A1-RES Release Notes

 

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Version

Build

Details

2.9

5

Features

·     Show booking balances on Payments screen for easy reference


Fixes

·     CTRL-V Paste email address (when sending PDF file) not working when invoice first created.

·     In-Out Movements report was showing cancelled bookings.

2.9

4

Features

·     Refresh Button – refreshes to the current days date. This can be used to quickly recall the current day into the control center.

·     Add F10 Shortcut to set control center to today's date.

Fixes

·     Correct unit not being recalled when clicking on unit to change status , after moving between sections

·     Fix Error using F8 Shortcut to launch Enquiry form

·     Fix error when pressing F10 in booking form

2.9

3

Fixes

·     Occupancy report – Fix Formatting from V2.9.1 change, Change so that revenue only reflects the days within the period selected, not the value of the total booking. Change headings for currency symbol to support British Pound and Euro

·     In-House Report – Change formatting to fix headings not displayed on lower Resolution PC’s

·     Update Help File for International Settings

2.9

2

Features

·     New automatic updater – self launching

·     Updated help pages

Fixes

·     Fix connect error with “Check for new version” option in help menu

·     Fix Purchase option for Trial expired (was exiting A1-RES directly after launching Purchase URL)

·     Index “InvoiceSel” (InvoiceSelect) for Invoice Calculations  was truncated causing increased time for invoice total updates

2.9

1

Features

·     Control Centre: Unit Status
A1-RES now allows user defined Unit status codes, eg: Dirty, Clean, Occupied. Each unit status may be defined with a status color which is displayed in the control centre for each unit code.
Note: The functionality of the automatic booking status is unchanged from previous versions.
                      

·     Units/Unit Status - New Menu Option. Allows entry / adjustment of unit status. This is useful for cleaning staff to update the status of a room after cleaning. This form allows repetitive input for speed of data entry.

·     Setup/Unit Status Codes Form – New form to maintain Unit Status codes


·     Control Centre: Current Day heading is now displayed in yellow to make “Today” more obvious

·     Bookings: When booking is saved, automatically update unit status according to change of check-in and check-out flag. This follows rules for “Change-on” value in Setup/Unit Status Codes. Also prevent check-in if Unit status does not allow check-in.

·     Units: When unit code is changed in Setup/Units all related bookings/Charges & payments are also adjusted

·     Occupancy report: Add Ex tax revenue (Previously showed Tax + revenue (inc tax)

·     Change menu to Call Occupancy Report Occupancy / Revenue Report

 

Fixes

·     Typo in Splash screen

·     Correct on-screen help for Status Codes Form

·     Fix problems associated with renaming unit codes (Bookings retained old codes ad could not be edited)

·     New group bookings created via Group bookings grid not doing all pre post booking checks

 

2.8

2

Features

·     Add Check for New Version option to Help Menu

2.8

1

Features

·     Add new registration Screen (Simplified & enhanced for add-on licenses)

·     Update help files (for registration changes)

Fixes

·     Error is Trial mode notice screen

·     Show login user name and password on login screen where user accounts have not yet been assigned and set by default to “ADMIN”

·     Error message when using REGISTER button , when trial expired

·     Force maximize display after using Data transfer options

 

2.7

5

Fixes

·     Restrict payment reference in invoice to Payment name only

 

2.7

4

Fixes

·     Following 2.7.3 Payments allocated to bookings without Check-In / Check-out status were not being updated to confirmed or reset if payment deleted.

 

2.7

3

Features

·     Allow automatic status change to work across multiple bookings for the same unit within a single group booking. For instance where you take an advance booking spanning a number of different periods and want to treat this as a single booking for the purpose of progress invoicing etc. Previously status change only applied to a single booking in a group.

Fixes

·     Tariff group tax rate not applying as default when booking created from Booking Control Centre

·     Force tax rate on tariff group change to apply when new unit added via changed via booking from (Add to Group)

·     Increase email address in Booking form / Customer Details tab to 60 characters

·     Increase Customer Quick Add form email field to accommodate 60 characters

·     CanSave() event field change check not closing table (after 100 entries – tables exceeds max message)

 

2.7

2

Fixes

·     Control Centre would show cancelled booking surname instead of current booking if the arrival date of the replacement booking was before that of the cancelled booking.

2.7

1

New Features

·     Customer Email field increased from 40 to 60 characters

·     Modify pull down list for Units in payments  of bookings so it only shows units belonging to current booking

Fixes

·     Get_openflag() error when making using backup function

·     Remove lookup rule from payments table potentially causing Payment method not to display consistently

·     Remove extra Indexes on Bookheader file no longer needed

·     Eliminate trapped error handling for field rules (causing problems with Index & backup functions)

2.6

3

Fixes

·     Availability & Pricing Grid not updating correctly when date changed (when called from Booking Control Centre)

·     Create Invoice – Fix error (no such table) when there are no chare lines

·     Create Invoice – Add Rate & Qty to Charges table per V2.5 changes

·     Edit Invoice – Add Rate & Qty per V2.5 changes

2.6

2

Fixes

·     Changed format of Help screen + Include Database path information

·     Fix Typo in Trail mode nag screen + force demo data date to new demo data date of 12-08-2006

·     Prevent updating of screen (refresh) after every form load – now updates according to global flag set when bookings are added, modified or deleted.

·     Alteration to help screens (Typos per feedback)

·     Fix Word wrap on booking notes (Booking details tab)

2.6

1

New Features

·     Incorporate new help compile A1HELP.chm file + Menu option to access help on Help Menu

·     Add Print Payments option to Booking Confirmation Report (Selectable via Booking Confirmation setup)
Printing of Payments is a new option

·     Add Option to Print Booking Details (will always print if Print Payments is selected)
Previously would always print (no option)

·     When payment is not allocated to a unit, apply it to the status of all the units in the group booking. For instance if there are 3 units in the group and one is checked In then entering an unallocated  payment will set 2 units to confirmed and one to In/Part Pay. If full payment is receive (i.e.: No balance O/S) then set all Units to complete.

·     New Demo Data for Full Installation

Fixes

·     Un-checking boxes for Print Header & print footer were not working

·     In Group bookings Force refresh when changing check-in or check-out flags. Was not always displaying change of status

·     If group booking and balance =0, changing to check-out status was not resetting booking status to complete.

·     If Header status is Complete force all other group bookings to status Complete

·     Enquiry entry – error Invalid Property during entry (Since V2.5)

·     Remove Interim Charges Heading from General Settings, it is already included as an option in invoice settings

·     Seasonal rate calculation was adding tax to rate for Tax type = “E” and then again for total – double up tax (since V2.5)

·     Change User maintenance to prevent users changing user-id of ADMIN user

2.5

2

New Features

·     Add “Customer Add” button to booking form – Group Bookings Tab (for when using manual mode)

·     Add F10 & F11 hotkeys to group bookings screen to allow new customer entry / find and popup calculator

·     Add Red Memo Tab in addition to red flag to make it more obvious that notes exist in customer and booking forms.

Fixes

·     Booking ChangeEvent() error when changing booking caused by new tax handling code

·     After customer/booking clear any active grid selections in control centre

·     Fix Adding of new customers from Booking detail section (was not returning with new customer set)

·     Remove Customer lookup on Group Bookings tab which was causing user issues

·     Default Charges amount no longer displaying as default since change for Charges QTY

·     Total percentage and graph not calculating correctly

·     When using delete Booking – Booking lines were not always being deleted dues to referential integrity rules.

·     Change Booking Set definition to remove referential integrity to speed up booking form (no longer required since booking deletes now handled through code).

2.5

1

Note: When upgrading to this version the update will produce 8 errors to the trace window. This is because we have removed an existing calculation type. You can ignore these error messages.

Features

·     Allow Quantity and Price to be entered for Charges

·     Allow Rates and Prices to be entered as Ex Tax Values (when E tax method is used)

·     Change Tax handling for Tax method “E” to add tax on top of ex tax rates (inc Bookings, Charges & Interim Charges)

·     Move total below tax amount in booking details tab of booking form

·     Add new Invoice description field to Preferences for Payment Balance heading

·     Modify Invoice to show Payment balance as separate amount in invoice totals section

·     Add BitMap options to Units and Section setup programs. If checked, Confirmation Report will look for file with name {unit code}.jpg or {section code}.jpg  and print this image if found instead of the image specified in the Confirmation setup program. If no image is found the default image will be printed instead. Note: This feature only works when printing confirmation for a single Unit. For group bookings the default image is printed.

·     Change behavior of PAGE-UP and PAGE-DOWN keys in Control Centre. They now move forward and back though each section. Up/Down keys navigate forward & back by week and Left/Right by day.

Fixes

·     Fix problem changing rate when creating new booking from within booking form (i.e.: not generated from grid )

·     Setting line height less than 5 in the control centre would leave blue space between rows and rows would not shrink

·     Swap Tax rate and tax amount on confirmation advice so they appear under correct headings

 

2.2

108

Features

·     Add CTRL-V Paste of Email Address for Sending of Invoices to email

Fixes

·     Type & case in login screen

·     Correct calculation of weeks displayed in booking form

·     Invoice Edit / Bookings Tab – Checking remove reverting back when moving off checked line

·     When no invoices defined – deny access to Invoice Edit Form

·     Fix Error when running occupancy report (failed to load preview)

2.2

107

Fixes

·     Pricing & Availability manual change of date (allow entry via keyboard without auto correcting)

·     Force field validation in Preferences setup

2.2

106

New Features

·     Pricing and Availability Program – allows bookings to be generated from pricing/availability grid

Fixes

·     Screen flicker when pressing on grid (remove redundant refresh)

·     get_rate() routine not closing file causing max files exceeded error

·     Booking form not displaying default dates and values when called from Control Centre Grid

2.2

105

New Features

·     Booking Confirmation Advice (New maintenance program & report)

Fixes

·     Update problem – not refreshing rate 1st time

·     Customer lookup on Group payments screen was maximizing causing lockout

·     sending error reports via email