Service v.0.9.4r27                                                                                   December 17, 2001

 


Click       here for Lease/Rental/Unit Sales Release notices

Click       here for Administrative Release notices-MUST DO FOR R27 RELEASE!!

Click       here for Inventory Release notices

Click       here for Repair Order Release notices

 

Note:  If you have already installed Release 26, you do not need to download the full version of Release 27.  Click HERE if that applies to you.  For Release 27, I have setup a batch file to install all of the necessary files for you. 

To install Release 27, download r27.zip to your server.  Unzip r27 on your server.  Use Winzip through the wizard.  Not classic.  If you are defaulted to the classic version of Winzip, you will see a Wizard button you can click on to start it up.  If you see a Winzip classic button, you’re good.  Use the default unzip folder, which is c:\unzipped\r27.  YOU MUST USE THIS because my batch files rely on that.  After the Winzip unzip is done, a screen will pop up which is c:\unzipped\r27.  You will see either installr27.bat or installr27full.bat.  Double-click on that file to start the process.  If you get a screen that says something like, Drive not found, click on Continue or Cancel.  Remember!  Make sure that the file interface and 4Dserver are closed before you do this. 

 

Click HERE to download Release 27 if you have NOT installed Release 26 yet.

Click HERE for our new customers that are running the 6.7 version of Aci. If you are not sure, please call EFusion at 814-677-0436. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lease/Rental/Unit Sales Release notices                back to top     

 

  1. Fixed an issue where 4D wasn’t filling in the taxable amount and the different taxes with their amount to pass to accounting in Cobol.
  2. In Database Options in 4D- Sales/Lease/Rental tab-Collision damage waiver option has a $0.00 amount, the words A.C.V. prints on the invoice.  This stands for actual cash value.
  3. Fixed an issue now when the invoice has been posted from the Pre-posting interface, you can no longer access the Unit sale contract again.  It has been posted.
  4. When doing a unit search in 4D, it will now search with stock number less than 6 digits and also will allow for alpha characters.  This option was also fixed in Invoice retention for searching on stock numbers.  Go to Service at the top in 4D, then down to Unit Inquiry to find this.  Also, for Invoice retention, go to Accounting at the top, then down to Invoice retention.  This is cross-referenced with Repair order fixes.
  5. Now if the word REQUIRED is on the customer file maintenance under number 25-Blanket PO #, Unit sales/Lease/Rental will prompt you to enter a valid PO # before saving the contract.  This is also cross-referenced with Administrative fixes.

 

Administrative Release notices                                            back to top

 

  1. Moved the PO printing to the left so that it is more centered on the page.  This is also useful for faxing PO’s.  This is also cross-referenced with Inventory fixes.
  2. Created a control question under file, then Database options in 4D.  Go to the Inventory Options tab.  Auto Receive PO returns.  If this is checked, as soon as a PO return is completed, it will auto receive the parts.  If it is unchecked for a PO return, it will wait until you receive the parts just like a normal PO.  This is cross-referenced with Inventory fixes.
  3. Now if the word REQUIRED is on the customer file maintenance under number 25-Blanket PO #, Unit sales/Lease/Rental will prompt you to enter a valid PO # before saving the contract.  This is also cross-referenced with Inventory fixes.
  4. Fixed an issue in the 4D Timeclock, where if you tried to click on the number of the job to login it didn’t work, but if you clicked the job itself, it did work.  Now you can either click on # of the job or the job itself to login to the Repair Order.  This has been cross-referenced with Repair Order fixes.
  5. Fixed an issue in Mechanic time maintenance in 4D.  Go to Service at the top in 4D, then down to Mechanic time maintenance.  If the time is checked as purged, purge meaning the time has already been posted, whenever an edit report is printed out, the customer name would not show up for the Purged selections.  It now prints the Purged customers name on the Edit report.  This has been cross-referenced with the Repair Order fixes.

 

Inventory Release notices                                        back to top

 

  1. Created a message line on each part for a PO.  If you double-click on a part on a PO, it allows you to type in a Note.  This does print out on the Purchase order, but does not show on the basic screen of the Purchase Order.  It does however display a triangle beside the part if there is a note attached.  If you click on the triangle it will display a portion of the note that will print out for the part.
  2. In suggested orders in 4D.  Go to Purchase orders at the top in 4D, then down to Suggested orders.  Go to the Orders tab.  Double-click on an order.  If the order was changed by adding or deleting parts, the cost of the suggested order was not being changed at all.  It now correctly shows the cost of the complete suggested order after changes have been made.
  3. Added a feature in Purchase Order retention where you can now search by part numbers for the order.  Go to Purchase Orders at the top in 4D, then down to Purchase Order retention.
  4. Identified the hierarchy in part exceptions.  Go to Inventory at the top in 4D, then down to Price exceptions.  This is the breakdown.  Click here for the chart. 
  5. Moved the PO printing to the left so that it is more centered on the page.  This is also useful for faxing PO’s.  This is also cross-referenced with Administrative fixes.
  6. Created a control question under file, then Database options in 4D.  Go to the Inventory Options tab.  Auto Receive PO returns.  If this is checked, as soon as a PO return is completed, it will auto receive the parts.  If it is unchecked for a PO return, it will wait until you receive the parts just like a normal PO.  This is cross-referenced with Administrative fixes.

 

Repair Order Release notices                                              back to top

 

  1. On Repair orders, labor was being calculated out infinite number of decimal places for Standard Repair Time type jobs.  If you added an SRT job, then added labor in odd intervals, i.e.-three mechanics logged in to the job, then the labor would post incorrectly to the customers account in Cobol.  It would be off a few cents.  The labor now calculates to 2 decimal places just as the Cobol side does and is exact when posting.
  2. Fixed an issue, where if a Repair order is open with a stock number that is on a Unit sale contract, that Unit sale cannot be invoiced until the Repair order is closed.
  3. Fixed an issue where the first PM on the list could not be deleted.  Go to Service at the top in 4D, then down to Preventative Maintenance.  Do a search for some PM’s.  Before you could not remove the first one that was showing after the search.  This has been corrected.
  4. Made a change to Repair Orders and Preventative Maintenance on how it searches and adds a unit to the Order or PM.  It previously searched by first looking at the Cobol units, then the 4D units for the Order or PM.  Now it searches the 4D units, then the Cobol units for the Order or PM.  This is helpful if you import units to 4D then make changes to the units in 4D.  It will pull from the one’s you made changes to now.
  5. Fixed an issue in the 4D Timeclock, where if you tried to click on the number of the job to login it didn’t work, but if you clicked the job itself, it did work.  Now you can either click on # of the job or the job itself to login to the Repair Order.  This has been cross-referenced with Administrative fixes.
  6. Fixed an issue in mechanic time maintenance in 4D.  Go to Service at the top in 4D, then down to Mechanic time maintenance.  If the time is checked as purged, purge meaning the time has already been posted, whenever an edit report is printed out, the customer name would not show up for the Purged selections.  It now prints the Purged customers name on the Edit report.  This has been cross-referenced with the Administrative fixes.
  7. Fixed an issue when a part in Cobol was superceded.  If you supercede a part, then do a search on the part under Parts Inquiry in 4D, the triangle at the end of the part number if clicked, would show two listings of each price.  This has been fixed so the whenever a part is superceded it now shows only one listing of prices in 4D, Part Inquiry.
  8. When doing a unit search in 4D, it will now search with stock number less than 6 digits and also will allow for alpha characters.  This option was also fixed in Invoice retention for searching on stock numbers.  Go to Service at the top in 4D, then down to Unit Inquiry to find this.  Also, for Invoice retention, go to Accounting at the top, then down to Invoice retention.  This is cross-referenced with Lease/Rental/Unit sale fixes.