Updates for the Windows Modules


All Windows products, except the initial release of Bank Reconciliation (version 5.00), can be patched by the files below.  Registered users of version 5.00 of Bank Reconcilation should contact RDI to request an upgrade CD to bring them current.  Once that upgrade is loaded and the current version is installed, future updates can be applied to that installation.

These updates are not backward compatible with other Windows modules.  This means that once you've applied one of these updates, you'll need to patch all other Windows products, including any trial versions you may be evaluating.  Trial versions are not updated;   you will need to uninstall the trial version then download and install the current trial version.

Also, once these updates are applied, you will need to install the current System Manager package (downloadable below).

Installing Windows Updates:

To install these updates for the Windows modules, download the file(s) linked to below to your Desktop.  After downloading, click on that icon on your Desktop and uncompress the file, to a location of your choice.  Desktop would be fine for this.  Then click on the resulting file to run the update installer.  The installer must find a valid, live copy of the module installed on your system;  it can only apply updates to an existing installation.  Some updates may request the original CD for a module, so you should have that available before begining the installation.


Download the following files:

Bank Rec. 5.05 Update
(March 22, 2010 release)
Web Commerce 5.07 Update
(March 22, 2010 release)
Inventory 5.04 Update
(April 1, 2010 release)
System Manager Update 5.07
(March 31, 2010 release)
 
PI Remote Update 5.01
(June 10, 2010 release)
PI Limited 5.01 Update
(June 10, 2010 release)
 

* Please note that these files are password protected.  Call RDI for the necessary information.


Additional Information regarding these updates are listed below:

June 10, 2010 Release:

  • Point of Sale Invoicing 5.01

    PI Remote 5.01 Update

    PI Limited 5.01 Update

  • New feature: An option was added to change report formats on the fly for a particular invoice -- see the new option on the Notes tab of the Invoicing program.

  • If an invoice was put on hold, and then the salesperson on the General screen was changed when brought back from hold and printed, the original salesperson was reported on the printed invoice.

  • Credit card CVC numbers need to be able to take 4 digits for American Express -- was setup to only take 3.

  • Buyer's Department field in the Invoicing program accepted numbers only up to 255, not the correct maximum of 32767.

  • Various issues were fixed for using continuous feed (dot matrix) printers operating through Windows drivers (not direct port printing).

  • New feature: An option was added that allows you to send an invoice by email and print it locally at the same time when you press Finish (new checkbox on the Invoicing program General tab).

  • New feature: If an AR customer is entered in the Invoicing program and they have notes associated with them, an indicator displays next to the Customer Number field to alert you.

  • X-Charge interface did not function if you selected a different Result File directory than the default, AUSER.

  • Preset items did not update to Accounts Receivable Sales History.

  • Several printing programs gave debug errors when used on Windows 98.

  • The default bar code invoice format included a background image that was meant for a different format.

  • New feature: when choosing to print a transaction to a non-default printer on the fly in the Invoicing program, you can now choose local printers in addition to network printers (choose the Include Graphics option from the dropdown)

  • New Version:
    EARTH:  5a07
    PI04 Invoicing:  5.01
    PI08 Detail Summary:  5.01
    PI09 Department Summary:  5.01
    PI10 End of Day Update:  5.01
    PI12 Requested Items Analysis:  5.01
    PI17 Archive Detail Summary:  5.01
    PI18 Archive Department summary:  5.01
    PI00PL:  5.01
    PI00FR:  5.01

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March 31, 2010 Release:

  • Inventory 5.04

    Inventory 5.04 Update

  • Item Master (program 1) allowed a serialized item to be set as a Build at Time of Sale = Yes assembly item. This is not a valid item type.

  • The Vendor Master report was missing the Minimum Order and Reorder Quantity fields that were added in the Windows product.

  • Inventory Expert (program 40) was enhanced so that when launched from another RTS-Advantage program that program can specify the Inventory company to be opened -- previously the currently active Inventory company was assumed.

  • New Version:
    IN01 Item Master:  5.02
    IN40 Inventory Expert:  5.01
    IN00PL:  4.09

March 22, 2010 Release:

    Windows Web Commerce 5.07

    Web Commerce 5.07 Update (Only install this update if you are running PDG Commerce ver. 5 or newer since it is cumulative).

  • Some programs in the module might have given a Windows debug error when certain information dialogs were displayed.

  • New Version:
    WC08 Export Item Quantities  5.03
    WC09 Export Customers  5.03
    WC10 Import Orders  5.05

This update also includes a February 12, 2010 update

  • WC03 (Setup Discount Export): Adds a prompt to ask for the new PDG field, Customer Category. Before upgrading to version 5 of the PDG software, be sure to load this Web Commerce patch onto your system.

  • WC05 (Item Export): Changed to write the new Customer Category field to the Discounts records of the item export file.

  • New Version:
    WC03 Setup Discount Export 5.03
    WC05 Export Items 5.05

    Bank Reconciliation 5.05

    Bank Reconciliation 5.05 Update

  • Reconciliation report was enhanced to provide more flexibility for users who do mid-month updates of their General Ledger.

  • Some programs in the module might have given a Windows debug error when certain information dialogs were displayed.

  • New Version:
    BR01 Gather Transactions  5.05
    BR03 Reconciliation  5.04
    BR51 Purge Transactions  5.04
    BR59 Charts and Graphs  5.04

    Inventory 5.03

    Inventory 5.03 Update

  • Some programs in the module might have given a Windows debug error when certain information dialogs were displayed.

  • Allocation programs were updated for compatibility with new Point of Sale Invoicing module.

  • New Version:
    IN03 Warehouses:  5.02 IN05 References:  5.01 IN06 Allocations:  5.01
    IN10 Discounts:  5.01IN11 Vendors:  5.01IN12 Delete Items:  5.01
    IN13 Purge Serial Numbers:  5.01IN24 Change Item Values:  5.01IN31 Audit Trail:  5.01
    IN36 Shrinkage/Spoilage:  5.01IN50 System Defaults:  5.01IN51 Adjust Minimums:  5.01
    IN52 Month End Close:  5.01IN53 Custom Sort Order:  5.01IN54 Calculate Assembly Valuse:  5.01
    IN57 Auto Create Items:  5.01IN59 Charts and Graphs:  5.01IN86 Allocations:  5.01 (Under Master Reporting)

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September 29th 2009 Release:

    Windows Web Commerce

    Web Commerce 5.05 Update

  • WC05 (Export Items):  The previous patch had an internal problem that kept program 5, Item Export, from running properly; this patch fixes that problem.

  • New Version:
    WC05 Export Items  5.04

    Windows Inventory Update

    Inventory 5.02 Update

  • IN-03 (Warehouse Master): Could not properly deal with a large file of warehouses (over 32,767 records).
  • IN-29 (Below Minimum): Program could not access more than one report format.
  • IN-89 (Unit Conversion Report): Program could not access more than one report format.

  • New Version:
    IN-03 Warehouse Master:  5.01
    IN-29 Below Minimum Report:  5.01
    IN-89 Unit coversion Report:  5.01

September 17th 2009 Release:

    Windows Web Commerce Update

    Web Commerce 5.04 Update

  • WC05 (Export Items):  PDG changed their requirements for importing items into the online store.  Export files will now include header records for all record types, even if the user is only exporting certain ones.

    WC06 (Setup Order Import) and WC10 (Import Orders):  The way we deal with discount types that are not supported by our Web Commerce module but are available in PDG's software (category quantity discounts are the only ones we know of at this time) has been changed.  They are now supported ONLY in that we do not disregard the discount when importing orders.  Since the actual reason for the discount is unknown to us, we will import any discounts or extra charges that we cannot otherwise account for as a non-inventory line item on the Order Entry order.  In the Setup program (WC6) a new prompt has been added asking for the department that should be updated when we must create such a line item.

  • WC10 (Import Orders):  Discounts on orders were improperly imported into Order Entry.  While the discounts looked fine in that module, when the order was transferred to Billing the discount was no longer properly reflected.

  • WC10 (Import Orders):  Will now display a warning if your order file contains an order for an AR customer flagged in our software to not allow any new sales.  These orders MUST be imported because whether you like it or not, they did place an order.  In order to prevent this from happening be sure not to export customers to the webstore that are set to Customer Status = 3.

  • New Version:
    Setup Order Import:  5.04
    Import Orders:  5.04

    Windows System Manager Update

    System Manager 5.06 Update

  • When changing terminal dates a warning is now given to remind you that the new date is not immediately recognized by currently open programs (in either DOS or Windows).  The warning advises you to quit from any open programs in both platforms and re-enter them.

  • Various updates in preparation for the release of the Windows Point of Sale module.

  • New Version:
    RTS-Advantage Release 5.06

October 2008 Release:

    Windows Inventory Update

    Inventory 5.01 Update

  • The Quantity Produced program incorrectly displayed the explosion level of the parent in the Quantity On Hand view field.

  • New Version:
    Quantity Produced:  5.01


  

    Windows Bank Reconciliation Update

    Bank Rec.  5.04 Update

  • Gather Transactions was updated for compatibility with the new Payroll employee key added in patch 36.

  • The Process Transactions program occasionally had focusing problems when using the Quick Clear buttons.

  • The Process Transactions program would die if you tried to clear a transaction with a date of 00/00/00.

  • New versions:
    Gather Transactions:  5.04
    Process Transactions:  5.04
  
    Windows Web Commerce Update

    Web Commerce 5.03 Update

  • A new option has been added to Setup Order Import which allows you the option to import the PDG "Full SKU Number" field as the Item Group Number on order details.  Originally this field was ignored by the import.

  • You now have the ability to import order ship dates, customer PO numbers, terms information, and COD status if customized "X" records are included in the order export file.

    All these fields are pulled from the "X" source records, which include item pairs where the first part of the pair defines the type of field, and the second contains the desired setting of the field. We have defined three new recognized field types:

    SHIPDATE:  Import the date following, which must be in mm/dd/yy format, as the estimated ship date of the order.

    PO:  Import up to 25 characters of text in the following field as the Customer PO Number for the order.

    TERMS:  Import up to 10 characters of text in the following field as the Terms field on the order.  If the text is "COD" then the order will also be flagged as |COD.

    For instance, the following X record is now recognized to conform to these special options:

    X,,SHIPDATE,01/01/09,PO,"My PO Number",TERMS,"PREPAID"

  • RTS learned that the P (payment) records in PDG's exported order files can have as few as four fields or as many as thirteen (in direct variance to their documentation) so they have considerably loosened the verification routines on these records so as to take into account their many possible number of fields.

  • New Versions:
    Setup Order Import:  5.03
    Import Orders:  5.03

  
    Windows System Manager Update

    System Manager Update

  • *NEW*  Now includes the Windows version of System Administrator program 7, Update Files.  The Windows version is much improved over the DOS version with much more information displayed about the files that are being updated.

  • *NEW*  Now includes the Windows version of System Administrator program 11, Modify Reports.  This new version has so many great new features, and is so much more convenient to use than the DOS version that there's practically no comparison.

    One item that we do need to explain about this version is that when you load a format for editing the program will do a very thorough 'sanity check' on its internal structure and fix any problems it finds.  When editing your company PL for the first time you will likely have to click through a long list of messages about things that the program is fixing.   Don't worry, though. First off, it won't mess up your format, and second, you only have to go through it once.

  • The ability to print bitmap images on reports was not compatible with 'screen display' type bitmaps that are missing resolution information in the bitmap file.  Such bitmaps are apparently commonly created by graphics packages that assume the bitmaps are for screen display usage only.  We changed our bitmap printing code to assume 72 dpi (default screen resolution) when bitmaps do not supply this information. Keep in mind that bitmap graphics that are at this low resolution will not look very good on your reports -- they will appear pixelated.  Bitmaps should really be a minimum of 300 dpi to look sharp on a printed report. This change affects all downloaded Windows printing programs.

  • New online help for the new features added to System Manager and Web Commerce packages.

  • New Version:
    RTS-Advantage Release:  5.05

May 2008 Release:

    Bank Reconciliation 5.03

    Bank Rec. 5.03 Update

  • Addresses some minor display issues in Process Transactions.

  • Fixes a problem where it would accept an invalid Last GL Update Date in the Reconciliation program.

  • A number of other internal changes were made to bring this module up to date with the internals of our new Windows Inventory module.
    Web Commerce 5.02

    Web Commerce 5.02 Update

  • The Import Orders program was changed to be able to deal with PDGs affiliate records which turned out to have two different possible formats (a fact that was undocumented by PDG).

  • A number of other internal changes were made to bring this module up to date with the internals of our new Windows Inventory module.



    System Manager 5.04

    System Manager Update

  • A new GoTo capability has been added.  Press Ctrl-G on your keyboard, or select GoTo from the Window menu and type the module and program number that you wish to access.  This function works just like it does in the DOS product, and can launch both Windows and DOS RTS-Advantage programs.  You can now use the System Manager as your 'main menu' for both DOS and Windows products!

  • Reorganize and Relink programs have been added on the File menu.  They have the same functionality as the DOS versions.

  • A Daily Maintenance option has been added on the File menu.  This all-new program allows you to Reorganize, Relink and do a Quick Backup on your data files, all with the click of a button.

  • Under Print Settings on the Edit menu, a new option has been added, "Base Margins on Printer Capabilities".  When selected the margins you enter will be offsets from your maximum printable area on the printer you are printing to; without it set, the margins are from the physical edge of the paper.

  • A number of other internal changes were made to bring this module up to date with the internals of our new Windows Inventory module.


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