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Compatibility
Note: The compatibility information displayed above may only be as current as the actual release date (indicated in brackets below). To get the most up-to-date compatibility information for this and other products, see the Compatibility Chart. Enhancements and revisions in Adagio Ledger 9.0A (2008.04.02)  When installing the GL 9.0A (2008.03.07) Service Pack (but not a full product or upgrade) and you are running anti-virus software, if you elected to install the sample data the install performance became extremely slow in some environments.
Scrolling in the grid of Accounts in the View Transaction/Budgets function was slow on large databases on a network drive in Ledger 9.0A (2008.01.22) and 9.0A (2008.03.07).
Scrolling in the grid of transactions in the View Transaction/Budgets function did not work correctly if there were a large number of transactions for the account and depending on where you were positioned in the grid.
The Source Journals could not be printed in Ledger 9.0A (2008.03.07).
Additional fields from the transaction are now included on the transaction dialog in the View Transaction/Budgets function.
When editing several existing entries in a batch (not entering new entries) an Access Violation occurred in some cases.
Enhancements and revisions in Adagio Ledger 9.0A (2008.03.07) The look of disabled buttons on the toolbar has been improved.
In View Accounts you can now sort the View into Department/Account sequence. Use the right-mouse button to select the sort.
The Posting Complete message screen appeared under the Merging Transactions screen in some cases when posting a very large batch with data on a network drive and you topped another window during posting. This made it appear that the posting was hung, although simply topping the Adagio Ledger and pressing ENTER would clear the problem.
If you tried to post an entry to an account that does not exist, the Posting Errors report showed 'Error in Entry x in batch y. Placed in batch z. Net Change record missing.' The error is now correctly shown as 'Error in Entry x in batch y. Placed in batch z. Invalid Account.'
Detail Listing can now be printed in a 'Condensed' format. This format allows for more transactions per page. The condensed format more closely resembles the Detail Listing in previous versions. Use the 'Units' or 'Batch/entry nos.' formats to show the additional information available in Ledger 9.0A. To reduce the number of pages even further, select Report Options under the Reports menu and turn off the option 'Show parameters on all pages' (there are more options in Ledger 9.0A than in previous versions, making the header section larger).
The pennies were cut off of the right most column of the Detail Listing fro some printers in some cases.
Some corrections have been made to the Detail Listing when sorted by Department / Account.
The 'Import Source Currencies' function reported errors when you tried to save a new template in some cases. These errors should only have been displayed when the import was actually run. This prevented you from saving the new template.
The import function now remains open after completing an import. This is convenient if you have several imports to perform.
When you ran "Close Current Fiscal Year', a list of 'Procedures to complete before running Change Fiscal Year' appears. This has been changed to 'Procedures to complete before running Close Current Fiscal Year'. In addition, the item 'Close year - must perform function first' has been changed to 'Close Income/Expense Acct - must perform function first'. These changes should help clarify the steps required before closing the year.
The error 'Floating point division by zero' occurred when retrieving prior year data in a multi-currency database if a multi-currency transaction had a source amount but the home amount was zero.
Help and Financial Report Help have been updated.
Financial Statement Designer A change was made to the way Year End adjustments are handled in the Financial Reporter. The toolbar button has been changed to 'Y/E' with a green check mark. The hint (mouse over the button) is 'Include year end adjustments'. You need only select this option if you are printing Financial Statements for previous years. You may need to select View | Customize | View and Reset to cause the button to change.
VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP functions now work correctly with Excel Direct.
Minor corrections were made to GLTITLE() when used with "future" years.
Several new codes have been added. See the General Info node of the Account Data View to see these new codes:
GLDESC2 shows the second Account Description field Drag and Drop with the ColSpec option selected now uses a new function GLSTR ("ColSpec", "Account Range") to properly show the Optional Fields.
A problem with scrolling down on a Financial Statement that had a range which included accounts that did not exist has been corrected.
Corrected a problem where selecting a Department could cause a "Link Bad" error when the last Account in a range did not have the Department defined.
The field UNITS has been added to print the statistical unit text from the master account record.
Y/E adjustments now update Y, NET, LY and LYY fields in addition to the 'BAL' fields in prior versions.
Enhancements and revisions in Adagio Ledger 9.0A (2008.01.22) Printer Setup button added to the print preview window. Allows you to select a different printer after previewing a report.
Copy batch from Next Year now defaults the period based on the date rather than always setting it to period 12.
The Edit Batches grid has some improvements and corrections to the copy and move functions when in use by multiple users.
The final balance was not printing for the last Department on the Detail Listing.
Pressing the Listing button displayed the message "Incomplete posting. Only Integrity Check and backup will be available" if at batch was posted by another user when you had the batch list open.
The subtotal amount on the Batch Listing was cut off when the amount was in the billions.
On the Trial Balance screen, if the Report style was set to 'Worksheet', the screen was screen was not displayed correctly.
The Detail Listing did not show the closing entry correctly after posting to a Prior Year income statement account.
In Edit Accounts, equity accounts that are Balance Sheet accounts rather than Retained Earnings accounts (such as paid in capital) could not have their Account Group set to C10 'Equity - Share Capital'.
If you added a prior year in the Edit Fiscal Calendar function and then edited account history for that year it caused an integrity problem in some cases.
The period description was coming from the current year instead of the selected year in the View Transactions function.
You could not import Accounts, Budgets, Forecasts, Statistics or Transactions in Adagio Ledger 9.0A (2007.12.19) and received an error saying you were blocked by another user (yourself).
If the 'Report missing departments as errors' was enabled in the Company Profile, then importing accounts for which the department code did exist resulted (correctly) in an error. However, this was also preventing import of accounts that don't have a department at all.
The Export Transactions function incorrectly gave the error message 'starting period is greater than last period' when the range did not start at period 1.
Importing new accounts when Next Year was active cause integrity errors in some cases.
Importing transactions for accounts in a prior year caused integrity errors in some cases.
Swapping back and forth between import account templates without first closing the import function caused the fields to get mixed up in the template.
The Import Account Net Changes function reported errors when you tried to save a new template in some cases. These errors should only have been displayed when the import was actually run. This prevented you from saving the new template.
If both fields Fiscal Date and Fiscal Period are imported in a batch, the Fiscal Period now takes precedence unless it is zero, in which case the Fiscal Date is used to determine the period. This is the way it worked in earlier versions of Ledger. In GL9 however, the Fiscal Date was always used and the Fiscal Period in the import file was ignored.
The Create Next Year function allowed you to cancel. If you canceled it caused integrity errors in some cases. Cancel is no longer permitted.
You were permitted to close year to an account that was not a Retainage account. This caused errors when a new year was created. This is no longer permitted in the Close Income/Expense Account and Create Next Fiscal Year functions.
The DataCare check of Ledger multi-currency data incorrectly reported the error: 'Retained Earnings account does not accept currency'. The Data Integrity Check in Ledger itself did not report this error.
When multiple instances of Adagio Ledger were run on the same machine, the window title did not show the instance number (for example: Adagio Ledger (2) - Adagio Corporation).
The cursor remained displayed as an hourglass in some cases after the program displayed a message indicating the Financial Reporter was locked by another user or instance.
Financial Statement Designer The Financial Reporter now opens correctly regardless of the Date format. The results returned to any cell with a formula that referenced a future period were undefined (i.e. "garbage"). Trailing spaces in a range caused erroneous results in some cases. Trailing spaces are removed from a range when they are not proceeded by a dash ( - ) or asterisk ( * ). The Fiscal Year dropdown now shows 5 characters (for example: 2007A). You may need to reset the Financial Reporter View | Customize | View Toolbar in order to get the 5 character dropdown for the Fiscal Year. ADGETF and GLDESC return the correct account description when used with a department mask. The Financial Reporter defaults to the fiscal year and period of the Adagio Ledger session date. When you use Specify Fiscal Period with Statement Group Print you are now prompted for both the Fiscal Period and Fiscal Year. Previously on the Fiscal Period could be specified. Help from the Financial Reporter could not be viewed when Ledger was installed on a network in some cases. It displayed an error saying 'Action canceled'.Enhancements and revisions in Adagio Ledger 9.0A (2007.12.19) You could not paste serial numbers and install codes into the install screen using the right mouse menu, although Ctrl-V worked fine. The currency files were deleted in some cases if you elected to uninstall your old version of Ledger when installing the Ledger 9.0A upgrade to a network drive. This could happen on single currency databases and it prevented you from opening Adagio databases until the files were restored. In addition, the SSINST32.DLL file was uninstalled in some cases if you installed your Adagio 8.0 or earlier products from a different workstation than one used to uninstall your old version of Ledger. This prevented you from running Adagio 8.0 and earlier modules. The sub-ledger batch could not be retrieved from some third-party products in some cases if it included comment lines. The products affected included Purchase Orders for Adagio and 21st Century Payroll. The sub-ledger batch could not be retrieved from Adagio JobCost 8.1A if transactions had been posted in JobCost prior to and after upgrading to Ledger 9.0A before retrieving. When the Next year is activated, the retrieve function displayed a screen with Yes/No choices to post sub-ledger batches for the Next year, when retrieved batches do not default as Ready to Post, thus posting should not yet be available. The Yes/No choices have been replaced by an OK button. If you had the View Transactions/Budgets screen open when you posted a batch, the posting did not complete in the 2007.11.02 release. In the 2007.12.17 Hot Fix you received the message: 'Unable to merge posted transactions, file currently in use by another process.' The export Account Budgets function did not insert the appropriate value for the account or department in the range fields in some cases, causing the error message 'No records to export in that range.' to be displayed. You could not import a batch in the 'Detail-only' format that had only 1 entry when running the 9.0A (2007.11.30) Hot Fix. A failed import created an empty batch in some cases. The values for the Account Sign showed 'Debits' as blank in GridView when the 'Translate coded fields' option was enabled. Grids within Adagio Ledger displayed 'D' correctly. The Active/Inactive ('A'/'I') values showed as reversed in GridView. Grids within Adagio Ledger displayed correctly. The Description field showed as blanks on the batch entry details grid when added to the grid with the column editor. The Comments field showed as blanks on the batch entry grid when added to the grid with the column editor. Using the finder in the Edit Account Forecast Data function caused an access violation error. The Smart Finder was not working on Account / Department fields in Adagio 8.1A sub-ledger programs after installing Ledger 9.0A. The 'Description 2' field is now available in the column editor on the batch entry details grid. Added the composite table 'GL Net w/Budgets & Master (Read Only)' to make it easier for GridView users to get Account Master, Balances and Budgets on a single view. The Reference, Date, Account and Department fields from the first detail line of the entry can now be shown in the batch entry grid. When editing Archive or Next Year batches, the window title of all screens now includes 'Archive' or 'Next Year' to differentiate them from current batch screens. Editing a provisionally posted batch did not reset the status to Open. The error message displayed if the Retained Earnings account was invalid showed the wrong department. Some field labels and button names were incorrect in the Backup Options, Security Group Setup and Security Group Listing functions. If you have the Company Profile option 'Report missing department errors' selected, this will now prevent creating a new account-department pair for which the department code does not exist. Previously this was only reported as a warning in the Integrity Check. This affects creating, copying or importing new accounts. Options for A3 and A4 paper added for the Multi-currency Report Printer in File | Options. Available only on multi-currency databases. The report formats remain unchanged. Users with Crystal Reports for Adagio can modify canned reports for A3 and A4 paper and place in \Softrak\Ledger\ModRP. The Detail Listing report prints now prints subtotals for the account net change and the account balance in the footer section for each account. The report footer section contains the Report net change and the Report balance. Labels have been included to identify the amounts. Previously the Total account balance was not printing on the report. When printing the Detail Listing report for departmentalized accounts and the last department had no transactions, the account totals section was incorrectly suppressed. The Account Description was not fully displayed on the Detail Listing report for long descriptions. The GL Listing and Trial Balance reports now have 2 options to control selection of accounts: 'Include accounts with no activity' and 'Include inactive accounts'. The former refers to accounts with no postings and the later refers to the 'Account active?' setting in the account. Note that when 'Include inactive accounts' is off, accounts with a balance can be excluded and therefore the report may not be in balance. Printing Next Year batches did not set the status to Printed. The Batch Listings for Next Year incorrectly reported errors that the period was closed if instead the same period in the current year was closed. The Posting Journal report did not print if it contained consolidated entries and you selected to sort by Account. When the Posting Journal was sorted by Account the prior year report did not print "Prior Year", and the current year report did print "Prior Year".Financial Statement Designer Recalculating large sheets was slow across a network. Single digit Departments did not give accurate numbers when a statement is expanded. Expand using a Departmental Range formula with single account now produces the correct result. Drill down to transaction details using the {n} prior year qualifier has been added. If you are unable to drill down in existing financial statements that use original spec codes then you will need to make use of the new 9.0A codes. Drill down may not be available for all codes.Enhancements and revisions in Adagio Ledger 9.0A (2007.11.02) Smooth Year End. Close Year is now Close Income / Expense Accts. Change Fiscal Year is now Close Current Fiscal Year. Create Next Fiscal Year function added. Transactions can be posted in either the current and last fiscal year, or current and next fiscal year (when the next year has been opened). Multiple Years of History including transactions are now supported. Closing a year does not clear the transactions for the year being closed. Detail transactions are available for drill down in the financial reporter, and G/L detail listings can be printed for prior years. Prior years can be retrieved from backups of Adagio Ledger databases from previous years (the data to be retrieved MUST NOT be converted to 9.0A prior to retrieval) or ACCPAC® PlusT G/L (except version 7.0A) including net changes (balances) and transactions. Use the 'Retrieve prior year data' function in File | Import. Your prior year data must be a snapshot of a point immediately after completing year end, and if prior year postings were made in the current year they should also have been made in the backup database. The database to retrieve should not have any integrity errors. The retrieve has a mandatory check integrity button to check posted and net change balances in the database before retrieving. If these conditions are not met, the prior year figures may not be correct and data integrity errors may be reported. Once prior year data is retrieved, it is not included in further integrity checks done in Adagio Ledger V9.0A. Account Groups can be defined as non-contiguous ranges, and these ranges can be enforced when new accounts are added to the chart of accounts. Archive batches can be entered just like current batches. Batches are archived and restored by copying between current and archive. Old style archive batches from previous versions are retrieved into the new archive batch system when data is converted to 9.0A, if they reside within the same folder as the data being converted. The Account Description field has been increased from 30 to 40 characters. Accounts also have a second description field. You can print the primary, secondary or both descriptions on the Chart of Accounts report. The Transaction Description has been increased from 30 to 40 characters. Transactions also have a second description field. The second description can be entered in batch details and will be retrieved from 8.1A or 9.0A subledgers. You can print the primary, secondary or both descriptions on the Batch Listing, Posting Journal, and Detail Listing. A Find has been added on View Transaction/Budgets. View GL Entry displays all transactions that made up an entry (unless consolidated). View Account Transactions has Debit and Credit columns instead of one column with positive and negative amounts. An Amount field is also available in Column Editor and GridView if you do not want to separate debit and credits. Edit Fiscal Calendar is a separate function instead of part of the Company Profile. Fiscal Calendar screen has been improved. The pop-up calendar is now available in the period start and end date fields. The date in the period description field can be formatted automatically using the period start or period end date. The Fiscal Calendar can be printed. Post to Prior Year can have transactions written to a separate 'YE Adjustments' period so that they are kept separate from actual postings from the year. Reports and Financial Statements have options to exclude these posting to the YE Adjustment period. Statistics fields in Account/Department can be used to track units such as hours, gallons, pieces, etc. Enter the Type of Units when the account is created or edited. Quantity of units is entered in batches for those accounts that have an associated unit. Adagio subsidiary ledgers up to and including V8.1 do not send statistical information to any accounts. Statistics units and quantities can be shown on financial statements and optionally printed on the G/L Detail Listing. Forecasts feature added. Forecasts are similar to Budgets. Use Budgets to hold your original figures and Forecasts for revised budget figures. Both figures are available in the Financial Reporter. Improvements to Budget entry and display. The column editor can be used to choose display fields for source and target accounts. The source can be any fiscal year. You can edit budgets for any fiscal year and use net changes, budgets or forecasts for the source. Auto advance by account has been added. You can also auto-advance by department. Next / Previous buttons added to speed moving to new account to edit. Column totals have been added to the Display Account budget amount fields. Drill-down to subledger ready. Retrieve is ready for subledgers to send fields required to allow drill-down. Future releases of Adagio sub-ledgers may support drill-down from Ledger. Adagio 8.1A subledgers are already sending the information necessary for drill-down to Ledger 9.0A when it is installed. Retrieve ready to support Fiscal Periods specified in the subledger transactions. Future releases of Adagio sub-ledgers will allow the fiscal period to be specified in batch entries. Retrieve ready to support statistical, such as hours, gallons, pieces, etc. units entered in subledgers. Future releases of Adagio subledgers post units to the G/L transaction batch. Open database not only warns if there are subledger batches to retrieve, it now also offers to retrieve them at that time. If the 'Require print before posting' is off, the retrieve will also offer to post the batches. The posting journal will be printed after posting batches during the retrieve if the 'Auto print posting journals after print' option is on. When installing an upgrade there is a warning that a database conversion will be required. The conversion suggests you do a backup first and offers to do it there and then. Once a database has been converted, it cannot be accessed by earlier versions of Adagio Ledger or ACCPAC Plus General Ledger. Added View Accounts in Inquiries menu (i.e. Edit without ability to save). Security Groups can be used to allow users to view but not edit accounts. Optional fields have been added on Accounts (3 strings, 2 dates, 2 dollar and 2 unit amounts). Field titles are set in the company profile. User and date stamp fields have been added on batch entries. Use the Column Editor to select the 'Date Edited' and 'User Edited' fields. Grids and finders support the 'Account active?' flag in Accounts. Inactive accounts can optionally be hidden on grids and finders. To hide inactive accounts, set the 'Active records only' option in the Column Editor for the grid or finder. This option also prevents you from editing inactive accounts or entering them in a batch. Ready to Post indicator on batches. Selecting a range of batches to Post will skip those with this indicator set "off". Company profile options control the default setting for this flag when batches are created. You cannot post an out of balance batch regardless of the setting of this flag. Unposting batches now respects the open/close flag of the fiscal calendar when you delete the transactions from the file. You cannot delete transactions using Unpost batch from closed periods. Earlier versions of Ledger have the ability to remember fields during batch entry but only until you close the batch. Ledger now has the ability to remember fields from an existing entry without having to first add a new entry. To do this, open an existing entry and tab through the fields in a detail. You might use this if you were in the middle of a big batch, closed GL and returned to complete it later. This saves you from rekeying the reference and a possibly lengthy description fields. The Data Integrity Checker now has warnings as well as errors. Note that Adagio DataCare counts warnings as errors and warnings will cause a fail status on a DataCare job. You can set the 'Application errors to ignore' equal to the number of warnings to cause a pass in the job. Account balances with the wrong normal sign (set when the account is created) generate warning messages. You can now adjust the home currency amount for a source currency balance without touching the source currency amount for cases when the subledger source amounts agree with the Ledger but the home amount does not. Added Import/Export Transactions functions. Import functions for Net Changes, Budgets, Forecasts, and Statistics/Net Changes have been added. They are separate from Import Accounts function. Added 'Account normal sign' field in accounts to indicate the type of balance the account should normally have. It can be set to Credit, Debit or Both. The Data Integrity Checker will give a warning if an account balance is not 'normal'. Security Group Setup has a listing report to print allowed/disabled menu choices. Inquires menu added. View Batch Status function added to the new menu. The Display Accounts function has been moved to the new menu and now displays only the account information. View Transactions/Budgets is a separate function in the menu. Custom GridView views appear in this menu now, rather than the reports menu. The Posting functions have been consolidated into a single function, so you can select to post to current year, post to prior year or post provisionally, without having to close and re-open a different function. The Print Posting Journal functions have been consolidated into a single function, so you can select regular, provisional or unpost journal, from the current or prior year, without having to close and re-open a different function. The Close Current Fiscal Year menu choice is hidden until it is valid to use. Fields are always verified during entry. The Field Verification option previously found under File | Options has been removed. Improved the program icon and toolbar buttons for a cleaner look and better scaling on Vista. If menus have been disabled because of an integrity error so that only the Data Integrity Check menu choice is available the Backup menu is now also available. Financial Statement Designer A fiscal year drop-down is available to print amounts based on a different year. A number of new fields are available, such as Forecasts and Statistics. ExcelDirect can now send to a sheet the values only in the financial statement. This option is turned on under View | Customize | Settings. Drag and drop automatically freezes rows, so the new form repeats those rows at the top of each printed page. A 'column page break' has been added to force page breaks by columns, just like by rows. Use Ctrl L to set the column page break. Multi-year comparative statements are now supported. Virtually any "code" can take a prefix of the form {n} when n is an integer ( 0 to 9) which indicates a "prior year" relative to the selected year. This means that Y or {0}Y is Current year to date and {1}Y is the prior year, {2}Y is two years prior, etc. and {-1} is next year. You can go back as far as you have data in your database, up to a maximum of 10 years can be reported on at one time. View Account Groups | Reset to default reads the new Account Groups set up in Ledger. Financial Reporter can save specifications as Templates, which can be used to create new specs. Template preview thumbnails are shown when opening templates. (A JPEG preview of spec also saved with Template). In some cases, the financial reporter would not print multiple copies of a financial statement when requested. This has been fixed. In some cases, .RangeDept would not expand correctly for a department range. This has been fixed. Statements having formulas 127 chars and larger display as blank when Export to Excel Direct is used and the 'values only' setting is turned off. Formulas over 126 characters now go to Excel 97-2003 as Values only, never as Formula. Sample data includes new Financial Report specs to demonstrate prior years (GL!Income3Years and GL!Balance3Years) and next year budgets and forecasts (GL!BudgetFuture). All new fields available in Ledger 9.0A are shown on GL!SuperSpec90. New sites can use financial statements without modification once they have set up their Account Groups in Ledger. GL!BasicStatements are based on the default Account Group for Ledger 90A, Adagio Ledger Account Group Definition. It includes a cover sheet, balance sheet, income statement and trial balance. GL!BasicStatements is also available as a Template from File\Open template. 2 new buckets supported in FR, "Closing entry" and "Period 14" for prior year adjustments. You could not select a row or column and remove formatting, such as italics, in the Financial Reporter. This has been corrected. The Import Workbook function (File menu) did not bring in images (logos). This has been corrected. Check Doug's updates text file for fixes or enhancements that are not in tracker. MICHEAL NEEDS TO DO THIS.Enhancements and revisions in earlier versions of Adagio Ledger Refer to the Readme help file for details of enhancements and revisions in earlier versions.Service Pack requires a conversion
If you are using an earlier release of 9.0A than Adagio Ledger 9.0A (080307), after installing the Service Pack a minor database conversion will be performed the first time you open your database.
Installing
To install Adagio Ledger from the Adagio Product CD you need the serial number and install code from the Product Label that came with your CD. If you are installing an upgrade, you need the serial number and install code that came with your upgrade. A previous version of Adagio Ledger should already be installed on your computer before installing the upgrade. If a previous version is not already installed, you can still install the upgrade. After entering the upgrade serial number and install code, you will also have to enter the serial number and install code from your previous version. Read the section 'Upgrading to this Version' below before installing an upgrade. If you are installing a Service Pack, you do not need to enter a serial number or install code. However, a previous version of Adagio Ledger 9.0A must be installed before the Service Pack can be installed. To install Adagio Ledger (or an upgrade), insert the CD in the drive. If the install program does not start automatically, run ADAGIO.EXE from the root of the CD. Or, if Adagio Ledger was downloaded, run the program file you downloaded. Once the install program is running, you can click the View button to open the Readme file for detailed instructions. If Adagio Ledger is installed on a network, you must also do a workstation install for each workstation running Adagio Ledger. Refer to "Installing on a network" in the Readme for instructions. To install the Adagio Ledger Service Pack, run the Service Pack program and follow the instructions on the screen. After installing the Service Pack, a workstation install may be required at each station running Adagio Ledger. To determine if a workstation install is required, start Adagio Ledger at the workstation. The workstation install will be automatically started if required. Note: If you are updating multiple applications at the same time, it may be faster to run the all workstation install to update all applications at once on the station. Refer to "Installing on a Network" in the Readme for instructions. Upgrading to this Version
Adagio Ledger 9.0A is a major upgrade, containing many changes and new features. It is important to review the information below before installing an upgrade from 8.1A or earlier.
Adagio Ledger 9.0A requires Adagio Lanpak to be version 9.0A or higher.
Adagio Ledger 9.0A converts databases from earlier versions. Once converted the database is no longer compatible with earlier versions of Adagio Ledger or ACCPAC Plus General Ledger. Adagio Ledger 9.0A data is not compatible with ACCPAC Plus General Ledger. Do not open an Adagio Ledger 9.0A database with Plus G/L. It will attempt to open the database but you will get the error "Damaged data. Account currency information file is missing". The Adagio Ledger database will not be harmed. However, to prevent Plus G/L from being run accidentally you may want to rename the \GLASP directory to \GLASP.renamed. Note: You may need to edit previous years using Plus G/L before the data can be retrieved in Adagio Ledger. Adagio Ledger 9.0A is not compatible with 8.1A and earlier versions of Adagio FX. FX users requiring the interface to Adagio Ledger should not upgrade to Ledger 9.0A until a new version of FX is released. Adagio FX 8.1B is compatible with Ledger 9.0A but it will only retrieve current and 1 year prior, although Ledger supports multiple prior years. FX 9.0A will support multiple years and will be able to retrieve multiple years from Ledger. When installing an upgrade to 9.0A you are given the option of deleting the previous version (8.1A or older) or leaving it there. If you think you might need to make adjustments to 8.1A or older databases, do not delete the previous version. If you plan to retrieve prior year databases you have kept in other folders into Ledger 9.0A there is good chance you will need to make some adjustments in those databases before retrieving. You will need your previous version of Adagio Ledger to do this. On the other hand, you may want to delete the prior version to avoid the possibility of confusion by accidentally running the wrong (old) program version. You should ensure any archive batches that will be used in Ledger 9.0 are stored in the same data folder as the rest of the Ledger data that will be used in Ledger 9.0. Ledger 9.0A will convert your G/L database. Once converted to 9.0A your data cannot be opened by earlier versions of Ledger. Any custom import/export templates for accounts and currencies you defined in earlier versions of Ledger must be recreated in Ledger 9.0A as they cannot be converted due to the significant changes in data structure. All import/export templates for accounts and source currencies will be deleted. You should print these import templates prior to conversion. Default import templates for Accounts, Account Net Changes, and Account Budgets are available after converting and, in most cases, will be sufficient to replace the templates from earlier versions. Import templates for batches are converted and will continue to work without change. The program directory moves to \softrak\ledger for version 9.0A. Previous versions of Adagio Ledger are installed to \softrak\alwin. Likewise, the program filename changes to Ledger.exe for version 9.0A. Previous program versions were named alwin.exe. The Windows Start list entry for version 9.0A will default to 'Ledger 9'. The Windows Start list entry for earlier versions defaulted to 'Ledger', and this entry will be left on your start list unless you uninstalled the earlier version. Use the new entry for Ledger 9 when opening Ledger in most cases. When installing an upgrade you should change any icons on your desktop or in desktop folders to run Ledger using the new program name and folder (see above paragraph). If you open Ledger 9.0A data with an older version of Ledger you will see the message "Data version [9000] may not be compatible". This indicates you need to change your icon. If you open prior year data saved in another directory and convert it to Ledger 9.0A, you will not be able to retrieve that data into a prior year in your live current year database. Ledger can only retrieve prior years from previous versions of the database. When you open a database from a previous version of Adagio Ledger, a warning is displayed indicating the database will be converted and a backup should be made. The program allows you to make a back up at this time, before proceeding with the conversion. The conversion to 9.0A could take a significant period of time on databases with a large number of posted transactions and/or posting journals. This is particularly true if your data is on a network drive. For large databases, you may want to copy your database to a local machine, convert the data, and then copy it back. We strongly recommend you contact your dealer or consultant for assistance with this procedure and take a backup before proceeding. Users of ACCPAC Plus G/L wishing to evaluate Adagio Ledger 9.0A on their own data should make a copy of their live data as Adagio Ledger will convert the database. Contact your dealer or consultant for details on creating a copy of your live data. Financial specifications created by or edited by Adagio Ledger 9.0A are not compatible with earlier versions of Adagio Ledger. Many settings made in the Column Editor to grids, finders and smart finders for previous versions of Ledger will need to be redone for Ledger 9.0A. The File | Options, Field Verification option has been removed. Fields are always verified during entry. New features have been added to the Financial Reporter that add new buttons to the toolbar. In order to view the new buttons you need to reset your toolbars after upgrading. To do this, go to View | Customize, Toolbars tab, select each toolbar in the list and click the Reset button. If you have modified any of the standard reports installed by Adagio Ledger, you will have redo those modifications for Ledger 9.0A. Modified reports are files with an .rpt extension that you copied from \softrak\alwin\StandardRP to \softrak\alwin\ModRP and modified using Crystal Reports for Adagio. The standard report filenames for 9.0A are generally similar to those in earlier versions of Ledger but have a suffix of "_v2". Modified report files must be placed in \softrak\ledger\ModRP for Ledger 9.0A. Installing Ledger 9.0A does not delete your modified reports, even if you elect to delete the previous version of Ledger. Your modified reports will be left in \softrak\alwin\ModRP. Custom reports created in Crystal Reports for Adagio for earlier versions of Ledger will have to be modified or recreated for use with Ledger 9.0A databases in most cases. Installing Ledger 9.0A does not delete your custom reports, even if you elect to delete the previous version of Ledger. Your custom reports will be left in \softrak\alwin\CustomRP. The 'Installed only' method of selecting tables for Adagio when defining reports in Crystal Reports for Adagio using ADAGIO.SSI to find your database is not supported for Ledger 9.0A. Find your database by the alternate method of searching for the Ledger company profile (global) file 'GLGLOB.xxx' instead. Existing reports are not affected by this change. GridView views created for earlier versions of Adagio Ledger must be recreated using tables from 'Adagio Ledger 9.0A'. The structure of batches changes in Ledger 9.0A. Any custom Crystal reports or GridView views will have to be adjusted or recreated. The Crystal table for 9.0A is 'ALW90'. The GridView dictionary is 'Adagio Ledger 9.0A'. GridView supports the new archive batch system in Ledger. Views from Ledger batches use a Wildcard in the definition to select the type of batch - C for Current and A for Archive (and N for Next Year if they exist). In previous versions of Ledger, each batch was a separate file and you used a Wildcard to select the batch number. For Ledger 9.0A, the batch number is a field in the file and you use a filter to select the batch you want to view. For Ledger 9.0A, batches use a header and a detail file, whereas in earlier versions batches used a single file. To show batch fields from the header and detail, you will need to define a link between the 2 tables. A Division field has been added to the database for future use and is always blank in 9.0A. Division is hidden in GridView to avoid any confusion as to its use. However, it is visible in Crystal Reports for Adagio. Links between tables can use Division but do not have to. For example you can link from Posted Transactions (GLPST) to Account Master (GLMAST'R) by Acct/Dept, or by Acct/Dept/Div. If the latter is used there is a better chance reports will work as desired in any future release of Ledger where Division is used. 
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