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.

Updates 21st October

Kalahari Freeform engine.
Prescriptor is now supported.
Bug fix in 012/025 tool rounding.

Raptor.
Trusted Password option added so that plain password does not need to be sent.

Upload Track.
Bug fix for error message operation not allowed on sorted list.

VCA Device Drill holes.
If end drill point was left blank then saved as 0.

Browse Orders
Customer search can be by external account or match code as well as account number.
Put + as start of customer number to look by external account and / to look by match code.

There is now option for admin users to add same comment to a set of selected orders.

Invoice
Bug fix for sending email to head office address.

Rejects
Do not send email on commercial or returns or credits.

EDI Orders
Bug fix on date sorting

Annapurna General
Improved opening speed.

Import Catalogue.
The glazing allowance used by the lens supplier is imported into Annapurna so that diameter calculation will match the supplier.
It is now possible to filter the treatments imported.

Costs on Credits.
This has been reviewed for rx lenses– non-tol credits have negative cost as lens charge can be recovered from the supplier, other credits have zero cost.

Importing from Orinoco catalogue into Annapurna.

It is possible to do this in Annapurna.  Suppose want to import from Younger.

In the import screen, add younger or name of Orinoco supplier in the box at the bottom.

Click + and the supplier is added to the community list. Select the Orinoco supplier from the community list as normal and the catalogue is presented for selection of lenses to import.

If there is a Orinoco and rx catalogue then to distinguish which to load then add as Orinoco-cataloguename  eg Orinoco-WLC

Updates Oct 6th.

SF6 Importing

Handling of macros is improved.

Customer

Bug fix where not all the changes to the fields were logged.

It is not possible to export the address fields as separate columns – setting flag.

A CSV export for Sage can now be produced.

Commercial.

It is not possible to input Prices.csv generated by 3^rd parties. Run with run time parameter PRICESCSV.

Pricing.

Cost prices can now support a hierarchy so if there is not a finished cost price then it drops to rx/standard cost price.

Invoice.

Xero interface file added – basic construct so far.

Purchase Orders.

Record and show deliveries against an order. Useful for when multiple deliveries for frames.

Printing will now only print the selected lines.

Bin location added for printing on delivery document.

Order Entry.

Extended PD lab to show manufacturing tolerances.

When a reference was repeated then -ddmm was added to the reference. If the same reference was repeated on the same day on the following year then this gave a problem. This is now handled by creating an additional suffix to the reference as Annapurna requires unique reference. The alternative is to archive orders for earlier years.

Browse Orders.

Added Cancelled filter.

Frame Data management.

New options added for cleaning trace files (if saved from a job then rx data was also being saved) and identify library shapes with HBOX/VBOX differences – probably indicates a poor trace. Also to set/reset the retrace flag.

Supplier Tracking.

Bug fix: If an order went into status traced while the lenses were on order (can happen if the send in frame is sent in) then tracking from the supplier was no longer updated as Annapurna deemed the order/lenses had been received and the order was in production.

Lens Ordering.

It is now possible to add SURF as the rx supplier to indicate that the supplier for a lens in this range is InHouse Surfacing department. So a lens can progress from In House Stock, Buyin Stock, In House Surfaced, Buy in lens according to the range rules.

OC Height.

Different optical machine manufacturers have different interpretations on OCHT and SEGHT for progressive lenses. An option was added so that different values can be provided in the files placed in the glazing folder and the external(checking) folder.

Assign Tray.

Can now produce a file for conveyor controlling.

Drafts

When sending an email then the logged in user can be entered in the email.

Essilor Report

Customer name is added to the voucher report.

Report 19.

Shows current status for live orders.

Report 24.

Added to show basic information on number of orders in/out, sales by customer and old orders.

Orinoco.

Repeating bar codes in barcode entry are consolidated into one line on the Orinoco order.

VCADevice.

Minimum tray length implemented on the frame type pop-up at the end of tracing. Tess traces drop leading zeros.

A check on the qualiry of the Z data added to go with a check on quality of radii data.

When there are multiple traces and tracer sends unknown job number then there was some uncertainty over which trace went with which tracer. The unknown traces are now identified by the tracer id.

Validator Web Service.

Validation can now be set to make a jpeg file to show where lens does not cut out. Add MAKEJPEGS=1 to the input file.