Release History
emPOWER 5.03.06
NEW: Database Purge; New method of purging Accounting transactions.
When purging a database Accounting transactions are purged using a new method. Opening balance transactions are created to allow all transactions dated prior to the fiscal year to be deleted. Previously transactions may not purge due to allocations spanni...
NEW: Permission Keys; Permission key to stop user from Reversing Delivery Dockets.
There is a new permission key, 'DDKReverse', that will stop user from reversing a Delivery Docket.
NEW: Other Party Update Script; now executes when Address or Contact is changed.
If you have an Other Party Update script active it will now execute when an Address or a Contact is updated.
FIX: Accounts Receivable; Invoice entry, entering a line with zero quantity displays unit price warning message.
When entering an Accounts Receivable Invoice, Sales Order or Job Invoice with zero quantity displays unit price warning message. This has been changed to evalualte the unit price, including discount, that has been entered.
NEW: Payment Terms, Prompt Payment Discount will only allow up to 99% discount.
When setting up payment terms the maximum prompt payment discount allowed is 99%. This has been changed to allow 100% discount.
NEW: Bill of Materials; new option to allow use of Item Adjustments accounts instead of Item COS account
There is now an option to use Item Adjustments account for Bill of Materials transactions.
NEW: VBA; Statement (BM) template; modified if 'NilBalances' constant = False then will also look for transactions in statement period.
Currently if the balance outstanding = zero at the time the statements are produced, even if the 'Date as at' is earlier and there are transactions in the period that caused it to become zero no statement will be produced.
FIX: Item quantity rounding; sum of quantity returns unexpected result.
Due to the way double data types are stored returning the sum of quantity in a recordset may return unexpected results. This may distort unit cost values on reports and in some cases when entering item adjustments and stocktakes.
NEW: Items; Location tab drilldown to Job Invoices now includes Job code.
When you drilldown to a Job Invoice from the Item Location Tab the Job code is now included.
FIX: Process; New Job; after selecting an Other Party clicking the Contact lookup causes Run-time error 91.
When entering a new Job selecting the Other Party then the Contact causes Run-time error 91 'object variable or with block not set' and emPOWER closes.
FIX: Reports, Open Transaction List, may duplicate row if there is a description line on invoice.
When printing an Open Transaction List the lines may be duplicated if there is a description line and depending upon the report options selected when printing report.
FIX: AR Credit Note Review; no longer displays option to 'Direct Debit'.
When reviewing an AR credit note there is no longer an option to select for Direct Debit. Previously the option was visible and could be selected however credit notes were never included in the direct debit run.
FIX: Bill of Materials; gl transaction posting may not be to the correct accounts.
When a Bill of materials is created the transactions posted to the gl may not be correct in that the cost of sales transactions will be posted to the same gl account for each item in the bill of materials.
FIX: Global Options; Stock Tab not showing correct options for available stock calculation.
If licenced for Sales Orders but not Jobs 'Job Invoices' option is displayed and 'Allocated quantity' option is not.
NEW: Reports; Purchase Order List now shows the transaction type used to fill the lines.
When you print a Purchase Order List showing filled lines the transaction type used to fill the line is now displayed. This may be a delivery docket or an invoice.
NEW: Invoice entry; quantity validation when changing location.
When entering any form of AR invoice changing the location on an existing line now validates the quantity against the new location selected.
FIX: Invoice entry; when multiple lines for same Item entered available stock over estimated.
When entering any form of AR invoice, including Sales Orders and Job Invoices, where there are multiple lines for the same Item at the same location the available stock calculation was not considering the other lines on the invoice. This will now also fa...
NEW: Reports; Job Analysis Report; New option to filter on the Chargeable Customer.
When running a Job Analysis report there is a filter 'Charge Customers'. This can be used to only select the analysis on jobs for the selected chargeable customers.
NEW: Items; Location tab; Unit Cost column optimised to reduce database calls when calculating.
The unit cost column on the Items Location tab has been optimised to reduce database calls. There should now be no further calls to the database to return this figure. The unit cost will now also show full decimal precision.
FIX: Invoice entry; selecting Other Party not always defaulting delivery address.
During invoice entry if you select an other party with a delivery address the delivery address will default.
FIX: Items; Location tab; Unit Cost column may not load figures when item selected and clicking on Tab.
When viewing Item records if you select an item then click the Location tab the unit cost column may not load. If you are on the Location tab the figures will load as expected.
FIX: User Defined fields; 'Number' Type, upon saving the number entered is rounding up unexpectdely.
User Defined number types are rounded based on currency decimals. After saving a record the number may be redisplayed with unexpected rounding, i.e. 8898.00 may round to 8900.00.
NEW: Database Purge; New options to purge Delivery Dockets and Purchase Orders.
When running a database purge there are new options to purge Delivery Dockets and Purchase Orders.
NEW: Accounts Payable; Invoice entry, improvements made to populate user defined fields to Allocations.
When entering Accounts Payable invoices allocated Purchase orders and Delivery Dockets may populate user defined fields, see KB article 7946 for more details on this. Improvements have been made to now only load user defined fields were conditions require...
NEW: Accounts Payable; Invoice entry, improvements made when loading Purchase Order and Delivery Dockets.
When entering Account Payable invoices Purchase Orders and Delivery Dockets were loaded for the Supplier. A change has been made so that this data is now only loaded when user clicks on the relevant Tab.
NEW: Database Upgrade; now requires Security Code Overrider to continue.
When upgrading a Database you will now require a Security Code Override. This level of security has been added so that unlicensed software can no longer continue upgrading.
FIX: Accounts Payable; Invoice Entry. Allocating a Purchase Order and clicking 'Commit' does not set the Order Number on the Invoice.
In Accounts Payable Invoice Entry if you allocate a Purchase Order and click 'Commit' without going to the Lines tab does not set the Order Number on the Invoice. If however you did click on the Lines or Header tab the order number will have been set prop...
FIX: New Other Party wizard; Contact Methods cleared when focus moves between screens.
When entering a New Other Party if focus moves from the New Other Party wizard any contact information entered is cleared. If you have entered contact details then open the Address Lookup screen, on your return to the New Other Party wizard the contact de...
FIX: Search Screen drilldowns; drilldown will not go to the crrect record when column order changed.
When drilling down to a record from a search screen the correct record may not be opened, and in some cases may cause runtime error '13 - Type mismatch'.
FIX: Reports; Trial Balance when 'Add Appropriations to RE Account' selected may show error message 3021.
When printing a Trial Balance and checking the 'Add Appropriations to RE Account' option you may get error warning '3021; Either BOF or EOF is True'.
FIX: Accounts; Drilling down into Fixed Asset transactions can cause Run-time error.
Drilling down into a Fixed Asset transaction from the Accounts screen may cause Run-time error '-2147467259; At most one record can be returned by this subquery'. This error will occur when the glTransaction is the result from multiple Asset depreciation...
FIX: Receipt/Payment batch entry; incorrectly fails with duplicate reference warning
When create and commit a Receipt or Payment batch it may incorrectly fail with duplicate reference warning.
FIX: Reports; Stock Level Report; Available Qty not displaying expected result.
When printing a Stock Level Report, without using a Location filter or Location grouping, the Available quantity will display an incorrect amount and may not match the total Available as displayed on the Item screen Location Tab. Without Location filter...
NEW: Stocktake Commit; improvements made when loading a Stocktake ready to commit.
When loading a Stocktake ready to commit an enhancement has been made in that when the adjustment quantity = 0 and value on hand = 0 the value adjusted is now set to 0.