Printing Lens Labels at Despatch

There is now a new feature to allow lens labels to be printed at despatch.  There is a label for right and a label for left.

This is turned on in Settings / Despatch / Lens Labels.

In the layouts menu there is now an option to design the lens label.  You will be asked Right? to determine which label to edit.  Press on "Check for latest" to download the fields that you can add to the label.


Labels are printed one page per label eg via Dymo printer.

Emailing Invoices

Instructions on this can be found here

Multiple currencies

Here are some notes on how to set up a customer to use a pricelist with a different currency.

http://www.hawkstonedesign.co.uk/documentation/multiple currencies.pdf

EDI Mappings

When processing EDI orders there is a setting to record the mapping made from the customer code to the Annapurna code. This will then be used as the default value for the next time an order is processed.

It can be that a lens is mapped wrongly. In order to remove this, you can view the mappings in the EDI configuration screen and remove or update accordingly.

V2.59

Kalahari - specify prism thin

There is a new icon (prism) on the Kalahari calculation screen which will allow the prism thinning value to be specified. 

This is relevant if you are trying to match prism on an existing lens.

Polish Trivex

The VCA protocol defines a separate material code for Trivex and this material code is used to determine the defaults for polishing.  However, there was not an option in the glazing configuration programs to set the default polishing for Trivex.

This has been corrected and there are new versions of vcaglazer and vcadevice.


Also vcadevice will now mirror the trace when uploading a tracer if the mirror glazing is selected.

Inventory and Credits

When a credit is raised on finished items there is a decision to be made on whether to return the goods into stock.  Some labs prefer to inspect the items and then return into stock manually.  In order to do this then there is a new setting to indicate if inventory is to be updated on credits.

V2.59

Deleting Glazing files when job is completed

There was the option to delete trace files.

This has been extended to delete the glazing files created when communicating with the machines.

You can find this in settings / despatch / delete glazing file


2.57

Processing degressive lenses in Kalahari.

Processing degressive lenses in Kalahari.

In Annapurna, degressive lenses are often set up as Single Vision with a different product for each “addition”. For example Office 1.25, Office 1.75 for lens set as Single Vision with 1.25 “addition” and 1.75 “addition/degression”.

To process these lenses in Kalahari, Kalahari needs to know the addition/degression. Because the order has been entered as Single Vision then Kalahari is not given the correct value. If there is not a value then Kalahari will look at lens description to ascertain the value of the addition/degression. For a description of Studio 1.25 then 1.25 will be taken as the addition and will be used for selecting the correct base. 

EDI Orders waiting - there is a mail icon in order entry and now on the main menu.

A reminder - if there are EDI orders waiting to be processed then there is a email icon showing in the top right hand corner of the customer screen.

Just to make it more obvious, it has also been updated to the main menu.

Selling Semi-finished from Annapurna.

This document describes how to add semi-finished for resale into Annapurna.

Adding Semi-finished into annapurna.pdf