Service v.0.9.4r29                                                                                   May 7, 2002

 


Click       here for Lease/Rental/Unit Sales Release notices

Click       here for Administrative Release notices-MUST DO FOR R29 RELEASE!!

Click       here for Inventory Release notices

Click       here for Repair Order Release notices

 

Note:  For Release 29, I have setup a batch file to install all of the necessary files for you.  Remember!  Make sure that the file interface and 4Dserver are closed before you do this.  Also, in 4Dserver you will have to get your server settings.  Click on 4dServer on the task bar at the bottom of the screen on the server.  4dServer will pop-up.  Click on File, and then click on Database Properties, which is the 5th tab over also called Tune up.  Write down your settings, which are:  Maximum Cache Size and under Application Main Memory, “_” blocks of ___k each.  So there are 3 values to write down.  After you do the update you will need to insert these settings again in the 4dServer.

To install Release 29, download r29.zip to your server.  Unzip r29.zip 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\r29.  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\r29.  You will see installr29.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.  If you need any additional help, please call Walt or Darren at Efusion at 814.677.0436.

 

Click HERE to download Release 29.  Also, you need an additional .cx file for your run folder.  Download this file and copy it into your run folder on your server.  (Probably in c:\run).  Click HERE to download the additional file.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lease/Rental/Unit Sales Release notices                                                          back to top           

1.      This will only be used for units that require a usage entry.  If you click on Units at the top in 4D, then click on Enter Usage, it will take you to an Enter Usage menu.  After you input the contract number and the stock number, it will display customer information at the bottom of the menu for the related contract.

2.      When Unit sales invoices are printed, they sort by unit type, then by stock number. 

3.      This was fixed for Unit inventory maintenance.  If you click on Units at the top in 4D, then click on Unit Inventory, it will take you to a Unit Inventory Maintenance menu.  You can now search by serial numbers with partial searches.  In other words, you don’t need the complete serial number.  If you know the first couple of characters of the serial number, just type in for example: 546@.  The @ symbol represents a wild card.  You can use this symbol at the beginning of the search if you know the last few characters, also.  For example: @456.  This would search for all serial numbers that ended in 456.  You can use this in multiple places in 4D.  If you are ever unsure, try it to see if it does apply. 

 

Administrative Release notices                                            back to top

  1. For mechanic status.  From the top of 4D click on Service, then click on Mechanic Status.  It will show you the current repair orders and jobs that the mechanic is working on.  There is not a report for this yet.  In fact, this is not refined yet to reflect what the Cobol side showed.  This will be enhanced at a later date. 
  2. Passwords for part selling prices.  If you click on File at the top in 4D, then click on Database Options, there is a setting in the first tab for password protecting part selling prices.  If you used this in an earlier release, it was not fully secure.  Now even if you try and select a price from the add part of a repair order or counter invoice, it will password prompt you and require a valid password in order to change the price of the part.  It will only prompt if the database option is set.
  3. For Ohio customers of Efusion.  If you are crediting cores.  Go to File, and then go to Database options in 4D.  Click on the Inventory Options tab.  Check on Use Ohio Core Tax Rules checkbox.  This will enable it.  Now when you have a core credit, it does not give the sales tax back to the customer who is returning the core.  You can still over ride this by checking the tax button of the part.   
  4. This was fixed for Unit inventory maintenance.  If you click on Units at the top in 4D, then click on Unit Inventory, it will take you to a Unit Inventory Maintenance menu.  You can now search by serial numbers with partial searches.  In other words, you don’t need the complete serial number.  If you know the first couple of characters of the serial number, just type in for example: 546@.  The @ symbol represents a wild card.  You can use this symbol at the beginning of the search if you know the last few characters, also.  For example: @456.  This would search for all serial numbers that ended in 456.  You can use this in multiple places in 4D.  If you are ever unsure, try it to see if it does apply. 

      Cross-referenced with Lease/Rental/Sales release notices. 

  1. Credit Invoices and authorizations.  Now whenever you setup authorizations to allow credit invoices or not, it does ask for the proper username and password to enter.  Before this feature was not working.

 

Inventory Release notices                                        back to top

  1. For Custom/Flyer pricing.  If you click on Inventory at the top in 4D, then down to Price Exceptions it will take you to the menu.  Click on the Custom/Flyer tab.  If you setup Custom/Flyer that have the same part number and overlap periods, it will tell you that you already have one setup for that period and will ask you if you still want to save it.  You can answer Yes or No. 
  2. For dirty cores.  Click on Inventory at the top in 4D, and then click on Core Bank Inquiry.  Before when a customer would return a core it was not taking the core out of Core Customers and putting it into Core Lots properly.  Now, when a customer returns a core, it will take the core out of Core Customers then put in into Core Lots for dirty cores to return to the vendor. 
  3. We made a couple of enhancements for selling parts on repair orders and counter invoices.  Now whenever you change the selling price of a part then decide to change the cost or list price, it doesn’t reset the selling price back to the original value.  Also, if you change any price of a part (selling, cost, or list) then change the quantity, it doesn’t reset the prices back to the original values. 
  4. Now whenever you select prices for a part to sell, it is in the same order as the Cobol (Level2) side in the list.  This is to prevent confusion of price levels.  To see this, add a part to a counter invoice and bring up the modify part screen.  Click on the Select Price button at the bottom.  Notice the order of the price levels. 
  5. Purchase orders and part numbers.  On the detail screen of the part number it shows open Purchase Orders to the specific part.  Now it will show all open Purchase Orders for the part, not just specific ones. 

 

 

 

Repair Order Release notices                                              back to top

14.  For mechanic status.  From the top of 4D click on Service, then click on Mechanic Status.  It will show you the current repair orders and jobs that the mechanic is working on.  There is not a report for this yet.  In fact, this is not refined yet to reflect what the Cobol side showed.  This will be enhanced at a later date.

15.  There was a very rare problem whenever multiple labor was deleted on an RO.  It sometimes brought up an error saying [MechanicHistory] Locked.  This was fixed.

16.  For Repair Orders and windows printing.  The Job Descriptions were getting cut-off on some Repair Orders.  They do not get cut-off now. 

17.  Flat rate jobs.  Whenever labor is used on a flat rate job, it doesn’t distribute it equally.  In fact, it tries to distribute the hours based on how many hours the mechanic did for actual hours.  So now if a mechanic clocks on for one minute and another mechanic clocks on for 3 hours, they both don’t get the same billed hours to the flat rate job. 

18.  Mechanic Time Maintenance.  Now if you change the labor rate on the repair order itself, it does update the Mechanic Time Maintenance to the same new rate.  Before, Mechanic Time Maintenance wasn’t updating to the new rate.

19.  Added a new report under Mechanic History.  If you click on Service at the top in 4D, and then click on Mechanic History.  You have to do a search on this screen and then you should see the Income/Hr Report at the bottom.  Click on that and it will print a Mechanic Income Per Hour report showing the Actual Hours, Billed Hours, Total dollar amount and an Income / Hr figure for each mechanic that you did the search on.