fix: ensure that the dates/times for ServiceNow incidents are displayed correctly.
Bug fix: Rollout - when copying deployments, ensure that all field related settings are copied.
Bug fix: ensure that the catalogue stock filters work correctly.
Other: fix for possible cross site redirect.
Other: additional Dutch & French translations.
Other: Order Schedule - send the calendar invitation to the order contact rather than the order creator.
07
2015
Lifecycle 7.3.3
09/07/2015
New Feature: allow Collection Request vetting email to be suppressed. Also minor changes to email text.
New Feature: Order Scheduling - when checking out, users will only be prompted for an installation slot if non-locked slots are available.
New Feature: streamlined address creation.
Bug fix: prohibit HTML file uploads
Bug fix: editing collection requests will now correctly retain the project reference.
Other: Rollout - increase maximum size of exports from 3,000 to 10,000
07
2015
Lifecycle 7.3.2
06/07/2015
New Feature: Rollout - user export now shows the number of rollbacks for a user.
New Feature: Rollout - fields may be included on the rollout but excluded from user imports onto the deployment.
New Feature: Catalogue search improvements.
New Feature: Order Scheduling - additional validation on checkout that a schedule date has been chosen and that it is valid.
New Feature: bundles with configurator item groups may now have the items in a specific order.
Bug fix: spreadsheet imports will now ignore completely blank rows.
Bug fix: correctly set the advanced search drop down when the user is viewing a catalogue category.
Bug fix: when raising a Recycling collection request, the project references dropdown will now correctly show the references for the selected account.
Bug fix: when creating a task when viewing an order in Supplier, the PDF of the order will now be correctly added to the task.
Other: Order Schedule - delivery date is now 2 working days before scheduled date (for Parliamentary Digital Services).
Other: auto-vetting rules changes to allow more orders to go straight to CS/3.
06
2015
Lifecycle 7.3.1
15/06/2015
New Feature: Rollout - allow engineers to be assigned from the user details page.
New Feature: Recycling - a new CSR report is now available.
New Feature: Recycling - when creating a collection request, the location specific information will be remembered between requests.
New Feature: Rollout - Slot Utilisation report can now show slots which are in the past.
Bug fix: Rollout - allow Partial Completes to be rescheduled.
06
2015
Lifecycle 7.3
04/06/2015
New Feature: Rollout - include the commissioning shift in the export from the Config Orders view.
New Feature: Rollout - show the order's planned date.
New Feature: Order Schedule - show the order's planned date.
New Feature: Contracts & Items - an incident can now be raised on ServiceNow.
New Feature: show Recycling contracts.
New Feature: allow recycling units to be exported to Excel.
Bug fix: fixed error when editing an item on a collection request.
Other: upgrade of DayPilot scheduling control to v8.0.
Other: usability enhancements for the rollout tool when using mobile devices.
Other: Recycling Collection Request - remove estimated items and pallet fields are they are no longer needed.
05
2015
Lifecycle 7.2.9
14/05/2015
New Feature: Order Schedule - the user export will now include the sales order number, order status and consignment number.
New Feature: Rollout - the user export will now include the sales order number, order status and consignment number.
New Feature: small change for Thales so that when searching, the catalogue lists now appear in the main body of the page and not on the right column.
New Feature: Rollout - the Rollout Summary widget will now link to the users view and show just that deployment.
Other: the catalogue will now show 50 items on one page.
additional French translations.
05
2015
Lifecycle 7.2.8
07/05/2015
New Feature: Rollout - allow users to add date stamped comments to a rollout user.
New Feature: Rollout - when bulk editing slots it is now possible to change the slot type (collection or drop-off).
New Feature: Rollout - the slot utilisation report can now be exported.
New Feature: customer fields may now be included in the WHS text.
New Feature: the Collection Request now has additional product types and a warning about hazardous waste.
New Feature: Rollout - emails may now have the from address display name set.
Bug fix: Rollout - when editing a collection slot, ensure that the slot type is saved correctly.
Bug fix: Rollout - the Check In button will not appear for completed users or for deployments which are all at one location.
04
2015
Lifecycle 7.2.7
23/04/2015
Other: minor changes to Rollout for Coral Racing
Other: minor changes to Order Schedule for Parliamentary Digital Services
04
2015
Lifecycle 7.2.6
08/04/2015
New Feature: account users may now maintain account specific help.
New Feature: the serial number view will now show cost centre and department (if available on the account) and the user can search using these fields.
New Feature: SAP Punchout customers will now have the item's manufacturer returned in the NEW_ITEM-MANUFACTNAME field.
New Feature: a new Slot Utilisation view has been made available for the Rollout tool.
New Feature: there is a new option to display the discount from RRP.
New Feature: Order Schedule - co-ordinators can now be notified of new orders by email.
New Feature: user roles may have notes added.
New Feature: Rollout - collection times added to User Export.
New Feature: Rollout - when scheduling themselves, users will be taken to the first free slot, rather than the first slot (which my be full).
New Feature: Rollout - admins may add a note to each user which are not visible to the user.
New Feature: Rollout - chase emails may be suppressed for a user until after a specified date.
New Feature: Rollout - deployments may now be based on the individual user locations rather than an upgrade centre.
New Feature: Rollout - attachments may be added to each user and may be added by the engineer on completion.
New Feature: Rollout - a bundle may be added to each user when they are imported into the deployment.
New Feature: Rollout - engineers may check-in to a job to say that they have started it.
Other: Collection Requests have been relocated under the Recycling menu.
Other: Serial Numbers have been relocated under the Orders > Assets sub-menu.
Other: additional Dutch translations.
03
2015
Lifecycle 7.2.5
06/03/2015
New Feature: subsidiary accounts can now be imported
New Feature: auto-vetting rules have been changed to allow certain orders to be automatically flagged as Direct Delivery (low value, low quantity, single product line orders).
New Feature: orders for Jersey and Guernsey will be automatically flagged as complex orders so that they will be checked against export rules before despatch.
New Feature: users/roles can be prevented from adding attachments to orders.
Bug fix: the account's cost centre name will be correctly displayed for SCC users.
Bug fix: on the collection request list page, the action buttons will now be easier to read [INC0098393];
Bug fix: when using the collection slot in the rollout tool, ensure that the second calendar control always shows the available collection slots.
02
2015
Lifecycle 7.2.4
12/02/2015
New Feature: Rollout - if a scheduled user changes location, they will be warned that their current appointment will be cancelled and they will receive cancellation emails to remove the appointment from their calendar.
New Feature: the catalogue list widget can now use an icon for each catalogue rather than product images. The icons are added in the catalogue management page.
New Feature: catalogues may now be copied.
New Feature: simplified checkout process is now available and may be turned on for individual users.
New Feature: support for raising new incidents & viewing incidents in ServiceNow.
New Feature: support for single-logoff for customers using SAML to connect to Lifecycle.
Bug fix: catalogue export now correctly exports multiple catalogues with the same name.
Bug fix: ensure that order filters work correctly for users in the French language.
Other: small changes to address validation for Netherlands addresses.
01
2015
Lifecycle 7.2.3
16/01/2015
New Feature: it is now possible to export multiple catalogues at the same time. Each catalogue will be exported to a new Excel sheet.
New Feature: Rollout - any of the additional fields can now be merged into the emails which are sent from Lifecycle.
New Feature: the PO number can now be defaulted to the Cost Centre (for accounts where Cost Centre is used and is mandatory before the PO is mandatory).
New Feature: the approval threshold may be displayed with VAT if required.
New Feature: an approval step may be skipped if it will be paid for by credit card.
New Feature: the payment options (Credit Account, Credit Card) may be renamed.
New Feature: the message displayed during approval when there are no further approvers may be changed for each account.
New Feature: allow the SAP punchout LongText field to be suppressed
New Feature: additional comments may be added to the Despatch email [EN-951].
Bug fix: user accounts with 'Multiple Users' turned on will now be able to use the filters in the catalogue correctly.
Other: upgrade of the Spread component to version 8 to offer compatibility with IE 11.
Other: Dutch translation of draft order notification email.
Other: support for MySCC account creation for SCC France.
11
2014
Lifecycle 7.2.2
27/11/2014
New Feature: if a customer field type is changed the user will be alerted that existing data will be lost.
New Feature: the despatched email will now include customer fields [TK2478019].
New Feature: send an email to users x days after they have created a draft order to warn them that the order is still draft - this needs to be enabled per account.
New Feature: additional widget for 'All Outstanding Orders'.
New Feature: new login/registration page for Volkswagen (SCC France).
Bug fix: ensure that customer fields entered onto the order form are not lost when the order type is changed
Bug fix: Rollout - editing multiple slots to set them to be deployment specific now works correctly.
Bug fix: Rollout - when scheduling a user, clicking twice on the same day will no longer clear the list of slots.
Bug fix: when viewing an order the order summary at the top of the page now shows the correct order date (rather than the creation date).
Bug fix: correctly add the components of a bundle (with no optional items) when adding an item when processing orders.
Bug fix: Rollout - rollback and no show emails will now be correctly blind copied to the BCC address.
Bug fix: correctly show 2nd and subsequent pages of options and warranties for products with special characters in the part number.
Other: improved validation of Dutch addresses.
Other: Rollout - deployments with 15 minute timeslots will now zoom in to show more detail of each slot.
11
2014
Lifecycle 7.2.1
13/11/2014
New Feature: Allow order confirmation emails to be sent to the delivery contact.
New Feature: add a page to allow lookups of ECCN codes for operations.
New Feature: allow export of Rollout survey results to Excel file.
New Feature: add the ability to complete multiple users from a deployment.
New Feature: allow end user fields to be marked for Despatch Notes.
New Feature: new setting to allow a user to hide any non-mandatory fields when editing an order request.
New Feature: additional question on the collection request to maintain compatibility with Radius.
Bug fix: fix sorting bug when moving between pages of Collection Requests [TK2445088].
Bug fix: when moving a user between deployments, make sure that any deployment specific slots are not copied to the new deployment.
Other: minor changes to the SAML single signon setup to allow administrators to be notified when a new user is created in Lifecycle.
Other: better error handling if the CS/3 template service is not available.
Other: Additional French and Dutch translations.
10
2014
Lifecycle 7.2
09/10/2014
New Feature: Allow a from email address to be set per account - all order updates and despatch emails will use this address [EN-946].
New Feature: support Task Manager's drop down list field type
New Feature: support SAMLv2 single sign-on
New Feature: new room booking module for Video Conferencing
New Feature: order import from Excel file for nominated users
New Feature: allow approval steps to be skipped based on the order's invoice account.
New Feature: additional settings for controlling if order status and despatch emails are enabled for the customer.
Bug fix: cope with blank email addresses when exporting users from the rollout section.
Bug fix: fix error when creating addresses when user's language is French.
Bug fix: when processing orders in Supplier, ensure that attachments can be opened correctly.
Bug fix: allow mailto: links in the rollout emails
Other: minor changes to punchout to make sure that Inspect/Edit from SqiQuest work correctly.
08
2014
Lifecycle 7.1.9
27/08/2014
New Feature: the maximum quantity available on bids will now be displayed.
New Feature: link to the IRCIncidentManagement@scc.com email address on the Services landing page [EN-948].
New Feature: switch postcode validation to PostcodeAnywhere.
Bug fix: ensure that the order value is picked up correctly when sending orders to Barclaycard.
Bug fix: hide/show customer services correctly when switching accounts [TK2341862].
Other: only send IMAC call updates to OpenUpTime for calls which are still open.
Other: increase field help to 500 characters.
06
2014
Lifecycle 7.1.8
26/06/2014
Bug fix: Ensure that the cost centre is visible when submitting orders to CS/3 [TK2263398].
06
2014
Lifecycle 7.1.7
19/06/2014
New Feature: show the last update date for incidents [PJ3177].
New Feature: Rollout - allow users to have read-only access.
New Feature: Rollout - support for sending invitations to Lotus Notes users.
New Feature: Rollout - new report showing users who have not received confirmation emails.
New Feature: Rollout - add the Engineer name to the user export.
New Feature: Rollout - the user cannot change their email address when scheduling themselves.
New Feature: Rollout - slots will be automatically locked x hours before they start.
New Feature: Rollout - the schedule view may be filtered by location.
New Feature: Rollout - emails may now be bcc'd to a specific address.
New Feature: Rollout - administrators can now allow users to move themselves between deployments when they schedule themselves.
New Feature: Rollout - users can now be prompted to choose a drop-off and collection time.
New Feature: orders which originate from MySCC will now show the MPN of each item.
New Feature: additional address validation options when accepting orders.
New Feature: despatch confirmations can now be sent to the delivery contact on an order [EN-945].
New Feature: for orders lacking a delivery email address, automatically set the address based on the account and user name.
New Feature: the maximum quantity available on bids will now be displayed.
Bug fix: Rollout - the user export will now correctly export users with no email address.
Bug fix: correctly identify differences in settings between users on the Compare Settings page.
Bug fix: additional network IDs will now be saved correctly in the Punchout setup page.
Other: make the delivery email address mandatory on all UK orders
05
2014
Lifecycle 7.1.6
08/05/2014
New Feature: Rollout - allow Admin users to update user information at any time.
New Feature: Rollout - New report of No shows and Rollbacks.
New Feature: Rollout - Allow the additional user information to be updated on the completion screen.
New Feature: Rollout - Allow Admin Users to reschedule locked users.
New Feature: Rollout - Additional fields may be locked so that they can only be edited by Admin users.
New Feature: Rollout - New view of recent activity.
New Feature: Rollout - additional reminder emails can be created.
New Feature: Rollout - email templates for Rollback and No Shows can now be created.
New Feature: Rollout - reminder emails may now be HTML format.
New Feature: Rollout - attachments (or links to the attachments for some types of emails) may now be included on all emails.
New Feature: Rollout - additional validation of mobile numbers to ensure that SMS notifications can be sent correctly.
New Feature: allow the link to customer services in the site header to be hidden.
New Feature: give additional feedback when copying between accounts.
Bug fix: Rollout - take bank holidays into account for the reminder emails.
04
2014
Lifecycle 7.1.5
03/04/2014
New Feature: various new features and fixed for the Deployment tool.
New Feature: label the end user address to show which part of the address is the user's floor, desk, etc.
Bug fix: allow importing of blank serial numbers on the import on the Collection request [TK2148538].
03
2014
Lifecycle 7.1.4
07/03/2014
New Feature: department based cost centres may now be copied between accounts [TK2086938].
New Feature: bundle items can now be sorted.
New Feature: when editing a user, warn if the user does not have access to a cost centre for which they have approval authority.
New Feature: allow all rollout emails to be cc'd to another email address.
New Feature: allow rollout emails to contain attachments
New Feature: allow rollout slots to be limited to a specific deployment
02
2014
Lifecycle 7.1.2
06/02/2014
New Feature: allow an approval step to be triggered by the presence of an item from nominated catalogues (rather than just the current method of skipping a step)
New Feature: allow approvers to skip an approval step (useful for adhoc approval).
Bug fix: when editing an item, the 'Hide All Specification' button now functions correctly [TK2048451].
Other: change to the AutoVet process for Salary Exchange so that order for Southern Rail are set to Scheduled rather than Normal CS/3 orders.
Other: support for new statuses for Collection Requests (Cancelled and Failed).
Other: send today (rather than tomorrow) to CS/3 as the required date for orders which are set to be delivery asap.
01
2014
Lifecycle 7.1.1
23/01/2014
New Feature: for customers with approval steps based on catalogues, the ability to include or exclude catalogues from approval has been added to the catalogue maintenance screen.
New Feature: highlight if a user has expired when editing the user.
New Feature: when enabling an expired user, the expiry date will be automatically set to 1 month from today.
New Feature: order fields may now be hidden based on the presence of an item on the order
New Feature: search serial numbers by customer PO number [EN-934].
Bug fix: when sending an IMAC, fields which are marked as 'Send to IMAC' will now be correctly sent to Assyst/OpenUpTime.
Other: ensure that SCC UK accounts cannot be set to consolidate order lines when sending to CS/3.
01
2014
Lifecycle 7.1.3
13/01/2014
New Feature: the account log can now be searched.
New Feature: the display order of the account contacts may now be changed.
New Feature: allow the product status to be hidden per user or user role.
New Feature: allow approval comments to be sent to Assyst/OUT on IMAC calls and Service Requests.
Bug fix: hide pricing message on order pages if the user is set to not view prices.
Bug fix: hide pricing options on basket & order email pages if the user is set to not view prices.
01
2014
Lifecycle 7.1
09/01/2014
New Feature: if catalogues are grouped by category, it will now be possible to search all the catalogues in a category in one step.
New Feature: added support for single sign on for BOC.
Bug fix: ensure that address codes are hidden if the account is set to hide the address code [EN-932].
Bug fix: when raising a task/query, prevent the user raising the task if no question has been setup for that task area.
Bug fix: hide the department on the order summary (at the top of the order page) if departments are not used on the account [TK1951452].
Bug fix: correctly display product widgets which do not have sub-categories.
Bug fix: allow products to be imported into a Collection Request even if the product name does not match case with the expected values [TK1987424].
Bug fix: allow agreements to be deleted correctly from Licensing Admin [TK1993187].
Bug fix: if a user is not set to view RRP, hide the RRP when exporting a catalogue.
Bug fix: various small fixes for queries in customer services.
Other: a click on the Lifecycle button will now pop the menu open and leave it open until a menu option is chosen or the Lifecycle button is clicked again.
Other: allow the short incident form to be used for logging calls to OpenUpTime as well as Assyst.
11
2013
Lifecycle 7.0.9
21/11/2013
New Feature: fuller view of errors when importing data (cost centres, departments, etc).
New Feature: the Lifecycle button can be renamed for an account.
New Feature: in Admin, allow approval steps to be inserted or removed.
New Feature: it is now possible to import lines into a collection request [EN-928].
Bug fix: fix to allow users to raise incidents for assets with ' in the description [TK1921950].
Bug fix: show the field section headings when viewing an order.
Bug fix: only show promise dates for orders which are in the future.
Other: minor fixes to ensure compatibility with Internet Explorer 11.
Other: various changes to the Deployment module to prepare it for a pilot.
Other: for orders which are linked to an Assyst incident, show the Assyst completion comments on the Lifecycle completion email.
10
2013
Lifecycle 7.0.8
11/10/2013
New Feature: Draft orders which have been rejected in the approval flow, will now show the date they were rejected in list views.
New Feature: SCC NL customers may now pay via iDeal.
New Feature: accounts which use a default PO number may now choose to hide the PO number when editing the order.
New Feature: new account setting to send an email to order approvers when an order is recalled [EN-930].
New Feature: give users an easier way of changing the order type when viewing the items in an order which they are editing [EN-783].
New Feature: the Approval Flow list can be collapsed down to one line per user (where users have approval for multiple cost centres) to make the list easier to view.
New Feature: notes can be added to the account to warn of any special setup - these can only be viewed by SCC users.
Bug fix: fix display issue when adding items to bundles in IE 10 [TK1812282].
Bug fix: stop prompting about invalid delivery addresses when Credit Control accept a credit card order.
Bug fix: when creating a cost centre, only show active users as possible approvers.
Bug fix: when rejecting an order, ensure that the order is not marked as the current basket [TK1823657].
Bug fix: in product details, show features even if there is no main description for an item [TK1826772].
Bug fix: make sure that empty baskets cannot be converted into orders [TK1831689].
Bug fix: when editing an order, the warning that the PO number is empty will now show any custom name for the PO field.
Bug fix: ensure that the customer fields only reflect the current items in the order and not the items originally added to the basket [TK1856679].
Other: some minor changes resulting from the latest Application Security Test.
Other: additional French and Dutch translations.
Other: improved layout of fields when editing orders for accounts with a large number of customer fields.
Other: remove the Eneco welcome page as it is no longer required (for SCC NL).
09
2013
Lifecycle 7.0.7
12/09/2013
New Feature: force nominated approvers to always receive email notification of new orders
New Feature: when accepting orders, users will be notified if there are delivery codes with quantities > 1 and given a chance to merge them into one Delivery code [EN-896].
New Feature: if a user tries to approve an order which has already been approved they will now receive a friendlier error message [EN-886].
New Feature: when accepting orders from MySCC, any additional supplier information will now be shown on the lines [EN-907].
Bug fix: Non-SCC users will not be able to carry out the main account admin.
Bug fix: users will now be able to change the agreement number for licences contained within bundles [EN-898].
Bug fix: stop admin users sending new passwords to users who are not enabled [EN-914].
Bug fix: fix the link to the order from the approval list [TK1781642].
Bug fix: only show the spend chart widgets if the user has access to Orders and Reports.
Bug fix: when creating an eBay account on CS/3 ensure that a postcode (or '***') is sent to CS/3.
Other: order approval emails will be sent more efficiently to try to speed up approving an order
07
2013
Lifecycle 7.0.6
25/07/2013
New Feature: when resetting multiple passwords, it is now possible to select just active users.
New Feature: allow queries to be searched.
Bug fix: copying an archived order will now work as expected [TK1705904].
Bug fix: Sorting by availability will now work correctly in the catalogue [TK1706225].
Bug fix: correctly show the delivery details section when editing an order where there is only one order type which is specific to one subsidiary account.
Bug fix: correctly show the prompt when editing an order and there is a duplicate PO number.
Bug fix: show the on-site service instructions on orders which are in progress [TK1717463].
Bug fix: when editing an order and the contact section is hidden, show the correct delivery address if the order contact is chosen as the delivery contact.
Other: allow bundles to have the # character in the part code.
Other: new banner for the home page for Dutch accounts.
07
2013
Lifecycle 7.0.5
04/07/2013
New Feature: allow draft orders to have an account specific name
New Feature: show the incident text in a popup on the incident list view.
New Feature: display the customer logo on exported PDF files.
Bug fix: set a longer timeout when exporting PDF copies of a basket.
Bug fix: allow users to create new Project References when creating a Collection Request [TK1663420].
Bug fix: the 'Submit to Supplier' button at the bottom right of the IMAC Vetting page will now work correctly [TK1688789].
Other: in catalogue admin, the clean-up button will now remove items which are discontinued with no remaining stock.
Other: change the French translation for virtual stock to accommodate Techdata changes for SCC France (now only says 'x in stock' and not 'x available in 2-3 days')
06
2013
Lifecycle 7.0.4
06/06/2013
New Feature: new features in Customer Services to help users with finding the order which they are querying and for helping to identify items with issues.
Bug fix: when processing orders, the confirmation dialog when accepting the order will now show the correct number of items and correct amount when there is more than 1 order.
Bug fix: if the image nominated as the customer logo is deleted, a broken image link will no longer be displayed in Lifecycle.
Bug fix: the config scheduled date and comments will now be shown correctly against the order, if present.
Bug fix: when viewing the second and subsequent pages in the catalogue, the add button will now add the correct quantity [TK1625282].
Bug fix: allow orders to be accepted manually.
Other: Additional NL & FR translations
Other: some layout improvements for Internet Explorer version 9 & 10.
05
2013
Lifecycle 7.0.3
16/05/2013
New Feature: allow account specific product specfications to override the default product details.
New Feature: changes to user roles will now be logged.
Bug fix: when viewing the original of a submitted order, the order progress bar at the top no longer shows the order as waiting for Submission to Supplier.
Bug fix: when viewing the IMAC incidents associated with an order, the status will be correctly displayed.
Bug fix: show the correct country of usage on the order approval page for Select & Select Plus licence items.
Other: improvements to Sort by Price in the catalogue - if a price has not been calculated for an item, its RRP will be used instead and the user will be informed that some items may be in the wrong sort order.
Other: pass the company name on the collection address for collection requests.
Other: upgrade to ABCpdf v9 for improved PDF exports.
05
2013
Lifecycle 7.0.2
02/05/2013
New Feature: add a PDF export option to the order confirmation page.
New Feature: allow customer orders to be processed in Lifecycle v7 (various bug fixes and layout issues resolved).
Bug fix: show the part numbers of component items in a bundle.
Bug fix: show the whole page when printing.
Bug fix: allow the user to scroll left/right when viewing report results on screen.
Bug fix: when accepting orders, customer delivery codes will be recognised by the Merge Delivery option.
Other: additional FR & NL translations
04
2013
Lifecycle 7.0.1
12/04/2013
New Feature: allow addresses to be limited by department
New Feature: New landing page for the following systems integrator: Ricoh lifecycle.scc.com/v7/welcome/ricoh
Bug fix: ensure that services which are based on order values are calculated correctly
Bug fix: ensure that all the customer fields print on the order confirmation page [TK1528758 & TK1528712]
Other: additional FR & NL translations
Other: Add new parameters to the CS/3 account creation service call.
04
2013
Lifecycle 6.4.4
12/04/2013
New Feature: New landing page for the following systems integrator: Ricoh lifecycle.scc.com/welcome/ricoh
Bug fix: ensure that services which are based on order values are calculated correctly
Other: Add new parameters to the CS/3 account creation service call.
03
2013
Lifecycle 6.4.3
11/03/2013
New Feature: support for Wordpress content in French.
Bug fix: ensure that products which are imported by French users have the correct price.
Bug fix: Ensure that the new style catalogue deals correctly with products containing # in the part number.
Bug fix: Correctly set the location when raising an incident if the location contains a ' character [P1133].
Other: minor changes to support Anniversary agreements in Microsoft Select Plus.
Other: where a Licensing Pool is on hold, show the items (currently they are hidden) with a message explaining that the pool is on hold.
03
2013
Lifecycle 7.0
07/03/2013
Initial release of Lifecycle v7.0
01
2013
Lifecycle 6.4.2
16/01/2013
New Feature: Added a new brand for Recyclea
Bug fix: additional measures to stop users accessing orders for other users when exporting baskets.
Bug fix: ensure that prices are calculated when exporting catalogues when the user is set to view the new style catalogue.
Bug fix: ensure that deleting items from the mini-basket works correctly and that the correct messages are returned to the user.
Bug fix: ensure that product images which are hosted in Lifecycle display correctly on the product page.
Bug fix: resolve an issue with saving complex bundles with optional items with variable quantities.
Bug fix: resolve an issue when creating a bundle where the user is asked twice to provide the alternative categorisation.
12
2012
Lifecycle 6.4.1
14/12/2012
Bug fix: cope with Octal numbers (eg 010) being entered into the Add items quantity
Bug fix: the catalogue advanced search now works with the new style catalogue
Bug fix: fixed a bug with searching collection requests
11
2012
Lifecycle 6.4
22/11/2012
New Feature: it is now possible to compare the settings of two users (in Admin)
New Feature: in admin when viewing a users with access to lots of accounts, only the first 25 accounts will be shown. A search feature has been added to make it easier to find a specific account.
New Feature: allow the incident confirmation email from Assyst/OpenUpTime to be suppressed.
New Feature: allow nominated users to send incidents updates to Assyst and OpenUpTime.
New Feature: correctly send Assyst the reporting user on incidents when a user is mapped to one Assyst contact.
New Feature: for users who are limited to viewing their own incidents, also show then incidents where they were the reporting user but not the affected user.
New Feature: The list of Project References on a Collection Request may now be changed.
Bug fix: correctly set the billing option for all Microsoft Select Plus licences.
Bug fix: resolved the error experienced on the order form when pressing cancel when searching for an address.
Bug fix: the clean-up button in the catalogue admin page will now correctly remove deleted bundles.
bug fix: ensure that users are always asked to change an expired password.
Other: upgrade to jQuery 1.8.2
10
2012
Lifecycle 6.3.8
25/10/2012
New Feature: if a customer has a custom welcome page, users will be returned to that custom page on timeout.
New Feature: provide an account setting to show the custom user import in the user admin page.
New Feature: show order transfer statistics in the Supplier tab.
New Feature: allow the subsidiary account details to be exported to an Excel file.
New Feature: when sales are accepting an order, show the account's credit limit and remaining credit.
New Feature: allow an account to have a custom validation stored procedure for orders (to allow some additional validation of orders before they are submitted).
New Feature: record the status and stock position of order items when the order is submitted to SCC.
New Feature: when displaying available bids, only show bids which result in different prices and provide a tooltip on each bit showing the rebate key and promotion code.
Bug fix: the email sent to the first approver of an order will now have the correct wording ('This order has been submitted for approval by XXX...')
Bug fix: correctly set the sales order number when raising an order related task.
Bug fix: when exporting files to Excel format, correctly set the filename in Firefox.
09
2012
Lifecycle 6.3.7
20/09/2012
Bug fix: changes to collection requests and collection request searches (arising from penetration test)
Bug fix: allowed catalogues with tab characters in the catalogue name to be exported.
Bug fix: minor change to Google Analytics login event tracking
09
2012
Lifecycle 6.3.6
13/09/2012
New Feature: account specific text can be added to the Services landing page.
New Feature: simplified Incident Logging for Assyst can be turned on for a customer.
New Feature: customer specific fields can be added to Incident Logging to prompt the user for additional information about the incident. The fields are added to the incident description which is sent to Assyst (or OUT).
New Feature: linked keywords is a new type of customer field which shows the user up to 3 drop down lists for each field. The values in the drop downs are linked to the choice made in the previous drop down.
New Feature: a new setting allows the vat rate and amount to be returned on SAP OCI punchout.
New Feature: Authorised users may now set the currency rates for non-integrated suppliers.
New Feature: allow admin users to clear the catalogue list cache for all users in an account (the button to do this is in the catalogue admin page).
Bug fix: minor change to orders search based on recent penetration test.
Bug fix: fix to error experienced when accepting an order manually in the Supplier area.
Bug fix: the approver display in the cost centre page now correctly excludes inactive users.
Bug fix: make sure that the HOOK_URL field on the test Punchout login page has https if the connection is secure
Bug fix: if a user changes their display currency, the catalogue returns the cached catalogue list in the previous currency - this has been fixed.
Bug fix: in customer services page for accepting orders, the Recalculate button now functions correctly.
Bug fix: the serial number whill now be shown on the incident details page.
Bug fix: correctly copy catalogues between accounts [P1058].
Bug fix: correctly add Select Plus items to baskets from the Licensing Tool when the account has Select and Select Plus agreements.
Other: for items with no manufacturer part number, show the SCC part number in the bundle summary on the order page [P1059].
Other: additional Google Analytics tracking (event for user login, time tracking for catalogue page, no results).
07
2012
Lifecycle 6.3.5
26/07/2012
New Feature: Support for the Wordpress blog.
New Feature: there is an account setting to hide the price of free items (ie items with a price of £0.00).
New Feature: users may now be given view only access to All Items (ie they can view the items but not purchase them).
New Feature: Smart Search in the catalogue - as the user types into the search box, they will be shown possible search terms (this is based on the searches which have been carried out in Lifecycle over the previous 30 days).
New Feature: display the key selling points (from CNET) on the product page (for UK, NL & FR).
New Feature: it is now possible to brand Lifecycle as SCH (along with a welcome page lifecycle.scc.com/welcome/sch)
New Feature: show additional lead order information against the order lines (UK only)
New Feature: a new catalogue search widget allows the user to search the catalogue from the home page.
New Feature: additional widgets for displaying account information.
New Feature: it is now possible to clear application caches for a user (for example if the catalogue list has changed and the change is not showing).
New Feature: memory, power and toner configurators are now available.
New Feature: The secondary contact details on the collection request may be made mandatory.
Bug fix: in Admin, when setting the mandatory fields on the order, correctly show if the Dept and Delivery Contact are mandatory.
Bug fix: Correctly export a report to Excel format.
Bug fix: Ensure customers with only credit card ordering can place their order.
Bug fix: correctly support customer specific questions in Query Handling for non-UK accounts.
Bug fix: correctly show archived orders.
Bug fix: small change to SAP punchout to fix a problem being experienced by an SCC NL customer.
Bug fix: when copying a user, ensure that the new user's creation date is reset.
Other: change the default exec for PayPal order from CL999 to NP999 and correctly set the branch/exec on new CS/3 accounts (UK only).
Other: new Asset Ref and Serial No fields on the Collection request
06
2012
Lifecycle 6.3.4
14/06/2012
New Feature: bundles may now contain 'configurator' groups of items which allows more flexibility over the combinations of items.
New Feature: show scheduling information for Commissioning on orders.
New Feature: if the account is set to use VAT, show VAT on the order confirmation emails.
New Feature: it will no longer be possible to use the password reset function on the login page for user accounts which are set to be used by multiple users. The user will be directed to contact the helpdesk.
New Feature: When viewing a basket, the top related items for the basket contents will now be shown.
Bug fix: hide the VAT on the Punchout checkout page if the account is set to not use VAT.
Bug fix: the special instructions will be shown on the order confirmation emails [EN-780].
Bug fix: when a user rejects an order, they will now be taken to the view of the other orders they have yet to approve.
Bug fix: the user will now be correctly taken to the query details page when clicking on the query in the home page widget.
Other: set the branch for new eBay accounts to "NP".
Other: ensure that when submitting an order for approval, the approve button can only be clicked once.
Other: when approving an order in the Finance section, ensure that the approval button may only be clicked once.
Other: do not allow the stock figure to be overridden for items supplied by SCC UK, SCC FR or SCC NL [EN-781].
Other: show an ePrivacy Directive message on the login page.
Other: if the account is set to Queries and has no messages, the Messages menu will now be hidden.
05
2012
Lifecycle 6.3.3
03/05/2012
New Feature: Import cost centres by department.
New Feature: an Order Approval report showing the approvers for all orders submitted within a date range is now available.
New Feature: when filtering products in the catalogue, the product attribute filters will now appear when a category filter is chosen (previously a family filter also needed to be chosen).
New Feature: the order notification emails will now include a link to the order in Lifecycle.
New Feature: Allow the Welcome Message to be displayed without a frame (where there is an HTML welcome message).
New Feature: The ability to search in multiple customer catalogues at the same time via Advanced Search.
New Feature: The ability to display a list of the catalogues an item is in - this can be turned on per customer.
Bug fix: when raising a query and adding an attachment, the user will be restricted to a set of safe file types.
Bug fix: auto complete has been turned off for the login credentials text entry boxes on the login page as a security measure.
Bug fix: other security fixes have been put in place.
Bug fix: correctly download PDF copies of Invoices and Despatch notes in Safari, Firefox & Chrome.
Other: for accounts with large numbers of sub accounts, it is now possible to search for sub accounts and trading relationships in account setup.
Other: if an item has virtual stock but no free stock then show only the virtual stock as '100 available in 2-3 days'.
Other: no stock figure will now be shown for bundles which only contain optional items [EN-777].
04
2012
Lifecycle 6.3.2
12/04/2012
New Feature: added an IMAC Vetting status to the home page (for IMAC vetters only) [EN-752].
New Feature: added a custom Address/Cost Centre/Department import for Compass (an SCC France customer).
New Feature: when adding a new trading relationship, the user will be asked to confirm that the correct account number has been entered (UK only) [EN-762].
New Feature: there is a new link in Account Setup to ask for help (this raises a task).
New Feature: allow accounts to be set so that they only accept payment by Credit Card (or iDeal in the Netherlands) [EN-716]
New Feature: Finance will have the ability to flag certain accounts so that credit card orders no longer need to be vetted by them in Lifecycle.
New Feature: Users can be limited to choosing an order contact or delivery user from the subsidiary accounts to which they have access.
New Feature: a custom login/registration page for Eneco (an SCC NL customer).
New Feature: other minor changes to accomodate Eneco.
New Feature: customer item fields may now be hidden based on the item part number of the overall order type.
New Feature: order SLAs may now be based on the item quantities.
Bug fix: in the bundle admin list, don't show a price for bundles with only optional items.
Bug fix: when displaying a list of incidents, correctly show the seriousness of the incident.
Bug fix: when processing or updating an order in supplier, the user will be taken back to the same place in order list where they started.
Bug fix: the delete button in the Item Edit admin page will now correctly delete Client Items.
Bug fix: the correct number of incidents will now be shown after using the view filters in the Incidents view in Services.
Bug fix: the test Punchout page will now correctly set the HOOK_URL and CANCEL_URL.
Bug fix: the iDeal connector will now only set Purchase IDs of the correct length.
Bug fix: other bug fixes for iDeal for the Netherlands.
Bug fix: bundles were incorrectly show with a free stock figure when the components had a free stock of 0 but had an on order quantity. This has been fixed.
Bug fix: on order acknowledgement emails, only show the fields which apply to the order in question.
Other: The attachments welcome page widget can now display multiple attachments and the title can be changed. Additional text can also be added.
Other: try to detect and prevent a user pressing the 'Raise Incident' button twice when logging an incident.
Other: additional NL translations.
Other: log when new accounts are created in Supplier by Credit Control for credit card orders.
Other: log if the invoice account is changed on an order in the supplier tab.
Other: if the account is set to allow credit card payments, then credit card orders can be raised against all subsidiary accounts.
02
2012
Lifecycle 6.3.1
24/02/2012
New Feature: a new home page format is available and can be enabled by account.
New Feature: log SAP OCI punchout requests.
New Feature: allow end-user pricing to be returned to Punchout systems.
New Feature: in Admin, it is now possible to view the browsers used by customers over the last 6 months
New Feature: allow the services from the default order type to be displayed on a basket
New Feature: Collection Requests can now be filtered by Status.
New Feature: Current Activity can now show orders which have been placed with SCC today
Bug fix: fix for the error received when creating a new item
Bug fix: send despatch confirmation emails for split orders
Bug fix: if a bundle contains an item which is no longer available to that account, the user will be prompted to delete it when editing the bundle.
Bug fix: if the order creator is being copied on approval emails, don't send an email if there are no more approvers
Bug fix: changes to cookies to fix a problem logging in using Safari
Bug fix: if a user is allowed to view all messages/queries for an account, they will now be shown all of the queries (previously it only worked for the messages)
Bug fix: correctly show updates to queries
Other: add additional Google Analytics tracking for SCC NL
Other: add scheduling triggers when items are swapped in the supplier tab
Other: it is now possible to export up to 5,000 users or addresses in the Admin tab (the linit was previously 2,000 users/addresses)
01
2012
Lifecycle 6.3
19/01/2012
New Feature: allow catalogues to be grouped together in the catalogue menu.
New Feature: support for account creation from MySCC.
New Feature: support for SCH eBay Store order processing.
New Feature: the orders advanced search now allows searching by Actual Despatch date and Despatch Address.
New Feature: raise a task from Contracts & Items.
New Feature: allow standard order fields to be hidden from Punchout users.
New Feature: when raising a task from Lifecycle, the PDF copy of the order will be attached to the task.
Bug fix: Hide the mini-basket if the user does not have access to create baskets or orders [TI-5667].
Bug fix: when importing via spreadsheet, dates are now formatted correctly.
Bug fix: when adding licences to a basket, show all possible agreements.
Bug fix: hide the 'Query Order' button if the user is not allowed to access Messages/Queries.
Bug fix: allow item quantities of up to 9999 in the Licensing Tool.
Bug fix: in account setup, show the credit card option for accounts with a large number of subsidiary accounts.
Bug fix: allow products with # in the part number to be added to the basket in Firefox.
Bug fix: allow products with # in the part number to be added to favourites in Firefox.
Bug fix: correctly show end user prices in the checkout page for Punchout users.
Bug fix: correctly show item descriptions on the serial numbers list page.
Other: Changes to the combined Cost Centre & Approver upload for OCSL.
Other: slight change to the wording of the email which is sent to the user with their login details.
Other: additional logging of changes in the Supplier section [PJ002291].
Other: if an approval threshold is added in another currency, the original currency and value will now be stored and the GBP value re-evaluated on a daily basis to cope with currency fluctuations.
Other: when viewing incidents, if there are no incidents in 'My Incidents' then user will be automatically switched to the 'All Incidents' view.
12
2011
Lifecycle 6.2.7
01/12/2011
New Feature: allow a user to be limited to addresses they have created.
New Feature: allow the Extended Warranty options on the product page to be turned off for all users in an account. [EN-718]
New Feature: allow customer fields to be grouped into sections when editing an order.
New Feature: when logging an OUT call, the user can search for an asset by branch code.
New Feature: when logging a call, the default incident text can be set per account.
New Feature: allow the Department field label to be changed per account.
Bug fix: if an admin user switches account when viewing a catalogue in the Admin tab, they will now be taken to the main Admin page rather than being taken back to the catalogue they were viewing. [TI-5598]
Bug fix: allow the new user notification email to be translated.
Bug fix: don't show a link to a non-existent PDF Despatch Note in the Transactions view.
Bug fix: don't show the normal price to users whoc can only view End-user pricing when they view the order status list or the outstanding orders dashbaord [P0981]
Bug fix: when deleting problem items from a catalogue, ensure that only the problem items are deleted [TK814443]
Bug fix: on the product details page, the Flixmedia Video popup does not work under Internet Explorer. This has been fixed and will now open a new window instead of using a modal popup
Other: additional Dutch & French translations
Other: when raising an incident, the asset search screen has been reorganised slightly to make it easier to use.
Other: slight changes to Contracts & Items based on user feedback.
Other: changes to the Edit Item Details screen to allow changes to be reversed and inclusion of related items.
11
2011
Lifecycle 6.2.6
03/11/2011
New Feature: all users for an account can be set to view a particular tab when logging into Lifecycle
New Feature: show the 'Unmanaged Item' flag on the catalogue administration page
Bug fix: correctly show a pop-up of the supplier name over the supplier flag in the catalogue
Bug fix: fix an error in Google Analytics on the order confirmation page
Bug fix: hide the 'Draft Orders' and 'My Orders' links if the user cannot create an order
Bug fix: show the stock figure for bundles in the catalogue listing page
Bug fix: correctly log a user in via the automated route
Bug fix: when sorting the catalogue by availability, only sort by Virtual Stock if the account is set to view Virtual Stock.
Other: Upgrade the Spread spreadsheet component to the latest version (v6) which gives better compatibility with IE9
Other: Upgrade the Rich Text editor to CKEditor v3.6.2 for better compatibility with recent browsers
09
2011
Lifecycle 6.2.5
06/09/2011
New Feature: allow approval steps to be skipped if all items on the order are from nominated catalogues
New Feature: there is a new setting which stops all users on an account approving orders they have created
New Feature: price service options based on which catalogues the order items are in
New Feature: allow cost centres to be restricted to certain invoice accounts - this has meant that the order editing page has been reorganised slightly.
New Feature: the Order Contact field can be hidden when editing an order.
New Feature: the On-site Service Instructions can be hidden when editing an order.
New Feature: allow the account team to had some help text to a customer catalogue. This will appear underneath the basket when the user is in that catalogue.
New Feature: allow the Archives catalogue to be hidden for all users on an account
New Feature: hide order fields based on the items on the order
New Feature: hide order fields based on the order type [EN-714]
New Feature: support for punchout from ProcServe
New Feature: users may now mark orders as 'watched' and they will appear in a 'Watched Orders' view
Bug fix: Allow proper viewing of a cost centre with an & in the code centre code
Bug fix: stop users editing the code of an existing cost centre
Bug fix: correctly log changes to user authority
Bug fix: correctly link to non UK related items [P0946/TK695244]
Bug fix: when editing an order, correctly hide the order type dropdown if there is only one order type to choose from [TK713937]
Bug fix: hide the Contact Us > Queries section if the user does not have access to queries [EN-710]
Bug fix: when viewing a report, the 'Quarter to date' and 'Last Quarter' buttons will now give the correct dates [TK723448]
Bug fix: make customer specific bundles (or quotation bundles) visible to customers who are restricted to the merchandised product list
Bug fix: a user's fax and mobile numbers will now be correctly saved
Other: Try to prevent timeouts, when approval orders in Supply or accepting order in Supplier, if a timeout occurs the operation will be automatically retried without user intervention
Other: The traffic light on the home page which shows outstanding orders will break out the number of Credit Card orders which are still pending Finance approval [TK691810].
Other: for accounts which are set to show only merchandised items, in catalogue maintenance show as errors any items which are not merchandised.
other: when emailing a customer to ask them to enter their credit card details against an order, change the email subject to 'Lifecycle: Order XXX pending credit card details' [EN-713]
Other: if the Delivery Contact is hidden on the order form, then the default value in the Delivery Location dropdown will change from 'Use Delivery User's location' to 'Use Order Contact's location'
Other: additional Dutch translations
Other: stop Lifecycle erroring if the Task Manager web service is unavailable
Other: don't ask for a delivery option from catalogue customers who are buying a bundle which contains a delivery code (generally quotations from MySCC)
Other: provide a setting to turn off the anniversary billing options for Microsoft Select Plus
Other: allow orders for non-integrated suppliers to be edited after acceptance [EN-712]
08
2011
Lifecycle 6.2.4
09/08/2011
New Feature: if an account has been switched from Messages to Queries, show the Queries in the dashboard rather than the Messages.
New Feature: Two new reports have been created: User Login History & Orders by Creator [EN-684]
New Feature: allow the delivery contact on the order form to be hidden [EN-685]
New Feature: allow additional text on the order confirmation email. There will be one text block per account and it will display on all confirmation emails for that account regardless of the contents of the order. [EN-687]
New Feature: provide a field against an order type which will be displayed to the user when choosing the type for an order. This can be used to give additional guidance to the user.
Bug fix: prevent users adding a bundle item with a negative price
Bug fix: ensure that any sales orders are deleted when an order for a non-integrated supplier is rejected in Supplier
Bug fix: if an item has its image hosted in CMS, ensure that the image appears in PDF exports of the product or an order containing that product
Bug fix: correctly log any changes to a user's access to an account
Bug fix: when searching for incidents or changes the location search will now correctly search all the address fields on the call
Other: additional FR and NL translations
Other: do not calculate delivery charges for bundles which already include delivery charges
07
2011
Lifecycle 6.2.3
07/07/2011
New Feature: for incidents, show the Supplier Assign events in the incident updates
New Feature: allow Global Services to upload stock figures to the catalogue
Bug fix: when raising tasks from the Supplier tab, only supplier related tasks will be shown
Bug fix: when sending Dutch orders to iDeal, correctly calculate the value of non-Dutch items in Euro
Bug fix: when an SCC user changes their settings when switched to another account, the account type will be remembered correctly (ie whether the account is configured or catalogue)
Other: allow incident details to be called by using a URL of the form /services/support/default.aspx?ref=AssystRef&sid=11
Other: speed up the performance of the Merchanding list view by limiting the number of results shown and offering filter options
Other: allow requests to be returned to Draft status from IMAC Vetting and the Supplier tab
Other: when swapping stock, do not swap to any Top Config or CTO items (part numbers beginning HEWF or COMCT)
Other: for XXH code which are discontinued, show 'Limited Stock' instead of 'Discontinued Item'
Other: additional French & Dutch translations
Other: provide a search option on the Search Aliases page
Other: when creating an address, default the country based on the user's language (ie France for French users, Nederlands for Dutch users)
Other: when creating an address for the Netherlands, limit the address fields to 30 characters.
06
2011
Lifecycle 6.2.2
16/06/2011
New Feature: in the Supplier tab, show which items are unmanaged.
New Feature: add Eloqua tracking to help the eBusiness Team track the usage of Lifecycle
New Feature: allow Tasks to be raised from orders in the Supplier tab [EN-673]
New Feature: in Services, show the call closure date on the list of calls [EN-669]
New Feature: allow nominated users to specify search aliases (particularly useful for the Dutch who often search for English words although the product descriptions are in Dutch) [EN-663]
New Feature: allow non-UK suppliers to reject an order after it has been initially accepted. [EN-676]
Bug fix: for customer collections, show the Customer Brief instead of the comments field
Bug fix: check that the user expiry date in user admin is a valid date
Bug fix: when exporting orders as PDFs, products with no images will no longer show a broken image link
Bug fix: when sending an order to iDeal (for NL payments) ensure the 'Entrance Code' field only contains letters and numbers.
Other: don't swap stock to orders where all of the items are either Top Config or CTO due to the fact that these need to be ordered from HP with the correct part codes and not the XXH parts
Other: allow users who have been switched to use Queries access to view old Messages
Other: change to import template for L&G Cost Centre import
Other: when downloading PDF copies of invoices, no longer write the file to a temp folder on the webserver but rather only hold it in memory
Other: display invoice PDFs for Netherlands orders
06
2011
Lifecycle 6.2.1
02/06/2011
New Feature: allow Microsoft Select Plus subscriptions to be purchased to align to the 2nd anniversary of the agreement (currently the only options are 12 months and to align with the 3rd anniversary of the agreement)
Bug fix: in a basket or order, do not show the stock warning icon if the user is viewing virtual stock and there is sufficient virtual stock to fulfil the order [P0885]
Bug fix: when displaying the items in a collection request, do not error if the item has no description
05
2011
Lifecycle 6.2
23/05/2011
New Feature: support for Microsoft Select Plus licences and agreements
New Feature: display the Call Priority for Assyst Calls, this change is specifically to support the JSOX quality audit requirement that SCC needs to adhere to in providing support services to Nissan International a new SCC UK break-fix customer. The ability to include the priority field ensures that SCC meet our obligation in the JSOX regard and also means that the need to provide reporting is removed, thereby reducing the workload of the team and removing the overhead costs incurred by the business in providing additional resources to support the activity
New Feature: allow MySCC to send quotations through to CS/3 where the products do not currently exist on Lifecycle (a further MySCC release will be required to fully enable this function)
Bug fix: when raising a new task, there is currently a bug which forces the user to click the 'Next >' button twice. This has been fixed by applying a new version of the Microsoft AJAX Control Toolkit (v50508 - 6/5/11).
Bug fix: in a basket or order, do not show the stock warning icon if the user is viewing virtual stock and there is sufficient virtual stock to fulfil the order [P0885]
Bug fix: prevent an error occurring if a user tries to import an pre-Excel 97 format file (for addresses, users, etc).
Bug fix: prevent an error occurring when a user imports addresses which are not account specific.
Bug fix: when viewing the list of accounts a user has access to, ensure that the accounts are correctly sorted by account number [P0887]
Bug fix: when copying user settings from one user to another, accept user ids of up to 20 characters rather than 10.
Bug fix: fix a visual bug with the layout of the list of bundles in Admin.
Bug fix: resolve an issue with accepting credit cards for UK configured and catalogue customers (the issue is intermittent and is in the code which handles Internet Authentication - ie SecureCode and VbV)
Other: allow virtual stock to be turned off for a specific account
Other: some small performance improvements
Other: additional Dutch translations
05
2011
Lifecycle 6.1
05/05/2011
New Feature: in Admin, allow Refurb to be turned on for individual subsidiary accounts
New Feature: allow a user to store connection details for Geode and auto-login the user to the Geode system
Bug fix: fix a small issue with accepting Ariba Punchout orders
Bug fix: fix a display issue on baskets and orders when the order contains a bundle and the descriptions of the bundle components are too long to be displayed in the available space
04
2011
Lifecycle 6.0.9
12/04/2011
New Feature: in the Supplier tab, allow Operations to perform refunds on card transactions
New Feature: allow IMAC Vetters to reject an order back to Draft status [EN-639]
New Feature: when exporting users, the view filters will be honoured so that a subset of users can be exported
Bug fix: on the Assets page, users will no longer be directed to a sales order which does not exist
Bug fix: allow users to turn off catalogue notifications by clearing the email addresses
Bug fix: stop users quickadding items to baskets that they are not allowed to buy (because they do not have access to all items and the item is not in one of their catalogues) [P0845]
Bug fix: only send the despatched email confirmation once to each user [P0844]
Bug fix: try to prevent multiple approval emails being sent to the same user [TK531034]
Bug fix: use the user's language and timezone when sending the confirmation email when an incident has been created
Bug fix: when setting up mappings for Licence Agreements, prevent long account names from causing an error [TK550999]
Other: when processing card transactions, users will no longer receive errors when trying to AUTH a transaction which has already been AUTHed
Other: Use Microsoft's Content Delivery Network (CDN) for Microsoft AJAX libraries (this should speed the site up slightly)
Other: slight changes to Belgian address layout (make it the same as for Netherlands as the Belgian orders are processed via BAAN in the Netherlands)
Other: Additional Dutch translations
Other: slight changes to the Managed Services Token Management Portal
03
2011
Lifecycle 6.0.8
10/03/2011
New Feature: allow all services options for an account to use the CNET categorisation rather than the pricing categorisation
New Feature: provide a link on the login page to a registration page (which creates a task in Task Manager)
New Feature: new 'Swap Items' button in supplier shows all SCC part numbers which match the MPN of the items on the order and allows the user to easily swap the items for those which are in stock
New Feature: allow an account to be flagged as Lifecycle 6 only
Bug fix: show archived orders correctly [TK498678]
Bug fix: prompt for missing item fields when approving or submitting an order
Bug fix: fix a minor cosmetic bug with charts on the home page under IE 8
Other: in catalogue maintenance, show the status of items and provide a dropdown of 'problem' items
Other: Additional Dutch & French translations
Other: try to prevent users pushing the checkout button more than once to stop multiple pre-auths on their credit card
Other: display country names in addresses in the user's own language (for FR and NL)
Other: slight changes to Dutch address layout
Other: remove SOLO as a card payment method as these cards are being withdrawn from 31/03/2011
Other: minor changes to address layouts for NL
Other: prepare for the upgrade to the next version of Streamserve by deriving the PDF file links from order information rather than looking them up in a table (UK only)
02
2011
Lifecycle 6.0.7
17/02/2011
New Feature: allow SGS partners to update the serial numbers on an order in the Supplier tab [EN-598]
New Feature: add the consignment note number and tracking url to order emails (when data is available) [EN-602]
New Feature: send internal administrators email updates on specific accounts and catalogues when items become unavailable [EN-610]
New Feature: allow a customer field to be validated as an email address
Bug fix: allow users to copy a bundle where the part number contains a '.'
Bug fix: if a user navigates to an item not in one of their catalogues (eg from a bundle), they should not be able to purchase that item.
Bug fix: ensure that any querystrings sent to the Oracle punchout page are processed correctly
Bug fix: allow configured customers to submit credit card orders for approval
Bug fix: fix an issue where imported addresses don't get allocated to the correct subsidiary account
Bug fix: on the main page dashboard, the URL for the current order is incorrect - fixed [TK490614]
Other: add an additional user level access control for credit card payments
Other: allow NL & FR to provide translation for manufacturer names
Other: additional NL translations
Other: change to TNT proof of delivery URL to cope with duplicate consignment note numbers
Other: in account setup, remove the options around Lifecycle version as v4 has been turned off
Other: if an order is less than 24 hours old and the planned date is set to 2020, the planned date will be shown as 'Awaiting planned date' [EN-612]
Other: support courier POD links for GLS (a Dutch carrier)
Other: UK - don't automatically flag Warranty items for config in the Supplier tab
Other: add Google Analytics tracking code
01
2011
Lifecycle 6.0.6
24/01/2011
New Feature: Allow selected accounts (eg SPRINTii customers) to be limited to a list of merchandised products which will be supplied by the online team (UK only)
Bug fix: On the order details page, the Incident tab does not display correctly - fixed.
Bug fix: If the user adds items to an order in Supplier and then accepts the order, the user will be returned to the orders list page and not to the Add items page.
Bug fix: When global accounts update the status of their orders, there can be occasions where the sales order does not exist and the update therefore fails. A check will now be made for the existence of the sales order and it will be created if missing.
Bug fix: Some labels on the checkout page (for catalogue customers) were incorrectly labelled - fixed.
Bug fix: correctly hide the VAT amount in the catalogue when the account is set to hide VAT and the price is not in cache.
Bug fix: hide the basket for users who cannot create a basket
Bug fix: show the extended warranty items in the user's currency rather than GBP
Bug fix: allow users to copy a bundle where the part number contains a '.'
Other: show the Pending Approval section for orders for SCC users if the account they have switched to uses approval.
Other: when importing customer descriptions, duplicate lines will now be ignored rather than causing an error.
Other: allow users to search queries (for those customers using Query Handling through to Task Manager)
12
2010
Lifecycle 6.0.5
09/12/2010
New Feature: Allow users to add/remove items from Favourites from the product listing page.
New Feature: New landing pages for the following systems integrators: ATOS lifecycle.scc.com/v6/welcome/atos Capgemini lifecycle.scc.com/v6/welcome/capgemini CSC lifecycle.scc.com/v6/welcome/csc Getronics lifecycle.scc.com/v6/welcome/getronics Siemens lifecycle.scc.com/v6/welcome/siemens Steria lifecycle.scc.com/v6/welcome/steria
New Feature: Allow Lifecycle to be branded for the SIs above
Bug fix: Stop the order description text overlapping the action buttons in the order list in Supplier
Bug fix: when editing an order, hide the order type field if there is only one type.
Bug fix: the user is unable to see the list of queries they have raised - fixed.
Bug fix: update to Spread v5.0.3515 to cope with issues with Internet Explorer 8
Bug fix: when editing a catalogue, the items are now displayed correctly
Other: Add the Royal Wedding Bank Holiday on 29/04/2011 to the calendar admin page
Other: prevent a lookup to the pricing server for delivery lines where the price is already known
Other: additional French translations
Other: hide the Terms & Conditions link on the basket and order for French users
11
2010
Lifecycle 6.0.4
25/11/2010
New Feature: Allow users to recall an order from order approval and also to send chase emails to approvers
New Feature: Log the changes which non-integrated suppliers make to sales orders [EN-572]
New Feature: when the customer is emailed to say that their order has now despatched, the email will contain any serial/badge numbers for the items on the order.
New Feature: the product comparison page can now be emailed or exported in PDF format.
New Feature: when raising a new incident, allow a default email address to be used rather than the user's email address [EN-574]
New Feature: Allow customers to specify their own custom Terms & Conditions which will be displayed at the bottom of the order (this can be in addition to or replacing the standard Terms & Conditions)
Bug fix: hide the basket description field from Punchout users [EN-560]
Bug fix: allow admin users to send multiple user notifications [TI-4147]
Bug fix: show the customer description properly inside bundles when the user is set to view Standard descriptions + Customer descriptions [TI4156]
Bug fix: show the drop downs in user roles correctly under Internet Explorer v7
Bug fix: for Oracle Punchout the part number is not being returned to the host system correctly - this has been fixed.
Other: stop integrated suppliers (UK, FR, NL) updating the pricing details for an item in Admin [EN-569]
Other: move the 'Add Comment' button on in progress orders to make it more obvious
Other: when a user is asking for notifications on product changes they can now change the email address the notification will be sent to.
Other: update ABCpdf to v7 (allows Lifecycle to send PDF copies of orders, products, etc)
Other: update Spread to v5 (used for imports and to send Excel format attachments)
Other: hide the SPRINTii registration question from any logged in users using query handling
10
2010
Lifecycle 6.0.3
15/10/2010
New Feature: Allow users to clear catalogues of items which are no longer available in the catalogue.
Bug fix: allow the grid view of items in IMAC Vetting to cope with orders with bundles.
Bug fix: when a catalogue is amended, make sure the catalogue cache is cleared for that customer and catalogue.
Bug fix: when displaying the list of orders, ensure long order descriptions wrap onto multiple lines properly
Bug fix: when exporting the catalogue, the column heading for the picture URL is missing - this has been fixed.
Bug fix: when sending a password notification email for customers with a custom login page (like Buying Solutions), use the custom login page URL in the email
Bug fix: fixed size of category drop down in Security Settings page under IE 7 [TI-4144]
09
2010
Lifecycle 6.0.2
30/09/2010
New Feature: Allow addresses to be flagged as specific to more than one subsidiary account [EN-346]
New Feature: Allow customers with their own helpdesk details to add an email address for their helpdesk [EN-479]
New Feature: Create a new service option pricing method which is a charge per item which only looks at the bundle headers and not the components [EN-508]
New Feature: Allow an account to make the main price displayed in the catalogue the price ex-VAT (instead of price inc-VAT which is the default (required for SPRINTii)
New Feature: allow an administrator to specify an email address which will receive an email when a supplier rejects an order [EN-550]
Bug fix: Editing a catalogue item when the user is set to a non-English language, saves the buy price incorrectly. This has been fixed. [TI-4050]
Bug fix: stop prices being incorrectly updated when a quotation is transferred to an order [P728]
Bug fix: in a basket, the 'Add Licences' button will now be correctly hidden if the account is not setup for Microsoft Licensing
Bug fix: when logging out, the user will now be taken back to the home page
Other: Additional translations for both FR and NL
Other: update Lifecycle Supplier tab to recognise customer specific delivery codes (those with SPCCUST category)
Other: minor change to ensure that IE 9 renders the site in IE 9 mode rather than IE 8 mode.
09
2010
Lifecycle 6.0.1
09/09/2010
New Feature: Add an additional filter to allow users to differentiate between incidents and changes [EN-491]
New Feature: Allow selected users to view 'Offers' on a product page. These offers are additional products codes (eg XXH) or additional rebates for the product. This is particularly required for SPRINT2 customers.
Bug fix: Clear the catalogue cache when a bundle, item or catalogue is amended on the site [EN-512]
Bug fix: The menu for catalogue customers was being incorrectly cached and could show the Admin & Supplier menus to unauthorised users.
Bug fix: Catalogue customers experienced an error when updating their settings - this has been fixed.
Bug fix: some additional bug fixes (as identified during Maintenance weeks) have been made