What's new in My Garage 2.0.0.2
Aug 23, 2010
- Terminology change : "Car" becomes "Vehicle". "Mileage" becomes "Odometer"
- Can specify your own labels for "Odometer" and "Fuel Efficiency" (e.g. 'Mileage' and 'mpg')
- New fields on vehicles include "Distance Type" - set to miles or kms (per vehicle), "CO2 Emmissions", "Taxation Class"
- Fuel efficiency (mpg) charts can be shown in the units of your choice (e.g. Mpg or ltrs / 100km)
- New system options to choose default units for distance and fuel efficiency
- New "Country File" for even better internationalisation. Allows criteria for mot, tax etc to be specified, including all the taxation classes, therefore enabling the tax band within a class to be automatically calculated (e.g. On emmissions or engine size). Includes link for online purchase of VED/Tax. Additional country files will be available for downloaded from the website.
- New "Tax Disc History" enables you to record all tax/VED disc purchases.
- New report for "tax purchases"
- Reminders : Can specify your own warning threshold per reminder, or use the system default.
- Splash screen contains a delay for non-donatee users. The more cars you have the longer the delay. Make a donation to clear this,
- Ability to enter tax and task costs in £sd when the cost date is before decimal day (controlled through the country file)
- System option to set default "is full" on fuel purchases
- New "Estimate Odometer" on odometer entry boxes, to estimate the odometer at the given date based on previous tasks / fuels etc.
- Major Re-work of the insurance policy editing, with lots of new fields.
- Changes to task date / status to tidy up a few issues.
- When using multi cars on an insurance policy, it will pro-rata the premium based on number of days (useful when you change vehicle on a policy)
- Insurance policy cost bar chart for each vehicle
- Task table includes a new column with a camera picture to indicate the task has a gallery.
- Contact edit screen has statistics box to show owner and insurance record counts in addition to tasks and costs.
- Contact display screen includes a tab for insurance policies.
- BodyStyle, Tyresize and tyre pressure fields allow more characters to be entered.
- Dropped the "Contact Type" from the contact filter, and replaced with an option to include / exclude contacts linked to insurance policies.
- Insurance policies now exist on the main tree view under vehicles, and insurers.
- Task can be printed from the edit task pop-up screen.
- Built in Help removed, in preparation for on-line help (with pictures)