Release Notes for Keystone 2.1.x

Build 2.1.24

Enhancements

G/L Import Transactions

Added subtotals to the report.

GPS Status Report

The default time period for the report is now one day.

Corrections

Payroll Adjust Employee Balances
Payroll SUTA Magnetic Media Export

Fixed exception 'No current record for fetch operation' when processing employees with no payroll history.

Payroll ACH Export

Ignore void reversals when exporting data.

G/L Import Transactions

Clear data between runs to prevent double transactions.

Database Upgrade

Ignore exception when "TC" event type added to table.

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Build 2.1.23

Corrections

Application Server

Corrected DLL PATH issue related to Payroll Tax Library 2008-R12 update.

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Build 2.1.22

Enhancements

Payroll Tax Library

Updated to 2008-R12 version.

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Build 2.1.21

Corrections

Dispatch Schedule

The plant popup demand graph now uses the colors defined in the Truck Demand Graph option.

GPS Truck Tracking

Fix so trucks that are close together will still be plotted on the map.

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Build 2.1.20

Enhancements

Dispatch Truck Demand Graph

Colors may now be changed for required trucks, will call loads, plant capacity, and current capacity.

GPS Status Report

New report added to the GPS menu.

Corrections

Dispatch Schedule

A truck can now be dragged from status grid to truck grid (to complete the load) when the order is on 'HOLD' status.

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Build 2.1.19

Enhancements

G/L Import Transactions

Added user option to select between Sage and standard text format.

Verify transactions in balance before importing.

Device Server

Added ability to read status through GH-Nextel interface.

Corrections

Dispatch Schedule

The order quantity will now be updated when the load size is increased beyond the total quantity ordered.

Dispatch Truck Demand Graph

The chart displayed incorrectly when more than one plant was selected.

GPS Truck Tracking

Fix (rare) problem with duplicate trucks appearing on the map.

Payroll SUTA Magnetic Media Export

Fix employee count total formatting.

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Build 2.1.18

Corrections

Dispatch Order Maintenance

Fixed Copy Order function so it copies the Unload Rate.

Dispatch Schedule

Removed "Release Trucks" button.

G/L Account Maintenance

Fixed Access Violation at startup for users who do not have G/L installed.

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Build 2.1.17

Enhancements

A/R Zone Maintenance

Added Zone History Analysis function.

Dispatch Order Maintenance

The default value of GPS radius for new orders can now be set using a system option.

Colors may now be deleted from the Order Color drop-down list using Ctrl+Delete.

Reports

When printing a report from the preview window, if you enter a page number in the Page From field, the system will now automatically change the option to Page Range.

Device Aggregator

Now detects if the connection to the App Server has been lost, and automatically reconnects in that case.

The communications log will now be saved automatically at shutdown.

Added diagnostic (TELNET) commands.

Device Server

Now sends the version number of the device server to the aggregator when signing on.

Added Device Type and Protocol to Devices grid.

Corrections

A/R Plant Maintenance

The GPS tab will now appear if Dispatch and/or GPS is active for the user.

A/R Ticket Maintenance
Dispatch Ticket Maintenance

The Batch Weights tab will now appear if the ticket has batch weights associated with it.

A/R Truck Maintenance

The GPS tab will now appear if Dispatch and/or GPS is active for the user, or if GPS status information has been recorded for the truck.

Dispatch Order Maintenance

The GPS tab will now always appear.

Application Server

When an order is created from a ticket in Ticketing Ticket Printing, the order could not be edited using Order Maintenance from the Order Stack.

Device Server

Comm Log now uses one log for all devices.

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Build 2.1.16

Corrections

Dispatch Order Maintenance

Fixed exception "At end of table" when clicking OK while in the Tax Code column of a new multi-product order.

Field change events will now be recorded when calling up an existing order and immediately changing the first product code.

The system option which sets the default value for the Roll Forward flag has been removed.

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Build 2.1.15

Enhancements

Dispatch Beginning of Day

Any orders that do not have loads from today on will now be set to Closed status.

Dispatch Order Maintenance

Allow user to enter descriptions for order colors.

Added Quote order status: the order will not appear on the schedule and will never be closed.

Added events for all order status changes except Quote.

The default value for the Will Call Flag on new orders can now be configured through a system option.

Dispatch Schedule

Added order right-click options "Hold Order" and "Clear Hold".

Held orders now display "Hold" in the Next column.

Completed orders now display "Completed" in the Next column.

Dispatch Ticket Printing

Load target times are now sent to the batch control.

Fixed calculation of end pour target time when the order interval is zero.

Query Export

Group break fields are now indented from the left margin.

Detail fields are now printed immediately after the last group indented field.

The minimum report width has been reduced from 100 to 80 characters.

By default detail fields are now printed only as wide as the widest data for that field requires.

Device Server

Added GH-Nextel status support.

Corrections

Dispatch Order Maintenance

When the plant number is changed, the load size is no longer blanked out.

Added handling for changing order status to cancelled, completed and hold.

Set order status to Open after copying an order.

The Cancel button will now remain enabled after recalculating projected loads.

Removed warnings when copying an order and selecting the reprice option.

Fixed issue where the order color drop-down would not change the order color immediately after startup.

Fixed issue where the order status drop-down would not change the order status immediately after startup.

Fixed issue where changing the second or higher product code would instead change the first product code immediately after startup.

The Roll Forward checkbox has been removed (it has no function in dispatch.)

Orders that have no loads shipped cannot be set to Completed status.

When copying an order the GPS Lat/Long coordinates are now cleared.

Fixed hidden exception when changing the Order Status for a new order.

Prevent editing of closed orders.

Prevent a shipped order from being changed to Quote status.

Removed field validation warnings when the Order Status is Cancelled or Closed.

Dispatch Schedule

Prevent shipping a load for a held order.

Quote orders will no longer appear on the schedule screen.

DataScope

When a query is opened from the list, the results from the previous query are now cleared to force the new query saved settings to be applied.

Query Export

After a saved query is run, if you changed the query to reduce the number of fields in the query, the results would incorrectly include blank columns for the fields that were eliminated.

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Build 2.1.14

Enhancements

Dispatch Ticket Printing

Send order contact field to batch control.

Payroll Tax Library

Updated to 2008-R10 version.

Device Server

Send order contact to ULINK batch control.

Allow specification of alternate field for Time Ticket Sent (ULINK).

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Build 2.1.13

Enhancements

Dispatch Ticket Printing

Added ability to use any of the load's target times as the Time Due On Job field for ULINK export.

Device Server

Added Tax Authority to ULINK export.

Corrections

Application Server

Return exceptions occurring while restoring plant local tables to client.

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Build 2.1.12

Enhancements

Payroll Magnetic Media Export

Added support for state of Massachusetts.

Corrections

General

Fixed F4 search key exceptions: "Expression expected but ',' found" and "cdsSearch: Field not found".

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Build 2.1.11

Corrections

Dispatch Ticket Printing
Ticketing Ticket Printing

Fixed Access Violation at startup (introduced in 2.1.10).

A/P Invoice Batch List

Fixed exception when selecting by vendor.

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Build 2.1.10

Enhancements

A/R Product Class Maintenance
A/R Tax Rate Maintenance

Replaced Yes/No drop-down with checkbox.

Payroll Tax Library

Updated to 2008-R9 version.

General

The ability to use the F4 key to search (bright blue field) has been added to most searchable fields in Accounts Receivable, Dispatch and Ticketing.

Corrections

Dispatch Order Audit List

Field change events for Delivery Time, Spacing and Mix were not being reported.

Dispatch Order Maintenance

Events are now sorted in order of most recent event first.

Spacing now always overrides the unload time when calculating projected load times.

Dispatch Schedule

When rescheduling loads after shipping a load from the Next To Load grid, the first rescheduled load would be scheduled 108 years in the future.

Dispatch Truck Demand Graph

Returning loads were begin included in the wrong time slot if Truck Turnaround time was used.

Returning loads were sometimes not taken into account in the graph.

Application Server

A pre-ticketed truck is now checked to see if it returned between the time of making the ticket and actually shipping the load.

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Build 2.1.9

Corrections

Payroll Tax Library

Reverted to 2008-R7 version due to bug in 2008-R8 version.

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Build 2.1.8

Enhancements

Dispatch Schedule

A thicker border has been added between orders from different plants.

The trucks panel now uses clickable buttons instead of tabs for selecting Available, Clocked Out and Plants.

The next-to-load panel may now be re-docked as a tab.

Corrections

Query Export

Fixed Access Violation when a cell in the results grid is selected and the query is re-run.

Application Server

When checking the stop minutes threshold, a truck will only move to On Job status if it is currently in To Job status.

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Build 2.1.7

Enhancements

A/R Truck Maintenance

Added status reason column to GPS grid.

Added visual indication (red background) for invalid GPS data.

Dispatch Truck Tracking

Added "Show Active Orders" menu option to plot active orders on the map.

All graphs support drill-down including the consolidated graph.

A movable splitter has been added to the drill-down form.

The demand calculations will no longer be repeated when drilling down into the graph.

Slight performance improvement.

Application Server

Trucks will move from To Job to On Job status if stopped more than a certain number of minutes (6 minutes default.)

Device Aggregator

Added status reasons for status changes.

Device Server

DINET status box support added.

Payroll Tax Library

Updated to 2008-R8 version.

Corrections

A/R Product List

The Show Components checkbox is now enabled when Inventory is not active but Product Structure is active.

Dispatch Truck Tracking

Several issues fixed relating to the accuracy of the displayed numbers on the graph, particularly the handling of Turnaround and Too Late loads.

When drilling down into the graph, the data will be filtered based on the plant(s) shown on the graph.

The F12 key may now be used to print the graph.

The grids on the drill-down form will now resize automatically when the form is resized.

A/P Invoice Vouchering

When entering an invoice for a vendor with G/L auto-distribution selected, do not show the Gross Amount in red (which incorrectly indicated a G/L out of balance condition.)

Payroll Timecard Maintenance

If the department number was changed once then changed again back to its original value, the question about updating G/L accounts would be skipped.

Application Server

A truck will no longer be moved to At Plant status if it is currently in To Job status and is within the plant's geofence.

Order GPS coordinates will be set regardless of the setting of the UseGeofencing option.

File Maintenance

Fixed to prevent tabbing out of the key field when left blank.

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Build 2.1.6

Enhancements

A/R Cash Receipts Register

Performance substantially improved, particularly when selecting by customer and date.

A/R Driver Bonus Payroll Export
A/R Driver Report
A/R Trucking Report

Signifcant performance improvement when using date selection.

Payroll 401K Export

Significant performance improvement.

Payroll Tax Library

Updated to 2008-R7 version.

Device Aggregator

Loads in TICKETED status will now be moved to LOADED status upon receipt of batch weights.

Device Server

Added USEODOMETER configuration option for GPS devices.

Application Server

Truck odometer (if not obtained from GPS device) is calculated based on straight-line distance from the last valid GPS coordinate.

Corrections

Dispatch Schedule

Eliminate "deadlock" messages when using auto-statusing.

Dispatch Ticket Printing
Ticketing Ticket Printing

Printers specified in chained forms will now be included in the Printer Alias list on the Printer Setup screen.

G/L General Ledger Report

Source Code selection caused the opening balance of all accounts to be zero.

G/L Trial Balance

Source Code selection was not working.

Payroll Print W-2

Fixed forms to support printing DEDUCTION definitions for dependent care in Box 10.

Device Server

Fixed error logging problem when opening batch control link.

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Build 2.1.5

Enhancements

Dispatch Order Maintenance

When loads are rescheduled, an event will now be generated.

Dispatch Schedule

New indicators have been added to the truck status ticketed column to indicate whether or not the ticket was successfully sent to the batch control.

Device Aggregator

Added diagnostic information to comm log.

Process batch link status messages.

Device Server

Added new protocol for Keystone batch.

Event to status mapping overrides may now be specified for all status devices.

Poll for batch results at specified interval (60 seconds default.)

Payroll Tax Library

Updated to 2008-R6 version.

Corrections

Dispatch Order Maintenance

Sometimes when using Quick Order from the Schedule screen the Customer and Order ID fields were disabled. This usually happened after shipping a load and rescheduling future loads because of early/late delivery.

Fixed rescheduling of load times when loads are offset because of early/late shipment.

Dispatch Schedule

The Map Trail option on the truck's popup menu was causing an exception.

Payroll Labor Distribution Report

Selecting a link called 'OTHER' for one of the columns would also include the amount of 'OT'.

Payroll Print W-2

Fixed forms to properly print TAX definitions in Box 14.

Application Server

Batch results will now be ignored when received for a ticket which already has batch weights.

Device Aggregator

GPS status will no longer be recorded for trucks with blank Unit IDs.

Stand-alone Backup

Databases which have not yet been upgraded to the current version will be skipped during backup.

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Build 2.1.4

Enhancements

A/R Truck Maintenance

Added Truck Capacity field.

Odometer readings will now be shown on the GPS data grid.

The first truck's GPS data will be shown at startup.

Dispatch Order Maintenance
Dispatch Ticket Printing
Ticketing Order Maintenance
Ticketing Ticket Printing

A warning will appear if the PO Required field is set for the customer or the job and the Customer PO field is blank.

Print Quotes

Enhanced to support a compact "CONTINUED" footer and the new extended detail section.

Added new fields to print unit discount, unit tax and unit net price for the current line.

Added new fields to print discount total, order discounted subtotal, order discounted grand total.

Device Aggregator

GPS devices can now set a validation point/radius for incoming GPS coordinates.

Application Server
Device Aggregator
Device Server

Odometer readings from GPS devices can now be recorded. (Currently Bluetree GPS device is supported.)

System Backup

Added ability to specify an alternate hard disk backup path by workstation.

Form Reports

A new option is available to extend the detail section so that it uses most of the page when printing a multi-page form.

Corrections

Dispatch Order Maintenance

Restored previous functionality which calculated Interval if it is left blank.

Dispatch Schedule

The "next to load" grid was not processing drag and drop correctly.

The date slider was closing when the order hour, anchor hour or anchor date/time drop-downs were activated.

Dispatch Ticket Printing
Ticketing Ticket Printing

When shipping the second and subsequent loads within a session, the truck drop-down list on the "stub" screen would exclude the customer's own trucks.

GPS Truck Tracking

The most current GPS location for each truck will now be plotted.

The number of Active Trucks will now be reported correctly.

Payroll Employee 401K Export
Payroll Employee List
Payroll FICA Report
Payroll Print Checks
Payroll Print W-2
Payroll SUTA/FUTA Report

Print social security number with dashes.

System Menu

Remove automatic hard disk backup after restoring a backup or performing a dispatch/ticketing beginning of day.

Stand-alone Backup

Fixed so the program can now be run outside of the System Menu.

Reports

Reports sent to Windows printers would sometimes cut off the bottoms of lower-case letters (such as g, p, q, y).

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Build 2.1.3

Enhancements

Dispatch Ticket Printing

Warn if the ticket load size is larger than the smaller of the truck's capacity or the plant's batch capacity.

Payroll Tax Library

Updated to 2008-R5 version.

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Build 2.1.2

Corrections

G/L Detail Inquiry

Fixed exception 'GLPTRX_PREVBALREPORTS: parameter mismatch' at startup.

Device Aggregator

Fixed exception 'cdsLookup: cannot perform this operation on a closed dataset' when Refresh button clicked on Devices tab.

Fixed to properly send updated device configuration to device server after Refresh clicked.

Device Server

Fixed problem where batch control devices stopped accepting tickets when a GPS device was also present. This also prevented the device server from shutting down.

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Build 2.1.1

Corrections

A/R Aged Trial Balance

The Last Payment check number and amount were reporting incorrectly.

Device Aggregator

Fixed endless loop when processing a device not tied to a specific plant (GPS).

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Build 2.1.0

Enhancements

A/R Ticket Maintenance

For Dispatch customers, a new Batch Weights tab will show the received batch weights for the current ticket, if any.

Dispatch Schedule

Added a new Auto Status feature (optional).

Trucks on loads will display a new icon to indicate that auto-statusing is active for the truck.

When the mouse is moved over a truck that is in To Job status, a hint will appear showing the distance remaining to the job site.

When the mouse is moved over a truck that is in Returning status, a hint will appear showing the distance remaining to the plant.

Dispatch Ticket Maintenance

A new Batch Weights tab will show the received batch weights for the current ticket, if any.

A/P Invoice Register
A/P Vendor Invoice History Report
G/L Trial Balance Report

Optimized for better performance.

Payroll W-2 Magnetic Media Export

Added new state total record for Minnesota.

Payroll Tax Library

Updated to 2008-R4 version.

Stand-alone Backup

A new stand-alone backup program has been added which will backup all company databases prior to running the user's existing automatic nightly backup procedure.

Device Aggregator

Added Plant ID to device grid.

Batch weights are now validated after writing to database.

General

Copyright date change to 2008.

Version number change to 2.1.

Corrections

A/R Inquiry

The separate Service Charges total on the aging tab was not calculating correctly.

A/R Print Invoices

If an error occurs during the invoice update phase, all changes written to that point will be rolled back.

A/R Product Maintenance

You can no longer enter the current Product ID as a component of itself.

A/R Void Invoice(s)

Fixed foreign key violation when using the automatic reconciliation option for a user who has never run Print Invoices.

Dispatch Schedule

Fixed to allow you to enter the Customer/Order ID for the new order the first time you click Quick Order.

Pre-ticketed trucks in returning status will now show the return time.

Dispatch Ticket Printing

The truck drop-down list will now be properly filtered to show only the current customer's trucks and those trucks not assigned to any customer.

A problem where the truck number would appear blank on the second and subsequent shipped loads has been corrected.

DataScope

Fixed several Access Violation exceptions.

The layout changes to the grid will now be saved from one run to the next.

System Menu

Fixed Access Violation when clicking OK on the License Management screen.

General

The mouse wheel will no longer change the item displayed in a drop-down list unless the drop-down list is visible on the screen.

When using the F4 search on a phone number field, the system will now ignore non-numeric characters.