1. FACCTS accounting: the close month function was missing some cases of open items and allowing a close while ungenerated bills existed. This has been fixed.
2. The UEN interface now provides direct control of UED magazine advertising. We will be sending you more information on this after you have installed this update and returned the sign-up form included with the UED advertising confirmations. Briefly, the idea is that the "U" advertising code will now trigger advertising a listing in the UED magazine. This must be used in addition to the "#" code for UEN.
Note that if you use a "U" advertising code, the system will check the length of the listing to make sure it will fit within the margins of the printed UED. This is a complicated calculation because some letters are wider than others (compare "W" to "i"); if the listing is too long, a message will appear telling you the comparison of the calculated length to the maximum of 2880 decipoints. To give you a feel for the size of individual characters, a letter "X" is 35 typesetter units and a "j" is 16. The whole word "TAILSTOCK" totals 300 units while "tailstock" totals 228. In general, if you used mixed case in your listings you will never see the message. If you use all uppercase letters, long lines will give you trouble. If you have not returned your "Direct Control" form to us, please do so. If you need a copy of the form, call or email Sam.
3. There is a new field associated with I/K machines, called (on the screens) "FOBo". This is an override to the normal FOB handling on quotes. If the new field is blank, everything works as it always did. If the new field is non-blank (only F/L/N allowed) this will become the default on the quote print screen for that machine only. As always, this may still be overridden by the user when the quote is sent.
4. In previous versions of TARGET, if you started by looking up a machine in F8 then went to F3/F4 (as opposed to the other way around), the system would "forget" the machine you had just looked up. The new rule is that if there is no currently-selected prospect, the system will continue to remember your last machine and search. As always, if you change prospects we will forget machines and searches.
5. On the quote maintenance screen, there was a case where the up arrow wouldn't go to the correct field. This has been fixed.
6. The new Stock List email (release 18.3) had the boiler plates in the wrong places. This has been fixed.
7. The quote screen now warns you if you try to quote a machine to the current owner or the prospect from whom you bought it. Note that the bulk quoting system has always refused to quote to the owner.
8. Some prospect list generator functions (multi-choice, and by machines) now allow selection of DCF at once or any combination. If you select more than one mail code, the detailed geographic selection below (ZIP code, postal code, or country) will apply only to the first choice you entered in the DCF field. Also note that if you use more than one selection in DCF and want to print labels, you must use the 5162-size labels.
9. The prospect list by machines function now also has the choices for Fax: (Y/N/B) and Eml: (Y/N/B). These work just as they do in the multi-choice screen.
10. The prospect list by machines function reported a confusing result for unique prospect names with some output choices. This has been fixed.
11. The Machine Inquiry screen (F8) has some new search options.
Here is a recap of the choices:
| Entry in Machine ID# field | What it does | |
| Machine number | Looks up that machine | |
| ? | Starts normal category search | |
| * | Starts search by tag number | |
| # | Starts search by serial number | |
| Entry in Category field | What it does | |
| Category number | Used that category | |
| ? | Starts category by name search | |
| * | Starts search by manufacturer in all categories |
12. This isn't new at all but we are finding that some users didn't know this: if you put the UEN code # on a wanted (and run the UEN update of course) the wanted listing not only goes on UEN and your web site, it also goes out automatically in the overnight email bulletin from UEN. Since this is all free, why not?