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IES Release Notes

 

 

Change / New in IES 8.92: -

01) Alerter: Alerter Dispatcher for SMS and e-mail Alerts.

02) Stock: Stores Management - Removal of Store, De-populate from Retail.

03) Stock: Stock Master - Internal Unit can be changed if Stock Item not yet transacted.

 

 

Change / New in IES 8.91: -

01) Mill, Oil Palm: FFB Weighbridge Ticket processing, CPO Stock management, and related functions.

02) Forex Gain/Loss, Auto Adjusted: When unrealized Gain/Loss is performed in the final period of the Financial Year, it reverses not in the 13th or further adjustment periods that may be present, but in the next real period, i.e. the 1st period of the new Financial Year.

 

 

Change / New in IES 8.90: -

01) Insurance Brokerage, Customer Account: Customer Policy Numbers listed on front panel.

02) Job Costing, Performance Measurements: Automatic Dictionary and Lookup Assistance Note created from new Measurements.

03) Alerter has been upgraded with new User Triggers.

 

 

Change / New in IES 8.89: -

01) Journal Processing, Upload: Jnl Import AC70080 now with sub accts.

02) Journal Processing: Debtor Limit checks expanded to Jnls 10314-10318,10334,10336.

03) Retail and Distribution: Debtor limit checks expanded to ODP.

04) Job Costing: Expansion of Job Measurement Types to address any month in Financial Year for Financials and Physicals.

05) Job Costing: "Learn From" introduced on Job Measurement Types.

 

 

Change / New in IES 8.88: -

01) Report Writers, DocWriter and WebWriter: Limit on Tags Select raised from 999 to unlimited.

02) Report Writers, DocWriter and WebWriter: Correction on Exploding Units where iesMobile interfered with dynamic html expansion in certain circumstances.

 

 

Change / New in IES 8.87: -

01) Cash Book, the Cash Watch: new Cash Flow projection management.

02) Cash Book, Cheque Query: now informs as to the Cheque Beneficiary before drilling the transaction.

03) Cash Book, Cheque Report: new Cheque Posting range verification to locate missing cheque postings.

04) Learn From, Fixed Assets: now allows (optional) learning of the Asset Register itself in addition to the set up, for cases where the same company is being set up again.

05) Retail and Distribution: ODP Invoicing now double checks the embedded Debtor Account at invoicing (to avoid Accounts that allow delete when there are no transactions yet).

06) Retail and Distribution: Origination Codes now support closure, i.e. retain but no use on new deals allowed.

07) Retail and Distribution: Sales Codes now support closure, i.e. retain but no use on new deals allowed.

08) CRM: The linked master CRM record is now deleted automatically when a Debtor or Creditor Account is deleted, provided the CRM does not have multiple connections.

09) Accounting Controls, Financial Periods: The main control record, when finding irregularities at 'attempt to save', will now inform as to the row where it is not satisfied with the date (if so), and will warn when a '13th Period' is still set as a real period.

 

 

Change / New in IES 8.86: -

01) Financial Modules, Audit Trails: Dt/Cr/Bal type Audit Trails now offer both system and local versions, instead of just 1 or the other.

02) Retail, Invoices: The metadata has been extended to include both line discount amounts and percentages.

03) Journals: Multi Journal retrieval now supports Document numbers up to 30 characters.

04) Journals: Single Journal options "GL10030 Physical no Resource" and "GL10040 Physical with Resource" now have "Post Now/Post Later/Retrieve/Print" options.

05) Journals: Multi Journal options IV20066 and IV20067 now include a delete option as for IV20065.

06) Purchasing, Landed Costs: An "order" print for Landed Costs is now provided at the Landed Costs enquiry screen.

07) Payroll, Payrun Removal: The 'undo' / removal option for a Payrun can now be limited to a desired number of instances on the User's Payroll Business profile.

08) iesMobile, preRun: The Prerun Assistant will now provide "Prior Year Period" names in addition to "Current Year Period" names on request.

09) Report Writers, Document Writer: DocWriter Reports that have been designed using Excel will now automatically convert final output to a single page, rather than the "sheet based" Excel format. There is an option to inhibit this function at Systems Admin, Print Controls, for cases where the former format is preferred.

10) Systems Admin, User Audit Trail: The "application" field has been re-introduced for the User Audit Trail.

 

 

Change / New in IES 8.85: -

This release addresses a minor bug in the Balancing system, when Period 0 is addressed on Account Enquiries.

 

Change / New in IES 8.84: -

01) Accounting Controls, Manage Problems: New option for rebuilding Quick Balances.

02) Stock, Issues: On "Post Later" multi journals, there is now a Reserve Price update if the Issue Price is changed due to recent movement in the base cost. This ensures that internal Stock Returns are done at the same value as when issued.

03) Set Up, Learn From: New option for "Retail Learn From".

04) Accounting Controls, Manage Problems: New option for "Orphan Balances Report". This is useful in cases of system problems (cash, data loss, other) and where a TB is not balancing, to trace the cause of the problem.

05) Payroll, Palm Oil: Stricter control on sub runs for this version.

06) GL, Chart wizard: New option for en masse Account Description maintenance.

07) GL, Chart wizard: New additional method for en masse Account generation, by the "mask method" that allows flexible manipulation of primary and sub segments, and elements.

 

 

Change / New in IES 8.83: -

01) iesMobile: status changes from Beta to Full Release.

 

 

Change / New in IES 8.82: -

01) iesMobile: Now with full support for Accounts drills.

 

 

Change / New in IES 8.81: -

Not a public release.

 

 

Change / New in IES 8.80: -

01) iesMobile: 1st Release of iesMobile, apps on the go on any browser platform, e.g. iPhone, iPad, etc.

 

Change / New in IES 8.79: -

01) General Ledger: Chart Wizard, en masse Open / Close Account options.

02) Physicals: Option to choose between Actual and Accrual Cost Basis for Machine Recoveries.

03) Personnel: Take On of the Personnel Master has been strengthened.

04) Payroll: New Take On option for Palm Oil Plantation Payroll.

05) Job Costing: New Accrual Balance Names for all Balance Types, available for all Report Writers.

06) Journal Processing: New Journal option 10318, with multi leg, multi account type, multi currency and multi Sub Account posting.

 

 

Change / New in IES 8.78: -

01) New Module! : Savings Bank.

02) Financial Modules: New, automatic quick balancing structures for all Balances on all Modules, with speed improvements of up to 800% dealing with large Charts of Account (500,000 Accounts and more), large Stock Catalogs, etc.

 

 

Change / New in IES 8.77: -

01) Personnel system: Family photographs now optional, in addition to Employee photograph.

02) General Ledger: Sub Account extensions now include (a) Query File GLSUBS for Balance Reports on Sub Accounts and Data Queries as well, (b) Data Names for all available values on Sub Accounts, for selection and reporting, and (c) Sub Account drills have been expanded to include Budgets and Variances for Financial Current and YTD, Physical Current and YTD, KPI Current and YTD.

03) Budgets: Full access to Sub Accounts for Financial, Physical and KPI Budgets, plus a dynamic Reporting sub system for Sub Account Budget reports.

 

 

Change / New in IES 8.76: -

01) IES system: Lookups, all kinds - upper limit on lookup (data) size can be imposed at system (at Main System Parameters) and/or User (at My Settings) level. This is useful when size constraints are encountered on some kinds of VPN connections. The result will be that the lookup is offered in split sets that fit into the size constraint, but will still include all results as always.

02) General Ledger and Chart of Accounts: -

    a) GL Account Keys maximum length after masking has been raised to 40. The longest Key length in the Multi GL Chart is automatically sensed and system reports that include this are automatically adjusted.

   b) GL Account Names / Descriptions no longer have a maximum length, and can be any required or practical length.

   c) The input and display width for GL Account Keys on Multi Journal screens are defaulted but may also be soft set at 'Master Code Masking', for a preferred practical width in accordance with the local Chart settings.

   d) GL Account Keys / Chart: The 7 Sub Segments on the primary Department Segments, when applied, now result in automatic 'Names' in the GL Dictionary, and of course the Names can be used for Selection and Report writing purposes.

   e) GL Account Keys / Chart: There are 7 new Elements on the Account Key that may be applied as pseudo segments on existing Segments. These Elements may be derived from 1 or 2 pseudo segments that may overlap others. The Elements, when applied, automatically result in 'Names' in the GL Dictionary, and can be used for Selection and Report writing purposes.

   f) GL Account Dept, connection to Agri Block: The Block has been liberated and no longer has to mirror the full Dept Key, and can be an extract instead. This allows for sub segment repeating on the Dept Segment without having to repeat the Block.

03) Journals and Electronic imports: A new Journal import option that allows a number of different Journal types to be imported is provided as Journal 70080 in the Account Control Journal Section. Access to this Journal option opens up the import function.

04) Report Writing: More flexible User specified criteria options have been introduced at GL Management Reports, Budget Reports, and DocWriter for Templates 51,58 and 59.

 

 

Change / New in IES 8.75: -

01) AP Creditors: Account Master, revision.

02) AR Debtors: Account Master, revision.

03) General Ledger: Chart wizard, revision.

 

 

New in IES 8.74: -

01) Set Up, Ledger: Extensions to the Upload options for Cost Centres and Departments.

02) Ledger, Chart Wizard: Extensions to the function for generating Accounts for Departments.

 

 

New in IES 8.73: -

01) Set Up, Physicals: Upload option for the Field Master.

02) Retail & Distribution: Extensions to meta data for Invoice production.

03) Cash Book, Matching: User Directed Matching, more methods to retrieve "doc no"

 

New in IES 8.72: -

01) Retail: Variable Invoice Terms and active Terms selection during processing.

02) General Ledger: Link to Agri Physicals for derived Estate and Division from Ledger Accounts.

03) Payroll: Clocking, new Early Clock Out Report.

 

 

New in IES 8.71: -

01) UI (IES Client): More User customisation enabled with UI @ My Settings.

02) Screen Revisions at Journal Processing, General Ledger and Accounting Controls.

 

 

New in IES 8.70: -

01) Accounting, Currency Management: UNrealized Gain/Loss with auto reversal.

02) Journals: AR Debtor Forex Receipt in mixed Currencies, with Gain/Loss and Discount.

 

 

New in IES 8.69: -

01) Retail, Extended Tax Types.

02) User Interface (UI), support for latest update to IES Client.

 

 

New in IES 8.68: -

01) Cash Book revamped.

02) Cash Book, Bank Recons: New Variance Assistant wizard.

03) Cash Book, Bank Recons: Automatic Journals and matching for regular Charges on Bank Statement.

04) Cash Book, Bank Recons: Automatic Journals and matching for Customer Bank Deposits and Transfers.

 

 

New in IES 8.67: -

01) Stock: LIFO/FIFO update to complement Average Cost basis for Stock Management.

02) Stock: New journals that include Stock Price 'obscured', for Stock Issues at Warehouse.

03) General Ledger: Ledger privacy connected to Authority Code profiles.

04) Soft-set option on User Settings for prompting to print Journals at posting time.

 

 

New in IES 8.66: -

01) Updates to Direct Data Source Layouts (metadata) for DocWriter.

 

 

New in IES 8.65: -

01) New implementation and "New Business" set up wizard.

 

New in IES 8.64: -

01) Fixed Assets: Option to 'undo' Automatic Depreciation run.

02) Business Objects: Data Streamers

03) Alerter: Trigger to perform Data Streamer.

04) General Ledger: Multi Ledgers raised from 7 to 36.

05) Distribution: New Access Control on Invoice Data Changes for ODP Invoices.

 

 

New in IES 8.63: -

01) Purchasing: Zero Price Direct Items now allowed on Purchase Orders.

02) Retail and Distribution: Branch Support (Dict Names) on Retailcommit (metadata) to support customized Queries and Quick Reports.

 

 

New in IES 8.62: -

01) Query Builder: Option to normalise Data. Also when Quick Reports run as Data Query, then Data are automatically normalised.

02) Retail and Distribution: Branch Support for Document Numbers, Tax Numbers, Company Branch Name and Headers, Branch Tax Number, etc.

03) Insurance Brokerage: new Raised Premium Recon system.

04) Cash Book: new Cash Up Control for easy initiation of a Cash Up Control, or removal of it.

 

 

New in IES 8.61: -

01) Document Writer: Exploding Units.

02) Retail and Distribution: Business Process ODP Projects.

03) Fixed Assets: Projected Number of Depreciation Periods remaining.

04) Stock: Surplus, Shortage, Transfer - Transaction Document Print Options.

 

 

New in IES 8.60: -

01) Multiple minor enhancements at Document Writer.

02) Multiple minor enhancements at General Ledger.

03) Using Data Selectors, now with option to 'restore defaults' when Data Selector 'remembers' User's prior adjustments.

04) Using Data Selectors, now with lookups inside of the lookups.

 

 

New in IES 8.59: -

01) Payroll, Clocking: New Clocking Sequence Exception Report, Grouping by Employee

02) Report Warehouse, Management Reports: Budget Reports, New Management Functions

03) Report Warehouse, Management Reports: GL Reports, New Management Functions

04) Report Warehouse, Manage Warehouse:  New Management Functions

05) Custom User Audit Trail option(s) for DCB Type Audit Trails for Stock, General Ledger, Debtors, Creditors, Assets, Jobs and Loans.

 

 

New in IES 8.58: -

01) AP Creditors: (a) New ISO Vendor Assessment Report. (b) New Bulk Day Audit Trail. (c) New Account Day Audit Trail.

02) AR Debtors: (a) New Collections Report. (b) New Bulk Day Audit Trail. (c) New Account Day Audit Trail.

03) GL Ledger: (a) New Bulk Day Audit Trail. (b) New Account Day Audit Trail.

04) IV Stock: (a) New Bulk Day Audit Trail. (b) New Account Day Audit Trail.

05) Complete overhaul of IES Menus and Navigation look and feel.

 

 

New in IES 8.57: -

01) Purchasing: New soft setting for User intervention in Exchange Rate sensing on the Primary Rate.

02) Purchasing: Re-prints of Purchase Order will sense Price Changes performed after initial authorization, and use the latest Price on  the Purchase Order print.

03) Retail, Whse ODP: Multiple Delivery Notes included on 1 Invoice will no longer skip Sequential Numbers in the Series for the Invoice numbering.

04) Retail, Sales Reports: New '322 Sales Collections' Report with indications for Paid, Sales Points, Sales Commission.

05) Mill Module for Palm Oil Mills.

 

 

IES 8.56: -

Not a public release.

 

 

New in IES 8.55: -

01) Stock: Stock Order History Queries will also check Direct Code, i.e. where the same Item was ordered as 'Direct Item' rather than as Stock.

02) Payroll: New log for Pay Run Execution and Removal, showing Operator, Date, Time, Main Run, Sub Run.

03) Retail, FMCG, Enhancements to FMCG process

 

 

New in IES 8.54: -

01) Integrated links between Application Menus and on-line Knowledge Base.

02) New Color Schemas at "My Settings".

03) Debtors Statements: New Detail Implode and Explode options, inclusion of Open Item Summary optional.

04) CMMS Planned Maintenance System - all new.

 

 

New in IES 8.53: -

01) Concrete Application: a) Auto add date to Cust Order Number for Concrete and Aggregate Tickets, both for imports and capturing. b) All Ticket types now allow full editing AFTER the approval step, then re-approved after being changed. c) Invoice Date on Invoice prints default no longer to posting date, but to latest date on any Ticket included on the Invoice.

02) Retail: a) A 100% Discount setting for an Operator now results in any level of Discount being allowed on a price. b) 'Due Date' now included in data layout for ODP Invoice. c) Delivery Note lookups in ODP business pipe now include Warehouse / Store. d) 'Sales Code' included as a column for 'Retail Margin' report.

03) Fixed Assets: New Asset Re-valuation wizard for en masse Asset Re-Valuation.

 

 

New in IES 8.52: -

01) All Modules, Revision of Audit Trail Prints.

01) Retail, Sales Commissions: New and extended functions.

01) Retail, Customer Loyalty Program: New and extended functions.

 

 

New in IES 8.51: -

01) Retail, ODP: Invoice Date and Sale Date revised on Sales Reports.

02) Retail, ODP: Invoice DUE DATE introduced, result available on Sales Reports.

03) AP Creditors: Revised Ageing Reports, now with Accrual and Actual options, and with Open Item Ageing Detail.

04) AP Creditors: New Payment Detail Report.

05) AP Creditors: Addition to Payment Procedures - when paid via Multi Journal, matching link established.

06) Purchasing: Delivery Specs now with Open/Close option to prevent re-use of redundant specs.

07) Systems Admin: On-line re-building of B-Tree Data Indexes while Users are active.

 

 

New in IES 8.50: -

01) Sari Sari Distribution.
02) Order Supplements, Whse ODP.
03) 2nd Copy Print option for Deposit Invoice, Whse ODP.

 

New in IES 8.49: -

01) Metadata for Retail Delivery Notes now include Units.
02) New extended automatic numbering options for Purchase Orders and GRV's.
03) New extended automatic numbering options for Retail Invoices and Delivery Notes.
04) Extensions to the Retail / Warehouse ODP Business process.

 

New in IES 8.48: -

01) Extensions and enhancements for Concrete Operations.

 

New in IES 8.47: -

01) Journal Processing. Journal Unpost options to unpost and remove select Journal types.
02) Document Writer. Templates for Tag%Tag & Tag Variance Tag % now with an option to display a negative in brackets.
03) Fixed Asset Register: New Asset Disposal movement tracking option in Asset Set Up parameters.

New in IES 8.46: -

01) Document Writer. Template 58 for Accounts Numeric Multi Rule has been extended to allow operation with a Literal.
02) Document Writer. Categories are now forced. This simplifies reporting on the available Documents.
03) Document Writer. New 'which is which' option that clarifies how each Document is used, thus simplifying the process of determining which Document to choose for Customization and / or registration of a SWAP.
04) Retail, Warehouse Orders ODP: Has been extended for support of: Tax Date Range, Document Signatory, dual Currency Values and a series of other data fields for use with a custom Invoice format.
05) Retail, POS: Has been extended for support of: Tax Date Range, Document Signatory, dual Currency Values and a series of other data fields for use with a custom Invoice format.
06) Transactions: TRANSDUPLI now has a full Transaction Dictionary for use if Transactions have to be exported with Query Builder.
 

Bug Fixes


8.48: -

01) Problem with the SAVE function on Query Builder has been fixed.


8.46: -

01) Ledger Report Flag Summaries: Had a weakness on QM which resulted in the Query Processor not producing the correct results for the Report option, although the Data Query option worked fine. The Report option is now fixed also.


02) Consumer Loans: The new Loan Procedure has been corrected in terms of selection of the Loan Control Account.