Longview v24.1 Software Release Notes
This document describes enhancements and changes to Longview version 24.1.
Announcements in Longview 24.1
- Following our recent rebranding and in response to customer feedback, we have enhanced the Longview Client with options to maximise the workspace area:
- Users have the ability to hide or show the main toolbar across all tabs.
- Users now have more zoom options in the data grids.
- We continue to add further BEPS 2.0 Pillar Two functionality. In 24.1 we introduce additional data points within GloBE Revenue, GloBE Income and Covered Taxes required for the GloBE Information Return, plus the Pillar Two recast adjustment to calculate the impact on deferred covered tax of differences between provision and minimum tax rates, where appropriate.
- This release focused on performance with improvements relating to how Longview locks data, plus modifications to Longview Tax deferred tax calculations so that temporary average tax rates are no longer stored in the database.
- Finally, the Longview ImportSpec and ExportSpec functions have been extended to support JSON as a data source/target.
insightsoftware continues to focus our efforts on providing the greatest value in our product investment. As part of this effort, we began an initiative in 2020 to deprecate certain features that were legacy in nature and could be replaced with newer components that offered greater functionality and improved user experience.
A recap of the recent decisions, the following features have been de-supported over the past few releases:
- Longview Desktop – Version 10.7 (Fall 2020)
- Longview Input – Version 21.1 (Spring 2021)
- Longview Component Manager – Version 22.1 (Spring 2022)
- Legacy Longview for Excel component – Version 22.1 (Spring 2022)
No additional components are deprecated as part of the current release.
Enhancements Added in Longview 24.1
Longview 24.1 contains enhancements in the following areas:
- Installation and Supported Platforms
- Longview Application Framework
- Longview Client
- Longview Data Servers
- Longview Smart Client
- Longview Tax – Multi-Regional Provision
- Longview Tax – Pillar Two
- Longview Tax – Tax Provision
Installation and Supported Platforms
| Enhancement | Description |
|---|---|
LV-8858 |
The Longview Enterprise Deployment now supports upgrades. |
LV-8950 |
The Longview Installer now supports adding French software files during an upgrade. |
Longview Application Framework
| Enhancement | Description |
|---|---|
LV-6515 |
The Longview Application Framework function, CREATELIST, has been enhanced to retrieve a list of files and/or folders in a specified local path. Example: CREATE VARIABLE List1[] AS OBJECT For more information, see the Longview Developer’s Guide. |
LV-7621 |
The Longview ExportSpec function DataTarget has been updated to support JSON. The exported JSON format can be either verbose or concise. The default format is verbose. Example: DataTarget JSON, “MyData”, EXTERNAL, CONCISE For more information, see the Longview Developer’s Guide. |
LV-7622 |
The Longview ImportSpec function DataSource has been updated to support JSON. The source file can be either verbose or concise JSON format. The Import will automatically determine which format it is on import. Example: DataSource JSON, “MyData”, EXTERNAL For more information, see the Longview Developer’s Guide. |
LV-9292 |
Longview Application Framework now supports keepalive with a http proxy connection. |
Longview Client
| Enhancement | Description |
|---|---|
LV-9137 |
Users now have the option to hide or show the main toolbar across all tabs in the workspace to increase the vertical space available. For more information, see Solutions Framework User Guide heading Longview Client Toolbar Options in section Working with Longview Client section. |
Longview Data Servers
| Enhancement | Description |
|---|---|
LV-8884 |
The locking server performance has been significantly improved. |
LV-9174 |
Events are now cleaned up in the LV_EVENT_ACTION table when the servers are started. |
Longview Smart Client
| Enhancement | Component | Description |
|---|---|---|
LV-9136 |
Data Grids |
Additional magnification options have been added to the Longview Data Grid. Users can now choose 50%, 75%, 100%, 125% or 150%. |
Longview Tax – Multi-Regional Provision
| Enhancement | Description |
|---|---|
| LV-7023 | In Longview Tax Multi-Regional Provision (IAS/IFRS), updates have been made to national deferred tax, classification and netting calculations to improve performance, align with updates made previously to ASC/US GAAP, and support future improvements to the combined deferred tax calculations. |
Longview Tax – Pillar Two
| Enhancement | Description |
|---|---|
LV-7865 |
In Longview Pillar Two, recast adjustment has been added to Temporary Differences. The recast adjustment calculates the difference between any gross temporary difference on a per element basis where the effective tax rate exceeds the global minimum tax rate. |
LV-9022 |
In Longview Pillar Two, additional accounts have been deployed to support data points required by the GloBE Information Return. These updates have been applied to the Revenue, Income and Covered Taxes hierarchies. |
Longview Tax – Tax Provision
| Enhancement | Description |
|---|---|
| LV-9057 | In Longview Tax Provision (ASC/US GAAP and IAS/IFRS), the deferred tax calculation has been modified to not store temporary average tax rates used for calculations to reduce database record volumes and improve performance. |
Issues Resolved in Longview 24.1
Longview 24.1 contains issues resolved for the following components:
- Longview Installation and Supported Platforms
- Longview Add-In for Office
- Longview Close
- Longview Data Servers
- Longview Designer
- Longview Report Viewer
- Longview Smart Client
- Longview Solutions Framework
- Longview Tax – Multi-Regional Provision
- Longview Tax – Pillar Two
- Longview Tax – Tax Provision
- Longview Transfer Pricing
Longview Installation and Supported Platforms
| Issue | Description |
|---|---|
| LV-9041 | The Longview Installer would fail when installing a system configured for ISW Platform with only the “Global Transparency + Pillar Two” product license. |
Longview Add-In for Office
| Issue | Description |
|---|---|
| LV-8840 | Using the ESC key to close the Group Selection dialog or the Application Selection dialog would cause an exception to be thrown. |
Longview Close
| Issue | Description |
|---|---|
| LV-8853 | In Longview Close, during an upgrade some model rule updates would fail if the out-of-box total symbol was deleted for a custom dimension. |
| LV-9326 | In Longview Close, during an upgrade some server rules could be overwritten unintentionally, such as model rules causing the cash flow ending balance to be calculated incorrectly. |
Longview Data Servers
| Issue | Description |
|---|---|
LV-9193 |
In some cases, submissions would hang if the Longview Data Servers had been running for more than 24 days. |
Longview Designer
| Issue | Description |
|---|---|
| LV-7806 | Longview Designer did not display correctly when the user’s scaling and layout settings were set to more than 100%. |
Longview Report Viewer
| Issue | Description |
|---|---|
| LV-9202 | When a symbol was passed into a report that had a published symbol for that dimension, it did not override the symbol. |
| LV-9296 | Reports containing an image in the header or footer did not display the image when the report was launched with a selected symbol passed in. |
Longview Smart Client
| Issue | Component | Description |
|---|---|---|
LV-6111 |
Data Tables |
Longview Data Tables did not refresh row values properly when a column with a custom editor opened another Longview Data Table. |
Longview Solutions Framework
| Issue | Description |
|---|---|
| LV-5922 | When importing symbols to a hierarchical symbol app, an error would occur if a new parent symbol was created at the same time as one of its children where the parent symbol name and the parent defined on the child symbol were in a different case. The import process would incorrectly report that the parent symbol must be added before assigning the child symbol to it. |
| LV-8795 | The journal entry query app would fail to execute if the currency dimension was not named CURRENCIES. |
| LV-9079 | When assigning the next step for a process map step, an index out of bounds error would occur if another step in the process had the same name as the step being modified. |
Longview Tax – Multi-Regional Provision
| Issue | Description |
|---|---|
| LV-8758 | In Longview Tax Multi-Regional Provision (ASC/ US GAAP), total deferred allocated tax would not tie between the NF0803R and NF0804R reports because the interim allocation percentages were not being calculated for the current period. |
| LV-8851 | In Longview Tax Multi-Regional Provision (ASC/US GAAP), if a configuration caused a lock conflict with the interim automation event with persistent events enabled, the locks created by the event would not be released. |
Longview Tax – Pillar Two
| Issue | Description |
|---|---|
LV-7938 |
In Longview Pillar Two, when a new automation was created without specifying an account or entity, the error dialog would show the entity value from the previous row. |
LV-8774 |
In a standalone installation of Longview Pillar Two, a user connected with a group other than Administrators that had maintenance authorization was unable to access Tax Calculations in the Longview Client. |
LV-8989 |
In Longview Pillar Two, the transitional safe harbour transfer calculation was using the reporting currency for all transfers instead of the correct currency for each of the source data points. |
LV-9300 |
In Longview Pillar Two, manage constituent entities would take a long time to initialize with a large number of entities. |
Longview Tax – Tax Provision
| Issue | Description |
|---|---|
| LV-7279 | In Longview Tax Provision (IAS/IFRS), when extracting Country-by-Country data for HMRC, the h:name element is now correctly output with a value of X5 for stateless entities (with no TIN). |
| LV-9258 | In Longview Tax Provision (IAS/IFRS), the Reporting Currency Only Adjustment - NIBT (RepCurAdjNIBT) for Tax Effect (Regional - Statutory) (NetRTaxEffectS_IAS) would not show the translated result in the regional ETR report. |
Longview Transfer Pricing
| Issue | Description |
|---|---|
LV-7332 |
In Longview Transfer Pricing, an error would occur if you set a group override for a profitability analysis automation, when there were no entities in the hierarchy defined by the system attribute ASLTPEntityRoot. |
LV-8776 |
In Longview Transfer Pricing, the target rates would get inflated when running the profitability analysis variance calculation on multiple periods at once causing the resulting variances to be greatly overstated. |
Hardware and Software Requirements
This chapter contains information on these main topics:
Note: Third party components and versions, such as operating systems, browsers, etc., no longer in mainstream support by the third-party provider are not supported by Longview as well.
Supported Server Platforms
Supported platforms are defined as the Operating System and RDBMS “families”, and minimum patch/point level on which the application is supported under the terms of the Customer’s maintenance Services Agreement. Assistance with issue investigation and resolution is available through Support Services. Any platform related software issues identified will be addressed based on Longview’s standard issue prioritization criteria.
Longview reserves the right to end support for supported platforms with subsequent releases of the application.
Should a customer choose to use current versions of Longview software on non-supported platforms, Longview will continue to provide the application support under the terms of the Maintenance Services Agreement with the following exceptions:
- Issues encountered which cannot be replicated on a currently supported platform will not be addressed.
- For issues that exist on both supported and non-supported platforms, fixes will be verified only on supported platforms and may or may not address the issue on the non-supported platform.
- No support is available for platforms (OS or RDBMS) that are no longer supported by their respective vendors.
This section contains information on supported platforms for the following items:
Updating Windows Universal CRT
Improved security and compatibility of Longview means that older server machines must install Windows Universal C Runtime (CRT) update 2999226. You can determine whether your server requires this update and download this update, if needed, from the following link: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2999226
Data Server OS and RDBMS
The following combinations are supported for all servers in the application. For details on the term Supported, see Supported server platforms.
| (x64 architecture) | Server RDBMS (64-bit) |
|---|---|
Windows Server 2022 |
SQL Server 2022 SQL Server 2019 Oracle 19c |
Windows Server 2019 |
SQL Server 2022 SQL Server 2019 Oracle 19c |
Note: If you are using a separate Database server, any platform and Operating System supporting the database versions can be used.
Web Server
The following combinations are supported for the Web Server. For details on the term Supported, see Supported server platforms.
Note: The Web Server supports only x64 Server hardware architecture.
| Server operating system (64-bit) | Web Server (64-bit) |
|---|---|
Windows Server 2022 |
Microsoft IIS 10.0 |
Windows Server 2019 |
Microsoft IIS 10.0 |
Data Server Web Services
The following combinations are supported for Data Server Web Services. For details on the term Supported, see Supported server platforms.
Note: Data Server Web Services supports only x64 Server hardware architecture.
| Server operating system (64-bit) | Java |
|---|---|
Windows Server 2022 |
Oracle JDK 17 (LTS), Oracle JDK 21 (LTS) or OpenJDK 21 |
Windows Server 2019 |
Oracle JDK 17 (LTS), Oracle JDK 21 (LTS) or OpenJDK 21 |
Note: Apache Tomcat is deployed as part of the Data Server Web Services install process. If you have already installed Apache Tomcat, you must have version 9.0.68 installed.
Longview Grid Server
The following combinations are supported for the Longview Grid Server when Grid Processing Type is selected in Longview Server Manager. For details on the term Supported, see Supported server platforms.
Note: Longview Grid Server supports only x64 Server hardware architecture.
| Operating system (64-bit) | ODBC |
|---|---|
Windows Server 2022 |
ODBC Driver 18 for SQL Server |
Windows Server 2019 |
ODBC Driver 18 for SQL Server |
Note: You must install the ODBC Driver 18 for SQL Server on the grid node that corresponds to the RDBMS that the Longview application server is configured for.
HTTP Proxy Server
The following combinations are supported for the HTTP Proxy Server. For details on the term Supported, see Supported Server Platforms.
| Server hardware | Server operating system (64-bit) |
|---|---|
x64 Architecture |
Windows Server 2022 Windows Server 2019 |
Note: You must have .NET 4.8 installed to run HTTP Proxy Server.
Supported Client Platforms
This section contains information on Supported platforms for the following items:
Longview Client Components
The following platforms are supported for client computers. For details on the term Supported, see Supported Server Platforms.
| Client operating system (64-bit) | Web browser | .NET version |
|---|---|---|
Windows 11 |
Microsoft Edge Google Chrome1 |
.NET 4.8 |
Windows 10 |
Microsoft Edge Google Chrome1 |
.NET 4.8 |
Note: 1Chrome browsers require a Chrome extension to launch ClickOnce components. For example, the Windows Remix ClickOnce Helper to launch Longview ClickOnce components.
Caution: Longview recommends a DPI display setting of 100%. Using a DPI mode other than 100% can cause display issues ranging from incorrect and inconsistent font sizes to interface elements not being visible on the screen.
Microsoft Excel
The following Microsoft Excel versions are supported.
Note: Both Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office 365 are supported; however, you must use the fully deployed version of Microsoft Excel to work with Longview Add-In for Office.
| Longview Add-In for Office |
|---|
Office 365 – 32-bit and 64-bit |
Excel 2021 – 32-bit and 64-bit |
Excel 2019 – 32-bit and 64-bit |
Supported Languages
Longview client components are language consistent. For example, for a French client system, this update supports the French version of the Longview client, with the default regional settings, running with the French version of the respective operating system, and the French version of Microsoft Office.
However, for the servers, this update supports English versions of the respective RDBMS, server operating system, or Web server, regardless of the client language.
The following table outlines the language requirements for your Longview system.
|
English | French |
|---|---|---|
Windows requirements |
English Windows English Microsoft Office |
French Windows French Microsoft Office |
Java |
Oracle JDK 17 (LTS) Oracle JDK 21 (LTS) or OpenJDK 21 |
Oracle JDK 17 (LTS) Oracle JDK 21 (LTS) or OpenJDK 21 |
Web browser |
English |
French |
Server operating system |
English |
English |
RDBMS |
English |
English |
Web server |
English |
English |
Longview Support Schedule
- As of this release, only Longview version 21.1 and newer are supported.
- Longview 21.1 will no longer be supported as of July 2024.
- As of 24.1 our standard support life cycle will be 3 calendar years from the month of release.
See the below table for more details:
| Version | Release Date | End of Support |
|---|---|---|
10.7 |
November, 2020 |
February, 2024 |
21.1 |
May, 2021 |
July, 2024 |
21.2 |
November, 2021 |
February, 2025 |
22.1 |
June, 2022 |
July, 2025 |
22.2 |
November, 2022 |
February, 2026 |
23.1 |
March, 2023 |
April, 2026 |
23.2 |
May, 2023 |
July, 2026 |
23.3 |
August, 2023 |
October, 2026 |
23.4 |
November, 2023 |
February, 2027 |
24.1 |
February, 2024 |
February, 2027 |
For more information on any of the above updates, please contact your Customer Success Manager, Account Executive, or Longview Support.