What's New
Procedure Library Update !
Released February 1, 1999
Q.W.Page is pleased to annouce the release of an update to the NewViews Procedure Library for NewViews version 1.41b. This new Procedure Library, Version 12, offers many significant enhancements of benefit to NewViews users.
NewViews Procedure Library Version 12 was created to allow more control over procedure date formatting and to overcome some deficiencies in Version 10b. The new date formatting features will be of major interest to users concerned with the Y2K issue. Although NewViews is already fully Y2K compliant, NewViews Procedure Library Version 12 offers even more control over date formats in procedure prompts and printed reports for the Year 2000 and beyond. In addition, this new Procedure Library provides NewViews users with added options for several existing procedures and some new procedures to simplify daily operations.
Following are the highlights of NewViews Procedure Library Version 12, divided into three sections: Date Formats, Procedure Changes and New Procedures. Read through this information carefully to see how this new Procedure Library will benefit YOU! You can order your NewViews Procecdure Library Update (Version 12) for only $99. Use the order form that has been provided on this web site or contact the Q.W.Page Update Department at 1-800-267-PAGE (7243).
ADDED BONUS! NewViews users who are currently running NewViews version 1.40, 1.41, or 1.41a will receive NewViews version 1.41b (program files) AT NO CHARGE when they order their NewViews Procedure Library Update!
DATE FORMATS
Prior versions of the NewViews Procedure Library contained inconsistencies in the treatment of date formats. For example:
- While some printing procedures honored the date format specified in the Odds & Ends document, others did not.
- There was no simple method of changing the date format printed on checks, invoices, etc. This problem was becoming especially acute with the coming of the year 2000 - many users were asking for the full 4 digits of the year to be printed on checks, etc.
- On procedure prompts, it was easy to enter an incorrect date without realizing it, since the century component of the year was not displayed. For example, if you entered 30111198 instead of 30111998, the date displayed on the screen would be Nov 30,98 which looks correct, but could lead to unusual results since the century is in fact wrong.
In Version 12, the dates on ALL procedure prompts and printed documents now conform to the date format number you choose on the Odds & Ends document.
PROCEDURE CHANGES
EXPSETUP
EXPSETUP may now be run from:
- A block of reports on the Home document
- A block of accounts on a report Setup view
Prompt options have been added to allow the inclusion or omission of account notes and report text lines.
EXPTRANS
EXPTRANS may now be run from:
- A block of reports on the Home document
- A block of accounts on a report Setup view
- A block of transactions in an account (any view/order)
In the first two cases, you may specify a range of transactions to be exported from every account in the block. The range can be a date, reference, or reconcile range. You may also specify any combination of Debits, Credits, Open, & Closed items to be included. In the third case, the ledger items in the block are exported.
IMPORT
The number of allowable date formats in transactions records has been changed.
IMPORT
Prior versions of IMPORT forced the books to a "safe-point" after every 100 lines had been imported. A safe-point means that all updates to the books as a result of the imported lines have been written to disk, and the DATAR.NV (recovery) file is reset back to a zero size. This kept the DATAR.NV file from growing too large. The disadvantage of periodically bringing the books to a safe-point is that if the import is terminated by a power outage or system crash, part of the import is completed but there is no way of restarting the import at the point where the crash occured. For this reason, the safe-points have been removed from the IMPORT procedure. Now, if an import is terminated through a system problem, NewViews’ crash-recovery system will roll the books back to their original state before the import was started. The import then can be performed again as usual without the problem of duplicate data being imported.
PRTACCTS
The starting page number is now taken from the "Start Page #" field of the Print Options screen, if set.
PRTAADDRS
Accounts with no address in the Notes view are now skipped automatically.
PRTCHKS
Now runs from any "ledger" view (i.e. any view that contains ledger items) in any sort order. When run from views other than the Credit view, any items in the block with an amount greater than 0.00 are skipped.
PRTPAY
A partial payment option has been added to the procedure. The "Confirm invoices" field on the main prompt has been changed to "Confirm\partial pay invoices". When this field is set to "Yes", a prompt is displayed for each invoice with which you may specify both the amount to be paid and a discount amount.
REPORT
Two new fields have been added to the four printing options screens.
The current status of NV1 for DOS
Final Release
The last update to the NV1 for DOS core code was the 1.41b release of November 25, 1993.
No new core code DOS updates are scheduled.
Payroll library updates are scheduled for the forseeable future.
Support for NV1 for DOS is current and active.
NV1 - Printing Trouble current status with new computers and printers.