Offline Update

• The offline update procedure was updated.

• Most tables keep track of changes within the main database allowing more efficient means of detecting changes.

• A button was added to offline server properties that allows a complete refresh to occur on the next update process. This should be scheduled when an offline database is replaced, restored or altered. 

Receiving Detail Find

• Product Field 8 was added to the grid.

Customer Order Detail Find

• The Order State has been added to the grid. This indicates if the order is open, Completed or a Quote.

Abbreviation Option

• An option to abbreviate the product description has been added to the system. 

• The option can be enabled from System Options or Abbreviation List Properties.

• Words or phrases to be abbreviated are maintained under Tools, Administration, Database Maintenance, Abbreviation List. 

• The abbreviation can be applied anywhere in the description or just at the beginning. 

• Use the beginning option to eliminate leading articles from the description.

• Abbreviations are only applied to the product description. The formal description field is not altered by the system.

• When the “Update product description from the formal description” box is checked, [i]merchant abbreviates and truncated the formal description entered. Unchecked, the product description that is entered is abbreviated.

• When changes are made to the list, use the Rebuild Keyword index option to update all the products and apply the changes to the keyword index. Failure to do so will only apply abbreviations as titles are changed.

• Caution should be taken when creating the abbreviations. Each abbreviated work is added to the Keyword index. Using an abbreviation that is a common word can cause unwanted results in the keyword search. For example, If the word “catalog” is abbreviated as “cat”, searching for the keyword cat includes all the titles with catalog.

• A work can be eliminated by not assigning a replacement word.

• Using the Beginning only search only removes words, it does not replace words.

Department Category

• A default accounting category field has been added to the department category parameter.

• When adding or updating a product, if the accounting category is left blank, the default accounting category from this department category will be used. 

Product properties

• The accounting category field will check to see if there is a default accounting category associated with the department category.

• If the default accounting category from the department category parameter does not match the accounting category assigned to the product, an error indicator is displayed next to the field. 

• Hovering over the error indicator will display the accounting category associated with the department category. 

• The system will not give a hard error of the default and the actual accounting categories disagree. It only notified the user of the discrepancy.

• If the accounting category is left blank, the default accounting category from the department category parameter will be assigned to the field.

MARC interface

• The marc interface will use the accounting category default from the department category entry. 

• If this is not filled in the accounting category from the default MARC product will be used..