May 2023
FrontLine 7.0.007- May 12, 2023
When you click on a Jobs’s Details, FrontLine now uses the existing analysis if the last analysis of jobs is less than 10 minutes old. If you have just made a change to an order connected to a Job, the Job Details refresh, and if it has been over 10 minutes but not yet 12 hours, you are prompted to refresh if you like. This saves you from waiting for a lengthy analysis if nothing has changed.
FrontLine 7.0.006- May 9, 2023
You can now print the tender Account Number for some tenders on forms. This is available for any tenders in the tender type list after ATM.
There is now an option to include unposted Journal Entries on the Income Statement. Select Include Unposted to do this.
You can now view the Trial Balance summarized by GL Code per location. Select By Account Location to summarize by GL Code per Location, ignoring Departments.
When entering ledger accounts in the Ledger Accounts list, there is now an Account Type flag "GL Code Only" to indicate that when this GL Code is used for an Account the remaining segments are irrelevant and should all be digit 0. Selecting this flag affects the behavior of the Ledger Account selector, and Item Category Accounts assignment of order line items.
When you export payments from the Vendor Payables window, the export now includes Vendor Invoice OrderID, and Vendor Reference. Also, the right-click context menu in this window now lets you drill down to the Vendor Invoice.
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FrontLine 7.0.005- May 2, 2023
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There is a new AP Inquiry feature. In the Welcome window, point to Accounts Payable and click AP Inquiry. You can also access AP Inquiry in the Payables dashboard. Right-click in the top sections of the Payables Dashboard and select AP Inquiry.
1. Right-click on the top green banner to select which quick report to run. Choose to run one of the following:
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When looking at the list of payables for multiple vendors in the Payables Dashboard, the list is now sorted first by Vendor Name instead of Vendor Number.
April 2023
FrontLine 7.0.004- April 28, 2023
Some color highlights in receivables were lost, and have been restored in this release.
FrontLine 7.0.003- April 25, 2023
This release contains maintenance updates.
FrontLine 7.0.002- April 24, 2023
When selecting a Ledger Account in the Trial Balance and Account Inquiry, you can now select a range of accounts by adding a trailing %. For example, to select all the accounts for code 2100-2199, enter 21%. FrontLine will include all accounts that begin with 21.
Comments shown in the Show Journal Entries list in Trial Balance and Account Inquiry now show the subject of the JE when the comment is left blank.
You can now view the Income Statement by GL Code per location. Select By Account Location to summarize by GL Code per Location, ignoring Departments. This output can be compared to the budget if the budget is also broken down by location.
The Income Statement now provides the option to Compare Budget when summarized By Account Type, By Account Code, or By Account Location.
FrontLine 7.0.001- April 18, 2023
The Income Statement now offers a Department selector if departments are used.
You can now view a log to see what emails have been sent from the system. In the Customer Order window, open an order, and click the Order ID drop down arrow. Select Mail Log to see a list of emails sent from this order.
If unit warranties have expired between the time the order was placed and its invoice date, the Expired Unit Warranties notice that opens at invoicing is now condensed when there are more than 10 units, and displays a maximum of 40 units.
You can now view and edit the Discount amount rather than the Due By amount on Vendor Invoices. Click the Due By Date title in the footer to toggle to the Discount by Date amount instead.
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FrontLine now only puts thousand separators in number column exports for visual outputs like HTML, not for CSV and Spreadsheet output.
In Order Lookup, Orders with the status On Hold now include a stop sign icon in the leftmost column.
Purchase Order lookup now has a new Search By option. Choose Recently Approved Vendor Invoices to see these transactions. Vendor Invoices are now excluded from the Recently Completed search.
FrontLine now requires a Location to have its Region assigned when there is a list of Regions, and in the GL Account selector the Region will follow the Location selected unless Region N/A is set.
You can now choose to default the vendor invoice date to the created date. In Company Settings, click on the Accounting Options value drop down and select Date Created instead of the default No Preset.
The Payables Quick Report now includes the Vendor Invoice Number and Order ID. Right-click on any line on this report to drill down to the order.
March 2023
FrontLine 7.0.000- March 28, 2023
When a Ledger Account is retired by adding a hyphen to the beginning of its Account Description, FrontLine now checks if this GL Code is used on open Customers, Vendors, Locations, and Orders. If this account is used by any of these, FrontLine refuses to retire the account, notifies you of the usage, and offers to list these affected in a quick report.
When viewing a Template JE, there is now a drop-down on the Template button to list the last 24 Journal Entries created from the template.
There is a new Line Item Change Log. Log entries where a user took over an order In Use are highlighted in yellow.
Vendor Invoices now display the Invoice date in gray italics as the default Financial Date when no financial date is entered.
February 2023
FrontLine 6.8.075- February 24, 2023 (FrontLine Accounting Version)
The Tax Report now includes a Last Paid date that is when the cash tender was collected. This is typically the invoice date or a payment was last received on the receivable.
There is now a What If… Price and Margin feature available from the line details of any item with the Unit Cost identifier. In line details, click the icon on the Unit Cost identifier, or press the Ctrl key while clicking the unit cost value to open the What If… Price and Margin window. Here you can enter values for Price, Margin, and Margin % while the other values recalculate instantly. When you have a price you like, click Accept Price to enter that price on the order.
FrontLine 6.8.074- February 9, 2023 (AP/GL Version)
FrontLine can now automatically assign line items to the repair line on orders with only one repair unit. In Company Settings, open the Return, Repair, and Unidentified Options dialog box, and select the checkbox for Lines added to a Service Order with a single Repair Unit are automatically assigned to the Repair. FrontLine will auto-assign repair parts and services on single repair unit service orders.
There is a new Unit Cost identifier. This Unit Cost identifier is used to calculate prices and margins when knowing actual costs is necessary. This identifier value is added by FrontLine during check-in of receiving for inventory with costing method Unit (Actual). This value is visible to those with security for the Unit Cost identifier, and cannot be changed by the user.
If you remove the special order status from a customer order line after the PO has already been generated, the receiving process no longer auto-commits inventory to the linked customer order line.
The Payables Quick Reports now prompt for an End Date. You can also access them from the summary section of the Payables window. Right-click in the green summary section to choose payables reports.
When you select a range of check numbers to print, and one or more of the checks are already used, FrontLine now offers to show these in a quick report.
There is now a warning message when you quote or void a PO line that is a special order, because these cannot be undone.
When a vendor is flagged as a Card Issuer in the vendors maintenance file, FrontLine now requires a Payables (AP) account.
January 2023
FrontLine 6.8.073- January 24, 2023 (AP/GL Version)
The payment screen now displays both the GL Account and Description in the GL Account column of order payment tenders.
Marking a journal entry as a template now puts it in the New Journal Entry from Template list right away.
When a line that is eligible to be used for repairs is added to a service order that has only one repair unit, FrontLine now assigns it to that single repair unit instead of showing a repair assignment menu for the user to decide whether to assign it.
Before invoicing a service order, FrontLine now checks if the warranty of any of the repair units has expired since that unit was placed on the order. If it finds any, it lists the line number and expiration date and gives you an opportunity to stop before creating an invoice.
The "Form 1099 Payments Summary" quick report now includes a VendorID column with a quick link to Vendor maintenance.
You can now run an Aged Payables Quick Report from Account Inquiry. Right-click to select this report from the context menu.
FrontLine 6.8.072- January 17, 2023 (AP/GL Version)
There is now a 9 month recurring bill frequency.
There is a new Journal Entry intent for Depreciation when creating manual Journal Entries.
The "Form 1099 Payments Summary" quick report now offers to output a specific year. It can still output all years.
FrontLine 6.8.071- January 13, 2023 (AP/GL Version)
The drop-down selection for the Fiscal Year in the Trial Balance, Balance Sheet, and Income Statement now shows the most recent year first.
The Prior Retained Earnings and Current Retained Earnings rows near the bottom of the Balance Sheet have been restyled.
You can now change the Journal Entry date when collecting deposits. On a Check or Cash tender line, right-click and select Collected. FrontLine now asks for the date of the customer deposit Journal Entry. Leave the field blank to use today’s date.
FrontLine 6.7.068- January 9, 2023
This release contains maintenance updates.
FrontLine 6.8.070- January 6, 2023 (AP/GL Version)
This release contains maintenance updates.
FrontLine 6.8.069- January 5, 2023 (AP/GL Version)
When you assign the Non-AR customer (designated in Company Settings) to an order, FrontLine now automatically makes the order a Non-AR order.
December 2022
FrontLine 6.8.068- December 23, 2022 (AP/GL Version)
The Trial Balance now notifies you of unposted Journal Entries that are excluded. Lines that exclude unposted JEs are marked with an open book symbol in the account column. Right-click and select the context menu option Show All Unposted JE to display these lines below.
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FrontLine 6.7.067- December 21, 2022
This release contains maintenance updates.
FrontLine 6.8.067- December 19, 2022 (AP/GL Version)
Price Levels that are viewed in the Items maintenance window now use location-specific costs (using the workstation location) to calculate Price for prices based on percent of cost.
FrontLine 6.7.066- December 19, 2022
Price Levels that are viewed in the Items maintenance window now use location-specific costs (using the workstation location) to calculate Price for prices based on percent of cost.
FrontLine 6.7.062- December 14, 2022
This release contains maintenance updates.
FrontLine 6.8.066- December 13, 2022 (AP/GL Version)
You can now generate a report of payables due at the end of a period from within the Account Inquiry. Point to General Ledger, and select Account inquiry. In Account Inquiry, select a period and right-click to open the context menu. Select Payables Quick Report to generate a report of vendor payables outstanding at the end of the selected period.
When you apply a credit in Payables, FrontLine now prompts for an Applied Date override. Click Commit Application of Credit and the prompt for date override appears.
You can now Pay by EFT when you are doing a write off. In the Select for Payment list, enter the amount of the write off in the Write Off field, and click on another line. The write off amount is displayed, and the Pay by EFT button is active.
FrontLine 6.7.061- December 9, 2022
This release contains maintenance updates.
FrontLine 6.8.065- December 5, 2022 (AP/GL Version)
New Payables now have the Financial Date set to the Vendor Invoice "Invoice" date unless you set an explicit "Financial Date" on the Vendor Invoice.
AP Payments now have the Invoiced date set to the invoiced date of the payable they are applied to.
November 2022
FrontLine 6.8.064- November 30, 2022 (AP/GL Version)
We have changed the order of the financial year columns in Account Inquiry. Now the current year is first, followed by the prior year, and finally two years prior.
There is a new 11 month option for recurring bill frequency.
There is now a Sort by Comments option in Bank Reconciliation.
There is a new option in the Balance Sheet to view By Full GL Account.
You can now export the Journal Entry lines of an Account Inquiry. Right-click on the JE lines and select Export Journal Entry Lines.
There is a new Company Setting to turn off the automatic selection of order contacts when creating customer orders. In the Company Setting for Order Activity Reactions, click the ellipses in the value field to open the Order Activity Reactions dialog box. Select Do Not Auto-Assign Order Contacts to activate this feature.
FrontLine 6.8.063- November 15, 2022 (AP/GL Version)
Cash Drawer Reconciliation now provides Details about all tender types, not only Cash and Checks.
FrontLine 6.8.062- November 11, 2022 (AP/GL Version)
You can now select to include unposted journal entries in Account Inquiry, rather than having them included by default. Select Include Unposted JE to include these. Unposted Journal Entries in the list of JE Lines below are marked with the open book icon on the right side of the Account column, and counted in the title of that list when present.
FrontLine 6.8.061- November 4, 2022 (AP/GL Version)
When you view results in Equipment Search, you can now prioritize seeing the full description on lines. Click in the Description column to widen it and remove most other columns so that only the Stock, Description, first Identifier column, and Customer/Vendor Name columns remain.
October 2022
FrontLine 6.8.060- October 24, 2022 (AP/GL Version)
The Purchasing & Receiving selection in the Welcome window has been renamed. This selection is now POs, Receiving, AP Invoices instead.
You can now filter vendor names in Payables. In the Payables window, the vendor list on the left now has a filter field in the header.
There is also a new filter in the Payables window. In the Vendor window, click Payables, and select All Payments. On the left, there is a filter field in the header to search the account, amount, and comments of payments.
Recurring Billing Output now has a sticky option to print the units covered by the contracts on the bill. This is on by default, and you must have your form adjusted to show these details if they did not before. If you unselect this checkbox, the unit details will not show on the recurring bill.
Customer Order Lookup has a new special Search By entry Open Account Payments. Select to find open payment orders.
FrontLine 6.7.060- October 21, 2022
This release contains maintenance updates.
FrontLine 6.7.059- October 17, 2022
This release contains maintenance updates.
FrontLine 6.8.059- October 14, 2022 (AP/GL Version)
Bank Reconciliation now shows the GL Codes of the accounts along with the descriptions in the menus and header.
The Income Statement now offers a By Full Account option.
Note that this output cannot be compared to a budget due to granularity differences.
Note that this output cannot be compared to a budget due to granularity differences.
There is a new optional Customer vs Purchasing selection in Tax Report batch creation. This is primarily for Canadian sites.
FrontLine 6.8.058- October 5, 2022 (AP/GL Version)
The Income Statement now has options to show the prior year and to compare to the budget. Select Show Prior Year to add prior year values and variances to the original view.
Select Compare Budget to compare the selected Period and YTD to the budget. The Compare Budget selection is available on the Income Statement when you select By Account Code, select a defined accounting period (not Other), and a budget exists for that period.
September 2022
FrontLine 6.8.057- September 29, 2022 (AP/GL Version)
FrontLine has added ledger account types Revenues – Goods Sold, and Revenues – Services Rendered, to refine the Income Statement.
The Income Statement now has Variance columns for the Period and YTD. You can view Journal Entries for open accounting periods, custom inquiry (Other) periods, and YTD periods.
Ledger Account drop-down lists now show the GL Codes before the Description text.
You can now view the the GL account number when reviewing Journal Entries shown below "Account Inquiry" and "Trial Balance" inquiries.
The Assigned Price special identifier is now available in Line Item Details when you are returning and adjusting in units.
Equipment Search now has a detail view that you can toggle. Select Details to open more equipment and entity information in selectable text above the grid.
Lookups now have a Starts with selection for search by selections that have an asterisk. By default, Search By selections with an asterisk are searching anywhere in multiple fields. For example, Name* searches anywhere within Name 1, Name 2, and Name 3 fields for matching text. Selecting Starts with changes the search to look at the beginning of Name 1, Name 2, and Name 3 fields.
The Item Action window automatically picks the option you choose most frequently, so you can select it with the Enter key or Spacebar. If your Item Action default selection is not the button you would like, you can now reset your Item Action counter. Right-Click on the Cancel button in Item Action and choose Reset to clear your previous selections.
FrontLine 6.8.056- September 12, 2022 (AP/GL Version)
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You can now relabel "Current Retained Earnings" and "Prior Retained Earnings" in the Balance Sheet and Trial Balance outputs.
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You can now select a custom date range in the Income Statement and Trial Balance. Select Other at the bottom of the Period drop-down list to select a custom date range, or key F2 to access the same selection.
You can now select to view a Location in Account Inquiry.
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You can now Import Journal Entries.
1. In the Journal Entries window, click New Journal Entry, and select Import Journal Entry. 2. The Import Journal Entry window opens. 3. Choose default Journal Entry values. Enter a value for the yellow fields- Debit Intent, Credit Intent, and Subject. Other fields are optional. |
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4. For the JE Date, Account, Amount, and Comments, use the drop down arrow to select which column on your spreadsheet contains this info.
5. Once all the columns are selected, the Import Clipboard button becomes active. Copy your spreadsheet to your clipboard, and click Import Clipboard. The data from your spreadsheet appears in the grid below. 6. Review the import, and click Add Journal Entry to create the Journal Entry in FrontLine. This Journal Entry will not post automatically, so you can edit or cancel it. |
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August 2022
FrontLine 6.8.055- August 26, 2022 (AP/GL Version)
This release contains maintenance updates.
FrontLine 6.8.054- August 22, 2022 (AP/GL Version)
There are several updates to the Journal Entries window.
- Expired JE Templates are now disabled on the list and labelled as disabled.
- There is a new Open Journal Entry by JEID selection in the Open Journal Entry selection. This used to be accessed only by keying F2.
- Changing the JE Date in the top section now offers to apply this date as the JE Date of all the JE Lines.
- Hold down the Ctrl key while clicking a template entry from the New Journal Entry from Template list to open the template itself.
In the Payables window, the filter text now also searches the PO#, Amount, and Discounted Amount. Type a value in the blank filter field on the left above the payables list to filter the lines displayed.
FrontLine 6.7.054- August 22, 2022
This release contains maintenance updates.
FrontLine 6.8.053- August 15, 2022 (AP/GL Version)
This release contains maintenance updates.
FrontLine 6.8.052- August 5, 2022 (AP/GL Version)
Receivables Statements now offers an EMail Statements interactive function in the context menu to send qualified statements by email. You can create email template files to auto-generate the email subject and message body. For example, if you create email templates named ReceivableStatements.eml and ReceivableStatements30.eml, then the second template is only used for statements where the maximum past due is at least 30 days. Contact support@ormandysoftware.com to set up email templates based on the number of days past due.
To use the new email statements feature:
- Set up email templates with different text depending on the lateness of the latest bill.
- After generating statements, in the Print Options, select to Email Bill-to Address (the email on the bill to address) or Email Invoicing Contacts (the Bill To address contacts that have the Invoicing flag selected).
- Right-click and select EMail Statements.
- FrontLine asks if you would like to preview statements. Click Yes to open all the statements in a preview window.
- Click Next at the top to page through each statement in the batch. After preview, click the X in the top right to close the preview window.
- FrontLine asks if you are ready to email statements. Click Yes.
- FrontLine tells you all the email templates it has found. Click OK to continue.
- FrontLine generates an email for each statement, using the template that matches its oldest receivable. Here you can alter the email text, change the recipients, add additional attachments, or click Cancel to skip sending the email.
- If you click Cancel, that email is not sent, and FrontLine asks if you would like to cancel the process or continue. Click OK to continue to the next email.
- If you click Send, FrontLine sends the email via your mail relay, and then generates the next email for review.
- Once all the emails are sent, FrontLine completes the process with a message telling you the number of receivables that were sent.
Bank Reconciliation now provides a Difference display in the top section. This difference is the Bank Ending Balance minus the calculated Ending Balance.
Recurring AP now refreshes its list of invoices after a recurring AP template is modified.
FrontLine 6.7.053- August 12, 2022
This release contains maintenance updates.
FrontLine 6.7.052- August 11, 2022
When receiving backordered items, the Receiving window now sorts the backorders by Order Scheduled date (if any) then Order Placed date.
July 2022
FrontLine 6.8.051- July 29, 2022 (AP/GL Version)
This release contains maintenance updates.
FrontLine 6.8.050- July 27, 2022 (AP/GL Version)
Equipment Search has a new option to Search On Hand Inventory. This selection includes a Location filter. Search results do not show address columns, and Vendor replaces Customer for search input and output.
Equipment Search can now be opened from the Customer Order window. Right-click on the line items, and select Equipment Search to open Equipment Search with the Search On Hand Inventory option preselected and the order line location preset in the Location filter.
FrontLine 6.8.049- July 18, 2022 (AP/GL Version)
The Budgets feature is now available. Contact support@ormandysoftware.com to set up budgets.
Purchase Freight Charges that are assigned to a specific tangible line item on a purchase order no longer display a ready checkbox because they are checked in along with their associated tangible line item.
Equipment Search now searches for the text you enter anywhere in the identifier value if you are searching a multi-value identifier. Assigned Price identifier is now included in the Identifier type selector drop-down in Equipment Search.
FrontLine 6.7.051- July 29, 2022
This release contains maintenance updates.
June 2022
FrontLine 6.8.048- June 28, 2022 (AP/GL Version)
You can now use prior check numbers that have been skipped when printing checks. FrontLine verifies that the begin check number and number of checks to be printed fit in the range of the skipped checks.
FrontLine 6.8.047- June 24, 2022 (AP/GL Version)
Manual journal entries now have only five JE Types to be selected: Payroll, Depreciation, Miscellaneous, Accrual, Beginning Balance
Also, manual Journal Entry Lines may have one of six Journal Entry Intents: Miscellaneous, Payroll, Miscellaneous Accrual, Miscellaneous Accrual Reversal, Payroll Accrual, Payroll Accrual Reversal
In Recurring AP, right-click on Show Due within to toggle between the Next Week and the Next 30 Days.
In Payables, if you list multiple vendors together in the Select for Payment list, these are now sorted by Vendor Number before Due Date.
When paying payables, the Account selected is now sticky per user and per Check/EFT/Card.
NOTE: you must reset the sticky items per stub value for check printing again.
NOTE: you must reset the sticky items per stub value for check printing again.
You can now export the Bank Reconciliation. Right-click in the Bank Reconciliation and select Export.
The new Bank Deposit Batch function in the Customer Orders window now provides the GL Account selector for you to choose a bank account.
The context menu available in the Generate Purchase Order window now offers three quick reports. In Purchasing, select to Autogen purchases. You don't need to select a vendor or create purchase suggestions to use these views. Right-click in the grid to select:
- View On Order by Location for Items On Order by Location
- View On Order by Stock Number for Items On Order by Stock Number
- View All On Order by PO for Items On Order by Purchase Order
FrontLine 6.8.046- June 15, 2022 (AP/GL Version)
When you make a manual Journal Entry, after you select an Intent for a journal entry line, later journal entry lines you enter default to the same Intent if you don’t select another Intent.
You can now change the date FrontLine uses to calculate the next template journal entry. When a Journal Entry that was created from a template is posted, the JE Date of this new Journal Entry is saved as the last date used on the template. Then, the next time you create a Journal Entry from this template, FrontLine can use this date as a base for the date interval instead of the original JE Date of the template. FrontLine will ask you to confirm which base date to use.
When an Income Statement is produced By Account Code, you can double-click the value in a Period column to view the Period Journal Entries for that Account in that Period if the period is closed. This can also be accessed with a right-click.
The export of the Payables list now includes Terms (of the payable) and Vendor Number.
Includes maintenance updates added in 6.7.050
FrontLine 6.7.050- June 14, 2022
This release contains maintenance updates.
March 2022
FrontLine 6.7.049- March 30, 2022
If the Job panel is open on an order but no job is assigned, when you checkout, FrontLine will remind you, asking "Do you want to continue without assigning a Job?"
Security has been added for Third Party selections in the Welcome window. All Third Party entries except "Send POs to MOL" now require a Modify permit for the Third Party Access class.
The Jobs drop-down in the customer orders window now includes both the Bill-To and Ship-To customers in the selection list.
Security has been added for Third Party selections in the Welcome window. All Third Party entries except "Send POs to MOL" now require a Modify permit for the Third Party Access class.
The Jobs drop-down in the customer orders window now includes both the Bill-To and Ship-To customers in the selection list.
FrontLine 6.7.048- March 16, 2022
There is a new User Option to override automatic committing of inventory to lines added to orders. If the company setting for auto-commit is turned on, and your user has this option selected, when you add lines to orders, inventory will not commit automatically. FrontLine will override auto-commit unless you are on a point of sale workstation creating a counter sale transaction.
- Point to Setup and click Security.
- In the System Users window, select the user you would like to edit and click User Options in the top toolbar.
- In the User Options window, select Disable Auto-Commit (except Fast POS).
February 2022
FrontLine 6.7.047- February 24, 2022
The Receivables window now displays the Periodic Invoice ID in a column. This replaces the Invoice Sequence column. The invoice sequence is now displayed along with the Order ID, after a hyphen. When exported, the columns for Order ID and invoice sequence are separate.
You can now drill down to edit an order from a diagnostic report. Right-click to open the context menu, and click Edit Order to open the order for editing. This function appears in the context menu when there are columns on the report for Order ID, Order Type, and Order Status. The order status must be Open and not In Use, and you must have permissions to open the order.
FrontLine 6.7.046- February 11, 2022
There is a new Company Setting to display job details on all customer orders.
- Point to Setup and click Company & Stations.
- In the Company Settings find Order Activity Reactions and click the ellipses in the Value column to open the Order Activity Reactions window.
- Select Always show the Job panel on open Customer Orders. When selected, all customer orders will show the Job details by default.
You can now open an identifier link in Line Item Details. Simply click the identifier type while holding down the Ctrl key, and the linked file or webpage opens.
January 2022
FrontLine 6.7.045- January 25, 2022
FrontLine can now send email compositions to a web browser window to be mailed via a Google Workspace or Gmail account. Your Return EMail address in System Users must correspond to your Google address, and you will have to log in to your Google account in the browser if you haven't already.
FrontLine opens an email composition window in the browser with the recipients, subject, and body text, and provides a box that you can drag and drop on the browser to add all the attachments. For multiple emails, like recurring billing, you will have a separate email composition window open for each email in the batch.
To use this method instead of SMTP, the Mail Relay in Locations should be set to:
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/%0:s/?fs=1&tf=cm&source=mailto&su=%1:s&to=%2:s&cc=%3:s&bcc=%4:s&body=%5:s
FrontLine opens an email composition window in the browser with the recipients, subject, and body text, and provides a box that you can drag and drop on the browser to add all the attachments. For multiple emails, like recurring billing, you will have a separate email composition window open for each email in the batch.
To use this method instead of SMTP, the Mail Relay in Locations should be set to:
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/%0:s/?fs=1&tf=cm&source=mailto&su=%1:s&to=%2:s&cc=%3:s&bcc=%4:s&body=%5:s
FrontLine 6.7.044- January 5, 2022
You can now add multiple parts to a service order using a Bill of Materials. The Bill of Materials Package Content Selector window includes an option to link with one click all the parts selected to a repair unit on the order.
You can now set a Maximum resource costs labor hours per order. When the order has more resource cost labor hours assigned than the maximum, you will see a warning when invoicing.
- Point to Setups and click Company & Stations.
- In the company settings filter at the bottom of the window, type “max” to filter for the Max Resource Labor Hours setting.
- In the Value field, enter the maximum number of labor hours per order you would like to allow in resource costs.
- FrontLine notifies you before checkout if the total hours in Resource Costs exceeds this threshold, and directs you to the line with the largest number of hours.
There is a new option to look up items by stock number and description. FrontLine will search both stock number and description for matches when you type into the ScanCode field and when you click the Item Lookup button.
- Point to Setups and click Company & Stations.
- In the company settings filter at the bottom of the window, type “lookup” to filter for the Lookup Options setting.
- Click the ellipses in the Value column to open the Lookup Options window.
- For Scan Auto Lookup, select Both Stock and Description.
There is a new feature to copy warranty dates into additional fields when entering warranties. When selected, this option copies the parts expiration date entered by the user to services and charges expiration dates if the other expiration dates are blank and the standard warranty for the item includes coverage for services or charges.
- Point to Setup and click Company & Stations.
- In the Company Setting Return, Repair, Unidentified, click the ellipses in the Value field to open the Return, Repair, and Unidentified Options window.
- Select the checkbox to "Copy Unit Warranty Parts Expiration Date entered to blank Services and Charges Expiration Dates"
You can now change User Options and Access Profiles in the System Users window without needing to log in as the system administrator. Assign a Modify permit for the Security context in the Setup class to give this permission to users.
You can now sort the item locations view in the Scan Match window. In Scan Match, click Locations. Sort the grid by clicking column titles.
You can now delete the Terms on Vendor Invoices to manually set the Invoice Date and Due Date for special cases. If terms are present, FrontLine determines the Due Date based on the Invoiced Date.
The Desc1 field in Items Maintenance has been expanded to 160 characters. Use this to add longer descriptions without needing Desc2 and Desc3.