Survey Administer Version 1109 Released
Survey Administer version 0.0.0.1109 is officially released today.
History of Changes (1095 to 1109)
ADDITION: New key to Inventory table (Inventory table changed)
FIX: New key on inventory table eliminates a problem of a customer having more than one appointment, and therefore each appointment bringing up the first and only inventory created for that customer, where as each appointment should allow it’s own inventory to be created
FIX: Addresses imported from Move Administer where street contained multiple lines formatted the address incorrectly and consequently sent the incorrectly formatted address back to Move Administer
Move Administer Version 933 Released
Move Administer version 0.0.0.933 is officially released today.
History of Changes (927 to 933)
CHANGE: Storage access charge has been increased to £9,999.99
FIX: You can now open a Storage Quotation from Query Quotations
ADDITION: New key to Inventory table (Inventory table changed)
ADDITION: New fields have been added to the Event browse on the Event Diary, consisting of Street, Town, County, Postal Code and Country of Origin and Street, Town, County, Postal Code and Country of Destination. These fields are set to the addresses stored on the Quotation, unless the Event has an overriding address, in which the address in the event takes preference
ADDITION: New table iCalendar to allow exporting of Appointments and Events to iCalendar compatible software, such as Google Calendar, providing an ideal way to share calendars amongst branches, as well as being able to see calendars by day, week or month (see our Development Blog for more information)
ADDITION: New fields to SystemDefaults table (SystemDefaults table changed)
ADDITION: New fields have been added to the Appointment Diary tab of the System Defaults Wizard (Tools -> Options -> Defaults -> System) to assist with the creation of iCalendar compatible appointments
ADDITION: New fields have been added to the Event Diary tab of the System Defaults Wizard (Tools -> Options -> Defaults -> System) to assist with the creation of iCalendar compatible events
ADDITION: New Actions menu item ‘Export Appointments to iCalendar’ to the Appointment Diary
ADDITION: New Actions menu item ‘Export Events to iCalendar’ to the Events Browse of the Event Diary
FIX: If the total of a removal invoice (including additional services) is zero then the invoice is no longer produced
ADDITION: ‘Accepted quotations upon open’ checkbox added to the Event Diary tab of the System Defaults Wizard (Tools -> Options -> Defaults -> System) which states whether the Event Diary should only show accepted quotations upon opening
CHANGE: The Event Diary now shows all or only accepted quotations based on the setting in the System Defaults (see above)
ADDITION: New fields added to AccountingDefaults table (AccountingDefaults table changed)
ADDITION: New field added to Payment table (Payment table changed)
ADDITION: New field added to Goods table (Goods table changed)
ADDITION: New fields added to Storage table (Storage table changed)
ADDITION: New field added to Consignment table (Consignment table changed)
ADDITION: New Goods menu item added to Tools -> Options -> Storage menu
ADDITION: ‘Storage period’ has been added to the General tab of the Storage Wizard
ADDITION: ‘Type of goods’ has been added to the Conventional tab of the Storage Wizard
ADDITION: ‘Free text entry of type of goods’ checkbox has been added to the Consignment tab of the European Consignment Wizard, which when checked allows the free text entry of type of goods rather than having to select the type of goods from the list available
ADDITION: ‘Free text entry of type of goods’ checkbox has been added to the Consignment tab of the International Consignment Wizard, which when checked allows the free text entry of type of goods rather than having to select the type of goods from the list available
FIX: You can no longer copy consignments from rejected European or International quotations
ADDITION: ‘Print payment method’ and ‘Print payment description’ checkboxes have been added to the Statement tab of the Accounting Defaults Wizard (Tools -> Options -> Defaults -> Accounting)
ADDITION: A Quotation tab has been added to the Accounting Defaults Wizard and contains sales codes for each quotation product (Tools -> Options -> Defaults -> Accounting)
ADDITION: Period of Storage and Type of Goods have been added to the Customer Storage browse, Corporate Storage browse and Query Storage browse
CHANGE: When inserting a new quotation the sales code is now set to the corresponding one on the Quotation tab of the Accounting Defaults Wizard
CHANGE: When accepting an existing quotation, if the sales code is blank then the sales code is set to the corresponding one on the Quotation tab of the Accounting Defaults Wizard
ADDITION: ‘Ignore zero quantity materials’ checkbox has been added to the Materials tab of the Event Wizard and when checked only those materials with an estimated quantity will be displayed in the browse
ADDITION: ‘Ignore zero quantity equipment’ checkbox has been added to the Equipment tab of the Event Wizard and when checked only those equipment with an estimated quantity will be displayed in the browse
CHANGE: Printed Statements have been modified to print Payment Method before Receipt/Refund, i.e. Visa Receipt, Cash Refund, etc, and also to show the description of payment, if necessary
ADDITION: The Payment form now has a ‘Print payment description on statement’ checkbox, which if ticked prints the description on printed statements (as above)
CHANGE: When opening a payment you can now change ‘Description’ and check/uncheck the ‘Print payment description on statement’ checkbox
FIX: Opening and Saving a credit note no longer pops up the allocate message if it has already been allocated to activity
ADDITION: Balance has been added to the Query Quotations browse
ADDITION: ‘Show number of records on tabs’ checkbox has been added to the Event Diary tab of the System Defaults Wizard (Tools -> Options -> Defaults -> System)
CHANGE: The Event Diary now shows the number of records on the Event, Worksheet and Container browses for the chosen day in each tab heading, depending on the above setting
CHANGE: When importing Schedule of Move into the Customer notepad, the most recent Quotations are now at the top of the list
CHANGE: All ‘Import survey option’ buttons have been replaced with a red pen icon
ADDITION: You can now import Special Requirements from a quotation into a Customer’s notepad
ADDITION: You can now import any Survey Note into Included and/or Excluded on the Quotation tab of the Quotation Wizards
ADDITION: For those with systems running multiple trading names the Payments report now shows a Grand Total across all trading companies
ADDITION: For those with systems running multiple trading names the Day Books report now shows a Grand Total across all trading companies even when non detailed
CHANGE: You can now add new Countries from the Check Address Window, Port Form, Manifest Wizard and Trade Quotation Wizard
CHANGE: You can now add new Ports from the Trade Quotation Wizard and International Consignment Wizard
FIX: Loading correspondence into Word as RTF or Plain text now works as it should, again
ADDITION: You can now print an Office Copy of Prospect Correspondence from the Actions menu of the Prospect Correspondence Browse and Prospect Correspondence Form
ADDITION: You can now print an Office Copy of Agent Correspondence from the Actions menu of the Agent Correspondence Browse and Agent Correspondence Form
ADDITION: You can now print an Office Copy of Customer Correspondence from the Actions menu of the Customer Correspondence Browse and Customer Correspondence Forms
ADDITION: You can now print an Office Copy of Corporate Correspondence from the Actions menu of the Corporate Correspondence Browse and Corporate Correspondence Forms
Comodo Code Signing Certificate
Administer Software Limited are pleased to announce that we have recently purchased a 3 year Comodo Code Signing Certificate for our software products.
Code Signing, through the use of digital signatures, enables software developers to include information about themselves and their code with their software. End users who download digitally signed 32-bit Portable Executable (.exe, .ocx, .dll or other) files can be confident that code really comes from us and has not been altered or corrupted since it was created and signed.
Recent operating system updates to Windows XP (Service Pack 2) and the new Windows Vista make it vital to use digital signatures in application files and installation packages. Vista uses code signing more widely than earlier versions of Windows. With the increased level of warnings in Vista, signing our application and installation files gives end users the reassurance they need to proceed with the installation.
Expect to see the use of our code signing certificate in forthcoming product releases and updates.
Google Calendar
I’m pleased to announce that Move Administer now comes complete with export options for the Appointment and Event Diaries to Google Calendar.
In fact, the format used to exchange data (known as iCalendar), allows compatibility with various calendar type applications such as Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchange, Apple’s iCal and Lotus Notes, just to name a few.
Google Calendar, is a contact and time management web application offered by Google. The interface is similar to desktop calendar applications such as Microsoft Outlook. Users can view, add and even drag-and-drop events from one date to another without reloading the page. It supports a variety of view modes, such as weekly, monthly and agenda views.
Events are stored online, so in the case of a user’s hard drive failure, no data is lost.
Multiple calendars can be added and shared, allowing various levels of permissions for the users. This enables collaboration and sharing of schedules between groups of people across multiple locations.
Summer Development Plans
Further to our recent user survey (and many thanks to all that participated), we now have an idea of which enhancements are of high and low importance.
It is our aim that all 47 enhancements will appear in Move Administer, the majority during the summer period (now until end of August).
There were no surprises in that the facility to generate multiple PDF attachments on a single email was top of the list, which just goes to show that emailing stationery to customers is a huge advantage to our users. Runner up to multiple PDF attachments was a call back feature enabling reminders to be automatically and manually set (work has already begun on a prototype).
There were some surprises too, a margin report appearing to be of low importance to users, so too was the facility to share prospect addresses that were outside of their prospecting area.
An additional 15 enhancements were also provided during the survey, of which we see 10 being of benefit to others, and will probably be added to our summer development plans.
Work has now started on some of the enhancements, while the major ones will start in July, so please keep checking back for some interesting development news.