Adobe Acrobat 5.0 Distiller does not print to files correctly unless updated with the Adobe patch to Acrobat 5.05.  As of October 2004, the patch is located at: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=1309.

Minor Changes and Enhancements, and Bug Fixes:

Delete Winning Bid:  cleanup/remove all trace of prior bid so that items are listed as "unsold" and may be converted to basket components or pledge items, resold, etc.

Help, Register Auction! for Event Managers:  cleaned up bugs in licensing routine.

Item Entry, Convert to Basket and Basket, Convert to Standard Item:  cleaned up further, removing donor name "memory" from item converted to basket.  Cleaned up button enable/disable routines.

Cosmetic Changes:

Help Documents (user guide, etc.) now opens Adobe Acrobat Reader directly when installed on the computer, and no longer uses Auction! form to do so.

Activities, Winning Bids:  Entering bids for two successive items, purchased by the same bidder number, did not permit Save.  Fixed.
Activities, Winning Bids:  Mis-entry of an item number under wrong type (e.g. Live), and then switching to Silent and re-entry did not correctly enable bidder number.  Fixed.  Also improved enable/disable behavior when switching between Live & Silent, and Pledge & Standard items.

Documents, Catalog, Print to Microsoft Word™:  Prints to Word 2000, in addition to later releases, following addition of Organization name to footer.

Item Delete:  After deleting a winning bid, item could not be deleted.  Fixed.
Item Delete:  Occasionally generated spurious message about connected to non-existent name.  Fixed.

Cosmetic Changes:

Activities, Categorize Items, New Category:  Cursor now a pointer instead of hourglass.

Activities, Purchase Tickets:  Spelling correction on payment entry reminder.

Basket Entry:  Underlying primary key (of use only to developers) no longer visible.

Documents, Invoices, Donor Receipts & Statements:  Organization name alignment (left or right) did not track with balance of header.  Fixed.

File, Maintenance, Validate & Repair Project:  Switch to exclusive access now correctly enables and captions Main screen.

Backups:  Auction! was inadvertently shipped with a shareware version of the vendor control that creates backups; the control expires 30 days after installation.  This version does not expire.

Activities, Enter Winning Bids:  When trying to delete two pledge bids in a row with the same bidder number, the second bid deletion resulted in an error.  Fixed

Cosmetic Changes:

Help, Update Auction! screen:  Button placement improved.

File, Create New Project, Transfer and File, Maintenance, Validate & Recreate Project:  Transfer error message displayed at wrong times.  Fixed.

Reports, Financial Statement now shows correct count of unsold items.

New!  Limited Edition added.

New!  Event Manager Edition added.

New!  Automatic checking/downloading of updates and messages.

Minor Changes and Enhancements, and Bug Fixes:

Activities, Assemble Baskets:  Network Edition in exclusive access - moving basket components into baskets very slow when there are many basket components.  Fixed.

File, Maintenance, Backup:  Project names containing semicolons (;) did not back up correctly due to bug in compression control.  Vendor fixed problem.
File, Create New Project, Transfer:  Now logs problematic items & transactions, and notifies user.  (Examples:  User selects donors, but not bidder names in transfer, along with items & payments, when Items have been sold and payments recorded, or when transferring a large project in limited edition, where name & item limits may interfere with matching records together.)

Help, Project Information:  Pledge and Ticket counts reversed on screen.  Fixed.

V3 User Guide:  Updated.

Cosmetic Changes:

File, Transfer & Repair:  Cleaned up screen refresh sequence.

Reports, Financial Statement:  was reporting number of ticket transactions rather than number of tickets sold.  Correct, but unclear.  Changed to number of tickets sold.
Reports, Table Assignments:  Large print page footer text overlapped other text.  Fixed.
Reports, Dinners:  Large print page footer rolled to next page.  Fixed.

Settings, Event Preferences, Tickets:  When adding more than one ticket type, the value of subsequent ticket types (after the first one) was not set by default to the ticket price.  Fixed.

Minor Changes and Enhancements, and Bug Fixes:

Auctionpay:  Extra debug statement introduced in 3.1.4061 caused invalid indication of error.  Fixed.

Import:  Changing delimiter to incorrect value ended import; progress bar flickered during import.  Fixed.

Fonts:  Font lists displayed fonts only up to the selected report font (based on system sequencing,)  Introduced 3.1.4061.  Fixed.

Cosmetic Changes:

Activities, Winning Bids:  Entering an invalid bid number now resets cursor to pointer from hourglass.  Cursor also blinks in bid number field, prompting correction.  Entering an invalid bid number twice in a row allowed the invalid bid number.  Fixed.
Activities, Winning Bids:  When restoring a Pledge/Multiple Buyer item to Items without Bids, the P/MB flag now displays correctly.

File, Create New Project:  tab sequence on Project Data to transfer improved, enable/disable of options improved.

New!  Auto Backup added for many cases:  every 100 Saves or Deletes of Names, Items, Payments, Reservations, Pledges and Winning Bids.  When more than an hour has elapsed since last auto backup,  an auto backup is created when entering automatic sequencing, item categorization, or table assignments, and on invoices, when no auto backup for invoices has been made in the last hour.

Print Preview:  Print button now displays informative message when no print driver is loaded.

New!  Licensed organization name now prints on all documents & reports.

New!  Main Screen:  Names and Companies now shown in separate, sortable columns.

Minor Changes and Enhancements, and Bug Fixes:

Main Screen (startup):  User must confirm licensed organization name for each use of software.

Activities, Item Categorization:  Screen always displays initially with all item types selected.
New!  Activities, Enter Winning Bids:  Winning bidder Name and Company now displayed.
New!  Activities, Enter Winning Bids:  Quick Name Lookup now displays Company and Name in separate columns.
Activities, Winning Bid Delete:  now handled more gracefully in multi-user merges. (used to show original buyer, zero value on invoice.)

Documents, Catalog:  Company name of "Anonymous" now prints Anonymous in catalog, instead of the blank used for other anonymous cases.
Documents, Name Tags & Mailing Labels:  Guests with number attending greater than zero now considered bidders, whether or not they have bid number or purchased ticket.  Titles may be included or skipped on name tags at user discretion.  Printing with & without titles and additional persons improved.

File, Export:  Currency values exported to Excel™ as numeric values instead of strings.  Container Item for basket components now exported correctly.
File, Import:  Single line Excel spreadsheet caused error on step two.  Fixed.
File, Maintenance, Backup Project:  Backup after renaming project no longer triggers runtime error.
File, Maintenance, Move/Restore/Create Project:  creating a new folder no longer triggers runtime error.
File, Transfer to New Project for Auctionpay clients no longer fills empty volunteer contact information with numeric information.

Installation:  Check for unsafe V2 versions marks registry correctly to indicate completion in all cases.

Item Entry:  Sold Silent & Live Items may no longer be changed to Basket Components or Cash Donations.

Name Entry:  Payments may be entered from Name Entry when Save is enabled (whether or not purchases exist.) 
Name Entry, Payment, Print Invoice: incorrectly showed a "This record has been updated" error when saving the name.  Fixed.

Reports, Donor Names:  now correctly includes Volunteer Contact and Notes when requested.
Reports, Donors or Invitees sorted by Volunteer Contact, Dinner Selections, Table Assignments sorted by Host or Table Number:  the "None" records print last instead of first.
Reports, Table Assignments:  Large format headings now print in large type as well.
Reports, Donor Names, View, Donations showed items still attached to previous donor information after converting item to basket container.  Fixed.
Reports, Donor Names:  When there are no "no donor items," the last item printed is no longer duplicated.  (Total was correct, and remains correct.) 
Reports, Dinner Selections prints correctly for each sort sequence.

Reservations:  Purchasing a ticket for a person now correctly removes their name from available guests (could have resulted in a person being both ticket holder/host and guest of someone else.)
Reservations:  modifying a guest ticket type, then changing ticket type, then reverting to original ticket type did not fill price correctly, and caused run-time error.  Fixed.

New!  Review, Guests without Bid Number:  Option to assign bid numbers automatically added to screen.
New!  Review, Guests without Dinner Selection:  Option to print equivalent report added to screen.
New!  Review, Items without Winning Bid:  Option to print equivalent report added to screen.
New!  Review, Guests with Non-Zero Balance:  Option to print equivalent report added to screen.
Review, Guests without Reservations:  Option to print equivalent report added to screen.

Settings, Event Preferences:  (Network edition) Project Name may be changed only when in Exclusive access.

Cosmetic Changes:

Documents, Tent Cards:  now retains bold selection on font.
Documents, Gift Certificates:  now retains italic selection on full description font.
Documents, Invoices, Print Preview:  print current page option removed.
Documents, Bid Sheets:  no longer prints "Donor: " heading when donor(s) are anonymous or non-existent.
Documents, Bid Sheets:  Category now always prints on right-hand side.
Documents, Bidder Invoices:  (screen display ONLY) no longer shows zero when balance due is negative.
Documents, Bidder Invoices:  "estimated donor value" now capitalized.
Documents, Donor Receipts:  Donor receipts may be printed for names, whether or not they are a donor.
Documents, Donor Receipts:  Removed Quick Checkout indication for donor receipts.
Documents, Gift Certificates:  Corrected enable/disable of options, improved Hint button messages regarding disabled options.
Documents, Item Details:  Progress bar now displays completion percentage correctly.
Documents, Tent Cards:  Removed Hint button since there are no disabled buttons.
Documents, Name Details, Print Statements and Print Donor Receipts will now indicate no names when applicable, rather than displaying a blank screen Print Preview.
Documents, Print Donor Receipt Print Donor Value selection now stored correctly.

File, Maintenance, Backup Project:  When device is write-protected, error message is clearer.
File, Maintenance, Move Project:  more graceful handling when current location is selected incorrectly.
File, Maintenance, Restore Project from Backup:  Screen width enlarged to show more of filename & date without user intervention.
File, Import:  successful import of a text file followed by an Excel file to import might display no data at Import Step 2.  Fixed.
File, Import:  can now handle importing from second and subsequent worksheets in Excel.
File, Import:  screen flashing / display peculiarities during item import fixed.
File, Import:  Log includes more information on what was imported.
File, Merge Project:  Log now includes more information on file merged and number of records added or updated.  Log includes more information about duplicate bid numbers.  Log automatically searches for "ERROR."
File, Open Project:  When (non-critical) DSG file was missing, screen showed isd.is* for filenames.  Fixed. 
File, Open Project:  Project Names with trailing spaces handled more gracefully.
File, Open Project:  Shows filename in addition to project name and date.

Help, Register Auction! now requires user to select Change Registration to prevent inadvertent changes.  When registration is changed for Auctionpay clients, it also prompts for new Auctionpay key.

Main Screen:  Occasional complex sequences of screen accesses could cause apparent duplicate name in list view on screen.  Fixed.

Name Entry:  when a new city is added, cursor stays in place.
Name Entry, Volunteer Contact:  A value of "0" scrolled to <None>.  This is fixed; it may have been a possibility in other combo lists as well.
Name Entry, Reservation Details: now includes table number selection option.

Network edition:  Records deleted by another user now provide a more informative message when you try to display the deleted record.

Payments & Reservations:  Adding a cashier on Payments now updates Reservations' cashier list as well.

Reports, All Names or Invitees:  no longer prints volunteer contact header when sorted by name.
Reports, Bidder Names:  when sorting by bid number, hint displayed regarding ticket purchasers who do not yet have bid numbers.

Sample Project:  Examples updated & developed further.

Settings, Event Preferences:  Active spell check added to State field.
Settings, Event Preferences:  Tab sequence, focus change handled more gracefully when reverting to original values.

Reservations:  cautionary message to enter payments along with reservations displayed on first use of form in each session.  Ampersand "&" in Name Displays no longer shown as "_".

Reports, Table Assignments sorted by Name or Bid Number now prints all names correctly.
Reports, Financial Summary with unsold baskets had type mismatch error.  Fixed.

Cosmetic Changes:

Print Catalog to Word:  more complete error message if Auction! can't start MS Word.

Improved database Recreate/Repair function; finds missing items "hidden" in earlier recreates.

Reports, Financial Summary calculations corrected. (affects a few basket items.)

Corrects Auctionpay Serial port detection algorithm.

Cosmetic Changes:

Mouse pointer no longer remains in hourglass after Validate, switch to Exclusive.

Corrects risk of data corruption, introduced in 2.99.7500 series releases.  Urgent update for any sites running 2.99.7500-7506.

Minor Changes and Enhancements, and Bug Fixes:

Print Reservations sorted by host - guest names did not print when they were supposed to wrap to the next page - fixed.

Automatic Sequencing of CASH donation items works correctly.

Items and Pricing Report sorted by category now prints all of the items in all of the categories.

Validate and Repair:  Switch to Exclusive Access was switching to exclusive, but display didn't reflect the switch.  Fixed

Item Entry Form - If an item is linked to a non-existent donor, the item entry form showed the donor from the previously shown item - fixed.

Cosmetic Changes:

Splash/Help, About Auction! screen now indicates "Version 3: Release #####".

UNSUPPORTED RELEASE--Please update to current release.

Merge - 2.99.7500 Introduced a serious merge problem.  Baskets being merged into a project which do not already exist will trigger the problem.  - fixed.

Export Names and Transactions now correctly writes Excel and Word Tables (new problem in 2.99.7500)

Validate and Repair Project no longer causes a runtime 53 error after having created a backup of the project.

Items and Donors report now correctly filters on item categories.

Export Names no longer put a comma before the "and" in lists of donations or purchases.

UNSUPPORTED RELEASE--Please update to current release.

Upgraded the underlying database:  Structural upgrade to the underlying database which facilitates speed and performance improvements in network environments.  Dataset is compatible with older releases.

Dataset no longer requires .isf files to function, and runs faster in network environments as a result.    .isf files are recreated and placed in Auction! backups, maintaining compatibility with older releases.

Basket Assembly - Added the ability to select more than one basket component at a time to move into a Silent or Live Basket Assembly.

Items & Pricing - added totals for Minimum Bid.

Right click for Insert Duplicate Item added to Items Shortcut/Popup menu.

Minor Changes and Enhancements, and Bug Fixes:

Merge - Merging basket items between two projects, where the items are in a basket in one dataset, but not in a basket in the second one, sometimes resulted in the container item taking on the characteristics of one of the basket items.  Fixed.

Merge - If a folder contained both one or more Auction! backups and one or more Auction!  projects, data is merged from both the selected backup or project, and the first backup or project in the list. - Fixed

Items and Purchasers report - Displays state and functions correctly when "Print Only Items with No Winning Bid" checkbox is checked or unchecked.

Bid Sheets - fixed runtime error caused by margins that were too small.

Item Sequence - Automatic - was not correctly enabled for LIVE and CASH items - fixed.

Items & Pricing/Purchasers/Donors reports - selecting a single type (LIVE, SILENT, CASH, BASKET) and providing a starting item number caused an infinite loop - fixed.

Choosing a default value of Taxable for Sales Tax Preferences now correctly results in new items being created with the Taxable flag set, and with imported items with the Taxable flag set.

Assign Host for Guest - no longer allows you to set a person to be their own host.

Gift Certificates - Basket Items transferred from a V2 dataset might not have printed the Donor Information on the Gift Certificates - fixed.

Import Names - if an imported name was not acceptable, the error log now displays the specific name when reporting the problem.

Print Catalog to Word - no longer results in a runtime error if MS Word is not loaded.

Import/Export - Word and Excel - Better handling when MS Word or MS Excel isn't loaded on the system.

Export to Word Table - MS Word 2000 or 97 no longer causes a runtime error.

Spell Check - Name Entry Notes are now actively spell-checked when the flag for spell checking is turned on.

Catalog - Printing a catalog with break on category with 0 pages between sections caused a runtime 457 error, as did printing a catalog with more than 32 items on a single page. - fixed.

Winning Bid - overwrite value and bid lower then expected minimum now correctly offers Yes & No choices to the question.

Default State (for Name Entry records) was not being saved.

Cosmetic Changes:

Open - in some instances, both open and restore buttons were enabled in the Open Project dialog box.  Fixed.

New!  Selective Merge.  Merge now possible for just Names, Names & Items, Names & Transactions, or all records.

Minor Changes and Enhancements, and Bug Fixes:

Auctionpay - Credit card names containing the string stop or ready were sometimes causing the sync of Auction! with Auctionpay to terminate early.

Reservations - Names that had  purchased a ticket, or were already the guest of another name could be changed to the guest of a different name by double clicking on the name in the Add Guest window, even though the Add Guest button was disabled.  Fixed

Merge Names now handles Number Attending and Entree Selections as special cases.  A non-zero/non-empty value always takes precedence over a zero/empty value, whether you merge in Join or Replace mode.

Runtime Error 5 sometimes occurred when moving quickly through name records on Name Entry screen using Next and Prev buttons.  Fixed.

Export to Word Table was not working correctly for Word 2000 - fixed.

Export Names, including Donations and Purchases, to Excel format was incorrect if a name had more than one donation or purchase.  Fixed doubled commas in tab-delimited format.  Fixed.

Item Details Report for Baskets was showing the prior component's donor name for a basket component that had no donor.

Auction! backups that ended up with an uppercase extension (.ACB) rather than lowercase (.acb) were not being correctly recognized by Auction! as backup files.

Pledge Items that happen to be gift certificates now are flagged as (cert) on Invoices.

2.99.7300-.7316 removed .ISF files from dataset structure to enhance performance in network environments.  This caused incompatibility with older releases for Merge and Restore from Backup; making the files to merge or restores "invisible" to the older release software.  Now creates datasets including .ISF files, and recreates them when needed.  May be revisited in the future.

Minor Changes and Enhancements, and Bug Fixes:

Reports, Items & Pricing:  Check & un-check "Items without Winning Bid"  left Cash item option disabled.  Fixed.

Bid Sheets:  Guaranteed bid box wording did not wrap gracefully in all cases.  Fixed.

If a project had been opened, then closed, and then you attempt to open a V2 project, the Convert to V3 warning message was not displayed.  Fixed.

Cosmetic Changes:

Help menu wording changes:
(View Auction! License -> View Auction! License Agreement,
License Auction! -> Register Auction!)

New symbol for "Pot of Gold" (Auction Total Proceeds)

Conversion of V2 datasets to V3 now correctly ignores upper/lower case of filename extension.  If you have had a problem converting a V2 dataset to V3, please call for technical support.

Donor Report now includes table number.

Minor Changes and Enhancements, and Bug Fixes:

New!  Invitees and All Names reports can now be sorted by Volunteer Contact.

Multi-page financial reports now wrap to subsequent pages correctly.

Voided Reservations, Tickets, and Payments no longer incorrectly included in Financial Summary report.

Voiding a Reservation from the Payment screen, when the Payment screen was initiated from the Name Entry screen caused an loop that wouldn't exit. Fixed

Name Details report now indicates Quick Checkout as appropriate.

Activities, Select Host for Guest works now, rather than error stating a name must be selected.

Item and Pricing report can now print all categories, sorted by item category.

Cosmetic Changes:

Popup menu for items - Print Items now reads Print Item Details.

New!  Added Financial Summary Report.

New!  Added Expense Tracking

Minor Changes and Enhancements, and Bug Fixes:

Print Catalog to Word:  improved handling of multiple paragraph full descriptions and tabbing to Donor Value.

Improved performance on Reports for Items & Names -- no longer counting prior to print.

Invoice flag set to "printed" when right-click to print, then cancel selection.  Fixed.

Bid Number of 0 disallowed.

Voiding a transaction now retains cashier initials on payment form.

Tables:  moving a person in and then out of a table no longer places their name on the list twice.

Add Guests:  Set host for guest now fills list on initial display.

Delete Item or Name confirmation screen now displays name or item to be deleted. 

Reports, Reservations:  added Sort by Host and rearranged screen layout.

Print Preview magnification - responds to typed value without requiring Enter.

Cosmetic Changes:

Added Progress bar on Automatic Bid Number assignment

Report, Bidders:  Now indicates exclusion filters on header

Improved checking for V2 to remove false positives.

Added debug for printer problems.

Table Assignments:  added Multi-select capability (left side only)

Adjusted layout on Table Assignment, Event Preferences Report Fonts screens.

Changed Seating Assignments to Table Assignments

Name Entry now always starts with focus on the first title.

Message boxes all have symbols indicating informational, question, or error

Help, Register Auction! may now be closed with X button, then re-displayed.

Reports, Items and Pricing now includes disclaimers about where basket values are ignored.

Main Screen display scroll no longer jumps to end of list after editing.

Data File structure:  Removed .isf files from the project. No longer created with a new project, deleted from existing projects, not restored from an existing backup, not backed up if it exists.

Convert Item to Basket now displays warning message explaining feature.