Newton 6.5 Release Notes

 Fixes

• Fixed a bug that was causing the DataCenter Sync for anyone who had turned off the “Use Unallocated Only” in the DataCenter sync

Fixes

• SQL Server 2008 Support - Fixed a bug that was causing an error when upgrading to Newton 6.5.0 when using SQL Server 2008 

  DataCenter 5.5.1

   SQL Server 2008 Support - Fixed a bug that was causing an error when upgrading to DataCenter 5.5.0 when using SQL Server 2008

New Features

• PaxS300 Credit Card Terminal Integration - Added support for the PaxS300 Credit Card Terminal
• Low Participation Report - New Report that lists students that have received/purchased a selected # of meals or less in a given time frame.  Report allows for single, multi or all school selection as well as number of meals to search on.
• Allow Menu Cycles - Added Calendar Based Cycle Menus for maintaining district menus.  Menus can be dragged & dropped onto the calendar.  Users can copy and paste menu cycles by day(s) or weeks(s) to easily reuse menus.
• Cash Kiosk - Added support for the Olea Cash Kiosk to accept cash and coin prepayments through the kiosk for student meal accounts.

Enhancements

• Ability to not Itemize Adults - Added the ability to control the offer-vs-serve itemization for adults.  Options are “do not itemize” and “default price”.
• 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.
• Student Search Screen Update - Added “balance” column to the student search screen.  The balance is the sum of unallocated balance and reimbursable only balance.
  Added “account statement” button that will print the account statement for the highlighted student.
• Update to Student Deletion - Added a setting to prevent automatic deletion of students with balances.
  System Setup | Datacenter Tab | Prevent automatic deletion of students with balances
• Sort order for Cafeteria & School Maintenance Screens - Updated Cafeteria Maintenance & School Maintenance screens to sort their grids according to the System Setting for school sort field.
• At Cost Adult Meal Key - Updated serving line buttons to include CTRL F5 to be At Cost Adult
• Serving Line Key Update - Updated the Serving Line function screen to include “Key”, i.e. CTRL, ALT, SHIFT etc.
• Permissions List - Organized the permission screens into groups for easier searching for specific permissions.
• Reorder Permission Grid Columns - Added the ability to reorder the columns on database & cafeteria permission screens.  Added a button to both permission screens to Save Layout and an option under My Profile to Reset those screens to Local Settings.
• Payment Only Button Update - Changed the behavior of the POS button for Payment Only to deselect the Giving Change button allowing the user to apply funds without making a sale or giving change.
• Ability to clear principal account - Added an option to clear a selected principal account for a site.
• Increase Max Quantity Sale - Increased Max Quantity Sale to 1000
• Second Meal Restriction - Added a serving line setting to not allow a second meal purchase.  This setting will prevent all customers from buying a second meal, unless it’s a special customer marked Multi-Reimbursable.
• Touchscreen Image Update - Automatic touchscreen image selection when editing menus.  Most commonly used image will be added to the item button when adding new touchscreen buttons.
• Clear Touchscreen Buttons - Dragging a touchscreen button away from the menu will clear the button.
• Save Report Layout Customizations - Added the ability to save Report Layout Customizations as a .repx file that can be shared with other users.
• Disable Fix All Button - Added a new cafeteria permission for “Double Card Usage: Fix All” that allows districts to disable the Fix All button.
• Checklist Update - Added the ability to include User Defined Reports in the Checklist setup options.
• Sales Screen Update - Added Item Count to the sales screen.  When selling multiples of the same item, the items will be grouped into a single row.  Updated the amount due field to shrink the font when the balance goes above $100.00.
• User Action Logging - Added User Action Logging for packing and recovering the local database for support & development incident research.
• Scheduled Job Log - Added “View Log” button to Scheduled Job Maintenance screen that will run a new “Scheduled Job” report showing all runs of the selected scheduled job.
• Update to Daily Recap Report - Added Supper data to the Daily Recap report.
• Account Statement Update - Moved the principal account sub report on the account statement to the top of the report.
  Added POS ID to the Account Statement – if a student has multiple POS IDs, all will be listed.

• NEWTON 15105/NEWTON 15107 - DataCenter 5.5.0 Compatibility/Hosting Support - Added compatibility for Hosting Support for future Data Hosting Services

  DatCenter 5.5.0

  DC 15081 - Hosting Support - Added compatibility for Hosting Support for future Data Hosting Services

• NEWTON 13524 - Claim Customizations via Plugin - Added the ability to customize area-eligibility rounding methods via plugin 
• NEWTON 14919 - Futronics FS-88 H Fingerprint Scanner Support - Added support for Futronics FS-88H Fingerprint Scanner
• NEWTON 14648 - Run Scheduled Jobs via Agent - Added functionality to run scheduled job via agent for hosting integration

Fixes

• Principal Account Transfer Summary Duplicate Entries - Fixed a bug in the Account Statement report and the Principal Account Transfer report that was causing incorrect values to be calculated for the amount owed to the principal.
• Cafeteria Attachment Error - Fixed a bug that caused an error when building POS Customers for a cafeteria whose Principal account POS customer had been deleted.
• Double Card Usage Fix All Button - Fixed a bug in the double card utility fix-all that made it possible in certain situations to convert all reimbursable to at-cost.
• Customize Account Statement Report - Fixed a defect that was requiring selecting a customer when adding a report menu configuration for the account statement report, or any report with a single select customer criteria filter.
• Missing Student Table when selecting cafeteria - Fixed a bug in the local database sync when deleting tracks or grades.