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RMS Version 8.00F Program Changes on the October 2014 Update

The quarterly update from Dayspring is included on the October update. You don’t have to do anything special to recognize the new counter cards’ pricing. Simply install the October update with all folders (in particular the BOOK folder).

Please note that if your store is located in Canada, you can take advantage of the Dayspring file with Canadian prices by adding the following to your store’s environment file:

DAYSPRIN  DAYCANA

Please contact support if you need more information on this feature.

When applicable, the monthly update disc includes upcoming Munce catalog files you can process from the “IVPROMO” program. This month’s update includes two files for their November catalogs. One catalog (and matching data file) has promotional pricing from November 1^st through November 30^th. The other has promotional pricing from November 1^st through December 24^th. If you are sending out one of the November 2014 Munce catalogs to your customers, you need to use the file name that matches the promotion date range you chose to send.

• M-NOV-RN.TXT = November catalog with Regular sale prices through November 30^th.
• M-NOV-RD.TXT = November catalog with Regular sale prices through December 24^th.

The monthly update disc you receive from BSMGR for RMS contains a current copy of the Christian Books & More^® database, new images, music samples and program changes. Remember to run IVDC after installing your update to reflect retail prices changes for your store’s inventory items. When that program completes, you can use IVL to print labels with the new prices.

As a reminder, each month’s update disc also includes a folder titled “Manual” that contains the current RMS manual. The file is in Microsoft Word format, and there is a free Word viewer program in the folder in case you don’t have a copy of Microsoft Word installed on your computer. For your convenience, the RMS program changes on this update are listed below.

The following changes are for 8.00F.

ACUTCSET:

ADDED ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE – “A_REMOVE_EMPTY_ERROR_FILE 1”.

CASHCALC:

• VARIOUS ENHANCEMENTS.

• NEW BUTTONS TO QUICKLY ADD ROLLS OF COINS.
• ADDED DESCRIPTION LINE TO ASSOCIATE A PRINTOUT WITH A REGISTER.
• ADDED FIELD FOR AMOUNT LEFT IN DRAWER SO YOU CAN SEE HOW MUCH CASH IS ACTUALLY BEING DEPOSITED FROM THAT DRAWER.
• ADDED FIELD FOR EXPECTED AMOUNT TO SHOW SHORT/OVER AMT.

• REARRANGED SCREEN LAYOUT FOR CLARITY.

DIAG:

USING-THIN-CLIENT VALUE DIDN’T SHOW CLEARLY.

EOITRAN:

UPDATED FOR VERSION 8.0 LOOK.

EZSTATUS:

UPDATED RECORD KEEPING FEATURE.

HOTKEY:

“HELP” ON MENU BAR WASN’T WORKING. SOME WINDOWS SECURITY SETTINGS IN NEWER VERSIONS OF WINDOWS DO NOT ALLOW A HELP FILE TO BE OPENED FROM A NETWORK DRIVE. THE PROGRAM NOW COPIES THE BSMGR HELP FILES TO THE ACULOCAL FOLDER SO THEY WILL OPEN.

IVDI3:

• INDEX OUT OF BOUNDS ERRORS. MADE SEVERAL CHANGES THROUGHOUT THE PROGRAM CREATING UNIQUE LOOP VARIABLES TO TRY AND ADDRESS THE INTERMITTENT “INDEX OUT OF BOUNDS” ERRORS REPORTED BY A FEW STORES.

• AUDIO SEARCH BY VENDOR AND INT’L SEARCH BY SERIES ALWAYS YIELDED NO RESULTS.

IVDIPG2:

IF THE SERIES NAME HAS A “&” IN IT, THE PROGRAM WAS TREATING IT LIKE A “HOT-KEY” OR “ALT-KEY”. IT NOW SHOWS CORRECTLY.

IVM:

IF YOU ARE IN MASSIVE ADDITIONS AND YOU CHECK “SKIP LABELS”, THE BOX WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE CHECKED FOR THE ITEMS ADDED AFTER IT UNTIL YOU EXIT “IVM” OR SAVE AN ITEM WITH THAT BOX UNCHECKED.

IVPSCRN:

MOVED CHECK BOX THAT OVERLAPPED TEXT.

IVSI:

COSMETIC TWEAKS. GRADIENT WASN’T SHOWING ON ARCHIVES AND BUTTONS WERE A BIT LOW ON THE SCREEN.

IVSO:

DELETED SPECIAL ORDERS ARE NOW ALWAYS ARCHIVED.

IVT:

FIXED NON-TRANSPARENT LABEL.

IVTPAGE:

NEED TO SEND OUT ON NEXT UPDATE. WAS LEFT OFF THE VERSION 8.0 UPGRADE.

MLP:

IF THE EXCEL ROUTINES FAIL DUE TO MISSING THE .EXE OR THE PATH NOT BEING SET, BSMGR NOW DISPLAYS AN ERROR MESSAGE EXPLAINING WHAT TO LOOK FOR.

MLUL:

CAN NOW CLEAR FRQ BUYERS.

POS:

• UPDATING EMAILS AT END OF SALE WASN’T ADDING OR CHANGING THE EMAILS.

• THE CREDIT CARD FUNCTION KEYS ON THE TOUCH POS SUB-TL SCREEN WEREN’T DISPLAYING CORRECTLY.

• ON THE TOUCH POS SUB-TL SCREEN, SOME BUTTONS WERE NOT DISABLING. CANCELLING OUT OF THE SLOT CREDIT CARD PROCEDURE CAUSED A NEGATIVE CHANGE AMOUNT.

• THE AUTO RESPONDER NOTE WAS NOT SHOWING IN POS.

• IF YOU CHOSE TOUCH POS SUB-TL OPTION 0 OR 2, THE PAYMENT BUTTONS WERE MIXED UP.

• EMAIL ONLY CREDIT CARD REPRINTS – BSMGR WASN’T CUTTING PAPER ON THE REPRINT COPY. THE FIRST COPY WAS SKIPPED EMAIL ONLY.

QBS:

• THE UPDATE ROUTINE NO LONGER TRIES TO UPDATE THE .EXE FILES FOR STORES USING A GX-2, SINCE THERE ARE NO DRIVERS FOR THIS HARDWARE BEYOND WINDOWS XP.

• REBURN ONLY WAS NOT WORKING IF THE STORE PRINTED THE CD BEFORE BURNING.

• MISC ENHANCMENTS – ADDED “REPAIR ALL QBS FILES” AND “PRINTER DIAGS” BUTTONS.

SCHEDULE:

“GENERATE BEST SELLER PRINTOUT” BUTTON HAD A COLOR ASSIGNED TO IT. REMOVED COLOR SO IT NOW LOOKS LIKE THE REST OF THE BUTTONS ON THE SCREEN. ALSO CHANGED “BSMGR/I.I.L” TO “BSMGR/EOI”.

SETFONTS:

REMOVED REFERENCES TO POS-SCREEN-TYPE. THIS VARIABLE ALLOWED FOR A TOUCH SCREEN KEYPAD USING AN EXTERNAL / SEPARATE PROGRAM. STARTING WITH VERSION 8, THE TOUCH SCREEN KEYPAD IS BUILT INTO BSMGR. ENABLING THIS SETTING CAUSED THE SCREEN TO ELONGATE SUCH THAT SOME BUTTONS NEAR THE BOTTOM OF WINDOWS WERE NOT VISIBLE.

TIMEPAGE:

COSMETIC TWEAKS. “ERRORS ON CARD” WAS OVERWRITING THE HOURS DISPLAY.

UPDTHOST:

IF YOU ADDED OR CHANGED THE BIRTHDAY FILE IN MLM AT THE REMOTE STORE WITHOUT CHANGING THE PHONE NUMBERS, THE BIRTHDAY CHANGES DIDN’T WRITE TO THE HOST FILE.

Please contact us if you experience problems installing your update.

Your BSMGR Support Team
support@bsmgr.com | (800) 997-6724 (option 2)

RMS Version 7.60T and 8.00E Program Changes on the September 2014 Update

The monthly update disc you receive from BSMGR for RMS contains a current copy of the Christian Books & More ^® database, new images, music samples and program changes. You should run IVDC after installing your update to make prices changes to your store’s inventory items. When that program completes, you can use IVL to print labels with the new prices. For your convenience, the RMS program changes on this update are listed below.

As a reminder, each month’s update disc also includes a folder titled “Manual” that contains the current RMS manual. The file is in Microsoft Word format, and there is a free Word viewer program in the folder in case you don’t have a copy of Microsoft Word installed on your computer.

The following change is for 7.60T only

SETUSER:

FIXED FILE ERROR 35 ON SOME MACHINES.

The following changes are for 8.00E only

APE:

IF YOU ENTER AN INVOICE DATE OR CHECK DATE MORE THAN 2 YEARS AHEAD OR LESS THAN 2 YEARS BACK, BSMGR NOW GIVES A WARNING.

ARHD:

MOVED STATE UNDER CITY – ON VERY LARGE RESOLUTIONS, THE STATE FIELD WAS GREATLY SEPARATED FROM THE REST OF THE FIELDS. IT IS NOW IN LINE WITH THE OTHER FIELDS BETWEEN CITY AND ZIP CODE.

ARM:

MINISTER LABEL WASN’T TRANSPARENT.

CASHCALC:

NEW PROGRAM – EASY CALCULATOR FOR ADDING UP CASH AND COINS BY DENOMINATION TO GET A TOTAL CASH COUNT FOR A DRAWER. INCLUDES OPTION TO PRINT TO RECEIPT PRINTER.

CHECKEOI:

ADDED TOP 25 VIDEOS TO SUMMARY.

DIAG:

• CHANGED “CAFE POS” TO “TOUCH POS”.

• EXPANDED THE ENV VARIABLE SIZE FROM 20 TO 35.

DIAGRPT:

CHANGED “CAFE POS” TO “TOUCH POS”.

EMP:

IF YOU WERE ADDING A NEW EMPLOYEE AND DOUBLE CLICKED ON THE BACKGROUND, THE CHECK BOXES WOULD ALL GET SET TO A CHECKED STATE.

EOIBEST:

• ADDED TOP SELLER LISTS FOR VIDEOS AND AUDIO BOOKS.

• BOOKS CAN NOW BE LIMITED TO FICTION, NON-FICTION, A SPECIFIC CATEGORY OR ALL BOOKS.

GLAP:

COSMETIC – YOU ARE ABOUT TO POST INTO …. THE PERIOD NUMBER WAS TOO FAR RIGHT.

GLTB:

SMALL LETTERS AND CAPITAL LETTERS ARE NOW SORTED EQUALLY.

IVDI3:

RANDOM INDEX OUT OF BOUNDS ERRORS – PUT IN SOME EXTRA LOGIC TO PREVENT THIS.

IVM:

REPLACES ANY TABS WITH SPACES.

IVL:

ADDED OPTION TO PULL ALL CATEGORIES.

IVP:

• EXCEL IMPORT – OUR PRICE TIER 2 WASN’T IMPORTING CORRECTLY ALL THE TIME.

• EXCEL EXPORT – IF YOU CHOSE A REPORT THAT CONTAINED NO DATA, GOT A FILE ERROR 42.

IVSO:

REPLACES ANY TABS WITH SPACES.

IVUL:

IMPORT OPTION 32 – SECOND AND THIRD TIER PRICING WASN’T CORRECT.

IVWOIBID:

THIS PROGRAM WAS MISSED IN THE VERSION 8.0 FULL COMPILE. OLD VERSION CAUSED A FILE ERROR 39.

MENU:

IF USE-ALT-MENU IS SET TO Y THE THE MENU USER WILL BE PULLED FROM THE USER_NUM.

MLP:

EXCEL ERROR MESSAGE – IF THE EXCEL ROUTINES FAIL DUE TO MISSING THE .EXE OR THE PATH NOT BEING SET, BSMGR NOW DISPLAYS AN ERROR MESSAGE EXPLAINING WHAT TO LOOK FOR.

POS:

• DISABLE LAYAWAY – THE TOUCH POS SUB TL SCREEN STILL SHOWED LAYAWAY EVEN WHEN TURNED OFF IN SYS CONFIG.

• MISC BUTTON COLOR WASN’T BEING USED.

• STOP BLOCKING SSL20 FOR THIN CLIENT.

• NEW ENV SETTING: “POS-TOUCH-SUBTL-OPTION“. SETTING IT TO A “0” OR LEAVING BLANK KEEPS THE EXISTING/DEFAULT SUBTL SCREEN LOOK AND BEHAVIOR. HERE ARE THE OTHER OPTIONS:

1. THE ENTER KEY (OR SCANNING A GIFT CARD) WILL HAVE NO EFFECT. THE CURSOR STAYS IN THE AMOUNT DUE FIELD.
2. ADDS THE FUNCTION KEY EQUIVALENT TO THE 2ND LINE OF THE BUTTON NAME. FOR EXAMPLE CASH WOULD READ “CASH F3” DISPLAYED ON TWO LINES.
3. COMBINES BOTH #1 AND #2.

IF NOT USING A TOUCH SCREEN AND DON’T WANT TO USE THE MOUSE, SETTING “2” OR “3” WOULD BE BEST.
DESCRIPTIONS WERE TWEAKED A BIT A BIT. FOR EXAMPLE, “HOUSE CHARGE” IS NOW “CHARGE”.
ADDED ALT LETTERS TO THE LEFT HAND SIDE BUTTONS.

POSSCRNS:

MISC BUTTON COLOR WASN’T BEING USED.

QBSRPT:

ADDED CHECK BOX TO SHOW CURRENT MONTH BURNS.

THEFLAGS:

NOW SHOWING ON HAND AND ON ORDER NUMBERS FOR THE INGRAM/SPRING ARBOR WAREHOUSE IN ALLENTOWN, PA THAT WENT LIVE ON SEPT. 1, 2014.

TIMEIN:

HOURS WORKED BUTTON OFF THE SCREEN.

VIEWER:

EXPANDED SIZE OF PREVIEW TEXT BOX.

VTEST:

UPDATED TO NEW LOOK FOR 8.0.

Please contact us if you experience problems installing your update.

Your BSMGR Support Team
support@bsmgr.com | (800) 997-6724 (option 2)

RMS Version 7.60S and 8.00D Program Changes on the August 2014 Update

The monthly update disc you receive from BSMGR for RMS contains a current copy of the Christian Books & More ^® database, new images, music samples and program changes. You should run IVDC after installing your update to make prices changes to your store’s inventory items. When that program completes, you can use IVL to print labels with the new prices. For your convenience, the RMS program changes on this update are listed below.

As a reminder, each month’s update disc also includes a folder titled “Manual” that contains the current RMS manual. The file is in Microsoft Word format, and there is a free Word viewer program in the folder in case you don’t have a copy of Microsoft Word installed on your computer.

The following changes are for 7.60S and 8.00D

FTP:

IF A LOG FILE NAME ISN’T PASSED TO THIS PROGRAM, DON’T TRY TO WRITE LOG.

LMANAGER:

CHANGED “CAFE POS” TO “TOUCH POS”.

POSTHTTP:

ADDED ABILITY TO SEND GET OR POST METHOD.

SETUSER:

ADDED BACKUP WARNING.

WIN8REG:

IF “IGNORE-REGISTRY-UPDATE” IS SET TO “Y” IN ENV, OR RUNNING FROM THIN CLIENT / REMOTE MANAGER OR NOT ON WINDOWS, THE PROGRAM EXITS. NOW, IF YOU RUN THE PROGRAM FROM DIAG | RUN REGOCX AND ONE OF THESE APPLIES, YOU GET A MESSAGE EXPLAINING WHY IT ISN’T RUNNING.

The following changes are for 8.00D only

ARHI:

• SCREEN LAYOUT CHANGE – SHIFTED LIST BOX TO LEFT SIDE OF SCREEN. THE SUMMARY LINE THAT USED TO SHOW ON THE BOTTOM IS NOW IN A COLUMN ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE SCREEN. ALSO EXPANDED LIST BOX TO SHOW MORE LINES/ENTRIES ON THE SCREEN.

• ADDED THE “-” SIGN TO PAYMENT AMOUNTS IN LIST BOX OF HISTORY.

DIAG:

ADDED RESOLUTION SETTING FOR THE MONITOR AS SEEN BY THE RUNTIME. REPORTED ON THE ENVIRONMENT TAB.

IVDI3:

• FIXED PRINTING BY AUTHOR.

• IN VERSION 7.6, WE ADDED A SECOND BIBLE LANGUAGE FIELD. NOW SHOWING ON THE SEARCH RESULTS SCREEN.

IVDIPG2:

• ADDED 2ND BIBLE COLOR TO BIBLE DETAILS SCREEN.

• IN VERSION 7.6, WE ADDED A SECOND BIBLE LANGUAGE FIELD. NOW SHOWING ON THE ADD’L INFO SCREEN.

• BUTTON TOO LARGE – COSMETIC CHANGE.

IVDIPRT:

FIXED PRINTING BY AUTHOR.

IVIC2:

INVALID VENDOR #S ON CASCADE SYSTEM WILL NO LONGER ALLOW “000” VENDOR #.

IVM:

• WHEN YOU ARE IN IVM “CHANGE” AND YOU ENTER AN ITEM # THAT DOESN’T EXIST, IT SWITCHES TO ADD MODE. WHEN IT SWITCHED YOU OVER, IT WASN’T PUTTING THE CORRECT ITEM NUMBER. FOR EXAMPLE, 9780310719229 WHICH BECAME 9789780310714 (978 TWICE THEN THE FIRST PART OF THE ITEM # WITH NEW CHECK DIGIT).

• CAFE PRINTER LIST BOX – CHANGED FROM
“NONE, PRINTER 1, PRINTER 2, PRINTER 3, BOTH” TO
“NONE, PRINTER 1, PRINTER 2, PRINTER 3, ALL”.

IVPR:

UNRECEIVING INVOICE WITH NO INVOICE # WAS HANGING BSMGR.

IVSO:

WHEN TABBING THRU THE ITEM# FIELD OF A PREVIOUSLY SAVED SPL ORDER, BY DEFAULT, BSMGR DOES NOT RE-READ THE INVENTORY FILE FOR PRICING INFO. IF YOU WANT THAT BEHAVIOR, SET ENV VARIABLE REREAD-IVSO-ITEM TO A “Y”. NOTE THIS WILL MAKE THE STOCK CHECK ITEM # DEFAULT TO THE SPL ORDER ITEM # AS WELL.

IVUL:

• CYCLE COUNT UTILITIES ENTER IN STOCK AMOUNTS NOW HAD LIST FOR “SCAN HISTORY”. IF YOU GET INTERRUPTED WHILE SCANNING, IT IS EASIER TO SEE WHERE YOU LEFT OFF SO YOU DON’T MISS OR DOUBLE SCAN PRODUCTS.

• ENABLED AUDIT REPORT – CYCLE COUNT UTILITIES – ENTER IN STOCK AMOUNTS PROCESS WOULD ONLY ASK TO PRINT AN AUDIT REPORT IF “PROMPT FOR QTY” WAS NOT CHECKED. IT WILL NOW PRESENT THE OPTION WHETHER OR NOT THIS IS CHECKED.

IVWO:

TWEAKED SCREEN FOR “MOVE” OPTION.

MENU:

DEFAULT MENU IS NOW 1 UNLESS OVERRIDDEN.

MLUL:

IMPORTING FROM EXCEL WAS NOT DESTROYING THE VERIFY SCREEN AFTER EXITING THE LOOP.

MOVEWIN:

NEW PROGRAM. MOVES THE RUNTIME WINDOW TO NEW LOCATION AND SIZE. WRITTEN FOR USE WITH THE USB LCD PRICE DISPLAY POLE.

POS:

• USB MONITOR WASN’T WORKING CORRECTLY.

• IF YOU DISABLED THE GIFT CARD OPTION IN SYS | CONFIG | #4067, THE BUTTON ON THE SUB-TOTAL SCREEN STILL SHOWED “GIFT CARD”.

• ADDED RESOLUTION 1080X720 FOR SURFACE 3 TABLET.

• SIMPLIFIED THE SCREEN THAT ALLOWS THE USER TO CHANGE OR RECALCULATE A DISCOUNT IN POS. ALSO ADDED THE TOUCH SCREEN FEATURE.

• NEW DISCOUNT SCREENS.

• DELETE BUTTON ON POS LIST BOX WASN’T WORKING.

• CAFE POS SUBTL BUTTON WAS NOT REFRESHING ON A VOID BY TRANSACTION NUMBER.

POSMENU:

AFTER CHOOSING A SUB MENU IT WASN’T TRANSFERING BACK FROM THE LOOKUP SCREEN.

POSSCRNS:

CHANGED LAYOUT ON MODIFY SCREEN.

QBS:

REPRINT CD’S AND LINER WAS NOT WORKING CORRECTLY IF THE PRINTING WAS DONE BEFORE THE CD WAS BURNED.

QUICK:

NOW LETS YOU GO INTO POS FROM CTRL-Q.

SETFONTS:

CHANGED SIZE FOR 1280X1024 RESOLUTION.

SLCP:

ADDED EXCEL EXPORT OPTION.

SLGP:

ADDED LAST USED DATE TO PRINT OUT OF GIFTCARDS.

SLIV:

YOU CAN NOW CONFIGURE THE DAILY ROUTINE ON THE SLIV REPORT TO PRINT TO PRINTER OR JUST TO A FILE CALLED SLIV.TMP FROM SYS CONFIG # 7047.

SYS:

• OVERRIDE RESOLUTION OPTION MOVED TO LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE SCREEN AND OBSOLETED COMMUNICATION-PIFS.

• CONFIG # 7047 – YOU CAN NOW CONFIGURE THE DAILY ROUTINE ON THE SLIV REPORT TO PRINT TO PRINTER OR JUST TO A FILE CALLED SLIV.TMP.

• REMOVED “A” RESOLUTION OPTION.

THEFLAGS:

• INTERNET STOCK CHECKS NOW UPDATE THE PRODUCT PRICE AND DISCOUNT AS WELL AS THE COUNTS FOR ON HAND AND ON ORDER.

• ADDED PRICING DISCLAIMER – WE CANNOT VALIDATE PRICE INFORMATION WE RECEIVE THROUGH STOCK CHECKS, SO WE’VE ADDED A DISCLAIMER MESSAGE THAT SHOWS IF ANY VENDOR’S PRICING IS OFF BY MORE THAN 5% COMPARED TO THE SRP IN CB&M.

USERENV:

• OVERRIDE RESOLUTION OPTION MOVED TO LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE SCREEN AND OBSOLETED COMMUNICATION-PIFS.

• REMOVED “A” RESOLUTION OPTION.

Please contact us if you experience problems installing your update.

Your BSMGR Support Team
support@bsmgr.com | (800) 997-6724 (option 2)

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