Release Notes - 2024 (Updated thru December)

Learn about newly released product features.

December 2024 

Version 24.12

Reorder Custom Tables and Report Sections

  • Custom Table

  • Reports

Hide all Sections in the Executive Summary & Income Statement Reports

  • Executive Summary

  • Income Statement


November 2024 

Version 24.11

Remove Global Driver Errors from Plans

  • Before: when a Global Driver contained an error (ex. if one of the inputs was deleted), there would be an error message in System Health for every active Plan despite it being just one Global Driver
  • Now: there is a single global error within the System Health

Update Report formatting sidebar 

 

October 2024 

Version 24.10

Pre-populate GSheet Template with Dates

  • The Google Sheet is pre-populated with dates where there’s a column for each month in the 2 prior Fiscal Years and extends forward for the rest of the years and 1 year into the future

Pre-populate Custom Table Excel Template 



Headcount Terminated #

  • Headcount Terminated count is available for Departments & Roles from Custom Drivers view
  • The Headcount's termination calculation is expressed as a positive number


Left align Table Tile Account Header


Remove "$" from Gross Margin, Operating & Net Income Row Headers in Reports

 

September 2024 

Version 24.09

“Powered by Jirav” will not appear in PDF exports of a report 



Support for System Salaries with Auto-Forecast

  • Disabling Auto-Forecast for Salaries will now automatically result in System Salaries calculating

 

August 2024 

Version 24.08

UA Picker "Key Assumptions" labeled to "Assumptions"

Assumptions Side Sheet Update

Dashboard Settings App Shell Migration

Drivers and Manual Entries support for non-AF lines

  • Ability to add Drivers or manual inputs to lines that are not being automatically forecasted

    July 2024 

    Version 24.07

    Increased Tile Name length to 60 characters

    • The number of characters has been expanded from 20 to 60
    • Added the ability to see the Tile Name upon hover


    Updated Notifications

    • Select or de-select which E-Mail Notifications you would like to receive



    Report Source UI and Terminology Updates

    • Label Updates

      • The three Sources in each Report configuration was previously referred to as Column 1, Column 2 and Column 3. They will now be referred to as Primary Source, Comparison Source 1 and Comparison Source 2

      • The Report Period date picker has been relabeled as Date Range and the Period for the comparison sources has been relabeled as Relative Date Range
      • The Report Columns dropdown where users select how they want their reports to be aggregated (Months, Quarters, and Year Halves, Years and Total) has been relabeled at “Show Dates By

    • Side Sheet Reorganization
      • The Date Range picker (prev. Report Period) has been pulled down to be selected within the Primary Source
      • The "Show Dates By" dropdown (prev. Report Columns) will also be selected within the primary source
      • Department Filter, Show Notes control, and Show Partial Total Footnotes Control all moved to “Report Level” settings at the top
    • Relative Date Range Addition
      • Two new options were added to the Relative Date Range dropdowns for the comparison sources:
        • Next Period
        • Next Year

    Report Variance Dropdown Update

    • The variance dropdowns now reference the chosen sources and date ranges so that selecting a variance calculation is easy and without confusion

    Staff List Report "Edit Columns" Update

    • The controls that were not relevant to the Staff List report were removed to create a less confusing setup

    • The date picker is labeled as “Employed During”

    New format options in exported Text Page to Excel

    • Formatting that is added to a Text page will be exported to Excel, including pictures

    QuickBooks Desktop Web Connector - Beta

    • The UI for integrating with QBD using the QuickBooks Web Connector is now in the application behind a feature flag
    • Users who have this feature flag turned on will be able to choose with integration method they would like to use - Autofy or QBWC

     

    June 2024 

    Version 24.06

    Add Data Labels & Legend to the Dashboard Tiles

    • Customize Data Labels by showing or hiding Values and Series Name
    • Tile's Legend can be turned on or turned off
    • Data Labels & Legend will be displayed in the exported PDF


    Customize Text Page with text editor capabilities such as:

    • 12 Common Fonts
    • Font Colors
    • Underline & Strikethrough
    • Indent/Outdent
    • Numbered & Bullet lists
    • Emojis
    • Clear Formatting

    Export Excel with Formats:

    •  Export the format changes you built in your Reporting Packages into Excel and Google Sheets


    Updated Company Settings Page

    Updated Audit Log Page

    • Review Audit Logs for the desired Range (This Month, This Year, Custom)
    • Click on the specific row to display action details

    May 2024 

    Version 24.05

    Change Colors from Dashboard Tiles

    • Modify the color of a specific data series directly from the dashboard tile.

    Updated In-App Onboarding Steps

    • Easily set up new accounts by completing the onboarding tasks.

    Updated Users Page



    Updated Assumption Settings Page

    April 2024 

    Version 24.04

    Automatic Roll Forward

    • Enable plans to roll forward automatically to include an additional month of actuals - enable the setting from Plans > Manage Plans

    Excel Workforce Template Staff List Download

    • Excel Workforce Template download is now populated with the current list of employees per the Workforce module

    Balance Sheet Out of Balance Automatic Heal

    • Jirav now detects when your balance sheet is out of balance and reimports actuals to correct the out of balance automatically* for all periods previously imported 
      *Account must be set to automatically import actuals and this feature does not apply to QuickBooks Desktop or Excel integrations

    Plan Row Preservation

    • Consistency in account expansion levels is maintained when switching departments within planning tables, enhancing efficiency during data input and analysis

    March 2024

    Version 24.03

    Enhanced Plan Tables

    • Improved planning tables with a visually appealing design to facilitate smoother data input and review processes


    Visual Comment Alerts

    • Receive visual alerts indicating the number of unread comments across all sections of the application - once viewed the visual alert will disappear 


    Formula Bar Support for Balance Sheet and Allocation Drivers

    • Balance Sheet and Allocation Drivers are now visible in the planning tables, eliminating the need to navigate to the Drivers area to view these formulas

    February 2024

    Version 24.02

    Auto-Forecast Enhancements (Beta)

    • Enable Auto-Forecast by Account & Department
    • Additional Forecast Methodologies for Linear Trend without Seasonality and Simple Average 

    Learn more about Auto-Forecast.

    PDF Report  Enhancement

    • Choose which report sections to include Footnotes on