Newton 3.5 Release Notes

New Features

NEWTON-245 - Multiple Palm Sensor Support
NEWTON-268 - Biometric Enrollment Troubleshooting and Enhancements
NEWTON-276 - Yesterday's After-School Posting Counts
NEWTON-277 - Biometric Enrollment Opt-in/Opt-out
NEWTON-278 - Allergy System
NEWTON-280 - Meals Per Labor Hour Report
NEWTON-286 - School Maintenance Screen
NEWTON-294 - Serving Line Instant Messenger
NEWTON-295 - Messaging System
NEWTON-296 - Option to Hide Balance on Student Roster
NEWTON-300 - Grade Groups - Grade Groups and Grade Group Mapping Templates are first established. Next, grade group mapping is applied to Cafeterias. After mapping is complete, The Participation by Grade Group report can be run.
NEWTON-301 - Custom Customer Category Codes - Once Customer Category Codes have been established, codes are reflected in the following reports: Master Customer List, Master POS Customer, and Student Roster. "Coded", "POS ID with Category Prefix Code", or "POS ID with Category Suffix Code" should be selected in report criteria.
NEWTON-302 - Photo Capture on Serving Line
NEWTON-303 - Subscribed Customer Purchase Detail
NEWTON-306 - Customers with Allergies Report
NEWTON-307 - User-Defined Letter Types
NEWTON-308 - Permission Override Request Report
NEWTON-312 - Items Sold to Inactive Students Report
NEWTON-316 - POS Item Detail Report - The POS Item Detail report can be run as a Central Office report or from Item maintenance.
NEWTON-325 - Split prepaid used and amount charged in SOD Meal Info table between Students and Adults

Improvements

NEWTON-244 - Palmsecure v31
NEWTON-270 - Additional debug logging
NEWTON-271 - A la Carte Totals split by student and adult
NEWTON-279 - Parameter to Control Edit-Check Rounding
NEWTON-290 - Cafeteria Setting to "Allow Main Machine to Operate Independently"
NEWTON-291 - "Show Date Range Criteria" for Account Statement from Customer Maintenance
NEWTON-292 - Student Roster enhancements
NEWTON-293 - Change to Default Bank Deposit Layout
NEWTON-297 - More Info on the Edit POS
NEWTON-298 - Search by "item cost" on Search for Transaction
NEWTON-299 - Return-to-Batch button
NEWTON-304 - Sort options on See Manager Report
NEWTON-305 - Change Black Hand Guide
NEWTON-309 - Add State-Reimbursed Reduced Enrollment Counts
NEWTON-317 - Format Provision 2 Base Year percentages to four (4) decimal places
NEWTON-320 - Add support for DevExpress 12.2
NEWTON-322 - Add a text description next to tri-state checkbox on customer biometric settings tab
NEWTON-329 - DB Upgrade takes too long
NEWTON-358 - Revert to PalmSecure v30
NEWTON-359 - Photo.vdb3 workaround

Fixes

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-281 - Added customer tracking for the various customer-level spending and charging limits
NEWTON-284 - Added customer tracking for the various customer-level spending and charging limits
NEWTON-285 - Added customer tracking for the various customer-level spending and charging limits
NEWTON-289 - Fixed a bug that was causing a null reference exception error to be displayed when running the Principal Account Transfer Summary report with no principal account transfers
NEWTON-311 - Fixed a bug that was causing a null reference exception error to be displayed when running the Principal Account Transfer Summary report with no principal account transfers
NEWTON-318 - Fixed a bug in the RSS news reader that was preventing the 'Read More' link from working properly
NEWTON-330 - Fixed a bug in 3.5.0 beta that caused an error during datacenter synchronization if new students had been added
NEWTON-333 - Fixed a bug in 3.5.0 beta that caused an error during datacenter synchronization if new students had been added
NEWTON-334 - Fixed a bug that was causing chat messages sent from the manager's PC to broadcast to all serving lines rather than send just to the selected line
NEWTON-336 - Fixed a bug in the beta version that was causing an error when trying to save changes to system-defined letter definitions
NEWTON-337 - Fixed a bug in the beta version that caused previously posted transactions to be lost when using the new After-School Counts feature
NEWTON-338 - Fixed the incorrect form title on the allergen maintenance screen
NEWTON-339 - Fixed a misspelling of 'reimbursable' on the second meal warning message
NEWTON-340 - Fixed a bug in the line details report that was causing an error to occur when there existed transactions with no purchases
NEWTON-341 - Fixed a bug that was causing an error during database upgrade under certain conditions
NEWTON-343 - Fixed a bug in the Line Details report that was causing the total amount tendered to calculate incorrectly when both overpayments and multiple purchases existed on the same transaction
NEWTON-344 - Fixed a bug that was preventing users from logging in when their report menu configuration referenced a report that could not be found
NEWTON-346 - Fixed a bug in the Claims Needing Amendment report and the corresponding alert checker that caused an error to occur when it detected a school's data was missing from the claim period
NEWTON-348 - Fixed a bug in the Function Key Sales report that was causing the Function Key description to be blank on the first record
NEWTON-349 - Fixed a bug on the generic claim report that was preventing the state-reimbursed reduced rate from appearing on the report
NEWTON-350 - Fixed a bug that was causing the date label to print incorrectly in the bottom-left corner of certain reports
NEWTON-352 - Fixed a bug that caused an error on startup of the serving line on Windows Vista/7 if no sound card was present
NEWTON-353 - Fixed a bug that was causing an error to occur when starting a serving line when running from offline data
NEWTON-354 - Fixed a bug that was causing an error to occur when attempting to start a meal when running offline
NEWTON-356 - Fixed a bug in the startup code that was preventing auto-upgrades on multi-user systems when changes were made to the photo database cache
NEWTON-360 - Fixed a bug that was causing a several minute delay between the splash screen and the login screen when running as a restricted user with limited network access