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
 
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