Release History
emPOWER 5.03.07
NEW: Other Party Contacts; ability to sort the contacts and save changes.
New ability to sort Other Party Contacts and save the changes.
NEW: Reports; Stock Sales Order Report, new option 'Include Zero Quantities'.
When printing a Stock Sales Order Report there is a new option 'Include Zero Quantities'. If selected report will list entries that have a zero Quantity.
FIX: Reports; Job Invoice List; 'Description Lines' option incorrectly enabled.
When printing a Job Invoice List the 'Description Lines' option should only be enabled when 'Include Full Detail' is selected and 'Include Location' is not selected.
NEW: Stock Control; Stock Transactions, allow multiple Stockline selection.
When entering transactions via stock control the user option 'Select multiple Items in Invoice entry?' is now applied. This relates to all types of stock adjustments and stock transfers.
NEW: Other Parties; Customer and Supplier Credit Limit, defaults can now be set under Global Options.
Under Tools\ Global Options\ Defaults tab you can now define Customer and Supplier Credit Limit defaults. If these are not set the default will remain at 999,999,999.
NEW: Permission keys; Prevent User from committing AP or AR transactions that exceed the Other Party Credit Limit
There are two new permission keys that will stop user from committing invoices that exceed the Supplier/ Customer Credit Limit. They are CreditLimitExceedAP and CreditLimitExceedAR respectively.
NEW: Other Parties; AP and AR Transactions tabs; add header Location as a new column.
On the Other Parties AP and AR Transactions tabs there is a new column that displays the location from the transaction header.
NEW: Payment Run; Payment Schedule report; new option to order allocations within Payments.
Whilst processing an AP Payment Run there is a new option to order allocations within Payments. This selected option is applied to the allocations when printing the schedule including details.
FIX: Reports; Trial Balance and Financial Statement, 'Add Net Profit to RE Account' and 'Add Appropriations to RE Account' options not correct
When printing Trial Balance or Financial Statement with either 'Add Net Profit to RE Account' or 'Add Appropriations to RE Account' options selected individually, the resultant report will be produced as if both options were selected.
FIX: VBA template; 'Cheque.dot'; printing more than one page results in incorrect formatting under MSWord 2010.
Under MSWord 2010 printing 'Cheque.dot' with more than one page results in the additional pages not being formatted correctly.
NEW: Summary views; new ability to open a web site within the summary view tab.
The job and item screens can display a summary view tab when emPOWER is configured with the appropriate scripts. By including [URL] at the beginning of the script emPOWER will display the URL within the summary tab. For example: returning [URL]www.interso...
NEW: Items; new button to open supplier from item screen.
When viewing an item's purchase/ sales details there is now a button on the supplier enabling you to easily move to the item's supplier.
NEW: Account transaction view; where linked to many transactions performance impaired.
When drilling down to view account transaction from the account transactions tab, where linked to many transactions, performance may be sluggish if moving up/ down in transaction grid. This was caused by the way column totals were calculated, a new method...
FIX: Accounts; transactions tab, moving off Branch/ Dept field caused transactions to load.
When reviewing accounts transactions moving off the Branch or Department filter fields caused transactions to load unnecessarily, generally behind the scene and therefore not displaying the resultant data.
NEW: Fixed Assets; new button to open parent asset from asset screen.
When viewing child asset details there is now a button on the parent asset enabling you to easily move to the parent asset.
NEW: Reports; Transactional Reports, new order by option 'Due' added to relevant reports.
The reports listed below have a new order by option 'Due' which will order by the payment due date.
FIX: Fixed Assets; Fixed Asset Explorer always synchronises Asset screen regardless user setting.
When moving between Assets within the Fixed Asset Explorer it synchronises with the Asset screen regardless of the user setting 'Suspend Automatic synchronising'.
NEW: Finance.inf file; create additional Accounts for finPOWER Connect Accounting Ledgers.
The Finance.inf file now includes additional Accounts which will be used by finPOWER Connect Accounting Ledgers.
NEW: Fixed Assets; Progress bars when generating and committing depreciation batches.
A progress bar is now displayed when generating and committing depreciation batches.
NEW: Fixed Assets; New option to 'Allow Partial' commit of Depreciation batches.
A Fixed Assets Depreciation batch commit was enclosed in a single transaction, this may result in poor performance when large batches are committed. This has been changed to enclose in individual database transactions if the new option 'Allow Partial' Com...
NEW: Fixed Assets; New option to apply Parent Asset filter when generating Depreciation Batch.
When generating Depreciation Batch there is a new range to filter on Parent Asset.
NEW: Fixed Assets; optimised loading of Assets.
Loading an Asset has been optimised to reduce the number of calls to the database.
NEW: Reports; Sales Analysis Report has new option 'Include Price'.
When printing a Sales Analysis report there is a new option to 'Include Price'. If selected this will print Net Sales over Quantity.
FIX: Purchase Orders; loading to an Invoice using the action buttons below the grid duplicates the lines from the Purchase Order.
When loading Purchase Orders to an Invoice using the action buttons below the grid the lines from the Purchase Order are doubled up.
FIX: Transaction Import; Accounting. Importing an invalid Payment line may cause emPOWER to hang.
When importing Accounting transactions an invalid Payment line may cause emPOWER to hang.
FIX: Reports; General Ledger report; Run-time error '3265' occurs when 'Drilldown' selected and report split by Branch/ Department.
When running the General Ledger report, 'Drilldown' selected and split by Branch/ Department, you will get Run-time error '3265, Item cannot be found in the collection corresponding to the requested name or ordinal'.
FIX: Reports; Account reports; use of a hyphen in Branch and Department code may cause unexpected results.
If you are using a hyphen character in Branch/ Department codes Account reports grouped by Branch/ Department may not include data for the Branch/ Department. There will be a group heading but no data.
NEW: Reports; Stock on Order report; new option 'Include all Item types'.
When printing the Stock on Order Report there is a new option 'Include all Item types'. If selected the report will print all items currently on purchase orders regardless of inventory type.
FIX: Scripts; parameter range mandatory setting not saved and loaded correctly.
Where a Script uses a parameter range the mandatory setting was not being saved and loaded correctly. Where the screen would show not checked when running script from menu the range would be mandatory.
FIX: Departments; department relationship with PurchaseOrderLine table not maintained correctly.
If you change a department code related records in PurchaseOrderLine table were not updated accordingly.
FIX: Other Parties; Clicking drilldown to 'Mobile SMS' Contact method not working as expected.
When clicking drilldown to 'Mobile SMS' Contact method from Other Party screen does not allow the SMS message sent to produce a Log. Whereas using the Tools\SMS message option does; as does using the Other Party Contacts.
NEW: Accounting Import; Item lines; Purchase and Sell Prices will now be validated against the unit price decimals as set in Global Options\ Stock tab.
An accounting import did not round purchase and sell prices based on global settings. This area has been enhanced and any edit of these values, including via the business layer, will round based on global settings.
FIX: Purchase Orders; when using 'Edit Order' retains data entered into Transaction Type User Defined field(s) after 'Commit' or 'Cancel'.
When you edit an open Purchase Order information is loaded into user defined fields. If you then commit or cancel the Purchase Order any information loaded into user defined fields is retained on screen.
NEW: Scripts; Events scripts not always executed when related data edited.
In some cases when you edit related records, i.e. Other Party contact methods, the event script was not exectued.
FIX: Reports; Stock Movement report; checkboxes under 'Include Stock with no movement' can be selected.
When printing a Stock Movement report the checkboxes under 'Include Stock with no movement' can be selected. These options are not relevant to the Stock Movement report and are no longer visible when printing this report, these options are only applicable...
FIX: Global Options; Defaults tab; when not licensed for Fixed Assets selection of 'Use Adjustment Account for Bill of Materials transactions'.
Under Global Options on the Defaults tab when not licensed for Fixed Assets checkbox for 'Use Adjustment Account for Bill of Materials transactions' is not aligned correctly. Can still be selected but requires use of keyboard.