What’s New in SAS Financial Management 5.6

SAS Financial Management reports can be viewed and run only through the SAS Stored Process web application. The ETL Job Status report has been removed. The reference to the report in SAS Stored Process web application will be removed in future release.

Beginning with SAS Financial Management 5.62, the Task pane has been removed.

Beginning with SAS Financial Management 5.62, a few options are not visible on the toolbar. To view all the available options, navigate to the workspace that you want and click the view menu icon on the top right.

Beginning with SAS Financial Management 5.62, SAS administrators must perform a few steps after the deployment of the solution is complete on the machine. For more information, see Post-deployment Tasks in SAS Financial Management: Installation and Configuration Guide.

Beginning with SAS Financial Management 5.62, SAS administrators must perform a few steps to enable the single sign-on authentication. For more information, see Post-installation: Enable Single Sign-On in SAS Financial Management: Installation and Configuration Guide.

Beginning with SAS Financial Management 5.62, users will not see any notifications. Users can receive e-mails. For more information, see Receiving an Alert Notification.

Beginning with SAS Financial Management 5.62, SAS administrators should perform certain steps to publish the form sets without an exception. For more information Publish in SAS Financial Management: Process Administrator’s Guide.

SAS Financial Management 5.61 now supports Microsoft Office 2019. You can use Microsoft Excel 2019 for SAS Financial Management Add-In.

The Planning Data Entry User, Report Consumer, and Report Provider roles are no longer available in SAS Financial Management 5.5 or later.

Previously, many SAS applications and SAS solutions used the Adobe Flash Player to provide interactive user interfaces. Adobe announced that it intends to end support for Flash technology and will cease to update and distribute the Flash Player at the end of 2020. Browser vendors will disable Flash by default in 2019. For more information about Adobe Flash end-of-life, see SAS Software and Its Use of the Adobe Flash Player.

The SAS Financial Management 5.6 web application has been rewritten in HTML5.

You can now edit the form data only through SAS Financial Management Add-In for Microsoft Excel. You cannot edit the forms in the Forms workspace. For more information about the Excel Add-In, see the online Help.

In the HTML5 user interface, the Administration and Processes workspaces are not provided. You can complete the tasks related to administration and business processes through SAS Financial Management Studio.

All the help documentation for SAS Financial Management is available through the Forms Management Web interface. Click the User name in the banner of the application, and select Help Center.