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In response to FMuklo’s posting of June 28, 2005.
We need a more precise description of what you are doing when you experience these delays.
NV2 auto commits every “row” (if necessary) when the cursor moves to a new row or another document – exactly as in NV1. If the typing input you refer to is causing the row to change (e.g. arrow up or down) then the old row is committed. This can take some time (more on performance below). If the keystrokes you are typing are in a description column and you experience an annoying delay, we would like to investigate this further with you.
NV2 performance will receive constant attention, and will only improve. NV1 is “the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy”, or so our programmers like to joke. NV1 is written in assembler, it has a file system with fixed length records (e.g. 10 character account name limit), no detail on total accounts (just monthy and yearly summaries), single user access, a handful of hardwired windows, and so on.
NV2 is written in C++ and Tcl. Tcl provides a great interface for modifying and extending NV2 but it is interpreted. As time goes by we convert hardened Tcl code to C++. The NV2 file system has variable length records (e.g. no limit to the length of any value). NV2 maintains full posting history for all total accounts (e.g. weekly or daily reporting, monthly reporting prior to the last fiscal year, etc.). Most important of all, it is multiuser and significant new performance issues arise.
Every new release of NV2 will be, in some way, faster than the prior release.
In response to FMucklo’s posting of June 29, 2005.
While it is true you cannot sort all columns (like you can in Excel) NV2 does provide sorting on columns that we thought were the most useful. Excel is a spreadsheet not an accounting program and vice versa for NV2. Creating indexes for each column would make an NV2 set of books grow enormously larger than they currently are.
In regards to adding edit assists (F3) to description and reference columns, what would you expect to see if an edit assist was available?
In NV2 you can export am NV2 document to Excel by selecting print all (or block) as well as print checks (also Pay Account in NewViews Accounts Accounts Payable). When the printing window appears, select your destination (file, printer, display) and click Print or continue to have your output appear in the destination of your choosing.
The menu that is displayed when your right mouse click does display all of the relevant options of where you are in the books. If the menu is too large for your liking you can hold your control key down and scroll with your mouse wheel to make the menu smaller or larger. The same is true for your NV2 documents. The NewViews menu (right mouse click) choices show the same choices as the Microsoft menu choices at the top of your books.
Each window in your NV2 books has a button on the right hand side of the window title which you can click to restore or maximize. If the window is maximized, the button appears as two small squares (exactly the same behaviour as a Microsoft Window). If minimied, the button appears as a single large square (same as a Microsoft Window).
In regards to the NV2 documentation which is constantly being updated and improved. Send me an email at schapple@qwpage.com in regards to improvements you think are appropriate.
In response to DGlezos posting of June 29, 2005.
The custom analysis view of all NV2 documents will updated in version 2.03 with most of the features of the NV1 analysis view and will be complete in version 2.04.
In NV1, the procedures EXP123 and REPORT (to name two) exported the analysis view data to a spreadsheet program like Excel using characters. NV2 does the same. NV1 exported to a file which then had to be imported into the spreadsheet program and then formatted. NV2 displays the information in Excel without the importing/formatting steps.
If anyone has any suggestions on how the manual can be improved, please submit your suggestions to schapple@qwpage.com with the subject NV2 Manual Suggestion.
Regards to All,
Martin
Post Edited (07-07-05 17:49)
Version 72 of the NVEXPORT library does create an export file (NV1_NV2). Disregard the information about it being a test version.
The ATYPE procedure comes with the NVEXPORT library which can be downloaded at http://www.qwpage.com by clicking on NV2 for Windows, Converting from NV1. Further down on this page is a link to download the NVEXPORT library.
Instructions on saving the NVEXPORT download and installing it in your NV1 books are below the NVEXPORT download link.
Under the particular sub Payroll folder > Payruns, click the windows pull down button and select Settings. Enter the information is here.
Regards,
Martin
See the NewViews 2.02 Manual > Payroll > Canada Payroll > Using Payroll > Managing Vacation Pay for detailed information on this subject.
Regards,
Martin
A post and print method may be added to future updates to NV2. Currently, we are processing and then printing like we had in NV1.
Block the employees and then right mouse click Print Payroll Report. Set your dates and press F3 on the value for Template. There are different templates that Canadian and American users can use to print the details of their remittances to the CRA or the IRS as well as internal payroll templates that can be modified by the end user.
See the NewViews 2.02 Manual > Payroll > Custom Payroll Reports for more detailed information.
Regards,
Maartin
In NV2 payroll you can create your own accounts and define how the account calculates the amount accrue and withhold. Also create an account to use as a paid account.
Under Payroll > Canada Payroll (or USA Payroll) Employees > Account Setup click the window pull down button and choose Paycode. Enter your definition in the Percentage Base field and enter a rate. The Paid accounts should use a Time/Quantity of Input with a rate of 1. When paying the paid accounts, enter your amounts to pay in the pay list for the individual in the particular payrun in the time/quantity field.
Regards,
Martin
Are you running the most recent NV2 version? Review your Help About and ensure that you are running NewViews 2.02 service pack 1.
Are you referring to Default setup from the Object Window tree explorer or Edit Default Value Set from the NV2 menu (or ALT EDS)?
Default setup will setup the windowing system back to the factory defaults for the books.
Regards,
Martin
Click on the window pull down button and choose Payruns. Press the insert key which will add a new Payrun row. Below the Payrun window, click on the window pull down button and click Pay List. From this table you can delete individual employees from this particular Payrun.
Once you have the correct employees appearing in the Paylist for the Payrun process the Payrun by pressing F3 on Unprocessed.
Future updates to NV2 may include the option to Post and Print.
On a pentium 4 machine with 1 Gig of RAM, processing a Payrun has been quite snappy on my system.
Regards,
Martin
Like NV1, you can also Block Move accounts within a report to the position/section of your choosing. Click on Line to set the window to interactive and then block your accounts. Click on the row you wish to move it to and then move the accounts (ALT BMI or ALT BMA or right mouse click Block Move Insert or Append).
Note, do not highlight the Report Sub-total account (In Accounts Payable, account AP).
Regards,
Martin
You will be alerted that a Pay Period End Anchor Date has not been set when you try to run a Payrun for the first time on the particular Payroll Folder/Group.
Determing what the correct pay period number for NV1 Payruns would have left us open to errors. Users of NV1 Payrun where allowed to (and usually did) enter pay periods that didn’t make sense and or added checks at the end of a year dated in the past.
When the anchor date is set, the year and the pay period number is displayed in NV2 for you.
Regards,
Martin
On the right pane window (explorer), you use your mouse to navigate within your NV2 books. If you click on NewViews > Accounts > Accounts Payable – you should see a listing of your AP Vendors (top right Blue table). Under the blue table (if you click on a particular vendor), you will see a green table (Vendor ledgers). Clicking on a particular ledger will show you the associated distributions (pink table) that make up that ledger. Click on a distribution item and press F9 will place in you in the cross account of that distribution (in NV1 this would be GOX).
Each window can be maximized/minimized by clicking the maximize/minimize button on the right side of each window. The F7 key maximizes the actibve window and F8 restores all windows on your screen. See Help KeyBoard (keystrokes ALT HK) for more information.
Regards,
Martin
Download the most recent NV2 update from http://www.qwpage.com and save it to the hard drive on this new computer. Install NV2 on this system and after it is installed (use the recommended all users option) copy your NV2 books to this new machine via a CD, USB key, or copy/paste through windows explorer if they are network.
You will have to register NV2 on this new computer.
Regards,
Martin
Mary,
We are running NV2 on Pentium 4 computers that run at 2.80GHz with 1 GB of RAM which is a contemporary system for today. The AMD system you are thinking of purchasing should be comparable but I would ask your computer supplier if the system is comparable. We do not have any AMD systems here. Yes, computer speed/memory is required to run NV2.
Each workstation and server must be a Pentium 4 (or comparable/faster) with the specs. above and have hard disks of their own. Each workstation will have NV2 installed and must be able to connect to the server offering the NV2 books through TCP/IP (which is common on all systems today). A hard disk is required on each workstation to maintain a workstation database and run Excel for printing.
NV1 was not multiuser and the approach in your third question does work. You are either copying the NV1 books from each machine to your server (through windows explorer) or have a batch program written for you that does the copying of the NV1 books to the server for you. You need to verify this on your end.
In NV2, the NV2 server listens to requests made of it by each workstation connected to it via TCP/IP and updates the application databases (NV2 books). Each NV2 workstation has its own workstation database which is located in C:/NV2/WORKSTATION (if you had installed NV2 in C:/NV2) which maintains that workstations NV2 windowing system and workstation logon tables.
Each workstation can work in single user or multiuser or both at the same time. NV1 was single user only. Like NV1, which required that you point nv.exe to a network drive where the books existed, NV2 also requires that you type the server IP or computer name offering the application databases (NV2 books). In NV1, the books database (DATAD.NV) stored all the information pertaining to that database. In NV2, the same is true but in single user, there are two databases that must be backed up (workstation database, and application database). In multiuser, there are three (workstation database, application database, server database).
Productivity in NV2 is similar ro NV1. Take into account that “Default Values” and BLKCOPY/BLKPASTE buffers will need to be set. Some actions may take a few seconds longer in NV2 but others have been found to be faster. The ability to see transactions in total accounts makes NV2 more productive.
Setting up user windows and the length of time running your workstations with several sets of books will push past 512 MB. Also the number of processes running on your windows system before NV2 starts.
You can backup your NV2 databases using whatever method you trust.
I suggest that you read the NewViews 2.0 manual (DO NOT PRINT IT. It’s about 600+ pages) for further information about running a server. a workstation and Appendix B – NV1 users.
Regards,
Martin
