Modification History

Most bugs reported here fall into the “slight irritation” class. Most are fixed in very short time. If you find a bug, or you find some aspect of the system particularly annoying, or we have fixed a bug incorrectly, please let us know! We will fix it and post an updated system on our web site:- http://www.milkroundsoftware.co.uk

10^th Aug 2008 – New System

Advert at top of Invoice - On A5 invoices the scaling and positioning of the advert and the characters within the advert were in error - fixed! (thanks Cwmheidir Farm Dairy)

Intervention Report - You can now reset entries in the Weights and Volumes table. (Thanks Bill Hesketh)

Authorizing HH with Edongle - Now gives message to "Get Edongle Status".

HH Setup User being lost after restart - Some users have been complaining that the HH User Setup was being lost. This has been tracked down to users who's files have an extension (.dat) or (.new) shown on the title bar of the first page. This should not now happen! (thanks Julia)

16^th July 2008

NOT AN URGENT UPDATE - It turns out that the problem were dairy name is initialised - is a side effect of an undocumented change some time after 080426 (26th April 2008). The problem arises randomly after a system crash. So if you have problems and Milk Round Utilities / Dairy System Utilities - Edit Round Data shows a blank round name - then download latest version - all will be well. Thanks John Bradley!

11^th July 2008 – New System

URGENT UPDATE - I now have had two occurrances of people having the round data record (the one where your dairy name is store) initialised - ie dairy name replaced with spaces. Since I cannot find where, and under what circumstances, this happens I have included a fix to prevent the initialised round data record being written to the file (fail safe) - with a warning message to phone me (or email me) telling me what you did. For your own peace of mind I suggest you update.

Improvement to Backup (on exit etc.) The backup is now of all files less than one (and a half) days old. This includes files of past weeks that have been edited. Since this overwrites good files with potentially bad files you might think about having two backup devices which you use alternately.

TomCatalog has now replaced ZarfCatalog on HH thanks to Andrew Davies

26^th June 2008 – (Vista Test8)

URGENT UPDATE - It has been established that a printer problem (rare) whilst printing a delivery note using the DN button can result in the deleting of that customers data. (fixed! thanks to Fylde Dairy.)

This above version has new HH handling for Palm Desktop 6.2 used on Vista machines as well as version 4.1.4 used on XP.

It addresses the start of transfer to Vista. A UAC (User Account Control) manifest has been added so you should not see the warning message on startup.

User setup data has been transferred from .ini files in the windows folder to a .xml file in C:\MR folder therefore different users should not now get different user setups (File Virtualisation).

It works on both of my machines (Xp and Vista).

Import single customer from browsed file now nolonger rolls the data forward if the data is from the same week. (Thanks Fylde Dairy).

16^th June 2008 – New System

Advert not printing at correct scale when printing on A5 paper especially noticeable when printing at top of page.

Printing of type 5 Delivery Seven Day Lists with run totals sometimes had errors. (Thanks Dot Young)

Bug in Move Block to position beyond last existing customer - didn't work ...does now.(Thanks Mr. Knowles)

HH Interface with Palm Desktop has been rewritten so that it will work with version 6.2 on Windows Vista. It works on both of my machines (Xp and Vista) but needs testing in the BWW (Big Wide World).

24^th May 2008

Change to Statement printing with EscapeCodes (dot-matrix printers). Changes to the maximum number of weeks in invoice ment that the EscapeCodes Statement routinely had 52 entries instead of twenty...fixed! (Thanks Bill Hesketh)

Added Other Lists - Intervention Report to DR8_for_win. (Thanks Bill Hesketh)

Small problem with saving unset Order List Titles in Vista_Test1 ..fixed.

HH Users may have to redo Setup Palm Users.

28^th April 2008

Mod DR8 to stop random error in Printing Loading List (thanks Cwmheidir Farm Dairy)

Vista Mod 1 - Several files used by MR8/DR8 were created using the Windows Inifile System. The Vista version introduced changes to the way the system allowed programs to change .ini files (v helpful!!!). Initially I thought the problem was that the files were in the C:\Windows folder - It goes much deeper than that! Entries to .ini files are transferred to the Windows System Registry and non Administrator users are not allowed to change them. This mod does away with all .ini files and instead uses an .xml file stored in the C:\MR\Data folder to store system preferences, Flag Set and Order List Titles, and Palm HH user names. The values stored in the old .ini files are transferred to the new .xml file automatically. Any problems please let me know and then revert back to previous download.(thanks Cwmheidir Farm Dairy)

23^rd April 2008

In SMTP Email log you can now delete entries by right clicking then left click "Delete".

In Jersey the Government have introduced a "Goods and Services Tax" ( GST ) the system has been modified to cater for this change. Added Apply Jersey GST Rules tick box to Edit Round Data page.

Small changes to Authorise HH User code. Thanks Richard Pike.

9^th April 2008

Bug in Auto Pilot (Print Scheduler) When an item was deleted from auto pilot. It messed up all the entries after the one deleted. Fixed!!! (thanks Andrew) There was a line of code missing - I declare it as Act of God! Steve

Due to problems with Vista not liking ini files being in the Windows folder ini files used by MR8/DR8 system have been copied to C:\MR folder. You may loose some of your setup like "Confirmation on Cancel Day", "Setup Palm Users" & "Define Data and Backup Folders" but it should only be a one off change.

Sending Smtp emails with Dairy Header (see Smtp Mail Sender options menu) did not work if you were also sending an attachment..does now! The code now checks to see the attachment exits.

Small changes to edongle code especially when used with HH terminals (thanks to jon-milk@..).

Pre-printed Weekly Invoices occasionally would miss the total from bottom of page. ...Fixed!(thanks to Andrew).

24^th March 2008

Major update to HH program (see HH mod history).

When printing with the print scheduler the system would not print any weeks ahead listings ...will now! (thanks to Andrew).

12^th March 2008

The dongle driver returned to old one (parallel port dongles not working on new).

Tidied up SMTP email log, added resend button to SMTP email form and added option to put dairy header on top of email to make a much more professional job. To test it make sure the Option - Send with Dairy Header menu is ticked then send yourself an email. The "Send Mail" time-out has been extended to 20 seconds.

When exiting Customer Details with a tick in Day Payer and a payment was already set the Day Payer tick was removed. Now it works properly only flaging problem if total of daily payments is not equal to money paid.

Added Multi Printer/Bin Printing to Print Scheduler and Flagset Print Plan. You can set a schedule by pressing the "add to next" button in the listings screen. I have also improved the scheduler editing so you can select printer and bin the listing is to go to!

The Use Full Address check boxes in Customer Details will now only be saved if a Full Address has been added!

Modified the layout and data storage of Flagset Print Plan. Any existing print plans will have to be re-entered.

1^st March 2008

Added to HH Functions - Download Palm Print Driver. If your printing from HHs then you will need this.

Added to HH Functions - Reload software to all HHs. If you are adding HHs to the system this reloads the program onto all HHs.

A bug notified about missing two lines from an invoice. Over the last eight years I seem to have been over-estimating the length of the paper on printers. On most printers this is not a problem but on some can amount to a good 1/2inch. Hence the loss of two lines from the invoice...fixed!(thanks Andy).

Pre-Printed Weekly Invoices with lots of items these now start on the first page and always have some items on the last page. You should not now have just the total on the last page.

The dongle driver has been updated. On Vista systems the first time the system is run it should be without the dongle in place. Hopefully the new driver should help.

Being shown results when there aren't any? Not any more! If the "Results" page is empty then you will not be shown it. There may be occurrances where this is annoying if so let me know.

In SMTP Email Log the Print and Print Attachment buttons now work.

A new way of printing Invoices

Statement from MR8 user - We have several different types of customer on the round. We have given each type of customer a different flag. Each customer type has a bill for one, two or four weeks and a different message. It is very time consuming as we have to print each flag separately with the right number of weeks and message and then put all the bills in order of the milkman's delivery.

What we need is to have a preset invoice type, message and number of weeks for each flag so that we can print all together in one go.

Have a look at the Print Listings - Invoices Menu you will find two new menus - Setup Flagset Print Plan and Print using Flagset Print Plan. Their operation should be obvious they do need testing but should save a lot of time. Sorry it has been a very long time coming! (thanks morefresh)

11^th February 2008

Single Day Payers on the Payments on Day list. When customer paid by cheque - the payment was not added to the total payments column... It is now! (Thanks willythemower)

Added Stock Weights and Volumes to the Utilities Menu. I have tested it but it needs using to see if it really works. ( Thanks Andrew Davies and John Bradley )

Added HH licensing to Edongle code.

Import single customer from last week did not work following mods (way back) now does.

The default button on Insert and Delete Customer has been changed from Yes to No (this may explain some deleted customers).

Deletions from the system are now logged in the payment logs.

Again after along time after doing the mod the Use and Display Collection Man Set is found to set the delivery man set...Now Fixed!

Multi customer setting of flags and delivery/collection man. You can now highlight a group of customers and make these changes.

If the system decides no invoice is required (no delivery or in credit) when emailing invoices a blank invoice was emailed to the customer...Fixed! (thanks Andrew Davies).

Sending Emails from system

Emails can now be sent via SMTP protocol. See Secondary Functions - SMTP Emailing. Not ticking Enable SMTP Emailing will continue to send emails via Outlook Express. You need to get your smtp host server address. The best way to get this is to send yourself an email then look at the header info. An example:-

Envelope-to: steve@milkroundsoftware.co.uk
Received: from primelocation.lyris.net ([64.84.13.103])
by mx11.global.net.uk with smtp (Exim 4.42)

In this example the smtp server was mx11.global.net.uk - yours will be different!

Smtp emails are not sent through your normal email software so can be sent directly from the system. Out going emails will be logged in a separate email log. You must be online (connected) to send emails.

30^th December 2007

The system now produces a .csv address book under the menu MyMilkBill - Make .csv Address Book File. Import into your email client (Outlook or Outlook Express...etc.) using "Other Address Book" format. Remember to use the "Bcc" (Blind carbon copy) rather than the "To" send method or else everyone will get sent your complete email customer list!!! You may need to manually delete "NoSpam" email address from you Outlook Express Address Book.

In the Customer details you will notice a No Spam tick box. No spam customers are not included in the Address Book. On customers with existing email addresses you will see the nospam tick box is set randomly. I don't know where that came from but you will have to check and reset it where necessary.

Under the Edit Types menu in scrolling list I have added Show Email Customers or more correctly "customers with email addresses".

The system now supports eDongles which allow access to the system without having a device which plugs into your computer. Edongles will only work on one computer and only on your authorised data file. You can purchase an additional edongle for your system for £75+vat or £20+vat p.a. rental

20^th December 2007

Will Austin has found the message 'Did You Know you can type 1..20 to add items 1 to 20' particularly annoying! It now shows only on the FIRST time you enter two items with sequential items numbers. (thanks Will)

Added Disable Web Transfers to the Mymilkbill menu. The default is "disabled". Web transfers are now enabled by the transfer of data to your website. They can be disabled at any time.

Total rewrite of the F5 = Search for Invoice No. suggested by Middletons dairy. The system nolonger crashes when it cannot find the invoice number, and gives you a progress bar whilst you are waiting for the search to complete! (thanks Tim!)

16^th December 2007

In Editing Customer Data - Edit Options added Confirm ( Yes / No ) Delete Alternate Order. Click to enable/disable. (I met someone in mortal dread of deleting an Alternate Order for Week by accident especially at Christmas!) (thanks lady at Middletons Dairy).

8^th December 2007

In Editing Customer Data when using the left/right buttons on the tabs to change week number - it was possible to have two weeks with the same number. It now isn't! (thanks Andrew).

The new mods to include the internet handling routines for eDongles and www.MyMilkBill.org have bumped the size of the system up to 5Mbytes Sorry to all you non-broadband downloaders!

28^th November 2007

In Editing Customer Data - Edit Options added Confirm ( Yes / No ) C = Cancel Day and Confirm ( Yes / No ) F4 = Cancel Week Click to enable/disable. (thanks - all!)

www.mymilkbill.org has been launched allbeit on a trial basis see the documentation about setting up an account.

For new users we are trialing edongles.

Stange bug whilst getting loading list and having Credit Charge enabled. Don't understand why other people havn't found this?? (thanks Ian Wood!).

3^rdNovember 2007

If you have a tick in "Use Escape Codes for Speed" and a non-dotmatrix printer is being used the command is ignored.

Printing of price list based on Supplier screwed up long lists because it was set of 2 columns per page. Fixed! (thanks andy@hopewall).

Printing of Labels and Envelopes now offers UCNs (Unchanging Customer Numbers) or Customer numbers.(thanks Edward Goodall)

28^thOctober 2007

Mod to HH conduit - see HH Mods.

Pence that don't add up? One or two or you have noticed that sometimes on statements 11+11=21. This is especially true when prices are given in fractions of a penny (It was actually 10.5 + 10.5 = 21). The system now rounds the weekly totals to the nearest whole penny. So from now on 11+11 should equal 22! If you find any examples of this not being the case please let me know! The same mod has been done to HHs.

In Editing Customer Data if you press C it cancels the day and F4 (now only in Alternate Order for Week) sets week to zero deliveries. The system now asks for an acknowledgment. ie. Do you want to... Yes/No! (thanks Andy@hopewall)

Added 4 Weekly printing to the Print Scheduler. This allows printing of one set of flags for one fortnightly list and a different set of flags for the next fortnight.

12^thOctober 2007

System not longer prints a zero invoice if printing Pre-printed Weekly Invoices not showing amount brought forward. (Thanks R & A)

Printing of W=Check Price list had a bug which limited list to Customers Name and Address fixed! (thanks both Andys).

Printing of the Run Totals on Seven Day Delivery List did not throw to new page if too long ...does now! (thanks Ivor).

27^thSeptember 2007

In Edit Stock Data in Organise Data you can now Define Supplier List which works the same way as Item Types / Subtypes. Having set up the Supplier List you can now print a Managment Price List ordered against suppliers. These two mods are intended to aid the checking of buyin prices against supplier price lists.

The same user who wanted that also wanted to Change Special Prices of customers in a Flag Set. You can now do this.

Function button F3 in the Edit Stock Data now deletes a stock item.

Due a number of people failing to get started and wanting to start again with old data and people importing data from other milk rounds, in the Scrolling List, we have added an Option to Set Amount BFwd and Payments to Zero the system asks for the Office Password to allow this function to work. You can find Office under Secondary Functions on the front page.

24^thSeptember 2007

Added two new menus to the system menu (top left on front page) to allow quick access to data and backup folders. Mainly to save me time explaining to people how to do it through "My Computer".

Define Data and Backup Folders you could not exit properly after pressing reset (fixed).

Edit Round Data - now has entries for Website and Email addresses these are now added to the dairy address on invoices.

The W=Check Price can now be listed to a file or printed.

In "Other Lists" you can produce a list of customers Names and Addresses

The "Customer Count" In "Other Lists" has been tided up and the number of directions added to aid the merging of two databases.

When editing daily quantities if you entered 58000 the system generated an overflow error - it now just beeps.

Added Price Management List to Edit Stock Data - Print menu which shows Buyin, Normal Selling and High and Low Special Prices together with the number of customers having the special price.

Whilst checking the above mod I was looking at a users data. They had 33 price bands for 189 customers. Which in my estimation makes the management of a pricing system very difficult if not impossible! To this end the List Customers using Special Prices list in Edit Stock Data has been modified to a)List the price bands and b)The customers within each band and their volume of the order for the current week (when printed and the end of the week).

27^thJuly 2007

Removed the storage of Credit Card data from system.

When emailing Invoices that are usually printed on pre-printed paper that use a non-standard "Invoice Top" value, the emailed invoice nolonger starts at that value down the page.

Dongles can now be properly initialised (note for steve).

Invoice options has been changed to allow the choice as to whether a window envelope return address is printed, or not. The printing of customer name and address has been improved. ( Thanks all who commented! )

2^ndJuly 2007

Got the context dependant help system slightly wrong for existing users. It now shows once. Once you close it down and leave the system it should not show again.

29^thJune 2007

A new reorganised and extended version of the MR8 Documentation 2007.chm has been created.

All internal help messages which used the old WinHelp system have been replaced with calls to the new help file. If you find any Help function that do not work then let me know.

For new users still working on week199001 there is a new context dependent help system to help with the first few days of using the system.

1^stJune 2007

When printing Delivery Notes for days in next week. If you edit the order, it prints if you don't, it doesn't! (fixed ...thanks Fylde Dairy).

23^rdMay 2007

MR_070510_HH - System Options added Don't Show Payment Totals as one user was having serious problems with a collector.

MR_070510_HH - System Options the options Protect Past Days and Don't Show Payment Totals are both not shown on the options list when they are selected (so unauthorised people won't know what options there are working against them). You can get them to show by entering password.

Completely reformatted the documentation and added some more explanations.

Added a new speed button ‹‹‹=Move to Previous Day to the customer edit screen. It does what it says. It moves all the items from the day it is on to the previous day. I am not sure whether this needs a yes/no confirmation each time it is pressed – what do you think?

Also added Bring Forward Selected Customers to the Options menu in the Scrolling List. Best used at start of week after rolling forward.

Added buttons so that users can modify the font and row height of string grids in Scrolling List and Edit Screens. Controls are to the left of the string grid.

Item Types are now updated when the Item description is modified or deleted (thanks Andy @ Hopewall)

The system should now work better with windows themes that have wide borders without showing scrollbars.

Modified Remittance Slips to include Dairy address for use with window envelopes. The three lines are delineated by first and last comma. (thanks Mr. Kaufman)

10^thApr 2007

Modified Business Report to produce a separate Waste Report after one user entered sales in the waste column. Also corrected the printing of Cheese Weight items. (thanks Andy @ Hopewall)

29^thMar 2007

800 x 600 screen user unhappy with new format – returned to old scaling for that screen size...thanks all!

Changes to HH print-outs added Vat No. and Tel. No.

25^thMar 2007

Bring Forward Delivery Day – from a day next week to another day next week DID NOT WORK..does now (thanks Mr. Stern)

High resolution screens of aspect ration of less (squarer) than 3 : 4 are now catered for.

21^st Mar 2007

The library file WDRVR.DLL which resides in the “C:\mr” folder has been modified by the dongle manufacturers to stop some strange side effects happening to USB dongles.

Editing of Amount Brought Forward can be disabled in Office functions.

Whist editing customer data the cancel dates shown at the top of the screen used to be clickable so you could redo dates or edit orders on return. This has been restored.

A comprehensive overhaul of all forms has been undertaken to make the system usable on high resolution screens. When working at high resolution some fonts are scaled as bold whilst other aren't ( I haven't quite work out why ). If you find any unexpected scrollbars or bad screen formats please let me know.

8^th Feb 2007

After editing in new Y_top value and Printing Invoices without header it appears the y value for the top of the invoice is reset after the first invoice i.e. Only works with print single...fixed (thanks Linda Jenkinson).

3^rd Feb 2007

After Printing Invoices without header it appears a header would only print when a logo was defined...fixed (thanks Duncan Atkinson).

1^st Feb 2007

System no longer uses Winexecute or Createprocess commands that do not work on Vista machines...fixed. The side-effect of this is the Format Floppy and Calculator buttons should now work regardless of the version of windows.

When Printing Invoices without header (on preprinted paper) the Edit Format form now has a Y_top value which allows you to set the y value at which invoice print starts. You must remember to press “Always use these Values” before exiting the form.

30th Jan 2007

HH Code – Cash Items not being added to total on HH....fixed.

The MR8 & DR8_Installer programs crashing on some PCs...fixed!

29th Jan 2007

Delete and Payment of multi-selected “Unpaid Invoices” not working properly ...fixed.

14th Jan 2007

Added new documentation system please try it out let me know of any shortcomings.

8th Jan 2007

Edits done whilst the dongle was removed (or a HH was not authorised) would not be written to the HH. The system now displays warning message.

Sage Transfer file generated the wrong date for end of week52...fixed (thanks Andy@hopewall)

30th Dec 2006

URGENT All HH Users – A fault affecting the use of forward orders and HH terminals. On PC if after entering an order in an “alternate order for week” tab - you go back to the This Week tab and then on to the next customer without doing a further edit the data will be written to the week file on the PC but NOT the HH (no HH Updated message). This is corrected in this update. To check if you are affected by this bug please check the daily Loading Lists on HH against that on the PC over the holiday period.

16th Dec 2006

In Bring Forward found one reason for the error message “Warning from Steve:- The system is reading data for customer 123 whilst data is waiting to be written to customer 122 etc”. Turns out that the first customer (122) had zero items so loop terminated prematurely you should no longer get this message during Bring Forward.

15th Dec 2006

Right clicking on customers in the scrolling list brings up “Reprint Past Invoices”. If you tried printing a past invoice the system crashed. This has now been fixed (I think!).

Addition of choice size,style and font for Delivery Notes Customer address and items. See Invoice Options – Set Invoice Fonts. (thanks Mike Madeley).

Addition of F4=Remove all quantities in Alternative week. The default is with Yes/No confirmation this can be removed by clicking the F4 = Delete quantities on Alt Page (Unconfirmed) menu under Keyboard commands. (thanks ).

The system no longer stores unpaid invoices of zero value.

Invoices with zero total, zero for this week and zero paid (no activity) are now not printed.

Some invoices switched to a new page unnecessarily they no longer do this.

6th Dec 2006

For those who use Unpaid Invoices – On the Scrolling List form you have a new “unp” button (top left) which only displays those customers with unpaid invoices. Position cursor on a customer then click right button – highlight the invoices you wish to pay/delete then right click. Let me know what you think!

30th Nov 2006

For those using Item Types the file “ItemStruct.ext” did reside the root folder ( “C:\” ). It has now been moved to the Datasource folder ( usually “C:\mr\data” ) . Unfortunately the editing of the Item structure was on the new file whilst the rest of the program was reading the old...thanks Andy@Hopewall.

For those using the Printing Scheduler and having more than one database there have been slight changes. Data files having either no extension or “.dat” extension will continue to have scheduling data stored in file “Autopilot.dat”. For other extensions the file name will be “Autopilot.ext” where the ext is the week file extension. If you wish to retain scheduling data you will have to copy file “Autopilot.dat” to “Autopilot.ext” manually.

12th Nov 2006

Slight change to emailing of invoices (Initial Directory and increased wait time to 1 sec). If printing without invoice headers (pre-printed paper) is the default option then this is automatically reversed while emailing invoices. Similarly with dot matrix printing this is automatically reversed while emailing invoices. You should not have to press any buttons using the unpaid for PDF995 driver.

11th Nov 2006

On HH Function 1 – Transfer Data to HH (Start of Week) now checks for file not properly deleted from previous weeks and deletes them. These files slow down hot syncs and the opening of the Milk program on the HH. If files are found you will have to delete them on the HH using Zcatalog.

Single Day Delivery lists with Delivery List type of 1 or 2 now print lines and adds mm distance between items – between customers if selected in Delivery List Options.

Small mods to Mod_HH_Record memory leak affects all HH users – ref John Towers

7th Nov 2006

Small mods to Check_HH_Status memory leak affects all users – ref John Towers

Small mods to Select_Invoice_Advert memory leak affects all users – ref John Towers

Emailing of invoices now should work without having to click message boxes. You must have Outlook Express as your default mail client. You also need this to use the Email Customer in Customer Details.

2nd Nov 2006

Added emailing of invoices. There is now a tick box in Customer Data to allow the invoice to be emailed. List to printer first (to set invoice numbers which are used in the emails title and Subject) then send the emails – new button. You will need to download then printer driver from www.pdf995.com.

Modified Paper Round Utility – Selected Item List to allow editing of selected items.

Invoice Numbers - It appears that if you play with the Datasource folder (or move computers) usually C:\MR\DATA and a copy of Invoice.dat is not there then the invoice number is reset to a number used by the original system (ie the wrong number). The number is now reset to 1000 and is signaled it with a message. The invoice number is no longer reset when it gets to 65000. When moving computers best copy the whole of the C:\MR\DATA folder. You don't need the Backup folder therein.

Writing to customer 3500 – at last I have found one mechanism that caused this to happen and fixed it. It was spurious!

18th Oct 2006

If when selecting the UCN button in Scrolling List it tells you that some UCNs are duplicated then select Repair UCNs in Options Menu. This repair function has been modified.

17th Oct 2006

Slight changes to Print Autopilot.

You should now get the program group “Milk Round Software” in the Start – All Programs menu.

11th Oct 2006

On front page “Exit” is now operative when back weeks are selected. Pressing it now brings you forward one week until you are back to he current week then it exits.

In printing receipt forms if the Dairy Name was too big system looped whilst trying to reduce text size.

When printing “Preprinted Monthly” invoices with vat content on the vat summary the total sales figures were incorrect when cash & cheese weight items were present.

23rd Sept 2006

After 4^th Sept Update

In Scrolling List - Import Customer (any) allowed the added customers to duplicate UCN numbers. Also if the data file from which the import was coming had a different number of rounds the system might crash. System moded so these problems do not happen.

8th Sept 2006

After 4^th Sept Update ( we ain't doing too well here )

Insert / Delete / Move/ “Import from file” - customer falling into trap set on 4^th September ...fixed. Sorry it is the price of progress!

6th Sept 2006

After 4^th Sept Update ( we ain't doing too well here )

In Dairy System max allowed item value of 250 fixed ( thanks John Gregory )

The traps set in last update had some serious side effects I hope I have solved these.

4^th Sept 2006

After 24^th July Update - System not saving changes done to Invoice Number and Vat Rates in Edit Round Data.

There has also been some major internal changes so keep your eyes peeled for things that don’t appear to be working properly.

Added customer email address to customer details.

Null entries are no longer shown in “ucn” list.

Two or three people have experienced the occasional (rare) duplication of customers. I have now set a trap so the system will no longer allow this to happen. ( Thanks Mike Pratley and others ).

14^th Aug 2006

When going to past week from the UCN list of customers you often went to the wrong customer...fixed (thanks Robert Walker).

When using Cheese Weights and Cash Items in single day delivery list often caused an overflow error which terminated the list...fixed (thanks Robert Walker).

After returning to the “ed” list from “ucn” list the next round button did not work... does now.

10^th Aug 2006

URGENT UPDATE – Invoice numbers not being read correctly after 24^th July Update.

URGENT UPDATE – Receipt Forms only printing one per page.

Adverts not printing on Invoices – do now!

Added No CAN/Zeros on Single Day Lists to Delivery List Options. Only shows customers who have deliveries.

Dot-matrix Delivery Note printed the day before have the wrong date on them...fixed (thanks Phil Wood).

Problems with unwanted form feeds at end of Dot-matrix listings are caused by XP printer driver the Win98 printer drivers did not have this problem (I am advised). Find yourself a Win98 Printer driver.

24^th July 2006 – New System - There may be bugs let me know if you find any!

Zero priced items not adding to totals in Stock Management they do now!!

( thanks Douglas Campbell ).

Added Vat Report to Other Lists.

System now automatically creates Backup Folder if one does not exist.

On Roll Forward when backing up to non-floppy devices the "backup to" caption is now correct.

For Numbered Invoices created by using this update you can now Reprint Past Invoices.

For non dotmatrix printers only – The edit screen now has a Weekly Order Number which is printed on Numbered Invoices.

For non dotmatrix printers only – Modified Statement Printing so that you can print

a give number of weeks.

back to when customer was last in credit.

Only if overdue by N weeks.

Modified format ( tidied up ) of Middlestons Invoices slightly added Weekly Order Number if present.

Increased the weeks you can go back in the system to 52.

Added buttons to make it easier to Insert and Delete Rounds in round data. ( thanks Phil Bramall )

17^th May 2006

Format Floppy now working (again) those nice people at Microsoft moved it!

2^nd May 2006

In Edit Round Data the editing of round names was screwed by mods on 7^th May now restored to former glory (thanks Douglas Campbell)

Start date in Credit Card Numbers not dispalying correctly...does now( thanks Mr. Stern ).

30^th May 2006

Edit Customer Details and Edit Round Data have been modified to enable better editing particularly of Full Addresses and Credit Card Numbers!! ( thanks Mr. Stern ).

28^th May 2006

Move Block in scrolling list screws Ordered Collections Lists... doesn’t now!! ( thanks John Barker ).

22^th May 2006

Added Duplicate Item to the pop-up menu (right click) on Add Item when editing customer orders. This makes adding cheese weights on a new day a lot easier.

10^th May 2006

Tidy Customer List had problems when little tidying needed doing ...fixed!

7^th May 2006

Added Tidy Customer List to Options menu in the Edit Customers scrolling list. This moves all customers to top of each round, deletes rounds with no customers, whilst maintaining ordered collection lists. Not available whilst data is on HHs.

Round Names are now more distinctive in the Edit Customers scrolling list.

The current round is saved whilst inserting / deleting customers in the Edit Customers scrolling list.

Palm User Name file is now saved when leaving the HH authorisation form which will allow easier deleting of unwanted HHs.

Edit Round Data modified to show round numbers on round names and fail safe & easy (not to be so picky) when ends at figures are entered wrongly.

8^th Apr 2006

Some users had complained that in certain cases invoices with remittance slip showed “For Information only – DO NOT PAY” in error...fixed.

5^th Apr 2006

Some Palm operations have been setting the back week counter so screen turned blue whilst editing this week after a hotsync...fixed!

Reallocation of HH license was half working now works.

The View Milk Folder is List HH Users was half working now works

Added Check Dongle Type to Secondary Functions just in case I sent out the wrong type of dongle.

29^th Mar 2006

Printing of Statements from from List to Screen page printed the wrong size after first printed OK fixed ( thanks Sheila Konig )

9^th Mar 2006

Simple Collection List in error showing wrong totals with delivery list 2 set. Mod may cause other errors please let me know if you find any. ( thanks Mike Pratley )

18^th Feb 2006

Other Lists – Payments By – Cheque List, Cheques on Day, and Cash Payers List have been modified to work with Day Payers. The code change may cause other errors please let me know if you find any. ( thanks Will Austin )

18^th Feb 2006

Payments on Day listing prints payments for day-payers in error (not the day & wrong amount ) This has been fixed but the code change may cause other errors please let me know if you find any.

9^th Feb 2006

Three per page receipts are being draw with lines – leftover from debugging. They don’t draw lines now! Thanks Mr. Nash.

2^nd Feb 2006

Statements not showing correct amount in total owing column payment should be deducted. (thanks Douglas Campbell).

If Check Price Profit error flag is set then it is not reset until the program is restarted. Fixed! (thanks Douglas Campbell).

1^st Feb 2006

Remittance Slips printing "For Information Only" when this invoice is zero but there is still money owed from previous periods. This is now fixed (I think)!

17^th Jan 2006

Ordered Collection List / Delivery Style Listing not print correct totals when payment made. (thanks Mike Pratley) This is now fixed (I think)!

8^th Jan 2006

Ordered Collection List / Delivery Style Listing not print correct totals when payment made. (thanks Mike Pratley) This fix messed up other collection lists so fix withdrawn until we have time to look at it!

4^th Jan 2006

Ordered Collection List / Delivery Style Listing not print correct totals when payment made. (thanks Mike Pratley)

19^th Dec 2005

Delivery Note occasionally printing with Remitance Slip (thanks John Towers)

13^th Dec 2005

Column added to Sage Transfer Listing. (thanks Hopewall)

4^th Dec 2005

HH Functions 4 & 5 displayed the HH’s folder name not the User Name ...does now. (thanks Callum McQueen)

Email Steve Week File – Now sends all HH info as well. As a bi-product it creates folder C:\junk on hard disk.

Sometimes doing HH function 1 generated message DO NOT EDIT IN PAST WEEKS’ now should not.

20^th Nov 2005

On some systems the UCN (Unchanging Customer Numbers) have become screwed (Two customers have the same number). In scrolling list press the UCN button (if you get error messages) hold down Enter button on keyboard until error messages are finished then select Options – Repair Bad UCNs. This should solve problem.

7^th Oct 2005

John Gregory found system crashing when rolling forward. InvoiceNo had become greater that 32767 which is the largest number that can be held in a 16 bit signed integer. The maximum invoice number has been increased to 65535 and will now automatically reset to 1000 beyond that.

24^th Sept 2005

Delivery Notes derived from Preprinted Weekly Invoice displayed the vat content (in error) now it doesn’t.

Statements are now printed in a three column format as in Bank Statments. Extra form feeds removed.

16^th July 2005

HH MODS

The last customer on the “Add Item” list not displaying properly.

10^th July 2005

A side effect to adding “print adverts on delivery notes” was that the plain old pressing of DN when editing customers crashed with error message... this is now fixed (thanks Andrew).

Some of the buttons on the Define Data and Backup Folders window did not work...do now!

4^th July 2005

The Datasource parameter has been lengthened to allow longer network addresses.

Deleted some menus from front page but added Define Data and Backup Folders.

Now offers Define Data and Backup Folders when data source cannot be found.

1^st July 2005

HH MODS

If you pay a customer "by token" and tick the pay by cheque box for extra payment the handheld crashes…fixed (thanks Andrew)

Unable to kill payments entered to a Day Payer…fixed (thanks Andrew)

Modified system so that the most used items are at the top if the items list when adding items.

Items added to the loading list without any quantity delivered are now saved.

28^th June 2005

You are now able to print adverts on delivery notes. (thanks Mike Madley)

When I added a check for existence of logo file they stopped printing on Delivery Notes…fixed

Phone Number has been increased to 16 character and Second number added.

You can now browse for Data Source handy when using the system on a network.

A check has been added to ensure Data Sources are valid folders.

Updated Escape Code Printing of Simple Collection Lists

10^th June 2005 – New System

In Scrolling List modified Options menu to make it easier to set/use delivery / collection man sets.

In Scrolling List Added ALT+1..6 to set delivery/ collection manning as in old DOS system.

Added Select Man when printing simple collection list.

Added ‘Sort in Man Order’ to Edit Flag Set in Scrolling List – to aide in entering payments from multiman collection lists.

4^th June 2005

Modified Collection List - Show History printing of weekly totals was in error - hopefully now fixed...(thanks Marion@Wisemans).

Modified Collection List Options moded “Print Arrears still owing” and added “Print Paidsome still owing” . Please test ASAP I might have made a complete mess of things!

28^th May 2005

Sage transfer file moded to calculate Vat correctly (thanks Hopewall)

Setup of HH’s moded to user the proper Palm User code. The system is now distributed with CondMgr.dll. This means that integration with Palm software is so much simpler see HH Function – Help.

16^th May 2005

Modified Collection List Options added “Print Arrears” customers on End of week collection lists as an option. Show History now allows printing of weekly totals or amounts brought forward.

2^nd May 2005

Added Print UCN on delivery lists to Delivery List Options (blame Stanley Dairy).

26^th Apr 2005

The system now prints “Paid in Arrears” customers on End of week collection lists (Blame Ray Watkins).

7^th Apr 2005

When printing all Invoices - Single Day Delivery Notes you can now select the first two days from next week.

6^th Apr 2005

Account List now has totals in every column. (thanks Ray Watkins)

Apparently when data is transferred to HH during editing on PC their inclusion in an Ordered Collection List is deleted....fixed I think! (thanks Andrew Davies)

4^th Apr 2005

Font Scaling not working on Ordered Collection Lists ... is now! (thanks Ray Watkins)

If printing collection Ordered Lists and first list ends on RHS column the next starts in RHS column. (thanks Ray Watkins)

2^nd Apr 2005

The system used to not print “Paid in Arrears” customers only on start of week collection lists. The system now extends this to end of week lists. (Blame Ray Watkins).

1^st Apr 2005 – (Not an April Fool – still it may yet be!)

Added Font Scaling to Delivery Lists and Collection Lists... look in Options (thanks Ray Watkins) Let me know if it screws up any other lists.

28^th Mar 2005

Added Customers not in any list to Select Ordered Collection List ( [Or] button ) in Scrolling List.(Thanks Andrew Davies).

15^th Mar 2005

Added Sage Customer file to aid creation of customers on Sage.(Thanks Andy@Hopewall).

6^th Mar 2005

The format of the Sage Transfer file has been changed to a more useful form. (Thanks Andy@Hopewall).

17^th Feb 2005

When printing delivery style collection lists with delivery type 5 the RH column started at top of page. (doesn’t now thanks Ray Watkins)

12^th Feb 2005

MR_050212_HH latest HH program.

When you created an Alternative Order for Week ahead by pressing blank tabs and editing order, then pressed another blank tab but did not edit order the changed order was lost. (isn’t now thanks).

When printing a delivery note for next week from Alternative Order for Week the date printed on delivery note is wrong. . (isn’t now thanks).

Alas browsing for HH terminal folders required a large dll file so that mod has been removed.

10^th Feb 2005

MR_050210_HH latest HH program.

Not printing day payer cheques in cheque list correctly fixed! Also day names in error. (thanks Richard Dunn)

Due to changes in Palm Desktop Installation - Defective Selection of HH terminal in HH Functions - Set Up Palm Users ... System now uses presence of "HotSync.log" file to identify HH terminal names. If that fails then you can now browse for HH terminal folders.

HH – Help Installation Notes have been updated.

24^th Jan 2005

In HH ccc file changed the value stored for Customer Discount.

Added Flags to be disabled by Office system.

Stopped user changing Flags when disabled by Office system.

HH mods Customer Discounts and Cheese Weights.

16^th Jan 2005

Mods to Bring Forward Delivery Days.

Automatically produce the alternative standing order for next week when bringing forward a day from next week.

Added message to this effect and disable the Set All Alt Order function

Restricted days to move so that users dont do silly things.

Disable Bring Forward when data is on HH

Modified edit screen so that when moving to next customer whilst in Alternate Order the system stays in that order if one present for next customer.

If you click on an Alternate Order Tab but don't change the order then the Alternate Order is deleted - it is no different to the standing order (with cancellations).

Warn of data loss when setting Alternative Orders (left-right buttons).

Set up dll for data access to MR8 data files call if you want details.

9^th Dec 2004

HH mods to Token Payments.

Escape Code Printing of delivery lists still print Alternate Order for Week... doesn’t now (thanks Peter Francis)

Run Totals not printing correctly on type 5 delivery lists...does now.

4 ^th Dec 2004

HH mods Printing of cash items and cheese weight items now take place on correct day

Printing of Results now print in the correct font! (thanks Mike Pratley).

21^st Nov 2004

Earlier changes to UNPAID Invoice system can cause Index Out of Range error on opening week file (Only happens when you have unpaid invoices and no weekly data)...fixed (thanks Ian Pardy)

18^th Oct 2004

Reset cash item if data screwed by setting C in Stock List.

Added “Show delivery address on Invoice” in customer details.

Modified receipt format to get more in!!

8^th Oct 2004

Slight changes to Edit Special Prices – Hanging Up after application of 1^st edit.

12^th Sept 2004

Now if you want item totals on delivery note you must display column totals in edit screen.

Mods to HH program.

Added warning to system of "killed" payment on HH.

6^th Sept 2004

Printing delivery notes had a total items printed. Alas this included all items since starting printing delivery notes. What a duffer!!.. now fixed.

2^nd Sept 2004

After so long... it appears that Printing of Invoices by calendar dates using escape codes was in error ... fixed. (thanks Ailsa)!

21^st August 2004

Paying UNPAID Invoice by Bacs results in item in item list being deleted Now Fixed...Sorry!

15^th August 2004

Printer Setup added to Invoice Printing menu in scrolling list (thanks Andrew Davies).

Tokens can now have Special Prices press F7 in Edit Data.

14^th August 2004

Adverts on Receipt forms now centred on form.

Problem of Ordered Lists getting screwed when deleting customers ... Code changed let me know of any further problems (thanks Andrew Davies).

Office system now can prevent office personnel setting payments. (andy@hopewall farm).

Typed Loading List is OK but needs to list all non-typed items at end...does now (andy@hopewall farm).

Some printing did not work after printing receipt forms does now (thanks Linda Jenkinson)

The system now checks for broken links within the database. These are caused by the program terminating (perhaps by power failure). Upon finding these broken links the system automatically checks for lost customers which can easily be recovered. (thanks STEVE DAVIES)

The system can now be changed optionally to swap unused customers to stock items. However, I foresee this feature requiring more support than the basic system for this reason I intend to charge £100+vat per year for support above the original purchase price. For the moment opting for this means you cannot use Hand Held terminals.

Typical Configurations might be

3500 cust 500 Stock Items or

3000 cust 1000 Stock Items or

2500 cust 1500 Stock Items or

2000 cust 2000 Stock Items

UNPAID INVOICE these have needed work for sometime! People have complained that their presence in the item list was a pain especially as ADD ITEM was below them. They have been taken out of the items list and given a new button to display them. Right clicking displays the old popup menu but you can now multi-select the rows. After selection a hint showing the total value of highlighted invoices is shown. A warning is given if evidence of your not using the Unpaid Invoices properly....Let me know what you think!

Payments on Day treated Bacs payments as cash now there is a seperate Bacs column.

14^th July 2004

Listing Cheques on Day not printing properly when page is full (does now) Thanks Richard.

4^th July 2004

Three per Page Adverts not printing properly (does now) Thanks Rachel.

25^th June 2004

The Dairy System would not transfer Cash and Cheese Weight Items to and from HH… Does now! (Thanks Robert Walker).

Added “Office System” to Secondary Functions Menu. If you want to limit the information seen by “Office Users” then set the password. Tick what you don’t want them to see. To disable Office System delete password. Please let me know of any additions.

11^th May 2004

Some people have reported the system not writing some payments to the payments log. Not quite sure what the problem was but I have improved the format and added the Log button so you can view the file from within the scrolling list. Keep me posted if problem persists.

Cash values not being correctly transferred from the HH (Dairy System only) now corrected (thanks Robert Walker).

Bank Giro Credit payment not setting the last payment date …does now. (Thanks Linda J).

You can now select required Flag Groups within an Ordered Collection List for printing labels. (Thanks Linda J).

26^th Apr 2004

Milk Round Utilities - Stock Management - Print Stock List was printing wrong values for some items value …fixed (thanks Andy)

The Other Lists – Payment By – Cheque List sometime did not deal with end of page correctly resulting in some missing cheques and most importantly the total…fixed (thanks Dave et al).

If the event of an Invoice Logo being defined but the file cannot be found the system generated errors … it now does not!!! (thanks Linda)

The correct version of MR_Installer.exe (Palm Conduit Installer) has now been installed for Palm systems install at C:\Program Files\Palm\ (sorry and thanks Steve Challoner)

10^th Mar 2004

New Milk1 Program for HHs MR040310_HH.

Other Listings – Product Usage did not return to correct week after printing…fixed! (thanks Graham)

Names and Addresses now show when editing Ordered Collection Lists.

2^nd Mar 2004

New Milk1 Program for HHs MR040302_HH.

26^th Feb 2004

Other Listings – Product Usage chose wrong year for some users in January - fixed. (thanks Graham)

8^th Feb 2004

You can now transfer Flag Group collection lists to more than one HH.

Added View Milk Folder button to the Authorise Users window so it is easier to check if files are present.

Number if items (and special prices) per customer raised from 50 to 70.

Error message on too many stock items (31) corrected.

Special price items sorted on W = Show Prices list.

Added Vat Summary to Delivery Lists where customer is “show vat” ( DO CHECK that it is giving correct results).

Added Item Total to Delivery Lists ( DO CHECK that it is giving correct results).

Other Lists – Payment By… only listed all customers. It now lists by round, between customers etc.

Cash Payment totals added to Payment List (thanks Andy)

29^th Jan 2004

You can now transfer Ordered collection lists to more than one HH. (thanks Alf)

20^th Jan 2004

You can now transfer HH licenses to other HH’s. Solves problem of replacement HH have slightly different name not being licensed.

20^th Jan 2004

27^th May 2003 Mod - Define Palm Directory will automatically find Palm system if loaded to “C:\Program Files\Palm” as well as “C:\Palm”. The wise installer also looks for the “C:\Program Files\Palm” when loading the HH system.

(This did not work because conduit loader had not been changed).

The correct change has now been made so that you can used the default when loading Palm system. But you must select Define Palm Directory before Setup Palm Users.

Rewritten instructions for load Palm HH’s onto PC and Milk Round Software

(about time!!!) HH Functions - Help

9^th Jan 2004

Oops - When Setting Payments in Edit Screen payment is not displayed in scrolling

list. Does not affect actual data but worries users....fixed! This fix caused problems when setting payments in back weeks…now fixed!!!

Mini Roll Forward did not update in scrolling list… does now.

4^th Jan 2004 – New System

Data edits lost when in edit screen click on Customer Details then click Cancel. If you went onto another customer (or exited) at this point prior edits are lost ...fixed! (thanks Andy Sawyer).

When changing customers in Edit Screen after editing order for weeks ahead the weeks total displayed in scrolling list is in error. Does not affect actual data but worries users....fixed! (thanks Andy Sawyer).

When Setting Payments in Edit Screen payment is not displayed in scrolling

list. Does not affect actual data but worries users....fixed! (thanks all who pointed it out).

Cycle Items not deleting with F3...fixed.

Cycle items not showing on difference lists...fixed.

Vat totals not showing correctly on Escape code Endofweek summary...fixed! (thanks Andy Sawyer et al).

Total Carried Forward on the End of Week Summary of Deliverys list did not include discounts on cheese and cash items. This accounted for the difference in the carried forward figure from the old week (in error) to the brought forward figure for the new week (correct) after roll forward.

You can now choose to display a simple remittance slip on invoices.

You can print a credit card input form on invoices.

26^th Nov 2003

Payments entered HH not being transferred to Last Payment Amount/Date fixed. (thanks Andrew Davies).

You can now disable Last Payment Date showing on Invoice (look in Invoice Options)

7^th Oct 2003

Setting payments in the edit screen not being transferred to HH fixed. (thanks Andrew Davies).

See Mod to HH Conduit – improved data integrity checking.

Bring Forward has been changed! It now reflects any holidays already input and does not complain when customer has UTFN cancellations. Please Check!!!

4^th Sept 2003

Not showing amounts and correct last payment date on bottom of invoices for BACS payers. (Linda Jenkinson)

28^th Aug 2003

Updated the dairy name heading to invoice standard (thanks Mike Madeley).

Added name to receipt slips.

Added single A5 cut sheet as paper for receipt forms (thanks Andrew Davies).

15^th Aug 2003

Scroll bar showing on edit screen when name & address too long. Fixed!! (thanks Mike Pratley)

29^th July 2003

System crashed on roll forward if the value of the CYC item were left at zero (fixed).

Payments on Day list would list all days when amount paid was zero. Doesn’t now. (thanks Andrew Davies)

Payment input for Day-Payers and not added into Payment List on Exit from Scrolling List.

23^rd July 2003

Added Dash between quan and abrev on delivery sheet.

Oppps!!!! The adjustments made to prevent the entry of payments on day payers from within the scrolling list went awry so you could not enter payments. (fixed)

22^nd July 2003

In Edit Screen show cost price in set Special price input (Andy@Hopewall).

20^th July 2003

Added Error message if trying to Authorise HH User having not installed HH programs. (Which prevents the authorising).

When printing labels the address was printed before name.(not now).

Other Terms Text now has been extended to 255 characters. The “\” character is now the new line character. The text is still centre justified. ON invoices this text is printed before the invoice total.

Adjusted some forms for XP standard window title bars (slightly deep than the original windows). This will get rid of some scroll bars. Think I got them all!

Store Credit Card Info in customer details. Added! Data stored in week file in a coded way. So that it is not available to people looking at data during transmission via internet.

Added in scrolling list F8 = Swap Name & Address.

When a payment was entered for a Multi Day Payer on the scrolling list it was lost if further payments where added that week (in edit screen). Fixed

Added the Cyc button this adds a delivery cycle item to items in the standing order data. The Cycle Data should be added immediately after the item to be cycled. Set Cycle to the number of weeks in the cycle, and set Wks2Go to the number of weeks before delivery is to be made. Data it transfered to this Week when Wks2Go = 0 after roll forward.

Added an automatic update from HH when entering Listings Page (Lewis Metcalf??). Lewis was seeing a difference in loading lists between HH & Main System.

BUG WARNING - There appears to be a low incidence bug with HH’s which involves corruption of CCC file. The system automatically sends CCC file to me via email (you must log on). On getting this bug, you should go into edit screen on PC and press PgDn button until you get the end of the customers. Check week data of all where data is updated from HH.

Added Printer Reset (which includes 6 lines per inch) to all Escape Code printing lists. (A&A Fowler).

Added Date and Value of last Payment Printed on receipts/invoices. (Mr. Stern)

Added Escape Code Printing to Delivery List “All using Stock Items” (A&A Fowler).

24^th June 2003

If you entered orders for upto six weeks ahead then the list all who get stock item would crash doesn’t now (thanks A&A Fowler).

20^th June 2003

HH - Grafiti input now works on delivery list. Reload Milk1 or Dairy1 to HH!

9^th June 2003

Apologies to all who told me about printing zero and negative balances on collecting lists. Oops! There was a bug now fixed. You need to reset the tick box in Collection Options (Thanks Chris Corbally).

27^th May 2003

Define Palm Directory will automatically find Palm system if loaded to “C:\Program Files\Palm” as well as “C:\Palm”. The wise installer also looks for the “C:\Program Files\Palm” when loading the HH system. (small change but hope it helps!)

Wise MR8_Documentation installation not putting shortcut on XP Desktop (does now).

The F12 = Calculator button now works in Windows XP (they moved the program!).

Rolled Forward Twice by accident?? Turns out is was not an accident. If you had rolled forward once then pressed the button again by accident you could not Cancel out, the system automatically rolled forward. (Fixed)

Vat Summary on invoices must shown prices Net of Vat. (thanks Barry Maloney.)

(Any thoughts from anyone?)

Font size of Results window printing. You can now set the font details for the results window. (Mr. Stern).

Added Append Payment List to log file in scrolling list Options Menu. Log files are stored in folder C:\MR\Payment Logs\. (Mr. Stern).

28^th Feb 2003

Second Telephone Number sometimes gets screwed-up and prints rubbish characters on invoices. Fixed (I think?) thanks all.

Print Scheduler – Next Day radio button position not being saved (thanks Mike Pratley).

UCN numbers getting changed on deleting and inserting customers. Fixed I think?? (thanks Mr. Stern)

23^rd Feb 2003

Single Day Delivery Notes by Selected Round did not print cash for those with the “Show Cash on Delivery Notes” ticked. Does now!

Single Day Delivery Listings (types 1 & 2) – earlier mod to cancelled items changed back (thanks Mike Pratley et al).

Add two black lines after full address in Invoice Printing. (thanks Mr. Stern).

6^th Feb 2003

On some printers (HP in particular) the normal printing of receipt forms seems impossibly close to the RH side of the paper. (Yes, it should be possible to adjust unprintable areas but…) To fix this two buttons have been added to the Edit Format screen so that once the format has been adjusted it can be used from then on without having to adjust it every time. It can also be reset back to the defaults.

In”Listing all Invoices for last n Weeks” you can now save this to file or print results. (thanks Robert Meadows, Riverford Farm Dairies).

3^rd Feb 2003

The checking of integrity of ccc files (HH users only) was in error after changes to introduce 2^nd mod on 14^th Jan. Fixed now no longer generating error. (thanks Andy et al)

2^nd Feb 2003

If Hampers were left with zero price attempts to print error message caused crash. (Fixed). Andy@Hopewall

Labels and Envelope printing when printing with full name and address system would print first line of address instead of name. Fixed!! (thanks Mr. Stern).

Added a check box “[ ] Print UCN's on Invoices” to “Invoice Options”. You can now print an “Unchanging Customer Number” on invoices. Please let me know if I’ve missed anything?

Paper Round Utility – Delete all items on day now allows you to select customers by rounds.

When Using Old Filenames (see Secondary functions) and printing multi week invoices system appeared to freeze…fixed! ( thanks Alan Blackhurst)

14^th Jan 2003

Horizontal lines between customers on Delivery list not drawing properly when not showing cash. Fixed!! (Mr. Stern).

A new feature to list all changes since the last roll forward (See Delivery Lists Menu) has been added. (Mr. Stern). DO CHECK that it works in all cases!

7^th Jan 2003 –

To Scrolling List Options Menu added Show Payment List on Exit if this item is checked a list of payments with a total will be displayed. (good suggestion Mr. Stern) Let me know what you think!

To Delivery List Options added check box so that horizontal lines can be draw between customers. (Mr. Stern).

To Delivery List Options added Non-delivery Day which is not printed on 7 day Delivery Lists and Invoices. Let me know if I have missed any tricks. (Mr. Stern).

Added Discount per Item to Other Lists menu. System first runs End of Week Summary then shows the value of any discounts attributable to each item.

GoTo Customer in scrolling list (by pressing 1 to 9) now works in UCN list.

3^rd Jan 2003

BUG found in the application of a Period Cancel to an Alternative Week in coming (next) year. (thanks Graham Collicut).

See changes to HH code in HH Mod History.

Have now protected against writing of bad data (caused by power surges etc…) to the week file. It is believed that this was responsible for the Multiple Entries in Page list bug. I know after 10 years that penny should have dropped… it has now.

UNPAID Invoice payment not setting Last Payment Date. Does now.

Due to a longstanding bug in Edit Invoice Advert (for Escape Code Printing only) only the first advert could be saved…fixed.

Added Download Update and Connect to Website to front page Help menu.

Stopped multiple copies of system running at the same time.

12^th Dec 2002

Changed format of receipts resulted in the Receipt Form Total on Short Form Monthly being printed over the items. Fixed! (thanks Mike)

Each customer has been given a UCN (Unchanging Customer Number) these are generated automatically. Soon these will be printable on invoices. However, if you are using these please be aware that you need to check that two customers do not have the same number. You can do this by clicking the UCN button at LHS of scrolling list. Please let me know of any unwanted side effects.

8^th Dec 2002

The new last paid date on Simple Collections Lists has been reduced from “Paid – 8^th Dec 2002 to (8^th Dec) so it now takes up less space. It can also be disabled by checking the “No Last Paid Date (on Simple List)” box in Collection List Options. (thanks all)

28^th Nov 2002

Changed format of receipts to allow more space for adverts and items. Let me know what you think.

New three per page receipts having too big a margin at bottom causing printing on next page (thanks Den Williams).

20^th Nov 2002

The system now stores an Unchanging Customer Number which you can edit customers by clicking the ucn speed button top left on the scrolling list. It can also be seen in the Customer Details Screen – top left. This is not fully worked up yet but coming – at long last! (thanks Mr. Stern)

The UCN is now created automatically when first editing a customer. If you do not have any customers with a UCN all will automatically be given one when you first enter the scrolling list. UCN is going to be optionally displayed on invoices.

The font size used for “Please Detach and Return with Payment” was set to 14 in error now reset to 12.

DO CHECK – If you downloaded since 7^th October do check your vat sales reports End of Week Summary of Deliveries & Product Usage they have been giving the wrong answer (thanks Mr. Mott).

16^th Nov 2002

Slight mods to three per page receipt layout. (thanks Mike)

System now saves the date of the last payment. Printed out on edit data screen and simple collections lists with no history. Not yet available on delivery type collection lists (not Escape code printing), or HHs. (thanks Andy@Hopewall) Is reset by killing payment.

15^th Nov 2002

A bug has come to light if a HH has run out of authorization but is continued in use. Under HH Function 3 – Delete HH files at End of Week the system will delete files and data will be lost. This is now fixed … warning message plus exit from function. you cannot do this if a HH has run out of authorization.

Messages if HH is not authorized have been strengthened.

A countdown message has been added to roll-forward if HH’s are in testing mode.

5^th Nov 2002 -

Range check error sometimes whilst rolling forward if Stock Management was enabled…fixed!

Print Scheduler – Appeared to be listing by Ordered Collection List (List Z) when it was not.

Print Scheduler – Search for items cannot be added to schedule – message added.

3 Per Page Receipt not printing LHS slips correctly (thanks Mike Pratley).

21^st Oct 2002

In Delivery Note Output window ( where you choose day) OK now has focus so you can just press Enter.

In scrolling list two new commands F5 = Find Invoice No. & F6 = List All Invoice Numbers in ‘n’ Weeks. Only works with numbered invoices. (from and idea by Douglas Campbell).

17^th Oct 2002

Other Lists – Payments by Cash also listed BACs payment (thanks Andy@Hopewall)

Cheese Weights – if the number of cheese weight items exceeded 100 system would crash in end of week summary. This has been changed to 1000 with warning message. (thanks Andy@Hopewall)

Listing of Customers Who Get Stock Items had layout format errors (layout was not defined) and would skip to new page unnecessarily. (fixed)

Vat Summary on invoices had been improved – apart from getting wrong total on 1^st invoice printed and missing the cheese weight and cash values from untaxed totals! (thanks Andy Challoner).

Added checkbox to Edit Customer Details screen to differentiate between Use Full Address on Invoice and Use Full Address on Del Notes. (thanks Douglas Campbell)

Added F9 = Print Del Note to edit customer data screen and yes! If you press the F9 key it prints del note. (much loved by MR6 dos-ers).

Important Change - Invoice numbers are no-longer stored in the week file! Instead they are stored in a file C:\mr\data\Invoice.num. This has two implications:- a) You can print invoices in a week after rolling forward and still get sequential invoice numbers. b) If you are using two computers to print invoices you will have to transfer the next invoice number by hand.

The next invoice number is still editable within Edit Round Data. (let me know what you think!)

7^th Oct 2002

Side effects again!!! With delivery list type set to 4 or 5 the Ordered Collection simple list printed two pages on a simple page (thanks Linda).

Small change to ordered collection list to stop array bound error (thanks Gordon).

Sorry folks! A small mod to the filename in which your current week number is stored means the current week number will be reset to 01. DO NOT ROLL FORWARD! You will have to use Secondary Functions – Select Current Week File.

Vat Summary on invoices has been improved. (thanks John Doorly)

Attempt to use Z or z commands in scrolling list or editing customers details when using old filename standard results in message. (thanks Dave)

5^th Sept 2002

Print Scheduler now prints correct day when printing single day prints. (thanks Mike)

When printing Pre-printed Weekly Invoices with Escape Codes (when days were cancelled) spurious numbers appear in column totals….fixed ( thanks Denham Williams).

26^th Aug 2002

Conduit MR020826 for HH terminals.

Print Scheduler now works when printing single day print - next day on last day of week. (thanks Mike)

24^th Aug 2002

Added View Documentation Button to front page as the shortcut on the desktop sometimes did not show.

The date of single day loading lists on Escape Code printing was not set therefore did not print – a leftover from conversion to Windows.

Added 3 receipts per page to invoice options for preprinted receipt forms and short form monthlys. Let me know what you think!!

At last! Added Email week file to Steve in Secondary Functions please use sparingly and only when asked. Probably will not work with Hotmail type systems.

16^th Aug 2002

Moving a Block of Customers did not cause rebuild of Ordered Collection Lists (does now).

Sometime when pressing F3 on an UNPAID Invoice item the popup menu appeared off the bottom of the screen. Doesn’t now! (thanks Andy)

Full address on Delivery Lists now has name as well as address (thanks Andy@Hopewall).

Printing of Cheese on End of Week Summary is now sorted on item number and day .

7^th Aug 2002

Print schedule not printing Ordered Collection List Start of Week/End of Week properly …is now. Also you can now edit in more lists and include/exclude flags (thanks Mike Pratley).

6^th Aug 2002

Full address added to Delivery Lists (thanks Andy@Hopewall).

Added Enable Print Log menu to Other Lists in Listings Screen to help debug printing problems. Log is reset every time through so save to file if you want to keep it.

Oops!!! Please check the balances of customers paying by Token. The token value has been added to total instead of subtracting during roll-forward. (thanks Andy@Hopewall & Ian Mott).

Carmel in Ireland wanted to increase spaces between lines on delivery list. See Delivery List Options – mm between list Items. Let me know of any problems. If you don’t want it leave it set to zero.

Print schedule not printing Collection List Start of Week/End of Week properly …is now. Sorry, current schedules will be lost. This (loss of schedules) should not happen again as have built in spare data for future use. (thanks Mike Pratley).

I a few cases multi-page listings were being printed on one page. This was due to program setting a Y value to 11.00 inches as a signal to get a new page. However on some printers the bottom and top margin settings made the page length greater than 11 inches (for A4) hence the problem. Internally these 11 inch settings have been changed to 12 inches so that problem can no longer occur. (thanks Steve Davies).

Saving of Results Form to a file sometimes did not work properly. This now has been rewritten and now works.

27^th July 2002

One step forward two back ..again!. The new Print Scheduler had a few side effects:-

When moving from Listing Screen to front page the dongle was re-interogated causing Demonstration System to be displayed and garbage to be printed (thanks Dave).

When I tested the roll forward a Print Schedule file was present. If one had not been created then the system displayed “File not Found” and would not roll forward (thanks Chris).

View Print Schedule displayed wrong day title and crashed on some days. (Andy & Mike).

Hope Print Scheduler proves useful!

26^th July 2002

Since June UNPAID Invoice entries have been deleted by HH Function - 2 Read all HH Databases. Sorry for this oversight.

25^th July 2002

Bug in 4 per Page Receipts printing due to earlier changes. Sorry to all affected.

Small mod in Print Scheduler had caused changes to Use Escape Codes/A5 Printing & Default to Screen tick boxes not to be saved.

Moved View full Schedule button from front page menu item to Listings page.

Printing Autopilot is now called Print Scheduler.

22^nd July 2002

I think Printing Autopilot is now working BUT I may not have included all the various flags which make printing work! Do let me know if you aren’t getting the correct result.

If you specify Advert at Top in Invoice Options but don’t define which advert then you got a blank advert ...fixed.

An Observation when using adverts. Dave Clark was finding the font of the advert would charge without warning after a number of invoices were printed. He fixed this by making sure he selected all the adverts text and then set the font! (thanks Dave).

19^th July 2002

Full Name and Address has been added to Labels and Envelopes with a slight change to layout. (thanks Carmel)

18^th July 2002

Deleting of credit charges not working (Mr. Appleton) This was due to payments input on HH not being deleted from credit charge.

Printing AutoPilot – You will notice a new button Add Next Print to AutoPilot in the listing screen. The basic idea is that you create a list of listings you print regularly and the system presents these on the day required. You tick the ones you want then press the Print button. Please try it with the following proviso’s:-

The system is not yet working properly.

You may loose the list of listings at your next update.

Let me know what you think.

Let me know what isn’t working – by email!.

Last Invoice Value may not be clearing due to rounding errors. Now if payment is within 0.5p of the last invoice value (provided this is not equal to the new total i.e. just paid last months invoice) is cleared during roll forward. Any other value it is not.

Statements are now printed with Full Address if one is available. Useful if posting Statements! (thanks Andy@Hopewall)

Error generated on way into Stock Management and in Shuffling Stock especially after printing…fixed!

Added cash items (Cheese Weights) to Stock Management (thanks Andy@ Hopewall)

Modified Cheque/Bacs Lists to include Cash and Tokens (thanks Andy@ Hopewall)

Credit Charges (cash items) not showing up on Business Report. Also correction to how cheese weights are listed (was two lines now one). (thanks Mr. Appleton)

30^th June 2002

Have done mods to HH code suggest you reload the Milk1 program to all HH’s (see HH Mod History).

29^th June 2002

Remittance Slip this invoice total in error when invoice is between dates …fixed. (thanks Ian Shaw)

Multi Account list – not printing Amount Bfwd. Since adding of Middletons Invoice (thanks Ian Shaw)

Headings not being displayed on Multi Account List.

20^th June 2002

Remittance Slip this invoice total in error …fixed. (thanks Graham Collicut)

Payments List and End of Week Summary List - Vat Totals and Total Vatable Sales on Escape Code printing was showing double the actual amounts (bug dates back to 1^st December 2001)…(thanks Den Williams).

19^th June 2002

The changes for networked system to stop more than one user accessing data files had a side effect that stopped user working…fixed (thanks John Gregory).

Recent changes stopped printing Vat totals at bottom of some invoices for “Show Vat” customers.

Some printing on A5 not in right position corrected (thanks Andy).

15^th June 2002

HH Conduit MR020615 Seems a line in code got deleted. Anyway Ordered collection lists now get transferred correctly! (thanks Mr. Muscroft) If you reinstall system then restart Hotsync the new conduit will work.

14^th June 2002

Bug in Escape Code printing of Loading Lists and End of Week Summary when printing cheese weights. Also corrected day headings.

13^th June 2002

When customers are added if ordered collection lists are present a check is made to see if the customer is in any list if not a message is displayed.

Raising and Lowering of customers works properly when encountering beginning of round title.

Raising. Lowering and Reversing of customers is now only possible after checking the Enable Customer Raise/Lower in the Options menu. This is to stop inadvertent moving of customers.

Added test for printing with Escape Codes to Other lists – If you are printing with Escape codes you must set unprintable areas to zero on Printer Setup!!

10^th June 2002

When using delivery list type 5 and printing standing order data this weeks data was printed not the standing order (fixed… thanks Neil Parsons).

Debt Charge not deleting when payment is made …fixed (thanks Mr. Appleton).

Loading data on Single Day and Seven Day Delivery Lists not printing Cash Items and Cheese Weights on both Windows and Escape Code printing (fixed I think).

Changes to or additions of Cash Items and Cheese Weights now cause differences.

8^th June 2002 - New System

Have done mods to HH code suggest you reload the Milk1 program to all HH’s (see HH Mod History).

Small mod to Chk button function giving wrong totals (in some instances) to amount Cfwd & Bfwd.(thanks Den Williams)

Added ‘The totals in the Loading List appear incorrect’ to Frequent User Problems help.

Added explanation of Token Items and Credit Charge Items to Help in Edit Round Data.

Bacs LIST same as cheque list (thanks Andy Hopewall Farm)

Added Middleton's A5 Invoice to Scrolling List & Edit Cust Data Menus + some mods.

When deleting Unpaid Invoices system now asks for how the invoice was paid cash / cheque / bacs (thanks Andy Hopewall Farm).

18^th May 2002

Added Middleton’s A5 Invoice to Invoice List.

Several small changes to invoice printing.

PLEASE CHECK YOUR INVOICE TYPES PRINT CORRECTLY

15^th May 2002

Add Chk button to scrolling list. This allows user to check the brought forward totals with the carried forward totals from the previous week for each customer.

Add Find “LOST” Customers to Import Data menu in scrolling list. This allows user to find lost customers (a very rare condition). The database management system has been changed to recognize when a customer has been lost and displays a message.

Added FILE IN USE interlock for people using the system over a network or where Data Source is not C:\MR\DATA.

Last Invoice value is now transferred to HH. See HH mods.

Escape Code Printing not printing –ve or zero balance invoices (thanks Den Williams)

You need to reload the Milk1 program to all HH’s (see HH Mod History).

Debt Charge Dates in error …fixed (thanks Mr. Appleton).

Modified Results form so that the scroll window size changes when form is resized.

6^th May 2002

More Side Effects – Some people have been finding that the week number changed back a few weeks without any user action. This has been tracked down to the autobackup function recording the backup count in the same file as the current weekno and yearno. If the auto-backup happened whilst looking at back weeks or during the printing of invoices then the wrong weekno could be written in the file… fixed at last!

Added protection against overwriting old files whilst Rolling Forward. You are now warned if you are in danger of overwriting old files!

3^rd May 2002

Oops! Side Effects!!!!

For all people who down loaded since 26^th April and all who are using Credit Charges who print monthly (between dates) invoices. The first days in the new month will be cancelled in the customers order…fixed (Thanks Mike Pratley)

PLEASE RE DOWNLOAD.

2^nd May 2002

Customer Discounts (as set in Customer Details) applied to all items sold were no printing properly on invoices although the invoice total was correct. (thanks Mrs. Thomas).

Unfortunately I added the hint for the z & Z speed buttons to the whole edit screen which had the result of unwanted hints poping up all the time …sorry! (thanks Mike Pratley)

Previous changes to Multi Account List caused some lists to have wrong total depending on what invoice type had been selected. Hopefully this has been fixed. (thanks Mike Pratley)

28^th April 2002

Cash Items/Cheese Weights/Tokens now print properly on Escape Code Printing of loading lists and End of Week Summaries.

26^th April 2002

Check for Page written flags on auto-backup. Just in case.

On Delivery Charges with zero buyin price putting the abbreviation to 3 spaces will make profit calculation work on W=Check Price calculation.

Stopped Unpaid Invoice data being transferred to the HH.

Stopped ability to set payment whilst in “Standing Order”. It generates the wrong payment total. (thanks Dave Clark)

Added Help menu to Select Day/Man window because I had forgotten the rules for producing multi man listings.

Fixed bug in printing of multi-man lists when using Escape Codes (thanks Mr. Dews).

Added Last Invoice Amount carried forward when an invoice is printed (not to screen). Add commands ‘z’ and ‘Z’ for payments of last invoice amount in cash and by cheque. The last invoice amount is set to zero at the next roll forward if the payment is equal to or greater than the last amount. Tell me what you think. (thanks to Mr. Appleton and Dave Clark).

Added Long Edit Form option in edit customers data screen for those customers who want to see more of lines of the customers data displayed – try it you might like it!

Found a bug usually affecting new users. If you entered a quantity when editing customers data screen on the keyboard DID NOT PRESS ENTER then pressed a button to say set a payment when you tried to move the cursor the system would generate and error! …curious bug fixed at long last!

Put VAT flags ‘v’,’w’,’x’ on End of Week Summary list. Also on Product Usage list.

Period in Product Usage list being overwritten (thanks Mike Pratley).

12^th April 2002

Small mod to HH Function 1 due to changes involved in adding credit charges.

11^th April 2002

Invoice period on Short Form Monthly invoices printing too big. Font reduced from 11 to 10. …thanks Mrs. Thomas.

Added Credit Charges to the system. Look in Edit Round Data to see Credit Charge Enabled enables the addition of a credit charge interest of x% after y weeks if the debt is not paid. A warning is displayed on all invoices for customers who are so enabled (see Edit Customer Details – Help). A Cash Stock Item “Credit Charge” is created in the next week (after y weeks) equal to the value of x% of the outstanding invoiced debt. The invoices have to printed on paper to activate the credit charge.

Added Apply Credit Charge in Edit Customer Details enables the application of credit charge interest to this customer. See help in Edit Round Data. WARNING – Only enable customers who have an invoicing period which is greater than the After Weeks number set in Edit Round Data, Otherwise the new invoice will reset the credit charge data from the last invoice. (thanks Mr. Appleton - who only has monthly accounts and charges people for their credit – good man)

Preprinted Weekly/Monthly Invoices with large text font were printing INVOICE in the wrong place…doesn’t now. (thanks Andy @ Hopewall Farm).

Added Stock Check List to Stock Management. Also added Show Value of Stock on List as a checkable menu item in the option menu. (thanks Andy @ Hopewall Farm).

4^th April 2002

Moved Import Data to a menu item. Added Import Single Cust from Last Week.

Which allows data to be reconstructed with the backward links in face of accidental data loss.

Improved the HH Help function to include Installation of MRS programs onto the Palm HH.

29^th Mar 2002

Found a bug that allows the HH file to be updated when editing back weeks. Doesn’t now! (thanks Malcolm Scott)

21^st Mar 2002

The flag that signaled Escape Code Printing was stored in the week file is now stored in system initialization file. This is because if you are printing last weeks invoices then last weeks copy of flag is used even if it was reset for this week. You will need to reset the Use Escape Code tick box.

Changes to HH code to make more robust DO RELOAD ON TO HH.

19^th Mar 2002

Added Import Data to scrolling list as per same function in dos versions MR6 & MR8 to allow transfer of data between different MR8_for_Win databases.

Payment by Token with Cheque now registers cheque value!

In some circumstances people who had previously used dos system could have Punt equivalent = 0.00 printed at the bottom of their invoices (This was introduced for Irish users for use after the Euro conversion). This has been fixed.

When printing Multi Account List when the invoice type selected was either Preprinted Weekly or Preprinted Monthly the total was in error. DO PLEASE CHECK. (thanks Mr. Singh)

Added column totals to Multi Account List.

Last page of Multi Account List not printing (it is now).

Loading Lists now added to Escape Code Printing (for old style dot matrix printers).

Dairy Delivery Notes now added to Escape Code Printing (for old style dot matrix printers).

Some users are complaining about problems with entering items / quantities when the number of items is more than 15ish??? Windows changes this behind my back so I have forced the default row height to 20 and the font size to 9 I believe this will help.

6^th Mar 2002

HH Record ID was lost after HH Functions – 2 Read all HH Databases. Isn’t now! (thanks Andy). See changes to HH Mod History.

5^th Mar 2002

AFFECTS ALL HH USERS – So that HH users with more than one database can use the HH terminals properly, the table which cross references the Palm Users to the database round has been stored in a different place. HH users will need to “Set up Palm Users” again for each of their terminals. A button Delete User has been added to HH Function “Authorize User”. This only deletes the HH from this database. It does not affect the HH’s authorization status, which is held on the dongle.

At last for all those people who are using Escape Code Printing of Invoices. You can now edit adverts for use on the invoices. To select the required advert click on Get Next Advert after clicking on the invoice type required. (Thanks to Neil Parsons)

27^th Feb 2002

Stopped null Ordered Collection List entries being downloaded to HH.

Other small changes to HH code see HH mods.

19^th Feb 2002

When editing customers data go back into a past week with the <? Speed button and then used the “/” keyboard command to find the next customer with a “??” (dial/ indicator /lots of changes) quantity. This should have been disabled it was not! Is now! (thanks Dave Clark)

When entering a floating point value/price/payment etc. it would appear a blank space will cause execution error! Won’t now! (thanks Margaret Redfearn)

Current week number being randomly changed has been fixed! When printing product usage the last week of the dates input became the current week! Does’nt now!

When in past weeks auto-backup is now disabled.

5^th Feb 2002

System generated an Error when entering stock data in the TYP of VAT columns also the quantity 251 appeared when entering quantities in customer data. I DID NOT EXPECT PEOPLE TO PRESS THE BACKSPACE KEY MORE THAN THE REQUIRED NUMBER OF TIMES. ALSO I EXPECTED YOU TO TYPE ZERO INSTEAD OF BACKSPACE to change a quantity to zero. I think my expectations are too high! Fixed (thanks for getting me on the right road Angela Walters).

When listing column totals and printing Pre-Printed Weekly Invoices between dates the system would print a line of zeros before the first week. (fixed thanks John Doorly).

2^nd Feb 2002

Single Day Delivery Lists now show end of week totals after day 3 of week and amount brought forward for days 1-3 of week. The old Dos system had this feature. (thanks to Dave Miles).

Define Logo in Invoice Options asked for a *.gif file should have been a *.bmp file…is now!

31^st Jan 2002

When printing Simple Collection List when Delivery list type is 4 or 5 the whole collection list is printed on one page… utter rubbish! Fixed now! thanks Alf Woodcock.

Simple Collection List when printing to screen could not be Exited (on Menu) properly. Can now.

Print All Rounds – Dairy Delivery Notes…first round printed OK then each rounds notes printed on a single page… utter rubbish again! Fixed now!

Stopped the printing of a blank page at the end of a list…I think!

26^th Jan 2002

Telephone number is now printed on Receipt Forms and Short Form Monthlies…(thanks Mike Pratley).

Added Define Logo and Help to Invoice Options (thanks Mrs. Tyrie).

11^th Jan 2002

Delete files before Backup is now optional for A:. A separate warning is now issued if the files are to be deleted. (Chris Wragg & Margaret Redfearn)

Invoice Terms Text is now printed out above the value input in Invoice Options. So you can now say print “EARLY SETTLEMENT WOULD BE APPRECIATED” on all invoices above say £100. By setting the value to zero the terms text will appear on all invoices.(thanks Chris Wragg)

Cash Items not showing on loading lists …do now!(Graham Collicutt).

6^th Jan 2002

I have been battling with printing of invoices in past weeks from the Edit Customers Data screen in the face of addition or deleting customers having changed the customers number. I thought I had it…I did not! I now believe I have cracked it! (thanks Mr. Shepherd)

IMPORTANT NOTICE – ON ALL SYSTEMS DOWN LOADED SINCE 1^st DECEMBER. Vat Totals in End of Week Summary and Product Usage are precisely twice the correct amount. Please re-download system and reprint End of Week Summaries. …(thanks Chris Wragg).

3^rd Jan 2002

When editing customer data … If the cursor is in the item field and you press ‘c’ for cancel day you get an error … not any more (thanks Mr. Shepherd).

When editing customer data if you changed a quality by typing but doing only one change then clicked on Add Item the change you entered would be lost…(thanks Mary Crean).

2^nd Jan 2002

Changes to HH system code (see HH mods).

30^th Dec 2001

How hard can it be???? Dec 1^st added health warning to Use Escape Codes check box. Problem was you got the health warning but then you could not disable Escape Codes. You can now. (thanks Chris Wragg).

Dec 15^th Unpaid Invoice now listed on Weekly Invoices as they were on Monthly Invoices. There is now a switch Print UNPAID Invoices in Invoice Options to allow printing. SO you can now have UNPAID invoices show when editing customer data and choose not to have them printed. (thanks Andy – Hopewall Farm).

21^st Dec 2001

Small change in database to prevent zero free space in pages.

Change to transfer of info from HH now works with cash items not already entered in customers order. (thanks Graham Collicutt).

Put list of updated customers from HH into results list rather than OK each one in turn.

Mods to Manage Stock Data – total column now works in Buying before delivery. Transfer of data to next week during roll forward should now work even if you haven’t set buyin prices.

See HH mods

15^th Dec 2001

In the Scrolling List pressing ‘D’ now gets you into the correct customers details. (thanks Mr. Singh).

When using Full Address get rid of Customer Name and move full address to left hand border (thanks John Gregory).

Unpaid Invoice now listed on Weekly Invoices as they were on Monthly Invoices (blame Mike Madeley).

IMPORTANT NOTICE - Oops! Yes another one! During the addition of Product Usage code the Cancellation Input Data was not stored. So you entered the cancellation and if that was all you did then the cancellation was not stored!!!

1^st Dec 2001

Other lists now has Telephone Directory. If a name is present it is used otherwise the address is used. The list is simply sorted into alphabetical order so ‘A Smith’ is listed in the A’s and ‘Mrs. Smith’ in the M’s. There has to be a phone number to be included. …(thanks Andy at HopeWallFarm and others)

Other lists now has Product Usage in Period + Vat. A number of people have asked for this so here it is. I am interested in people who want intervention board reports creating, please call. I need some input!

1^st Dec 2001

Added health warning to Use Escape Codes check box. A number of people have been ticking when using none dot matrix printers. Which then don’t work!!!

IMPORTANT NOTICE - Work on Sage Interface caused Vat Totals in End of Week Summary to be zero. Please re-download system. …(thanks Andy at HopeWallFarm)

28^th Nov 2001

It appears that the Print –ve (negative) Invoice Option has not been working since the windows version started…Does Now!

Invoice Number now has upper limit of 65534.

Started work on Sage Interface list …see other lists. Requires numbers invoices.

27^th Nov 2001

Added Dial Customer button on Edit Data screen. Use the Milk Round Utilities – Dial out Setup to set modem comms port and add number to dial in front of phone number.

Let me know what you think!

When printing Dairy Delivery Notes you can now choose either to print dial?? items or not. See Invoice Options (thanks Mike Madeley).

After editing data then pressing DN to print Dairy Delivery Notes missed off any edit you had done….doesn’t now (thanks Mike Madeley).

Added HH functions 4 and 5 (not properly tested yet).

21^st Nov 2001

In Invoice Options there is now a Remittance Slip option. This still needs a bit of work. Let me know what you think.

I/O Error 32 in Ordered Collection Lists – End of Week – with Escape Codes….fixed. (thanks Linda).

20^th Nov 2001

When printing Dairy Delivery Notes for all customers (all rounds…etc) all would be printed even if they did not get anything on that day. From now on only none zero delivery note will be printed! (thanks Mike Madeley).

18^th Nov 2001

WHY WON’T PEOPLE COMPLAIN!!!

I have a customer that tells me that the you are loosing money messages are driving them to distraction especially on newspaper vouchers with a negative price! Chances are that if your feeling aggrieved others are too. You could

a)call me

b)send me an email

c)put a message on the Milk Round Forum so that other users can share your beefs.

From now on all negative priced items will NOT generate the You are Loosing Money message.

Added Help menu to Listings screen.

15^th Nov 2001

Minor bug in conversion to Euro. Found and Fixed. Many thanks to Carmel!!!

11^th Nov 2001

Some complained about customer count not working…does now.

Some small changes to print invoices:-

Aborting print (receipt forms) to screen now works properly.

Restarting printing print (receipt forms) after abort now does not produce error.

You can now save Results form into a file.

Some people were finding the resetting of Vat flag in Edit Stock items confusing. Now any character other than ‘1’,’2’ or ‘3’ resets the Vat flag.

Stock Management has had a makeover. You can now enter quantities by keyboard in Brought Forward column (on first day of week only), Returns, Adjustments and Boughtin columns. You can also decide where the Boughtin column occurs before or after delivery.

Have a play….then give me some FEEDBACK!!!

31^st Oct 2001

Another Oops! The solution to the blank customer 1 was to initialise the customer data when opening a new database this had serious side effect on editing HH data…fixed (Thanks Andy)

For our Irish (Republic of) Customers who have been waiting with a cross between bated breath and horror at the forthcoming conversion to the euro. Please checkout the new button Convert to Euro Pricing in the Edit Round Data. You can trial this button immediately after Roll-Forward. After playing you MUST select the previous week file to be current and Roll-Forward again over-writing the file you just played with. If unsure call Steve.

27^th Oct 2001

Prevented system trying to update customer data in past weeks from HH. (thanks Malcolm)

If Customer 1 was blank then the system would crash after opening database file…fixed.

24^th Oct 2001

Oops!!! the new Cancel 3 button seemed to want to set Cancel 1… doesn’t now (thanks Mr. Wills).

Moving items in stock list caused data to be created for all blank customers increasing data size un-necessarily...fixed (thanks Andy).

When in Edit Customer Details clicking the Directions Title or New Page Title tabs when on a live customer caused the customer name and address to be overwritten… not any more!

20^th Oct 2001

DOCUMENTATION is now available as a down load.

Several cosmetic changes to forms moving Select Current Week File up list.

Reset Reconciliation Day becomes Reset Pay Day.

In Customer Details added Full Invoice Address with tick box to enable use on Invoices. You can now use window envelopes for your invoices.

In Edit Data screen I have changed Cancel 1, Cancel 2 & Cancel 3 from selectable labels to buttons and moved the dc1,dc2 & dc2 speed-buttons to reside near their respective Cancel buttons. I hope no one has any strong objections but it was not obvious that the Cancel labels were selectable.

One more “Tell Steve” bug finally laid to rest. When selecting to print invoices from Edit Data screen the final cleanup for printing invoices (due to the vagaries of Windows processing) was taking place after the screen input (and the database was) back with the user. This meant that any subsequent edit cause the fault.

“Tell Steve” bugs no-longer loose your data or appear to hang system! But I still need to find the little blighters!

Cancel button now works every where in Get Flag Set it didn’t in F4= Set MultPay in Scrolling List.

When editing Ordered Collection lists if the only mod you did involved double clicking RH Form to set entry in LH Form then mod was not saved ...it is now.

2^nd Oct 2001

Oops bug in reading special price data from database

27^th Sep 2001

Special prices if you are using the new files names i.e. Week200139 then you can now have 50 special prices per customer.

To make life easier for people setting up the system when adding items you can type 21..27 to add items 21 thro 27 to a customers order.

Second Dairy telephone number has been added so invoices printed with new phone number below first.

Print problem with Top Debtors when approximate number of weeks becomes large - fixed.

After reorganization of invoices receipt forms & short form monthlies were not printing correctly on A4 paper. (Thanks Stan Murray)

Whilst answering a new user’s problem found another bug. If you were in Print all Customers then Print Invoices then Print Delivery Lists you got a range check error…you don’t now.

22^nd Sep 2001

Hand held (HH) terminals now operational (see HH Mod History). If you are having problems installing or using please call.

Problem parsing HH databases (*.ccc files) when the number of special prices exceeds 25 now fixed.