Annapurna 327 and other updates to November 30th.

Deploying Latest Data.

Deploying is not made if a file has not been changed and is written to a temporary file. This solves the occasional problem where other users were picking up the part uploaded file.

Kalahari.

Novar freeform design has been added as an external engine.

Bug fix on copying left eye shape to right eye on rimless.

Order Number.

Bug fix to stop dropping back to old order number when there was a database problem when duplicate reference was sneaked through by amend order and then copy order.

Job Management.

Priority order flag added so that this can be picked up in Assign tray.

Degressives.

It is possible to set a default addition now.

VCADevice

There was a problem with Essilor machines using the same channel number for upload / download – fixed.

Reports.

Bug fix on column sorting on Report 19 – last row is retained as last row,

Purchase Orders.

Detect the occasions where the header was marked as closed but the items were still left as open.

Bug fix on multiple page printing to PDF – only last page was printed.

Option added to send purchase order by Email

Frame Picking.

Bug fix where there are 2 frame codes, 1234 and 12345 then search by 1234 finds both. Code search is prefixed with # to determine exact match.

Email.

Port number is correctly picked up from the configuration for SMTP emails.

EDI

In EDI configuration, can hold orders (not automatic) where comments have been sent or odd lenses ordered.

Auto filtering rules can now filter out tray needed messages so orders that require a tray can be processed quickly at one work station.

Back Orders.

The details of the items can be viewed.

Returns.

There is a new setting to allow “recover” on all returns. This will be for returns such as missing tint where tint can be added and returned.

Freeform.

Bug fix: There was some problems where degree and mm measurements were possible on the auto-created macros from SF6.

Despatch.

Dynamic bin location added.

Upload Tracking.

It is now possible to map all Annapurna status to an Online status.

There is a new status of Wait for Sending.

Wait for Sending.

For configuration where the option to select the supplier at the end of order entry is NOT selected then there is a new feature. New orders can be directed to new status of Wait for Sending. The sending to the supplier will pick up all orders in this status and add to the queue.

DX.

Sent date on the label is tidied up.

Rejects.

QC Pass operator is included in the database.

Frame Bin

Bug fix – Frame bin on print out was missing if the same frame was used on the next order.

Virtual Lens (Rx needed on both eyes)

A new feature has been added into Technical data to indicate if the lens is a virtual lens. For these lenses the lens supplier requires prescription in both eyes even if only one is supplied.

In Order Entry a virtual link will appear in the lens section. Clicking this will indicate that this is a virtual lens.

Printing.

Bug fix: Some messages such as Reprint were only appearing on last page.

Production message is now in list of available tags.

Drafts.

It is possible to add notes to the drafts to record actions taken.

Wholesale Orders.

Bug fix: Stop orders being placed with no lines.

Shape Editing.

After switching to one eye editing, If change applied to nasal, temporal, lower, upper then the same change is applied to the other eye.

Postage on Wholesale Orders

Postage on Wholesale Orders.

Annapurna has been updated to calculate postage on the quantity of items on the order. If a customer is provided with both Rx and Wholesale orders then there may be a need to set up different postal rates.  As Annapurna allows the customer to be linked to a postage scheme then wholesale schemes can be identified by setting a prefix on the scheme. This is for postage per job and postage on entry.

An example.
Customer is currently on postage scheme ST1.  The setting for prefix on Wholesale postage is W.  This will mean that for Wholesale orders the postage value will be calculated from the number of items in scheme WST1 and for Rx orders the postage value will be calculated from the number of items in scheme ST1.

The setting is found Pricing / Postage.

EDI Orders.
There may also be a wish to give reduced postage on EDI orders. This is also implemented by the prefix. 


Note that postage per day is not changed in this update.

Dynamic Bin Allocation for Customers.

It is possible to set up Annapurna via a setting so that numbered bins are allocated to the customers as the jobs are completed during the day.

On the first completion of the day, the customer records are scanned and any numeric bins are reset to 0.  When a job is completed for a customer then then the customer record is checked. If the bin is 0 then the next bin number is allocate and stored in the customer record.  The customer bin number is printed on the delivery note and this will tell the packer where to place the order.

The advantage of this is that there only needs to be the number of bins needed for the number of customers with work sent rather than a bin for all customers.

If there is a wish to keep a static bin for customers with work each day then there are given a non-numeric bin eg A1.

Cloud Backup

In order to use cloud backup such as dropbox, the Annapurna back up files need to be placed into the folder that the cloud service uses for synchronisation.  There is a new setting in Annapurna to specify this folder. If it is set then the backup made by Annapurna will be copied to this folder which in turn will be sent to the cloud.  

If the Annapurna setting for cloud backup is not set then backups will be copied to the folder set in "my documents"\solenzara\annapurna_backup\_location.txt

Please note that this is not a substitute for having a proper server backup made.