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1809
Modified
When reconciling a
Log
, the filtering (
MyViews
) of items will no longer automatically uncheck the hidden item(s); this is a different behavior than all of the other areas of the product that do this. It seems to make sense that, specifically regarding
Log
reconciliation that there may be times that filtering be done but the action of automatically unchecking does not take place to the hidden item(s).
Fixed
The change to handle the 12-hour clock appears to not work correctly in the case of midnight/noon; it is reporting AM/PM incorrectly.
When using correction mode on an existing
Contract
and *only* modifying the product and the product is not an existing one in the list; the
Apply
button is not enabled due to this change not being recognized as a change.
There seems to be issues where an exception is generated related to the changes made to correct check / uncheck all in v1807.
1807
Added
Added initial support for the Wideorbit OnAir Automation 2006B
Log
export.
Modified
The
Group
window has been modified so that all of the fields/buttons are disabled until the window has fully loaded all of the data.
When attempting to "force" a spot to an
Invoice
, it is no longer possible to choose an
Invoice
that is invalid for the target date being outside of the target billing cycle.
Fixed
The
Billing
,
MakeGood
, reconciling
Log
, etc.; choosing to
Select All
combined with a filter for the checked/unchecked entries causes an exception.
The
New...
context menu item on
Copy
list of the
Customer
is available when it shouldn't be in the case of creating a new
Customer
. This option should not be available until after the
Customer
has been initially created.
Exception: Deleted row information cannot be accessed through the row in
Contract
rotation window..
Exception: Cannot access a disposed object in
Dashboard
when launching the
Log
window and the
Log
window is closed "too quickly".
Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object in
Group
window and the
Group
window is closed "too quickly".
Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object in opening
Contract
and the
Contract
window is closed "too quickly".
Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object in
MakeGood
when clicking the
Check all...' context menu under some circumstances.
Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object when attempting to determine enabled options when connecting to the system.
Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object when duplicating an existing
Contract
and pressing cancel in the event of a retry/cancel connection message.
Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object when attempting to add an "item" to a
Template
.
Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object in InternalProcessColumns() / FormatGrid() across several
Reports
.
1804
Modified
Removed the
ActualSpotCount
,
ApprovedLineItemCount
,
CalculatedSpotCount
,
ContractStatusId
,
ExpectedSpotCount
,
Items
,
LastLockedLogDate
,
Locked
and
TotalLineItemCount
optional columns from the
Contracts
window as they are designed for internal purposes, not intended for the end-users.
When working in the
Contracts
window with
Customers
that have a lot of
Contracts
, things seem to be a bit "sluggish" when scrolling up and down in the
Contract
list. This has been significantly improved.
Fixed
Due to a modification in a recent update, the background process to generate
Logs
, calculate finance charges and generate OAR billing on the 15th was not properly executing.
Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object in
Log
EnableInterfaceInternal.
Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object in checking license thresholds (
Dashboard
).
Exception: Conversion from type to type is not valid in
Customer
when modifying a
Conflict
.
Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object in
Dashboard
updating status bar.
1803
Modified
The
Template
editor's column headers are no longer (incorrectly) able to be manipulated; all of the columns are visible and the layout is designed to specifically facilitate working with templates.
Fixed
Exception: An exception occurred while getting the default printer.
Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object in
Reports
FormatXtraGrid().
Exception: Cannot access a closed stream after a failed attempt to email an
Invoice
.
Exception: Not enough storage is available to process this command.
Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object in
Dashboard
EnableUI.
Exception: Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute in checking for a new version.
1802
Modified
When working with rotations on a
Contract
, there seems to have been a "delay" when moving from one rotation to another in the list. This delay has been removed.
Fixed
When duplicating a
Contract
that has "a lot" of rotations and many of those rotations are removed due to being no longer relevant due to the date change, the sorting of the rotation items gets "confused".
Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object in
Copy
.
Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object in
Contracts
Print Confirmations
.
Exception: Win32Exception "Access is denied" in
Contract
when attempting to execute a virtual Tab key.
Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object in
Dashboard
displaying of modules.
When a new
Station
is added to an existing service, existing
Copy
that is marked for "all stations" and
MUSTFILL
, the existing
Copy
is not available for the newly created
Station
causing a "Cannot cast DBNull.Value to type 'System.Int32'." exception when attempting to lock a
Log
that contains one or more
MUSTFILL
avails.
Exception: Encountered a "Timeout expired" when working with a
Contract
line item that isn't protected with a "Retry/Cancel" prompt.
Exception: There is no row at position 0 when opening an existing
Contract
.
Exception: Encountered a "Server was unable to process request" when working with
Group
settings that isn't protected with a "Retry/Cancel" prompt.
1795
Modified
The application will now automatically launch the update if a new version is detected and the only window open is the
Dashboard
.
Fixed
Under some circumstances the available modules are not visible after an installation until after the application is restarted for a second time.
The color of the
Contract
line items has been inadvertently removed with a recent update.
Under specific circumstances, it is possible to not see new line items added to a
Contract
when using the
Apply
button often.
1790
Fixed
When working with a
Contract
, adding one or more line items and pressing the "Apply" button; an exception occurs when you attempt to re-open one of the newly created/saved line items.
1789
Added
Introducing support for Generic Digital Protocol
AutomationSystem
Log
export.
Modified
When new updates are available and the current version being used is "behind"; the
Dashboard
will still display the new version available entry.
Starting with this release, the application will now automatically update if a new version is detected at launch.
Exception: Cannot access a disposed object from the
Dashboard
when opening the
Log
and quickly closing the
Log
before it has time to completely load.
Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object in
Dashboard
processing of finance charges at launch.
Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object in
Dashboard
ContinueLogOn.
Modified the verbiage of the "there is an update available" to stress more clearly the importance of doing so.
Modified emailing of
Statements
so that there is a progress indication as the emails are being processed/sent.
Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object in
Log
EnableInterfaceInternal.
Fixed
Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object in ModifyAvail.
Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object in Print Preview Get PaperSource. No longer a generic exception; instead presents an "expected" error... in other words, more gracefully handled instead of a generic exception.
Exception: Argument Exception in Print Preview ShowPrinterProperties. No longer a generic exception; instead presents an "expected" error... in other words, more gracefully handled instead of a generic exception.
Exception: Cannot access a disposed object in
AR
when closing a
Payment
prior to it completely loading the data.
Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object in
Reports
InternalProcessColumns.
Exception: Cannot cast DBNull.Value to type 'System.Int32' in
EmailStatements
when emailing statements for
Customers
that do not have an "sales person" specified.
The
EmailStatements
window "Sales Person" column never seems to contain any data (blank).
When working with a
Contract
and someone is in a
Log
that is associated, the message that pops up is appropriate; however, if one were to cancel and try again, the
Contract
is no longer viable and one has to start over from the beginning.
1772
Fixed
The
Log Times
report displays no details.
1769
Added
Added "None" as a optional
Skin
.
Modified
Removed the "What's New..." note from the
Dashboard
that is available when a new version is received; it is now necessary to utilize the
View
What's New...
menu tool. The primary reason for this is that appears to be some confusion between the "there's a new version available" and "you received a new version suggestion"; so the "suggestion" was nixed.
Reset the "Default
Skin
" to something a lot more "basic" (named "None"); this is directly due to negative feedback received after the recent update(s).
Fixed
Removed the RadioTraffic.com logo from the username/password screen due to redraw/refresh issues when "remember me" is enabled.
1768
Fixed
Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object in
Contracts
InitializeDataAsync() related to launching the
Contracts
window and immediately (as fast as possible) pressing the ESC key to close the window before it has any time to finish initializing.
Removed
Page Setup...
menu and toolbar button from "Print Preview" windows due to inconsistent behavior (in other words, weirdness) between various launches.
1767
Fixed
Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object in
MakeGood
InitializeDataAsync() related to launching the
MakeGood
window and immediately (as fast as possible) pressing the ESC key to close the window before it has any time to finish initializing.
(Note: The following notes were built by combining the updates available in Premier; 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 survey, 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 Preview
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.
Re-approached 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 irreversible 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 because 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.
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Modified: The "aging" section of statements has been modified to reflect the "effective" date to align with the Aging reports.
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Modified: The transaction list section of statements has been modified to reflect the "effective" date of invoices to align with the Aging reports.
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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).
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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.
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