SKAN_Talk additions and revisions
Build date:  11/5/2003
New Feature
Models				Revision
A770, UP3300, UP3301, UP600				Summarized the total amount and upcharge prices in the Combo Meal editor.  Also added a summary for the total discounted prices that are calculated from the original PLU prices
UP600				Added editors for the Positive and Negative number that is used for the charge posting report and account validation during transaction finalization
ALL				Added an Editor for the Operational Mode Secret codes
A770, UP600				Added an Editor for the Kitchen Printer Message.  This allows custom messages for each kitchen printer to be printed
ALL				Adds a Validation text, Slip Printer text and Currency conversion text editors
A420, A470, A570				Added Message and Guidance text editors.  These editors allow changes to the text for user prompts and errors messages at the register.
ALL				Added an editor for the Function text.  Previously only the function text for items that were assigned to the keyboard could be changed through the virtual keyboard.
UP600				Added the Capture Job and Capture Job editors.  The capture key and capture jobs functions allows information that the register would not normally collect to be entered in the register for specialized information tracking.
A550, A570, A750E, A770, UP3300, UP3301, UP600				Added a Kitchen Printer Preset editor.  For those systems that use kitchen printers, the printing options and conditions can be set here
UP600				Added the Function Key Menu editor for the UP600.  The Function Menu key allows up to 15 function keys to be assigned to a menu button.  When the menu button is pressed on the keyboard, those keys appear and can be selected from the list.  This is useful for programs that do not have a lot of free space available on the keyboard.
UP600				Added the Macro Key editor for the UP600.  This editor allows for multiple auto keys to be run from one or more of the register's operational modes (Reg, MGR, PGM2, etc.)
A750E, A770, UP3300, UP3301				Added an editor for the Employee Report options.  This editor is used in conjunction with the Employee Timekeeping to determine the pay cycle and if employee break time is paid or not
A420, A570, A750E, A770, UP3300, UP3301, UP600				Added an editor for the Guest Look Up (GLU) Presets.  This allows the high and low guest check number or Drive Thru number ranges that can be used on a system
A750E, A770, UP3300, UP3301				Added a Manager Preset editor.  Manger numbers and secret codes can be created so that cashiers can be locked out from certain register functions.
A770, UP600				Added an editor for the Bill Number
UP600				Added an Editor for the Default Menu Level.  This determines which of the 5 keyboard menu levels is used by default for each register
A570				Added support for the Customer Preset editor on the A570.  Using the customer preset files allow for employees or customers to have a credit or debit balance maintained at the register.
ALL				Added the ability to open a previous SKAN_Talk log session for troubleshooting
UP600				Adds the ability to change the Device Assignment table for satellite machines when communicating via TCP/IP.  Previously, only changes to the master register could be made.
A570				Added support for Price levels 2-6 for the UPC editor on the A570.
ALL				Added ASCII export reports for the UPC Sales, Department Markdown and Daily Net Totalizers

  

	SKAN_Talk additions and revisions
A570				Added the PLU Group report.
Correction
Models				Revision
ALL				Corrects an issue that was occurring on some Windows XP computers where SKAN_Talk fails to load properly when there is another application using the TCP/IP port that SKAN_Talk uses.  Under this condition, SKAN_Talk now opens another port.  Under this same condition SKAN_Talk would also occasionally not be able to read the license information and say that the ECR model that was selected for the store was not valid.  This is also corrected.
ALL				Corrected an error in the Dealer Work Station version with the Presto Programmer.  After the tax rate was imported then sent to the register, the tax rate was sent but did not take effect because the tax rate was still set for inhibited,  This error did not occur if a tax rate other than 0.00 was previously set and it was only updating that tax rate value.
A420, A470, A550, A570, A750E, A770, UP3300, UP3301, UP600				Corrected an error when not all of the data that is necessary to open the virtual keyboard is available, it gives a message that there was an error reading from the table with insufficient data.  Previously this was giving a run time error.  This error generally only happened on the Dealer Work Station version of the package where the model register for the store was changed after the store had been initialized and the data was no longer correct for the new model, specifically when changing the model to a UP3300 or UP3301
A750E, A770, UP3300, UP3301, UP600				Corrects an error in the Condiment editor when trying to display a PLU where the description is blank.
UP3300, UP3301				Corrected the data conversion when exporting the Auto Key file.  The data which tells the register which screen the auto key runs on was not being exported, so all the Auto Keys were being defaulted back to the HOME menu.  For those Auto Keys that were not originally programmed on the HOME menu, those keys stopped functioning.
UP600, A770				Corrected an error in the Virtual Keyboard when the user changed the Keyboard text for a combo meal, it was saving it as the Description text of the combo meal.
UP600				Corrected an error where the department editor would not allow Hash departments to be set even when the service parameter settings for 906B are set to allow it.
UP600				Corrected an error when opening the Dynamic UPC editor on the UP600.  This problem was introduced in the 9/10/03 release.
A420, A450, UP600				Corrected an error when exporting a graphic logo file to the register.  The lines of the graphic were exported in the wrong order and the graphic became corrupted .  This problem was introduced in the 9/10/03 release.
A750E, A770, UP3300, UP3301, UP600				Corrected the data conversion for the Kitchen Printer Preset and the Chit (Bill) Printer Presets.  The Terminal Number field was not being imported.
UP600				Corrected an error with adjusting the decimal place values for the quantity information on Coupons, Refunds and Waste sales on the Dynamic UPC if the register allows fractional Quantities to be sold (Service Bit 906 D)   The quantity totals were showing up as 1/1000th of the correct value (i.e. Refund Quantity = 5 was being reported as .005) Neither Dynamic UPC's or Fractional Quantities are allowed on most machines and this would generally not present a problem for most users.
A770, UP3300, UP3301, UP600				Corrected an error on the Item By Department report where if an item had sales totals for refund totals, Waste sales or Combo meal sales but did not have any base sales for the item, the item did not show up in the report.
UP600				Corrected the data conversion for the Macro Key file.  In certain conditions, the file was being exported from SKAN_Talk to the register in an incorrect format

  

	SKAN_Talk additions and revisions
UP600				Added the Link Job # field into the data conversion for the Capture Key when data is exported from SKAN_Talk and sent to the register.  This file is not used by most users and would not generally present a problem.
ALL				Correct the text for the 910 D service bit.  The options for that parameter were labeled backwards.
UP600				Corrected an error where the text for the Kitchen Printer Message editor was not being imported during the store initialization
UP600				Added the Gasoline discount totals into the Transaction Report
Change to existing feature
Models				Revision
ALL				Changed many of the reports to increase the amount of data that is displayed per page so that less paper is used.
ALL				Changed the Terminal Report to not display the consolidated totals for all stores unless there is more than 1 store generated in the report.  Also changed the Terminal report to not display the consolidated Store totals for all registers unless there is more than 1 register generated in the report
UP600				Makes a change that allows files that are register specific (Device Assignment table) to be automatically sent to each of the registers when communicating via TCP/IP
A550				Added the "Output to Kitchen Printer" option in the A550 PLU editor
ALL				Changes the default TCP/IP port that SKAN_Talk uses from 5000 to 7372 due to port conflicts on some computers running Windows 2000 and XP.  This was causing SKAN_Talk to occasionally give an error when attempting to load the application
ALL				The ASCII data that is exported after a successful polling was optimized to organize the data layout more efficiently
ALL				Reduced the amount of non sales data that is posted during the end of day polling.  This decreases the size of the database by as much as 40%
ALL				Added new indexes to the report data so that the reports are generated faster when there are large amounts of archived sales history
A770, UP600				Added a polling event into the end of day polling procedure that logs off any servers that are assigned if the Store Close procedure fails
Build date:  9/10/2003
New Feature
Models				Revision
ALL				Added the ability to manually purge any or all reports from the database for an individual date or date range
A420, A470, A570, A750E, A770, UP3300, UP3301, UP600				Added an editor for PLU Stock keeping .  Stock counters can be sent either on demand or as part of the end of day polling process.
ALL				Added the ability to poll an individual store on demand.  Previously only all active stores could be run as part of the polling procedure.
ALL				Added a check box to the store editor that allows the Open / Close store procedures to be disabled during end of day polling

  

	SKAN_Talk additions and revisions
ALL				Added a check box in the store editor that allows users to disable the commands that broadcasts program updates to the satellite machines.  For single registers that are configured as masters, this speeds up the amount of time it takes to send changes and decreases the chance of errors during communications.
ALL				Added navigation buttons to the CVM editor (Next, Previous, First, Last record) The PLU or Department number and description are now also displayed
A770, UP600				Added an editor for the Device Assignment.  This editor allows the settings for Receipt/Journal, Kitchen Printers, Scales, etc. to be programmed through SKAN_Talk
ALL				Added an editor for the Stack Report
A770, UP3300, UP3301, UP600				Added an editor for the Job Secret Codes
A750E, A770, UP3300, UP3301, UP600				Added the PLU Group report to the list of reports available from the periodic reports section
A550, A570, A750E, A770, UP3300, UP3301, UP600				Corrects an error while running the Flash Reports when the terminal numbers are set greater than 100
Correction
Models				Revision
ALL				Corrected an error in the case where SKAN_Talk reports that "there was an error reading from the serial port".  This error was only being reported as a warning so polling was incorrectly allowed to continue.
A420, A470, A550, A570, A750E, A770, UP3300, UP3301, UP700				Adds the ability in the virtual keyboard to click on a color from the palette and have the color preference remembered for every key that was clicked on.  Previously every key would have to be colored by dragging and dropping from the palette.  This greatly speeds up the time it takes to color a keyboard.
A570				Corrects an error that occurred when building the list of changes (Transmit changes job) to be sent to the register when multiple stores are polled that use a combination of both stand-alone and IRC configurations.  The stand-alone store would have a command to broadcast the change to a satellite (Slave) register which did not exist and would cause the job to give an error
ALL				Corrected an error in the PLU reports where the description from anything other than Price Level 1 was not displayed.
A570				Corrected that the Z Counters were not getting posted on the A570s when the registers were set as standalone.  This was causing data to be omitted on the Grand Total report in the periodic reports section
A420, A450, A470				Added a routine into the end of day polling jobs that adjusts the decimal place value for the Quantity of the PLU sales and Department sales based on how the scale weight options are configured at the register (906D service parameter)  Under certain circumstances the Quantity totals were incorrectly multiplied by 1000
UP600, UP3301				Corrected an error that occurred when communicating via TCP/IP to a system where more than one register was defined in SKAN_Talk.  No errors would be reported but the store initialization would fail due to an error in the job script.  This problem was introduced in the 6/16/03 release version
UP600				Corrects an error that occurs on some systems when polling by individual terminal via RS-232 (serial) Under a certain circumstance, the same data from the master was duplicated as the data from the satellite machines.  This occurred from the Transaction and Department report.
UP600				Corrected a condition in the consolidated Grand Totals where the totals that the register reported were wrong. The totals from the 2nd register in the system were doubled in this condition.
UP600				Corrected an error with editing the CVM attribute in the PLU and Dynamic UPC editors.  The number was not converted properly and an incorrect number was sent to the register.

  

	SKAN_Talk additions and revisions
A420, A450, A470, A550, A570				When changes were made to the Logo Text file, the changes were not automatically sent as part of the "Send Changes" Function.  The file had to be sent manually from the jobs menu
A550				Corrected an error when building the Transmit Changes job for the keyboard files.  Changes to the Direct Key file in the virtual keyboard were saved properly, but they were not automatically sent with the transmit changes job.  Sending the direct key file manually resolved this.
Change to existing feature
Models				Revision
ALL				Changed the error messages that SKAN_Talk shows in the log file when a communication command fails.  The specific message of the Sharp error is reported rather than displaying "A non zero status was returned"
ALL				Changed the Log viewer so error messages are highlighted in red
UP3300				Changed the PLU editor so that it will also support two price and description levels instead of just 1 or 5 levels.  This allows support for the UP3300 3F version EPROM
ALL				Changed the way the Recover From Failed Polling screen works.  Now any time there is a failed polling logged, the Failed Polling Recovery screen will continue to open after every polling until the problem is addressed.  Previously it opened only on the polling cycle that the error occurred on.  If left unattended polling for several days, failed pollings may not have been detected by the end users.
ALL				Changed the Store Open and Store Close icons to run the function only for the selected store rather than globally for all active stores.  Also included a message confirmation before the commands are run.
A420				Changes the Initialization process on the A420 when the register is connected via modem.  Previously the program data was collected on a 2 pass method.  This was modified so that after the first time the data has been collected and future initializations will be done on a single pass.
ALL				Changed the Log screen so that the screen is resizable.  Also made it so that single clicking in the column header maximizes the width of the field so it is easier to read.
A420				Increased  the amount of time that SKAN_Talk waits when performing the Z commands during polling.   This is most beneficial when polling via a modem
A420, A450				Optimized the polling commands for collecting the X reports.  This increases the speed of polling and is most beneficial when polling via a modem
ALL				Adds a consolidated store summary for the Hourly sales report when the stores are polled by individual terminal instead of as a consolidated system.
Build date:  7/2/2003
Correction
Models				Revision
UP3300, UP3301				Corrected an issue when editing function keys in the virtual keyboard.  Under a very limited set of conditions, the data is not saved properly and when the data is sent to the register, it makes the register inoperable.  This is viewed as an important update for users of the UP3300 and UP3301 that are authorized for the virtual keyboard.
UP600				Corrected an issue with the PLU daily sales data not posting items into the history table properly when the item has only Refund or Waste totals associated with the PLU
Build date:  6/16/2003
New Feature
Models				Revision

  

	SKAN_Talk additions and revisions
ALL				Added an ASCII file export editor so that end users can create or modify the format of ASCII files for exporting the programming or report data into 3rd party software
UP600				Added the capability to convert the Function Key Text file from a UP3300 to a UP3301 for dealers who are converting programs from one model to another.
ALL				Added an ASCII export for the TLOG report data
UP600				Added the capability to convert a UPC file from a A570/A610 or A450T to a PLU/UPC file on a UP600/UP700 for dealers who are converting UPC files from one model to another.
Correction
Models				Revision
UP3300, UP3301				Corrected a problem introduced in the 5/14/03 build where opening the Presto Programmer on a store that has not been initialized causes a repeated loop of messages prompting to run the store initialization.
UP600, A570, A450				Corrects an error that occurred in the UPC editor when the last modified field in the database in not in the standard mm/yy date format.  The register occasionally stores the data in a yy/mm date format.
UP3300, UP3301				Corrected a problem where the virtual keyboard would not save all changes made while editing the keyboard if the store.  This only occurred if the UP3300 or UP3301 store was not set up as store 1.
A420, A450, UP600				Corrected a problem with the Propagate Program Changes function when the Graphic Logo is propagated.  Occasionally, the graphic would not be saved properly to the other stores.
ALL				Corrects a problem in the transmit changes job where update that are made to the Department or Location Preset file are sent properly but the Modified" flag is the database does not get reset.   However, sending the Department or Location Preset file from the jobs menu does properly reset the flag.  This problem was introduced in the 3/28/03 build.
Change to existing feature
Models				Revision
ALL				Added an option to the virtual keyboard so that PLUs with the default text (i.e. PL000001) can be selected to not appear in the print preview or on the printed keyboard template.  (This function already existed on the A750E and A770. )
Build date:  5/14/2003
New Feature
Models				Revision
ALL				Adds the Optional Register Programming (Preset1) editor
ALL				Adds the Media Preset editor.  (The data conversion for the Function Preset file was changed during development of the Media Preset Editor.  This requires communicating the Function Preset file from the register to the PC for each store so that it imports the data in the new format.)
A420, A550, A570, A750E, A770, UP3300/UP3301, UP700				Adds support for the Auto Key editor
ALL				Adds a search button in the service parameter editor that allows for looking up keywords from the service parameter values.
A750E, A770, UP3300, UP3301				Adds the ability to edit the employee clock punch times that are collected from the register

  

	SKAN_Talk additions and revisions
ALL				Adds the ability to make a price change for all or groups of PLUs simultaneously by +/- a percentage amount, +/- a dollar amount, or change to a fixed amount.  The change can be made for all items or by any combination of Region #, Store #, Department Link, PLU Group, PLU range  or PLU Price level.
UP3301				Adds beta support for the UP3301
A450, A570, UP600				Adds the ability to use a keyboard wedge bar code scanner for adding UPC's into SKAN_Talk through the UPC editor
ALL				Adds comments into the end of day polling jobs that appear in the log file that indicate what processes are occurring so that it is easier to understand and troubleshoot.
UP600				Adds a Summary Only report for the Customer sales history
ALL				Adds a Grand Totals and Z Counter report into the periodic Reports section
Correction
Models				Revision
UP600, UP3301				Corrects an error that was occurring when attempting to send the complete RAM image of very large program (approx. 5 meg) back to the register.  A timeout was occurring while SKAN_Talk was processing the file in memory and the file would not successfully send.  This only occurred on registers with very large PLU or UPC files allocated (approx. 10,000)
ALL				Corrected a problem with the Presto Programmer when it creates new Department records while importing the program data from a worksheet. It caused the virtual keyboard to give a run time error because the Department table didn't have all the data fields necessary to show the instant info data.   (This was previously resolved by sending the department file to the register and then getting it from the register)
ALL				Corrected a problem in the Auto Key editor where a run time error was generated when an unknown function key appears in the auto key sequence.  This seems to only occur on the Dealer Work Station version when the model register for the store had been changed to a different model without deleting the previous model's data
UP3300/UP3301				Corrected an error when loading the virtual keyboard after creating a PLU Range in the PLU editor.   The default Key Color fields were not being assigned in the database when creating PLUs in a range.
UP600				Corrected the data conversion for the Preset1 (Optional Register Programming) file.  The Price Change allowed in Register Mode fields was changing the UPC Price Level Shift allowed in Register Mode field
ALL				Corrected an error in the Service Parameter editor where the 925B bit had a NOT USED value that when set changed the value to 2 instead of 0
ALL				Corrects an error that occurs when opening the department or service parameter editors after SKAN_Talk is updated and the service parameter file is not communicated from the register as is specified in the update document.  The error occurs when attempting to check the status of various service parameters to see which options are valid for the editor.
A550				Corrected a problem opening the Service Parameter editor on the A550.  The 927,928 and 929 service bits needed to be defined even though they are not used.
UP600				Corrected the data conversion for the Current Z Counter file. The GLU counter was being reported as the PLU counter
ALL				Corrects a minor problem where the text boxes only allows users to fill data until the box is full rather than allowing the maximum value that is defined by SKAN_Talk.  This problem appears to only occur on computers that have modified the Appearance settings for the Display properties to a larger than default font size.
Change to existing feature
Models				Revision

  

	SKAN_Talk additions and revisions
A750E, A770, UP600				Changed the virtual keyboard so that the user description text of the PLU menu is printed on the virtual keyboard.  Previously, it was printing the exact text of the PLU menu from what was entered in the PLU menu editor.
UP600				Changed the functionality when adding new UPC's.  It automatically determines what the UPC type is rather that requiring the user to select the type.
ALL				When the model type is changed for an existing store, SKAN_Talk deletes the files for the virtual keyboard.  This was causing an error when loading the keyboard editor on the Dealer Work Station version when the model for a store was changed rather than adding a new store.
ALL				Changes the Presto programmer so that the option to open it appears on the Programming Menu drop down
ALL				When a store is deleted, the data files from the \incoming directory are deleted
A770				Added the Repeat Round field to the A770 PLU editor
Build date:  3/28/2003
New Feature
Models				Revision
ALL				Adds the capability to write the software registration status and load status to the skanlan.ini file.  The error message is more verbose message and it is automatically displayed when there is a problem loading SKAN_Talk.  Previously, skanlan had to be opened in debug mode to see the error message that was generated
ALL				Added the capability to send electronic messages (E-mail) to the receipt/journal printer on a register
ALL				This writes the completion status of the registration process to the skanlan.ini file.  This allows the ability to shut down and re-open the registration screen before the registration is complete and the site code will not be abandoned
ALL				Adds the ability to propagate the virtual keyboard template color and text information from a master store to all other stores within a region
ALL				Added a warning or informational message prompt when running many of the job types from within the Jobs editor.
ALL				Added the Service Parameter editor
ALL				Adds the capability to add PLUs by range
Correction
Models				Revision
ALL				Corrects an error message that says skanlan.exe does not exist when skanlan.exe file property is set to read only.  This error was only occurring while running a SKAN_Talk update
ALL				Changed an error for one of the text labels in the Combo Meal editor. "Send to Kitchen Printer?" is now "Modified Output?"
ALL				Changed the interactive TLOG option flag in the skanlan.ini file to be turned to off by default (capture=no)  This was creating a conflict for end users that also run ITC Multi Plan software on the same machine as SKAN_Talk
ALL				Corrected an error that occurred when a new terminal was created that had more than 6 digits.
ALL				Corrected a problem with the Presto Programmer where when it creates new PLU records on import.  It caused the virtual keyboard to give a run time error because the PLU table didn't have all the fields necessary to show the instant info data.

  

	SKAN_Talk additions and revisions
UP3300				Corrected an error with the transmit-changes job where any changes to the SKSNattribute Table (Keyboard related text) was not being updated and was sending the Direct Key table instead
UP600				Corrected an error in the virtual keyboard where the key text of a 5 digit PLUs would only change the text of PLU #1
UP600				Corrected a data conversion error in the Preset1 (Optional Register Programming) where if the Zero Skip sections for the reports were set to not skip, the change was not recognized
Change to existing feature
Models				Revision
ALL				Added the ability to disable the interactive TLOG polling by adding an entry in the skanlan.ini file.   Leaving it on by default created a conflict for customers use the ITC Multi Plan software on the same computer as SKAN_Talk
ALL				Adds help buttons in the logo, Mix&Match, Tare Table, Presto Programmer, Set PLU and Service Parameter editors.
ALL				Changed the Propagate Program Changes so that the Graphic logo is separate from the logo text
A550				Disables the Store Open button on A550 stores since this feature is not supported by the register
ALL				Changed the Dynamic UPC editor so that when the "get dynamic UPC file" is selected from the communications window, the screen refreshes instead of exiting.
A450				Improves functionality to the Link UPC editor on the A450
ALL				Changed the sending of the deletes from the dynamic UPC editor so that it is sends deletes at the same time as sending the updates to the UPC file without an additional message prompt.
ALL				When configuring a Store/Terminal, if the register is not set for TCP/IP communications, the IP address for the store is set to the RS 232 communications default, 127.0.0
ALL				Changes the way that validation is done to see if SKAN_Talk is registered and whether SKANLan communications service is running.  The status was occasionally being misreported during a full re-install or when upgrading from a demo version
ALL				Removed the Registration Keywords from the Registration area of Setup.  This field was used to support a hardware key for a prior version of SKAN_Talk.
ALL				Puts help buttons into many of the SKAN_Talk edit screens that when clicked will open the help file to that specific section.
ALL				Updates the help file.  New sections were added so that every editor presently supported has documentation.  Every field used in the editor is also defined.  The was previously obtained only in the register manual.
ALL				Changes the mechanism in which the SKAN_Talk communications jobs are set back to default.  It is now a manual process performed by running a job rather than automatically when the LicenseSkan.exe is run.
UP600				Changed the data conversion for the TLOG so that split tender transactions are properly captured
Build date:  2/20/2003
New Feature
Models				Revision
A420, A450, UP700				Added the Graphic Logo editor
ALL				Added the capability to import the master reset default programming values for all models that SKAN_Talk supports.

  

	SKAN_Talk additions and revisions
ALL				Added a find box in the virtual keyboard below the pick list for the PLU/UPC, Function keys, departments and combo meals
A570				Added the virtual keyboard for the A570
A550				Added the virtual keyboard for the A550
A420, A470, A550, A570, A750E, A770, UP600				Changed the default colors on the Virtual Keyboard to match the colors used on the default Sharp template provided with the register
Correction
Models				Revision
ALL				Corrected an error that occurred in some of the program editors (PLU, Condiment, Customer, etc.) when there were no records upon entering the editor then one was added and immediately deleted.
UP600				Corrects the Last Sold display box in the UPC and Dynamic UPC editors.  It was previously too small and was only displaying the month and not the month and day that the item was last sold.
ALL				Corrects an error that occurs on the virtual keyboard when attempting to display the auto key settings when the auto key file has not been imported into the skantalk database.
ALL				Corrected an error in the TLOG report generator when attempting to filter for multiple items in the same parameter filer (i.e. Server 1 AND Server 2)
UP600				Corrects an error when attempting to open the PLU Group text editor from within the UPC editor on the UP600.  This error was introduced in version Manager.exe 1.01.0808
A570				Corrected an error on the A570 when importing the Kitchen Printer preset file.  It was missing 2 fields in the database necessary to import the file.  If this file is not imported, SKAN_Talk will disallow making changes for sending items to the kitchen printer in the PLU and department editors.
A550				Corrected an error when polling the Cashier report.  The totals were only being collected from the master terminal.  To track cashier sales, polling must be done by terminal instead of consolidated polling
UP600				Corrected a data conversion problem in the PLU file where the Price Shift Compulsory options were not getting set correctly for the Inhibit or Compulsory options
UP600, A770				Corrected the automatic purge function for the TLOG report data.  The automatic TLOG purge function was still looking at the retain XX amount of months field used for the normal report data.
A770				Corrected the data conversion while importing the Jobs/Secret Code file into the database.  This file was not being imported during the initialization.  It was only a problem if the specific job to collect this file was run.
A550, UP600				Corrected the data conversion while importing the Service Patch file into the database.  This file was not being imported during the initialization.  It was only a problem if the specific job to collect this file was run.
Change to existing feature
Models				Revision
ALL				Adds a substitution parameter for a 6 digit zero filled register number (%r)  This now allows for terminal numbers greater than 99 to be polled on an IRC system by individual terminal without having to manually change the communications jobs to specifically allow for it.
A550				Added the data conversion for the Kitchen Printer Preset and the Server Totalizer files
ALL				Performed maintenance on the Get-all-Files and Send-All-Files.  Some of the less used files were not being collected.

  

	SKAN_Talk additions and revisions
UP600				Changes the job that collects the files allocation from the registers when communicating via TCP/IP.  It was incorrectly bringing in the allocation from the satellite register instead of the master register.  As a result, some files that exist only in the master register were incorrectly being reported as not allocated
ALL				Made an internal change to the database to unify the several tables that were used for storing the daily net totalizer and the total server report data
Build date:  2/3/2003
New Feature
Models				Revision
ALL				Added the capability to create a master store for one or more regions and to have all of the program changes made in the master store propagated to all of the other stores that are assigned to that region.
ALL				Added the capability to group stores into regions and sort or filter the sales reports by region number in the periodic reports
A470				A set of polling jobs for the UP600 was created that allow for polling the Period to Date (X2/Z2 totals)
ALL				Added the ability to change the price of all items within a PLU Group to a common price
Correction
Models				Revision
ALL				Changed the A420 best seller Flash report to include the Price level 2 totals
ALL				Corrected an issue in the terminal report when the system is polled by individual terminal in an master/satellite system, under certain circumstances, the individual totals for all registers in the system are included in the report but the consolidated totals are not.
ALL				Corrected an error on the A570 polling when a register is a standalone and the polling by terminal option is enabled.  The command to collect the UPC report in this configuration was invalid.
A770				Corrected a data conversion on the Preset1 file (Optional register programming) which caused the hourly report start time and the Hourly report type (15/30/60 minutes) fields in the database to be reversed for the A570
A570				Changed the SKSNAttribute.keytext field in the database to allow a zero byte length.  This was occasionally causing the initialization to fail if the text for the default names was deleted
A750E, A770, UP3300				Corrected an error in the TLOG report where the report was blank when sorting by a specific Server number
UP600				Corrected an error with the Cashier report on the A770 when polling by individual terminal.  The server report exists in the master register only, but it was collecting and posting the same data as if it were from each terminal.
UP3300				Corrected a problem on the PLU / UPC reports when multiple price levels are allocated on the register but only one description level, the description would show up blank for any items that were not price level 1 items
Change to existing feature
Models				Revision
ALL				Adds a substitution parameter (%W) so that the Region number can be used as a filter parameter in the reports
ALL				Unified all of the flash reports so that any report will work for any model of register when multiple models are authorized

  

	SKAN_Talk additions and revisions
ALL				Enhanced the terminal report so that it is no longer mandatory that all department names and numbers must be identical across all stores.  Department totals are now grouped by their by department number and department name an not just their department numbers.
ALL				Changed all of the PLU and UPC reports so that if the same PLU or UPC number has a different description in a another store, the totals are summed sum separately when running consolidated report totals
ALL				Changed the UPC and PLU Item by department reports to take into account the Refund sales, Waste sales, Combo meal sales and Coupon PLU sales when calculating the percentage of sales by department.  The overall sales totals were correct, but the percentage of the individual department sales we being compared to only the base sales and not the Refund, Waste or Combo meal sales.
ALL				Changed the way that the transaction sales data is posted for the A470 so that the same set of reports are compatible with all other models of cash registers supported by SKAN_Talk.
ALL				Added the ability to sort by receipt number, Cash 3-5, Charge 9 and Check 3-5 in the TLOG report
ALL				Changed the terminal report to add the store name and address into the report header.
Build date:  1/13/2003
New Feature
Models				Revision
ALL				Adds the PLU Mix & Match editor
Correction
Models				Revision
ALL				Corrects the IP address not being saved when a new store is added
UP600				Corrects an error where the field 'FoodStamp' is not found when getting the Dynamic UPC file.  This error was introduced in Manager.exe version 1.01.0747
Change to existing feature
Models				Revision
ALL				Changes the display of the TCP/IP address in the store editor to show the 4th octet being the master register number
A450, A470, A550, A570				Changes the link and Set PLU editors to allow a PLU to be a in link table when that PLU is already assigned as a base PLU in a link or set PLU table
UP600				Implements data conversion and capturing of the Function Key Menu table during initialization
Build date:  12/30/2002
Models				Revision
ALL				Under RS, fixes the WAIT was not checking the returned status code from the register and fixes When the WAIT returned a non-zero status, it is now being passes through to SKAN_Talk to detect the error
ALL				Reads the SKANLan.ini file (if available) to get the current port assigned to SKANLan, thus shutting down the correct SKANLan port, if that port is not 5000.

  

	SKAN_Talk additions and revisions
ALL			Corrects a timing problem where an error message is returned on some Windows 2000 computers when issuing the command to capture the complete RAM backup (50-00 command)
UP3300			Adds the capability of manual credit card number entry on the UP3300 using the MWS and centralized credit card processing
ALL			Changes the command that is used to ask for the success/failure status of Remote Job Entry (RJE) commands on the UP600/UP700 to collect additional errors not reported using the previous status command
ALL			This corrects a wait command taking too long to respond on the A470.  This extra wait time didn't cause the comm to fail but causes long pauses between communications events
ALL			Corrects the timeout issues on both the RS and TCP/IP when dealing with the wait commands during the end of day jobs under Windows 2000 and XP
UP3300			updates a problem with the All RAM download not working properly on the UP3300.
ALL			This fixes a problem with skanlan constantly scanning the hard drive looking for authorization on a few computers.
ALL			This fixes a problem for the Judge Data (20-02) commands timing out on the end of day under Windows 2000
ALL			Adds support for capturing the interactive TLOG via TCP/IP.  Adds two elements to the SRN Pending event -  store number and TCP/IP address of the register sending the event.  Also provides the machine number from the TCP/IP packet which could be different than the register number
ALL			Adds 1 second to a timing constant for the end of day polling jobs due to communications timeouts on some computers running Windows 2000 and XP
UP600			Corrects a problem introduced in 2.1.2.3 that causes skanlan to use a high percentage of the CPU resources when it is scanning for the TLOG polling requests issued from the cash registers
UP600			Adds the capability to register the SKAN_Talk.ocx from version 4.1.2.0 and up
UP3300			Blocks out all but the last 4 digits of the credit card number on the receipt for the centralized credit card processing
ALL			Adds a remove registration button to re-license the software for those users that had a demo version and are upgrading to a full version
ALL			Changes the error level from a warning to an error when there is a problem reading from the serial port during communications
ALL			Under RS, fixes the WAIT was not checking the returned status code from the register and fixes When the WAIT returned a non-zero status, it is now being passes through to SKAN_Talk to detect the error
ALL			Adds the capability to copy, install and verify the SKAN_Talk.ocx with the SKANinstall utility
A570			Adds the data conversion for the Customer file
ALL			Adds the capability in the jobs editor to specify what commands are issued to the register based on whether TCP/IP communications or RS communications has been selected by using the if IS-TCP or if IS-RS commands
ALL			Updates the mechanism to see if there are any failed pollings before polling begins for any given store and how to proceed if there is a failed polling
A570, UP600			Allows for the exporting of data for the Customer Preset file on the A570 and the exporting of data on the Customer Sales file on the UP600
ALL			Corrects a problem with the output of some files being 1 byte too long which causes the register to reject the file.  (This was only observed to be a problem on the A450T with the Function Text file )
ALL			Adds the skanlan version number to the end of the log.
UP600			Finishes changes to the Customer Sales and Capture Sales Data conversion
UP600			Internal Test Version for the Customer Sales and Capture Sales Data conversion

  

	SKAN_Talk additions and revisions
UP600			Adds the Customer Sales data conversion
ALL			Adds the Employee Clock data conversion and report for the A750E
A770, UP3300			Adds the Employee Clock data conversion for the A770 and UP3300
ALL			Adds %p %P %q %Q substitution parameters for naming files by date rather than by store and terminal.
A570			Finishes support for the If-Standalone command when running communications jobs
ALL			Corrects a problem with the TLOG report not displaying the Server Number and the Transaction Number on the report
UP600, A570			Corrects an error on the customer report when departments sales are entered, the name of the department appears in the media description column
ALL			This version prompts to press the Enter button after the data transfer is complete.  Any errors that occur will be kept onscreen until Enter is pressed
ALL			Allows 16 characters in the PLU menu title field instead of 8
ALL			Changes the Tlog trace log file from the manager directory to the log directory
ALL			Adds support for Link and Set PLU tables greater than 9999, cleans up the polling procedure for multidrop polling
ALL			Corrects an error when editing a link PLU table from the PLU editor
A570			Adds more of the A570 options to the UPC editor, allows for Department link 0 on PLUs, corrects the HALO/LALO editor not displaying the first digit if it is 0
ALL			Fixes the Transmit Change job from building the same updates across several stores, instead of just for the selected store
A570			Fixes the server Group editor, Link and Set PLU selector in the PLU editor
A570			When modified, the program sets the update flag in the database for the PLU group Text, Server Group and PLU Hourly Group so that the updates can be sent to the register with the eod polling
UP600			Corrects Function Preset for the Sign +/- always reading +, and corrects the reversed logic on the Allow Entry in Reg mode field
ALL			Corrects a problem with the employee timekeeping report parameter repeating the employees name/number for every run number in the history table
ALL			If skanlan doesn't load as a system service, SKAN_Talk loads it manually it from the \system32 directory when the software is launched
ALL			included registration and communications setup documentation for all models
ALL			Allows the HALO and LALO for have a 0 in the first field on the Department and Function Preset editor
A570			Finishes the Server Editor for the A570
ALL			Fixes a problem when running the TLOG report.  It was trying to output the log a directory that didn't exist.  This problem was introduced in Manager.exe version 1.01.0675
ALL			Adjusts the frame on the Function Preset editor so that it fits in at 800x600 screen resolution
ALL			Adds the capability to either Left Justify or Center the logo
ALL			Adds into the end of day polling jobs additional commands that can be substituted in case timing problems during communications occurs.  The commands remove the filter to collect only non zero data from the register.
ALL			During the registration process, it now checks for the authorization file first then the skanlan.ini file.   This corrects an error that can occur when running an update for the software
ALL			During the registration process, if the authorization is not present, a message box appears that instructs the user to re-launch the program to after the registration is complete.

  

	SKAN_Talk additions and revisions
ALL			Changes the way that the Transmit-Changes job gets build when there are multiple stores that are of different model cash registers.  Under some circumstances, a change in one store would get propagated into a different store that was a different model register.
ALL			In the virtual keyboard, an Apply button was added so that the present changes can be saved without having to exit and reload the keyboard editor.
ALL			When the text for a function key is changed in the virtual keyboard, the name is written back to the Function Text file so it will change the name that appears in the SKAN_Talk and the register reports
ALL			When an invalid key is detected on the keyboard, rather than return a message that there is an invalid key and abort entry into the editor, it inhibits the key on the keyboard and then enters the virtual keyboard
ALL			Corrected a problem on the virtual keyboard when the Message 1-9, Message Menu or Edit Tip keys were present on the keyboard, the virtual keyboard would return an error for an invalid key being present
A450, A470, A550, A570			Revises the way the Link PLU and Set PLU tables are created and edited.  When a PLU is set to be a link or Set PLU type, it creates the Link or Set record and automatically opens the Link / Set PLU editor rather than having to create it manually
A420			Corrects a problem where the initialization fails for the A420 when the PLU or GLU files are not allocated.
ALL			Corrects a problem where the text from the PLU group from any stores is always displayed from store 1 in the PLU editor
ALL			Corrects a problem on the customer report when sorting for a specific customer it creates a blank page for all customers except for the customer selected rather than omitting them.
A420			Adds additional support for the Link PLU and Set PLU editors
A420			Adds support for the Sharp A410/420
ALL			Changes the maximum terminal number allowed from 99 to 254
ALL			Corrects a run time error when a terminal is added after a new store is created and the default store number is not used
ALL			Corrects a problem on the Sharp dealer packages when the same store number is reused to initialize different models of ECR and not all of the previous files are overwritten.  SKAN_Talk now detects whether the combo meal file is correct for the current model and does not give an error when loading the virtual keyboard
A550			Corrected an error when running the Flash Terminal and Flash Hourly report when polling by individual terminal over TCP/IP
ALL			Adds a Test communications button in the Store Editor
ALL			Adds the Scale Tare Table editor
UP600			Enlarges the screen for the Fix Failed polling screen
ALL			Adds color coding to the fix closed polling screen so that stores that completed show up green, stores that failed, but polling will be retried on the next polling session are yellow and stores that failed and will not be retried are red
ALL			Adds a new option that if selected allows the unattended polling to automatically clean up and retry polling for stores that had previously failed and were not re-polled using the fix failed polling option of SKAN_Talk .  It will not attempt to re-poll stores that collected all the report data but did not finish the resetting of the totals.
A420			Adds the Virtual Keyboard for the A420
A570			Fixes the Department Group editor and selector in the PLU editor
ALL			In the Store Setup screen, stores and terminals that are not set as active will have the message " - INACTIVE!!!" to the right of the store name

  

	SKAN_Talk additions and revisions
ALL			Adds the data conversion for the Graphic header and Graphic footer
ALL			Speeds up entry into the period reports screen on databases that have a large amount of data stored in the sales history tables
A750E, A770, UP3300, UP600			Matching change for the database to add a separate Automatic Purge function for the TLOG sales history so that it can be purged more often since it takes more space in the database
A570, A750E, A770, UP3300, UP600			Corrects a problem when running the Check open GLU / Drive Thru status report where is says the report name is invalid after having run any report in the periodic reports section
ALL			Corrects a problem introduced in Manager.exe build 1.01.0714 where an error is given when saving custom reports or saving reports to the report queue
ALL			When running the UPC reports, the prefix that the register uses to determine the UPC type is no longer displayed.
ALL			When a server is added or deleted, the Block number which is used to correlate the server sales to the server preset file is synchronized between SKAN_Talk and the register after a successful polling
A570			Fixes the PLU Group editor and selector in the PLU editor
ALL			Added the updated help file into the distribution install
UP600			Corrected an error on the Item By Department report
A570			Adds more of the A570 options to the UPC editor, adds all appropriate fields to the database when adding a new  PLU or UPC
A570			added Data conversion for UPC X/Z Pickup, UPC PGM Pickup, GLUFileClosed, GLUFile
A570			Fixed the data conversion on the A570 for the Stacked report and Preset1
A570			Fixed the data conversion on the A570 for the UPC text
ALL			Changed all the send-function-preset jobs so that a replace (10-01) command is issued instead of an update (10-00) command
A750E, A770, UP3300			Corrects a problem when adding a new store after a 570 store has been created
A770, UP3300, UP600			On the virtual keyboard, it fixes the Next $ key from being displayed and printed as Next $ ¦4900
UP600			Corrected an error with the data conversion when exporting the Preset1 (Optional Register Programming) file to the register
A770			Implements data conversion and capturing of the Device Table during initialization
UP600			Adds BETA support for the A550
ALL			For the end of day polling, the commands that tell the register to only send back data that is not zero were removed due to some Win2000 and XP computers having time-out errors during communications
ALL			Changes the data conversion for the GLU file and Drive Thru file and creates a report to check the status for open GLUs and Drive Thru's checks
ALL			Changed the CAT Preset table to allow for fields that are zero length.
A570			Corrected a problem in the Employee timekeeping report that occurred when an employee logged on multiple times in a single day
A750E, A770, UP3300			Adds the Validation Text and Slip Printer Text, GLU Table data conversion on the A570
A450, A470			Created an ASCII export file for the Cashier Sales report
ALL			Modified the PLU ASCII export report so that when the system is polled as a multi-drop, one file is exported with all the register data rather than a file for each register polled

  

	SKAN_Talk additions and revisions
ALL			Added a query so that when the Virtual Keyboard is built, the text for many of the Function keys are displayed as they appear in the Function Text file rather than using the SKAN_Talk default names for the keys.  The text for the function text on the keyboard can be changed to affect only the printed keyboard or to write the change back to function text table so it will display it this way on the reports.
ALL			Added ASCII export capability for the Server report and added a variation of the current ASCII export for the Terminal report
ALL			In the Help and about screen, the skanlan.exe and the SKAN_Talk.ocx versions are now displayed
A750E, A770, UP3300			The employee clock report was changed to allow an employee that did not have a name associated with it in the Employee Preset Editor to appear in the report
ALL			Added two jobs that allows for the saving of customized polling jobs and importation of previously saved custom jobs
UP600, A570			Adds a status check of the size of the database when exiting SKAN_Talk.  If the database is approaching its maximum size, it will give a prompt to compress the database.
UP600, A570			Changes the Automatic Sales Data Purge function from 6 months to 12 months
A570			Adds the TLOG and Customer Sales Report
ALL			Changes the PLU History table to allows Key Text 2 - Key Text 6 to be null values
ALL			Changes the Customer Report to show the extended amount in the Amount column when the quantity for an item sold is greater than one
ALL			Adds the ability to capture and send the Service Patch file
ALL			Refines the method that posts the PLU history file to reduce the amount of space it uses in the database
UP600			Corrects the commands used for polling when using the polling by terminal option on the UP600
A750E, A770, UP3300, UP600			When initializing a store, SKAN_Talk copies the files allocation file for as many terminals as are defined.  This was previously only done if the store was polled by terminal instead of consolidated.
A570			Adds the posting of additional fields dealing with the Customer Sales to the TLOG history
A420, A470			Corrects the Flash Terminal report where it gives an error generating the report
UP600			Corrects a problem when a record is added to the Customer Preset file in SKAN_Talk and sent to the register but that the record is identified in PGM2 but gives an "Undefined Code" message when that customer number is used during a transaction
UP600			Changes the internal structure of the Capture Sales table in the database to more closely resemble the TLOG data.  This change will be transparent to all users
A420			Corrects the Subtotal, MDSE SBTL and the Cash2 keys from displaying the incorrect text on the virtual keyboard
A770			Adds the ability to get and send the default keyboard Menu Level
A450, A570, UP600			Unified the Slip Printer Validation Text into a common table for the A450,A570 and UP600
ALL			Changes the default setting for the polling log so that it only shows warnings and error messages in the log screen but records all messages to the log files in the Manager\log directory
A450, A420			Corrected a problem in the hourly report where only the totals for the selected store would show up instead of all stores
A570			Corrects a data conversion problem on the export of the Direct Key file.
UP600			Created the send jobs for the Graphic Logo files
A450			Adds the Function Preset to the list of files collected during the Store Initialization

  

	SKAN_Talk additions and revisions
A750E, A770, UP3300, UP600			Adds a separate Automatic Purge function for the TLOG sales history so that it can be purged more often since it takes more space in the database
A570			Adds a very simplistic UPC stock and reorder report
A570			On entering the reports menu, SKAN_Talk checks to see which models are authorized and only displays the reports that are appropriate for the authorized model ECRs
A570			Corrected a data conversion problem on the Server Preset file so that the file is sent back to the register properly
UP600			Corrected a problem on the Server report where is the server numbers were not in consecutive order, it would not show some of the servers on the report
A570, A750E, A770, UP3300, UP600			Corrected a problem on the Server report where is the Past Void and Transaction Count were not showing up in the Terminal and Server reports
ALL			This is a new utility that allows the registration and authorization to be taken from an old version of skanlan and copied into a new version during the update procedure rather than having to make and email a custom version for every update