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Scheduled Release 05-Mar-2018
Feature Revisions
Timesheets
- Approval 2 - The Employee Class in Timesheets - Approval 2 will now default to hidden for simplicity.
Purchasing
- Purchase Order Details -
- Purchase order lines Activity is now restricted by the respective job Cost Activity Group. It was previously not restricted.
- There was an issue saving the supplier contact person when saving a new purchase order. This is rectified.
- The Supplier picker now always excludes inactive suppliers.
- A total line is added to the bottom of the Purchase Order lines grid for Cost and Cost Outstanding.
- Purchase order lines Activity is now restricted by the respective job Cost Activity Group. It was previously not restricted.
- AP Invoice List - The PO Number filter on AP Invoice List was filtering with the AP Invoice header PO, this is changed to filter against AP Invoice line POs.
- AP Invoice - The control parameter 'AP Invoice maximum characters' default is now 20 by default; it was 10.
Work Breakdown
- Activity Group Details - Some minor tweaks to Activity Group Details popup: Label change to 'Plant Work Centre Basis'; Add a tickbox into 'Included' header to shortcut ticking; and make 'Add From Group' blank by default.
Jobs
- Job Wizard - The Job Wizard no longer prompts for creating a contract if the parent or ancestor job already has a contract.
- Job Enquiry - Details tab -
- The drill down on Details tab now also displays the respective quantity at Cost Category and Activity with its units in the Budget Hours and Actual Hours columns. Previous this column only displayed labour hour.
- The column Forecast Final Cost column is removed from Detail tab of Job Enquiry as it was causing confusion.
- Job Details - Job descriptions now supports UTF-8 character set so pipe ( | ) symbols may be used.
Billing
- Job Invoices List - Job picker allows selection of all jobs, irrespective if closed or finalised.
- Job Invoice Details -
- The invoice lines Job picker now allows closed but not finalised jobs to be specified.
- There was an issue where the Print button was disabled if there was no AR Invoice Additional report type or report. This is rectified.
- The invoice lines Job picker now allows closed but not finalised jobs to be specified.
- Claim Based Get Sales -
- The 'Sub Job Get Sales' now hides all 'Claim Schedule' sub jobs to the contract job to simplify the display.
- The schedule Details field is now displayed on the Job invoicing claim-based Get Sales screen to provide further item information.
- Job Credit Details - The invoice lines Job picker now allows closed but not finalised jobs to be specified.
Daily Diary
- Timsheets - On Daily Diary - Timsheets (Crew Timesheets), the Bulk Transactions button popup now supports Start Time and End Time.
Datasheets
- Datasheet List - Rename 'Person' filter to 'Assignee' for consistency. Specific filters are now available for the key tables respectively i.e. Company, Person, Job, Subcontract, and Plant.
- Datasheet - The new datasheet popup layout had a minor adjustment for readability.
Plant
- Plant Details - A default rate is now mandatory on the plant item Plant Rates tab.
General
- Company Details - When opening a person's details from the company People tab, the Person popup was opening behind the Company popup. This is rectified.
- My Approvals List - When displaying My Approvals, it incorrectly identified an AP Credit as AP Invoice. This is rectified and now opens on AP credit popup.
- Catalogue Details - The Cost and Sell rates on the Catalogue Details screen now support 4 decimal.
Administration
- User Details - The field Default Job on the Employee Details tab of User has been removed as it is not used.
- Location based Settings -There was an issue where location settings like 'Next PO Number' were getting reinstated after they were removed. This is rectified.
- Activity Group Ccontrol parameters - The UseForWeb is set for the control parameters 'Use Different Budget Activity Group' and 'Use Different Forecast Activity Group'.
Reports
- Report Viewer - Downloading report via the Print preview to Word and Excel are available. The icons show on the top left (in the Title bar) above the report.
- Report Maintenance - The 'Report Type' list control on the Reports Maintenance grid is now correctly sorted in alphabetical order.
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Hotfix 4.2.15.27
Released 12-Mar-2018
- Corrects an issue where semi-colon not working as a delimiter for extension column dropdown list options.
Hotfix 4.2.15.26
Released 08-Mar-2018
- Corrects some an issue when adding or editing plant rates.
Hotfix 4.2.15.25
Released 06-Mar-2018
- Corrects some performance issue on timesheets.
Base Release 4.2.15.24
Released 05-Mar-2018
IMPORTANT
Δ #1 A change has been made to standardise the determination of Activities and Work Centres on plant issues. Previously in WebWorkbench the activity specified on the Plant Item Maintenance was used. is removed, will affect the your timesheet Plant issue workcentre if you are using the 'Activity' Work Centre Basis. (more..)
New Features
Datasheets
- Extension Fields support - Extension fields are now supported for Datasheets. These are configured as follows:
Setup the Extension Columns
• Go to Extension Column Maintenance screen (from Administration - General Config - Extension Columns).
• Define the required extension columns using the Extension Type of 'Datasheets'.
Setup the Extension View
• Go to Extension View screen (click the [Views] button on Extension Column Maintenance screen with 'Datasheets' selected for Extension Type).
• Specify a View Name of 'Web Datasheet' and click [Add View] to create a generic datasheet view i.e. available on all datasheets.
• For a template specific view the name should be 'Web Datasheet TemplateDescription' for example 'Web Datasheet Project Close Out' view would be specific to the 'Project Close Out' datasheet template.
• If both the generic and specific are defined then the specific takes precedence.
• Make sure the new 'Web Datasheet' is the selected View.
• Add the required columns and click [Save].