What’s New – Commercial Valuation® R1.17.1
Introduction
The latest release of Commercial Valuation® (CV) includes new functionality along with updates to current functionality. This document serves as a high-level guide to the changes that have been made as part of this Commercial Valuation release.
New Functionality
Business Firmographics
Cotality has replaced our single-source business firmographic solution with a multi-sourced solution. The impact of this change for our clients is more businesses are now available when the Search Business button is used on the Create Valuation page.
New web methods have been created to allow clients to utilize this new data in a more efficient manner. The new methods are BusinessSearchV2, and GetBusinessProfileV2. These two new methods replace BusinessSearch and GetBusinessProfile, which have been deprecated. If you are using the old methods, then you must switch to the new methods. The request payload is the same, the responses are different. This only has impact on those clients that are using BusinessSearch or GetBusinessProfile.
Building Prefill Availability when Selecting a CLIP
Cotality has added a column to the CLIP Selection popup in the User Interface to let the user know if each CLIP shown has building prefill available.
Added Columns to the Building Grid
Cotality has added three (3) columns to the Building Grid that is displayed on the Location Summary Page. These columns are Occupancy Code & Description, RCV and ACV for each building. The impact of this change is to allow the user to see at a glance more information about the buildings assigned to the location they are editing.
Added Functionality to Manage My Account
The Manage My Account page has been updated to allow a user to set dashboard search behavior for Expired Estimates and Deleted Policies. Currently, the system defaults the dashboard search to not include Expired Estimates or Deleted Policies. The user must click into Advanced Search to change these settings. This change to the Manage My Account page allows a user to set the Expired Estimates and Deleted Policies defaults and save it as part of their user account. Once saved, the settings in the user account override the site default.
Updates to Existing Functionality
Several updates to existing Commercial Valuation functionality have been addressed in this release.
View Only User Role Required Edit Rights
When a new role was created for the purpose of making a “Read Only” type role, the system had required the role to also include Valuation Edit.
French Canadian Translation for Comparison Report
The Valuation Comparison report, accessed from the Dashboard, had not been translated into the French-Canadian language.
French Canadian Translation for Dashboard Valuation Preview
The format of the valuation amounts was not correctly showing the proper format for the dollars for the French-Canadian language setting.
French Canadian Translation for Materials in the Help System
Several of the help items for the Materials were not translated into the French-Canadian language.
Dashboard Sorting from the Assigned To Group Column
The dashboard column “Assigned To Group” sort option was not functional.
Report Formatting Issues
Several report formatting issues have been corrected. Occasionally a blank page would be included in the report. Also, in the Summary Report if there were many sections and the section names were long, the text would overlap rather than be spaced correctly.
Truncate Values to 4 Digits after the Decimal
ExpressLync API Only. The value fields in the totals object of the valuation response have been inconsistent with the number of digits to the right of the decimal point. Cotality has introduced a change to the value fields so that they are all consistent at four (4) digits after the decimal point.
If there is a specific reported defect or issue that you wish to understand or need more information, please contact your client services representative.
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