• Improved range of files that import master file (generic) will handle
  • .xlsm files are just .xlsx file. Handle accordingly
  • if file does not have an extension. Inspect the file to determine if it is .xls or .xlsx type
• Messenger, if on sending sms/email it appears that messenger is not working then auto-restart it on the terminal that detected this
• Menus and buttons in c9. Fixed menus which use mnemonic hotkey shortcuts so that with any screen that has hotkeys, all buttons are hotkeyed and no two buttons share the same mnemonic

• Import Master File. Now supports password protected XLS and XLSX files.
• In point of sale. Give user ability to either order on daily or order on stock for individual parts
• Accounts. In view old transactions allow user to jump to appropriate workshop, spares, units invoice type.
• Export Orders. Provide option to 'collapse' same part number appearing multiple items into a single line item.  some suppliers cannot handle part appearing more than once in a single order. i.e. Kawasaki online.
• Workshop weekly calendar. Memorize pickup checkbox filter setting
• Print job card. If print barcode is disabled then print job number on the top in a normal font
• Workshop & POS. Display what * means if there are any parts/jobs on screen with '*'
• Improved readability and shrunk size of c9*.log files
• Under some conditions an upgrade of c9 will not upgrade database properly. System will be unusable without remote support. Changes in this version will make the system more resilient to such problems.
• Bugfix with database access: sometimes database would get into a state where cannot do anything and had to exit c9.
• Bugfix: type in date 1.1.10000 - would reformat as 1.1.0000.  This could trigger above problem in some circumstances
• Workshop modify Bug. If you change unit, but select 'view unit' in change unit list, this would setup system so that you could not save modification. It would report an error: Primary Key Position not established (33). If you did not view the unit, it would work okay.

Supports mail merging to SMS or Email notification.

Be aware of anti spam legislation (Spam Act 2003). You need to provide users an ability to opt out. A simple solution is to define a customer account customer field for Mailer (Y|N). And implement a miner rule test i.e. Mailer: /N. Later versions of c9 will include a check box opt-out option on accounts that will make configuring this sort of thing easier.
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This version needs to modify the database. On upgrade it will ask you to log out of all terminals.

• Support Multiple Cash Tills for Reporting
• Print Stock Take Sheets. Allow user to specify order of parts on the print list.
• Workshop weekly planner
  • Corrected display of customer code
  • Permit filtering of picked up jobs from planner list
• Enabled debugging as a permanent feature. A large portion of bug reports require detailed logging in order to understand the problem. Most reported problems these days are user error. Detail logging logs everything a user did, so not only is better diagnostic data provided but opportunity to separate user errors for real defects is improved. Downside is increased disk usage; to deal with this files older than 2 months are automatically removed.

• Bugfix with receiving orders. When receiving an order, when stock order is received prior to a daily order the system is supposed to automatically reassign parts to preference customer orders over re-stocking orders.  This functionality does not always work properly under some circumstances. e.g. (receiving a part into stock where 2 or more customers are also waiting on that part).  The system sometimes does not properly identify an opportunity to fill a customer order and places parts into stock.  This version fixes these issues.
• Point of Sale.  Point of sale used to have a feature that allows you to assign parts to order by customer to parts already ordered on stock order; thus skipping creation of a daily order.  This functionality creates too much confusion amongst users and is in part redundant because of fact that system will auto assign parts on receive order anyway.  The functionality has been removed from this version of c9
• Workshop select job.  Tabs like rego now allow you to type in a rego number to search for. Just like job no searching.

• Possible Bug fix with leasing software. Under some rare circumstances lease could corrupt and require remote support intervention to get system working again.
• Modified behaviour of move stock. It will detect if move stock will result in error due to duplicate part numbers and give you option to proceed but only move non duplicate parts. The system will also generate a printable report of parts that are duplicate for manual resolution.  Also recoded move logic show it should run faster.

• Bugfix: when responding to a parts magician request; if price of part is >=1000 then messenger would crash

• Added workshop weekly planner. It shows a calendar and jobs in a planner style format giving feel for workload in workshop. The planner is also used when selecting calendar for setting job start date or job promise date
• On Invoices change wording "Mail by cheque to:" to "Mail cheque to:"
• Bugfix with online data sync. Sync freezes: backupclient unable to detect when connection to server is broken. Root cause is bug in networking, p2p virtual socket wraparound would serve ids already in use
• Bugfix with modify unit. Changes to dutyable value where not saved.
• Online data sync: Allow setting of recovery password in setup

• Modified "what is my IP address?" to report all addresses. To deal with computers which are acting as gateways and to deal with VPN software
• Modified how 'scan for servers' works to hopefully get a more complete list of computers on the network. Technique involves scanning 'network neighbourhood' in explorer. Because different window versions and network configurations display this list in slightly different ways it may take a further version or 2 to get this working perfectly.

• Bugs with ordering system and parts on order that get superceded
  • Auto-update superceded parts on order when F12 selecting order to receive
  • Auto-update superceded parts on order in receive back ordered parts (as opposed to receive parts)
  • Point of sale: never allow supplied quantity to be > required quantity. this can happen if use mouses around in POS
• More supercession bugs. Delete supercession sometimes does not show supercessions. Problem is traced back to the move function : move function put database in a state where delete supercession could not work. Modified move so it behaves correctly. Modified unsupercede so it can cope with move errors created prior to this version. Added a db maintainence tool to further correct for such problems
• Print preview : provide option to export a report as a .CSV file