Release Notes TransLution Version 3.07 – Release Date 21 February 2013

 

Release Summary

This release contains a number of minor enhancements that have been released individually over the past few months. The enhancements are mainly focussed around the Touch Screen software which is also the part of the product that sees some new functionality added – we have created a new overly type for QC processing.

 

QC Processing

This panel is used in specific quality control scenarios and does some specific things but as with the rest of TransLution it also supports a great degree of flexible configuration. What this overlays does, is that it allows a product to be viewed graphically (using a PDF file) and then allows the user to decide whether to Accept, Reject or Rework the product. Depending on the result selected (and the configurable reason code that is chosen) the product will be automatically moved from the source location (which can be defaulted or scanned) to one of three target locations. One location is allowed for each of Reject, Rework and Accept which can all be configured. The general look of the Quality Control overlay is very similar to the Concurrent Prompt overlay and works in a similar way in terms of how the prompts are presented. The main difference is that in this case, only one prompt may be needed to be visible with all the others defaulted.

 

Scanner Enhancements

There was a new scanner function added which is called bulk carrier move. While we already have a carrier move transfer type, it requires the user to scan each carrier that will be moved. The bulk move function allows the user to scan only the source and target locations and then every single carrier in the source location will be immediately moved to the target location.

 

Default initial values are supported – i.e. the first prompt (including source location) in a scanner prompt sequence can have a default value. Previously any prompt except the first could have a default value – now any prompt can have a default value.

 

The RF scanner includes a new button to "Request Job". This allows for up to four function areas to be displayed at a time, with "Next"/"Back" buttons to scroll if more than four Function Areas are available to the scanner

 

The suggestion prompt which is a stored procedure that runs BEFORE scanning has been done has been enhanced to work with directed scanner jobs. The Suggestion prompt uses the same area on the scanner form to display its message and this change allows the two features to be used at the same time. A message box is shown on the scanner if the response from a Suggestion Prompt is prefixed with "MSG," The text following the suggestion prompt is displayed in the message box

 

 

Touch Screen Enhancements

It was found that users were ignoring the error message being shown as a message box on the touch screen form in some environments. This build released an option to show a full screen flashing message on a Touch Screen. This should make the message harder to ignore and will require operator intervention to remove the error confirming that it has been read.

 

The scale communication has been enhanced and with this release we now support 2 (or more) scales per Function Areas on TL Touch Screen.

 

The PC name is passed as a parameter to banner stored procedures. This will allow the stored procedures to show information specifically related to the current device.

 

The Audit Trail for "changed" data from the TL Selector grid is now storing all the data in the selected rows from the TL Selector grid.

 

When it does not make sense for the search options to be visible for a TL Selector on the touch screen an indicator for the specific function area can be set to auto hide the search options. The "Show Search" button will still allow the user to use a search on the selected data.

 

TL Selector on the touch screen allows different VB Provider code to be executed if the button is mapped to the current function area. The general mapping will be used if there is no function area specific code.

 

We have also added a VB Provider option to the "Post Syspro" button general overlay on the touch screen

 

New Service

While the ability to post every transaction to Syspro as it has been scanned has proved to be extremely useful we have found that there are environments where this is not ideal. The reason for this not being the ideal option generally relates to high volume environments where posting every single transaction singly can result in large transaction volumes in Syspro with the subsequent result that Syspro ‘runs out’ of journal numbers too quickly. We have therefore built a service that specifically handles Backflush and GIT transactions in Syspro but can be extended to support others as well. This service can be configured using the function area maintenance form which also makes the service configuration flexible and easy to use.

 

 

Other Minor Enhancements and Bug Fixes

·         More than 8000 characters can be used in the VB Provider source code

·         Fix the ‘;ITEM.... ‘ error when doing discrete stock adjustment

·         Additional change to make Touch Screen fix problem with Combo Box being left aligned on general panel processing

·         Error with XML is returned on prompt and not when finish is pressed

·         Touch Screen Function Areas are now sorted by Description when being assigned to buttons

·         Grid fields with a date caused problems when being saved to the audit table. This is now fixed

·         This was a minor fix to Touchscreen - the commserver prompt is disabled for both the concurrent overlay (new) and the standard scanning function (existing)

·         The stored procedure to update the side banners now runs after all vbp/vbs code is run

·         The PC scanner is now a separate install

·         There was a problem found with running VB Scripts on the Supervisor functions and other client forms with just buttons  related to VBP audit trail. This build fixed that issue

·         Changes to Bulk Import Service to write to the SERVICE_MANAGER table

·         Fix to bug on VBP behind the save button on the concurrent prompt panel where the code executed once per prompt and not just once for the whole function area

·         We have added the ability to record who ran both VB Provider and VBS code from any button. The software now records the button, the user Id and the source code with a timestamp of when the code was executed