Fixes/Enhancements in Pawnshop Version 2.26 (10 December 2011) - Even though manually numbered contracts are not sent to the NSW Police, they were still being checked by the Police Offload Report and if there were issues, a police offload could not be performed. This has now been fixed. - New pre-printed receipts are included in this release. They can be customised with your name, address, phone number etc. as well as the terms and conditions at the bottom. The terms and conditions are located in RTF files which have been placed in your PawnShop install folder (Pledge/Buy/Sale/ConsignReceiptComments.rtf). These can be edited with MS Word or WordPad which comes with Windows. They can be selected by choosing Use Built-In Receipts on the Receipts tab in the Preferences screen. - The warning you see when you try to create a police file has changed. If the file already exists, the message tells you not to proceed if you have not transferred the file to police. The reason for this is that if you overwrite a file before you transfer it to the police, that transfer is lost. You can do a resupply, but you need to know which contracts to send. - If a client is from an organisation, the name of the organisation is added to the client name in reports. - The Transaction Date has been added to the Incomings and Outgoings reports (Detailed). - A receipt field has been added to the Customer Sold To report. If a manual receipt number was used, this is shown, otherwise the auto generated receipt number shows. - A new button has been added to the In Items screen. The Make Copy button will add a new item to the contract and copy the details of the current item on screen. ++ NOTE ++ : ALL details will be copied including serial numbers and jewellery extra details, so these may need to be amended before saving the contract. - The Customs Reference box is only enabled when the client has an overseas address (the O/S box is checked). This only applies to NSW users. - An error message was displayed in the Search screen when loading a list of choices that was empty (eg Organisations when you have no Organisations) and the screen would then lock. This has now been fixed. - The Double Enter Serial option is now mandatory for NSW users. - An error that sometimes occurred when entering serial numbers has been fixed. - The message which warns when entering an overseas client without identification is now more descriptive. This is allowed by NSW police if you enter a customs reference with each contract for the client. - The Sales screen will now search previous years automatically if you just use a contract number NOT of the form YYYY999999. - For people who use the police offload outside of NSW, the offload would not transfer contracts where the numbers were not of the form YYYY999999 where YYYY is the current year. This includes where the seperate Purchase and Consign numbers were selected in Preferences. This has now been fixed. - A new offload type has been added for Victoria. The contracts are sorted in contract type order. - There have been changes made to interest periods for pledges in this release. Previously, if you specified 2 months as the pledge period, the program would calculate interest each month. You may want to calculate the interest every 2 months. A new option in the Interest section on the Contract tab of Preferences allows to to choose whether the interest is for each period specified (day, week, month) or the whole period (7 days, 4 weeks, 2 months for example). The annual rate calculation and label for interest on the main screen changes depending on your choice. *** IMPORTANT!! - WHEN YOU MAKE A PAYMENT FOR ANY LOAN, IT WILL USE THE CURRENT SETTINGS TO CALCULATE THE NEW DUE DATE. THIS FEATURE IS NOT DESIGNED TO BE CHANGED, IT IS FOR STARTING OFF YOUR SYSTEM AND MEANT TO BE LEFT ALONE. CURRENTLY, THE LOAN AND INTEREST PERIODS ARE NOT SAVED WITH A PLEDGE, SO THE MAIN SETTING IN PREFERENCES IS USED. ONLY CHANGE THE DEFAULT SETTINGS IF YOU ARE USING A TEST DATABASE OR STARTING OUT WITH A NEW ONE. **** ****----****----****----****---- Fixes/Enhancements in Pawnshop Version 2.25 (24 March 2011) - An updated help file has been included in this release. - The QLD police offload now uses the item description rather than just the item type when creating a file. Note that only the first 25 characters of the description are used. - The red highlight on Item Note on the Main screen was not cleared when entering a new contract. This has now been fixed. - The program would previously allow you to open the Notes screen while entering a new contract. The notes would not be saved as a contract number had not yet been generated. A message box is now displayed telling you to save the contract before entering any notes. - A bug which caused the program to crash when manually splitting items from the Items Due screen has been fixed. - The Item Location report now sorts by location and then by contract number to allow it to be used to check items in each location more easily. - When using the Copy From and Copy For New functions, the Shop # is now copied and made active for editing. Previously, this was left blank and was disabled meaning you had to go back to edit after finishing. - Shop Date (the date an item was sent to shop) has been added as a searchable field in the Search window. - The Item Location report now displays the Shop # as well as the item description. - You can now send items to Damaged from the Main screen by using the right mouse button. - A bug which caused the program to crash when searching for items in the Sales screen using letters (for Manual or Shop numbers) has been fixed. ****----****----****----****---- Fixes/Enhancements in Pawnshop Version 2.24 (27 November 2010) - A bug occurred where a consignment that had been placed in shop would have its status changed to ConsDue (past due sale date) even though there was no date that it was required to be sold. This has now been fixed and the item will remain In Shop if there is no required sale date. - A new function has been added. Choosing the Print Contract menu item (uder the File menu) after using the Pipe to Main Screen button on the Items Due window will print the Items Due report for only those items selected. - The Print Client and Print Contract menu items are disabled when there are no clients / contracts visible on the screen to print. - This version of the patch includes a utility program for Windows 7 and Windows Vista users. These operating systems do not support installation of programs to the C:\Program Files folder as earlier versions of Windows do. The utility program will move installations of PawnShop on these operating systems to the C:\Users\Public\PawnShop folder if you have the security settings turned on. It will also change the location of the police data file to this folder as the default of C:\ is also not accessible. - The Duplicate items screen that appears in Sales when trying to locate a contract to sell that has multiple items now shows the item numbers as well as the descriptions of the items. - The locate contract function in the Sales screen will now try to locate a contract from previous years if one can't be found in the current year. - Starting with version 2.24, the patch program will warn you if you are trying to apply a patch that is older than the currently installed program version. - The Police Printout (under the File menu) did not print the individual item numbers for each item, only the contract number. This has now been fixed. - When exporting the Police Printout to a text file, the first line had the headings as well as the first line of data on it. This has now been fixed. - When customising receipt codes, the code did not print out the sale total for laybys. This has now been fixed. - In the Cancel Layby screen, the clerk name was not defaulted if there is only one clerk as in the main, sales and payment screens. This has now been fixed. - After returning a sold item that was originally consigned, the Send to Shop right mouse menu item did not appear to allow you to put it back in the shop. This has now been fixed. - The Items Due screen now shows the client name in the row for an overdue item to allow you to see the name without having to right mouse click and open the client report. - The Print Client / Contract Details report now looks at the Preferences settings for the printer for reports rather than using the default system printer. - The Print Contract Details menu item now prints all items in the original contract if you try to print a contract that has been auto split. - A bug has been fixed which caused the program to crash when entering a contract where the clerk name has a apostrophe(') in it. - The Print Client / Contract Details report now includes the state for non O/S clients and prints the O/S address otherwise. - The same reports have also had the contract listing rearranged slightly to reduce the number of pages for clients with large numbers of contracts. - A bug that caused a crash when manually splitting jewellery contracts using the Repeating button has been fixed. - A bug that occurred when sorting records that had non system generated contract numbers in the Items Due screen caused the program to crash has been fixed. - A bug which cleared the Clerk field after entering a contract has been fixed. - The Shop # field was not copied to split contracts when the original contract became due. This has now been fixed so that it flows through to the split contracts. ****----****----****----****---- Fixes/Enhancements in Pawnshop Version 2.23 (15 May 2010) - Deleting an item would leave behind records in the Item Numbers (serial numbers, barcodes etc). This has now been fixed. - Choosing an illegal location for the police output file will generate a warning rather than crashing the program. - An invalid character in the street number fields will generate an entry in the police problems report. This would cause an error when sending to the NSW police. - An empty space in the Name On ID will generate an entry in the police problems report. This would cause an error when sending to the NSW police. - A missing Customs Ref for an overseas client will generate an entry in the police problems report. This would cause an error when sending to the NSW police. - A dotted border around the row helps to see the currently selected contract on the Items Due screen. - The Client and Item Notes buttons now work on the Items Due screen for the current contract highlighted. - Inactive clerks are displayed on the Main screen when looking at old contracts, but are excluded from entering new contracts. - The Main screen is no longer cleared after pressing the Escape key to close the Search window. - Contract Date has been added as a searchable field in the Search window. - The Change Paper check box in the Printing tab of Preferences is enabled if either the Pledge/Purch OR Sales printer is the same as the Report printer. Previously, this was only enabled if the Pledge/Purch was the same as the Report one. - The Export Clients function had a bug which affected the output affecting clients addresses that appeared in the file. This has now been fixed. - The Shop Amount field has been added to the Export Contract function under the File menu. ****----****----****----****---- Fixes/Enhancements in Pawnshop Version 2.22 (16 June 2009) - The payment types Paypal and Electronic Transfer have been added to the program. Payment Types have been added to the Lookup Maintenance screen. - When reprinting sales receipts that do not have a client attached to them, the words SHOP SALE would not print correctly as they do when printing on the original sale. This has now been fixed. - When you select the sale type on the Sales Screen and have Cash as your default payment type, the Cash Tendered box does not show unless you drop the payment type down and select Cash. This has now been fixed. The same applies if Card is the default payment type. The card type box will now show automatically. - Two new receipt custom codes have been added. prints the text 'Clerk:' prints the first name of the clerk. The way this works is that it prints the name up to the first space if one exists. Otherwise it prints the entire clerk name. See the updated Custom Receipts Format document supplied with the patch for details. - A modification has been made to the custom receipt code to allow calculations to run only on specified contract types. See the updated Custom Receipts Format document supplied with the patch for details. - When contracts are split (when putting items In Shop etc), the Customs Ref and On Site fields did not carry through to the new split contract. This has now been fixed. - When editing a contract and then cancelling the edit, the status bar was not reset correctly to the clients details. This has now been fixed. - Improvements have been made to the resizing of the screen elements. This is especially noticable in Windows Vista. - The max length of the police offload location field in Preferences has been increased to 60 characters to allow for longer file pathnames. - A bug where Held items would not be taken automatically off hold has been fixed. A value of zero (0) in the days to hold section in Preferences means that the items will never automatically come off hold. - If the database security file (System.mdw) can not be found in the application folder, the program will look in the database folder (if different to the application folder) before reporting an error. - Sending items to Other Disposal in the Items Due screen would not work if multiple items were selected at once. This has now been fixed. - Any due/in shop pledges whose due date is before the current date have their status reset to In Pawn at startup. This can be caused by changing your computer date forward, starting PawnShop and then changing the date backwards. Previously, once the status goes Due, you had to open the Payments screen to reset the status to In Pawn. - ID Type and ID Issuer can now be used as criteria in the search screen. - If you have a PawnShop subscription and it has lapsed, you may still search for clients and view data. However a warning would appear saying that you could not. This warning has now been removed. ****----****----****----****---- Fixes/Enhancements in Pawnshop Version 2.21 (17 November 2008) - Problems when typing into date fields in the program have been fixed. - When a sold item is marked for police offload and the item is manually split subsequently, an error occurred when performing the police offload. This has now been fixed. - A new option in Preferences allows you to choose a different number of printed copies of pledge / buy receipts. Previously, both buys and pledges used the same number of copies. - The first time after performing a name or contract number search which brought up the search results window (multiple results), it was possible to click the buttons on the main screen. This has now been fixed. - A bug existed which tried to test a backup file after cancelling the backup. This has now been fixed. - A bug existed where the Sales screen would crash if the clerk's name contained an apostrophe ('). This has now been fixed. - A new option in Preferences allows you to chose different default printers for Sales and Contract printing. - There is now a default payment type in the preferences screen to select your most commonly used payment type automatically. - For items that are Due Shop, you can now use the right mouse button to send them to shop. Contracts with multiple items are auto split as they would be in the Items Due screen. - Under some circumstances, certain transactions would not go to the police if they were entered 1 minute after doing a police offload. This has now been fixed. The reason for the is that the time (including the seconds) of the police offload are saved, but only the minute of some transactions are saved. That transaction then looks as though it took place before the police offload and does not go to the police. ****----****----****----****---- Fixes/Enhancements in Pawnshop Version 2.20 (4 April 2008) - If the contract numbers are not reset at the start of the year (they continue on eg. 2007000123 to 2008000124), the Auto Complete function would not try the previous year to search to a contract. It would simply not find the contract in the current year and require entry of the full number to find it. This has now been fixed. - An additional option in Preferences is available which allows multiple copies of payment receipts to be selected. Previously, the payments section would use the value from the Contract Copies box. The default value is the same as the Contracts value. - If you have the Test Backup option set in Preferences and had the Ask option set for your backup location, the program would ask (again) for the backup to test rather than testing the backup it had just done. This has now been fixed. - A new function has been placed under the Help menu, allowing you to send a backup of your database to Flyware. This eliminates the need for doing a backup yourself and emailing it. IMPORTANT: Only use this if you have been advised to by Flyware. If your database is large and your internet connection is slow, this could take a long time. - Related to the above function is one which pulls down a backup from Flyware's web site which has been worked on by Flyware. The program will backup your database before this happens. - When converting serial numbers that were 'single entry' ones to the 'double entry' ones the NSW police now require, sometimes an error would occur. This has now been fixed. - Under certain circumstances, the GST report did not take discounts into consideration when displaying figures. This has now been fixed. ****----****----****----****---- Fixes/Enhancements in Pawnshop Version 2.19 (27 November 2007) - The Detailed Income report now shows the receipt number and moves the contract number into the Description. - If attempting a backup from the Sales or Items Due screen, an error and program crash occurred. A message now tells you to go back to the Main screen to do backups. - After locating a contract which is not In Shop on the Sales screen, the grid with the current sale details is locked, not allowing editing of the sale price. This has now been fixed. - The Clerk search field was not working. This has now been fixed. - The field where you specified an amount to charge for layby cancels allowed non numeric characters to be typed in it. This has now been fixed. - When clearing the screen by pressing the Esc key or click the Clients button, the Find Sales / Laybys menu items were not cleared. Clicking these caused an error. This has now been fixed. - If you type a client's Unit which is longer than 5 characters (in both the Sales and Main screen), an error would occur. This has now been fixed. - If you attempt to locate a sale on the Sales screen by using a receipt number containing letters an error would occur. This has now been fixed. - If your Windows date separator was not a slash (/), there would be problems running the program in the date boxes. This has now been fixed. - When switching between Manual and Auto Numbering while doing a search for a contract number, an error would occur. This has now been fixed. - After adding a Serial or Other number and then clicking OK on the In Items screen, the number would not display if you go back into that screen before saving the contract. This has now been fixed. - When viewing the contract list, when moving from a sold contract to one not sold, the sale details would stay displayed instead of clearing. This has now been fixed. - An error occurred when editing clerk details and changing rows on the grid. This has now been fixed. ****----****----****----****---- Fixes/Enhancements in Pawnshop Version 2.18 (27 July 2007) - In the Repeating section of a manual split, the program would crash if you entered a decimal point in the Number field. This has now been fixed. - In the same section, the program crashed if you entered a number greater than 255. The program now pops up a message if you enter a number bigger than this. - The length of the description box in the Repeating screen allow you to enter more characters than would fit on the In Item screen which caused a crash. This has now been fixed by limiting the number of characters to 100 which is the same as the In Item screen. - A new field has been added in the Sale Details section on the Main Screen that allows tracking of the date items are sent to shop. - The serial number that was copied to the description was only 22 characters rather than the 35 that the Item Number entry allowed. This has now been increased to 35. - A new option in Preferences is available which allows multiple copies of receipts to be selected. ie You can choose to have 3 copies of loan tickets and 2 sales prints. - When a contract had been autosplit (after its due date had passed), serial and other numbers were not visible in the Item Numbers screen for it. This has now been fixed. - The Print Client Details menu under File will now show a print preview instead of going to the printer automatically. This allows you to export it to a PDF rather than printing. ****----****----****----****---- Fixes/Enhancements in Pawnshop Version 2.17 (26 February 2007) - Items of Miscellaneous status can now be manually split via the Items Due screen. - A new police offload format (Northern Territory) has been added. This is the same as NSW except for some minor differences. - The Payment History in the Payments screen now shows the most recent payments at the top for convenience. - The tab order on the Main Screen was messed up with the change to the screen in v2.16. This has now been fixed. - The program used the NSW User flag to determine whether to allow serial numbers to be entered in the Item Identification Numbers window. This stopped people who had the Double Enter Serial flag set, but had the NSW User flag off. This has now been fixed. - The program would previously allow duplicate clerk names which caused problems. It now will not allow duplicate clerk names in the Clerk Maintenance window. - An error introduced in v2.16 occurred when first entering contracts in a blank database. This has now been fixed. ****----****----****----****---- Fixes/Enhancements in Pawnshop Version 2.16 (14 December 2006) - An extra custom receipt code has been included in this version to allow you to control the max length of ID lines. See the updated Custom Receipts Document for more details. - If you switched numbering mode (Man or Auto) and took over 1 minute to complete a contract, the program would slip back to the old numbering mode. This has now been fixed. - If you add a contract to an organisation client and you are not a NSW user, you would still get a warning that the record will be rejected by NSW police. This has now been fixed. - There is a new option in Preferences in the Numbering section on the Contract tab. It allows the program to automatically reset the contract numbers to 1 on the first contract of a new year. This value is Off by default, you must switch it on to have it work for the next year. - An updated help file has been included in this release. - A bug which stopped transferring of some contracts to the police after the contract number was changed has been fixed. - A similar bug which occurred after moving contracts to a different client has also been fixed. - A problem was introduced in v2.15 which stopped the program asking to copy an organisation's address when entering a new client from a company. This has now been fixed. - A problem was introduced in v2.14 in backups for removable drives. It only affected backups where more than 1 disk was required. This has now been fixed. - The Main window is now resizable. The Sales and Items Due window also adopt the size of the Main window. Where possible, grids and other boxs are moved to accommodate the new window size. It will remember whether it is maximised when you close the program down and restore that setting next time you start. If you run a network of two or more computers, it is recommended you have the window sizes the same on each computer. - An updated postcode file has been included for NSW users of the program. - When locating a client on the main screen, if you typed an extra space at the end, the program would not match. This has now been fixed. ****----****----****----****---- Fixes/Enhancements in Pawnshop Version 2.15 (23 August 2006) - The Organisation drop down box is now sorted alphabetically. - Instead of asking you if you want to copy an organisation's address to a customer every time you move up or down in the Organisation drop down list, this only occurs when you move off the box and have changed the organisation for the client. - A new Help file menu has been added which will check if there is an updated version available on our website. It will download and run the patch for you. You must ensure that you are on the Main Screen and not performing a transaction to use this feature. The program will close itself so that the patch can run after it has been downloaded. If you are running a firewall or other Internet security, you may need to grant permission to PawnShop to allow it to download the patches. Ask your computer support person for help if you need clarification. - A new entry in the Search fields list has been added. Dispose Date allows you to search for items sold, suctioned, redeemed or written off on a specific date. - After clicking OK on the Main screen, several fields which should have been disabled (eg Interest Rate) were enabled allowing changes. Even though changes to the field are not saved, these fields are disabled properly so there is no confusion. - We have switched to using later versions of Microsoft files in this version. You should not notice any differences, but the size of the patch will be larger than normal. - A new help file has been included in this version. With Microsoft's dropping of the standard WinHelp format, we have rewritten the help file in Compiled HTML format. The printed manual will be based on the help file in the future, so quicker updates of these two items will be possible as only one source will need to be changed. - Any trailing spaces in the Lookup Maintenance are now removed before saving to the database. - With the introduction of Manual Receipts last year, the possibility was opened of having a manual receipt the same as a system receipt on different sales. When locating a sale, the system would always locate the manual receipt first. Thus, you would never be able to locate the system generated receipt number. For example you do a sale and the system generates receipt 10. Then you do another sale and assign manual receipt 10. When you try to locate sale 10, the manual receipt sale always shows. This has been addressed by showing a list of any duplicate numbers to allow you to choose which sale you want. - A new option has been added to Preferences to copy the contract number to the description when printing sales receipts. This is similar to the option for copying the price to the description. - When entering an Sales amount in the Sales window which caused a comma to appear (i.e. over 1,000), a bug stopped you changing the value to a different one and only recognised the part before the comma. This has now been fixed. - Most Preferences are now stored in the database rather than the registry on the PC. This means that when moving to a new PC, most of the Preferences will be copied once you restore the database. The warning that you see when you click OK in Preferences will tell you to close the program on other computers (if you run a network) before closing the one that you are working on. Also, we do not recommend editing options on two computers as each will overwrite the others changes when they close. - The program will now recognise currency symbols of more than 1 character length. e.g. 'AUD' instead of '$' ****----****----****----****---- Fixes/Enhancements in Pawnshop Version 2.14 (12 April 2006) - The program will not allow renaming a lookup value to be the same as an existing lookup value. Previously, this restriction was only in place for Item Types, but has been extended for all lookup values. You are now prompted to delete the value and move existing records to the value with the same name. - Clicking the Reset button in the Search screen did not clear the Value dropdown box. This has now been fixed. - A bug in the Search screen wich caused the cursor to go to the end of the text box when entering criteria has been fixed. - You no longer need to enter * at the beginning and end of search criteria in the search screen when doing a LIKE search. eg. Previously you would need to type *red*hammer* if you wanted to find contracts with the words red and hammer. Now you only need to type red*hammer. Note that this finds contracts with 'red car, blue hammer' as well. If you want red hammers only, you would type 'red hammer' in the search box. - The Use Shop and Use Purchases options in Preferences have been removed. - The Preferences screen has been rearranged and the Pawn tab renamed to Contract. The Numbering option has been moved to the Contract tab and the Database and Backups section moved to the General tab. - The Past list on the Payment window was not working. This has now been fixed. - If the Shop Amount is zero, you no longer get a warning about assigning a Shop Amount to contracts with multiple items. - The grids on the Sales screen now show the item number within a contract instead of just the contract number. - The Reset Item button has been renamed Remove Selected Item from Sale for clarity on what it does. - The Reissue numbering option has been removed completely from this version. In fact there is no longer a Numbering option at all. - You can now search for contracts by payment date as well as amount. - A bug which stopped the Search working for date fields has been fixed. - A bug which caused the program to crash when deleting Item Types from the Lookup Maintenance screen has been fixed. - The Items Due and Sales screen now fit properly on top of the main screen. Especially with Windows XP, they would sometimes sit higher and look off centre. - When you start a new contract on manual numbering, a message is displayed showing the last manual number (ie not an auto contract number format) entered. This message is also shown if you switch to manual numbering from auto while entering a new contract. - The Find Laybys and Find Sales menu options now include the current client's name to make it clear you search for sales/laybys for the current client. - The jewellery extras drop down boxes in the Item Details window did not recognise the Capitals setting in Preferences. This has now been fixed. - When changing contract numbers, the records that went to the police still contained the original contract numbers. This has now been fixed. ****----****----****----****---- Fixes/Enhancements in Pawnshop Version 2.13 (Released 14 December 2005) - The length of the Database and Backup location boxes on the Preferences screen have been increased to 60 characters to allow for longer paths to these files. - A menu item under the File menu has been added to export Client Names with Notes. - If you use manual numbers and use a slash (/) in your number, it was impossible to locate in the Sales Screen. This has now been fixed. - If you are using Manual Numbering and enter a new contract with a number that is not in the NSW police format (YYYY123456), you will not be forced to enter an earring type when entering earrings. Note that you must enter the contract number BEFORE going to the Item Details screen, otherwise you will be required to enter the details. - You can now edit amounts on Buy, Consign and Auct Buy contracts. Unfortunately, due to the difficulty of recalculating interest with the potential of interest payments, you cannot do this on pledges at the moment. - The contracts in the Contract List on the Main Screen now appear in correct order when more than one conract is on the same day. - When modifying item types in the Lookup Maint window, if you change a general type to the same name as a jewellery type, this causes a problem when trying to do a new item of that jewellery type. The program has been modified so it does not allow you to do this any more. - If you click the up/down buttons next to dates on the Main screen, the program crashed if the field was empty. This has now been fixed. - The Goods Held report will now sort items correctly by contract number if you use manual numbering and your numbers are not of the form yyyy000000 (like auto generated contract numbers). - The program would previously run an auto backup upon startup. If the database was corrupt or otherwise invalid, this would overwrite the most recent autobackup. This no longer occurs, which has the added benefit of speeding up the starting of the program as well. If you run a networked system, Flyware recommends running auto backups on the master computer (the computer housing the database) or on one computer only if your database exists on a server. - An option has now been included under the Help menu to restore an auto backup. This will only appear if you have set your Preferences to use auto backups. - You can now assign contracts a shop price without the having to be In Shop. A warning appears if you assign a price to a contract with more than one item as this price will go to both items when the contract is split. - When entering an item with a double quote (") in the item type, a police error would occur. This has now been fixed. - The item's Shop No. is now included when producing an export file of contracts. - A crash would occur if you changed a contract number or used manual numbering and entered a contract number longer than 10 characters. This has now been fixed. ****----****----****----****---- Fixes/Enhancements in Pawnshop Version 2.12 (Released 28 July 2005) - When you delete a payment that brings a pledge from Out Pawn to something else, any police records for the out transaction are now deleted. - The Reset button on the Item Details screen has been removed for new contracts due to problems when resetting jewellery items. Us the Remove button on the Main screen instead. - The program now displays split contracts in the correct item order on the main screen instead of a random order. - When a Copy for New was made on a split contract with individual items, the program would not renumber the items to start at 1, instead keeping the original which caused a problem with the police download. This has now been fixed. - Items with a status of Expired did not appear in the Goods Held (Detailed and Totals Only). This has now been fixed. - The Goods Held Detailed report now lists the item number of items within each contract. Also the number would be cut off if there were more than 10 items in a contract. This has now been fixed. - When creating a NSW police file where a client had an apostrophe in their suburb, an error would occur. This has now been fixed. - When locating a previous sale, the client's property name and state would be swapped on the sales screen. This has now been fixed. - A new option in the Options menu has been created to hide contracts for a client that have gone out of the delear's possession (eg Sold, Auctioned, Damaged etc) - When changing the Only Show 6/12 Month options, if a client is loaded, the query is redone using the new options. - When locating a contract, if the full number was used with a slash (/), the program would not find the contract. This has now been fixed. - When a contract with two or more items in it is redeemed and then repledged, sometimes the serial numbers would get mixed up between the two items. This has now been fixed. - The Search Result window displayed the contract amount rather than the individual item anount when doing an item search. This has now been fixed. - The AutoBackup will now keep copies of the last 5 backups instead of overwriting one with the most recent. This reduces the chance of the program overwriting a good back with a corrupt/incorrect one. - A new Search option has been included. You can now enter an Organisation name in the Search screen and all clients who are attached to that organisation appear in the search results. - An error in the police offload which occurred when placing a pledge that had been sold and returned back in pawn, has been fixed. - There is now an option to remove a contract from the Police Offload. This is used when one or more contracts are stopping a police load. IMPORTANT: You will need to add the contract to the police load after you do this later otherwise the police will never get the records for these contracts. - The IMIE, Barcode and Other numbers from the double entry screen are copied to the item description field if they exist. There is an entry in the Data Entry section of Preferences to turn this off if you do not want it. ****----****----****----****---- Fixes/Enhancements in Pawnshop Version 2.11 (Released 4 April 2005) - Some extra custom receipt codes have been included in this version. See the updated Custom Receipts Document for more details. - If a NSW user had no licence number entered, an error did not occur when transferring data to the police. This has now been fixed. - Some problems using Copy for New on redeemed pledges and Copy From for other contracts which were introduced in v2.0 have been fixed. ****----****----****----****---- FOR RELEASE NOTES PREVIOUS TO VERSION 2.11, PLEASE EMAIL FLYWARE AT support@flyware.com.au. ****----****----****----****----