Release Notes: Annapurna Version 408.5

The below outlines the key updates within Annapurna version 408.5. Other minor bug fixes have been made along with these.

Report 24 - Added EDI Queue Details

Report 24 has been updated to show EDI Queue details.

Report 54 - Location History

A new report (Report 54) has been added, this is for location history.

Waiting for Frame Email

A bug was discovered with the waiting for frame email, this has been corrected.

Last Activity in Browse Orders

A last activity date and time stamp has been added in browse orders, this allows users to see when the job was last updated.

UV and Coating Mapping

There has been an update to allow for UV and Coating mapping to suppliers.

Daily Customer Export

A fix has been made for the daily customer export.

Supplier Status

The supplier status in the comments will now show the status name instead of the status code

Varifocal Lenses where a height is not required.

 There are new varifocal lens designs where a height is not required.  A shape is required though.

In the technical data there is a new option "Height not needed".

In the macros, for the macro connected to the lens, you need to ensure that "Shape is required".

Release Notes: Annapurna Version 408.3

The below outlines the key updates within Annapurna version 407. Other minor bug fixes have been made along with these.

Unable to Remove Wholesale Orders from EDI Queue

A bug fix has been made to allow the removal of Wholesale orders from the EDI Queue.

Local Mapping Supplier Code

An update has been made to fix the local mapping if the supplier's code has a + included. The plus sign can now be quoted e.g. HC'+'UV.

OAuth2 Emailing

OAuth2 has been integrated into Annapurna. Please see our blog link here on how to set up OAuth2 in Annapurna.

Uploading Customer Data to Solenzara

A further update has been made to uploading customer information to Solenzara.

Left LTYPE Tag

An update has been made where the left LTYPE tag was being removed when using the LNAM conversion.

Multiple Supplier Accounts

Updates have been made for having multiple accounts for the same supplier.

Browse Orders Email

Update to allow email to be sent to multiple addresses.

OAuth2 Emailing from Annapurna

Annapurna supports OAuth2 for Microsoft and Google emails.

There is a guide on how to set this up.

 You can view this by clicking here.

Connecting a frame with Case, Cleaner & Cloth

Connecting a frame with Case, Cleaner & Cloth.

A frame record can have entries for Case (on the main product screen) and Cleaner & Cloth on the additional items screen.

If a code is entered into these fields then Annapurna will look for these codes in the frame file and an additional item to the order.  It is expected that such items are entered with a 30 eye-size to indicate that they are not ‘normal’ frames. 

The case, cloth and cleaner are priced as any other frame and also inventory is maintained so adding an item to an order will deduct the levels.

The case, cloth and cleaner can also be sold on a wholesale order.

Connecting the Solenzara order number to Annapurna.

 There are two options to look for the Solenzara order number in Annapurna.

There is a setting under Job Entry / EDI/ Add EDI Job Number to reference.

If this is configured then the Annapurna reference will be Solenzara number followed by - and then the Solenzara reference.

If you do not wish to change the reference then you can search in Annapurna for the Solenzara number by putting ^Solenzara number^ in the Annapurna Browse Orders reference search. For example ^212321^ will look Solenzara number 212321 in Annapurna. It is recommended that such searches are by customer or date range.

On Demand Sending

 On Demand Sending.

 There is an option in the Annapurna Order Processing Screen “On Demand Sending”. This is useful for customers where there is not a wish to have a daily delivery.  There is a setting in the customer record on the group tab to indicate if this is to be set for the customer.

If it is set then when an order is completed, the order is not marked as completed in Annapurna but moved to this new area.  The orders that are in this area can be reviewed by clicking on the button in the order processing menu.  When the orders are to be sent then this is indicated on this screen which will then update the status to completed.

Note, that orders are not invoiced until the orders are marked as completed so orders in the On Demand Sending screen will not be invoiced.

 

 

Customer Import / Export in Annapurna and connection to Solenzara

Changes have been made in this area. 

There is a new screen Customer Transfer to manage this.

Pressing Export in Annapurna Customer will bring up the new screen. You can choose which fields to export so you can update just the fields as required.

Pressing Import in Annapurna Customer will bring up the new screen and you will be able to select the file to import and set an account as the base account for creating new customers. The titles of the columns need to be the same as indicated on the export.

When the Solenzara password, online catalogues are changed or the name and address in Annapurna  then this is written to a Solenzara synchronisation log.  If the Annapurna user has the appropriate access then the customer transfer form is called to show the pending updates and to allow the changes to be sent to Solenzara.  Note, Annapurna is now the master  of the data so changes made in Solenzara will be overwritten from Annapurna.

If there are pending changes to Solenzara then these are sent when the customer screen is closed.

 

Release Notes: Annapurna Version 407

The below outlines the key updates within Annapurna version 407. Other minor bug fixes have been made along with these.

Searching by Invoice Number
There is a feature whereby a job can be searched for by the invoice number, there was a bug where the job was not being found. This has been fixed.

Packages
A check has been put in to make sure that a PriceID is numeric.

Removing Comments when Sending to a Supplier
Comments were still being sent to the supplier even when the setting was set. An update has been made to fix this.

Hotel Allowing Jobs to Be Put Away When Completed
Jobs marked as completed were still being allowed to be put away into the hotel. This has now been fixed so completed jobs can no longer be stored.

Delay Updating Job Statuses in Track Scan

Track Scan has been updated to include a new 'Bulk Mode', allowing multiple jobs to be scanned at once and their statuses updated together, rather than updating each job individually as it is scanned.

Customer Import/Export and Connection to Solenzara

Updates regarding this can be seen on the post here.

Release Notes: Annapurna Version 406.2

The below outlines the key updates within Annapurna version 406.2. Other minor bug fixes have been made along with these.

Blank Lines for Wholesale Orders

Annapurna will now cope if there is a blank line on a wholesale order.

Tracking for Private Community Suppliers

Annapurna will now track correctly for private community suppliers.

Overdue Orders

Overdue orders now get colour coded in browse orders.

Reject Source

Annapurna will now record the rejected source.

Transitions Colour Touch

Transitions have released a new colour, Colour Touch. When importing the new colour has been setup as a tint.

• Import the Transition Generation S lenses

• Confirm the mapping of the names are correct

• Select the Colour Touch treatments

• This will import Colour Touch

Annapurna Job Status Areas

 

Production Areas.

Annapurna assigns Job Statuses to specific areas.

The areas are

Pre-Production,

Customer Services,

On Order,

Lens Production,

Glazing,

Treatment.

QC,

Cancelled,

Completed.

The statuses assigned to each are are shown here.

Pre-Production.

EDI,  Wait, On Hold,

In Production,   {this is used to tell the sending system that the order is received}

Entered, Hotel, Wait for Component, Checkout,

Not Picked, Sending Wait, Authorised,

Stockroom, Picked, Semi-Finished picked Lens Picked, Frame Picked,

Pending, Traced, Lenses Ordered, Frame Ordered, Frame PA.

Customer Services.

Customer Services, Failed in Production, Return to Supplier, Non-tolerance, Accounts, Price Check, Returned.

On Order.

Acknowledged, Add to Supplier Queue, Sent to Supplier, At Supplier, Failed At Supplier,

Supplier Inbox, Left Supplier, Sent for Coating.

Lens Production.

Calculated, In Surfacing, Blocked, Generated, Smoothing, Polishing, Surfacing QC Pass, Surfacing QC Fail, Engraving, Surfaced.

Glazing.

In Glazing, Marking-up, Glaze Blocked, Glaze Edged, Glaze Assembly, Glazed, Frame Repair, Stamping. Off Site Glazing

Production.

Start Production, Received from Supplier.

Treatment.

Coating, Tinting, Coating Preparation, Hard Coating, AR Coating, Strip Coating

QC.

QC Query, Pass QC, Fail QC, QC Recovery.

Cancelled.

Cancelled.

Completed.

Part Sent, Sent, Shipped, Packed, Cased, Individual Invoiced, Invoiced, End Production, Wait for Delivery.

Features Discount

 

Features Discount.

It is possible to assign discounts to lenses, treatments, extras and frames based on features,  This is turned on by a setting under Discounts: “Discount groups by Features”.

Setting up.

If this is set then a label “Groups by Lens Features” is shown on the discounts screen.  If this is clicked then it opens up a CSV file with the different combinations.

For lenses, the combinations are:

Source. Material, Style, Colour, Design.

For treatments, there are different combination based on the treatment type.

For extras, there are different combinations for glazing types.

For frames, there are different combinations based on brand.

The CSV file generated will list all the combinations.

Column F will be the discount group as created in the discounts screen.

Using filters, the discount group can be applied to all the rows, for example, it might be based on transitions colours, lens design or source.

This is then saved.

Applying. 

To apply the features to the pricing records, you need to go into the update prices screen and then exit.  On the exit, the features are checked against the price record.

Using.

The customer record can then be set to have bespoke discounts by each of the discount groups.

 

 

QR code in layouts.

 It now possible to specify data item to be printed as a QR code as well as a 1D barcode. 

In the layout manager, there is a new item in the dropdown to indicate how to print an item for QR barcode.

Release Notes: Annapurna Version 405.6

The below outlines the key updates within Annapurna version 405.6. Other minor bug fixes have been made along with these.

Upload Customer to Solenzara
A new permission setting has been introduced that allows non‑Admin users to upload customers from Annapurna to Solenzara. Previously, this action was restricted to Admin users only. A guide for this can be seen here.

Report 37
The “end of production” status is no longer considered when evaluating the Waiting for Frame checkbox on an order. This resolves conflicts caused by the previous logic.

Copy Order
Copying an order will no longer retain the case assigned to the original job. The copied order now starts with the correct default case.

Frame Codes for Out of Stock
Frame codes entered in lowercase were being treated as in‑stock. All frame codes are now automatically converted to uppercase to ensure accurate stock status.

Completing Jobs
A fix has been applied to prevent the previously completed job from appearing on the completion screen.

Allow Users to Upload Customers to Solenzara

Annapurna now has a new user setting to allow the upload of customers to Solenzara. Before this update only Admin user could do this.

To enable this for a user:

• Go to Settings → Users
• Select the user from the list on the left
• Click on the Customer tab
• Tick the Allow Customer Upload checkbox

• Click Update to save the change

Internal copy

It is now possible to create an internal copy of an order. An internal copy copies the order but the customer assigned to the new order is the Annapurna lab.  This can be useful if wish to copy an order without disrupting the customer.

There is a setting to configure this and the account to use in settings under Browser.

Windows 11 SmartApp.

New Windows 11 can have SmartApp enabled. This restricts Windows to running Microsoft approved software.

It was disabled by default earlier.   

To disable SmartApp then follow these instructions.

1. Open Start → Settings

2. Go to Privacy & Security
3. Select Windows Security
4. Click App & browser control
5. Open Smart App Control settings
6. Switch Smart App Control to Off

Annapurna Orders on hold.

It is now possible to view just the orders on hold for a customer.

In Browse orders, when selecting a customer a new option will appear under completed.

If On Hold is ticked then this takes precedence over the other options and only orders that are in drafts/on hold will be shown.

Customer Contract or Purchase Order Reference to appear on an invoice in Annapurna.

Print a contract number or purchase order reference  on the invoice.

There is a field in the customer record on the basic tab called Contract.

This should be entered with the value to appear on the invoice.

The contents can be added to the invoice layout by locating the field in the list of available fields.

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Configuring Order reference on orders to a supplier in Annapurna

The order reference on the supplier order can be configured but it has to be unique.so it will usually involve the job number.  

You configure the reference in the supplier configuration and there are a number of fields that you can choose from.  

They include:

• {order}   Annapurna order number
• {tray}  Annapurna tray number
• {labref}   Annapurna reference as provided by the customer - can be long but has been used in special cases for retail chains where the reference is tre retail chain order number.
• {uncut}  Indicator for the order type, where the order type is useful to know when opening the parcel of lenses..
• {hold}  The customer reference for goods in. Note larger labs will have separate goods in and goods out areas so in the customer record, the "hold" is for goods in and the "Delivery box" is for goods out.

As an example, you can specify {hold}-{order}.  The - is crucial as this is the delimiter between the fields.

This is typically printed on the label when sent back or on accompanying paper or both.   When the lenses are received then the reference can be used to direct work in the lab.  However, orders are typically scanned into the Annapurna receive lenses module by scanning the barcode.  Annapurna will detect the order number from the reference, this is the numeric component.   The receive module will then guide the operator on the necessary action to be taken such as pass to glazing, match with a frame in the frame hotel.

Release Notes: Annapurna Version 405

The below outlines the key updates within Annapurna version 405. Other minor bug fixes have been made along with these.

Updates for Invoice Checking

An update has been made to further check if an invoice has been raised. If an invoice has already been raised for a job, Annapurna will now block any attempt to raise a second one.

Printing Job Comments

WordPad has been removed in later releases of Windows. An update has been made to Annapurna to still allow the printing of comments.

Customer Extract Not Retaining Attributes

An update has been made to retain the Attributes that are set when importing and exporting customer information.

On Demand Sending

Updates have been made to be able to release jobs that already have the EORI attribute set.

Release Notes: Annapurna Version 404.6

The below outlines the key updates within Annapurna version 404.6. Other minor bug fixes have been made along with these.

Showing Machines on Returns

When a return is recorded an external machine may also want to be recorded there is now a setting to show the machines.

Update for CSV Supplier

An update was made to allow the customer number to be apart of the reference when sending to a CSV supplier.

Release Notes: Annapurna Version 404.3

The below outlines the key updates within Annapurna version 404.3. Other minor bug fixes have been made along with these.

Local Mapping Free Form Tag

Freeform can now be mapped to the supplier using <>

Release Notes: Annapurna Version 404.2

The below outlines the key updates within Annapurna version 404.2. Other minor bug fixes have been made along with these.

Frame Bin
The frame bin was not displaying on order prints. This issue has now been resolved.

Selecting Menus by Character Input
A bug allowed users to open unassigned menus by typing the character. This has now been fixed.

Hold Area
Annapurna now correctly handles jobs returned from the supplier with the hold area placed before the job number.

Home Delivery
An update ensures that Home Delivery addresses are now saved correctly.

Release Notes: Annapurna Version 404

The below outlines the key updates within Annapurna version 404. Other minor bug fixes have been made along with these.

Auto Reports

There was an error where auto reports were not running, this has been fixed.

Local Mapping using [add] to map the Add

There has been a new addition where the add can be dropped when sending to the supplier.