ALERE 18.0 Patch Notes

Issue NumberCorrected Issue
Patch 01
18-126New Feature: Fulfilled request that the email automation for an ACH payment have the ability to list the supplier invoice numbers for that payment.
18-130New Feature: Fulfilled request for an option on the Purchase Order Receipts report to display the non-averaged received costs.
18-131Corrected an when receiving a Transfer Order via the Inventory Receiving screen > Partial tab where it sometimes generated a "12 Variable ASKID is not found ISRECV.CHECKASK 0" error.
18-134Corrected an issue with the email automation rules where, if the email text contained the code for a shipment tracking number and the order had no tracking number, the resulting email still had a link to the shipping website.
18-136Corrected an issue where the BmRev table was missing an index tag on the BomTag, which resulted in the system taking much longer to save or load configurations.
18-137Corrected an issue on the Mass Payments screen > Direct Debits/ACH tab, where the Test File option could be checked without checking the ACH Payment option.
18-138Corrected an issue within the Mass Payments screen > Direct Debits/ACH tab, where pressing the Post Button with ACH Payment checked and no invoices selected in the grid generated a "12 Variable CRDFI is not found. PSAPPROV.CREATE_ACH 0" error.
18-144Corrected an issue in ALERE CS, on the Mass Payments screen > Direct Debits/ACH tab, the message "An error has occurred in SQL" would be presented if a previously posted direct debit had a Reference ID beginning with a number followed by a non-numeric character.
18-147Corrected an issue in ALERE CS, where when the Inventory screen was open on a kit item with more than one revision, opening the Item Config screen yielded "An error has occurred in SQL" message.
18-148Corrected an issue in the Sales Order report > Export function, when an order had no line items the error "1581 Field NONTAXEDVALUE does not accept NULL values. EXT_SQLSEND 0" was presented.
18-149Corrected an issue where, when linked to AccountMate SQL, adding a Work Order from a Sales Order gave the error "An error has occurred in SQL".
18-152Corrected an issue in ALERE CS where voiding AP gives "An error has occurred in SQL" message.
18-154Corrected an issue in the the AP/Cash Payments and Mass Payments screens allowing a payment to be made before the invoice date.
18-157Fixed the Store and Bin label so it includes the missing the plus sign required to be between the store and bin.
18-158Corrected an issue where on the Company screen > Locations tab, checking the Transfer checkbox and then pressing Save without defining the transfer accounts generated a "1923 Object TXTINVTTARGET is not found. ACCOADDRS.CHECKDATA" error.
18-159Corrected an issue when posting a MR transaction for a non-lot/serial/trait item on an inheritance type work order gave "Insufficient unmarked IDs" message.
18-161Corrected an issue when linked to VAMSQL for an existing BOM while adding a Route or entering a Route on a new BOM, saving generated an "Error in SQL. The multi-part identifier "oWs.RouteLength" could not be bound" error. Followed by a message that the Route Number is not found.
18-162Changed the default state of the Auto Done option on the Transfer Orders screen to checked.
18-163Corrected an issue on the Inventory Receipts screen > Partial tab, when receiving a lot and/or serialized item from a Transfer Order that was previously shipped did not display the already shipped lot and/or serial numbers that were shipped on the selection screen.
18-165Corrected an issue in ALERE CS on the Mass Payments screen > Direct Debits tab, where an error in SQL for "Error converting data type varchar to numeric" occasionally occurred.
Patch 02
18-133Corrected an issue on the Dispatch screen after assigning a Service Ticket to an employee and saving. If there was an email automation rule assigned, the system will present a file open screen dialog then generate a "1 File COADDR.DBF does not exist. EXT_SQLSEND 0" error.
18-171Corrected an issue where the AP/Cash Payments and Mass Payments screens would allow a payment to be made before the GL posting date of orders.
18-172Corrected an issue when releasing a Non-PST taxable Purchase Order with GST tax, where the AP Payable was created without the GST tax included in the order total.
18-173Corrected an issue where the Service Ticket report did not display any information in the History section of the report.
18-174Corrected an issue with ALERE LAN, where the Inventory screen "Used" button gave no results.
18-177Corrected an issue within the Service App where adding labor to the Service Ticket may generate a "13 Alias CLASSLIST is not found. SERVADDLABLE.CNTFIELDBOX1.TXTCLASS1.CLICK 0" error.
18-181Corrected an issue in the Costed BOM report where it did not take the Yield factor into consideration when rolling up the material cost into the parent item.
18-182Corrected an issue when creating a Sales Order or Purchase Order with no Transfer type locations set up, the order caption stated that it was an Intercompany Order until the order is saved.
18-183Corrected an issue on the Mass Payments screen where, if there are any customer AP or prepayment refunds that were approved to pay, entering the Print Checks tab generated a "27 Not a numeric expression CODESTRING 0" error.
18-184Corrected an issue where running the Sales Invoice report for a Report Type of 'All Backorders' when there are no back orders on one or more Sales Orders that generated the Sales Invoices generated a "1581 Field DISCOUNTVALUE does not accept null values. EXT_SQLSEND 0" error.
18-185Corrected an issue where the Sales Order, AR Invoice, and Packing List reports were not showing configuration information.
18-186Corrected an issue that prevented DAQ from posting transactions to a manufacturing-only company linked to another ALERE accounting company.
Patch 03
18-188Corrected an issue when creating an AP from a PO if shipping was added to the AP, it did not automatically add GST tax to the order. If shipping was already on the PO, the multicurrency conversion wasn't applied to it.
18-191Corrected an issue where, when creating AP from a PO, if the GST amount was edited on the AP header, the difference was not posted to GL.
18-195Corrected an issue where creating a PO from a multicurrency SO would not use the currency of the supplier.
18-196Corrected an issue where, when running the Backup & Reduce Data function from the System Tools ribbon, a file open screen was displayed, followed by a "1 File GLITEM.dbf does not exist. EXT_SQLSEND 0" error.
18-198Corrected an issue on the AP/Cash Payments screen when selecting Direct Debit, the screen did not default the Ref ID to the next available number.
18-202Corrected an issue where serial numbers cannot be selected when releasing an Intercompany Transfer Order with serialized items from the target company.
18-204Corrected an issue on the Transfer Order report for an Intercompany Transfer Order, where it did not show the target company location information in the header.
18-206Corrected an issue where printing the Associated Documents along with an AR Invoice or Credit Memo did not work.
18-207Corrected an issue when printing the Sales Order or Invoice reports with the option to 'Include Documents' selected, did not work if the primary company location was a Remit To.
18-208Corrected an issue when double-clicking on a Payment within the Customer screen (receipt, not refund) where the Activity tab brought up the AR/Cash Receipts screen in add mode rather than driving into the payment selected.
18-210Corrected an issue that prevented the Purchase Order Status tab from displaying linked sales orders.
18-211Corrected an issue when shipping an Intercompany Transfer Order with email automation rule enabled that displayed the error "1300 Function name is missing ). EXT_RELEASEICTO".
18-213Corrected an issue on the Inventory Shipping screen, where navigating to the Partial tab after selecting Purchase Returns, deselecting Sales Orders, and selecting a record other than the first one results in the screen header showing the details from the first record, not the selected one.
18-214Corrected an issue where voiding an AR Invoice, then reversing the shipping, added extra accounts into the GL reverse posting.
18-218Corrected an issue in the Trial Balance Consolidation report, where, if set to 'Show Balances', all entries showed as zero. Fixed an issue where setting the option of Zero Activity = Include Accounts with Balance was not working.
18-220Corrected an issue where, if there were multiple Work Orders for the same item, on the Future Activity screen, they would be duplicated.
18-223Corrected an issue where pressing Print on the Profit Analytics screen with the Bill To company set generated a "Variable COID is not found" error.
18-227Corrected an issue with the Executive Advisor, where clicking on the Purchase Receipts report button gave a File Open screen, followed by a "1 File COADDR does not exist" error.
18-233Corrected an issue when creating a Debit Memo from a Return Order within the AP/DM screen, where the Accrued Payables account was saved in the APBILLS table instead of the AP account.
18-234Corrected an issue when creating Debit Memos from a Return Order with GST tax, where, on GL entry screen, the tax amount is doubled and the GL was out of balance.
18-236Corrected an issue where, when releasing a Sales Quote to a Sale Order with order approval rules enabled, the OkNext field on the Sales Order was not populated, which prevented the ability to Accept the order.
18-237Corrected an issue where it was possible to void a customer prepayment that had been applied to an invoice, creating a negative prepayment record.
18-247Corrected an issue with the Client/Server version of the product, where the Sales Statement report with the Select Combine Locations, when set to Yes, generated a "1300 Function name is missing. EXT_SQLSEND 0" error.
18-248Corrected an issue where an email with multiple recipients separated by commas did not appear on the InTouch Contact Log tab.
18-285Corrected an issue with standard cost companies where, when a sales invoice was voided, there were extraneous postings to the Inventory Clearing and Purchase Variance accounts.
18-287Corrected an issue where, on acceptance of a Credit Memo, a "Credits exceed Debits" error sometimes occurred. Additionally, the product would sometimes show the message "Credit Memo has a positive total..." when the total was actually negative.
18-288Corrected an issue where voiding an AR Invoice, then reversing the shipping when there are kit items that were shipped, the components of the kits failed to reverse.
18-305Corrected an issue in the ALERE CS Time & Labor screen where, when posting transactions with dates into the past, the posting had the current date.
18-306Corrected an issue in ALERE CS where, when creating a work order from a sales order, the browser did not show work orders that were already linked to the sales orders.
18-308Corrected an issue when posting AP, if GL posting accounts were reordered so that the AP account was not first, the first account would be saved to the ApBills table.
18-310Corrected an issue in the ALERE CS Time & Labor screen, where the Employee filter did not support a partial match as it does in ALERE LAN.
18-311Corrected an issue when creating an Intercompany Transfer Order where the order in the target company had the Ship To and Ship From addresses reversed.
18-312Corrected an issue when releasing an Intercompany Transfer Order, where users could not release any lines when one of the items was not in the target company's inventory.
18-313Corrected an issue when releasing an Intercompany Transfer Order, where users could not release any lines if one of the items was not in stock. Additionally, both orders appeared to be marked as Complete even when not all lines were released.
18-314Corrected an issue after releasing an Intercompany Transfer Order where the lines in the target company order appeared to have the wrong items.
18-319Corrected an issue within the Generate Recurring Purchase Orders screen, where when a recurring order was released with a non-stock item in a standard cost company the error "107 Operator/Operand type mismatch. EXT_RECVINVOICERP 0" was generated.
18-321Corrected an issue when releasing an Intercompany Transfer Order that was set up as a pull type with the Ship From as the target company and the Ship To as the source company, the receiving company received the order at a cost different from what was shipped.
18-328Corrected an issue in the ALERE CS Open Sales Orders report, where partial matches for Item Misc Code were not supported.
Patch 04
18-180Corrected an issue where any reports with a .Tooltip property, such as the Sales Order, Purchase Order, Sales Invoice, Indented BOM, Material Orders, Service Ticket, and Work Order reports, generated a "31 Invalid subscript reference. REPORT_MERGE 0" error message when additional entries were added to the Alternate column of Ws_Lingo.
18-341Corrected an issue where payments were using the Accept Date of AP Payable to determine if an AP could be paid, rather than using the GL Posting Date.
18-344Corrected an issue where an Intercompany Transfer Order may not receive items in the Target Company at the exact cost that they were shipped at from the Source Company.
18-346Corrected an issue where the Mass Email/Mail List screen did not evaluate rules based on dates correctly.
18-353Corrected an issue with the Time and Labor screen > Labor/Usage tab, which may not show all activity if the Employee field was not blank.
18-361Corrected an issue where double-clicking on an already entered line item within the Sales Order screen header tab would set the line price to the default price for that item.
18-370Corrected an issue where the BOM import did not validate that quantities being imported were numeric values.
18-375Fixed an issue within the Inventory Receiving screen, where lot and serial numbers could not be entered.
18-376Fixed an issue within Sales Finance Charges, where on Post would present a "1 file COAPPROV does not exist. EXT_SQLSEND 0".
18-380Fixed an issue within ALERE CS, where the Costed BOM report for some BOMs gave a "An error occurred in SQL". The SQL error log would show "String or binary data would be truncated ... column 'LEVQTY' ".
18-386Fixed an issue where an Intercompany SO created from a Purchase Order would use the next AR Invoice number rather than the next Sales Order Number for the Document ID.
Patch 05
18-387Fixed an issue where the Sales Quote Analysis report was inconsistently displaying the cost of goods, price, and margin if there was a unit of measure conversion factor on the line.
18-411Fixed an issue where, when the "Skip Non-configurable Kits" option in Company Defaults was checked, the kit material records were not created in the SALESMTL table.
18-414Fixed an issue when a purchase order was copied from another purchase order, the Activity tab of the original order showed the activity of the copied order.
18-415Fixed an issue where, when an Express work order was completed, the 'On Order MFG' quantity was not cleared.
18-416Fixed an issue on the Future Activity screen, where adding "$" at the end of the item number in order to show only the exact item results in the item's description was not working.
18-419Fixed an issue when using SMTP email: if a message was edited before sending, the email log did not reflect the edits. (NOTE: If using OUTLOOK, what was released to Outlook was saved. Any additional changes would have to be saved in Outlook.)
18-424Fixed an issue with some large sales orders that used a whole order discount, where the total amount on the Header tab is .01 off from the total on the Status tab and the report.
18-425Fixed an issue when exporting the list from the Profile Search screen, from the InTouch Prospect Profile screen, did not export any companies, only the headers.
18-426Fixed an issue in the Client/Server version of the product, where the InTouch Communication Log report, when run for Include Contacts and Email Log, generated "An error occurred in SQL" error. The SQL error log displayed the error as "The data types text and char are incompatible in the equal to operator".
18-427Fixed an issue where using the Fetch search function from the ribbon menu sometimes gave the error "1734 Property BTNPRESSED is not found."
18-428Fixed an issue in ALERE CS, where the As of WIP report and the Order Transactions report were not including labor postings from the ending date of the specified date range.
18-429Fixed an issue in a manufacturing only company, where email rules for "WO - Step Started" and "WO - Step Completed" didn't insert the operation number into the email subject or body.