New tracking sections

The tracking sections have been extended:

Customer Services, Out of Stock lenses and Out of Stock frame have been added.

When a job is amended, it is now recorded as going into Customer Services so that Entered is reserved for when jobs are actually first entered.

Clearing Traces after Job has been completed

When traces are assigned to tray there is a risk that the previous trace for the tray can be assigned by mistake to a new job. This is because the trace is retained under the tray number until a new trace is linked to that tray. If the trace has not been made then job entry will pick up the existing (erroneous) trace linked to the tray.

It is now possible to make a setting so that the trace file is deleted when the job is completed.

Settings has been updated - Complete / Remove Traces.

If this is ticked then the trace file is deleted at the time of the completion of the order.

Postage at Job Entry

Up to now Annapurna has calculated postage at the despatch point.

Existing Labman users were used to postage being calculated per job at order entry. So a new postage type has been added into Annapurna - postage at entry.  This calculates a postage according to customer postage rules at job entry so in practice this moves the postage calculation from job despatch to job entry.

This is particularly useful where payment is taken in advance.

External Trace files

For some time, we have included a Silhouette library within the Solenzara program but we have not enabled this within Annapurna.

This oversight has now been corrected.

On the Kathmandu screen (catalogue importer) there is now an option to import trace library. 
We are looking to expand the list of manufacturers on this list so any suggestions how this can be done or if there are known links to other catalogues then we will be pleased to follow this up.

Please note the trace library is supplied in good faith but we are not responsible for the accuracy of the contents.

Annapurna - Browsing Jobs - different colours for the expected date

In order to make it easier to understand how the source of the estimated despatch date that is shown then a colour coding has been adopted.

Cancelled Jobs - Ruby
Jobs that have exceeded the target - Plum
Jobs that are on Target - Pale Blue
Completed - Slate
Have a Wanted date today or in the future - Lime

Kalahari - Message for the lens.

It can often be that there is a wish to put a message on the job ticket for a particular lens eg  check the sag or special blocking for round segs. This can now be done by a  new feature which allows a message to be printed for a lens on the job ticket. In the lens updating screen there is now a field to enter up to a 50 character message and in the layout (you may need to choose the option to get the latest) designer then you can set the position of the message for the right and left lenses.

Own coatings on branded lenses.

This is just a reminder of an existing feature since we sometimes get asked on how this is done.

If you have external catalogues from Essilor, Hoya etc and wish to add your own coatings onto these lenses then this is done by going into Annapurna / Settings / Defaults.

There are 4 options for AR coat, Hard Coat, Tint, UV.

You put into each one the default family for each type eg MAR for AR, HC for Hardcoat, TINT for tint, UV for UV.

In the treatment CSV file, you need to make sure the own treatments are also connected to the default family.

You should also change any entry in the lenses CSV file that have 1 (meaning default) in the AR, Hard, Tint and UV family to the default as otherwise these lenses will now no longer pick up the default family as the default family has now changed.

Now deploy and restart.  The branded lenses should now have the default treatments available also and the generic lenses should still have the default treatments also.