My.Notes


Release: 458; Oct 2016


Alterations

ModuleAlterations
Organize > CompaniesPayment Type - All payment types are linked up correctly on the company management screen
Purchases > Invoices for PO & Credits for ReturnsHistory Grids - Calculation for the history grids have been altered to prevent a divide by 0 error. (New skins: nbfPOInvocie, nbfPOCredit)
Purchases > Pay Suppliers > BACS RunBACS Run - Invalid characters such as apostrophes are now removed from bank names and reference codes as they invalidated the BACS files
Purchases > Pay Suppliers > Bulk Payment RunCheques - Printed cheques are only printed if the payment type has been set to 'Printed.' Cheques and remittance advices with a reference of 0 are no longer sent to the print queue
Purchases > Ledger Maintenance > Supplier DetailsPayment Type - All payment types are linked up correctly on the supplier details screen
Purchases > Ledger Maintenance > Cash MatchQuery Reasons - Supplier cash matching screen altered to deal with non numeric query reasons. (New skin: nbfPLCashMatch)
Purchases / Sales > Cash MatchingSettlement Discount - System now blocks users from attempting to pay suppliers & match transactions with a different settlement discount amount to the provision made on the invoice. Settlement discount must either equal the provisional amount or be £0.
Sales > Sales OrdersPayment screen - F5 shortcut key for the 'Cash / Voucher' button is now disabled on the sales order payment screen if the Telesales feature is not authorised. Cannot complete this process without access to the Telesales screen
Sales > Sales OrdersRead Only - All buttons are disabled when opening a Sales Order in Read Only mode e.g. Add, Remove, Add Address buttons
Sales > Pre-Paid Orders > Paid Reserve Re-PurchaseCharges - Charge item lookup list now displays the list of available charges. These charges are also passed through to the invoice stage when billing the paid reserve.
Sales > Pre-Paid Orders > Paid Reserve Re-PurchaseAssociated Customer - Clearer error message when stock has been added to a paid reserve without first selecting an associated customer
Sales > DespatchDelivery Terms - The Delivery Terms property is now linked to a lookup list
Sales > Job Management > Customer OrdersHistory grids - The history grids at the bottom or the screen will no longer refresh on each key press
Sales > Counter SalesStock Selection - The 'X' close button is now disabled on the stock selection screen as this was causing items to be duplicated
Sales > Counter SalesSetting a Customer - Item prices are now reset without displaying an error message when a customer is set and 'No override of Pricing on A/C Select' is deselected on the till's setup screen. Prices are no longer reset on EPOS Credit if the 'No override of Pricing on A/C Select' has been selected
Sales > Direct InvoiceCustomer Reference - The customer ref field is now restricted to 25 characters to prevent the 'string will be truncated' error message when attempting to post the invoice
Sales > Direct InvoiceSettlement Discount - Settlement discount calculation takes the VAT Margin cost into consideration and calculates the amount correctly for VAT only lines. The settlement terms at the time of invoice are also stored
Sales > Hire and Rental > Hire and Rental AgreementsRefurbished Items - VAT Margin Cost and Use VAT Margin properties are set against the refurbished item when it's brought back into stock through the Hire & Rental system. These were incorrectly set against the original item
Sales > Credits > Collection NotesCollection Note - Collection number is now displayed after selecting Save and the Customer Name for the invoice address is now saved & loaded. Delivery & Invoice address, Salesman, ReasonCode, Contact, Phone and Notes are all passed through to the generated Credit Note.
Sales > ManifestsManifest - Purchase Orders are displayed on a manifest from their expected date until the goods are brought into stock, rather than up until the expected date.
Nominal > Ledger Maintenance > CountryCustom properties - Code length has been increased to 15 characters to match the length of the country code. Custom properties are also saved if no other data has been altered and the save version is incremented. Custom properties are also enabled for regions within each country.
Nominal > Budgets > Maintain BudgetsOld Budget System - The current revision number for each year is used when loading and saving budgets. All budget detail information is now deleted when deleting a budget
Nominal > Budgets > Maintain BudgetsBudget clashes - Procedure that checks for budget combination clashes has been extended to include budgets without a nominal account or nominal collection e.g. Department only budgets
Nominal > ComplaintsView Order - Show Sales Order and Purchase Order buttons now use their respective ledger account codes rather than the complaint account code (New Skin: nbfComplaints)
Reporting > Nominal > Trading AnalysisBy Period - Trading Analysis report now works correctly when filtering by period. It was displaying all transactions from year 0
Reporting > Nominal > ComplaintsClosed Complaints - The Closed Only option will now display closed complaints
Reporting > Interactive QueriesInteractive Queries - Changes in column order and layout are now displayed when altering the SQL of saved interactive queries. User is prompted to save the query when new, open or close is selected. Open will display the list of saved queries and load the selected one.
Tools > Import > BudgetsBudget Import - Budgets with no nominal account or collections can now be imported if the system setup allows this. Existing budget information can also be updated.
Tools > Import > Refurbished ItemsRefurbished Items - More than one refurbished stock item can now be imported at a time
Tools > System ParametersMandatory Departments & Cost Centres - Switching these options on / off will now alter the database structure to allow / block no entry of departments & cost centres. Switching these options on will prompt the user for a default department / cost centre and then insert these values into the relevant tables.
Open Door > ExportOpen Door Export - Export to PDF will now export the whole text instead of only up to the end of the assigned width of the property box. Export to RTF and HTML will now work properly for multi line properties and export to HTML also formats the text correctly for bold, italic and underlined text.
My.N InstallerInstaller - My.N installer has been blocked from running from a client computer's hard drive as it has to be run from the server to retrieve installation settings.



Minor Features

ModuleFunctionality
Purchase > RequisitionsBudget - Budgets that haven't been assigned a nominal account or nominal collection can now be selected against requisitions. A nominal account must be set before the requisition is converted to a Purchase Order
Sales > Counter SalesEPOS Ref - EPOS reference numbers are assigned against each EPOS transaction. This allows custom properties to be used against Counter Sales, Credits and item lines.
Sales > Counter SalesParked Sales - The load parked sale screen now defaults to 'All Staff' rather than 'Current Staff Member' if the staff member isn't tracked at the till.
Sales > Direct InvoiceBatch Tracked Items - Ability to re-pick batch tracked items if there were any picking problems
Sales > ManifestsNew button - The New button has been re-enabled. This will reset the manifest date to the current system date
Nominal > Cash Book > Regular PaymentsVAT Amount - System blocks users from entering a VAT amount against regular payments when they've been setup with the default VAT exempt or zero rated VAT rate
Nominal > Ledger Maintenance > Vat RatesVAT Rates - System blocks users from entering a value against the default VAT exempt and zero rated VAT rates
Nominal > Budgets > Set BaselinesProgress Bar - A progress bar has been added to the budget baseline screen as this process can take a while (New Skin: nbfBudgetBaseLineRev)
Nominal > Budgets > Copy BudgetProgress Bar - A progress bar has been added to the copy budget screen as this process can take a while (New Skin: nbfBudgetCopy)
Nominal > ComplaintsComplaints - The Open button will now automatically assign a new complaint number and use the same date as the previous complaint. Sales Order Tranref property is now available and the Purchase & Sales Order Numbers are only populated when the invoice is linked to an order. A warning message is displayed when linking an invoice to a complaint that has already been linked to another complaint. Investigated By and Investigated Date fields are now also available
Nominal > ComplaintsCustom properties - Custom properties have been enabled for complaints and complaint linked items lines.
Nominal > Browse Transactions > Ledger DetailsEPOS Transactions - Ledger details for EPOS Sales and Credit transactions are now displayed along with their Invoice / Credit documents
Stock > Ledger Maintenance > Catalog EntriesVM fields - VM fields are now available on the stock catalog entries screen and are passed through to each linked stock item created from here. Catalog entries are also saved when the 'Add Items' button is selected as the option fields on the next screen depend on the saved data
Stock > Ledger Maintenance > Bin NumbersDead Flag - Dead flag has been added to the bin numbers screen & all linked lookup lists have been altered to exclude dead items (New Skin: nbfBinNumbers)
Reporting > Nominal > Profit & LossLayout - The first sub total is no longer displayed if there's a running total at the same stage, as both displayed the same figures. Variance percentage columns now display a % against each value and no longer show totals
Reporting > Nominal > Budget UsageBudget Report - Budget by period reports now have a page break after each budget
Tools > Import > Nominal AccountsValidation - Validation routine now checks if a nominal code has been marked as dead and includes this information in the warning file
Tools > Imports > JournalsValidation - Journal information is now validated before attempting to import e.g. department, cost centres, accounts, date & numeric fields
Tools > System ParametersAuto Receive Goods for Credit Notes - System will flag all non accrued items as being received and close all credit notes that are now fully received when the AutoReceiveNonAccruedStockItems system parameter is enabled
Open Door ReportsReport Headings - The 'continued' word is now displayed after all headings that have run over to a second page
My.N Start-upEvent log - System will attempt to create the My.N event log with administrator permission on login, if the current user does not have permission. This program keeps a record of all My.N error messages



Major Features

ModuleFunctionality
Nominal > ComplaintsLinked Complaint Items - A list of linked stock items can now be saved against a complaint. These items can only be selected from the linked purchase / sales invoice and are then automatically brought through to the generated collection, credit or return. System now blocks users from changing the linked purchase / sales invoice once items have been linked from these (New skins: nbfComplaints, nbfAddToComplaint)
Nominal > ComplaintsUnlinked Complaint Items - A list of unlinked stock items can now be saved against a complaint e.g. items which weren’t on the linked invoice, but may have been sent out by accident. Any item can be added to this list, which will automatically populate the default description, bin number and weight per item columns. A warning message is displayed on save when additional items (that weren't included in the linked or unlinked item lists) have been added to the linked collection, credit or return. (New skin: nbfComplaints)