What's New in 21R2.3

The CRM 21R2.3 minor release includes several new features as well as User Visible and Behavior Changes.

Our release notes offer brief, high-level descriptions of enhancements and new features. Configuration is available by selecting the feature name. You can also find a quick overview of 21R2.3 Feature Enablement and Availability information in this release note.

New Fields and New Objects are also included.

Announcements

Updating Engage Meeting License Management

We are updating the Engage license management process to help streamline assigning users to Engage Groups. This change will occur with the 21R3.3 release in March 2022 and will enable user assignments to be controlled via data-loading to improve user management.

See Engage License Management for more information.

Features

Engage Meeting

Gallery View on the Web Client

Engage attendees using the Web Client can view all of the meeting’s attendees at once using Gallery View. This enables greater engagement in meetings with larger numbers of attendees.

HCP Signature Page Display Name for Remote Sampling with EWS Links

Online users are now able to view HCP Signature Page Display Names when they capture an HCP signature remotely. When users accept a signature, the value in the Signature_Page_Display_Name_vod field is stamped on the call record, sample order transaction record, and sample order transaction audit record.

Call Reporting

Restricting Call Channels

To ensure users are only presented with compliant call channel options, admins can choose to disable the Email, Chat or Text, and/or Other call channels so they are not available for selection on the call report.

CLM

Launching PowerPoint Presentations from CRM Desktop (Available November 4, 2021)

CLM presentations containing PowerPoint content launch in PowerPoint outside the CLM media player, while still using the media library. This allows users to maintain the animations and transitions of their PowerPoint presentations, while still ensuring the latest approved version of the presentation is available.

Improving Search Results for CLM on CRM Desktop (Available November 4, 2021)

CLM users can easily locate a presentation by searching in their media library. Search results display sorted by relevance based on the search terms.

MyInsights Studio

Managing Platform Visibility for MyInsights Pages (Available November 4, 2021)

When deploying a MyInsights page, users can select the platforms (Lightning, Large Mobile Devices, Phones) for the page before deploying to Veeva CRM, allowing them to quickly and easily manage the visibility of MyInsights content by platform. Content deployed for Lightning is automatically published in Veeva CRM. Users must have FLS Edit permission to the Platform_vod field on the HTML_Report_vod object.

New Videos

The following videos were added as part of this release:

User Visible and Behavior Changes

Most new functionality requires some configuration, however users are able to use the following functionality immediately. Select the thumbnail to view a larger image.

Approved Email

Platform

Description

Before

After

Browser (Classic)

For security reasons, any Unsubscribe links generated before August 2018 no longer load when selected by recipients.

n/a

n/a

Engage Meeting

Platform

Description

Before

After

Windows (HCP App),

Windows (Speaker App)

Due to changes in the Zoom SDK used in the Windows HCP and Speaker apps, additional language support provided by Veeva is not available.

These apps support the following languages provided by the Zoom SDK:

  • English
  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • Chinese (Traditional)
  • Japanese
  • Spanish
  • German
  • French
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Korean
  • Vietnamese
  • Italian

n/a

n/a

Medical Inquiry

Platform

Description

Before

After

Online The Lightning highlight panel now displays the compact layout for Medical Inquiries. A maximum of seven fields can be displayed.

21R2.3 Feature Enablement and Availability

New functionality introduced in the Veeva CRM 21R2.3 release is available on the following platforms:

CRM

Feature Configuration Required

CRM Desktop

iPad iPhone Online (Classic) Online (Lightning) Windows
Gallery View on the Web Client

No

HCP Signature Page Display Name for Remote Sampling with EWS Links

Yes

Restricting Call Channels Yes

Launching PowerPoint Presentations from CRM Desktop

No

Improving Search Results for CLM on CRM Desktop No

 

MyInsights Studio

Feature Configuration Required
Managing Platform Visibility for MyInsights Pages

Yes

New Objects

No objects were added in Veeva CRM 21R2.3.

New Fields

The list below contains all fields added in Veeva CRM 21R2.3. The fields are organized by object. Visibility to all fields is disabled by default to all users except administrators. See the Veeva Data Model information for a full listing of Veeva fields.

Object

Field Name

Field Label

Description 

Type

Clm_Presentation_vod

Total_slides_vod

Total Slides

Counts the number of slides in a CLM Presentation

Roll-Up Summary

Key_Message_vod

Keywords_vod

Keywords

Comma separated keywords of the Key Message

Text

Veeva_Settings_vod

RESTRICTED_CALL_CHANNELS_vod

Restricted Call Channels

A double semicolon delimited list of restricted Channels_vod picklist values. Values listed in this setting are not available for users to select in the Call Channel picklist.

Text

WeChat_Settings_vod

REMOTE_DETAILING_CALL_TYPE_vod

Remote Detailing Call Type

The default Call record type that will be used for Remote Detailing call report.

Text