Newton 4.0 - 4.4 Release Notes

Owned by Robin Rodrigue
Last updated: May 21, 2015
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New Features

 

Improvements

  • NEWTON-342 - Added supper count to claim
  • NEWTON-362 - Provision 2 Based Year has been moved to DataCenter
  • NEWTON-365 - EOY 2013
  • NEWTON-366 - Posting processes changed to prevent deadlocks when running multiple tasks at multiple sites
  • NEWTON-372 - Claims Worksheet available during claim generation
  • NEWTON-374 - Function key change - F12 (Alacarte) to sell to F6 student (paying, force at cost) rather than F3 student (paying)
  • NEWTON-385 - Load test for external plugins and improved performance for larger Districts added
  • NEWTON-389 - 3rd Party Payment added to available fields
  • NEWTON-393 - Labels changed on Federal Edit Check
  • NEWTON-395 - Fields added to Online Payments export
  • NEWTON-402 - State Claim Code field added in claim dataset
  • NEWTON-412 - Upgrade to target .NET 4.0 framework
  • NEWTON-416 - Upgrade to use DevExpress 13.2
  • NEWTON-422 - Generic SQL statement formatting updated and additional criteria options added
  • NEWTON-421 - Added ability for Central Office staff to make corrections and issue refunds to inactive students

 

Fixes

  • NEWTON-361 - Fixed a bug on the Line Setup / Setup Function-Key List that was causing some actions to be duplicated in the list
  • NEWTON-363 - Fixed a bug causing an error during synchronization when more than 31 user-defined allergens were defined and used
  • NEWTON-364 - Fixed a bug that was causing a program crash when trying to add more than 32 user-defined allergens
  • NEWTON-369 - Fixed a bug in the Run-Report scheduled job that was causing the "Run even if there is no data" check-box to only override the system settings default if checked
  • NEWTON-370 - Fixed a bug that was causing transfers between siblings to get reported as money owed to the principal on the Account Statement report
  • NEWTON-371 - Added validation on the serving line to prevent transferring money to or from a function key account
  • NEWTON-375 - Added column to school grid in cafeteria maintenance to enable setting the 'Free Snack' check-box per school
  • NEWTON-376 - Fixed a bug in the End-Of-Year procedure that was causing an error when deleting inactive serving lines if biometric templates had been enrolled from the inactive serving lines
  • NEWTON-377 - Fixed a misspelling of 'with' on the balance filters on the customers data set
  • NEWTON-378 - Fixed a bug in the end-of-year procedure that was causing an error if biometric templates had been enrolled by a user that is now inactive and pending deletion
  • NEWTON-381 - Fixed a bug in the end-of-year procedure that was causing an error if an inactive cafeteria or school existed that was configured for a virtual cafeteria environment
  • NEWTON-382 - Fixed a bug that was causing an error message to be displayed when attempting to print the Online Payments report when no online payments matched the criteria and the system setting to force printing reports with no data was enabled
  • NEWTON-383 - Fix the alert type maintenance screen to correctly show the Ignored Reason
  • NEWTON-384 - Fixed a bug that was causing an error to occur when attempting to edit a POS Customer record if there existed a blank see-manager comment
  • NEWTON-386 - Fixed a bug that was causing a program crash on shutdown when using the MCS DataPipe for communications
  • NEWTON-388 - Fixed a bug that was causing an error on startup when using the MCS Data Pipe if any External Plugins were enabled in the database
  • NEWTON-396 - Fixed a bug in the Customer Input Device screen that was showing an incorrect balance of the last sale when the last sale was an Edit Transaction
  • NEWTON-397 - Fixed a bug in the District POSID assignment module that was causing an error under certain conditions
  • NEWTON-398 - Fixed a bug that was preventing posting operations from properly completing. Newton 4.1.2 is an emergency release to fix this bug. Users not already running Newton 4.1.1 should not download this release but should wait until Newton 4.1.3 is released
  • NEWTON-399 - Fixed several bugs on the Cash Reconciliation Report that was causing incorrect data to be displayed
  • NEWTON-400 - Fixed a bug in serving line maintenance which was causing a program crash when using the cafeteria search control
  • NEWTON-403 - Fixed a bug that was causing user-defined reports to crash the program
  • NEWTON-405 - Fixed a bug in the Biometric Enrollment report that was causing an error when a Customer has multiple POS Customer records
  • NEWTON-407 - Fixed a bug that was not allowing manually entering the sale of a reimbursable meal to an adult at a Provision II school
  • NEWTON-409 - Fixed a bug in the balance filters on the Master Customer List
  • NEWTON-410 - Fixed a bug where a scheduled job to run a user-defined report would always run despite un-checking the "Run even if there is no data" checkbox
  • NEWTON-411 - Fixed a bug in the Record of Attendance report that was showing an incorrect value for Total Adult Meals
  • NEWTON-423 - Fixed a bug that was causing an error when saving a new misc posting cash type with a WinFSCA user count of None