Change History for 7.0.4

October 2013
As well as an assortment of regressions, this update fixes stability problems being experienced by users on Windows XP that appear to have resulted from our switch to a new development environment on Windows for v7. Our thanks to the affected customers for their help in tracking down these issues.

  • Fixed a potential crash on Windows XP when opening certain windows such as Batch Receipts
  • Fixed a potential crash on Windows XP when saving records to the databse (this could lock the database for other users)
  • Fixed a very rare potential crash on Windows when closing some windows
  • No longer re-lookup prices on a transaction line when exiting item field by pressing return (Mac)
  • Datacentre: Connections by a full Gold licence will no longer be counted towards the total concurrent connections (regression in v7)
  • Datacentre remote save now requires confirmation
  • Mac: clicking Help button in alert (where present) could cause a crash
  • Fixed a crash on Windows caused by clicking window close box while tracking a popup menu
  • Changed icon highlighting strategy on Windows to avoid having the OS make resource pages writeable via an exception
  • Added quality assurance feedback facility (This means crash reports are now sent to us, instead of to Microsoft/Apple).
  • Serverside reports no longer fail on Mac when the DHCP server provides a bogus non-resolvable hostname such as blah.fritz.box
  • Fixed a Mac DC crash when restarting server while database is locked by an incomplete database transaction
  • Fixed log rotation
  • Fixed a text encoding error in the Contra dialog
  • Backorder summary by Product updated
  • Backorder Report by Product now supports a selection when running on server
  • Aged Receivables updated: shows more overpayment detail and retains sort order when running for highlighted selection (provided that subtotal and by currency options are not being used—those require a new sort order to be imposed)
  • Windows: Open Names list is no longer inappropriately activated when a debtor receipt is entered
  • Cash Flow report updated: Now supports date range
  • Changed the alert presented when about to autobuild a product whose parts are out of stock.
  • Restored ability to print details from Batch Creditor Payments.
  • Update the Job Detailed report
  • Open PDFs in default PDF reader rather than requiring Adobe Reader (Windows)
  • Cosmetic fixes to toolbar and search box
  • Fix for extraneous lines (actually recurring record definitions) appearing in the messages list
  • Running historic GST report on server no longer prevents running current report for the session
  • Find-by-field Contains search and Detail search now works properly again
  • Fixed reporting of filesystem error after a save
  • Clear filter cache when disconnecting from a database
  • Don’t show non-message records in messages list after deletion
  • Windows now uses default PDF reader to view PDFs instead of Adobe Reader
  • Lists now re-execute any current find after deleting a record
  • ExchangeListRows() function fixed for long detail lines
  • Updated Stock Valuation Report to use base currency for replacement cost
  • Context-sensitive help invoked with highlighted text in the script editor, or with a highlighted function in the formula editor will now look up the documentation on the developer page.
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