Bugs fixed in ABC6

We aim to fix bugs within a day or two of them being reported to us. Updated software is then available for free download from this website.

• Closing down and then restarting ABC6 gave a problem due to certain reports (eg sales Invoice) not being removed from memory. This was annoying though it did not affect any files. It has now been fixed.
• Some Registration Keys refused to work. Hopefully now they will work OK.
• Year end reports stopped working after last update (sorry). Now fixed.
• Bank Statement report now prints transactions sorted in date order.
• Editing a File properties (in FILING) did not like it if you deleted Fields from the Record Card. This is OK now.
• CashBook Payments entry. The layout now works properly when you resize the form.
• Modifications we made last week to speed up report printing unfortunately caused a few reports to stop working (eg. VAT Return). This has now been corrected.
• The option for allowing customers an optional Settlement Discount when invoicing now works.
• Some menu options did not work (in Edit Headings or Edit Stock), but they do now. (You could select the same functions by using the buttons, but now you have a choice of methods).
• Advanced Search (eg. for Customer or Supplier Records) sometimes crashed. Now fixed.
• Help -- a couple of references in the new Help System did not work, and these have now been corrected. Please report any others that you notice.
• In FILING, when using Grid View if the window was resized the scrollbar disappeared. This has been fixed.
• VAT-Only Invoices. If you created a VAT-Only sales invoice and then quickly unticked the VAT-Only option and immediately printed the invoice, the Sales Daybook showed a Data Check Error. This has been fixed by only allowing you to exit (or print) from the invoice when you are on the Invoice Body (ie. not from the Options tab page).
• When printing Reports you can select a range of dates. A bug that has been in ABC6 from the beginning meant that if you specified a range of days that included 31st of the month, the report missed items of that date. This has now been corrected.
• The function to IMPORT data from ABC5 duplicated lines of an invoice under certain (unusual) conditions. This has been fixed.
• Credit Notes were shown as "Invoices" (with negative totals) when listed on Statements or Customer/Supplier History reports. This was confusing to some people so we have changed the wording so that ABC now lists negative invoices as "Credit Note".
• If you entered silly numbers when specifying a range of Headings in some Reports, ABC might appear to hang (lock up). In fact it was just taking a long, long time trying to process the data. The input routine has been amended to (hopefully) prevent this -- until you manage to find a way around it.
• VAT-Only Invoices did not write to the files correctly. If you has this problem you would see it appear as "ABC DATA CHECK -- PROBLEM FOUND" at the end of your Sales DayBook report. (Contact us if you got this -- it is easy to fix).
• The update 6.033 introduced a bug with Sales Invoicing. If you did not put a valid Stock Item, (or if you did -- can't remember at this moment) ABC would crash. This was fixed immediately, and v5.034 released.
• Month End automatic printing did not print the Nominal Ledger Audit even if you had selected it. (You could still print it separately at any time).
• Sales Invoice crashed if you had non-numeric data in some fields (this bug was introduced last week with v6.032).
• The Stock system IN and OUT functions have been corrected.
• Importing data from old ABC5 has been corrected further, when used over a network.
• The Stock System has been fixed so that you now can view a complete history of any Stock Item (except those marked as Text-Only). When entering Stock-In the new cost price will now be used.
• As we work towards making ABC6 multi-user we are finding and fixing bugs related to having ABC installed on drives other than C. For example, the IMPORT function did not work across a network.
• No longer do you have to print an attention-grabbing border around a non-existent message on Invoices -- if you leave the message blank, the border now does not appear.
• The Snapshot screen always showed the Current Company as A, even if you were working in another Company. This cosmetic error has been fixed.
• We think that (finally) we have nailed the bug in Sales Invoicing whereby you could print an invoice with zero VAT even though the lines on the invoice showed VAT Code 1. (this only happened if you pressed a particular key sequence at just the right point, so most people never triggered this).
• Several timing issues have now been sorted out (eg. if you clicked between Tab Pages too quickly the program used to crash).
• The Sales Invoice and Statement customer address has been moved to fit better for standard window envelopes.
• Minor changes to the Message Box to make sure it is more centred on screen.
• Some Stock Reports were on the Menu but not working. These are all   now finished, and some additional Reports have been added.
• Record Card Properties in FILING -- the vertical scroll bar was missing.
• Sales Invoicing -- the Option Page on Customer Records now works   correctly allowing you to specify that ALL invoices for a particular customer are to have VAT Inclusive prices (or not).
• Supplier Record AGENT Field was crossed with the VAT NUMBER Field. This has been sorted.
• CashBook Receipts and Payments did not allow entries with blank VAT amount -- now it is OK.
• The Sales Invoice Top did not accept user input.
  This was a side effect of changes made a few days ago. It has now been corrected.
• Sales Invoice VAT Inclusive Pricing was not working. Now fixed.