SKAN_Talk additions and revisions
 
 
Build date:  3/4/2004
 
New Feature
 
Models Revision
 
ALL Added a theoretical cost field to the PLU and UPC editors.
 
ALL Added a button in the Periodic Reports menu that allows for the date variables (today, yesterday, last
week, etc.) for the reports to be saved without having to save it as a custom report
 
ALL Added the Department Group field to the Department editor and added the ability to edit the department
group text
 
ALL Added the capability to update prices based on target profit margins in the group price change module
by using the new theoretical cost field in the PLU editor.
 
ALL Added a spreadsheet type editor for viewing and editing all of the programming and sales data tables
that SKAN_Talk uses.
 
ALL Added the ability to right click and edit PLUs from the PLU Menu and Condiment table editors.
 
ALL Added a "Generate Report" button in the PLU Stock editor which displays the stock data in a report
window that can be printed or exported
 
ALL Added the ability to password protect Administrator mode, Reports Mode and the Virtual Keyboard.
 
ALL Included a Royalty % field in the department editor.  For customers that are part of a franchise that pay
royalties, this information can be programmed in and  SKAN_Talk can generate the royalty report.
 
ALL Adds the ability to compact the SKAN_Talk database from Admin Mode.
 
A420, A450, A750E,
A770, UP3300,
UP3301, UP600
Added an editor for the Doughnut Quantity Tax exempt for the Canadian tax system
 
ALL Created a viewer that shows the values of  the Current Z Counters,  Grand totals and Consolidated
Grand Totals.  (This can also be run as a report from the reports menu)
 
A550, A570, A750E,
A770, UP3300,
UP3301, UP600
Added an editor for the Chit Printer Format.
 
ALL Added a Misc. field in the PLU and UPC editors for users to have notes or additional descriptions for
the items. (This field is not used by the register)
 
ALL Added an editor for the Credit Authorization Transaction (CAT) Presets
 
A450 Added an editor for the Previous Balance Presets.
 
A570, A770, UO3300,
UP3301, UP600
Added a Flash Report for the TLOG
 
ALL Adds the ability to create/delete a dialog folder that saves all of the transmission protocol data that is
exchanged between the register and the ECR for troubleshooting complex communications problems
 
ALL Added the ability to change the Service Parameter setting for the logo print options from the logo editor
 
UP600 Created an editor for the Online RJE Scheduler.  This editor allows commands that are generally
issued by SKAN_Talk during polling to be built by the user and executed locally at the register as a
pre-process to polling.  For users with multiple stores that poll, this can speed up the polling process.
 
ALL Added the ability to export reports generated by the report queue directly to an Excel file.  The ability to
generate reports to an Excel file was previously available, but it could not be done through the Report
Queue.
 
A570 Added the ability to edit, poll and merge the Dynamic UPC sales file
 


  
SKAN_Talk additions and revisions
 
 
ALL Added a Menu Mix reports which summarizes the Food Costs, Royalties and Item contributions by PLU
and department
 
ALL Added a Day of Week Sales by Hour report which is an enhanced hourly report that shows the sales
side by side for each day of the week.
 
A450, A570, UP600 Added a UPC report to the Flash reports menu.
 
A450, A570, UP600 Added a UPC Pick-up report to the Flash and Periodic reports menu.  The UPC Pick-up reports the
sales information from only the UPCs that exists in the UPC X/Z Pick-up list.
 
A770 Added the Electronic Journal to the list of reports that can be polled and export to ASCII
 
UP600 Added a report for the Capture Sales function
 
Correction
 
Models Revision
 
UP3301 Corrects an error when sending down a PLU file under TCP/IP. Every 25th PLU would not be sent
correctly because the register's buffer was being overrun, but it was not reporting an error.  This
problem did not occur when sending the file via RS-232 communications
 
ALL Corrected a potential problem where if a failed polling occurred when the polling was launched with the
automatic polling scheduler and the resulting error screen was left open at the time the next polling was
scheduled to occur under certain conditions the polling did not automatically occur.
 
UP600 Corrected the query that posts the TLOG data to the history table so that the UPC description is
included when running the TLOG report
 
A570, UP600 Corrected an error when creating a new customer when the customer number is greater than 5 digits.
The default name that it attempted to create was greater than the 16 character register limitation for the
Name field.
 
ALL Corrected an error in the Optional Register Programming where on the Misc. Tab, the value of the
hourly report time increments option could not be changed.
 
ALL Corrected an error that occurred when attempting to use the CVM (Color Video Monitor) editor in the
Combo Meal editor.
 
ALL Corrected an error in all PLU reports where 6 digit PLUs did not show up in the report.
 
UP3300 Corrected an error in the Media Preset editor where the Service, Final, Food Stamp Tender and Eat-In
1-3 were mislabeled and would actually change a different record than the one listed
 
ALL Corrected an error that occurred in the Periodic Reports menu when attempting to filter for either a
specific department or PLU and selecting the "Order By Name" option
 
UP600 Corrected an error in the Dynamic UPC editor when the Merge function was used, the sales of the
Dynamic UPCs that were merged with the main UPC file did not retail the sales information from the
Dynamic UPC file
 
ALL Corrected an error on the Item by Department report where if a report criteria was selected that did not
have data in it, the report would report a division by zero error and not display the report
 
A450, A570 Corrected the an error on the UPC Printout where the printout came up empty
 
Change to existing Feature
 
Models Revision
 
A570, A750, A770,
UP3300, UP3301,
UP600
Added a TLOG summary report that summarizes all of the PLU, UPC and Department totals for the
criteria selected rather than displaying all of the individual transactions that fit the criteria.
 
ALL Adds the ability to print the communications log from the log window
 
ALL Filtered the Flash Reports and File Table Printouts menu to only show reports that are valid for the
model.  Previously all reports that were offered for any model showed up in these lists.


  
SKAN_Talk additions and revisions
 
 
A570, A750E, A770,
UP3300, UP3301,
UP600
Made the following changes to the TLOG:
Changed the posting of the TLOG data so that 27 fields that were previously not being posted now are.
(Fields for Customer Charges, Z1 Transaction Media Totals, Employee Clock in/out, Waste, Condiment
PLUs, Register Mode, GLU, Drive Thru)
Optimized the posting of the TLOG data so that it takes less space in the database
Corrected an error in the TLOG report where if there is only one description level allocated but multiple
price levels, the descriptions for any sales on PLUs for price levels 2-6 would not be displayed
Added the ability in the TLOG report to sort for transactions based media transaction type that the
TLOG supports
 
UP600 Updated the Customer Sales Detail report to include descriptions of combo meals, and Value Added
Tax items (VAT) and whether the register was in Register or VOID mode during the transaction
 
UP600 Added the ability to assign the built in printer as the Bill printer in the device assignment editor for
compatibility with the 2A version EPROM.
 
ALL Changed the Best Seller by Department reports so that if the PLU and Department reports are not
cleared at the same time at the register or through SKAN_Talk, the reports will still show all the PLU by
Department totals.
 
UP3300, UP600 Added the Grand totals and Transaction Z Counter to the TLOG report.  This will show up in the TLOG
when a transaction Z1 is done locally at the machine and not through SKAN_Talk.
 
ALL Changed the Hourly Report to give consolidated store totals when the store is polled by individual
terminal and to give a total hourly summary when multiple stores are being reported from.
 
ALL Added a traditional PLU report that is ordered by PLU number in addition to having the PLU by
Department report
 
ALL Added the ability to filter all of the PLU and UPC Best seller reports by department
 


  
SKAN_Talk additions and revisions
 
 
Build date:  12/21/2004
 
New Feature
 
Models Revision
 
A750E, A770, A771,
UP3300, UP3301
Added an Ingredient Stock editor that allows the stock counters to be modified and sent to the register
immediately or as part of the end of day polling. A Ingredient Stock report can be generated based of
current stock counters
 
UP3301 Enhanced
EPROM
Added an editor for the PLU and Department Secret code.
 
Added the Gift Card and Gift Card Recharge department type functions into the Department Editor.
 
Modified the TLOG so that the Transaction Report media detail text shows up in the TLOG Report.
 
Added the Gift Card function in the Media Preset editor for CAT2 Type
 
ALL Added the ability to collect report data and run reports and export ASCII files for Drive Thru Service
Time, Ingredient Stock, Closed GLU and Closed Drive Thru reports as well as issue commands to Z
the Stacked Report 1 and 2, Customer Sales 2 reports
 
Correction
 
Models Revision
 
UP3300, UP3301 Corrects an error that occurs when changing and saving PLU Menu description  through the virtual
keyboard. This causes the PLUs to be re-written to the database in an incorrect format. In SKAN_Talk
the menu functions normally, but when the update is sent to the register, the PLUs assigned to the
menu are zero filled to the right instead of the left. (PLU 926 would be sent as 926000 instead of
000926)
 
A750E, A770, A771,
UP3300, UP3301
Corrected an error in the stock field in the Ingredient editor and the Quantity field in the Recipe editor.
SKAN_Talk was not accounting for the shifting of the decimal place on registers that support entry of
fractional quantities (Service Parameter 906D), As a result, it was possible to send data to the register
where the decimal place was improperly shifted for the stock levels.
 
A420, A420U For stores that have more than 1 register connected communicating via a multi-drop cable, the Send
Changes function did not work properly for the 2nd and 3rd registers. SKAN_Talk was not properly
receiving the Files Allocation information into the database after the store initialization and the output
files could not properly be created.
 
A570, A750E, A770,
A771, UP3300,
UP3301, UP600
A condition existed for stores that have the PLU file allocated with multiple price levels. After opening
the Link PLU editor or the Group Price editor from within the PLU editor, after the changes are made
and secondary editor is closed, only Price Level 1 can be edited until the PLU editor is closed and
re-opened. Price levels 2-6 were incorrectly being disabled.
 
UP600 Modified the TLOG report so that the Quantity totals that are captured for the Transaction Report within
the TLOG report are displayed correctly. Under certain conditions, the totals were displayed as 1/1000
of the actual quantities (This occurred if the Service Parameter 906D was set to allow fractional
quantities)
 


  
SKAN_Talk additions and revisions
 
 
Build date:  11/4/2004
 
Correction
 
Models Revision
 
ALL Corrected an error in the Menu Mix Analysis by PLU report where if the actual costs for any department
is 0 that there is sales data for, the reports would generate a "Division by Zero" error and not display the
report. This error should only happen if the theoretical costs for all items within the department are not
set. This would generally only occur during the initial setup.
 
ALL When updating an item in the Function Preset editor, a piece of debug code was accidentally left in
which causes it to show the SQL command that was issued to generate the update.  The values were
correctly saved, but the code should not have been displayed. This code was removed.
 
A750E, A770, A771,
UP3300, UP3301
The PLU Hourly Group Flash Report was inadvertently removed during maintenance on the previous
software release and has not been added back in.
 
A420U, A530 Under certain conditions, the Last Purchased date provided by the register could cause the stock editor
to generate an overflow error. This was corrected and the editor now displays the date correctly in the
MM/DD/YY format.
 
A410, A410U Corrects an error when opening  the keyboard editor for the models with a raised keyboard  (A410,
A410U). The keyboard editor open with the template for the flat keyboard (A420, A420U) instead and
the keyboard would appear scrambled.
 
A750E Corrects an error that causes the Hourly Flash Report not to be displayed.
 


  
SKAN_Talk additions and revisions
 
 
Build date:  8/29/2004
 
New Feature
 
Models Revision
 
A440 Adds support for the A440
 
ALL Added a global option that gives the ability to select how many retries the store initialization and end of
day polling SKAN_Talk will attempt before failing as well as the ability to set the amount of time in
seconds that SKAN_Talk will wait before attempting a retry if a communications error occurs.
 
ALL Adds the ability to set the amount of days to keep the SKAN_Talk log files and ASCII export files before
they get automatically purged
 
ALL Changed the "Send Changes" function in User mode so that the user has the option to send changes
with deletes, send changes excluding deletes and send changes with deletes to the master register
only.  Previously, only sending changes without deletes was possible from the "Send Changes"
function.  Deletes were only made as part of the end of day polling and the changes would only be sent
to the master register if the "Disable Broadcast" button was checked in the store editor.
 
ALL Added the PLU Stock report to the Flash Reports menu. (Previously this report was only available
through the PLU Stock editor)
 
ALL Added a maintenance function in Administrator Mode where the communications service and license
file (skanlan.exe) can be shut down, started or replaced with a new file.
 
A530, A770, A771,
UP3300, UP3301,
UP600
Added a new variation of the PLU report which includes the enhanced sales totalizers on an item by
item level.  This enhanced sales information includes sales quantity and amount totals specific to
Refund, Waste, Item Coupons and Combo Meals
 
ALL Added the capability to switch between Z1 and Z2 polling on a store by store basis.
 
A530 Added the UPC by Group printout for the A530.
 
A750E, A770, A771,
UP3300, UP3301
Created an ASCII export file for the Employee Time Keeping report
 
ALL Added the Optional Register Programming printout to the File Table Printout section.
 
Correction
 
Models Revision
 
UP600 Corrected an issue where the Customer Sales Detail and the TLOG report gave an error while opening
the report. There was an error in one of the formulas that prevented the report from opening even
though the report generated properly
 
A520 Corrected an error when opening the keyboard on the A520.  It was opening on the keyboard for the
A530 with the flat keyboard instead of a raised keyboard.
 
ALL Corrected an error in the PLU Stock editor when there is approximately 3000 PLUs or UPCs.  A buffer
overrun occurred and the program exited.
 
UP3300, UP3301 Corrected an error in the Virtual Keyboard when changing the text of a PLU Menu. The value would be
entered and save properly, but when exiting the keyboard an error would occur
 
UP600 Corrects a problem in the customer file when creating a new customer and changing the default
customer number that SKAN_Talk provides.  In this case, the Customer Sales file does not properly get
indexed and at the register, the customer shows that it has been created, but entering the customer
number causes an "No Record" message to be displayed
 
ALL Standalone
Models
Corrected an error in the Grand Total report when there is 2 or more registers in the store and the
polling is done by terminal.  Each register's grand totals show up twice.
 


  
SKAN_Talk additions and revisions
 
 
A530 Corrected an Error when importing the Dynamic UPC file into the skantalk database.  The database
field that deals was the Last Modified Date was set incorrectly and could cause an error under certain
circumstances.
 
A770, A771 Corrected an error that occurred when attempting to run the Best Seller Report from the Flash Reports
menu
 
UP600 Corrected an error in the posting of the Customer Sales History where if the same transaction number
occurs on 2 or more of the registers in a single day and one of those transactions was for a customer
charge, additional information can be included with the sales history.
 
A530 Corrected an error in the Dynamic UPC editor with the merging of the Dynamic UPC to the Main UPC
file.
 
A530 Corrected an error in the command that is sent to collect the PLU stock from the PLU stock editor. (The
command that was in the end of day polling to collect the PLU Stock was correct and would not give
this error)
 
ALL Corrected an error in the command that is sent to collect the Cashier sales from the Flash Reports
menu. This caused both the Daily and the Period to Date totals to be reported. (The command that was
in the end of day polling to collect the Cashier report was correct and would not give this error)
 
A570 Corrected an error when sending the PLU Stock when the register is set as a Stand Alone.  An
additional command to issue a Clear Stock for satellite registers was made, which is not supported in
Stand Alone mode.  However, the stock values were correctly sent to the register.
 
UP600
Corrected an omission with the ASCII export for the Customer Sales ASCII Export file.  When the
Customer Learning function is enabled at the register, customers that were entered at the register and
were not brought into SKAN_Talk database did not get exported in the ASCII file.
 
Also corrected the ASCII export due to a condition that potentially allowed for duplicate records to
appear.
 
Also changed the ASCII export for the Customer Sales History so that the reports have quotation marks
as text qualifiers. Without this, whenever a comma appeared as part of a customer name or address, it
would cause a problem with the comma delimited ASCII file when being read by another application.
 
UP600 Corrected an error with the UPC X/Z pickup Flash report not working properly if there was more than
one register configured in a store.
 
Change to existing Feature
 
Models Revision
 
A550 Added the ability to poll the A550 in Stand Alone mode. Previously, it was a requirement that the
register be configured for IRC.  Since the register does not come with built in IRC support, this
eliminated support for many potential users
 
A530, UP600 In the department editor, if a department is set as a Gas type, a check is done on the 904D service
parameter to see if the gas department uses 2 or 3 decimal places ($0.00 or $0.000) then displays the
price appropriately.
 
ALL Changed the "Send Changes" function in User mode so that registers in Stand Alone mode have
changes sent to all registers.  Previously, the changes were only sent to the first register and to send
the changes to all registers in the store required running the end of day polling.
 
A530 Corrects an error when creating multiple registers within a store that communicates to an A530.  The
communications would only talk to the lowest register number during store initialization and polling.
 
A530, A570, UP600 Changed the "Merge" functionality Dynamic UPC editor.  The merge now merges the dynamic with the
main file and sends the updates and deletes all in one pass.  When the dynamic UPC merge function
was used for a store that was connected via mode, it took 3 dial ups to fully complete.
 
ALL Standalone
Models
On the Standalone only model registers, the secret codes are actually located in the Optional Register
Programming table, but for consistency with other models, SKAN_Talk unified their placement by
allowing them to be edited in the Secret Code editor.
 
ALL Added the Grand Totals and Z Counters into the Transaction Report
 


  
SKAN_Talk additions and revisions
 
 
A530, A770, A771,
UP3300, UP3301,
UP600
Changed the PLU/UPC report so that it includes the PLU enhanced sales summary information at the
report footer.  This information includes sales quantity and amount totals specific to Refund, Waste,
Item Coupons and Combo Meals
 
A420U, A530, UP600 Changed the various PLU reports so that it includes PLU and UPCs for ECR models where the PLU
and UPC file are merged.  The ability to filter for only PLUs, UPCs or Dynamic UPCs was also included
 
A750E, A770, A771,
UP3300, UP3301
Added the capability to access the employee time keeping reports from the Period Reports as well as
the Employee Timekeeping section. (Clock times may only be modified manually by the user from the
Employee Timekeeping Reports screen)
 
ALL Changed the Grand Totals ASCII Export so that it exports the individual register totals if the registers
are polled by terminal.  Previously, it only exported data if the system was polled as a consolidated
system.
 
ALL Changed the PLU stock report to show any pending changes to the stock quantities as well a use the
pending changes stock counter rather than the current register's counter to determine whether the
"Restock" flag appears in the report.
 
UP600 Added an auto update function for the "Last purchased On" field in the Customer Preset editor and
Customer Preset Printout.  Every time the end of day polling is successful, the most recent transaction
date for each customer is updated from the sales file and updated in the preset file. (This only occurs if
the program option to capture Sales Detail is set in the Optional Register Programming editor.)
Previously, this information would only be current if a store initialization was done.
 
ALL Changed the Department Report so that the various department sales types (Normal, Hash, Bottle
Return and Gas) each have their own subtotal
 
ALL Included the polling job to collect the consolidated Grant Totals too when polling by individual terminal
on an IRC system.  Previously, only the individual terminal totals were polled when polling by terminal.
 
A530, UP600 Added the Gas/Oil quantity information into the Department report so that registers that are configured
for Gasoline type Departments will have those totals show up
 


  
SKAN_Talk additions and revisions
 
 
Build date:  7/19/2004
 
New Feature
 
Models Revision
 
ALL Added the ability to save the Report Parameter Filter commands when saving reports to the report
queue or saving a custom report.  Previously, only options for the date ranges and report periods could
be saved.
 
ALL Added a new module that allows for a more comprehensive backing up and restoring of the all RAM
data of the ECR than was previously available.
 
ALL Added a PLU price change scheduler so that PLU price changes can be created in advance then sent
to the register on a specific date rather than at the time of the next polling.
 
A771 Adds support for the A771
 
ALL Added the ability to print out the register's Function Text, PLU Group Text, Department Group Text and
Auto Key sequences from the File Table Printout section of the Reports menu
 
ALL Added ASCII Export capability for the Department and Customer Preset files
 
ALL Added the ability on the Department, PLU and Transaction report for run a report for a date range and
get individual reports for each polling.  Previously, only 1 report with consolidated totals for the entire
date range would be generated.
 
Correction
 
Models Revision
 
ALL Corrects an error in the Dealer Work Station version of SKAN_Talk in the Presto Programmer when
selecting a range of PLUs outside of what is available in the worksheet.
 
A420U Corrected an error when open the keyboard editor on the A410U.  It was opening the keyboard editor
for the A420U and showing the keyboard with 120 keys instead of 82.
 
ALL Corrects an error in the reports menu where occasionally after running a report where additional options
from the report parameters filter list were selected, after selecting another report to run, it would run a
different report than the report that was selected.
 
UP600 Corrected an error where the Customer Preset editor would only allow entry of an 8 digit number
instead of a 13 digit number.
 
ALL Corrects an error in the Dealer Work Station version of SKAN_Talk in the Presto Programmer when
selecting a range of PLUs higher than the number of PLUs that was allocated.  Only the highest
number PLU was being looked at to determine whether the range could be imported rather than the
total number of records that was to be imported.
 
A530 Added the "Price Shift" option field to the PLU/UPC editor.  This field was omitted in the BETA release
version for this model
 
A530 The Promotion PLU editor (Set PLU) previously allowed 25 PLUs to be entered into it, instead of the 10
that the register supports.
 
A470 Corrects an error where the A470 keyboard menu levels 2 and 3 are not sent properly to the register
and do not function
 
Change to existing Feature
 
Models Revision
 
ALL Changed the functionality in the reports menu when a date is double clicked from the sales data history
grid, it does not set the report period back to 1 day.
 


  
SKAN_Talk additions and revisions
 
 
ALL Made a change in the Transmit Changes function dealing with items that are pending deletion.  If the
command that is sent to the register that issues the delete commands is successful, the finalization of
the deletions is made immediately in the database rather than after the entire job, including any other
changes or deletes that were pending, completes successfully.
 
UP3300, UP3301 Added the ability to import and use the color assignments that already exist in the department editor for
each department number in the Custom Keyboard Color Schema.
 
ALL Added the ability to click on a color in the Custom Keyboard Color Schema editor and save the color to
the palette.  Any key in the editor will change to that color when clicked until a new color is selected.
 
ALL Added the ability to select a PLU range, PLU Price or description level and/or filter out zero priced PLUs
when running the PLU printout
 
ALL Enhanced the Department, PLU, UPC and Dynamic UPC printouts to add additional fields and improve
the readability of the report.
 


  
SKAN_Talk additions and revisions
 
 
Build date:  5/28/2004
 
New Feature
 
Models Revision
 
ALL Added the ability to create a customized coloring scheme for the PLUs by their department link in the
virtual keyboard.  A color schema can be developed for each department and all PLUs that are
associated with the corresponding department will have the keys updated to the selected colors.
 
ALL Added the ability in the keyboard editor to optionally print the key type and number information in the
bottom right corner of the key when the key type is a Department, PLU or Combo Meal.(I.e. Dept 10
would show as D10, PLU 10 would show as P10)
 
A530 Adds BETA support for the A520/A530.
 
A750E, A770,
UP3300, UP3301,
UP600
Adds a PLU Menu printout in the File Table Printouts section of the Reports menu that displays the PLU
numbers, descriptions and prices for PLUs that are assigned to PLU Menus
 
Correction
 
Models Revision
 
A420, A450, A470,
A570, A750, A770,
UP600
Made a correction on the Virtual Keyboard where on the Menu Levels 2-6, if a PLU was assigned to the
keyboard but missing, assigning another PLU to that key would cause the PLUs on the other levels to
be overwritten.
 
A750E, A770,
UP3300, UP3301,
UP600
Corrected an error when the condiment table editor was opened from within the PLU editor then the
right click function to edit the PLU in the condiment table was invoked.  Since the PLU editor was
already open, it caused an error and this function is now inhibited.
 
A420U Corrected an error in the department editor where the files allocations for the departments might not be
displayed properly the first time the program data is collected from the register.
 
ALL Corrected an error in the Period Reports where the automatic date variables for Last Month and Last
Quarter did not include the last day of the month for months that have 31 days in it.
 
ALL Corrected an error in the virtual keyboard when the hiding of the default PLU names is enabled (PLUs
with descriptions that begin with PL00) Under some circumstances, one or more PLUs next to the PLU
with the default description would also have the text not printed on the keyboard template.
 
ALL Change the PLU editor so that it is forced to order the PLUs in consecutive order.  Occasionally, the
PLUs would appear in a random order.
 
ALL Corrected an error in that Auto Key editor that was introduced in the 3/4/2004 release.  Some of the
codes that were written to the database that indicated which key to use was in lower case instead of
upper case letters and it caused that auto key to not function properly at the register.
 
A420, A450, A470,
A570, A750E, A770,
UP600
Corrected an error in the virtual keyboard that occurs when the text for any of the function keys is
changed to a null value.
 
A420 Corrected an error while opening the Stack Report editor on the A420 that was introduced when adding
support for the A420U in the 3/4/04 release
 
ALL Corrected an error in the Presto Programmer on the Dealer Work Station version of SKAN_Talk that
was caused when importing from a program worksheet that has PLU or Department descriptions that
are more than 16 characters.  It now truncates the description after the 16th character.
 
A750E, A770,
UP3300, UP3301,
UP600
Corrected an error in the virtual keyboard when displaying PLU menus.  If the PLU menu file has
non-consecutive numbers (I.e. 1,2,5) the keyboard editor would give an error when hovering the mouse
PLU menu number keys that were greater than the number of the first non-consecutive PLU Menu
number.
 
UP600 Corrected an error where the Service Parameter 924D bit was not showing any options to choose from
 


  
SKAN_Talk additions and revisions
 
 
A420, A450, A470,
A570, A750E, A770,
UP600
In the virtual keyboards prior to the 3/17/04 release, it was possible to have an error in a database table
where duplicate entries for function keys could exist.  After the update was run, the error was then
detected and gave a warning message while entering the keyboard editor. A job was added that gives
the ability to manually purge the affected database table for the selected store so the function text can
be rebuilt the next time the keyboard is opened.
 
Change to existing Feature
 
Models Revision
 
ALL Corrects an intermittent error on the Flash Reports where the report window would launch before the
report was finished generating and as a result, the report would show up as empty.  This error generally
showed up on stores with large UPC or TLOG sales files
 
ALL Changes the Grid Editor that gives direct access to the database so that the data for the programming
tables is displayed in the same order that it was collected from the register.  Previously, was displayed
in the whichever order that it occurred in SKAN_Talk's database
 
ALL Added the capability to perform an Order By for a column in the grid editor
 
A570, A750E, A770,
UP330x, UP600
Changed the TLOG, Customer Sales and Dynamic UPC from being global polling options to store
specific polling options so these reports can be turned on or off for specific stores if they are allocated.  
Users updating from previous versions must go to the "Edit Polling" section in setup and Polling and
Reports options to enables these reports for polling.
 
A420U, A450, A530,
UP600
Adds the capability to use a keyboard wedge UPC scanner in the UPC stock editor to find specific
UPCs.
 
ALL Added the ability to exempt $0.00 priced PLU/UPCs from being updated when using the group/multiple
price change editor.
 
ALL Changed the max. amount of characters that can be used on the keys in the virtual keyboard from 24 to
40 characters.
 
UP600 Modified the Customer Summary report so that it runs when the register is set to capture Summary
totals only.  Previously, this report only functioned when the TLOG polling was active for the store. The
posting date of the data is used instead of the individual transaction date.
 
A750E, A770,
UP3300, UP3301
Added the ability to include the Employee Time Keeping to the end of day polling.  Previously, it was
only available for polling on demand and separate from the daily polling.
 


  
SKAN_Talk additions and revisions
 
 
Build date:  3/16/2004
 
Correction
 
Models Revision
 
A420 Corrected an error where in the Service Parameter editor gave an error while opening.  This error was
introduced in the 3/04/2004 release build while including support for the A420U
 
ALL Corrected an error where in the Optional Register Programming editor, certain fields would have the
changes lost after the editor was closed
 
UP3301 Changed the communications command that collects the Ingredient file.  Under certain circumstances,
it could cause the initialization to fail
 
Change to existing Feature
 
Models Revision
 
A570, UP600 Changed the Customer Sales report so that if the TLOG is allocated, the media detail for the Customer
charge sales is captured and posted from the TLOG, but if the TLOG is not allocated, the data is
captured and posted only from the Customer Sales file.
 
ALL Added a consolidated report summary to the Flash Hourly and Terminal Reports when the reports are
polled by individual terminal
 
New Feature
 
Models Revision
 
ALL
Redesigned the virtual keyboard to:
Include support for the Raised Keyboard types.
Add more colors to the color palette
Create custom colors for coloring the keyboard
Display changes to the text color and border color on the keyboard instead of only in Print Preview
Mode
Add the ability to add icons or graphic files to keys on the keyboard
Allow for the font size, type and style to be changed.
Add a scroll bar to the keyboard so the screen resolution does not need to be in 1024x768 in order to
view the editor properly
Add the ability to right click on many of the function keys that have editors associated with them (Auto
Key, Cash, Check, Charge, Kitchen printer settings, etc.) and open directly to that item's record in the
corresponding editor.
Add an option to the pick list on the virtual keyboards to reset the keyboard text and colors to default.
Add the ability to view the department link in the Virtual Keyboard when hovering over the PLU