Backup Strategy

In Annapurna 355, the backup strategy has changed.

The last 500,000 orders are backed up every time. The full backup will back up the last 5,000,000 orders so that should cover all the orders.

Once a month, the backup will be copied to a sub-folder in the designated backup folder.


Note - this is a backup of the Annapurna data and is not intended as a complete backup of the server.

Customer Updating

Currently, customer data can only be updated by those users who have access to the commercial panel.  There can be users who do need to update customer records but should not have access to the full range to update the commercial data. An example will be for accounts who may need to reset credit limits on an account.

DX - New Service Centre file

DX have advised that there is a new service centre file.

The new file uses post codes down to the first 4 characters. The current service centre file uses post codes to the first 2 characters.

There is an update in Annapurna 345.9 to handle this and this needs to be deployed by the time this file is to be used.

DX have advised that the implementation of the new service centre file will be delayed because of Covid-19. However Annapurna should still be updated so as to be ready for the new file. The updated Annapurna can handle both the old and the new format of the service centre file.

Using https - extra software needs to be installed

All our software will be switched over to accessing Solenzara via https which is more secure.  The web sites have been https for some time but other software such as VCATracer, Orinoco and Annapurna need to have some additional software to be installed on the local systems before they can access the sites via https. 

The installers for VCATracer and Orinoco will be updated to include this software and for Annapurna there are download links below.  There are two dlls that need to be placed in the Annapurna progs folder.

Annapurna downloads:
https://www.hawkstonedesign.co.uk/downloads/3rdParty/OpenSSL/libeay32.dll
https://www.hawkstonedesign.co.uk/downloads/3rdParty/OpenSSL/ssleay32.dll

Traffic Suitability

New fields have been added to inform on suitablity of lenses for driving.

More information is here:
https://www.hawkstonedesign.co.uk/documentation/traffic suitability.docx

Recent updates

Bug fixes.

Layout manager

The Layout manager did not always save the last item in the layout definition.


Receive Lenses

After use, the software did not always find the job to receive


Wholesale Entry.

Fix bugs in grid entry, in minus cyl and cells being marked as outside range.


CEF

A tracefile supplied with such orders is now retained.


Sales Extract.

The software now handles then cases when a job is uncompleted.


Frame data.

When adding a new frame, the brand and supplier were not copied.


Wait Orders.

The option to deelete old orders did not work.


VCADevice

The Inclined bevel option was not saved properly.


Freeform.

If left eye only was a freeform lens then the freeform link was not shown.

The freeform answer is retained when a balance lens is used.

Web ordering.

When there are multiple accounts for a supplier, these are now retained in the order as specified and not sorted into sequence.

Returns report.

The column headers have been tidied up.


Glazing Assembly.

The tint description is now looked up from the treatment csv file.

Improvements

Upload track

There is a runtime parameter to decide if to upload compcsv files to Solenzara. This will make this information available for other users to download into their Annapurna systems.


View Orders.

There is now a new search by attribute.

It is possible to view the invoice from the order.


Viewing lists.

When saving to csv file, only the columns that are displayed are saved.


Substitute lens codes.

In the substitution file then can now be entries such as

XXXX=FIN.

This will only force substitution of XXXX with another lens code to only happen on powers in the finished range.


Selecting frame.

There is now a check that library traces have sufficient points for glazing.


Reject.

When there is a reject a new service time is calculated to see if the job will be delayed. This will set an attribute of delayed and these can be viewed in view orders.


Job status

These have been updated to ensure that Annapurna_email and upload track use the same descriptions.


Estimate date.

The calculation of the estimated date is adjusted to consider the current status.


Inventory.

There is a new question to return stock if the order is cancelled.


VCADevice

A new feature of force Active blocking mode has been added.


Pricing

There is a new setting to ignore positive package prices.


Frame data.

There are new fields to record Panto and Wrap which are shown in order entry.

If the frame data is locked then there is an option for view only.


Individual Invoice.

There is an option to print the invoice directly from completion.


Customers.

There is a new invoice method of Not Invoiced.  This is for internal customers where an invoice is not to be raised.

 It is possible to set the customer so all orders are locked for review.


Courier.

There is an option to specify the last number in the range.


Daily report.

There are options to exclude credits and cancelled orders.


Receiving orders.

There is now receive frame button for glazed orders. This will advise if the lenses are available.


Inventory

For finished lenses, the back orders will be considered when making the reorder report.


Browse Orders.

If the notepad search is used then there is a print all option.


Deployment.

There is a new option to deploy lens / frame or both.

Macro Date Question

A new question has been added into the macros so that dates can be asked for

More information is here:

https://www.hawkstonedesign.co.uk/documentation/Macros Date Question type.docx