Newton 3.1

New Features

NEWTON-232 - Credit-Card payments from Serving Line
NEWTON-260 - Add support for CCSD Plugin
NEWTON-266 - Exclude Schools from Claim

Improvements

NEWTON-236 - Use OLD POSID after merge
NEWTON-238 - Option to run meal summary without entering blind deposit
NEWTON-240 - Allow/Disallow charging for Adults vs Students
NEWTON-242 - Prevent using really old line data
NEWTON-247 - Fruit/Vegetable Requirement Change
NEWTON-248 - Validation of Default Charge Limits on Cafeteria Parameter screen
NEWTON-252 - Improve the Photo Importer's error handling
NEWTON-263 - Add date range on Function Key Sales report
NEWTON-264 - Hid Credit Card Payment Button
NEWTON-267 - Add StateCode in lieu of ExportCode for Claim Exports
NEWTON-269 - Provision 2 percentages not calculating through claim correctly

Fixes

NEWTON-234 - Improved the error message when attempting to synchronize schools when a duplicate school number would result
NEWTON-235 - Fixed a bug that was causing datacenter synchronization to fail with an error when synchronizing merges to records that had previously participated in pos transfer adjustments
NEWTON-239 - Fixed a bug that was causing an error when starting a serving line for a past day if there existed transfer records to or from students who were no longer active
NEWTON-249 - Fixed a bug that was causing datacenter synchronization to fail with an error when synchronizing merges to records that had previously participated in central-office transfer adjustments
NEWTON-250 - Fixed a bug that was causing ampersands in touch screen menu button captions to be invisible
NEWTON-254 - Fixed a bug that was showing the incorrect total breakfast count on the claim report (did not include Severe Need), even though the total reimbursement amount was correct
NEWTON-258 - Fixed a bug that prevented using offline mode without an open operating day
NEWTON-259 - Fixed a bug that was allowing the user to attempt serving line transfers to function key customers
NEWTON-261 - Fixed a bug in the Vending Wedge software that prevented troubleshooting measures from running automatically when palm scanning failed
NEWTON-264 - Fixed a bug in the Claim Worksheet that was incorrectly displaying district totals when some schools have different rates than others (Severe Need)
NEWTON-273 - Fixed a bug that was causing the "Accept Credit Card Payments" serving line parameter to function incorrectly
NEWTON-274 - Fixed a bug that was causing an error to occur when attempting to manual initiate a transfer on the serving line when on the item and payment screen
NEWTON-275 - Fixed a bug that was preventing the grade filter on the letter generation screen from working properly

Newton 3.0

New Features

NEWTON-226 - Add the ability to programmatically query supper program meal counts
NEWTON-231 - Datacenter Attachment Utility

Improvements

NEWTON-227 - Fruit/Vegetable Requirement for Offer-vs-Serve
NEWTON-229 - Update Icon & Ribbon
NEWTON-230 - Biometric enrollment report

Fixes

NEWTON-225 - Fixed a bug that was causing an error during end-of-year if there existed claim periods in the past
NEWTON-228 - Fixed a bug that was causing the default mailing letter report to only print the first 22 labels in a batch
NEWTON-233 - Fixed a bug that was causing an error when attempting to run the master customer list report with 2 levels of grouping

Newton 2.9

New Features

NEWTON-136 - Add RSS News Feed Reader
NEWTON-140 - User Activity Log Report
NEWTON-141 - Cafeteria Parameters for Default Payment Allocations
NEWTON-143 - Cafeteria Parameter to require cash for alacarte
NEWTON-144 - Recovery Utility for Bad Batch Data
NEWTON-148 - Rapid-Prepayment Utility
NEWTON-150 - Serving Line Setting to Sing Happy Birthday
NEWTON-152 - New External Balance Changes Report
NEWTON-153 - Net High-Charges Supervisor Alert
NEWTON-154 - Individual High-Charges Supervisor Alert
NEWTON-155 - Outstanding Charges Report
NEWTON-157 - Implement Claim System
NEWTON-159 - Temporary Status Report
NEWTON-160 - Serving Line Setting to Hide Quick-Pay button
NEWTON-162 - Customer Change Tracking Report
NEWTON-164 - Before Posting At-Cost Meal Report
NEWTON-174 - Scheduled Reports
NEWTON-177 - Customizable Report Menus
NEWTON-182 - Spending Limits
NEWTON-183 - Money Transfers on the serving line (Principal charges)
NEWTON-201 - Default Cafeteria Filter
NEWTON-209 - Pin Pad Implementation - XKeys Barcode/LCD
NEWTON-217 - Laramie Principal Account Customizations
NEWTON-218 - Data Set for Customer Pending Balance
NEWTON-223 - Supper Program

Improvements

NEWTON-142 - Show Schools on Cafeteria Maintenance Grid
NEWTON-145 - Add Ending date to Account Statement
NEWTON-146 - Add Letter History to Account Statement
NEWTON-147 - Ability to Customize Bank Deposit report
NEWTON-149 - Reload posting screen after reviewing POS batches
NEWTON-156 - Add Subtitle to Student Roster
NEWTON-158 - Add 'Cafeteria Filter' to Void and Edit Comments
NEWTON-161 - Fix Dead Buttons on POS Customer Dashboard
NEWTON-163 - Increase Max Comment Length of POS_TRANSACTION comments
NEWTON-165 - More After-Posting Report options
NEWTON-166 - Auto-Refresh Search for Purchases
NEWTON-167 - Automatically move reimbursable to unallocated when change to Free
NEWTON-170 - Cafeteria Parameter to exclude charges from certain letters
NEWTON-173 - Update SPS customer integration to include the POSID when available
NEWTON-181 - Serving Line Setting to Require Manager Approval to Edit/Void Sale
NEWTON-188 - Import See-Manager Comments
NEWTON-189 - Homeroom in data sets
NEWTON-215 - Report Filter by School
NEWTON-220 - EOY 2012

Fixes

NEWTON-175 - Fixed a bug that was causing errors on vending machines when using a shortened birthday for identification
NEWTON-176 - Fixed a bug that was preventing the date/time stamp on custom report layout overrides from working without manually adding a script to each report
NEWTON-178 - Changed the Federal Edit Check to look compare meal counts against the (attendance factor x eligible) rounded up to the next integer when looking for problems
NEWTON-179 - Changed the edit-check warning detection at posting to round up instead of round nearest when comparing meals to eligibilty x attendance factor
NEWTON-184 - Improved the error message when attempting to delete a reference menu config
NEWTON-185 - Fixed a bug that was preventing the deletion of serving line configs
NEWTON-186 - Fixed a bug that was preventing custom breakfast items from being mapped to individual vending machine motors
NEWTON-191 - Fixed a bug that was causing an error when running the Master POS Customer List with multiple fields grouped
NEWTON-192 - Fixed a bug in 2.9.0 Beta that was causing many Point-of-Sale operations to fail if deleted POS Customer records existed in the cafeteria
NEWTON-194 - Fixed a bug in the beta that was causing an error when initiating a transfer from the POS Customer Dashboard
NEWTON-195 - Fixed a bug in the beta version that was showing incorrect reimbursement amounts on the Profit and Loss report if no claim periods had been configured
NEWTON-196 - Fixed a bug that was preventing retrieval of batches when running Newton in offline mode
NEWTON-198 - Fixed a bug that made it possible to charge the principal account for a customer's entire negative balance
NEWTON-199 - Fixed a bug that was causing an error running the Account Statement report when a customer had transactions occurring after the end date that did not affect the balance
NEWTON-200 - Fixed a bug where the new serving line setting for 'Require Manager Approval to Edit or Void a Sale' was not behaving as expected
NEWTON-202 - The Outstanding Charges can now be correctly sorted by grade
NEWTON-203 - Fixed a bug that was causing an error when running SPS online payment exports while in transition mode
NEWTON-204 - Fixed a bug that prevented editing a posted operating day if invalid enrollment data was manually entered
NEWTON-206 - Fixed a bug that would occasionally prevent the database upgrade from completing
NEWTON-208 - Fixed a bug where checklist items for printing before/after-posting reports were not automatically checking off
NEWTON-210 - Fixed a bug that was causing an error when removing the See Manager Comments on a POS Customer
NEWTON-211 - Fixed a bug that was preventing vending machines from communicating directly with Newton if the pinpad was configured for entering birthdays in the MMDDYY format
NEWTON-212 - Removed a constraint that was causing an error to occur when trying to post a virtual cafeteria's operations when one or more of the fed-for schools had a negative deposit amount
NEWTON-213 - Fixed a misspelling of the word 'Charges' on the Daily Recap report
NEWTON-214 - Fixed a bug that was preventing reports from properly enforcing prerequisite conditions, such as blind deposit entry
NEWTON-219 - Repaired damage from a past bug that was causing confusing between 'No Charge Limit' and 'No Charge Limit Override'. Updated customer maintenance screen to reflect clearer definitions for per-customer charge limits
NEWTON-221 - Fixed a bug that was causing more parameter tracking records to be created than necessary when system settings changed
NEWTON-224 - Fixed a bug introduced in 2.9.6 BETA that was causing the build POS Customers process to error when new records were created

Newton 2.8

Fixes

NEWTON-138 - Fixed incorrect titles on the configuration screens for input devices, cash drawers and receipt printers
NEWTON-139 - Fixed a bug that was causing an error to occur when printing letters if the system-default parameters had been removed from the report layout
NEWTON-151 - Fixed a bug that was causing each cafeteria to poll for account balance changes too frequently, causing a huge waste of network and server resources
NEWTON-171 - Fixed a bug that was causing an error to occur when including the Reimbursable Meals Report in the Before Posting Reports list
NEWTON-172 - Fixed a bug that was causing an error when closing a report before it finished loading

Newton 2.7

New Features

NEWTON-100 - Ability to Accept SPS Full Upload Refresh
NEWTON-106 - Current Eligibility Letter
NEWTON-119 - Ability to customize the student roster report
NEWTON-132 - Inventory Reconciliation Report
NEWTON-133 - Price-Category Change Report

Improvements

NEWTON-109 - Prevent deleting system-defined DISTRICT_POSID records
NEWTON-114 - Duplicate Students Conflicting POS IDs
NEWTON-116 - Option to Filter by POS Customer Type on Reimbursable Meals Served Report
NEWTON-117 - Separate security permission re-opening previous day
NEWTON-118 - New fields in POS Customer Data Set
NEWTON-120 - Synchronize Batch headers on Full-Sync
NEWTON-121 - Change Meal Summary to Split-by School
NEWTON-122 - Prompt for Offline Network Batches
NEWTON-123 - Test-Mode Enhancements
NEWTON-124 - Add "please" permission to High Variance Permission
NEWTON-126 - Pick Customer Control for Datasets
NEWTON-128 - Include Comments on Central-Office Adjustments Reports
NEWTON-129 - Date/Time mismatch to online payments systems
NEWTON-130 - After Posting Meal summary not printing in same order
NEWTON-131 - Track EOY Clear Balance Records better

Fixes

NEWTON-115 - Fixed a bug that was preventing inactive customers from inactivating the corresponding School Payment Solutions records
NEWTON-125 - Fixed a bug that was preventing the Alt-G shortcut for giving change on the serving line from working when using the 'Default to Giving Change' serving line setting
NEWTON-134 - Fixed a bug that was causing the posting screen to consider voided transactions as live transaction when checking for Edit-Check Warnings
NEWTON-135 - Fixed a bug that was causing an error to occur when printing the After Posting reports if the Reimbursable Meals Served report was checked

Newton 2.6

New Featues

NEWTON-74 - Supervisor Dashboard
NEWTON-75 - POS Maintenance without selecting cafeteria
NEWTON-80 - Miscellaneous Cash Collected
NEWTON-95 - Mass-Merge Tool

Improvements

NEWTON-61 - Printing blank report instead of message that no data exists
NEWTON-64 - Enable 2011-2012 SY
NEWTON-65 - Security Permission for Subscribing to Customers
NEWTON-70 - Problem finding students w/spaces in last name
NEWTON-72 - Show Total Cash Payments on Account Statement
NEWTON-83 - Cafeteria Permissions for Viewing Supervisor Alerts
NEWTON-94 - Changes to Palm Enrollment
NEWTON-97 - Fingerprint Problems
NEWTON-98 - Fingerprint Speed Problems
NEWTON-103 - Newton Name Search vs Student

Fixes

NEWTON-77 - Fixed a bug that was causing serving-line attachment to be lost on the next program startup if the program had not been restarted since the workstation was attached to the cafeteria
NEWTON-78 - Fixed a bug that was causing the Search for Transaction feature of the Review Transaction screen to include payment-only transactions when searching for a specific item or purchase type
NEWTON-79 - Fixed a bug that was preventing serial-port devices from working when using ports COM10 or higher
NEWTON-81 - Fixed a bug in the 2.6.0 internal build that was preventing the database upgrade from occurring under certain conditions
NEWTON-82 - Fixed a bug in the account statement report that was showing the wrong running balance and invalid information in the adjustment amount on some of the line items
NEWTON-84 - Re-enabled the numeric-match student number search on the student pick screen that was inadvertently disabled in 2.6.x
NEWTON-85 - Fixed a bug in the End-of-Year process that was causing an error to occur if there existing delete-pending customer records that had palm vein templates associated with them
NEWTON-86 - Fixed a bug that was causing an error to occur when attempting to edit letters
NEWTON-91 - Fixed a bug in the WinFSCM Legacy Conversion that was causing an error when importing transactions
NEWTON-92 - Fixed a bug that was causing Newton to use the wrong physical file names for prior-year database backups
NEWTON-93 - Fixed a bug in the end-of-year process that was causing an error if there existed customers assigned to a feeder school that was pending deletion
NEWTON-99 - Fixed a bug in the previous beta release that was preventing the proper DLLs from being distributed
NEWTON-102 - Fixed a bug that was causing an Sql error to occur when running a user-defined report based on the Generic Sql Data set if the statement contained carriage-return or line-feed characters
NEWTON-107 - Fixed a bug in the pick-customer form that was preventing multi-reimbursable accounts from showing up when trying to make a central-office adjustment
NEWTON-108 - Fixed a bug in the Federal Edit Check report that was causing it to consider days that had no meals served in the Average Daily Attendance calculations
NEWTON-110 - Fixed a bug that was causing the datacenter synchronization to fail when merging students in certain situations
NEWTON-111 - Fixed a bug that was causing an error when synchronizing the local database if unicode characters existed in the customer data
NEWTON-113 - Fixed a bug that was causing a NullReferenceException to occur when displaying the on-screen keyboard when non-standard font-sizes were configured

Newton 2.4

Fixes

NEWTON-1 - Fixed a bug that was allowing users to delete in-progress batches
NEWTON-8 - Restore CSI_NEWTON_20101021 DB Select Cafeteria (1795) Colorado Springs Early Colleges On Point Of Sale Tab Select Maintenance Select Customers Search PRATT Select student Lindsay Pratt Select Account Statement Button On Statement Meal purchase on 9/16
NEWTON-9 - Fixed a bug in the profit & loss report that was causing it to print as portrait orientation and truncate the column data despite the preview showing it in landscapeNEWTON-25 - Fixed a bug that was showing obsolete function key commands when editing a serving line config's function keys
NEWTON-11 - Fixed a bug that was allowing the user to enter a comment longer than the maximum length when adding a POS adjustment
NEWTON-12 - Fixed a bug on the Federal Edit Check that was causing the average daily participation to always round-down instead of rounding to the nearest integer value
NEWTON-19 - Fixed a bug that was causing incorrect evaluation of reimbursable meals when editing a transaction on the serving line where a reimbursable and an at-cost item had been sold together

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