Enhancements & Revisions

Adagio Inventory 8.1C

July 13, 2011

Installs the AdagioPDF printer driver. All reports and printouts from Adagio can be printed to the AdagioPDF printer to create a PDF document in the data folder.
Supports the features in Adagio ePrint. When ePrint is installed you can print reports to PDF files in configurable folders determined by the Report Type (General, Transaction or Audit). Fields can be embedded to establish the file and folder names (User, Session Date, System Date, Time). Click the ePrint button (red "EP" icon) on any report dialog to print the report to PDF. The Paperless Reports option forces all reports to be printed to PDF. Reports can be printed to PDF and attached to an email (MAPI) with a single button click.
On the Open database dialog you can now use Alt-B to open the browse and Alt-F (for Favorites) to open the previously opened list. In previous versions you had to use the mouse to select the folder buttons.
Alt-X now selects the Excel Direct button on grids where it is available. In previous versions you had to use the mouse to select Excel Direct.
The vitalEsafe upload progress dialog has been improved and the progress bar now accurately shows the percentage. It is no longer necessary to install the vitalEsafe patch.
Added an Average Cost field to the Edit Item screen (except for FIFO/LIFO items). It is displayed in the Costing Units selected. In previous version the Item Inquiry function had to used to see the average cost.
If there is only a single Unit of measure on file (for example "EA" for each) the field is now defaulted when adding Alternate Price List items, adding items, entering receipts and entering shipments.
If there is only a single Location on file it is now defaulted when entering transactions so that the user does not need to select it.
You can now allow a user to edit item notes while preventing them from editing, adding or deleting items. Added the 'Edit Item Notes' option to Security Groups. If the user belongs to a group that does not allow access to Edit Item there will be an 'Edit Notes' button in the Item Inquiry functions if this option this option is enabled.
Inventory now supports the vendor code options 'Uppercase vendor codes', Auto-fill, Auto-format, etc. in Payables 8.1B or higher.
Invoice batches in Payables created by posting receipts in Inventory now update the new Batch Created Date, Time, and User fields in Payables.
Added the table 'I/C Acct (Indexed)' to the dictionary. It is an indexed version of the 'I/C Accounts' table (a sequential file) that is maintained in parallel for use by Adagio GridView, allowing views to link to the table by Control Account.

Problems fixed

The reorder data shown on the Reorder tab in the Edit Item function was incorrect in many cases in 8.1C, both for individual locations and the summary shown for all locations when the Location code is left blank. Also, the Period Starting date was blank or corrupt in some cases. The problem with dates likely only happened if the item reorder data was originally created or updated with certain older versions of Inventory. Importing reorder data by location did not update the first Period Starting date in the item file. If any of these problems have occurred, the Item Edit function will now correctly display the reorder information in any case. The conversion to 8.1C now detects and corrects these problems. The Data Integrity Check (DIC) also detects and rebuilds these problems. If you use DataCare to do all your DICs, you must run the DIC in Inventory at least once to detect any problems in the reorder data. If problems are detected, do a rebuild and then run DIC one more time to ensure all errors were successfully rebuilt. The sample data has been updated to correct the reorder data.
The back-dated Item Valuation reports was incorrect for items where receipt adjustments had been posted in Purchase Orders for Adagio. In addition, a receipt adjustment with a quantity increase and cost adjustment posted in Adagio Inventory was also incorrect (receipt returns were correct). The item valuation report was adding cost when it should be subtracted. This caused the back-dated Item Valuation reports to be incorrect for the item.
When a receipt entered in Adagio Inventory was adjusted to change the cost (but not the quantity), a receipt adjustment record was not posted to the transaction history file. This caused the Transaction History and back-dated Item Valuation reports to be incorrect for the item. It has been corrected but the back-dated Item Valuation report will continue to be incorrect for the item.
The Bills of Material report did not work properly after installing OrderEntry 8.1D if you did not also install Inventory 8.1C and continued to use an older version of Inventory.
The Location entered on the Reorder tab in the Edit Item function is now defaulted to the first active location on file rather than blank.
If you had the 'Allow items at all locations' option enabled, when you created a new item and entered a Pick Sequence, when you made this item active at a location (Edit Items and Location tab, Item Maintenance / Item List for Location, or post a receipt for that item at a location), the Pick Sequence from the Master item did not display in the Pick Sequence column within Item Inquiry and the Quantities tab. Instead, blank appears as the Pick Sequence.
When you tried to delete a FIFO/LIFO item that had offsetting quantities in buckets totaling zero you received an error saying the item could not be deleted because quantity is not zero. Such items can now be deleted.
When the 'Auto insert new items' option was on, after adding the first new item, the item fields for the next were defaulted with information from the item that was highlighted on the grid rather than from the item that was just added.
If the Inventory 8.1C (2010.12.24) Hot Fix was installed, when you added a new item but used an item number that was already on file, you did not receive the warning about it being a duplicate until you saved the item and thus the information you just entered was lost. The warning is now given as soon as you enter a duplicate item number.
Making items active at location does not display Master Item pick sequence in inquiry.
Inventory 8.1C (2010.11.04) added the ability to show item number segments as separate fields in the smart finder but it was not working.
The Data Integrity Checker (DIC) in 8.1C reported an error in 'Completed' receipts if you edited an item and changed the Unit Weight. The DIC now only checks 'Active' receipts and reports an error when the weight of an item in a receipt does not match the weight in the item.
In 8.1C (2010.11.04) a record locking error message occurred when importing items (only if no item filters were defined) and you were unable to complete the import.
The Find option was available on the right-mouse popup menu on item grids when a filter was enabled.
Optional Amount fields always had Implied decimals on and did not respect the setting of this option in User Preferences.
The Receipt screen and New Detail screen positions are now remembered when the 'Save window position' option is on.
When entering an item assembly the Location(s) from the previous build are remembered for the next build in the session.
On a new database created with Inventory 8.1C the reorder data was not being saved with the location.
Find located the incorrect item in the Alternate Price List Items grid in some cases when there was an alternate item for multiple currencies.
Using the item smart finder in the Edit Physical Inventory function for a database with 10 or more locations in Inventory 8.1C caused the program to freeze in some cases if you edited more than 9 locations in the same session.
Inventory 8.1C could not create an inventory database by converting the Price List from a stand-alone Adagio OrderEntry database.
For filers based on a range of a right-justified field (such as customer number, single segment item number, vendor number, etc.) additional records were selected that should not have been. For example, if the range is from 1 to 2, then not only would records 1 and 2 be selected, but also 10, 11, 100, 101 etc. You will need to edit and save any existing filters using a single-segment item number to correct them.

Install Changes

This version moves toward our goal of a more Windows 7 friendly environment for installation. If you are installing to a mapped network drive that is normally accessible, but you cannot see it during the install when attempting to select a drive or folder, you can now install by browsing to the correct folder using the Universal Naming Convention (UNC), for example \myserveraccounting. This avoids having to adjust the User Account Control settings, which requires you to restart your computer and temporarily grant Administrative privileges to the user if they are not an administrator.
This version simplifies installation by removing any consideration of the location of the Report Tables Drive (RTD) by the install and program in virtually all cases. Therefore the install no longer prompts for the RTD.
The install writes to the master install log file "AdagioMasterInstall.log" in the softraksystem folder. An entry is written to this log when any full, upgrade or SP for any Adagio module (with a release date of March 2011 or later) is installed. It shows the version installed and the version being replaced, the name of the Windows user who did the install and the rights for that user. An entry is also written to the log when an updated version of the Adagio Data Source (ADS) is installed, showing the version installed and the version being replaced. This log can be used to quickly determine the install history for all Adagio programs.
When you select the 'Backup Files' option during an install, the replaced files are now saved in a subfolder named YYYYMMDD in the BACKUP folder, under the programs destination folder (rather than the BACKUP folder itself, where extensions need to be changed to .001, .002, etc. when there are multiple versions of the same file).
The install includes an option allowing you to skip creating entries under Windows Start for cases where you will be manually creating an icon for the user to start Adagio and do not want them starting from Windows Start. During the install, uncheck the option 'Start Menu programs'. This avoids having to delete or change the Windows Start entry that would have been created.
The install no longer checks the Opportunistic Locking setting (Oplocks) on the workstation.
The Opportunistic Locking setting (Oplocks) on the workstation is no longer checked when the program is started.
The System Status function in the Help menu (chksys.exe) no longer prompts you to disable Oplocks. It displays the current Oplocks setting and allows you to change it. The 'Check R/W Status', 'Check Specific Folder' function now supports UNC browse, whereas before you would have had to turn UAC off to use it.
SetServerForAdagio and SetReportsTablesDrive utilities have been updated. The latter should virtually never be needed at an Adagio site once any Adagio module dated March 2011 or later has been installed.
The auto-workstation install that is triggered when you start an Adagio application on station (if a workstation install is required but has not been done) eliminates unnecessary installs of the AdagioPDF printer driver and vitalEsafe. If these features have already been installed by the workstation install for another application they do not trigger a workstation install in other applications.