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ActiveBooks Changelog

What's new in ActiveBooks 15.0.8.94

Jan 3, 2015
  • New features:
  • Ensured full compatability with all editions of QuickBooks 2015 (US & Canadaian versions).
  • PDF reports can now be printed in landscape.
  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • Improved the representation of durations on job reports.
  • Repeatedly try to connect to QuickBooks when it is already running.
  • Small fix for when mapping network drives.
  • Significant internal architectural changes to work around failures when connecting to QuickBooks.
  • Minor tweaks for Windows 10 (October 2014 Technical Preview).

New in ActiveBooks 14.2.1.28 (Jun 2, 2014)

  • New features:
  • The "Total by" filter is now supported on several reports.
  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • Fixed a bug where the "Account" column could not be selected on some reports.

New in ActiveBooks 14.2.0.67 (Jun 2, 2014)

  • New features:
  • Added 3 new budget-related reports.
  • Added the "Transaction Detail" report.
  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • Reorganized budget reports, aligning them with the budget designated in QuickBooks.

New in ActiveBooks 14.1.0.29 (Jun 2, 2014)

  • New features:
  • Added the ability to turn on/off QuickBooks SDK "verbose" logging via the Tools menu.
  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • Improved error messages logged when QuickBooks is hanging.

New in ActiveBooks 14.0.9.98 (Jun 2, 2014)

  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • Removed inactive/completed items from the To Do List.

New in ActiveBooks 14.0.9.92 (Jun 2, 2014)

  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • Extended the wait time for reports that may take a few minutes to generate.

New in ActiveBooks 14.0.5.29 (Jan 21, 2014)

  • New features:
  • Ensured full compatibility with all editions of QuickBooks 2014 (US & Canadian versions).
  • Added support for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2.
  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • Improved a few error messages.

New in ActiveBooks 11.2.1.33 (Sep 25, 2013)

  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • Fixed a bug generating the Budget Overview Report (Profit And Loss by Account & Class) report.
  • Fixed a bug with the formatting of large numeric values on generated Excel spreadsheets.

New in ActiveBooks 11.0.8.25 (Sep 8, 2013)

  • New features:
  • Added filtering by class on Budget reports.
  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • Improved a few error messages.

New in ActiveBooks 11.0.7.64 (Sep 2, 2013)

  • New features:
  • New notification: Budget Overview Report (Balance Sheet)
  • New notification: Budget Overview Report (Profit And Loss by Account)
  • New notification: Budget Overview Report (Profit And Loss by Account & Customer)
  • New notification: Budget Overview Report (Profit And Loss by Account & Class)
  • New notification: Budget Vs. Actual Report (Balance Sheet)
  • New notification: Budget Vs. Actual Report (Profit And Loss)
  • New notification: Profit And Loss Budget Performance Report
  • New notification: Time By Item Report
  • New notification: Time By Job Detail Report
  • New notification: Time By Job Summary Report
  • New notification: Time By Name Report
  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • Fixed a problem scrolling large lists horizontally.

New in ActiveBooks 10.1.3.49 (Feb 26, 2013)

  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • Fixed a bug handling non-standard account names.
  • Fixed a bug when restoring network shares containing spaces.
  • Improved licensing on virtual machines (Azure, EC2).
  • Registration would sometimes fail on PCs where there is no "C:" drive.
  • Updating QuickBooks would occasionally fail with the "library routine called out of sequence" error.

New in ActiveBooks 10.0.7.64 (Jan 3, 2013)

  • New features:
  • Ensured full compatability with QuickBooks 2013 (US & Canadaian versions).
  • Added support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.
  • Reports can now be sent on the first day of the calendar quarter.
  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • Fixed a problem where mail authentication errors were incorrectly reported.
  • Improved internal logging to help diagnose problems.
  • Close the connection to QuickBooks when certain fatal errors are encountered.
  • Removed the unsupported "ReportBasis" setting from several reports.
  • Avoid freezing when communicating with QuickBooks during the initial setup.

New in ActiveBooks 9.2.1.48 (Aug 6, 2012)

  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • Improved compatibility with other applications accessing QuickBooks.

New in ActiveBooks 9.2.1.35 (Aug 6, 2012)

  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • Handle a situation where QuickBooks would hang while generating a report.

New in ActiveBooks 9.1.4.33 (May 28, 2012)

  • New features:
  • New notification: Job Estimates Vs. Actuals Detail Report
  • New notification: Job Profitability Detail Report
  • New notification: Payroll Summary Report
  • New notification: Payroll Liability Balances Report
  • New notification: Employee Earnings Summary Report
  • New notification: Payroll Item Detail Report
  • New notification: Payroll Review Detail Report
  • New notification: Payroll Transaction Detail Report
  • New notification: Payroll Transactions By Payee Report
  • New notification: Employee State Taxes Detail Report
  • The Job and Item reports now support columns, posting status, etc. whenever
  • the data is available from QuickBooks.
  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • Improved a few error messages.

New in ActiveBooks 9.0.1.12 (May 24, 2012)

  • New features:
  • New notification: A/R Aging Detail
  • New notification: A/P Aging Detail
  • Aging and Collection reports now support columns, posting status, detail level and account settings whenever the data is available from QuickBooks.
  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • The Audit Trail notification defaulted to "Today" instead of "All Dates".
  • Some amounts were rounded to two decimal places in error.
  • Used a new code signing certificate. Users upgrading may need to re-authorize ActiveBooks on each company file.

New in ActiveBooks 8.1.0.47 (Jan 16, 2012)

  • New features:
  • New notification: Employee Contact List.
  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • Improved logging when QuickBooks reports an XML error.

New in ActiveBooks 8.0.5.22 (Jan 4, 2012)

  • New features:
  • Ensured full compatability with QuickBooks 2012 (US & Canadaian versions).
  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • Retry report generation when multiple instances of QuickBooks are running.

New in ActiveBooks 7.6.1.10 (Nov 5, 2011)

  • New features:
  • New notification: Balance Sheet Prev Year Comparison.
  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • Removed pending items from the Open and Overdue Invoices reports.

New in ActiveBooks 7.5.0.84 (Nov 5, 2011)

  • New features:
  • Added support for sending email with TLS or STARTTLS encryption (for Office 365).
  • Reports can now be previewed without having to send emails.
  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • Tolerate non-ASCII characters improperly encoded by QuickBooks.

New in ActiveBooks 7.0.8.53 (Nov 5, 2011)

  • New features:
  • Reports can be delivered as PDF attachments.
  • Company files can be removed.
  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • Improved the formatting of various reports.

New in ActiveBooks 6.0.3.77 (Nov 5, 2011)

  • New features:
  • Reports can be delivered as Excel or CSV attachments instead of HTML.
  • Added the ability to download recently created QuickBooks entities (classes, jobs, employees, etc.) from a company file.
  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • Improved the negotiation processes with QuickBooks; identified and handled several problematic situations to improve robustness.
  • Report more descriptve error messages.
  • The "Income by Customer Detail" and other reports were ignoring the basis settings and always being constructed with the default basis.

New in ActiveBooks 5.5.1.83 (Nov 5, 2011)

  • New features:
  • Added support for specifying which rows and columns will contribute to a report (active only, non-zero, etc.).
  • Added support for configuring what columns are used to group reports.
  • New notification: Sales Tax Revenue Report.
  • New notification: Income By Customer Detail Report.
  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • Sped up several operations (pauseing, resuming, etc.).
  • Fixed a problem where an additional report could not be properly configured when the main notification was an alert.

New in ActiveBooks 5.0.7.32 (Nov 5, 2011)

  • New features:
  • Added support for running reports on specific monthly days.
  • The title of each notification can now be set.
  • Added support for filtering by Detail Level.
  • Added support for filtering by Posting Status.
  • Reports can now include all available subcolumns.
  • Reports can now omit accounts not in use.
  • New notification: Vendor Balance Detail.
  • New notification: Unpaid Bills Detail.
  • New notification: Income Tax Summary Report.
  • New notification: Balance Sheet Standard.
  • New notification: Profit & Loss Prev Year Comparison.
  • New notification: Profit & Loss YTD Comparison.
  • New notification: Sales By Rep Detail.
  • New notification: Profit & Loss Detail.
  • New notification: Job Estimate vs Actual Summary.
  • New notification: Item Estimates Vs. Actuals Report.
  • New notification: Item Profitability Report.
  • New notification: Job Profitability Summary Report.
  • New notification: Physical Inventory Worksheet.
  • New notification: Sales By Item Detail Report.
  • New notification: Sales By Customer Detail Report.
  • New notification: Purchase By Item Detail Report.
  • New notification: Purchase By Vendor Detail Report.
  • New notification: Job Progress Invoices Vs Estimates Report.
  • New notification: Open Sales Orders By Item Report.
  • New notification: Expenses By Vendor Detail Report.
  • New notification: Inventory Valuation Detail Report.
  • New notification: Audit Trail Report.
  • New notification: Income Tax Detail Report.
  • New notification: Transaction List By Vendor Report.
  • New notification: Transaction List By Customer Report.
  • New notification: Open POs By Job Report.
  • New notification: Customer Balance Detail Report.
  • New notification: Balance Sheet Detail Report.
  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • Problem with generating the Open Purchase Orders report: "The enumerated value in the field 'DateMacro' is unknown...".

New in ActiveBooks 4.0.5.93 (Aug 27, 2010)

  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • Fixed a case where QuickBooks 2010 returned invalid customer data during the initial authorization/setup.

New in ActiveBooks 4.0.5.87 (Aug 27, 2010)

  • New features:
  • Added support for selecting accounts on relevant notifications.
  • Added support for configuring columns on relevant notifications.
  • Multiple classes can now be selected on relevant notifications.
  • Added support for specifying transaction types on some notifications.
  • The report basis can now be selected on relevant notifications.
  • Added support for filtering by customer/job/employee/vendor/other name.
  • New notification: Open Sales Orders by Customer.
  • New notification: Sales Tax Liability Report.
  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • Fixed some numerics that were broken across multiple lines.
  • Various improvements to the user interface.

New in ActiveBooks 3.5.0.28 (Jun 11, 2010)

  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • Support class names with special characters, quotes.

New in ActiveBooks 3.5.0.12 (Jun 11, 2010)

  • New features:
  • Added support for restricting reports by class.
  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • Fixed a problem where the Open Purchase Orders reports was not being run with the date range provided.

New in ActiveBooks 3.1.0.1 (Apr 20, 2010)

  • New features:
  • Added support for multiple company files.
  • Added support for QuickBooks 2010 (all editions)
  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • Accept non-administrative users when configuring ActiveBooks.

New in ActiveBooks 2.0.0.1 (Oct 26, 2009)

  • New: Allow for the specification of a date-range on all reports that support dates.
  • New: Added 22 new reports (Time Tracking, Profit and Loss By Job, Profit and Loss By Class, Balance Sheet, Trial Balance, Inventory Stock Status By Item, Inventory Stock Status By Vendor, Sales By Item, Sales By Customer, Purchases By Item, Purchases By Vendor, Inventory Valuation, Deposit Detail Report, Journal, Check Detail Report, Estimates By Job Report, Pending Sales Report, Transaction Detail By Account Report, Transaction List By Date, Unbilled Costs By Job Report, General Ledger, Transaction List By Vendor).
  • New: Added a "check for updates" feature, to help users find out when a new version is available.
  • New: Support the cancellation of a report being sent.
  • New: Support monthly times to email reports, for example "the 1st of the month".
  • New: Allow email customization, including support for a logo/image, text to accompany the report, and a suffix for the subject.
  • New: Certified compatible with Windows 7!
  • Fix: Invoice numbers formatted with commas.
  • Fix: Some ActiveBooks configuration not saved during initial setup.

New in ActiveBooks 1.3 (Sep 14, 2009)

  • Added the Open Purchase Orders Reports
  • Fixed a problem accessing company files on a network drives.