Adjustment to import softway catalogs (Husqvarna and MV Augusta) :  skip over broken hotlinks. In prior version some parts on diagrams in 2012 Husky range would generate a web page errr and cause import to abort. Modified so it skips over such parts.

• Bug : c9 would allow you to merge parts on order onto different invoice types. i.e. merge 'pickup later' parts onto a 'receipt' invoice.  This should not be allowed to occur. Modified c9 so it only allows for merging onto invoices of the same type.
• Point of sale at cost:  provide ability to configure, in setup, what cost price to use for calculating at cost.  Defaults to actual cost (i.e. lastincost for stocked items and daily buy for ordered items), can be changed to 'daily buy' or 'stock buy'.
• F7 lookup catalog. When selecting franchise, only display franchises that have catalogs
• Terminal Menu - what is my ip address? Add new menu option : what is the servers ip address?  Needed for Dave/Barney for doing network diagnostics

C9 powered website now have hotspots on the catalog diagrams.  Web shoppers can now click on diagrams directly to browse and order items. Try it yourself:

http://c8software.com.au/shop/test/find/fiche/269951

• Tweaks to BRP import
• Include Can-am ATV as import option
• Corrected description of Spyder import option
• Tweak to PFG import : make sure engine displacement is part of model name. i.e. instead of 'CR', it is 'CR 125', 'CR 250', etc

• Website : left hand menu bar can be setup so that clicking on a menu item will link you to an external website.
• Point of sale: option to sell parts directly to a unit.  Sale is actually treated as a workshop sale, workshop job is automatically created and then finalized as part of the point of sale process.  Saves having to go through workshop workflow when all you want to do is sell a couple of items to a floor unit.
• F12 pickup : display earliest creation date for orders involved for a given invoice
• Catalogs
• image processing improvements (better image scaling, better/faster clipping).
• Update Suzuki Aus bike listing.
• Import from brp website.  Can-am Spyder and Sea-doo Jet-skis
• Import from softway website, via Paul Feeney.   Husqvarna Motorcycles and MV Augusta.
• Usability : permit double click on catalog unit listing to drill down to actual diagrams
• Bug Fixes
• Receive order: somehow a received part ended up on an active order. Modify F12 receive to check active/printed order as well for parts ready for pickup.
• MYOB chart of accounts : structure was being inferred based on account numbering system. Modified to reflect the precise structure as managed inside MYOB, without regard for the numbering employed.
• Internal software changes
• Switched to latest Clarion 8 IDE.  Carefully audited software, function by function, and am confident in quality of migration
• Restructured code so that projection from network map to 1:M hierarchy is much smaller, 1/1000 of what it was.  Excessively large map projection was causing older Clarion 5.5 IDE to crash.

Problems with sending email via c9.  An ongoing network configuration issue means that some email channelled via c9 cannot reach its destination.  I was hoping that our provider would of fixed the issue by now but they are dragging their feet on this :-(. In meantime be advised that some mail delivered by c9 or email from myself directly will not necessarily get there.

UPDATE: all fixed now.

Requires database changes. Will force you to log all terminals out.

• Ad hoc adjustment report.  Reports cost variance (lastincost * adjustment).  System now tracks precise lastincost at time of adjustment; but this info is only available after upgrade to this version. For reporting prior to this system will use lastincost at start of the month
• Stock - new tracking: keep discounts. If set then importing new master will will not override discounts on stock. Similar to keep header and keep retail price.  On receive order if you select option set set daily or stock discount to reflect buy price then keep discounts flag is also automatically set.  Means that if you negotiate additional discount with a supplier then recording of that information will not be lost when a new price file is imported.
• Suzuki catalog : on raw catalog data from PMP,hotspots are regularly duplicated. This change means importing Suzuki will be a bit faster and database storage required much less.
• Catalogs : in add/edit franchise is an option that allows you to turn off online access to cataloges for the selected franchise. Defaults to on.
• Select customer: include option to compliment F6 = search by phone.  F7 = query search. Select customer based on things such as post code, contact name, etc etc.

Update: I managed to isolate the problem and fix it.  Back to normal operation. Better actually: the changes I applied make the tools I use work even better and faster than before.

A temporary setback which will slow me down for a week or two...

Working on a few new features for c9; I think I have outgrown the tools I use to work on c9 :-(.  Apparently a common problem for working on very large programs using the technology that c9 is based on; tools now run very slow and are unreliable.  C9 is as solid as ever but the tools I need to work on c9 are now flaky; which is frustrating me to no end.

C9 now contains 550 windows and 90 reports, it has almost doubled in size in last 2 years. Due to dealer appetite for more sophistication and capability, there is no indication that things are going to slow down anytime soon.  This rapid growth is main reason I have outgrown my professional development tools.

Going to retool my workshop so to speak;  just purchased latest version of the software tools I use; to be shipped from USA (for some reason they don't offer software download so have to wait). Hope to receive it in a week or  3.  Other programmers that use latest versions tell me it is a massive improvement on ability to get work done.  Also it is based on technology I hope will allow me to run in an environment more comfortable for me (under Mono or Wine, which older versions could not do).

In meantime I'll need to suffer working at reduced productivity for a while.  Luckily most of focus at the moment, on catalogs and web development will not be impacted by this.  New versions of c9 will continue to ship as normal, but I'll be holding back a little bit until I finish retooling.

• Bugfix with Suzuki Catalog import.  I assumed that Suzuki model names were unique but this is not the case.  i.e. a model name can exist for different regions. i.e. there are 2 GSX1250F 2011's : a E21 and a E28. Modified c9 to cope with this.  For units where there are duplicate matching years, i.e. like DR250S - import the model with the region code embedded in the name of the unit.
• Buy/Sell part : show receive inv number are applicable
• Bugfix with tracking supp/cust order qtys on stock. These figures can get out of sync for various reasons, modified code so that these are periodically checkpointed back to actual values, i.e. when stock order is generated and when a order is received.  There was a problem with a customer where c9 was generating database errors when trying to put parts on order. Cause was that system thought that there were over 32,000 engine oil containers on order; and database cannot handle numbers this big for this item.

Bugfix : Point Of Sale provides the ability to import part list from a workshop estimate.  If you access point of sale to add parts to workshop, either via Workshop F5 = add parts option or F11 = Modify/other and then use F7 to import from an estimate this will not work as you would expect; it does not add parts onto the selected job at all and it generates a spares invoice that refers to the estimate, not the actual job selected and it will order parts and take parts out of stock.  Now fixed.    The more commonly used technique of creating a new job from a estimate did indeed work and still works.  Also the technique of going to Point of Sale directly and picking the workshop job via F10 also worked; but any process where you selected the workshop job to add parts to before you selected the estimate to import parts from would not work correctly.