Coating Orders - No printout

It was originally expected that lenses sent for coating would be recorded using the "Send to Coating" option which produces a print out to send to wrap with the lenses to send to the Coating lab. Some labs do want to use but still write out an order form for the coating lab. In order to save on paper, we have added a tickbox on the screen to suppress the printing.  The job is still tracked to the coating supplier.

Discounts in pricing records - minus and plus numbers

A reminder of how this operates.

A plus number refers to a discount band in the discount matrix.

A minus number is an explicit discount eg -10 is 10%

Zero or the word NETT (prefer this) means that no discount is to be applied

If left blank then the default rules apply and the default varies according to other rules set up for the lab.

New tags for printing of Orders

The following tags have been added in order to provide more information about the lens on the printouts and in the CSV report extractor.

<RDIADec> <LDIADec>
Decentred Diameter

<RLensIndex><LLensIndex>
Index of lens

<RLensForm><LLensform>
Lensform as in the lenses.csv

<RLensDesign><LLensDesign>
Lens Design as in the lenses.csv

<RLensColour><LLensColour>
Lens Colour as in the lenses.csv

<RLensMaterial><LLensMaterial>
Lens Material as in the lenses.csv

<RLensStyle><LLensStyle>
Lens Style as in the lenses.csv

Search by Prescription in Browser

The pen highlighter in Browser has been extended to allow for search by Sph and Cyl.  When a search is made that brings back less than 3000 records then the highlight pen is shown. 

Now there is a book icon alongside and when this is pressed a form appears to ask for sphere and cylinder. The software then scans the results to highlight those orders that contain this sphere and cylinder in the same way that the existing highlighter does.

Layout Manager

In the Layout Manager, we have added in an option to ask for a printer on the first time that a print is called. 

This means that you have 3 options.

Use the default printer - do not specify a printer in the layout manager
Use a specific printer - The printer name is set in the layout manager, this is typically for networked printers
Ask for a printer - The tick box is ticked - This is where the default may be one printer but despatching etc is to be done on another printer which is not necessarily shared. A typical case is where special paper is being used.

Tracking - Subsection

In the tracking, you can now create your own subsections.  For example, in Customer services - you can set a subsection John's Desk  and then you can track the job into Customer services and then John's Desk.

Customers On stop - Emailing Credit control

When an order is being entered for a customer on stop, it is possible to get the order emailed to Credit Control so that they can follow up with the customer.

This is done by going to Settings / Labname / Webservice / Credit Control Email 

Enter here the email address that is to receive the emails.

When an order is entered and the customer is on stop then the operator can press the draft button to hold the order for future use. This will then trigger the email to customer services.

End of year - Working day calendar

A reminder that the holidays should be entered for 2014 in order to make sure that correct target dates are calculated. 

This is in Settings / Targets.

Charging for "Prism for Decentration"

Up until now, if prism for decentration was entered via the enhanced prism input screen then this was only an instruction to tell Annapurna to work prism so as to use a smaller diameter. It is now possible to have this trigger a prism charge by making a setting.

V2.42