Important highlights from this release
- Configure and automate contract notifications when a contract is signed through DocuSignConnect your email to easily send, receive and track emails to and from clients, directly from your invoice, for a better collection process.
- Admins can now lock time entries made before a specific date – blocking the user’s ability to edit time logs.
- Contra users are now able to manage their contract milestones, giving users better control over contract lifecycle and execution.
- Users are now able to add checklists on specific tasks, adding unlimited items to the checklist, and viewing percentage of completion.
- Configure and automate contract notifications when a contract is signed through DocuSign.
- In the settings, under practice area, users are now able to select multiple clients when setting due dates for any types of matters.
- Ability to preview related documents when working on a contract.
- Optimized UI/UX for Tasks & Triggers Automation to facilitate and streamline the automation of tasks in bulk.
- Configure Settings in multiple languages, with the ability to set your default languages and customize fields as default in a specific language.Schedule payment milestones when editing contract details
- Automated Notifications have been added whenever specific actions are taken by a user in the Client Portal.
- When adding or editing an SLA, users are able to can select multiple practice areas per SLA.
- Configure an SLA to be applied to multiple clients – that way the SLA is activated and matched to any matter related to the selected clients.
- In the settings, under practice area, users are now able to select multiple clients for a custom due date.
- Users are now able to add checklists on specific tasks, add unlimited items to the checklist, and view the percentage of completion.
- Connect your email, and enjoy the ability to log, send and receive emails directly from within the App4Legal Core system.
- Minor Look & Feel Improvements
- Minor Bugs Fixes & other Minor Bugs & Minor Improvements
| Issue Type | Issue Key | Summary | Description | |
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| New Feature | A4L-6827 | Tasks - Add a checklist of tasks | Tasks in App4Legal can include checklists:
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| New Feature | A4L-6514 | Email Account Integration | App4Legal users will have the ability to connect their personal email accounts to log, send, and receive emails within the system.
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| Improvement | A4L-7962 | Improve Trigger Form | Improve the trigger creation form. | |
| Improvement | A4L-7181 | SLA - Multiselect on Clients | Enable SLA configuration to allow multi-select on Clients The user will have the ability to add multiple companies, groups and personal clients, or choose all clients per SLA. Previously, users were only able to choose 1 client per SLA. Once the SLA is activated, it is matched to any matter related to any of the selected clients. | |
| Improvement | A4L-8001 | Multi Select options in Report Builder Advanced Search | When using the advanced search in the report builder module, a user can multi-select search criteria (Example: Practice Area, Assigned Team, Workflow Status) | |
| Improvement | A4L-8069 | contract dropdowns are now sorted by alphabetical order. | All dropdown lists added to the system are now sorted by alphabetical order. | |
| Improvement | A4L-7180 | SLA - Multiselect practice areas | Enable an SLA configuration to have multiple practice areas selected | |
| Improvement | A4L-7182 | Practice Area - Due date - Client multi-select | A user will have the ability to add multiple companies/groups and clients or choose all clients per practice area under each condition for the specified type (company/group or person). | |
| Improvement | A4L-7765 | User to be notified when an action happens from CP | An App4Legal user will be notified when a client from the CP performs these actions:
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| Improvement | A4L-7956 | New Design for Pages in Settings | ||
| Improvement | A4L-7999 | Updated hearings grid | A column for "Postponed hearing date" was added to the hearings grid. | |
| Improvement | A4L-7927 | Accounts receivable aging summary to appear in the billing currency. | ||
| Improvement | A4L-8022 | Ability to change the title of the receipt payment. | ||
| Improvement | A4L-8052 | Reminders type to be "Others" for contra | The default type of contra reminders is now under the category "Others". | |
| Improvement | A4L-7967 | E-Invoicing Activation behavior | The E-invoice activation option will be applied when the entity currency is SAR. | |
| Improvement | A4L-7985 | Add preview option to related docs in contracts | ||
| Improvement | A4L-8011 | Add SLA contract types to the default workflow | Add the option for the user to choose a contract type when default workflow is chosen. | |
| Improvement | A4L-7902 | IP Registration number | The IP registration number will be fetched from the general info page | |
| Improvement | A4L-6990 | Contract Templates | Improvements and enhancements on the contract template creation. | |
| Improvement | A4L-7881 | Milestone payment schedule | Payment milestones are now enabled in contracts. | |
| Improvement | A4L-8050 | Invoice Grid - Entity Currency Totals | When having an invoice with a different currency than the entity, the totals in the entity currency is calculated based on the exchange rate at the time the invoice was created and not based on the current exchange rate. | |
| Improvement | A4L-8033 | Time logs - Lock Editing Time Log | Administrators can lock users' ability to edit time logs before a specified date. | |
| Improvement | A4L-8076 | Client Portal - Export list of contract requests | ||
| Bug | A4L-8018 | Invoice an archived matter | Archived matters/Litigation cases will not be linked to invoices anymore. | |
| Bug | A4L-7296 | When adding a note from the Advisor Portal, the user name is not showing. | When adding a note from the advisor portal, the name of the user will appear in the notes under the matter. |
