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

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

Release date Version Comment
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 change 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