Addovation Change
Last Updated: 2025-03-12
Service Description
Introducing Change - the Cloud Service for managing your Business Data. Extract the specific data you need, visualize it to make fact based decisions and update IFS with the changes. Change allows you to easily update or import large volumes of data to IFS while working from Excel (web and desktop).
Features
 IFS Cloud Data in Excel |
 Customizable |
 Central deployment |
|---|---|---|
| Present, maintain and manipulate IFS Cloud data directly in Excel independent of platform. It’s powerful, flexible, and above all user-friendly. | Configurable logic using standard or custom APIs makes Change exceptionally flexible and robust. | Easy administration by centralized deployment using Microsoft 365. Get running in no time. |
 IFS Cloud enabled |
 Security |
 Pre-built templates |
|---|---|---|
| Change is truly Cloud enabled using the latest web app technology to connect to IFS Cloud. Platform independent. | Change uses IFS Cloud IDP. Together with Microsoft Azure you always get latest security protection. We take your security seriously. | In Change you can design your own templates or use pre-built templates made by Addovation. Get started in no time. |
Standard Templates
The standard templates are a great starting point for tailoring to your specific business needs. Whether it comes to production planning, budgeting or keeping your master data up to date.
| Use Case | Template | Projections |
|---|---|---|
| Plan your work activities from Excel | Work order Planning | Standard |
| Import or update a selection of Customers | Customer Migration | Deployment package |
| Import or update a selection of Suppliers | Release 2024 | n/a |
| Do budgeting with full flexibility in Excel | Release 2024 | n/a |
| Keep your price lists up to date | Release 2024 | n/a |
Service Requirements
Customer Obligations
The customer need to be able to publish the add-in manifest for selected users in the organization. Access to Customer IFS Cloud Buildplace is required to deploy custom projections. The service need to have access to IFS Cloud.
Third party products
IFS Cloud
Applicable versions /dependencies to versions
IFS Cloud 23R1 and later. Support for IFS Cloud major release updates will be added within reasonable time.
Delivery pre reqs
User Access and Monitoring
User access is tied to the permissions in IFS Cloud to secure that the user can't access more data from Change than she has the right to. Monitoring is handled through Application Insights in Microsoft Azure.
Required Access
To deliver Change you need have access to deploy Office365 web add-ins using manifests.
Required Competencies
To build templates you need to know:
- Microsoft Excel (datatypes, formatting, data validation, lists etc.).
- How to navigate IFS Cloud API Explorer to select the right API
Recommended Competencies
Depending on the complexity of the templates you build you may need to know:
- IFS Cloud functional flows (for objects being created) including basic data etc. if you are building a template that creates or updates records.
- Projections for IFS Cloud if custom functionality is needed.
- Knowledge of IFS Lifecycle management (Build Place)
Documents
- Release notes
- Setup guide (customer)
- User Guide
- User guide (advanced) - OData Filtering Explained
- White Paper
Release Notes
| Release | Version | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 2025.07.16 | preview 3.1.3 | Detailed error message in console log, preserve column width on data fetch, improved performance for workbooks with pivot tables, editable entity set column names. LOV search: prevent dubplicate LOVs on same cell or column, handle numeric QR input types, limit the number of search result table columns. Bugfixes: formulas disappearing, first option not selectable in long dropdown list, "No table" message appear when it should not. |
| 2025.06.27 | 3.1.0A | Fixed an issue where Quick Reports with spaces in their names failed to load properly in Excel, resulting in missing column headers and no table connection in the add-in. |
| 2025.06.16 | preview 3.1.2 | Customized input parameter labels for LOVs and return values to named cells. Disabling filter on table no longer disables get and clear. Refresh of pivot tables is now consistent. Formulas work properly above a Change managed table |
| 2025.05.21 | preview 3.1.1 | Hide API URL. Handle when QRs metadata updated. Dont show Deletion confirm if delete is not enabled. List of values search with multiple return values. |
| 2025.04.03 | 3.1.0 | Cell input and output for actions and functions. Validation block for add/update operations on entity set |
| 2025.03.06 | 3.0.2 | Name changed from Powertools to Change, auto update of pivot tables, table filtering preserved after populate, quick reports support of removed table header and named cell inputs |
| 2025.02.08 | 3.0.1 | User-friendly table naming, Total row support, confirm deletion. Bug fixes: sheets with white space causing formula issues, green banner hiding buttons |
| 2024.07.04 | 2.0 | Major UI Improvements |
| 2024.01.15 | 1.2 | Support for Quick Reports |
| 2023.04.15 | 1.1 | Maintenance release |
| 2023.02.22 | 1.0 | First release to market |