Move Administer Version 1407 Released
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
DevConnections Conference & Expo
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”.
PRESS RELEASE – SEPTEMBER 2011
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.