Version 7.04.04

This update is currently ongoing fixes, performance improvements and functionality additions to version 7.

Version 7.03 • Updates

Released Aug 21, 2007

Key changes:

Printing of Donation Tax Receipts for Canadian Venues
Ticket sales fixes and enhancements

Note: Read prior release notes for any mandatory web pages changes. There are web page changes and a new web page for this version.

Before upgrade	Read the release notes for any version prior and follow the directions Stop web sales and close all shopping carts. Complete your end of day. Deposit all funds, create all sales entries and post to the GL. Verify the database using data utilities and ensure that everything is ok. Make a backup copy of the database
After upgrade	None required
Optional Steps	None required
Time Required	Minimal upgrade time from version 7.00.

Before upgrade

Read the release notes for any version prior and follow the directions
Stop web sales and close all shopping carts.
Complete your end of day. Deposit all funds, create all sales entries and post to the GL.
Verify the database using data utilities and ensure that everything is ok.
Make a backup copy of the database

After upgrade

None required

Optional Steps

None required

Time Required

Minimal upgrade time from version 7.00.

7.04.00 Changes (Aug 21)

Donations: printing of tax receipts for Canadian venues has been fixed

Donations: remove 'Annual Statement Style' donation receipts from the system as they are not valid according to tax law interpretation in Canada. This is generally not an issue in US because most venues use letters as acknowledgement of donations. Any donation marked as 'Annual Statement' is now marked as create manually.

Donations: Printing of program listing now deals with soft credits properly and will not go into a loop when it hits them.

Tickets: Batch printing of tickets sold at another venue ... can now be printed.

Tickets: added the ability to create a generic ticket hold with a comment associated with it

Tickets: added ability to mark tickets as printed for an order without going through the ticket printing process and only accepting a payment in the payment window.

Tickets: before event sales now sets the proper status on a before-event sale order when a new order is required for each sale

Tickets: before event sales now requires that tickets be printed (or marked as printed) in the same manner as version 6.

Tickets: fixed a performance issue doing a test print of a ticket face for anything based on the ticket file

Letters: fixed name of Donor Program Name so that it will work in form letters

CodeTables: disable the 'merchant charges' tab for payment method types 'Cash' & 'Check'. This allows the other tabs to be set so that you can put in bank account numbers for the checking accounts.

Relationships: made the relationship code table unique to each outlet

Relationships: display the proper relationship information for an outlet. The SQL was missing a join and a relationship row would show up in error for each outlet in the database. This only affected outlet versions.

Relationships: display the proper patron in the relationship when the household record is displayed

Mail Lists: fix issue where the mail list build routine balance line was generating incorrect mail list records in some boundary situations.

Queries: fixed the range setting for date time fields so that it defaults to an entire day .... from 12:00am to 11:59:59 pm

Maps: Export of map as jPeg fixed on a PC to put all seats on the map. It was clipping some of them on the windows platform.

Patron: search of database for duplicate patrons now works.

7.04.01 Changes (Aug 22)

Promotions: fixed the mass enable/disable of sales promotions so that it functions.

Web Sales: a show that is put on sale at a certain date/time now appears on the internet at the proper time

Web Sales: fixed issue with the 'stop sales xx minutes prior to a performance' so that it is now checks the overall timeout, the event timeout and the performance timeout in that order. Previously it was just looking at the performance timeout which is normally left empty if using the global timeout

Changed all LIKE character searches in the database to be case-insensitive so that looking for 'smith' will find anything with that word in it, regardless how the user capitalized it.

Web Sales: Force re-load of all popups once every 10 minutes to handle tickets, donations, gift certificates and other things that come on sale or are taken off sale.

7.04.02 Changes (Aug 23)

Ticket Sales: improved the performance of the ticket sales window redraw process dramatically when a lot of tickets are being sold. The actual ticket sale was reasonably fast, but we found that TM was spending as much as 75% of its time redrawing all windows and related records on the patron screen. This was a change to a core redraw part of TM, so other windows might appear a little snappier at the same time. It is especially noticeable in ticket selling if you are booking a larger season order, or doing a group sale of multiple tickets in multiple areas.

7.04.03 Changes (Aug 24)

Donations: fixed issue where venues with large account numbers (i.e. 15 digit) could not enter account numbers in the campaign setup

Ticket Printing: fixed issue where tickets sold to another outlet could not be printed by the outlet that sold the tickets

Ticket Printing: changed the default column where the event name is so that it is more visible

Patron: changed the column in the ticket list where the event name is so that it is more visible to the user

Misc: fixed issue where titles on windows were not right when changing from one database to another and the departments were different (affected those with multiple test databases)

Security Descriptions: fixed issue where the displayed descriptions would not be changed properly if the user changed the database or logged in under a different outlet

Logoff: allow users to go to end-of-day if there are credit cards that need to be authorized when quitting theatre manager

7.04.04 Changes (Aug 24)

Installer: attempt to solve issues by setting permissions properly on windows platform to allow r/w access to the theatre manager startup directory

Reports: fix to crash issue on windows side when prompting for page setup

Reports: fix to donation program listing to combine the incoming data in the program listing by sort name or the selection on the screen

Volunteer History: now updates the event code when selecting a performance from the lookup list

Volunteer History: no rating is required if the volunteer effort is for the future as it has not yet occurred.

Accounts: fixed a SQL error when duplicating account numbers on the chart of accounts, so this now works.

General: added more explanatory messages in the duplication of records