Release 24.12 December

Due to the busy December period, we have decided to reduce the scope of this release to keep the impact on our customers as low as possible. We have focused on the most essential updates and improvements to ensure that we maintain the quality of service despite the busy period.

Rounding method on time entries

At this moment, Legalsense always rounds time entries up to the rounding unit that has been configured, e.g. when having a default rounding unit of 6 minutes (0.1 hour), writing 10 minutes will saved as 12 minutes (0.2 hours). In this release, we introduce a new setting called 'Rounding method' in 'Settings' - 'General' - 'System' - 'Timesheet'. This setting allows you to choose 'Round up' or 'Round up or down'. When you select 'Round up', which is the default setting, all time entries will be rounded up against the set rounding time unit. When you select 'Round up or down', all time entries will be rounded to the nearest option. For example, with a rounding time unit of 6 minutes, a time entry of 8 minutes will be rounded to 6 minutes, while a time entry of 10 minutes will be rounded to 12 minutes. A time entry of less than 6 minutes will always be rounded up to 6 minutes (we do not round down to 0 (zero)). 

Invoices

• If your firm uses the billing workflow, your environment has the menu tab 'Task overview' under 'Invoices'. This overview shows all open tasks of all draft invoices. The option to bulk edit these draft invoices instead of one-by-one has been added to this overview. The bulk options are the same as those available in the invoice list. 
• If your firm uses the billing workflow, you can add a comment to a task. Previously, only the last given comment was shown on the invoice when you opened your task. From now on, all comments will be shown on the invoice when opening your task. To prevent having a page full of comments, this view is limited to 100 characters per comment. If a comment has more characters, it will be cut off after 100 characters, and a 'comment' icon will appear. Hovering over this icon will show you the complete comment. 
• The 'buyer reference' field is added to the XML invoice format. This field can be set on the debtor on the matter detail page. 

Users

When exporting the targets to Excel, the amount values always used a period as a decimal separator. When applicable to your Excel regional settings this is changed to a comma as a decimal separator. 

Settings

The notification email 'Performance overview email of previous week'  is focused on the previous seven days and therefore renamed 'Performance overview email of previous 7 days'. Another notification, 'Performance overview email of previous ISO standard week', has been added to offer a notification email based on the previous ISO standard week. The ISO standard week starts on Monday and ends on Sunday. 

APIv3

• In the Contact endpoint, a filter option by phone number has been added. 
• The Matter number has been added to the extra fields of the Matter endpoint list view. 
• Two fields: 'modified_date' and 'created_date' have been added to the Matterdebtors, Mattercontacts, and Contactcontacts endpoints.