Includes Database changes, you need to log all terminals out during upgrade
IMPORTANT CHANGES TO C9 DATA & CLOUD STORAGE
This version of c9 bakes in a critical change in technical approach for us for storing information in your c9 and how it is backed up into the cloud backup service we provide.
More and more dealers are using c9 as a generic document store as well as taking advantage of other data intensive features like pictures of units for website advertising.
We are are fast approaching limits on what we can store because of this.
We have solved this issue by creating a 'hybrid' model. Key data elements which we identify as 'archival/historical' we will offload out of you c9 and into our cloud service. The architecture:
- reduces size of your locally installed database by putting historical stuff in the cloud
- dramatically reduces our cloud storage requirements because we are not duplicating massive data store with overnight and monthly data saves
- the solution is near invisible for your c9. If you go to access a historical / archived element it will seamlessly fetch from cloud just like it would have if it was still stored in your local c9. The only constraint is for historical queries you must be online
- full restores of c9 will now be significantly faster as data flagged as stored in cloud will no longer need to be downloaded / restored
Initially we have identified the following items for archival
- emailed attachments, like invoices older than 6 months
- attachments and web images on units sold 6 months ago
- attachments on workshop jobs invoiced 6 months ago
- unused web images initially uploaded 6 months ago
We will monitor rollout of this solution over coming months and may make further adjustments to what we store locally in your c9. This architecture opens up some new opportunities to allow c9 to be used for document / receipt storage etc. But we will assess initial impacts of this change first before exploring other possibilities.
Other tweaks and fixes
- internal tweaks for things we use in c9 for emailing our invoices : was broken last two months. Should now be fixed.
- Reconciliation report : was not including recently added gl code for payment gateway clearing (1-1400-xxxx) so was often misreporting txns involving these as problematic. Now fixed
- ABA file creation. In event of a file creation error, like invalid path, c9 would try and plow on with ABA file create anyway. Result was a null pointer crash. Now just report error and bail
- Mojo Magician. Would show wrong price, showing trade price when it should show dealer price.
- website magician check . on dealer websites not working for a number of brands. Now fixed. Specifically Suzuki but possibly also impacting Gas imports, BCE, ORI, Ficeda, Motonat and Cassons
- Minor typo fix on supplier return screen
- tillpay tweaks. Tweaks to help highlight possibly fraudulent txns
- Highlight 3DS Result if result is adverse
- Display issuer bank + country. Highlight if it isn't australia
- Part number matching. Tweak logic used to try and match polaris parts with extaneous 'P' in part number and prefix trim which is in place for some dealers who migrated from competitor system where that system requires a 3 letter prefix at front of part. Previously c9 will trim prefix then apply the polaris trim rule ontop of that. These two tests need to be independent on original user input.
- View job : show part no on a separate field below list so it can be right clicked and copied
- Mojo EPC importer : subtle bug with importing multiple units which share diagrams; the second model it would encounter with same diagram would fail to import diagram. This possibly will explain recent issues with missing engine components. Root cause is recent changes to improve memory usage of EPC import was misimplemented for Mojo
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