Upgrading to Billing Central Winter 2023

This page describes the changes to make when upgrading to Winter 2023.

See the Upgrade Steps section under each feature for details of any action required. If you don't want to use or upgrade an optional feature, you can skip the upgrade steps for that feature. To perform upgrade steps in your org, you must be assigned administrator permissions.

See the Included in This Feature section under each feature for details of items such as objects, fields, or buttons that have been added in this release.

Note:

Where new objects, fields, or buttons have been added for a feature, we recommend that you add them to any relevant page layouts, profiles, and permission sets. For information on how to do this, see the Salesforce Help.

For information on new features and changes to existing features in Winter 2023, see New Features and Enhancements in Billing Central Winter 2023.

Easily Amend Prices on Active Contracts

Upgrade Steps

To start using this feature, take the following action:

Upgrade Steps for Winter 2023

Action

Further Information

If you are using a custom Lightning record page for billing contracts, ensure it includes the BC Contract Line Items Lightning component to display related contract line items otherwise the Amend Prices button will not be available at line level. This component is included in the default Contract Lightning Page. Lightning Component Related Lists
Ensure that users needing to amend prices have the Billing Central - Contract - Create Change Request permission set. Permission Sets

[Optional] Edit the Help Text and Description for the Align for Billing field on the Billing Contract Line Item object because it is no longer a requirement that the controlling lineClosed A contract line item that other line items on the same contract are aligned to for billing purposes. is billed. We recommend you change both the Help Text and Description to say:

The existing contract line item to which this contract line item is aligned for billing.

For information on editing an object's fields, see the Salesforce Help.

Included in this Feature

This section details the items that have been added in this release.

New Field

The following field is for internal use only.

Field Added in Winter 2023

Field

Object

Further Information

Controlling Line for Billing Alignment Billing Contract Line Item Billing Contract Fields

New Field Set

Field Set Added in Winter 2023

Field

Object

Further Information

Cloned Line Excluded Fields Billing Contract Line Item Billing Contract Fields

Lightning Action

Lightning Action Added in Winter 2023

Lightning Action

Page

Further Information

Amend Prices Contract Lightning Page Amending Prices on Active Contracts

Change to Lightning Web Component

Change to Lightning Web Component in Winter 2023

Component

What Has Changed

Further Information

BC Contract Line Items Lightning component An Amend Prices button has been added to this component. Amending Prices on Active Contracts

Dynamic Updates on The Edit Selected Products Page

Upgrade Steps

No upgrade steps are required to start using this enhancement.

Create Change Requests in Bulk via The ContractsService API

Upgrade Steps

No upgrade steps are required to start using this feature in Winter 2023 but you must develop your own code to call the ContractsService API.

Check the Active Contract Line Locked Fields Field Set for Required Fields

Upgrade Steps

To ensure billing data integrity, all upgrading customers must take the following action:

Upgrade Steps for Winter 2023

Action

Further Information

Check that the Active Contract Line Locked Fields field set used by the Billing Contract Line Item object includes all the required fields. Protecting Contract Line Fields from Edits When a Contract Is Active

FinancialForce Help

Upgrade Steps

The FinancialForce Help is available via the default utility bar associated with FinancialForce apps. If you use the default utility bar, no upgrade steps are required and the FinancialForce Help will be available from the utility bar automatically.

If you use a custom utility bar, see Setting up the FinancialForce Help.

Introducing FinancialForce Trailhead: Release Highlights

If you want to learn more about the new features in this release, see the ERP Cloud - Winter 2023 Release Highlights Trailhead module. This module will guide you through the new features in our ERP Cloud products.

Upgrade Steps

No upgrade steps are required to upgrade this feature to Winter 2023.