Perhaps, when Softrak ships a new version, they should test-convert data from each previous version and have a checklist of all supporting files to check and screens to review.
Hi Howard,
In the case of Receivables, if we just did the major previous versions, your suggestion would add 2 weeks to the QA cycle. I cannot see how that effort would be justified based on the number of conversion errors we might catch. And remember, this extra QA is for Adagio sites which have let their plans lapse, or who have been running a DOS product for the last 20 years.
Remember, bugs are apparent when you run into them, and non-existent if they don't affect you.
Sorry for the inconvenience of having to reconvert the data.
Personally, I wouldn't go through the trouble of stepping through all the various versions. It will be a lot of extra work for very little gain across multiple data sets. Also, we then wouldn't know about this bug so that we can fix it.