Adagio Checks
8.1B | 2009-12-29 (Dec '09)
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- The Adagio Open Data Dialog has been significantly improved. The Previously Opened database list is now saved by Adagio User rather than for all users. The first time an existing user or a new user logs into Adagio Checks 8.1B they will be asked “Would you like your historical company access list set up?” Answer yes to have all entries from the Previously Opened list from your prior use of Checks copied for your use. The Open Data screen and Previously Opened database list now show the date the database was last opened by the user. You may also elect to have Adagio save your Adagio User Id and Password and default them when logging into Adagio. The saved information is based on your Windows authenticated user name. This option may be turned off by editing softraksystemADS.INI and adding the lines: [Options] RememberUser=0 RememberPassword=0 Data Integrity Check
- Rebuilding File Integrity Errors (also known as phase 1) across a network on large databases is significantly faster.
- The Data Integrity Check (DIC) function can be set to automatically do a backup of the database if there are no errors reported by setting the ‘Auto-backup after DIC’ option on the System/Report Options tab in the Company Profile. The backup details and backup filename are shown in the DIC log. A backup is now done automatically when you do a Rebuild on a database with errors.
- The Data Integrity Check now detects and deletes orphan batch files. Vendor Edit and Inquiry
- Alt Keys (Speed Keys) have been added to tabs on the Edit Vendors and Vendor Inquiry screens.
- Copy vendors, banks, and distributions places you directly in the edit for the newly created record.
- The options ‘Enable SF Export’ and ‘Enable SF Printing’ have been added to the Edit User screen to allow you to disable Excel Direct in Smart Finders to help safeguard your sales data, vendor list and other information in your database. Batch Entry and Posting
- Default batch description text can be automatically created with user initials (%usr), date (%dat) and time (%tim) created in a user specified format. Multiple date and time formats are supported. These options are set on the Interfaces tab in the Company Profile. The batch description can still be edited as required when the batch is created.
- Batch entry now prevents or warns you when the check date is for a closed period / year in Ledger. The ‘Validate closed periods’ option on the Integration tab in the Company Profile can be set to Allow, Warn Only, or Disable.
- The batch entry screen is now sizeable. This allows more batch detail lines and more fields in the grids to be shown.
- In batch entry if you select an inactive G/L account you now get a warning message. Checks, 1099s and the Spec Designer
- New toolbar icons in the Designer provide a cleaner look and differentiate this new version visually. Adagio Checks 8.1B 2 of 4 CH20091229 16-Dec-2009
- When printing specifications (checks or 1099s) the list of specifications is now shows only the specifications for the Document Type you select to print. Set the Specification Type, under File | Specification Options as appropriate in the Designer. Start the designer by selecting Maintain Specifications in the Maintenance menu. Specifications created with earlier versions of the designer will display in all print dialogs until they are edited and their document type set. A document type of “Any” causes the specification to display in all dialogs.
- The default 1099 template 'Sample 1099 2009' (QC$2009) has been updated.
- The Designer supports UNC paths. If you open Checks data with UNC path (rather than a mapped drive) then the Open Check Specification dialog changes and does not have a folder view but uses a browse instead. In previous versions the dialog gave an error. If a mapped network drive is used the dialog is the same as in previous versions. Reports
- Added 'Report Preview Options' in the File | Options function to allow you to set the default preview zoom factor (percentage) and preview window state (full screen or partial screen) for previewing reports to screen. These settings are saved by workstation. Note: this applies to previewing reports only (but not previewing checks or 1099s).
- Added option ‘Prompt to consolidate’ on the Interfaces tab in the Company Profile. Disabling this option ensures you do not accidentally consolidate transactions after printing report with the ‘Print/Consolidate G/L transactions’ function.
- Added option ‘Close report dialog after print?’ on the Options tab in the Company Profile. Set this option off if you often print reports multiple times with different settings or ranges.
- Added ‘Allow Post Journal purge?’ option on the Options tab in the Company Profile. If this option is off you cannot clear the posting journals after printing them. This prevents accidental purging of posting journals. If you turn this option off, it is recommended that periodically (at year end anyway) you turn the option back on, print the journals to file and purge them. Otherwise, the posting journal files will continue to grow. Miscellaneous
- The date control has been updated to improve the speed of data entry. You can enter just the 1 or 2-character day in any date field without having to enter the month or year. The month and year are automatically populated with the initial values from the field. For example, if the date is 1/23/2009, typing “22” and tab changes the date to 1/22/2009. You can also enter just 4 characters for the day and month (zeros are required) and the year will be populated. This change speeds up data entry in most cases where you need to enter a date different than the session date or last remembered date.
- The Smart Finder performance has been significantly improved across a network.
- Excel Direct (from finders, smart finders and from grids in some modules) can be configured to export an ASCII CSV file (instead of sending data direct to Excel) and start an application that automatically opens the file. This allows export when Excel is not installed and provides support for other spreadsheets such as OpenOffice.org. Note that unlike Excel Direct there is no formatting with CSV. To enable this functionality, entries must be made manually in the file softraksystemssi2xl.ini. Refer to the Readme help file for details.
- The File | Options, Field Verification option has been removed. Fields are always verified during entry.
- The Help Menu has been modified to allow you to launch the Adagio System Status utility (chksys.exe) and print the Adagio Lanpak registration form.
- When Adagio GridView 9.0A or higher is opened from the Adagio menu, Adagio Checks will be displayed as the first line on the Select Module screen so you do not need to scroll down to find it.
- WebSafe changed to vitalEsafe™ in the Backup function to reflect the 3rd party name change.
- The sample data has been improved. New options in 8.1B have been enabled. Sample data for Ledger has been updated to 9.0B. The 1099 format has been adjusted for 2009. Fixes made in version 8.1B
- The wrong vendor was selected when you double-clicked on the last line in the grid if the screen was sized such that the last line could not be completely shown. The screen size is now adjusted when you size it so this can no longer happen.
- The list of printers available from Windows is now refreshed immediately before printing reports and checks. When a user with a shared local printer logs in under Terminal Services the list of printers available to Windows changes because one more printer has in effect been added. If other users were in Adagio applications this resulted in the selected printer being changed in Adagio in some cases. If the user did not notice this and reselect the correct printer before printing then their report or form randomly and unexpectedly printed on a different printer.
- The copy number now shows in the window title when more than one instance of Adagio Checks is open on the same machine (for Adagio Checks 8.1B 3 of 4 CH20091229 16-Dec-2009 example: “Adagio Checks (2) – Adagio Corporation”).
- The program attempted to create the file SPELL.INI in the windows folder if it was not there already, even though the Adagio spell checker maintains this file in the softrakspell folder. This caused errors at sites that do not grant the user full permissions to the local windows folder.
- If your database was originally created with the old Quik Invoice product you received an error when you tried to open the database after upgrading to Adagio Checks 8.1A.
- When the Send to G/L Description was set to 'Post. Seq./Entry/Name' the description field was sent to GL contained "vnm" instead of the vendor name in version 8.1A.
- The buttons on the Batch Inquiry were positioned incorrectly on the dialog on Vista machines.
- Resizing the Batch Inquiry dialog did not resize the grid.
- If you started Checks from an icon with command line parameters set for /u, /p, /d and /e so that the program bypassed the Open dialog on startup, the date on batch listing was Dec 30, 1899 and the Date Batch Modified on the batches grid for batch was blank.
- The Readme on the Help menu did not work.
Adagio Checks
8.1A | 2008-05-14 (May '08)
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- Compatible with Windows® VistaT.
- Lanpaks must be 9.0A or higher.
- Smart Finder can now search on multiple criteria.
- Contents of disabled fields are shown in blue rather than dimmed gray. This may be easier to read on some monitors at higher resolutions.
- Adagio download files, installs, workstation installs, all workstation install (\softrak\allwkst\allwkst.exe), program files and the Adagio Check System utility (chksys.exe) are now signed with a digital certificate using VeriSign to allow you to verify the Publisher is Softrak Systems Inc.
- Vista does not support the old style Windows Help (.HLP files). All .HLP files were converted to compiled HTML help (.CHM files), which are supported by Vista.
- For security reasons Windows does not permit .CHM help files to be run from a network drive. This is true in XP as well as Vista. The .CHM files must be run from a local drive. Adagio 8.1A installs all .CHM help files to your local hard drive and loads them from there. The workstation install also copies .CHM files to the local drive.
- When switching windows/tasks in Vista with Alt-Tab or the new Flip 3D (Windows-Tab) an image of the current Adagio screen is shown rather than just the icon of the Adagio program.
- You can now backup Adagio data in zip form to WebSafe, a web-based storage facility. WebSafe is a service which allows you to store your important information in a secure location that you can access from anywhere in the world. See www.websafe.com for details.
- The formatting of dates and text sent to Excel from Smart Finder results has been improved.
- Adagio Checks supports Adagio Ledger 9.0A. Fields required for future drill-down from Ledger to Checks are included in the GL transaction batch and will be retrieved by Ledger 8.1A and higher.
- A 'User defined' field has been added to the G/L Description 'Send to' options in the Company Profile. This allows you to format the G/L Description field sent to the GL using a combination of fields from the check and free form text. The following specification codes are supported.
Code Description %ven Vendor number %vnm Vendor name %ref Reference %dno Document (Check) number %des Description %psq Posting sequence %bat Batch number (not for reversals) %ent Entry number (not for reversals) - The specification designer toolbar now fits on one rather than 2 lines at most common screen resolutions.
- The designer allows you to open specifications by using the spec Title under File | Specification Options. This is the same list of titles displayed in Checks when selecting a document to print, fax or email. Previously you could open the specification by its file name only.
- Improvements have been made to the sample data.
- Pressing F5 in an amount or date field to invoke the calculator or calendar caused an error.
- Sort by date did not work correctly in View History.
- The amount in words for spec codes 'Check amount words (no asterisks) and 'Check amount words (leading asterisks) required for Canadian Payments Association Standard 006 (no trailing asterisks) printed "/10" instead of "/100" at the end if the amount was large enough to require 2 lines.
- New check specification field 'MICR Check Number/Account Encoding' has been added to more easily get the correct spacing between the 2 fields rather than using the separate fields for Check Number and Account Encoding. The cheque specification has been updated in the sample data for Canadian Payments Association Standard 006 (QC$CPA01). The default CPA spec has been updated for the Designer.
- Adagio Checks includes an additional 8 MICR fonts (for a total of 9) that may be used to adjust for slight variations detected in the MICR font when cheques are submitted for Canadian Payments Association Standard 006 compliance (an optional test available in Canada). Differences in printer drivers, printer rasterization engines and toner adhesion may result in failure of the test in the MICR font (while the checks have been clearing successfully at the bank).
The additional fonts let you create narrower or wider and/or lighter or bolder characters in MICR fields on the check according to the following table (the font name is show on the second line of each cell). Note that these fonts are only needed in Canada. The MICR font provided with Adagio Checks since its initial release in 1999 has always been accepted by banks in the US and conforms to the 'Check 21 Act' enacted in October 2003.
Narrow (N) Normal Wide (W) Light (L) Light Narrow
AdagioMICRLNNormal Light
AdagioMICRLLight Wide
AdagioMICRLWNormal Normal Narrow
AdagioMICRNNormal
AdagioMICR (shipping default)Normal Wide
AdagioMICRWBold (B) Bold Narrow
AdagioMICRBNNormal Bold
AdagioMICRBBold Wide
AdagioMICRBW- The default MICR font (AdagioMICR) has been adjusted slightly.
- The default number of forms when printing 1099s has been changed to 2 to match the current standard 1099 form.
The last specification selected to print 1099s is remembered for next time.- You can no longer delete a bank while there is an open batch for that bank.
- If you changed the tax amount on a detail in batch entry it recalculated the total amount if a Distribution with Tax Type set to 'Tax included purchase' or 'Tax distribution' was used.
- An error occurred in the check designer when you opened the properties on the check number field in some cases.
- The 'Format telephone numbers' option was not saved in 8.0A.
Adagio Checks
8.0A | 2006-06-19 (Jun '06)
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- Check specifications conform to the Canadian Payments Association's (CPA) Standard 006 required for all cheques written in Canada after June 30, 2007.
- The existing legal amount field 'Check amount words' spec code prints with trailing asterisks on cheques.
- Added a menu choice 'Open Template' to the File menu in the check designer.
- A Find button has been added to Edit Vendor.
- A Batch Status Inquiry function has been added.
- A Vendor Inquiry function has been added.
- Adagio Checks interfaces to BankRec 8.0A.
- You can now print dates with 4 digit years on checks whereas earlier versions only allowed 2 digit years.
- The 1099 specification file has been updated to support the current 1099 form.
- The GL transactions generated by a reversal now use the session date (from log in to Adagio Checks) rather than the system date from the computer.
- File | Options are now saved by workstation rather than globally.
- The check designer was updated. The menu bar, property dialogs, and Spec Codes list positioning have been improved.
- The function 'Active Users' has been added to the Help menu.
- Users of Adagio GridView 8.0A or higher can add views to the Inquiry menu in Adagio Checks.
- The F2 key now supports Windows standard behavior by editing the line selected on a grid.
- The F6 key now opens the smart finder directly from any grid where you can do a find.
- The Windows calculator can added to and launched from the toolbar by selecting 'Calculator button' in File | Options.
- The date of the last data integrity check is now displayed in the status bar.
- The Data Integrity Checker memo now shows the date the integrity check was run, the starting and ending time, the path and extension of the data and the user name.
- The Data Integrity Checker now writes full details of the integrity check into the log file.
- The source files for all reports in Adagio Checks are installed in the StandardRP sub-directory rather in the program directory \Softrak\QCWin.
- The Check Register can now be printed automatically after posting.
- Added Formatted Address Line spec codes in the check designer.
- Added specification QI$ALL.SAM 'All Specification codes' to the sample data.
- When launching other modules from the Adagio menu in Adagio Checks, the session date is passed to the module.
- When you start Adagio Checks it now checks the "Opportunistic Locking" settings to ensure they are correctly set on the workstation.
- When the program is started, it now checks that the Report Tables Drive is correct and up to date.
- The install now checks to ensure the current user has rights to write to the Adagio program directories.
- Excel Direct feature added to Smart Finder.
- Adagio Checks now allows you to run multiple instances on the same workstation. Adagio Lanpak must be installed to use this feature.
- The background color of the main window can be set by company in Edit Company Profile.
- Users of Crystal Reports for Adagio can create custom reports and have them appear on the Reports menu in Adagio Checks.
- The list of recently opened databases has been expanded from 10 to 25 entries.
- Multiple users can now print the same report at the same time.
- The options and ranges chosen on report dialogs when you print a report are saved by company for the next time the report is printed. Set the 'Remember report settings' option in the Company Profile to use this feature.
- The Smart Finder search criteria is now saved for the next time you use Smart Finder.
- Screens now open at a more logical position on dual monitor systems.
- When printing reports to file, you can now choose from four different formats on the print dialog. The default format can be set in the Company Profile.
- When printing reports to file, the filename defaults to the name of the report rather than the generic filename ADAGIO.TXT.
- The size and position of the Adagio Checks and Designer main windows is now saved when the appropriate options are selected in the File | Options menu.
- The functionality of the Adagio menu has been extended to allow Adagio Developer Partners to add their products to the Adagio menu.
- When a Distribution Code with a blank Account/Department is added a batch entry, the Account/Department from the Vendor is now picked up.
- When you moved checks from one batch to another they were assigned new check numbers.
Adagio Checks
6.8A | 2002-07-04 (Jul '02)
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- You can now set the tray / bin when printing checks.
- The specific printer set in File | Options was not used when printing checks.
- The amount in words on checks with no pennies in the amount has been changed to "and 00/100" instead of "and xx/100".
- The amount in words on checks was wrong for very large even amounts on some machines.
- When a custom form size was set in the check designer, it would not be saved until you set it a second time.
- If a check with 2 or more distributions was printed using a check spec with only a check section and the 'Max details' is set to 1, the check printed 'VOID' instead of the check number, date, and amount.
- The sign-on date was incorrect when a date was typed into the login screen without using slashes and you clicked OK without first tabbing out of the date field.
- If another application installed the Crystal Reports 8.5 print engine, there were intermittent problems printing reports on some machines.
Adagio Checks
6.8A | 2001-12-06 (Dec '01)
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- Support for new 1099 forms for 2001.
- Some banks were having trouble reading the MICR line on checks printed with Adagio Checks.
- Smart Finder now working for Groups field in Edit Users.
- Error occurred while printing checks with Wellspring Software's PrintBoss on Windows 2000 machines.
- When archiving or copying batches, if you revised the date by typing in a date but did not tab out of the field, the date on the resulting batch was incorrect.
- When archiving or copying batches, the revised date defaulted to the computer date rather than the log-in date.
- On the detail Check Register report, the Distribution Amount is now correct for checks involving tax included distributions.
- An error occurred when printing reports to file on Windows 2000 stations.
Adagio Checks
6.8A | 2001-10-15 (Oct '01)
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- Now a 32-bit application.
- Now uses the Adagio Data Source (ADS) to interface to the database rather than the Softline Database Interface (DBI).
- Now uses Adagio Lanpaks to increase the number of licenses available to access the database in multi-user installations.
- Menu level security has been added.
- A Backup feature has been added to the File menu.
- The results list for the Smart Finder is now persistent.
- The results list from the Smart Finder can now be printed.
- An Adagio menu choice has been added to allow you to start other Adagio applications directly from within Adagio Checks.
- All reports in Adagio Checks have been extensively enhanced, and a Report Options function has been added. New report features include optional footers, optional comments, shading, lines and hair-lines to separate sections/transactions, user-definable date and time formats, ability to print selection parameters on first or all pages, and an optional group tree in report preview window with drill-down capabilities.
- Reports have been designed to use less paper.
- Batch listing reports include the option "Paging by batch number" to reset the page number to 1 on change of batch when printing two or more batches at the same time.
- An option "Page break on change of batch" has been added to start a new page after each batch when printing two or more batches at the same time.
- The options "Paging by sequence number" and "Page break on change of sequence" have been added to the Check Reconciliation Posting Journal.
- Batch Listings can now be printed in summary as well as detail format.
- Posting Journals can now be printed in summary as well as detail format.
- A "Listing" button has been added to the batches screen to allow you to select and print batches from the grid.
- The Check Designer now allows you to view each copy (page) of a multi-part check independently.
- A hint showing the path to the database has been added and is displayed when the mouse cursor is over the company name on the status bar.
- Options to display text and raised buttons on the toolbar have been added.
- The selected line on grids now changes color from blue to gray when the grid does not have focus.
- The Smart Finder now allows you to search on boolean fields (Yes/No).
- Currency code Edit added to File menu.
- Options to save size and position of windows have been added.
- Printing the Batch Listing for specific batches is much faster when there are many open batches and/or very large batches.
- When the option "Send to G/L description field" was set to "Posting Seq/Entry/Desc", the description portion of the field was missing on the bank transaction sent to the general ledger.
Adagio Checks
6.5A | 2000-12-09 (Dec '00)
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- Adagio products use a new workstation install that allows you to do only one workstation install on each workstation (rather than having to do a workstation install for each product on each workstation).
- A utility program to check the status of the Adagio products installed on a workstation has been added. This utility determines if the workstation is up to date with versions of Adagio products and related files installed on your server.
- Adagio Checks now has the ability to print 1099 forms. The check designer allows you to design 1099 forms. The check designer has a new section type called a "Spacer" that is needed to create 1099 specifications for laser printers.
- Reversing a check for a vendor with 1099 now correctly reduces the YTD 1099 amount by the reversed check amount.
- Reversed checks now respect the "Send to G/L reference field" and "Send to G/L description field" setting in the company profile.
- Vendor YTD and Period-to-date statistics are now correctly updated when checks are reversed.
- Some banks were not able to read certain special characters in the MICR line on checks. This has been corrected.
- Adagio Checks can create a new directory when creating a database.
- The Data Integrity Checker now stops after phase 1 if errors are detected, rather than proceeding to phase 2, where unpredictable results could occur due to phase 1 errors. You can rebuild the database to fix phase 1 errors, then run the integrity check again to detect and fix any phase 2 errors.
- Description fields in the header section of the batch listing were over-lapping in some cases in version 6.5A (000217). This has been corrected.
- Help was not available for some print dialog screens. This has been corrected.
- A "range check" error occurred when using the smart finder in the batch number fields on the Batch Status report screen. This has been corrected.
- If all checks were highlighted in check reconciliation, you could not deselect checks. This has been corrected.
- Multi-select copy, move, and delete of batches or batch entries was not working correctly in cases where lines were not selected in sequential order and there were gaps in the selection. This has been corrected.
- Copying a batch to itself causes the program to hang. This has been corrected.
- If the currency code was blank in company profile and you printed or posted checks after printing a report, the number of decimal places in the check amount became corrupt. This has been corrected.
- The G/L batch entries for reversed checks were incorrect in some cases. This has been corrected.
Adagio Checks
6.5A | 2000-02-17 (Feb '00)
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- Smart Finder added.
- Reduced the amount of paper used by the batch listing and check register.
- When entering checks, the date now defaults to the date of the last check entered.
- Dates can now be entered without the slash "/".
- French dates are now supported on checks, including accents.
- Paired finder fields were giving an error when tabbing to the second field if the value was not correct. This has been corrected.
- During batch entry you can now enter the job number without being forced to use the finder.
- If the Cashbook interface is on, the "Consolidate bank account" option was not working. This has been corrected.
- In the check reconciliation grid, the Status was not showing the pending change. This has been corrected.
- If the "Purchase discount account" field was blank in the company profile, GL entries with a blank account were are created when discounts were taken. You are now forced to enter an account in the company profile.
- The source code "AC" for Adagio Checks is now used for GL transactions rather than "QC".
- Attempting to print a batch listing report when there were no open batches caused "Error 533" This has been corrected.
- In batch entry, the column editor column for Acct/Job/Client only showed the account. This has been corrected.
- Quik Reports for DOS and Windows tables descriptions are now "Adagio Checks" rather than "Quik Check".
- When entering details during batch entry for vendors with a "Tax Included" distribution, the tax field was not displayed correctly. This has been corrected.
Adagio Checks
6.5A | 1999-10-14 (Oct '99)
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- Initial release. Previously called "Quik Check Plus for Windows".
