What's new in the platform for February 2013
This February, we've continued improving the product and have faced some serious challenges. It's been a hard month, but a good month, and the product is all the better for it.
Enhanced Quotes and Orders Version
The quotes and orders version have been enhanced with some additional fields. And a report now exist to enable you to Pivot the data using Excel's pivot report tables.
Lighter
I mentioned in the past we developed technology to load excel components on the fly, as needed. We've made a big push to offload all the non-essential code to the AddonsLink.Optional... add-ins. As such, the whole platform is now leaner and quicker to start.
Budget Improvements
In the past, our biggest challenge has been how to handle drastic changes to the accounts or jobs structure. Users can delete jobs and accounts out of their accounting package relatively easily. Doing so caused problems in the past in BudgetLink when budgets had been entered against these deleted items.
Similar problems could also happen when accounts were changed from detail to header.
We've looked at the problems experienced in the market and have come up with the best approach to resolve it.
BudgetLink now detects any structural changes that can cause problems and will warn the user which accounts or jobs have been deleted. It will still be able to read the budgeted values and display them against "virtual" accounts and jobs. Finally, the budget entry screen can be used to correct and edit the values. In fact, the solution is that robust that it should be able to preserve these figures indefinately.
It's been one of the biggest challenge to resolve but I believe we have finally designed and implemented the perfect solution.
Comment Improvements
We've also looked at how comments worked and have implemented notable improvements. The editing process should be subtantially faster on slower machines.
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