Move Administer version 0.0.0.1427 is officially released today.
History of Changes (1420 to 1427)
Move Administer
Quotations
ADDITION: When accepting Inland/Hourly/Commercial/European/International Quotations you will be prompted to provide a chosen reason for acceptance (these are the chosen reasons found in Tools -> Options -> Statistical -> Chosen Reasons)
Accounting
ADDITION: The Invoice/Credit Detail Form now has a Calculator button to the right of the Nett (£) field, which when pressed will provide you with an option of using one of several calculators now available, such as Insurance (which calculates the charge based upon nett and insurance rate (%) values), Insurance (Valuation) (which calculates the charge based upon cover and insurance rate (£ per £1,000) values), Insurance (Marine) (which calculates the charge based upon cover and insurance rate (£ per £100) values), Storage (which calculates the charge based upon weekly rate, date from and date to (inclusive) values), Self Storage (which calculates the charge based upon monthly rate, date from and date to (inclusive) values) and Crate Hire (which calculates the charge based upon the quantity, weekly rate, date from and date to (inclusive) values)
Reports
CHANGE: You can now select a Sage Type on the Payments Criteria Window – Please note that if Bank/Cash/Card is selected then you will not be able to choose a Method
Options
ADDITION: Accepted Reason has been added to the General tab of the Removal Defaults Wizard (Tools -> Options -> Defaults -> Removal). You can leave this field blank which will force the entry of a reason when accepting Inland/Hourly/Commercial/European/International Quotations
Other
ADDITION: You can now export the Customer and Corporate Payee References from the Storage Export Wizard
Additional Modules
Crate Administer
ADDITION: You can now get Consumable Activity from the Actions of the Consumable Form (Tools -> Options -> Crate Hire -> Consumables -> Open)
ADDITION: You can now set the VAT code and VAT rate on a per customer basis from the Actions -> Options menu when viewing customer crate activity
CHANGE: The VAT code and rate set per customer is now used when creating invoices and credits and not the VAT code and rate set in the Default Crate Hire Options
Self Storage Administer
ADDITION: You can now export the Customer and Corporate Payee References from the Self Storage Export Wizard
Technical
TABLES: CrateOption, RemovalDefaults, Quotation
Posted by Colin Wynn on Mar 13, 2012 in
Move Administer,
The Future 
Destiny Digital Pens
On February 21st in a meeting room at Old Thorns in sunny Hampshire, Tom Thiselton from Destiny Wireless presented to a group of 22 attendees the benefits of using Digital Pens in today’s workplace.
After a good intake of caffeine, the morning sessions kicked off with Tom giving an introduction to both Destiny Wireless and the technology of the Digital Pens including Anoto technology. Tom then proceeded to provide a ‘live’ demonstration of the pen in action, by completing a document and the transferring the data captured by the Digital Pen to his Blackberry via Bluetooth and then from the Blackberry to Destiny’s server. Using his laptop he logged into the Destiny server to display the captured form. Not only did Tom display the captured form but he also showed an electronic version of the form, where his handwriting was converted to text, where any misinterpretations could then be corrected, but as the pen learns your handwriting gestures over time it was indeed spot on.
After a hearty lunch break which included some stunning desserts, those wanting to discuss the Digital Pens in further detail stayed behind to share information they currently gather on their survey sheets and to discuss other forms that could be digitised.
All in all it was a great day, which ended back where it really began 24 hours previously, in the Sports Bar although only for a swift alcoholic beverage this time around.
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Move Administer version 0.0.0.1420 is officially released today.
History of Changes (1414 to 1420)
Move Administer
Other
ADDITION: New security doors for reports listed below
Additional Modules
Archive Administer Lite
ADDITION: Street of Location, Town, County, Postal Code, Country, Contact Name, Telephone and Signed By columns have been added to the Archive Docket Browse on the Event Diary
ADDITION: Signed By column has been added to the Archive Docket Browse for a Customer
ADDITION: Street of Location, Town, County, Postal Code, Country, Contact Name, Telephone, Signed By, Driver and Vehicle columns have been added to the Archive Activity Browse for an Archive Item
ADDITION: Street of Location, Town, County, Postal Code, Country, Contact Name, Telephone, Signed By, Driver and Vehicle columns have been added to the Archive Activity Browse for an Archive Content
ADDITION: Item Summary is now available from the Actions menu of a Storage Medium and shows the Total, Onsite, Offsite and Destroyed quantities by Customer for the chosen Storage Medium (Tools -> Options -> Archive Storage -> Storage Mediums -> Open)
ADDITION: Instructions are now printed on the Warehouse Retrieval and Return Dockets
ADDITION: An Item Summary Report is now available (Reports -> Archive Storage -> Item Summary)
CHANGE: The Activity For Customer report has been moved from the Reports menu to the Actions menu of the Customer Archive Dockets Browse
Crate Administer
ADDITION: Contact Name and Location is now printed on Crate Hire Invoices/Credits when a list of applicable Dockets for the billing period are printed
CHANGE: The order of the Crate Activity Browse (Tools -> Options -> Crate Hire -> Crates -> Open -> Actions -> Crate Activity)
ADDITION: The Crate Activity Browse now shows the Date and Docket Number columns in Red for uncompleted dockets (Tools -> Options -> Crate Hire -> Crates -> Open -> Actions -> Crate Activity)
ADDITION: Street of Location, Town, County, Postal Code, Country, Contact Name, Telephone and Signed By columns have been added to the Crate Activity Browse (Tools -> Options -> Crate Hire -> Crates -> Open -> Actions -> Crate Activity)
ADDITION: Street of Location, Town, County, Postal Code, Country, Contact Name, Telephone and Signed By columns have been added to the Crate Docket Browse on the Event Diary
CHANGE: The order of Crate Activity Browse for a Customer
ADDITION: Street of Location, Town, County, Postal Code, Country, Contact Name, Telephone and Signed By columns have been added to the Crate Activity Browse and Crate Docket Browse for a Customer
ADDITION: A Hire Activity report is now available (Reports -> Crate Hire -> Hire Activity)
ADDITION: A Consumable Activity report is now available (Reports -> Crate Hire -> Consumable Activity)
ADDITION: You can now print a Hire Activity report from the Actions menu of the Customer Crate Hire Browse
ADDITION: You can now print a Consumable Activity report from the Actions menu of the Customer Crate Hire Browse
ADDITION: You can now print a Warehouse Retrieval Docket for the chosen day from the Actions menu of the Event Diary
ADDITION: You can now print a Warehouse Returns Docket for the chosen day from the Actions menu of the Event Diary
Technical
TABLES: CrateActivity, ArchiveSummary
Move Administer version 0.0.0.1414 is officially released today.
History of Changes (1412 to 1414)
Move Administer
Quotations
ADDITION: You can now import the enquiry items to move/notepad onto the instructions of an Hourly Quotation
Other
ADDITION: An Agility Survey checkbox has been added to the General tab of the Inventory Wizard, which when checked enables a new Agility tab, ideal for those providing relocations to the MOD
ADDITION: When enabled (see above), a new Agility tab on the Inventory Wizard allows for the entry of the UBM number and two buttons allow you to respond to the Insurance and AU Authorisation Declarations
ADDITION: You can print Agility Insurance and Agility AU Authorisation Declarations from the Reports menu of the Inventory Wizard
ADDITION: You can print Agility Insurance and Agility AU Authorisation Declarations from the Actions menu of the Customer and Corporate Inventory Browses
ADDITION: New fields relating to the Agility changes within Survey Administer are now imported
Additional Modules
Survey Administer
ADDITION: An Agility Survey checkbox has been added to the General tab of the Survey Wizard, which when checked enables a new Agility tab, ideal for those providing relocations to the MOD
ADDITION: When enabled (see above), a new Agility tab on the Survey Wizard allows for the entry of the UBM number and two buttons allow you to respond to the Insurance and AU Authorisation Declarations
ADDITION: You can print Agility Insurance and Agility AU Authorisation Declarations from the Reports menu of the Survey Wizard
ADDITION: You can print Agility Insurance and Agility AU Authorisation Declarations from the Reports menu of the Survey Browse
ADDITION: New fields relating to the Agility changes above are now exported to Move Administer
Technical
TABLES: Inventory, SurveyAdminister
Move Administer version 0.0.0.1412 is officially released today.
History of Changes (1407 to 1412)
Move Administer
Quotations
ADDITION: Where applicable insured removers can now select between Indemnity or New for Old insurance cover on the Quotation Wizards
Storage
ADDITION: Where applicable insured removers can now select between Indemnity or New for Old insurance cover on the Storage Wizards
Correspondence
ADDITION: When selecting an invoice to generate as an attachment to an email an Outstanding column has been added to the browse to help identify those with an outstanding balance
Reports
ADDITION: Removal Acceptances now allows you to select a List Order by Accepter, Creator or Surveyor (Reports -> Removals -> Acceptances)
Options
ADDITION: You can now choose to have the Payee Reference automatically generated when creating a new Customer or Corporate on the General tab of the Accounting Defaults Wizard (Tools -> Options -> Defaults -> Accounting)
CHANGE: The Insurance Defaults Wizard now allows you to choose the default Cover offered of Indemnity or Old for New for insured removers
Other
ADDITION: You can now mass print Prospect address labels onto Avery label layout 8160 from the Actions menu of the Prospects Browse
Technical
TABLES: ArchiveDefaults, ArchiveService, AccountingDefaults, SurveyAdminister, InsuranceDefaults, Storage, SelfStorage, Quotation
Additional Modules
Archive Administer Lite
ADDITION: You can now provide a heading to print when printing additional docket prompts on a docket (Tools -> Options -> Defaults -> Archive -> Dockets Tab)
ADDITION: You can now select to print the additional docket prompts after the Customer Declaration section on a docket (Tools -> Options -> Defaults -> Archive -> Dockets Tab)
FIX: Docket Prompts now print on dockets
CHANGE: The Warehouse Returns and Retrieval Dockets now don’t allow information for items to be split over two pages
ADDITION: You can now print Warehouse Returns and Retrieval Dockets from the Event Diary
CHANGE: The Activity report is now based upon Response Date and not Request Date and the Response Date is printed with the docket totals (Reports -> Archive Storage -> Activity)
ADDITION: You can now provide services that you offer, such as Same Day, Express, Standard, etc. Please note: You will need to add a N/A option as Service on all previous Dockets will be set to this value, but if you don’t want it printed leave the Print on docket checkbox unchecked (Tools -> Options -> Archive Storage -> Services)
ADDITION: You can now store a default service on the Dockets tab of the Archive Defaults Wizard which is used when creating new dockets (Tools -> Options -> Defaults -> Archive)
ADDITION: A new Destruction tab has been added to the Archive Defaults Wizard that allows you to provide a standard declaration which can be imported when creating an Archive Docket for Destruction (Tools -> Options -> Defaults -> Archive)
ADDITION: Service has been added to the Request tab of the Archive Docket Wizard
ADDITION: Service and Destruction columns have been added to the Query Archive Dockets Browse (Tools -> Query -> Archive Storage -> Dockets)
ADDITION: Service and Destruction columns have been added to the Archive Docket Browse of the Event Diary
ADDITION: Service and Destruction columns have been added to the Archive Docket Browse for Customers
ADDITION: Service now prints below the heading on an Archive Docket
ADDITION: Service column has been added to the Uncompleted Dockets report
ADDITION: Service has been added to the Activity reports
ADDITION: Service has been added to the Warehouse reports
ADDITION: You can now print an Archive Docket from Query Archive Dockets
ADDITION: A Destruction checkbox has been added to the General tab of the Archive Docket Wizard
CHANGE: Archive Dockets can now handle Destructions
ADDITION: You can now import the Destruction Declaration from the Archive Defaults onto the Instructions tab of the Archive Docket Wizard
ADDITION: Destroyed column has been added to the Archive Items Browse
ADDITION: Destruction Review and Destroyed columns have been added to the Archive Contents Browse
ADDITION: Destroyed column has been added to the Query Archive Items Browse
ADDITION: Destruction Review and Destroyed columns have been added to the Query Archive Contents Browse
ADDITION: You can now print a Certificate of Destruction from the Customer Archive Docket Browse
ADDITION: You can now print a Certificate of Destruction from the Query Archive Dockets Browse
FIX: Printing Archive Dockets on Mass from the Event Diary now prints the instructions per docket rather than repeating the instructions from the first!
FIX: Printing Warehouse Retrievals and Returns from the Event Diary now prints the correct Customer/Corporate information
Crate Administer
CHANGE: When creating a Delivery on a Crate Docket if the hire charge is zero a warning message is now displayed
ADDITION: You can now print a Crate Docket from Query Crate Dockets
FIX: Query Crate Dockets Browse wasn’t showing the results from a Query
FIX: Printing Crate Dockets on Mass from the Event Diary now prints the instructions per docket rather than repeating the instructions from the first!
Self Storage Administer
ADDITION: Where applicable insured removers can now select between Indemnity or New for Old insurance cover on the Self Storage Wizards
Shipping Administer Lite
ADDITION: Where applicable insured removers can now select between Indemnity or New for Old insurance cover on the Quotation Wizards
Survey Administer
ADDITION: The Quotation tab of the Survey Wizard now allows you to select between Indemnity or New for Old insurance cover, ideally for the insured removers
Posted by Colin Wynn on Oct 3, 2011 in
Move Administer,
The Future 
Well as per our Press Release – September 2011, MSSQL will provide increased stability, portability and more importantly speed. Speed is something we have been testing of late and we would like to share our results with you.
We took a client’s activity audit data file comprising of 423,189 records for more than a single trading company and ran the following tests which returned data from all fields with in the file:
Test 1
Return all accounting activity for the year 2010.
Clarion returned 75,608 records in 9 seconds.
MSSQL returned 75,608 records in 1 second!
Test 2
Return all accounting activity for the year 2010, but for a single trading company.
Clarion returned 21,651 records in 7 seconds.
MSSQL returned 21,651 records in 1 second!
Test 3
Return all sales accounting activity for the year 2010, but for a single trading company.
Clarion returned 13,518 records in 6 seconds.
MSSQL returned 13,518 records in 0 seconds!
Test 4
Return all records.
Clarion returned 413,459 records in 56 seconds.
MSSQL returned 413,459 records in 9 seconds!
I’m sure you’ll agree that MSSQL has returned some pretty impressive times, but we would just like to end this snippet of information by stating all tests were ran over our network – which makes MSSQL very impressive indeed, especially as no fine tuning has been done!
Move Administer version 0.0.0.1407 is officially released today.
History of Changes (1389 to 1407)
Move Administer
Quotations
ADDITION: You can now accept the Storage section of an Hourly Quotation
Correspondence
CHANGE: A change has been made to the way in which existing emails are opened as one client seems to have XML information within the initial <HTML> command, resulting in the text being loaded and therefore losing all images
Reports
ADDITION: A new Acceptances report which lists all accepted quotations for the given period by accepter is available (Reports -> Removals -> Acceptances)
Options
ADDITIONAL: You can now set the number of seconds to pass before sending an automated email on the Email tab of the System Defaults Wizard (Tools -> Options -> Defaults -> System). The default is 1 second, however, this doesn’t seem long enough for some older machines
Other
FIX: When printing a newly inserted prospect letter from the Prospect Correspondence Form it no longer tries to save the letter as the record doesn’t exist, although it will still change the status of the prospect and set the date sent
FIX: When exporting Internet Enquiries the Query Wizard used a checkbox for Archived rather than a Yes/No choice
Technical
TABLES: SystemDefaults
Additional Modules
Archive Administer Lite
CHANGE: The default sort order of the Items Browse is now reference
ADDITION: Sort Reference column has been added to the Items browse
CHANGE: The default sort order of the Query Items Browse is now reference
ADDITION: Sort Reference column has been added to the Query Items Browse
ADDITION: Corporate Company has been added to the labels
ADDITION: Corporate Company and Customer Name now print on the Warehouse Retrieval and Return forms
ADDITION: Docket Number has been added to the Warehouse Retrieval Docket
ADDITION: Warehouse Returns Docket now prints a Docket Header consisting of the Docket Number, Response Date and Response Time
ADDITION: Reference locator has been added to the Docket Activity Window when selecting items for Delivery/Collection
CHANGE: Uncompleted Dockets can now be saved with no activity on them
ADDITION: You can only complete a Docket with no activity on it if you set the option on the Dockets tab of Archive Defaults (Tools -> Options -> Defaults -> Archive)
Shipping Administer Lite
FIX: When exporting Baggage Enquiries the Query Wizard used a checkbox for Archived rather than a Yes/No choice
Technical
TABLES: ArchiveDefaults
Posted by Colin Wynn on Sep 19, 2011 in
Product Update 
Managing Director, Colin Wynn, will be attending the forthcoming DevConnections Conference & Expo during October 31st and November 3rd at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, Las Vegas!
DevConnections consists of over 250 in-depth sessions for several technologies, Visual Studio Connections, Silverlight Connections, ASP.net Connections, HTML5 Connections, SQLServer Connections, SharePoint Connections and Windows Azure Connections, all under one roof!
Several Keynotes will be provided during the course of the conference from non other than Microsoft.
Pre and post conference workshops are also available, and as such Colin has booked a pre-conference workshop titled “From Zero to XAML in 1 Day”, and a post conference workshop titled “User Interface Design Principles and Techniques”.
Posted by Colin Wynn on Sep 12, 2011 in
Product Update 
Administer Software Limited is making the biggest decision since its inception in 2004. We are changing development tools – and, in more ways than one!
Administer Software Limited has always used Clarion as its primary development tool together with its proprietary database engine. Managing Director Colin Wynn has been using Clarion since the good old MSDOS days of 1990, however, that is all about to change. From September 2011 all new development will be done in Microsoft’s Visual Studio, using C# to develop Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications within a .Net Framework, and using Microsoft Structured Query Language (MSSQL) as the database engine.
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
WPF is a graphical display system for Windows and is the most radical change to hit Windows user interfaces since Windows 95. Windows developers have been using the same display technology for more than 15 years, however, WPF is the platform for the future of Windows user interface development as it offers the best prospects for future enhancements and longevity.
Microsoft Structured Query Language (MSSQL)
Changing the database engine to MSSQL will provide increased stability, security, portability and more importantly speed. MSSQL is known as one of the fastest database engines around, as data requests are sent to the MSSQL server where the request is only processed on the Server, therefore returning only the full set of results (at present a request is sent to the Server for data and a piece of data is returned and processed by the workstation before returning to the Server for more data, until completion of the request).
So, for many months we will mainly have our heads in books, and participating in online training schedules, while we try to master several new technologies, sometimes all at once! While we know this will be a long and daunting task we are very excited about the future.
We will shortly begin several rounds of questionnaires for our users to participate in to gauge what enhancements they could benefit from.
Posted by Colin Wynn on Aug 1, 2011 in
Archive Administer We are pleased to announce that as of today Archive Administer Lite, our latest module to Move Administer is now available.
Archive Administer Lite is a low cost solution to complete Archive/Records Management, cataloguing information on items, and contents (if required), in one central location. And…
- Keep a complete track of daily movements of items and contents, from item delivery to item collection.
- Delivery and collections display on the Event Diary.
- Retrieve a ‘real time’ summary of the type of items catalogued and see the quantities in, out and destroyed.
- Multiple Insert Wizards allow quick and easy cataloguing of multiple items and contents.
- Mass Updating Wizard allows quick and easy changing of item and content information.
- Item and Content labels can be printed with unique bar codes.
- Reports on location and activity provide a complete breakdown of your archive storage.
And the cost of Archive Administer Lite, well it’s a mere £750.00 + VAT, with annual support being £247.50 + VAT.
Should you be a user of Archiver Pro then rest assured that we also offer a pain free data converter for £300.00 + VAT.
Training can be provided, online, free of charge.
Please do not hesitate to contact us should you require further information regarding Archive Administer Lite.