New in JobOrder 2011.39 (Feb 21, 2012)
- JobOrder 2011 Internet and JobOrder 2011 iPhone - JobOrder 2011 is greatly facilitating the development of JobOrder 2012 Internet, JobOrder 2012 iPhone, and access to JobOrder via SQL report writers. JobOrder 2011 has many internal changes, including improvements to both speed and stability.
- Activities, Estimate Activities, and Template Activities - In Activities, Estimate Activities and Template Activities, the Milestones dialog now has a Print button.
- Available Capacity - The Available Capacity Power Tools does not have printing enabled in JobOrder 2011. Please let us know if you require printing from this report.
- Backup Error Notification - If a backup fails for any reason, Database Administrators are now sent a Backup Error Notification that details the error that occurred, the last successful backup date and time, and the next scheduled backup date and time. Please contact Customer Support if you receive a Backup Error Notification and cannot solve the problem.
- Bugs - Several bugs have been fixed in Activities, Expenses, Invoices, Jobs, Journal Details, and Purchase Orders.
- Custom Forms - When you begin using JobOrder 2011, please contact us to help you make cosmetic changes to your Custom Forms due to the change of underlying plug-in.JobOrder is going through a transition in which the plug-in software used to create Custom Forms is changing from SuperReport Pro to hmReports. In System Preferences: System Defaults: Custom Forms, you can now select either hmReports or SuperReport Pro as the default plug-in for this purpose. In the print dialogs for Custom Forms, you can change dynamically which software will be used. In the Custom Forms area itself, you can create Custom Forms with either software.
- DataCheck and 4D Tools - The DataCheck and 4D Tools utilities have been replaced by a new utility called Maintenance and Security Center or MSC.
- Digital Assets - Many improvements have been made to Digital Assets and to the Digital Assets Manager.
- Divisions - Many improvements have been made to Divisions. You can now enter Resource Rates by Division, can require Division to be mandatory in Jobs, and can print many reports by Division.
- Forms - Visual and organizational improvements have been made to dozens of forms and report dialogs.
- Grouped Accounts Manager - Visual and functional improvements have been made to the Grouped Accounts Manager.HealthCheck 4D:
- HealthCheck 4D Pro provides remote monitoring for JobOrder 2011 Server from your iPhone or iPad. You can retrieve critical information including server memory usage, data file size, server up time, client connections, process count, last backup and more. Additional information about the server computer such as operating system, last reboot and hard drive utilization is also included. HealthCheck 4D Pro provides also provides the ability for remote execution of database utilities: backup, reboot server, and message clients. Connection is password protected and does not use a JobOrder Client. If you have an active JobOrder Software Update Contract, please purchase HealthCheck 4D directly from the iPhone App Store and send a copy of your receipt to Management Software for reimbursement.Inventory Count Sheet and Inventory Sale by Period - Many new features have been added to Inventory reports.
- Job Milestone Report - In the dialog of the Job Milestone Report, a button called ‘Report Info’ explains how the report works.
- Keywords - When adding Keywords, Security Access is now checked.
- Mass Update - Whenever a Mass Update occurs, we have added an "Automatic Audit" Note. Only DBA's can delete Automatic Audit Notes.
- Milestone Manager - A Time Picker has been added to Milestone Manager. Please test it and let us know if it would be useful here or elsewhere in JobOrder.
- Milestones - Many small changes have been made in Milestones to match the new ‘Milestone’ documentation.
- Organizations - Attachments can now be added to Organizations.
- “Paste” in Edit menu - A bug was fixed when using “Paste” in the Edit menu that caused the Spell Checker to be called inappropriately.
- Phases - In Phases users can now delete Activities with 0 budgeted hours as long as the Activities do not have any Time Slips. Users can also delete Expenses with no budget, as long as they don’t have any Expense Details.
- Prioritizer and Hot Sheet - Dozens of improvements have been made to Prioritizer and Hot Sheet.
- Receive Inventory Purchases - ‘Receive Inventory Purchases’ has been completely updated. In ‘Receive Inventory Purchases’, if the user selects an Expense with no Purchase Order, the error message now says: "No Purchase Order was found. Open this Expense record to add or select a Purchase Order?" If the user clicks 'yes', JobOrder opens the existing Expense record. When they return to the dialog, JobOrder checks again for a valid Purchase Order.
- Resources - To change the Security Access Level of a Resource you must now have a Security Access Level of Database Administrator.
- Specifications in Jobs - In System Preferences: Jobs - 3, we have added a Preference for “Specifications displayed on first page of Jobs’. If this is enabled and you want to see Specifications in Jobs, please go to Security Access: Jobs and Financial’ and enable Specifications as a Form page to be displayed in the Job record either as a Tab or in the List view.
- Spell-checking - A bug was fixed in Spell-checking.
- TimeBlocks - TimeBlocks has been completely rewritten and many new and powerful features have been added. If you are interested in TimeBlocks, please schedule a free GoToMeeting and we will demonstrate the new features.
- Traffic Calendar - In System Preferences: Calendar & TimeLines, we have added a Preference to “Display Specifications Text in Sidebar instead of Traffic Status”.
- Traffic Summary Report - Users can now specify printing fonts, font sizes, page orientation, and page size. Columns can now be more than 500 pixels wide.
- Vendors - Vendor Name is now the first choice for List view query, instead of Vendor ID.