Copy a Pricelist - can now apply a percentage change.

This update is useful for creating a cost pricelist from a manufacturer's price list. 

In the prices by design screen, there is an option to copy the prices for a design - Copy to new pricelist.

When this is selected then there is a new dialogue box.

When OK is pressed then prices are copied from the displayed pricelist (source) to the entered pricelist (target).

Method:
Keep current prices  - if there are prices already in the target pricelist then these are kept.
Overwrite current prices - for any prices that are in the source and target then the target is overwritten, any prices that are in the target are retained.
Delete current prices then add - this will clear out the target price list for this design and then copy the prices from the source.

Action:
by Fixed value: Apply a fixed change. This is useful when adding a glazing charge into the pricelist
by Percentage: Applies a percentage. Note that it does not do any rounding to nearest 10p etc.  A minus percentage will reduce the price.

Pricing of Glazed Orders with External Manufacturer's catalogues.

This applies to the labs that use a separate glazed pricelist and when this price is used then a charge for plastic glazing is not made as it is included in the glazed price.

Annapurna can load in the prices as part of the catalogue import from Essilor, Hoya, Seiko etc.  These are loaded into the uncut price list.

Annapurna tries to price the work under the glazing price list first of all and when it cannot find a price, it drops back to using the uncut price list which is does do successfully.  However, we noted in the first paragraph that a charge for plastic glazing is not made so the result is that the glazing charge needs to be added manually. Therefore there has been a software update (2.36) which will detect when a price from the list of uncut pricelists has been used and in these cases a glazing charge is now added.

Annapurna Backup - who and what.

Only Admin users get the opportunity to make a back up. A admin user is one who has visibility to the configuration panel where users are updated.  

In the back up, there is a question of "Full back up?". This is by default ticked on Fridays.  A full back will back up all the orders in the database otherwise only the orders entered in the last 60 days are backed up(from 2.35).

The backup is to save the data and does not save programs and should be run alongside full server backups to ensure safety.

The following data is saved.

In Masterdata folder
   *.csv
   *.ini

In Layout_files folder
  all

In Lang_files folder
  all

In data folder
  Packages
  Quickpick list

In Drafts folder
  Draft files

In Invoices folder
  *.bgr

In traces folder
  zipped up into traces.zip

In glazing folder
  zipped up into glazing.zip

In purchasing (Orinoco) folder
  the purchasing files waiting to be sent

References are unique

Annapurna will not allow references to be duplicated and this is built into the database design so it cannot be circumvented.

We also know that some customers reuse references or job trays and it becomes a pain to have that rejected because the reference has already been used so Annapurna tries to be helpful.

For example customer sends a job with reference Stock.  That will be accepted on the first time. On the second time, it will be rejected as "already been entered".  At this point, Annapurna does something clever. If the previous order for Stock has been completed then it will automatically modify the reference to Stock-ddmm where ddmm is the day and month and continue.  If the job is tried to be entered again under the reference Stock then the automatic modification will happen again but this time it will be rejected because Stock-ddmm is now in the database.  Note that for this to happen, the previous job has to be completed so if the original job with reference of Stock has NOT been completed then the automatic modification will not take place.

We are currently making an update for the lab to revert back to each reference to be unique ie to turn off the above behaviour. This will be in Settings / Job Entry / Checks.

Finished lenses inventory

The program has been extended in this area to incorporate features that have been added into Kalahari for semi-finished reordering such as reordering the quantity used since the last order.

New Installer - Link to latest version.

It was holiday time but now back at work.

Due to incompatability across our different software, we have had to update the installer as the previous version now no longer works.

http://www.hawkstonedesign.co.uk/downloads/slzinstaller.exe


Annapurna has also been updated to have a link to the installer program from the data menu.

Heights from bottom rim or HCL and Maximum Frame Width

When a new order is entered then the default value for the height direction depends on the value of the height entered.  If it is greater than 10 then a value from bottom rim is set as the default and if not then a HCL measurement is set as the default - which direction depends if a bifocal lens has been chosen.

There is a now an entry in settings (Job Entry / Check / Bifocal Change Point) where the default value of 10 can be altered so if the convention is that measurements are always from bottom rim then this can be catered for by making the appropriate setting.

There is also a similar setting for specifying the maximum frame width - default is 70.