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Bugs fixed in ABC6

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We aim to fix bugs within a day or two of them being reported to us.

Sept 2010

  • The Purchase Ledger would not allow you to enter an Unpaid Bill that only had negative VAT on it (an unusual situation to be true, but one user needed to do it). Now fixed.

July 2010

  • Recent improvements to the Date Input function meant that dates with a day less than 10 were regarded as not valid -- apologies for this silly error, it was fixed the same day.
  • The Filing Report Designer was not saving layouts correctly. After several attempts we have finally got it working.
  • Rapidly clicking the "Q" (Quick Finish) button multiple times in Sales Invoicing crashed the program. Now ABC will just ignore the extra clicks.
  • Hardly a bug, but the date entry in Unpaid Bills was a bit too helpful and converted 15 Jun 20 into 15 Jun 2020 for you, and then reported the date was not valid. This has been improved. Now you can enter 15 Jun 10 and it will get converted to 15 Jun 2010, but if you enter 15 Jun 20, ABC will now wait for you to complete the date.

June 2010

  • Locked File error when entering Purchase Ledger payments has been corrected.
  • Filing Reports did not save the report layout correctly. Now fixed. (Well actually it wasn't completely -- see July bugfix).

May 2010

  • Print selected lines when viewing File now works.
  • Entry of Stock Adjustments has been made more foolproof.
  • Previous update made calculator stop working. This has been fixed.
  • Entry of VAT-Only unpaid bill did not allow you to finalise entry.

April 2010

  • Payroll Other Companies and Payroll Backup functions did not work since last update a few weeks ago. Now they do.
  • At Month End, Exporting a bunch of reports to PDF did not work. This has been fixed.
  • Payroll PayRun did not work if user did not also have ABC Accounts installed. Now fixed.
  • Unpaid Bill entry insisted on you enteringa VAT Code even if you are not VAT Registered. Now it doesn't.
  • When you start up ABC6 it automatically checks and updates the account file layouts. But when you Import data from old ABC5, new file layouts are created. We have now closed a loophole whereby the imported files did not get checked by the startup program.
  • The SpreadSheet has been overhauled and the bugs in Print Preview fixed. Menus and toolbars have been rearranged, and some new functions added.
  • Customer Record in Sales Ledger did not display the History of the first customer shown when you opened the Customer records (as soon as you clicked on a different record it was fine). This has been fixed.

March 2010

  • A very rare bug (if you can call it that) has been found and fixed. It seems it was possible at some time in the past for ABC to lock part of the accounts and then (due to power glitch or crash) not unlock it. With single user versions the result was that the normal ABC File Checking process that occurs each time you start up ABC could not work (though no error message was shown). We have fixed this now by popping up a message when you start ABC if it finds the files locked, to ask if you want ABC to unlock the files.

February 2010

  • Stock price/markup calculations had become disabled following a recent update, and this has been fixed.
  • Purchase Ledger Statements gave an error message. This has been sorted out.
  • Purchase Ledger Allocate now shows items in correct date order
  • Bank Reconciliation date column now sorts correctly.
  • Stock Adjustments made smoother (alright then, we fixed a tiny bug).
  • VAT Return when printed with VAT Audit used to remain in memory. Now fixed.
  • Sort of fixed -- the little quirk when Finding records (where you had to click on the grid before you could re-edit your text) has hopefully been cured by the whole function being rewritten and improved. Now also much faster.

December 2009

  • Payroll report Employee History was displaying the NI in the wrong column. Now corrected in v0910A8.
  • The multiple Delivery Address function in Sales Invoicing has been fixed. Now it works as it should do.
  • When editing an invoice the Delete Line function now works on the first line.

November 2009

  • When using FILING to Edit a file, if you clicked the Close Form box this disabled the SAVE/CANCEL buttons so you could not exit. Now fixed in v6.233.
  • Filing Reports had stopped allowing you to move fields around the screen. While looking at this we decided to completely redo this function and make it prettier and easier to use. We also enhanced the Filing Label Print function at the same time.

October 2009

  • CashBook entries. If you went to add more entries to an existing batch, it was not possible to cursor to a blank line and start typing. Now you can.
  • Year End. One of the options for specifying how to set the Nominal Ledger Opening Balances was not enabled, and two of the other options did the same thing. This has now been sorted out and the whole function given a makeover so it now works properly and looks pretty. The Nominal Ledger opening Balance function has also ben overhauled.

September 2009

  • Items entered with 3 or more decimal places in the CashBook were formatted to 2 decimal places on screen, but stored on disk with the 3 or 4 decimals. The Bank Reconciliation program then could not mark those items as reconciled. We've corrected the CashBook and also made the Bank Reconciliation Program accept the 3 or 4 decimal places.
  • VAT Report was not including Exempt VAT items in the audit. This has been corrected.
  • Selecting Print Envelope from the Quick Access toolbar could crash the program. Works OK now.
  • It was not possible to cancel a line in CashBook entry. Now you can right-click mouse on a line and select Delete from pop-up menu.
  • If you (by mistake) entered a non-valid VAT Code in CashBook entry, there was no message to tell you why you could not continue. We've added a message to explain.

August 2009

  • If you had a very early version of ABC6 and then updated to the latest version, your data files should automatically have been converted. Under certain circumstances this did not happen, giving rise to all sorts of errors. Now corrected.
  • Several buttons in the FILING REPORTS section of ABC6 were missing (due to the change to the new user interface). Now restored. The user defined SQL was not stored when you selected SAVE report. Now it will be.
  • Deleting a record after using the FIND function to move to that record, gave a "No current Record" error. Now fixed.
  • After running Month End the "Current Month" indicator at bottom of the screen did not immediately get updated. Now ABC updates it more often.
  • Trying to use Snapshot 10 resulted in a "Array Element does not exist" error.
    This has been corrected.

April 2009

  • The change to the new user interface meant we had to rewrite all the Menus, and one or two items got left out. These have now been reinstated, and include Bank Reconciliation, Stock IN and OUT.
  • When adding new Headings the Heading TYPE did not get set correctly. This had little effect except in N/L Opening Balances where it was not possible to set the Balance for those Headings. Now fixed. And the Month End routine will automatically correct any Headings added previously.
  • The figures at the bottom of the Bank Reconciliation had the signs the wrong way around. Unreconciled items should have been deducted from the bank total instead of added to it. Now fixed.
  • During the previous update an item got left off the main menu so that function appeared to have vanished. (We changed it to a different place on the menu but forgot to include the new menu in the update -- sorry. The latest update fixes this.)
  • Bank reconcilliation was not working properly. When you clicked SAVE, not all the settings were remembered. This has been sorted out as part of a general enhancement of the function. The print feature now shows all the figures.
  • Not really a bug, but a side-effect of installing the new ABC6 Payroll. If your ABC6 accounts and Payroll were different versions, one or the other would stop working. We have now sorted this out. Download the GENERAL UPDATE to fix the problem if you suffer from it.
  • Using FILING Global Change, if you left the first field name blank, ABC added the word "error" to the contents of the field you were changing. Of course we soon fixed that.
  • Under some circumstances the Month End screen locked up. Now cured it.
  • Sales Invoicing where Customer is over their Credit Limit and you select Cancel the Invoice. This resulted in an endless loop. Now it is fixed.
  • The yellow notes (that you can use to leave your own notes on any screen in ABC6) have a "Wipe" function to clear the note, but when you Saved the blank note the previous message was saved instead. Now fixed.
  • The Record LOCKED box was moved to the first page of the Customer Record card for easier access, but we forgot to set the permission to allow you to tick/untick this box. Now done.
  • Editing the Notes tab page of Customer Record cards produced an error message. This recently introduced bug has now been fixed.
  • The Supplier record card Balance field only showed the unpaid invoices on their account, and just ignored any unallocated money. We have told it not to ignore this in future and now the Balance you see will be accurate.
  • The Stock Sales report had a column labelled Quantity, but this foolishly showed the number of invoices instead of the number of Stock Items -- of course this has now been corrected. To show the full detail that some users have asked for required a change to the File Structures, and this has now been done.
  • Importing data from old ABC5. Recently introduced bug did not set the next free Customer Account Number correctly, so adding a new Customer could cause crash. Oops!. Sorry about that. Now fixed.
  • Editing a report Layout in Filing and then saving it under a different name would overwrite the original report. A new Menu Option has been added -- SAVE AS NEW REPORT -- to clarify this.
  • Sales and Purchase Ledger Audit Trail reports show summary of Analysis Heading movements excluding VAT at the end of the report. This figure had the VAT deducted twice by mistake. Now fixed.
  • The Bank Statement report printed as part of the Month End did not select a bank account (Analysis Heading) and hence it printed nonsense. Now it defaults to Bank Account 1 (Heading 8411)
  • Not really a bug, but if you had a certain combination of Windows screen resolution and font size, the Customer Record card gave an error when you went to the Sales Ledger. This has been fixed quickly. But we shall continue looking at this and will probably change things again over the next few weeks to make ABC look prettier on various size screen and settings.
  • Bank Reconciliation date was one month out -- ie if you asked to see everything after August 1st, you actually got September. It now works correctly.
  • Statements containing a few items would unnecessarily go on to a second page -- this has been corrected. And some of the options for controlling Statements did not actually do anything - now they work as they should.
  • SpreadSheet special formula (link to Headings File) had stopped working. Now fixed.
  • Not really a bug -- the Help System did not contain all the information about Purchase Ledger. Now it does. Enjoy reading it.
  • Cosmetic improvement to VAT-Only printed sales invoices.
  • Bank Reconcilliation allowed you to "tick" items for reconcilliation, but did not actually store these details. All works properly now.
  • When producing a Sales Invoice, if you typed "n" as the VAT Code this was not accepted, but typing "N" was OK. Now fixed.