[[whats_new_in_5.5|What's New In Control 5.5]]
With the release of Control 5.5 there were a handful of new major features added to the program, as well as a slew of various bugs fixed and other non-major features that have been tweaked since 5.1.
Below are links for each of the new major features:
Changes
Dashboards
- Dashboards - Create a Contact Explorer dashboard instrument (7884)
- Dashboards - Changes to Update Order Progress instrument and also enabling it for Estimates (7890)
Explorers
- Explorer - Add a “Firm Due Date” checkbox column to the various applicable explorers / instruments (7950)
- Explorer - Add the Proof Approval option columns to the Line Item Ticket Explorer column chooser (7864)
Miscellaneous
- Miscellaneous - Change the behavior of columns being enabled/disabled that have an OV column associated with them (7819)
- Miscellaneous - Add Order.InvoiceNumber to the Order group in the Merge Fields selections (7846)
- Miscellaneous - Add check in the SSLIP to throw a message if you are running on a port offset that appears when SSLIP starts (7921)
- Miscellaneous - Add Origin column to the Order and Estimate explorers, and their associated instruments. (7933)
- Miscellaneous - Remove the word “Home” in “Marketing Home” on the main menu of Control (8005)
- Miscellaneous - Add a Bill Items explorer and sub explorer option for the Bills explorer (7928)
- Miscellaneous - Remove default icon when the payment method icon is set to None (8050)
Defect Fixes
Access Violations
- Access Violation - Random A/V when you scroll to the right on the Inventory tab in Part Setup (7827)
- Access Violation - #260982 - A/V when using the Calc Taxes button with no information entered on an Order (7858)
- Access Violation - A/V going from Parts to Production tab after making a change in System Setup (7900)
- Access Violation - #262474 - Unable to perform the Close Day procedure from the Quick Reports menu (7943)
Activity Manager
- Activity Manager - #263312 - Unable to complete activities assigned on multiple calendars using complete button (8010)
Company & Contacts
- Company and Contacts - Delete button doesn't work on Shipping tab of a Contact on Company record (8069)
- Company and Contacts - #261019 -Able to create a new company address via the shipping tab when users have security rights denied (7882)
- Company and Contacts - Access Violation when clicking the New button from the Contacts tab on a Company record (8083)
Dashboards
- Dashboards - Expand the Caption field that is in ALL dashboard instruments (7854)
- Dashboards - Action selection list in Shortcuts dashboard instrument needs 4 Unknown Actions removed (7881)
- Dashboards - Needs to be a limit on the amount of characters you can type when making a dashboard name (7905)
- Dashboards - Radial buttons are both visually cut off in the Update Order Progress dashboard instrument (7888)
- Dashboards - Radial buttons are both visually cut off in the Report dashboard instrument (79325)
- Dashboards - On the Accounting - Receivables dashboard the Open Receivables instrument doesn't sort Invoice Age correctly (7931)
- Miscellaneous - Remove the Default Designer dashboard from the SystemData file (7963)
Explorers
- Explorer - A 12:00 AM Due Date time shows up as no time at all in explorers (8052)
- Explorer - Small visual issues with Activity and Recurring Orders Explorers (8054)
Order Entry
- Order Entry - #264204 - Child line items being taxed but marked as non-taxable in GL if parent line item is in a shipment (8076)
- Order Entry - Parent company's shipping address is being used in the lookup/calculation of taxes when choosing “Customer will take possession at billing address”. (7920)
Part Usage Cards
- Part Usage Cards - Could not convert variant of type (Null) into type (OleStr) (7862)
- Miscellaneous - #260906.1 - Part Usage Card dashboard instrument is not allowing for quick data entry (7859)
- Miscellaneous - #260906.2 - Part Usage Card dashboard instrument is not allowing for quick data entry (7860)
- Miscellaneous - #260906.3 - Part Usage Card dashboard instrument is not allowing for quick data entry (7861)
Purchase Orders & Bills
- Purchase Orders - Cancelling a PO set the estimated cost to $0.00 for that linked part. (7914)
System Setup
- System Setup - Miscellaneous - Saturday and Sunday are not capitalized correctly in System Setup (8004)
- System Setup - Email signature is not being updated when you Edit/Save in System Setup. (8002)
Miscellaneous
- Miscellaneous - Remove the word “Estimate” from the Invoice number section in System Setup (7847)
- Miscellaneous - #261185 - Line Item Number and Line Item Description Merge Fields do not work (7910)
- Miscellaneous - #261136 - Orders with many line items are taking a very long time to process in Control (7929)
- Miscellaneous - Order calculates taxes when being edited but changes back to 'n/a' when saved. (8039)
- Miscellaneous - Column widths in Pay Bills section need to be changed so words don't get cut off (8066)
- Miscellaneous - Prev / Next Record - Adjust height to 16 pixels (8073)
- Miscellaneous - Remove the icons from the Edit Thumbnail popup (8072)
- Miscellaneous - Quick Lookup Instrument - Icon spacing increased to 16 pixels (8074)
- Miscellaneous - Icons in the Action toolbar to the right are not aligned properly (8075)
Backwards Compatibility
These changes are backwards compatible with the previous version of Control.
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