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XTSyncServer Changelog

What's new in XTSyncServer 9.0.5 Build 1422

Jan 6, 2024
  • Bugfix: Fixed various errors

New in XTSyncServer 9.0.3 Build 1418 (Aug 4, 2023)

  • Bugfix: General improvements

New in XTSyncServer 9.0.0 Build 1410 (Apr 20, 2023)

  • New: Support for version 9 features

New in XTSyncServer 9.0.0 Build 1401 (Feb 13, 2023)

  • Working time measurement:
  • New: New add-on module "Time tracking"
  • Comes/Goes stamps
  • Absence management (e.g. sick, vacation, ...)
  • Working time models - Overtime
  • Tasks:
  • New: Calendar view for tasks
  • New tab for switching from list to calendar.
  • Must be activated via the configuration
  • Project manager:
  • Bug fix: Filter on project type did not work correctly in certain constellations
  • The invoice:
  • Extension: New field "Reference number" e.g. for QR-bill, XRechnung
  • Extension: If a project is billed and a contact person is stored there as the billing address, then this is included in the bill as the bill recipient.
  • New: Direct sending of an invoice to DATEV-Upload by email
  • New: Billing filter for billing times now also at task level
  • New: The print template of an attached time stamp list can now be changed directly in the invoice template
  • System:
  • Extension: For display problems of the floating window on Apple in the Windows emulator. E.g. the favorites list. These windows can now be switched off via the ini file.

New in XTSyncServer 9.0.0 Build 1400 (Feb 11, 2023)

  • Working time measurement:
  • New: New add-on module "Time tracking"
  • Comes/Goes stamps
  • Absence management (e.g. sick, vacation, ...)
  • Working time models - Overtime
  • Tasks:
  • New: Calendar view for tasks
  • New tab for switching from list to calendar.
  • Must be activated via the configuration
  • Project manager:
  • Bug fix: Filter on project type did not work correctly in certain constellations
  • The invoice:
  • Extension: New field "Reference number" e.g. for QR-bill, XRechnung
  • Extension: If a project is billed and a contact person is stored there as the billing address, then this is included in the bill as the bill recipient.
  • New: Direct sending of an invoice to DATEV-Upload by email
  • New: Billing filter for billing times now also at task level
  • New: The print template of an attached time stamp list can now be changed directly in the invoice template
  • System:
  • Extension: For display problems of the floating window on Apple in the Windows emulator. E.g. the favorites list. These windows can now be switched off via the ini file.

New in XTSyncServer 8.0.3 Build 1207 (Oct 16, 2021)

  • Bugfix: Task list: Views - The filter settings of the configurable views were not loaded
  • Bugfix: Edit task: URL links e.g. http://xperttimer.de were not underlined as a link after opening if the text format of the task was set to "Text"
  • Bugfix: When printing the task list, images were displayed as a hex dump
  • Configuration:
  • Extension: Additional modules: External reporting is now always visible. However, it is grayed out if reporting has not been activated in the license.
  • Invoice:
  • Bugfix: QR-bill: Incorrect error message "QR-bill can only be created for EUR and CHF."

New in XTSyncServer 8.0.3 Build 1206 (Aug 5, 2021)

  • Bugfixes:
  • General:
  • When entering multi-line text, Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V does not always work properly if the spell checker is activated
  • Invoice:
  • Invoice items: If an invoice item was created using a reimb. template and the template was deleted and completely removed from the database, then the corresponding item was no longer displayed in the dialog, but was still printed.
  • Project
  • Configuration mode "Without project assignment". No projects were displayed in the timeline when the start button was clicked.
  • Configuration mode "Without project assignment". No employees were displayed in the employee selection in the addendum dialog
  • Configuration mode "Without project assignment". It must not be possible to group by "employee" in the project list.
  • Quotes:
  • Quote items: If an invoice item was created using a reimb. template and the template was deleted and completely removed from the database, then the corresponding item was no longer displayed in the dialog, but was still printed.
  • Reimbursables:
  • Areimbursable that was manually set to "Invoiced" could still be selected for the creation of the invoice
  • Statistic:
  • Totalization - error when printing when grouping by week
  • System
  • Pre-assignment of the login name. The name can be preset in the login dialog via the command line parameter "/ user". E.g. "xperttimer.exe / user = meier"
  • Tasks:
  • Configuration mode "Without project assignment": Tasks from the task pool can be started by any employee
  • Times:
  • Administrators can stop other employees' current timestamp
  • Via the pop-up menu in the timestamp list. "Finish" menu item
  • If an activity is set to Inactive, it is still correctly displayed in the time stamp list.

New in XTSyncServer 8.0.2 Build 1205 (May 5, 2021)

  • Billing:
  • Enhancement: When printing an invoice, the list of the time stamps invoiced in it can now also be printed as a time record.
  • Generally:
  • Extension: start project retrospectively. Both minutes and a fixed time can now be entered
  • Evaluation:
  • Bugfix: Print - If a customer is selected as a filter and the customer numbers are displayed, the customer name is not hidden in the project name
  • Configuration:
  • Enhancement: New setting "Split timestamp at midnight"
  • Customers:
  • Bugfix: Sporadic error "Access violation" when opening a customer
  • Employee / user:
  • Bugfix: Sporadic sticking of the employee dialog after opening
  • Timeline:
  • Bugfix: Error when double-clicking the user name in the timeline

New in XTSyncServer 8.0.0 Build 1204 (Apr 14, 2021)

  • General:
  • Extension: First start wizard completely revised
  • Extension: Welcome dialog revised
  • New: Starting projects and tasks using the space bar in the Projects, Tasks and Timestamps list views
  • New: Descriptive help texts in the window dialog headings are hidden after 7 days to save space
  • Tasks:
  • Bugfix: Task templates: If the industry-specific texts are used, the search term in the "Select task template" dialog was pre-assigned a wrong search term
  • Print:
  • Extension: When printing, the elements contained in the report header (customer, project, employee, period) can now be switched on / off
  • Invoice:
  • Bugfix: Invoice list. When printing invoices as email, the date "Printed on" was not set
  • Configuration:
  • New: New setting to be able to start projects without assignment
  • This simplifies the administrative work for small work groups and a few projects, since all employees can then see all projects.
  • Contacts:
  • Extension: New contact type "Beneficiary"
  • Project manager:
  • Extension: Starting the project retrospectively by holding down the Ctrl key now also allows minutes to be entered
  • New: Users with admin rights can now temporarily switch to another rights group in the menu item "Program-> Change rights group" in order to check which functions are thereby visible to members of this group. [more]
  • Detailed description of the new features
  • New: Additional "Start / Stop" column in the project list: Start and stop using a button within the project list
  • This means that a project can be started / stopped directly from the list with just one click of the mouse.
  • New: Additional "Start / Stop" column in the task list: Start and stop using a button within the task list
  • New: Additional "Start / Stop" column in the time stamp list: Start and stop using a button within the list
  • Bugfix: Sometimes the filter field "Customer" is jerky when update is pressed
  • XTAdmin:
  • Extension: Import dialogs (customers, projects, tasks, times): After the import has been completed, the dialogs are no longer automatically closed.
  • Bugfix: Timestamp import: The last line of the import file is not imported

New in XTSyncServer 8.0.0 Build 1203 (Mar 6, 2021)

  • General:
  • Bugfix: English translation. In the case of yes / no dialogs, the buttons were not translated
  • Tasks:
  • Bugfix: Task template: Dialog boxes moved so that no estimated time can be entered. [Ticket: 3236]
  • Bugfix: Task templates: When you double-click a task template, the window opens in the background. [Ticket: 3235]
  • Bugfix: Edit task: The tab "User-defined fields" was not displayed
  • Evaluation:
  • Bugfix: Profit / Loss: Percentage of P / L was not calculated correctly
  • Bugfix: Profit / Loss: If an employee is selected in the filter, only the services of projects to which the employee is assigned or to which an employee is not assigned are now displayed.
  • Print:
  • Bugfix: Timestamp list: Error when grouped by timestamp status
  • Bugfix: Project list: Error when grouped according to project status
  • Invoice:
  • Bugfix: Invoice: Subheadings in the invoice were not aligned to the left
  • Bugfix: Swiss QR invoice: total on payment slip was not rounded to 0.05 (Swiss centimes rounded)
  • Addendum:
  • Bugfix: Ctrl + arrow should always jump one word in text fields. [Ticket: 3224]
  • Notes:
  • Bugfix: URL links in the text were marked as clickable. The following text has been partially cut off.
  • Project manager
  • Bugfix: Employees who had already been canceled were still displayed in the project list if there was still a project assignment
  • Bugfix: The option "Start project when double-clicking on project" was not recognized correctly
  • Set up:
  • Extension: For Sophos users: New additional option to remove the runtime packer from programs
  • Times:
  • Bugfix: Edit time stamp: If the time stamp was already calculated, it was no longer possible to scroll in the comment field

New in XTSyncServer 8.0.0 Build 1200 (Jan 29, 2021)

  • General:
  • Extension: search dialog for text modules
  • New: Automatic spell check (F7) in most multi-line text entry fields
  • New: List of locations: New button for sorting the list
  • New: New dialog "Home": Clear quick access to all existing modules
  • Tasks:
  • Extension: The reading of the task list has been drastically accelerated (up to 5x as fast)
  • Extension: Task list: New dropdown menu for the start button of the toolbar with "Start retroactively" and "Start with comment"
  • Database:
  • Extension: Improved support for MS-SQL 2017 and 2019
  • Memories:
  • New: The "Reminders" module is now also included in the BASIC version
  • Export:
  • New: Excel export: Save several configuration settings
  • Invoice:
  • Extension: invoice list. Columns for user-defined fields can be shown
  • Extension: Offer list: columns for user-defined fields can be shown
  • Extension: invoice list. Group by custom fields
  • Extension: offer list. Group by custom fields
  • Configuration:
  • Extension: New tab to edit the customer categories centrally
  • Extension: Fixed project statuses and task statuses can now also be hidden if they are not used
  • Services:
  • Extension: Service items: New unit "Percentage" to be able to display proportional service items. E.g. installment payments
  • Employee/user:
  • Extension: Specification of a standard activity which is entered for the employee when starting a time stamp.
  • Project manager:
  • Extension: Reading in the project list has been accelerated
  • Extension: Project list: Search now also supports the keywords "AND" and "OR" to carry out a more complex search query
  • Extension: Project list: New dropdown menu for the start button of the toolbar with "Start retroactively" and "Start with comment"
  • Extension: Project list: Direct editing of the columns for user-defined fields via pop-up menu and input dialog
  • Project start center:
  • New: New dialog "Project start center" to start projects, enter additions and see daily and weekly time stamps
  • In this dialog, projects and tasks can be processed quickly and clearly.
  • New: Support of bar, QR and NFC codes via external keyboard input scanner (e.g. via Bluetooth)
  • Bill:
  • Enhancement: New field for cash discount in the invoice form
  • Extension: Invoice items, offer items: New unit "Percentage" to be able to display proportional invoice items. E.g. installment payments
  • New: invoice list. New column "Remaining amount" if partial payments have been made.
  • New: Support for GiroCode (numbers via QRCode) on the invoice printout
  • New: Support for Swiss QR bills (pay via QR code)
  • New: Invoice list: print several invoices at once
  • New: Support for XRechnung (digital invoice via XML)
  • Rights system:
  • New: New right "Show time totals (duration)"
  • This can be used to hide the fields and columns for time totals for projects and tasks
  • System:
  • New: Configurable password policy: The number and type of characters required can now be specified in the system configuration
  • New: New right "Activate new program license"
  • Only employees with this right or administrators may update the program license
  • Times:
  • Extension: Timestamp list: Search in the comment now also supports the keywords "AND" and "OR" in order to carry out a more complex search query
  • Extension: time stamp list: filter on project type
  • Extension: Time stamp list: grouping according to project type
  • New: Copy time stamp to another employee via drag & drop
  • If employees in the team are working on the same activities, selected time stamps from the time stamp list can be copied to an employee in the project list.
  • Timeline
  • New: New button "Intermediate stamp with comment"

New in XTSyncServer 7.0.9 Build 1113 (Dec 16, 2020)

  • Database:
  • Bugfix: Under MS-SQL 2017: Error 'Update command updated [0] instead of [1] record'
  • Project:
  • Bugfix: Under SQLite database: Error when automatically incrementing the project number
  • bill:
  • Bugfix: Error when printing the invoice list

New in XTSyncServer 7.0.9 Build 1112 (Nov 13, 2020)

  • Bugfix:
  • Project assignment: If the project hierarchy was interrupted under certain filter settings, the program could freeze when assigning a project to a work group

New in XTSyncServer 7.0.8 Build 1111 (Sep 30, 2020)

  • Erweiterung: Zeitstempel zwischenstempeln: Im Kommentareingabedialog kann nun festgelegt werden ob der Laufende, oder der Neue Zeitstempel den Kommentar erhält
  • Erweiterung: Mitarbeiterverwaltung. Arbeitsgruppen: Bei Projektzuordnung zu Arbeitsgruppen kann nun der ganze Baum über Popupmenü auf/zugeklappt werden
  • Erweiterung: Arbeitsgruppen: Bei Modus "Arbeitsgruppenübergreifend" gibt es nun eine Prüfung das die Hauptarbeitsgruppe eines Projekts nicht abgewählt werden kann
  • Important Wichtiger Bugfix: Drucken mit Druckvorlage war nicht möglich
  • Bugfix: Wenn Dialoge über die Zeitleiste geöffnet wurden, konnte es sein das sie sich mit der Zeitleiste überlappen. Jetzt öffnen sich diese Dialoge immer in der Bildschirmmitte.

New in XTSyncServer 7.0.7 Build 1111 (Sep 30, 2020)

  • Erweiterung: Zeitstempel zwischenstempeln: Im Kommentareingabedialog kann nun festgelegt werden ob der Laufende, oder der Neue Zeitstempel den Kommentar erhält
  • Erweiterung: Mitarbeiterverwaltung. Arbeitsgruppen: Bei Projektzuordnung zu Arbeitsgruppen kann nun der ganze Baum über Popupmenü auf/zugeklappt werden
  • Erweiterung: Arbeitsgruppen: Bei Modus "Arbeitsgruppenübergreifend" gibt es nun eine Prüfung das die Hauptarbeitsgruppe eines Projekts nicht abgewählt werden kann
  • Important Wichtiger Bugfix: Drucken mit Druckvorlage war nicht möglich
  • Bugfix: Wenn Dialoge über die Zeitleiste geöffnet wurden, konnte es sein das sie sich mit der Zeitleiste überlappen. Jetzt öffnen sich diese Dialoge immer in der Bildschirmmitte.

New in XTSyncServer 7.0.7 Build 1110 (Aug 8, 2020)

  • Import:
  • New: Timestamp import: Activities can now be assigned in the import
  • Configuration:
  • Bugfix: Activities: Abbreviation could not be changed
  • Project manager
  • Bugfix: Fixed sporadic error at startup "Tab could not be registered"
  • System:
  • New: Licensing: Support of the rental license model
  • XTAdmin:
  • Extension: Database migration improved

New in XTSyncServer 5.0.9 Build 1027 (Sep 19, 2017)

  • Bugfix: No timestamps visible in BASIC version when using SQLite database

New in XTSyncServer 3.0.4 Build 863 (May 30, 2013)

  • Added support for uploading files to the internal gage eg signed PDF reports from the mobile device

New in XTSyncServer 3.0.0 Build 836 (Jun 26, 2012)

  • Several bug fixes
  • Verify that the installation may be the only service from a local drive
  • Check that the SyncServer is blocked by the firewall