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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Envizi - ESG Suite
Categories Base Platform
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 15, 2023

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'Monthly Data Summary Report' - restricting 'Actual Days' to maximum days in a month

We noticed that sometimes the number of 'Actual days' in the 'Monthly Data Summary Report' is duplicated as a result of multiple records entered manually or via connector for the same period of time. Additional records for the same period of time are usually adjustments of usage or cost of the previously reported numbers and they are not duplicates of the invoices. The 'Actual days' in the 'Monthly Data Summary Report' is pulled from Envizi for external calculations, and incorrectly capturing the actual days is causing errors in the calculations. 
 

Is it possible to restrict the 'Actual Days' in the 'Monthly Data Summary Report' to the maximum days in a month? For example, if there are 2 invoices for the period between January,1 through January,31, the number of 'Actual days' in the 'Monthly Data Summary Report' will be 31 instead of 62.

Thank you!

Idea priority Medium
Needed By Quarter
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  • Admin
    Michael Dunbar
    Reply
    |     Mar 11, 2024

    Leaving open until client facing documentation is added describing record type functionality.

  • Admin
    Michael Dunbar
    Reply
    |     Jan 22, 2024

    The count of days in the MDS is intentional and is done to highlight duplicate records. If the data that is resulting in doubling of the number days comes from invoices that are adjustments, then those invoices should be marked as such.

    Envizi supports a record type flag that can be enabled per account style and per organization. This flag has 3 options which result in different treatment of the days associated with that invoice: standard (the days are counted normally), adjustment (the days are counted as zero), reversal (the days are counted as negative).

    These flags can be set in connectors (if the setting can be determined from the the data in the file) or can be set manually when capturing/editing a record.

    We will look to add a client facing page describing the behaviour of this flag to the wiki.

    If necessary please reach out via email or raise a jira ticket and I can provide guidance for any specific client situations.

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