Enhancements & Revisions
Adagio Ledger 9.0B
April 30, 2009
Sign-on
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The Adagio Open Data Dialog has been significantly improved. The Previously
Opened database list is now saved by Adagio User rather than for all users. The
first time an existing user or a new user logs into Adagio Ledger 9.0B they will
be asked “Would you like your historical company access list set up?” Answer yes
to have all entries from the Previously Opened list from your prior use of
Ledger copied for your use. The Open Data screen and Previously Opened database
list now show the date the database was last opened by the user. You may also
elect to have Adagio save your Adagio User Id and Password and default them when
logging into Adagio. The saved information is based on your Windows
authenticated user name. This option may be turned off by editing
\softrak\system\ADS.INI and adding the lines:
[Options] RememberUser=0 RememberPassword=0
- Options have been added to
open several different functions when the program starts up, including Account
Edit, Account Inquiry, Current Year Batch Edit, Archive Batch Edit. External
batch management is improved with options to “Auto Retrieve Batches” and “Warn
Retrieve Batches”. “Auto Retrieve” launches the external batch retrieve dialog
from which the user may cancel if desired. Turning the retrieve options off
allows you to prevent certain users from being able to retrieve sub-ledger
batches.
Accounts / Departments
- When creating a new department you
can create accounts for the department by multi-selecting either the entire
chart of accounts or selected accounts. This is particularly useful when
creating your first department since you cannot copy an existing department and
the accounts belonging to it.
- Copy Account allows control of
‘Additional files to copy’, including Notes, Budgets, Forecasts, Reallocations
and Currency buckets, and places you directly in account edit for the newly
created account.
- You can now make a department "inactive". When a department is made
“inactive” you can optionally makes all accounts in the department inactive as
well.
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You can now copy budgets to forecasts and vice versa. If you are editing
budgets, then the copy function will move the figures to the forecasts. By
sorting the Edit dialog into department-account sequence and multi-selecting all
the accounts in a range, you can easily copy all the figures for a single
department.
- Copying Source Codes and Source Journals automatically places you in
edit for the newly created item.
Inquiries
- The View GL Entry screen is now
sizable.
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An Excel button has been added to the View Account Transactions function,
allowing you to send accounts, transactions or entries to Excel with one mouse
click.
Batch Entry
- Default batch description text can be automatically created
with user initials (%usr), date (%dat) and time (%tim) created in a user
specified format. Multiple date and time formats are supported. These options
are set on the Options tab in the Company Profile. The batch description can
still be edited as required when the batch is created.
- Added ‘Auto-balance entry’
option to batch entry. This option automatically fills either the debit or
credit side of the transaction with the amount necessary to balance the entry.
The cursor is automatically placed in the debit or credit. The auto-balance
option is best used when journal entries have pairs of details, with one debit
and one credit of equal amount. The setting you choose is remembered for the
next entry.
- The copy batch function now updates the last date and user information
if any of the revise options (date, period, reverse debit/credit, etc) are
selected. It does this when copying or moving batches or entries, and when
copying to the same batch, a new batch or a specific other batch. If none of the
revise options are selected, then information for the copied entries remains the
same as the original entries. Note that the batch control also independently
stores created by user/date and last edited by user/date, and this information
is always updated to the new user/date as appropriate when creating a new batch
or adding to an existing batch.
- Added the Account Description to the
list of fields available in the Column Editor for the details grid in batch
entry. The ‘Unit Amount’ field is now available in the Column Editor to allow
you to show statistical units in the details grid in batch entry.
Posting
- You can now un-post batches from the Next Year.
Reports
- Added
‘Allow Post Journal Purge’ option to Company Profile. If this option is off you
cannot clear the regular posting journals after printing them. This prevents
accidental purging of posting journals. If this option is off the posting
journals will be purged as part of Year End. The Unposting Journal can still be
purged after printing.
- The Chart of Accounts report now has an option to exclude
Inactive accounts from the report.
- Added total debits and total credits
fields for all Inactive accounts not included on the Trial Balance report to
prevent confusion when inactive accounts have a balance on file.
- Accounts with
activity are not printed on Trial Balance if the activity nets to 0 in each
period. This will help reduce the number of clearing accounts that are listed on
the report.
- Added option ‘Close report dialog after print’ on the Print/Post tab
in the Company Profile. Set this option off if you often print reports multiple
times with different settings or ranges.
- The list of printers available from
Windows is now refreshed immediately before printing reports and receipts. When
a user with a shared local printer logs in under Terminal Services the list of
printers available to Windows changes because one more printers has in effect
been added. If other users were in Adagio applications this resulted in the
selected printer being changed in Adagio in some cases. If the user did not
notice this and reselect the correct printer before printing then their report
randomly and unexpectedly printed on a different printer.
- The right-hand edge of some
reports was cut off on A4 paper. In version 9.0A the program no longer forces
the form size (i.e. override the setting in customized reports). This allows
users to use the ModRP feature to change the standard reports to make them
narrower.
- Report printing performance has been improved on some reports.
- The
Active field is now shown on the Chart of Accounts report.
Edits
- Edit
Budgets and Edit Forecasts have been significantly improved to speed the entry
of budget figures. Speed keys have been made available on several frequently
accessed fields, and the tab order has been modified to more accurately conform
to the expected field entry. When “stepping through” a range of accounts or
departments, Adagio Ledger remember the previously used method for allocating
the budget and automatically changes the method. If you “step into” an account
with non-zero entries and there is no previously used budgeting method on file
for the account, you will be placed into “manual entry” mode to prevent
inadvertently changing the previously set budget figures. If the method results
in updated budget or forecast figures, these amounts will be displayed in red to
highlight the change. For accounts where the budget / forecast has never been
edited the function defaults the entry method to the last you used for the
company. If the program will be saving changed figures, the “Ok” button text
will be changed to say “Apply”.
- When editing the fiscal calendar, the
starting date of next period is automatically set on exit of the previous
period’s ending date.
- You can now change the Type in an Account in some cases. In
cases where it is not allowed it is now prevented. Refer to the help for
specific details.
Retrieve Sub-ledger Batches
- Retrieve sub-ledger batches
now supports the Accounting Date field introduced in Receivables 9.0A. This
field is used to force individual transactions into a period other than the
period of the transaction date. You can now retrieve a batch to a specific
period in the Next Fiscal Year. If Next Year is created, then a Fiscal Year is
editable when the Specific Period option is selected. If Next Year is not
active, then the fiscal year is visible but not editable.
Import /
Export
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Imports may be selected to process automatically when Adagio Ledger is started.
An import template must be marked for automatic processing, and the
corresponding start-up option selected in the Company Profile.
- A new function,
‘Clone Company’, has been added to the Export Menu. Clone Company allows you to
quickly create a new company, choosing the parts of the existing database that
will be useful (such as departments, budgets, financial reports, and source
journals). If accounts are moved to the new database, their transactions will be
deleted and the account balance set to zero. The home currency code can be
changed for the target company.
- Export batch function added
(Detail-only format). This allows remote sites to export a batch and send the
file to a head office to be imported. The ability to do this was lost in Ledger
9.0A because archive batches are in one file rather than individual files.
Export batch also adds the ability to update archive batches by exporting,
making changes and importing. The copy batch function allows you to revise the
period and date but you may also want to update other fields such as the amount,
description or reference.
- A log of records skipped and the reason is stored in the
import log file GLIMPERR.dat.
- Export/import with a path greater
than 65 characters resulted in an Access Violation error. You now get a message
explaining the problem.
Data Integrity Check
- The Data Integrity Checker
(DIC) can rebuild from an incomplete posting in many cases. NOTE that the
incomplete posting flag is not reset until you do another DIC after the rebuild
and it is clean (i.e. you have to rebuild twice). You cannot get to other
functions until the DIC is clean. You must also check that your account balances
are correct. Although the integrity check has rebuilt all the errors and
accounts are in balance it is possible the amounts are not correct or that there
are missing transactions. These will have to be entered and posted in another
batch.
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Adagio Ledger will optionally create a backup of related data whenever a Data
Integrity Check completes without errors. Adagio Ledger will always create a
backup of a database prior to applying any “fix” as a result of the “Rebuild”
option being selected to repair damaged data. Backup details are written to the
log file.
Maintenance
- You can now run the Revalue Accounts
function for the Next Year.
Generic
- Date entry has been improved by
recognizing a single number as a day and defaulting the month and year of the
entry. Four digit numbers default the year. Entering “12” into the date control
with the sign-on date being Feb 26, 2009 will result in February 12, 2009 being
returned to the application.
- The options ‘Enable SF Export’ and
‘Enable SF Printing’ have been added to the Edit User screen to allow you to
disable Excel Direct in Smart Finders to help safeguard your sales data,
customer list and other information in your database.
- The performance of the
SmartFinder over a network has been improved significantly. The SmartFinder on
Accounts is 2-4 times faster.
- When Adagio GridView 9.0A or higher
is opened from the Adagio menu, Adagio Ledger 9.0B will be displayed as the
first line on the Select Module screen so you do not need to scroll down to find
it.
- The
Help Menu has been modified to allow the user to launch the Adagio System Status
utility (chksys.exe) and print the Adagio Lanpak registration form.
- WebSafe changed to
vitalEsafe™ in Backup function to reflect the 3rd party name change.
- The
multi-currency files for single currency databases are now backed up when you
backup a ‘Complete Dataset’.
- Updated the help, including adding a
Year End Processing Checklist.
- Automatically copies help files
(*.chm) to the local drive so that Service Packs do not require a workstation
install just to update the readme help file.
- Install, workstation install and
Service Pack install now support installing to a LINUX server without a special
command line parameter.
- Several minor changes have been made when creating a new
database.
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