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V3 Release Notes Q2-Q4 2003

2.99.7290
Nov 21, 2003

Minor Changes and Enhancements, and Bug Fixes

Performance Enhancement: When loading the invoices screen, we are now loading only those names that have either a bidder number or number attending greater than 0, or payments recorded in the software.

Automatic Item Sequencing: Renumbering a set of items so that the new starting item number is between the old starting number and the old ending number, and removing gaps in the numbering can cause unexpected results.

Guests Without Bid Number Report: Deleting a guest's ticket purchase and leaving their number attending greater than 0 may cause a runtime error 5.

Create New Project: Creating a new project in a new folder was not correctly creating the custom spelling dictionary for the project. This would cause an error if you tried to backup the project. Once you close and reopen the project, there is no problem.

Payment Screen: Voiding a reservation from this screen did not completely void the reservation.

Main Auction Screen: Added right click ability to View Payments for names, and to Print Gift Certificates for items. Right click on a name to Print Name Details, Print Donation Receipt, or Print Statement will now fill the selection box with the complete name so that (without changes) only the selected name will be printed.

Items and Purchasers Report: Checkbox for printing information for only items without bids now works.

Items and Pricing Report: Tax wasn't showing correctly for pledge/multi-buyer items. Tax totals were correct.

Export/Import: Exporting a field whose first character is a quotation mark (") will put quotation marks around the entire field. Importing a field that starts with a quotation mark assumes that there will be a quotation mark at the end of the field.

Cosmetic Changes:

Payment Screen: Payment information area automatically scrolls so last entry is visible.

Table Assignments: Taking a guest out of a table was not putting them back on the list of names available for seating.

Category Lists: Lists of categories on all screens are not sorted alphabetically.

Main Auction Screen: When names or items are added to the project, the name or item window will be displayed in the visible window when the item is saved.

2.99.7280
Nov 3, 2003

Significant Changes and Enhancements:

Export: Export to Excel™ spreadsheet or Word™ table now available.

Windows XP & Windows 2000 limited users: May now open/save projects in the Auction! folder, register the software and have recently used files appropriately recorded in the registry.

Minor Changes and Enhancements, and Bug Fixes

Baskets: Changing a basket between live and silent now clears the item number. After switching Item Type, Next Item # now retrieves the item number from correct Item Type. Changing an item from regular to basket now clears Item Receipt Status, certificate, pledge flag, and anonymous.

Spell Check: Spelling additions are now retained when you display the spelling screen.

Import: Duplicate Bid numbers now added to error log, rather than in one-at-a-time messages.

Conversion of V2 projects to V3: Now retains first name category name; this was lost when Payment on File was added in 2.99.7240.

State box on Settings, Event Preferences: Now works correctly; was not writeable after move to Sales Tax screen.

Import from Excel Attempt to import more than 32767 rows or columns from Excel now just ends rather than causing a runtime error.

Catalog: Spacing now correct for items with no donor and no value printed for item.

Print Preview: Horizontal scrollbar no longer hidden behind taskbar when zooming in.

Transfer Project: Retain Bid Numbers may now be selected without transferring donors. Cleaned up selection logic on Transfer.

View, Total Purchases: Now includes Basket purchase price.

Reports, Donor Names, Include Items Donated: Now shows Items without Donors at the end of report. This assures that other report totals match.

Reports, Bidder Names, Sort by Amt, Show Items Purchased: Did not clear totals between runs. Fixed. Include Purchases and Payments now includes ticket purchases and payments for them for Guests without Bid Numbers also.

Cosmetic Changes:

Transferring Data to a New Project: Name categories are now correctly displayed immediately.

Activities, Assign Bid Numbers: Wording clarification and improvement.

Print Bid Sheets on Cash Item or Basket Component Screen: Right-click now displays message to user, rather than simply ignoring the request.

2.99.7260

Oct 3, 2003

Significant Changes and Enhancements:

Auctionpay Capability now fully implemented.

Installation: Now checks for unsafe versions of V2 & V1. Check runs first time you open this version for update installations, or upon registration for new installations. Completion is critical due to potential for dataset damage; if you cancel it will run again until completed successfully.

Minor Changes and Enhancements, and Bug Fixes

Numeric Data Entry Fields: No longer allow and, ', ( or ). These characters caused problems in ticket quantity and other fields.

Donation Totals: Corrected when items are converted to basket containers.

V3 Preliminary User Guide: Now included in kit.

Payment (on File)/Quick Checkout Column: Added to Bidder Invoice screen for display and sorting, and on Grid View, Name Entry, Payment, and Review screens.

Cosmetic Changes:

Reports, Reservations by Ticket Type: Now prints tickets in alphabetical order. Reports, Reservations check box for guests without tickets toggle fix.

Reports, Baskets: Now indicates Live or Silent in page headers.

Reports, Bidder Names: Now indicates Quick Checkout.

2.99.7250 Sep 15, 2003

Minor Changes and Enhancements, and Bug Fixes

Reports, Donor Names: Convert V2 Dataset to V3: Failed if volunteer contact name was too long (hadn't been checked in V2.) Fixed.

Reports, Bidders or Donors: May now include any combination of address, notes, and volunteer contact.

Reports, Bidders, sort by Amount, Exclude Items Purchased: Showed 0 as purchase amount for everyone (although it sorted correctly.) Fixed.

Delete Names or Items: Did not close screens consistently. Fixed.

Find Item, then Select Basket from Results for Editing: No longer causes an error.

Reservations: When selected from Name Entry, sometimes showed replaced correct name with incorrect name. Fixed.

Import, Silent Items, right after Importing Live, Cash or Basket Items: Caused the items to be incorrectly marked as the prior item type. Fixed

Cosmetic Changes:

Create New Project: Opens to Sales Tax preference instead of Name information.

Registration: Reminder added for first time running program.

Auctionpay: Improved Auctionpay form wording.

Resize: Improved resize behavior of form for viewing log files.

2.99.7240
Sep 5, 2003

Significant Functional Changes and Enhancements:

Auctionpay: Enable Auction Pay added to Help menu.

Minor Changes and Enhancements, and Bug Fixes:

Nametags and Mailing Labels: Changed 2x7 style from Avery __59 to __62.

Reports, Baskets: Now include items which have no donor.

Find Name, then Edit, then View Donations: Sometimes caused a runtime error that a form was already displayed. Fixed.

Name Entry, Item Entry and Basket Entry Next and Previous Buttons: Now handle memory more efficiently. Should not hang after numerous Next or Previous clicks.

File, Recently used Projects List: Did not save all updates in 2.99.7232. Fixed.

Cosmetic Changes:

Print Item Details: Now wraps gracefully to a second page when needed.

Documents, Print Statements: Sometimes overwrote the footer information instead of wrapping to a second page. Fixed.

Bid Sheets: Bid lines now print correctly when you select guaranteed bid and have items with a minimum bid of zero.

Bid Sheets: 2 column bid sheets now have a line printed between the 2 columns.

Wording cleanup: Various screens.

2.99.7232
Aug 27, 2003

Minor Changes and Enhancements, and Bug Fixes:

Auction!: Now runs on displays set at 640x480 resolution

Settings, Default Project Values: Select any option caused a runtime 53 or 76 error in 2.99.7230. We apologize for the inconvenience; it was due to a debug statement inadvertently left in after release. Fixed.

2.99.7230
Aug 20, 2003

Significant Functional Changes and Enhancements:

Reservations and Add Guest: Functionality simplified, separated from Assign Host to Guest, and enhanced on Name Entry and Reservations screens.

Name Details: Now lists all applicable name categories for a person, not just the last category selected.

Reservation Info - Guest/Host imbalance: Was incorrectly showing a + instead of = in some cases.

Reports, Donors: Now includes option for Item status selection.

Reports, Donors or Bidders: Now allows user to print Notes instead of Address.

Reports, Donors, sort by Volunteer Contact: Now correctly excludes non-Donors.

Reports, Donors, sort by Volunteer Contact: Now correctly excludes non-Donors.

Reports, Donors, sort by Volunteer Contact: Now correctly excludes non-Donors.

Reservations: May be double-clicked to open a record.

Review, Guests Needing Bid Number: Now correctly excludes guests with voided reservations, and indicates guest status more accurately.

Spell Check: Appeared to lose words added to custom dictionary. Words are added correctly, but not shown/handled correctly in maintenance windows. Working with vendor for resolution.

Sold Items: Items that have been sold may no longer be converted to a basket after the fact.

Preferences: Now allows setting upper limit on tables to 999.

Activities, Categorize Items: Now facilitates faster switching by selection.

Cosmetic Changes:

Updated Sample Project: Custom Payment Detail block with AmEx as a payment type.

Reservation Info: Assign Seating forms design updated.

Splash screen: Correctly updated after registration, program restart not required.

Name Grid: Donations and Notes now repaint correctly.

Adding Duplicate Names in New Volunteer Contact: Now repaints list correctly.

2.99.7221
Jul 18, 2003

Minor Changes and Enhancements, and Bug Fixes:

Merge: Runtime error 4 or 5 at end of Merge process; removed. Merge had completed successfully, but you were unable to view the merge log.

Item Entry: Cancel out of Add New Donor or Edit Existing Donor by using the X caused a runtime error; fixed.

Purchase Tickets: Now checks for existence of Ticket Types before starting. If no Ticket Types exist, then Settings, Event Preferences, Ticket Types opened for ticket entry. Added Create Ticket Type button on the Purchase Ticket screen for easy access to creating new Ticket Types.

Invoices: Reprint Selected Invoices printed them in reverse order; fixed.

2.99.7220

Jul 17,

2003

Significant Changes and Enhancements:

Reservations and Add Guest: Functionality simplified, separated from Assign Host to Guest, and enhanced on Name Entry and Reservations screens.

Maintenance: Feature for deleting Auto Backups added.

Transfer Project: No longer retains Winning Bid and Bidder for Items when Retain Winning Bids for Items is not selected.

Export Names: Now only exports names that have actually given donations or made purchases if Donations or Purchases are checked on Value Filter.

Minor Changes and Enhancements, and Bug Fixes:

Invoices: Were not always sorted correctly when form was displayed; fixed. Invoice sorting by column header also sets option button on right side. Print Selected Invoices printed in reverse order; fixed.

Donor Receipt Footer: Did not print unless Invoice Footer was turned on.

Footers for Donor Receipt, Invoice and Statement: Now print at correct location, whether or not project name is printed. Donation Receipt/Statement Layout - footer didn't print if print footer on invoice was not selected; fixed.

Winning Bid: Default for accepting a bid less than Minimum Bid is "Yes."

Project Name: May no longer contain \ / : * ? "" < > or |.

Reports, Reconciliation: No longer prints blank line when there is no address to print.

Export: Now only places "" delimiters around fields containing Shift/Enter, and fields containing the delimiter chosen (tab, comma).

New Transaction grid: Right-click now offers choice to edit transaction. Void Transactions may not be edited; message will be displayed.

Transaction Grid: Double-click on empty lines on Transaction Grid no longer causes runtime error.

New Reports, Donor Names: Sorted by Volunteer Contact now offers option to do new page for each volunteer.

New Buttons: Added for immediate access to My Documents, Desktop and Auction! installation folder for Merge, Backup, New Project, Open Project, Select Backup, Restore Here and Move Project. For Restore Here, backup location is also an option.

Cosmetic Changes:

Reservation screen: Now pre-loaded during project load, to improve speed.

Reports, Reconciliation: Puts blank piece of paper on print preview when there are no records; fixed

Merge: Progress indicators reflect progress more accurately.

Tool Tips: Corrected on Table Seating and Project Name, formatted better in various locations.

2.99.7210

Jun 26,

2003

Significant Functional Changes and Enhancements:

New Reports, Reconciliation: Added to facilitate checking/reconciling receipts.

New Auto Resequence: Now performs an automatic backup if it has been more than one hour since the last backup.

Minor Changes and Enhancements, and Bug Fixes:

Item Entry Next/Previous: After selecting Donor Name from Invitees or New Name did not update donor totals, or mark name as a Donor, but disabled the donor checkbox. Fixed.

Ticket Types: Where all ticket sales have been voided may now also be voided.

Open a V1 or V2 project from ProjectBackups/OldProjects: Will exit/refuse gracefully.

Table seating: While displaying ONLY guests without a table incorrectly added guests from displayed tables to list of names to be seated. Fixed.

Reports, Donor Names: Now correctly excludes Invitees who are not Donors.

Credit card 8 character warning: Now correctly appears only once per session.

Reservations form, Guest tab: Arrowing through list of names was not correctly updating enabled/disabled status of options. Fixed.

Item Entry: With a duplicate item number could be Saved via Next or Previous and not create a warning about the duplicate item number. Fixed.

Export, Items: Now includes Gift Certificate Flag as option.

Cosmetic Changes:

Quick Name Entry: Return or Enter to Save on Quick Name Entry now places cursor in First Name text field.

Gift Certificate form: Now wraps long Donor Names for graceful fit.

Grammar and spelling: Improvements on many forms.

2.99.7200

Jun 4,

2003

 

Significant Functional Changes and Enhancements:

2.99.7160 Multi-User and Single User customers: Received incorrect "not in Exclusive Access mode" errors when project opened via File, Open Project. Fixed.

Minor Changes and Enhancements, and Bug Fixes:

Reports: Dinner Selections by Table now available in large format (one per page.)

Reports: Dinner Selections, Totals only, then cancel, then reopening form did not correctly reset "totals only" variable.

Cosmetic Changes:

License screen: Now centered on monitor, caption updated.

Changed Maintain MRU List: To Maintain Recent Project list.

Large format Reports, Seating, by Table: Now prints one table per page.

2.99.7160

May 22,

2003

 

Minor Changes and Enhancements, and Bug Fixes:

File Menu, Recent Projects List: Added capability to re-sequence or remove project names.

New Feature: Activities, Assign Bid Numbers: added option to auto-assign bid numbers to Names with Number Attending > 0, and Names with Reservation.

Basket Entry: An Item that was begun, but cannot be saved yet, may be converted to a standard item without a runtime error.

Settings, Switch to Exclusive Access: Now returns correctly to the program if another person has the project open and it can't be switched. No runtime error.

Reports and Review Lists: Now take expanded view of "Guest" concept; all include people with tickets, number attend > 0, and/or has a bid #.

Reservations Report: Totals/Summary block added. Added capability to show only guests without reservations.

Deleting Names from Main Screen: Right-clicking and selecting Delete, if a name cannot be deleted, the next name you attempt to delete may be displayed incorrectly (shows prior name.) Fixed.

New Name Grid: Now shows Title, Second Title, Name Categories and Entree Counts.

New Activities, Categorize Items: Now enables selection of multiple items at once.

Select Project & Merge: Backups are now shown date first, and sorted by date.

Select Project Screen: When you have cancelled out of Select Project screen, there may be difficulty switching from exclusive to shared access. Fixed.

Import: Now handles lines containing new line characters more gracefully.

Donor Receipts & Statements: Added option to leave donor value off.

Help, Register Auction: Type mismatch error corrected.

Cosmetic Changes:

Name Tags: Now correctly stores Bid # / Table # font size choice.

Automatic re-sequencing: Categories box was allowing typing of non-matching items and wasn't sorted.

License: May be viewed from inside program.

Guest (of host) reservation Number Attending & Entree Choices: Not saved unless Save was clicked twice. Fixed

Auto-assigning bid numbers: Re-display of updated names is faster.

2.99.7150

May 2,

2003

 

Significant Functional Changes & Enhancements:

Reservations & Merge: When Ticket Names are identical in two datasets, and values are different, a person could end up with two reservations of same name and different value.

Transfer to New Project: When Company Name is very long, an error could be generated due to "uncleared" First/last Names from prior entry. Fixed.

Pledge items with pledge bids (Active or Void): May no longer be accidentally converted to standard items.

Merge: Basket component items and Basket Master/Container items were not being transferred in every case under Join-style Merge Control. Fixed

Minor Changes and Enhancements, and Bug Fixes:

Review, Item Donations or Purchases screen: Double-clicking item no longer generates a runtime error.

Item reports by Acquisition Date: Corrected occasional runtime error 9 due to no items on certain pages.

Close Project: While in Manual Item Resequence no longer generates runtime error 53.

Taxable Pledge/Multiple Buyer Items: Grand Total, Tax amounts now correct.

Basket Gift Certificate: Donor name list prints.

Import: Nickname field no longer ignored.

Export: Added capability to export Formatted Purchaser Name, Bid # & for Items. Added Pledge bids to Items: One record per pledge per item, or one record with blank purchaser/bid #. Added Total Payments to export names. Added Anonymous Flag to Items Export.

File/Open Project: Now shows both projects AND backups which may be restored/opened.

Catalog: When all items are categorized, sort by Category created blank page for "Live Items" and "Silent Items." Fixed.

Convert Project from V1/V2: No longer reverses "Needs Pickup" and "To be Delivered" status.

Create New Project: Current project (if any) is closed so as to be available as a Transfer Data Source.

Name Tags: Now consistent--does not print Title if there is a First Name.

Baskets: Baskets that contain gift certificates now print (CERT) on Invoice. Basket Value now displayed corrected for Donor Value.

Winning Bid: Less than Minimum Bid now correctly displays caution note.

Merge: Invoice flag now always defaults to "Needs Printing" in Join Merge control if either dataset had this set to true.

Cosmetic Changes:

Name Entry Screen: Switching between the name information & the reservation information tabs on name entry was causing an invalid display showing ticket purchase had been deleted and possibly more guests than tickets. Entree names now display correctly.

Donor status flag: Display not correctly updated when changing donor and editing donor from Item screen. Fixed.

Name Reports: Column headers added.

Grid View: Return from Grid to Item view left extra button visible.

Invoice Format: Checking/unchecking statement and donor receipt options now correctly enables/disables Default/Custom options.

Donor Receipt & Statements: Format buttons added to Print Receipts & Print Statements forms.

Titlebar of Program: The Path to the dataset is now displayed.

Reports: Bottom Margin has been increased from 0.5" to 0.6" to work better on inkjet printers.

2.99.7140

Apr 17,

2003

Significant Functional Changes & Enhancements:

Gift Certificates: No longer "skip" a line for partial donor information.

New Reports, Bidder Names: May now include Payments and Net Balance for guests.

New Reports, Bidder Names or Donor Names: Now have option to exclude address and phone number.

Validate Project: Now checks more thoroughly, and creates Transfer log to record exceptions.

Backup, Merge, Transfer, Import and Error logs: Now record operational version number and licensee information. Error log includes date/time stamp. Logs are now searchable.

Catalog Print to Word: No longer includes Category Names when sorting by Item Number. Catalog now tolerates extra-large fonts without overflow error.

Close with X: "Hang" should no longer occur.

Payments screen: Now opens correctly when reached via Name Entry, Reservations, Payments.

Most Recently Used (MRU) Project list: Now updated correctly after Moving a Project.

Delete Names: Runtime error eliminated.

Basket Entry: Close with "X" from certain fields no longer causes runtime error.

Pledge Checkbox: Now enables correctly when switches item types for unsold items.

2.99.7130

Significant Functional Changes & Enhancements:

Export Item: Number now exports two distinct fields - type and number, in separate columns.

Reservations screen: Click Payments, then click Print Invoice or Statement no longer causes runtime error.

Bid Sheet: Now saves selection of Landscape Two-per-Page format choice and print copy quantity.

Bid sheets: May now be printed by right-clicking on selected item.

Catalog: Now saves Donor Value option correctly.

Name Tags and Mailing Labels: Sized more accurately, and fit correctly on the labels with bid # and table # in the correct location (center bottom), saves selected option for printing company name.

Items and Pricing Report: Formats correctly (items on correct pages) when no live items, totals box no longer splits across pages, switching to Print All now selects all item types.

Invoice Printing: After Print next 10, form now remembers sort sequence, rather than reverting to alphabetical sequence. Print next 10 now prints correct quantity when there are fewer than 20 names to print. Form now retains quantity of invoices to print per user selection, reflects quantity visually.

Winning Bids: Now "blinks" to indicate successful Save and/or error condition. (Audio alert not always audible due to noisy environment, or computers without speakers.) Form no longer prompts to save changes unless there are really changes.

Name Grid: Now sorts correctly on purchase total and donation total.

Faster Name Save: Especially across a network.

Backup: Added automatic backup prior to auto-assign bid numbers, and when entering manual re-sequence mode.

Dinner Report: Printable when no entrees exist.

2.99.7120

 

Significant Functional Changes & Enhancements:

Exclusive Access: Functions requiring Exclusive Mode are no longer disabled when not in Exclusive Access. These functions will now pop up a message indicating that you must be in exclusive mode to run these functions. Applies to Merge, Import, Move Project, Delete Project, add/remove/remove all in Categories, Baskets, and Seating, and Assign Bid Numbers.

Pledge Items: May no longer be deleted when the item has winning pledges.

Tent Cards & Placards: Now available in 8.5" x 5.5" page size and two-per-page in landscape format.

Baskets: Baskets which have been sold may no longer have contents added or removed.

Auction Proceeds: Added Item Purchases subtotal information; Total Proceeds now include Reservations and Cash Donations.

Jump To Name: Works consistently on all name screens. Jump To item doesn't appear on Transaction view.

Items and Pricing Report: Now includes option for showing ONLY items without winning bids.

Activities, Assign Bidder Numbers: Specify a starting bid number. It will work its way around existing bid numbers, warns if more than 9999 invitees, and stops at 9999 with a warning to the user if there are more invitees to assign.

2.99.7110

Significant Functional Changes & Enhancements:

Merging: Prevents duplication of payment records when Merging datasets. This affects Multi-User & Network customers who are recording payments and using merge capability. Prior releases (early) allowed users to incorrectly void ticket types that had been used. If this has occurred, the software will now simply show the ticket as voided on the reservation, and run-time error will not occur.