19th. September 2001
By popular request the following has been changed, and other things that i can't
remember.
1. Added extra lines onto the invoice print out for long titles. (thanks to
Peter at Pacific Book House)
2. Added the search facility onto the order entry page where you can specify
different fields to search
3. Added onto the invoice page the facility to sort by author title or cat/id
number(Thanks to Susan Tompkins).
4. Added a new facility similar to a smart key, where the shift F1-F12 and the
control F1-F12 keys can be programmed to store any commonly used sentences for
quick inclusion when entering new data. See the edit menu item.
5. Fixed up a bug in the ascii export facility, that was not allowing any other
than all fields to be selected.
6. Fixed up a bug in the print out of some of the reports that was not formatting
correctly. 7. Added the facility to change the font of the display and also
the background colour for all those people who have trouble seeing the records
on the screen.
8. Changed the way the scrolling of the edit window works and now you don't
have to use the side bar to move down the record.
9. Does anyone want to print credit notes???
10. I am currently working on the facility to bulk email from your customer
list, so what you should be doing is reserving one field exclusively for the
email address in the customer database if you aren't doing this already.
15-3-2001
For this upgrade i have changed the following due to popular demand:
1. Stopped the automatic scrolling of the editor.
2. Added the spell checker - sorry but i only have an american dictionary and
at a cost of about $500 for the other dictionarys and the ability to add custom
dictionarys i have held this over for the next upgrade and i've taken up a collection.
3. Added a batch facility to transfer data from one field to another.
4. Fixed up a bug in the price calculations that was leaving out the last one
or two records from the calculation.
5. Several changes to the output of the turnover and like functions adding more
information
6. Added statements - here you have to select the customers that you are doing
statements for, and if you want to add a message then you should print statements
customer by customer, otherwise they will all get the same message.
7. Added a debtors report.
8. Added the ability to have a field automatically go to all caps - irrespective
of the state of the caps button. If caps is required make all caps = TRUE in
the corresponding field in the corresponding .scr file.
9. Added the ability to add the date to one specified field. Again set the auto
date=true in the corresponding field in the .scr file.
10. I can't think of number 10.
20-1-2001
Lots done for this major upgrade:
1. Modified the way the search ended - you now have to cancel.
2. Upgraded the internet stuff to make it faster. Also please note that the
abe files for adds and deletes are now abeadd.txt and deletes.txt in line with
wot they can cope with.
3. Changed the way the cash reports worked - now you have to search for the
records you want included, as it wont exclude anything - so make sure you only
include completed invoices and credit notes. Also made the sort selectable.
4. Changed the way the invoice summary works - again you have to search for
the records to include, as nothing will be excluded. Also made the sort selectable.
5. Fixed a bug in the price sum function - it was leaving off the last few records.
6. Changed the invoice so that the items are sorted by author.
7. Fixed up a bug in the account invoice function.
8. Added a new batch facility so that you can copy the contentes of one field
into another location or field.
9. There is no 9.
24-10-2000
Added enhancements to GSt reports
14-10-2000
Fixed some problems with the gst reporting - thanks to Cathy Hughes and Maureen Fraher
10-10-2000
Problem with the Cash reporting - thanks to Lorraine Reed and Cathy Hughes.
Fixed the problem of only working sometimes. And now you can cash report on
a particular level.
13-9-2000
Problem: thanks to Mick Treloar - not seeing the fd.sys file in the
local directory.
Solution: Changed the way that the files are initially looked for.
Fixed up some odd problems with the invoice summary report - such as
no orders but the invoice exists.
6-9-2000
Added a few more modules to help out with the gst:
Invoice summary report - useful if you have stock from various suppliers
or partners as it will show the sales and gst for each supplier.
Paid invoices report. - useful if you use the cash method of accounting
- calculates the gst liability only on payments received, and also calculates
the local and overseas invoice totals.
Monthly Turnover report - useful if you use the accural(??) method
of accounting as it gives the sales and gst for any given month irrespective
of what has been paid.
All the above will produce text files that can be imported into a spreadsheet
for further manipulation.
4-9-2000
Problem: Courtesy of Paul Feain - crashing after a rebuild of a database
when trying to open it.
Solution: the rebuild program was the problem as it was not deleting
the .HOL file. Fixed up the rebuild program and it is now ready to download
from the home page.
Problem: Courtesy of Janet Boglio - could not edit a record across the
network.
Solution: the changes I previously made to fix another problem - caused
this problem.
Problem: Again from Paul Feain - would not sum prices.
Another problem caused by fixing another problem. Thanks Paul.
2-9-2000
Problem: Courtesy of Ross Burnett - crashing when trying to do a total
upload.
Solution: fixed the bug in the total uploads, this was a result of
some of the previous changes.
1-9-2000
Problem: Courtesy of David McGill in Perth - crashing when after exporting
you tried to go to the customer database.
Found that the environment variable was not constant, and it was going
to other directories which did not hold the system info. So stored this
information differently.
31-8-2000
Problem: Sequential searches - Thanks to Paul Feain for the comments.
Solution: the ability to have case sensitive and case insensitive searches
is working and the ability to search whole words only is also working.
Problem: Multiple quantity of items ordered gave incorrect results on
the invoice. - Thanks to Peter at Pacific Book House.
Solution - major rewrite of the order entry program including the problem
reported by Michael Treloar - where the invoice number was ticking over
even when the invoice was cancelled.
Problem: Cathy Hughes can't wait to pay her gst and so I have finished the turnover reports which includes the gst details. This will require everyone to copy a file into the forms directory, this file will be sent with the emails.
Problem: Thanks again to Michael Treloar - reprinting of an invoice
required the re-setting of some of the payment buttons etc.
Solution: this for the most part is not necessary now - except that
as details of whether a tax invoice was printed or not is not saved anywhere,
this is the only button that will have to be reset.
10-8-2000
Problem: Many thanks to Cathy Hughes - Antiquariat for her help with
testing for this problem
Adds and Deletes were not finding the correct number of records to
upload:
Solution: Modified the software get the correct number found.
Problem: Courtesy of Peter at Pacific Book House
Hypenated indexed words could not be found with the fast search:
Solution: Modified the software to remove the odd characters from the
search keys, as the odd characters are removed when the key is saved in
the binary tree.
Problem: Courtesy of Cathy Hughes and Janet Boglio
Invoicing was causing a fatal error when searching for a book id:
Solution: This was the result of some databases not having a supplier
field and also different fields than others, so it was not evident with
all customers, testing for a defined field fixed this problem.
8-8-2000
Problem: Courtesy of Mick Stone
Deleting a level causing the program to crash and necessitating a rebuild.
Solution: Fixed a bug in the delete level routine.
22-7-2000
Problem: Courtesy of Kathy Hughes
Fixed up another bug in the adds and deletes routines which was allowing
the first selected upload files to be correct but if more than one was
selected then the subsequent files were not correct.
Solution: Made sure that the original selection of records were used
in subsequently selected adds and deletes.
Request from Ross Burnet
- Added buttons for quick access to customer database and stock database.
18-7-2000
Added the facility to print an invoice over several pages, complete
with changed headers and footers for the first page to be printed with
letterhead and subsequent pages to be on plain paper. This will require
some changes to system files and i will do them individually and email
them in the near future, so that this can be incorporated.
Note: You have to add the lines:
INVOICE ITEMS PAGE 1=8
INVOICE ITEMS PAGE 2=10
into the NUMBER.SYS file in the flexidex\system directory using notepad
or similar text editing program.
These two numbers can be changed to reflect the number of items on
a page for your particular system.
17/7/00
Added: the reprint of invoice function
17-7-2000
Problem: not uploading the deletes (as the file is empty) to the internet
bookshops.
Solution: fixed the bug that was not finding any of the quantity zero
records.
(Note that the abe adds and deletes files are now abe.add and abe.del
in line with the other internet bookshops - please send an email to abe
to let them know when you do your next adds and deletes to them.
14-7-2000
Problem: not searching on wildcards
Solution: Fixed bug in indexed search routines
13-7-2000
Problem: single character in field not being indexed in auto index
field, typically quantity 1
Solution: Rewrote editor to character type rather than WString type
rewrote record display to char type also - allowed display of { and
\ and other characters such as ' and "
Problem: display of replace a field faulty
Solution: fixed up display form
Problem: batch replace was crashing at finish
Solution: fixed problem with deallocation of memory