Quadrant Systems RASWIN - Release Notes 2019

18-Sep-2019 14:06

1. A small change has been made to the Payment Entry screen. The Payment Method drop-down list now shows the METHOD and DESCRIPTION within the drop-down area. Older versions showed only the METHOD.
   
   It will automatically line up the values into two columns for ease in reading. If the drop-down list is two narrow or too wide as displayed on your screen, you can adjust a setting in the PMT-DROP-DOWN-LIST-WIDTH. Set the value higher or lower as needed. The default setting is 600 which we found to be a good starting
2. A new option to control what data appears in the payments section of the customer receipt has been added. The text that shows on the receipt is controlled by a parameter you can adjust to match what you want to have shown. The MISCPARMS table setting is D to display only the DESCRIPTION, or MD to display both the METHOD and DESC

11-Sep-2019 10:58

1. When you start a new receipt, the RASWIN program checks the database to see what the largest receipt number currently on file is, and adds 'one' to it to determine what the next receipt receipt records are inserted into the database for each of these entries, then at the end of the process a receipt header is added that ties all the detail and payment lines together using a power failure or network disconnection before the header record is fully updated) detail line item records or payment records could be "left behind". We have ajusted the start new receipt function to insure that in such cases any stray detail line items or payment records are deleted. The updated version of the automatically program creates 3 new SQL server stored procedures to do this.
2. The RASWIN program now stores the user photo-id pictures in the RASWIN database. Photo ID pics (in JPG format) can be selected via the File Menu.
   
   
   The setup program will install a set of images that you can select from into the C:\programdata\quadrant\photo_id directory. These are all sized to be about 200x200px. You can also use other JPG files, but we recommend that you use a photo editing program to insure the size of the image is more or less square and 200x200px or so. There is an online tool available to do this. at this web link: https://squoosh.app/. You just need to drag your image to the screen and use the settings panel on the right side of the screen to adjust the size and quality. In most cases, a file size of about 8k to 10k can be used, which will be a substantial reduction in size from a typical cell phone image without a significant reduction in the quality of the image. Once you have sized your photo correctly, just copy it to the above noted directory and the program will then find it when you use the "select photo id" option, as shown below.
   
   
   
   Use the Previous and Next buttons to move between the available photos. When you find one you want to use, click on the SET IT button, and the progam will save your selected image to the database, using your login ID as the record identifier for you image. Once this is done, that image will be used on ALL workstations running the RASWIN program, unlike the older versions of the program that required the image to be on each machine.
   
   
   

11-Jul-2019 11:08

1. The REGSET.EXE program has been modified slightly. It now will make an automatic entry in the LICENSE table in the DEPT_CODE of your choice when you use the "SET" button to assign the register number. This will eliminate to make a manual entry for a new workstation with a new register number.
   
   Please see this link for details on this updated version of REGSET.EXE
2. A new report has been added to the Audit Menu. This is called "Big Audit List".
   
   From the Audit Menu, select the option:
   
   
   
   And then your date range:
   
   
   Wait a few seconds and the report will be generated and displayed in your default web browser. Note that this set of reports relies on the various transaction records and corresponding views. If you have deleted unused trancodes, removed cashiers, payment methods, etc., these views will not reflect the underlying transaction data, so some totals may appear to differ in different sections of the report.
   
   Also, For the totals by payment method (last section of the report) any change given out is not factored in the the total displayed for cash tenders.
   
   A lot of the information shown on this report is available in slightly different format on the various sections of the cash recap report.

17-May-2019 10:33

1. The logic related to selection of transaction dates, and the other options such as register, user, and department has been reworked to ensure that the same criteria are used for each selected section of the report.
   
   Also, based on the date range selected (either accounting date, or calendar date, or both) the drop down lists will only permit you to select either "ALL" or the users, departments, or registers that actually processed transactions in the selected range of dates.

11-Feb-2019 11:48

1. A new report has been added to the AUDIT MENU as shown below
   
   
   This allows you to create a quick listing of totals by payment method based on the special SHORT_DESCRIPTION field on each TRAN_CODE in the TRANCODES table. These are used for special reporting purposes. For example, if you want to use the QUICK REPORTS function to list all receipts that are related to a certain class, such as TAXES or BLDG, you can set the SHORT_DESCRIPTION to be /TAXES/ or /BLDG/.
   When you select the new report the following screen will appear.
   
   Simply enter the values you want and click on the GET DATA button and the system will quickly display the values it finds.
   
   If you have mutilple registers to check, just enter a forward slash between the three digit register numbers.
   
   The data can be printed on your receipt printer or report printer.
   
   After running the report and closing the screen, the settings you used will be saved automatically for the next time you run it.
   
   The values on this report are not guaranteed to be 100% correct but will be very close to the actual figures. The reason for this is that in cases where multiple forms of payment are tendered on a single receipt, it is not possible to know how they are to be broken down across the detail items on the report. For example, if you had a BLDG item for $100, and a TAX item for $100, and two payments, one check for $150, and cash for $50 ... we can't know which of the two items should get $100 of the check and which would get $50 ck and $50 cash. So the report may slightly under or overstate the totals in some cases. There's no way around this. On the bright side of things, this does not happen very often in the real world.