Included in Newton 6.1 Release Notes are versions 6.1.0-6.1.3. Some releases are private Betas.
New Features
Enhancements
- NEWTON-11716 - Plugin & Custom Table Schema Support - Added the ability to disable individual custom table schemas, as well as command line switches to disable all custom table schemas or disable all external plugins.
- NEWTON-12084 - Update to Student Deletion - Added a setting to prevent automatic deletion of students with balances.
Fixes
Enhancements
- NEWTON-12819 - Ability to Itemize Adult meals and second-meals (Student and Adult meals) - Expand "Settings" to view.
Fixes
- NEWTON-9205 - POS Dallas Cash Drawer Communication Error
New Features
- NEWTON-12737 - Availability Group Support - Added support for Districts using Availability Groups. Part of that support includes the ability to end all active user sessions and SQL Server Connections when attempting to establish Single-User Mode or Database Upgrades.
In order for the program to support availability groups, all active user sessions will need to be ended upon upgrade and program relaunch.
Ending Active Sessions
Ending sessions will disconnect anyone who is currently logged in to the program and the user will receive an error message when attempting to reestablish a connection with the database. The user will need to close the program and log back in.
Active Session Log
You may see a number of active sessions in your list. Active sessions may appear for the following reasons:
- User is currently logged into the system (actively or passively)
- User may have had equipment failure and was not properly logged out
- User may have lost network connectivity
Step A: Upon opening the program after upgrading, the Users Session Monitor screen will appear. Review all users and logged sessions. Next, click in the checkbox at the top of the screen to select all users or in individual checkboxes to select users individually. Then, click End Session.
Click the Refresh button once you have contacted users to log out of the program to ensure they no longer appear in the list.
Session Termination
Terminating a session will cause the user to lose any unsaved work. It is recommended that you run the upgrade at a time when the least number of users are logged in to the program. You will not be able to login to the system until all active sessions are ended. You may contact the users to log out of the program manually or select to end their session and terminate their database connection.
Step B: A warning message will appear before active sessions are terminated. Read the warning. If you wish to continue, click Yes.
Step C: All active sessions are terminated. Click Continue to complete system upgrade and login.
Enhancements
NEWTON-12176 - A checkbox to run report for each school in now available in the following After Posting Reports, Sales & Revenue, Customer Info Reports, and Central Office Reports.
NEWTON-12129 - Cash Drawers - POS support for APG Cash Drawer
APG Cash Drawer
Requires version 1.1.0 of the device driver, obtainable from the manufacturer at www.cashdrawer.com.
NEWTON-12257 - Special Milk Program - In order for the Special Milk Program to work properly, you must first setup "Program Participation" in Price Categories. Secondly, SMP is checked off in Item Category maintenance. Next, a price override is applied to "Milk" in Items. Then, Price Category Mapping must be established. Finally, Price Category Mapping is applied at the Cafeteria level. Reimbursement Rates must be established in Claims to appear on claim reports. The claim process has also been updated include SMP Standard and SMP Free claim counts along with total milk purchased and total milk purchased cost.
- NEWTON-12260 - CEP Label Update - Updated the labels on Manual Meal Count fields from PV2 to CEP.
- NEWTON-12439 - Offer vs. Serve Configurations - In order for Offer-vs-Serve to work properly, you must first setup OVS Requirements and OVS Mapping. Next, OVS is applied at the Item level. Once OVS has been established at the Item level, it must then be established at the Menu level. Finally, OVS is applied to Cafeterias.
- NEWTON-12546 - Menu Shortcuts - Updated Menu Maintenance to ignore duplicate item on page shortcuts.
- NEWTON-12578 - MSB Payment Polling - 10 minute safety polling implemented in MSB real-time agent.
- NEWTON-12414 - Split charges and pre-paids on Line Details (After-Posting) report
Fixes
- Newton-9191 - Fixed a bug that was causing the real time server log to not show events in most cases.