Descartes® is pleased to announce the general availability of the Descartes Peoplevox™ 9.9.0 (178/26) release. This release includes the first look at the new web app UI, some integration improvements to the MetaPack connector, and addresses some issues with the Android app.
New Features
New Feature: This release includes the first early-access version of the new web app UI for the locations and location groups pages. This is still under active development, but we hope you will share your thoughts with us so that we can improve these screens as well as incorporate that feedback into subsequent screens. To try the new UI, you just need to enable the "Preview beta" permission against "Locations" using the permissions popup from the Roles tab of the web app (736011).
Enhancements
Enhancement: Updated several tax-related field mappings on the MetaPack integration. The integration can now pass the "startVatNumber" from a configuration setting, and the "endVatNumber" and "recipientVatNumber" from the "CustomsRegistrationNumber" on the sales order (755552).Enhancement: Fixed several issues and generally improved the way Android despatch handles item and package weights in workflows where the user is not prompted to finalize the weight of the package. The app will now automatically try to construct the total weight of the package as the sum of the total item weight, using the unit of measure defined on the items. If no unit of measure is available, the app has the ability to retrieve a default from configuration instead (427455).
Resolved Issues
Resolved Issue: Fixed an issue with the Android app that could prevent administrators from being able to forcibly log-out users via the user sessions popup on the web app. The popup now correctly terminates Android sessions in the same way that it does for web app sessions (761480).
Note: For a longer-term view of the changes coming to the system, particularly those that will impact integrations, please take a look at the Coming Soon section:
Coming Soon
The numbers in parentheses come from our internal work-tracking system, and we present them here for you to reference if you have any questions. If you've raised a specific issue on the support desk, then we'll come back to you on that ticket with any relevant updates.
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