OS/2 Shareware BBS: Finance/Finance.zip/et323.zip/WHATS.NEW

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What's New/Fixed/Changed in version 3.23
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
o  Transaction archives (not to be mistaken with the backup /
   restore utility) would not preserve the amount of archived
   transactions, resulting in an incorrect ending balance for
   the account.
o  Postdated transactions are now automatically refreshed
   when a Service Desk portfolio is opened rather than
   when the actual account is opened as before (although
   the latter is still in place should the account be
   opened from its WPS object).  Note that accounts
   that have been closed (not to be mistaken with closing
   an Account Book window) are ignored.
o  Added 'Refresh now' item to the Service Desk's
   'Accounts' menu to force a postdated transaction
   refresh described in the previous addition outlined
   above.
o  Changes to Electronic Logo introduced in 3.22 now
   appear in the Product information dialog.
o  Added NOREFRESH command line parameter to Service
   Desk to disable auto-postdated refresh when a
   portfolio is opened.
o  Changed code in Account Book, Search & Replace, and
   Transaction Archives for displaying deleted items from
   the DT_STRIKEOUT font emphasis to short dashes across
   the transaction(s), because IBM's ATI GRADD drivers build
   A.080 refuse to draw the strikeout emphasis.
o  Auto backup if last backup was x days older than
   specified Service Desk parameter (G[x]) was not
   functioning.
o  Window -> Sort menu in Service Desk is now a conditional
   cascade menu, defaulting to sort by Name.
o  Added 'Accounts' menu to Account Book with submenus that
   contain a list of all existing accounts in the portfolio,
   devided by type.  Useful for quick access to other accounts.
o  Data entry in Transaction dialog now retains case for
   number, description, category, & class if a match is not
   found.
o  It is now possible to perform a Search & Replace on all
   accounts within a portfolio from the same invocation.
   Certain restrictions apply:

   -  If editing transactions, only those that belong to the
      same account as the first selected entry in the Results
      list box will be sent to the Transaction dialog.
   -  New transactions will be inserted into the account that
      is selected in the list when the Transactions dialog is
      invoked.
   -  When setting attributes for records, only those in the
      same account as the first selected transaction in the
      Results list will be affected.

o  Search & Replace dialog has been redesigned.
o  Added 'Account' column to Search & Replace print out since
   it is possible to search more than one account (see above).
o  The calculator tape has been detached from the calculator
   and can be hidden / shown.


What's New/Fixed/Changed in version 3.22
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
o  Popup menu for popup calendar could not be loaded.
o  Memorized splits were not being recalled on creation of
   new transactions if memorized button was not toggled on.
o  Splits of postdated transactions were not following the
   parent transaction when these were being updated upon
   reaching their due date.
o  Account Book ledger pages that were created as a result
   of a postdated update or new transactions would produce
   a violation when that page was selected.
o  Reconciliation statement date on an a new account that was
   never reconciled before would default to an absurd date.
   It now defaults to the current system date on the first
   reconciliation.
o  The ledger page order would not be observed for pages that
   were created while the Account was running.
o  A horizontal scroll bar has been added to the Report print
   preview window to eliminate overlap in the preview window
   (but not the hardcopy printout).  Note that removing overlap
   in the hardcopy can be achieved by removing columns from
   the printout (Report -> Settings) or by adjusting the size
   of individual columns (Report -> Adjust menu item).
o  Garbage data could appear at the end of a report if the
   circumstances were right.
o  Quarterly Report was not subtotalling every three months.
o  It is now possible to omit the blank lines at the end of
   the Transaction report.
o  Budget graphs were not including categories that were not
   used during the specified period.  All categories, therefore,
   are now displayed in the Category and Budget graphs.
o  Exact match searches for categories has been included to
   filter out subcategories.
o  Additional 'Use split sum' option has been added to graphs.
   If checked, total of splits will be deducted from parent's
   total (to avoid inflated amounts).  Otherwise, the parent's
   total (categorized or not) will remain unaffected.
o  Added 'Summarize' menu item structure to Graphs window with
   submenus that replace the left/right clicks on the upper,
   Summary graph.
o  Added popup menu support to Graphs for easy invocation /
   changes to summarized data.
o  Incorporated Zip/Unzip secondary dialog into main Archives
   window.
o  Replaced Zip/Unzip toggle button with check box.
o  Cheque printers now correctly sort queued cheques in numerical
   order.
o  Selecting the Account : Properties menu item in the Service
   Desk (not from the popup menu) would always default to the
   first account in the list.
o  The reconciliation utility would cause a violation in
   GCRTOI2D.DLL if a description was not provided when adding
   a credit / debit.  The description is now mandatory along
   with an amount, given that both are used to display entries
   in the associated reconciliation dialog list box.
o  Moved buttons associated with categories in Category
   editor to avoid inadvertently editing/deleting the wrong
   category.
o  Creating a transaction with an illegal date is no longer
   possible in the Transactions dialog.
o  Import of OFX (Open Financial Exchange) specification 1.6
   files has been added.  These can be imported, either by means
   of the Service Desk's 'Accounts' menu or from the Transaction
   dialog's 'Options' menu.  This is considered an introduction only
   and is subject to expansion when / where necessary.
o  Quick imports of QIF files has been added, also available from
   the Service Desk's 'Accounts' menu or from the Transaction
   dialog's 'Options' menu.  This is not a full import, but is
   intended for importing QIF files generated by a financial
   institution, e.g. categories, classes, and splits are not
   considered or imported.
o  Editing a split alone (by double-clicking in the Account Book)
   would permit the creation of, essentially, further splits from
   the initial split, resulting in orphaned children of the
   actual parent.  This is no longer possible.
o  The Title, Subtitle, and 'Reported on:' date and time in reports
   now appear at the top of every page (excluding the first), in
   addition to a new total page count (Page [x] of [y]) to help in
   identifying pages of a report that may have gone astray.
o  It is now possible to set a report's title and subtitle when
   selecting the account(s) to be included in the report.
o  A status field has been added to the Report preview window to
   replace the old dialog that would popup and display the status
   of report generating.
o  The 'Options' menu in Report preview dialog no longer appears
   automatically if a report type has not been selected.
o  A popup menu has been added to Report preview dialog.
o  It is now possible to select the type of report to generate from
   the account selection dialog.
o  A new 'Account' column has been added to reports, useful in
   determining to which account a transaction belongs in multi-account
   reports.


What's New/Fixed/Changed in version 3.21
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
o  This version is an 'emergency' release in that I forgot
   to include a vital, last-minute bug fix in the 3.20
   installation archive.


What's New/Fixed/Changed in version 3.20
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
o  Double-clicking on either the Income or Expense category
   types in the Budgets would erroneously report that nothing
   was budgeted for the period in question.
o  Running balance on postdated transactions in Account Book
   will no longer cease being updated on the first regular
   transaction encountered (from the bottom up).
o  An Account Book page with a year bearing only postdated
   transactions (such as turnover from 1999 to 2000) will
   have its anticipated running balance properly updated.
o  Changing the date of a transaction from one year to another
   either would not update the ledger properly (if going from
   2000 -> 1999, for example) or cause a SYS3175 violation in
   ETBOOK.EXE (if going from 1999 -> 2000).
o  Bitmap used for setting ledger colours has been replaced by
   less confusing textual radio buttons.
o  Last Reconcile date in Service Desk now reflects the date
   entered in the 'Statement' entry field in the Reconciliation
   dialog (the last statement date) rather than the actual date
   upon which the account was reconciled.  This date is then
   incremented by one month for the next reconciliation.
o  'New balance' in Reconciliation dialog is now updated if the
   popup calendar for the 'Statement' date entry field is invoked
   and the date changed.
o  It is now possible to close accounts from the Net Worth dialog.
o  The window sizing pointers were not being drawn for the Net Worth
   dialog, making it appear as though the dialog could not be sized.
o  Linking a parent in a source QIF file to a split in a destination
   ET account failed.
o  Additional work done to the QIF Converter, including an improved
   method of relinking transactions for improved accuracy.  For
   additional information, refer to the "Linking Strategy" subtopic
   in the "QIF Converter" topic in the on-line help.
o  The name of the account for linked splits was not being displayed
   in the Account Book ledger.
o  The QIF Converter now supports two methods of im-/exporting
   memorized transactions.  The default will ensure a QIF-compliant
   export.  The second will include additional data to support
   ET's expanded memorized splits.
o  'Memorized' list in Properties notebook no longer displays splits
   in the main list.
o  Links in memorized transactions were not being saved for future
   recall.
o  Payee / description information is no longer necessary to save
   a memorized transaction.  If this information is missing, ET will
   assign it either the value of the memo field, or, if empty, the
   string 'Unnamed' followed by a colon and a unique number,
   e.g. 'Unnamed:1'.  Note, however, that if the memo field
   is already used as the name of an existing memorized transaction,
   that original item will be overwritten.
o  It is now possible to edit a memorized split list when prompted
   to add, delete, or ignore the addition of splits in the
   Transaction dialog.
o  Shredding more than one transaction in the Account Book at once
   could results in a SYS3175 violation in ETBOOK.EXE.
o  It is now possible to create an account from within the QIF
   Converter from the Account Selection dialog that appears if
   information for the account being imported is not present in the
   QIF file.
o  It is no longer necessary to clear the name of an account from the
   Properties notebook to abort any changes to that account since
   Electronic Teller now asks if the changes should be saved.
o  The porfolio name now appears in the account Properties notebook
   since more than one invocation of the notebook is now possible.
o  Accounts that subtract from a portfolio's net worth were not being
   drawn in red in the Net Worth dialog.
o  Individual transactions can now be flagged for tax purposes, either
   from the Account Book's new Attributes dialog or when creating them
   in the Transactions dialog.
o  Report's Options dialog has a new check box entitled 'Tax report'
   to create a report containing only transactions that were previously
   flagged for tax purposes.
o  The Transactions dialog now has a vertical scroll bar to scroll the
   list of available check boxes.  ? check boxes have also been added
   to set the following attributes: deleted, cleared, voided, tax.
o  Added four toggle buttons along bottom of Account Book to toggle
   tax, deleted, cleared, and voided attributes of selected transactions.
o  Categories now support another attribute entitled 'Tax'.
o  Memorized transactions also support the new 'Tax' attribute.
o  Search and Replace 'Delete / undelete' menu item removed.
o  Search and Replace 'Void / restore' menu item removed.
o  'Attributes...' menu item added to Search and Replace dialog to
   set / clear tax, deleted, voided, and cleared attributes for
   selected transactions.
o  Additional 'Tax' status added to list of available attributes
   in Search & Replace dialog.
o  'Omit splits' enforcement on attributes (or status) search removed.
o  'Status' label for associated drop-down combination box in Search
   & Replace dialog changed to 'Attributes'.
o  Chronological sorting in the Account Book ledger now supports
   sub-sorting for all transactions that fall on the same date:
   income transactions are followed by expense transactions, and
   cheques are sorted numerically at the end of all other transactions
   for that date.
o  Additional work was done to resolve conflicts on a system with
   Styler/2 installed on the system, including rewriting the popup
   calendar and moving the Account Management / Properties notebook
   to a separate executable (etacne.exe).


What's New/Fixed/Changed in version 3.19
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
o  Account Book would trap when trying to expand a split and
   that transaction was the last in the ledger.
o  Reconcile now calculates the 'New balance' based upon the
   'Statement' date.
o  Reordered controls in Reconciliation dialog to follow a
   natural progression to the 'New balance'
o  Added button beneath 'New balance' entry field to force a
   balance recalculation.
o  After uploading FixPak 12, I was finally able to duplicate
   the bugs that were being reported for the default Cheque
   Printer and to fix the problem.  That utility, therefore,
   no longer closes the design window when spinning any of
   the setup controls, and designs are now properly saved.
o  The Cheque Designer design window's width was not
   recalled when editing an existing design.
o  The Account Book now accepts mixed colours rather than
   16 solid colours.  The value set control has been
   replaced by a colour wheel to accommodate this.
o  Cheque printer now allocates sufficient (?) space between
   consecutive lines, such as the address field.
o  It is now possible to copy an existing Cheque design.
o  The Cheque Printer will now accept a date formatted either
   as 'mm dd' 'dd mm' 'mm dd,' or 'dd mm,'.
o  The Cheque Printer will now accept either a two-digit or
   four-digit year (the latter in preparation for 2000 with
   cheques that have a preprinted '19').
o  Significant changes to the default Cheque Printer's stub
   printing capabilities.  In short, items to be included in
   the stub are selectable as well as the order in which these
   are printed.  The stub can be printed on one line (as before)
   or on consecutive lines (for stubs that run along the side
   of a cheque).  Additional formatting parameters on a per-field
   basis are also available.
o  Ledger can now be sorted by memorandum.  As a result,
   a 'Records -> Sort -> Memorandum' menu item has been added
   in addition to a 'Memo' toggle button that is displayed when
   the ledger is expanded.
o  Invocation parameter (i[x]) for Service Desk was improperly
   processed.
o  It is now possible to increase the size of the calculator
   tape to the top of the desktop and to reduce it back to its
   original size.
o  An additional button has been added to the right of the
   'Expand' button in the Account Book to invoke the popup
   calendar and, optionally, change the date of the selected
   transactions.
o  Ability to close accounts (hide them from most ET functions)
   has been added.  Instances where closed accounts are not
   hidden are:

      - Service Desk's Net worth (see below)
      - Budget and Transaction Graphs
      - Reports
      - First Aid

   In all cases except the Service Desk, closed accounts are
   enclosed within parentheses, e.g. (Savings Account).
o  Service Desk's Accounts -> Show menu item has been removed.
   The function has been incorporated into the Net Worth dialog.
o  New menu item added to Service Desk's 'Accounts' menu, labelled
   'Status'.  This contains two submenus:  'Close account' to
   close the selected account (not to be confused with the
   new 'Accounts -> Close ledger' which closes the Account
   Book window; 'Reopen' which is functionally equivalent to the
   'Portfolios -> Net Worth menu item.
o  An additional column has been added to the Net Worth dialog,
   entitled 'Status'.  If an account has not been closed, the
   status for the account will read 'Closed' or 'Opened'.
o  Service Desk's Portfolios -> Net Worth menu item renamed
   to 'Portfolios -> Net Worth / Reopen' to highlight the
   new function in that dialog mentioned below.
o  The ability to restore (or reopen) a previously closed
   account has been added to the Net Worth dialog.
o  'Folders -> Settings' menu item in the Service Desk changed
    to 'Folders -> Properties'
o  'Accounts -> Edit' menu item in the Service Desk changed to
   'Accounts -> Properties'
o  'Accounts -> Close' menu item in Service Desk changed to
   'Accounts -> Close ledger'
o  Added 'Colours' menu item to Account Book's 'Window' menu.
o  Changed 'Settings' menu item in Account Transactions dialog
   to 'Properties'.
o  Changed title of Transaction Settings notebook to Properties.
o  Added ability to lock and unlock a transaction from the Account
   Book.
o  Added ability to lock a transaction from the Transactions
   dialog.
o  Editing lists (creating / deleting / undeleting) has been
   enhanced.
o  The 'Delete' Transactions Settings page has been removed,
   because shredding / undeleting previously deleted items has
   been incorporated into the 'Lists' page.



What's New/Fixed/Changed in version 3.18
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
o  Budget expense container item icon (red or green LED) was,
   reversed, displaying a green LED icon where a red one should
   have been displayed and vice versa.
o  Added ability to change the Budget Year on the fly from within
   the Budget Graphs dialog.
o  The sign of actual amounts in Budget utility is now preserved
   to denote income shortfalls.  The exception is expense
   categories whose sign is reversed so that actual expenses are
   shown as positive amounts to avoid arithmetical confusion and
   positive amounts are negative in the remote event of expense
   winfalls.
o  Fixed inconsistencies in displaying actual amounts in Budget
   container list for expenses.
o  Recalling transaction totals in the Budget Item dialog now
   preserves the sign of the amount for income and reverses them
   for expenses.  If, therefore, there is an income shortfall for
   a given month, the value will be negative.  If there is an
   expense winfall, the value will also be negative.
o  Cancelling all zooms in the Category Graphs resulted in an
   incorrect graph.
o  Budget expense container list mistakenly added the budgeted
   amount to the actual amount.
o  Filtering transactions to display a given month in the
   Category Graphs utility, then zooming on a category, and
   finally unzooming that category would return an absurd graph.
o  Added 'Actual (Income / Expense)' item to Budget Graphs.
o  The Summary graph was broken.
o  Added ability to delete budgets.
o  Added ability to set all colours in the Account Book ledger.
   This function is available by means of a button in the
   button bar to the left of the calculator button.
o  Splits can now be manipulated from within the Account Book
   ledger, which includes displaying / hiding, editing, deleting,
   and shredding.  Note that ability to display splits is not
   available if the ledger is not sorted chronologically.
o  Icon used to signal the presence of splits has been changed
   to an icon that mimics the look and behaviour of OS/2
   container records with children.
o  Ability to edit, move, delete splits as in versions earlier
   than 3.18 has been removed.
o  Removed Expand button from button bar and changed to a toggle
   button located above the Account Book ledger.
o  Most of the column header icons are now toggle buttons.  For
   example, if the 'Date' button is toggled, sorting will be by
   date.  Click the 'Payee' button to toggle it and to sort the
   ledger by payee.  'Credit', 'Debit', and 'Balance' column
   headings are purely visual.
o  Expanding the ledger to display the category/class and memo
   values for transactions displays two additional textual
   toggle buttons for sorting by category or class.
o  Sorting by category or class is no longer available if the
   ledger display is not expanded.


What's New/Fixed/Changed in version 3.17
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
o  The upper, summary Category Graph was including linked transactions
   for which the linked accounts were also included in the graph,
   thereby inflating totals.
o  A Y2K compliant QIF file (with a four-digit year) resulted in an
   absurd year on import into ET.
o  Importer now scans for, and removes embedded ascii 13 codes from
   QIF files.  This code appears as a musical note at the end of
   certain transaction fields, such as payees.
o  The alternative cheque printer (etprnc2.exe) was printing with the
   selected font size but was ignoring the face name.
o  Attempting to postdate a transaction from the Account Book resulted
   in error messages indicating that the window was not created.
o  Budget 'Recall' no longer rounds to the nearest dollar but displays
   actual amounts.
o  Old-style notebook tabs were not sized correctly.
o  Budget graph could potentially attribute an expense budget to the
   income graph or vice versa if the circumstances were right.


What's New/Fixed/Changed in version 3.16
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
o  Graphs utility was miscalculating expenses.
o  It is now possible to exclude linked and/or split transactions from
   Graphs.  Note that including links does not add the total of the linked
   transaction to the graph if the linked account is also included in the
   graph.
o  Graphs utility uses the category type to determine the transaction type
   when viewing codes, descriptions, or classes.  Previously any of these
   three views would look at the amount of the transaction and type of
   account to determine the transaction type.  In short, regardless of the
   view, the top, Summary, graph should remain unchanged for all of the
   four possible graphs.
o  It is now possible / mandatory to select the transaction items that are
   to be used to plot a Transactions graph since, as before, ET will limit
   the number of items to 100.  Previous versions, however, defaulted to
   the first 100 items to the exclusion of the rest.
o  Added an additional menu item to the Item menu structure of the Graphs
   utility to select the items to be included in a Transactions graph.  This
   menu item is enabled only if the Transactions graph is being viewed (as
   opposed to the Transactions list).
o  Graphs would ignore the type of the second of two identically named
   categories bearing different types.
o  When zooming in on Graph items, all but the zoomed transactions in the
   Transaction List will be hidden.
o  Left-clicking on a Summary graph bar while zooming in on particular
   items will not display those items for the relevant month.
o  Yearly Usage expense amounts are no longer negative.
o  Dialog that asks if a new category is an income or liability category
   now set as the default the Yes or No button in accordance with what
   ET anticipates will be the correct answer.
o  It is now possible to click or double-click beyond the icon or Item
   container record in the Graphs Utility to select an item or to view
   its Yearly Usage.
o  Account Book will now place any pages greater than current year at the
   beginning of the book, e.g. 1999  1998  1997  1996  2001  2000.  This
   will ensure that the current year is always displayed as the top
   page on startup.
o  A new function has been added that will display a deduction of uncashed
   cheques from an Account Book's ending balance to help when a discrepancy
   exists between a stated balance (by the bank) and a reported balance
   (by ET).  New function is located in Book -> Ending balance -> Adjust...
o  Account Book's Book -> Recalculate menu item has been moved to
   Book -> Ending balance -> Reculculate... to accommodate the new
   Book -> Ending balance -> Adjust... function described above.
o  It is now possible to specify the number of months that are to be
   included in Graphs, from one to 13.
o  Budget Graphs have been incorporated as a subset of Category Graphs.
o  Budget creation / editing has been moved from the Settings notebook
   to the Budget Graphs window.
o  When viewing the Yearly Usage for an expense item in the Graphs utility,
   that expense is also compared to the total income in addition to the
   total expenses, thereby providing an expense's percentage to both income
   and expense totals.
o  The '12 Months' and '13 Months' radio buttons in the Summary window of
   the Graphs utility have been removed since it is now possible to specify
   the number of months that are to be plotted in a graph.
o  Account Book would stall and generate a SYS3175 violation if there were
   no transactions in the account.
o  It is now possible to view an updated budget via the Transaction dialog.
o  Postdated transactions are now included in a *forecasted* running balance.
o  An alternative cheque designer is now supplied for those who experience
   problems with the original cheque designer / printer.
o  I *think* I may have corrected a sporadic problem of SYS* violations
   when using certain utilities.  For example, the Splits dialog would
   sometimes result in a violation.


What's New/Fixed/Changed in version 3.15
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
o  3.14.x patches have been incorporated
o  Category Graphs has been completely rewritten to permit code,
   description, category, and class graphs, and has been renamed
   simply: Graphs.  Many new features, here, and the whole
   process greatly simplified.
o  Graphs now takes into account transfers between accounts, e.g.
   asset <-> asset, asset <-> liability, to avoid inflated
   statistics
o  Reconciliation Credit / Debit dialog has been improved in that
   codes, memorized names, and category lists appear in drop-down
   combination boxes.  Name-completion has also been incorporated.
   Memorization & recall now takes place, as well.
o  Electronic Teller no longer assumes that a category is of type
   income or expense depending upon the amount of a transaction and
   the type of account.  Categories now have an additional '+' or '-'
   symbol to denote its type.  When creating new categories, if
   either symbol is not present, user-interaction will be required
   before the category is saved.
o  Search & Replace has also been reworked whereby codes, memorized
   payees, categories, and classes are available via drop-down
   combination boxes.  Word completion is also available in these
   controls.
o  The number of characters allowed in the category drop-down
   combination box in the Transaction dialog has been increased
   to 64 to permit the display of longer category:subcategory
   entries & accounts to which a transaction is linked.
o  Budget graphs has been reworked slightly to provide an overview
   of budget/actual totals throughout the entire year.


What's New/Fixed/Changed in version 3.14.2
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
o  QIF Importer was misdating entries on import.
o  QIF Importer would not format amounts properly for credit
   card and liability accounts when importing directly into
   an existing account.

What's New/Fixed/Changed in version 3.14.1
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
o  Accounts can now be assigned an extended description, accessible
   from the Account Management notebook's Account page.
o  The list box in the Account Book was improperly sized when
   only one page existed in the notebook ledger.
o  Deleting a portfolio could potentially erase all of the
   portfolio data although the accounts of the remaining
   portfolios were untouched.
o  Deleting an account could potentially delete all of the
   account identification data, although the actual account
   transaction files remained untouched.
o  ET was supposed to display accounts even if the main account
   information was lost. This was not the case but is so again.
o  The position of the Details view split bar of the Service
   Desk Accounts container is now remembered.
o  Postdating will now optionally adjust the due date if a
   Recurring Date falls on a weekend. The program can be
   instructed to adjust up to the next business day or down
   to the last business day prior to the weekend.


What's New/Fixed/Changed in version 3.14
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
o  Attempting to complete reconciliation would ignore any interest
   payments or service charges.
o  Reconciliation Credits / Debits have been improved visually.
o  The Add and Delete buttons for reconciliation credits / debits would
   sometimes conflict with the <Enter> key when used to mark an entry
   cleared.
o  Reconciliation statement date incorrectly displayed the date of
   the first item read.  It now displays the last day of the previous
   month.
o  Running balance would not be properly updated if a transaction's
   date was changed where previously it resided near the start of a
   month.
o  It is now possible to sort transactions by date (default),
   code, description, category, or class.  Sort options other than
   date default to an item subtotal balance rather than the usual
   running balance.  An additional option has been added to force
   a running balance, however.  Sort / balance options are attached
   to a specific year and not an entire ledger.
o  Transaction archival, reconciliation, and search & replace functions
   have been moved to separate *.EXEs to decrease overhead associated
   with the Account Book and to solve a conflict between ET and Styler/2.
o  Major conflicts were discovered between ET and Styler/2.  Although
   not all of these have been corrected (some are too erratic to
   track) those that would not allow a user to perform basic Account
   Book functions (turning pages, reconciliation, etc) have been
   corrected.  This is about as far as I'm prepared to go to support
   a third-party WPS enhancer.
o  Links between accounts could potentially get the amount wrong in
   the linked account.
o  It is no longer possible to invoke the 'Splits...' dialog if the
   Transaction window for the account in question is opened.
o  Transaction report now contains blank lines at the end of the
   report that can be used for manual transaction recording to be
   transferred into ET at a later time.  The number of empty lines
   depends upon the amount of free space remaining on the last page
   of the report.
o  Left and right mouse clicks on the category graphs is more tolerant
   about where the click has taken place.  Clicking on top of the bar
   will be recognized, but the side of the 3D bar continues to be
   ignored.
o  Textual amount in the Cheque pre-printer dialog could not be
   altered.
o  The numeric amount, payee, and memorandum values in the Cheque
   pre-printer dialog can now be edited before the cheque is sent
   to the printer.


What's New/Fixed/Changed in version 3.13
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
o  "Accounts -> Show" menu item in Service Desk incorrectly reported
   portfolio subdirectory as "folios." rather than the singular
   "folio.".
o  Porfolios from version 3.10 could not be migrated.
o  Memorized transaction list in Transaction dialog was unsorted.
o  Memorized transaction list is again sorted in Settings notebook.
o  Calculator returned an unformatted string when used in Financial
   mode and called from an amount entryfield.
o  Results from the Account Book's Search feature would not span multiple
   years.
o  Links to / from bank and credit card accounts resulted in an incorrect
   amount in the receiving account, e.g. payments made to a credit card
   from a bank account resulted in an additional purchase in the former.
o  QIF Converter defaults to US (mm/dd/yy) format.  Format can still be
   changed from within converter window.
o  Import / Export file must now be specified before importing or
   exporting can begin.
o  It is now possible to import more than one file without having to
   invoke the QIF Converter repeatedly from within the Service Desk.
o  Deleted categories could not be shredded.
o  Balance of foreign currency accounts was not properly converted in
   Service Desk's net worth report and status field.
o  Foreign currency accounts now bear the name of the currency along
   the bottom of the Account Book.
o  First Aid has been reinstated as a stand-alone utility not accessible
   from the Service Desk or Account Book and will attempt to reconstruct
   index files as well as update the account's forward balance.
o  Currency conversion would not take place if required on drag&drop
   operations.
o  Transaction archive now omits uncleared transactions in addition
   to the previous postdated and linked transactions.
o  Clearing / unclearing transactions using the 'Clear / unclear' menu
   item in the Account Book now updates the forward balance as expected.
o  ET now tracks unreconciled transactions and displays those when reconciliation
   window is first called. If the tracking is faulty, the user can force
   ET to read the database from a specific date.  Alternatively, instructing
   ET to recalculate the account will update the ending, forward, and running
   balances, as well as the list of uncleared transactions.
o  Additional work was done to improve ET's ability to track the running
   balance.
o  It is now possible to select the type of currency an account contained
   in a QIF file will use after being imported.
o  It is now possible to change an Account Book ledger font by dragging
   and dropping a Font Palette selection to any of the ledger listboxes.
   of course, the "Window -> Font..." menu item can still be used.
o  Service Desk portfolios list is now sorted alphabetically.
o  A toggle button has been reintroduced on the Transactions dialog to
   prevent ET from memorizing transactions.  The state of the toggle
   button is account-dependent and recalled between sessions, meaning
   that if it is toggled off for Account A and on for Account B, it will
   be off for the first and on for the second during future invocations
   until the user alters the toggle button's state.  The default state
   is ON.
o  Category graphs now adjust the amount of, or ignore, uncategorized
   transactions that have categorized splits.
o  Reports will now optionally adjust the amount of, or ignore,
   uncategorized transactions that have categorized splits.
o  Search and Replace window now contains two totals at the bottom.  The
   first is for transactions that have not been deleted, voided, postdated,
   and are not splits.  The second is a sum of all transactions in the the
   Results list, regardless of their status.
o  Reconciliation process now accepts more than one increase and
   decrease.  These transactions can also be assigned a description
   and category.


What's New/Fixed/Changed in version 3.12
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
o  Archive index date was not properly formatted when starting up the
   Archives utility.
o  Archive would always overwrite index #1 when all 10 indices were
   occupied rather than cycle through the subsequent indices.
o  Cheque numbers were not being updated in the Transaction dialog.
o  Editing items from reconciliation list caused previously
   marked items to lose their reconciliation flag.
o  Migrating a second portfolio with one account overwrote an account
   in the first migrated portfolio.
o  Fonts were not being reproduced outside test mode in cheque printer for
   all the time.
o  Visual representation of number of transactions yet to be loaded into
   Account Book has been added rather than simply a count of transactions
   that have been loaded.
o  Splits were not being migrated into newer version.
o  Setting reconciliation date would sometimes return an empty or incorrect
   transaction list.
o  The user-defined reconciliation date is no longer restricted to the first
   of the specified month/year.
o  Report columns would sometimes be lost under certain circumstances.
o  Memorized splits can now be deleted, undeleted, shredded, or changed in
   the Transaction Settings notebook.
o  Memorized splits can now be deleted (shredded) on the fly when recalling
   the parent.
o  Liability accounts or asset accounts with a negative balance now have
   their balance drawn in red in the Net Worth statement dialog.
o  Transaction dialog entryfields are limited to the number of characters
   allowed per transaction field.
o  Postdate dialog can no longer be dismissed via the system menu.
o  Recalling a memorized transaction with a link to another account no
   longer results in error message concerning enclosing a category within
   brackets.
o  First Aid has been removed from the Service Desk.  ET now relies on
   the archival utility and/or QIF converter to recover from corrupted
   database file(s).
o  Legend window in category graphs will remember its visibility in between
   sessions.
o  It is now possible to view a category tree one branch at a time in the
   category graphs.  The final branch of the tree displays all transactions
   making use of that category for the plotted year.
o  Transaction archiver no longer archives linked transactions to preserve
   existing links, neither will it archive postdated transactions.
o  Postdated transactions can now be created to add any of the two account
   interest rates upon expansion, e.g. either the monthly balance up to,
   but excluding, the date the postdated transaction is due, or the minimum
   balance for the account up to, but excluding, the date upon which the
   postdated transaction is due.

What's New/Fixed/Changed in version 3.11
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
o  Fixed a bug in the QIF importer -- linking to other accounts always
   failed.
o  Uncategorized items containing a class are now assigned a default
   "(Uncategorized)" category to prevent a failed QIF import.
o  Memorized transaction categories and classes were being concatenated
   on import.
o  Installation utility failed in certain areas on non-US codepage
   system.
o  Importing memorized transactions would result in system violation
   in 00db.dll
o  Creating transactions with cheque numbers would result in a complete
   system lockup under certain conditions.
o  Cheque monitoring has been removed because it was unusable under
   certain circumstances.  ET will continue to monitor the next available
   cheque in a series, however, and display it as a default for bank
   accounts.
o  Links were ignored in category graphs. These are now included, and
   are displayed according to their type, e.g. a link to a Credit Card
   is considered an expense, because the account itself is a liability.
o  Amounts formatting according to certain country code settings would
   sometimes result in zero.
o  Linking via drag&drop no longer links to an existing record (to ensure
   complete integrity of data for QIF export/import).
o  If only one portfolio exists in the Service Desk, it will be opened
   automatically on startup (requiring the necessary password, if
   applicable).
o  Details view in Service Desk is preserved between sessions.
o  Details view in Service Desk makes use of mini icons.  Icon view
   remains unchanged.
o  Cheque printer asterisks (for numeric and string amounts) are fixed
   from none to five and selectable.  The selection (for both the numeric
   and string amounts) is preserved between invocations.of course, if
   no selection is fitting, the asterisks/value can be edited before
   sending the cheque to the printer.
o  Accounts now support a second interest rate and a minimum balance
   required value that can be used in balance forecasts.  If the minimum
   balance is met or exceeded, the second interest rate will be applied;
   otherwise, the first interest rate will be used in the tabulation.
o  ET will display accounts in the Service Desk, even though corresponding
   entries in the main list no longer exist -- useful in gaining access
   to otherwise valid accounts.  The name, number, type, etc. will have
   to be re-entered by the user, however.
o  Transaction archiver will now permit partial yearly archives, for example
   from the beginning of the year (not optional) to a specified month, if
   desired.
o  The Search function in the Account Book will now permit searches across
   all transaction fields.
o  Class drop-down combination box is no longer disabled if a category has
   not been previously selected or entered in Transactions dialog.
o  Multiplications and divisions in the popup calculator did not function.
o  A pie chart has been added to category graphs to get overview of inflows
   versus outflows for either the entire year that has been plotted or for
   individual months (in category graphs).
o  Sorting by amount has been added to Zoom dialog (in the category graphs
   function).
o  Balance forecast would report innacurate balances on systems with a
   comma as the decimal separator.
o  Balance forecast now uses a user-defined starting date (useful for
   ignoring transactions that normally would not be affected by an
   interest charge, such as credit card accounts with transactions purchases
   that have been paid).
o  "debug" parameter added to Service Desk to turn logging errors to
   eterror.log file on.  The Service Desk alone controls whether debugging
   is turned on or off.
o  Four additional command line parameters have been added to the Service
   Desk (in addition to the NBP -- No Backup Prompt -- parameter) to control
   automatic invocation of the Archives utility when the Service Desk is
   closed:

     o W[1-7] to back up on Sunday to Saturday, respectively
     o M[1-31/L] to back up on a specific date, or Last day of month
     o I[1-9] to back up on every 1st-9th invocation
     o G[1-31] to back up if the last backup is greater than [1-31]
       days old

   Complete details on these four additional parameters is available in
   the "Command Line Parameters" online help subtopic beneath the "Service
   Desk" topic.


What's New in version 3.10
~~~~~!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I lost the source code to version 3.00a after repartitioning a hardrive late
one night, and have had to rebuild using an old backup.  As a result, version
3.10 is mostly a bug fix, but there are some new additions.  Below is a partial
list of these changes:

o  The 'ATM Card' paradigm has been supplanted by the term 'Portfolio'.
o  File format has changed so that all transactions in all accounts in a
   single portfolio are contained in the same database.
o  Routines have been added to automatically create initialization (*.INI)
   .RC files that can be used with OS/2's rc.exe utility to recreate
   the .INI file should it become corrupted.
o  The Account Transactions dialog has been updated -- less cluttered
   with the removal of some pushbuttons and the addition of a menu bar.
o  All date fields have an associated calendar pushbutton to invoke a
   popup calendar used to select a date.
o  All amount fields have an associated calculator pushbutton to invoke
   the calculator.  Calculations are automatically inserted in the
   associated entryfield if invoked from this button.
o  Certain pseudo notebooks are now full-fledged notebooks, a la Warp 4.0
   style.
o  Help is more context-sensitive in most areas, e.g. pushbuttons,
   entryfields, etc.
o  Many cosmetic changes.
o  A transaction archive function has been added to archive account
   transactions for a given year.  These can later be restored into
   an account or viewed in a separate window.  Archived transactions
   can also be searched to display a filtered selection.