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- 14. Readme.txt
- Company Accounting 2.8.2 for the Psion Series 5, 5mx, Revo etc (C) Pythia
- Information & PocketIQ 1997-2000
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-
- Released as shareware.
-
- Organizes your company's financial elements and generates language
- independent invoices, rough cash-books and annual accounts.
-
-
- Installation:
- ------------
-
- OBS! If you are upgrading from a previous version please follow the upgrade
- section.
-
-
- Installation from SIS file:
-
- 1) Execute the Company.sis file on your pc or Psion.
-
- 2) Choose C or D drive for the installation (make sure that there is enought
- disk space).
-
- 3) The program will install itself.
-
-
- Installation from ZIP file:
-
- 1) Make sure the \System folder is shown on your Series 5 system screen. If
- it is not, enable it in the 'Preferences' dialogue
-
- 2) Using PsiWin copy the files PYTHIA.OPO, PIQInfo.OPO, PIQInfo.RSC and
- PIQInfo.MBM to the folder \system\opl (you might have to create the folder)
-
- 3) Copy sysram1.opx, systinfo.opx to the folder \system\opx (you might have
- to create the folder)
-
- 4) Go into \System\Apps on C: or D: and make a new folder called "Company"
-
- 5) Using PsiWin, copy all the remaining files to the new \System\Apps\Company
- folder
-
- 6) A new icon will appear on your Extras bar
-
-
- Problems
- --------
-
- 1. Read only files
-
- Some times files become read only while being installed. None of the files
- should be read only. If you get any errors like the program is unable to
- write information to your Psion go through the program files to see if some
- of them are read only.
-
- In the system-view you can open the file property window by selecting
- (highlighting) a file and pressing Ctrl-P. In the property window you can see
- and set/clear the read only checkbox.
-
- 2. Copying between C and D
-
- Be very careful when you move or copy applications between the C and D
- drives. It seems that the Psion is not correctly updated when applicaions are
- copied from C to D or vice versa.
-
- Always delete the application directory from one drive before reinstalling on
- the other drive.
-
-
- Upgrade:
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-
- When upgrading from a previous version of Invoice Manager do not overwrite
- the
- file "Invoice.dbf". This file contains all your registered invoice
- information.
-
- When upgrading from a version 1.4 or lower the "Invoice.dbf" file will be
- upgraded to version 2.0 making it unusable with previous versions of the
- program.
-
- To upgrade the Invoice.dbf file from version 2.0 to version 2.2 please
- execute the IMUPG22.OPO file. You can place it anywhere on your Psion and
- delete it after use.
-
- To upgrade the Invoice.dbf file from version 2.2 to version 2.3 please
- execute the IMUPG23.OPO file. You can place it anywhere on your Psion and
- delete it after use.
-
- To upgrade from Invoice Manager 2.4 to Company Accounting 2.5 just install
- Company Accounting. The first time your run the program it will copy the
- necessary information from your Invoice Manager installation. After that you
- can delete the \system\apps\invoice folder.
-
-
- Usage:
- ------
-
- 1) Press Ctrl+Shift+H to see help file.
-
- 2) Download the detailed "Company Accounting On The Run" document from the
- PocketIQ home page (http://www.PocketIQ.com).
-
-
- Known Bugs:
- -----------
-
-
-
- Made by:
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-
- Marc de Oliveira
- for Pythia Information & PocketIQ
-
- Web: http://www.PocketIQ.com
- E-mail: Pythia@PocketIQ.com
-
-
- Registering:
- ------------
-
- Registering the program will give you the following benefits:
-
- 1) The register window will not pop up on startup
- 2) You get free support via e-mail (Pythia@PocketIQ.com)
- 3) Your suggestions to new functionalities will be implemented (as far as
- resources permits it)
- 4) The screen and generated files will not contain the "unregistered"
- message.
-
- You can register using cheque or credit card. See details on registering on
- the PocketIQ home page at:
-
- http://www.PocketIQ.com
-
-
- After receiving your registering fee I will mail you a Key that you can use
- to register the program.
-
-
- History:
- --------
-
- 1997.11.30: Version 1.0
-
- 1997.12.03: Version 1.1
- - Memory leak removed.
-
- 1997.12.09: Version 1.2
- - "Invalid Argument" error when editing customer list fixed.
-
- 1997.12.10: Version 1.2.1
- - Error while registering fixed.
-
- 1997.12.11: Version 1.2.1 (release 2)
- - Problem with install on D: drive was only in my imagination...
-
- 1997.12.11: Version 1.3
- - pop-lists for customers and invoice lines are reprogrammed to handle more
- items.
- - bugs on delete line and delete invoices fixed
-
- 1997.12.27: Version 1.4
- - Language independent invoice generation. The text of the generated invoice
- is based on parameters controlled by you.
- - Parameter sets for English, American, German, French and Danish are
- included and you can define your own sets as well.
- - No-VAT option. If you set the VAT to "0" you will not get two price
- columns on the invoice (excl. VAT and incl. VAT) but just one (Price).
-
- 1997.12.28: Version 1.4.1
- - Currency is updated on the screen when changed on the invoice.
- - Last invoice is made current on start-up.
-
- 1997.12.30: Version 1.4.2
- - Selecting of non existing invoice numbers now prevented.
- - Bug: Too many invoice lines deleted, fixed.
-
- 1998.02.12: Version 1.4.3
- - Bug: Too few invoice lines deleted, fixed.
-
- 1998.03.30: Version 2.0
- - Language independent rough cash-books and annual accounts can be generated
- in HTML
- - The scope of the program is extended to implement financial elements of
- five different types instead of just invoices.
- - Account groups can be maintained
- - Financial elements can be related to account groups
-
- 1998.04.15: Version 2.0.1
- - Released as a Palmscape product.
-
- 1998.05.02: Version 2.0.2
- - Bugfix: Some fields could not handle being filled completely.
-
- 1998.05.14: Version 2.0.3
- - Palmscape splash screen shown during startup.
-
- 1998.06.07: Version 2.1
- - Browse through financial elements using arrow keys (up and down keys
- toggles element type).
- - Create and Delete a Financial Element through the menu (also deleting
- using the "Del" key).
- - Rearrangement of menu.
- - Financial Overview showing ballances.
- - When creating a new line for a financial element the default date is set
- to the date of the financial element (instead of current date).
- - To avoid Psion bugs the sysram1.opx is now used instead of built in
- database functions.
-
- 1998.06.16: Version 2.2
- - The filter window now lets you filter companies.
- - The company choice list is now sorted alphabetically.
-
- 1998.07.12: Version 2.2.1
- - Better handling when wrong version of ps.opo is installed.
-
- 1998.07.26: Version 2.2.2
- - Small bugs fixed.
-
- 1998.09.09: Version 2.2.3
- - New financial elements (Shift-Ctrl-N) are based on values from the current
- financial element.
- - Bug when deleting financial elements fixed.
-
- 1998.09.20: Version 2.3
- - Fields E-mail, Fax, Alternative Phone and Note has been added to Companies.
- - Bug fixed concerning calculation of next invoice number.
-
- 1998.10.03: Version 2.3.1
- - The financial overview calculation (Ctrl-O) has been extended with three
- new VAT related sums.
- - The company information on the top right corner of the screen is no longer
- truncated by 5 pixels.
- - Fixed problem with saving e-mail and fax number of companies.
- - Other bugs fixed.
-
- 1998.10.18: Version 2.4
- - A new "Find" utilitiy added to search for strings in either financial
- elements (Ctrl-F) or financial element lines (Shift-Ctrl-F).
- - Using pythia.opo version 1.2 makes it possible to include ',' in company
- names, account groups and other fields that are selectable through pop-lists.
-
- 1998.12.03: Version 2.4.1
- - Default currency can now be setup.
- - Alignment of generated invoice has been improved to handle long customer
- addresses (5 lines) correctly.
- - Fixed subscribt error when creating a new financial element from an empty
- file.
-
- 1999.04.01: Version 2.5.1
- - Invoice Manager has been renamed to Company Accounting.
- - A new Graphical Overview shows the surplus generated in any given periode.
- - The current system date format is used instead of yyyy.mm.dd.
- - The Fields of the financial overview have been restructured (again).
- - Bug fix: Alternative Phone number of companies is now shown.
- - The Palmscape logo is no longer shown during startup.
- - Geofox enabled: Screen no longer reacts when the mouse passes over a field.
- - To conform with English law invoices now contain the amount of VAT on a
- seperate line.
- - The Graphic field (for specifying the company logo) can now be used to
- specify a HTML-string to be added to the top of the generated invoice.
- - An option to hide the Element Type from the main screen is added (Ctrl-D).
- This is of interest to people who want to print invoices via screen dumps
- instead of the generated HTML invoices.
-
- 1999.04.11: Version 2.5.2
- - The HTML generators now launches the generated invoices, cash-books and
- annual account in the Message Suite Web Browser for viewing.
- - The generated HTML for cash-books and annual accounts now comes out in a
- smaller font. This gives room for more lines per page.
- - The Graphical Overview now shows the end ballance of the chosen periode as
- a number on the graph.
- - "Update" buttons have been changed to "Save" buttons to conform with the
- Psion standard.
- - Menu, buttons etc have been changed to conform with the Symbian Style
- Guide.
-
- 1999.06.29: Version 2.6
- - The application has been updated to work on both the Psion 5 and 5mx.
-
- 1999.08.05: Version 2.6.1
- - New list views for uncompleted elements
- - Jump to first and last using "Home" and "End"
- - "Closing..." message is now displayed while the program is ending.
- - Fixed bug: On 5mx the HTML file was not loaded the first time.
- - Fixed bug: Sometimes an error occurs when deleting financial element.
-
- 1999.08.15: Version 2.6.2
- - Annual account: The ballance at the start of the year is now automatically
- added as an entry in the Liabilities section.
- - Annual account: More advanced handling of asset write off.
-
- 1999.09.21: Version 2.7
- - It is now possible to print Invoices directly from the Psion.
- - Bug fix: Installation bug is fixed.
-
- 1999.10.12: Version 2.7.1
- - Bug Fix: Generation of next invoice number has been improved to handle
- un-cronological invoice numbers.
-
- 2000.03.25: Version 2.8
- - Graphics now adapt to the current screen size. This should work on all
- EPOC platforms.
- - Released as shareware under PocketIQ.
-
- 2000.04.09: Version 2.8.1
- - Toolbar setting (show/hide) is stored when leaving the program.
- - It is now possible to search for a specific invoice number (Ctrl-F).
- - It is now possible to search for invoice line prices (Shift-Ctrl-F).
- - Maximum amount of each invoice line is changed to 999.999 instead of
- 100.000.
- - Error when printing without an MBM logo removed.
- - Error when trying to view the menu after deleting all financial elements
- removed.
- - Spelling of "Balance" and "Period" is fixed.