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Page Revision: 2015/08/24 11:45

Essentials

Changes

(Note: The following notes were built by combining the updates available in Premier; please some entries discuss capabilities you may or may not have depending on availability depending on option pack(s) you have.)

1766

• Added
  • Added optional "Voice" column to the Customer Copy list (available if Voice optional feature is enabled).
  • Added optional "Note" column to the CopyList window.
  • The Log window now has a Reset tool to reset the overall layout of the columns to factory default. This tool is access through the main menu using View.
  • Initial export and as-play support for the (legacy) CBSI v2.x Log format. See Automation_Systems.
  • Initial as-play support for the Digital Universe Log format. See Automation_Systems.
  • Initial support for Digital Jukebox as-play log import.
  • Please help us to help you... take a moment to participate in the TDGA survey. To assist you in this, we've added a reminder to the Dashboard; once you've taken the urvey, the reminder will be removed. Thanks in advance. As always, if you have anything that we can assist you with, please don't hesitate to contact us.
  • Initial support for the BSI Op-X automation system.
  • It is now possible to target WinAmp's EXTM3U (*.m3u) and EXTM3U8 (*.m3u8) as target Automation_Systems. Please bear in mind that these formats are extremely limited and do not offer what would traditionally be expected as an "automation file" (no real support to "schedule"; effectively just "a list").
  • It is now possible to "save as" the Goal report.
• Modified
  • Updated the application icon to a "more modern" version aligning better with Windows 8/10.
  • The Users window has been modified to display the User Name column as being blank for a User that doesn't have a username/password configured in order to sign into the system.
  • Renamed the Commission/Goals column to Goals.
  • Moved the Default Commission Type from the Goals tab and to the General tab.
  • Rebuilt the General tab to better organize and handle workflow regardless of whether the person is someone who is able to sign into the system and/or is just a sales person who needs to be configured for purposes of Contract entry.
  • The Login Information section of the User window has been modified so that there is now an Enable checkbox that enables the Username and Password fields. Additional instructions/details are available on screen. Additionally, the Enable checkbox can not be disabled if the Administrator checkbox is enabled on the Member Of / Role tab.
  • The User window caption has been modified to read User - View/Modify instead of showing some "random meaningless number".
  • Significant changes to the User window in order to enhance the overall loading performance.
  • The Trashed column as been renamed to Active on the Users window.
  • The Username column has been made optional (not visible by default) on the Users window.
  • The Users window now contains a Commission column to better review Users who've been configured as "sales people" (for purposes of Contract entry).
  • The Email tab of the User window has been removed; the complexity of this "editor" was overkill for the results desired. Replacing this is a new Email field on the General tab. This field also "validates" the data for a properly formatted email address.
  • The Invoice Summary menu item (under View) has been removed from the Contract window.
  • The optional Primary Conflict and Secondary Conflict columns on the Customers and Contracts windows now reflects assigned Conflicts as being Inactive if the are currently in use and have been trashed.
  • The Invalid Contract/Rotation/Copy report has been modified to now account for rescheduled and/or trashed spot(s).
  • The Open, Print, Print Previw and Export menu items on several windows (such as Stations) have been modified to only be enabled if one or more items actually exist.
  • The New, Save, Save As, Save To, Print and Print Preview menu and toolbar items on the Template window have been modified to only be enabled if there one or more items that actually exist.
  • Reapproached the CTRL+F (Find) tool in Contracts sometimes not highlighting the target Contract; it will now wait for the previous Contract refresh to complete before attempting to switch Customer and seek the target Contract. In addition to handling the highlight more accurately, there is a slight performance gain due to the system no longer (potentially) loading the list of Contracts for a Customer twice.
  • When using the Delete tool to delete a piece of Copy from the Customer window, you are now prompted in triplicate if you wish to continue.
  • When the system contains no Contracts for a particular Station, the Dashboard message has been modified to use the word 'contracts' instead of 'orders'.
  • Using the Trash tool to trash Copy no longer rips the Copy from Contracts (removing the Copy from individual rotations); instead, the Copy is left on the rotation(s) and should be ignored using the rules that are in place. This change is done in order to prevent irreversable situations where a Copy is trashed by mistake and in order to keep the "history" of the Copy somewhat intact.
  • The EDI export now includes values for the INVOICE PERIOD START DATE and INVOICE PERIOD END DATE. The 4A's specification states that these fields are optional (and I agree that they should be since the information can easily be determined using of the BROADCAST MONTH (which has month and year) or even possibly the INVOICE DATE; which are both required); however, it appears that some software used by some agencies "requires" this information (after years of apparently not requiring it???; it's only appeared on our radar as a problem on 3/31/2015).
  • When modifying the Agency commission field, the prompt asking if you'd like to recalculate all existing Invoices has been removed. Modifying the commission field on the Agency now takes affect on all Contracts going forward. To change the commission of a previously entered Contract/Invoice, use Correction Mode as this tool is designed to "change historical information."
  • The Billing window now has all elements "disabled" while it is busy processing.
  • It is now possible to email Invoices overnight using the Billing window; specifically, you can initiate the process before leaving and the application will no longer automatically exit due to inactivity until the emails have been completed.
  • A Contract that is invalid is now presented as a line with a red background to draw attention. The asterisk identification method has been removed (unless Color Hints is not enabled).
  • It is no longer possible to Trash a partially Approved (Pending) Contract.
  • Adding/duplicating a line on partially Approved (Pending) Contract now shows in the color red (instead of yellow) since this is a potential error condition.
  • Contracts that have been Trashed no longer show in a red font.
  • Contracts that are Pending and past their expected begin date now show on the window highlighted in red (error).
  • Contracts that are Pending and before their expected begin date now show on the window highlighted in yellow (attention).
  • The NexGen automation system has been modified to provide better diagnostic messaging for circumstances where a cart # is missing.
  • The View menu on the Log window has been moved further to left for consistency with other windows throughout the application.
  • The Filter By Avail checkbox (Log window) has seen a slight performance improvement in relation to usage while the selected Log item is at the top (or not yet selected).
  • The Advertiser, Representative and Contract columns has been renamed to Customer, Sales Person and Contract # on the Log window for consistency.
  • The Ad-ID field on Copy has been increased slightly to support "piggyback" identifiers (two 12 character codes separated by a space).
  • Modified the "out of the box" (default) skin to utilize Dark Side (instead of Darkroom).
  • Renamed the existing skin that was named Default to Black.
  • When exporting to the SS32 Automation_System, the messaging around situations causing the export to fail has been significantly improved to better assist in diagnosing the problem in order to get the issue(s) resolved.
  • The CopyList, Contracts and Contract windows have been updated to better reflect "expired" entries regardless of the Skin being currently utilized.
  • When attempting to save a Contract, the save process will now validate whether or not the Logs for the duration of the saved items are opened; if so, you are prevented from saving the Contract until the target Logs are closed. Information is presented as to the Station, date and User for each Log.
  • When entering the a Contract, the background color of the line item(s) have been changed from red to yellow; throughout the software, red = "bad". The act of entering a line item isn't "bad"; yellow represents notice/warning which is more in line with the intent of why these lines are colored in the first place in order to reflect that the Contract is not approved.
  • In order to further reduce confusion, several roles have been renamed to better distinguish the "role" from a "job title". Traffic Manager is now Traffic, Billing Manager is now Billing, Traffic Assistant is now Traffic Read-Only and Billing Assistant is now Billing Read-Only.
  • When encountering a situation where the Log shows that it is open by another person (including the name of that person); the information already presented has been further enhanced to include additional details as to why this could occur are now presented along with additional information as to how to deal with the situation.
  • When utilize the MustFill feature, the Log will now work in two different modes. Mode A (the recommended) is based on the idea that MustFill is a safety net specifically designed to handle the situation where an Automation_System is unable/unwilling to fill the material on their end. Mode A means that you create a "Fill" Customer and populate that Customer with PSA/Promo related Copy. When only one Customer is configured with MustFill material, the Log will do its best to make sure that the same Copy is not back to back. In Mode B, multiple Customers contain Copy that can be used with MustFill. In Mode B, the Log will do its best to not only make sure that the same Copy is not back to back, but will also attempt to make sure that the same Customer is not placed back to back. Because of this, it is possible that Mode B might not MustFill if enough material does not exist to ensure that there is enough material to keep this separation intact.
  • The RCS and Prophet NexGen Automation_Systems exports has been modified so that it will no longer export if one or more cart numbers is blank/missing.
  • Under circumstances where the as-play file is necessary to begin the Log reconciliation and, for whatever reason(s), the file is currently unavailable; the Log now clearly identifies this situation.
  • Renamed existing CBSI to CBSI v1.x under Automation_Systems.
  • The CTRL+S key in the Log has been made less ambiguous; on one hand, it was showing on the main menu as being Save but when pressed it would show a narrowed LogSummary of the highlighted spot. CTRL+S is now used to Save and CTRL+N is now assigned to display the narrowed LogSummary.
  • Considering the official use of "ISCI" was "retired" in 2007; we feel it is high time we officially move to "Ad-ID"; this is mostly just a "label change" and you can continue to consider it an ISCI Code. However, we are also moving from the legacy 8 character support of "ISCI" to the 12 character support of "Ad-ID".
  • The Log editor has been enhanced to include additional "summary" information when it is loading/saving a Log.
  • The Log editor has been modified so that the menus, toolbars, etc. are no longer accessible when loading/saving a Log.
  • When opening the Customer window, the window now appears more quickly.
  • The Log has been updated to reduce the amount of time it takes to remove a single entry from the Invalid Copy tab by 50%.
  • A Refresh tool (under the View main menu) has been added to the Reports selection window.
  • All Reports (windows) have been modified to include a glyph for the Refresh tool (under the View main menu).
  • It is now possible to modify the MustFill field on Avails while working with a Log.
  • When trashing "many" spots using MakeGoods, there is little to no communication that the software is busy.
  • The Rotation field on a Contract line item is now an option that can be enabled in Group options. The default for this option is off.
  • The Spots Per Week column (line items) on the Contract window has been renamed to Schedule to reflect a more generic term for the information being presented.
  • The Audit Trail report has been removed due to currently being inaccurate and incomplete.
  • When entering a Contract that is utilizing Skip Weeks; if the start date and the days of the week don't really "make sense", instead of "trying to make it work" the system now rejects the schedule due to be invalid/confusing.
  • The word Copy has been replaced with the word Rotation on the Contract line item window to better reflect the intent of the field.
  • Slight performance gain when loading Invoice details on the Billing window.
  • Performance improvements when loading a Log related to retrieving bump spot(s) and make good spot(s).
  • When modifying a cart number on an Invoice, the name of the Copy will now replace the existing description of the Invoice item. If you choose the None entry, the description will be cleared/emptied/erased.
  • When opening a Contract, the lower left hand portion of the window has been modified to include the current "task" taking place during the loading process.
  • Improved (reduced) the time required to load the Contract window specifically during the determining of sales people (more specifically, determining "historical" sales people; sales people who are currently not configured with a commission but have been configured as a sales person on one or more Contracts, Invoices, payments and/or adjustments.
  • When removing an off-air revenue item from an Invoice, the item will now automatically be marked Trashed preventing it from (possibly) immediately being placed back on the same Invoice as soon as the background invoicing processor starts. Typically people use the SpotDetail window to Force OAR... and then Force Trashed, the removal of an off-air revenue item on an Invoice now does the same thing as a single step.
  • When working with the SpotDetail, MakeGood and Invoice windows, the capabilities based on role have been slightly modified based on feedback. Administrators are now required to reverse an invoice (if it was finalized) before they are able to reverse any individual spots/off-air revenue. Administrator assistants now have the ability to reverse spots/off-air revenue for any invoices that have not already been finalized. Traffic managers have the ability to reverse spots from a locked log so that they can be rescheduled to tomorrow. Rescheduling and reversal of spots are prohibited if the target spot exists on a log (whether on the log or the bump of said log) if someone is actively in that associated log. If the Traffic Manager is also a Billing Manager, they are able to reverse spots off a gathering invoice. Administrators, Administrator Assistants and Traffic Managers can trash and reverse trashed spots.
  • It is no longer possible to utilize "correction mode" for a Contract that has had one or more Invoices finalized (approved). To use "correction mode" on this sort of Contract, it is now necessary to reverse all related Invoices prior to doing so.
  • Added icons to the context menus on Customer and Contract windows.
  • Instead of just disabling a context menu item (but still visible) on the Customer and Contract windows when something is not available, the menu entry is now completely removed (when it is not enabled) in order to remove/reduce confusion.
  • CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+R to "reset all layouts" has been removed since there is a menu item available to do the same thing.
  • CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+R (since it is no longer needed and can be repurposed) is now used to automatically start PSR.EXE (Problem Steps Recorder, part of Microsoft Windows) in recording mode with 100 maximum screen captures, a maximum log size of 10MB, automatically creating a file name (using todays date and time) and location (a PSR folder located on your Windows Desktop) upon stopping the recording. The recording will automatically be stopped when you exist RT, saving the current recording. If the recording is still active after exiting RT (unexpectedly), the next time you start RT, PSR.EXE recording will be stopped, saving the current recording. This key combination is only available when the Dashboard is the window that contains the current keyboard focus. This is a "toggle" and it is persistent across RT executions.
  • Several (beta) options in Group have been modified, removed and/or consolidated under the Enhanced Permissions section. The Traffic Manager related options have been removed and the Administrator Assistant ones have been renamed to be more clear in their purpose as well as verified as to their current functionality. By focusing the options on Administrator Assistant, things can be made more clear and the overall intent can be achieved. If you wish to extend (delegate) Administrator capabilities, it is now limited to only the Administrator Assistant role. In order for someone to have access to the "modified" Administrator Assistant role, the Administrator is the person that needs to modify the User account accordingly.
  • The Scheduling and Billing portion of the Customer has been modified by moving the Billing Cycle, Revenue Source, Revenue Type and other optionally related "billing" related fields from the Scheduling tab to the Billing Tab.
  • When initially opening the Billing window and clicking on a tab while the information is still being retrieved, the tab no longer resets to the default upon the information being retrieved.
  • The After Aired report now displays the "revision chain" Contract number instead of the "internal" number.
  • The Log now includes Avail Type for spots on the Log (in addition to bump and make good lists).
  • Modified the Digital Universe automation log export so that the end of the file contains an extra "blank line".
  • The Billing Freq column in Contracts has been renamed to Billing Cycle.
  • The dashboard notification for invoices waiting to be finalized now includes the total net amount in addition to the count.
  • The Digital Universe log export has been modified so that multiple contiguous avails are treated as a single "break".
  • The Digilink export has been modified so that cart numbers are no longer zero padded if less than 4 digits and leading zeros are no longer automatically removed if greater than 4 digits; instead, all cart numbers are exported "as-is" regardless of length. If the cart number is missing, "*MISSING" is used as a placeholder.
  • Resetting all layouts no longer resets the currently chosen skin.
  • There were several menu items on the Templates window that did not have icons (glyphs) associated; this update corrects this oversight.
  • It was previously not possible to delete the last entry (singular) from the AutomationCommands window; this behavior has been modified to allow the last item to be deleted.
  • It was previously not possible to delete AvailTypes or AutomationCommands directly from the Templates window; this has been changed.
  • When deleting Programs, Log Notes and/or Templates directly from the Templates window, the are you sure you want to delete prompt is now asked in triplicate.
  • The permissions with regards to Delete of AvailTypes, AutomationCommands, Programs, Log Notes and Templates directly from the Templates window has been modified to only be accessible to SuperAdmin.
  • The indicator for which item is currently selected in available items tree of Templates window no longer disappears when the tree no longer has input focus.
  • When adding/modifying an avail on a Template, the "Add"/"Modify Avail" window will evaluate both the time and length to attempt to prevent numbers that cause an invalid Template to be created by preventing overlapping avails.
  • The Revenue Projection and Revenue Projection (Accrual) Reports Billing Type columns have been renamed to Billing Cycle.
  • The Times and Times/Rate Invoice have been modified by reducing the width of the Times column to increase the width of the Description column by approximately 30%.
  • When exporting to SS32 or WideOrbit Automation Systems, the description column is now formatted as customer name, dash, copy name, space, ISCI. If any of these do not exist, formatting is adjusted gracefully.
  • When modifying the print option for a Customer for both Confirmations and Invoices to be enabled (when it was previously not enabled), any existing approved Contracts and/or finalized Invoices will be automatically flagged as having been printed. This enabled print option will take affect for all future Contracts and/or Invoices for this Customer as they become approved/finalized.
  • All Log exports (Automation Systems) that contain a "description" column have been updated so that the Copy name is favored (if available) over the Customer name. The Customer name is only utilized in circumstances where Copy name is not available. Several exports have been updated to also append the ISCI (if available) to the exported description.
  • The Approved column in Contracts is no longer visible by default.
  • When printing Invoices that generates a number of pages that causes an 'out of memory' exception to occur; the system will now attempt to gracefully recover from this situation by presenting a message stating such and offer suggestions on how to reduce/remove the issue. Note, this situation is significantly less likely to occur on a 64-bit OS compared to a 32-bit OS.
  • When working with the Batch Print window in AR and there are 19,000+ invoices in the list, the act of filtering the data processes what is currently checked so that the items that are filtered are unchecked in the process of being removed from view. This process, when there are 19,000+ (a specific example) can take a significant amount of time and takes even longer on computers that are not as "modern" as others. In the previous versions, this process just appeared to "lock-up" the system while it was busy working through the list as there was no indication that this process was taking place or any indication of how much longer it might be. This has been remedied by providing a progress indicator.
  • The New and Close buttons located on the Contracts window have been moved slightly to better align with other elements on the window.
  • The Export tool on the Billing window has been moved below the Print Preview menu entry for consistency.
  • The Export tool on the Billing window has been updated so that the default filename matches the title of the document; previously was generically labeled as "Billing" regardless of which tab was being utilized.
  • All Reports that contain the Salesperson simple list (left hand pane) have been modified so that any Salesperson included that is no longer active has the word (Inactive) appended to their name(s).
  • Modified the Broadcast Accrual report End Date column so that Invoices that have not been finalized use the billing cycle date instead of the current (in-progress, can and most likely will change) effective date so that short broadcast Invoices can be filtered more effectively; if the need is there to do so.
  • The time field, for example on a ContractLineItem, has been enhanced to handle situations where someone types in a "00:60". If this sort of entry is encountered, the value will automatically be converted to "01:00".
  • The Customer window no longer suppresses the email related fields due to EmailSettings not being configured on a particular computer.
  • When, as "super-admin", the delete functionality is utilized, the question asking if you are sure is asked in triplicate to help prevent accidental deletions.
  • When running a report with criteria that causes an 'out of memory' exception to occur; the report will now attempt to gracefully recover from this situation by presenting a message stating such and resetting the internal data. Note, this situation is less likely to occur on a 64-bit OS compared to a 32-bit OS.
  • Significantly increased the performance related to retrieving the "rotation cache" when opening a Log. This "rotation cache" is used to determine whether or not a piece of spot placed on the Log has valid Copy.
  • Modified: Added an additional note to the "this log is open by someone else" message in the Log editor to raise awareness that an Administrator has the ability to force close the Log if necessary by using the Open log... window.
  • When modifying the Copy on a Log during reconciliation; the list of available items is reduced to just those pieces of Copy that are legal for the current date of the Log being reconciled; this is a change to previous behavior of including all Copy for the Customer regardless of whether or not it could legally be placed on the Log being reconciled. If a spot was not reconciled on a Log and was trashed (canceled) after the fact, it will be necessary to go untrash that spot before it can be placed on a Log that has been reversed.
  • When reversing an invoiced Log, spots weren't committed to an Invoice, associated with the Station, not on any other Log and target this Log were being flagged as "bumped" without regard to their current status. This behavior has been modified so that when an invoiced Log is reversed, these spots are left as they were.
  • When User has no access to a particular Station, that Station is now completely filtered when opening the CopyList. The "All Station" Copy is still included as, by definition, the Station they do have access to is included as the "All Station" list and the Copy for "All Station" does affect the Stations that they do belong. However, as mentioned in a prior update, a User does not have the ability to modify an "All Stations" piece of Copy unless they are also able to do so for all Stations.
• Fixed
  • Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object in Reports FilterReport().
  • Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object in Log MasterGridView_RowStyle.
  • Exception: Cannot cast DBNull.Value to type 'System.Boolean' in Log DetailGridView_CustomDrawCell.
  • Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object in Log MasterGridView_RowStyle.
  • Exception: Deleted row information cannot be accessed through the row in Log MoveSpotUp_Action.
  • Exception: Cannot cast DBNull.Value to type 'System.Int32' in Log ReAssignCopy.
  • Under certain conditions the Conflicts are not visible on the Contract window as if they are inactive.
  • When removing any item from a Template the application produces an invalid exception.
  • The Email Statement button on the AR window appears to not work correctly when there is not an email address specified for emailing Invoices?? It should work regardless the email Invoice address is blank or not.
  • The Email Statement button on the AR window appears to not work correctly if the Customer does not have an email address and the Agency does.
  • There is a circumstance where someone who moved from TrafficXP to Premier where they started using TrafficXP prior to the existence of Debit Adjustments and the back balances were imported... these unpaid invoices are incorrectly being shown on the Dashboard as needing to be printed.
  • The Contracts window is, under some circumstances, showing a Contract in red and not really sure as to why. Upon further research, the calculation of the number of items was not taking into account OAR in some rare circumstances.
  • Some (but not all) OAR Contract line items were being saved with a "schedule type" set to an erroneous value; this value should have been set to "none".
  • The Make Good report doesn't appear to be taking into account scenarios where a spot bypasses being placed on a Log but directly placed onto an Invoice.
  • When reconciling a Log and, under this specific scenario, click on a checkbox next to an item and immediately (without clicking, tabbing, typing anything else) click on the save icon on the toolbar, the item that was most recently toggled is not saved.
  • When trashing a Conflict, existing Contracts that are still utilizing the (now) trashed Conflict are displaying a blank Conflict and an associated exclamation warning when viewed. Would like it to display the trashed Conflict and identify that it has been trashed.
  • When deleting a User, the prompt to select a different User displays the exclamation warning slightly odd when using one of the darker themes.
  • The EDI export appears to have the wrong numerical value for the day of the week; it appears to be off by one.
  • When using one or more period characters in a Customer phone number, the phone number is not displayed when opening the Customer window.
  • The CTRL+O, CTRL+N and CTRL+P accelorator keys (menu) don't appear to do anything except make a "ding" sound on the Template window.
  • If EmailMyTimes has been enabled at some point and a Customer has an email address defined (and invalid) and EmailMyTimes was subsequently disabled, it is possible that an error icon will be displayed on the Customer window for this client however it be confusing since the EmailMyTimes section is no longer visible (due to the option being made inactive).
  • When entering a SPW Contract where the "last week" of the line is in such a way where the number of spots far exceeds the number of days available, the spots are partially placing beyond the end date of the line item. For example, 20 SPW and the valid days of the last week of the line item fall on the 30th and 31st where the line item ends on the 31st where the spots are set for MTWThFSSu; spots are being scheduled 2 for the 30th and 31st, the "left over" for the other days are being placed to the 30th (10 more) and the unequal spots are being evenly spanned across all days of the week starting on Monday, resulting in spots incorrectly being scheduled on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th.
  • When using the "todo" items to open Billing, the tab selected (sometimes) doesn't reflect what was selected.
  • When using the Trash tool on Copy from the Customer window, there is an eroneous message stating that the items will be removed from rotations; this is no longer true.
  • When using the Delete tool to delete a piece of Copy from the CopyList or Customer window, the mouse cursor doesn't change to reflect that the system is busy.
  • When entering a SPW Contract where the "last week" of the line is in such a way where the number of spots far exceeds the number of days available, the spots are partially placing beyond the end date of the line item. For example, 20 SPW and the valid days of the last week of the line item fall on the 30th and 31st where the line item ends on the 31st where the spots are set for MTWThFSSu; spots are being scheduled 2 for the 30th and 31st, the "left over" for the other days are being placed to the 30th (10 more) and the unequal spots are being evenly spanned across all days of the week starting on Monday, resulting in spots incorrectly being scheduled on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th.
  • When opening a Rotation, the start date field is not automatically focused as the default.
  • When creating a new Contract line item, changing the Schedule from Weekly (or SPW) to something else and back again "clears" the Skip Week value in such a way that (blank), if not corrected (such as setting back to None) prior to saving, will produce a line item with no spots.
  • When attempting to Trash a Transaction in AR, an error message is presented.
  • If a filter is applied in Billing, clicking the Process... button while only have some of the items checked to be processed; the items that are left are automatically checked upon reloading. If the existing filter is not unchecked or modified, the "hidden" items are also automatically checked when refreshing and if the Process button is further clicked under this circumstance, all the "hidden" items (that are still checked, but shouldn't be) are also processed.
  • If a filter is applied in the Print Invoices (AR), after printing the first batch the list is refreshed and the filter is reapplied; however, the items that are filtered are not automatically unchecked as they should be.
  • The Rotation field on the Contract line item window is visible (Premier 2013) and should not be as this feature does not work in Premier 2013.
  • When an existing filter is enabled on the Billing, PrintStatements or EmailStatements windows, when opening the window the filter is not automatically unchecking the filtered items like it does when originally applying the filter.
  • When working with an AutomationCommand, the Command and Cart # fields are showing as not being required until you type something in and subsequently remove what was typed in; in either case, you are incorrectly able to save regardless of whether something is entered in these fields or not.
  • The Notes tab on Customer is missing (Premier 2013 only).
  • When modifying existing Copy, the Script section being modified alone is not enough to enable the Apply button; thus preventing saving of the change.
  • When adding new Copy, the Cart # field is not set as the default field.
  • When locking a Log that will be using the MustFill feature after a spot has been bumped, the application exits.
  • It is possible that the Contracts on the right hand side of the window don't match selected (filtered) Customer on the left hand side of the window when filtering for a Customer that is currently not already selected.
  • If you use the mouse to right click on the Password field when attempting to log into to the software and use the context menu to Paste the password, the OK button is not available.
  • When modifying a line item in the Log, upon trying to save the Log, a database error is presented preventing the Log from being saved.
  • When sorting the list of Contracts in the Contracts window by the Contract number, if revisions are included on the selected Customer, the order of the numbers is not actually in sorted order.
  • When searching for a Contract by number, the Customer is selected; however, in many circumstances, the Contract being located is not automatically being selected.
  • If you try to create a Program with the same name for the same Station, the Program initially appears on the list and then vanishes when you close and open the Template window. We've modified it so that if a Program that has previously been trashed and a new Program with the same name for the same Station is subsequently created, the original is now resurrected.
  • The Retry/Cancel message is not taking into account existing CR and/or LF characters; causing the formatting to be a little "odd".
  • The application exits if you attempt to hold down the delete key in order to remove (without releasing the delete key between each delete; in other words, to automatically repeat) a dozen or so invalid Copy entries on the Log.
  • When adding a new Clock, the exclamation glyph is not clearing after selecting a Station as it should.
  • The Dashboard appears to not recognize "Stations" that aren't "Stations" (that are surrounded by the square bracket characters with regards to locking of the Logs.
  • When adding/modifying an Agency, the cursor is defaulting to the 'EDI#' field instead of the Name field.
  • When working with Automation_Systems, the linked checkbox appears to be only looking at the name of the Automation_System. It should take into account the tag (if applicable) as part of this check since it is possible that the two, under very specific circumstances, could be different for the export and import files.
  • When working duplicating a Rotation on a Contract and then modifying the start and/or end date so that the existing Copy becomes invalid or "incomplete", the Copy list is still displaying the Copy as green instead of yellow or red.
  • When modifying the Roles of a User, unchecking the check box next to a Station appears to clear out the Roles; however, when saved and reopened, the Station and Roles are not actually saved. If you uncheck the actual Roles, this does save.
  • The Log doesn't appear to be remembering the column header and grouping layout between different states of the Logs (working, locked, reconcile, invoiced).
  • The narrowed LogSummary (Log) would fail to automatically filter if a Customer name contained one or more apostrophes.
  • If you open the Log by using a Dashboard task item and you immediately close the Log using the X button (effectively before the Log has completely loaded), the application exits.
  • When viewing a Customer under the circumstances where Finance Charges are enabled and the Customer was created/modified at a time when Finance Charges were not enabled, the Finance Charge field will be blank. The Finance Charge field is not presented as being "invalid" and any change made to the Customer will be prevented from being saved since the Finance Charge field is invalid (but not obviously shown as being invalid). To work around this issue until the next update, please verify that the Finance Charge field has a value under these conditions and the OK button should become visible upon fixing the value; allowing you to progress forward with you other change(s).
  • Because it "doesn't do anything", the prompt for a reason why an Invoice, Payment or Adjustment was modified should be removed.
  • When saving a modified Template as a Format, the Save option is being incorrectly cleared since the modified Template has yet to be saved. (It is being "saved" as a Format; however, the Template hasn't actually been saved.)
  • The Pay tab in Billing has been updated so that only Payment and Trade Payment transactions are evaluated (adjustments are purposefully excluded).
  • The printed Invoice shows "Sub Total"; should be "Subtotal".
  • Under certain circumstances, especially with several years worth of Contracts, large amount of rotations, and more than usual amounts of Copy; revising or duplicating a Contract can take a ridiculous amount of time (beyond 15 minutes, the application appears to be locked up) to initially process before you can make modifications.
  • When generating a Statement and it includes the Aging table, the "31-60" column is incorrectly titled "30-60".
  • The application will fail to start if: a) adding a new Station, b) selecting an AutomationSystem this Station that requires at least one Category, c) exiting the software before creating at least one Category.
  • When add or removing an Add-On, the existing options in the Group window that are currently active are being set to inactive; effectively setting the system back to "factory default". This is not the desired behavior; the existing options should be retained whenever adding/removing any Add-On that does not affect the current options.
  • Under some circumstances, when checking the checkbox for "Usable by MUSTFILL" on the Copy window, MUSTFILL might not recognize the Copy as something that it could utilize.
  • As Administrator, the Options menu of the Contract window is always visible regardless of whether or not it is an existing or new Contract. It should not be there for a new Contract.
  • When encountering "missing copy" on Log where the spot has no valid Copy was previously placed on the log from the MakeGood tab and the Log was previously saved and then (after it's been previously saved in this manner), attempting to remove the spot from the Log and consequently attempting to save the Log can cause the system to exit to windows under conditions where the number of current items on the bump list are less than the number of items in the MakeGood list.
  • The modification introduced in 1707 "When initially opening the Billing window and clicking on a tab while the information is still being retrieved, the tab no longer resets to the default upon the information being retrieved." caused the Process... button to not be visible when items are initially checked. Either toggling any individual item and/or selecting another tab clears this issue up. Until the next update, please use one of these as a temporary work around.
  • When viewing a gathering Invoice, it is possible to add a scheduled spot directly to the Invoice (bypassing the Log process). Additionally, it is also possible to resurrect a spot that has been previously trashed for this purpose. When resurrecting a trashed spot, bypassing the Log and placing it directly onto an Invoice, the Invoice tally is not being updated to reflect the resurrected spot which causes the Invoice to incorrectly stall during the Billing process (the Invoice appears to have more spots than is expected).
  • When running TrafficXP on the same computer as the 1707 update, TrafficXP was prevented from launching due to an addition to the settings.xml file that is used by Premier. This setting has been moved to another location. If still unable to launch TrafficXP, start Premier, exit and upon doing this the settings.xml file will be modified to no longer include this additional setting; effectively putting things back to the way things were prior to the 1707 update.
  • The Enco automation Log export has been modified to allow an A (the "factory" default), L, S or N character immediately following the 5 digit (numeric) cart number to control the "transition" of event exported (and imported into the Enco automation system). This provides the ability to control the transition on a cart number by cart number basis, overriding the default. The "factory" default can be changed by using the Station Identifier field in Station when configuring the automation system settings. See Enco.
  • Due to the care that should be given to make goods, the Execute Automatic Placement tool on the Make Good list in the Log window has been removed. This tool has proven to create more "clean up" work, which far outweighs the perceived time savings provided by having such a tool.
  • When creating a new Contract for an Agency that is configured EDI, the "three boxes" aren't correctly being displayed. To temporarily work around this, use the Agency drop down to modify the Agency to another and back; this will refresh the detection of the EDI settings and correctly display the "three boxes".
  • The summary display on the Contract is "corrupted" depending on the size of the window; to temporarily work around this, modify the height of the window until you can see the summary clearly.
  • When modifying existing Copy and the User doing so does not have permission for all Stations, the selected Station is being incorrectly set to All Stations.
  • When modifying a User account to be Administrator (check box), the existing defined roles for each Station are disabled; however, they don't appear to be removed upon saving the User and should be. This usually isn't a problem except when combined with the SalesAddOn due to how that Add-On effectively restricts permissions for those who are configured as a Sales role and the User being modified was, at some point up until the point of being modified as an Administrator was set to a Sales role for at least one Station. To temporarily work around this issue, make sure that all existing roles for each Station of a User are unchecked prior to checking the Administrator check box.
  • The bump and make good sections of the Log window have been modified so as to no longer include spots that are beyond their respective billing periods. These spots will need to be manually rescheduled.
  • Under some circumstances the Tools menu on the Dashboard is not visible which prevents access to the ability to change what skin is currently being utilized.
  • When there is more than one Station and a User account is only configured with a role for some (but not all) of the Stations, when this particular User account attempts to several of the following, the application exits. You can work around this issue by enabling this User account for all Stations using a role that is either read-only (Traffic Assistant or Billing Assistant) or "does nothing" (Production).
  • Create a new Contract and add a new off-air revenue line item, the application exits.
  • Open an existing Contract that is currently pending, right clicks on an existing line item of the pending Contract and chooses the Duplicate... tool.
  • When exporting to SS32 and there is an export problem due to missing/invalid cart number and/or category, the file is created but incomplete; it should be removed (not exist) when this occurs.
  • When viewing an Invoice that is assigned to a Salesperson that is inactive, the field on the Invoice window is left blank and the warning is being displayed (even if the Invoice has been finalized).
  • When an account is configured for Contract creation for some but not all Stations and has the ability to view (read-only) for other Stations, all Stations are available regardless of create/read-only ability for creation in a new Contract. Only those Stations that the User has permission to create should be available when creating a new line item. The behavior has modified to account for this scenario.
  • On the Template window, adding an new avail entry and entering a "short-hand" length such as "4m" (instead of "4:00") is causing the application to exit.
  • Under some circumstances, trashed spots are appearing as sold units on the Inventory Report.
  • When using the Times/Rates Invoice type and there are more than 5 spots with the same date, rate and description, the 6th or more time is not being included on the printed/exported Invoice. The number of rows was being incorrectly calculated, the report was confused with the Times type for this particular columns sizing information.
  • When using the Times/Rates Invoice type and there are exactly 5 spots with the same date, rate and description, the seconds portion of the 5th time is being truncated. This issue is resolved by limiting the number of time columns to 4 instead of 5 and the layout has been adjusted to account for there being only 4 columns instead of (sort of) 5.
  • When adding a spot from a Contract directly to an Invoice (one that wasn't on a Log) and this spot is currently trashed, the projections are not updated to reflect that the spot is no longer trashed.
  • When running the Customer report, the Separation Type column is not displaying anything.
  • The Legacy Order # column in Contracts is available regardless of the option (see Group) being enabled.
  • When modifying the Period or dates on Reports, the current information on the report is cleared and a "Please click here to reload the report..." message is displayed at the top. Clicking on this message causes the report to reload using the current information entered. However, in one particular circumstance where you do not press tab after modifying either the start or end date (in the case of "Custom"), clicking on this message reloads the report with the previous date since the modification has not been committed (by pressing tab, for example). The "Please click here to reload the report..." window element has been replaced so that, regardless of pressing tab to commit the change, the change is committed due to focus being moved to this replaced element; causing the correct information to be utilized when reloading the report.
  • The New tool is presented in the context menu on the Templates window when the Templates node is currently selected and should not be as it doesn't make any sense.
  • The Save As menu item under Templates on the Templates window is not enabled when opening an existing Template or Format.
  • The discount amounts on a Contract Confirmation are higher than the actual gross amounts when the discount on the Contract is 100%. The discount amount on a Contract Confirmation should considered an estimated discount. In an attempt to make this a little more accurate, we were taking the "current" total of the Contract (could be different depending on the Group options selected) and dividing the revenue by the number of spots to determine a per spot discount; however, this appears to have resulted in a rounding issue that is less desirable than calculating based on the total "current" revenue. The change to make this a "bit more accurate" has been reversed because of this issue where a 100% discount causes this to be very undesirable; basically appearing that you owe a refund to the client instead of the Contract being zeroed. It is important to consider that the discount, and, if using discounts, the Agency Commission is an estimate; it is very possible that the actual Invoice might reflect a slightly higher actual applied discount (rare, but still possible) as the Invoice calculates the discount on a per line item basis. It should be noted that this issue was isolated to just the actual Confirmation; the Revenue Projection report and Billing reflect the proper amount(s).
  • When modifying a Log by first clearing an avail of all spots, then removing the avail from the log and then modifying another avails start time, the application exits.
  • In the circumstance where one or more spots have been forcefully removed (Placement Summary or SpotDetail windows, for example), opening a Log that contains avails that now have "holes" due to these spots being removed, the Log doesn't completely load 100% successfully. Icons on the toolbar are missing and functionality is incomplete.
  • Under specific circumstances the Log will incorrectly identify Copy as missing when moving a spot from the bump list to the Log and the rotation contains Copy that is "illegal" for the current Log and the "illegal" Copy is currently marked as next.
  • When running the Inventory report, the Total column is not showing any values in the summary area(s) (totals).
  • Changes made to correct an issue with the Invalid Contract/Rotation/Copy report negatively impacted several other reports; this has been resolved.
  • When a Log contains one or more empty avails and you attempt to open the LogSummary window, the application exits.
  • When role is set to Traffic Manager, all Customers are visible in AR and shouldn't be.
  • When role is set to Billing Manager, all Customers are visible in Contracts and shouldn't be.
  • A handful of Reports are being titled as None instead of the names that they should be.
  • The Duplicate, Create Package, Trash and Delete tools on the context menu in Contracts are available even if the User does not have appropriate permission for all of the Stations attached to the Contract.
  • The Confirmations and projections are not calculating the Contract discount in the same manner. The Contract discount field (optional), when used, is calculated based on a per-spot basis by the time it reaches an Invoice; this is to keep consistent with regards to any sort of rounding errors that can be introduced. The Confirmation and projections have been updated to calculate in the same manner as the Invoice.
  • Copy is not being included on a Log as MustFill. If Copy was converted from TrafficXP and, prior to transition, was flagged as Fill; the Copy would work. If Copy was created in Premier 2013/2014, it would not work. This has been corrected.
  • When pressing F1 on Reports that were created using the "save as" feature, the web browser goes to a page that does not exist instead of going to the base report documentation as one would expect.
  • When a SalesPerson attempts to open one of their own pending Contracts and the application exits. (See SalesAddOn.)
  • Salespeople are unable to access the CopyList window under some circumstances. (See SalesAddOn.)

1671

• Fixed: Under specific circumstances the Log editor will incorrectly identify Copy as missing when moving a spot from the bump list to the Log and the rotation contains Copy that is "illegal" for the current Log and the "illegal" Copy is currently marked as next.
• Modified: Updated the wording on the Copy window regarding the option to include the item as part of the MustFill functionality to state "Usable by MUSTFILL.".
• Modified: When creating a new piece of Copy, the station list is now filtered based on the User's available permissions; if any Station is removed due to the permissions, the "All Station" entry is also removed.
• Modified: If the roles defined for an account do not include all stations, the Copy window will now restrict the ability to modify any copy that is for "All Stations"; instead, only copy associated with station(s) that roles are defined are allowed to be modified (assuming the role allows modification). The CopyList window has also been modified to account for stations.
• Modified: Moved the Create From Package tool in the Contracts context menu so that it is now grouped with the Create Package tool.
• Modified: The MustFill feature will now pull and recycle when determining what can be used when locking the Log; effectively this means that if there is very little content available to pull from, everything will be utilized, not used twice, until everything has been utilized and then start over (recycle).
• Modified: Moved the MustFill processing and saving the Log to after the possible prompt that there are one or more Contracts that target this Log that are still pending.
• Modified: In circumstances where printing a statement for an account that contains invoices that belong to different agencies and one of the agency prior balances is zero; the zero prior balance is now filtered automatically from the statement.
• Modified: The Dashboard message relating to the automation system being defined but not containing a import path has been updated to account for recent changes; specifically the ability to define (or not) different products for import and export.
• Fixed: When trashing spots from a Contract, if all of the spots for a particular day have been trashed, the Invalid Contract/Rotation/Copy report is showing the Copy is missing for that particular day.
• Modified: When running the Invoice report and/or Accounts Receivable Reconciliation report, broadcast Invoices are included in the "projected billing broadcast month" even if they completed (invoice effective date) in the prior calendar month. The invoice date column for these reflects the effective invoice date (the last invoiced line item) so it would appear, for these types of Invoices, that the Invoice should not be included (but are) since they completed prior to the period from and to dates. When this type of thing occurs, these are Invoices are broadcast related Contracts that, for whatever reason, completed within the broadcast portion of the previous month but belong to the "billing month" specified by the report criteria. The motivation behind this is that a large percentage of our clients compare the Revenue Projection report with the Invoice report and/or Accounts Receivable Reconciliation report to assist in the verification of the Billing process.
• Modified: The context menu options for Check all and Uncheck all have been added to the MakeGoodCustomer and MakeGoodDetail windows.
• Modified: When printing Reports, the Filter criteria is now only included if there is an actual active filter.

1665

• Fixed: When exporting to SS32 and/or WideOrbit, the check for category is incorrectly detecting a missing category on automation commands.

1664

• Modified: When a dashboard item shows a specific contract, when clicking on this item the contract is opened directly instead the pending contracts window.
• Fixed: When opening and approving a contract in the pending contracts window, the now approved contract is not removed from the list.
• Modified: (Add-On) The User window now displays the Sales and Sales Manager roles regardless of what Sales Add-On options are enabled as long Sales Add-On is active.
• Modified: All reports have been modified so that the default export is Microsoft Excel Workbook (*.xlsx) (Office 2007+). The XLS version is still available as an option to target the export and is identified as Microsoft Excel 97-2003 Workbook.
• Modified: (Option Pack) EmailMyTimes will now present a slightly different, more informational, message when encountering a customer that is configured to be sent a notification but has a blank email address.
• Modified: Changed the Email Order Confirmations window title to Email Contract Confirmations.
• Modified: Changed the Print Order Confirmations window title to Print Contract Confirmations.
• Modified: Changed the Station window to support separately defining automation system log and as-play configuration; because of this, it is now may be required that the automation system type be defined separately for log export and/or as-play import.
• Fixed: Traffic Manager is unable to create new copy using the Copy module.
• Added: When creating a new customer, the new button for creating copy is not enabled until you press the apply button for the customer. There is now a message next to new button on the copy tab as a reminder to this requirement.
• Modified: The Aging reports have been modified to reflect the invoice effective date of invoices (determined based on the date of the latest invoice item) providing the ability to bill out and reflect paid invoices regardless to the billing cycle boundary. read more
• Modified: The "aging" section of statements has been modified to reflect the "effective" date to align with the Aging reports. read more
• Modified: The transaction list section of statements has been modified to reflect the "effective" date of invoices to align with the Aging reports. read more
• Modified: When adding a new payment and canceling the process, the A/R window no longer attempts to refresh the list of transactions; adjustments were already previously optimized to work in this manner.
• Modified: The ability for an Administrator Assistant to modify group, station and user details in Settings has been removed.
• Modified: Significantly reduced the time it takes to "match" spots during assisted reconciliation (using as-play file).
• Fixed: The "Test Account Settings" description of the Email settings is not displaying correctly.
• Modified: The Email settings window no longer can be resized; there is no reason for it to be resizable.
• Fixed: An exception occurs when the log export process encounters an automation command with a "blank" length.
• Modified: Reduced the amount of time it takes to retrieve the bump and make good list when opening a log.
• Modified: Reduced the number logs displayed in the "load log" window; will no longer display logs more than 6 months old.
• Modified: Correction Mode on a contract line item now allows modifying the settings for override conflict separation, override customer separation, start time and end time. Note, some placement priority is determined based on start/end time range; this information is currently not modified due to changing the start/end times after contract approval. The purpose of allowing the changing to the start/end time is to modify the window in which the spot can be placed on a log "after the fact".
• Fixed: When modifying the override conflict and/or override conflict separation settings, the wording changes to bold and is truncated.
• Added: Due to the way the Invoice report (for example) utilizes the invoice effective date, the Broadcast Accrual report has been enhanced to include an "End Date" column. This can be used, for example, to filter out any broadcast invoices that fully completed (do not cross over the calendar month) if so desired.
• Modified: (Option Pack) When finance charges are active and viewing the Aging reports, the reports have been modified to "apply" finance charge adjustments to finance charges (if applicable) directly affecting the finance charge column (reduction) instead of applying the money to the value of the base invoice. Additionally, it takes into account finance charge adjustments being applied *incorrectly* to invoices that either do not have a finance charge and/or are "overpaying" an existing finance charge and gracefully handles these scenarios.
• Modified: When using SS32 or WideOrbit automation systems, locking a log with invalid and/or missing cart numbers and/or missing categories now displays a message as a error; aborting the export process requiring that the problem(s) are resolved.
• Modified: When exporting to EDI, the purchase order field will now be used to populate the "rep order number" in addition to the "station order number". It is possible to use the purchase order field in such a way that two different numbers can be entered for the "rep order number" and "station order number"; to do so, use the pipe (|) symbol to separate the two values where the first value is the "rep order number" and the second value is the "station order number". Again, if only one value is entered, it will be used for both "rep order number" and "station order number".
• Fixed: When importing the as-play file from Arrakis DigilinkExtreme and the SpotLog.dig file isn't the format we are expecting the attempt to filter by date causes an exception (because what we parsed out of the file wasn't a date). This is now gracefully handled and "nothing" will be imported due to this scenario since none of the "dates" will match the date of the log (since none of the "dates" are actually dates). read more

1657

• Fixed: The Agency Estimate, Advertiser and Product Code fields are showing in some circumstances where the Agency does not have an EDI#.
• Modified: Normally Agency Estimate, Advertiser and Product Code are all required; however, modified so the estimate code is exported if that is the only field provided.
• Added: In addition to radio, exported EDI documents now support TV.
• Modified: When adding/modifying adjustments, the station field now warns if it has been left blank; Escrow or a Station is required.
• Fixed: Sometimes, on some installations, the dashboard does not initially load and requires an F5 refresh to be done to get it to load.
• Modified: Minor tweaks to reports with regards to whenever the notice states that the report needs to be reloaded, the data on the report is also cleared to help ensure that there is no confusion that the report needs to be reloaded.
• Fixed: Corrected the "daypart" misspelling on the Log->Options window.
• Fixed: When bumping spots using the "bump by" tool for customer, normal spots, make good spots and this avail, the spot times left on the log are not adjusting to account for the removal of item(s).
• Modified: When bumping spots using the "bump by" tool for this customer, this avail, all spots, normal spots and make good spots, the process now shows an overall progress indicator while applying the requested change(s).
• Fixed: When deleting an avail type, the ghost of the avail type is incorrectly being left on the formats/templates.

1655

• Modified: Dashboard so that if multiple station/automation systems are not configured for 'assisted reconcile'; multiple entries are now consolidated on a stations / automation system basis.
• Modified: Rotations to support working with copy elements that are more than one hour in length.
• Fixed: The Billing window column for Station is blank for Administrators.
• Modified: Once a rotation item has been selected, the highlight will no longer disappear when changing to a different field/button.
• Fixed: When modifying a rotation, closing the window and reopening the window (without saving to the server), the sorting appears to revert to the original state (display issue); however, if you make additional sort changes, the sorting of the elements is completely corrupted.
• Modified: When creating a new rotation on a contract, there is a "placeholder" entry made for the potentially new rotation; however, instead of being completely blank, the start and end time columns were displaying values which apparently caused a bit of confusion. The line is now completely blank during this process (until the Apply and/or OK button on the Rotation window is pressed.)
• Fixed: The agency product code was not properly exporting the 4A's invoice format; additionally, not all specified columns (although blank) weren't being fully accounted for.
• Modified: Due to continued confusion (thanks to eMediaTRADE's apparent recent change in processing); if an agency is configured for EDI and the order is set to this configured agency, the Estimate # transforms into three different fields for Agency Estimate, Advertiser and Product Code values. Look on the agency order (from the agency) for this data... it will most likely be required in order for clearing houses as the agencies have (apparently) recently made changes to "demand" this information. If any of these fields are empty, the electronic invoice will most assuredly be rejected under these circumstances. (Note: You could already do this by using the pipe character in previous versions (see below).)
• Fixed: When more than one country is configured, for example USA and Canada, and a the group address is set to use Canada as a country, the state (province) isn't remembered when opening the group settings (display issue).
• Fixed: When more than one country is configured and one of those is Canada, the station address was not presenting a list of provinces similar to the group address.
• Added preliminary support for the EZ-Automation automation system.
• Modified: To prevent the inadvertent reconciliation of a log that has yet to happen, the Begin Reconciliation menu (and button) are no longer enabled for logs that could not have aired yet (today).

1654

• Removed: Voice, Cart #, Copy Name and ISCI Code from the Log bump and make good lists since these columns never contain any information.
• Fixed: An error occurs when entering a debit adjustment and leaving the station set to "Any". Debit adjustments must have a station selected; "Any" is not valid and should not be available as a selection.
• Modified: Updated the text on the user window regarding roles so that it clearly states that these roles only need to be configured for people actually signing into and using the system.
• Added: The system will, for those configured to export the log to an automation system that supports 'assisted reconciliation', will notify via the dashboard that the aired log path is not configured. Additionally, will check and notify via the dashboard when configured for an automation system that requires 'categories' if there currently aren't any categories configured.
• Fixed: Under some circumstances the email address isn't being updated "behind the scenes" in Premier 2013.
• Modified: To allow support (officially) for "LIVE" for SS32 automation. Up until now, these were exported as "DA0000" and will now be exported as "DALIVE". It has been reported to us by some SS32 clients that this will cause the automation system to "just stop" upon encountering the event. If this is not desired, use "0000" instead and please let us know if we were misinformed.

1653

• Fixed: When using SS32 or WideOrbit automation systems, locking a log under certain conditions would cause the application to exit.
• Modified: When using SS32 or WideOrbit automation systems, locking a log with invalid and/or missing cart numbers now displays a message as a warning and uses DA0000 as a default so that the log can complete the export process.

1652

• Fixed: When using the File/Close menu on the Dashboard, settings, "remember me", etc. was not persisting properly.
• Removed the system tray icon from the Windows task bar.
• Further improvement to performance related to the Billing module.
• The Billing module now supports Check All / Uncheck All functionality taking into account filters.
• The Billing module now displays a ( ? ) while it is retrieving information from the database for each tab.
• Improved performance related to the Email Statements and Print Statements windows.
• Improved performance related to all Make Good windows.
• Fixed: Applying a template containing a must-fill avail to a log not saving.
• Enhanced the contract line item so that start and end times that produce and invalid range (start greater than end) will now produce error hints accordingly.
• Fixed: Duplicate contract not saving rotation(s) if they are not further manipulated prior to saving the duplicated contract.

1650

• Fixed: Adding write on spots during log reconciliation not correctly highlighting the newly added entry.
• Fixed: Adjusting print margins from print preview and setting the margin to .number; upon pressing the ., application closes.
• Fixed: Modifying the end date of an off air revenue line item by typing part of a date and then mouse clicking on the down button to display the calendar causing an exception.
• Fixed: Gracefully handling scenarios where placement level is "blank" causing exception to occur when updating the line item display on the contract window.
• Modified all EDI related orders that also have an Estimate # so that the formatting of the Estimate # conforms to what the agencies are requiring with regards to Agency Estimate, Advertiser and Product Code (see below).
• Modified behavior of the A/R window to reflect the effective end date of an invoice rather than the billing end date.
• Modified statements so that the date of an invoice reflects the effect end date instead of the billing end date.
• Improved the performance related to opening the Billing module by optimizing the calculation of spots of spots counts to only consider invoices that are not already finalized.

1649

• Fixed: Unable to add a 'write on spot' to a reconciled log.

1648

• Fixed: Logs could not be reversed as Administrator role.

1646

• Fixed: Logs could not be committed (reconciled) after edits were made and before saving those changes.
• Fixed: Report columns not being restored properly.

1645

• Improvements to the logon and logoff process.
• Introducing the new and improved "dashboard"; think of the boxes as a "todo" list that works to assist you in keeping on top of things that need to get done.
• Overall improvements to performance across logon, logoff, dashboard, the contracts window, all reports, etc.
• Improved the background processing of OAR invoicing, finance charges and log generation.
• Modified how updates to the What’s New are displayed.
• Changes to Make Goods to handle “missing rate/revenue values”.
• Modified Log window so that the time columns are compared as times instead of dates.
• Added support for handling the automatic fill of specified satellite avails (MustFill).
• Added ability to specify the “command timeout”; this controls how long requests to the database server will wait for an answer. A smaller number is desired; however, there may be times that a larger number is necessary, but this should be the exception, not the norm. The number entered is in seconds and the default is 15.
• Added Check All, Uncheck All context menu support to the Make Good window.
• Modified warning in Log window when locking a log to better reflect the situation where an automation system is selected and the path is blank.
• Modified printed invoices so that “spots” that don’t have copy are still treated as spots.

1639

• Removed message about compatibility issues with 125% (non-default of 96 DPI) Windows settings from startup.
• Fixed issue where, when creating a new user, the software would exit.
• Modified layout of User window so that exclamation marks are not overlapping fields.
• When creating a new user, the Active checkbox is now checked by default.
• Changed "Email..." to "Email" context menu on Contracts and Invoices since no further actions are necessary as the "..." infers there is "more to do".
• Fixed issue where the Select Report windows menu could, inadvertently, be detached.
• Renamed Escrow to None on all reports that have Station and Revenue Type filters.
• Modified all reports so that the Revenue Source and Sales Person filters includes None as the first item in the list.
• Modified the customer window by placing the contact field into the contact tab.
• Modified the rotation window to better reflect circumstances where the rotation is no longer "usable" due to length changes on the order line item(s).
• Modified EDI documents related to Estimate # so that this field is used as a three part representation for Agency Estimate, Advertiser and Product (not to be confused with "Product") Code. These values are determined by the agency of the order. To combine into the Estimate # (contract header), enter in estimate, advertiser and product codes using the pipe character to delimit the values. There must be three values in the Estimate # in order for any of them to export to the EDI document; even if the value between the pipe character is blank.
• Modified the logon window so that the version number is visible to assist support in determining which product is installed to better diagnose "invalid username/password" messages.

1625

• General updates to fine tune sending/receiving data to/from the server(s).
• Added additional support to gracefully handle situations where desiring to print an invoice with no line items.
• Modified the overall layout of a debit adjustment.
• Modified the multi-step transaction process related to saving/updating an orders/rotations, formats, logs and invoices.
• Fixed an issue where the Order List report was not correctly refreshing when changing the Period value.
• Fixed issue related to entering a date where, for example, typing in "08" and then immediately clicking the down arrow expansion to view the calendar would cause an exception (Copy, A/R Statement, Effective Date, Order Spot/OAR Line Items, Rotation, Reports).
• Fixed in issue where when reordering the rotation entries on an order the end time is incorrectly reset to 00:00:00.
• Modified how the "lock" icon is active in relationship to invalid copy when initially opening a log that has missing copy.

1587

• Modified EDI documents to include the TAX information if the associated order/invoice has tax applied.

1581

• Resolved an issue where under some very specific circumstances the separation rules were being ignored if using repeated automatic placement actions on the log editor.

1576

• Removed "Escrow" from the Revenue Source, Revenue Type and Sales Person lists on all reports. Payments/Adjustments that are is "escrow" will inherit the properties of the client for reporting purposes.
• Updated the Aging and Reconciliation Detail reports to reflect the inherited Revenue Source, Revenue Type and Sales Person on the client for "escrow" payments/adjustments.
• Added ability to (optionally) select a station when entering a payment/adjustment. If you only have a single station, the station will automatically be selected. If you have multiple stations, "Escrow" is the default value. When left as "Escrow", the payment/adjustment can be applied to an invoice belonging to any station. If, however, you select a specific station for this payment/adjustment, the payment/adjustment can *ONLY* be applied to an invoice belonging to that station.
• Modified the "Process" button on the "Pay" billing tab to honor specific station selection on payments/adjustments.
• Modified how the "prior balance" import processes records so that Debit Adjustments are created instead of Invoices.
• Fixed an issue where, under certain circumstances, the inventory report would generate an exception when run using the percentage (unit or time) and certain information was filtered.

1570

• Modified how the delete key works when managing copy, will highlight the next item in the list instead of the previous upon deleting the currently selected item.
• Added log information to the printed log summary.
• Added ability to export confirmations, invoices and 'printed' logs to Adobe PDF and Windows RTF formats.
• Added support for Playbox Technologies Air Box automation.
• Added support for Jazler Radio Star 2 automation.
• Added View->Refresh to Billing.
• Moved View->Invalid Co-Op Scripts to Reports->Invalid Co-Op Scripts on the Billing window.
• Added Email over SSL support.

1522

• Added ability to export log to PDF.
• Corrected issue where, under some circumstances, an error would occur when attempting to open the email statements window.

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Prior Changes

1513

• Extended the timeout setting for log reconciliation.
• Corrected an issue that prevented log reconciliation when automation system is set to None.
• Replaced Dashboard icons with new and improved versions.
• Replaced all Administration icons with new and improved versions.
• Moved the "copy manager" (Copy) from the Administration windows to the Dashboard.
• Added Billing icon to the Dashboard. This icon combines the "Invoice Manager" and statement printing into a single window; removing the need to go into A/R in order to do the billing process (approve, print, email, export invoices and print/email statements).
• Removed the "Invoice Manager", "Print Statements" and "Email Statements" from A/R; now accessed through the Billing icon from the dashboard.
• Renamed "Administration" to "Settings".
• Moved the Tools->Email Settings menu to "Settings".
• Removed "do you want to print this confirmation now" question whenever creating/modifying orders.
• Added capability to print all confirmations using the Tools->Print Confirmations menu item on the Orders window.
• Added capability to email all confirmations using the Tools->Email Confirmations menu item on the Orders window (requires email address associated with respective customer).
• Replaced Tools->Batch Print Invoices with new UI that facilitates printing any and all invoices that can be printed/re-printed.
• Fixed an issue with OAR when changing the date and then selecting "Once" reverting to "Once Per Day".
• Added Ecrow as a station, sales person, revenue source and revenue type to all reports to provide a means to easily filter for this type of money.
• Extended the timeout duration when loading the invoices for the Billing window.

1489

• Modified Log Editor to prompt/remind you about reconciling logs. If any logs that can be reconciled have not, this message will display reminding you. If you select Yes, it will open the next log to be reconciled. Selecting No will open the next "working" log.
• Added product, order header comment and start/end times to Order Confirmations.
• Minor layout and display tweaks to the Order entry screens.
• Modified Group dialog so that the Report Override address re-loaded correctly.
• Modified Orders so that the rotation New button is only available if valid copy exists.
• Modified Invoice Manager so that MyView state is saved between sessions.
• Modified SMARTS log export to better support merging avails followed by automation commands where the first there are no automation commands prior to the first avail of an hour.

1484

• Enhanced the billing process by introducing the "Invoice Manager". The Invoice Manager completely replaces the "Pending Invoices" process and introduces "task lists". Each task list made available through tabs and the tasks are: gathering, pending, pay, print, email, edi and open. The gathering and open tasks are for information purposes only while the others are designed to reduce the overall effort of billing. Pending tab contains all invoices that are ready to be finalized (posted). Select one or more and click the Process button to post these invoices. Now that you have invoices posted, the pay tab (possibly) shows all invoices associated with customers that have a credit balance (pre-payments). Select one or more and click the Process button to have the system automatically apply these credits to invoices in a oldest exact match / oldest available (two-pass) per invoice in order of invoice end date. Now that payments have been applied, use the print tab to print all invoices that are waiting to be printed. The email tab contains all invoices that are waiting to be emailed (each entry will be removed upon successfully sending the invoice to your configured email server). The edi tab contains all invoices that are ready to be exported and eventually uploaded to your EDI service provider.
• Corrected an issue related to SMARTS reconciliation as-play import.

1466

• Added Electronic Delivery of Invoices.
• Emailed invoices are now individually "flagged" as being emailed. This flag will be reset if the invoice is reversed.
• EDI invoices are now individually "flagged" as being exported. This flag will be reset if the invoice is reversed.
• Changed Finance Charge to Finance Charge (APR) on the Customer dialog.
• Added custom sum capability to the Inventory report's Type = Sold/Unsold and Sold/Total.
• Added "Assign station(s) and permission(s) (access to the system) for this user." comment to the Member Of / Role tab on the User dialog.
• Modified the Role list (Member Of / Role tab on the User dialog) to only show roles that are available depending on product level and/or Option Packs and Add-Ons.
• Enhanced Off-Air Revenue dialog by adding "Once" to Frequency. Changed Daily, Weekly and Monthly to Once Per Day, Once Per Week (every Monday) and Once Per Month (the 24th).
• Added Modified as a Period to the Order List report.
• Added processing notification to all reports while it is processing the information after retrieving data from the server.
• Added priormonth, month and nextmonth tokens to order comment; when printing invoices, these will be replaced by the appropriate month name.
• Modified printed log so that log notes no longer print a length of 0:00.
• Removed the "Note" field from the Log Note dialog since it was not used, thus causing confusion. "Description" is what prints on the log.
• Modified transactions so that the state of a customers A/R is verified before attempting to save additions/changes. If any changes to the customers A/R have occurred during the process, the process will be aborted in an effort to prevent data corruption. A notice stating this is presented when and if this occurs.
• Renamed and moved Accounts Receivable Aging and Accounts Receivable Aging (by Month) to their own report category (Aging); removing the Accounts Receivable portion from their names.

1440

• Initial public release.

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