More issues with systems integration into KTM/Husky. 🙁

Public KTM/Husky sites now broken. You will notice if you click back button on browser and click on a different diagram, it loads the diagram you where previously looking at; making it an even more painful and useless website to use.  Spent ages trying to workaround/ understand this brain damage but unable to and cannot figure out why, so I am disabling it as too unreliable to be used as a data source for fetching fiche diagrams.

For the login based dealernet websites: I've modified code slightly to try and decode bike names a little better. It is difficult, because names are written differently, sometimes for example you'll have year and country code in <>, but other times it is embedded in the model name itself. It looks like it was hand typed (by a trained monkey?), instead of computer generated from discrete database fields, so parsing/decoding important information such as year and country is now alot harder and reliable results cannot be as readily guaranteed. Using this data is far from ideal, but it is all that there is now. Consider this one: is it 2012 or 2013?

125 DUKE COLOR 1 ABS 2012 <2013> <8003M4>

Cross fingers and hope that brain damage on public parts sites doesn't spread to the login only sites.

Includes database changes, you'll need to log all terminals out during upgrade

• Bugfixes
  • Spares - Move parts intelligently. Broken with recent changes to suppliers. Now working again
  • Receive spares - new feature to quickly tag a part on backorder did not refresh invoice total figures. Now fixed
  • Vouchers - notes on voucher would only save a very tiny amount of the notes, clipping rest of the text. Now fixed
  • Import fiche - sometimes would crash, especially if you select Abort.  Should now be more robust
  • Unit deal.  System could not handle selling same part to different units on a deal. Now fixed.
• Workshop
  • Warn user if they are re-printing job card. Track # of job cards printed. Print a huge letter on the job card based on print number. i.e. [A], [B], [C] .... etc
    

Recent removal of partsmagician removed ability to do a F12 query on KTM.

KTM query was actually implemented in Parts magician : so disabling parts magician disabled KTM query.

KTM query now moved into c9. Does not impact Husqvarana as Husky use new Husky website to check availability.

Parts magician completely removed and replaced with a c9 based alternative.  After upgrading, following differences:

• Magician queries, faster and more reliable and will always return a result irrespective of status of other dealers computer setup
• View supplier details more accurate
• No non-c9 based solution anymore.  Will only query dealers with online backup (which is most dealers anyway).

Workshop booking reminders. With multiple c9 messengers running over multiple days a-piece, system could send duplicate notifications as messenger did not properly check if another messenger had already done this task.

Includes DB changes, you'll need to log all terminals out during upgrade

• Spares
  • Option to print all notes on a invoice, including notes on related quotes/orders etc. On by default but can be switched off in setup
  • Spares complete, F5=Notes. Allow user to view/modify all historical related notes as well as note to be created on new invoice/quote
  • View Received order : display totals,freight etc on screen
  • Fiche : optimised database calls on substitute parts functionality
  • Parts Magician : provide operator feedback on progress of supplier query. Previously was not sure if query was in progress or finished but failed to return as result. Now more obvious
  • Parts Magician : bug in c9 meant for newly magicianed suppliers c9 would not automatically kick off login screen. User had to click on 'dealer login' to initiate process. Now fixed
  • F12 pickup order : colour code invoice based on status of parts on order overall
  • Export order: added new method type for Softway (used by MV Agusta)
• Miner
  • Allow query of Biz Activity from Customer. Useful for doing an activity dump on a given customer.

• Spares
  • Fiche Import
    • Convert extended latin encoding into ASCII, i.e. from [125 EXC M/Ö (US)] to [125 EXC M/O (US)] on import.  C9 itself can handle extended charsets, but it's database and backup database is configured such that it cannot.
    • Support importing from publicly accessible KTM and Husky parts fiche sites
    • Manage fiche : option to allow you to substitute parts based on part number. i.e. you are a Husky dealer and want to list KTM diagrams but substitute Husky part numbers on those diagrams where possible.
  • Magician
    • Added support for Polaris (will integrate into web
• Workshop
  • Bug fix with modify job : new P/L tallies where obscuring other things on the job screen, like grand total

• Spares
  • SMS notification bugfix, selected SMS notify option in point of sale complete was no longer working. Would go to default behaviour. Now fixed
  • Point of Sale complete,  some on screen redesign work to hopefully make function of freight to charge later more intuitive.
  • Export generic order. Support exporting format for Polaris.
  • Print labels, was not coping with label printers with long printer names. Now fixed
  • PC-EFTPOS, setup PC-EFTPOS button would not work for 64bit computers. Now fixed
  • Import price file, deal with a NLA marker appearing in supercession field by clearing supercession and adding 'NLS' to front of part description.  Cope with suppliers (like triumph importer and a few others) who think it is okay to arbitrarily change the definition of things and throw any old thing into the supercession field. By default will match on 'NLA', 'NA' and 'NLS' but can be configured globally in Setup or disabled by setting it to a blank string.
  • Magician Query
    • Added: MCS Online
    • Added: Triumph
  • Receive order
    • added toggle buttons to allow rapid flagging of full backorder/cancelled items. Saves having to go into modify screen set qty and unsupply behaviour. Hopefully means orders can be processed a bit faster.
    • Do not reset order supplier not none if order contains parts tagged from multiple suppliers. i.e. when sourcing accessory items from another dealership.
  • Print order
    • Allow user to modify order header notes in select options screen
    • When print notes are selected, keep print orientation in portrait mode, only flip to landscape if any of these options alone are selected : qoh, cost, extension, location
  • Part Image/Fiche Import
    • Minor tweaks to BRP to improve robustness of import
    • Minor tweaks to Ducati importer to improve robustness
    • Got KTM/Husky Spare Parts web import working again
• Workshop
  • P/L tab on view and modify job: Show totals.
  • P/L tab on view and modify job: discount shown was GST Inc, needs to be GST ex.
•  Business
  • Reprint deposit. Ability to only show deposits connected to a selected customer.
•  Miner
  • Allow query on created date on a contact/customer

• Spares Fiche Diagrams
  • Improvements to Honda fiche importing
    • Fix issues with images not importing correctly (fix involves running java 7, c9 will warn you if your java is too old for importing fiche)
    • Detect if honda install dir has more than one set of fiche (i.e. motorcycle and power equipment), ask user to choose one
  • Improved image rescaling on imported fiche.  Massive images could scale down poorly with antialiasing effects. Scaling is now alot smoother
  • Fixed importing for KTM and Husqvarana to cope with design changes to KTM/Husky websites
• Accounts
  • Bug with statements  involving suppliers. Statement balance at bottom of statement was correct but would erroneously include supplier items, not debtor items and descriptions on them were incorrect too, resulting in misleading opening balance as well. Now fixed
• Spares
  • Plugged hack where you could force a layby (or supplier return) by making invoice a quote, backing out and then re-completing again
  • Supplier return : default discount to 0% on selecting supplier, clearing any discount previously in play if invoice started out as a regular customer invoice
  • Convert quote : import freight and tracking details
• Workshop
  • Modify spare part qty on estimate, was not automatically calculating new total price correctly. Now fixed.
• Units
  • Contract of sale, was erroneously printing odo instead of rego # on tradein vehicle on forms for following states : VIC, NSW, QLD, WA
•  Website
  • New experimental website element types for forms/enquiries also for laying out new bike specs.  frontend website not yet ready, another week or two.

C9 recently introduced creditors. C9 can be setup so that when you receive spares in it will track bills to be paid with an due date on them within creditors.

Now many existing c9 users will want to disable this (I probably should of disabled it by default in c9), because reminders about overdue bills are annoying when you don't run creditors.  Two steps, one is to disable the feature for future invoices and 2 is to clear up the ones already there.

Step 1 : Stop future bill tracking

Setup -> Main Setup Screen. Select Suppliers tab. Select option 'User select default no'. Select okay to confirm changes

Step 2 : clear bills currently in play

Contacts -> Contacts -> Unpaid Bills

For each bill do the following

• Click pay highlighted bill
• Switch transaction type from 'Pay a bill' to 'Supplier Credit note'
• Click OK and continue.
• Repeat for other bills

• Workshop
  • Query VicRoads database now working again (WOO!)
  • View/modify job : 2 new tabs that show timesheet logbook against the job and line by line profit margin
• Spares
  • Reserve/Pickup A4 printout : include a smart barcode, when scanned in c9 will jump straight to F12 pickup for that reserve
  • Fixed loophole where parts supply test limiting usage of layby or supplier return can be overcome by flagging invoice as a quote first, then backing out and reattempting to complete the invoice.
•  Units
  • QLD Paperwork
    • New contract based on changes to legislation
    • New forms for new sections 74 and 73 of legislation
    • Fix to registration form ,was printing engine# on page 2 when it should of been printing capacity