FA Back 3.12 - Release notes

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Support for importing corporate actions

Dynamic date selections also for single dates in reporting

Support for linking multiple posting rules to a portfolio for accounting purposes

New features for portfolio management, including FIFO valuation on parent portfolio level and extended options for account sharing between sub-portfolios

Other improvements in existing features

Positions paid accrual and accrued interest is now correctly transferred with the position during an exchange, ensuring the position after the exchange includes previous position's accrual.

Analytics+ now shows correct values also for columns with time periods longer than the time period selected for analysis. For example, if you have selected "Previous month" as the time period for your analysis, the "12M" columns will still show data for 12 months. Before, data was only shown for the selected time period (e.g. "Previous month") regardless of the time periods associated with the selected columns.

Annualization of "TWR" figures in Analytics+ now uses 365 days if start and end date are from different years, and 366 days is only used if both start and end are on the same year and it is a leap year. This ensures annualized figures are more relevant over period of multiple years - before, annualization was done based on number of days in year of the end date, which exaggerated figure when analysis ended on a leap year.

"Include positions from linked portfolio" combined with "Drill down hierarchy" in Analytics+ now correctly show positions from underlying portfolio as many time as the position appears in the hierarchy.

"Exposure" figures in Analytics+ now longer exaggerate the exposure on the removed position after an exchange.

Security level and group level "TWR Contribution" in Analytics+ now correctly adds up to the total level "TWR Contribution".

Analyzing a portfolio with benchmarks coming from asset types in Analytics+ no longer causes differences in "TWR Bm" values on group and position level when position is closed out.

"Bm Max Drawdown / Drawup" is not correctly formatted as percentage in Analytics+.

Analytics+ no longer allows you to temporarily re-arrange columns through drag-and-drop, ensuring tools to reorder columns work consistently throughout all views.

Group tags restricted by other criteria than user roles are now correctly shown as "hidden tags" on data that has the tag but doesn't match the restrictions of the tag. This allows users to see all tags previously added to their data.

Overview no longer shows an error if the system has no tags defined in Tag Preferences.

When entering transactions or trade orders manually through the Transaction window, the "External ID" is no longer populated when the window is opened but generated on saving if transaction is saved with a blank ext ID. This ensures that External IDs are not unnecessarily reserved for transactions or trade orders that never get saved. In addition, External ID generation on trade orders now correctly considers contact's "Transaction no. level" setting.

Trade order execution no longer skips transaction External IDs when generating transactions to a portfolio but uses the next available External ID. In addition, Trade order execution now correctly considers contact's "Transaction no. level" setting.

Transaction importer now allows you to import transactions into sub-portfolio which are linked to parent portfolio's account. Parent portfolio's account is always shared to sub-portfolios, and transaction importer now also acknowledges this.

Scheduling a Capital call corporate action now correctly creates transactions when the corporate action is run on the scheduled time.

Launching a process, such as exporting postings, from the Bookkeeping view now correctly consider user's selection, applying the process only on the selected postings.

Saving a search on the Bookkeeping view based on Reference number as search criterion now works correctly.

You can now manually modify postings on a transaction regardless of the transaction's status. Before, you were only able to modify postings on "Accepted" transactions.

Report window's "Add schedule" popup can no longer remain open on the screen on its own - the window for defining a schedule needs to be closed first before closing the underlying Report window to avoid confusion.

User's name is now correctly shown in user listings, such as task owner and assignee, also when user's first name or last name contains Scandinavian letters. These characters are now correctly synchronized to FA Back from User Management. In addition, if you remove a linked contact from your user in User Management, the removal is now correctly synchronized to FA Back and taken into account for example for limited visibility.

You can no longer add tasks without a title into the system - a title is now a mandatory field in a task. In addition, a task description is now limited to be up to 4000 characters long - if you try to add a longer description on a task, you are notified with "Description is too long. The limit is 4000".

Changes in portfolio's Strategy, Benchmark or Investment plan in the Portfolio window are now correctly tracked as "modifications" - when you modify the data within these tabs, the window title is marked with [Modified], and you are prompted to confirm you don't want to save your changes if you try to close the window without saving.

Portfolio window's Accounts tab now shows the account preview consistently for both accounts and shared accounts, ensuring all information is visible the same way.

Title of the "Account tags" column on the Portfolios view has been renamed to "Default account's tags" to clearly indicate which account's tags the column shows.

Deleting an investment plan from a portfolio through the Portfolio window now correctly deletes all the corresponding data from the database, ensuring orphan investment plans won't remain in the database without a link to a portfolio.

Saving a portfolio without a primary contact no longer results in an error even if you have a dynamic group in the system based on primary contact's profile attributes.

Updating the address of a contact with no transactions no longer causes an unnecessary error trying to update the transaction listing.

Trying to open a contact with a sub-type that has been deleted from sub-type Preferences no longer results in an error.

Groups view now contains a scroll bar for dynamic group criteria, allowing you to scroll down to see all the criteria of a dynamic group also on a smaller screen or when you have a lot of criteria for a single group.

You can now access the Key figures tab in the Security window without an error also for new securities without first selecting the security type.

Rebalance view's "Cash choice" filter no longer produces an error, but allows you to correctly filter the rebalance history with this information.

You can no longer define an invalid format in Date and decimal format Preferences, ensuring all saved formats are valid. Before, saving invalid formats might have blocked you from accessing FA Back all together after saving.

Translation Preferences now longer result in and error when you first apply a filter and then try to save your translations.

Error from loading the default dashboard no longer prevents users from accessing other Dashboards.

For improved performance when a large number of transactions are saved and a large number of postings are generated at once, the system now saves postings in batches instead of saving them one-by-one.

Logging in/out from applications other than FA Back and FA Front now generates an audit user log with the correct "application_id". In addition, user audit now contains the full name of the application producing the log. Before, the application name was cut after 10 characters.

AnalyticsAPI now provides you with fund analysis, allowing you to extract TWR (and other analysis) for mutual fund portfolios based on NAV price through a new parameter fundPortfolio.

Populatable components available for your custom profiles now allow you also to populate a list of portfolios into the available components.

Error in a rule no longer prevents saving the object, but instead, the error is properly logged into audit_system.

API section within Administration view no longer persists the temporary API tokens generated when generating reports in the system, ensuring the list of tokens isn't unnecessarily extended with a lot of temporary tokens.

Logging REST API calls now correctly print also the request body.

FA Back's API metrics no longer consider http code 404 and 403 responses as errors.

JSON values stored as string into a profile are now recognized as JSON with GraphQL queries.

Filtering transactions with typeCode in GraphQL now works correctly also when you provide a single transaction type.

AnalyticsAPI now correctly returns portfolio's tags.

General importer for security close prices now works consistently with other importers in the "test mode", provide feedback indicating whether the import was valid or not instead of always producing an error. General importer has import "modes" where 0 = insert/update, 1 = insert only, 2 = update only. Any other modes are treated as a "test" import; nothing gets saved to the database. This is sometimes used to confirm that an import is valid before executing it. This works just like a normal import, and provides the same feedback that other import modes would. I.e. importStatus OK or ERROR, depending on whether or not the import is valid.