Version 9.30 August 2005

• Favourites Menu
  A new 'Favourites' tab has been added to the main menu. A user can add menu options which he / she uses on a regular basis to this tab so that these options are all easily available in one place. Options can be added by clicking on the grey star next to an option on its usual menu. The star will turn gold to show that is now appears on the users 'favourites' menu. An option can be removed from 'favourites' by clicking on the gold star - either on the 'favourites' menu or on the 'original' menu.
  
  All options from the main menu can be defined as 'favourites', together with options from the 'Delivery', 'Invoice' and 'Return & Credit Note' sub-menus. Options from other sub-menus will be made available in future versions.

• User Access
  The user access code 'Resource Rates' has been added to determine if a user is permitted to view/edit resource rates.

• Customer Release Note Required
  A new logical control flag 'RELEASE_REQ_DEFAULT' has been added. The setting of this will determine whether newly added customers will default to requiring a release note or not.

• Customer Default Lead Time
  A default for the lead time used on detailed sales orders can now be entered against each customer in the 'Customer Additional Details' screen. This will be applied to any new items added to a sales order for that customer. The lead time represents the lead time you have agreed with your customer and does NOT represent the time to manufacture the part.

• Sales Price Lists
  The system now allows 'Sales Price List' references to be Alpha Numeric. Any price list can now be selected as the default for new customers, rather than always being hard-coded to '00'.

• Sales Order Maintenance
  The choice of showing the 'Customers Order Reference' or the 'Internal Order Number' is now included in the 'My Preferences' settings.

• Allocate Stock To Call-offs
  The initial range on this screen has been updated to follow the same 'QuickBar' format as other areas of the system. This change has also allowed new ranges to be included - these are 'Customer Order Reference', 'Deliver To' and 'Date Required'.

• Delivery Notes
  Delivery Note Style 25 has been added.

• Invoices
  Invoice Style 21 has been added.
  It is now possible to print 'Cancelled' invoices. These will have the works 'cancelled' printed on them.

• Stage Payment Invoices
  The 'Stage Payment Invoices' screen on the 'Invoice Menu' has now been given a 'QuickBar'.
  It is now also possible to invoice a specific stage for an entire sales order rather than having to click 'Invoice Now' on each item in turn.

• Purchase Orders
  Purchase Order Style 13 has been added.

• Product Groups
  This option is now available from the 'Stock Maintenance Menu'.

• Resource Status
  A new program has been added to show the current status of all (non-subcontract) resources. This can be run from the 'Options' menu from 'Resource Maintenance' and shows the current jobs clocked onto each resource, along with any history and planned jobs.

• Manufacturing Instructions
  'Description' and 'Planner' have been added to the 'QuickBar'.
  The control flag 'SET_CHANGED_M/I_ON_HOLD' has been added to determine if a route should automatically be put on hold after being changed by a user.

• Standard Operations
  Standard Operations can now be 40 characters in length rather than 30.

• Route Cards & F.A.I.R.
  The option available on SOME route card styles to indicate if a F.A.I.R. is required can now be set to only apply to selected parts. The new field 'Requires FAIR' on the 'Manufacturing' tab in 'Stocked Parts' determines if the part requires a F.A.I.R. When printing a route card for one of these parts the system will check to see if a valid F.A.I.R. records exists and if not will print an indicator on the route card that one is required.
  Currently this only applies to route card styles 1-6, 14, 18, 20, 33, 37, 38. Support for this on other route card styles is planned to follow in future versions.

• Route Cards
  Route Card Style 38 has been added.
  Route Card 3 now prints a different footer on the 'Inspection Check Sheet'

• Time Recording
  The control flag 'TIMEREC_INTERVAL' was previously only effective if the employee clocked onto the new job from the same data capture terminal and no other user had used the terminal in-between. It was also not compatible with a setting of 'Yes' on the control flag 'DC_RESWIPE_IF_ENDJOB'.
  This option has now been expanded so that it works with the 'DC_RESWIPE_IF_ENDJOB' control flag and will also work if the employee uses any terminal to book onto the new job.

• Automatically Completing Stock From A Works Order
  The control flag 'WO_CHECK_OPS_COMP' can be set to get FactoryMaster to automatically book goods into stock from a works order as the last operation on the works order is completed. If the quantity completed on the last operation is increased then that quantity will be booked into stock. If the last operation is completed the whole works order will be automatically marked as completed.
  This will happen if the quantity or status of the operation is changed from any of the following places: Data Capture, Manual Time Sheet Entry or Works Order Detail.

• Data Capture
  If data capture is run from the main menu it now sits in a smaller window rather than filling the whole screen. This window is equivalent to the 800x600 screen size that data capture is designed to run on. If data capture is run on a data capture terminal it will still be full screen as before.

• Time Bookings Report
  This report now highlights any time that is flagged as 'rework' - including a total for each employee.

• Task Maintenance
  This screen has been updated to include a 'QuickBar'. The screen can now be ranged on the user to whom the tasks have been assigned, and the entity with which the task is associated.