Newton 2.5 Release Notes

New Features


Improvements

  • NEWTON-3 - Labor Hours and Misc Income and Expenses spreadsheet/data entry problems
  • NEWTON-4 - Widen column on Federal Edit Check
  • NEWTON-16 - Added Date-Range Criteria to Items Sold Report
  • NEWTON-17 - Added Warning when voiding a transaction with a non-zero amount tendered
  • NEWTON-18 - Cash Tendered column added to the Double Card tool's detail grid
  • NEWTON-20 - Popular Item Report Enhancements
  • NEWTON-23 - Grade and Homeroom fields added to the Transaction Receipt report
  • NEWTON-26 - Rewrite MCSFingerprint.dll in C#
  • NEWTON-31 - Time added to the date range filter and report display of the online payments report
  • NEWTON-34 - Change PalmSecure to Use 'With Guide' mode
  • NEWTON-35 - Sync Issues on Status
  • NEWTON-36 - Check the Web for External Plugin Updates
  • NEWTON-42 - Include Operating Days in Month Criteria on All Cafeteria Letters
  • NEWTON-43 - Export Code on School & Cafeteria
  • NEWTON-59 - Polling for Account Balance Changes
  • NEWTON-60 - Network Drop Recovery
  • NEWTON-62 - Resize Check Tally Screen/Blind Deposit screens
  • NEWTON-63 - 64-bit Fingerprint Support

 

Fixes

  • NEWTON-5 - Fixed a bug in the vending wedge web-admin that was causing it to display the wrong authentication type in the line setup
  • NEWTON-28 - Removed the student photo synchronization step from the Datacenter Synchronization process, which was overwriting photos imported directly into Newton
  • NEWTON-37 - Fixed a bug when posting virtual cafeteria transactions that was causing it to include voided transactions and non-deposit affecting adjustments in the bank deposit
  • NEWTON-33 - Fixed a bug in the See Manager report that was causing it to include all central office comments regardless of cafeteria selected
  • NEWTON-39 - Fixed a bug that was preventing the system from grouping by user-specified fields
  • NEWTON-40 - Fixed a bug that was preventing the Student Roster from grouping by the user-specified group field
  • NEWTON-41 - Fixed a bug in the line-details report that was causing it to always show all meals regardless of the user-selected meal types
  • NEWTON-44 - Fixed a bug that was causing an error when merging customer records (either manually or when synchronizing merges from DataCenter) under certain conditions
  • NEWTON-45 - Fixed a bug that was causing the last digit of the POSID to be double-entered if 'Auto-Enter Customer POSIDs' was enabled and a message alert (such as second-meal warning) was displayed on the last keystroke
  • NEWTON-47 - Fixed a bug in the text file specification editor that was causing the field name and types to mismatch when rolling the mouse wheel over the 'add-new' row
  • NEWTON-48 - Fixed a bug in the user-defined export maintenance screen that was preventing changes to the dataset to be reflected in the layout editor until after changes were saved
  • NEWTON-49 - Fixed a bug in the text-file exporter that was preventing 'Ignored' fields from exporting as their Format string
  • NEWTON-51 - Fixed a bug that was causing central office adjustment comments to be truncated to 80 characters
  • NEWTON-54 - Fixed a bug in the Generic SQL Data Set that was causing an Argument Out of Range exception to occur when displaying user-defined reports that prompted for cafeteria
  • NEWTON-57 - Fixed a bug that was causing an error to occur when attempting to reopen a past day under certain conditions
  • NEWTON-58 - Fixed a bug that was causing ampersands to be doubled in the menu path displayed at the bottom of reports
  • NEWTON-66 - Fixed a bug that was causing an error to occur on the serving line when enrolling and legacy fingeprint templates existed and the legacy engine could not be instantiated
  • NEWTON-67 - Fixed a bug that was causing the xrLabelTodaysDate templated label from properly updating to the current date on user-defined reports
  • NEWTON-68 - Fixed a bug that was causing occasional program crashes when running a meal on networks that drop sql server connections
  • NEWTON-71 - Fixed a bug that was causing a NullReferenceException to occur when subscribing to a guest from a serving line without fingerprint support when the guest customer had a fingerprint template enrolled from another school
  • NEWTON-73 - Fixed a bug that was ignoring manual changes to district-assigned POSIDs until the next full POS Customer rebuild