Tag: Crystal Reports

Pulse workspace version 4.6.124

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Corrected Issues

Corrected issues since version 4.6.123…

  • Payroll: Error adding new Allowance / deduction record corrected.
  • Payroll: Incorrect Accrued Time Off in Employee Enquiry corrected.
  • Payroll: Incorrect SGC Parameter display in Employee Maintenance corrected.
  • An issue that caused reports created with Crystal Reports to fail has been corrected. This mainly affected reports in Function Management and Club Membership.

Crystal Reports Runtime version 13 SP30

In this release we need to update the Crystal Reports runtime package required by some Pulse Workspace applications.

When Pulse Workspace is first executed after update to version 4.6.124 you will see the following prompt…

This will occur on each and every workstation where Pulse Workspace is installed. Click Ok to download and install the installation file.. As with any installer package, you will be prompted a number of times to click Next to continue with the installation. Please do until the installation finishes.

Importantly, do not Cancel the installation as doing so will render the applications that rely on the package unavailable.

Please be patient with this, as on some machines the procedure may take up to five minutes.

Pulse workspace version 4.6.15

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Pulse Workspace

Crystal Reports

To maintain our compatibility with the Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 development environment, we are required to upgrade the SAP Crystal Reports reporting software used by our software to version 13.0.23. This will require upgrade to all workstations executing Pulse Workspace.

The software will check that the correct version of crystal reports is installed when Pulse Workspace version 4.6.15 is executed on a workstation.. If not, the reporting software will be downloaded from the internet and a setup program executed to perform the install. While this is mostly automatic, you should be aware of the following…

  1. You will need the installation security permission to install the new software. If you are unsure please contact your hardware technician.
  2. If you are not on the NBN, the download may take some time.
  3. The installation itself may take some time depending on the speed of your computer.

A New Navigation Pane with Windows 10 Acrylic Effect

We have replaced the navigation bar on the left hand side of Pulse Workspace with a new navigation pane the same as those found on Windows 10 modern applications. This pane enables the Microsoft Acrylic Material (a semi-transparent texture) and Reveal Highlight (a soft focus around the cursor) effects.

The effects are only to be seen on Windows 10 Version 1803 (OS build 17134) or newer which was released in April 2018. If you are using any other version of Windows the background will be a solid colour. Our ribbon menu also includes a new option, Windows 10 Opacity to control the level of transparency.

All menu options are to be found on the new navigation pane. The pop-out tree list of executable menu items no longer exists. The navigation pane includes a filter editor that will filter all menu items based on text entered. For example, if you wanted to view all options in our Club Membership application, simply type Club Membership into the filter.

Finally, the new navigation pane can be minimised if not required.

Improved Vector Graphic theme support

The software now provides two vector graphic appearance themes, The Bezier and Office 2019. These are the top two themes listed in the appearance themes drop-down list on the ribbon menu. Vector graphics provide better performance, more accurate screen-rendering and non-blurry images. You are encouraged to favour them over the traditional bitmap themes.

Vector themes come with colour swatch selections rather than the clunky colour mixer. Our favourite are the Office 2019 selections but that is personal taste.

Pulse Financials

  1. An error in the full detail Trial Balance in which the Net total for a CBD was incorrectly calculated has been corrected.
  2. We have addressed an issue when creating multiple customer credit notes where the amount being applied to invoices include credit amounts previously created. To address this problem we now allow only one credit per invoice per customer in the current unposted batch.

Club Membership

  1. An issue saving a new member record previously created in Fast Member Entry has been corrected.