Newton 10.0 Release Notes

Update

• Changed the database upgrade to retain unused Miscellaneous School Count configurations.

Fix

• Fixed a bug when transferring money from the Central Office tab.

Release Summary

The goal of this release was to address an issue with missing transaction communication.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug in the Handle Online Payment Exceptions screen that was causing data corruption.

Release Summary

The goal of this release was to address an issue with saving a claim and some schools not displaying on the Combines Sales & Participation report.
The following modifications were made since version 10.0.7.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that prevented saving a claim when a CEP school had associated reduced enrollment counts.

• Fixed a bug that was disallowing data to generate when a la carte sales for a meal did not exist during a given time period at a Site.

Release Summary

The goal of this release was to ready the system for the upcoming DevExpress upgrade to support upcoming features and address a defect in the (Before Posting) Double Card Usage report.
The following enhancements and modifications were made since version 10.0.6.

Enhancements

• Outdated Workstation Report (.NET Framework 4.5.2) - The report displays any workstation running versions lower than .NET Framework 4.5.2.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that was displaying all double card usages under one student record when running the Before Posting report.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that was causing an error when loading the local database and the Newton POS local database when a Special Diet was created and later deleted.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that was causing errors when loading the Supervisor Alerts dashboard for schools with no associated cafeterias.

Fixes

• Changed the way calls are conducted when utilizing Active Directory in the Role Importer.

• Fixed a bug causing an alert error when re-assigning a satellite school to a different primary school and reopening a past day for the new primary school.

• Fixed a bug that was causing an error when running the Federal Edit check for a single cafeteria.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug in the Federal Edit Check that was incorrectly calculating the average daily attendance for sites that only serve lunch.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that was causing an error at startup when using .NET Framework 4.8

New Features

• Email Letters - Users now have the ability to email letters out of Newton as well as create a default email letter template. Letters batches are queued for delivery via a scheduled job. Invalid email addresses are flagged (Do not email) in the Customer record. The next time a letter is generated for a customer with an invalid email address, the letter will be sent to print. Flags may be enabled or disabled manually.

  SMTP must be established and the associated user must have an email address in the system.
  Admin & Maintenance | System Settings | Email

  Emailing of letters must be enabled
  Admin & Maintenance | System Settings | Letters

  Letters are batched for deployment via a scheduled job
  Admin & Maintenance | Advanced Setup | Scheduled Jobs | Email Letters

  Default Email Letter Templates are available
  Admin & Maintenance | Miscellaneous Setup | Letters | Edit Letter Email

  The Cafeteria Manager may select one of three delivery methods: Print All, Email for recipient who can be emailed, Print for recipients who cannot be emailed
  Reports & Letters | Letters | Letter Criteria: Delivery Method

  Do Not Email is automatically flagged for invalid email addresses once a scheduled job has run. Manual enabling/disabling of Do Not Email is available
  Customer Maintenance | Customer Info: Do Not Email

• MySchoolBucks Email Address - During the upload process, email addresses are sent to MSB to support balance email notifications

• .NET 4.0 Warning Message - The system will provide a warning message to alert the user the current system is running .NET 4.0 Framework (unsupported). The system will need to be updated to .NET 4.5 Framework or higher. Once a District has pulled 10.1+, any workstation running .NET 4.0 Framework will cease to function

• Outdated Workstation Report - The Outdated Workstation Report allows your IT department to identify workstations running outdated/unsupported systems and system components. In the 10.0 version, the Outdated Workstation Report will target systems running outdated versions of .NET Framework. .Net 4.5 or higher is required. Once a District has pulled 10.1+, any workstation running .NET 4.0 Framework will cease to function
  Reports and Letters | Central Office | Outdated Workstations
• Newton 2018-2019 EOY Support - Added support for running End of Year processes for the 2018-2019 school year and the 2019-2020 Beginning of Year process
  

Enhancements

• Federal Edit Check - The Federal Edit Check has been updated to align with “claim-at rules” when a site is set to claim at a site other than “this school”.
  Reports and Letters | Sales and Revenue | Federal Edit Check
• Show Second Reimbursable Message Permissions - The system has been updated to split the setting between Adults (disabled)  and Students (enabled) to alert when a second reimbursable meal has been sold
  Admin & Maintenance | Serving Line |Serving Line/Serving Line Configs | Alerts: Show Adult Second Reimbursable Message
  Admin & Maintenance | Serving Line |Serving Line/Serving Line Configs | Alerts: Show Student Second Reimbursable Message
• Add student from another school (Subscribe) - The system has been updated to split the Add Student Subscription between Guest Subscription (true) and Regular Subscription (false) to resolve issues where a CEP students eats at a non-CEP site at the incorrect subscription status.
  Admin & Maintenance | Permissions | Cafeteria Role Permissions | Serving Line: (POS) Add customer from another school (Guest Sub)
  Add guest subscription for customer from another school. Customer is served occasionally by this cafeteria despite being enrolled elsewhere. Most common.
  Admin & Maintenance | Permissions | Cafeteria Role Permissions | Serving Line: (POS) Add customer from another school (Reg Sub)
  Add regular subscription for customer from another school. Customer is served regularly by this cafeteria despite being enrolled elsewhere.
• Items Sold by Customer - Added multi-reimbursable accounts to Items Sold by Customer report
  Reports and Letters | Sales and Revenue | Items Sold by Customer
  
• New Customer: Permanent Category - When adding a new customer to the system, the default category is now “invalid” and a category must be applied prior to saving. This ensures that new customers are not automatically assigned the category of Paying Student by default.
• Enable Debug by Default - In order to assist in troubleshooting issues, log config files are automatically set to debug and the default file size increased to 20MB
• Simplified DataCenter Sync -  DataCenter Sync has been simplified to improve performance on SQL Servers and MCS Cloud instances.
  Utilities | DataCenter | Sync

  As Full DataCenter syncs should rarely occur, the functionality and location have changed. Once a Forced Full DataCenter Sync has occurred, the option will reset to disabled.
  Admin & Maintenance | System Settings | DataCenter | Perform Full Refresh on next Datacenter sync

Fixes

• Application Freeze - Fixed a bug that was freezing the program when attempting to cancel an interactive scheduled job
• Double Card Usage Report - Fixed a bug in the Double Card Usage report which was incorrectly displaying one customer’s name and a different customer’s transactions
• Role Importer - Fixed a bug that was incorrectly importing and matching against Cafeteria Roles and Database Roles
• Item Detail Report - Fixed a bug that was incorrectly pulling legacy meal components for OVS
• Vendovation Vending Time - Fixed a bug that was incorrectly reporting vending times.